specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
faces.
++++
** Limited support for charset unification has been added.
By default, Emacs now knows how to translate latin-N chars between their
charset and some other latin-N charset or unicode. You can force a
more complete unification by calling (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1).
+That maps all the Latin-N character sets into either Latin-1
+or Unicode characters.
---
** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
only when it is active). The default is nil, so that this feature is not
enabled.
-** The new command `describe-char pops up a buffer with description
-various information about a character, including its encodings and
-syntax, its text properties, overlays, and widgets at point. You can
-get more information about some of them, by clicking on
-mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
++++
+** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
+description various information about a character, including its
+encodings and syntax, its text properties, overlays, and widgets at
+point. You can get more information about some of them, by clicking
+on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
+++
** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire
screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.)
-** Info-index finally offers completion.
+---
+** Info-index offers completion.
+---
** shell-mode now supports programmable completion using `pcomplete'.
** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files
`yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion
of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.
++++
** Occur, Info, and comint-derived modes now support using
M-x font-lock-mode to toggle fontification. The variable
`Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable fontification,
remove `turn-on-font-lock' from `Info-mode-hook'.
-** The Emacs Lisp byte-compiler now displays the actual line and
-character position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form
-of its warning and error messages have been brought more in line with
-the output of other GNU tools.
-
++++
** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep will automatically
detect whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated
command lines to be used than was possible before.
+---
** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing.
In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding
check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection
*** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
++++
** hide-ifdef-mode now uses overlays rather than selective-display
to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly
changes the behavior of motion commands line C-e and C-p.
++++
** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
++++
** Dired's v command now runs external viewers to view certain
types of files. The variable `dired-view-command-alist' controls
what external viewers to use and when.
++++
** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
is only rarely needed.
+---
** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'.
If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs
previous mark, i.e. C-u C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... will cycle through the
mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC to set the mark immediately after a jump.
++++
** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without
switching to it.
++++
** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to
all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only
affects the initial frame.
** In Dired, the w command now copies the current line's file name
into the kill ring.
++++
** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args
have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and
directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a
directory listing into a buffer.
+---
** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
(rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.
can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,
according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
++++
** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any)
of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor
appears in.
++++
** The default values of `tooltip-delay' and `tooltip-hide-delay'
were changed.
** On terminals whose erase-char is ^H (Backspace), Emacs
now uses normal-erase-is-backspace-mode.
+---
** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that
controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will
attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files).
** VC Changes
++++
*** There is a new user option `vc-cvs-global-switches' that allows
you to specify switches that are passed to any CVS command invoked
by VC. These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which
** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
--no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated.
++++
** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because
C-u C-x = gives the same information and more.
++++
** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
-with a space, if they visit files.
+with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers
+whose names begin with space are omitted.
** You can now customize fill-nobreak-predicate to control where
filling can break lines. We provide two sample predicates,
fill-single-word-nobreak-p and fill-french-nobreak-p.
++++
** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry will always
start a new record regardless of when the last record is.
** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `smgl-mode', which has XML support.
++++
** New user option `isearch-resume-enabled'.
This option can be disabled, to avoid the normal behaviour of isearch
which puts calls to `isearch-resume' in the command history.
instead of using default-major-mode.
---
-** Lisp-mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings.
+** Lisp mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings.
-** perl-mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
+---
+** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
-** fortran-mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
+** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
-** f90-mode has new navigation commands `f90-end-of-block',
+---
+** F90 mode has new navigation commands `f90-end-of-block',
`f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block', `f90-previous-block'.
-** prolog-mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords'
+---
+** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords'
to support use of font-lock.
++++
** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now
understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and
`same-window'.
-** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
-much pure storage it will approximately need.
-
++++
** M-x setenv now expands environment variables of the form `$foo' and
`${foo}' in the specified new value of the environment variable. To
include a `$' in the value, use `$$'.
which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion
candidate is a directory.
++++
+** Completion commands in the minibuffer apply only to the
+text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
+it remains unchanged.
+
+++
** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
---
** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.
-** When using M-x revert-buffer in a compilation buffer to rerun a
-compilation, it is now made sure that the compilation buffer is reused
-in case it has been renamed.
-
---
** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track
PBM and XBM images are supported, other formats which require external
libraries may be supported in future.
+---
** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
---
** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.
-** When emacs is configured to use `xaw3d' scroll-bars, emacs will
-tell the scroll-bar library which colors to use for the bevels, to
-prevent the library from using dithering.
-
** New modes and packages
*** The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also
`su' and `sudo'.
----
-** Indentation of simple and extended loop forms has been added to the
-cl-indent package. The new user options
-`lisp-loop-keyword-indentation', `lisp-loop-forms-indentation', and
-`lisp-simple-loop-indentation' can be used to customize the
-indentation of keywords and forms in loop forms.
-
----
-** Indentation of backquoted forms has been made customizable in the
-cl-indent package. See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.
-
---
*** The Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp manual is now part of
the distribution.
\f
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4
+** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
+much pure storage it will approximately need.
+
+++
** Renamed file hooks to follow the convention:
find-file-hooks to find-file-hook,
`read-file-name' to read a directory name; when used, completion
will only show directories.
-** The New lisp library fringe.el controls the apperance of fringes.
+** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the apperance of fringes.
** The `defmacro' form may contain declarations specifying how to
indent the macro in Lisp mode and how to debug it with Edebug. The
** Mode line display ignores text properties in the value
of a variable whose `risky-local-variables' property is nil.
+---
+** Indentation of simple and extended loop forms has been added to the
+cl-indent package. The new user options
+`lisp-loop-keyword-indentation', `lisp-loop-forms-indentation', and
+`lisp-simple-loop-indentation' can be used to customize the
+indentation of keywords and forms in loop forms.
+
+---
+** Indentation of backquoted forms has been made customizable in the
+cl-indent package. See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.
+
** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in elisp files is now obeyed.
+** The Emacs Lisp byte-compiler now displays the actual line and
+character position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form
+of its warning and error messages have been brought more in line with
+the output of other GNU tools.
+
** New functions `keymap-prompt' and `current-active-maps'.
** New function `describe-buffer-bindings'.
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