** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
much pure storage it will approximately need.
+---
** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
Emacs crash.
doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
+---
** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.
the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
vscroll property.
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*** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
overline and text.
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*** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
position of the underline. When set, it overrides the
`x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.
elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
areas.
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*** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
parts of the mode line.
** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:
++++
*** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
construct. Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
-*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
\f
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1
+---
** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.
ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such
as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.
++++
** The tumme.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in other ways
manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as the main interface.
Tumme provides functionality to generate simple image galleries.
** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
+---
** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or
paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
** Changes in Shell Mode
+---
*** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text. (This
is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)
- many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
- version number incremented to 2.2
++++
** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' was renamed
to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
syntactic indentation.
+---
** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
preceded by a SPC or a TAB.
By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
from the file name or buffer contents.
+---
*** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
`sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as
alias.
`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are
still available as aliases.
++++
** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still
available as alias.
To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the
old behaviour.
+---
*** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be
toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
`gud-tooltip-mode'.
---
*** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.
++++
*** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.
---
** cplus-md.el has been deleted.
+---
** Ewoc changes
*** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.
`kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
`kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.
++++
** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete. Use
`mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.
\f
** General Lisp changes:
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*** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.
++++
*** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.
If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.
have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
value of VARIABLE instead.
+---
*** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
various status records in parallel.