From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:00:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: newcomment and the change of binding for M-;
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~3695
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5cb6a58ecf32da1c52a7c5687676a8353d319837;p=emacs.git

newcomment and the change of binding for M-;
---

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index ca89b459d95..1d66b78f920 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ images and toolkit scrollbars.  Use the --help option to list them.
 
 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
 
+** M-; now calls comment-dwim which tries to do something clever based
+on the context.
+
 ** The function `getenv' is now callable interactively.
 
 ** The many obsolete language `setup-...-environment' commands have
@@ -961,6 +964,10 @@ expression from that list, are not checked.
 
 ** New modes and packages
 
+*** The comment operations are now provided by the newcomment.el
+package which allows different styles of comment-region and should
+be more robust while offering the same functionality.
+
 *** The Ebrowse package implements a C++ class browser and tags
 facilities tailored for use with C++.  It is documented in a
 separate Texinfo file.