From: Gerd Moellmann Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 13:49:28 +0000 (+0000) Subject: *** empty log message *** X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~4685 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5e5dff44e71453dc170a413f493af220b1bb9063;p=emacs.git *** empty log message *** --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 0dec155f20e..a495ab877ac 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -832,6 +832,21 @@ appropriate for C-style escape sequences in strings. ** New modes and packages +*** The new command M-x re-builder offers a convenient interface for +authoring regular expressions with immediate visual feedback. + +The buffer from which the command was called becomes the target for +the regexp editor popping up in a separate window. Matching text in +the target buffer is immediately color marked during the editing. +Each sub-expression of the regexp will show up in a different face so +even complex regexps can be edited and verified on target data in a +single step. + +On displays not supporting faces the matches instead blink like +matching parens to make them stand out. On such a setup you will +probably also want to use the sub-expression mode when the regexp +contains such to get feedback about their respective limits. + *** glasses-mode is a minor mode that makes unreadableIdentifiersLikeThis readable. It works as glasses, without actually modifying content of a buffer. diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog index a974283f157..f30effb6275 100644 --- a/lisp/ChangeLog +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2000-03-12 Detlev Zundel + + * emacs-lisp/re-builder.el (reb-re-syntax): Fix typo in `:type'. + Fix comment. + 2000-03-10 Stefan Monnier * font-lock.el (font-lock-keywords): Fix the doc now that diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog index 59d94ce505f..b9fa9d724ef 100644 --- a/src/ChangeLog +++ b/src/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2000-03-12 Gerd Moellmann + + * xfns.c (x_defined_color): Rewritten to use + x_allocate_nearest_color. + 2000-03-12 Eli Zaretskii * msdos.c (vga_installed): New function, code moved from