From 697f6b4371b1fdf1edebaec583d2b504c9b9422a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chong Yidong Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:12:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify description of word-wrapping changes. --- etc/NEWS | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index cd195949886..543994b04fe 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ interface to GnuPG (see New Modes and Packages). *** In the Options menu, the "Truncate Long Lines in the Buffer" entry has been replaced with a submenu offering three different ways to handle long lines: truncation, continuation at the window edge, and -the new word wrapping option (see Editing Changes, below). +the new word wrapping behavior (see Editing Changes, below). *** Improvements to menus for major and minor modes More major and minor modes now have a mode specific menu, and existing @@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ identical. * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 ++++ ** The C-n and C-p line-motion commands now move by screen lines, taking continued lines and variable-width characters into account. Setting `line-move-visual' to nil reverts this to the previous @@ -326,8 +327,10 @@ region is active. Otherwise, it fills the current paragraph. *** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-$ now checks spelling of the region if the region is active. Otherwise, it checks spelling of the word at point. + *** When Transient Mark mode is on, TAB now indents the region if the region is active. + *** `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty active region in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on that empty region. @@ -424,11 +427,14 @@ possible completions, rather than stopping at the common prefix. completions only if you repeat the completion. This was already supported in `partial-completion-mode'. -** Continuation lines can be wrapped at word boundaries -(word-wrapping) instead of the right window edge. The new per-buffer -variable `word-wrap', if non-nil turns on word-wrapping. Word -wrapping does not take place if continuation lines are not shown, -e.g. if truncate-lines is non-nil. +** Continuation lines can now be wrapped at word boundaries +(word-wrapping). This is controlled by the new per-buffer variable +`word-wrap'. Word wrapping does not take place if continuation lines +are not shown, e.g. if truncate-lines is non-nil. The most convenient +way to enable word-wrapping is using the new minor mode Visual Line +mode; in addition to setting `word-wrap' to t, this rebinds some +editing commands to work on screen lines rather than text lines. See +New Modes and Packages, below. ** Window management changes @@ -539,6 +545,8 @@ Manual. It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e, and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical lines. This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode. +This can also be turned on using the menu bar, via +Options -> Line Wrapping in this Buffer -> Word Wrap ** xesam.el is an implementation of Xesam, an interface to (desktop) search engines like Beagle, Strigi, and Tracker. The Xesam API -- 2.39.2