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authorDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2001-03-20 00:34:40 +0000
committerDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2001-03-20 00:34:40 +0000
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@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ icons will be used.
To make the tool bar more useful, we need contributions of extra icons
for specific modes (with copyright assignments). Contributions would
-also be useful manually to touch up some of the PBM icons.
+also be useful to touch up some of the PBM icons manually.
+++
** Tooltips.
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ of its own. By default, when a window is selected, the cursor is
solid; otherwise, it is hollow. The user-option
`show-cursor-in-non-selected-windows' controls how to display the
cursor in non-selected windows. If nil, no cursor is shown, if
-non-nil a hollow box cursor is shown. This option can be customized.
+non-nil a hollow box cursor is shown.
** Fringes to the left and right of windows are used to display
truncation marks, continuation marks, overlay arrows and alike. The
@@ -929,9 +929,7 @@ in a log file.
+++
*** Change Log mode now adds a file's version number to change log
entries if user-option `change-log-version-info-enabled' is non-nil.
-
-+++
-*** Unless the file is under version control the search for a file's
+Unless the file is under version control the search for a file's
version number is performed based on regular expressions from
`change-log-version-number-regexp-list' which can be customized.
Version numbers are only found in the first 10 percent of a file.
@@ -1093,28 +1091,15 @@ file names.
** Customize changes
*** Customize now supports comments about customized items. Use the
-`State' menu to add comments. Note that customization comments will
-cause the customizations to fail in earlier versions of Emacs.
+`State' menu to add comments, or give a prefix argument to
+M-x customize-set-variable or M-x customize-set-value. Note that
+customization comments will cause the customizations to fail in
+earlier versions of Emacs.
*** The new option `custom-buffer-done-function' says whether to kill
Custom buffers when you've done with them or just bury them (the
default).
-*** The keyword :set-after in defcustom allows to specify dependencies
-between custom options. Example:
-
- (defcustom default-input-method nil
- "*Default input method for multilingual text (a string).
- This is the input method activated automatically by the command
- `toggle-input-method' (\\[toggle-input-method])."
- :group 'mule
- :type '(choice (const nil) string)
- :set-after '(current-language-environment))
-
-This specifies that default-input-method should be set after
-current-language-environment even if default-input-method appears
-first in a custom-set-variables statement.
-
** New features in evaluation commands
*** The commands to evaluate Lisp expressions, such as C-M-x in Lisp
@@ -1904,8 +1889,7 @@ paragraphs in the same style as `paragraph-indent-text-mode'.
+++
*** bs.el is a new package for buffer selection similar to
list-buffers or electric-buffer-list. Use M-x bs-show to display a
-buffer menu with this package. You can use M-x bs-customize to
-customize the package.
+buffer menu with this package. See the Custom group `bs'.
*** find-lisp.el is a package emulating the Unix find command in Lisp.
@@ -2012,17 +1996,10 @@ delim-col has the following commands:
delimit-columns-rectangle Prettify all columns in a text rectangle.
+++
-*** The package recentf.el maintains a menu for visiting files that
-were operated on recently.
-
-M-x recentf-mode RET toggles recentf mode.
-
-M-x customize-variable RET recentf-mode RET can be used to enable
-recentf at Emacs startup.
-
-M-x customize-variable RET recentf-menu-filter RET to specify a menu
-filter function to change the menu appearance. For example, the recent
-file list can be displayed:
+*** Recentf mode maintains a menu for visiting files that were
+operated on recently. User option recentf-menu-filter specifies a
+menu filter function to change the menu appearance. For example, the
+recent file list can be displayed:
- organized by major modes, directories or user defined rules.
- sorted by file paths, file names, ascending or descending.
@@ -2044,7 +2021,6 @@ specific to Message mode.
viewing/editing context diffs (patches). It is selected for files
with extension `.diff', `.diffs', `.patch' and `.rej'.
-+++
*** EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, provides a common user
interface to access directory servers using different directory
protocols. It has a separate manual.
@@ -2155,6 +2131,21 @@ probably not be read correctly by Emacs 21.
* Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual,
(Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.)
+** The keyword :set-after in defcustom allows to specify dependencies
+between custom options. Example:
+
+ (defcustom default-input-method nil
+ "*Default input method for multilingual text (a string).
+ This is the input method activated automatically by the command
+ `toggle-input-method' (\\[toggle-input-method])."
+ :group 'mule
+ :type '(choice (const nil) string)
+ :set-after '(current-language-environment))
+
+This specifies that default-input-method should be set after
+current-language-environment even if default-input-method appears
+first in a custom-set-variables statement.
+
** The new hook `kbd-macro-termination-hook' is run at the end of
function execute-kbd-macro. Functions on this hook are called with no
args. The hook is run independent of how the macro was terminated
@@ -2467,7 +2458,10 @@ have been introduced for 8-bit characters in the ranges 0x80..0x9F and
0xA0..0xFF respectively. Note that the multibyte representation of
eight-bit-control is never exposed; this leads to an exception in the
emacs-mule coding system, which encodes everything else to the
-buffer/string internal representation.
+buffer/string internal representation. Note that to search for
+eight-bit-graphic characters in a multibyte buffer, the search string
+must be multibyte, otherwise such characters will be converted to
+their multibyte equivalent.
+++
** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to
@@ -2665,9 +2659,9 @@ instead of being optional.
** The new built-in error `text-read-only' is signaled when trying to
modify read-only text.
-+++
** New functions and variables for locales.
++++
The new variable `locale-coding-system' specifies how to encode and
decode strings passed to low-level message functions like strerror and
time functions like strftime. The new variables
@@ -2949,8 +2943,8 @@ the hooks that track changes in the buffer. This affects
hooks attached to text properties and overlay properties.
+++
-** assoc-delete-all is a new function that deletes all the
-elements of an alist which have a particular value as the car.
+** assq-delete-all is a new function that deletes all the
+elements of an alist which have a car `eq' to a particular value.
+++
** make-temp-file provides a more reliable way to create a temporary file.