[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/NEWS

[Richard M. Stallman]

Index: emacs/etc/NEWS
diff -c emacs/etc/NEWS:1.696 emacs/etc/NEWS:1.697
*** emacs/etc/NEWS:1.696        Mon Jun 17 06:30:24 2002
--- emacs/etc/NEWS      Mon Jun 17 12:19:41 2002
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  * Changes in Emacs 21.4
  
! ** The appearance of the fringes can now be customized, using either
! the global command M-x fringe-mode, the frame specific command M-x
! set-fringe-style, the Show/Hide submenu of the top-level Options menu,
! or customizing the `fringe-mode' variable.
  
  ** There is a new user option `mail-default-directory' that allows you
  to specify the value of `default-directory' for mail buffers.  This
  directory is used for auto-save files of mail buffers.  It defaults to
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  * Changes in Emacs 21.4
  
! +++
! ** You can now customize the use of window fringes.  To control this
! for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the
! top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable.  To
! control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x
! set-fringe-style.
  
+ +++
  ** There is a new user option `mail-default-directory' that allows you
  to specify the value of `default-directory' for mail buffers.  This
  directory is used for auto-save files of mail buffers.  It defaults to
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  +++
  ** `C-u C-x =' now displays text properties of the character at point.
  
  ** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
! now look at the text at point.  If that text has a face specified,
! the commands suggest to customize that face.
  
  ** Limited support for charset unification has been added.
  By default, Emacs now knows how to translate latin-N chars between their
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  +++
  ** `C-u C-x =' now displays text properties of the character at point.
  
+ +++
  ** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
! now look at the character after point.  If a face or faces are
! specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
! faces.
  
  ** Limited support for charset unification has been added.
  By default, Emacs now knows how to translate latin-N chars between their
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  more complete unification by calling (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1).
  
  ---
! ** The scrollbar under Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
  On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
  amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).
  
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  more complete unification by calling (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1).
  
  ---
! ** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
  On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
  amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).
  
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  default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
  automatically.  The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
  
+ +++
  ** On X and MS Windows, the blinking cursor's "off" state is now shown
  as a hollow box or a thin bar.
  
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  only when it is active).  The default is nil, so that this feature is not
  enabled.
  
! ** The new command `describe-text-at' pops up a buffer with description
! of text properties, overlays, and widgets at point, and lets you get
! more information about them, by clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or
! moving there and pressing RET.
  
  +++
  ** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
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  only when it is active).  The default is nil, so that this feature is not
  enabled.
  
! ** The new command `describe-char pops up a buffer with description
! various information about a character, including its encodings and
! syntax, its text properties, overlays, and widgets at point.  You can
! get more information about some of them, by clicking on
! mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
  
  +++
  ** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
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  The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
  the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.
  
  ** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
! This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (like
! tool bar and the menu bar itself).  You can also move the vertical
! scroll bar to either side here or turn it off completely.  There is also
! a menu-item to toggle displaying of current date and time, current line
! and column number in the mode-line.
  
  ** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".
  
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  The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
  the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.
  
+ ---
  ** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
! This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such
! as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself).
! You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn
! it off completely.  There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of
! current date and time, current line and column number in the
! mode-line.
  
+ ---
  ** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".
  
  +++
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  Turning off PC-Selection mode restores the global key bindings
  that were replaced by turning on the mode.
  
+ +++
  ** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
  arguments were given.  The new command-line option --no-splash
  disables the splash screen; see also the variable