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

[Richard M . Stallman]

Index: emacs/etc/NEWS
diff -c emacs/etc/NEWS:1.1132 emacs/etc/NEWS:1.1133
*** emacs/etc/NEWS:1.1132       Wed Mar 23 22:36:14 2005
--- emacs/etc/NEWS      Sat Mar 26 02:10:36 2005
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  ** Control characters and escape glyphs are now shown in the new
  escape-glyph face.
  
+ +++
  ** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now prefixed with an escape
  character, unless the new user variable `show-nonbreak-escape' is set
  to nil.
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--- 223,229 ----
  +++
  ** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
  
+ +++
  ** In Outline mode, hide-body no longer hides lines at the top
  of the file that precede the first header line.
  
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  ** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
  in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.
  
+ ---
  ** global-whitespace-mode is a new alias for whitespace-global-mode.
  
  +++
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--- 291,297 ----
  ** Commands winner-redo and winner-undo, from winner.el, are now bound to
  C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively.  This is an incompatible change.
  
+ ---
  ** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
  arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it.  To change the
  default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
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--- 319,329 ----
  `kill-region' if read-only are involved: it copies the text to the
  kill-ring, but does not delete it.
  
+ +++
  ** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
  the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.
  
+ +++
  ** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.
  
  +++
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--- 372,378 ----
  that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
  work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.
  
+ +++
  ** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
  Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
  control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
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  compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
  subprocesses inherit.
  
+ +++
  ** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.
  
  ---
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--- 473,479 ----
  ** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
  resync points in both windows.
  
+ ---
  ** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
  This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
  the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for
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--- 481,492 ----
  
  ** Gnus package
  
+ ---
  *** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
  Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts.  PGG is a library to handle
  PGP/MIME.
  
+ ---
  *** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
  See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
  
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  *** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers 
immediately,
  remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
  
+ +++
  *** New commands:
    - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
    - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
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    - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
    - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.
  
+ ---
  *** New customizable variables:
    - desktop-save. Determins whether the desktop should be saved when it is
      killed.
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--- 533,539 ----
  +++
  *** New command line option --no-desktop
  
+ ---
  *** New hooks:
    - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
    - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
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  and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
  feature.
  
+ +++
  ** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.
  
        % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
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  arrow bitmaps in right fringe.  To show just the angle bitmaps in the
  left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).
  
+ +++
  ** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
  in the echo area.  It is bound to `C-h .'.  It normally displays the
  same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
  `help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
  keyboard oriented alternative.
  
+ +++
  ** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to
  automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
  point-over, after suitable idle time.  The amount of idle time is
  determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
  to one second.  This feature is turned off by default.
  
+ ---
  ** New commands `scan-buf-next-region' and `scan-buf-previous-region'
  move to the start of the next (previous, respectively) region with
  non-nil help-echo property and display any help found there in the
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  now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
  an interactively callable function.
  
! 
  ** sql changes.
  
  *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlightng of different
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  now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
  an interactively callable function.
  
! ---
  ** sql changes.
  
  *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlightng of different
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  appropriate sql-interactive-mode wrapper for the current setting of
  `sql-product'.
  
+ ---
  ** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
  with special modes such as Tar mode.
  
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  be present for an item to match.  Regular expression matching is still
  available.
  
+ +++
  *** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
  to be sorted according to their score.  The score for an item is a
  number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
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  since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
  the operating system or your X server.
  
+ ---
  ** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
  When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible.  When disabled, it
  restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
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--- 730,736 ----
  ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
  By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
  
+ ---
  ** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
  `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
  
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  +++
  ** Dired-x:
  
+ +++
  *** Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling
  command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to M-O,
  marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the
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  horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
  or when the frame is resized.
  
+ +++
  ** New functions frame-current-scroll-bars and window-current-scroll-bars.
  
  These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
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  +++
  ** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.
  
+ ---
  ** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
  `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.
  
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  ** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
  and other common debugger commands.
  
+ ---
  ** recentf changes.
  
  The recent file list is now automatically cleanup when recentf mode is
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--- 985,991 ----
  ---
  ** partial-completion-mode now does partial completion on directory names.
  
+ ---
  ** skeleton.el now supports using - to mark the skeleton-point without
     interregion interaction.  @ has reverted to only setting
     skeleton-positions and no longer sets skeleton-point.  Skeletons
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  ** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
  revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.
  
+ +++
  ** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
  of a file.
  
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  when possible.  The latter are more space-efficient.  This is
  controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.
  
+ +++
  ** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
  coding system for encoding and decoding file names.  A new menu item
  (Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
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  command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should 
hold
  TeX commands to use at startup.
  
+ ---
  *** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
  and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.
  
+ +++
  *** New major mode doctex-mode for *.dtx files.
  
  +++
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  be selected only when it is active).  The default is nil, so that this
  feature is not enabled.
  
+ +++
  ** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
  select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
  normally changes according to the mouse click position.  If you set
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  buffers to search by their filename.  Internally, Occur mode has been
  rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other changes.
  
+ +++
  ** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
  been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
  in Indented-Text mode.
  
+ ---
  ** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
  `query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
  a match if part of it has a read-only property.
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  mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key.  You can
  also disable mouse highlighting.
  
+ +++
  ** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
  shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
  variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.
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  prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
  day of that ISO week.
  
+ ---
  ** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
  window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
  
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  rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
  `christian-holidays' simpler.
  
+ ---
  ** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
  This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
  and `diary-header-line-format'.
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  ** VC Changes
  
+ +++
  *** The key C-x C-q no longer checks files in or out, it only changes
  the read-only state of the buffer (toggle-read-only).  We made this
  change because we held a poll and found that many users were unhappy
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  "checkout", "update" or "commit".  That means using cvs diff options
  -rBASE -rHEAD.
  
+ ---
  ** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
  used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode.  Integration with isearch
  handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
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  * New modes and packages in Emacs 22.1
  
+ +++
  ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
  varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
  var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
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  .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
  recognized.
  
- ** The new package password.el provide a password cache and expiring 
mechanism.
- 
  ** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files.
  The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used
  to increment the SOA serial.
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  ** The thumbs.el package allows you to preview image files as thumbnails
  and can be invoked from a Dired buffer.
  
+ +++
  ** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
  
  ** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
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  ** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
  timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).
  
+ ---
  ** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes.
  
  ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
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  ** The function symbol-file tells you which file defined
  a certain function or variable.
  
+ +++
  ** Lisp code can now test if a given buffer position is inside a
  clickable link with the new function `mouse-on-link-p'.  This is the
  function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link' functionality.
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  the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
  previous 'k' or 'K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.
  
+ +++
  ** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
  argument.
  
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  been renamed to `disabled-command-function'.  The variable
  `disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.
  
+ +++
  ** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
  width if the WIDTH argument is nil.  If the TOPOS argument is nil,
  the usable window height and width is used.
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  ** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
  a list of two integers, instead of a cons.
  
+ +++
  ** If a command sets transient-mark-mode to `only', that
  enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
  During that following command, the value of transient-mark-mode
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  `format' are now documented.  Some flags that were accepted but not
  implemented (such as "*") are no longer accepted.
  
+ +++
  ** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
  It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
  One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
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  string.  The old behavior is available if you call
  `insert-for-yank-1' instead.
  
+ +++
  ** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
  arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
  return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
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  ** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by lisp code
  to override the internal read-file-name function.
  
! 
  ** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
  whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
  `read-file-name' function.
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  ** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by lisp code
  to override the internal read-file-name function.
  
! +++
  ** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
  whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
  `read-file-name' function.
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  specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
  defined with defface.
  
+ ---
  ** The function face-differs-from-default-p now truly checks whether the
  given face displays differently from the default face or not (previously
  it did only a very cursory check).
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  ** New functions face-attribute-relative-p and merge-face-attribute
  help with handling relative face attributes.
  
+ +++
  ** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face-list is reversed.
  If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
  faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous releases
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  *** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
  This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
  
+ +++
  *** The new package button.el implements simple and fast `clickable buttons'
  in emacs buffers.  `buttons' are much lighter-weight than the `widgets'
  implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that doesn't