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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.
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** 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.
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*** 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.
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*** 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'.
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*** 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.
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*** 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'.
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*** 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.
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** 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.
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** New functions and variables for locales.
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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.
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** 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.
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** make-temp-file provides a more reliable way to create a temporary file.