* saveplace.el (save-place-ignore-files-regexp): New variable
allowing for excluding files from saving their location. The
default value matches the temporary commit message editing files
from Git, SVN, Bazaar, and Mercurial.
(save-place-to-alist): Use it.
* doc/lispref/syntax.texi (Syntax Tables, Syntax Descriptors)
(Syntax Table Functions): Copyedits.
(Syntax Basics): Don't repeat the material in the preceding node.
(Syntax Class Table): Use a table.
(Syntax Properties): Document syntax-propertize-function and
syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions.
(Motion via Parsing): Fix indentation.
(Parser State): Update for the new "c" comment style. Fix
description of item 7 (comment style).
* doc/lispref/modes.texi (Syntactic Font Lock): Add xref to Syntactic Font Lock node.
* doc/lispref/modes.texi (Minor Modes): Update how mode commands should treat
arguments now.
(Mode Line Basics): Clarify force-mode-line-update.
(Mode Line Top): Note that the example is not realistic.
(Mode Line Variables, Mode Line Data, %-Constructs, Header Lines)
(Emulating Mode Line): Use "mode line" instead of "mode-line", and
"mode line construct" instead of "mode line specification".
(Syntactic Font Lock): Remove mention of obsolete variable
font-lock-syntactic-keywords.
(Setting Syntax Properties): Node deleted.
(Font Lock Mode): Note that Font Lock mode is a minor mode.
(Font Lock Basics): Note that syntactic fontification falls back
on `syntax-table'.
(Search-based Fontification): Emphasize that font-lock-keywords
should not be set directly.
(Faces for Font Lock): Avoid some confusing terminology.
(Syntactic Font Lock): Minor clarifications.
* doc/lispref/minibuf.texi (Basic Completion): Define "completion table".
Move completion-in-region to Completion in Buffers node.
(Completion Commands): Use "completion table" terminology.
(Completion in Buffers): New node.
* doc/lispref/modes.texi (Hooks): add-hook can be used for abnormal hooks too.
(Setting Hooks): Update minor mode usage example.
(Major Mode Conventions): Note that completion-at-point-functions
should be altered locally. Add xref to Completion in Buffers.
* lisp/minibuffer.el (completion-at-point-functions): Doc fix.
* lisp/custom.el (defcustom): Doc fix; note use of defvar.
* src/eval.c (Fdefvar, Fdefconst): Doc fix; note that the variable is
marked as special. Also, starting docstrings with * is obsolete.
* doc/emacs/sending.texi (Mail Sending): smtpmail-auth-credentials was removed.
* doc/misc/smtpmail.texi (Emacs Speaks SMTP): General update for 24.1.
(Encryption): New chapter, split out from previous.
* lisp/mail/smtpmail.el (smtpmail-smtp-user, smtpmail-stream-type):
Doc fixes.
* etc/NEWS: Related edits.
* doc/emacs/keymaps.texi (Format of Keymaps): The CACHE component of keymaps
was removed on 2009-09-10. Update lisp-mode-map example.
(Inheritance and Keymaps): Minor clarification.
(Searching Keymaps): Remove out-of-place enumeration.
(Key Lookup): Remove unnecessary example (one was already given in
Format of Keymaps).
(Changing Key Bindings): Update suppress-keymap example.
(Menu Bar, Tool Bar): Copyedits.
(Tool Bar): Update tool-bar-map example.