* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Specifying File Variables): The mode: keyword
doesn't have to be first anymore. Add example of specifying minor
modes.
(Directory Variables): Simplify example. Mention application to
non-file buffers.
(Disabling): Use "initialization file" terminology.
(Init Examples): Fix hook example.
* doc/lispref/variables.texi (Directory Local Variables): Document
hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer.
* lisp/files.el (hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer): Add doc.
(hack-one-local-variable-eval-safep): Allow 0 arg for minor mode
functions, along with 1 and -1.
* doc/emacs/misc.texi (Single Shell): Don't document Lisp usage of
shell-command. Tidy up discussion of synchronicity. Add index
entries for async-shell-command.
(Interactive Shell): Note that M-x shell uses shell-file-name.
Note change in behavior in Emacs 24.
(Shell Mode): Shell mode now uses completion-at-point.
(Shell Prompts): Emphasize that comint-use-prompt-regexp isn't the
default method for recognizing prompts nowadays.
(Shell Ring): Add xref to Minibuffer History.
(Directory Tracking): Explain Dirtrack mode in more detail.
(Term Mode): Fix index entries.
(Paging in Term): Merge into Term Mode.
(Serial Terminal, Emacs Server, emacsclient Options): Copyedits.
(Printing): Fix xref. State default of lpr-switches.
(PostScript): Remove obsolete sentence. Omit description of
non-interactive behaviors.
(Hyperlinking): Improve description.
(Browse-URL): Using compose-mail for mailto URLs is the default.
Document browse-url-mailto-function.
(Goto Address mode): Add index entries. Add xref to Browse-URL.
(FFAP): FFAP is not a minor mode.
(Amusements): M-x lm was renamed to M-x landmark. Document
nato-region.
* misc.texi (Gnus, Buffers of Gnus): Copyedits.
(Gnus Startup): Note that the system might not be set up for news.
Describe group levels more clearly.
(Gnus Group Buffer, Gnus Summary Buffer): New nodes, split from
Summary of Gnus.
(Document View): Copyedits. Move zoom commads to DocView
Navigation node.
(DocView Navigation, DocView Searching, DocView Slicing)
(DocView Conversion): Nodes renamed from Navigation, etc.
* sending.texi (Mail Sending): Add message-kill-buffer-on-exit.
* sending.texi (Sending Mail): Document initial mail buffer name,
and changed multiple mail buffer behavior.
(Mail Format): Put the example at the top of the section.
(Mail Headers): Move discussion of "From" to the top.
(Mail Sending): Document sendmail-query-once.
(Citing Mail): Make it less Rmail-specific.
* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (VCS Merging, VCS Changesets): Index entries.
(VC Mode Line): Add index entry for "version control status".
(VC Undo): Use vc-revert instead of its vc-revert-buffer alias.
Document vc-revert-show-diff. De-document vc-rollback.
(VC Directory Mode): Rewrite introduction. Move prefix arg
documentation here from VC Directory Buffer node.
(VC Directory Buffer): Use a decentralized VCS example.
(VC Directory Commands): Use a table. Remove material duplicated
in previous nodes on multi-file VC filsets.
* doc/emacs/modes.texi (Major Modes): Move major-mode variable doc here from
Choosing Modes. Document describe-mode. Document prog-mode-hook
and text-mode-hook. Add example of using hooks.
(Minor Modes): Document behavior of mode command calls from Lisp.
Note that setting the mode variable using Customize will DTRT.
(Choosing Modes): Add example of setting a minor mode using a
local variable.
nt/README.W32: Mention UNICOWS.DLL as prerequisite for running
Emacs on Windows 9X.
admin/nt/README-ftp-server: Mention UNICOWS.DLL as prerequisite for
running Emacs on Windows 9X.
Fixes: debbugs:8562
Plus miscellaneous minor speling fixes in other manual files.
* doc/emacs/files.texi (File Names, Visiting, Interlocking): Copyedits.
(Backup Copying): backup-by-copying-when-mismatch is now t.
(Customize Save): Fix description of require-final-newline.
(Reverting): Note that revert-buffer can't be undone. Mention VC.
(Auto Save Control): Clarify.
(File Archives): Add 7z.
(Remote Files): ange-ftp-make-backup-files defaults to nil.
* doc/emacs/arevert-xtra.texi (Autorevert): Copyedits.
* doc/emacs/display.texi (Fringes): Move overflow-newline-into-fringe here,
from Line Truncation node.
(Standard Faces): Note that only the background of the cursor face
has an effect.
(Cursor Display): Fix descriptions of cursor face
and bar cursor blinking.
(Text Display): Document nobreak-char-display more clearly.
(Line Truncation): Add xref to Split Window node.
(Display Custom): Don't bother documenting baud-rate or
no-redraw-on-reenter.
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Slow Isearch): Node removed.
* doc/emacs/killing.texi (Deletion): Document negative prefix arg to M-SPC.
* doc/emacs/regs.texi (Text Registers): C-x r i does not activate the mark.
(Bookmarks): Document new default bookmark location.
* doc/emacs/basic.texi (Inserting Text): Add xref to Completion. Add
ucs-insert example, and document prefix argument.
(Moving Point): Fix introduction; C-f/C-b are no longer equivalent
to left/right. Tweak left-char and right-char descriptions.
M-left and M-right are now bound to left-word/right-word.
(Erasing): Document delete-forward-char.
* doc/emacs/commands.texi (User Input): Define "input event" more clearly.
(Keys): Add xref to Echo Area.
(Commands): Clarify relation between commands and functions.
* doc/emacs/entering.texi (Entering Emacs): Define "startup screen".
Document window-splitting behavior with command-line inputs.
(Exiting): Remove obsolete paragraph about shells without suspend
functionality.
* doc/emacs/frames.texi (Non-Window Terminals): Index just "text-only
terminal", which is used throughout the manual now.
* doc/emacs/screen.texi (Screen, Menu Bar): Copyedits.
(Point): Remove duplicate paragraph on cursors, also in Screen.
(Mode Line): Trailing dashes no longer shown on X displays.