annotate etc/NEWS @ 108251:275d802c8570

Extract common suffix for * in partial-completion. * minibuffer.el (completion--sreverse, completion--common-suffix): New functions. (completion-pcm--merge-completions): Extract common suffix when safe.
author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Wed, 05 May 2010 22:59:07 -0400
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Ignore whitespace changes - Everywhere: Within whitespace: At end of lines:
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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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3 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
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11 See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
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12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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13
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14 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
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15 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
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18 Temporary note:
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19 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
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20 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
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21 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
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22 so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
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25 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
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27 ---
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28 ** There are new configure options:
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29 --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
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30 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
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31 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
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33 ---
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34 ** There is a new configure option --with-crt-dir.
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35 This is only useful if your crt*.o files are in a non-standard location.
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37 ** Configure links against libselinux if it is found.
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38 You can disable this by using --without-selinux.
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41 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
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44 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
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46 ** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default.
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48 +++
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49 ** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
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50 Warning: This is still very much experimental! The existing support
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51 is minimal, and when it's turned on (see below), many features are
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52 likely to give unexpected results, or break, or even crash! Use at
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53 your own risk!
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54
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55 See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some
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56 initial documentation.
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58 To turn this on in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable
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59 `bidi-display-reordering' to a non-nil value. The default is nil.
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61 The buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction', if non-nil,
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62 forces each paragraph in the buffer to have its base direction
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63 according to the value of this variable. Possible values are
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64 `right-to-left' and `left-to-right'. If the value is nil (the
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65 default), Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph from
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66 its text, as specified by the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
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68 Reordering of bidirectional text for display in Emacs is a "Full
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69 bidirectionality" class implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional
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70 Algorithm.
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71
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72 ** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
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73 Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.
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75 ** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
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76 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose style. On a Gnome desktop, the default
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77 is taken from the desktop settings.
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78
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79 ** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is built
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80 with Xft.
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82 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
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83 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
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85 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up, and
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86 optionally when copying files. To this end, copy-file has an extra
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87 optional argument, and backup-buffer and friends include the SELinux
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88 context in their return values.
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90 *** The new functions file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
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91 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
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93 *** Tramp offers handlers for file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
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94 for remote machines which support SELinux.
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96 ** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
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97 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) does not signal errors at top/bottom
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98 of buffer at first key-press (instead moves to top/bottom of buffer)
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99 when a new variable `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
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101 ** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
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102 scroll a line instead of full screen.
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104 ** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
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105 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position.
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108 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
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109
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110 ** completion-at-point is now an alias for complete-symbol.
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111
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112 ** mouse-region-delete-keys has been deleted.
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114 ** If delete-file is called with a prefix argument, it really deletes,
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115 regardless of the value of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
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118 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
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119
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120 ** Archive Mode has basic support to browse 7z archives.
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122 ** In ido-mode, C-v is no longer bound to ido-toggle-vc.
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123 The reason is that this interferes with cua-mode.
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125 ** partial-completion-mode is now obsolete.
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126 You can get the same behavior with
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127 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials)).
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128
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129 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
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130 ** Customize
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131
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132 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
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133 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
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134 To turn off the search field, set custom-search-field to nil .
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135
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136 *** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values.
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137 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
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138
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139 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
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140
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141 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
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142 choose a color via list-colors-display.
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143
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144 ** VC and related modes
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145
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146 *** New VC commands: vc-log-incoming, vc-log-outgoing, vc-find-conflicted-file.
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147
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148 *** vc-dir for Bzr supports viewing shelve contents and shelving snapshots.
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149
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150 *** Special markup can be added to log-edit buffers.
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151 The log-edit buffers are expected to have a format similar to email messages
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152 with headers of the form:
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153 Author: <author of this change>
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154 Summary: <one line summary of this change>
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155 Fixes: <reference to the bug fixed by this change>
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156 Some backends handle some of those headers specially, but any unknown header
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157 is just left as is in the message, so it is not lost.
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158
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159 ** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers.
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160 For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your
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161 .dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers.
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162
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163 ** s-region.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by shift-select-mode
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164 enabled by default in 23.1.
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165
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166 ** gdb-mi
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167
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168 *** GDB User Interface migrated to GDB Machine Interface and now
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169 supports multithread non-stop debugging and debugging of several
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170 threads simultaneously.
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171
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172
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173 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
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174
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175 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
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176 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
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177 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication.
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178
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179
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180 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
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181
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182 ** Test for special mode-class was moved from view-file to view-buffer.
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183
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184 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function now turns the mode
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185 ON unconditionally.
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186
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187 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
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188
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189 ** define-minor-mode accepts a new keyword :variable.
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190
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191 ** delete-file now accepts an optional second arg, FORCE, which says
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192 to always delete and ignore the value of delete-by-moving-to-trash.
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193
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194 ** buffer-substring-filters is obsoleted by filter-buffer-substring-functions.
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195
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196 ** New completion style `substring'.
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197
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198 ** Image API
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199
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200 *** When the image type is one of listed in `image-animated-types'
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201 and the number of sub-images in the image is more than one, then the
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202 new function `create-animated-image' creates an animated image where
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203 sub-images are displayed successively with the duration defined by
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204 `image-animate-max-time' and the delay between sub-images defined
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205 by the Graphic Control Extension of the image.
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206
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207 *** `image-extension-data' is renamed to `image-metadata'.
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208
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209 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
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210 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
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211 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
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212 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
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213 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
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214 displayed with a "spinning bar".
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215
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216
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217 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
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218
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221 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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237 Local variables:
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238 mode: outline
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239 paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
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240 end: