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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
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3 Copyright (C) 2007 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 emacs-pretest-bug@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 23. |
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11 See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 |
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12 for changes in older Emacs versions. |
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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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17 Temporary note: |
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18 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. |
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19 --- means no change in the manuals is called for. |
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20 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- |
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21 so we will look at it and add it to the manual. |
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24 * About external Lisp packages |
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27 * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1 |
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29 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid. |
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49 * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 |
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51 ** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp. |
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54 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 |
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56 ** css-mode to edit Cascading Style Sheets. |
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60 ** vera-mode to edit Vera files. |
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67 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 |
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69 ** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names. |
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81 * Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems |
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105 This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
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107 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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108 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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109 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
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110 any later version. |
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112 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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113 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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114 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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115 GNU General Public License for more details. |
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117 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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118 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the |
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119 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, |
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120 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |
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