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(math-small-factorial-table): New variable. (calcFunc-fact): Use `math-small-factorial-table'.

GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.

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This file is about changes in Emacs version 23.

See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17
for changes in older Emacs versions.

You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.

Temporary note:
 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
so we will look at it and add it to the manual.


* About external Lisp packages


* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1

** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid.

** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for
a GIF library.


* Changes in Emacs 23.1

** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode enabled, Emacs uses a
Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server, rather than faking events
using the client program mev.  This C level approach provides mouse
highlighting, and help echoing in the minibuffer.


* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1


* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1


* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1

** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp.


* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

** css-mode to edit Cascading Style Sheets.

** bibtex-style-mode helps you write BibTeX's *.bst files.

** vera-mode to edit Vera files.

** socks.el (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.

** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt.


* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names.
Only copyright lines with holders matching copyright-names-regexp will be
considered for update.


** VC has some support for Bazaar (bzr).

** VC has some support for Mercurial (hg).

** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs.


* Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems


* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

+++
** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly.

+++
** New variable `user-emacs-directory'.
Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d".

+++
** The new function `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated
with a given image specification.


* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1


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