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* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1

** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid.
The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed.  Gtk is now the
default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary.

** New NeXTSTEP-based port
This provides support for GNUstep (via the GNUstep libraries) and Mac
OS X (via the Cocoa libraries).

Specify --with-ns to configure for this. By default, a self-contained
app will be built (containing all lisp).  To install/share lisp with
other emacsen (e.g. X11 build) use --disable-ns-self-contained.  See
nextstep/README and nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory.

** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon.

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*** compilation-scroll-output accepts a new value, `first-error', which
says to stop auto scrolling at the first error that occurs.
---
*** The `cc' alias for C++ files in `grep-file-aliases' has been
improved. `hh' can be used to match C++ header files and `cchh' both
C++ sources and headers.

** Copyright

*** You can specify your copyright holders' names.

history.  See `Minibuffer changes', above.

+++
** MH-E

*** Upgraded to MH-E version 8.1. See MH-E-NEWS for details.

** Python
*** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning
that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el.

If you have written any extensions to Rmail, they are likely to need
updating.  Conceptually, the Rmail buffer that you see is no longer
just a narrowed portion of the whole.  So you cannot access the whole
of a message (or message collection) by a simple save-restriction and
widen.  Instead, there are two buffers: the rmail-buffer, and the
rmail-view-buffer. The former is the buffer that you see, the latter
is invisible.  Most of the time, the invisible `view' buffer contains
the full contents of the Rmail file, and the Rmail buffer contains a
decoded copy of the current message (with only a subset of the
headers). In this state, Rmail is said to be `swapped'.

You may find the following functions useful:

`rmail-get-header' and `rmail-set-header' get or set the value of a
message header, whether or not it is currently visible.

function (with arguments) which you specify on the full text of a given
message.  To further narrow to just the headers, search forward for "\n\n".

+++
*** The new command `rmail-mime' displays MIME messages.
It is bound to `v' in Rmail buffers and summaries. It displays plain
text and multipart messages in a temporary buffer, and offers buttons
to save attachments.

---
*** The command `rmail-redecode-body' no longer accepts the optional arg RAW.

copies the full headers of the message.

+++
*** The C-o command is now `rmail-output-as-seen'.  It uses
the message as displayed, appending it to an mbox file.

** TeX modes
---
*** New option latex-indent-within-escaped-parens
permits to customize indentation of LaTeX environments delimited

Emacs has focus.  To enable them, set the variable
w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil.  See the doc string of that variable
for the list of extra keys that are available.

** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows.
The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus
on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode
support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts.  A
rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time
and developers.  If demand still exists for such a backend even with
the improved language support for native Windows fonts, future

replacement definitions (which can be face names, lists of face names,
or attribute/value plists.  If this variable is buffer-local, the
remapping occurs only in that buffer.

*** text-scale-mode remaps the default face to a larger or smaller
size in the current buffer. This feature is used by the Buffer Face
menu and the new `C-x C-+', `C-x C--', and `C-x C-0' commands (see
Editing Changes, above).

*** New functions:
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102420:01c5f9df1630

 --- 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.


* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1

** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid.
The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed.  Gtk is now the
default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary.

** New NeXTSTEP-based port
This provides support for GNUstep (via the GNUstep libraries) and Mac
OS X (via the Cocoa libraries).

Specify --with-ns to configure for this.  By default, a self-contained
app will be built (containing all lisp).  To install/share lisp with
other emacsen (e.g. X11 build) use --disable-ns-self-contained.  See
nextstep/README and nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory.

** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon.

+++
*** compilation-scroll-output accepts a new value, `first-error', which
says to stop auto scrolling at the first error that occurs.
---
*** The `cc' alias for C++ files in `grep-file-aliases' has been
improved.  `hh' can be used to match C++ header files and `cchh' both
C++ sources and headers.

** Copyright

*** You can specify your copyright holders' names.

history.  See `Minibuffer changes', above.

+++
** MH-E

*** Upgraded to MH-E version 8.1.  See MH-E-NEWS for details.

** Python
*** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning
that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el.

If you have written any extensions to Rmail, they are likely to need
updating.  Conceptually, the Rmail buffer that you see is no longer
just a narrowed portion of the whole.  So you cannot access the whole
of a message (or message collection) by a simple save-restriction and
widen.  Instead, there are two buffers: the rmail-buffer, and the
rmail-view-buffer.  The former is the buffer that you see, the latter
is invisible.  Most of the time, the invisible `view' buffer contains
the full contents of the Rmail file, and the Rmail buffer contains a
decoded copy of the current message (with only a subset of the
headers).  In this state, Rmail is said to be `swapped'.

You may find the following functions useful:

`rmail-get-header' and `rmail-set-header' get or set the value of a
message header, whether or not it is currently visible.

function (with arguments) which you specify on the full text of a given
message.  To further narrow to just the headers, search forward for "\n\n".

+++
*** The new command `rmail-mime' displays MIME messages.
It is bound to `v' in Rmail buffers and summaries.  It displays plain
text and multipart messages in a temporary buffer, and offers buttons
to save attachments.

---
*** The command `rmail-redecode-body' no longer accepts the optional arg RAW.

copies the full headers of the message.

+++
*** The C-o command is now `rmail-output-as-seen'.  It uses
the message as displayed, appending it to an mbox file.

---
*** The modified status of the Rmail buffer is reported in the mode-line.
Previously, this information was hidden.

** TeX modes
---
*** New option latex-indent-within-escaped-parens
permits to customize indentation of LaTeX environments delimited

Emacs has focus.  To enable them, set the variable
w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil.  See the doc string of that variable
for the list of extra keys that are available.

** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows.
The font backend was completely rewritten for this release.  The focus
on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode
support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts.  A
rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time
and developers.  If demand still exists for such a backend even with
the improved language support for native Windows fonts, future

replacement definitions (which can be face names, lists of face names,
or attribute/value plists.  If this variable is buffer-local, the
remapping occurs only in that buffer.

*** text-scale-mode remaps the default face to a larger or smaller
size in the current buffer.  This feature is used by the Buffer Face
menu and the new `C-x C-+', `C-x C--', and `C-x C-0' commands (see
Editing Changes, above).

*** New functions:
+++