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** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the apperance of fringes.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

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** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
the mode line.

(edebug DEBUG)
	Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG.  (This is
	equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro.

** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.

This is an alternative to using defadvice or substitute-key-definition
to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
binding and lookup functionality.

- The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
  command before remapping.  It is equal to `this-command' when the
  command was not remapped.

** New variable emulation-mode-map-alists.

Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
keymap alist separate from minor-mode-map-alist by adding their keymap
alist to this list.

This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
properties.  It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
although it applies to overlays as well.  This variable was introduced
to implement the `font-lock-face' property.

** New special text property `font-lock-face'.

This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by
M-x font-lock-mode.  It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text
property.  Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the
new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.

** New function remove-list-of-text-properties.

The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties' is almost the same
as `remove-text-properties'.  The only difference is that it takes
a list of property names as argument rather than a property list.

** New function insert-for-yank.

This function normally works like `insert' but removes the text
properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list.  However, if the
inserted text has a `yank-handler' text property on the first
character of the string, the insertion of the text may be modified in
a number of ways.  See the description of `yank-handler' below.

** New function insert-buffer-substring-as-yank.

This function works like `insert-buffer-substring', but removes the
text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list.

** New function insert-buffer-substring-no-properties.

This function is like insert-buffer-substring, but removes all
text properties from the inserted substring.

** New `yank-handler' text property may be used to control how
previously killed text on the kill-ring is reinserted.

The value of the yank-handler property must be a list with one to five
elements with the following format:
  (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).

The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
the first character on its string argument (typically the first

  If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object.  It is
called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
FUNCTION may set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.

*** The functions kill-new, kill-append, and kill-region now has an
optional third argument to specify the yank-handler text property
to put on the killed text.

*** The function yank-pop will now use a non-nil value of the variable
`yank-undo-function' (instead of delete-region) to undo the previous
yank or yank-pop command (or a call to insert-for-yank).  The function
insert-for-yank automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO

as the "key" bound by that key binding.

This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for
the bindings that were made with easymenu.

** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional
argument.  If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks
for a function that could be called with `call-interactively',
and does not return t for keyboard macros.

** New function window-body-height.

This is like window-height but does not count the mode line
or the header line.

** New function format-mode-line.

This returns the mode-line or header-line of the selected (or a
specified) window as a string with or without text properties.

** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.

These functions are like `plist-get' and `plist-put' except that they
compare the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.

** New function `tool-bar-local-item-from-menu'

The `tool-bar-add-item-from-menu' must not be used (as previously
recommended) for making entries in the tool bar for local keymaps.
Instead, use the function `tool-bar-local-item-from-menu', which lets

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** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the apperance of fringes.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

** The argument to forward-word, backward-word, forward-to-indentation
and backward-to-indentation is now optional, and defaults to 1.

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** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
the mode line.

(edebug DEBUG)
	Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG.  (This is
	equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro.

+++
** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.

This is an alternative to using defadvice or substitute-key-definition
to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
binding and lookup functionality.

- The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
  command before remapping.  It is equal to `this-command' when the
  command was not remapped.

+++
** New variable emulation-mode-map-alists.

Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
keymap alist separate from minor-mode-map-alist by adding their keymap
alist to this list.

This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
properties.  It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
although it applies to overlays as well.  This variable was introduced
to implement the `font-lock-face' property.

+++
** New special text property `font-lock-face'.

This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by
M-x font-lock-mode.  It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text
property.  Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the
new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.

+++
** New function remove-list-of-text-properties.

The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties' is almost the same
as `remove-text-properties'.  The only difference is that it takes
a list of property names as argument rather than a property list.

+++
** New function insert-for-yank.

This function normally works like `insert' but removes the text
properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list.  However, if the
inserted text has a `yank-handler' text property on the first
character of the string, the insertion of the text may be modified in
a number of ways.  See the description of `yank-handler' below.

+++
** New function insert-buffer-substring-as-yank.

This function works like `insert-buffer-substring', but removes the
text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list.

+++
** New function insert-buffer-substring-no-properties.

This function is like insert-buffer-substring, but removes all
text properties from the inserted substring.

+++
** New `yank-handler' text property may be used to control how
previously killed text on the kill-ring is reinserted.

The value of the yank-handler property must be a list with one to four
elements with the following format:
  (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).

The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
the first character on its string argument (typically the first

  If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object.  It is
called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
FUNCTION may set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.

*** The functions kill-new, kill-append, and kill-region now have an
optional argument to specify the yank-handler text property to put on
the killed text.

*** The function yank-pop will now use a non-nil value of the variable
`yank-undo-function' (instead of delete-region) to undo the previous
yank or yank-pop command (or a call to insert-for-yank).  The function
insert-for-yank automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO

as the "key" bound by that key binding.

This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for
the bindings that were made with easymenu.

+++
** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional
argument.  If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks
for a function that could be called with `call-interactively',
and does not return t for keyboard macros.

** New function window-body-height.

This is like window-height but does not count the mode line
or the header line.

+++
** New function format-mode-line.

This returns the mode-line or header-line of the selected (or a
specified) window as a string with or without text properties.

+++
** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.

These functions are like `plist-get' and `plist-put' except that they
compare the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.

+++
** New function `tool-bar-local-item-from-menu'

The `tool-bar-add-item-from-menu' must not be used (as previously
recommended) for making entries in the tool bar for local keymaps.
Instead, use the function `tool-bar-local-item-from-menu', which lets