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** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union
types any more.  Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
the text before point.  Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.

-rBASE -rHEAD.


* New modes and packages in Emacs 21.4

** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files.
The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used
to increment the SOA serial.

** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program

** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
configuration files.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** Major mode functions now run the new normal hook
`after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode hooks.

+++
** New function minibuffer-selected-window.

+++
** New function `call-process-shell-command'.

---
** The dummy function keys made by easymenu
are now always lower case.  If you specify the
menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'

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** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union
types any more.  Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** `set-auto-mode' now gives the interpreter magic line (if present)
precedence over the file name.  Likewise an <?xml or <!DOCTYPE declaration
will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, unless the file name leads to a mode in
`xml-based-modes'.

+++
** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
the text before point.  Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.

-rBASE -rHEAD.


* New modes and packages in Emacs 21.4

** The new package password.el provide a password cache and expiring mechanism.

** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files.
The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used
to increment the SOA serial.

** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program

** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
configuration files.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** An interactive specification may now use the code letter 'U' to get
the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
previous 'k' or 'K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.

** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
argument.

+++
** Major mode functions now run the new normal hook
`after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode hooks.

+++
** New function minibuffer-selected-window.

+++
** New function `call-process-shell-command'.

** New function `process-file'.

This is similar to `call-process', but obeys file handlers.  The file
handler is chosen based on default-directory.

---
** The dummy function keys made by easymenu
are now always lower case.  If you specify the
menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'