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*** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
state of your program.  It can separate the input/output of your program from
that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar.  It also uses features of
Emacs 21/22 such as the the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
breakpoints.

Use M-x gdb to start GDB-UI.

*** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed.  GUD tooltips can now be

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** cplus-md.el has been deleted.

* Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems

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** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.

You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any

from such processes, to allowing them to produce more output before
emacs tries to read it.

*** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.

This executes a shell command command synchronously in a separate
process.

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

*** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
running under X.

** GC changes:

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*** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
on garbage collection.

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*** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
state of your program.  It can separate the input/output of your program from
that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar.  It also uses features of
Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
breakpoints.

Use M-x gdb to start GDB-UI.

*** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed.  GUD tooltips can now be

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** cplus-md.el has been deleted.

* Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems

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** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile.

If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME
environment variable and a `.emacs' was saved, then Emacs will continue
using C:/ as the default HOME.  But if you are installing Emacs afresh,
the default location will be the "Application Data" (or similar
localized name) subdirectory of your user profile.  A typical location
of this directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data",
where USERNAME is your user name.

This change means that users can now have their own `.emacs' files on
shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be
read-only on computers that are administered by someone else.

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** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.

You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any

from such processes, to allowing them to produce more output before
emacs tries to read it.

*** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.

This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.

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

*** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
running under X.

** GC changes:

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*** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold
as the heap sizxe increases.
	
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*** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
on garbage collection.

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