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Up date. check-parens. `beginning-of-defun' and `end-of-defun'.

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GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  23 Jan 1999
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Please send Emacs bug reports to [e-mail].
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** `movemail' defaults to supporting POP.  You can turn this off using
the --without-pop configure option, should that be necessary.

* Changes in Emacs 21.1

** You can now easily create new *Info* buffers using either M-x clone-buffer
or C-u m <entry> RET.  M-x clone-buffer can also be used on *Help* and
several other special buffers.

Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
--- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.

** easy-mmode-define-minor-mode now takes an additional BODY argument
and is renamed `define-minor-mode'.

** If an abbrev has only a hook, and that hook has a non-nil

* For older news, see the file ONEWS.

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GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  5 Jan 2000
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.

Please send Emacs bug reports to [e-mail].
For older news, see the file ONEWS.

** `movemail' defaults to supporting POP.  You can turn this off using
the --without-pop configure option, should that be necessary.

* Changes in Emacs 21.1

** New command M-x check-parens can be used to find unbalanced paren
groups and strings in buffers in Lisp mode (or other modes).

** You can now easily create new *Info* buffers using either M-x clone-buffer
or C-u m <entry> RET.  M-x clone-buffer can also be used on *Help* and
several other special buffers.

Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
--- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.

** Variables `beginning-of-defun' and `end-of-defun', can be used to
define handlers for the functions of the same names.  Major modes can
define these locally instead of rebinding M-C-a etc. if the normal
definitions of the functions are not appropriate for the mode.

** easy-mmode-define-minor-mode now takes an additional BODY argument
and is renamed `define-minor-mode'.

** If an abbrev has only a hook, and that hook has a non-nil

* For older news, see the file ONEWS.

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Copyright information:

Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
   thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.