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Grammar and capitalization fixes; nfc.

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** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
much pure storage it will approximately need.

** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
emacs crash.

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** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.

*** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.

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*** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
When emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
The following should work:
{C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8, they might not work on
some older versions of xterm, or on some proprietary versions.

Finally, cua provides a global mark which is set using S-C-space.
When the global mark is active, any text which is cut or copied is
automatically inserted at the global mark position.  See the
commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.

The features of cua also works with the standard emacs bindings for
kill, copy, yank, and undo.  If you want to use cua mode, but don't
want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
`cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.

Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older

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** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
emacs' filename parsing rules.  The ignored portion can be made dim,
invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable.  The display method can
be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.

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

The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are:
`Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits,
`Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
`Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
for emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
`Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
or local keymaps.

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*** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.

`string-or-null-p' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a string or nil.
`booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a t or nil.

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*** New hook `command-error-function'.

By setting this variable to a function, you can control

These match the beginning and end of a symbol.  A symbol is a
non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
specified by the syntax table.

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*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-end' and `symbol-start' elements.

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*** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
characters and ranges.

`sentence-end-without-space'.

** Undo changes:

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*** `buffer-undo-list' can allows programmable elements.

These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
a symbol other than t or nil.  That stands for a high-level change
that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).

recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
speech synthesis.

*** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.

On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
very poor performance.  This behavior can be remedied to some extent
by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
from such processes, 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.

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** Enhanced networking support.

*** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
create a stream or datagram server inside emacs.

- A server is started using :server t arg.
- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
- A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
- Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.


* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1

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** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
buttons' in emacs buffers.  Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
`widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
doesn't require the full power of widgets.  Emacs uses buttons for
such things as help and apropos buffers.

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** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
much pure storage it will approximately need.

** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
Emacs crash.

---
** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.

*** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.

---
*** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
The following should work:
{C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8, they might not work on
some older versions of xterm, or on some proprietary versions.

Finally, cua provides a global mark which is set using S-C-space.
When the global mark is active, any text which is cut or copied is
automatically inserted at the global mark position.  See the
commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.

The features of cua also works with the standard Emacs bindings for
kill, copy, yank, and undo.  If you want to use cua mode, but don't
want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
`cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.

Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older

---
** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
Emacs' filename parsing rules.  The ignored portion can be made dim,
invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable.  The display method can
be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.

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

The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are:
`Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits,
`Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
`Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
`Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
or local keymaps.

+++
*** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.

`string-or-null-p' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a string or nil.
`booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is t or nil.

+++
*** New hook `command-error-function'.

By setting this variable to a function, you can control

These match the beginning and end of a symbol.  A symbol is a
non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
specified by the syntax table.

---
*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements.

+++
*** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
characters and ranges.

`sentence-end-without-space'.

** Undo changes:

+++
*** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements.

These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
a symbol other than t or nil.  That stands for a high-level change
that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).

recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
speech synthesis.

*** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.

On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
very poor performance.  This behavior can be remedied to some extent
by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
from such processes, 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.

+++
** Enhanced networking support.

*** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
create a stream or datagram server inside Emacs.

- A server is started using :server t arg.
- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
- A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
- Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.


* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1

+++
** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
buttons' in Emacs buffers.  Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
`widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
doesn't require the full power of widgets.  Emacs uses buttons for
such things as help and apropos buffers.

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