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Revision: [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--unicode--0--patch-13 Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 Patches applied: * [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--cvs-trunk--0--patch-83 - [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--cvs-trunk--0--patch-89 Update from CVS * [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--cvs-trunk--0--patch-90 Update from CVS: man/calc.texi: Add macro for LaTeX for info output. * [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--cvs-trunk--0--patch-91 - [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--cvs-trunk--0--patch-94 Update from CVS

90102:9b4f359c4117

** The character codes for characters from the
eight-bit-control/eight-bit-graphic charsets aren't now in the range
128-255.

* Installation Changes in Emacs 21.4

** Emacs includes now support for loading image libraries on demand.
(Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.)  You can configure
the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
setting the variable `image-library-alist'.

---
** 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

** Emacs now responds to mouse-clicks on the mode-line, header-line and
display margin, when run in an xterm.

** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N

Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs may do much
more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
(see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details).  The Lisp
packages that are included in release 21.4 have been adapted to do
this, but external packages may not yet support this.  However, there
is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.

with a space, when those buffers are visiting files.  Normally buffers
whose names begin with space are omitted.

+++
** You can now customize fill-nobreak-predicate to control where
filling can break lines.  We provide two sample predicates,
fill-single-word-nobreak-p and fill-french-nobreak-p.

+++
** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.

** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
coding system.


* New modes and packages in Emacs 21.4

** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
section { }).  Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through

** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes.

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

+++
** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
the command `undefined'.  (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
`substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to

+++
** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
:propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
`risky-local-variable' property is nil.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

** An element of buffer-undo-list can now have the form (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).

90103:3ebd9bdb4fe5

** The character codes for characters from the
eight-bit-control/eight-bit-graphic charsets aren't now in the range
128-255.

* Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1

** Emacs includes now support for loading image libraries on demand.
(Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.)  You can configure
the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
setting the variable `image-library-alist'.

---
** 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 22.1

** Emacs now responds to mouse-clicks on the mode-line, header-line and
display margin, when run in an xterm.

** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N

Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs may do much
more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
(see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details).  The Lisp
packages that are included in release 22.1 have been adapted to do
this, but external packages may not yet support this.  However, there
is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.

with a space, when those buffers are visiting files.  Normally buffers
whose names begin with space are omitted.

+++
** You can now customize fill-nobreak-predicate to control where
filling can break lines.  The value is now normally a list of
functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.

We provide two sample predicates, fill-single-word-nobreak-p and
fill-french-nobreak-p, for use in the value of fill-nobreak-predicate.

+++
** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.

** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
coding system.


* New modes and packages in Emacs 22.1

** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
section { }).  Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through

** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes.

** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
configuration files.

* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

+++
** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
the command `undefined'.  (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
`substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to

+++
** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
:propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
`risky-local-variable' property is nil.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

** An element of buffer-undo-list can now have the form (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).