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Bob Rogers <rogers-emacs at rgrjr.dyndns.org> (tiny change; non-copyrightable) Spelling and grammar fixes.

102918:f166876b8717

OS X, or on Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows.

The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and
100 (opaque), or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0.  It can also be a
cons cell (ACTIVE . INACTIVE), where ACTIVE is the opacity of an
active frame and INACTIVE is the opactity of non-active frames.

The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the
opacity; the default is 20.

** Internationalization changes

*** In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for
saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld.  These file may not be read
correctly in Emacs 22 and below.  If you want to Gnus across different Emacs
versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'.

*** Password are consistently loaded through `auth-source'
Gnus can use `auth-source' for POP and IMAP passwords.  Also see that
`smtpmail' and `url' support `auth-source' for SMTP and HTTP/HTTPS/RSS
authentication respectively.

** Help mode

than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'.

*** New option `help-window-select' permits to customize whether help
window shall be automatically selected when invoking help.

*** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits to specify new
position of point in help window (for example in `view-lossage').

** Isearch
+++
*** New command `isearch-forward-word' bound globally to `M-s w' starts
incremental word search.  New command `isearch-toggle-word' bound to the

is bound globally to the command `occur'.
---
*** Isearch can now search through multiple ChangeLog files.
When running Isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails,
then another C-s tries searching the previous ChangeLog,
if there is one (e.g. go from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12).
This is enabled if multi-isearch-search is non-nil.

*** Two new commands to start Isearch on a list of marked buffers
for buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el are bound to the keys `M-s a C-s' and
`M-s a M-C-s'.

*** IPv6 addresses.
IPv6 addresses are supported now as host names.  They must be embedded
in square brackets, like in "/ssh:[::1]:".

*** Multihop syntax has been removed.
The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed.  Instead of, multi hops
can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'.

*** More default settings.
Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user',
`tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-host'.

*** Connection information is cached.
In order to reduce connection setup, information about used
connections are kept persistent in a file.  The name of this file is
defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'.

*** Control of remote processes.
Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in
`tramp-remote-path' and `tramp-remote-process-environment'.

+++
*** In Log Edit mode,  C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved.

*** vc-git supports the "git grep" command.
+++
*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of maintainer able
to update it to the new VC.

** Miscellaneous

*** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes).

*** For underlined characters, the distance between the underline and
the baseline is controlled by a new variable, `underline-minimum-offset'.

*** You can now pass the value of the `invisible' property to
invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible.
Convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer position
(e.g. in before/after-strings).

+++
*** `clear-image-cache' can be told to flush only images of a specific file.

*** `vertical-motion' can now be given a goal column.

102919:3fb22681f225

OS X, or on Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows.

The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and
100 (opaque), or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0.  It can also be a
cons cell (ACTIVE . INACTIVE), where ACTIVE is the opacity of an
active frame and INACTIVE is the opacity of non-active frames.

The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the
opacity; the default is 20.

** Internationalization changes

*** In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for
saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld.  These file may not be read
correctly in Emacs 22 and below.  If you want to Gnus across different Emacs
versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'.

*** Passwords are consistently loaded through `auth-source'
Gnus can use `auth-source' for POP and IMAP passwords.  Also see that
`smtpmail' and `url' support `auth-source' for SMTP and HTTP/HTTPS/RSS
authentication respectively.

** Help mode

than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'.

*** New option `help-window-select' permits to customize whether help
window shall be automatically selected when invoking help.

*** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits one to specify a new
position for point in help window (for example in `view-lossage').

** Isearch
+++
*** New command `isearch-forward-word' bound globally to `M-s w' starts
incremental word search.  New command `isearch-toggle-word' bound to the

is bound globally to the command `occur'.
---
*** Isearch can now search through multiple ChangeLog files.
When running Isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails,
then another C-s tries searching the previous ChangeLog,
if there is one (e.g. going from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12).
This is enabled if multi-isearch-search is non-nil.

*** Two new commands to start Isearch on a list of marked buffers
for buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el are bound to the keys `M-s a C-s' and
`M-s a M-C-s'.

*** IPv6 addresses.
IPv6 addresses are supported now as host names.  They must be embedded
in square brackets, like in "/ssh:[::1]:".

*** Multihop syntax has been removed.
The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed.  Instead, multi hops
can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'.

*** More default settings.
Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user',
`tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-host'.

*** Connection information is cached.
In order to reduce connection setup, information about used
connections is kept persistently in a file.  The name of this file is
defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'.

*** Control of remote processes.
Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in
`tramp-remote-path' and `tramp-remote-process-environment'.

+++
*** In Log Edit mode,  C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved.

*** vc-git supports the "git grep" command.
+++
*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of a maintainer able
to update it to the new VC.

** Miscellaneous

*** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes).

*** For underlined characters, the distance between the underline and
the baseline is controlled by a new variable, `underline-minimum-offset'.

*** You can now pass the value of the `invisible' property to
invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible.
This is convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer
position (e.g. in before/after-strings).

+++
*** `clear-image-cache' can be told to flush only images of a specific file.

*** `vertical-motion' can now be given a goal column.