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types any more.  Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.


* Changes in Emacs 22.1

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** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of
the existing file's name.  (This is the same convention that shell

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** Control characters and escape glyphs are now shown in the new
escape-glyph face.

** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now prefixed with an escape
character, unless the new user variable `show-nonbreak-escape' is set
to nil.

---

you about it.

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** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.

** In Outline mode, hide-body no longer hides lines at the top
of the file that precede the first header line.

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** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now

+++
** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.

** global-whitespace-mode is a new alias for whitespace-global-mode.

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** There are now two new regular expression operators, \_< and \_>,
for matching 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.

** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
existing values.  For example:

  emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"

---
** Commands winner-redo and winner-undo, from winner.el, are now bound to
C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively.  This is an incompatible change.

** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it.  To change the
default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
`help-default-arg-highlight'.

and that all prompts must stay at the beginning of a line.  If this is
not the case, then `comint-kill-region' behaves just like
`kill-region' if read-only are involved: it copies the text to the
kill-ring, but does not delete it.

** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.

** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.

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** New command line option -Q.

`revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which
decides whether the buffer should be reverted.  Currently, this means
that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.

** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
which it is active.  If the option is nil, the default, then this info
only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.

*** New user option `compilation-environment'.
This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
subprocesses inherit.

** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.

---
*** There's a new separate package grep.el.

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** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
resync points in both windows.

** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for
using strokes as an input method.

** Gnus package

*** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts.  PGG is a library to handle
PGP/MIME.

*** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.

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** Desktop package

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*** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers immediately,
remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).

*** New commands:
  - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
  - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
  - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
    it was loaded.
  - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
  - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.

*** New customizable variables:
  - desktop-save. Determins whether the desktop should be saved when it is
    killed.
  - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
  - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.

  - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.

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*** New command line option --no-desktop

*** New hooks:
  - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
  - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.

---

Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
to get the old behavior.  The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
feature.

** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.

	% emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
	% emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start &
	% emacsclient -s foo file1

For example, ((top . left) (t .  right)) places the top angle bitmap
in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both
arrow bitmaps in right fringe.  To show just the angle bitmaps in the
left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).

** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
in the echo area.  It is bound to `C-h .'.  It normally displays the
same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
`help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
keyboard oriented alternative.

** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to
automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
point-over, after suitable idle time.  The amount of idle time is
determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
to one second.  This feature is turned off by default.

** New commands `scan-buf-next-region' and `scan-buf-previous-region'
move to the start of the next (previous, respectively) region with
non-nil help-echo property and display any help found there in the
echo area, using `display-local-help'.

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** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function,
now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
an interactively callable function.


** sql changes.

*** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlightng of different
SQL dialects.  This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a
buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current

*** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
appropriate sql-interactive-mode wrapper for the current setting of
`sql-product'.

** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
with special modes such as Tar mode.

** Enhancements to apropos commands:

*** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match.
When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must
be present for an item to match.  Regular expression matching is still
available.

*** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
to be sorted according to their score.  The score for an item is a
number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
regular expression that you entered to the apropos command.  The best
match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each

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** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
the operating system or your X server.

** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible.  When disabled, it
restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.

---
** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.

** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
`insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.

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** A prefix argument of C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-printifies the

into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix arg, copies absolute file names.

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** Dired-x:

*** Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling
command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to M-O,
marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the
mode toggling function instead.

*** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
the current Info node name into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix
arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.

*** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.

*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
references and following them calls `browse-url'.

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*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
`Info-hide-note-references' to nil.

*** Images in Info pages are supported.
Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.

Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
or when the frame is resized.

** New functions frame-current-scroll-bars and window-current-scroll-bars.

These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window.

   buffer copies or moves the file to that directory.

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** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.

** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which may
speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.

If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of
XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on.

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** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.

** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
`file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.

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** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',

---
** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
and other common debugger commands.

** recentf changes.

The recent file list is now automatically cleanup when recentf mode is
enabled.  The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do
automatic cleanup.

~/.emacs.d or directly under ~.  Emacs will find them in either place.

---
** partial-completion-mode now does partial completion on directory names.

** skeleton.el now supports using - to mark the skeleton-point without
   interregion interaction.  @ has reverted to only setting
   skeleton-positions and no longer sets skeleton-point.  Skeletons
   which used @ to mark skeleton-point independent of _ should now use -
   instead.  The updated skeleton-insert docstring explains these new
   features along with other details of skeleton construction.

** MH-E changes.

Upgraded to MH-E version 7.82. There have been major changes since
version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.

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** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.

** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
of a file.

---
** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.

** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
when possible.  The latter are more space-efficient.  This is
controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.

** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
coding system for encoding and decoding file names.  A new menu item
(Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
command.

`mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits.  By
default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
automatically.  The game uses faces for better visual feedback.

** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
requests X selection.  The default value is nil, which means that
Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
and use the more appropriately result.

*** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
TeX commands to use at startup.

*** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.

*** New major mode doctex-mode for *.dtx files.

+++
** New display feature: focus follows the mouse from one Emacs window
to another, even within a frame.  If you set the variable
mouse-autoselect-window to non-nil value, moving the mouse to a
different Emacs window will select that window (minibuffer window can
be selected only when it is active).  The default is nil, so that this
feature is not enabled.

** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
normally changes according to the mouse click position.  If you set
the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected
window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame

search multiple buffers.  There is also a new command
`multi-occur-by-filename-regexp' which allows you to specify the
buffers to search by their filename.  Internally, Occur mode has been
rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other changes.

** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
in Indented-Text mode.

** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
`query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
a match if part of it has a read-only property.

+++

is over the text.  By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key.  You can
also disable mouse highlighting.

** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.

+++

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** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
day of that ISO week.

** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.

---
** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
`christian-holidays' simpler.

** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
and `diary-header-line-format'.

+++

formats.


** VC Changes

*** The key C-x C-q no longer checks files in or out, it only changes
the read-only state of the buffer (toggle-read-only).  We made this
change because we held a poll and found that many users were unhappy
with the previous behavior.  If you do prefer this behavior, you
can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your .emacs:

** Lisp mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings.

---
** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.

+++
** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.

+++
** F90 mode has new navigation commands `f90-end-of-block',
`f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block', `f90-previous-block'.

---
** F90 mode now has support for hs-minor-mode (hideshow).
It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
majority.

---
** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change

** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
"checkout", "update" or "commit".  That means using cvs diff options
-rBASE -rHEAD.

** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode.  Integration with isearch
handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.

** 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
.config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
recognized.

** The new package password.el provide a password cache and expiring mechanism.

** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files.
The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used
to increment the SOA serial.

** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
source files.  See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.

** The library tree-widget.el provides a new widget to display a set
of hierarchical data as an outline.  For example, the tree-widget is
well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.

** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...

** The thumbs.el package allows you to preview image files as thumbnails
and can be invoked from a Dired buffer.

** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.

** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.

+++
** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.

** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.

---
** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.

Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older
versions of cua.el and cua-mode.el.  To ensure proper operation, you
must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.

** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards.  The numeric
keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
+, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key.  The keypad
package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys.

---
** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.

** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
`text tables' in Emacs buffers.  It simulates the effect of putting
these tables in a special major mode.  The package emulates WYSIWYG
table editing available in modern word processors.  The package also
can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such

mode-lines in inverse-video.

---
** cplus-md.el has been removed to avoid problems with Custom.

** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).

** 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

** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
it returns just the directory name.

+++

`risky-local-variable' property is nil.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

+++
** An element of buffer-undo-list can now 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).

+++
** The function symbol-file tells you which file defined
a certain function or variable.

** Lisp code can now test if a given buffer position is inside a
clickable link with the new function `mouse-on-link-p'.  This is the
function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link' functionality.

+++

+++
** An interactive specification may now use the code letter 'U' to get
the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
previous 'k' or 'K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.

** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
argument.

+++
** Major mode functions now run the new normal hook

+++
** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
been renamed to `disabled-command-function'.  The variable
`disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.

** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
width if the WIDTH argument is nil.  If the TOPOS argument is nil,
the usable window height and width is used.

+++
** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
a list of two integers, instead of a cons.

** If a command sets transient-mark-mode to `only', that
enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
During that following command, the value of transient-mark-mode
is `identity'.  If it is still `identity' at the end of the command,
it changes to nil.

+++
** The flags, width, and precision options for %-specifications in function
`format' are now documented.  Some flags that were accepted but not
implemented (such as "*") are no longer accepted.

** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
if no expansion is done, which may be tested using `eq'.

** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
`yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
string.  The old behavior is available if you call
`insert-for-yank-1' instead.

** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
it was found as a text property or not found at all.

one or all windows.  Normally, this is not needed as changes in window
contents are detected automatically.  However, certain implicit
changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
forcing an explicit window update.

** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.

+++
** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if

---
** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by lisp code
to override the internal read-file-name function.


** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
`read-file-name' function.

+++

A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
defined with defface.

** The function face-differs-from-default-p now truly checks whether the
given face displays differently from the default face or not (previously
it did only a very cursory check).

+++

+++
** New functions face-attribute-relative-p and merge-face-attribute
help with handling relative face attributes.

** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face-list is reversed.
If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous releases
of Emacs, the order was the opposite.  This change was made so that
:inherit face-lists operate identically to face-lists in text `face'

---
** Functions y-or-n-p, read-char, read-key-sequence and the like, that
display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.

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

+++
** Arguments for remove-overlays are now optional, so that you can remove
all overlays in the buffer by just calling (remove-overlay).

** New packages:

*** 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 separates the input/output of your program from
that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar.  It also uses features of

*** The new package bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
data structures.

*** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.

*** The new package 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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types any more.  Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.


* Changes in Emacs 22.1

** Improved Thai support.  A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is
automatically activated if you select Thai as a language
environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to
versions which recognize Thai words.  Affected commands are
    M-f     (forward-word)
    M-b     (backward-word)
    M-d     (kill-word)
    M-DEL   (backward-kill-word)
    M-t     (transpose-words)
    M-q     (fill-paragraph)

** iso-acc.el is now obsolete.  Use one of the latin input methods instead.

---
** Languange environment and various default coding systems are setup
more correctly according to the current locale name.  If the locale
name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
This change may result in using the different coding systems as
default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN).

+++
** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of
the existing file's name.  (This is the same convention that shell

+++
** Control characters and escape glyphs are now shown in the new
escape-glyph face.

+++
** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now prefixed with an escape
character, unless the new user variable `show-nonbreak-escape' is set
to nil.

---

you about it.

+++
** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.

+++
** In Outline mode, hide-body no longer hides lines at the top
of the file that precede the first header line.

+++
** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now

+++
** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.

---
** global-whitespace-mode is a new alias for whitespace-global-mode.

+++
** There are now two new regular expression operators, \_< and \_>,
for matching 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-end' and `symbol-start' elements.

+++
** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
existing values.  For example:

  emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"

---
** Commands winner-redo and winner-undo, from winner.el, are now bound to
C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively.  This is an incompatible change.

---
** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it.  To change the
default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
`help-default-arg-highlight'.

and that all prompts must stay at the beginning of a line.  If this is
not the case, then `comint-kill-region' behaves just like
`kill-region' if read-only are involved: it copies the text to the
kill-ring, but does not delete it.

+++
** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.

+++
** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.

+++
** New command line option -Q.

`revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which
decides whether the buffer should be reverted.  Currently, this means
that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.

+++
** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
which it is active.  If the option is nil, the default, then this info
only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.

*** New user option `compilation-environment'.
This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
subprocesses inherit.

+++
** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.

---
*** There's a new separate package grep.el.

+++
** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
resync points in both windows.

---
** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for
using strokes as an input method.

** Gnus package

---
*** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts.  PGG is a library to handle
PGP/MIME.

---
*** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.

+++
** Desktop package

+++
*** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers immediately,
remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).

+++
*** New commands:
  - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
  - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
  - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
    it was loaded.
  - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
  - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.

---
*** New customizable variables:
  - desktop-save. Determins whether the desktop should be saved when it is
    killed.
  - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
  - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.

  - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.

+++
*** New command line option --no-desktop

---
*** New hooks:
  - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
  - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.

---

Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
to get the old behavior.  The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
feature.

+++
** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.

	% emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
	% emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start &
	% emacsclient -s foo file1

For example, ((top . left) (t .  right)) places the top angle bitmap
in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both
arrow bitmaps in right fringe.  To show just the angle bitmaps in the
left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).

+++
** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
in the echo area.  It is bound to `C-h .'.  It normally displays the
same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
`help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
keyboard oriented alternative.

+++
** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to
automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
point-over, after suitable idle time.  The amount of idle time is
determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
to one second.  This feature is turned off by default.

---
** New commands `scan-buf-next-region' and `scan-buf-previous-region'
move to the start of the next (previous, respectively) region with
non-nil help-echo property and display any help found there in the
echo area, using `display-local-help'.

+++
** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function,
now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
an interactively callable function.

---
** sql changes.

*** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlightng of different
SQL dialects.  This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a
buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current

*** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
appropriate sql-interactive-mode wrapper for the current setting of
`sql-product'.

---
** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
with special modes such as Tar mode.

** Enhancements to apropos commands:

*** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match.
When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must
be present for an item to match.  Regular expression matching is still
available.

+++
*** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
to be sorted according to their score.  The score for an item is a
number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
regular expression that you entered to the apropos command.  The best
match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each

+++
** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
the operating system or your X server.

---
** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible.  When disabled, it
restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.

---
** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.

---
** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
`insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.

+++
** A prefix argument of C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-printifies the

into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix arg, copies absolute file names.

+++
** Dired-x:

+++
*** Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling
command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to M-O,
marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the
mode toggling function instead.

*** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
the current Info node name into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix
arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.

---
*** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.

*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
references and following them calls `browse-url'.

+++
*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
`Info-hide-note-references' to nil.

---
*** Images in Info pages are supported.
Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.

Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
or when the frame is resized.

+++
** New functions frame-current-scroll-bars and window-current-scroll-bars.

These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window.

   buffer copies or moves the file to that directory.

+++
** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.

+++
** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which may
speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.

If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of
XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on.

+++
** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.

---
** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
`file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.

+++
** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',

---
** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
and other common debugger commands.

---
** recentf changes.

The recent file list is now automatically cleanup when recentf mode is
enabled.  The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do
automatic cleanup.

~/.emacs.d or directly under ~.  Emacs will find them in either place.

---
** partial-completion-mode now does partial completion on directory names.

---
** skeleton.el now supports using - to mark the skeleton-point without
   interregion interaction.  @ has reverted to only setting
   skeleton-positions and no longer sets skeleton-point.  Skeletons
   which used @ to mark skeleton-point independent of _ should now use -
   instead.  The updated skeleton-insert docstring explains these new
   features along with other details of skeleton construction.

---
** MH-E changes.

Upgraded to MH-E version 7.82. There have been major changes since
version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.

+++
** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.

+++
** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
of a file.

---
** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.

** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
when possible.  The latter are more space-efficient.  This is
controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.

+++
** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
coding system for encoding and decoding file names.  A new menu item
(Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
command.

`mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits.  By
default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
automatically.  The game uses faces for better visual feedback.

---
** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
requests X selection.  The default value is nil, which means that
Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
and use the more appropriately result.

*** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
TeX commands to use at startup.

---
*** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.

+++
*** New major mode doctex-mode for *.dtx files.

+++
** New display feature: focus follows the mouse from one Emacs window
to another, even within a frame.  If you set the variable
mouse-autoselect-window to non-nil value, moving the mouse to a
different Emacs window will select that window (minibuffer window can
be selected only when it is active).  The default is nil, so that this
feature is not enabled.

+++
** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
normally changes according to the mouse click position.  If you set
the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected
window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame

search multiple buffers.  There is also a new command
`multi-occur-by-filename-regexp' which allows you to specify the
buffers to search by their filename.  Internally, Occur mode has been
rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other changes.

+++
** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
in Indented-Text mode.

---
** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
`query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
a match if part of it has a read-only property.

+++

is over the text.  By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key.  You can
also disable mouse highlighting.

+++
** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.

+++

+++
** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
day of that ISO week.

---
** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.

---
** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
`christian-holidays' simpler.

---
** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
and `diary-header-line-format'.

+++

formats.


** VC Changes

+++
*** The key C-x C-q no longer checks files in or out, it only changes
the read-only state of the buffer (toggle-read-only).  We made this
change because we held a poll and found that many users were unhappy
with the previous behavior.  If you do prefer this behavior, you
can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your .emacs:

** Lisp mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings.

---
** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.

---
** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
highlighting for the old default.

+++
** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.

+++
** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
`f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
`f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
`fortran-beginning-of-block'.

---
** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for hs-minor-mode (hideshow).
It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
majority.

---
** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change

** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
"checkout", "update" or "commit".  That means using cvs diff options
-rBASE -rHEAD.

---
** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode.  Integration with isearch
handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.

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


* New modes and packages in Emacs 22.1

+++
** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
mechanism.  The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or
copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc.  By default, Longlines
mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior
referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors.  This is
similar to Refill mode, but more reliable.  To turn the word wrap
feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil.

+++
** 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
.config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
recognized.

+++
** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files.
The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used
to increment the SOA serial.

+++
** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
source files.  See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.

** The library tree-widget.el provides a new widget to display a set
of hierarchical data as an outline.  For example, the tree-widget is
well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.

+++
** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...

+++
** The thumbs.el package allows you to preview image files as thumbnails
and can be invoked from a Dired buffer.

+++
** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.

** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.

+++
** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.

---
** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.

---
** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.

Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older
versions of cua.el and cua-mode.el.  To ensure proper operation, you
must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.

+++
** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards.  The numeric
keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
+, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key.  The keypad
package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys.

---
** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.

+++
** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
`text tables' in Emacs buffers.  It simulates the effect of putting
these tables in a special major mode.  The package emulates WYSIWYG
table editing available in modern word processors.  The package also
can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such

mode-lines in inverse-video.

---
** cplus-md.el has been removed to avoid problems with Custom.

+++
** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).

---
** 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

+++
** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
it returns just the directory name.

+++

`risky-local-variable' property is nil.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

+++
** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
the filtered substring.  It is used instead of `buffer-substring' or
`delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
data structure, like the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.  The
list of filter function is specified by the new variable
`buffer-substring-filters'.  For example, Longlines mode uses
`buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
text.

+++
** An element of buffer-undo-list can now 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).

+++
** The function symbol-file tells you which file defined
a certain function or variable.

+++
** Lisp code can now test if a given buffer position is inside a
clickable link with the new function `mouse-on-link-p'.  This is the
function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link' functionality.

+++

+++
** An interactive specification may now use the code letter 'U' to get
the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
previous 'k' or 'K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.

+++
** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
argument.

+++
** Major mode functions now run the new normal hook

+++
** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
been renamed to `disabled-command-function'.  The variable
`disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.

+++
** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
width if the WIDTH argument is nil.  If the TOPOS argument is nil,
the usable window height and width is used.

+++
** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
a list of two integers, instead of a cons.

+++
** If a command sets transient-mark-mode to `only', that
enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
During that following command, the value of transient-mark-mode
is `identity'.  If it is still `identity' at the end of the command,
it changes to nil.

+++
** The flags, width, and precision options for %-specifications in function
`format' are now documented.  Some flags that were accepted but not
implemented (such as "*") are no longer accepted.

+++
** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
if no expansion is done, which may be tested using `eq'.

** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
`yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
string.  The old behavior is available if you call
`insert-for-yank-1' instead.

+++
** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
it was found as a text property or not found at all.

one or all windows.  Normally, this is not needed as changes in window
contents are detected automatically.  However, certain implicit
changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
forcing an explicit window update.

---
** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.

+++
** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if

---
** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by lisp code
to override the internal read-file-name function.

+++
** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
`read-file-name' function.

+++

A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
defined with defface.

---
** The function face-differs-from-default-p now truly checks whether the
given face displays differently from the default face or not (previously
it did only a very cursory check).

+++

+++
** New functions face-attribute-relative-p and merge-face-attribute
help with handling relative face attributes.

+++
** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face-list is reversed.
If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous releases
of Emacs, the order was the opposite.  This change was made so that
:inherit face-lists operate identically to face-lists in text `face'

---
** Functions y-or-n-p, read-char, read-key-sequence and the like, that
display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.

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

+++
** Arguments for remove-overlays are now optional, so that you can remove
all overlays in the buffer by just calling (remove-overlay).

** New packages:

+++
*** 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 separates the input/output of your program from
that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar.  It also uses features of

*** The new package bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
data structures.

---
*** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.

+++
*** The new package 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.