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Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 675-697) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 - Release ERC 5.2. * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 211-215) - Update from CVS - Merge from emacs--devo--0 Revision: [e-mail]/emacs--unicode--0--patch-189

90795:b9182b6a90c9

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** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.

---
** Support for HP 9000 series 800 and Hitachi SR2001/SR2201 machines
was removed.

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** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default.  You can also
create non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target.  See
the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.

---

---
** 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.

---

by whitespace.  This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
too.  If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.

** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.

---
** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19)

---
*** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than
the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
vscroll property.

*** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
overline and text.

*** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
position of the underline.  When set, it overrides the
`x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.

+++

+++
*** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive
elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
areas.

*** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
parts of the mode line.

+++
*** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.

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

** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:

*** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
construct.  Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
-*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
various global and per-coding-system translation tables.  You can also
specify it in a local variable list at the end of the file.  For

---
*** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.

* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1

** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.

ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.

To see what modules are available, type

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
as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.

** The tumme.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in other ways
manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as the main interface.
Tumme provides functionality to generate simple image galleries.

+++

---
** 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 scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
for pager-like scrolling.  Keys which normally move point by line or
paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
boundaries during scrolling.


* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:

** Changes in Shell Mode

*** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text.  (This
is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)

** Changes in Dired

     have them automatically run at the end of module load by customizing
     the option `allout-run-unit-tests-on-load'.
   - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
   - version number incremented to 2.2

** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' was renamed
to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
automatically, without asking for a confirmation.  Otherwise, the word
at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt.

*** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
syntactic indentation.

** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
preceded by a SPC or a TAB.

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

When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
i.e., there is always a closing tag.
By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
from the file name or buffer contents.

*** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
`sgml-transformation-function'.  The old name is still available as
alias.

+++

and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.

+++
*** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.

** BibTeX mode:

*** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).

`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
`bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'.  The old names are
still available as aliases.

** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'.  The old name is still
available as alias.

+++

breakpoints.

To use this package just type M-x gdb.  See the Emacs manual if you want the
old behaviour.

*** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed.  GUD tooltips can now be
toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
`gud-tooltip-mode'.

+++

** Rmail changes:

---
*** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.

*** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.

+++

** zone-mode.el is now obsolete.  Use dns-mode.el instead.

---
** cplus-md.el has been deleted.

** Ewoc changes

*** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.

*** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of

---
** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
`kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
`kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.

** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete.  Use
`mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.

* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

** General Lisp changes:

*** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
negative, is now a float.  For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.

+++

*** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.

This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.

+++
*** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.

It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
(calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.).

evaluate when Emacs starts up.  If this is done after startup,
it evaluates those expressions immediately.

This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.

*** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.

If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.

+++

*** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER.  If VARIABLE does not
have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
value of VARIABLE instead.

*** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
various status records in parallel.

It takes a variable (a symbol) as argument.  If the variable is non-nil,
then its value should be a vector installed previously by

`display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'.

** Mouse pointer features:

+++ (lispref)
??? (man)
*** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a
line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now
controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'.  The default
is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer.  Other choices are `text'
(or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'.

*** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
for it.  (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)

---
*** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
of one coding system from another coding system.

---

90796:4ef881a120fe

---
** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.

---
** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default.  You can also
create non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target.  See
the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.

---

---
** 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.

---

by whitespace.  This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
too.  If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.

---
** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.

---
** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19)

---
*** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than
the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
vscroll property.

+++
*** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
overline and text.

+++
*** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
position of the underline.  When set, it overrides the
`x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.

+++

+++
*** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive
elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
areas.

+++
*** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
parts of the mode line.

+++
*** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.

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

** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:

+++
*** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
construct.  Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
-*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
various global and per-coding-system translation tables.  You can also
specify it in a local variable list at the end of the file.  For

---
*** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.

* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1

---
** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.

ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.

To see what modules are available, type

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
as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.

+++
** The tumme.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in other ways
manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as the main interface.
Tumme provides functionality to generate simple image galleries.

+++

---
** 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 scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
for pager-like scrolling.  Keys which normally move point by line or
paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
boundaries during scrolling.


* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:

** Changes in Shell Mode

---
*** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text.  (This
is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)

** Changes in Dired

     have them automatically run at the end of module load by customizing
     the option `allout-run-unit-tests-on-load'.
   - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
   - version number incremented to 2.2

+++
** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' was renamed
to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
automatically, without asking for a confirmation.  Otherwise, the word
at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt.

*** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
syntactic indentation.

---
** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
preceded by a SPC or a TAB.

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

When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
i.e., there is always a closing tag.
By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
from the file name or buffer contents.

---
*** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
`sgml-transformation-function'.  The old name is still available as
alias.

+++

and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.

+++
*** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.

---
** BibTeX mode:

*** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).

`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
`bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'.  The old names are
still available as aliases.

+++
** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'.  The old name is still
available as alias.

+++

breakpoints.

To use this package just type M-x gdb.  See the Emacs manual if you want the
old behaviour.

---
*** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed.  GUD tooltips can now be
toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
`gud-tooltip-mode'.

+++

** Rmail changes:

---
*** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.

+++
*** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.

+++

** zone-mode.el is now obsolete.  Use dns-mode.el instead.

---
** cplus-md.el has been deleted.

---
** Ewoc changes

*** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.

*** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of

---
** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
`kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
`kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.

+++
** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete.  Use
`mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.

* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

** General Lisp changes:

+++
*** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
negative, is now a float.  For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.

+++

*** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.

This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.

+++
*** New macro `with-case-table'

This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given
case table.

+++
*** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.

It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
(calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.).

evaluate when Emacs starts up.  If this is done after startup,
it evaluates those expressions immediately.

This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.

+++
*** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.

If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.

+++

*** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER.  If VARIABLE does not
have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
value of VARIABLE instead.

---
*** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
various status records in parallel.

It takes a variable (a symbol) as argument.  If the variable is non-nil,
then its value should be a vector installed previously by

`display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'.

** Mouse pointer features:

+++ (lispref)
--- (man)
*** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a
line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now
controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'.  The default
is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer.  Other choices are `text'
(or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'.

*** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
for it.  (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)

+++
*** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the
ascii character set.  Language environments (such as Turkish) may
alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters.  This variable
saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes.

---
*** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
of one coding system from another coding system.

---