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** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.

* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** The appearance of the fringes can now be customized, using either
the global command M-x fringe-mode, the frame specific command M-x
set-fringe-style, the Show/Hide submenu of the top-level Options menu,
or customizing the `fringe-mode' variable.

** There is a new user option `mail-default-directory' that allows you
to specify the value of `default-directory' for mail buffers.  This
directory is used for auto-save files of mail buffers.  It defaults to
"~/".

the Buffers menu is regenerated.

+++
** `C-u C-x =' now displays text properties of the character at point.

** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
now look at the text at point.  If that text has a face specified,
the commands suggest to customize that face.

** Limited support for charset unification has been added.
By default, Emacs now knows how to translate latin-N chars between their
charset and some other latin-N charset or unicode.  You can force a
more complete unification by calling (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1).

---
** The scrollbar under Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).

+++
** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor.

`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.

** On X and MS Windows, the blinking cursor's "off" state is now shown
as a hollow box or a thin bar.

+++
** Emacs now supports compound-text Extended Segments in X selections.

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.

** The new command `describe-text-at' pops up a buffer with description
of text properties, overlays, and widgets at point, and lets you get
more information about them, by clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or
moving there and pressing RET.

+++
** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
search multiple buffers.  There is also a new command
`multi-occur-by-filename-regexp' which allows you to specify the

the mode line of the currently selected window.

The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.

** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (like
tool bar and the menu bar itself).  You can also move the vertical
scroll bar to either side here or turn it off completely.  There is also
a menu-item to toggle displaying of current date and time, current line
and column number in the mode-line.

** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".

+++
** Emacs can now indicate in the mode-line the presence of new e-mails
in a directory or in a file.  See the documentation of the user option

argument it toggles the mode.

Turning off PC-Selection mode restores the global key bindings
that were replaced by turning on the mode.

** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
arguments were given.  The new command-line option --no-splash
disables the splash screen; see also the variable
`inhibit-startup-message' (which is also aliased as
`inhibit-splash-screen').

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** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.

* Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** You can now customize the use of window fringes.  To control this
for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the
top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable.  To
control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x
set-fringe-style.

+++
** There is a new user option `mail-default-directory' that allows you
to specify the value of `default-directory' for mail buffers.  This
directory is used for auto-save files of mail buffers.  It defaults to
"~/".

the Buffers menu is regenerated.

+++
** `C-u C-x =' now displays text properties of the character at point.

+++
** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
now look at the character after point.  If a face or faces are
specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
faces.

** Limited support for charset unification has been added.
By default, Emacs now knows how to translate latin-N chars between their
charset and some other latin-N charset or unicode.  You can force a
more complete unification by calling (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1).

---
** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).

+++
** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor.

`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.

+++
** On X and MS Windows, the blinking cursor's "off" state is now shown
as a hollow box or a thin bar.

+++
** Emacs now supports compound-text Extended Segments in X selections.

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.

** The new command `describe-char pops up a buffer with description
various information about a character, including its encodings and
syntax, its text properties, overlays, and widgets at point.  You can
get more information about some of them, by clicking on
mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.

+++
** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
search multiple buffers.  There is also a new command
`multi-occur-by-filename-regexp' which allows you to specify the

the mode line of the currently selected window.

The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.

---
** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such
as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself).
You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn
it off completely.  There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of
current date and time, current line and column number in the
mode-line.

---
** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".

+++
** Emacs can now indicate in the mode-line the presence of new e-mails
in a directory or in a file.  See the documentation of the user option

argument it toggles the mode.

Turning off PC-Selection mode restores the global key bindings
that were replaced by turning on the mode.

+++
** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
arguments were given.  The new command-line option --no-splash
disables the splash screen; see also the variable
`inhibit-startup-message' (which is also aliased as
`inhibit-splash-screen').