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Revision: [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--unicode--0--patch-91 Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 Patches applied: * emacs--cvs-trunk--0 (patch 581-597) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 133-141) - Update from CVS - Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 - Update from CVS: texi/gnus.texi (RSS): Fix key description. - Update from CVS: texi/gnus.texi (Document Server Internals): Addition.

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** 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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** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
displays a buffer menu.  This option turns the buffer menu off.

*** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages.  The variable
`diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional
formats.

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** sql changes.

*** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlightng of different

If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
and scroll-bar settings.

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*** The new function `window-split-tree' returns a frame's window split tree.

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** Customizable fringe bitmaps

*** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new

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** 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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** The default is now to use an bitmap as the icon, so the command-line options
--icon-type, -i has been replaced with options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn
the bitmap icon off.

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** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
displays a buffer menu.  This option turns the buffer menu off.

*** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages.  The variable
`diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional
formats.

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** Speedbar changes:

*** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on
the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism.

*** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar
keymap.

*** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC,
contracts or expands the line under the cursor.

*** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'.

*** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
`speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
its descendents.

*** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls
how querying is performed for file operations.  A value of 'always
means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means
to not query before any file operations, except before a file
deletion.

*** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how
to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar.  A
value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that
speedbar was started from.)  A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass
that number to `other-frame'.

*** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.

*** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new
`dframe' library.  Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar
should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of
`speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer',
`dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and
`dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of
`speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'.  The variables
`speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also
obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead.

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** sql changes.

*** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlightng of different

If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
and scroll-bar settings.

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*** The new function `window-tree' returns a frame's window tree.

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** Customizable fringe bitmaps

*** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new