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46935:695dcd1985d7

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

** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
backup using `ediff'.  If you specify the name of a backup file,
`ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.

+++
** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
When the file is maintained under version control, that information
appears between the position information and the major mode.

Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time
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.

** New language environments: French, Cyrillic-KOI8-U, Windows-1251,
Cyrillic-KOI8-T, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8,
Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian.

** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer,
vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard,
latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml,
bulgarian-phonetic, dutch.

** Many new coding systems are available by loading the `code-pages'
library.  These include complete versions of most of those in
codepage.el, based Unicode mappings.

** The utf-8 coding system has been enhanced.  Untranslatable utf-8

window edge.  If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the
window so as to center point.  If its value is an integer, it says how
many columns to scroll.  If the value is a floating-point number, it
gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.

+++
** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold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.

+++
** The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to `auto-hscroll-mode'.
The old name is still available as an alias.

+++
** New display feature: focus follows mouse.  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

	(set-keyboard-coding-system nil)

to your .emacs to revert to the old behavior.

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** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
Big 5 is then converted to CNS.

+++
** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
automatically at startup, if it exists.  When Emacs offers to save
modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed.  It
can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,

*** When comparing files or buffers.
Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the
currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n'
then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
comparison.

+++
** Etags changes.

*** New regular expressions features

There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers.

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

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** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
Emacs will still work on terminals that require magic cookies in order
to use standout mode, however they will not be able to display

46936:731e4a095774

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

+++
** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
When the file is maintained under version control, that information
appears between the position information and the major mode.

Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time
the Buffers menu is regenerated.

+++
** 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.

** New language environments: French, Cyrillic-KOI8-U, Windows-1251,
Cyrillic-KOI8-T, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8,
Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian.

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** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer,
vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard,
latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml,
bulgarian-phonetic, dutch.

---
** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
Big 5 is then converted to CNS.

---
** Many new coding systems are available by loading the `code-pages'
library.  These include complete versions of most of those in
codepage.el, based Unicode mappings.

** The utf-8 coding system has been enhanced.  Untranslatable utf-8

window edge.  If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the
window so as to center point.  If its value is an integer, it says how
many columns to scroll.  If the value is a floating-point number, it
gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.

The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to
`auto-hscroll-mode'.  The old name is still available as an alias.

+++
** 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.

+++
** New display feature: focus follows mouse.  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

	(set-keyboard-coding-system nil)

to your .emacs to revert to the old behavior.

+++
** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
automatically at startup, if it exists.  When Emacs offers to save
modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed.  It
can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,

*** When comparing files or buffers.
Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the
currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n'
then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
comparison.

** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
backup using `ediff'.  If you specify the name of a backup file,
`ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.

+++
** Etags changes.

*** New regular expressions features

There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers.

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

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** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
Emacs will still work on terminals that require magic cookies in order
to use standout mode, however they will not be able to display