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---
** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.


* Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1

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

disables the splash screen; see also the variable
`inhibit-startup-message' (which is also aliased as
`inhibit-splash-screen').

+++
** 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.

+++
** 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.

+++
** Init file changes
You can now put the init files .emacs and .emacs_SHELL under
~/.emacs.d or directly under ~.  Emacs will find them in either place.

+++
** 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

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

+++
** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
previous mark, i.e. C-u C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the
mark ring.  Use C-u C-u C-SPC to set the mark immediately after a jump.

+++
** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.

Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
of specifying the current directory.  Normally that means to visit the
directory with Dired.

+++
** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
to the text before point.  If there is text in the buffer after point,
it remains unchanged.

+++
** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
M-o M-o requests refontification.

special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.

* Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1

+++
** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled.
On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455).

+++
** M-g is now a prefix key.
M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line.
M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `).
M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error.

+++
** C-u M-g M-g switches to the most recent previous buffer,
and goes to the specified line in that buffer.

When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at
point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer.

+++
** 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.

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

+++
** When the undo information of the current command gets really large
(beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns
you about it.

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

+++
** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left and
(prev-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer).  C-x left and C-x right
can be used as well.

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

+++

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

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

+++
** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can

+++
*** Changes in C-h bindings:

C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer.

C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files
    that do not change:

C-h C-f displays the FAQ.
C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file.

The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.

C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands.

- C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping)
  run by the key sequence.

- C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the
  command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run
  that command.

For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped
to new-kill-line, these commands now report:

- C-h c and C-h k C-k reports:
  C-k runs the command new-kill-line

- C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports:
  kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline>

- C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports:
  new-kill-line is on C-k

---
*** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function

preceded or followed by the word `face'.  It no longer makes
hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless
preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'.  It now makes
hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is
enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info
anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node').

+++
*** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
description various information about a character, including its
encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and

Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
is only rarely needed.

+++
*** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and
suffix are from every line before processing all the lines.

+++
*** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode,
when the file name contains wildcard characters.

sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline.
So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these
modes do.

** Minibuffer changes:

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*** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the
variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the

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

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

+++
*** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line

appears in.

+++
*** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any
of the recognized cursor types.

** New faces:

+++
*** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive

** Buffer Menu changes:

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*** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file
buffers only in the Buffer Menu.  It is bound to `T' in Buffer Menu
mode.

+++
*** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
with a space, when those buffers are visiting files.  Normally buffers

`comint-kill-region' is like `kill-region', except that it ignores
read-only properties, if it is safe to do so.  This means that if any
part of a prompt is deleted, then the entire prompt must be deleted
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.

+++
*** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived
modes (shell-mode etc) inserts arguments from previous command lines,
like bash's `ESC .' binding.  It is bound by default to `C-c .', but
otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.

+++
*** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed

corresponding articles in a web browser.  Its documentation is in a
separate manual.

+++
** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions.

+++
** Filesets are collections of files.  You can define a fileset in
various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
program files that include other program files.

+++
** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.

Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in
Emacs Lisp.  Its documentation is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
type "C-h i m calc RET" to read that manual.  A reference card is
available in `etc/calccard.tex' and `etc/calccard.ps'.

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

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

+++
** Tramp is now part of the distribution.

This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote

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 Allout

*** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and
decryption.  Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and
clear-text within a single file to your hearts content, using symmetric

pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in
powerful ways.

*** many substantial fixes and refinements, including:

   - repaired inhibition of inadvertant edits to concealed text
   - repaired retention of topic body hanging indent upon topic depth shifts
   - prevent "containment discontinuities" where a topic is shifted deeper
     than the offspring-depth of its' container
   - easy to adopt the distinctive bullet of a topic in a topic created
     relative to it, or select a new one, or use the common topic bullet
   - plain bullets, by default, now alternate between only two characters
     ('.' and ','), yielding less cluttered outlines.
   - many internal fixes.

** 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

function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
`eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.

+++
** CC mode changes.

*** Font lock support.
CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages.  This
supersedes the font lock patterns that have been in the core font lock
package for C, C++, Java and Objective-C.  Like indentation, font

demanding analysis which can be slow on older hardware, and it can
therefore be disabled by choosing a lower decoration level with the
variable font-lock-maximum-decoration.

Note that the most demanding font lock level has been tuned with lazy
fontification in mind, i.e.  there should be a support mode that waits
with the fontification until the text is actually shown
(e.g. Just-in-time Lock mode, which is the default, or Lazy Lock
mode).  Fontifying a file with several thousand lines in one go can
take the better part of a minute.

**** The (c|c++|objc|java|idl|pike)-font-lock-extra-types variables
are now used by CC Mode to recognize identifiers that are certain to
be types.  (They are also used in cases that aren't related to font
locking.)  At the maximum decoration level, types are often recognized

There is a "plugin" system to fontify documentation comments like
Javadoc and the markup within them.  It's independent of the host
language, so it's possible to e.g. turn on Javadoc font locking in C
buffers.  See the variable c-doc-comment-style for details.

Currently two kinds of doc comment styles are recognized: Suns Javadoc
and Autodoc which is used in Pike.  This is by no means a complete
list of the most common tools; if your doc comment extractor of choice
is missing then please drop a note to [e-mail].

**** Better handling of C++ templates.
As a side effect of the more accurate font locking, C++ templates are
now handled much better.  The angle brackets that delimit them are
given parenthesis syntax so that they can be navigated like other

which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are
placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s
are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function
definition, or structured statement.

The predefined indentation functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK
mode, though some of them may work serendipitously.  There shouldn't be
any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode.

The command C-c C-q (c-indent-defun) hasn't yet been adapted for AWK,
though in practice it works properly nearly all the time.  Should it
fail, explicitly set the region around the function (using C-u C-SPC:
C-M-h probably won't work either) then do C-M-\ (indent-region).

**** Font Locking
There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the
three distinct levels the other modes have.  There are several
idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of
the AWK language itself.

**** Comment Commands
M-; (indent-for-comment) works fine.  None of the other CC Mode
comment formatting commands have yet been adapted for AWK mode.

**** Movement Commands
Most of the movement commands work in AWK mode.  The most important
exceptions are M-a (c-beginning-of-statement) and M-e
(c-end-of-statement) which haven't yet been adapted.

The notion of "defun" has been augmented to include AWK pattern-action
pairs.  C-M-a (c-awk-beginning-of-defun) and C-M-e (c-awk-end-of-defun)
recognize these pattern-action pairs, as well as user defined
functions.

**** Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups
Auto-newline insertion hasn't yet been adapted for AWK.  Some of
the clean-ups can actually convert good AWK code into syntactically
invalid code.  These features are best disabled in AWK buffers.

*** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode.
The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are
now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
composition-close, and incomposition.

*** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
The functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward' can be
bound to keys to get this feature without toggling a mode.

*** Better control over `require-final-newline'.

The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines.  Its value is a

((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))

In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
symbol.

This change might affect code that call `c-guess-basic-syntax' directly,
and custom lineup functions if they use `c-syntactic-context'.  However,
the argument given to lineup functions is still a single cons cell
with nil or an integer in the cdr.

*** API changes for derived modes.

There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
derived mode writers.  Some of these changes are likely to cause
incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.

**** New language variable system.
See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.

**** New initialization functions.
The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
`c-init-language-vars'.

This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
`c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.

**** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
`c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes.  New
variable `c-backslash-max-column' which put a limit on how far out
backslashes can be moved.

**** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'.  It
affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
inserted in Auto-Newline mode.
**** Line indentation works better inside macros.

Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
line continuation backslashes.  This is most noticeable when syntactic
indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
backslash) in the macro.

*** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'.  The indentation behavior based
on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after #else
and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other cases
(something which was hardcoded earlier).

*** New function `c-context-open-line'.
It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.

*** New lineup functions

*** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change
the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers.

---
** Reftex mode changes
+++
*** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents

The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the
section at point or all sections in the current region, with full

*** 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).

*** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
an existing BibTeX entry.

*** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.

*** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
`crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used

*** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
in multiple BibTeX files.

*** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).

+++
** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'
and `C-c C-r'.

not executing.

---
** GUD mode improvements for jdb:

*** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class
    information. Fast startup since there is no need to scan all
    source files up front. There is also no need to create and maintain
    lists of source directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
    and `gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation.

*** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear)
    set/clear operations from java source files under the classpath, stack
    traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish
    (gud-finish).

*** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
    (Java 1.1 jdb).

*** The previous method of searching for source files has been
    preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
    Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.

  Added Customization Variables

*** `gud-jdb-command-name'.  What command line to use to invoke jdb.

*** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'. Allows selection of java source file searching
    method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
    java sources (previous method).

*** `gud-jdb-directories'. List of directories to scan and search for java
    classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
    is nil).

  Minor Improvements

*** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool.  For backwards
compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
`starttls' tool).

*** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.

** Auto-Revert changes:

+++
*** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.

only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.

---
** 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.

The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut
keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via

**** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.

The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
CR, TAB, VT,

**** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.

The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise.  This is

---
** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
`kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
`kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.

* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

---
** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have

:propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
`risky-local-variable' property is nil.

---
** Support for Mocklisp has been removed.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

** General Lisp changes:

+++
*** 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).

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

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

*** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.

It defaults to 1.

+++
*** New function `mouse-on-link-p' test if a position is in a clickable link.

This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
functionality.

+++

value of VARIABLE instead.

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

It take a variable (a symbol) as argument.  If the variable is non-nil,
then its value should be a vector installed previously by
`frame-or-buffer-changed-p'.  If the frame names, buffer names, buffer
order, or their read-only or modified flags have changed, since the
time the vector's contents were recorded by a previous call to
`frame-or-buffer-changed-p', then the function returns t.  Otherwise

accepts such a list for restoring the match state.

+++
*** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional
argument `reseat'.  When non-nil, all markers in the match data list
passed to these function will be reseated to point to nowhere.

+++
*** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
that end a sentence without following spaces.

`file-chase-links' returns it anyway.

+++
*** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
before saving buffers.  This allows packages to perform various final
tasks, for example; it can be used by the copyright package to make
sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.

+++
*** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
`save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if

of suffixes.  The function also accepts a predicate argument to
further filter candidate files.

One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
`exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependancies.

---
*** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.

Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,

*** 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.

+++
*** The new function `read-directory-name' for reading a directory name.

It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.

** Completion changes:

+++
*** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
and functions.  Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now

+++
*** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
as a lazy completion table.

  (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN &rest ARGS)

If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with arguments
ARGS. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR. If
completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
`lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.

+++
** Enhancements to keymaps.

*** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.

You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'.  For

On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
very poor performance.  This behavior can be remedied to some extent
by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
from such processes, to allowing them to produce more output before
emacs tries to read it.

*** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.

This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.

- A server is started using :server t arg.
- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
- A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
- Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.
- Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg.
- The process' property list can be initialized using :plist PLIST arg;
  a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited
  by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.

To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
  (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))

*** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.

*** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.

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

+++
** Customizable fringe bitmaps

*** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new
fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps.

To change a built-in bitmap, do (require 'fringe) and use the symbol
identifing the bitmap such as `left-truncation or `continued-line'.

*** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
or restores a built-in one to its default value.

*** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be

Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe.

The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the
specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an
integral number of columns.  The extra width is distributed evenly
between the left and right fringe.  For force a specific fringe width,
specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative,
only the left fringe gets the specified width).

Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe
width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any

+++
*** Enhancements to stretch display properties

The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where
PROPS is a property list now allows pixel based width and height
specifications, as well as enhanced horizontal text alignment.

The value of these properties can now be a (primitive) expression
which is evaluated during redisplay.  The following expressions
are supported:

+++
*** `set-auto-mode' now gives the interpreter magic line (if present)
precedence over the file name.  Likewise an `<?xml' or `<!DOCTYPE'
declaration will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, based on the new
var `magic-mode-alist'.

+++
*** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.

+++

`delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.

In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.

+++
*** local-write-file-hooks is marked obsolete

Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.

---
*** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when

documentation string checking for style and spelling.  The style
guidelines are found in the Emacs Lisp programming manual.

*** The net-utils package makes some common networking features
available in Emacs.  Some of these functions are wrappers around
system utilities (ping, nslookup, etc); others are implementations of
simple protocols (finger, whois) in Emacs Lisp.  There are also
functions to make simple connections to TCP/IP ports for debugging and
the like.

*** highlight-changes-mode is a minor mode that uses colors to

  apache-generic-mode: For Apache and NCSA httpd configuration files
  samba-generic-mode: Samba configuration files
  fvwm-generic-mode: For fvwm initialization files
  x-resource-generic-mode: For X resource files
  hosts-generic-mode: For hosts files (.rhosts, /etc/hosts, etc)
  mailagent-rules-generic-mode: For mailagent .rules files
  javascript-generic-mode: For JavaScript files
  vrml-generic-mode: For VRML files
  java-manifest-generic-mode: For Java MANIFEST files
  java-properties-generic-mode: For Java property files

** Font Lock mode

*** Custom support

The variables font-lock-face-attributes, font-lock-display-type and
font-lock-background-mode are now obsolete; the recommended way to specify the
faces to use for Font Lock mode is with M-x customize-group on the new custom
group font-lock-highlighting-faces.  If you set font-lock-face-attributes in
your ~/.emacs file, Font Lock mode will respect its value.  However, you should
consider converting from setting that variable to using M-x customize.

You can still use X resources to specify Font Lock face appearances.

*** Maximum decoration

90261:7beb78bc1f8e

---
** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.

---
** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available.


* Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1

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

disables the splash screen; see also the variable
`inhibit-startup-message' (which is also aliased as
`inhibit-splash-screen').

+++
** The default is now to use a 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.

+++
** 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.

+++
** Init file changes
If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc.  You can also put the shell
init file .emacs_SHELL under ~/.emacs.d.

+++
** 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

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

+++
** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
previous mark if you set `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' to t.  I.e. C-u
C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the mark ring.  Use C-u C-u C-SPC
to set the mark immediately after a jump.

+++
** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.

Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
of specifying the current directory.  Normally that means to visit the
directory with Dired.

You can get the old behavior by typing C-x C-f M-n RET, which fetches
the actual file name into the minibuffer.

+++
** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
to the text before point.  If there is text in the buffer after point,
it remains unchanged.

+++
** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name.
This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the
need to quote the space with a C-q.  The underlying changes in the
keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under
"New keymaps for typing file names".

+++
** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
M-o M-o requests refontification.

special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.

* Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1

+++
** !MEM FULL! at the start of the mode line indicates that Emacs
cannot get any more memory for Lisp data.  This often means it could
crash soon if you do things that use more memory.  On most systems,
killing buffers will get out of this state.  If killing buffers does
not make !MEM FULL! disappear, you should save your work and start
a new Emacs.

+++
** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled.
On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455).

+++
** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left
(previous-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer).  C-x left and
C-x right can be used as well.  The functions keep a different buffer
cycle for each frame, using the frame-local buffer list.

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

+++

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

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

+++
** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can

+++
*** Changes in C-h bindings:

C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer.

C-h d runs apropos-documentation.

C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files
    that do not change:

C-h C-f displays the FAQ.
C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file.

The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.

C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands.
- C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping)
  run by the key sequence.
- C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the
  command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run
  that command.

For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped
to new-kill-line, these commands now report:
- C-h c and C-h k C-k reports:
  C-k runs the command new-kill-line
- C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports:
  kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline>
- C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports:
  new-kill-line is on C-k

---
*** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function

preceded or followed by the word `face'.  It no longer makes
hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless
preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'.  It now makes
hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is
enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info
anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). In
addition, it now makes hyperlinks to URLs as well if the URL is
enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `URL'.

+++
*** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
description various information about a character, including its
encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and

Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
is only rarely needed.

+++
*** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and
suffix from every line before processing all the lines.

+++
*** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode,
when the file name contains wildcard characters.

sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline.
So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these
modes do.

** Minibuffer changes:

+++
*** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when
entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed.

+++
*** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the
variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the

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

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

+++
*** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line

appears in.

+++
*** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any
of the recognized cursor types.

+++
*** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs
uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor.

** New faces:

+++
*** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive

** Buffer Menu changes:

+++
*** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file
buffers only in the Buffer Menu.  It is bound to T in Buffer Menu
mode.

+++
*** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
with a space, when those buffers are visiting files.  Normally buffers

`comint-kill-region' is like `kill-region', except that it ignores
read-only properties, if it is safe to do so.  This means that if any
part of a prompt is deleted, then the entire prompt must be deleted
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 properties are involved: it copies the text
to the kill-ring, but does not delete it.

+++
*** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived
modes (shell-mode, etc.) inserts arguments from previous command lines,
like bash's `ESC .' binding.  It is bound by default to `C-c .', but
otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.

+++
*** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed

corresponding articles in a web browser.  Its documentation is in a
separate manual.

+++
** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions.
To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file.

+++
** Filesets are collections of files.  You can define a fileset in
various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
program files that include other program files.

+++
** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.

Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in
Emacs Lisp.  The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc
can be started with `C-x * *'.  The Calc manual is separate from the
Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the
manual.  A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and
`etc/calccard.ps'.

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

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.

+++
** Tramp is now part of the distribution.

This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote

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 Hi Lock:

+++
*** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function
`global-hi-lock-mode' enables Hi Lock in all buffers.  By default, if
hi-lock-mode is used in what appears to be the initialization file, a
warning message suggests to use global-hi-lock-mode instead.  However,
if the new variable `hi-lock-archaic-interface-deduce' is non-nil,
using hi-lock-mode in an initialization file will turn on Hi Lock in all
buffers and no warning will be issued (for compatibility with the
behavior in older versions of Emacs).

** Changes in Allout

*** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and
decryption.  Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and
clear-text within a single file to your hearts content, using symmetric

pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in
powerful ways.

*** many substantial fixes and refinements, including:

   - repaired inhibition of inadvertent edits to concealed text
   - repaired retention of topic body hanging indent upon topic depth shifts
   - prevent "containment discontinuities" where a topic is shifted deeper
     than the offspring-depth of its container
   - easy to adopt the distinctive bullet of a topic in a topic created
     relative to it, or select a new one, or use the common topic bullet
   - plain bullets, by default, now alternate between only two characters
     ('.' and ','), yielding less cluttered outlines
   - many internal fixes
   - version number incremented to 2.1

** 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

function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
`eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.

+++
** CC mode changes.

*** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised.
The information about using CC Mode has been separated from the larger
and more difficult chapters about configuration.

*** Changes in Key Sequences
**** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t.

**** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d.
This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards.

**** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline.
c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias.

**** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards
have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and
C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively.  These
commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single
key-sequence.  [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.]

**** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l.

**** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w.

*** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor
position(s).

*** New Minor Modes
**** Electric Minor Mode toggles the electric action of non-alphabetic keys.
The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l.  Turning the
mode off can be helpful for editing chaotically indented code and for
users new to CC Mode, who sometimes find electric indentation
disconcerting.  Its current state is displayed in the mode line with an
'l', e.g. "C/al".

**** Subword Minor Mode makes Emacs recognize word boundaries at upper case
letters in StudlyCapsIdentifiers.  You enable this feature by C-c C-w.  It can
also be used in non-CC Mode buffers.  :-) Contributed by Masatake YAMATO.

*** New clean-ups

**** `comment-close-slash'.
With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by
typing a slash at the start of a line.

**** `c-one-liner-defun'
This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK
pattern/action pair) onto a single line.  "Short enough" is configurable.

*** Font lock support.
CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages.  This
supersedes the font lock patterns that have been in the core font lock
package for C, C++, Java and Objective-C.  Like indentation, font

demanding analysis which can be slow on older hardware, and it can
therefore be disabled by choosing a lower decoration level with the
variable font-lock-maximum-decoration.

Note that the most demanding font lock level has been tuned with lazy
fontification in mind; Just-In-Time-Lock mode should be enabled for
the highest font lock level (by default, it is).  Fontifying a file
with several thousand lines in one go can take the better part of a
minute.

**** The (c|c++|objc|java|idl|pike)-font-lock-extra-types variables
are now used by CC Mode to recognize identifiers that are certain to
be types.  (They are also used in cases that aren't related to font
locking.)  At the maximum decoration level, types are often recognized

There is a "plugin" system to fontify documentation comments like
Javadoc and the markup within them.  It's independent of the host
language, so it's possible to e.g. turn on Javadoc font locking in C
buffers.  See the variable c-doc-comment-style for details.

Currently three kinds of doc comment styles are recognized: Sun's
Javadoc, Autodoc (which is used in Pike) and GtkDoc (used in C).  (The
last was contributed by Masatake YAMATO).  This is by no means a
complete list of the most common tools; if your doc comment extractor
of choice is missing then please drop a note to [e-mail].

**** Better handling of C++ templates.
As a side effect of the more accurate font locking, C++ templates are
now handled much better.  The angle brackets that delimit them are
given parenthesis syntax so that they can be navigated like other

which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are
placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s
are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function
definition, or structured statement.

The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK
mode, though some of them may work serendipitously.  There shouldn't
be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode.

**** Font Locking
There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the
three distinct levels the other modes have.  There are several
idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of
the AWK language itself.

**** Comment and Movement Commands
These commands all work for AWK buffers.  The notion of "defun" has
been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard
"defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this
extended definition.

**** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups
A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default
style for AWK code.  With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up
c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful.

*** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode.
The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are
now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
composition-close, and incomposition.

*** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
The new functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward'
provide hungry deletion without having to toggle a mode.  They are
bound to C-c C-DEL and C-c C-d (and several variants, for the benefit
of different keyboard setups.  See "Changes in key sequences" above).

*** Better control over `require-final-newline'.

The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines.  Its value is a

((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))

In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
symbol.

This change might affect code that calls `c-guess-basic-syntax'
directly, and custom lineup functions if they use
`c-syntactic-context'.  However, the argument given to lineup
functions is still a single cons cell with nil or an integer in the
cdr.

*** API changes for derived modes.

There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
derived mode writers.  Some of these changes are likely to cause
incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.

**** New language variable system.
These are variables whose values vary between CC Mode's different
languages.  See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.

**** New initialization functions.
The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
`c-init-language-vars'.

This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
`c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.

**** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
`c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes.  New
variable `c-backslash-max-column' puts a limit on how far out
backslashes can be moved.

**** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'.  It
affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
inserted in Auto-Newline mode.

**** Line indentation works better inside macros.
Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
line continuation backslashes.  This is most noticeable when syntactic
indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
backslash) in the macro.

*** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'.  The indentation behavior is
based on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after
#else and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other
cases (something which was hardcoded earlier).

*** New function `c-context-open-line'.
It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.

*** New lineup functions

*** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change
the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers.

---
** Reftex mode changes

+++
*** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents

The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the
section at point or all sections in the current region, with full

*** 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).

*** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
an existing BibTeX entry by inserting fields that may occur but are not
present.

*** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.

*** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
`crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used

*** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
in multiple BibTeX files.

*** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).

*** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and
bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when
extracting the content of a BibTeX field.

+++
** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'
and `C-c C-r'.

not executing.

---
** GUD mode improvements for jdb:

*** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class information.
Fast startup since there is no need to scan all source files up front.
There is also no need to create and maintain lists of source
directories to scan.  Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' and
`gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation.

*** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear)
set/clear operations from Java source files under the classpath, stack
traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish
(gud-finish).

*** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
(Java 1.1 jdb).

*** The previous method of searching for source files has been
preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.

*** Added Customization Variables

**** `gud-jdb-command-name'.   What command line to use to invoke jdb.

**** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'.  Allows selection of java source file searching
method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
java sources (previous method).

**** `gud-jdb-directories'.  List of directories to scan and search for Java
classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
is nil).

*** Minor Improvements

**** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool.  For backwards
compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
`starttls' tool).

**** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.

** Auto-Revert changes:

+++
*** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.

only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.

---
** recentf changes.

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

The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut
keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via

**** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.

The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
CR, TAB, VT.

**** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.

The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise.  This is

---
** 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

---
** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have

:propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
`risky-local-variable' property is nil.

---
** Support for Mocklisp has been removed.

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** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
there is no longer a shortage of memory.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

** General Lisp changes:

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*** 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.).

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*** New macro `eval-at-startup' specifies expressions to
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.

*** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.

It defaults to 1.

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*** New function `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link.

This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
functionality.

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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
`frame-or-buffer-changed-p'.  If the frame names, buffer names, buffer
order, or their read-only or modified flags have changed, since the
time the vector's contents were recorded by a previous call to
`frame-or-buffer-changed-p', then the function returns t.  Otherwise

accepts such a list for restoring the match state.

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*** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional
argument `reseat'.  When non-nil, all markers in the match data list
passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere.

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*** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
that end a sentence without following spaces.

`file-chase-links' returns it anyway.

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*** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
before saving buffers.  This allows packages to perform various final
tasks.  For example, it can be used by the copyright package to make
sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.

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*** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
`save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if

of suffixes.  The function also accepts a predicate argument to
further filter candidate files.

One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
`exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.

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*** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.

Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,

*** 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.

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*** The new function `read-directory-name' is for reading a directory name.

It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.

** Completion changes:

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*** The new function `minibuffer-completion-contents' returns the contents
of the minibuffer just before point.  That is what completion commands
operate on.

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*** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
and functions.  Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now

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*** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
as a lazy completion table.

  (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN)

If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with no
arguments.  FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR.
If completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
from which the minibuffer was entered.  The return value of
`lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.

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** Enhancements to keymaps.

*** New keymaps for typing file names

Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'  and
`minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer.  These key maps override
the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
the spaces).

*** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.

You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'.  For

On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
very poor performance.  This behavior can be remedied to some extent
by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before
emacs tries to read it.

*** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.

This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.

- A server is started using :server t arg.
- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
- A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
- Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.
- IPv6 is supported (when available).  You may explicitly select IPv6
  using :family 'ipv6 arg.
- Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg.
- The process' property list can be initialized using :plist PLIST arg;
  a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited
  by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.

To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
  (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))
  (featurep 'make-network-process '(:family ipv6))

*** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.

*** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.

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

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*** The functions `get-lru-window' and `get-largest-window' take an optional
argument `dedicated'.  If non-nil, those functions do not ignore
dedicated windows.

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*** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right
or bottom edge of a window.  It does not move other window edges.

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** Customizable fringe bitmaps

*** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new
fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps.

To change a built-in bitmap, do (require 'fringe) and use the symbol
identifing the bitmap such as `left-truncation' or `continued-line'.

*** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
or restores a built-in one to its default value.

*** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be

Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe.

The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the
specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an
integral number of columns.  The extra width is distributed evenly
between the left and right fringe.  To force a specific fringe width,
specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative,
only the left fringe gets the specified width).

Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe
width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any

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*** Enhancements to stretch display properties

The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where
PROPS is a property list, now allows pixel based width and height
specifications, as well as enhanced horizontal text alignment.

The value of these properties can now be a (primitive) expression
which is evaluated during redisplay.  The following expressions
are supported:

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*** `set-auto-mode' now gives the interpreter magic line (if present)
precedence over the file name.  Likewise an `<?xml' or `<!DOCTYPE'
declaration will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, based on the new
variable `magic-mode-alist'.

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*** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.

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`delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.

In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.

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*** Variable `local-write-file-hooks' is marked obsolete.

Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.

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*** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when

documentation string checking for style and spelling.  The style
guidelines are found in the Emacs Lisp programming manual.

*** The net-utils package makes some common networking features
available in Emacs.  Some of these functions are wrappers around
system utilities (ping, nslookup, etc.); others are implementations of
simple protocols (finger, whois) in Emacs Lisp.  There are also
functions to make simple connections to TCP/IP ports for debugging and
the like.

*** highlight-changes-mode is a minor mode that uses colors to

  apache-generic-mode: For Apache and NCSA httpd configuration files
  samba-generic-mode: Samba configuration files
  fvwm-generic-mode: For fvwm initialization files
  x-resource-generic-mode: For X resource files
  hosts-generic-mode: For hosts files (.rhosts, /etc/hosts, etc.)
  mailagent-rules-generic-mode: For mailagent .rules files
  javascript-generic-mode: For JavaScript files
  vrml-generic-mode: For VRML files
  java-manifest-generic-mode: For Java MANIFEST files
  java-properties-generic-mode: For Java property files

** Font Lock mode

*** Custom support

The variables font-lock-face-attributes, font-lock-display-type and
font-lock-background-mode are now obsolete; the recommended way to specify
the faces to use for Font Lock mode is with M-x customize-group on the new
custom group font-lock-faces.  If you set font-lock-face-attributes in your
~/.emacs file, Font Lock mode will respect its value.  However, you should
consider converting from setting that variable to using M-x customize.

You can still use X resources to specify Font Lock face appearances.

*** Maximum decoration