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New per-window fringe and scroll-bar settings.

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** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

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

** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which may
speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.

with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.

If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
confirmation as before.

** Controlling the left and right fringe widths.

The left and right fringe widths can now be controlled by setting the
`left-fringe' and `right-fringe' frame parameters to an integer value
specifying the width in pixels.  Setting the width to 0 effectively
removes the corresponding fringe.

The actual fringe widths 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
of the currently defined fringe bitmaps.  The width of the built-in
fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels.

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** Renamed file hooks to follow the convention:
find-file-hooks to find-file-hook,
find-file-not-found-hooks to find-file-not-found-functions,

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** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** When display margins are present in a window, the fringes are now
displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than
at the edges of the window.

** A windows may now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings,
in addition to the individual display margin settings.

Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
horisontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
or when the frame is resized.

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

** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which may
speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.

with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.

If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
confirmation as before.

** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths.

The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame
can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe'
frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels.
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
of the currently defined fringe bitmaps.  The width of the built-in
fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels.

** Per-window fringes settings

Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and position
settings.

To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local
variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call
`set-window-fringes'.

To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes
are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area,
or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable
`fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'.

The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current
settings.  To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
`fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
an update of the display margins.

** Per-window vertical scroll-bar settings

Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.

To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local
variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call
`set-window-scroll-bars'.  The function `window-scroll-bars' can be
used to obtain the current settings.  To make `scroll-bar-mode' and
`scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
of the display margins.

** The function `set-window-buffer' now has an optional third argument
KEEP-MARGINS which will preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
and scroll-bar settings if non-nil.

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** Renamed file hooks to follow the convention:
find-file-hooks to find-file-hook,
find-file-not-found-hooks to find-file-not-found-functions,