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** Info-index finally offers completion.

** shell-mode now supports programmable completion using `pcomplete'.

** The new command `comint-input-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.

M-x font-lock-mode to toggle fontification.  The variable
`Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable fontification,
remove `turn-on-font-lock' from `Info-mode-hook'.

** The Emacs Lisp byte-compiler now displays the actual line and
character position of errors.

** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
by using GNU grep `-H' option instead.  M-x grep will automatically
detect whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed

When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
i.e., there is always a closing tag.
When not customized, it becomes buffer-local when it can be inferred
from the file name or buffer contents.

** New user option `isearch-resume-enabled'.
This option can be disabled, to avoid the normal behaviour of isearch
which puts calls to `isearch-resume' in the command history.

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** When the *scratch* buffer is recreated, its mode is set from
initial-major-mode, which normally is lisp-interaction-mode,
instead of using default-major-mode.

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** Byte compiler warning and error messages have been brought more
in line with the output of other GNU tools.

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** Lisp-mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings.

** perl-mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.

** New function `describe-buffer-bindings'.

** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
searching for an executable resp. an elisp file.

** Variable aliases have been implemented

- Macro: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR

This defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for symbol
BASE-VAR.  This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR returns

45614:8f47aa4a587a

** Info-index finally offers completion.

** shell-mode now supports programmable completion using `pcomplete'.

** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for XML files
automatically.  This is accomplished using the general mechanism of a
new variable called `auto-coding-functions', which you may add to.

** The new command `comint-input-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.

M-x font-lock-mode to toggle fontification.  The variable
`Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable fontification,
remove `turn-on-font-lock' from `Info-mode-hook'.

** The Emacs Lisp byte-compiler now displays the actual line and
character position of errors, where possible.  Additionally, the form
of its warning and error messages have been brought more in line with
the output of other GNU tools.

** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
by using GNU grep `-H' option instead.  M-x grep will automatically
detect whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed

When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
i.e., there is always a closing tag.
When not customized, it becomes buffer-local when it can be inferred
from the file name or buffer contents.

** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `smgl-mode', which has XML support.

** New user option `isearch-resume-enabled'.
This option can be disabled, to avoid the normal behaviour of isearch
which puts calls to `isearch-resume' in the command history.

---
** When the *scratch* buffer is recreated, its mode is set from
initial-major-mode, which normally is lisp-interaction-mode,
instead of using default-major-mode.

---
** Lisp-mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings.

** perl-mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.

** New function `describe-buffer-bindings'.

** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
searching for an executable resp. an elisp file.

** Variable aliases have been implemented:

- Macro: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR

This defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for symbol
BASE-VAR.  This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR returns