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Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 586-614) - Update from CVS - Update from erc--emacs--22 - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 - Merge from erc--main--0 - Make byte compiler correctly write circular constants * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 186-196) - Update from CVS - Merge from emacs--devo--0 Revision: [e-mail]/emacs--unicode--0--patch-162

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GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2006-06-04
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
          Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.

Please send Emacs bug reports to [e-mail].
If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.

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

`completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common
parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing
parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted.

Above fontification is always done when listing completions is
triggered at minibuffer. If you want to fontify completions whose
listing is triggered at the other normal buffer, you have to pass
the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as
its second argument.

+++

*** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.

---
*** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
When emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available. The
following should work:
{C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8, they might not work on
some older versions of xterm, or on some proprietary versions.

** Character terminal color support changes:

boundaries during scrolling.

+++
** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
events from the console.  It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.

* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:

** Changes in Shell Mode

** Changes in Dired

+++
*** Bindings for Tumme added
Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been
added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Tumme. As a starting
point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d to display
thumbnails of them in a separate buffer.

** Changes in Hi Lock

C-c C-i b, and so on.

** Fortran mode changes:

---
*** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
highlighting for the old default.

+++
*** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.

extracting the content of a BibTeX field.

*** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and
`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
`bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are
still available as aliases.

** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'.  The old name is still
available as alias.

** EDiff changes.

+++
***  When comparing directories.
Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of
directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files
from one directory to another.

+++
*** 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

This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs.  It can
be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.  Etags
reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
the file FILE.

** VC Changes

+++
*** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
(toggle-read-only).  It no longer checks files in or out.

face.  This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations,
appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp.

+++
*** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a
year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers
count backward from the end of the year.

+++
*** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first

window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.

---
*** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
`christian-holidays' simpler.

---
*** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'

See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.

---
** Images are now supported on MS Windows.

PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
depend on external libraries.  All of these libraries have been ported
to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/.  Note that libpng also depends on
zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
against.  For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.

---
** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.

Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
any customizations.

---
** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size.

Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs
through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in
a local console window with a scrollback buffer. The default value of
w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favors local console
windows. Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this
setting. If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects
that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and
defaults to 80x25. If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size
other than 80x25, you can still manually set
w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.

---
** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.


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Copyright information:

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
	  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,

90737:95d0cdf160ea

GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2006-06-04
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
          Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.

Please send Emacs bug reports to [e-mail].
If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.

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

`completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common
parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing
parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted.

Above fontification is always done when listing completions is
triggered at minibuffer.  If you want to fontify completions whose
listing is triggered at the other normal buffer, you have to pass
the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as
its second argument.

+++

*** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.

---
*** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
When emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
The following should work:
{C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8, they might not work on
some older versions of xterm, or on some proprietary versions.

** Character terminal color support changes:

boundaries during scrolling.

+++
** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
events from the console.  It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
for Emacs 22.  In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.

* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:

** Changes in Shell Mode

** Changes in Dired

+++
*** Bindings for Tumme added
Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been
added to Dired.  They are all bound to commands in Tumme.  As a starting
point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d to display
thumbnails of them in a separate buffer.

** Changes in Hi Lock

C-c C-i b, and so on.

** Fortran mode changes:

---
*** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default.  Use level 3
highlighting for the old default.

+++
*** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.

extracting the content of a BibTeX field.

*** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and
`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
`bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'.  The old names are
still available as aliases.

** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'.  The old name is still
available as alias.

** EDiff changes.

+++
***  When comparing directories.
Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of
directories.  Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files
from one directory to another.

+++
*** 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

This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs.  It can
be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.  Etags
reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
the file FILE.

** Ctags changes.

*** Ctags now allows duplicate tags

** VC Changes

+++
*** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
(toggle-read-only).  It no longer checks files in or out.

face.  This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations,
appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp.

+++
*** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a
year and day number, and moves to that date.  Negative day numbers
count backward from the end of the year.

+++
*** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first

window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.

---
*** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
rather than all.  This makes customization of variables such as
`christian-holidays' simpler.

---
*** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'

See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.

---
** Images are now supported on MS Windows.

PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box.  Other image formats
depend on external libraries.  All of these libraries have been ported
to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/.  Note that libpng also depends on
zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
against.  For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.

---
** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.

Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
multilingual text with other applications.  On other versions of
MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
any customizations.

---
** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size.

Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs
through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in
a local console window with a scrollback buffer.  The default value of
w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favors local console
windows.  Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this
setting.  If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects
that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and
defaults to 80x25.  If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size
other than 80x25, you can still manually set
w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.

---
** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.


----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright information:

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
	  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,