comparison etc/NEWS @ 58127:97020647249a

magic-mode-alist & conf-mode.el

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of the file that precede the first header line.

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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, unless the file name leads to a mode in
`xml-based-modes'.

+++
** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
the text before point.  Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.

"checkout", "update" or "commit".  That means using cvs diff options
-rBASE -rHEAD.


* New modes and packages in Emacs 21.4

** The new package password.el provide a password cache and expiring mechanism.

** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files.
The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used

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of the file that precede the first header line.

+++
** `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'.

+++
** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
the text before point.  Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.

"checkout", "update" or "commit".  That means using cvs diff options
-rBASE -rHEAD.


* New modes and packages in Emacs 21.4

** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
section { }).  Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
.config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
recognized.

** The new package password.el provide a password cache and expiring mechanism.

** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files.
The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used