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* Installation Changes in Emacs 21.1

** Support for GNU/Linux on IA64 machines has been added.

** Support for LynxOS has been added.

*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.

*** There is image support of various kinds and some sound support.

** When your terminal can't display characters from some of the ISO
8859 character sets but can display Latin-1, you can display
more-or-less mnemonic sequences of ASCII/Latin-1 characters instead of
empty boxes (under a window system) or question marks (not under a
window system).  Customize the option `latin1-display' to turn this

** The command `Info-search' now uses a search history.

** Changes to hideshow.el

Hideshow is now at version 5.x.  It uses a new algorithms for block
selection and traversal, includes more isearch support, and has more
conventional keybindings.

*** Generalized block selection and traversal

A block is now recognized by three things: its start and end regexps
(both strings), and a match-data selector (an integer) specifying
which sub-expression in the start regexp serves as the place where a
`forward-sexp'-like function can operate.  Hideshow always adjusts
point to this sub-expression before calling `hs-forward-sexp-func'
(which for most modes evaluates to `forward-sexp').

If the match-data selector is not specified, it defaults to zero,
i.e., the entire start regexp is valid, w/ no prefix.  This is
backwards compatible with previous versions of hideshow.  Please see
the docstring for variable `hs-special-modes-alist' for details.

*** Isearch support for updating mode line

During incremental search, if Hideshow minor mode is active, hidden
blocks are temporarily shown.  The variable `hs-headline' records the
line at the beginning of the opened block (preceding the hidden
portion of the buffer), and the mode line is refreshed.  When a block
is re-hidden, the variable is set to nil.

To show `hs-headline' in the mode line, you may wish to include
something like this in your .emacs.

	(add-hook 'hs-minor-mode-hook
	  (lambda ()
	    (add-to-list 'mode-line-format 'hs-headline)))

*** New customization var: `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function'

Normally, `hs-hide-all' hides everything, leaving only the
header lines of top-level forms (and comments, unless var
`hs-hide-comments-when-hiding-all' is non-nil).  It does this by
moving point to each top-level block beginning and hiding the
block there.  In some major modes (for example, Java), this
behavior results in few blocks left visible, which may not be so
useful.

You can now set var `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function' to a
function to be called at each top-level block beginning, instead
of the normal block-hiding function.  For example, the following
code defines a function to hide one level down and move point
appropriately, and then tells hideshow to use the new function.

(defun ttn-hs-hide-level-1 ()
  (hs-hide-level 1)
  (forward-sexp 1))
(setq hs-hide-all-non-comment-function 'ttn-hs-hide-level-1)

The name `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function' was chosen to
emphasize that this function is not called for comment blocks,
only for code blocks.

*** Command deleted: `hs-show-region'

Historical Note: This command was added to handle "unbalanced
parentheses" emergencies back when hideshow.el used selective
display for implementation.

*** Commands rebound to more conventional keys

The hideshow commands used to be bound to keys of the form "C-c
LETTER".  This is contrary to the Emacs keybinding convention,
which reserves that space for user modification.  Here are the
new bindings (which includes the addition of `hs-toggle-hiding'):

  hs-hide-block               C-c C-h
  hs-show-block               C-c C-s
  hs-hide-all                 C-c C-M-h
  hs-show-all                 C-c C-M-s
  hs-hide-level               C-c C-l
  hs-toggle-hiding            C-c C-c
  hs-mouse-toggle-hiding      [(shift button-2)]

These were chosen to roughly imitate those used by Outline mode.

** Changes to Change Log mode and Add-Log functions

+++
*** If you invoke `add-change-log-entry' from a backup file, it makes

+++
** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets
8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign).
GNU Intlfonts doesn't support these yet; there are basic 8859-14 and
8859-15 fonts at <URL:http://czyborra.com/charsets/> and recent X
releases have 8859-15.  There are new Latin-8 and Latin-9 prefix
(only) and Polish slash input methods in Leim.

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** New language environments `Dutch' and `Spanish'.
These new environments mainly select appropriate translations
of the tutorial.

*** The new function `find-composition' returns information about
a composition at a specified position in a buffer or a string.

*** The function `decompose-composite-char' is now labeled as
obsolete.

** The new character sets `mule-unicode-0100-24ff',
`mule-unicode-2500-33ff', and `mule-unicode-e000-ffff' have been
introduced for Unicode characters in the range U+0100..U+24FF,
U+2500..U+33FF, U+E000..U+FFFF respectively.

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* Installation Changes in Emacs 21.1

See the INSTALL file for information on installing extra libraries and
fonts to take advantage of the new graphical features and extra
charsets in this release.

** Support for GNU/Linux on IA64 machines has been added.

** Support for LynxOS has been added.

*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.

*** There is image support of various kinds and some sound support.

+++
** When your terminal can't display characters from some of the ISO
8859 character sets but can display Latin-1, you can display
more-or-less mnemonic sequences of ASCII/Latin-1 characters instead of
empty boxes (under a window system) or question marks (not under a
window system).  Customize the option `latin1-display' to turn this

** The command `Info-search' now uses a search history.

** Changes to hideshow.el

*** Generalized block selection and traversal

A block is now recognized by its start and end regexps (both strings),
and an integer specifying which sub-expression in the start regexp
serves as the place where a `forward-sexp'-like function can operate.
See the documentation of variable `hs-special-modes-alist'.

*** During incremental search, if Hideshow minor mode is active,
hidden blocks are temporarily shown.  The variable `hs-headline' can
be used in the mode line format to show the line at the beginning of
the open block.

*** User option `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function' specifies a
function to be called at each top-level block beginning, instead of
the normal block-hiding function.

*** The command `hs-show-region' has been removed.

*** The key bindings have changed to fit the Emacs conventions,
roughly imitating those of Outline mode.  See the documentation for
`hs-minor-mode'.

** Changes to Change Log mode and Add-Log functions

+++
*** If you invoke `add-change-log-entry' from a backup file, it makes

+++
** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets
8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign).
GNU Intlfonts doesn't support these yet but recent X releases have
8859-15.  See etc/INSTALL for information on obtaining extra fonts.
There are new Latin-8 and Latin-9 prefix (only) and Polish slash input
methods in Leim.

+++
** New language environments `Dutch' and `Spanish'.
These new environments mainly select appropriate translations
of the tutorial.

*** The new function `find-composition' returns information about
a composition at a specified position in a buffer or a string.

*** The function `decompose-composite-char' is now labeled as
obsolete.

** The new coding system `mac-roman' is primarily intended for use on
the Macintosh but may be used generally for Macintosh-encoded text.

** The new character sets `mule-unicode-0100-24ff',
`mule-unicode-2500-33ff', and `mule-unicode-e000-ffff' have been
introduced for Unicode characters in the range U+0100..U+24FF,
U+2500..U+33FF, U+E000..U+FFFF respectively.