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Document shift-selection-mode and related changes.

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** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files.

** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2.

** Transient Mark Mode is now on by default.

** mark-even-if-inactive now defaults to t

** C-SPC C-SPC in transient-mark-mode pushes a mark without activating it.

** If you set find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file to t, then C-x C-f
requires confirmation before opening a non-existent file.

** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode enabled, Emacs uses a
Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server, rather than faking events
using the client program mev.  This C level approach provides mouse
highlighting, and help echoing in the minibuffer.

** The new variable next-error-recenter specifies how next-error should
recenter the visited source file.  Its value can be a number (for example,
0 for top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering.

** New command recenter-top-bottom moves the current line to window
center, top and bottom on successive invokations.

** C-l is bound to the new command recenter-top-bottom, rather than recenter.

** The mode-line displays a `@' if the default-directory for the current buffer
is on a remote machine, or a hyphen otherwise.

** The mode-line displays a mode menu when mouse-1 is clicked on a minor mode,

the history list.


* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1

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** C-M-% now shows replacement as it would look in the buffer, with
`\N' and `\&' substituted according to the match.  Old behavior can be
restored by customizing `query-replace-show-replacement'.

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** M-q now fills the region if the region is active and
`transient-mark-mode' is turned on.  Otherwise, it fills the current
paragraph.

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** M-$ now checks spelling of the region if the region is active and
`transient-mark-mode' is turned on.  Otherwise, it checks spelling of the
word at point.

** TAB now indents the region if the region is active and
`transient-mark-mode' is turned on.

** `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty active region
in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on that empty region.

** C-z now invokes `suspend-frame', C-x C-c now invokes
`save-buffers-kill-terminal'.

** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp.

functions and variables (formerly used for Tamil script).


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** When deleting a terminal, run the special hook `delete-terminal-functions'.

** The `read-shell-command' function does what its name says, with completion.
It uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that.

** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode
is enabled and there is an active region.  This is NOT the best function
to use to test whether a command should operate on the region instead
of the usual behavior -- for that, use `use-region-p'.

** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but
applies before function-key-map.  Also it is terminal-local contrary to
key-translation-map.  Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to
this map rather than to function-key-map now.

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** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files.

** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2.

** If you set find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file to t, then C-x C-f
requires confirmation before opening a non-existent file.

** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode enabled, Emacs uses a
Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server, rather than faking events
using the client program mev.  This C level approach provides mouse
highlighting, and help echoing in the minibuffer.

** Recentering changes

*** The new variable next-error-recenter specifies how next-error should
recenter the visited source file.  Its value can be a number (for example,
0 for top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering.

*** New command recenter-top-bottom moves the current line to window
center, top and bottom on successive invokations.

*** C-l is bound to the new command recenter-top-bottom, rather than recenter.

** The mode-line displays a `@' if the default-directory for the current buffer
is on a remote machine, or a hyphen otherwise.

** The mode-line displays a mode menu when mouse-1 is clicked on a minor mode,

the history list.


* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1

** Mark changes

+++
*** Transient Mark mode is now on by default.

+++
*** mark-even-if-inactive now defaults to t

+++
*** When Transient Mark mode is on, C-SPC C-SPC pushes a mark without activating it.

+++
*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-q now fills the region if the
region is active.  Otherwise, it fills the current paragraph.

+++
*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-$ now checks spelling of the
region if the region is active.  Otherwise, it checks spelling of the
word at point.

*** When Transient Mark mode is on, TAB now indents the region if the
region is active.

*** `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty active region
in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on that empty
region.

** Temporarily active regions

*** The new variable shift-select-mode, non-nil by default, controls
shift-selection.  When Shift Select mode is on, shift-translated
motion keys (e.g. S-left and S-down) activate and extend a temporary
region, similar to mouse-selection.

*** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or
mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command.
They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not
shift-translated, or after commands that would ordinarily deactivate
the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the
buffer).

+++
** C-M-% now shows replacement as it would look in the buffer, with
`\N' and `\&' substituted according to the match.  Old behavior can be
restored by customizing `query-replace-show-replacement'.

** C-z now invokes `suspend-frame', C-x C-c now invokes
`save-buffers-kill-terminal'.

** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp.

functions and variables (formerly used for Tamil script).


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** The variable `this-command-keys-shift-translated' is non-nil if the
key sequence invoking the current command was found by
shift-translation.

** The new interactive spec code ^ says to first call
handle-shift-selection if shift-select-mode is non-nil, before reading
the command arguments.

** When deleting a terminal, run the special hook `delete-terminal-functions'.

** The `read-shell-command' function does what its name says, with completion.
It uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that.

** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode
is enabled and there is an active region.  This is NOT the best function
to use to test whether a command should operate on the region instead
of the usual behavior -- for that, use `use-region-p'.

** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to (only . OLDVAL), that
means to activate transient-mark-mode temporarily, until the next
unshifted point motion command or mark deactivation.  Afterwards,
reset transient-mark-mode to the value OLDVAL.  The values `only' and
`identity', introduced in Emacs 22, are now deprecated.

** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but
applies before function-key-map.  Also it is terminal-local contrary to
key-translation-map.  Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to
this map rather than to function-key-map now.