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Improve whitespace information.

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** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines.
It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e,
and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical
lines.  This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode.

** A new `whitespace' package has been installed, and the pre-existing one
renamed to `old-whitespace'.
Now, besides reporting bogus blanks, whitespace package has a minor mode and a
global minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD) SPACE and NEWLINE).  The
visualization is made via faces and/or display table. Also it is possible to
select which kind of blanks should be visualized, for example, trailing blanks,
leading blanks, spaces, tabs, newlines, etc.

** xesam.el is an implementation of Xesam, an interface to (desktop)
search engines like Beagle, Strigi, and Tracker.  The Xesam API
requires D-Bus for communication.

** zeroconf.el offers service discovery and service publishing
interfaces according to the zeroconf specification.  It communicates
with Avahi, a zeroconf implementation, via D-Bus messages on systems
which have installed this software.


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97482:a8900d9693c5

** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines.
It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e,
and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical
lines.  This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode.

** xesam.el is an implementation of Xesam, an interface to (desktop)
search engines like Beagle, Strigi, and Tracker.  The Xesam API
requires D-Bus for communication.

** zeroconf.el offers service discovery and service publishing
interfaces according to the zeroconf specification.  It communicates
with Avahi, a zeroconf implementation, via D-Bus messages on systems
which have installed this software.

** A new `whitespace' package has been installed, and the pre-existing one
renamed to `old-whitespace'.
Now, besides reporting bogus blanks, whitespace package has a minor mode and a
global minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD) SPACE and NEWLINE).  The
visualization is made via faces and/or display table.

The main commands are `whitespace-mode', `whitespace-toggle-options',
`global-whitespace-mode' and `global-whitespace-toggle-options'.

There are also the following useful commands: `whitespace-newline-mode',
`global-whitespace-newline-mode', `whitespace-report',
`whitespace-report-region', `whitespace-cleanup' and
`whitespace-cleanup-region'.

It has the following hook variables: `whitespace-mode-hook',
`global-whitespace-mode-hook' and `whitespace-load-hook'.

It has the following options: `whitespace-style', `whitespace-action',
`whitespace-line-column', `whitespace-display-mappings' and
`whitespace-global-modes'.

It has the following faces: `whitespace-space', `whitespace-hspace',
`whitespace-tab', `whitespace-newline', `whitespace-trailing',
`whitespace-line', `whitespace-space-before-tab', `whitespace-indentation',
`whitespace-empty' and `whitespace-space-after-tab'.

It has the following regexp options: `whitespace-space-regexp',
`whitespace-hspace-regexp', `whitespace-tab-regexp',
`whitespace-trailing-regexp', `whitespace-space-before-tab-regexp',
`whitespace-indentation-regexp', `whitespace-empty-at-bob-regexp',
`whitespace-empty-at-eob-regexp' and `whitespace-space-after-tab-regexp'.

The `whitespace-style' option specifies which kind of blanks should be
visualized.  It's a list containing some or all of the following values:

trailing	trailing blanks are visualized via faces.

tabs		TABs are visualized via faces.

spaces		SPACEs and HARD SPACEs are visualized via faces.

lines		lines whose have columns beyond `whitespace-line-column' are
		highlighted via faces.
		Whole line is highlighted.
		It has precedence over `lines-tail' (see below).

lines-tail	lines whose have columns beyond `whitespace-line-column' are
		highlighted via faces.
		But only the part of line which goes beyond
		`whitespace-line-column' column.
		It has effect only if `lines' (see above) is not present in
		`whitespace-style'.

newline		NEWLINEs are visualized via faces.

empty		empty lines at beginning and/or end of buffer are visualized
		via faces.

indentation::tab	8 or more SPACEs at beginning of line are visualized
			via faces.

indentation::space	TABs at beginning of line are visualized via faces.

indentation	8 or more SPACEs at beginning of line are visualized, if
		`indent-tabs-mode' (which see) is non-nil; otherwise, TABs at
		beginning of line are visualized via faces.

space-after-tab::tab	8 or more SPACEs after a TAB are visualized via faces.

space-after-tab::space	TABs are visualized when occurs 8 or more SPACEs after
			a TAB via faces.

space-after-tab		8 or more SPACEs after a TAB are visualized, if
			`indent-tabs-mode' (which see) is non-nil; otherwise,
			the TABs are visualized via faces.

space-before-tab::tab	SPACEs before TAB are visualized via faces.

space-before-tab::space	TABs are visualized when occurs SPACEs before TAB via
			faces.

space-before-tab	SPACEs before TAB are visualized, if `indent-tabs-mode'
			(which see) is non-nil; otherwise, the TABs are
			visualized via faces.

space-mark	SPACEs and HARD SPACEs are visualized via display table.

tab-mark	TABs are visualized via display table.

newline-mark	NEWLINEs are visualized via display table.

Any other value is ignored.

The `whitespace-action' option specifies which action is taken when a buffer is
visited, killed or written.  It's a list containing some or all of the
following values:

nil		no action is taken.

cleanup		cleanup any bogus whitespace always when local whitespace is
		turned on.  See `whitespace-cleanup' and
		`whitespace-cleanup-region'.

report-on-bogus	report if there is any bogus whitespace always when local
		whitespace is turned on.

auto-cleanup	cleanup any bogus whitespace when buffer is written or killed.
		See `whitespace-cleanup' and `whitespace-cleanup-region'.

abort-on-bogus	abort if there is any bogus whitespace and the buffer is
		written or killed.

Any other value is treated as nil.


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