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a GIF library.


* Changes in Emacs 23.1

** 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

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.

** The mode-line display a `@' if the default-directory for the current buffer
is on a remote machine, or a hyphen otherwise.
** The new command balance-window-area balances windows both vertically
and horizontally.

** The new command close-display-connection can be used to close a connection
to a remote display, e.g. because the display is about to become unreachable.

* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1

** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display
after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a

history element containing the search string becomes the current.


* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt.


* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

the first error encountered during compilations.

** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names.
Only copyright lines with holders matching copyright-names-regexp will be
considered for update.

** VC
*** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu.

*** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip.

** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed.


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

+++
** inhibit-modification-hooks is bound to t while running modification hooks.
As a happy consequence, after-change-functions and before-change-functions
are not bound to nil any more while running an (after|before)-change-function.

** Non-breaking space now acts as whitespace.

+++
** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first".

** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts a new value
`confirm-only'.

+++
** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly.

+++
** New variable `user-emacs-directory'.
Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d".

`interactive-form' symbol property.  Mostly useful to add complex interactive
forms to subroutines.

* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1


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a GIF library.


* Changes in Emacs 23.1

** 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

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.

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

** The new command balance-window-area balances windows both vertically
and horizontally.

** The new command close-display-connection can be used to close a connection
to a remote display, e.g. because the display is about to become unreachable.

** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is
called with a prefix, and the default directory is a remote file name.
This is because some file name handler (like ange-ftp) are not able to
run processes remotely.

** The new command `display-time-world' starts an updating time display
using several time zones, in a buffer.

* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1

** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display
after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a

history element containing the search string becomes the current.


* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

** A new game called `bubble' has been added

** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt.


* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

the first error encountered during compilations.

** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names.
Only copyright lines with holders matching copyright-names-regexp will be
considered for update.

** eldoc highlights the function argument under point
with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'.

** VC
*** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu.

*** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip.

** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed.


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** The function invisible-p returns non-nil if the character
   after a specified position is invisible, or if its argument
   as an `invisible' property would make a character invisible.

** Non-breaking space now acts as whitespace.

+++
** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first".

** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts a new value
`confirm-only'.

+++
** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly.

** New function `window-full-width-p' returns t if a window is as wide
as its frame.

** The new function `split-string-and-unquote' does (what?)

** The new function `combine-and-quote-strings' does (what?)

** The new function `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated
with a given image specification.

+++
** New variable `user-emacs-directory'.
Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d".

`interactive-form' symbol property.  Mostly useful to add complex interactive
forms to subroutines.

* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1

** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure.


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GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify