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** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.

** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
and other common debugger commands.

command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
TeX commands to use at startup.
*** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.

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** New display feature: focus follows the mouse from one Emacs window
to another, even within a frame.  If you set the variable
mouse-autoselect-window to non-nil value, moving the mouse to a
different Emacs window will select that window (minibuffer window can

you to specify switches that are passed to any CVS command invoked
by VC.  These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which
means they are inserted before the command name.  For example, this
allows you to specify a compression level using the "-z#" option for
CVS.

** EDiff changes.

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***  When comparing directories.

** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.

** The new command `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
for all (existing and future) frames.

** At the end of a command, point moves out from within invisible
text, in the same way it moves out from within text covered by an
image or composition property.

** Only one of the beginning or end of an invisible, intangible region is
considered an acceptable value for point; which one is determined by
examining how the invisible/intangible properties are inherited when new
text is inserted adjacent to them.  (The `front-sticky' and `rear-sticky'
properties control this.)

50975:bf7c2783b20d

---
** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** `undo-only' (bound to C-x U) does an undo which does not redo any
previous undo.

** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
`file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.

** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',
Emacs will prompt her for confirmation.

** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.

** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
and other common debugger commands.

command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
TeX commands to use at startup.
*** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.

*** New major mode doctex-mode for *.dtx files.

+++
** New display feature: focus follows the mouse from one Emacs window
to another, even within a frame.  If you set the variable
mouse-autoselect-window to non-nil value, moving the mouse to a
different Emacs window will select that window (minibuffer window can

you to specify switches that are passed to any CVS command invoked
by VC.  These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which
means they are inserted before the command name.  For example, this
allows you to specify a compression level using the "-z#" option for
CVS.

*** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.

** EDiff changes.

+++
***  When comparing directories.

** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
in the keymap.

** VC changes for backends:
*** (vc-switches BACKEND OPERATION) is a new function for use by backends.
*** The new `find-version' backend function replaces the `destfile'
parameter of the `checkout' backend function.
Old code still works thanks to a default `find-version' behavior that
uses the old `destfile' parameter.

** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.

** The new command `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
for all (existing and future) frames.

** At the end of a command, point moves out from within invisible
text, in the same way it moves out from within text covered by an
image or composition property.

This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible.
This is particularly good because the intangible property often has
unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything
(including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after
post-command-hook and thus does not care about intermediate states.
	
** Only one of the beginning or end of an invisible, intangible region is
considered an acceptable value for point; which one is determined by
examining how the invisible/intangible properties are inherited when new
text is inserted adjacent to them.  (The `front-sticky' and `rear-sticky'
properties control this.)