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Add news for Dired and Info modes.

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** New features in evaluation commands

*** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
the face to the value specified in the defface expression.

*** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified

restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.

** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.

** Dired mode:

*** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.

*** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' to mark files with
different file attributes in two dired buffers.

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*** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
by whitespace.  This means you can now use them as shell wildcards

*** Dired's v command now runs external viewers to view certain
types of files.  The variable `dired-view-command-alist' controls
what external viewers to use and when.

*** In Dired, the w command now copies the current line's file name
into the kill ring.

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** Dired-x:

*** Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling
command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to M-O,
marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the
mode toggling function instead.

** Info mode:
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*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
`Info-hide-note-references' to nil.

*** The new command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
possible matches.

*** Images in Info pages are supported.
Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.

56048:c11c9363b19f

will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.

** New features in evaluation commands

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*** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
the face to the value specified in the defface expression.

*** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified

restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.

** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.

** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
`insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.

** A prefix argument of C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-printifies the
list starting after point.

** Dired mode:

*** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.

*** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
with different file attributes in two dired buffers.

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*** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.

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*** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
by whitespace.  This means you can now use them as shell wildcards

*** Dired's v command now runs external viewers to view certain
types of files.  The variable `dired-view-command-alist' controls
what external viewers to use and when.

*** In Dired, the w command now copies the current line's file name
into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix arg, copies absolute file names.

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** Dired-x:

*** Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling
command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to M-O,
marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the
mode toggling function instead.

** Info mode:

*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
with the number appended to the *info* buffer name.

*** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.

*** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.

*** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
possible matches.

*** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
the current Info node name into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix
arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.

*** New command `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S).

*** New command `Info-search-next' (unbound) repeats the last search
without prompting for a new search string.

*** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.

*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
references and following them calls `browse-url'.

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*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
`Info-hide-note-references' to nil.

*** Images in Info pages are supported.
Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.