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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2001-03-15 1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2001-03-15
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 See the end for copying conditions. 3 See the end for copying conditions.
4 4
5 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. 5 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
6 For older news, see the file ONEWS 6 For older news, see the file ONEWS
7 7
95 95
96 Upgraded to MH-E version 7.1. There have been major changes since 96 Upgraded to MH-E version 7.1. There have been major changes since
97 version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details. 97 version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.
98 98
99 +++ 99 +++
100 ** The `emacsclient' understand the options `--eval' and `--display' 100 ** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
101 which tell Emacs resp. to evaluate the given elisp expressions and 101 `--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given elisp
102 to use the given display when visiting files. 102 expression and to use the given display when visiting files.
103
104 ** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.
103 105
104 +++ 106 +++
105 ** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode. 107 ** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
106 When the file is maintained under version control, that information 108 When the file is maintained under version control, that information
107 appears between the position information and the major mode. 109 appears between the position information and the major mode.
160 ** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window 162 ** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
161 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are 163 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are
162 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those 164 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
163 faces. 165 faces.
164 166
165 ** New language environments: French, Cyrillic-KOI8-U, Windows-1251, 167 ** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Windows-1251, Tajik,
166 Cyrillic-KOI8-T, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, 168 Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6,
167 Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian. 169 Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian.
170
171 ** Indian support has been updated.
172 The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are
173 assumed. There is a framework for supporting various
174 Indian scripts, but currently still only Devanagari is supported.
168 175
169 --- 176 ---
170 ** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, 177 ** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
171 ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer, 178 ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer,
172 vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, 179 vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard,
173 latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml, 180 latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml,
174 bulgarian-phonetic, dutch, slovenian. 181 bulgarian-phonetic, dutch, slovenian, croatian.
175 182
176 --- 183 ---
177 ** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese 184 ** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
178 in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving, 185 in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
179 Big 5 is then converted to CNS. 186 Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
1137 ** New function `decode-coding-region-as-inserted-from-file' decodes a 1144 ** New function `decode-coding-region-as-inserted-from-file' decodes a
1138 region as if it is read from a file without decoding. 1145 region as if it is read from a file without decoding.
1139 1146
1140 ** New function `optimize-char-coding-system-table' can be called 1147 ** New function `optimize-char-coding-system-table' can be called
1141 after making changes to `char-coding-system-table'. 1148 after making changes to `char-coding-system-table'.
1149
1150 ** New function `langinfo' accesses locale information.
1142 1151
1143 ** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window 1152 ** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
1144 of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed 1153 of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed
1145 by calling `select-window'. 1154 by calling `select-window'.
1146 1155
4590 `not-at-beginning-of-line' (\\c>) 4599 `not-at-beginning-of-line' (\\c>)
4591 `alpha-numeric-two-byte' (\\cA) 4600 `alpha-numeric-two-byte' (\\cA)
4592 `chinse-two-byte' (\\cC) 4601 `chinse-two-byte' (\\cC)
4593 `greek-two-byte' (\\cG) 4602 `greek-two-byte' (\\cG)
4594 `japanese-hiragana-two-byte' (\\cH) 4603 `japanese-hiragana-two-byte' (\\cH)
4595 `indian-tow-byte' (\\cI) 4604 `indian-two-byte' (\\cI)
4596 `japanese-katakana-two-byte' (\\cK) 4605 `japanese-katakana-two-byte' (\\cK)
4597 `korean-hangul-two-byte' (\\cN) 4606 `korean-hangul-two-byte' (\\cN)
4598 `cyrillic-two-byte' (\\cY) 4607 `cyrillic-two-byte' (\\cY)
4599 `ascii' (\\ca) 4608 `ascii' (\\ca)
4600 `arabic' (\\cb) 4609 `arabic' (\\cb)
11205 * For older news, see the file ONEWS 11214 * For older news, see the file ONEWS
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