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The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command-to-process acts like
M-x comint-redirect-send-command but additionally reads the name of
the buffer whose process should be used from the mini-buffer.

** Changes to Rmail mode

*** The new user-option rmail-rmail-user-mail-address-regexp can be
set to fine tune the identification of of the correspondent when
receiving new mail.  If it matches the address of the sender, the

** The Dabbrev package has a new user-option `dabbrev-ignore-regexps'
containing a list of regular expressions.  Buffers matching a regular
expression from that list, are not checked.

** New modes and packages

*** The comment operations are now provided by the newcomment.el
package which allows different styles of comment-region and should
be more robust while offering the same functionality.

   delimit-columns-region	Prettify all columns in a text region.
   delimit-columns-rectangle	Prettify all columns in a text rectangle.

*** The package recentf.el maintains a menu for visiting files that
were operated on recently.  When enabled, a new "Open Recent" submenu
is displayed in the "Files" menu.

The recent files list is automatically saved across Emacs sessions.

To enable/disable recentf use M-x recentf-mode.

To enable recentf at Emacs startup use
M-x customize-variable RET recentf-mode RET.

To change the number of recent files displayed and others options use
M-x customize-group RET recentf RET.

*** elide-head.el provides a mechanism for eliding boilerplate header
text.

*** footnote.el provides `footnote-mode', a minor mode supporting use

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The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command-to-process acts like
M-x comint-redirect-send-command but additionally reads the name of
the buffer whose process should be used from the mini-buffer.

Packages based on comint.el like shell-mode, and
scheme-interaction-mode now highlight user input, and support choosing
previous input with mouse-2.  To control this feature, see the
user-option `comint-highlight-input'.

** Changes to Rmail mode

*** The new user-option rmail-rmail-user-mail-address-regexp can be
set to fine tune the identification of of the correspondent when
receiving new mail.  If it matches the address of the sender, the

** The Dabbrev package has a new user-option `dabbrev-ignore-regexps'
containing a list of regular expressions.  Buffers matching a regular
expression from that list, are not checked.

** New modes and packages

*** The new package xml.el provides a simple but generic XML
parser. It doesn't parse the DTDs however.

*** The comment operations are now provided by the newcomment.el
package which allows different styles of comment-region and should
be more robust while offering the same functionality.

   delimit-columns-region	Prettify all columns in a text region.
   delimit-columns-rectangle	Prettify all columns in a text rectangle.

*** The package recentf.el maintains a menu for visiting files that
were operated on recently.

M-x recentf-mode RET toggles recentf mode.

M-x customize-variable RET recentf-mode RET can be used to enable
recentf at Emacs startup.

M-x customize-variable RET recentf-menu-filter RET to specify a menu
filter function to change the menu appearance. For example, the recent
file list can be displayed:

- organized by major modes, directories or user defined rules.
- sorted by file pathes, file names, ascending or descending.
- showing pathes relative to the current default-directory

The `recentf-filter-changer' menu filter function allows to
dynamically change the menu appearance.

*** elide-head.el provides a mechanism for eliding boilerplate header
text.

*** footnote.el provides `footnote-mode', a minor mode supporting use