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** The configure options `--with-gcc', `--without-gcc' have been removed.
Configure will use gcc by default.  Set the CC environment variable if
you need control over which C compiler is used.

** The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the
default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary.

* Changes in Emacs 23.1

** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session.

the current $DISPLAY or a tty frame if $DISPLAY is not set.

You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by
testing for the `multi-tty' feature.

** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.  
(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).

The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now
Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'.  utf-8-emacs is backwards
compatible with the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode.  The `emacs-mule'

*** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time.

This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented
version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, and
Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems
as a single changeset.

*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type V to toggle the annotation visibility.

*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type f to show the file revision on

tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and
tex-suscript-height-minimum.

** BibTeX mode:

*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers. 

*** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and
`string', disabled by default.

*** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to

* Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems

---
** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows.
Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions
of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. Previously IPv6 was
supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock
1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library.

** More keys available on MS-Windows.
Keys normally associated with IMEs, and some exotic keys not normally found

Emacs can now bind functions to the extra buttons for media player and
browser control present on some keyboards.  These buttons are disabled
by default, since enabling them prevents their system-wide use when
Emacs has focus.  To enable them, set the variable
w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable
for the list of extra keys that are available.

* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** The behavior of map-char-table has changed.  It may call the

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

** The variable `byte-compile-warnings' can now be a list starting with `not',
meaning to disable the specified warnings. The meaning of this list
may therefore be the reverse of what you expect (of course, this is
only an issue if you make use of the new `not' syntax). Rather than
checking/manipulating elements directly, use the new functions
`byte-compile-warning-enabled-p', `byte-compile-disable-warning', and
`byte-compile-enable-warning.'

** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string.

of strings.  In the latter case, Emacs puts the second and following
strings on the kill ring.

** Character code, representation, and charset changes.

The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF with no gap. 
Characters of code 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the same code points.
Characters of code 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit bytes.

Generic characters no longer exist.  

In buffer and string, characters are represented by UTF-8 byte
sequence in a multibyte buffer/string.

The concept of a charset has changed.  A single character may belong to

coding systems.

*** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete.

** There is a new input method, Robin, different from Quail.
It has three functionalities: 
 i) a simple input method (converts an ASCII sequence into a string).
ii) converts an existing buffer substring into another string
iii) reverse conversion (each character produced by a
robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a char-code-property)

*** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses.  If you want to know the
$TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment.

*** $DISPLAY is now dynamically inherited from the frame's `display'.

*** The `window-system' variable has been made frame-local. The new
`initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value
for the first frame.

*** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal
type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'.

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** The configure options `--with-gcc', `--without-gcc' have been removed.
Configure will use gcc by default.  Set the CC environment variable if
you need control over which C compiler is used.

** The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed.  Gtk is now the
default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary.

* Changes in Emacs 23.1

** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session.

the current $DISPLAY or a tty frame if $DISPLAY is not set.

You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by
testing for the `multi-tty' feature.

** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.
(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).

The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now
Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'.  utf-8-emacs is backwards
compatible with the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode.  The `emacs-mule'

*** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time.

This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented
version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, and
Bzr.  VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems
as a single changeset.

*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type V to toggle the annotation visibility.

*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type f to show the file revision on

tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and
tex-suscript-height-minimum.

** BibTeX mode:

*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers.

*** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and
`string', disabled by default.

*** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to

* Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems

---
** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows.
Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions
of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed.  Previously IPv6 was
supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock
1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library.

** More keys available on MS-Windows.
Keys normally associated with IMEs, and some exotic keys not normally found

Emacs can now bind functions to the extra buttons for media player and
browser control present on some keyboards.  These buttons are disabled
by default, since enabling them prevents their system-wide use when
Emacs has focus.  To enable them, set the variable
w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil.  See the doc string of that variable
for the list of extra keys that are available.

* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** The behavior of map-char-table has changed.  It may call the

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

** The variable `byte-compile-warnings' can now be a list starting with `not',
meaning to disable the specified warnings.  The meaning of this list
may therefore be the reverse of what you expect (of course, this is
only an issue if you make use of the new `not' syntax).  Rather than
checking/manipulating elements directly, use the new functions
`byte-compile-warning-enabled-p', `byte-compile-disable-warning', and
`byte-compile-enable-warning.'

** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string.

of strings.  In the latter case, Emacs puts the second and following
strings on the kill ring.

** Character code, representation, and charset changes.

The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF with no gap.
Characters of code 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the same code points.
Characters of code 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit bytes.

Generic characters no longer exist.

In buffer and string, characters are represented by UTF-8 byte
sequence in a multibyte buffer/string.

The concept of a charset has changed.  A single character may belong to

coding systems.

*** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete.

** There is a new input method, Robin, different from Quail.
It has three functionalities:
 i) a simple input method (converts an ASCII sequence into a string).
ii) converts an existing buffer substring into another string
iii) reverse conversion (each character produced by a
robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a char-code-property)

*** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses.  If you want to know the
$TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment.

*** $DISPLAY is now dynamically inherited from the frame's `display'.

*** The `window-system' variable has been made frame-local.  The new
`initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value
for the first frame.

*** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal
type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'.