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GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2003-05-21
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.

Please send Emacs bug reports to [e-mail].
For older news, see the file ONEWS
You can narrow news to the specific version by calling

types any more.  Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode, which is available when
`calculator-output-radix' is non-nil.  In this mode a separator
character is used every few digits, making it easier to see byte
boundries etc.  For more info, see the documentation of the variable
`calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.

  emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"

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

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

saving.

*** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
buffer list.

*** New commands:
  - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
  - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
  - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
    it was loaded.

*** New customizable variables:
  - desktop-save. Determins whether the desktop should be saved when it is
    killed.
  - desktop-file-name-format.
  - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
  - desktop-locals-to-save.
  - desktop-globals-to-clear.
  - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp.

*** New command line option --no-desktop

*** New hooks:
  - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.

by whitespace.  This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
too.  If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.

+++
*** 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.

+++
** Dired-x:

multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.

** Info mode:

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

*** Regexp isearch (C-M-s and C-M-r) can search through multiple nodes.
Failed isearch wraps to the top/final node.

*** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
`Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
search without prompting for a new search string.

*** 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.

require-final-newline, is now customizable on a per-mode basis through
c-require-final-newline.  That is a list of modes, and only those
modes set require-final-newline.  By default that's C, C++ and
Objective-C.

The specified modes set require-final-newline based on 
mode-require-final-newline, as usual.

*** Format change for syntactic context elements.
The elements in the syntactic context returned by c-guess-basic-syntax
and stored in c-syntactic-context has been changed somewhat to allow

When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
displays a buffer menu.  This option turns the buffer menu off.

---
** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.

---
** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track
the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.

** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes.

** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
configuration files.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** If a buffer sets buffer-save-without-query to non-nil,
save-some-buffers will always save that buffer without asking

** New line-height and line-spacing properties for newline characters

A newline may now have line-height and line-spacing text or overlay
properties that control the height of the corresponding display row.

If the line-height property value is 0, the newline does not
contribute to the height of the display row; instead the height of the
newline glyph is reduced.  Also, a line-spacing property on this
newline is ignored.  This can be used to tile small images or image
slices without adding blank areas between the images.

If the line-height property value is a float, the minimum line height
is calculated by multiplying the default frame line height by the
given value.

If the line-height property value is a cons (RATIO . FACE), the
minimum line height is calculated as RATIO * height of named FACE.
RATIO is int or float.  If FACE is t, it specifies the current face.

If the line-spacing property value is an positive integer, the value
is used as additional pixels to insert after the display line; this
overrides the default frame line-spacing and any buffer local value of
the line-spacing variable.

If the line-spacing property may be a float or cons, the line spacing
is calculated as specified above for the line-height property.

If the line-spacing value is a cons (total . SPACING) where SPACING is
any of the forms described above, the value of SPACING is used as the
total height of the line, i.e. a varying number of pixels are inserted
after each line to make each line exactly that many pixels high.

** The buffer local line-spacing variable may now have a float value,
which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.

+++

Reference manual for more detailed documentation.

+++
** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
used to add text properties to mode-line elements.

+++
** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
:propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
`risky-local-variable' property is nil.

+++
** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used
to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode
line.

90072:cb67264d6096

GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2003-05-21
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
          Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.

Please send Emacs bug reports to [e-mail].
For older news, see the file ONEWS
You can narrow news to the specific version by calling

types any more.  Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** Control characters and escape glyphs are now shown in the new
escape-glyph face.

** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now prefixed with an escape
character, unless the new user variable `show-nonbreak-escape' is set
to nil.

---
** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions.  This is handy if
you don't want the .type-break file in your home directory or are
annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.

** display-battery has been replaced by display-battery-mode.

** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode, which is available when
`calculator-output-radix' is non-nil.  In this mode a separator
character is used every few digits, making it easier to see byte
boundries etc.  For more info, see the documentation of the variable
`calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.

  emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"

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

** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved, it can
run most curses applications now.

** 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.

saving.

*** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
buffer list.

*** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers immediately,
remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).

*** New commands:
  - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
  - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
  - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
    it was loaded.
  - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
  - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.

*** New customizable variables:
  - desktop-save. Determins whether the desktop should be saved when it is
    killed.
  - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
  - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
  - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save.
  - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear.
  - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear'
    should not delete.
  - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are
    restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
  - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers.
  - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.

*** New command line option --no-desktop

*** New hooks:
  - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.

by whitespace.  This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
too.  If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.

*** 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.

+++
** Dired-x:

multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.

** Info mode:

*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
with the number appended to the *info* buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").

*** Regexp isearch (C-M-s and C-M-r) can search through multiple nodes.
Failed isearch wraps to the top/final node.

*** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
`Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
search without prompting for a new search string.

*** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon)
moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using
`Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last').

*** 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.

require-final-newline, is now customizable on a per-mode basis through
c-require-final-newline.  That is a list of modes, and only those
modes set require-final-newline.  By default that's C, C++ and
Objective-C.

The specified modes set require-final-newline based on
mode-require-final-newline, as usual.

*** Format change for syntactic context elements.
The elements in the syntactic context returned by c-guess-basic-syntax
and stored in c-syntactic-context has been changed somewhat to allow

When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
displays a buffer menu.  This option turns the buffer menu off.

---
** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.

+++
** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of
mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
without TLS encryption.  If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
used instead of the native one.

---
** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track
the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.

** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes.

** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
configuration files.

* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
:propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
`risky-local-variable' property is nil.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** If a buffer sets buffer-save-without-query to non-nil,
save-some-buffers will always save that buffer without asking

** New line-height and line-spacing properties for newline characters

A newline may now have line-height and line-spacing text or overlay
properties that control the height of the corresponding display row.

If the line-height property value is t, the newline does not
contribute to the height of the display row; instead the height of the
newline glyph is reduced.  Also, a line-spacing property on this
newline is ignored.  This can be used to tile small images or image
slices without adding blank areas between the images.

If the line-height property value is a float, the minimum line height
is calculated by multiplying the default frame line height by the
given value.

If the line-height property value is a cons (FACE . RATIO), the
minimum line height is calculated as RATIO * height of named FACE.
RATIO is int or float.  If FACE is t, it specifies the current face.

If the line-height property value is a cons (nil . RATIO), the line
height is calculated as RATIO * actual height of the line's contents.

If the line-height value is a cons (HEIGHT . TOTAL), HEIGHT specifies
the line height as described above, while TOTAL is any of the forms
described above and specifies the total height of the line, causing a
varying number of pixels to be inserted after the line to make it line
exactly that many pixels high.

If the line-spacing property value is an positive integer, the value
is used as additional pixels to insert after the display line; this
overrides the default frame line-spacing and any buffer local value of
the line-spacing variable.

If the line-spacing property may be a float or cons, the line spacing
is calculated as specified above for the line-height property.

** The buffer local line-spacing variable may now have a float value,
which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.

+++

Reference manual for more detailed documentation.

+++
** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
used to add text properties to mode-line elements.

+++
** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used
to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode
line.