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`compilation-mode-font-lock-keywords' and it nicely handles all the checks
that configure outputs and -o options so you see at a glance where you are.

The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message.

** M-x grep has been adapted to new compile

Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange.  Grep buffers
can be saved and automatically revisited with the new Grep mode.

** M-x diff uses diff-mode instead of compilation-mode.

** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
resync points in both windows.

** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for
using strokes as an input method.

+++
** Desktop package

*** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, desktop-save-mode. Variable

** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or
`query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current
search string used as the string to replace.

+++
** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can
be inconvenient when you did not expect them.  The variable
`yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones.  Insertion
of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.

from the file name or buffer contents.

+++
** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support.

+++
** New user option `isearch-resume-enabled'.
This option can be disabled, to avoid the normal behavior of isearch
which puts calls to `isearch-resume' in the command history.

---
** Lisp mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings.

---
** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.

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

** Compilation mode enhancements:

*** New user option `compilation-environment'.
This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
subprocesses inherit.

*** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'
specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line
in new face `next-error'.

** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.

*** There's a new separate package grep.el.

*** Grep commands now have their own submenu and customization group.

*** The new variables `grep-window-height', `grep-auto-highlight', and
`grep-scroll-output' can be used to override the corresponding
compilation mode settings for grep commands.

*** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlightes matches in *grep*
buffer.  It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept
--color option to output markers around matches.  When going to the next
match with `next-error' the exact match is highlighted in the source
buffer.  Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole
source line is highlighted.

*** New key bindings in grep output window:
SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down.  C-n and C-p moves to next and
previous match in the grep window.  RET jumps to the source line of
the current match.  `n' and `p' shows next and previous match in
other window, but does not switch buffer.  `{' and `}' jumps to the
previous or next file in the grep output.  TAB also jumps to the next
file.

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

---

configuration files.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
been renamed to `disabled-command-function'.  The variable
`disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.

** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window

height) of the specified image.

The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions.
The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions.

** New macro with-local-quit temporarily sets inhibit-quit to nil for use
around potentially blocking or long-running code in timers
and post-command-hooks.

+++

** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE.
It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they
can start with this line:

   #!/usr/bin/emacs --script

+++
** A function's docstring can now hold the function's usage info on
its last line.  It should match the regexp "\n\n(fn.*)\\'".

89971:cce1c0ee76ee

`compilation-mode-font-lock-keywords' and it nicely handles all the checks
that configure outputs and -o options so you see at a glance where you are.

The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message.

** Compilation mode enhancements:

*** New user option `compilation-environment'.
This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
subprocesses inherit.

** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.

*** There's a new separate package grep.el.

*** M-x grep has been adapted to new compile

Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange.  Grep buffers
can be saved and automatically revisited with the new Grep mode.

*** Grep commands now have their own submenu and customization group.

*** The new variables `grep-window-height', `grep-auto-highlight', and
`grep-scroll-output' can be used to override the corresponding
compilation mode settings for grep commands.

*** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlightes matches in *grep*
buffer.  It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept
--color option to output markers around matches.  When going to the next
match with `next-error' the exact match is highlighted in the source
buffer.  Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole
source line is highlighted.

*** New key bindings in grep output window:
SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down.  C-n and C-p moves to next and
previous match in the grep window.  RET jumps to the source line of
the current match.  `n' and `p' shows next and previous match in
other window, but does not switch buffer.  `{' and `}' jumps to the
previous or next file in the grep output.  TAB also jumps to the next
file.

** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'
specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line
in new face `next-error'.

** A new minor mode `next-error-follow-minor-mode' can be used in
compilation-mode, grep-mode, occur-mode, and diff-mode (i.e. all the
modes that can use `next-error').  In this mode, cursor motion in the
buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
matches, compilation errors, etc.  This minor mode can be toggled with
C-c C-f.

** M-x diff uses diff-mode instead of compilation-mode.

** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
resync points in both windows.

** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for
using strokes as an input method.

** Gnus package

*** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts.  PGG is a library to handle
PGP/MIME.

*** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.

+++
** Desktop package

*** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, desktop-save-mode. Variable

** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or
`query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current
search string used as the string to replace.

+++
** New user option `isearch-resume-enabled'.
This option can be disabled, to avoid the normal behavior of isearch
which puts calls to `isearch-resume' in the command history.

+++
** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'.
If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
elements are deleted.

+++
** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can
be inconvenient when you did not expect them.  The variable
`yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones.  Insertion
of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.

from the file name or buffer contents.

+++
** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support.

---
** Lisp mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings.

---
** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.

+++
** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
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.

---

configuration files.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** `auto-save-file-format' has been renamed to
`buffer-auto-save-file-format' and made into a permanent local.

+++
** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
been renamed to `disabled-command-function'.  The variable
`disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.

** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window

height) of the specified image.

The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions.
The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions.

** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and
text property string that may be present at the current window
position.  The cursor may now be placed on any character of such
strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property.

** New macro with-local-quit temporarily sets inhibit-quit to nil for use
around potentially blocking or long-running code in timers
and post-command-hooks.

+++

** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE.
It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they
can start with this line:

   #!/usr/bin/emacs --script

** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately.
Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they
appear on the command line.  For example, with this command line:

  emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)"

Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then
in the other directories in `load-path'.  (-L is short for --directory.)

+++
** A function's docstring can now hold the function's usage info on
its last line.  It should match the regexp "\n\n(fn.*)\\'".