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


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

+++
** There are now two new regular expression operators, \_< and \_>,
for matching the beginning and end of a symbol.  A symbol is a
non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
specified by the syntax table.

displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at
the end of the buffer in that window.  This allows to tail a file:
just put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there.  This
rule applies to file buffers.  For non-file buffers, the behavior may
be mode dependent.

** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
revert.  This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil.  Auto Revert

   instead.  The updated skeleton-insert docstring explains these new
   features along with other details of skeleton construction.

** MH-E changes.

Upgraded to MH-E version 7.4.4. There have been major changes since
version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.

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** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
`--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given elisp

** The library tree-widget.el provides a new widget to display a set
of hierarchical data as an outline.  For example, the tree-widget is
well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.

** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on dired
buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...

** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.

** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.

and modify elements on this property list.

The new low-level functions process-plist and set-process-plist are
used to access and replace the entire property list of a process.

???
*** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.

On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
very poor performance.  This behaviour can be remedied to some extent

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


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** global-whitespace-mode is a new alias for whitespace-global-mode.

+++
** There are now two new regular expression operators, \_< and \_>,
for matching the beginning and end of a symbol.  A symbol is a
non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
specified by the syntax table.

displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at
the end of the buffer in that window.  This allows to tail a file:
just put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there.  This
rule applies to file buffers.  For non-file buffers, the behavior may
be mode dependent.

If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end,
then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor
mode Auto Revert Tail mode.  The function `auto-revert-tail-mode'
toggles this mode.

** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
revert.  This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil.  Auto Revert

   instead.  The updated skeleton-insert docstring explains these new
   features along with other details of skeleton construction.

** MH-E changes.

Upgraded to MH-E version 7.82. There have been major changes since
version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.

+++
** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
`--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given elisp

** The library tree-widget.el provides a new widget to display a set
of hierarchical data as an outline.  For example, the tree-widget is
well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.

** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...

** The thumbs.el package allows you to preview image files as thumbnails
and can be invoked from a Dired buffer.

** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.

** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.

and modify elements on this property list.

The new low-level functions process-plist and set-process-plist are
used to access and replace the entire property list of a process.

*** Function accept-process-output now has an optional fourth arg
`just-this-one'.  If non-nil, only output from the specified process
is handled, suspending output from other processes.  If value is an
integer, also inhibit running timers.  This feature is generally not
recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
speech synthesis.

*** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.

On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
very poor performance.  This behaviour can be remedied to some extent