comparison etc/NEWS @ 46124:daab102d5c4f

Added ido, kmacro, and bindat packages.

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** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.

** New modes and packages

*** The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
region (like delete-selection-mode).  Do not enable these modes with

want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you may customize the
`cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.

*** The new keypad setup package provides simplified configuration
of the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards.

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*** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.

Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in

** New packages:

*** The new package syntax.el provides an efficient way to find the
current syntactic context (as returned by parse-partial-sexp).

*** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.

*** The new package button.el implements simple and fast `clickable buttons'

46124:daab102d5c4f

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** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.

** New modes and packages

*** The new ido package is an extension of the iswitchb package
to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition to
interactive buffer switching.  Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with a
few exceptions), so don't enable both packages.

*** The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
region (like delete-selection-mode).  Do not enable these modes with

want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you may customize the
`cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.

*** The new keypad setup package provides simplified configuration
of the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards.

*** The new kmacro package provides a simpler user interface to
emacs' keyboard macro facilities.

Basically, it uses two function keys (default F7 and F8) like this:
F7 starts a macro, F8 ends the macro, and pressing F8 again executes
the last macro.  While defining the macro, F7 inserts a counter value
which automatically increments every time the macro is executed.

M-F7 edits the last macro, C-F7 sets the counter, and S-F7 sets the
counter format. S-F8 executes the previous macro (actuall the head of
the keyboard macro ring), and C-F8 cycles through the keyboard macro
ring. C-u F8 swaps the last macro with the head of the macro ring.

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*** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.

Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in

** New packages:

*** The new package syntax.el provides an efficient way to find the
current syntactic context (as returned by parse-partial-sexp).

*** The new package bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
data structures.

*** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.

*** The new package button.el implements simple and fast `clickable buttons'