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** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets
8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign).
There is currently no specific input method support for them.

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** Fortran mode has a new command `fortran-strip-sequence-nos' to
remove text past column 72.  The syntax class of `\' in Fortran is now
appropriate for C-style escape sequences in strings.

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** A new command `view-emacs-problems' (C-h P) displays the PROBLEMS file.

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** The Dabbrev package has a new user-option `dabbrev-ignore-regexps'
containing a list of regular expressions.  Buffers matching a regular
expression from that list, are not checked.

** Emacs can now figure out modification times of remote files.
When you do C-x C-f /user@host:/path/file RET and edit the file,

*** ansi-color.el translates ANSI terminal escapes into text-properties.

*** delphi.el provides a major mode for editing the Delphi (Object
Pascal) language.

*** quickurl.el provides a simple method of inserting a URL based on
the text at point.

*** sql.el provides an interface to SQL data bases.

** If `display-buffer-reuse-frames' is set, function `display-buffer'
will raise frames displaying a buffer, instead of creating a new
frame or window.

** Two new functions for removing elements from lists/sequences
were added

- Function: remove ELT SEQ

** The obsolete variables before-change-function and
after-change-function are no longer acted upon and have been removed.

** The function `apropos-mode' runs the hook `apropos-mode-hook'.

** `concat' no longer accepts individual integer arguments, as
promised long ago.

** The new function `float-time' returns the current time as a float.


measured in pixels, otherwise return sizes measured in canonical
character units (fractions of the width/height of the frame's default
font).  FRAME is the frame on which the image will be displayed.
FRAME nil or omitted means use the selected frame.

** The function `find-image' can be used to find a usable image
satisfying one of a list of specifications.

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** The STRING argument of `put-image' and `insert-image' is now
optional.

** Image specifications may contain the property `:ascent center'.

When this property is specified, the image is vertically centered
around a centerline which would be the vertical center of text drawn
at the position of the image, in the manner specified by the text
properties and overlays that apply to the image.


* New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1

Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.

parameter `tool-bar-lines' (X resource "toolBar", class "ToolBar")
controls how may lines to reserve for the tool bar.  A zero value
suppresses the tool bar.  If the value is non-zero and
`auto-resize-tool-bars' is non-nil the tool bar's size will be changed
automatically so that all tool bar items are visible.

*** Tool bar item definitions

Tool bar items are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
`tool-bar'.  For example `(define-key global-map [tool-bar item1] ITEM)'

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** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets
8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign).
GNU Intlfonts doesn't support these yet; there are basic 8859-14 and
8859-15 fonts at <URL:http://czyborra.com/charsets/> and recent X
releases have 8859-15.  There are new Latin-8 and Latin-9 prefix
(only) and Polish slash input methods in Leim.

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** Fortran mode has a new command `fortran-strip-sequence-nos' to
remove text past column 72.  The syntax class of `\' in Fortran is now
appropriate for C-style escape sequences in strings.

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** A new command `view-emacs-problems' (C-h P) displays the PROBLEMS file.

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** The Dabbrev package has a new user-option `dabbrev-ignored-regexps'
containing a list of regular expressions.  Buffers matching a regular
expression from that list, are not checked.

** Emacs can now figure out modification times of remote files.
When you do C-x C-f /user@host:/path/file RET and edit the file,

*** ansi-color.el translates ANSI terminal escapes into text-properties.

*** delphi.el provides a major mode for editing the Delphi (Object
Pascal) language.

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*** quickurl.el provides a simple method of inserting a URL based on
the text at point.

*** sql.el provides an interface to SQL data bases.

** If `display-buffer-reuse-frames' is set, function `display-buffer'
will raise frames displaying a buffer, instead of creating a new
frame or window.

+++
** Two new functions for removing elements from lists/sequences
were added

- Function: remove ELT SEQ

** The obsolete variables before-change-function and
after-change-function are no longer acted upon and have been removed.

** The function `apropos-mode' runs the hook `apropos-mode-hook'.

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** `concat' no longer accepts individual integer arguments, as
promised long ago.

** The new function `float-time' returns the current time as a float.


measured in pixels, otherwise return sizes measured in canonical
character units (fractions of the width/height of the frame's default
font).  FRAME is the frame on which the image will be displayed.
FRAME nil or omitted means use the selected frame.

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** The function `find-image' can be used to find a usable image
satisfying one of a list of specifications.

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** The STRING argument of `put-image' and `insert-image' is now
optional.

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** Image specifications may contain the property `:ascent center' (see
below).


* New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1

Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.

parameter `tool-bar-lines' (X resource "toolBar", class "ToolBar")
controls how may lines to reserve for the tool bar.  A zero value
suppresses the tool bar.  If the value is non-zero and
`auto-resize-tool-bars' is non-nil the tool bar's size will be changed
automatically so that all tool bar items are visible.

before this facility can be useful, we need people to donate icons.

*** Tool bar item definitions

Tool bar items are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
`tool-bar'.  For example `(define-key global-map [tool-bar item1] ITEM)'