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author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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date | Thu, 11 Oct 2001 02:08:21 +0000 |
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5 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. | 5 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
6 For older news, see the file ONEWS | 6 For older news, see the file ONEWS |
7 | 7 |
8 | 8 |
9 * Changes in Emacs 21.2 | 9 * Changes in Emacs 21.2 |
10 | |
11 ** Lisp-mode now uses font-lock-docstring-face for the docstrings. | |
12 | |
13 ** perl-mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'. | |
10 | 14 |
11 ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how | 15 ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how |
12 much pure storage it will approximately need. | 16 much pure storage it will approximately need. |
13 | 17 |
14 ** M-x setenv now expands environment variables of the form `$foo' and | 18 ** M-x setenv now expands environment variables of the form `$foo' and |
33 settings. | 37 settings. |
34 | 38 |
35 | 39 |
36 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.2 | 40 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.2 |
37 | 41 |
42 ** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1. | |
43 | |
44 ** `define-derived-mode' now accept nil as the parent. | |
45 | |
46 ** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in elisp files is now obeyed. | |
47 | |
38 ** Variable aliases have been implemented | 48 ** Variable aliases have been implemented |
39 | 49 |
40 - Macro: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR | 50 - Macro: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR |
41 | 51 |
42 This defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for symbol | 52 This defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for symbol |
59 ** If the second argument to `copy-file' is the name of a directory, | 69 ** If the second argument to `copy-file' is the name of a directory, |
60 the file is copied to that directory instead of signaling an error. | 70 the file is copied to that directory instead of signaling an error. |
61 | 71 |
62 ** The variables most-positive-fixnum and most-negative-fixnum | 72 ** The variables most-positive-fixnum and most-negative-fixnum |
63 have been moved from the CL package to the core. | 73 have been moved from the CL package to the core. |
74 | |
75 ** New packages: | |
76 | |
77 *** The new package syntax.el provides an efficient way to find the | |
78 current syntactic context (as returned by parse-partial-sexp). | |
64 | 79 |
65 | 80 |
66 * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.1 | 81 * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.1 |
67 | 82 |
68 See the INSTALL file for information on installing extra libraries and | 83 See the INSTALL file for information on installing extra libraries and |