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author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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