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** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
when you run configure.  This requires Gtk+ 2.0 or newer.  This port
provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).

---
** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with elisp code.

---
** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game
scores.  The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal
place for game scores to be stored.  You can control this with the

+++
*** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
When the file is maintained under version control, that information
appears between the position information and the major mode.

*** Easy to overlook single character negation is now font-locked.
You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of
the same name to customize this.  Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode,
cperl-mode and make-mode support this.

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*** Control characters and escape glyphs are now shown in the new
escape-glyph face.

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*** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now prefixed with an escape
character, unless the new user variable `show-nonbreak-escape' is set
to nil.

*** font-lock: in modes like C and Lisp where the fontification assumes that
an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment,
font-lock now highlights any such open-paren-in-column-zero in bold-red
if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it can cause
trouble with fontification and/or indentation.

---
*** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed.
The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now 16
instead of 3, and the default value of jit-lock-stealth-nice is now

---
*** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
(rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.

---
*** Unexpected yanking of text due to accidental clicking on the mouse
wheel button (typically mouse-2) during wheel scrolling is now avoided.
This behavior can be customized via the mouse-wheel-click-event and
mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.

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*** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.

modes that can use `next-error').  In this mode, cursor motion in the
buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
matches, compilation errors, etc.  This minor mode can be toggled with
C-c C-f.

** Occur mode changes:

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*** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without

*** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.

* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1

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** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).

+++
** Filesets are collections of files.  You can define a fileset in
various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
program files that include other program files.

Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on

Emacs Lisp.  Its documentation is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
type "C-h i m calc RET" to read that manual.  A reference card is
available in `etc/calccard.tex' and `etc/calccard.ps'.

---
** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
configuration files.

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** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
section { }).  Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
.config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
recognized.

---
** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.

The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for

keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
region (like delete-selection-mode).  Do not enable these modes with
cua-mode.  Customize the variable `cua-mode' to enable cua.

In addition, cua provides unified rectangle support with visible
rectangle highlighting: Use S-return to start a rectangle, extend it
using the movement commands (or mouse-3), and cut or copy it using C-x
or C-c (using C-w and M-w also works).

Use M-o and M-c to `open' or `close' the rectangle, use M-b or M-f, to
fill it with blanks or another character, use M-u or M-l to upcase or

be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.

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** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
source files.  See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.

---
** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes.

---
** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.

---
** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.

---
** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.

The ido (interactively do) 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.

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** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle
between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c.

+++
** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards.  The numeric
keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked

Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence
at a time, prompting for the actions to take.

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** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
mechanism.  The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or

with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through
ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript
printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by
`ps-print' package.  Use M-x pr-help for more information.

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

---
** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you
move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer.
It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts
of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ...

If you want to disable Tramp you should set

  (setq tramp-default-method "ftp")

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

---
** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible.  When disabled, it
restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.

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

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

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** The new package button.el implements simple and fast `clickable buttons'
in emacs buffers.  `buttons' are much lighter-weight than the `widgets'
implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that doesn't
require the full power of widgets.  Emacs uses buttons for such things
as help and apropos buffers.

---
** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.

It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
and its SQLi buffer is the slave.  This allows you to scroll the SQLi
buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the
commands.

This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable
sql-buffer contains the slave buffer.  It is a local variable in the
SQL buffer.

(add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
   (function (lambda ()
	       (master-mode t)
	       (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
(add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
   (function (lambda ()
	       (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))

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** New Lisp library testcover.el works with edebug to help you determine
whether you've tested all your Lisp code.  Function testcover-start
instruments all functions in a given file.  Then test your code.  Function
testcover-mark-all adds overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to
show where coverage is lacking.  Command testcover-next-mark (bind it to
a key!) will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch.

Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely
evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same
value.  The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly
complete their evaluation, such as `error'.  The brown splotches are
skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same
value, such as (setq x 14).

For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to
help out the test coverage tool.  The macro `noreturn' suppresses a
red splotch.  It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does
return.  The macro 1value suppresses a brown splotch for its argument.
This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals
an error if the argument actually returns differing values.

* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:

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** In Outline mode, hide-body no longer hides lines at the top
of the file that precede the first header line.

+++
** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.

---
** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved, it can
run most curses applications now.

+++
** M-x diff uses diff-mode instead of compilation-mode.

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** You can now customize fill-nobreak-predicate to control where
filling can break lines.  The value is now normally a list of
functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.

We provide two sample predicates, fill-single-word-nobreak-p and
fill-french-nobreak-p, for use in the value of fill-nobreak-predicate.

---
** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
with special modes such as Tar mode.

---
** Commands winner-redo and winner-undo, from winner.el, are now bound to
C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively.  This is an incompatible change.

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

+++
** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
resync points in both windows.

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** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.

---
** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers

** Info mode changes:

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*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
with the number appended to the *info* buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").

---
*** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.
Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error
message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through
other nodes.  When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps
aroung the whole manual to the top/final node.  The user option
`Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch,

*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
references and following them calls `browse-url'.

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*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
`Info-hide-note-references' to nil.

---
*** Images in Info pages are supported.
Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.

+++
*** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil.

---
*** Info-index offers completion.

** Lisp mode changes:

---
*** Lisp mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings.

+++
*** A prefix argument of C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-printifies the
list starting after point.

*** New features in evaluation commands

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*** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
the face to the value specified in the defface expression.

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*** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified
by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'.  The same
function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
`eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.

now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
composition-close, and incomposition.

*** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
The functions c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forward can be
bound to keys to get this feature without toggling a mode.
Contributed by Kevin Ryde.

*** Better control over require-final-newline.  The variable that
controls how to handle a final newline when the buffer is saved,
require-final-newline, is now customizable on a per-mode basis through
c-require-final-newline.  That is a list of modes, and only those
modes set require-final-newline.  By default that's C, C++ and
Objective-C.

The specified modes set require-final-newline based on
mode-require-final-newline, as usual.

*** Format change for syntactic context elements.
The elements in the syntactic context returned by c-guess-basic-syntax
and stored in c-syntactic-context has been changed somewhat to allow
attaching more information.  They are now lists instead of single cons
cells.  E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis

((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13))

((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))

In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
symbol.

This change might affect code that call c-guess-basic-syntax directly,
and custom lineup functions if they use c-syntactic-context.  However,
the argument given to lineup functions is still a single cons cell
with nil or an integer in the cdr.

*** API changes for derived modes.
There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
derived mode writers.  Some of these changes are likely to cause
incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.

**** New language variable system.
See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.

**** New initialization functions.
The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
give better control: c-basic-common-init, c-font-lock-init, and
c-init-language-vars.

*** Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.
The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where
several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line.  They are
now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.

*** Better handling of multiline macros.

**** Syntactic indentation inside macros.
The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented
syntactically just like other code.  This can be disabled by the new
variable c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros.  A new syntactic symbol
cpp-define-intro has been added to control the initial indentation
inside #define's.

**** New lineup function c-lineup-cpp-define.
Now used by default to line up macro continuation lines.  The behavior
of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro
is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily
removed.  If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works
much line c-lineup-dont-change, which was used earlier, but handles
empty lines within the macro better.

**** Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one.
This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
c-context-line-break and c-context-open-line.

**** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
c-backslash-region tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes.  New
variable c-backslash-max-column which put a limit on how far out
backslashes can be moved.

**** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
This is controlled by the new variable c-auto-align-backslashes.  It
affects c-context-line-break, c-context-open-line and newlines
inserted in auto-newline mode.

**** Line indentation works better inside macros.
Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
line continuation backslashes.  This is most noticeable when syntactic
indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
backslash) in the macro.

*** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
the variable c-indent-comment-alist.  The indentation behavior based
on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after #else
and #endif but indentation to comment-column in most other cases
(something which was hardcoded earlier).

*** New function c-context-open-line.
It's the open-line equivalent of c-context-line-break.

*** New lineup functions

**** c-lineup-string-cont
This lineup function lines up a continued string under the one it
continues.  E.g:

result = prefix + "A message "
                  "string.";      <- c-lineup-string-cont

**** c-lineup-cascaded-calls
Lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".

**** c-lineup-knr-region-comment
Gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in
the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.

**** c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg
Provides better indentation inside asm blocks.  Contributed by Kevin
Ryde.

**** c-lineup-argcont
Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma.
Contributed by Kevin Ryde.

*** Better caching of the syntactic context.
CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind)
of the lists surrounding the point.  Those positions are used in many
places as anchor points for various searches.  The cache is now

*** Statements are recognized in a more robust way.
Statements are recognized most of the time even when they occur in an
"invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument.  In practice that can
happen when macros are involved.

*** Improved the way c-indent-exp chooses the block to indent.
It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point
whose closing paren ends on a different line.  This means that the
point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent.
Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current
line is left untouched.

*** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
The function c-toggle-syntactic-indentation can be used to toggle
syntactic indentation.

---
** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.

`f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
`f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
`fortran-beginning-of-block'.

---
*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for hs-minor-mode (hideshow).
It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
majority.

---
*** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change

---
*** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.

+++
*** New major mode doctex-mode for *.dtx files.

** BibTeX mode:
*** The new command bibtex-url browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).

*** The new command bibtex-entry-update (bound to C-c C-u) updates
an existing BibTeX entry.

*** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.

*** bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries can take values `plain',
`crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used
for BibTeX entries.  `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting
scheme `entry-class'.  TAB completion for reference keys and
automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that
bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is non-nil.

*** If the new variable bibtex-parse-keys-fast is non-nil,
use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys.

*** If the new variable bibtex-autoadd-commas is non-nil,
automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields.

*** The new variable bibtex-autofill-types contains a list of entry
types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible).

*** The new command bibtex-complete completes word fragment before
point according to context (bound to M-tab).

*** The new commands bibtex-find-entry and bibtex-find-crossref
locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x).
Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET).

*** In BibTeX mode the command fill-paragraph (bound to M-q) fills
individual fields of a BibTeX entry.

*** The new variables bibtex-files and bibtex-file-path define a set
of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys.

*** The new command bibtex-validate-globally checks for duplicate keys
in multiple BibTeX files.

*** The new command bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill pushes summary
of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).

+++
** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'

+++
*** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
state of your program.  It separates the input/output of your program from
that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar.  It also uses features of
Emacs 21 such as the display margin for breakpoints, and the toolbar.

Use M-x gdba to start GDB-UI.

*** GUD tooltips can be toggled independently of normal tooltips
with the minor mode, gud-tooltip-mode.

+++
*** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to
display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is
not executing.

*** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
    (Java 1.1 jdb).

*** The previous method of searching for source files has been
    preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
    Set gud-jdb-use-classpath to nil.

  Added Customization Variables

*** gud-jdb-command-name.  What command line to use to invoke jdb.

*** gud-jdb-use-classpath. Allows selection of java source file searching
    method: set to t for new method, nil to scan gud-jdb-directories for
    java sources (previous method).

*** gud-jdb-directories. List of directories to scan and search for java
    classes using the original gud-jdb method (if gud-jdb-use-classpath
    is nil).

  Minor Improvements

*** The STARTTLS elisp wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
instead of the OpenSSL based "starttls" tool.  For backwards
compatibility, it prefers "starttls", but you can toggle
`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
"starttls" tool).

*** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.

** Auto-Revert changes:

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*** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert
mode keeps it at the end after reverting.  Similarly if point is
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

+++
** Desktop package

+++
*** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, desktop-save-mode. Variable
desktop-enable is obsolete. Customize desktop-save-mode to enable desktop
saving.

---
*** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
buffer list.

+++
*** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers immediately,
remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).

+++
*** New commands:
  - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
  - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.

  - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
  - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.

---
** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist.
Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
to get the old behavior.  The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this

** Etags changes.

*** New regular expressions features

**** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.
The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained
only for backward compatibility.  The new equivalent syntax is
--regex=/regex/i.  More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS,
where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or
more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'

expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
(which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines.  The ability to
span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.

**** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in Gcc.
The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
CR, TAB, VT,

**** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.
The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise.  This is
particularly useful when storing regexps in a file.

**** Regular expressions can be read from a file.
The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one
per line.  Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.

*** New language parsing features

**** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.
Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.

**** The gnucc __attribute__ keyword is now recognised and ignored.

**** New language HTML.
Title and h1, h2, h3 are tagged.  Also, tags are generated when name= is
used inside an anchor and whenever id= is used.

**** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.

**** New language Lua.
All functions are tagged.

**** In Perl, packages are tags.
Subroutine tags are named from their package.  You can jump to sub tags
as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
package::sub.

**** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.

**** New language PHP.
Tags are functions, classes and defines.
If the --members option is specified to etags, tags are variables also.

**** New default keywords for TeX.
The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
renewenvironment.

*** Honour #line directives.
When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
specified in those directives.  This is useful when dealing with code
created from Cweb source files.  When Etags tags the generated file, it
writes tags pointing to the source file.

*** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.
This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs.  It can
be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.  Etags
reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
the file FILE.

** VC Changes

+++
*** The key C-x C-q no longer checks files in or out, it only changes
the read-only state of the buffer (toggle-read-only).  We made this
change because we held a poll and found that many users were unhappy
with the previous behavior.  If you do prefer this behavior, you
can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your .emacs:

    (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only)

The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist.

+++
*** There is a new user option `vc-cvs-global-switches' that allows
you to specify switches that are passed to any CVS command invoked
by VC.  These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which
means they are inserted before the command name.  For example, this
allows you to specify a compression level using the "-z#" option for
CVS.

+++
*** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.

+++
*** vc-annotate-mode enhancements

In vc-annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for
enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or
to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode:

    P:  annotates the previous revision
    N:  annotates the next revision

in the repository.

+++
*** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
"checkout", "update" or "commit".  That means using cvs diff options
-rBASE -rHEAD.

+++
** There is a new user option `mail-default-directory' that allows you
to specify the value of `default-directory' for mail buffers.  This
directory is used for auto-save files of mail buffers.  It defaults to
"~/".

+++
** Emacs can now indicate in the mode-line the presence of new e-mail
in a directory or in a file.  See the documentation of the user option
`display-time-mail-directory'.

** Rmail changes:

---
*** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.

+++
*** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of
mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
without TLS encryption.  If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
used instead of the native one.

** Gnus package

---
*** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts.  PGG is a library to handle
PGP/MIME.

---
*** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.

---
** MH-E changes.

*** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
and `diary-header-line-format'.

+++
*** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed: use
the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable
`appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing
appt-issue-message, appt-visible, and appt-msg-window.

+++
*** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages.  The variable

The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the
SQL mode indicator.

The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in
your .emacs will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use
`sql-product' to accomplish this.

ANSI keywords are always highlighted.

*** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add
font-lock rules to the product specific rules.  For example, to have
all identifiers ending in "_t" under MS SQLServer treated as a type,
you would use the following line in your .emacs file:

  (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
             '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face)))

*** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i.  Most
SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented.  SQL*Plus commands are
highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'.

*** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved.
Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented.
sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because
osql flushes its error stream more frequently.  Thus error messages
are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is
terminated.

If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is
called with the -E command line argument to use the operating system
credentials to authenticate the user.

*** Postgres support is enhanced.
Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented.  Prompting for
the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added.

*** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes,
packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and
defaults.

*** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
appropriate sql-interactive-mode wrapper for the current setting of
`sql-product'.

---
*** Support for the SQLite interpreter has been added to sql.el by calling
'sql-sqlite'.

** FFAP changes:

+++
*** New ffap commands and keybindings: C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'),
C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'),
C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'),
C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame').

---
*** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default.  C-x C-f passes
it to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS argument, which visits
multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.

---
** skeleton.el now supports using - to mark the skeleton-point without
   interregion interaction.  @ has reverted to only setting
   skeleton-positions and no longer sets skeleton-point.  Skeletons
   which used @ to mark skeleton-point independent of _ should now use -
   instead.  The updated skeleton-insert docstring explains these new
   features along with other details of skeleton construction.

---
** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode.  Integration with isearch
handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.

+++
** hide-ifdef-mode now uses overlays rather than selective-display
to hide its text.  This should be mostly transparent but slightly
changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p.

---
** partial-completion-mode now does partial completion on directory names.

---
** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions.  This is handy if
you don't want the .type-break file in your home directory or are
annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.

---
** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.

Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with
ps-print, provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF fonts.
See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts.

---
** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for

	% emacsclient -s foo file1
	% emacsclient -s bar file2

+++
*** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
`--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given elisp
expression and to use the given display when visiting files.

+++
*** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.

---
** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2.

+++
** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it.
M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no
argument it toggles the mode.

Turning off PC-Selection mode restores the global key bindings
that were replaced by turning on the mode.

---
** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
`file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.

---
** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
Emacs will still work on terminals that require magic cookies in order
to use standout mode, however they will not be able to display
mode-lines in inverse-video.

---
** The game `mpuz' is enhanced.

`mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits.  By
default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
automatically.  The game uses faces for better visual feedback.

---
** display-battery has been replaced by display-battery-mode.

---
** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode, which is available when
`calculator-output-radix' is non-nil.  In this mode a separator
character is used every few digits, making it easier to see byte
boundries etc.  For more info, see the documentation of the variable
`calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.

---
** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete.  Use jit-lock.el instead.

---
** iso-acc.el is now obsolete.  Use one of the latin input methods instead.

---
** cplus-md.el has been removed to avoid problems with Custom.

* Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems

+++
** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
existing values.  For example:

  emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"

will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.

---
** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track
the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.

---
** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.

---
** Images are now supported on MS Windows.
PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
depend on external libraries.  All of these libraries have been ported
to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/.  Note that libpng also depends on
zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
against.  For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.

---
** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of
Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
sound support for those formats.

---
** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows.
The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer.

---
** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.

---
** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.
The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much
the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X.  Emacs now adds these
colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu for the
default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground), and uses
some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
`list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
you wish to use them in other faces.

---
** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.
Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
any customizations.

---
** On Mac OS, the value of the variable `keyboard-coding-system' is
now dynamically changed according to the current keyboard script.  The
variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
`kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
`kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.

* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

** General Lisp changes:

+++
*** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.

+++
*** `makehash' is now obsolete.  Use `make-hash-table' instead.

+++
*** If optional third argument APPEND to `add-to-list' is non-nil, a
new element gets added at the end of the list instead of at the
beginning.  This change actually occurred in Emacs-21.1, but was not
documented.

+++
*** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree, recursively copying
both cars and cdrs.

+++
*** New function `delete-dups' destructively removes `equal'
duplicates from a list.  Of several `equal' occurrences of an element
in the list, the first one is kept.

+++
*** `declare' is now a macro.  This change was made mostly for
documentation purposes and should have no real effect on Lisp code.

+++
*** The new function `rassq-delete-all' deletes all elements from an
alist whose cdr is `eq' to a specified value.

+++
*** The function `number-sequence' returns a list of equally-separated
numbers.  For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9).
By default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different separation
as the third argument.  (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns (1.5 3.5 5.5).

+++
*** The variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'
hold the largest and smallest possible integer values.

+++
*** The flags, width, and precision options for %-specifications in function
`format' are now documented.  Some flags that were accepted but not
implemented (such as "*") are no longer accepted.

+++
*** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer signals an error for
a malformed property list.  They also detect cyclic lists.

+++
*** The new functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put' are like
`plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare the property
name using `equal' rather than `eq'.

+++
*** The new variable `print-continuous-numbering', when non-nil, says
that successive calls to print functions should use the same
numberings for circular structure references.  This is only relevant
when `print-circle' is non-nil.

When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
also bind `print-number-table' to nil.

+++

When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis.  (This is
equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)

+++
*** A function's doc string can now specify the calling pattern.

You put this in the doc string's last line, which should match the
regexp "\n\n(fn.*)\\'".

+++
*** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily sets `inhibit-quit' to nil.

This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code in
timers and `post-command-hook' functions.

***  `define-obsolete-function-alias'
combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.

+++
*** New function `unsafep' returns nil if the given Lisp form can't
possibly do anything dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the
form might be unsafe (calls unknown function, alters global variable,
etc).

** Lisp code indentation features:

+++
*** The `defmacro' form can contain declarations specifying how to
indent the macro in Lisp mode and how to debug it with Edebug.  The
syntax of defmacro has been extended to

   (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...)

DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'.  The
declaration specifiers supported are:

(indent INDENT)
	Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT.

(edebug DEBUG)
	Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG.  (This is
	equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro.

---
*** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms.

See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.

forms.

+++
** Variable aliases:

*** defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING]

This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for
symbol BASE-VAR.  This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR
returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR
changes the value of BASE-VAR.

DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has
the same documentation as BASE-VAR.

*** indirect-variable VARIABLE

This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases
of VARIABLE.  If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not
defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE.

`make-obsolete-variable'.

** defcustom changes:

+++
*** defcustom and other custom declarations now use a default group
(the last prior group defined in the same file) when no :group was given.

---
*** The new customization type `float' specifies numbers with floating
point (no integers are allowed).

** String changes:

+++
*** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character,
unless it is followed by a `-' in a character constant (e.g. ?\s-A),
in which case it is still interpreted as the super modifier.
In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space.

+++
*** A hex escape in a string forces the string to be multibyte.
An octal escape makes it unibyte.

+++
*** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if
the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for
SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string.  If SEPARATORS is

+++
*** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
multibyte string with the same individual character codes.

+++
*** New function `substring-no-properties returns a substring without
text properties.

+++
*** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and
`assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have
been declared obsolete.

** Buffer/variable changes:

+++
*** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER.  If VARIABLE does not
have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
value of VARIABLE instead.

+++
** There is a new facility for displaying warnings to the user.

See the functions `warn' and `display-warning' .

+++
** Progress reporters.

These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present
progress messages for the user.

See the new functions `make-progress-reporter',
`progress-reporter-update', `progress-reporter-force-update',
`progress-reporter-done', and `dotimes-with-progress-reporter'.

** Buffer positions:

+++
*** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
width if the WIDTH argument is nil.  If the TOPOS argument is nil,
the usable window height and width is used.

+++
*** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now
modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
taller that the height of the window, for example in the presense of
large images.  To disable this feature, Lisp code can bind the new
variable `auto-window-vscroll' to nil.

+++
*** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word',
`forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is now
optional, and defaults to 1.

+++
*** Lisp code can now test if a given buffer position is inside a
clickable link with the new function `mouse-on-link-p'.  This is the
function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link' functionality.

+++
*** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of the
current line in the current buffer, or if optional buffer position is
given, line number of corresponding line in current buffer.

+++
*** `field-beginning' and `field-end' now accept an additional optional
argument, LIMIT.

+++
*** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates
and partial visiblity state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
arg is non-nil.

+++
*** New functions `posn-at-point' and `posn-at-x-y' return
click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
position or for a given window pixel coordinate.

** Text modification:

+++
*** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' works like
`insert-buffer-substring', but removes the text properties in the
`yank-excluded-properties' list.

+++
*** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like
insert-buffer-substring, but removes all text properties from the
inserted substring.

+++
*** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
the filtered substring.  It is used instead of `buffer-substring' or
`delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
data structure, like the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.  The
list of filter function is specified by the new variable
`buffer-substring-filters'.  For example, Longlines mode uses
`buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
text.

+++
*** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
argument.

+++
*** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
is used for customizing self-insertion.  The character to
be inserted is translated through it.

---
*** Text clones.

The new function `text-clone-create'.  Text clones are chunks of text
that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one
clone to the other.

---
*** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete.

** Syntax table changes:

+++
*** The macro `with-syntax-table' does not copy the table any more.

+++
*** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code
of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account
of text properties as well as the character code.

+++
*** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned
by syntax-after).

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

** GC changes:

+++
*** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
on garbage collection.

+++
*** Functions from `post-gc-hook' are run at the end of garbage
collection.  The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care.

** Buffer-related changes:

---
*** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST.
If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list.

+++
*** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local.

** Local variables lists:

+++
*** Text properties in local variables.

with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.

If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
confirmation as before.

** Abbrev changes:

*** The new function copy-abbrev-table returns a new abbrev table that
is a copy of a given abbrev table.

+++
*** define-abbrev now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG.  If
non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means that
it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the abbrevs.
Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always specify this
flag.

** Undo changes:

+++
*** An element of buffer-undo-list can now have the form (apply FUNNAME
. ARGS), where FUNNAME is a symbol other than t or nil.  That stands
for a high-level change that should be undone by evaluating (apply
FUNNAME ARGS).

These entries can also have the form (apply DELTA BEG END FUNNAME . ARGS)
which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the
range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA.

+++
*** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than
undo-outer-limit, garbage collection empties it.  This is to prevent
it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.

+++
** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how
previously killed text on the kill-ring is reinserted.

The value of the yank-handler property must be a list with one to four
elements with the following format:
  (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).

The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
the first character on its string argument (typically the first
element on the kill-ring).  If a yank-handler property is found,
the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:

  When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
to insert the string.  FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
  If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object
passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is
`yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a
rectangle.
  If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the
yank-excluded-properties is not performed; instead FUNCTION is
responsible for removing those properties.  This may be necessary
if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object.
  If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object.  It is
called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
FUNCTION can set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.

*** The functions kill-new, kill-append, and kill-region now have an
optional argument to specify the yank-handler text property to put on
the killed text.

*** The function yank-pop will now use a non-nil value of the variable
`yank-undo-function' (instead of delete-region) to undo the previous
yank or yank-pop command (or a call to insert-for-yank).  The function
insert-for-yank automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
element of the string argument's yank-handler text property if present.

*** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
`yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
string.  The old behavior is available if you call
`insert-for-yank-1' instead.

*** The new function insert-for-yank normally works like `insert', but
removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list.
However, the insertion of the text can be modified by a `yank-handler'
text property.

** File operation changes:

+++
*** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
searching for an executable resp. an elisp file.

+++
*** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and
modification times.  Magic file name handlers can handle this
operation.

non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using
its own special methods and not directly through the file system).
The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system.

+++
*** `auto-save-file-format' has been renamed to
`buffer-auto-save-file-format' and made into a permanent local.

+++
*** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now
ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as
`.emacs' are treated as extensionless.

+++
*** copy-file now takes an additional option arg MUSTBENEW.

This argument works like the MUSTBENEW argument of write-file.

+++
*** If the second argument to `copy-file' is the name of a directory,
the file is copied to that directory instead of signaling an error.

+++
*** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
a list of two integers, instead of a cons.

before saving buffers.  This allows packages to perform various final
tasks, for example; it can be used by the copyright package to make
sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.

+++
*** If a buffer sets buffer-save-without-query to non-nil,
save-some-buffers will always save that buffer without asking
(if it's modified).

*** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories.
`locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two
lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to
try; typical usage might use `exec-path' and `load-path' for the list

One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
`exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependancies.

---
*** The precedence of file-name-handlers has been changed.
Instead of blindly choosing the first handler that matches,
find-file-name-handler now gives precedence to a file-name handler
that matches near the end of the file name.  More specifically, the
handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen.
In case of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies.

+++
*** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles.

You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name

** Input changes:

+++
*** An interactive specification can now use the code letter 'U' to get
the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
previous 'k' or 'K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.

+++
*** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
it returns just the directory name.

---
*** Functions y-or-n-p, read-char, read-key-sequence and the like, that
display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.

+++
*** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input
arrives.  If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a
quit had occurred.  while-no-input returns the value of BODY, if BODY
finishes.  It returns nil if BODY was aborted.

** Minibuffer changes:

*** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional
buffer argument is a minibuffer.  If the argument is omitted, it
defaults to the current buffer.

+++
*** New function minibuffer-selected-window returns the window which
was selected when entering the minibuffer.

+++
*** read-from-minibuffer now accepts an additional argument KEEP-ALL
saying to put all inputs in the history list, even empty ones.

+++
*** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
specifies a predicate which the file name read must satify.  The
new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.

---
*** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by lisp code
to override the internal read-file-name function.

+++
*** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
`read-file-name' function.

+++
*** The new function `read-directory-name' can be used instead of
`read-file-name' to read a directory name; when used, completion
will only show directories.

** Searching and matching changes:

+++
*** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
the text before point.  Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.

+++
*** The new variable search-spaces-regexp controls how to search
for spaces in a regular expression.  If it is non-nil, it should be a
regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular
expression.  If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves.

Spaces inside of constructs such as [..] and *, +, ? are never
replaced with search-spaces-regexp.

+++
*** 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.

+++
*** skip-chars-forward and skip-chars-backward now handle
character classes such as [:alpha:], along with individual characters
and ranges.

---
*** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits
properties from surrounding text.

+++
*** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final
element, if the last match was on a buffer.  `set-match-data'
accepts such a list for restoring the match state.

---
*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-end' and `symbol-start' elements.

+++
*** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
that end a sentence without following spaces.

The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the
variable `sentence-end'.  If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then
this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables
`sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and
`sentence-end-without-space'.

+++
** Enhancements to keymaps.

*** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.

(kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"

*** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.

This is an alternative to using defadvice or substitute-key-definition
to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
binding and lookup functionality.

When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is
remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the
original command.

Example:
Suppose that minor mode my-mode has defined the commands
my-kill-line and my-kill-word, and it wants C-k (and any other key
bound to kill-line) to run the command my-kill-line instead of
kill-line, and likewise it wants to run my-kill-word instead of
kill-word.

Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map,
command remapping allows you to directly map kill-line into
my-kill-line and kill-word into my-kill-word through the minor mode
map using define-key:

   (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line)
   (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word)

Now, when my-mode is enabled, and the user enters C-k or M-d,
the commands my-kill-line and my-kill-word are run.

Notice that only one level of remapping is supported.  In the above
example, this means that if my-kill-line is remapped to other-kill,
then C-k still runs my-kill-line.

The following changes have been made to provide command remapping:

- Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
  `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD

  another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding.

- The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a
  remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped.

- key-binding now remaps interactive commands unless the optional
  third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil.

- where-is-internal now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g.
  kill-line if my-mode is enabled), and the actual key binding for
  the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line).
  It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits
  remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns C-k for kill-line and
  <kill-line> for my-kill-line).

- The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
  command before remapping.  It is equal to `this-command' when the
  command was not remapped.

*** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
over minor mode keymaps.

*** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and
text-properties, according to their stickiness.  This also means that it
works with empty overlays.  The same hold for the `local-map' property.

*** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly.
Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key
bindings of the parent keymap.

*** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1.

active keymaps.

*** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all
defined keys and their definitions.

*** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt-string of a keymap

*** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
in the keymap.

*** New variable emulation-mode-map-alists.

Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
keymap alist separate from minor-mode-map-alist by adding their keymap
alist to this list.

+++
** Atomic change groups.

To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
around the code that makes changes.  For instance:

  (atomic-change-group
    (insert foo)
    (delete-region x y))

If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of
`atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that
were during the execution of the body.  The change group has no effect
on any other buffers--any such changes remain.

If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the
lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses.  Here is how.

To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'.
Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer.
This function returns a "handle" for the change group.  You must save
the handle to activate the change group and then finish it.

Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change
group.  Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to
do this.

After you make the changes, you must finish the change group.  You can
either accept the changes or cancel them all.  Call
`accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final;
call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all.

You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always
finished.  The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the
`unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs.
(This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and
`activate-change-group' are separate functions.)  Once you finish the
group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group
twice.

To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once
for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the
returned values, like this:

  (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1)
         (prepare-change-group buffer-2))

You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call
to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to
`accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'.

Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you
would expect.  Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer
will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first
change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one
finished.

+++
** Enhancements to process support

*** Function list-processes now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set are listed.

*** New set-process-query-on-exit-flag and process-query-on-exit-flag
functions.  The existing process-kill-without-query function is still
supported, but new code should use the new functions.

*** Function signal-process now accepts a process object or process
name in addition to a process id to identify the signalled process.

*** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can
maintain process state and other per-process related information.

The new functions process-get and process-put are used to access, add,
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 behavior can be remedied to some extent
by setting the new variable process-adaptive-read-buffering to a
non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
from such processes, to allowing them to produce more output before
emacs tries to read it.

*** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.

*** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but
obeys file handlers.  The file handler is chosen based on
`default-directory'.

*** A filter function of a process is called with a multibyte string
if the filter's multibyteness is t.  That multibyteness is decided by
the value of `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is
created and can be changed later by `set-process-filter-multibyte'.

*** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the
multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.

*** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns the

which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.

+++
** Enhanced networking support.

*** There is a new `make-network-process' function which supports
opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
create a stream or datagram server inside emacs.

- A server is started using :server t arg.
- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
- A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.

  by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.

To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
  (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))

*** Original open-network-stream is now emulated using make-network-process.

*** New function open-network-stream-nowait.

This function initiates a non-blocking connect and returns immediately
without waiting for the connection to be established.  It takes the
filter and sentinel functions as arguments; when the non-blocking
connect completes, the sentinel is called with a status string
matching "open" or "failed".

*** New function open-network-stream-server.

This function creates a network server process for a TCP service.
When a client connects to the specified service, a new subprocess
is created to handle the new connection, and the sentinel function
is called for the new process.

*** New functions process-datagram-address and set-process-datagram-address.

These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get
and set the current address of the remote partner.

*** New function format-network-address.

This function reformats the lisp representation of a network address
to a printable string.  For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port
number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the
printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P".  See the doc
string for other formatting options.

*** By default, the function process-contact still returns (HOST SERVICE)
for a network process.  Using the new optional KEY arg, the complete list
of network process properties or a specific property can be selected.

Using :local and :remote as the KEY, the address of the local or
remote end-point is returned.  An Inet address is represented as a 5
element vector, where the first 4 elements contain the IP address and
the fifth is the port number.

*** Network processes can now be stopped and restarted with
`stop-process' and `continue-process'.  For a server process, no
connections are accepted in the stopped state.  For a client process,
no input is received in the stopped state.

*** New function network-interface-list.

This function returns a list of network interface names and their
current network addresses.

*** New function network-interface-info.

This function returns the network address, hardware address, current
status, and other information about a specific network interface.

*** The sentinel is now called when a network process is deleted with
delete-process.  The status message passed to the sentinel for a
deleted network process is "deleted".  The message passed to the
sentinel when the connection is closed by the remote peer has been
changed to "connection broken by remote peer".

** Using window objects:

+++
*** New function `window-body-height'.

header line.

+++
*** New function `window-body-height'.

This is like window-height but does not count the mode line
or the header line.

+++
*** You can now make a window as short as one line.

+++
*** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the
selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'.

+++
*** `select-window' takes an optional second argument `norecord'.

This is like `switch-to-buffer'.

+++
*** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window

identifing the bitmap such as `left-truncation or `continued-line'.

*** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
or restores a built-in one to its default value.

*** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' can now be used to set a
specific face to be used for a specific fringe bitmap.  The face is
automatically merged with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face
should only specify the foreground color of the bitmap.

*** There are new display properties, `left-fringe; and `right-fringe',
that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe
bitmap of the display line.

Format is `display (left-fringe BITMAP [FACE])', where BITMAP is a
symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with

If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing
is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property.

+++
*** The buffer local line-spacing variable can now have a float value,
which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.

+++
*** Enhancements to stretch display properties

For example, to align to the center of the left-margin, use
    :align-to (+ left-margin (0.5 . left-margin))

If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative
to the left edge of the text area.  For example, :align-to 0 in a
header-line aligns with the first text column in the text area.

The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by
the value of the expression EXPR.  For example, (2 . in) specifies a
width of 2 inches, while (0.5 . IMAGE) specifies half the width (or
height) of the specified image.

*** Support for displaying image slices

**** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with
an image property to display only a specific slice of the image.

**** Function insert-image has new optional fourth arg to
specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT).

**** New function insert-sliced-image inserts a given image as a
specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns).

+++
*** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property.

When the mouse pointer is above a hot-spot area of an image, the
PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo'
property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains
a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when
it is over the hot-spot.  See the variable 'void-area-text-pointer'
for possible pointer shapes.

When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.

controlled/overriden via the `pointer' text property.

** Mouse event enhancements:

+++
*** Mouse clicks on fringes now generates left-fringe or right-fringes
events, rather than a text area click event.

+++
*** Mouse clicks in the left and right marginal areas now includes a
sensible buffer position corresponding to the first character in the
corresponding text row.

+++
*** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area.

+++
*** Mouse events now includes buffer position for all event types.

+++
*** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events.

+++
*** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means
text area).

+++
*** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types.

+++
*** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns actual glyph coordinates.

+++
*** Mouse events can now include image object in addition to string object.

+++
*** Mouse events include relative x and y pixel coordinates relative to
the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on.

+++
*** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object
(image or character) clicked on.

+++
*** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', and
'posn-object-width-height' return the image or string object of a mouse
click, the x and y pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner
of that object, and the total width and height of that object.

** Text property and overlay changes:

+++
*** Arguments for remove-overlays are now optional, so that you can
remove all overlays in the buffer by just calling (remove-overlays).

+++
*** New variable char-property-alias-alist.

This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
properties.  It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
although it applies to overlays as well.  This variable was introduced
to implement the `font-lock-face' property.

return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
it was found as a text property or not found at all.

+++
*** The new function remove-list-of-text-properties is almost the same
as `remove-text-properties'.  The only difference is that it takes a
list of property names as argument rather than a property list.

** Face changes

+++
*** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor

look best on a terminal that supports at least this many colors.  This
is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that
makes a good use of the capabilities of the display.

+++
*** New function display-supports-face-attributes-p can be used to test
whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.

A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
defined with defface.

---
*** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR'
or `bg:COLOR' has been removed.  Lisp programs should use the
`defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use

*** The function `face-differs-from-default-p' now truly checks
whether the given face displays differently from the default face or
not (previously it did only a very cursory check).

+++
*** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', and
`face-stipple' now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which
controls how face inheritance is used when determining the value of a
face attribute.

+++
*** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute'
help with handling relative face attributes.

faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous
releases of Emacs, the order was the opposite.  This change was made
so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text
`face' properties.

+++
*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.

---
*** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..

** Font-Lock changes:

new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.

+++
*** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.

*** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the
form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other
properties than `face'.

*** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those
extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.

---
*** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'.

precedence over the file name.  Likewise an `<?xml' or `<!DOCTYPE'
declaration will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, based on the new
var `magic-mode-alist'.

+++
*** Major mode functions now run the new normal hook
`after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode hooks.

---
*** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect'
property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use
it in that buffer.

and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable.

+++
*** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.

---
*** `define-global-minor-mode'.

This is a new name for what was formerly called
`easy-mmode-define-global-mode'.  The old name remains as an alias.

** Command loop changes:

+++
*** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people
have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' did: it returns t if the
calling function was called through `call-interactively'.  This should
only be used when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new
INTERACTIVE argument to the command.

+++
*** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument.

+++
*** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook'
when it receives a request from emacsclient.

** Minibuffer changes:

+++
*** The functions all-completions and try-completion now accept lists
of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
and functions.  Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
exported to Lisp.  The keys in alists and hash tables can be either
strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.

+++
*** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions
as a dynamic completion table.

  (dynamic-completion-table FUN)

FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required,
and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible
completions.  This alist can be a full list of possible completions so that FUN
can ignore the value of its argument.  If completion is performed in the
minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was
entered.  `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion.

+++
*** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
as a lazy completion table.

  (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN &rest ARGS)

If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with arguments
ARGS. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR. If
completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
`lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.

** Lisp file loading changes:

+++
*** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the

+++
*** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is
defined.  For a variable, it records just the variable name.

+++
*** The function symbol-file can now search specifically for function or
variable definitions.

+++
*** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
to test/provide subfeatures.  Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
and runs any code associated with the provided feature.

than 3 levels of nesting.

+++
** Byte compiler changes:

*** The byte-compiler now displays the actual line and character
position of errors, where possible.  Additionally, the form of its
warning and error messages have been brought more in line with the
output of other GNU tools.

*** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
inside its body.  In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.

*** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a

Emacs and XEmacs and can sometimes make the result significantly more
efficient.  Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't
generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
you anything.

*** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in elisp files is now obeyed.

---
*** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file
now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs
(require 'cl) when loaded.

3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
wasteful.

---
*** set-buffer-file-coding-system now takes an additional argument,
NOMODIFY.  If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified.

+++
*** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system

---
*** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.

---
*** New function quail-find-key returns a list of keys to type in the
current input method to input a character.

** Mode line changes:

+++
*** New function `format-mode-line'.

This returns the mode-line or header-line of the selected (or a
specified) window as a string with or without text properties.

+++
*** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
used to add text properties to mode-line elements.

** Miscellaneous:

+++
*** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions:

find-file-hooks to find-file-hook,
find-file-not-found-hooks to find-file-not-found-functions,
write-file-hooks to write-file-functions,
write-contents-hooks to write-contents-functions,
x-lost-selection-hooks to x-lost-selection-functions,
x-sent-selection-hooks to x-sent-selection-functions,
delete-frame-hook to delete-frame-functions.

In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.

+++
*** local-write-file-hooks is marked obsolete

Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.

---
*** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
running under X.

* Installation changes in Emacs 21.3

** Support for GNU/Linux on little-endian MIPS and on IBM S390 has
been added.

the time the message was written or the time it is being sent; this
can make FCC copies more closely resemble copies that recipients get

**** you can specify an arbitrary function for actually transmitting
the message; included in feedmail are interfaces for /bin/[r]mail,
/usr/lib/sendmail, and elisp smtpmail; it's easy to write a new
function for something else (10-20 lines of elisp)

** Dired changes

*** The Dired function dired-do-toggle, which toggles marked and unmarked
files, is now bound to "t" instead of "T".

90182:f042e7c0fe20

** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
when you run configure.  This requires Gtk+ 2.0 or newer.  This port
provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).

---
** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code.

---
** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game
scores.  The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal
place for game scores to be stored.  You can control this with the

+++
*** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
When the file is maintained under version control, that information
appears between the position information and the major mode.

+++
*** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs.

+++
*** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now prefixed with an escape
character, unless the new user variable `show-nonbreak-escape' is set
to nil.

*** font-lock: in modes like C and Lisp where the fontification assumes that
an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment,
font-lock now highlights any such open-paren-in-column-zero in bold-red
if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it can cause
trouble with fontification and/or indentation.

+++
*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.

*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.

*** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked.
You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of
the same name to customize this.  Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode,
cperl-mode and make-mode support this.

---
*** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed.
The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now 16
instead of 3, and the default value of jit-lock-stealth-nice is now

---
*** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
(rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.

---
*** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved.

People tend to push the mouse wheel (which counts as a mouse-2 click)
unintentionally while turning the wheel, so these clicks are now
ignored.  You can customize this with the mouse-wheel-click-event and
mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.

+++
*** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.

modes that can use `next-error').  In this mode, cursor motion in the
buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
matches, compilation errors, etc.  This minor mode can be toggled with
C-c C-f.

*** When the left fringe is displayed, an arrow points to current message in
the compilation buffer.

*** The new variable `compilation-context-lines' controls lines of leading
context before the current message.  If nil and the left fringe is displayed,
it doesn't scroll the compilation output window.  If there is no left fringe,
no arrow is displayed and a value of nil means display the message at the top
of the window.

** Occur mode changes:

+++
*** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without

*** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.

* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1

+++
** Filesets are collections of files.  You can define a fileset in
various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
program files that include other program files.

Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on

Emacs Lisp.  Its documentation is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
type "C-h i m calc RET" to read that manual.  A reference card is
available in `etc/calccard.tex' and `etc/calccard.ps'.

---
** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.

---
** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.

The ido (interactively do) 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.

+++
** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle
between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c.

---
** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.

The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for

keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
region (like delete-selection-mode).  Do not enable these modes with
cua-mode.  Customize the variable `cua-mode' to enable cua.

In addition, cua provides unified rectangle support with visible
rectangle highlighting: Use C-return to start a rectangle, extend it
using the movement commands (or mouse-3), and cut or copy it using C-x
or C-c (using C-w and M-w also works).

Use M-o and M-c to `open' or `close' the rectangle, use M-b or M-f, to
fill it with blanks or another character, use M-u or M-l to upcase or

be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.

+++
** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
source files.  See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.

+++
** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards.  The numeric
keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked

Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence
at a time, prompting for the actions to take.

---
** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible.  When disabled, it
restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.

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

+++
** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
mechanism.  The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or

with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through
ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript
printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by
`ps-print' package.  Use M-x pr-help for more information.

---
** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you
move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer.
It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts
of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ...

If you want to disable Tramp you should set

  (setq tramp-default-method "ftp")

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

---
** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
configuration files.

+++
** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
section { }).  Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
.config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
recognized.

---
** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.

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

---
** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.

* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:

** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp and BSD make.

The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter two
are new.  Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable
faces.

+++
** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top
of the file that precede the first header line.

+++
** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.

---
** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can
run most curses applications now.

+++
** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode.

+++
** You can now customize `fill-nobreak-predicate' to control where
filling can break lines.  The value is now normally a list of
functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.

Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and
`fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of
`fill-nobreak-predicate'.

---
** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
with special modes such as Tar mode.

---
** Commands `winner-redo' and `winner-undo', from winner.el, are now
bound to C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively.  This is an
incompatible change.

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

+++
** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
resync points in both windows.

+++
** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.

When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.

---
** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers

** Info mode changes:

+++
*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").

---
*** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.

Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error
message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through
other nodes.  When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps
aroung the whole manual to the top/final node.  The user option
`Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch,

*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
references and following them calls `browse-url'.

+++
*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.

If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
`Info-hide-note-references' to nil.

---
*** Images in Info pages are supported.

Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.

+++
*** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil.

---
*** `Info-index' offers completion.

** Lisp mode changes:

---
*** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings.

+++
*** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list after point.

*** New features in evaluation commands

+++
**** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
the face to the value specified in the defface expression.

+++
**** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified
by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'.  The same
function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
`eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.

now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
composition-close, and incomposition.

*** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
The functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward' can be
bound to keys to get this feature without toggling a mode.

*** Better control over `require-final-newline'.

The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines.  Its value is a
list of modes, and only those modes should do it.  By default the list
includes C, C++ and Objective-C modes.

Whichever modes are in this list will set `require-final-newline'
based on `mode-require-final-newline'.

*** Format change for syntactic context elements.

The elements in the syntactic context returned by `c-guess-basic-syntax'
and stored in `c-syntactic-context' has been changed somewhat to allow
attaching more information.  They are now lists instead of single cons
cells.  E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis

((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13))

((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))

In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
symbol.

This change might affect code that call `c-guess-basic-syntax' directly,
and custom lineup functions if they use `c-syntactic-context'.  However,
the argument given to lineup functions is still a single cons cell
with nil or an integer in the cdr.

*** API changes for derived modes.

There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
derived mode writers.  Some of these changes are likely to cause
incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.

**** New language variable system.
See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.

**** New initialization functions.
The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
`c-init-language-vars'.

*** Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.
The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where
several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line.  They are
now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.

*** Better handling of multiline macros.

**** Syntactic indentation inside macros.
The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented
syntactically just like other code.  This can be disabled by the new
variable `c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros'.  A new syntactic symbol
`cpp-define-intro' has been added to control the initial indentation
inside `#define's.

**** New lineup function `c-lineup-cpp-define'.

Now used by default to line up macro continuation lines.  The behavior
of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro
is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily
removed.  If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works
much line `c-lineup-dont-change', which was used earlier, but handles
empty lines within the macro better.

**** Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one.
This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
`c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.

**** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
`c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes.  New
variable `c-backslash-max-column' which put a limit on how far out
backslashes can be moved.

**** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'.  It
affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
inserted in Auto-Newline mode.
**** Line indentation works better inside macros.

Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
line continuation backslashes.  This is most noticeable when syntactic
indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
backslash) in the macro.

*** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'.  The indentation behavior based
on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after #else
and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other cases
(something which was hardcoded earlier).

*** New function `c-context-open-line'.
It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.

*** New lineup functions

**** `c-lineup-string-cont'
This lineup function lines up a continued string under the one it
continues.  E.g:

result = prefix + "A message "
                  "string.";      <- c-lineup-string-cont

**** `c-lineup-cascaded-calls'
Lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".

**** `c-lineup-knr-region-comment'
Gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in
the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.

**** `c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg'
Provides better indentation inside asm blocks.

**** `c-lineup-argcont'
Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma.

*** Better caching of the syntactic context.
CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind)
of the lists surrounding the point.  Those positions are used in many
places as anchor points for various searches.  The cache is now

*** Statements are recognized in a more robust way.
Statements are recognized most of the time even when they occur in an
"invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument.  In practice that can
happen when macros are involved.

*** Improved the way `c-indent-exp' chooses the block to indent.
It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point
whose closing paren ends on a different line.  This means that the
point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent.
Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current
line is left untouched.

*** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
syntactic indentation.

---
** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.

`f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
`f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
`fortran-beginning-of-block'.

---
*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
majority.

---
*** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change

---
*** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.

+++
*** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.

** BibTeX mode:

*** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).

*** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
an existing BibTeX entry.

*** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.

*** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
`crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used
for BibTeX entries.  `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting
scheme `entry-class'.  TAB completion for reference keys and
automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that
`bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' is non-nil.

*** If the new variable `bibtex-parse-keys-fast' is non-nil,
use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys.

*** If the new variable `bibtex-autoadd-commas' is non-nil,
automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields.

*** The new variable `bibtex-autofill-types' contains a list of entry
types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible).

*** The new command `bibtex-complete' completes word fragment before
point according to context (bound to M-tab).

*** The new commands `bibtex-find-entry' and `bibtex-find-crossref'
locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x).
Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET).

*** In BibTeX mode the command `fill-paragraph' (M-q) fills
individual fields of a BibTeX entry.

*** The new variables `bibtex-files' and `bibtex-file-path' define a set
of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys.

*** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
in multiple BibTeX files.

*** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).

+++
** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'

+++
*** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
state of your program.  It can separate the input/output of your program from
that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar.  It also uses features of
Emacs 21/22 such as the the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
breakpoints.

Use M-x gdb to start GDB-UI.

*** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed.  GUD tooltips can now be
toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
`gud-tooltip-mode'.

+++
*** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to
display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is
not executing.

*** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
    (Java 1.1 jdb).

*** The previous method of searching for source files has been
    preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
    Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.

  Added Customization Variables

*** `gud-jdb-command-name'.  What command line to use to invoke jdb.

*** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'. Allows selection of java source file searching
    method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
    java sources (previous method).

*** `gud-jdb-directories'. List of directories to scan and search for java
    classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
    is nil).

  Minor Improvements

*** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool.  For backwards
compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
`starttls' tool).

*** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.

** Auto-Revert changes:

+++
*** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.

If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert
mode keeps it at the end after reverting.  Similarly if point is
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

+++
** Desktop package

+++
*** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, `desktop-save-mode'.

*** The variable `desktop-enable' is obsolete.

Customize `desktop-save-mode' to enable desktop saving.

---
*** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
buffer list.

+++
*** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers
immediately, remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is
idle).

+++
*** New commands:
  - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
  - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.

  - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
  - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.

---
** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.

When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist.
Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
to get the old behavior.  The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this

** Etags changes.

*** New regular expressions features

**** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.

The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained
only for backward compatibility.  The new equivalent syntax is
--regex=/regex/i.  More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS,
where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or
more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'

expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
(which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines.  The ability to
span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.

**** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.

The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
CR, TAB, VT,

**** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.

The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise.  This is
particularly useful when storing regexps in a file.

**** Regular expressions can be read from a file.

The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one
per line.  Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.

*** New language parsing features

**** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.

Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.

**** The GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognised and ignored.

**** New language HTML.

Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'.  Also,
when `name=' is used inside an anchor and whenever `id=' is used.

**** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.

If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.

**** New language Lua.

All functions are tagged.

**** In Perl, packages are tags.

Subroutine tags are named from their package.  You can jump to sub tags
as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
package::sub.

**** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.

**** New language PHP.

Functions, classes and defines are tags.  If the --members option is
specified to etags, variables are tags also.

**** New default keywords for TeX.

The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
renewenvironment.

*** Honour #line directives.

When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
specified in those directives.  This is useful when dealing with code
created from Cweb source files.  When Etags tags the generated file, it
writes tags pointing to the source file.

*** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.

This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs.  It can
be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.  Etags
reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
the file FILE.

** VC Changes

+++
*** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
(toggle-read-only).  It no longer checks files in or out.

We made this change because we held a poll and found that many users
were unhappy with the previous behavior.  If you do prefer this
behavior, you can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your
`.emacs' file:

    (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only)

The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist.

+++
*** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies switches that
are passed to any CVS command invoked by VC.

These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which means they
are inserted before the command name.  For example, this allows you to
specify a compression level using the `-z#' option for CVS.

+++
*** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.

+++
*** VC-Annotate mode enhancements

In VC-Annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for
enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or
to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode:

    P:  annotates the previous revision
    N:  annotates the next revision

in the repository.

+++
*** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
`checkout', `update' or `commit'.  That means using cvs diff options
-rBASE -rHEAD.

+++
** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies
`default-directory' for mail buffers.  This directory is used for
auto-save files of mail buffers.  It defaults to "~/".

+++
** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file.

See the documentation of the user option
`display-time-mail-directory'.

** Rmail changes:

---
*** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.

+++
*** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.

This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of
mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
without TLS encryption.  If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
used instead of the native one.

** Gnus package

---
*** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG

Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts.  PGG is a library to handle
PGP/MIME.

---
*** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.

See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.

---
** MH-E changes.

*** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
and `diary-header-line-format'.

+++
*** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed:
use the new function `appt-activate'.  The new variable
`appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing
`appt-issue-message', `appt-visible', and `appt-msg-window'.

+++
*** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages.  The variable

The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the
SQL mode indicator.

The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in
your `.emacs' will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use
`sql-product' to accomplish this.

ANSI keywords are always highlighted.

*** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add
font-lock rules to the product specific rules.  For example, to have
all identifiers ending in `_t' under MS SQLServer treated as a type,
you would use the following line in your .emacs file:

  (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
             '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face)))

*** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i.

Most SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented.  SQL*Plus commands are
highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'.

*** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved.

Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented.
sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because
osql flushes its error stream more frequently.  Thus error messages
are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is
terminated.

If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is
called with the `-E' command line argument to use the operating system
credentials to authenticate the user.

*** Postgres support is enhanced.
Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented.  Prompting for
the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added.

*** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes,
packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and
defaults.

*** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
appropriate `sql-interactive-mode' wrapper for the current setting of
`sql-product'.

---
*** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'.

** FFAP changes:

+++
*** New ffap commands and keybindings:

C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'),
C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'),
C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'),
C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame').

---
*** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default.

C-x C-f passes the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS
argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.

---
** In skeleton.el, `-' marks the `skeleton-point' without interregion interaction.

`@' has reverted to only setting `skeleton-positions' and no longer
sets `skeleton-point'.  Skeletons which used @ to mark
`skeleton-point' independent of `_' should now use `-' instead.  The
updated `skeleton-insert' docstring explains these new features along
with other details of skeleton construction.

---
** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode.  Integration with isearch
handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.

+++
** `hide-ifdef-mode' now uses overlays rather than selective-display
to hide its text.  This should be mostly transparent but slightly
changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p.

---
** `partial-completion-mode' now handles partial completion on directory names.

---
** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions.  This is handy if
you don't want the `.type-break' file in your home directory or are
annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.

---
** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.

Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with
`ps-print', provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF
fonts.  See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts.

---
** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for

	% emacsclient -s foo file1
	% emacsclient -s bar file2

+++
*** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
`--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given Lisp
expression and to use the given display when visiting files.

+++
*** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.

---
** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2.

+++
** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it.

M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no
argument it toggles the mode.  Turning off PC-Selection mode restores
the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode.

---
** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
`file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.

---
** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.

Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to
use standout mode, but they can no longer display mode-lines in
inverse-video.

---
** The game `mpuz' is enhanced.

`mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits.  By
default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
automatically.  The game uses faces for better visual feedback.

---
** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery.

---
** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode.

To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil.  In this mode a
separator character is used every few digits, making it easier to see
byte boundries etc.  For more info, see the documentation of the
variable `calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.

---
** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete.  Use jit-lock.el instead.

---
** iso-acc.el is now obsolete.  Use one of the latin input methods instead.

---
** cplus-md.el has been deleted.

* Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems

+++
** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.

You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
existing values.  For example:

  emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"

will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.

---
** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.

This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track
the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.

---
** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.

See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.

---
** Images are now supported on MS Windows.

PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
depend on external libraries.  All of these libraries have been ported
to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/.  Note that libpng also depends on
zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
against.  For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.

---
** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.

WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of
Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
sound support for those formats.

---
** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows.

The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer.

---
** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.

The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.

---
** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.

The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much
the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X.  Emacs now adds these
colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu for the
default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground), and uses
some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
`list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
you wish to use them in other faces.

---
** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.

Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
any customizations.

---
** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.

---
** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
`kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
`kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.

* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

** General Lisp changes:

---
*** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have
    been removed.  Use run-with-idle-timer instead.

+++
*** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.

+++
*** `makehash' is now obsolete.  Use `make-hash-table' instead.

+++
*** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND.

If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the
list instead of at the beginning.  This change actually occurred in
Emacs 21.1, but was not documented then.

+++
*** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree.

It recursively copyies through both CARs and CDRs.

+++
*** New function `delete-dups' deletes `equal' duplicate elements from a list.

It modifies the list destructively, like `delete'.  Of several `equal'
occurrences of an element in the list, the one that's kept is the
first one.

+++
*** New function `rassq-delete-all'.

(rassq-delete-all VALUE ALIST) deletes, from ALIST, each element whose
CDR is `eq' to the specified value.

+++
*** The function `number-sequence' makes a list of equally-separated numbers.

For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9).  By
default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different
separation as the third argument.  (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns
(1.5 3.5 5.5).

+++
*** New variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'.

They hold the largest and smallest possible integer values.

+++
*** Minor change in the function `format'.

Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no
longer accepted.

+++
*** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists.

They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is
cyclic.

+++
*** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.

They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare
the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.

+++
*** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'.

When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single
numbering scheme for circular structure references.  This is only
relevant when `print-circle' is non-nil.

When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
also bind `print-number-table' to nil.

+++

When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis.  (This is
equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)

+++
*** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern.

You put this info in the doc string's last line.  It should be
formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'".  If you don't
specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument
names.  Usually that default is right, but not always.

+++
*** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting.

A quit inside the body of `with-local-quit' is caught by the
`with-local-quit' form itself, but another quit will happen later once
the code that has inhibitted quitting exits.

This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code
inside timer functions and `post-command-hook' functions.

+++
*** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.

This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.

+++
*** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.

It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
(calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc).

** Lisp code indentation features:

+++
*** The `defmacro' form can contain indentation and edebug declarations.

These declarations specify how to indent the macro calls in Lisp mode
and how to debug them with Edebug.  You write them like this:

   (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...)

DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'.  The
possible declaration specifiers are:

(indent INDENT)
	Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT.

(edebug DEBUG)
	Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG.  (This is
	equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro,
	but this is cleaner.)

---
*** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms.

See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.

forms.

+++
** Variable aliases:

*** New function: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING]

This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for
symbol BASE-VAR.  This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR
returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR
changes the value of BASE-VAR.

DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has
the same documentation as BASE-VAR.

*** New function: indirect-variable VARIABLE

This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases
of VARIABLE.  If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not
defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE.

`make-obsolete-variable'.

** defcustom changes:

+++
*** The new customization type `float' requires a floating point number.

** String changes:

+++
*** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character.

Exception: In a character constant, if it is followed by a `-' in a
character constant (e.g. ?\s-A), it is still interpreted as the super
modifier.  In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space.

+++
*** A hex escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte.

+++
*** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte.

+++
*** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if
the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for
SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string.  If SEPARATORS is

+++
*** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
multibyte string with the same individual character codes.

+++
*** New function `substring-no-properties' returns a substring without
text properties.

+++
*** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and
`assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have
been declared obsolete.

+++
** Displaying warnings to the user.

See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual.
If you want to be sure the warning will not be overlooked, this
facility is much better than using `message', since it displays
warnings in a separate window.

+++
** Progress reporters.

These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present
progress messages for the user.

See the new functions `make-progress-reporter',
`progress-reporter-update', `progress-reporter-force-update',
`progress-reporter-done', and `dotimes-with-progress-reporter'.

** Buffer positions:

+++
*** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
width if the WIDTH argument is nil.  If the TOPOS argument is nil,
the usable window height and width is used.

+++
*** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now
modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
taller that the height of the window, for example in the presence of
large images.  To disable this feature, bind the new variable
`auto-window-vscroll' to nil.

+++
*** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word' is optional.

It defaults to 1.

+++
*** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.

It defaults to 1.

+++
*** New function `mouse-on-link-p' test if a position is in a clickable link.

This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
functionality.

+++
*** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position.

It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point.

+++
*** `field-beginning' and `field-end' take new optional argument, LIMIT.

This argument tells them not to search beyond LIMIT.  Instead they
give up and return LIMIT.

+++
*** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates
and partial visiblity state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
arg is non-nil.

+++
*** New functions `posn-at-point' and `posn-at-x-y' return
click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
position or for a given window pixel coordinate.

** Text modification:

+++
*** The new function `insert-for-yank' normally works like `insert', but
removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list
and handles the `yank-handler' text property.

+++
*** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' is like
`insert-for-yank' except that it gets the text from another buffer as
in `insert-buffer-substring'.

+++
*** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like
`insert-buffer-substring', but removes all text properties from the
inserted substring.

+++
*** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
the filtered substring.  Use it instead of `buffer-substring' or
`delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
data structure, such as the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.

The list of filter function is specified by the new variable
`buffer-substring-filters'.  For example, Longlines mode adds to
`buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
text.

+++
*** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
argument.

+++
*** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
is used for customizing self-insertion.  The character to
be inserted is translated through it.

---
*** Text clones.

The new function `text-clone-create'.  Text clones are chunks of text
that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one
clone to the other.

---
*** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete.

+++
** Atomic change groups.

To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
around the code that makes changes.  For instance:

  (atomic-change-group
    (insert foo)
    (delete-region x y))

If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of
`atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that
were during the execution of the body.  The change group has no effect
on any other buffers--any such changes remain.

If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the
lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses.  Here is how.

To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'.
Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer.
This function returns a "handle" for the change group.  You must save
the handle to activate the change group and then finish it.

Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change
group.  Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to
do this.

After you make the changes, you must finish the change group.  You can
either accept the changes or cancel them all.  Call
`accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final;
call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all.

You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always
finished.  The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the
`unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs.
(This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and
`activate-change-group' are separate functions.)  Once you finish the
group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group
twice.

To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once
for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the
returned values, like this:

  (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1)
         (prepare-change-group buffer-2))

You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call
to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to
`accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'.

Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you
would expect.  Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer
will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first
change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one
finished.

** Buffer-related changes:

---
*** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST.

If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list.

+++
*** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local.

+++
*** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER.  If VARIABLE does not
have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
value of VARIABLE instead.

** Local variables lists:

+++
*** Text properties in local variables.

with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.

If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
confirmation as before.

** Searching and matching changes:

+++
*** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
the text before point.  Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.

+++
*** The new variable `search-spaces-regexp' controls how to search
for spaces in a regular expression.  If it is non-nil, it should be a
regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular
expression.  If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves.

Spaces inside of constructs such as `[..]' and inside loops such as
`*', `+', and `?' are never replaced with `search-spaces-regexp'.

+++
*** New regular expression operators, `\_<' and `\_>'.

These match 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.

---
*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-end' and `symbol-start' elements.

+++
*** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
characters and ranges.

---
*** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits
properties from surrounding text.

+++
*** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final
element, if the last match was on a buffer.  `set-match-data'
accepts such a list for restoring the match state.

+++
*** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
that end a sentence without following spaces.

The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the
variable `sentence-end'.  If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then
this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables
`sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and
`sentence-end-without-space'.

** Undo changes:

+++
*** `buffer-undo-list' can allows programmable elements.

These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
a symbol other than t or nil.  That stands for a high-level change
that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).

These entries can also have the form (apply DELTA BEG END FUNNAME . ARGS)
which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the
range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA.

+++
*** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than
`undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it.  This is to prevent
it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.

+++
** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how
previously killed text on the kill ring is reinserted.

The value of the `yank-handler' property must be a list with one to four
elements with the following format:
  (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).

The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
the first character on its string argument (typically the first
element on the kill-ring).  If a `yank-handler' property is found,
the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:

  When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
to insert the string.  FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
  If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object
passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is
`yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a
rectangle.
  If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the
`yank-excluded-properties' is not performed; instead FUNCTION is
responsible for removing those properties.  This may be necessary
if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object.
  If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object.  It is
called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
FUNCTION can set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.

*** The functions `kill-new', `kill-append', and `kill-region' now have an
optional argument to specify the `yank-handler' text property to put on
the killed text.

*** The function `yank-pop' will now use a non-nil value of the variable
`yank-undo-function' (instead of `delete-region') to undo the previous
`yank' or `yank-pop' command (or a call to `insert-for-yank').  The function
`insert-for-yank' automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
element of the string argument's `yank-handler' text property if present.

*** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
`yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
string.  The old behavior is available if you call
`insert-for-yank-1' instead.

** Syntax table changes:

+++
*** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table.

+++
*** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code
of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account
of text properties as well as the character code.

+++
*** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned
by `syntax-after').

*** The new function `syntax-ppss' rovides an efficient way to find the
current syntactic context at point.

** File operation changes:

+++
*** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
searching for an executable or an Emacs Lisp file.

+++
*** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and
modification times.  Magic file name handlers can handle this
operation.

non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using
its own special methods and not directly through the file system).
The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system.

+++
*** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was
formerly called `auto-save-file-format'.  It is now a permanent local.

+++
*** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now
ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as
`.emacs' are treated as extensionless.

+++
*** `copy-file' now takes an additional option arg MUSTBENEW.

This argument works like the MUSTBENEW argument of write-file.

+++
*** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
a list of two integers, instead of a cons.

before saving buffers.  This allows packages to perform various final
tasks, for example; it can be used by the copyright package to make
sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.

+++
*** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
`save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if
it's modified).

*** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories.
`locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two
lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to
try; typical usage might use `exec-path' and `load-path' for the list

One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
`exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependancies.

---
*** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.

Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,
`find-file-name-handler' now gives precedence to a file name handler
that matches nearest the end of the file name.  More precisely, the
handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen.  In case
of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies.

+++
*** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles.

You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name

** Input changes:

+++
*** An interactive specification can now use the code letter 'U' to get
the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
previous `k' or `K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.

+++
*** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
it returns just the directory name.

---
*** Functions `y-or-n-p', `read-char', `read-key-sequence' and the like, that
display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.

+++
*** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input
arrives.  If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a
quit had occurred.  `while-no-input' returns the value of BODY, if BODY
finishes.  It returns nil if BODY was aborted.

** Minibuffer changes:

+++
*** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional
buffer argument is a minibuffer.  If the argument is omitted, it
defaults to the current buffer.

+++
*** New function `minibuffer-selected-window' returns the window which
was selected when entering the minibuffer.

+++
*** `read-from-minibuffer' now accepts an additional argument KEEP-ALL
saying to put all inputs in the history list, even empty ones.

+++
*** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
specifies a predicate which the file name read must satify.  The
new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.

---
*** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by Lisp code
to override the built-in `read-file-name' function.

+++
*** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
`read-file-name' function.

+++
*** The new function `read-directory-name' for reading a directory name.

It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.

** Completion changes:

+++
*** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
and functions.  Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
exported to Lisp.  The keys in alists and hash tables can be either
strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.

+++
*** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions
as a dynamic completion table.

  (dynamic-completion-table FUN)

FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required,
and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible
completions.  This alist can be a full list of possible completions so that FUN
can ignore the value of its argument.  If completion is performed in the
minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was
entered.  `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion.

+++
*** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
as a lazy completion table.

  (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN &rest ARGS)

If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with arguments
ARGS. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR. If
completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
`lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.

+++
** Enhancements to keymaps.

*** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.

(kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"

*** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.

This is an alternative to using `defadvice' or `substitute-key-definition'
to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
binding and lookup functionality.

When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is
remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the
original command.

Example:
Suppose that minor mode `my-mode' has defined the commands
`my-kill-line' and `my-kill-word', and it wants C-k (and any other key
bound to `kill-line') to run the command `my-kill-line' instead of
`kill-line', and likewise it wants to run `my-kill-word' instead of
`kill-word'.

Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map,
command remapping allows you to directly map `kill-line' into
`my-kill-line' and `kill-word' into `my-kill-word' using `define-key':

   (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line)
   (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word)

When `my-mode' is enabled, its minor mode keymap is enabled too.  So
when the user types C-k, that runs the command `my-kill-line'.

Only one level of remapping is supported.  In the above example, this
means that if `my-kill-line' is remapped to `other-kill', then C-k still
runs `my-kill-line'.

The following changes have been made to provide command remapping:

- Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
  `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD

  another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding.

- The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a
  remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped.

- `key-binding' now remaps interactive commands unless the optional
  third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil.

- `where-is-internal' now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g.
  `kill-line', when `my-mode' is enabled), and the actual key binding for
  the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line).
  It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits
  remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns "C-k" for `kill-line', and
  "<kill-line>" for `my-kill-line').

- The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
  command before remapping.  It is equal to `this-command' when the
  command was not remapped.

*** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
over minor mode keymaps.

*** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and
text properties, according to their stickiness.  This also means that it
works with empty overlays.  The same hold for the `local-map' property.

*** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly.

Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key
bindings of the parent keymap.

*** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1.

active keymaps.

*** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all
defined keys and their definitions.

*** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt string of a keymap.

*** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
in the keymap.

*** New variable `emulation-mode-map-alists'.

Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their
keymap alist to this list.

** Abbrev changes:

+++
*** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table.

It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table.

+++
*** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG.

If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means
that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the
abbrevs.  Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always
specify this flag.

+++
** Enhancements to process support

*** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set.

*** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'.

These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'.  That
function is still supported, but new code should use the new
functions.

*** Function `signal-process' now accepts a process object or process
name in addition to a process id to identify the signalled process.

*** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can
maintain process state and other per-process related information.

Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add,
and modify elements on this property list.  Use the new functions
`process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the
entire property list of a process.

*** Function `accept-process-output' has a new 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 behavior can be remedied to some extent
by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
from such processes, to allowing them to produce more output before
emacs tries to read it.

*** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.

*** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but
obeys file handlers.  The file handler is chosen based on
`default-directory'.

*** A process filter function gets the output as multibyte string
if the process specifies t for its filter's multibyteness.

That multibyteness is decided by the value of
`default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is created, and
you can change it later with `set-process-filter-multibyte'.

*** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the
multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.

*** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns the

which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.

+++
** Enhanced networking support.

*** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
create a stream or datagram server inside emacs.

- A server is started using :server t arg.
- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
- A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.

  by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.

To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
  (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))

*** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.

*** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.

These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get
and set the current address of the remote partner.

*** New function `format-network-address'.

This function reformats the Lisp representation of a network address
to a printable string.  For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port
number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the
printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P".  See the doc
string for other formatting options.

*** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument.

Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network
process properties or a specific property.  Using :local or :remote as
the KEY, you get the address of the local or remote end-point.

An Inet address is represented as a 5 element vector, where the first
4 elements contain the IP address and the fifth is the port number.

*** New functions `stop-process' and `continue-process'.

These functions stop and restart communication through a network
connection.  For a server process, no connections are accepted in the
stopped state.  For a client process, no input is received in the
stopped state.

*** New function `network-interface-list'.

This function returns a list of network interface names and their
current network addresses.

*** New function `network-interface-info'.

This function returns the network address, hardware address, current
status, and other information about a specific network interface.

*** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel.

The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network
process is "deleted".  The message passed to the sentinel when the
connection is closed by the remote peer has been changed to
"connection broken by remote peer".

** Using window objects:

+++
*** New function `window-body-height'.

header line.

+++
*** New function `window-body-height'.

This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line
or the header line.

+++
*** You can now make a window as short as one line.

+++
*** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the
selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'.

+++
*** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD.

This is like `switch-to-buffer'.

+++
*** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window

identifing the bitmap such as `left-truncation or `continued-line'.

*** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
or restores a built-in one to its default value.

*** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be
used for a specific fringe bitmap.  The face is automatically merged
with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face should only specify the
foreground color of the bitmap.

*** There are new display properties, `left-fringe' and `right-fringe',
that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe
bitmap of the display line.

Format is `display (left-fringe BITMAP [FACE])', where BITMAP is a
symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with

If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing
is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property.

+++
*** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value,
which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.

+++
*** Enhancements to stretch display properties

For example, to align to the center of the left-margin, use
    :align-to (+ left-margin (0.5 . left-margin))

If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative
to the left edge of the text area.  For example, :align-to 0 in a
header line aligns with the first text column in the text area.

The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by
the value of the expression EXPR.  For example, (2 . in) specifies a
width of 2 inches, while (0.5 . IMAGE) specifies half the width (or
height) of the specified image.

*** Support for displaying image slices

**** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with
an image property to display only a specific slice of the image.

**** Function `insert-image' has new optional fourth arg to
specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT).

**** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a
specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns).

+++
*** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property.

When the mouse pointer is above a hot-spot area of an image, the
PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo'
property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains
a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when
it is over the hot-spot.  See the variable `void-area-text-pointer'
for possible pointer shapes.

When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.

controlled/overriden via the `pointer' text property.

** Mouse event enhancements:

+++
*** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe'
or `right-fringe' as the area.

+++
*** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where
you clicked.  For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is
a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text.

+++
*** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events.

+++
*** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area.

+++
*** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means
text area).

+++
*** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types
and all areas.

+++
*** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates
of the mouse event position.

+++
*** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on.

+++
*** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to
the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on.

+++
*** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object
(image or character) clicked on.

+++
*** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'.

These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y
pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of that object, and
the total width and height of that object.

** Text property and overlay changes:

+++
*** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can
remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays).

+++
*** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'.

This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
properties.  It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
although it applies to overlays as well.  This variable was introduced
to implement the `font-lock-face' property.

return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
it was found as a text property or not found at all.

+++
*** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'.

It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of
property names as argument rather than a property list.

** Face changes

+++
*** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor

look best on a terminal that supports at least this many colors.  This
is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that
makes a good use of the capabilities of the display.

+++
*** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test
whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.

A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
defined with `defface'.

---
*** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR'
or `bg:COLOR' has been removed.  Lisp programs should use the
`defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use

*** The function `face-differs-from-default-p' now truly checks
whether the given face displays differently from the default face or
not (previously it did only a very cursory check).

+++
*** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'.

These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how
face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face
attribute.

+++
*** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute'
help with handling relative face attributes.

faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous
releases of Emacs, the order was the opposite.  This change was made
so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text
`face' properties.

---
*** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..

** Font-Lock changes:

new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.

+++
*** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.

**** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the
form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other
properties than `face'.

**** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those
extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.

---
*** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'.

precedence over the file name.  Likewise an `<?xml' or `<!DOCTYPE'
declaration will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, based on the new
var `magic-mode-alist'.

+++
*** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.

+++
*** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook
`after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode
hooks.  `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically.

---
*** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect'
property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use
it in that buffer.

and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable.

+++
*** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.

+++
*** `define-global-minor-mode'.

This is a new name for what was formerly called
`easy-mmode-define-global-mode'.  The old name remains as an alias.

** Command loop changes:

+++
*** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people
have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the
calling function was called through `call-interactively'.

Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new
INTERACTIVE argument to the command.

+++
*** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument.

+++
*** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook'
when it receives a request from emacsclient.

** Lisp file loading changes:

+++
*** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the

+++
*** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is
defined.  For a variable, it records just the variable name.

+++
*** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function,
variable or face definitions.

+++
*** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
to test/provide subfeatures.  Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
and runs any code associated with the provided feature.

than 3 levels of nesting.

+++
** Byte compiler changes:

*** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character
position of errors, where possible.  Additionally, the form of its
warning and error messages have been brought into line with GNU standards
for these.  As a result, you can use next-error and friends on the
compilation output buffer.

*** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
inside its body.  In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.

*** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a

Emacs and XEmacs and can sometimes make the result significantly more
efficient.  Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't
generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
you anything.

*** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in Lisp files is now obeyed.

---
*** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file
now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs
(require 'cl) when loaded.

3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
wasteful.

---
*** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument,
NOMODIFY.  If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified.

+++
*** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system

---
*** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.

---
*** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the
current input method to input a character.

** Mode line changes:

+++
*** New function `format-mode-line'.

This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a
specified) window as a string with or without text properties.

+++
*** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
used to add text properties to mode-line elements.

** Miscellaneous:

+++
*** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions:

`find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook',
`find-file-not-found-hooks' to `find-file-not-found-functions',
`write-file-hooks' to `write-file-functions',
`write-contents-hooks' to `write-contents-functions',
`x-lost-selection-hooks' to `x-lost-selection-functions',
`x-sent-selection-hooks' to `x-sent-selection-functions',
`delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.

In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.

+++
*** local-write-file-hooks is marked obsolete

Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.

---
*** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
running under X.

** GC changes:

+++
*** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
on garbage collection.

+++
*** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection.

The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care.

* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1

+++
** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
buttons' in emacs buffers.  Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
`widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
doesn't require the full power of widgets.  Emacs uses buttons for
such things as help and apropos buffers.

---
** The new library tree-widget.el provides a 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 new library bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
data structures.

---
** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.

It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
and its SQLi buffer is the slave.  This allows you to scroll the SQLi
buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the
commands.

This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable
sql-buffer contains the slave buffer.  It is a local variable in the
SQL buffer.

(add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
   (function (lambda ()
	       (master-mode t)
	       (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
(add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
   (function (lambda ()
	       (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))

+++
** The new library benchmark.el does timing measurements on Lisp code.

This includes measuring garbage collection time.

+++
** The new library testcover.el does test coverage checking.

This is so you can tell whether you've tested all paths in your Lisp
code.  It works with edebug.

The function `testcover-start' instruments all functions in a given
file.  Then test your code.  The function `testcover-mark-all' adds
overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to show where coverage
is lacking.  The command `testcover-next-mark' (bind it to a key!)
will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch.

Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely
evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same
value.  The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly
complete their evaluation, such as `error'.  The brown splotches are
skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same
value, such as (setq x 14).

For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to
help out the test coverage tool.  The macro `noreturn' suppresses a
red splotch.  It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does
return.  The macro `1value' suppresses a brown splotch for its argument.
This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals
an error if the argument actually returns differing values.

* Installation changes in Emacs 21.3

** Support for GNU/Linux on little-endian MIPS and on IBM S390 has
been added.

the time the message was written or the time it is being sent; this
can make FCC copies more closely resemble copies that recipients get

**** you can specify an arbitrary function for actually transmitting
the message; included in feedmail are interfaces for /bin/[r]mail,
/usr/lib/sendmail, and Emacs Lisp smtpmail; it's easy to write a new
function for something else (10-20 lines of Lisp code).

** Dired changes

*** The Dired function dired-do-toggle, which toggles marked and unmarked
files, is now bound to "t" instead of "T".