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Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 523-544) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 168-171) - Update from CVS - Merge from emacs--devo--0 Revision: [e-mail]/emacs--unicode--0--patch-150

90717:06937e972ad0

displays a buffer menu.  This option turns the buffer menu off.

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** Init file changes
If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc.  You can also put the shell
init file .emacs_SHELL under ~/.emacs.d.

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** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
automatically at startup, if it exists.  When Emacs offers to save
modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed.  It

*** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification.

jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and
jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual
refontification takes place.

** Menu support:

---
*** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".

can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
emulator) works.  Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
by the keyboard.  See Info node `Single-Byte Character Support'.

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*** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.

** Changes to cmuscheme

*** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to
evaluate a Scheme expression but no Scheme subprocess is running.

*** If a file `.emacs_NAME' (where NAME is the name of the Scheme interpreter)
exists in the user's home directory or in ~/.emacs.d, its
contents are sent to the Scheme subprocess upon startup.

*** There are new commands to instruct the Scheme interpreter to trace
procedure calls (`scheme-trace-procedure') and to expand syntactic forms
(`scheme-expand-current-form').  The commands actually sent to the Scheme
subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command',

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** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
there is no longer a shortage of memory.

** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates
an input event: usr1-signal or usr2-signal.

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

** General Lisp changes:

90718:f1d13e615070

displays a buffer menu.  This option turns the buffer menu off.

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** Init file changes
If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc.  Likewise, if the shell init file
~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh.

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** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
automatically at startup, if it exists.  When Emacs offers to save
modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed.  It

*** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification.

jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and
jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual
refontification takes place.

---
*** lazy-lock is considered obsolete.

The `lazy-lock' package is superseded by `jit-lock' and is considered
obsolete.  `jit-lock' is activated by default; if you wish to continue
using `lazy-lock', activate it in your ~/.emacs like this:

  (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)

If you invoke `lazy-lock-mode' directly rather than through
`font-lock-support-mode', it now issues a warning:

  "Use font-lock-support-mode rather than calling lazy-lock-mode"


** Menu support:

---
*** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".

can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
emulator) works.  Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
by the keyboard.  See Info node `Unibyte Mode'.

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*** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.

** Changes to cmuscheme

*** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to
evaluate a Scheme expression but no Scheme subprocess is running.

*** If the file ~/.emacs_NAME or ~/.emacs.d/init_NAME.scm (where NAME
is the name of the Scheme interpreter) exists, its contents are sent
to the Scheme subprocess upon startup.

*** There are new commands to instruct the Scheme interpreter to trace
procedure calls (`scheme-trace-procedure') and to expand syntactic forms
(`scheme-expand-current-form').  The commands actually sent to the Scheme
subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command',

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** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
there is no longer a shortage of memory.

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** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates
input event sequences: [signal usr1] or [signal usr2].

* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1

** General Lisp changes: