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** The new command M-x delete-trailing-whitespace RET will delete the
trailing whitespace within the current restriction.  You can also add
this function to `write-file-hooks' or `local-write-file-hooks'.

** When visiting a file with M-x find-file-literally, no newlines will
be added to the end of the buffer because of `require-final-newline'.

** auto-compression mode is no longer enabled just by loading jka-compr.el.
To control it, set `auto-compression-mode' via Custom or use the
`auto-compression-mode' command.

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** Hexl contains a new command `hexl-insert-hex-string' which inserts
a string of hexadecimal numbers read from the mini-buffer.

** Just loading the msb package doesn't switch on Msb mode anymore.
If you have `(require 'msb)' in your .emacs, please replace it with
`(msb-mode 1)'.

** Changes in Texinfo mode.

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

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

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

*** The function `decompose-composite-char' is now labeled as
obsolete.

** The new character sets `mule-unicode-0100-24ff',
`mule-unicode-2500-33ff', and `mule-unicode-e000-ffff' are introduced
for Unicode characters in the range U+0100..U+24FF, U+2500..U+33FF,
U+E000..U+FFFF respectively.

** The new coding system `mule-utf-8' is added.  It provides a limited
support for decoding/encoding UTF-8 text.  For the details, please see
the documentation string of this coding system.

** The new character sets `japanese-jisx0213-1' and
`japanese-jisx0213-2' are introduced for the new Japanese standard JIS
X 0213 Plane 1 and Plane 2.

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** The new character sets `eight-bit-control' and `eight-bit-graphic'
are introduced for 8-bit characters in the ranges 0x80..0x9F and
0xA0..0xFF respectively.

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** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to
that offset in the file before writing.

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** The new command M-x delete-trailing-whitespace RET will delete the
trailing whitespace within the current restriction.  You can also add
this function to `write-file-hooks' or `local-write-file-hooks'.

** When visiting a file with M-x find-file-literally, no newlines will
be added to the end of the buffer even if `require-final-newline' is
non-nil.

** auto-compression mode is no longer enabled just by loading jka-compr.el.
To control it, set `auto-compression-mode' via Custom or use the
`auto-compression-mode' command.

+++
** Hexl contains a new command `hexl-insert-hex-string' which inserts
a string of hexadecimal numbers read from the mini-buffer.

+++
** Just loading the msb package doesn't switch on Msb mode anymore.
If you have `(require 'msb)' in your .emacs, please replace it with
`(msb-mode 1)'.

** Changes in Texinfo mode.

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

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

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

*** The function `decompose-composite-char' is now labeled as
obsolete.

** The new character sets `mule-unicode-0100-24ff',
`mule-unicode-2500-33ff', and `mule-unicode-e000-ffff' have been
introduced for Unicode characters in the range U+0100..U+24FF,
U+2500..U+33FF, U+E000..U+FFFF respectively.

** The new coding system `mule-utf-8' has been added.  It provides
limited support for decoding/encoding UTF-8 text.  For details, please
see the documentation string of this coding system.

** The new character sets `japanese-jisx0213-1' and
`japanese-jisx0213-2' have been introduced for the new Japanese
standard JIS X 0213 Plane 1 and Plane 2.

** The new character sets `latin-iso8859-14' and `latin-iso8859-15'
have been introduced.

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** The new character sets `eight-bit-control' and `eight-bit-graphic'
have been introduced for 8-bit characters in the ranges 0x80..0x9F and
0xA0..0xFF respectively.

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** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to
that offset in the file before writing.