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** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** New minor mode `vis-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'. 

** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.

timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

** The kill-buffer-hook is now permanent-local.

** The `local-map' 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 `keymap' property.

*** (vc-switches BACKEND OPERATION) is a new function for use by backends.
*** The new `find-version' backend function replaces the `destfile'
parameter of the `checkout' backend function.
Old code still works thanks to a default `find-version' behavior that
uses the old `destfile' parameter.

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

** The new command `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
for all (existing and future) frames.

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** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

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** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
the operating system or your X server.

** 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'. 

** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.

timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
the mode line.

** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges'
return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines.

** The kill-buffer-hook is now permanent-local.

** The `local-map' 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 `keymap' property.

*** (vc-switches BACKEND OPERATION) is a new function for use by backends.
*** The new `find-version' backend function replaces the `destfile'
parameter of the `checkout' backend function.
Old code still works thanks to a default `find-version' behavior that
uses the old `destfile' parameter.

** 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 may 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.

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

** The new command `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
for all (existing and future) frames.