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Add Miles Bader's description of fields.

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`tty-defined-colors'.  The function `face-clear-tty-colors' can be
used to clear the mapping table.

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** The minibuffer prompt is now actually inserted in the minibuffer.
This makes it possible to scroll through the prompt, if you want to.

A number of functions such as forward-word, forward-sentence,
forward-paragraph, and beginning-of-line, stop moving when they
come to the boundary between the prompt and the actual contents.
The function erase-buffer does not delete the prompt.

The function minubuffer-prompt-end returns the current position of the
end of the minibuffer prompt, if the minibuffer is current.
Otherwise, it returns zero.

The function buffer-string does not return the portion of the
mini-buffer belonging to the prompt; buffer-substring does.

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** Image support.

Emacs can now display images.  Images are inserted into text by giving

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`tty-defined-colors'.  The function `face-clear-tty-colors' can be
used to clear the mapping table.

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** The minibuffer prompt is now actually inserted in the minibuffer.

This makes it possible to scroll through the prompt, if you want to.

The function minubuffer-prompt-end returns the current position of the
end of the minibuffer prompt, if the minibuffer is current.
Otherwise, it returns zero.

** New `field' abstraction in buffers.

There is now code to support an abstraction called `fields' in emacs
buffers.  A field is a contiguous region of text with the same `field'
text-property.

Certain functions, such as forward-word, forward-sentence,
forward-paragraph, beginning-of-line, etc., stop moving when they come
to the boundary between fields (beginning-of-line and end-of-line will
not let the point move past the field boundary, but other movement
commands continue into the next field if repeated).

The new function constrain-to-field may be used to achieve similar
behavior; other new field functions include field-beginning, field-end,
erase-field, and field-string.

Now that the minibuffer prompt is inserted into the minibuffer, it is in
a separate field from the user-input part of the buffer, so that many
editing commands treat the user's text separately from the prompt.

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** Image support.

Emacs can now display images.  Images are inserted into text by giving