diff etc/NEWS @ 90037:0fe073a08cef

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--- a/etc/NEWS	Tue Oct 26 01:28:28 2004 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Wed Oct 27 05:42:04 2004 +0000
@@ -174,6 +174,12 @@
 * Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
 +++
+** `set-auto-mode' now gives the interpreter magic line (if present)
+precedence over the file name.  Likewise an <?xml or <!DOCTYPE declaration
+will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, unless the file name leads to a mode in
+`xml-based-modes'.
+
++++
 ** 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.
@@ -2127,6 +2133,8 @@
 
 * New modes and packages in Emacs 21.4
 
+** The new package password.el provide a password cache and expiring mechanism.
+
 ** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files.
 The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used
 to increment the SOA serial.
@@ -2363,6 +2371,14 @@
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
 +++
+** An interactive specification may 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.
+
+** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
+argument.
+
++++
 ** Major mode functions now run the new normal hook
 `after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode hooks.
 
@@ -3578,6 +3594,11 @@
 +++
 ** New function `call-process-shell-command'.
 
+** New function `process-file'.
+
+This is similar to `call-process', but obeys file handlers.  The file
+handler is chosen based on default-directory.
+
 ---
 ** The dummy function keys made by easymenu
 are now always lower case.  If you specify the