diff etc/NEWS @ 90133:4da4a09e8b1b

Revision: [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--unicode--0--patch-31 Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 Patches applied: * emacs--cvs-trunk--0 (patch 206-222) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 45-52) - Update from CVS - Update from CVS: texi Makefile.in CVS keyw cruft - Update from CVS: ChangeLog tweaks

--- a/etc/NEWS	Tue Mar 29 00:48:14 2005 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Thu Mar 31 09:58:14 2005 +0000
@@ -182,6 +182,26 @@
 
 * Changes in Emacs 22.1
 
+** Improved Thai support.  A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is
+automatically activated if you select Thai as a language
+environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to
+versions which recognize Thai words.  Affected commands are
+    M-f     (forward-word)
+    M-b     (backward-word)
+    M-d     (kill-word)
+    M-DEL   (backward-kill-word)
+    M-t     (transpose-words)
+    M-q     (fill-paragraph)
+
+** iso-acc.el is now obsolete.  Use one of the latin input methods instead.
+
+---
+** Languange environment and various default coding systems are setup
+more correctly according to the current locale name.  If the locale
+name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
+This change may result in using the different coding systems as
+default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN).
+
 +++
 ** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
 add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
@@ -221,6 +241,7 @@
 ** Control characters and escape glyphs are now shown in the new
 escape-glyph face.
 
++++
 ** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now prefixed with an escape
 character, unless the new user variable `show-nonbreak-escape' is set
 to nil.
@@ -297,6 +318,7 @@
 +++
 ** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
 
++++
 ** In Outline mode, hide-body no longer hides lines at the top
 of the file that precede the first header line.
 
@@ -313,6 +335,7 @@
 ** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
 in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.
 
+---
 ** global-whitespace-mode is a new alias for whitespace-global-mode.
 
 +++
@@ -320,7 +343,10 @@
 for matching the beginning and end of a symbol.  A symbol is a
 non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
 specified by the syntax table.
-
+---
+*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-end' and `symbol-start' elements.
+
++++
 ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
 You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
 existing values.  For example:
@@ -363,6 +389,7 @@
 ** Commands winner-redo and winner-undo, from winner.el, are now bound to
 C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively.  This is an incompatible change.
 
+---
 ** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
 arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it.  To change the
 default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
@@ -390,9 +417,11 @@
 `kill-region' if read-only are involved: it copies the text to the
 kill-ring, but does not delete it.
 
++++
 ** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
 the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.
 
++++
 ** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.
 
 +++
@@ -441,6 +470,7 @@
 that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
 work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.
 
++++
 ** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
 Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
 control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
@@ -480,6 +510,7 @@
 compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
 subprocesses inherit.
 
++++
 ** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.
 
 ---
@@ -540,6 +571,7 @@
 ** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
 resync points in both windows.
 
+---
 ** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
 This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
 the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for
@@ -547,10 +579,12 @@
 
 ** Gnus package
 
+---
 *** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
 Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts.  PGG is a library to handle
 PGP/MIME.
 
+---
 *** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
 See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
 
@@ -570,6 +604,7 @@
 *** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers immediately,
 remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
 
++++
 *** New commands:
   - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
   - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
@@ -578,6 +613,7 @@
   - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
   - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.
 
+---
 *** New customizable variables:
   - desktop-save. Determins whether the desktop should be saved when it is
     killed.
@@ -595,6 +631,7 @@
 +++
 *** New command line option --no-desktop
 
+---
 *** New hooks:
   - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
   - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
@@ -608,6 +645,7 @@
 and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
 feature.
 
++++
 ** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.
 
 	% emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
@@ -646,18 +684,21 @@
 arrow bitmaps in right fringe.  To show just the angle bitmaps in the
 left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).
 
++++
 ** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
 in the echo area.  It is bound to `C-h .'.  It normally displays the
 same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
 `help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
 keyboard oriented alternative.
 
++++
 ** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to
 automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
 point-over, after suitable idle time.  The amount of idle time is
 determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
 to one second.  This feature is turned off by default.
 
+---
 ** New commands `scan-buf-next-region' and `scan-buf-previous-region'
 move to the start of the next (previous, respectively) region with
 non-nil help-echo property and display any help found there in the
@@ -681,7 +722,7 @@
 now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
 an interactively callable function.
 
-
+---
 ** sql changes.
 
 *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlightng of different
@@ -753,6 +794,7 @@
 appropriate sql-interactive-mode wrapper for the current setting of
 `sql-product'.
 
+---
 ** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
 with special modes such as Tar mode.
 
@@ -764,6 +806,7 @@
 be present for an item to match.  Regular expression matching is still
 available.
 
++++
 *** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
 to be sorted according to their score.  The score for an item is a
 number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
@@ -776,6 +819,7 @@
 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'.
@@ -784,6 +828,7 @@
 ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
 By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
 
+---
 ** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
 `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
 
@@ -820,6 +865,7 @@
 +++
 ** Dired-x:
 
++++
 *** Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling
 command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to M-O,
 marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the
@@ -883,6 +929,7 @@
 the current Info node name into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix
 arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
 
+---
 *** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
 and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
 
@@ -894,6 +941,7 @@
 If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
 `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
 
+---
 *** Images in Info pages are supported.
 Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
 Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
@@ -966,6 +1014,7 @@
 horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
 or when the frame is resized.
 
++++
 ** New functions frame-current-scroll-bars and window-current-scroll-bars.
 
 These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
@@ -979,6 +1028,7 @@
 +++
 ** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.
 
++++
 ** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which may
 speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.
 
@@ -988,6 +1038,7 @@
 +++
 ** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.
 
+---
 ** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
 `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.
 
@@ -1002,6 +1053,7 @@
 ** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
 and other common debugger commands.
 
+---
 ** recentf changes.
 
 The recent file list is now automatically cleanup when recentf mode is
@@ -1034,6 +1086,7 @@
 ---
 ** partial-completion-mode now does partial completion on directory names.
 
+---
 ** skeleton.el now supports using - to mark the skeleton-point without
    interregion interaction.  @ has reverted to only setting
    skeleton-positions and no longer sets skeleton-point.  Skeletons
@@ -1041,6 +1094,7 @@
    instead.  The updated skeleton-insert docstring explains these new
    features along with other details of skeleton construction.
 
+---
 ** MH-E changes.
 
 Upgraded to MH-E version 7.82. There have been major changes since
@@ -1086,6 +1140,7 @@
 ** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
 revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.
 
++++
 ** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
 of a file.
 
@@ -1208,6 +1263,7 @@
 when possible.  The latter are more space-efficient.  This is
 controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.
 
++++
 ** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
 coding system for encoding and decoding file names.  A new menu item
 (Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
@@ -1272,6 +1328,7 @@
 default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
 automatically.  The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
 
+---
 ** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
 requests X selection.  The default value is nil, which means that
 Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
@@ -1303,9 +1360,11 @@
 command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
 TeX commands to use at startup.
 
+---
 *** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
 and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.
 
++++
 *** New major mode doctex-mode for *.dtx files.
 
 +++
@@ -1316,6 +1375,7 @@
 be selected only when it is active).  The default is nil, so that this
 feature is not enabled.
 
++++
 ** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
 select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
 normally changes according to the mouse click position.  If you set
@@ -1337,10 +1397,12 @@
 buffers to search by their filename.  Internally, Occur mode has been
 rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other changes.
 
++++
 ** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
 been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
 in Indented-Text mode.
 
+---
 ** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
 `query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
 a match if part of it has a read-only property.
@@ -1371,6 +1433,7 @@
 mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key.  You can
 also disable mouse highlighting.
 
++++
 ** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
 shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
 variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.
@@ -1790,6 +1853,7 @@
 prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
 day of that ISO week.
 
+---
 ** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
 window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
 
@@ -1799,6 +1863,7 @@
 rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
 `christian-holidays' simpler.
 
+---
 ** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
 This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
 and `diary-header-line-format'.
@@ -1819,6 +1884,7 @@
 
 ** VC Changes
 
++++
 *** The key C-x C-q no longer checks files in or out, it only changes
 the read-only state of the buffer (toggle-read-only).  We made this
 change because we held a poll and found that many users were unhappy
@@ -2268,17 +2334,23 @@
 ---
 ** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
 
+---
+** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
+highlighting for the old default.
+
 +++
 ** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
 Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
 Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.
 
 +++
-** F90 mode has new navigation commands `f90-end-of-block',
-`f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block', `f90-previous-block'.
-
----
-** F90 mode now has support for hs-minor-mode (hideshow).
+** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
+`f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
+`f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
+`fortran-beginning-of-block'.
+
+---
+** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for hs-minor-mode (hideshow).
 It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
 majority.
 
@@ -2432,17 +2504,31 @@
 "checkout", "update" or "commit".  That means using cvs diff options
 -rBASE -rHEAD.
 
+---
 ** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
 used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode.  Integration with isearch
 handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
 temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
 
++++
 ** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
 coding system.
 
 
 * New modes and packages in Emacs 22.1
 
++++
+** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
+files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
+mechanism.  The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
+which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or
+copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc.  By default, Longlines
+mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior
+referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors.  This is
+similar to Refill mode, but more reliable.  To turn the word wrap
+feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil.
+
++++
 ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
 varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
 var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
@@ -2450,12 +2536,12 @@
 .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
 recognized.
 
-** 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.
 
++++
 ** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
 source files.  See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.
 
@@ -2463,12 +2549,15 @@
 of hierarchical data as an outline.  For example, the tree-widget is
 well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.
 
++++
 ** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
 buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...
 
++++
 ** The thumbs.el package allows you to preview image files as thumbnails
 and can be invoked from a Dired buffer.
 
++++
 ** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
 
 ** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
@@ -2477,6 +2566,7 @@
 ** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
 shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.
 
+---
 ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
 
 ---
@@ -2532,6 +2622,7 @@
 must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
 loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.
 
++++
 ** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
 the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards.  The numeric
 keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
@@ -2659,6 +2750,7 @@
 ** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
 customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
 
++++
 ** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
 `text tables' in Emacs buffers.  It simulates the effect of putting
 these tables in a special major mode.  The package emulates WYSIWYG
@@ -2681,16 +2773,20 @@
 ---
 ** cplus-md.el has been removed to avoid problems with Custom.
 
++++
 ** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
 timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).
 
+---
 ** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes.
 
+---
 ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
 configuration files.
 
 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
 
++++
 ** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
 much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
 it returns just the directory name.
@@ -2709,6 +2805,17 @@
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
 
 +++
+** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
+substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
+the filtered substring.  It is used instead of `buffer-substring' or
+`delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
+data structure, like the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.  The
+list of filter function is specified by the new variable
+`buffer-substring-filters'.  For example, Longlines mode uses
+`buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
+text.
+
++++
 ** An element of buffer-undo-list can now have the form (apply FUNNAME
 . ARGS), where FUNNAME is a symbol other than t or nil.  That stands
 for a high-level change that should be undone by evaluating (apply
@@ -2734,6 +2841,7 @@
 ** The function symbol-file tells you which file defined
 a certain function or variable.
 
++++
 ** Lisp code can now test if a given buffer position is inside a
 clickable link with the new function `mouse-on-link-p'.  This is the
 function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link' functionality.
@@ -2814,6 +2922,7 @@
 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.
 
@@ -2830,6 +2939,7 @@
 been renamed to `disabled-command-function'.  The variable
 `disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.
 
++++
 ** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
 width if the WIDTH argument is nil.  If the TOPOS argument is nil,
 the usable window height and width is used.
@@ -2838,6 +2948,7 @@
 ** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
 a list of two integers, instead of a cons.
 
++++
 ** If a command sets transient-mark-mode to `only', that
 enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
 During that following command, the value of transient-mark-mode
@@ -3099,6 +3210,7 @@
 `format' are now documented.  Some flags that were accepted but not
 implemented (such as "*") are no longer accepted.
 
++++
 ** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
 It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
 One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
@@ -3125,6 +3237,7 @@
 string.  The old behavior is available if you call
 `insert-for-yank-1' instead.
 
++++
 ** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
 arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
 return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
@@ -3224,6 +3337,7 @@
 changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
 forcing an explicit window update.
 
+---
 ** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
 debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.
 
@@ -3667,7 +3781,7 @@
 ** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by lisp code
 to override the internal read-file-name function.
 
-
++++
 ** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
 whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
 `read-file-name' function.
@@ -3919,6 +4033,7 @@
 specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
 defined with defface.
 
+---
 ** The function face-differs-from-default-p now truly checks whether the
 given face displays differently from the default face or not (previously
 it did only a very cursory check).
@@ -3932,6 +4047,7 @@
 ** New functions face-attribute-relative-p and merge-face-attribute
 help with handling relative face attributes.
 
++++
 ** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face-list is reversed.
 If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
 faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous releases
@@ -4422,6 +4538,7 @@
 display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
 using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
 
+---
 ** New function x-send-client-message sends a client message when
 running under X.
 
@@ -4431,6 +4548,7 @@
 
 ** New packages:
 
++++
 *** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
 GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
 there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
@@ -4447,9 +4565,11 @@
 binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
 data structures.
 
+---
 *** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
 This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
 
++++
 *** The new package button.el implements simple and fast `clickable buttons'
 in emacs buffers.  `buttons' are much lighter-weight than the `widgets'
 implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that doesn't