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reduce hideshow entry
mac-roman coding system
author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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date | Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:35:57 +0000 |
parents | f6e7e24f14e9 |
children | 1a29f6d22f6e |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Sun Feb 11 17:56:04 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Sun Feb 11 18:35:57 2001 +0000 @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.1 +See the INSTALL file for information on installing extra libraries and +fonts to take advantage of the new graphical features and extra +charsets in this release. + ** Support for GNU/Linux on IA64 machines has been added. ** Support for LynxOS has been added. @@ -177,6 +181,7 @@ *** There is image support of various kinds and some sound support. ++++ ** When your terminal can't display characters from some of the ISO 8859 character sets but can display Latin-1, you can display more-or-less mnemonic sequences of ASCII/Latin-1 characters instead of @@ -859,86 +864,27 @@ ** Changes to hideshow.el -Hideshow is now at version 5.x. It uses a new algorithms for block -selection and traversal, includes more isearch support, and has more -conventional keybindings. - *** Generalized block selection and traversal -A block is now recognized by three things: its start and end regexps -(both strings), and a match-data selector (an integer) specifying -which sub-expression in the start regexp serves as the place where a -`forward-sexp'-like function can operate. Hideshow always adjusts -point to this sub-expression before calling `hs-forward-sexp-func' -(which for most modes evaluates to `forward-sexp'). - -If the match-data selector is not specified, it defaults to zero, -i.e., the entire start regexp is valid, w/ no prefix. This is -backwards compatible with previous versions of hideshow. Please see -the docstring for variable `hs-special-modes-alist' for details. - -*** Isearch support for updating mode line - -During incremental search, if Hideshow minor mode is active, hidden -blocks are temporarily shown. The variable `hs-headline' records the -line at the beginning of the opened block (preceding the hidden -portion of the buffer), and the mode line is refreshed. When a block -is re-hidden, the variable is set to nil. - -To show `hs-headline' in the mode line, you may wish to include -something like this in your .emacs. - - (add-hook 'hs-minor-mode-hook - (lambda () - (add-to-list 'mode-line-format 'hs-headline))) - -*** New customization var: `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function' - -Normally, `hs-hide-all' hides everything, leaving only the -header lines of top-level forms (and comments, unless var -`hs-hide-comments-when-hiding-all' is non-nil). It does this by -moving point to each top-level block beginning and hiding the -block there. In some major modes (for example, Java), this -behavior results in few blocks left visible, which may not be so -useful. - -You can now set var `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function' to a -function to be called at each top-level block beginning, instead -of the normal block-hiding function. For example, the following -code defines a function to hide one level down and move point -appropriately, and then tells hideshow to use the new function. - -(defun ttn-hs-hide-level-1 () - (hs-hide-level 1) - (forward-sexp 1)) -(setq hs-hide-all-non-comment-function 'ttn-hs-hide-level-1) - -The name `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function' was chosen to -emphasize that this function is not called for comment blocks, -only for code blocks. - -*** Command deleted: `hs-show-region' - -Historical Note: This command was added to handle "unbalanced -parentheses" emergencies back when hideshow.el used selective -display for implementation. - -*** Commands rebound to more conventional keys - -The hideshow commands used to be bound to keys of the form "C-c -LETTER". This is contrary to the Emacs keybinding convention, -which reserves that space for user modification. Here are the -new bindings (which includes the addition of `hs-toggle-hiding'): - - hs-hide-block C-c C-h - hs-show-block C-c C-s - hs-hide-all C-c C-M-h - hs-show-all C-c C-M-s - hs-hide-level C-c C-l - hs-toggle-hiding C-c C-c - hs-mouse-toggle-hiding [(shift button-2)] - -These were chosen to roughly imitate those used by Outline mode. +A block is now recognized by its start and end regexps (both strings), +and an integer specifying which sub-expression in the start regexp +serves as the place where a `forward-sexp'-like function can operate. +See the documentation of variable `hs-special-modes-alist'. + +*** During incremental search, if Hideshow minor mode is active, +hidden blocks are temporarily shown. The variable `hs-headline' can +be used in the mode line format to show the line at the beginning of +the open block. + +*** User option `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function' specifies a +function to be called at each top-level block beginning, instead of +the normal block-hiding function. + +*** The command `hs-show-region' has been removed. + +*** The key bindings have changed to fit the Emacs conventions, +roughly imitating those of Outline mode. See the documentation for +`hs-minor-mode'. ** Changes to Change Log mode and Add-Log functions @@ -1539,10 +1485,10 @@ ** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'. Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets 8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign). -GNU Intlfonts doesn't support these yet; there are basic 8859-14 and -8859-15 fonts at <URL:http://czyborra.com/charsets/> and recent X -releases have 8859-15. There are new Latin-8 and Latin-9 prefix -(only) and Polish slash input methods in Leim. +GNU Intlfonts doesn't support these yet but recent X releases have +8859-15. See etc/INSTALL for information on obtaining extra fonts. +There are new Latin-8 and Latin-9 prefix (only) and Polish slash input +methods in Leim. +++ ** New language environments `Dutch' and `Spanish'. @@ -2448,6 +2394,9 @@ *** The function `decompose-composite-char' is now labeled as obsolete. +** The new coding system `mac-roman' is primarily intended for use on +the Macintosh but may be used generally for Macintosh-encoded text. + ** 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,