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--- a/etc/NEWS	Wed Aug 18 06:38:14 2004 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Fri Aug 27 07:00:34 2004 +0000
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@
 
 * Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
+** global-whitespace-mode is a new alias for whitespace-global-mode.
+
 +++
 ** There are now two new regular expression operators, \_< and \_>,
 for matching the beginning and end of a symbol.  A symbol is a
@@ -267,6 +269,11 @@
 rule applies to file buffers.  For non-file buffers, the behavior may
 be mode dependent.
 
+If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end,
+then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor
+mode Auto Revert Tail mode.  The function `auto-revert-tail-mode'
+toggles this mode.
+
 ** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
 other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
 revert.  This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
@@ -733,7 +740,7 @@
 
 ** MH-E changes.
 
-Upgraded to MH-E version 7.4.4. There have been major changes since
+Upgraded to MH-E version 7.82. There have been major changes since
 version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.
 
 +++
@@ -2041,9 +2048,12 @@
 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
+** 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.
@@ -3343,7 +3353,13 @@
 The new low-level functions process-plist and set-process-plist are
 used to access and replace the entire property list of a process.
 
-???
+*** Function accept-process-output now has an optional fourth arg
+`just-this-one'.  If non-nil, only output from the specified process
+is handled, suspending output from other processes.  If value is an
+integer, also inhibit running timers.  This feature is generally not
+recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
+speech synthesis.
+
 *** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.
 
 On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the