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| author | Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu> |
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| date | Mon, 02 May 2005 14:38:00 +0000 |
| parents | b4b700c4969a |
| children | 8d4f9eb1c2fa |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Tue Apr 26 12:17:42 2005 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Mon May 02 14:38:00 2005 +0000 @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1 +--- ** Emacs includes now support for loading image libraries on demand. (Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by @@ -107,9 +108,19 @@ * Changes in Emacs 22.1 ++++ +** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to +display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is +not executing. + ++++ +** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed +`comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias, +but declared obsolete. + ** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm. When emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available. The -following should work: +following should work: {C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}. These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8, they might not work on some older versions of xterm, or on some proprietary versions. @@ -125,6 +136,16 @@ M-t (transpose-words) M-q (fill-paragraph) ++++ +** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default. + +** C-x C-f RET, typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case. + +Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect +of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the +directory with Dired. + +--- ** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead. --- @@ -134,6 +155,7 @@ 0.5 instead of 0.125. The new defaults should lower the CPU usage when Emacs is fontifying in the background. +--- ** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead. --- @@ -794,6 +816,7 @@ dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces. ++++ *** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files with different file attributes in two dired buffers. @@ -818,7 +841,7 @@ +++ *** 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, +command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the mode toggling function instead. @@ -1242,7 +1265,7 @@ ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32. --- -** Dialogs and menus pop down when pressing C-g. +** Dialogs and menus pop down when pressing C-g. --- ** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..." @@ -1268,6 +1291,7 @@ ** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'. ++++ ** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on program files that include other program files. @@ -1311,6 +1335,7 @@ ** TeX modes: ++++ *** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default. +++ @@ -2473,6 +2498,7 @@ ** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified coding system. +--- ** On Mac OS, the value of the variable `keyboard-coding-system' is now dynamically changed according to the current keyboard script. The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants @@ -2509,6 +2535,7 @@ ** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details. +--- ** The library tree-widget.el provides a new widget to display a set of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files. @@ -2521,12 +2548,14 @@ ** The thumbs.el package allows you to preview image files as thumbnails and can be invoked from a Dired buffer. ++++ ** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c. +++ ** 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. +++ @@ -2861,8 +2890,9 @@ alist whose cdr is `eq' to a specified value. +++ -*** New macro define-obsolete-variable-alias to combine defvaralias and -make-obsolete-variable. +*** New macros define-obsolete-variable-alias to combine defvaralias and +make-obsolete-variable and define-obsolete-function-alias to combine defalias +and make-obsolete. +++ ** copy-file now takes an additional option arg MUSTBENEW. @@ -3133,6 +3163,7 @@ position. The cursor may now be placed on any character of such strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property. ++++ ** The first face specification element in a defface can specify `default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and may be overridden @@ -3216,6 +3247,17 @@ documentation purposes and should have no real effect on Lisp code. +++ +** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles. + +You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name +symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that +the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other +operations. + +This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being +autoloaded when not really necessary. + ++++ ** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer' before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final tasks, for example; it can be used by the copyright package to make @@ -3347,7 +3389,8 @@ beginning. This change actually occurred in Emacs-21.1, but was not documented. -** Major modes can define `eldoc-print-current-symbol-info-function' ++++ +** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function' locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to the language.