# HG changeset patch
# User Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
# Date 990010985 0
# Node ID 1d5371e8a974c8975fc4a77cfcac3b82c7a0bae4
# Parent  16563487a397fd9d68998ee016efb9bbb01bdf1b
Add entry for auto-coding-regexp-alist.

diff -r 16563487a397 -r 1d5371e8a974 etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Wed May 16 10:49:47 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Wed May 16 11:03:05 2001 +0000
@@ -2452,6 +2452,11 @@
 as promised long ago.
 
 ** The new function `float-time' returns the current time as a float.
+
+** The new variable auto-coding-regexp-alist specifies coding systems
+for reading specific files, analogous to auto-coding-alist, but
+patterns are checked against file contents instead of file names.
+
 
 * Lisp changes in Emacs 21.1 (see following page for display-related features)