# HG changeset patch # User Dave Love # Date 947096155 0 # Node ID 37827755f5d3f04074be05ec4b34597ec11a5dba # Parent 4a15e79c5fb0c45db48ac980f9f0a85472b12f1f Up date. check-parens. `beginning-of-defun' and `end-of-defun'. diff -r 4a15e79c5fb0 -r 37827755f5d3 etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Wed Jan 05 17:23:27 2000 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Wed Jan 05 18:15:55 2000 +0000 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 23 Jan 1999 -Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 5 Jan 2000 +Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ * Changes in Emacs 21.1 +** New command M-x check-parens can be used to find unbalanced paren +groups and strings in buffers in Lisp mode (or other modes). + ** You can now easily create new *Info* buffers using either M-x clone-buffer or C-u m RET. M-x clone-buffer can also be used on *Help* and several other special buffers. @@ -867,6 +870,11 @@ When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms. +** Variables `beginning-of-defun' and `end-of-defun', can be used to +define handlers for the functions of the same names. Major modes can +define these locally instead of rebinding M-C-a etc. if the normal +definitions of the functions are not appropriate for the mode. + ** easy-mmode-define-minor-mode now takes an additional BODY argument and is renamed `define-minor-mode'. @@ -7363,7 +7371,7 @@ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: -Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the