# HG changeset patch # User Chong Yidong # Date 1239339554 0 # Node ID 41e596f3a3f8d8724e5117b8d9e71ecb97864b8f # Parent 140a93d5a86670b57405b721ac668893aa46388f Update documentation status. diff -r 140a93d5a866 -r 41e596f3a3f8 etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Fri Apr 10 04:57:29 2009 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Fri Apr 10 04:59:14 2009 +0000 @@ -162,13 +162,14 @@ opacity; the default is 20. ** Internationalization changes - ++++ *** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode. (It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty). The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'. This encoding is backwards -compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 encoding. The internal encoding +compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 encoding. The encoding +`emacs-internal' is an alias for this. The internal encoding previously used by Emacs, `emacs-mule', is still available. During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files. @@ -1304,8 +1305,6 @@ * Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 -** New coding system alias `emacs-internal'. - +++ ** The new variable `generate-autoload-cookie' controls the magic comment string used by `update-file-autoloads' to find autoloaded forms. The @@ -1508,7 +1507,7 @@ *** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents the search and match primitives from changing the match data. ---- ++++ *** New functions `word-search-forward-lax' and `word-search-backward-lax'. These are like `word-search-forward and `word-search-backward', except that the end of the search string need not match a word boundary, @@ -1602,6 +1601,7 @@ `old-name', `iso-10646-comment', `uppercase', `lowercase', and `titlecase'. ++++ *** The functions `modify-syntax-entry' and `modify-category-entry' now accept a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all entries in that range of characters.