# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 1024330781 0 # Node ID 5cce53a1bf6f44f9a747a7b35e61ba7463ea678a # Parent 61d64f3f8e236f7efa9bf2bd7d3be07c03fc487e *** empty log message *** diff -r 61d64f3f8e23 -r 5cce53a1bf6f etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Mon Jun 17 16:16:14 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Mon Jun 17 16:19:41 2002 +0000 @@ -53,11 +53,14 @@ * Changes in Emacs 21.4 -** The appearance of the fringes can now be customized, using either -the global command M-x fringe-mode, the frame specific command M-x -set-fringe-style, the Show/Hide submenu of the top-level Options menu, -or customizing the `fringe-mode' variable. - ++++ +** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this +for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the +top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To +control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x +set-fringe-style. + ++++ ** There is a new user option `mail-default-directory' that allows you to specify the value of `default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to @@ -91,9 +94,11 @@ +++ ** `C-u C-x =' now displays text properties of the character at point. ++++ ** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window -now look at the text at point. If that text has a face specified, -the commands suggest to customize that face. +now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are +specified for that character, the commands by default customize those +faces. ** Limited support for charset unification has been added. By default, Emacs now knows how to translate latin-N chars between their @@ -101,7 +106,7 @@ more complete unification by calling (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1). --- -** The scrollbar under Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling. +** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling. On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it). @@ -130,6 +135,7 @@ default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback. ++++ ** On X and MS Windows, the blinking cursor's "off" state is now shown as a hollow box or a thin bar. @@ -175,10 +181,11 @@ only when it is active). The default is nil, so that this feature is not enabled. -** The new command `describe-text-at' pops up a buffer with description -of text properties, overlays, and widgets at point, and lets you get -more information about them, by clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or -moving there and pressing RET. +** The new command `describe-char pops up a buffer with description +various information about a character, including its encodings and +syntax, its text properties, overlays, and widgets at point. You can +get more information about some of them, by clicking on +mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET. +++ ** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can @@ -215,13 +222,16 @@ The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether the `mode-line-inactive' face is used. +--- ** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options". -This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (like -tool bar and the menu bar itself). You can also move the vertical -scroll bar to either side here or turn it off completely. There is also -a menu-item to toggle displaying of current date and time, current line -and column number in the mode-line. - +This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such +as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself). +You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn +it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of +current date and time, current line and column number in the +mode-line. + +--- ** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide". +++ @@ -252,6 +262,7 @@ Turning off PC-Selection mode restores the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode. ++++ ** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash disables the splash screen; see also the variable diff -r 61d64f3f8e23 -r 5cce53a1bf6f lisp/ChangeLog --- a/lisp/ChangeLog Mon Jun 17 16:16:14 2002 +0000 +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog Mon Jun 17 16:19:41 2002 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,22 @@ +2002-06-17 Richard M. Stallman + + * facemenu.el (facemenu-map): Rename to Describe Text + to Describe Properties and use describe-text-properties. + + * simple.el (what-cursor-position): Use describe-char. + + * descr-text.el (describe-char): Moved from mule-diag.el, renamed + from describe-char-after. Now calls describe-text-properties. + (describe-property-list): Renamed from describe-text-properties. + (describe-text-properties): Renamed from describe-text-at. + New arg OUTPUT-BUFFER. + (describe-text-properties-1): + New subroutine, broken out from describe-text-properties. + Output a newline before each section of the output. + + * international/mule-diag.el (describe-char-after): + Moved to descr-text.el. + 2002-06-17 Eli Zaretskii * international/mule.el (ctext-pre-write-conversion): Fix the values