# HG changeset patch # User Romain Francoise # Date 1174829446 0 # Node ID ad55d532889dda334703d51bf0eb399e27d7ab8a # Parent a68603f8b839db38bfbdf83be3034e7c1710ddec (New in Emacs 22): Reorganize using an itemized list for readability, and include various fixes by Daniel Brockman, Nick Roberts and Dieter Wilhelm. diff -r a68603f8b839 -r ad55d532889d man/ChangeLog --- a/man/ChangeLog Sun Mar 25 12:04:11 2007 +0000 +++ b/man/ChangeLog Sun Mar 25 13:30:46 2007 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2007-03-25 Romain Francoise + + * faq.texi (New in Emacs 22): Reorganize using an itemized list for + readability, and include various fixes by Daniel Brockman, Nick Roberts + and Dieter Wilhelm. + 2007-03-24 Thien-Thi Nguyen * gnus.texi (Splitting Mail): Reword "splitting"-as-adj to be -as-noun. diff -r a68603f8b839 -r ad55d532889d man/faq.texi --- a/man/faq.texi Sun Mar 25 12:04:11 2007 +0000 +++ b/man/faq.texi Sun Mar 25 13:30:46 2007 +0000 @@ -1145,67 +1145,93 @@ @cindex Differences between Emacs 21 and Emacs 22 @cindex Emacs 22, new features in @cindex Recently introduced features - @cindex Default features -Font Lock mode, auto-compression mode, and file name shadow mode are -enabled by default. On graphics displays it is possible to follow links -with @kbd{mouse-1}. The modeline of the selected window is now -highlighted. Window fringes are customizable. The minibuffer prompt is -displayed in a distinct face. - -Emacs now reads abbrev definitions automatically at startup. The -maximum size of buffers has been doubled and is 256M on 32-bit machines. -Grep mode is separate from Compilation mode and has many new specific -options and commands. - + +@itemize +@cindex GTK+ Toolkit +@cindex Drag-and-drop +@item +Emacs can be built with GTK+ widgets, and supports drag-and-drop +operation on X. + +@item +Font Lock mode, Auto Compression mode, and File Name Shadow Mode are +enabled by default. + +@item +The maximum size of buffers has been doubled and is 256M on 32-bit +machines. + +@item +Links can be followed with @kbd{mouse-1}. + +@cindex Mouse wheel +@item +Mouse wheel support is enabled by default. + +@item +Window fringes are customizable. + +@item +The mode line of the selected window is now highlighted. + +@item +The minibuffer prompt is displayed in a distinct face. + +@item +Abbrev definitions are read automatically at startup. + +@item +Grep mode is separate from Compilation mode and has many new options and +commands specific to grep. + +@item The original Emacs macro system has been replaced by the new Kmacro package, which provides many new commands and features and a simple -interface that uses the function keys F3 and F4. Macros are stored -in a macro ring, and can be debugged and edited interactively. - -The GUD (Grand Unified Debugger) package can now be used with a full -graphical user interface to the debugger which provides many features -found in traditional development environments, making it easy to -manipulate breakpoints, add watch points, display the call stack, etc. -Breakpoints are displayed in the source buffer. - -@cindex GTK+ Toolkit -@cindex Drag-and-drop -@cindex Mouse wheel -Emacs can be built with GTK+ widgets, and supports drag-and-drop -operation on X. Mouse wheel support is enabled by default. - +interface that uses the function keys F3 and F4. Macros are stored in a +macro ring, and can be debugged and edited interactively. + +@item +The Grand Unified Debugger (GUD) can be used with a full graphical user +interface to GDB; this provides many features found in traditional +development environments, making it easy to manipulate breakpoints, add +watch points, display the call stack, etc. Breakpoints are visually +indicated in the source buffer. + +@item @cindex New modes -Many new modes and packages have been included in Emacs, such as MH-E, -Calc, Tramp and URL, as well as IDO, CUA, rcirc, ERC, conf-mode, -python-mode, table, tumme, SES, ruler, Flymake, Org, PGG, wdired, -t-mouse, longlines, dns-mode, savehist, Password, Printing, Reveal, etc. -Gnus has been updated to version 5.11. +Many new modes and packages have been included in Emacs, such as Calc, +TRAMP, URL, IDO, CUA, ERC, rcirc, Table, Tumme, SES, Ruler, Org, PGG, +Flymake, Password, Printing, Reveal, wdired, t-mouse, longlines, +savehist, Conf mode, Python mode, DNS mode, etc. @cindex Multilingual Environment +@item Leim is now part of Emacs. Unicode support has been much improved, and the following input methods have been added: belarusian, bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng, croatian, dutch, georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, latvian-keyboard, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, malayalam-inscript, rfc1345, -russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, tamil-inscript ucs, +russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, tamil-inscript, ucs, ukrainian-computer, vietnamese-telex, and welsh. -The following language environment have also been added: Belarusian, +The following language environments have also been added: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, French, Georgian, Italian, Latin-6, -Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian, Slovenian, -Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Welsh, and -Windows-1255. +Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, +Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Welsh, and Windows-1255. @cindex Supported systems +@item Emacs 22 features support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 and x86-64 machines, as well as support for the Mac OS X and Cygwin operating systems. @cindex Documentation @cindex Emacs Lisp Manual +@item In addition, Emacs 22 now includes the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual (@pxref{Emacs Lisp documentation}) and the Emacs Lisp Intro. +@end itemize Many other changes have been made in Emacs 22, use @kbd{C-h n} to get a full list.