# HG changeset patch # User Juanma Barranquero # Date 1204423437 0 # Node ID c98e70371bdc2fab4029742179d46d391da85fc8 # Parent 9fc81417e8c49c229e41a4a48f8e4cad786ba5b5 *** empty log message *** diff -r 9fc81417e8c4 -r c98e70371bdc etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Sun Mar 02 01:10:30 2008 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Sun Mar 02 02:03:57 2008 +0000 @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Configure will use gcc by default. Set the CC environment variable if you need control over which C compiler is used. -** The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the +** The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary. * Changes in Emacs 23.1 @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by testing for the `multi-tty' feature. -** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode. +** 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 @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, and -Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems +Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems as a single changeset. *** In VC Annotate mode, you can type V to toggle the annotation visibility. @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ ** BibTeX mode: -*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers. +*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers. *** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and `string', disabled by default. @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ --- ** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows. Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions -of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. Previously IPv6 was +of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. Previously IPv6 was supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock 1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library. @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ browser control present on some keyboards. These buttons are disabled by default, since enabling them prevents their system-wide use when Emacs has focus. To enable them, set the variable -w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable +w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable for the list of extra keys that are available. * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 @@ -584,9 +584,9 @@ ** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed. ** The variable `byte-compile-warnings' can now be a list starting with `not', -meaning to disable the specified warnings. The meaning of this list +meaning to disable the specified warnings. The meaning of this list may therefore be the reverse of what you expect (of course, this is -only an issue if you make use of the new `not' syntax). Rather than +only an issue if you make use of the new `not' syntax). Rather than checking/manipulating elements directly, use the new functions `byte-compile-warning-enabled-p', `byte-compile-disable-warning', and `byte-compile-enable-warning.' @@ -677,11 +677,11 @@ ** Character code, representation, and charset changes. -The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF with no gap. +The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF with no gap. Characters of code 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the same code points. Characters of code 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit bytes. -Generic characters no longer exist. +Generic characters no longer exist. In buffer and string, characters are represented by UTF-8 byte sequence in a multibyte buffer/string. @@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ *** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete. ** There is a new input method, Robin, different from Quail. -It has three functionalities: +It has three functionalities: i) a simple input method (converts an ASCII sequence into a string). ii) converts an existing buffer substring into another string iii) reverse conversion (each character produced by a @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ *** $DISPLAY is now dynamically inherited from the frame's `display'. -*** The `window-system' variable has been made frame-local. The new +*** The `window-system' variable has been made frame-local. The new `initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value for the first frame.