# HG changeset patch # User Stefan Monnier # Date 962816688 0 # Node ID fd80ab818a0c4592157cc5d054aa0efb1beba2ec # Parent 8cd5cb9e72bda5fd0a0ee6269683b491aeb91a6f Fix various typos. Add a note about easy-menu's filters now working. Trim down the add-minor-mode announcement. diff -r 8cd5cb9e72bd -r fd80ab818a0c etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Wed Jul 05 17:03:03 2000 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Wed Jul 05 17:04:48 2000 +0000 @@ -1239,6 +1239,10 @@ * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) +** Easy-menu's :filter now works as in XEmacs. +It takes the unconverted (i.e. XEmacs) form of the menu and the result +is automatically converted to Emacs' form. + ** The new function `window-list' has been defined - Function: window-list &optional WINDOW MINIBUF ALL-FRAMES @@ -1279,7 +1283,7 @@ Anything else means restrict to the selected frame. ** The function `single-key-description' now encloses function key -and event names in ange brackets. +and event names in angle brackets. ** If the variable `message-truncate-lines' is bound to t around a call to `message', the echo area will not be resized to display that @@ -1403,7 +1407,7 @@ +++ ** The new character sets `eight-bit-control' and `eight-bit-graphic' are introduced for 8-bit characters in the ranges 0x80..0x9F and -0xA0..0xFF repectively. +0xA0..0xFF respectively. +++ ** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to @@ -1412,28 +1416,8 @@ ** `concat' no longer accepts individual integer arguments, as promised long ago. -** The function `add-minor-mode' simplifies the definition of minor -modes. - -- Function: add-minor-mode TOGGLE NAME &optional KEYMAP AFTER TOGGLE-FUN - -Register a new minor mode. - -TOGGLE is a symbol which is the name of a buffer-local variable that -is toggled on or off to say whether the minor mode is active or not. - -NAME specifies what will appear in the mode line when the minor mode -is active. NAME should be either a string starting with a space, or a -symbol whose value is such a string. - -Optional KEYMAP is the keymap for the minor mode that will be added -to `minor-mode-map-alist'. - -Optional AFTER specifies that TOGGLE should be added after AFTER -in `minor-mode-alist'. - -Optional TOGGLE-FUN is there for compatiblity with other Emacssen. -It is currently not used. +** The function `add-minor-mode' has been added for convenience and +compatibility with XEmacs (and is used internally by define-minor-mode). ** The function `shell-command' now sets the default directory of the `*Shell Command Output*' buffer to the default directory of the buffer @@ -1535,7 +1519,7 @@ => 267 ** The function `documentation-property' now evaluates the value of -the given property to obtain a a string if it doesn't refer to etc/DOC +the given property to obtain a string if it doesn't refer to etc/DOC and isn't a string. ** If called for a symbol, the function `documentation' now looks for