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changeset 42629:180b3f3a8fb8
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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 09 Jan 2002 07:39:15 +0000 |
| parents | 55e0120deff6 |
| children | cb6cc5b71c35 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Wed Jan 09 03:42:12 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Wed Jan 09 07:39:15 2002 +0000 @@ -281,6 +281,21 @@ * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.3 +** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough: + +Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes +from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte +buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them +now: + +1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time. + +2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid +the time it takes to convert the format. + +3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and +wasteful. + ** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence over minor mode keymaps.