changeset 27200:37827755f5d3

Up date. check-parens. `beginning-of-defun' and `end-of-defun'.

--- a/etc/NEWS	Wed Jan 05 17:23:27 2000 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Wed Jan 05 18:15:55 2000 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  23 Jan 1999
-Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  5 Jan 2000
+Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send Emacs bug reports to [e-mail].
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 
 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
 
+** New command M-x check-parens can be used to find unbalanced paren
+groups and strings in buffers in Lisp mode (or other modes).
+
 ** You can now easily create new *Info* buffers using either M-x clone-buffer
 or C-u m <entry> RET.  M-x clone-buffer can also be used on *Help* and
 several other special buffers.
@@ -867,6 +870,11 @@
 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
 so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.
 
+** Variables `beginning-of-defun' and `end-of-defun', can be used to
+define handlers for the functions of the same names.  Major modes can
+define these locally instead of rebinding M-C-a etc. if the normal
+definitions of the functions are not appropriate for the mode.
+
 ** easy-mmode-define-minor-mode now takes an additional BODY argument
 and is renamed `define-minor-mode'.
 
@@ -7363,7 +7371,7 @@
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