changeset 92894:70290cfccdc1

Add some sections, based on NEWS.22.
author Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
date Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:42:04 +0000
parents 5c84b9c7e7a2
children 379d912c3710
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Fri Mar 14 02:40:21 2008 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Fri Mar 14 02:42:04 2008 +0000
@@ -191,9 +191,6 @@
 ** The new function `emacs-init-time' returns the duration of the
 Emacs initialization.
 
-** The new face `mode-line-emphasis' is used to highlight certain mode-line
-information; for example while waiting for a VC command to finish.
-
 ** The minor modes unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, unify-8859-on-decoding-mode
 are obsolete.
 
@@ -263,7 +260,7 @@
 also updates the selection or clipboard to the current yank,
 just as M-w would do so with the text it copies to the kill ring.
 
-** Minibuffer changes:
+** Minibuffer changes
 
 *** In C-x d, if you type M-n you get the visited file name of the
 current buffer.
@@ -284,6 +281,22 @@
 wraps to the first history element.  When the search is terminated, the
 history element containing the search string becomes the current.
 
+** New faces
+
+*** `mode-line-emphasis' is used to highlight certain mode-line information;
+for example while waiting for a VC command to finish.
+
+** Font-Lock (syntax highlighting) changes
+
+*** `font-lock-comment-face' once again differs from the default on displays
+with fewer than 16 colors (e.g. older xterms and the Linux console), 
+but only in the light background case.
+
+** Face changes
+
+*** The new function `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing
+all the basic attributes of a given face.
+
 
 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
 
@@ -363,7 +376,7 @@
     `:parents', `:case-fixed', `:enable-function', `:regexp',
     `abbrev-table-modiff'.
 
-** Help mode.
+** Help mode
 *** New macro `with-help-window' should set up help windows better
 than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'.
 *** New option `help-window-select' permits to customize whether help
@@ -423,7 +436,7 @@
 ** defcustom accepts new keyword arguments, `:safe' and `:risky', which
 set a variable's `safe-local-variable' and `risky-local-variable' property.
 
-** Etags changes.
+** Etags changes
 *** The --members option is now the default.
 
 Use --no-members if you want the old default behaviour of not tagging
@@ -456,7 +469,7 @@
 tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and
 tex-suscript-height-minimum.
 
-** BibTeX mode:
+** BibTeX mode
 
 *** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers.
 
@@ -677,9 +690,6 @@
 
 ** The new function `read-color' reads a color name using the minibuffer.
 
-** The new function `face-all-attributes' returns an alist
-describing all the basic attributes of a given face.
-
 ** `interprogram-paste-function' can now return one string or a list
 of strings.  In the latter case, Emacs puts the second and following
 strings on the kill ring.
@@ -758,7 +768,7 @@
 accepts a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all
 entries in that range of characters.
 
-** Code conversion changes.
+** Code conversion changes
 
 *** The new function `define-coding-system' should be used to define a
 coding system instead of `make-coding-system' (which is now obsolete).
@@ -805,7 +815,7 @@
 *** The new function `robin-use-package' starts using a Robin package
 as an input method.
 
-** Changes related to the new font backend.
+** Changes related to the new font backend
 
 Which font backends to use can be specified by the X resource "FontBackend".
 For instance, to use both X core fonts and Xft fonts:
@@ -845,7 +855,7 @@
 second argument, and has an optional 5th argument to control how to
 set the font.
 
-** Changes related to multiple tty support.
+** Changes related to multiple tty support
 
 *** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses.  If you want to know the
 $TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment.