Mercurial > emacs
changeset 92894:70290cfccdc1
Add some sections, based on NEWS.22.
author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
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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.