changeset 56229:712f3852392b

Move description from new paragraph-start and indent-line-function defaults to general news instead of new packages. Same for query-replace-skip-read-only. Add description of new `\,' and `\?' replacement string features.
author David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
date Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:36:13 +0000
parents 4e0ea2b75232
children fe184d71d3cb
files etc/ChangeLog etc/NEWS
diffstat 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/ChangeLog	Thu Jun 24 10:26:24 2004 +0000
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog	Thu Jun 24 10:36:13 2004 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2004-06-24  David Kastrup  <dak@gnu.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Move description from new paragraph-start and
+	indent-line-function defaults to general news instead of new
+	packages.  Same for query-replace-skip-read-only.  Add
+	description of new `\,' and `\?' replacement string features.
+
 2004-06-23  Luc Teirlinck  <teirllm@auburn.edu>
 
 	* MORE.STUFF: Delete obsolete URL.
--- a/etc/NEWS	Thu Jun 24 10:26:24 2004 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Thu Jun 24 10:36:13 2004 +0000
@@ -914,6 +914,23 @@
 rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other changes.
 
 +++
+** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
+been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
+in Indented-Text mode.
+
+** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
+`query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
+a match if part of it has a read-only property.
+
+** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and
+`replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string,
+where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement
+time.  In many cases, this will be more convenient than using
+`query-replace-regexp-eval'.  All regular expression replacement
+commands now allow `\?' in the replacement string to specify a
+position where the replacement string can be edited for each
+replacement.
+
 ** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse
 is over the text.  By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
 can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
@@ -2135,14 +2152,6 @@
 ** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
 timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).
 
-** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
-been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
-in Indented-Text mode.
-
-** If you set `query-replace-skip-read-only' non-nil,
-`query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
-a match if part of it has a read-only property.
-
 ** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the apperance of fringes.
 
 ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine