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Extend description of backward-delete-char-untabify-method.
author Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
date Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:50:16 +0000
parents 6bf775b2d30c
children 434462b4d49e
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Wed Mar 14 12:40:08 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Wed Mar 14 12:50:16 2001 +0000
@@ -57,8 +57,15 @@
 group.
 
 ** The user option `backward-delete-char-untabify-method' controls the
-behavior of `backward-delete-char-untabify'.  [This change was made
-in Emacs 20.3 but not mentioned then.]
+behavior of `backward-delete-char-untabify'.  The following values
+are recognized:
+
+`untabify' -- turn a tab to many spaces, then delete one space;
+`hungry'   -- delete all whitespace, both tabs and spaces;
+`all'      -- delete all whitespace, including tabs, spaces and newlines;
+nil        -- just delete one character.
+
+[This change was made in Emacs 20.3 but not mentioned then.]
 
 ** The new user-option `confirm-kill-emacs' can be customized to
 let Emacs ask for confirmation before exiting.