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- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
** cua.el, cua-mode.el: remove old versions.
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+* Changes in Emacs 22.3
+
+** Support for several obsolete platforms will be removed in the next
+major version of Emacs: Apollo, Acorn, Alliant, Amdahl, Altos 3068,
+Bull DPX/2, Bull SPS-7, AT&T UNIX 7300, AT&T 3b, Aviion Berkeley 4.1
+to 4.3, Celerity, Clipper, Convergent S series, Convex, Cydra, DG/UX,
+Dual, Elxsi, ESIX, Fujitsu F301, GEC 63, Gould, Honeywell XPS100,
+i860, IBM ps/2 aix386, Harris CXUX, Harris Night Hawk 1200/3000,
+Harris Power PC, HP 9000 series 200 or 300, HLH Orion, Hitachi
+SR2001/SR2201, IBM PS/2, Integrated Solutions 386, Integrated
+Solutions Optimum V, Iris, Irix < v6, ISC Unix, ISI 68000, Masscomp
+5000, Megatest 68000, Motorola System V/88, ns16000, National
+Semiconductor 32000, osf1 (s/osf*) Paragon i860, PFU A-series, Plexus,
+Pyramid, RTU 3.0, RISCiX SCO 3.2, sh3el, Sinix, Stride, Sun 1-3, Sun
+RoadRunner, Sequent Symmetry, Sony News, SunOS 4, System V rel 0 to 3,
+Tadpole 68k machines, tahoe, Tandem Integrity S2, targon31, Tektronix,
+TI Nu, NCR Tower 32, U-station, Ultrix, UMAX, UniPlus 5.2, Whitechapel
+Computer Works MG1, Wicat, and Xenix.
+
+*** Support for systems without alloca will be removed.
+
+*** Support for Sun windows will be removed.
+
+*** Support for VMS will be removed.
+
+* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.3
+
+** The following input methods were removed in Emacs 22.2, but this was
+not advertised: danish-alt-postfix, esperanto-alt-postfix,
+finnish-alt-postfix, german-alt-postfix, icelandic-alt-postfix,
+norwegian-alt-postfix, scandinavian-alt-postfix, spanish-alt-postfix,
+and swedish-alt-postfix. Use the versions without "alt-", which are
+identical.
+
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* Installation Changes in Emacs 22.2
** Emacs is now licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 (or later).
** focus-follows-mouse defaults to nil on MS Windows.
Previously this variable was incorrectly documented as having no effect
on MS Windows, and the default was inappropriate for the majority of
-Windows installations. Users of software which modifies the behaviour of
+Windows installations. Users of software which modifies the behavior of
Windows to cause focus to follow the mouse will now need to explicitly set
this variable.
customize `font-lock-comment-face'. Another alternative is to use a
newer terminal emulator that supports more colors (256 is now common).
For example, for xterm compatible emulators that support 256 colors,
-you can run emacs like this:
+you can run emacs like this:
env TERM=xterm-256color emacs -nw
(This was new in Emacs 22.1, but was not described. In Emacs 22.1
this also happened for terminals with a light background, that is not
** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added.
** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the
-following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
+following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
with simplified and traditional characters), French, Russian, and
Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language
setup doesn't automatically select the right one.
** New translations of the Emacs reference card are available in the
-Brasilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files
+Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files
are also included.
** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
*** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.
the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text.
-This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either
+This can be achieved by using shades of gray in contrast with either
black or white default foreground color. This generic shadow face
allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place,
so package-specific faces can inherit from it.
of a file.
*** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
-unicode.
+Unicode code point or character name.
*** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type
in the current input method to input a character at point.
breakpoints.
To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the
-old behaviour.
+old behavior.
*** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
and other common debugger commands.
*** Minor Improvements
-**** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
+**** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GnuTLS
instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool. For backwards
compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
-`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
+`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GnuTLS (or simply remove the
`starttls' tool).
**** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
** Fortran mode changes
*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
-It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
+It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizable
majority.
*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
*** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
`speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
-its descendents.
+its descendants.
*** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.
further filter candidate files.
One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
-`exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
+`exec-suffixes' is OS-dependent, so this function will find
executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.
*** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns
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+along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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