GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 1992.
-Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1993-1995, 2001, 2006-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
The new command simula-indent-exp is bound to C-M-q.
** etags can now handle programs written in Erlang. Files are
-recognised by the extensions .erl and .hrl. The tagged lines are
+recognized by the extensions .erl and .hrl. The tagged lines are
those that begin a function, record, or macro.
** MSDOS Changes
It is generally recommended to use `system-configuration' rather
than `system-type'.
-See the file LINUX-GNU in this directory for more about this.
+See <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html> for more about this.
** The functions shell-command and dired-call-process
now run file name handlers for default-directory, if it has them.
** The new command-line option --eval specifies an expression to evaluate
from the command line.
-** etags has now the ability to tag Perl files. They are recognised
+** etags has now the ability to tag Perl files. They are recognized
either by the .pm and .pl suffixes or by a first line which starts
with `#!' and specifies a Perl interpreter. The tagged lines are
those beginning with the `sub' keyword.
-New suffixes recognised are .hpp for C++; .f90 for Fortran; .bib,
+New suffixes recognized are .hpp for C++; .f90 for Fortran; .bib,
.ltx, .TeX for TeX (.bbl, .dtx removed); .ml for Lisp; .prolog for
prolog (.pl is now Perl).
use of etags and TAGS files for languages not supported by etags.
The Emacs manual section on Tags contains explanations and examples
-for Emacs's DEFVAR, VHDL, Cobol, Postscript and TCL.
+for Emacs's DEFVAR, VHDL, Cobol, PostScript and TCL.
** Various mode-specific commands that used to be bound to C-c LETTER
have been moved.
containing an open brace just after a case/default label.
*** New variable, c-progress-interval, which controls minibuffer update
-message displays during long re-indention. This is a new feature
+message displays during long re-indentation. This is a new feature
which prints percentage complete messages at specified intervals.
** Makefile mode changes.
*** Completion works with file names containing quoted characters.
File names containing special characters (such as " ", "!", etc.) that are
-quoted with a "\" character are recognised during completion. Special
+quoted with a "\" character are recognized during completion. Special
characters are quoted when they are inserted during completion.
*** You can use M-x comint-truncate-buffer to truncate the buffer.
window system is used. Two new user options Man-overstrike-face
(default 'bold) and Man-underline-face (default 'underline) can be set
to the preferred faces to be used for the words that man overstrikes
-and underlines. Useful for those who like coloured man pages.
+and underlines. Useful for those who like colored man pages.
Two new interactive functions are provided: Man-cleanup-manpage and
Man-fontify-manpage. Both can be used on a buffer that contains the
controlling whether to restrict possible completions to only files
that are executable (`shell-command-execonly').
-The input history is initialised from the file name given in the
+The input history is initialized from the file name given in the
variable `shell-input-ring-file-name'--normally `.history' in your
home directory.
So that such output processing may be done efficiently, there is a new
variable, comint-last-output-start, that records the position of the start of
-the lastest output inserted into the buffer (effectively the previous value
+the last output inserted into the buffer (effectively the previous value
of process-mark). Output processing functions should process the text
between comint-last-output-start (or perhaps the beginning of the line that
the position lies on) and process-mark.
** If you call `get-buffer-window' passing t as its second argument, it
will only search for windows on visible frames. Previously, passing t
-as the secord argument caused `get-buffer-window' to search all
+as the second argument caused `get-buffer-window' to search all
frames, visible or not.
** If you call `other-buffer' with a nil or omitted second argument, it
** M-x revert-buffer no longer offers to revert from a recent auto-save
file unless you give it a prefix argument. Otherwise it always
reverts from the real file regardless of whether there has been an
-auto-save since thenm. (Reverting from the auto-save file is no longer
+auto-save since then. (Reverting from the auto-save file is no longer
very useful now that the undo capacity is larger.)
** M-x recover-file no longer turns off Auto Save mode when it reads
1. This copies the text from the right-hand buffer as a second column
in the other buffer. To go back to two-column editing, use C-x 6 s.
-Use C-x 6 d to disassociate the two buffers, leaving each as it
+Use C-x 6 d to dissociate the two buffers, leaving each as it
stands. (If the other buffer, the one that was not current when you
type C-x 6 d, is empty, C-x 6 d kills it.)
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+GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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-any later version.
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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+along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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