** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
-emacs crash.
+Emacs crash.
---
** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
*** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Tajik,
Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6,
Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian,
-Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW. (Set up
-automatically according to the locale.)
+Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW,
+Esperanto. (Set up automatically according to the locale.)
---
*** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
*** New commands `lgrep' (local grep) and `rgrep' (recursive grep) are
more user-friendly versions of `grep' and `grep-find', which prompt
separately for the regular expression to match, the files to search,
-and the base directory for the search (rgrep only). Case sensitivitivy
-of the search is controlled by the current value of `case-fold-search'.
+and the base directory for the search. Case sensitivitivy of the
+search is controlled by the current value of `case-fold-search'.
These commands build the shell commands based on the new variables
`grep-template' (lgrep) and `grep-find-template' (rgrep).
---
*** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
-When emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
+When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
The following should work:
{C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8, they might not work on
automatically inserted at the global mark position. See the
commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.
-The features of cua also works with the standard emacs bindings for
+The features of cua also works with the standard Emacs bindings for
kill, copy, yank, and undo. If you want to use cua mode, but don't
want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
`cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.
** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
-emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim,
+Emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim,
invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable. The display method can
be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.
`Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
`Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
-for emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
+for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
`Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to
be multibyte or unibyte, respectively.
++++
+** The explicit method of creating a display table element by
+combining a face number and a character code into a numeric
+glyph code is deprecated.
+
+Instead, the new functions `make-glyph-code', `glyph-char', and
+`glyph-face' must be used to create and decode glyph codes in
+display tables.
+
\f
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
*** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.
`string-or-null-p' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a string or nil.
-`booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a t or nil.
+`booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is t or nil.
+++
*** New hook `command-error-function'.
specified by the syntax table.
---
-*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-end' and `symbol-start' elements.
+*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements.
+++
*** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
** Undo changes:
+++
-*** `buffer-undo-list' can allows programmable elements.
+*** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements.
These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
a symbol other than t or nil. That stands for a high-level change
*** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.
-On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
+On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent
by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before
-emacs tries to read it.
+Emacs tries to read it.
*** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.
*** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
-create a stream or datagram server inside emacs.
+create a stream or datagram server inside Emacs.
- A server is started using :server t arg.
- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
+++
** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
-buttons' in emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
+buttons' in Emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
`widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
doesn't require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for
such things as help and apropos buffers.
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