Implement bidi-sensitive movement with arrow keys.

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@@ -43,14 +43,12 @@ You can disable this by using --without-selinux.
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 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
 
+** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold.
+
 ** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default.
 
 +++
 ** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
-Warning: This is still very much experimental!  The existing support
-is minimal, and when it's turned on (see below), many features are
-likely to give unexpected results, or break, or even crash!  Use at
-your own risk!
 
 See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some
 initial documentation.
@@ -65,10 +63,17 @@ according to the value of this variable.  Possible values are
 default), Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph from
 its text, as specified by the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
 
+The function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction' returns the actual
+value of paragraph base direction at point.
+
 Reordering of bidirectional text for display in Emacs is a "Full
 bidirectionality" class implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional
 Algorithm.
 
+Note that some advanced display features, such as overlay strings and
+`display' text properties, do not yet work correctly when
+bidirectional text is reordered for display.
+
 ** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
 Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.
 
@@ -109,14 +114,23 @@ define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position.
 
 ** completion-at-point is now an alias for complete-symbol.
 
+** mouse-region-delete-keys has been deleted.
+
+** If delete-file is called with a prefix argument, it really deletes,
+regardless of the value of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
+
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 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
 
 ** Archive Mode has basic support to browse 7z archives.
 
+** In ido-mode, C-v is no longer bound to ido-toggle-vc.
+The reason is that this interferes with cua-mode.
+
 ** partial-completion-mode is now obsolete.
-You can get the same behavior with
-(setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials)).
+You can get a comparable behavior with:
+(setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
+(setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
 
 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
 ** Customize
@@ -152,6 +166,38 @@ is just left as is in the message, so it is not lost.
 For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your
 .dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers.
 
+** SQL Mode enhancements.
+
+*** Several variables have been marked as safe local variables.
+The variables `sql-product', `sql-user', `sql-server', and
+`sql-database' can now be safely used as local variables.
+
+*** Added ability to login with a port on MySQL.
+The custom variable `sql-port' can be specified for connection to
+MySQL servers.
+
+*** Custom variables control prompting for login parameters.
+Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params'
+which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
+connection is established.
+
+*** Added option `sql-send-terminator'.
+When set makes sure that each command sent with `sql-send-*' commands
+are properly terminated and submitted to the SQL processor.
+
+*** Added option `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
+When set commands sent to Oracle's SQL*Plus are scanned for strings
+starting with an ampersand and the user is asked for replacement
+text.  In general, the SQL*Plus option SCAN should be set OFF under
+SQL interactive mode.
+
+*** SQL interactive mode will replace tabs with spaces.
+This prevents the comand interpretter for MySQL and Postgres from
+listing object name completions when being sent text via
+`sql-send-*' functions.
+
+*** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
+
 ** s-region.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by shift-select-mode
 enabled by default in 23.1.
 
@@ -178,6 +224,15 @@ Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication.
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 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
 
+** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
+** prog-mode is a new major-mode meant to be the parent of programming mode.
+** define-minor-mode accepts a new keyword :variable.
+
+** delete-file now accepts an optional second arg, FORCE, which says
+to always delete and ignore the value of delete-by-moving-to-trash.
+
+** buffer-substring-filters is obsoleted by filter-buffer-substring-functions.
+
 ** New completion style `substring'.
 
 ** Image API