Merge from emacs-24; up to 2012-11-15T23:31:37Z!dancol@dancol.org

[bpt/emacs.git] / etc / NEWS

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
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--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -858,15 +858,10 @@ More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments.
 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
 
++++
 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
 table, but with a different prefix.
 
-FIXME?
-*** There are several other completion-table- functions that never got
-added to NEWS or documented: completion-table-case-fold (24.1),
-completion-table-with-context (23,1), completion-table-with-terminator (23.1),
-completion-table-with-predicate (23.1), completion-table-in-turn (23.1)
-
 ** Debugger changes
 
 +++
@@ -892,14 +887,19 @@ now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
 +++
 *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'.
 
-*** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window'.
++++
+*** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window', similar to
+`with-output-to-temp-buffer'.
 
+---
 *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been
 reused.
 
++++
 *** New command `fit-frame-to-buffer' adjusts the frame height to
 fit the contents.
 
++++
 *** The command `fit-window-to-buffer' can adjust the frame height
 if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil.
 
@@ -909,11 +909,11 @@ window's point when switching buffers.
 +++
 *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected',
 and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
-
++++
 *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
 tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
 selected.
-
++++
 *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
 non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
 +++
@@ -969,13 +969,14 @@ Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
 on others.  The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt,
 log, log10, sqrt, and mod.
 
-** Interpreted files are eagerly macro-expanded during load.
++++
+** Emacs tries to macroexpand interpreted (non-compiled) files during load.
 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code,
-but can also bump into harmless and previously unnoticed cyclic
-dependencies.  These should not be fatal: they will simply cause the
-macro-calls to be left for later expansion (as before), but will also
-result in a warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle")
-describing the cycle.
+but can also bump into previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
+These are generally harmless: they will simply cause the macro calls
+to be left for later expansion (as before), but will result in a
+warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle") describing the cycle.
+You may wish to restructure your code so this does not happen.
 
 ** Miscellaneous new functions:
 +++