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@@ -62,9 +62,29 @@ To use the old backend by default, do on the command line:
 
 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
++++
+** The -L option, which normally prepends its argument to load-path,
+will instead append, if the argument begins with `:'.
+
 
 * Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
++++
+** Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals.
+If the terminal supports a mouse, clicking on the menu bar, or on
+sensitive portions of the mode line or header line, will drop down the
+menu defined at that position.  Likewise, clicking C-mouse-2 or
+C-mouse-2 or C-mouse-3 on the text area will pop up the menus defined
+for those locations.
+
+If the text terminal does not support a mouse, you can activate the
+first menu-bar menu by typing F10, which invokes `menu-bar-open'.
+
+If you want the previous behavior, whereby F10 invoked `tmm-menubar',
+customize the option `tty-menu-open-use-tmm' to a non-nil value.
+(Typing M-` will always invoke `tmm-menubar', even if
+`tty-menu-open-use-tmm' is nil.)
+
 ** Key ? also describes prefix bindings like C-h.
 
 +++
@@ -144,6 +164,8 @@ monitor, use the new functions above.  Similar notes also apply to
 Generic commands are interactive functions whose implementation can be
 selected among several alternatives, as a matter of user preference.
 
+** New hooks `focus-in-hook', `focus-out-hook'.
+
 ** The blink cursor stops blinking after 10 blinks (default) on X and NS.
 You can change the default by customizing the variable blink-cursor-blinks.
 Also timers for blinking are stopped when no blinking is done, so Emacs does
@@ -154,9 +176,31 @@ not consume CPU cycles.
 some enhancements, like the ability to restore deleted frames.  Command
 `frame-configuration-to-register' is still available, but unbound.
 
+** The command `quail-help' is deleted.  Use `C-h C-\'
+(`describe-input-method') instead.
+
+** The default value of `comment-use-global-state' is changed to t,
+and this variable has been marked obsolete.
+
+** `fill-single-char-nobreak-p' prevents fill from breaking a line after
+a 1-letter word, which is an error according to Polish and
+Czech typography rules.  To globally enable this feature, evaluate:
+
+  (add-hook 'fill-nobreak-predicate 'fill-single-char-nobreak-p)
+
 
 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
+** Command `rectangle-mark-mode' bound to C-x SPC makes a rectangular region.
+Most commands are still unaware of it, but kill/yank do work on the rectangle.
+
+** C-x TAB enters a transient interactive mode.
+You can then use the left/right cursor keys to move the block of text.
+
+** `tab-stop-list' is now implicitly extended to infinity by repeating
+the last step.  Its default value is changed to nil which means a tab
+stop every `tab-width' columns.
+
 ** `split-window' is no longer a command, just a non-interactive function.
 As a command it was a special case of `split-window-below', and as such
 superfluous.  After being reimplemented in Lisp, its interactive form
@@ -175,6 +219,8 @@ visual order of characters on the screen: <left> always moves to the
 left, <right> always moves to the right, disregarding the surrounding
 bidirectional context.
 
+** All register commands can now show help with preview.
+
 ** New command `kmacro-to-register' to store keyboard macros in registers.
 
 ** Shell Script mode
@@ -185,6 +231,14 @@ You can pick the name of the function and the variables with `C-x 4 a'.
 
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
 
+** prolog-use-smie has been removed, along with the non-SMIE indentation code.
+
+** SMIE indentation can be customized via `smie-config'.
+The customization can be guessed by Emacs by providing a sample indented
+file and letting SMIE learn from it.
+
+** sh-script now uses its SMIE indentation algorithm by default.
+
 ** The debugger's `e' command evaluates the code in the context at point.
 This includes using the lexical environment at point, which means that
 `e' now lets you access lexical variables as well.
@@ -356,6 +410,14 @@ This is useful to avoid a query when you have no key for that name.
 will revert to the old behavior.
 
 
+** New features for Octave mode:
+*** Font locking for texinfo comments and new keywords
+*** Completion in Octave file buffers
+*** Eldoc support
+*** Jump to definition
+*** Documentation lookup/search
+*** Code cleanup and various bug fixes
+
 ** Ido
 *** Ido has a manual now.
 *** `ido-use-virtual-buffers' takes a new value 'auto.
@@ -522,10 +584,21 @@ External su and sudo commands are now the default; the internal,
 Tramp-using variants can still be used by enabling the eshell-tramp
 module.
 
+** Package
+
+*** The format of `archive-contents' files, generated by package
+repositories, has changed to allow a new (fifth) element in the data
+vectors, containing an associative list with extra properties.
+
+*** `describe-package' buffer uses the `:url' extra property to
+display a `Homepage' header, if it's present.
+
 ** New term.el option `term-suppress-hard-newline'.
 
 ** Obsolete packages:
 
+*** Iswitchb is made obsolete by icomplete-mode.
+
 *** longlines.el is obsolete; use visual-line-mode instead.
 
 +++
@@ -551,6 +624,9 @@ During initialization, Emacs no longer expends a process to decide
 whether it is safe to use Bash's --noediting option.  These days
 --noediting is ubiquitous; it was introduced in 1996 in Bash version 2.
 
++++
+** There is a new macro `skip-unless' for skipping ERT tests.  See the manual.
+
 
 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
 
@@ -580,6 +656,11 @@ low-level libraries gfilenotify.c, inotify.c or w32notify.c.
 
 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
+** `kill-region' lost its `yank-handler' optional argument.
+
+** `(input-pending-p)' no longer runs other timers which are ready to
+run.  The new optional CHECK-TIMERS param allows for the prior behavior.
+
 ** `defvar' and `defcustom' in a let-binding affect the "external" default.
 
 ** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
@@ -638,6 +719,28 @@ for something (not just adding elements to it), it ought not to affect you.
 
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
+** New hook `pre-redisplay-function'.
+
++++
+** Functions that pop up menus and dialogs now work on all terminal types,
+including TTYs.
+This includes `x-popup-menu', `x-popup-dialog', `message-box',
+`yes-or-no-p', etc.
+
+The function `display-popup-menus-p' will now return non-nil for a
+display or frame whenever a mouse is supported on that display or
+frame.
+
+** New bool-vector set operation functions:
+*** `bool-vector-exclusive-or'
+*** `bool-vector-union'
+*** `bool-vector-intersection'
+*** `bool-vector-set-difference'
+*** `bool-vector-not'
+*** `bool-vector-subsetp'
+*** `bool-vector-count-consecutive'
+*** `bool-vector-count-population'
+
 ** Comparison functions =, <, >, <=, >= now take many arguments.
 
 ** The second argument of `eval' can now be a lexical-environment.
@@ -651,6 +754,10 @@ for something (not just adding elements to it), it ought not to affect you.
 +++
 ** New macro with-eval-after-load.  Like eval-after-load, but better behaved.
 
+** New library helpers.el for misc helper functions
+*** `hash-table-keys'
+*** `hash-table-values'
+
 ** Obsoleted functions:
 *** `log10'
 *** `dont-compile'
@@ -707,6 +814,10 @@ rather than inheriting from it (as do face specs set via Customize).
 *** New face characteristic (supports :underline (:style wave))
 specifies whether or not the terminal can display a wavy line.
 
+*** New face spec attribute :distant-foreground
+specifies foreground to use if background color is near the foreground
+color that would otherwise have been used.
+
 ** Image API
 
 +++