From 601e0081ea958c0b781e7490a30baafdf1ac8135 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Monnier Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:34:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New font-lock-doc-face. `comment-region' doesn't comment only whole lines. Bad backrefs signal an error rather than turning into digits. --- etc/NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index df7720f3c5..4d7a45bf0f 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -889,6 +889,9 @@ font-lock keywords from the current buffer or from a specific major mode. *** `font-lock-syntactic-face-function' allows major-modes to choose the face used for each string/comment. +*** A new standard face `font-lock-doc-face'. +Meant for Lisp docstrings, Javadoc comments and other "documentation in code". + ** Comint (subshell) changes These changes generally affect all modes derived from comint mode, which @@ -1690,6 +1693,8 @@ parser. It doesn't parse the DTDs however. *** The comment operations are now provided by the newcomment.el package which allows different styles of comment-region and should be more robust while offering the same functionality. +`comment-region' now doesn't always comment a-line-at-a-time, but only +comments the region, breaking the line at point if necessary. +++ *** The Ebrowse package implements a C++ class browser and tags @@ -2429,6 +2434,9 @@ what BODY returns. +++ ** Regular expressions now support intervals \{n,m\} as well as Perl's shy-groups \(?:...\) and non-greedy *? +? and ?? operators. +Also backreferences like \2 are now considered as an error if the +corresponding subgroup does not exist (or is not closed yet). +Previously it would have been silently turned into `2' (ignoring the `\'). +++ ** The optional argument BUFFER of function file-local-copy has been -- 2.20.1