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   1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
   2
   3 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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   8
   9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 23.
  10
  11 See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17
  12 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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  14 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
  15 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
  16
  17 Temporary note:
  18  +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
  19  --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
  20 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
  21 so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
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  24 * About external Lisp packages
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  26 \f
  27 * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1
  28
  29 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid.
  30
  31 ** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for
  32 a GIF library.
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  34 \f
  35 * Changes in Emacs 23.1
  36
  37 ** If you set find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file to t, then C-x C-f
  38 requires confirmation before opening a non-existent file.
  39
  40 ** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode enabled, Emacs uses a
  41 Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server, rather than faking events
  42 using the client program mev.  This C level approach provides mouse
  43 highlighting, and help echoing in the minibuffer.
  44
  45 ** The new variable next-error-recenter specifies how next-error should
  46 recenter the visited source file.  Its value can be a number (for example,
  47 0 for top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering.
  48
  49 \f
  50 * Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1
  51
  52 \f
  53 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
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  55 \f
  56 * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
  57
  58 ** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp.
  59
  60 \f
  61 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
  62
  63 ** css-mode to edit Cascading Style Sheets.
  64
  65 ** bibtex-style-mode helps you write BibTeX's *.bst files.
  66
  67 ** vera-mode to edit Vera files.
  68
  69 ** socks.el (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
  70
  71 ** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt.
  72
  73 \f
  74 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
  75
  76 ** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names.
  77 Only copyright lines with holders matching copyright-names-regexp will be
  78 considered for update.
  79
  80 ** VC
  81 *** VC backends can provide completion of revision names.
  82 *** VC has some support for Bazaar (bzr).
  83
  84 *** VC has some support for Mercurial (hg).
  85
  86 ** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs.
  87
  88 ** BibTeX mode:
  89
  90 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and
  91 `string', disabled by default.
  92
  93 *** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to
  94 identify cited keys in BibTeX entries, used by `bibtex-find-crossref.
  95
  96 *** Command `bibtex-url' now allows multiple URLs per entry.
  97
  98 \f
  99 * Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems
 100
 101 \f
 102 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
 103
 104 +++
 105 ** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed.
 106
 107 \f
 108 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
 109
 110 ** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts a new value
 111 `confirm-only'.
 112
 113 +++
 114 ** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly.
 115
 116 +++
 117 ** New variable `user-emacs-directory'.
 118 Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d".
 119
 120 +++
 121 ** The new function `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated
 122 with a given image specification.
 123
 124 +++
 125 ** The new function `start-file-process is similar to `start-process',
 126 but obeys file handlers.  The file handler is chosen based on
 127 `default-directory'.
 128
 129 \f
 130 * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1
 131
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