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   1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
   2
   3 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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   6 Please send Emacs bug reports to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.
   7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
   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.
  13
  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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  23 \f
  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 (as well as libungif) when
  32 searching for a GIF library.
  33
  34 \f
  35 * Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1
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  37 \f
  38 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
  39
  40 \f
  41 * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
  42
  43 ** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp.
  44
  45 \f
  46 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
  47
  48 ** css-mode to edit Cascading Style Sheets.
  49
  50 ** bibtex-style-mode helps you write BibTeX's *.bst files.
  51
  52 ** socks.el (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
  53
  54 \f
  55 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
  56
  57 ** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names.
  58 Only copyright lines with holders matching copyright-names-regexp will be
  59 considered for update.
  60
  61
  62 ** VC has some support for Bazaar (bzr).
  63
  64 \f
  65 * Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems
  66
  67 \f
  68 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
  69
  70 \f
  71 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
  72
  73 +++
  74 ** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly.
  75
  76 +++
  77 ** New variable `user-emacs-directory'.
  78 Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d".
  79
  80 \f
  81 * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1
  82
  83 \f
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