* bindings.el: Give mode-line-format, mode-line-modes, and

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@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ doesn't automatically select the right one.
 Its name is `pt-br-refcard.tex'.  The corresponding PostScript file is
 also included.
 
-
 ---
 ** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
 
@@ -202,6 +201,13 @@ an interactively callable function.
 all frames you create.  A position specified with --geometry only
 affects the initial frame.
 
+---
+** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does,
+wrt its frame position: if you don't specify a position (in your
+.emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry command-line
+option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows' window
+manager.
+
 +++
 ** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display.
 When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options
@@ -241,8 +247,9 @@ according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
 
 +++
 ** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value
-to compute the default value of `use-mail-address', in preference to
+to compute the default value of `user-mail-address', in preference to
 concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine.
+
 \f
 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
 
@@ -3654,8 +3661,10 @@ w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.
 \f
 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
 
-** The function find-operation-coding-system accepts a cons (FILENAME
-. BUFFER) in an argument correponding to the target.
+** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons
+(FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument
+OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in
+`file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument.
 
 ---
 ** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have
@@ -4408,6 +4417,12 @@ name handlers.  This will be exploited for remote files mainly.
 
 ** Input changes:
 
++++
+*** The functions `read-event', `read-char', and `read-char-exclusive'
+have a new optional argument SECONDS.  If non-nil, this specifies a
+maximum time to wait for input, in seconds.  If no input arrives after
+this time elapses, the functions stop waiting and return nil.
+
 +++
 *** An interactive specification can now use the code letter 'U' to get
 the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
@@ -4617,6 +4632,8 @@ Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
 keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their
 keymap alist to this list.
 
+*** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style
+key-sequences, such as [(control a)].
 ** Abbrev changes:
 
 +++
@@ -5346,6 +5363,11 @@ text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a `jit-lock-defer-multiline'
 property over the second half of the command to force (deferred)
 refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed.
 
+*** `font-lock-extend-region-functions' makes it possible to alter the way
+the fontification region is chosen.  This can be used to prevent rounding
+up to whole lines, or to extend the region to include all related lines
+of multiline constructs so that such constructs get properly recognized.
+
 ** Major mode mechanism changes:
 
 +++