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-Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
`package-enable-at-startup' to nil. To change which packages are
loaded, customize `package-load-list'.
+** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
+Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
+their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
+
** Custom Themes
*** `M-x customize-themes' lists Custom themes which can be enabled.
is to search in `custom-theme-directory', followed by a built-in theme
directory named "themes/" in `data-directory'.
-*** New option `custom-safe-theme-files' lists known-safe theme files.
-If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it.
-The default value treats all themes included in Emacs as safe.
+*** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
+If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
+offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
+default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
the remote file-name cache is used for read access.
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* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
+** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
+
+** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
+functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricty, support for
+more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
+
** shell-mode can track your cwd by reading it from your prompt.
Just set shell-dir-cookie-re to an appropriate regexp.
*** It is possible now, to access alternative buses than the default
system or session bus.
-*** dbus-register-{method,property} do not necessarily register names anymore.
+*** dbus-register-{service,method,property}
+The -method and -property functions do not automatically register
+names anymore.
+
+The new function dbus-register-service registers a service known name
+on a D-Bus without simultaneously registering a property or a method.
** Tramp
**** Currently supported by Bzr.
+** Miscellaneous
+
+---
+*** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
+
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* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
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* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
+** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
+passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
+action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail.
+This is currently used by Rmail to delete a mail window.
+
** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
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* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
+** Removed the stack-trace-on-error variable.
+Also the debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will jump
+to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked instead of
+jumping all the way to the top-level.
+
** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of characters,
discarding any inputs not inside the set.
-** `y-or-n-p' and `yes-or-no-p' now accept format string arguments.
-
** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
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