Add multi-monitor support on W32.

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@@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ simply disabling Transient Mark mode does the same thing.
 ** `initial-buffer-choice' can now specify a function to set up the
 initial buffer.
 
+** `remember-notes' creates a buffer whose content is saved on kill-emacs.
+You may think of it as a *scratch* buffer whose content is preserved.
+In fact, it was designed as a replacement for *scratch* buffer and can
+be used that way by setting `initial-buffer-choice' to `remember-notes'
+and `remember-notes-buffer-name' to "*scratch*".  Without the second
+change, *scratch* buffer will still be there for notes that do not
+need to be preserved.
+
 ** `write-region-inhibit-fsync' now defaults to t in batch mode.
 
 ** ACL support has been added.
@@ -117,6 +125,14 @@ used to conveniently prepend/append new face attributes to text.
 `frame-monitor-attributes' can be used to obtain information about
 each physical monitor on multi-monitor setups.
 
+*** The functions `display-pixel-width' and `display-pixel-height' now
+behave consistently among the platforms: they return the pixel width
+or height for all physical monitors associated with the given display
+as just they were on X11.  To get information for each physical
+monitor, use the new functions above.  Similar notes also apply to
+`x-display-pixel-width', `x-display-pixel-height', `display-mm-width',
+`display-mm-height', `x-display-mm-width', and `x-display-mm-height'.
+
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 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
@@ -131,6 +147,13 @@ bound to <f11> and M-<f10>, respectively.
 ** In keymaps where SPC scrolls, S-SPC now scrolls in the reverse direction.
 Eg View mode, etc.
 
++++
+** New option `visual-order-cursor-movement'.
+If this is non-nil, cursor motion with arrow keys will follow the
+visual order of characters on the screen: <left> always moves to the
+left, <right> always moves to the right, disregarding the surrounding
+bidirectional context.
+
 ** New command `kmacro-to-register' to store keyboard macros in registers.
 
 ** Shell Script mode
@@ -203,6 +226,10 @@ The default separator is changed to allow surrounding spaces around the comma.
 
 *** Battery information via the BSD `apm' utility is now supported.
 
+** Buffer Menu
+
+*** `M-s a C-o' shows lines matching a regexp in marked buffers using Occur.
+
 ** Calendar and Diary
 
 +++
@@ -237,7 +264,7 @@ on the given date.
 *** `desktop-auto-save-timeout' defines the number of seconds between
 auto-saves of the desktop.
 
-*** `desktop-save-windows' enables saving and restoring the window/frame
+*** `desktop-restore-frames enables saving and restoring the window/frame
 configuration.
 
 ** Dired
@@ -362,7 +389,7 @@ New features include:
 - support for multiple todo files and archive files of done items;
 - renaming, reordering, moving, merging, and deleting categories;
 - sortable tabular summaries of categories and the types of items they contain;
-- cross-categorial lists of items filtered by specific criteria;
+- cross-category lists of items filtered by specific criteria;
 - more fine-grained interaction with the Emacs diary, by being able to decide
   for each todo item whether it appears in the Fancy Diary display;
 - highly flexible new item insertion and item editing;
@@ -392,6 +419,10 @@ when possible.
 *** Handlers for `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' for remote machines
 which support POSIX ACLs.
 
++++
+*** Handlers for `file-notify-add-watch' and `file-notify-rm-watch'
+for remote machines which support filesystem notifications.
+
 ** VHDL mode
 
 *** New options: `vhdl-actual-generic-name', `vhdl-beautify-options'.
@@ -405,9 +436,9 @@ are obsolete.  Customize the `woman-* faces instead.
 
 ** Eshell
 
-*** Added Eshell-TRAMP module
+*** Added Eshell-Tramp module
 External su and sudo commands are now the default; the internal,
-TRAMP-using variants can still be used by enabling the eshell-tramp
+Tramp-using variants can still be used by enabling the eshell-tramp
 module.
 
 ** New term.el option `term-suppress-hard-newline'.
@@ -447,6 +478,10 @@ It is layered as:
 - advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named function,
   much like `defadvice' does.
 
+** The package file-notify.el provides an interface for file system
+notifications.  It requires, that Emacs is compiled with one of the
+low-level libraries gfilenotify.c, inotify.c or w32notify.c.
+
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 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4