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This file is about changes in emacs versions 19.
The new command simula-indent-exp is bound to C-M-q.
** etags can now handle programs written in Erlang. Files are
-recognised by the extensions .erl and .hrl. The tagged lines are
+recognized by the extensions .erl and .hrl. The tagged lines are
those that begin a function, record, or macro.
** MSDOS Changes
*** RCS customization.
There is a new variable vc-consult-headers. If it is t (the default),
-VC searches for RCS headers in working files (like `$Id: NEWS.19,v 1.1 2006/06/04 01:01:51 kfstorm Exp $') and
+VC searches for RCS headers in working files (like `$Id$') and
determines the state of the file from them, not from the master file.
This is fast and more reliable when you use branches. (The variable
was already present in Emacs 19.29, but didn't get mentioned in the
** The new command-line option --eval specifies an expression to evaluate
from the command line.
-** etags has now the ability to tag Perl files. They are recognised
+** etags has now the ability to tag Perl files. They are recognized
either by the .pm and .pl suffixes or by a first line which starts
with `#!' and specifies a Perl interpreter. The tagged lines are
those beginning with the `sub' keyword.
-New suffixes recognised are .hpp for C++; .f90 for Fortran; .bib,
+New suffixes recognized are .hpp for C++; .f90 for Fortran; .bib,
.ltx, .TeX for TeX (.bbl, .dtx removed); .ml for Lisp; .prolog for
prolog (.pl is now Perl).
*** Completion works with file names containing quoted characters.
File names containing special characters (such as " ", "!", etc.) that are
-quoted with a "\" character are recognised during completion. Special
+quoted with a "\" character are recognized during completion. Special
characters are quoted when they are inserted during completion.
*** You can use M-x comint-truncate-buffer to truncate the buffer.
window system is used. Two new user options Man-overstrike-face
(default 'bold) and Man-underline-face (default 'underline) can be set
to the preferred faces to be used for the words that man overstrikes
-and underlines. Useful for those who like coloured man pages.
+and underlines. Useful for those who like colored man pages.
Two new interactive functions are provided: Man-cleanup-manpage and
Man-fontify-manpage. Both can be used on a buffer that contains the
** Changes to calendar/diary.
Time zone data is now determined automatically, including the
-start/stop days and times of daylight savings time. The code now
+start/stop days and times of daylight saving time. The code now
works correctly almost anywhere in the world.
The format of the holiday specifications has changed and IS NO LONGER
** It is now simpler to tell Emacs to display accented characters under
X windows. M-x standard-display-european toggles the display of
buffer text according to the ISO Latin-1 standard. With a prefix
-argument, this command enables European character display iff the
-argument is positive.
+argument, this command enables European character display if and only
+if the argument is positive.
** The `-i' command-line argument tells Emacs to use a picture of the
GNU gnu as its icon, instead of letting the window manager choose an
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