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+* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.4
+
+** EDE
+
+*** New variable `ede-project-directories'.
+EDE now refuses to automatically load a project file (Project.ede)
+unless the file is in one of the directories specified by this
+variable. This reduces the risk of inadvertently loading malicious
+project files. The commands `M-x ede-new' and `M-x ede' now offer to
+save directories to `ede-project-directories'.
+
* Changes in Emacs 23.4 on non-free operating systems
** The MS-Windows port can now use more than 500MB of heap.
Depending on the available virtual memory, Emacs on Windows can now
-have up to 2GB of heap space. This allows, e.g., to visit several
+have up to 2GB of heap space. This allows, e.g., visiting several
large (> 256MB) files in the same session.
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terminal frames using emacsclient.
**** emacsclient starts emacs in daemon mode and connects to it when
---alternate-editor="" is used (or when the evironment variable
+--alternate-editor="" is used (or when the environment variable
ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set to "") and emacsclient cannot connect to an
emacs server.
*** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets.
See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently
-as tables of unicodes.
+as tables of Unicode code points.
*** There are new language environments for Chinese-GBK,
Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu,
*** The mode-line tooltips have been improved to provide more details.
-*** The VC, line/colum number and minor mode indicators on the mode
+*** The VC, line/column number and minor mode indicators on the mode
line are now interactive: mouse-1 can be used on them to pop up a menu.
** File deletion can make use of the Recycle Bin or system Trash folder.
region, similar to mouse-selection.
*** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or
-mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command.
-They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not
+mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated after the next command.
+They are deactivated only after point motion commands that are not
shift-translated, or after commands that would ordinarily deactivate
the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the
buffer).
When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote
file copy is checked via the file's checksum.
-*** Passwords can be read from an authentification file.
+*** Passwords can be read from an authentication file.
Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if
necessary.
** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows.
The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus
-on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode
+on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full Unicode
support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts. A
rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time
and developers. If demand still exists for such a backend even with
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