off by customizing x-gtk-use-system-tooltips.
** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is built
-with Xft. To change font, use X resource faceName, for example:
-Emacs.pane.menubar.faceName: Courier-12
-Set faceName to none and use font to use the old X fonts.
+with Xft. To change font, use the X resource font, for example:
+Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
+++
** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts
** 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
+functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity, support for
more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
** shell-mode can track your cwd by reading it from your prompt.
** browse-url has gotten a new variable that is used for mailto: URLs,
`browse-url-mailto-function', which defaults to `browse-url-mail'.
+** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers, in certain modes
+(eg dired, vc-dir, log-edit). For example, adding
+"(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your .dir-locals.el file,
+will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should
+call `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
+
++++
+** You can prevent directory local variables from applying to subdirectories.
+Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
+settings to indicate said section should not be applied to subdirectories.
+
** ERC changes
*** New vars `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay'.
** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
+*** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
+
---
*** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt package
by adding appt-make-list to diary-hook has been removed. Use appt-activate.
*** dired-jump and dired-jump-other-window called with a prefix argument
read a file name from the minibuffer instead of using buffer-file-name.
-** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers.
-For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your
-.dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers.
++++
+*** The `dired local variables' feature provided by Dired-x is obsolete.
+The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
** SQL Mode enhancements.
-*** Several variables have been marked as safe local variables. The
-variables `sql-product', `sql-user', `sql-server', `sql-database' and
-`sql-port' can now be safely used as local variables.
-
*** `sql-dialect' is a synonym for `sql-product'.
*** Added ability to login with a port on MySQL and Postgres.
**** List all objects.
Using `M-x sql-list-all', `C-c C-l a' or selecting "SQL->List all
objects" will list all the objects in the database. At a minimum it
-lists the tables and views in the database. Preceeding the command by
+lists the tables and views in the database. Preceding the command by
universal argument may provide additional details or extend the
listing to include other schemas objects. The list will appear in a
separate window in view-mode.
**** List Table details.
Using `M-x sql-list-table', `C-c C-l t' or selecting "SQL->List Table
details" will ask for the name of a database table or view and display
-the list of columns in the relation. Preceeding the comand with the
+the list of columns in the relation. Preceding the command with the
universal argument may provide additional details about each column.
The list will appear in a separate window in view-mode.
SQL interactive mode and this option used in its place.
*** SQL interactive mode will replace tabs with spaces.
-This prevents the comand interpretter for MySQL and Postgres from
+This prevents the command interpreter for MySQL and Postgres from
listing object name completions when being sent text via
`sql-send-*' functions.
** sregex.el is now obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
** s-region.el and pc-select are now declared obsolete,
-superceded by shift-select-mode enabled by default in 23.1.
+superseded by shift-select-mode enabled by default in 23.1.
** pc-mode.el is also declared obsolete.
** gdb-mi
*** There exists a new inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
*** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
-"ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old" and "fish".
+"ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
** VC and related modes
This merges another branch into the current one. This command prompts
the user for specifics, e.g. a merge source.
-**** Currently supported by Bzr, Git, and Mercurial.
+**** Currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial.
+
+*** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
+longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
+In the Log View buffers made by `C-x v L' (vc-print-root-log), you can
+use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
+
+**** Currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial.
+
+**** Packages using Log View mode can enable this functionality by
+binding `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function' to a suitable function.
** Miscellaneous
** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
+** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
+soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
+
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* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
+** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
+of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
+new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
+the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
+
** `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.
\f
* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
+** byte-compile-disable-print-circle is obsolete.
** 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
runtime checks.
** New configure.bat option --distfiles to specify files to be
- included in binary distribution
+included in binary distribution
-** New make target `dist' to create binary disttribution for Windows
- platform
+** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows
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