** In keymaps where SPC scrolls, S-SPC now scrolls in the reverse direction.
Eg View mode, etc.
+** New command `kmacro-to-register' to store keyboard macros in registers.
+
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* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
+** `ido-decorations' has been slightly extended to give a bit more control.
+
** More packages look for ~/.emacs.d/<foo> additionally to ~/.<foo>.
Affected files:
~/.emacs.d/timelog replaces ~/.timelog
use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
*** `delphi-tab' is gone, replaced by `indent-for-tab-command'.
+** Eldoc Mode works properly in the minibuffer.
+
** jit-lock-debug-mode lets you use the debuggers on code run via jit-lock.
** completing-read-multiple's separator can now be a regexp.
It also has an optional frame argument, which can be used by Lisp
callers to fit the image to a frame other than the selected frame.
+** Info
+
+*** New face `info-index-match' is used to highlight matches in index
+entries displayed by `Info-index-next', `Info-virtual-index' and
+`info-apropos'.
+
** Isearch
*** `C-x 8 RET' in Isearch mode reads a character by its Unicode name
*** The commands `woman-default-faces' and `woman-monochrome-faces'
are obsolete. Customize the `woman-* faces instead.
+** Eshell
+
+*** 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
+module.
+
** Obsolete packages:
*** longlines.el is obsolete; use visual-line-mode instead.
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* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
+** New `superword-mode' in subword.el
+`superword-mode' overrides the default word motion commands to treat
+symbol_words as a single word, similar to what `subword-mode' does and
+using the same internal functions.
+
** New nadvice.el package offering lighter-weight advice facilities.
It is layered as:
- add-function/remove-function which can be used to add/remove code on any
** `dont-compile' is declared obsolete.
+** `get-upcase-table' is obsoleted by the new `case-table-get-table'.
+
** Support for filesystem notifications.
Emacs now supports notifications of filesystem changes, such as
creation, modification, and deletion of files. This requires the