Let the debugger continue to the normal handler.

[bpt/emacs.git] / etc / NEWS

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 92d96fd..da9f1aa 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 
-Copyright (C) 2010, 2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2010-2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ automatically when Emacs starts up.  To disable this, set
 `package-enable-at-startup' to nil.  To change which packages are
 loaded, customize `package-load-list'.
 
+** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
+Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
+their code.  See the ERT info manual for details.
+
 ** Custom Themes
 
 *** `M-x customize-themes' lists Custom themes which can be enabled.
@@ -323,6 +327,8 @@ prompts for a number to count from and for a format string.
 \f
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
 
+** 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
 more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
@@ -601,6 +607,11 @@ means to prompt the user for command specifics, e.g. a merge location.
 
 **** Currently supported by Bzr.
 
+** Miscellaneous
+
+---
+*** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
+
 \f
 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
 
@@ -621,6 +632,11 @@ Notifications API.  It requires D-Bus for communication.
 \f
 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
 
+** `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.
+This is currently used by Rmail to delete a mail window.
+
 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
 area, excluding any header line.  Previously, it counted from the top
@@ -676,11 +692,14 @@ sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
 \f
 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
 
+** 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
+jumping all the way to the top-level.
+
 ** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of characters,
 discarding any inputs not inside the set.
 
-** `y-or-n-p' and `yes-or-no-p' now accept format string arguments.
-
 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
 not just image libraries.  The previous name is still available as an