Remove obsolete display-buffer-reuse-frames from manuals.

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@@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ machines.  Other functions that use this format, such as
 file-attributes and format-time-string, have been changed accordingly.
 Old-format time stamps are still accepted.
 
+** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
+On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
+of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
+that support backtraces.
+
 ** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user
 name, group names known to the system (where possible).
 
@@ -192,6 +197,13 @@ of one or more whitespace characters defined by the variable
 `isearch-lax-whitespace'.  In regexp incremental search, it toggles
 the value of the variable `isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace'.
 
+** query-replace changes
+
+*** When new option `replace-lax-whitespace' is non-nil,
+and you enter a space or spaces in the strings or regexps
+to be replaced, `query-replace' will match any sequence matched
+by the regexp `search-whitespace-regexp'.
+
 ** M-x move-to-column, if called interactively with no prefix arg, now
 prompts for a column number.
 
@@ -601,6 +613,13 @@ are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
 \f
 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3
 
+** Interpreted files get eagerly macro-expanded during load.
+This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code, but can
+also bump into harmless and previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
+These should not be fatal: they will simply cause the macro-calls to be left
+for later expansion (as before), but will also result in a warning describing
+the cycle.
+
 ** New minor mode `read-only-mode' to replace toggle-read-only (now obsolete).
 
 ** New functions `autoloadp' and `autoload-do-load'.
@@ -626,6 +645,9 @@ The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
 
 ** New error type and new function `user-error'.  Doesn't trigger the debugger.
 
++++
+** New utility function `buffer-narrowed-p'.
+
 ** Window changes
 
 *** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
@@ -633,6 +655,11 @@ now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
 
 *** New macro with-temp-buffer-window.
 
+*** New option temp-buffer-resize-frames.
+
+*** New function fit-frame-to-buffer and new option
+    fit-frame-to-buffer-bottom-margin.
+
 *** New display action function display-buffer-below-selected.
 
 *** New display action alist `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil, tells
@@ -644,7 +671,7 @@ specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
 in Emacs 24.1:
-
++++
 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
 **** `special-display-regexps'
 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
@@ -671,6 +698,7 @@ by the underlying C implementation.
 
 ** `automount-dir-prefix' is obsolete.
 ** `buffer-has-markers-at' is obsolete.
+** `window-system-version' is obsolete.
 \f
 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on non-free operating systems
 
@@ -1403,6 +1431,10 @@ If you had that set, you need to put
 
 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
 
+*** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
+SMTP MAIL FROM envelope.  To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
+to the address you wish to use instead.
+
 ** SQL mode
 
 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
@@ -1900,6 +1932,10 @@ instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
 
+*** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
+message is displayed in the echo area.  This can be useful when trying
+to work out which code is doing something.
+
 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
 named Emacs server instances.