[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/NEWS

[Richard M. Stallman]

Index: emacs/etc/NEWS
diff -c emacs/etc/NEWS:1.723 emacs/etc/NEWS:1.724
*** emacs/etc/NEWS:1.723        Tue Aug 13 18:55:18 2002
--- emacs/etc/NEWS      Sun Aug 18 20:53:49 2002
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  * Changes in Emacs 21.4
  
- ** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
- backup using `ediff'.  If you specify the name of a backup file,
- `ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.
- 
  +++
  ** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
  When the file is maintained under version control, that information
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  the Buffers menu is regenerated.
  
  +++
- ** `C-u C-x =' now displays text properties of the character at point.
- 
- +++
  ** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
  now look at the character after point.  If a face or faces are
  specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
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  Cyrillic-KOI8-T, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8,
  Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian.
  
+ ---
  ** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
  ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer,
  vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard,
  latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml,
  bulgarian-phonetic, dutch.
  
+ ---
+ ** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
+ in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
+ Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
+ 
+ ---
  ** Many new coding systems are available by loading the `code-pages'
  library.  These include complete versions of most of those in
  codepage.el, based Unicode mappings.
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  many columns to scroll.  If the value is a floating-point number, it
  gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.
  
+ The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to
+ `auto-hscroll-mode'.  The old name is still available as an alias.
+ 
  +++
  ** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
  by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
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  TeX commands to use at startup.
  
  +++
- ** The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to `auto-hscroll-mode'.
- The old name is still available as an alias.
- 
- +++
  ** New display feature: focus follows mouse.  If you set the variable
  mouse-autoselect-window to non-nil value, moving the mouse to a different
  Emacs window will select that window (minibuffer window can be selected
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  to your .emacs to revert to the old behavior.
  
- ---
- ** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
- in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
- Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
- 
  +++
  ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
  automatically at startup, if it exists.  When Emacs offers to save
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  then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
  comparison.
  
+ ** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
+ backup using `ediff'.  If you specify the name of a backup file,
+ `ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.
+ 
  +++
  ** Etags changes.
  
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  ---
  *** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
  customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
+ 
+ *** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
+ `text tables' in Emacs buffers.  It simulates the effect of putting
+ these tables in a special major mode.  The package emulates WYSIWYG
+ table editing available in modern word processors.  The package also
+ can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such
+ as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.
  
  ---
  ** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.