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

[Richard M. Stallman]

Index: emacs/etc/NEWS
diff -c emacs/etc/NEWS:1.839 emacs/etc/NEWS:1.840
*** emacs/etc/NEWS:1.839        Mon Jul 14 18:02:44 2003
--- emacs/etc/NEWS      Mon Jul 21 05:58:34 2003
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*** 1714,1720 ****
  +++
  ** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.
  
! ** The new command `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
  for all (existing and future) frames.
  
  +++
--- 1714,1721 ----
  +++
  ** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.
  
! +++
! ** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
  for all (existing and future) frames.
  
  +++
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*** 1726,1787 ****
  +++
  ** The macro `with-syntax-table' does not copy the table any more.
  
  ** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger
  (or smaller) font we should use.  For instance, if the value is
  '((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10
  point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches
  SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN.
  
  ** The function `number-sequence' returns a list of equally-separated
  numbers.  For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9).
  By default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different separation
  as the third argument.  (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns (1.5 3.5 5.5).
  
  ** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which
  specifies the maximum number of links to chase through.  If after that
  many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link,
  `file-chase-links' returns it anyway.
  
  ** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
  the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..
  
  ** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character,
  unless it is followed by a `-' in a character constant (e.g. ?\s-A),
  in which case it is still interpreted as the super modifier.
  In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space.
  
  ** New function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the multibyteness
  of a string given to a process's filter.
  
  ** New function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns t if
  a string given to a process's filter is multibyte.
  
  ** A filter function of a process is called with a multibyte string if
  the filter's multibyteness is t.  That multibyteness is decided by the
  value of `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is
  created and can be changed later by `set-process-filter-multibyte'.
  
  ** If a process's coding system is raw-text or no-conversion and its
  buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted
  to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer.
  Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte',
  which was not compatible with the behaviour of file reading.
  
  ** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
  multibyte string with the same individual character codes.
  
  ** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
  on garbage collection.
  
  ** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if
  it is read from a file without decoding.
  
! ** New function `langinfo' accesses locale information.
  
  ** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
  of every frame.  This way, it restores everything that can be changed
  by calling `select-window'.
  
  ** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name
  if you don't need to give the menu a name.  If you install the menu
  into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't
--- 1727,1803 ----
  +++
  ** The macro `with-syntax-table' does not copy the table any more.
  
+ +++
  ** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger
  (or smaller) font we should use.  For instance, if the value is
  '((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10
  point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches
  SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN.
  
+ +++
  ** The function `number-sequence' returns a list of equally-separated
  numbers.  For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9).
  By default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different separation
  as the third argument.  (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns (1.5 3.5 5.5).
  
+ +++
  ** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which
  specifies the maximum number of links to chase through.  If after that
  many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link,
  `file-chase-links' returns it anyway.
  
+ ---
  ** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
  the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..
  
+ +++
  ** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character,
  unless it is followed by a `-' in a character constant (e.g. ?\s-A),
  in which case it is still interpreted as the super modifier.
  In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space.
  
+ +++
  ** New function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the multibyteness
  of a string given to a process's filter.
  
+ +++
  ** New function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns t if
  a string given to a process's filter is multibyte.
  
+ +++
  ** A filter function of a process is called with a multibyte string if
  the filter's multibyteness is t.  That multibyteness is decided by the
  value of `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is
  created and can be changed later by `set-process-filter-multibyte'.
  
+ +++
  ** If a process's coding system is raw-text or no-conversion and its
  buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted
  to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer.
  Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte',
  which was not compatible with the behaviour of file reading.
  
+ +++
  ** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
  multibyte string with the same individual character codes.
  
+ +++
  ** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
  on garbage collection.
  
+ +++
  ** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if
  it is read from a file without decoding.
  
! +++
! ** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information.
  
+ +++
  ** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
  of every frame.  This way, it restores everything that can be changed
  by calling `select-window'.
  
+ ---
  ** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name
  if you don't need to give the menu a name.  If you install the menu
  into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't
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*** 1789,1794 ****
--- 1805,1811 ----
  
  ** Byte compiler changes:
  
+ ---
  *** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil.  This
  helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both
  Emacs and XEmacs and may sometimes make the result significantly more
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*** 1796,1801 ****
--- 1813,1819 ----
  generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
  you anything.
  
+ +++
  *** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a
  simple convention that the compiler understands.  (This is mostly
  useful in code meant to be portable to different Emacs versions.)
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*** 1812,1824 ****
  macro expansion), but such tests may be nested.  Note that `when' and
  `unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't.
  
! ** New translation table `translation-table-for-input'.
  
  +++
  ** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
  which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the
  current file redefined it).
  
  ** New Lisp library testcover.el works with edebug to help you determine
  whether you've tested all your Lisp code.  Function testcover-start
  instruments all functions in a given file.  Then test your code.  Function
--- 1830,1850 ----
  macro expansion), but such tests may be nested.  Note that `when' and
  `unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't.
  
! +++
! *** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
! inside its body.  In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.
! 
! +++
! ** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
! is used for customizing self-insertion.  The character to
! be inserted is translated through it.
  
  +++
  ** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
  which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the
  current file redefined it).
  
+ +++
  ** New Lisp library testcover.el works with edebug to help you determine
  whether you've tested all your Lisp code.  Function testcover-start
  instruments all functions in a given file.  Then test your code.  Function
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*** 1841,1853 ****
  do anything dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be
  unsafe (calls dangerous function, alters global variable, etc).
  
! ** When you are printing using print-continuous-numbering,
! if no objects have had to be recorded in print-number-table,
! all elements of print-number-table are nil.
  
  ** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width,
  the scroll-bar-width frame parameter value is nil.
  
  ** The new function copy-abbrev-table returns a new abbrev table that
  is a copy of a given abbrev table.
  
--- 1867,1886 ----
  do anything dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be
  unsafe (calls dangerous function, alters global variable, etc).
  
! +++
! ** The new variable `print-continuous-numbering', when non-nil, says
! that successive calls to print functions should use the same
! numberings for circular structure references.  This is only relevant
! when `print-circle' is non-nil.
! 
! When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
! also bind `print-number-table' to nil.
  
+ +++
  ** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width,
  the scroll-bar-width frame parameter value is nil.
  
+ +++
  ** The new function copy-abbrev-table returns a new abbrev table that
  is a copy of a given abbrev table.
  
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*** 1858,1869 ****
--- 1891,1905 ----
  
     #!/usr/bin/emacs --script
  
+ +++
  ** A function's docstring can now hold the function's usage info on
  its last line.  It should match the regexp "\n\n(fn.*)\\'".
  
+ ---
  ** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
  hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.
  
+ +++
  ** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional buffer
  argument is a minibuffer.  If the argument is omitted it defaults to
  the current buffer.
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*** 1871,1889 ****
--- 1907,1929 ----
  ** There is a new Warnings facility; see the functions `warn'
  and `display-warning'.
  
+ +++
  ** The functions all-completions and try-completion now accept lists
  of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
  and functions.  Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
  exported to Lisp.
  
+ ---
  ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
  much pure storage it will approximately need.
  
+ +++
  ** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
  to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
  for it.  (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
  file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)
  
+ ---
  ** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
  of one coding system from another coding system.