GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 1992.
-Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
The new command simula-indent-exp is bound to C-M-q.
** etags can now handle programs written in Erlang. Files are
-recognised by the extensions .erl and .hrl. The tagged lines are
+recognized by the extensions .erl and .hrl. The tagged lines are
those that begin a function, record, or macro.
** MSDOS Changes
** The new command-line option --eval specifies an expression to evaluate
from the command line.
-** etags has now the ability to tag Perl files. They are recognised
+** etags has now the ability to tag Perl files. They are recognized
either by the .pm and .pl suffixes or by a first line which starts
with `#!' and specifies a Perl interpreter. The tagged lines are
those beginning with the `sub' keyword.
-New suffixes recognised are .hpp for C++; .f90 for Fortran; .bib,
+New suffixes recognized are .hpp for C++; .f90 for Fortran; .bib,
.ltx, .TeX for TeX (.bbl, .dtx removed); .ml for Lisp; .prolog for
prolog (.pl is now Perl).
*** Completion works with file names containing quoted characters.
File names containing special characters (such as " ", "!", etc.) that are
-quoted with a "\" character are recognised during completion. Special
+quoted with a "\" character are recognized during completion. Special
characters are quoted when they are inserted during completion.
*** You can use M-x comint-truncate-buffer to truncate the buffer.
window system is used. Two new user options Man-overstrike-face
(default 'bold) and Man-underline-face (default 'underline) can be set
to the preferred faces to be used for the words that man overstrikes
-and underlines. Useful for those who like coloured man pages.
+and underlines. Useful for those who like colored man pages.
Two new interactive functions are provided: Man-cleanup-manpage and
Man-fontify-manpage. Both can be used on a buffer that contains the
** It is now simpler to tell Emacs to display accented characters under
X windows. M-x standard-display-european toggles the display of
buffer text according to the ISO Latin-1 standard. With a prefix
-argument, this command enables European character display iff the
-argument is positive.
+argument, this command enables European character display if and only
+if the argument is positive.
** The `-i' command-line argument tells Emacs to use a picture of the
GNU gnu as its icon, instead of letting the window manager choose an
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