GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 1992.
-Copyright (C) 1993-1995, 2001, 2006-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1993-1995, 2001, 2006-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
use of etags and TAGS files for languages not supported by etags.
The Emacs manual section on Tags contains explanations and examples
-for Emacs's DEFVAR, VHDL, Cobol, Postscript and TCL.
+for Emacs's DEFVAR, VHDL, Cobol, PostScript and TCL.
** Various mode-specific commands that used to be bound to C-c LETTER
have been moved.
containing an open brace just after a case/default label.
*** New variable, c-progress-interval, which controls minibuffer update
-message displays during long re-indention. This is a new feature
+message displays during long re-indentation. This is a new feature
which prints percentage complete messages at specified intervals.
** Makefile mode changes.
controlling whether to restrict possible completions to only files
that are executable (`shell-command-execonly').
-The input history is initialised from the file name given in the
+The input history is initialized from the file name given in the
variable `shell-input-ring-file-name'--normally `.history' in your
home directory.
So that such output processing may be done efficiently, there is a new
variable, comint-last-output-start, that records the position of the start of
-the lastest output inserted into the buffer (effectively the previous value
+the last output inserted into the buffer (effectively the previous value
of process-mark). Output processing functions should process the text
between comint-last-output-start (or perhaps the beginning of the line that
the position lies on) and process-mark.
** If you call `get-buffer-window' passing t as its second argument, it
will only search for windows on visible frames. Previously, passing t
-as the secord argument caused `get-buffer-window' to search all
+as the second argument caused `get-buffer-window' to search all
frames, visible or not.
** If you call `other-buffer' with a nil or omitted second argument, it
** M-x revert-buffer no longer offers to revert from a recent auto-save
file unless you give it a prefix argument. Otherwise it always
reverts from the real file regardless of whether there has been an
-auto-save since thenm. (Reverting from the auto-save file is no longer
+auto-save since then. (Reverting from the auto-save file is no longer
very useful now that the undo capacity is larger.)
** M-x recover-file no longer turns off Auto Save mode when it reads
1. This copies the text from the right-hand buffer as a second column
in the other buffer. To go back to two-column editing, use C-x 6 s.
-Use C-x 6 d to disassociate the two buffers, leaving each as it
+Use C-x 6 d to dissociate the two buffers, leaving each as it
stands. (If the other buffer, the one that was not current when you
type C-x 6 d, is empty, C-x 6 d kills it.)