so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
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-* Installation Changes in Emacs 21.4
+* Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1
** Emacs includes now support for loading image libraries on demand.
(Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure
---
** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.
+** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also
+create non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See
+the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
+
---
** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.
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-* Changes in Emacs 21.4
+* Changes in Emacs 22.1
+
+** C-u M-x goto-line now switches to the most recent previous buffer,
+and goes to the specified line in that buffer.
+
+When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at
+point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer.
** Emacs now responds to mouse-clicks on the mode-line, header-line and
display margin, when run in an xterm.
boundries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the variable
`calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.
++++
** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
Traditionally, Emacs uses a Mouse-1 click to set point and a Mouse-2
click to follow a link, whereas most other applications use a Mouse-1
click for both purposes, depending on whether you click outside or
-inside a link. With release 21.4, the behaviour of a Mouse-1 click
-has been changed to match this context-sentitive dual behaviour.
+inside a link. Now the behavior of a Mouse-1 click has been changed
+to match this context-sentitive dual behavior.
Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs may do much
-more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behaviour is only
+more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
-(see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details). The lisp
-packages that are included in release 21.4 have been adapted to do
+(see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details). The Lisp
+packages that are included in release 22.1 have been adapted to do
this, but external packages may not yet support this. However, there
is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
-happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behaviour when you click
+happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.
If you want to get the original Mouse-1 action also inside a link, you
Dragging the Mouse-1 inside a link still performs the original
drag-mouse-1 action, typically copy the text.
-You can customize the new Mouse-1 behaviour via the new user option
-`mouse-1-click-follows-link'.
+You can customize the new Mouse-1 behavior via the new user options
+`mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'.
+++
** require-final-newline now has two new possible values:
+++
** When the undo information of the current command gets really large
-(beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs asks you whether to
-discard it or keep it.
+(beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns
+you about it.
** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, the blinking
cursor, and the fancy startup screen.
++++
+** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables
+the blinking cursor on graphical terminals.
+
** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for
variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available).
*** Grep commands now have their own submenu and customization group.
++++
+*** `grep-find' is now also available under the name `find-grep' where
+people knowing `find-grep-dired' would probably expect it.
+
*** The new variables `grep-window-height', `grep-auto-highlight', and
`grep-scroll-output' can be used to override the corresponding
compilation mode settings for grep commands.
cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline.
The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' may be set to nil to
-revert to the old behaviour of continuing such lines.
+revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines.
+++
** The buffer boundaries (i.e. first and last line in the buffer) may
*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
with the number appended to the *info* buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").
-*** Regexp isearch (C-M-s and C-M-r) can search through multiple nodes.
-Failed isearch wraps to the top/final node.
+*** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.
+Failed isearch wraps to the top/final node. The user option
+`Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search or the
+default isearch search function.
*** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
`Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
** Unexpected yanking of text due to accidental clicking on the mouse
wheel button (typically mouse-2) during wheel scrolling is now avoided.
-This behaviour can be customized via the mouse-wheel-click-event and
+This behavior can be customized via the mouse-wheel-click-event and
mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.
+++
prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
day of that ISO week.
+** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
+window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
+
---
** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
+++
** You can now customize fill-nobreak-predicate to control where
-filling can break lines. We provide two sample predicates,
-fill-single-word-nobreak-p and fill-french-nobreak-p.
+filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of
+functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.
+
+We provide two sample predicates, fill-single-word-nobreak-p and
+fill-french-nobreak-p, for use in the value of fill-nobreak-predicate.
+++
** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
`list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
you wish to use them in other faces.
+---
+** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.
+Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
+multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
+MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
+the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
+any customizations.
+
+++
** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper).
The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym',
coding system.
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-* New modes and packages in Emacs 21.4
+* New modes and packages in Emacs 22.1
** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
In addition, when ending or calling a macro with C-x e, the macro can
be repeated immediately by typing just the `e'. You can customize
-this behaviour via the variable kmacro-call-repeat-key and
+this behavior via the variable kmacro-call-repeat-key and
kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg.
Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
configuration files.
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-* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4
+* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
+++
** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
:propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
`risky-local-variable' property is nil.
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-* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4
+* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
+
+** An element of buffer-undo-list can now have the form (FUNNAME .
+ARGS), where FUNNAME is a symbol other than t or nil. That stands for
+a high-level change that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME
+ARGS).
+
++++
+** The line-move, scroll-up, and scroll-down functions will now
+modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
+taller that the height of the window, for example in the presense of
+large images. To disable this feature, Lisp code may bind the new
+variable `auto-window-vscroll' to nil.
+++
** If a buffer sets buffer-save-without-query to non-nil,
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.
+which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.
+++
** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
** 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.
+exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables may be either
+strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.
---
** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
the first character on its string argument (typically the first
element on the kill-ring). If a yank-handler property is found,
-the normal behaviour of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:
+the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:
When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
-very poor performance. This behaviour can be remedied to some extent
+very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent
by setting the new variable process-adaptive-read-buffering to a
non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
from such processes, to allowing them to produce more output before
If you want the old behavior, set selection-coding-system to
compound-text, which may be significantly more efficient. Using
compound-text-with-extensions seems to be necessary only for decoding
-text from applications under XFree86 4.2, whose behaviour is actually
+text from applications under XFree86 4.2, whose behavior is actually
contrary to the compound text specification.
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