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@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
 \f
 * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
 \f
 * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.4
 

+** Emacs includes now support for loading image libraries on demand.
+(Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.)  You can configure
+the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
+setting the variable `image-library-alist'.
+

 ---
 ** A Bulgarian translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.
 
 ---
 ** A Bulgarian translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.
 


@@ -90,8 +95,18 @@ types any more.  Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.
 \f
 * Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
 \f
 * Changes in Emacs 21.4
 

+** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
+You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
+existing values.  For example:
+
+  emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"
+
+will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
+irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
+

 ** New features in evaluation commands
 
 ** New features in evaluation commands
 

++++

 *** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
 the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
 
 *** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
 the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
 


@@ -222,6 +237,37 @@ This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
 the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for
 using strokes as an input method.
 
 the stroke directly to a string to insert.  This is convenient for
 using strokes as an input method.
 

++++
+** Desktop package
+
+*** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, desktop-save-mode. Variable
+desktop-enable is obsolete. Customize desktop-save-mode to enable desktop
+saving.
+
+*** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
+buffer list.
+
+*** New commands:
+  - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
+  - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
+  - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
+    it was loaded.
+
+*** New customizable variables:
+  - desktop-save. Determins whether the desktop should be saved when it is
+    killed.
+  - desktop-file-name-format.
+  - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
+  - desktop-locals-to-save.
+  - desktop-globals-to-clear.
+  - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp.
+
+*** New command line option --no-desktop
+
+*** New hooks:
+  - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
+  - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
+

 ---
 ** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
 When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
 ---
 ** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
 When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer


@@ -405,14 +451,24 @@ restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
 ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
 By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
 
 ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
 By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
 

+** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
+`insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
+
+** A prefix argument of C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-printifies the
+list starting after point.
+

 ** Dired mode:
 
 *** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
 dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
 introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
 
 ** Dired mode:
 
 *** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
 dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
 introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
 

-*** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' to mark files with
-different file attributes in two dired buffers.
+*** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
+with different file attributes in two dired buffers.
+
++++
+*** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
+of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.

 
 +++
 *** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
 
 +++
 *** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now


@@ -428,18 +484,50 @@ types of files.  The variable `dired-view-command-alist' controls
 what external viewers to use and when.
 
 *** In Dired, the w command now copies the current line's file name
 what external viewers to use and when.
 
 *** In Dired, the w command now copies the current line's file name

-into the kill ring.
+into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix arg, copies absolute file names.
+
++++
+** Dired-x:
+
+*** Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling
+command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to M-O,
+marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the
+mode toggling function instead.

 
 ** Info mode:
 
 ** Info mode:

+
+*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
+with the number appended to the *info* buffer name.
+
+*** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.
+
+*** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
+from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.
+
+*** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
+Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
+possible matches.
+
+*** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
+the current Info node name into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix
+arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
+
+*** New command `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S).
+
+*** New command `Info-search-next' (unbound) repeats the last search
+without prompting for a new search string.
+
+*** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
+and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
+
+*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
+references and following them calls `browse-url'.
+

 +++
 *** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
 If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
 `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
 
 +++
 *** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
 If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
 `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
 

-*** The new command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
-Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
-possible matches.
-

 *** Images in Info pages are supported.
 Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
 Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
 *** Images in Info pages are supported.
 Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
 Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo


@@ -669,11 +757,12 @@ and windows-1251 are preloaded since the former is so common and the
 latter is used by GNU locales.
 
 ** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
 latter is used by GNU locales.
 
 ** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.

-By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences (mostly representing CJK
-characters) are simply composed into single quasi-characters.  User
-option `utf-translate-cjk' arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK
-character sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the
-Mule-UCS system.  This uses significant space, so is not the default.
+By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into
+single quasi-characters.  User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is
+turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character
+sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS
+system.  As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not
+interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil.

 You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
 `ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'.  The utf-8
 coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's
 You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
 `ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'.  The utf-8
 coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's


@@ -1764,7 +1853,7 @@ depend on external libraries.  All of these libraries have been ported
 to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/.  Note that libpng also depends on
 zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
 to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/.  Note that libpng also depends on
 zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled

-against.
+against.  For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.

 
 ---
 ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
 
 ---
 ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.


@@ -2061,6 +2150,18 @@ configuration files.
 \f
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
 \f
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4
 

+** If a command sets transient-mark-mode to `only', that 
+enables Transient Mark mode for the following command, only.
+
++++
+** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.
+
+You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
+same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'.  For
+example,
+
+(kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"
+

 ** The sentinel is now called when a network process is deleted with
 delete-process.  The status message passed to the sentinel for a
 deleted network process is "deleted".  The message passed to the
 ** The sentinel is now called when a network process is deleted with
 delete-process.  The status message passed to the sentinel for a
 deleted network process is "deleted".  The message passed to the


@@ -2071,13 +2172,19 @@ changed to "connection broken by remote peer".
 undo-outer-limit, garbage collection empties it.  This is to prevent
 it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.
 
 undo-outer-limit, garbage collection empties it.  This is to prevent
 it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.
 

+---

 ** New function quail-find-key returns a list of keys to type in the
 current input method to input a character.
 
 ** New function quail-find-key returns a list of keys to type in the
 current input method to input a character.
 

-** New functions posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y returns
++++
+** New functions posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y return

 click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
 position or for a given window pixel coordinate.
 
 click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
 position or for a given window pixel coordinate.
 

+** skip-chars-forward and skip-chars-backward now handle
+character classes such as [:alpha:], along with individual characters
+and ranges.
+

 ** Function pos-visible-in-window-p now returns the pixel coordinates
 and partial visiblity state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
 arg is non-nil.
 ** Function pos-visible-in-window-p now returns the pixel coordinates
 and partial visiblity state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
 arg is non-nil.