** The mode-line displays a `@' if the default-directory for the current buffer
is on a remote machine, or a hyphen otherwise.
-** The new command balance-window-area balances windows both vertically
+** The new command balance-windows-area balances windows both vertically
and horizontally.
** The new command close-display-connection can be used to close a connection
** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is
called with a prefix, and the default directory is a remote file name.
-This is because some file name handler (like ange-ftp) are not able to
+This is because some file name handlers (like ange-ftp) are not able to
run processes remotely.
** The new command `display-time-world' starts an updating time display
after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a
file or directory.
+** New alias `argv' for `command-line-args-left'
+This is a convenience alias, so that one can write `(pop argv)'
+inside of --eval command line arguments in order to access
+following arguments.
+
+** The abbrev file is no longer read at startup in batch mode.
\f
* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
\f
* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
++++
+** M-q now fills the region if the region is active and
+`transient-mark-mode' is turned on. Otherwise, it fills the current
+paragraph. The new command bound to M-q is `fill-paragraph-or-region'.
+
+** M-$ now checks spelling of the region if the region is active and
+`transient-mark-mode' is turned on. Otherwise, it checks spelling of the
+word at point.
+
** TAB now indents the region if the region is active and
`transient-mark-mode' is turned on.
\f
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
+** diff-fine-highlight highlights char-level details of changes in a diff hunk.
** archive-mode has basic support to browse Rar archives.
** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support.
*** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time.
+This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented
+version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, and
+Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems
+as a single changeset.
+
** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs.
+** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable.
+See the documentation of the variables: tex-fontify-script,
+tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and
+tex-suscript-height-minimum.
+
** BibTeX mode:
*** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and
\f
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
+** `frame-inherited-parameters' lets new frames inherit parameters from
+the selected frame.
+** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but
+applies before function-key-map. Also it is terminal-local contrary to
+key-translation-map. Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to
+this map rather than to function-key-map now.
+
** Changes related to multiple tty support.
*** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses. If you want to know the
*** New hooks: `suspend-tty-functions' and `resume-tty-functions'
are called after a tty frame has been suspended or resumed,
-respectively. The functions are called with the terminal id of the frame
+respectively. The functions are called with the terminal id of the frame
being suspended/resumed as a parameter.
-*** New functions: `environment', `let-environment'.
-
-*** New variables: `local-key-translation-map', `local-function-key-map'.
-These are in addition to the global key-translation-map and
-function-key-map variables that already existed.
+*** New function: `environment'.
-??? How do the new variables relate to the old ones?
+*** New variable: `local-function-key-map'.
+This in addition to the global function-key-map variable that
+already existed. The global variable is not used directly any more;
+instead, the local-function-key-map is initialized so as to inherit from
+function-key-map.
*** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent.
*** The `keyboard-translate-table' variable and the terminal and
keyboard coding systems have been made terminal-local.
-*** In addition to the global key-translation-map and
-function-key-map, Emacs has terminal-local local-key-translation-map
-and local-function-key-map variables, and uses them instead of the
+*** In addition to the global function-key-map, Emacs has terminal-local
+local-function-key-map variables, and uses them instead of the
global keymaps to set up translations and function key sequences
relevant to a specific terminal device.