X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/0343a908fa13f0e56a364465601fa86a90036e82..feceda26100f1b5712a85aadf0c428a1507b538d:/etc/NEWS.22 diff --git a/etc/NEWS.22 b/etc/NEWS.22 index 77ec33f2d0..79ccaf3101 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS.22 +++ b/etc/NEWS.22 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 +Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. @@ -35,6 +35,41 @@ below. Emacs tries to warn you about these through `bad-packages-alist'. ** cua.el, cua-mode.el: remove old versions. + +* Changes in Emacs 22.3 + +** Support for several obsolete platforms will be removed in the next +major version of Emacs: Apollo, Acorn, Alliant, Amdahl, Altos 3068, +Bull DPX/2, Bull SPS-7, AT&T UNIX 7300, AT&T 3b, Aviion Berkeley 4.1 +to 4.3, Celerity, Clipper, Convergent S series, Convex, Cydra, DG/UX, +Dual, Elxsi, ESIX, Fujitsu F301, GEC 63, Gould, Honeywell XPS100, +i860, IBM ps/2 aix386, Harris CXUX, Harris Night Hawk 1200/3000, +Harris Power PC, HP 9000 series 200 or 300, HLH Orion, Hitachi +SR2001/SR2201, IBM PS/2, Integrated Solutions 386, Integrated +Solutions Optimum V, Iris, Irix < v6, ISC Unix, ISI 68000, Masscomp +5000, Megatest 68000, Motorola System V/88, ns16000, National +Semiconductor 32000, osf1 (s/osf*) Paragon i860, PFU A-series, Plexus, +Pyramid, RTU 3.0, RISCiX SCO 3.2, sh3el, Sinix, Stride, Sun 1-3, Sun +RoadRunner, Sequent Symmetry, Sony News, SunOS 4, System V rel 0 to 3, +Tadpole 68k machines, tahoe, Tandem Integrity S2, targon31, Tektronix, +TI Nu, NCR Tower 32, U-station, Ultrix, UMAX, UniPlus 5.2, Whitechapel +Computer Works MG1, Wicat, and Xenix. + +*** Support for systems without alloca will be removed. + +*** Support for Sun windows will be removed. + +*** Support for VMS will be removed. + +* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.3 + +** The following input methods were removed in Emacs 22.2, but this was +not advertised: danish-alt-postfix, esperanto-alt-postfix, +finnish-alt-postfix, german-alt-postfix, icelandic-alt-postfix, +norwegian-alt-postfix, scandinavian-alt-postfix, spanish-alt-postfix, +and swedish-alt-postfix. Use the versions without "alt-", which are +identical. + * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.2 @@ -92,7 +127,7 @@ in to make it use the scrollbars from the system theme. ** focus-follows-mouse defaults to nil on MS Windows. Previously this variable was incorrectly documented as having no effect on MS Windows, and the default was inappropriate for the majority of -Windows installations. Users of software which modifies the behaviour of +Windows installations. Users of software which modifies the behavior of Windows to cause focus to follow the mouse will now need to explicitly set this variable. @@ -121,6 +156,20 @@ that the desktop being saved is not an update of the one on disk. was mistakenly scrolled on compiles after the first. Customize `compilation-scroll-output' if you want to retain the scrolling. +** `font-lock-comment-face' no longer differs from the default on +displays with fewer than 16 colors and dark background (e.g. older +xterms and the Linux console). On such displays, only the comment +delimiters will appear to be fontified (in the new face +`font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'). To restore the old appearance, +customize `font-lock-comment-face'. Another alternative is to use a +newer terminal emulator that supports more colors (256 is now common). +For example, for xterm compatible emulators that support 256 colors, +you can run emacs like this: +env TERM=xterm-256color emacs -nw +(This was new in Emacs 22.1, but was not described. In Emacs 22.1 +this also happened for terminals with a light background, that is not +the case anymore). + * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.2 ** bibtex-style-mode helps you write BibTeX's *.bst files. @@ -999,13 +1048,6 @@ fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from This is used for the characters that indicate the start of a comment, e.g. `;' in Lisp mode. -*** `font-lock-comment-face' no longer differs from the default on -displays with fewer than 16 colors (e.g. older xterms and the Linux console). -On such displays, only the comment delimiters will appear to be fontified -(in the new face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'). To restore the -old appearance, customize `font-lock-comment-face', or use a newer terminal -emulator that supports more colors (256 is now common). - *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'. *** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked. @@ -2467,7 +2509,7 @@ Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate breakpoints. To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the -old behaviour. +old behavior. *** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior and other common debugger commands. @@ -5546,10 +5588,10 @@ an error if the argument actually returns differing values. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file is part of GNU Emacs. -GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) -any later version. +the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of @@ -5557,9 +5599,7 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the -Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, -Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. +along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . Local variables: