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10 Use `C-c C-f' to move to the next equal level of outline, and
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15 Users who would like to know which capabilities have been introduced
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17 Starting with version 20.0, XEmacs includes ChangeLogs, which can be
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18 consulted for a more detailed list of changes.
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20 Users interested in some of the details of how XEmacs differs from GNU
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21 Emacs should read the section "What's Different?" near the end of this
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25 19 from the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. (We do not
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26 say just "Emacs" as Richard M. Stallman ["RMS"] prefers, because
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27 it is clearly a more generic term.) The term "XEmacs" refers to
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29 predecessor of all these program is called "Emacs 18". When no
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37 to avoid inserting undesirable spaces, notably at the end of lines.
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38 Two typical examples of this old behavior are `string-rectangle', which filled
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42 This is not the case any more. All these functions have been rewritten to
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43 avoid inserting unwanted spaces, and an optional prefix now allows them to
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46 As a side effect, `move-to-column' now also accepts 'coerce as its second
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50 ** You can now customize and save comments for faces and variables.
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52 In Custom buffers, a new menu entry allows you to add and edit a comment.
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54 `customize-set-(value|variable)' with a prefix argument.
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76 the variable `case-fold-search' (if non-nil, case is ignored while
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89 An indirect buffer has a name of its own, distinct from those of the
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108 file name prompts; e.g. `C-x C-f ~hni<TAB>' will complete to
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109 `~hniksic/'. To make this operation faster, a cache of user names is
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118 are implemented as native window-system widgets. Thus you can embed
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158 hash table interface has been made standard, and moved from cl.el into
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159 fast C code (See the section on hash tables in the XEmacs Lisp
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184 Although this is not yet very sophisticated, it is already responsible
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185 for several important bug fixes in XEmacs. To try it out, simply use
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226 colon-separated string. MODE is now a symbol or a list of symbols
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227 (symbols `exists', `executable', `writable', and `readable' are
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235 can now also be a vector or a char-table (which is useful for Mule.)
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236 If TABLE a vector or a generic char-table, you can map characters to
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240 (put-char-table ?a "the letter a" table)
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243 (translate-region (point-min) (point-max) table))
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260 exact symbol rather than for any string. This is useful when you want
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283 NT operating systems. For starters, look at the XEmacs on Windows FAQ
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289 any `XEmacs' resources in the resource database. Otherwise, it will
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293 This means that each entry in the options menu acts as if you had customized
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294 the corresponding variable by hand. ### WARNING: there is currently no
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295 upgrading function to help you port your old options settings to the new
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296 format. Consequently, if you want to modify the options for XEmacs 21, you
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297 will have to set them all again through the menu, and remove the code loading
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298 .xemacs-options from your .emacs.
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301 replace commands now operate on the region contents only.
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304 The '-visual <visualStr>' command line option or the '.EmacsVisual'
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305 Xresource controls which visual XEmacs will use, and
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306 '-privateColormap' or '.privateColormap' will force XEmacs to create a
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307 private colormap for use. The syntax for the visual string is
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310 <bitdepth> is the appropriate number of bits per pixel. If an invalid
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311 or non-supported combination is entered, XEmacs attempts to find a happy
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312 medium. The X creation mechanism will then determine if it needs to
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313 create a colormap for use, or the presence of the private flags will
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325 (bound to `C-l'), only it does not redisplay the whole display area.
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345 all the options whose default values have changed in recent Emacs
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346 versions. You specify a previous Emacs version number as argument,
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347 and the command creates a customization buffer showing all the
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348 customizable options whose default values were changed since that
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351 If you don't specify a particular version number argument, then the
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352 customization buffer shows all the customizable options for which
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353 Emacs versions of changes are recorded.
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356 old-style (pre-20.3) ChangeLog buffers to new style, for
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357 consistency. A reminder: if you wish to revert to old-style
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377 Because of this, the dividers between vertical windows are always
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388 Egg/Skk have been available through the generalized Leim since 20.3.
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390 *** Localized Japanese menubars are available if XEmacs is built with
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391 XFONTSET and either the X11 libraries are built with X_LOCALE defined
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397 gdb buffer be mouse-sensitive: as text shows up in the buffer, it is
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398 parsed, and objects which are recognized have context-sensitive
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399 commands attached to them. To use it, add the following to `.emacs':
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404 It has been greatly enhanced with respect to the one once included
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405 with the ilisp package and should work well under XEmacs 21.0.
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406
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408
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409 *** Like the old 'gnudoit' program. Gnuclient -batch now can read from stdin.
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415 *** Multiline macros are now handled, both as they affect indentation,
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416 and as recognized syntax. New syntactic symbol cpp-macro-cont is
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417 assigned to second and subsequent lines of a multiline macro
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418 definition.
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419
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420 *** A new style "user" which captures all non-hook-ified
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421 (i.e. top-level) .emacs file variable setings and customizations.
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422 Style "cc-mode" is an alias for "user" and is deprecated. "gnu" style
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425 *** "java" style now conforms to Sun's JDK coding style.
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427 *** There are new commands c-beginning-of-defun, c-end-of-defun which
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428 are alternatives which you could bind to C-M-a and C-M-e if you prefer
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429 them. They do not have key bindings by default.
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431 *** New and improved implementations of M-a (c-beginning-of-statement)
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432 and M-e (c-end-of-statement).
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433
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434 *** C++ namespace blocks are supported, with new syntactic symbols
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435 namespace-open, namespace-close, and innamespace.
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436
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437 *** File local variable settings of c-file-style and c-file-offsets
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438 makes the style variables local to that buffer only.
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439
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440 *** New indentation functions c-lineup-close-paren,
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441 c-indent-one-line-block, c-lineup-dont-change.
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442
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443 *** Improvements (hopefully!) to the way CC Mode is loaded. You
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444 should now be able to do a (require 'cc-mode) to get the entire
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445 package loaded properly for customization in your .emacs file. A new
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446 variable c-initialize-on-load controls this and is t by default.
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447
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449 This makes it possible to get the full benefit of Adaptive Fill mode
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450 in Text mode, and other modes derived from it (such as Mail mode).
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452 practical difference only when you use indented paragraphs.
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454 As a result, the old Indented Text mode is now identical to Text mode,
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455 and is an alias for it.
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456
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457 If you want spaces at the beginning of a line to start a paragraph,
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458 use the new mode, Paragraph Indent Text mode.
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459
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461
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462 *** New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been
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463 added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See the
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465
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466 *** The nndraft backend has returned, but works differently than
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467 before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft
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468 group, which is created automatically.
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469
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470 *** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
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471 values.
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472
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473 *** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
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474
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475 *** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
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476 outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
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477
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478 *** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
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479 `C-u C-c C-c'.
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480
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481 *** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
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482
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483 *** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
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484 re-highlighting of the article buffer.
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485
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486 *** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
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487
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488 *** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
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489 Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
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490
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491 *** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
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492 `a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
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493
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494 *** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
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495 control over simplification.
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496
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497 *** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
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498
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499 *** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
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500 limit.
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501
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502 *** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
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503
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504 *** \\1-expressions are now valid in `nnmail-split-methods'.
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505
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507 If you used this function in your initialization files, you must
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508 rewrite them to use `face-spec-set' instead.
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509
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510 *** Cancelling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix
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511 `a' forces normal posting method.
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512
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513 *** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text
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514 -- `W d'.
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515
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516 *** For easier debugging of nntp, you can set `nntp-record-commands'
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517 to a non-nil value.
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518
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519 *** nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for controlling
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520 where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers.
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521
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522 *** A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer
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523 has been added.
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524
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525 *** A history of where mails have been split is available.
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526
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527 *** A new article date command has been added -- `article-date-iso8601'.
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528
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529 *** Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting
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530 `gnus-score-thread-simplify'.
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532 *** A new function for citing in Message has been added --
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533 `message-cite-original-without-signature'.
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534
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535 *** `article-strip-all-blank-lines' -- new article command.
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536
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537 *** A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has
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538 been added.
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539
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540 *** A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the
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541 `gnus-adaptive-word-minimum' variable.
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542
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543 *** The "lapsed date" article header can be kept continually
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544 updated by the `gnus-start-date-timer' command.
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545
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546 *** Web listserv archives can be read with the nnlistserv backend.
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547
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548 *** Old dejanews archives can now be read by nnweb.
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549
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550 *** Byte-compilation of user-specs now works under XEmacs.
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551
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553 subsystem. If the `dir' file does not exist in an Info directory, the
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554 relevant information will be generated on-the-fly.
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564 integers (normally, Lisp integers are only 28 bits wide on 32-bit
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565 machines.) Configure with --use-minimal-tagbits to test. With this
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566 change, the maximum buffer size on 32-bit machines is increased from
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567 128M to 1G. This setting will be made default in a future XEmacs
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568 version.
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571
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572 *** When instantiating a specifier, the window locale now has a higher
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573 precedence than the buffer locale. This is because the window locale
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574 is more specific than the buffer locale.
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575
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577 specifications to specifiers. See the documentation for details.
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578
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580 `horizontal-scrollbar-visible-p' may be used to control scrollbar
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582 its size to 0. This method is still supported for backward
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583 compatibility.
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586 may be used to control the position of the vertical and horizontal
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587 toolbar. Previously, their position could be changed only through the
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588 use of X resources.
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589
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590 *** The new draggable vertical dividers between windows may be turned
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592 this is set to nil, the vertical dividers between windows are shown
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593 only when needed, and they are not draggable.
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598
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600
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601 *** When the variable focus-follows-mouse is non-nil, `select-frame'
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602 no longer permanently selects a different frame. The frame selection
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603 is temporary and is reverted when the current command terminates, much
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604 like the buffer selected by `set-buffer'. This is the same as in FSF
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605 Emacs.
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606
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607 *** The new function `focus-frame' sets the window system focus to
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608 FRAME (and selects it), regardless of the value of
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609 `focus-follows-mouse'. Doing this is not well behaved, so be
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610 absolutely sure that you want this.
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611
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612 The code that uses `select-frame' only to get the window manager focus
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613 should be changed to use `set-frame-focus' instead, so that they keep
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614 working when `focus-follows-mouse' is non-nil.
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615
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616 *** The special forms `save-selected-frame' and `with-selected-frame'
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617 can now be used to temporarily change selected frame.
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618
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619 *** The behavior of `other-frame' command (`C-x 5 o') is unaffected by
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620 these changes.
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623 NORECORD which if non-nil inhibits the recording of a buffer change.
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624
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625 ** The function `vertical-motion' now correctly handles the second,
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626 optional WINDOW argument. A new third argument PIXELS, if non-nil,
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627 indicates that the returned motion should be in pixels.
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628
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629 ** The new function `vertical-motion-pixels' is similar to
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630 vertical-motion but takes as input a vertical motion in pixels.
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631
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633 be used to obtain information about the text-displaying area of a
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634 window.
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635
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636 ** The new functions `shrink-window-pixels' and `enlarge-window-pixels'
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637 can be used to adjust the size of a window by a pixel amount.
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638
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639 ** The new function `window-displayed-text-pixel-height' can be used
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640 to determine the height of the text actually displayed in a window.
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641
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642 ** The arithmetic comparison functions <, >, =, /= now accept a
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643 variable number of arguments.
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645 This means that if you want to test whether A < B < C, you can write
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646 it as (< A B C) instead of (and (< A B) (< B C)). Likewise,
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371
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647 (apply #'> LIST) now tests if LIST is monotonously increasing -- and
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648 so on.
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649
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651 This means that a hashtable will be readably printed in a
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652 structure-like form:
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653
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654 #s(hashtable size 2 data (key1 value1 key2 value2))
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655
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656 When XEmacs reads this form, it will create a new hashtable according
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657 to description. This allows you to easily dump hashtables to files
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658 using `prin1', and read them back in using `read'.
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659
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660 If `print-readably' is non-nil, a more relaxed syntax is used; for
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661 instance:
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662
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663 #<hashtable size 2/13 data (key1 value1 key2 value2) 0x874d>
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664
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666 You will need to install a LDAP library first. The following have
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667 been tested:
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668 - LDAP 3.3 from the University of Michigan
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669 (get it from <URL:http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/>)
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670 - OpenLDAP 1.0.3 from the OpenLDAP Foundation
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671 (get it from <URL:http://www.openldap.org/>)
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286
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672 - LDAP SDK 1.0 from Netscape Corp.
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673 (get it from <URL:http://developer.netscape.com/>)
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674
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675 ** When profiling is in effect, a call-count of all recorded functions
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676 is now calculated. This information is stored in
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677 `call-count-profile-table', and is utilized by `profile-results' as
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678 well as the new command `profile-call-count-results'.
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679
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680 ** It is now an error to change the value of a symbol whose name
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681 starts with a colon, if it is interned in the standard obarray.
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682
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683 However, setting such a symbol to its proper value, which is that
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684 symbol itself, is not an error. This is for the sake of programs that
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685 support pre-19.12 XEmacs and pre-20 GNU Emacs by explicitly setting
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686 these variables to themselves.
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687
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688 ** The `concat' function no longer accepts integer arguments.
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689
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691 and returns the resulting string. This is consistent with other
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692 functions, like `list', `vector', etc.
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693
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694 ** The function `temp-directory' is now available to return the
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695 directory to store temporary files. On Unix this will be obtained
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696 from TMPDIR, defaulting to `/tmp'.
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697
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699 USE-FLOATS. If it is non-nil, the load average values are returned as
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700 floating point numbers, rather than as integers to be divided by 100.
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701
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703 arguments, which can be used to create various events from Lisp. See
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704 the documentation for details.
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707 interactive specification of a funcallable object.
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708
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709 ** The new `lmessage' function allows printing of a formatted message
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710 with a particular label.
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711
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712 (lmessage 'progress "Processing... %d" counter)
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713
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714 This function is more convenient than `display-message' because it
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715 automatically applies `format' to its arguments.
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716
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717 ** The new `lwarn' function, analogous to `lmessage', allows printing
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718 a formatted warning, with a non-default CLASS or LABEL.
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719
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284
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720 ** The new function `split-path' can now be used to explode the
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721 components of a colon-separated search path into a list.
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722
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723 (split-path "foo:bar")
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724 => ("foo" "bar")
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725
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274
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726 ** Specifiers and symbols whose value is a specifier are now allowed
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276
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727 as modeline specifications.
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274
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728
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729 ** defcustom now accepts the keyword `:version'. Use this to specify
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730 in which version of Emacs a certain variable's default value changed.
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731 For example,
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732
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733 (defcustom foo-max 34 "*Maximum number of foo's allowed."
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734 :type 'integer
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735 :group 'foo
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276
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736 :version "21.0")
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274
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737
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738 This information is used to control the customize-changed-options
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739 command.
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740
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225
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741 ** The line number tracking in modeline is now efficient, even for
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742 very large buffers. This is achieved by caching the line numbers of
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743 recent buffer positions, and reusing them. This cache is used only in
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744 the buffers where `line-number-mode' is in effect.
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259
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745
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274
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746 ** When the new GNU Malloc aka Doug Lea Malloc is available, it will
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747 be used. This should result in better performance on Linux systems
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748 with libc6.
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749
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276
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750 ** The code XEmacs uses to assemble its various paths into the
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751 directory hierarchy has been rewritten to support the package system.
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298
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752 Look under "Startup Paths" in the Info documentation for more
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753 information.
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276
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754
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412
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755 *** site-lisp is now longer part of the load-path by default.
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756 Its use is deprecated, but you can specify --with-site-lisp=yes at the
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757 configure command line to get it back.
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758
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759 *** `Info-default-directory-list' is now obsolete. If you want to
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760 change the path which XEmacs uses to search for info files, set
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761 `Info-directory-list' instead.
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