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 * Changes in XEmacs 20.3
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+** Startup file additions.
+By default XEmacs now loads the user file ~/.xemacs if it exists.  If
+there is no such file, it reads ~/.emacs as usual.  If both .xemacs
+and .emacs exist, XEmacs will only load .xemacs.
+Customizable options are now saved to ~/.xemacs-custom file, which is
+normally loaded after .emacs.
+** Quail input method is now available.
+Quail is a simple key-translation system which allows users to input
+any multilingual text from normal ASCII keyboard.  This means that
+XEmacs with Mule now supports a number of European languages.
+** XEmacs runs on Windows NT.
+Thanks to David Hobley <davidh@wr.com.au> and Marc Paquette
+<marcpa@cam.org>, XEmacs now runs on Windows NT.
+There are plans to hire contractors to do a native, professional
+port.  This might be over for the 20.3 final release.
+** Multiple TTY frames are now available.
+On consoles that display only one frame at a time (e.g. TTY consoles),
+creating a new frame with `C-x 5 2' also raises and selects that
+frame.  The behavior of window system frames is unchanged.
+** Zmacs region is not deactivated when an error is signaled.
+The behavior of the zmacs region can now be controlled in the event of
+a signaled error.  The new variable `errors-deactivate-region' may be
+set to nil to revert to the old behaviour.  As before, typing C-g
+deactivate the region.
 ** Info "dir" functionality merged from Emacs-19.34
 All of the directories on `Info-directory-list' will be searched for
 "dir" files, which may be full fledged Info files containing subnodes
 as well as menus.  They are merged to become one directory, with menus
 no "dir" in a directory, a "localdir" will be looked for.  There can
 be one of either "dir" or "localdir" in each of the directories in
 `Info-directory-list', which is initialized from `Info-default-
 directory-list', which you may customize through the Options menu.
-The first directory specified in `Info-default-directory-list' should
-contain a "dir" file that will become the toplevel dir which the
-others will be merged into.  A "localdir" may optionally contain a
-'* Menu:' section, or just entries like those in a menu section, but
-no subnodes or info header.  You can see what I'm talking about if you
-view the "dir" file that comes with XEmacs.  It has a header section
-that should not be in a "localdir" file.  The "localdir" should look
-like the `buffer-substring' of XEmacs' stock "dir" from just below
-"* Menu:" to the end of the file, optionally also containing the
-"* Menu:" line.
-The contents of each "localdir" file will be inserted into the
-toplevel "dir" file replacing a '* Locals:' line, OR alternatively,
-will insert it below a 'Local*' (that's a regexp) heading line.  If
-there's more than one "localdir" file, each will either consume a '*
-Locals:' line, be catenated to the end of the (dir)Top, or be inserted
-under the 'Local' topic header.
-There is a new variable, called `Info-additional-directory-list',
-which you may customize also, that can contain a list of directories
-in which to search for Info documents, but NOT to search in for "dir"
-or "localdir" files.  This is useful for things like the Calc package,
-which likes its info files in its lisp directory.  If you put that
-directory in the 'additional list', and a menu entry for it in one of
-your "dir" or "localdir" files, a click on a menu entry for it will be
-able to find the Info file.
-** Startup file additions.
-By default XEmacs now loads the user file ~/.xemacs if it exists.  If
-there is no such file, it reads ~/.emacs as usual.  If both .xemacs
-and .emacs exist, XEmacs will only load .xemacs.
-Customizable options are now saved to ~/.xemacs-custom file, which is
-normally loaded after .emacs.
-** Quail input method is now available.
-Quail is a simple key-translation system which allows users to input
-any multilingual text from normal ASCII keyboard.  This means that
-XEmacs with Mule now supports a number of European languages.
-** XEmacs runs on Windows NT.
-Thanks to David Hobley <davidh@wr.com.au> and Marc Paquette
-<marcpa@cam.org>, XEmacs now runs on Windows NT.
-There are plans to hire contractors to do a native, professional
-port.  This might be over for the 20.3 final release.
-** Multiple TTY frames are now available.
-On consoles that display only one frame at a time (e.g. TTY consoles),
-creating a new frame with `C-x 5 2' also raises and selects that
-frame.  The behavior of window system frames is unchanged.
-** Zmacs region is not deactivated when an error is signaled.
-The behavior of the zmacs region can now be controlled in the event of
-a signaled error.  The new variable `errors-deactivate-region' may be
-set to nil to revert to the old behaviour.  As before, typing C-g
-deactivate the region.
-** Pending-delete changes.
-*** Pending-delete is now a minor mode, with the normal minor-mode
-semantics and toggle functions.  Old functions are left for
-compatibility.
-*** Loading pending-del no longer turns on pending-delete mode.  In
-fact, it is no longer necessary to explicitly load pending-del.  All
-you need to do to turn on tpu-edt is run the tpu-edt function.  Here's
-how to run pending-delete instead of loading the file:
-Within XEmacs:   Type      M-x pending-delete <ret>
-not      M-x load-library <ret> pending-delete <ret>
-In .emacs:       Use       (turn-on-pending-delete)
-not       (load "pending-del")
 ** Abbreviations can now contain non-word characters.
 This means that it is finally possible to do such simple things as
 define `#if' to expand to `#include' in C mode, `s-c-b' to
 `save-current-buffer' in Lisp mode, `call/cc' to
 `call-with-current-continuation' in Scheme mode, etc.
+** Customize now has a new `browser' mode of traversing
+customizations, which is in many ways easier to follow than the
+standard one.  Try it with `M-x customize-browse'.
 ** `C-x n d' now runs the new command `narrow-to-defun',
 which narrows the accessible parts of the buffer to just
 the current defun.
 ** The feature to teach the key bindings of extended commands now
 prints the message after the command finishes.  After some time, the
 previous echo area contents is restored (in case the command prints
 something useful.)
+** Pending-delete changes.
+*** Pending-delete is now a minor mode, with the normal minor-mode
+semantics and toggle functions.  Old functions are left for
+compatibility.
+*** Loading pending-del no longer turns on pending-delete mode.  In
+fact, it is no longer necessary to explicitly load pending-del.  All
+you need to do to turn on pending-delete is run the pending-delete
+function:
+Within XEmacs:   Type      M-x pending-delete <ret>
+not      M-x load-library <ret> pending-delete <ret>
+In .emacs:       Use       (turn-on-pending-delete)
+not       (load "pending-del")
+** Package starting changes.
+*** Loading `paren.el' is no longer sufficient to enable
+paren-blinking.  Use `paren-set-mode' explicitly, or customize
+`paren-mode'.
+*** Loading `uniquify.el' is no longer sufficient to enable uniquify;
+you have to set `uniquify-buffer-name-style' to a legal value.
+*** Loading `time.el' is no longer sufficient to enable display time;
+you have to invoke `display-time' explicitly.
+*** Loading `jka-compr.el' is no longer sufficient to enable
+on-the-fly compression; you have to use `toggle-auto-compression'.
 ** XEmacs can now save the minibuffer histories from various
 minibuffers.  To use this feature, add the line:
 (savehist-load)
 *** Regexps in Etags now support intervals, as in ed or grep.  The syntax of
 an interval is \{M,N\}, and it means to match the preceding expression
 at least M times and as many as N times.
+** Ada mode changes.
+*** There is now better support for using find-file.el with Ada mode.
+If you switch between spec and body, the cursor stays in the same
+procedure (modulo overloading).  If a spec has no body file yet, but
+you try to switch to its body file, Ada mode now generates procedure
+stubs.
+*** There are two new commands:
+- `ada-make-local'   : invokes gnatmake on the current buffer
+- `ada-check-syntax' : check syntax of current buffer.
+The user options `ada-compiler-make', `ada-make-options',
+`ada-language-version', `ada-compiler-syntax-check', and
+`ada-compile-options' are used within these commands.
+*** Ada mode can now work with Outline minor mode.  The outline level
+is calculated from the indenting, not from syntactic contructs.
+Outlining does not work if your code is not correctly indented.
+*** The new function `ada-gnat-style' converts the buffer to the style of
+formatting used in GNAT.  It places two blanks after a comment start,
+places one blank between a word end and an opening '(', and puts one
+space between a comma and the beginning of a word.
 * Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 20.3
 ==========================================
 ** The variable `debug-ignored-errors' now works in XEmacs.  It allows
 one to ignore the debugger for some common errors, even when
 `debug-on-error' is t.  It has no effect when `debug-on-signal' is
 non-nil.
+** The function current-message returns the message currently displayed
+in the echo area, or nil if there is none.
+** File-access primitive functions no longer discard an extra redundant
+directory name from the beginning of the file name.  In other words,
+they no longer do anything special with // or /~.  The same goes for
+`expand-file-name'.  That conversion is now done only in
+`substitute-in-file-name'.
+This makes it possible for a Lisp program to open a file whose name
+begins with ~.
+** The new function regexp-opt returns an efficient regexp to match a
+string.  The arguments are STRINGS and (optionally) PAREN.  This
+function can be used where regexp matching or searching is intensively
+used and speed is important, e.g., in Font Lock mode.
 * Changes in XEmacs 20.2
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