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authorStefan Monnier <[email protected]>2000-11-27 15:34:39 +0000
committerStefan Monnier <[email protected]>2000-11-27 15:34:39 +0000
commit601e0081ea958c0b781e7490a30baafdf1ac8135 (patch)
treed93bc3226be32e8ec335d7f8c99953aca67df5a7 /etc/NEWS
parent7f84d9ae468d49ff96a9a54c00e4098ce5e69a26 (diff)
New font-lock-doc-face.
`comment-region' doesn't comment only whole lines. Bad backrefs signal an error rather than turning into digits.
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@@ -889,6 +889,9 @@ font-lock keywords from the current buffer or from a specific major mode.
*** `font-lock-syntactic-face-function' allows major-modes to choose
the face used for each string/comment.
+*** A new standard face `font-lock-doc-face'.
+Meant for Lisp docstrings, Javadoc comments and other "documentation in code".
+
** Comint (subshell) changes
These changes generally affect all modes derived from comint mode, which
@@ -1690,6 +1693,8 @@ parser. It doesn't parse the DTDs however.
*** The comment operations are now provided by the newcomment.el
package which allows different styles of comment-region and should
be more robust while offering the same functionality.
+`comment-region' now doesn't always comment a-line-at-a-time, but only
+comments the region, breaking the line at point if necessary.
+++
*** The Ebrowse package implements a C++ class browser and tags
@@ -2429,6 +2434,9 @@ what BODY returns.
+++
** Regular expressions now support intervals \{n,m\} as well as
Perl's shy-groups \(?:...\) and non-greedy *? +? and ?? operators.
+Also backreferences like \2 are now considered as an error if the
+corresponding subgroup does not exist (or is not closed yet).
+Previously it would have been silently turned into `2' (ignoring the `\').
+++
** The optional argument BUFFER of function file-local-copy has been