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authorKaroly Lorentey <[email protected]>2005-09-17 19:10:55 +0000
committerKaroly Lorentey <[email protected]>2005-09-17 19:10:55 +0000
commit5826661f18ae8c95b26951a042692e68b9bc093f (patch)
tree534dee8bd5250e83e84a896ebd29f82be3370c07 /etc
parent567c887847144d9609ccfe550fd7ef178120297a (diff)
parent5b51c03716d7c487d1c2336df2a76a6417a2343c (diff)
Merged from [email protected] (patch 116-117, 544-550)
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Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
-rw-r--r--etc/ChangeLog9
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS33
-rw-r--r--etc/PROBLEMS20
3 files changed, 51 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index 70c90e122c..316ec3e4cd 100644
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2005-09-15 Kenichi Handa <[email protected]>
+
+ * PROBLEMS: Fix the paragraph describing the limitation of
+ UTF-8/16/7.
+
+2005-09-14 Romain Francoise <[email protected]>
+
+ * NEWS: Add entry for write-region-inhibit-fsync.
+
2005-09-09 Kevin Ryde <[email protected]>
* MORE.STUFF: Update url for calculator.el.
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 1406ee5bf2..887efd6b8f 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -618,6 +618,12 @@ controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will
attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files).
+++
+*** The new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync
+in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up
+the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result
+in data loss, use with care.
+
++++
*** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',
Emacs asks for confirmation.
@@ -1478,6 +1484,14 @@ colors as on X.
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1
+---
+** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution.
+
+Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news
+sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the
+corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a
+separate manual.
+
+++
** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in
various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
@@ -2991,11 +3005,17 @@ updated `skeleton-insert' docstring explains these new features along
with other details of skeleton construction.
---
-** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
+** Hideshow mode changes
+
+*** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch
handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
+*** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does
+not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent
+block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil.
+
+++
** `hide-ifdef-mode' now uses overlays rather than selective-display
to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly
@@ -4586,6 +4606,17 @@ When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.
++++
+*** The function `find-image' now searches in etc/images/ and etc/.
+The new variable `image-load-path' is a list of locations in which to
+search for image files. The default is to search in etc/images, then
+in etc/, and finally in the directories specified by `load-path'.
+Subdirectories of etc/ and etc/images are not recursively searched; if
+you put an image file in a subdirectory, you have to specify it
+explicitly; for example, if an image is put in etc/images/foo/bar.xpm:
+
+ (defimage foo-image '((:type xpm :file "foo/bar.xpm")))
+
** Mouse pointer features:
+++ (lispref)
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index ae9a42bde6..3b9dc6b17f 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -841,9 +841,16 @@ mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1
** The UTF-8/16/7 coding systems don't encode CJK (Far Eastern) characters.
-Emacs by default only supports the parts of the Unicode BMP whose code
-points are in the ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff. This excludes: most
-of CJK, Yi and Hangul, as well as everything outside the BMP.
+Emacs directly supports the Unicode BMP whose code points are in the
+ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff, and indirectly supports the parts of
+CJK characters belonging to these legacy charsets:
+
+ GB2312, Big5, JISX0208, JISX0212, JISX0213-1, JISX0213-2, KSC5601
+
+The latter support is done in Utf-Translate-Cjk mode (turned on by
+default). Which Unicode CJK characters are decoded into which Emacs
+charset is decided by the current language environment. For instance,
+in Chinese-GB, most of them are decoded into chinese-gb2312.
If you read UTF-8 data with code points outside these ranges, the
characters appear in the buffer as raw bytes of the original UTF-8
@@ -853,13 +860,6 @@ If you read such characters from UTF-16 or UTF-7 data, they are
substituted with the Unicode `replacement character', and you lose
information.
-To edit such UTF data, turn on Utf-Translate-Cjk mode, which makes
-many common CJK characters available for encoding and decoding and can
-be extended by updating the tables it uses. This also allows you to
-save as UTF buffers containing characters decoded by the chinese-,
-japanese- and korean- coding systems, e.g. cut and pasted from
-elsewhere.
-
** Mule-UCS loads very slowly.
Changes to Emacs internals interact badly with Mule-UCS's `un-define'