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@@ -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) |