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 * Changes in XEmacs 21.2
 ========================
 
 * Changes in XEmacs 21.2
 ========================
 

+** The functions in rect.el have been almost completely rewritten...
+to avoid inserting undesirable spaces, notably at the end of lines.
+Two typical examples of this old behavior are `string-rectangle', which filled
+all lines up to the right side of the rectangle, and `clear-rectangle', which
+filled even empty lines up to the left side.
+
+This is not the case any more. All these functions have been rewritten to
+avoid inserting unwanted spaces, and an optional prefix now allows them to
+behave the old way.
+
+As a side effect, `move-to-column' now also accepts 'coerce as its second
+argument, meaning that the line shouldn't be filled if its too short to reach
+the desired column.
+
+** You can now customize and save comments for faces and variables.
+
+In Custom buffers, a new menu entry allows you to add and edit a comment.
+Comments for variables can also be assigned by calling
+`customize-set-(value|variable)' with a prefix argument.
+
+** XEmacs now locates the early package hierarchy at ~/.xemacs/packages.
+
+This has changed from simply ~/.xemacs.
+

 ** `delete-key-deletes-forward' now defaults to t.
 
 `delete-key-deletes-forward' is the variable that regulates the
 ** `delete-key-deletes-forward' now defaults to t.
 
 `delete-key-deletes-forward' is the variable that regulates the

@@ -41,11 +65,11 @@ and a delete key.  If set to nil, the key labeled "Delete" will delete
 backward.  If set to non-nil, the "Delete" key will delete forward,
 except on keyboards where a "Backspace" key is not provided.
 
 backward.  If set to non-nil, the "Delete" key will delete forward,
 except on keyboards where a "Backspace" key is not provided.
 

-Unless our implementation has bugs, the only reason why you would want 
+Unless our implementation has bugs, the only reason why you would want

 to set `delete-key-deletes-forward' to nil is if you want to use the
 Delete key to delete backwards, despite the presence (according to
 Xlib) of a BackSpace key on the keyboard.
 to set `delete-key-deletes-forward' to nil is if you want to use the
 Delete key to delete backwards, despite the presence (according to
 Xlib) of a BackSpace key on the keyboard.

- 
+

 ** Interactive searching and matching case improvements.
 
 Case sensitiveness in searching operations is normally controlled by
 ** Interactive searching and matching case improvements.
 
 Case sensitiveness in searching operations is normally controlled by

@@ -53,7 +77,7 @@ the variable `case-fold-search' (if non-nil, case is ignored while
 searching).  This mechanism has now been slightly improved for
 interactive searches: if the search string (or regexp) contains
 uppercase characters, the searching is forced to be case-sensitive,
 searching).  This mechanism has now been slightly improved for
 interactive searches: if the search string (or regexp) contains
 uppercase characters, the searching is forced to be case-sensitive,

-`case-fold-search'.   
+`case-fold-search'.

 
 The new behavior affects all functions performing interactive
 searches, like `zap-to-char', `list-matching-lines', `tags-search'
 
 The new behavior affects all functions performing interactive
 searches, like `zap-to-char', `list-matching-lines', `tags-search'

@@ -85,6 +109,37 @@ file name prompts; e.g. `C-x C-f ~hni<TAB>' will complete to
 `~hniksic/'.  To make this operation faster, a cache of user names is
 maintained internally.
 
 `~hniksic/'.  To make this operation faster, a cache of user names is
 maintained internally.
 

+The new primitives available for this purpose are functions named
+`user-name-completion' and `user-name-all-completions'.
+
+** Native widgets can be displayed in buffers.
+
+The glyph system has been extended to allow the display of glyphs that
+are implemented as native window-system widgets. Thus you can embed
+buttons, scrollbars, combo boxes, edit fields and progress gauges in a
+buffer. As a side effect subwindow support now works once again.
+
+This support is currently only available under MS-Windows.
+
+** X-Face support is now available under MS-Windows
+
+If an X-Face libary built under MS-Windows is available then XEmacs
+will use this at build time.
+
+** The font-menu is now available under MS-Windows
+
+** MS-Windows support for selection is much more robust
+
+Generally selection should now do what you would expect under
+MS-Windows: the middle mouse button will paste your current selection
+or the clipboard; conversions from different types of selection to the
+clipboard can be made; the kill-ring and friends will be updated as
+per X.
+
+The only thing selection doesn't do is set the clipboard automatically
+as this would break the MS-Windows model. If you want this behaviour
+then set `selection-sets-clipboard' to t
+

 \f
 * Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 21.2
 ==========================================
 \f
 * Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 21.2
 ==========================================

@@ -175,6 +230,18 @@ details.
 
 Of course, the old form is still accepted for backward compatibility.
 
 
 Of course, the old form is still accepted for backward compatibility.
 

+** `translate-region' has been improved in several ways.  Its TABLE
+argument used to be a 256-character string.  In addition to this, it
+can now also be a vector or a char-table (which is useful for Mule.)
+If TABLE a vector or a generic char-table, you can map characters to
+strings instead of to other characters.  For instance:
+
+    (let ((table (make-char-table 'generic)))
+      (put-char-table ?a "the letter a" table)
+      (put-char-table ?b "" table)
+      (put-char-table ?c ?\n table)
+      (translate-region (point-min) (point-max) table))
+

 ** The `keywordp' function now returns non-nil only on symbols
 interned in the global obarray.  For example:
 
 ** The `keywordp' function now returns non-nil only on symbols
 interned in the global obarray.  For example:
 

@@ -185,7 +252,7 @@ interned in the global obarray.  For example:
 
 This behaviour is compatible with other code which treats symbols
 beginning with colon as keywords only if they are interned in the
 
 This behaviour is compatible with other code which treats symbols
 beginning with colon as keywords only if they are interned in the

-global obarray.  `keyword' used to wrongly return t in both cases
+global obarray.  `keywordp' used to wrongly return t in both cases

 above.
 
 ** The first argument to `intern-soft' may now also be a symbol, like
 above.
 
 ** The first argument to `intern-soft' may now also be a symbol, like