Resorted; add missing `ideographic-strokes' attributes; use

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@@ -205,23 +205,43 @@ environment's mail spool locking conventions.  When you're using a
 binary kit, set the `mail-lock-method' variable at startup, or the
 EMACSLOCKMETHOD environment variable.
 
-** New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory.
-These can be used to specify alternate locations for what is normally
-~/.emacs and ~/.xemacs.
+** Init file will move to ~/.xemacs/init.el.
 
-Moreover, -user <user> (which used to only work in unpredictable ways)
-is now equivalent to
--user-init-file ~<user>/.emacs -user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs.
+If `~/.xemacs/init.el' exists, XEmacs will prefer it over `~/.emacs'
+as an init file.  The file may be byte-compiled as
+`~/.xemacs/init.elc'.
+
+Future versions of XEmacs will stop supporting `~/.emacs' as an init
+file.  XEmacs offers automatic migration upon startup.
+
+** Custom file will move to ~/.xemacs/custom.el.
+
+Whereas customize settings were formerly stored in the regular init
+file, XEmacs now prefers them to be in a separate file
+`~/.xemacs/custom.el', completely under automatic control.  This
+change goes with the migration of the init file, and XEmacs offers
+automatic migration upon startup.
 
 ** Init file may be called .emacs.el.
 
-Like in GNU Emacs 20.4 and on, you can now name the XEmacs init file
-`.emacs.el'.  Formerly the name had to be `.emacs'.  If you use the
-name `.emacs.el', you can byte-compile the file in the usual way.
+For the time being, like in GNU Emacs 20.4 and on, you can now name
+the XEmacs init file `.emacs.el'.  Formerly the name had to be
+`.emacs'.  If you use the name `.emacs.el', you can byte-compile the
+file in the usual way.
 
 If both `.emacs' and `.emacs.el' exist, the latter file is the one
 that is used.
 
+** New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory.
+These can be used to specify alternate locations for what is normally
+~/.emacs and ~/.xemacs.
+
+Moreover, -user <user> (which used to only work in unpredictable ways)
+is now equivalent to -user-init-file ~<user>/.xemacs/init.el
+-user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs.  or -user-init-file
+~<user>/.emacs -user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs, whichever init
+file comes first.
+
 ** New variable `mswindows-meta-activates-menu'.
 If you set this variable to nil then pressing and releasing the Alt
 key under MS-Windows will no longer activate the menubar.  The default
@@ -239,14 +259,14 @@ See `lprogress-display' for details.  This support has been switched
 on by default for font-lock and some web browsing functions.  If you
 do not like this behaviour set `progress-display-use-echo-area'.
 
-** Etags changes.
-
 ** The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported.
 It is now possible to build XEmacs so that the programming interface
 to the PostgreSQL RDBMS (libpq) is available in XEmacs Lisp.
 Supported versions of PostgreSQL are 6.5.3 (earlier versions may work,
 but have not been tested) and 7.0-beta1.
 
+** Etags changes.
+
 *** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
 
 *** New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex.  It is now