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.
-
+
** Interactive searching and matching case improvements.
Case sensitiveness in searching operations is normally controlled by
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'
etc. The incremental search facility has always behaved that way.
+** The rectangle functions have been almost completely rewritten in
+order to avoid inserting undesirable spaces, notably at the end of
+lines. Two typical examples of the old behavior were
+`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. All 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, the FORCE argument to `move-to-column' now
+understands the special value `coerce', which means that the line
+should not be filled if it is too short to reach the desired column.
+
+** Incremental search will now highlight all visible matches, making
+it easier to anticipate where consecutive C-s or C-r will place the
+point. If you want to disable the feature, set
+`isearch-highlight-all-matches' to nil.
+
+** 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 hierarchies at
+~/.xemacs/mule-packages/ and ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/. Previously,
+the early packages were located in ~/.xemacs/.
+
** You can now create "indirect buffers", like in GNU Emacs. An
indirect buffer shares its text with another buffer ("base buffer"),
but has its own major mode, local variables, extents, and narrowing.
** 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
+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.
+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
-
+** 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
+** The font-menu is now available under MS-Windows.
+
+** MS-Windows support for selection is now 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
+
+** 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>/.emacs -user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs.
\f
* Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 21.2
`base64-encode-region', `base64-encode-string', `base64-decode-region'
and `base64-decode-string'.
+** user-init-directory is now an absolute, unexpanded path.
+Previously, `user-init-directory' used to be relative to
+(concat "~" init-file-user). This turned out to be too complicated
+for most packages (and some core Lisp files) to use correctly.
+
+Also, `init-file-user' has been obsoleted in the process.
+
\f
* Changes in XEmacs 21.0
========================
Look under "Startup Paths" in the Info documentation for more
information.
-*** site-lisp is now longer part of the load-path by default.
+*** site-lisp is no longer part of the load-path by default.
Its use is deprecated, but you can specify --with-site-lisp=yes at the
configure command line to get it back.
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