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@@ -187,8 +187,8 @@ 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
+as this would break the MS-Windows model.  If you want this behavior
+then set `selection-sets-clipboard' to t.
 
 ** Mail spool locking now works correctly.
 XEmacs has always come with a little auxiliary program, movemail,
@@ -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
@@ -232,12 +252,12 @@ menus.
 ** Pixel-based scrolling has been implemented.
 By default this will attempt to scroll in increments equal to the
 height of the default face.  Set `window-pixel-scroll-increment' to
-modify this behaviour.
+modify this behavior.
 
 ** Operation progress can be displayed using graphical widgets.
 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'.
+do not like this behavior set `progress-feedback-use-echo-area'.
 
 ** The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported.
 It is now possible to build XEmacs so that the programming interface
@@ -360,7 +380,7 @@ to (concat "~" init-file-user).  This turned out to be too complicated
 for most packages (and some core Lisp files) to use correctly.  Also,
 the `init-file-user' variable has been obsoleted in the process.
 
-The user-visible options like `-u' have not changed their behaviour.
+The user-visible options like `-u' have not changed their behavior.
 
 ** XEmacs finally has an automated test suite!
 Although this is not yet very sophisticated, it is already responsible
@@ -489,7 +509,7 @@ interned in the global obarray.  For example:
     (keywordp (intern ":foo"))       ; The same as (keywordp :foo)
       => t
 
-This behaviour is compatible with other code which treats symbols
+This behavior is compatible with other code which treats symbols
 beginning with colon as keywords only if they are interned in the
 global obarray.  `keywordp' used to wrongly return t in both cases
 above.