Contents in 1999-06-04-13 of release-21-2.

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@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ 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'.
+

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

@@ -175,6 +178,18 @@ 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 +200,7 @@ 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