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Add news for Dired and Info modes.

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Juri Linkov 2004-06-12 06:09:32 +00:00
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@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
** New features in evaluation commands
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*** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
@ -445,14 +446,24 @@ restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
`insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
** A prefix argument of C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-printifies the
list starting after point.
** Dired mode:
*** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
*** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' to mark files with
different file attributes in two dired buffers.
*** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
with different file attributes in two dired buffers.
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*** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.
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*** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
@ -468,7 +479,7 @@ types of files. The variable `dired-view-command-alist' controls
what external viewers to use and when.
*** In Dired, the w command now copies the current line's file name
into the kill ring.
into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, copies absolute file names.
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** Dired-x:
@ -479,15 +490,39 @@ marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the
mode toggling function instead.
** Info mode:
*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
with the number appended to the *info* buffer name.
*** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.
*** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.
*** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
possible matches.
*** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix
arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
*** New command `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S).
*** New command `Info-search-next' (unbound) repeats the last search
without prompting for a new search string.
*** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
references and following them calls `browse-url'.
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*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
`Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
*** The new command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
possible matches.
*** Images in Info pages are supported.
Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo