* doc/emacs/display.texi (Fringes): Move overflow-newline-into-fringe here,
from Line Truncation node.
(Standard Faces): Note that only the background of the cursor face
has an effect.
(Cursor Display): Fix descriptions of cursor face
and bar cursor blinking.
(Text Display): Document nobreak-char-display more clearly.
(Line Truncation): Add xref to Split Window node.
(Display Custom): Don't bother documenting baud-rate or
no-redraw-on-reenter.
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Slow Isearch): Node removed.
* doc/emacs/display.texi (Faces): Simplify discussion. Move documentation
of list-faces-display here, from Standard Faces node. Note
special role of `default' background.
(Standard Faces): Note special role of `default' background. Note
that region face may be taken fom GTK. Add xref to Text Display.
(Text Scale): Rename from "Temporary Face Changes". Callers
changed. Don't bother documenting variable-pitch-mode.
(Font Lock): Copyedits. Remove font-lock-maximum-size.
(Useless Whitespace): Simplify description of
delete-trailing-whitespace. Note active region case.
(Text Display): Fix description of escape-glyph face assignment.
Remove unibye mode discussion. Update some parts for Unicode.
Move glyphless chars documentation to Lisp manual.
* doc/emacs/frames.texi (Tooltips): Document x-gtk-use-system-tooltips.
* doc/lispref/display.texi (Glyphless Chars): New node.
* doc/emacs/killing.texi (Deletion): Document negative prefix arg to M-SPC.
* doc/emacs/regs.texi (Text Registers): C-x r i does not activate the mark.
(Bookmarks): Document new default bookmark location.
* doc/misc/ert.texi (Introduction, How to Run Tests)
(Running Tests Interactively, Expected Failures)
(Tests and Their Environment, Useful Techniques)
(Interactive Debugging, Fixtures and Test Suites):
Minor rephrasings.
(Running Tests Interactively, The @code{should} Macro): Add xrefs.
(Running Tests in Batch Mode): Simplify loading instructions.
(Test Selectors): Clarify some selectors.
(Expected Failures, Useful Techniques):
Make examples fit in 80 columns.
Remove unused "LocalWords".
* doc/emacs/killing.texi (Deletion): Add xref to Using Region.
(Yanking): Move yank-excluded-properties to Lisp manual. Move C-y
description here. Recommend C-u C-SPC for jumping to mark.
(Kill Ring): Move kill ring variable documentation here.
(Primary Selection): Copyedits.
(Rectangles): Document new command rectangle-number-lines.
(CUA Bindings): Note that this disables the mark-even-if-inactive
behavior for C-x and C-c.
* doc/emacs/mark.texi (Mark): Mention "active region" terminology.
(Using Region): Document delete-active-region.
* doc/lispref/text.texi (Yanking): Document yank-excluded-properties.
* doc/lispref/package.texi (Packaging Basics): The commentary should say how
to begin using the package.
* mark.texi (Mark): Clarify description of disabled Transient Mark
mode.
(Setting Mark): Document prefix arg for C-x C-x. Document primary
selection changes. Mention that commands like C-y set the mark.
(Marking Objects): Add xref to Words node. Note that mark-word
and mark-sexp also have the "extend region" behavior.
(Using Region): Mention M-$ in the table. Document
mark-even-if-inactive here instead of in Mark Ring.
(Mark Ring): Move mark-even-if-inactive to Using Region. Take
note of the "Mark Set" behavior.
(Disabled Transient Mark): Rename from "Persistent Mark"
(Bug#9688). Callers changed.
* programs.texi (Expressions):
* text.texi (Words): Defer to Marking Objects for mark-word doc.
Fixes: debbugs:9689
* buffers.texi (The Buffer List): Describe how bury-buffer deals
with the selected window.
* windows.texi (Buffers and Windows): Reformulate text on how
replace-buffer-in-windows deals with a window.
(Quitting Windows): Describe how quit-window deals with a
standalone frame. Describe new option frame-auto-hide-function.
See discussion at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-10/msg00193.html
* lisp/simple.el (count-words-region): Always count in the region.
Report the number of lines and characters too.
(count-words): New command, which counts in the buffer if the
region is inactive, as count-words-region used to.
(count-words--message): New function. Handle plurals.
(count-lines-region): Make it an alias for count-words-region.
* lisp/bindings.el (esc-map): Replace count-lines-region with
count-words-region.
* doc/emacs/basic.texi (Position Info): Omit page commands. Document
count-words-region and count-words.
* doc/emacs/text.texi (Pages): Move what-page documentation here.
* doc/emacs/mini.texi (Minibuffer File): Minor copyedits. Use xref to
Remote Files node instead of linking directly to the Tramp manual.
(Minibuffer Edit): Add xref to Blank Lines.
(Completion): Add xref to Symbol Completion. Remove redundant
example, which is repeated in the next node.
(Completion Commands): Minor clarifications.
(Completion Styles): New node, split from Completion Commands.
Document substring and initials styles.
(Strict Completion): Remove information duplicated in other nodes.
(Completion Options): Consolidate case difference discussion here.
* doc/emacs/files.texi (File Names): Add index entries.
* doc/emacs/help.texi (Help Mode): Fix kindex entries.
* doc/emacs/basic.texi (Inserting Text): Add xref to Completion. Add
ucs-insert example, and document prefix argument.
(Moving Point): Fix introduction; C-f/C-b are no longer equivalent
to left/right. Tweak left-char and right-char descriptions.
M-left and M-right are now bound to left-word/right-word.
(Erasing): Document delete-forward-char.
* doc/emacs/commands.texi (User Input): Define "input event" more clearly.
(Keys): Add xref to Echo Area.
(Commands): Clarify relation between commands and functions.
* doc/emacs/entering.texi (Entering Emacs): Define "startup screen".
Document window-splitting behavior with command-line inputs.
(Exiting): Remove obsolete paragraph about shells without suspend
functionality.
* doc/emacs/frames.texi (Non-Window Terminals): Index just "text-only
terminal", which is used throughout the manual now.
* doc/emacs/screen.texi (Screen, Menu Bar): Copyedits.
(Point): Remove duplicate paragraph on cursors, also in Screen.
(Mode Line): Trailing dashes no longer shown on X displays.
gnus.texi (Gnus Utility Functions): Add more references and explanations (bug#9683).
ecomplete.el (ecomplete-display-matches): Use a local keymap to handle bindings.
gnus-win.el (gnus-configure-windows): Protect against reading ephemeral groups outside of Gnus.
* doc/emacs/misc.texi (emacsclient Options): Document how emacsclient
runs the Emacs daemon.
* doc/man/emacsclient.1: Document how -a "" starts the daemon.
Fixes: debbugs:9674
This clarifies and fixes some licensing issues raised by Glenn Morris
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-09/msg00397.html>.
It also merges the latest version of texinfo.tex and has some
MSVC-related changes that don't affect Emacs.
* Makefile.in (GNULIB_TOOL_FLAGS): Avoid msvc-inval, msvc-nothrow,
pathmax, and raise, since these are needed only to address
MSVC-related issues that Emacs doesn't have.
* doc/misc/texinfo.tex, lib/dup2.c, lib/gnulib.mk, lib/signal.in.h:
* lib/sigprocmask.c, lib/stat.c, lib/stdio.in.h, lib/sys_stat.in.h:
* lib/unistd.in.h, m4/dup2.m4, m4/getloadavg.m4, m4/gl-comp.m4:
* m4/include_next.m4, m4/signal_h.m4, m4/signalblocking.m4:
* m4/stdint.m4, m4/stdio_h.m4, m4/sys_stat_h.m4, m4/time_h.m4:
* m4/unistd_h.m4: Merge from gnulib.
* windows.texi (Windows and Frames, Display Action Functions)
(Switching Buffers): Fix some typos.
(Buffers and Windows): Remove reference to window-auto-delete.
Reword description of replace-buffer-in-windows.
(Window History): Fix some typos and refer to frame local buffer
list.
* doc/lispref/windows.texi (Window History): New node. Move text here
from Buffers and Windows.
(Switching Buffers): Rename from Displaying Buffers, since we
don't document display-buffer here; callers changed. Document
FORCE-SAME-WINDOW arg to switch-to-buffer and
switch-to-buffer-other-frame. Delete duplicate
replace-buffer-in-windows doc.
(Choosing Window): Document display actions.
src/dispnew.c (syms_of_display) <redisplay-dont-pause>: Default
value is now t. Doc fix.
doc/lispref/display.texi (Forcing Redisplay): Update the description of
redisplay-dont-pause due to change in the default value.
etc/NEWS: Mention the change of the default value.
* frames.texi (Frames and Windows): Move section and rename to
Windows and Frames in windows.texi.
* windows.texi (Windows): Restructure.
(Basic Windows): Rewrite. Explain live and internal windows and
normalization functions.
(Windows and Frames): Move section here from frames.texi.
Describe subwindows, window combinations, window tree, and
corresponding functions including window-list here.
(Window Sizes): Rename section from Size of Window and move it
up in chapter. Describe total and body sizes and the
corresponding functions. Explain new semantics of
window-min-height/-width.
(Resizing Windows): Move section up in chapter. Describe new
resize functions.
(Splitting Windows): Describe new behavior of split-window,
split-window-above-each-other and split-window-side-by-side.
Provide examples. Describe window-nest and window-splits
options.
(Deleting Windows): Minor rewrite.
(Selecting Windows): Minor rewrite. Describe
frame-selected-window and set-frame-selected-window here.
(Cyclic Window Ordering): Minor rewrite. Describe
window-list-1.
(Buffers and Windows): Rewrite. Explain a window's previous and
next buffers and the corresponding functions.
* elisp.texi (Top): Update node listings for frames and windows
sections.
gnus.texi (Archived Messages): Note the default (bug#9552).
message.el (message-indent-citation): Really make sure there's a newline at the end.
nnimap.el (nnimap-parse-flags): Make regexp less prone to overflows. Fix suggested by John Wiegley.
pop3.el (pop3-open-server): Fix +OK end-of-command regexp.
gnus-art.el (gnus-treat-hide-citation): Add doc.
message.el (message-default-send-rename-function): Break out into its own function.
ecomplete.el (ecomplete-display-matches): Revert patch since it doesn't work under XEmacs.
nnimap.el (nnimap-map-port): New function to connect to 993 instead of "imaps" to word around Windows problems.
(nnimap-open-connection-1): Use it.
message.el (message-indent-citation): Revert last change which made `F' not work.
release 8.3.
(Preface): Updated support information.
(From Bill Wohler): Reset text to original version. As a historical
quote, the tense should be correct in the time that it was written.