* doc/emacs/keymaps.texi (Format of Keymaps): The CACHE component of keymaps
was removed on 2009-09-10. Update lisp-mode-map example.
(Inheritance and Keymaps): Minor clarification.
(Searching Keymaps): Remove out-of-place enumeration.
(Key Lookup): Remove unnecessary example (one was already given in
Format of Keymaps).
(Changing Key Bindings): Update suppress-keymap example.
(Menu Bar, Tool Bar): Copyedits.
(Tool Bar): Update tool-bar-map example.
* doc/lispref/advice.texi (Defining Advice): Clarify ad-unadvise.
(Activation of Advice): Specifying the ACTIVATE flag in defadvice
is not abnormal.
(Advising Primitives): Node deleted; ad-define-subr-args has been
removed.
* doc/lispref/compile.texi (Speed of Byte-Code): Use float-time in example.
(Compilation Functions): Note that the log uses Compilation mode.
Don't discuss the contents of byte-code function object here.
(Compilation Functions): De-document internal function byte-code.
(Docs and Compilation): Minor clarifications.
* doc/lispref/objects.texi (Byte-Code Type): Add xref to Byte-Code Function
Objects.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/advice.el: Update commentary to reflect deletion of
ad-define-subr-args
* doc/emacs/loading.texi (Loading): Don't emphasize "library" terminology.
(Library Search): load-path is not a user option. Mention role of
-L option and packages. Improve examples.
(Loading Non-ASCII): Don't mention unibyte Emacs, which is
obsolete.
(Autoload): Minor clarifications.
* doc/lispref/customize.texi (Common Keywords): Minor clarifications.
Document custom-unlispify-remove-prefixes.
(Variable Definitions): Backquotes in defcustom seem to work fine
now. Various other copyedits.
(Simple Types): Copyedits. Document color selector.
(Composite Types): Copyedits.
(Splicing into Lists): Clarifications.
* doc/lispref/customize.texi (Common Keywords): Minor clarifications.
Document custom-unlispify-remove-prefixes.
(Variable Definitions): Backquotes in defcustom seem to work fine
now. Various other copyedits.
* doc/lispref/macros.texi (Expansion): Minor clarification.
(Backquote): Move node to eval.texi.
(Defining Macros): Move an example from Backquote node.
(Argument Evaluation): No need to mention Pascal.
(Indenting Macros): Add xref to Defining Macros.
* doc/lispref/eval.texi (Backquote): Move from macros.texi.
* lisp/custom.el (defcustom): Doc fix.
* doc/emacs/functions.texi (What Is a Function): Add closures. Mention
"return value" terminology. Add xref for command-execute. Remove
unused "keystroke command" terminology.
(Lambda Expressions): Give a different example than in the
following subsection. Add xref to Anonymous Functions.
(Function Documentation): Remove gratuitous markup.
(Function Names): Move introductory text to `What Is a Function'.
(Defining Functions): Fix defun argument spec.
(Anonymous Functions): Document lambda macro explicitly. Mention
effects on lexical binding.
(Function Cells): Downplay direct usage of fset.
(Closures): New node.
(Inline Functions): Remove "open-code" terminology.
(Declaring Functions): Minor tweak; .m is not C code.
* doc/emacs/variables.texi (Variables): Don't refer to "global value".
(Local Variables, Void Variables): Copyedits.
(Lexical Binding): Minor clarification of example.
(File Local Variables): Mention :safe and :risky defcustom args.
(Lexical Binding): Add xref to Closures node.
* doc/lispref/eval.texi (Intro Eval, Symbol Forms): Minor tweaks for
correctness with lexical scoping.
(Eval): Copyedits.
* doc/lispref/sequences.texi (Sequence Functions): Don't repeat the
introduction already given in the parent.
(Vectors): Copyedits.
(Rings): Move from lists.texi. Note that this is specific to the
ring package.
* doc/lispref/lists.texi (Cons Cells): Copyedits.
(List Elements): Mention push.
(List Variables): Mention pop.
(Rings): Move to sequences.texi.
* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Text Comparison): Minor qualification.
* doc/lispref/symbols.texi (Definitions, Symbol Components): Mention variable
scoping issues.
(Plists and Alists): Copyedits.
* doc/emacs/xresources.texi (X Resources): Describe GTK+ case first.
(Resources): Don't use borderWidth as an example, since it doesn't
work with GTK+.
(Table of Resources): Clarify role of several resources, including
the Emacs 24 behavior of cursorBlink etc.
(Face Resources): Node deleted. Recommend using Customize
instead. Add paragraph to `Table of Resources' node summarizing
how to use X resources for changing faces.
(Lucid Resources): Rewrite, omitting description of font names,
referring to the Fonts node instead.
(LessTif Resources): Copyedits.
(GTK resources): Rewrite, describing the difference between gtk2
and gtk3.
(GTK Resource Basics): New node.
(GTK Widget Names, GTK Names in Emacs): Rewrite.
(GTK styles): Just refer to Fonts node for GTK font format.
* doc/emacs/display.texi (Faces): Document the cursor face.
etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.he: Update to follow changes to TUTORIAL in
2012-01-10T08:27:22Z!cyd@gnu.org.
admin/FOR-RELEASE (Check the Emacs Tutorial): Mark TUTORIAL.he as
updated and checked.
* doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi (Action Arguments): No need to mention
EMACSLOADPATH.
(General Variables): Add xref to Lisp Libraries.
(Initial Options): Copyedits.
(Resume Arguments): Node deleted; emacs.bash/csh are obsolete.
(Environment): Clarify what getenv does.
(General Variables): Clarify EMACSPATH etc. Emacs does not assume
light backgrounds on xterms.
(Misc Variables): TEMP and TMP are not Windows-specific.
(Display X): Copyedits.
(Colors X): -bd does nothing for GTK.
(Icons X): Gnome 3 doesn't use taskbars.
* doc/emacs/misc.texi (Shell): Document exec-path here.
* doc/emacs/rmail.texi (Movemail): Add xref for exec-path.
* etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Don't give instructions for old-style X
scrollbars. Use DEL terminology instead of DelBack. Improve
description of graphical continuation lines and mode-line.
Promote use of C-/ and C-SPC. Remove discussion of flow control.
* doc/emacs/trouble.texi (Lossage): Refer to Bugs node for problems.
(DEL Does Not Delete): Don't use "usual erasure key" teminology.
(Screen Garbled): Don't refer to terminal "manufacturers".
(Total Frustration): Node deleted. Eliza is documented in
Amusements now.
(Known Problems): More info about using the bug tracker. Mention
debbugs package.
(Bug Criteria): Copyedits.
(Understanding Bug Reporting): Mention emacs -Q.
* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Specifying File Variables): The mode: keyword
doesn't have to be first anymore. Add example of specifying minor
modes.
(Directory Variables): Simplify example. Mention application to
non-file buffers.
(Disabling): Use "initialization file" terminology.
(Init Examples): Fix hook example.
* doc/lispref/variables.texi (Directory Local Variables): Document
hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer.
* lisp/files.el (hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer): Add doc.
(hack-one-local-variable-eval-safep): Allow 0 arg for minor mode
functions, along with 1 and -1.
* doc/emacs/misc.texi (Single Shell): Don't document Lisp usage of
shell-command. Tidy up discussion of synchronicity. Add index
entries for async-shell-command.
(Interactive Shell): Note that M-x shell uses shell-file-name.
Note change in behavior in Emacs 24.
(Shell Mode): Shell mode now uses completion-at-point.
(Shell Prompts): Emphasize that comint-use-prompt-regexp isn't the
default method for recognizing prompts nowadays.
(Shell Ring): Add xref to Minibuffer History.
(Directory Tracking): Explain Dirtrack mode in more detail.
(Term Mode): Fix index entries.
(Paging in Term): Merge into Term Mode.
(Serial Terminal, Emacs Server, emacsclient Options): Copyedits.
(Printing): Fix xref. State default of lpr-switches.
(PostScript): Remove obsolete sentence. Omit description of
non-interactive behaviors.
(Hyperlinking): Improve description.
(Browse-URL): Using compose-mail for mailto URLs is the default.
Document browse-url-mailto-function.
(Goto Address mode): Add index entries. Add xref to Browse-URL.
(FFAP): FFAP is not a minor mode.
(Amusements): M-x lm was renamed to M-x landmark. Document
nato-region.
* misc.texi (Gnus, Buffers of Gnus): Copyedits.
(Gnus Startup): Note that the system might not be set up for news.
Describe group levels more clearly.
(Gnus Group Buffer, Gnus Summary Buffer): New nodes, split from
Summary of Gnus.
(Document View): Copyedits. Move zoom commads to DocView
Navigation node.
(DocView Navigation, DocView Searching, DocView Slicing)
(DocView Conversion): Nodes renamed from Navigation, etc.
* sending.texi (Mail Sending): Add message-kill-buffer-on-exit.
* sending.texi (Sending Mail): Document initial mail buffer name,
and changed multiple mail buffer behavior.
(Mail Format): Put the example at the top of the section.
(Mail Headers): Move discussion of "From" to the top.
(Mail Sending): Document sendmail-query-once.
(Citing Mail): Make it less Rmail-specific.
* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (VCS Merging, VCS Changesets): Index entries.
(VC Mode Line): Add index entry for "version control status".
(VC Undo): Use vc-revert instead of its vc-revert-buffer alias.
Document vc-revert-show-diff. De-document vc-rollback.
(VC Directory Mode): Rewrite introduction. Move prefix arg
documentation here from VC Directory Buffer node.
(VC Directory Buffer): Use a decentralized VCS example.
(VC Directory Commands): Use a table. Remove material duplicated
in previous nodes on multi-file VC filsets.
* doc/emacs/modes.texi (Major Modes): Move major-mode variable doc here from
Choosing Modes. Document describe-mode. Document prog-mode-hook
and text-mode-hook. Add example of using hooks.
(Minor Modes): Document behavior of mode command calls from Lisp.
Note that setting the mode variable using Customize will DTRT.
(Choosing Modes): Add example of setting a minor mode using a
local variable.
Plus miscellaneous minor speling fixes in other manual files.
* doc/emacs/files.texi (File Names, Visiting, Interlocking): Copyedits.
(Backup Copying): backup-by-copying-when-mismatch is now t.
(Customize Save): Fix description of require-final-newline.
(Reverting): Note that revert-buffer can't be undone. Mention VC.
(Auto Save Control): Clarify.
(File Archives): Add 7z.
(Remote Files): ange-ftp-make-backup-files defaults to nil.
* doc/emacs/arevert-xtra.texi (Autorevert): Copyedits.
* 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/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/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.
`comint-previous-matching-input' to
`comint-history-isearch-backward-regexp'.
Unbind `M-s' to allow global key binding `M-s'.
Add menu items for `comint-history-isearch-backward' and
`comint-history-isearch-backward-regexp'. (Bug#3746)