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-Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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customize `font-lock-comment-face'. Another alternative is to use a
newer terminal emulator that supports more colors (256 is now common).
For example, for xterm compatible emulators that support 256 colors,
-you can run emacs like this:
+you can run emacs like this:
env TERM=xterm-256color emacs -nw
(This was new in Emacs 22.1, but was not described. In Emacs 22.1
this also happened for terminals with a light background, that is not
** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added.
** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the
-following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
+following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
with simplified and traditional characters), French, Russian, and
Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language
setup doesn't automatically select the right one.
** New translations of the Emacs reference card are available in the
-Brasilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files
+Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files
are also included.
** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
*** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.
the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text.
-This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either
+This can be achieved by using shades of gray in contrast with either
black or white default foreground color. This generic shadow face
allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place,
so package-specific faces can inherit from it.
of a file.
*** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
-unicode.
+Unicode code point or character name.
*** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type
in the current input method to input a character at point.
*** Minor Improvements
-**** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
+**** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GnuTLS
instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool. For backwards
compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
-`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
+`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GnuTLS (or simply remove the
`starttls' tool).
**** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
** Fortran mode changes
*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
-It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
+It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizable
majority.
*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
*** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
`speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
-its descendents.
+its descendants.
*** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.
further filter candidate files.
One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
-`exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
+`exec-suffixes' is OS-dependent, so this function will find
executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.
*** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns