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 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
 
+* New packages
+
+** delim-col
+
+Helps to prettify columns in a text region or rectangle.
+
+Here is an example of columns:
+
+horse	apple	bus
+dog	pineapple	car	EXTRA
+porcupine	strawberry	airplane
+
+Doing the following settings:
+
+   (setq delimit-columns-str-before "[ ")
+   (setq delimit-columns-str-after " ]")
+   (setq delimit-columns-str-separator ", ")
+   (setq delimit-columns-separator "\t")
+
+
+Selecting the lines above and typing:
+
+   M-x delimit-columns-region
+
+It results:
+
+[ horse    , apple     , bus     ,       ]
+[ dog      , pineapple , car     , EXTRA ]
+[ porcupine, strawberry, airplane,       ]
+
+delim-col has the following options:
+
+   delimit-columns-str-before		Specify a string to be inserted
+					before all columns.
+
+   delimit-columns-str-separator	Specify a string to be inserted
+					between each column.
+
+   delimit-columns-str-after		Specify a string to be inserted
+					after all columns.
+
+   delimit-columns-separator		Specify a regexp which separates
+					each column.
+
+delim-col has the following commands:
+
+   delimit-columns-region	Prettify all columns in a text region.
+   delimit-columns-rectangle	Prettify all columns in a text rectangle.
+
 ** Faces and frame parameters.
 
 There are four new faces `scroll-bar', `border', `cursor' and `mouse'.