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| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 11 |
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@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ of the file that precede the first header line. +++ ** `set-auto-mode' now gives the interpreter magic line (if present) precedence over the file name. Likewise an <?xml or <!DOCTYPE declaration -will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, unless the file name leads to a mode in -`xml-based-modes'. +will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, based on the new var +`magic-mode-alist'. +++ ** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches @@ -2091,6 +2091,13 @@ anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed * New modes and packages in Emacs 21.4 +** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with +varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value, +var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or +section { }). Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through +.config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are +recognized. + ** The new package password.el provide a password cache and expiring mechanism. ** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files. |