[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/NEWS

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

Index: emacs/etc/NEWS
diff -c emacs/etc/NEWS:1.1065 emacs/etc/NEWS:1.1066
*** emacs/etc/NEWS:1.1065       Tue Nov  9 11:10:09 2004
--- emacs/etc/NEWS      Wed Nov 10 20:15:00 2004
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*** 106,113 ****
  +++
  ** `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'.
  
  +++
  ** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
--- 106,113 ----
  +++
  ** `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, based on the new var
! `magic-mode-alist'.
  
  +++
  ** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
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*** 2091,2096 ****
--- 2091,2103 ----
  
  * 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.