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 4.5 What is different about Emacs 23?
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    • Emacs has a new font code that can use multiple font backends,
      including freetype and fontconfig.  Emacs can use the Xft library
      for anti-aliasing, and the otf and m17n libraries for complex text
      layout and text shaping.
 
    • The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.  Several new
      language environments have been added.
 
    • Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in the same
      session (‘multi-tty’).
 
    • Emacs can be started as a daemon in the background.
 
    • There is a new NeXTstep port of Emacs.  This supports GNUstep and
      Mac OS X (via the Cocoa libraries).  The Carbon port of Emacs,
      which supported Mac OS X in Emacs 22, has been removed.
 
    • Directory-local variables can now be defined, in a similar manner
      to file-local variables.
 
    • Transient Mark mode (Highlighting a region) is on by
      default.
 
 Other changes include: support for serial port access; D-Bus bindings; a
 new Visual Line mode for line-motion; improved completion; a new mode
 (‘DocView’) for viewing of PDF, PostScript, and DVI documents; nXML mode
 (for editing XML documents) is included; VC has been updated for newer
 version control systems; etc.
 

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