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revision 1.560 by rms, Tue Jan 8 06:14:48 2002 UTC revision 1.561 by rms, Wed Jan 9 07:39:15 2002 UTC
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282  * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.3  * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.3
283    
284    ** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
285    
286    Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
287    from 0 to 255.  As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte
288    buffers no longer exist.  We only know of three reasons to use them
289    now:
290    
291    1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time.
292    
293    2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid
294    the time it takes to convert the format.
295    
296    3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
297    wasteful.
298    
299  ** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence  ** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
300  over minor mode keymaps.  over minor mode keymaps.
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