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@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ Emacs with Leim.
 
 * Changes in Emacs 21.3
 
+** The new command `describe-text-at' pops up a buffer with description
+of text properties, overlays, and widgets at point, and lets you get
+more information about them, by clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or
+moving there and pressing RET.
+
 ** font-lock: in modes like C and Lisp where the fontification assumes that
 an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment,
 font-lock now highlights any such open-paren-in-column-zero in bold-red