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etc/NEWS

@@ -760,10 +760,15 @@ as octal and numbers starting with `0x' or `0X' as hexadecimal.  The
 new user-option sort-numberic-base can be used to specify a default
 numeric base.
 
-** Ange-ftp allows you to specify of a port number in remote file
+** Changes to Ange-ftp
+
+*** Ange-ftp allows you to specify of a port number in remote file
 names cleanly.  It is appended to the host name, separated by a hash
 sign, e.g. `/foo@bar.org#666:mumble'.  (This syntax comes from EFS.)
 
+*** If the new user-option `ange-ftp-try-passive-mode' is set, passive
+ftp mode will be used if the ftp client supports that.
+
 ** Shell script mode changes.
 
 Shell script mode (sh-script) can now indent scripts for shells
@@ -1053,6 +1058,16 @@ Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
 so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.
 
+** The new function `string-to-syntax' can be used to translate syntax
+specificationa in string form as accepted my `modify-syntax-entry' to
+the cons-cell form that is used for the values of the `syntax-table'
+text property, and in `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'.
+
+Example:
+
+  (string-to-syntax "()")
+    => (4 . 41)
+
 ** Emacs' reader supports CL read syntax for integers in bases
 other than 10.
 

lisp/ChangeLog

+2000-03-18  Gerd Moellmann  <gerd@gnu.org>
+
+	* font-lock.el (font-lock-apply-syntactic-highlight): if VALUE
+	is a string, convert it to a syntax cell using string-to-syntax.
+
+	* simple.el (syntax-code-table, syntax-flag-table): New variables.
+	(string-to-syntax): New function.
+
+	* ange-ftp.el (ange-ftp-try-passive-mode): New user-option.
+	(ange-ftp-get-process): If ange-ftp-try-passive-mode is set,
+	try to use poassive ftp mode.
+
 2000-03-17  Gerd Moellmann  <gerd@gnu.org>
 
 	* progmodes/awk-mode.el (awk-font-lock-keywords): All `else'.