catch NEWS up on things, some of which happened a long time ago; correct punctuation; try to remove some editorializing

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8c519d2..fec0171 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
 
 * after version 2.5.21
 
+** Makefile.in, etc. are generated with automake 1.6.3 (this has been
+   true for a while but was not documented here)
+
+** the flex.1 manpage is generated by help2man; (this has been true
+   for quite a while but was not listed here)
+
+** flex now includes a single string (YY_FLEX_VERSION) to indicate
+  which version of flex generated a scanner
+
 ** flex tries its best to output only the relevant portions of the
    skeleton when generating a scanner, thus avoiding as much
    conditional compilation as possible
@@ -40,7 +49,7 @@ See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
    space (problem report from Manoj Srivastava
    <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>)
 
-** Changed option 'header' to 'header-file'.
+** Changed option 'header' to 'header-file'
 
 * version 2.5.18 released 2002-9-4
 
@@ -66,7 +75,7 @@ See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
 
 ** c++ scanners compile again
 
-** there is now an indent target in the top-level Makefile. configure
+** there is now an indent target in the top-level Makefile; configure
    checks for GNU indent which is required for proper operation of the
    indent target
 
@@ -118,7 +127,7 @@ See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
 
 ** Fixed type mismatch in printf in scanner skeleton
 
-** yylex_init now reports errors.
+** yylex_init now reports errors
 
 * version 2.5.12 released 2002-8-8
 
@@ -126,10 +135,10 @@ See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
 
 ** new fr translation from the translation project
 
-** bison is no longer needed to build flex. If you are building flex
+** bison is no longer needed to build flex; If you are building flex
    from a release (i.e., not from a cvs snapshot), then you don't need
    to have a pre-built lex around either (unless you modify scan.l, of
-   course). (This has been true for some time, but was not mentioned
+   course); (This has been true for some time, but was not mentioned
    here.)
 
 * version 2.5.11 released 2002-7-31
@@ -138,7 +147,8 @@ See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
 
 ** the yylineno performance hit is now gone
 
-** fixed some typos in the manual and we now include texinfo.tex
+** fixed some typos in the manual and we now include texinfo.tex in
+   the distribution
 
 ** traditional prototypes output for C scanners, controlled by a
    preprocessor symbol; see documentation for details
@@ -156,8 +166,7 @@ See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
 ** new tests in test suite: test-mem-{nr,r}, test-posix,
    test-posixly-correct, test-debug-{nr,r}
 
-** made changes to work with gcc-3.2 development code. (Yes, we were
-   doing things wrong)
+** made changes to work with gcc-3.2 development code
 
 ** ability to choose which memory functions are used in flex
 
@@ -252,7 +261,7 @@ e.g.,  yyget_text, yyget_leng, etc
 *** Prefix substitution added for new functions
 
 *** Macro shortcuts to the lengthy get/set functions
-provided for use in actions. e.g.,  yytext, yyleng, etc
+provided for use in actions, e.g.,  yytext, yyleng, etc
 
 *** Arbitrary, user-defined data, "yyextra", may be added to scanner