PSPPIRE: Add feature to search for text in the syntax window.

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 PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2016, 2017, 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send PSPP bug reports to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org.
 
 Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0:
 
+ * The Find dialog box, when searching for numeric values, will match only
+   to the precision of the variable's print format.  This avoids behaviour
+   which is suprising to some users.
+
  * PSPP now supports the SPSS viewer (.spv) format that SPSS 16 and later
    use to save the contents of its output editor:
 
@@ -26,8 +30,16 @@ Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0:
  * Plain text output is no longer divided into pages, since it is now
    rarely printed on paper.
 
- * The pspp-convert utility has new "-a", "-l", "--password-list"
-   options to search for an encrypted file's password.
+ * pspp-convert improvements:
+
+   - New "-a", "-l", "--password-list" options to search for an
+     encrypted file's password.
+
+   - New "--keep" and "--drop" options to output only selected variables.
+
+   - New "--recode", "--no-var-name", "--labels", "--print-formats",
+     "--decimal", "--delimiter", and "--qualifier" options to control
+     CSV output.
 
  * Improvements to SAVE DATA COLLECTION support for MDD files.
 
@@ -60,6 +72,9 @@ Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0:
    sub-category as a percentage of the primary category instead of the
    total.
 
+ * The Syntax Window now has a Find function to perform simple text
+   searching.
+
  * AUTORECODE:
 
    - The PRINT subcommand is now implemented.