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1GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2
3Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
4 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5See the end of the file for license conditions.
6
7Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
8If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
9
10This file is about changes in Emacs version 22.
11
12See files NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes
13in older Emacs versions.
14
15You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
16with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
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18* About external Lisp packages
19
20When you upgrade to Emacs 22 from a previous version, some older
21versions of external Lisp packages are known to behave badly.
22So in general, it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest
23versions of any external Lisp packages that you are using.
24
25You should also be aware that many Lisp packages have been included
26with Emacs 22 (see the extensive list below), and you should remove
27any older versions of these packages to ensure that the Emacs 22
28version is used. You can use M-x list-load-path-shadows to find such
29older packages.
30
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31Some specific packages that are known to cause problems are given
32below. Emacs tries to warn you about these through `bad-packages-alist'.
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34** Semantic (used by CEDET, ECB, JDEE): upgrade to latest version.
35
36** cua.el, cua-mode.el: remove old versions.
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39* Installation Changes in Emacs 22.2
40
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41** Emacs is now licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 (or later).
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43** Support for GNU/kFreeBSD (GNU userland and FreeBSD kernel) was added.
44
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45* Changes in Emacs 22.2
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47** In Image mode, whenever the displayed image is wider and/or higher
48than the window, the usual keys for moving the cursor cause the image
49to be scrolled horizontally or vertically instead.
50
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51** Scrollbars follow the system theme on Windows XP and later.
52Windows XP introduced themed scrollbars, but applications have to take
53special steps to use them. Emacs now has the appropriate resources linked
54in to make it use the scrollbars from the system theme.
55
fdc90613 56** focus-follows-mouse defaults to nil on MS Windows.
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57Previously this variable was incorrectly documented as having no effect
58on MS Windows, and the default was inappropriate for the majority of
59Windows installations. Users of software which modifies the behaviour of
60Windows to cause focus to follow the mouse will now need to explicitly set
61this variable.
62
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63** `bad-packages-alist' will warn about external packages that are known
64to cause problems in this version of Emacs.
65
66** The values of `dired-recursive-deletes' and `dired-recursive-copies'
67have been changed to `top'. This means that the user is asked once,
68before deleting/copying the indicated directory recursively.
69
70** `browse-url-emacs' loads a URL into an Emacs buffer. Handy for *.el URLs.
71
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72** The command gdba has been removed as gdb works now for those cases where it
73was needed. In text command mode, if you have problems before execution has
74started, use M-x gud-gdb.
75
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76** desktop.el now detects conflicting uses of the desktop file.
77When loading the desktop, desktop.el can now detect that the file is already
78in use. The default behavior is to ask the user what to do, but you can
79customize it with the new option `desktop-load-locked-desktop'. When saving,
80desktop.el warns about attempts to overwrite a desktop file if it determines
81that the desktop being saved is not an update of the one on disk.
82
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83* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.2
84
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85** bibtex-style-mode helps you write BibTeX's *.bst files.
86
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87** The new package css-mode.el provides a major mode for editing CSS files.
88
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89** The new package vera-mode.el provides a major mode for editing Vera files.
90
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91** The new package verilog-mode.el provides a major mode for editing Verilog files.
92
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95** VC
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97*** VC backends can provide completion of revision names.
98
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99*** VC backends can provide extra menu entries to be added to the "Version Control" menu.
100This can be used to add menu entries for backend specific functions.
101
102*** VC has some support for Mercurial (Hg).
103
104*** VC has some support for Monotone (Mtn).
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106*** VC has some support for Bazaar (Bzr).
107
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108*** VC has some support for Git.
109
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110* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.2.
111
fdc90613 112** Frame-local variables are deprecated and are slated for removal.
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113Use frame parameters instead.
114
7f22a765 115** The function invisible-p returns non-nil if the character
6554da99 116after a specified position is invisible.
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118+++
119** inhibit-modification-hooks is bound to t while running modification hooks.
120As a happy consequence, after-change-functions and before-change-functions
121are not bound to nil any more while running an (after|before)-change-function.
122
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123** New function `window-full-width-p' returns t if a window is as wide
124as its frame.
125
126** The new function `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated
127with a given image specification.
128
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129** The new function `combine-and-quote-strings' concatenates a list of strings
130using a specified separator. If a string contains double quotes, they
131are escaped in the output.
132
133** The new function `split-string-and-unquote' performs the inverse operation to
134`combine-and-quote-strings', i.e. splits a single string into a list
135of strings, undoing any quoting added by `combine-and-quote-strings'.
136(For some separator/string combinations, the original strings cannot
137be recovered.)
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140* Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1
141
142** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
143when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.4 or newer. This port
144provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).
145
146** The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is now part of the distribution.
147
148The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in Info format is built as part of the
149Emacs build procedure and installed together with the Emacs User
150Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar to make it easily
151accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference).
152
153** The Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp manual is now part of
154the distribution.
155
156This manual is now part of the standard distribution and is installed,
157together with the Emacs User Manual, into the Info directory. A menu
158item was added to the menu bar to make it easily accessible
159(Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp).
160
161** Leim is now part of the Emacs distribution.
162You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build
163Emacs with Leim.
164
165** Support for MacOS X was added.
166See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
167
168** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also
169create a non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See
170the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
171
172** Support for a Cygwin build of Emacs was added.
173
174** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.
175
176** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added.
177
178** Support for GNU/Linux systems on Tensilica Xtensa machines was added.
179
180** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added.
181
182** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the
183following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
184with simplified and traditional characters), French, Russian, and
185Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language
186setup doesn't automatically select the right one.
187
188** New translations of the Emacs reference card are available in the
189Brasilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files
190are also included.
191
192** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
193
194** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix',
195`--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of
196installed programs.
197
198** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game
199scores. The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal
200place for game scores to be stored. You can control this with the
201configure option `--with-game-dir'. The specific user that Emacs uses
202to own the game scores is controlled by `--with-game-user'. If access
203to a game user is not available, then scores will be stored separately
204in each user's home directory.
205
206** Emacs now includes support for loading image libraries on demand.
207(Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure
208the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
209setting the variable `image-library-alist'.
210
211** Emacs can now be built without sound support.
212
213** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available.
214
215** All images used in Emacs have been consolidated in etc/images and subdirs.
216See also the changes to `find-image', documented below.
217
218** Emacs comes with a new set of icons.
219These icons are displayed on the taskbar and/or titlebar when Emacs
220runs in a graphical environment. Source files for these icons can be
221found in etc/images/icons. (You can't change the icons displayed by
222Emacs by changing these files directly. On X, the icon is compiled
223into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS
224Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.)
225
226** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code.
227
228** The `yow' program has been removed.
229Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead.
230
231** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
232The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
233terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.
234
235** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
236contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
237Emacs crash.
238
239** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union
240types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.
241
242** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
243much pure storage it will approximately need.
244
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246* Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1
247
248** Init file changes
249If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
250~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. Likewise, if the shell init file
251~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh.
252
253** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display.
254When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options
255`--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame
256whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire
257screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.)
258
259** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
260arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash
261disables the splash screen; see also the variable
262`inhibit-splash-screen' (which is also aliased as
263`inhibit-startup-message').
264
265** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
266When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
267displays a buffer menu. This option turns the buffer menu off.
268
269** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables
270the blinking cursor on graphical terminals.
271
272** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE.
273It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they
274can start with this line:
275
276 #!/usr/bin/emacs --script
277
278** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function,
279now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
280an interactively callable function.
281
282** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately.
283Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they
284appear on the command line. For example, with this command line:
285
286 emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)"
287
288Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then
289in the other directories in `load-path'. (-L is short for --directory.)
290
291** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to
292all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only
293affects the initial frame.
294
295** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does,
296with respect to its frame position: if you don't specify a position
297(in your .emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry
298command-line option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows'
299window manager.
300
301** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
302--no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated.
303
304** If the environment variable DISPLAY specifies an unreachable X display,
305Emacs will now startup as if invoked with the --no-window-system option.
306
307** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
308automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save
309modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It
310can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,
311according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
312
313** New command line option -Q or --quick.
314This is like using -q --no-site-file, but in addition it also disables
315the fancy startup screen.
316
317** New command line option -D or --basic-display.
318Disables the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, and
319the blinking cursor.
320
321** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon.
322The command-line options --icon-type, -i have been replaced with
323options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn the bitmap icon off.
324
325** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value
326to compute the default value of `user-mail-address', in preference to
327concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine.
328
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330* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
331
332** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
333
334See below for more details.
335
336** When the undo information of the current command gets really large
337(beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns
338you about it.
339
340** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name.
341This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the
342need to quote the space with a C-q. The underlying changes in the
343keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under
344"New keymaps for typing file names".
345
5a95db21 346If you want the old behavior back, add these two key bindings to your
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348
349 (define-key minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map
350 " " 'minibuffer-complete-word)
351 (define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map
352 " " 'minibuffer-complete-word)
353
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354** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
355to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
356it remains unchanged.
357
358** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special.
359
360See below under "incremental search changes".
361
362** M-g is now a prefix key.
363M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line.
364M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `).
365M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error.
366
367** C-u M-g M-g switches to the most recent previous buffer,
368and goes to the specified line in that buffer.
369
370When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at
371point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer.
372
373** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
374M-o M-o requests refontification.
375
376** C-x C-f RET (find-file), typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer
377a special case.
378
379Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
380of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
381directory with Dired.
382
383You can get the old behavior by typing C-x C-f M-n RET, which fetches
384the actual file name into the minibuffer.
385
386** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
387control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
388by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
389too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
390doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
391special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
392
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393** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
394have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
395
396** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
397in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.
398
399** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
400
401** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
402It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.
403
404** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
405since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
406the operating system or your X server.
407
408** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19)
409have been removed:
410 C-x / point-to-register (Use: C-x r SPC)
411 C-x j jump-to-register (Use: C-x r j)
412 C-x x copy-to-register (Use: C-x r s)
413 C-x g insert-register (Use: C-x r i)
414
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416* Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
417
418** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled.
419On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455).
420
421** !MEM FULL! at the start of the mode line indicates that Emacs
422cannot get any more memory for Lisp data. This often means it could
423crash soon if you do things that use more memory. On most systems,
424killing buffers will get out of this state. If killing buffers does
425not make !MEM FULL! disappear, you should save your work and start
426a new Emacs.
427
428** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.
429
430** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can
431be inconvenient when you did not expect them. The variable
432`yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion
433of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.
434
435** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
436By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
437
438** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N
439converts whitespace around point to N spaces.
440
441** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left
442(previous-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and
443C-x right can be used as well. The functions keep a different buffer
444cycle for each frame, using the frame-local buffer list.
445
446** C-x 5 C-o displays a specified buffer in another frame
447but does not switch to that frame. It's the multi-frame
448analogue of C-x 4 C-o.
449
450** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now
451understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and
452`same-window'.
453
454** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
455`insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
456
457** M-x setenv now expands environment variable references.
458
459Substrings of the form `$foo' and `${foo}' in the specified new value
460now refer to the value of environment variable foo. To include a `$'
461in the value, use `$$'.
462
463** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
464been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
465in Paragraph-Indent Text mode.
466
467** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken
468from the locale.
469
470** Help command changes:
471
472*** Changes in C-h bindings:
473
474C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer.
475
476C-h d runs apropos-documentation.
477
478C-h r visits the Emacs Manual in Info.
479
480C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files
481 that do not change:
482
483C-h C-f displays the FAQ.
484C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file.
485
486The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
487have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
488
489C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands.
490- C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping)
491 run by the key sequence.
492- C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the
493 command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run
494 that command.
495
496For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped
497to new-kill-line, these commands now report:
498- C-h c and C-h k C-k reports:
499 C-k runs the command new-kill-line
500- C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports:
501 kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline>
502- C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports:
503 new-kill-line is on C-k
504
505*** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match.
506When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must
507be present for an item to match. Regular expression matching is still
508available.
509
510*** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
511to be sorted according to their score. The score for an item is a
512number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
513regular expression that you entered to the apropos command. The best
514match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each
515matching item.
516
517*** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
518arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the
519default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
520`help-default-arg-highlight'.
521
522*** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for
523variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available).
524
525*** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is
526preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes
527hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless
528preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'. It now makes
529hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is
530enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info
531anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). In
532addition, it now makes hyperlinks to URLs as well if the URL is
533enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `URL'.
534
535*** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
536description various information about a character, including its
537encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and
538widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by
539clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
540
541*** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because
542C-u C-x = gives the same information and more.
543
544*** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
545in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the
546same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
547`help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
548keyboard oriented alternative.
549
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551automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
552point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is
553determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
554to one second. This feature is turned off by default.
555
556** Mark command changes:
557
558*** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
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559previous mark if you set `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' to t. I.e. C-u
560C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC
561to set the mark immediately after a jump.
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563*** Marking commands extend the region when invoked multiple times.
564
565If you type C-M-SPC (mark-sexp), M-@ (mark-word), M-h
566(mark-paragraph), or C-M-h (mark-defun) repeatedly, the marked region
567extends each time, so you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC
568M-C-SPC, for example. This feature also works for
569mark-end-of-sentence, if you bind that to a key. It also extends the
570region when the mark is active in Transient Mark mode, regardless of
571the last command. To start a new region with one of marking commands
572in Transient Mark mode, you can deactivate the active region with C-g,
573or set the new mark with C-SPC.
574
575*** Some commands do something special in Transient Mark mode when the
576mark is active--for instance, they limit their operation to the
577region. Even if you don't normally use Transient Mark mode, you might
578want to get this behavior from a particular command. There are two
579ways you can enable Transient Mark mode and activate the mark, for one
580command only.
581
582One method is to type C-SPC C-SPC; this enables Transient Mark mode
583and sets the mark at point. The other method is to type C-u C-x C-x.
584This enables Transient Mark mode temporarily but does not alter the
585mark or the region.
586
587After these commands, Transient Mark mode remains enabled until you
588deactivate the mark. That typically happens when you type a command
589that alters the buffer, but you can also deactivate the mark by typing
590C-g.
591
592*** Movement commands `beginning-of-buffer', `end-of-buffer',
593`beginning-of-defun', `end-of-defun' do not set the mark if the mark
594is already active in Transient Mark mode.
595
596*** M-h (mark-paragraph) now accepts a prefix arg.
597
598With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following paragraphs;
599if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding
600paragraphs.
601
602** Incremental Search changes:
603
604*** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or
605`query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current
606search string used as the string to replace.
607
608*** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word,
609making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the
610command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior,
611bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'.
612
613*** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already
614at the end of a line.
615
616*** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode.
617Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e'
618and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer.
619
620*** Vertical scrolling is now possible within incremental search.
621To enable this feature, customize the new user option
622`isearch-allow-scroll'. User written commands which satisfy stringent
623constraints can be marked as "scrolling commands". See the Emacs manual
624for details.
625
626*** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command
627history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new
628user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'.
629
630** Replace command changes:
631
632*** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and
633`replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string,
634where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement
635time. `\#' in a replacement string now refers to the count of
636replacements already made by the replacement command. All regular
637expression replacement commands now allow `\?' in the replacement
638string to specify a position where the replacement string can be
639edited for each replacement. `query-replace-regexp-eval' is now
640deprecated since it offers no additional functionality.
641
642*** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option
643`query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil.
644
645*** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face
646`query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face.
647
648*** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
649`query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
650a match if part of it has a read-only property.
651
652** Local variables lists:
653
654*** If the local variables list contains any variable-value pairs that
655are not known to be safe, Emacs shows a prompt asking whether to apply
656the local variables list as a whole. In earlier versions, a prompt
657was only issued for variables explicitly marked as risky (for the
658definition of risky variables, see `risky-local-variable-p').
659
660At the prompt, you can choose to save the contents of this local
661variables list to `safe-local-variable-values'. This new customizable
662option is a list of variable-value pairs that are known to be safe.
663Variables can also be marked as safe with the existing
664`safe-local-variable' property (see `safe-local-variable-p').
665However, risky variables will not be added to
666`safe-local-variable-values' in this way.
667
668*** The variable `enable-local-variables' controls how local variable
669lists are handled. t, the default, specifies the standard querying
670behavior. :safe means use only safe values, and ignore the rest.
671:all means set all variables, whether or not they are safe.
672nil means ignore them all. Anything else means always query.
673
674*** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that
675are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables
676specification. Normally Emacs asks for confirmation before evaluating
677such a form, but if the form appears in this list, no confirmation is
678needed.
679
680*** If a function has a non-nil `safe-local-eval-function' property,
681that means it is ok to evaluate some calls to that function when it
682appears in an `eval' local variables specification. If the property
683is t, then any form calling that function with constant arguments is
684ok. If the property is a function or list of functions, they are called
685with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.
686
687If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
688confirmation as before.
689
690*** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and
691suffix from every line before processing all the lines.
692
693*** Text properties in local variables.
694
695A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text
696properties--any specified text properties are discarded.
697
698** File operation changes:
699
700*** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
701the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
702Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
703is only rarely needed.
704
705*** C-x C-f RET, typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case.
706
707Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
708of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
709directory with Dired.
710
711*** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer
712against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving.
713
714*** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default.
715
716*** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',
717Emacs asks for confirmation.
718
719*** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
720add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
721convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of
722the existing file's name. (This is the same convention that shell
723commands cp, mv, and ln follow.) Thus, M-x copy-file RET ~/foo RET
724/tmp RET copies ~/foo to /tmp/foo.
725
726*** require-final-newline now has two new possible values:
727
728`visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed
729when visiting the file.
730
731`visit-save' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's
732needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed
733when saving the file.
734
735*** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain
736major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's
737designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline
738sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline.
739So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these
740modes do.
741
742*** When you are root, and you visit a file whose modes specify
743read-only, the Emacs buffer is now read-only too. Type C-x C-q if you
744want to make the buffer writable. (As root, you can in fact alter the
745file.)
746
747*** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode,
748when the file name contains wildcard characters.
749
750*** find-alternate-file replaces the current file with multiple files,
751when the file name contains wildcard characters. It now asks if you
752wish save your changes and not just offer to kill the buffer.
753
754*** When used interactively, `format-write-file' now asks for confirmation
755before overwriting an existing file, unless a prefix argument is
756supplied. This behavior is analogous to `write-file'.
757
758*** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that
759controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will
760attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files).
761
762*** The new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync
763in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up
764the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result
765in data loss, use with care.
766
767** Minibuffer changes:
768
769*** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
770to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
771it remains unchanged.
772
773*** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when
774entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed.
775
776*** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
777Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the
778variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the
779prompt string.
780
781*** Enhanced visual feedback in `*Completions*' buffer.
782
783Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions
784have in common and where they begin to differ.
785
786The common prefix shared by all possible completions uses the face
787`completions-common-part', while the first character that isn't the
788same uses the face `completions-first-difference'. By default,
789`completions-common-part' inherits from `default', and
790`completions-first-difference' inherits from `bold'. The idea of
791`completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common
792parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing
793parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted.
794
795Above fontification is always done when listing completions is
796triggered at minibuffer. If you want to fontify completions whose
797listing is triggered at the other normal buffer, you have to pass
798the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as
799its second argument.
800
801*** File-name completion can now ignore specified directories.
802If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a
803slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when
804completing file names. Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions'
805which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion
806candidate is a directory.
807
808*** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'.
809If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
810elements are deleted from the history list.
811
812** Redisplay changes:
813
814*** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line
815of non-selected windows. The `mode-line' face is now used to display
816the mode line of the currently selected window.
817
818The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
819the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.
820
821*** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
822When the file is maintained under version control, that information
823appears between the position information and the major mode.
824
825*** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this
826for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the
827top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To
828control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x
829set-fringe-style.
830
831*** Angle icons in the fringes can indicate the buffer boundaries. In
832addition, up and down arrow bitmaps in the fringe indicate which ways
833the window can be scrolled.
834
835This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable
836`indicate-buffer-boundaries' to a non-nil value. The default value of
837this variable is found in `default-indicate-buffer-boundaries'.
838
839If value is `left' or `right', both angle and arrow bitmaps are
840displayed in the left or right fringe, resp.
841
842The value can also be an alist which specifies the presence and
843position of each bitmap individually.
844
845For example, ((top . left) (t . right)) places the top angle bitmap
846in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both
847arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the
848left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).
849
850*** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window
851(not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into
852two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line).
853Instead, the newline now "overflows" into the right fringe, and the
854cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline.
855
856The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' can be set to nil to
857revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines.
858
859*** A window can now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings,
860in addition to the individual display margin settings.
861
862Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
863horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
864or when the frame is resized.
865
866*** When a window has display margin areas, the fringes are now
867displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than
868outside those margins.
869
870*** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs.
871
872*** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now displayed with a special
873face, either nobreak-space or escape-glyph. You can turn this off or
874specify a different mode by setting the variable `nobreak-char-display'.
875
876*** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized.
877The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from
878the window edge point is allowed to get before automatic hscrolling
879will horizontally scroll the window. The default value is 5.
880
881The variable `hscroll-step' determines how many columns automatic
882hscrolling scrolls the window when point gets too close to the
883window edge. If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the
884window so as to center point. If its value is an integer, it says how
885many columns to scroll. If the value is a floating-point number, it
886gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.
887
888The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to
889`auto-hscroll-mode'. The old name is still available as an alias.
890
891*** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than
892the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
893vscroll property.
894
895*** Preemptive redisplay now adapts to current load and bandwidth.
896
897To avoid preempting redisplay on fast computers, networks, and displays,
898the arrival of new input is now performed at regular intervals during
899redisplay. The new variable `redisplay-preemption-period' specifies
900the period; the default is to check for input every 0.1 seconds.
901
902*** The %c and %l constructs are now ignored in frame-title-format.
903Due to technical limitations in how Emacs interacts with windowing
904systems, these constructs often failed to render properly, and could
905even cause Emacs to crash.
906
907*** If value of `auto-resize-tool-bars' is `grow-only', the tool bar
908will expand as needed, but not contract automatically. To contract
909the tool bar, you must type C-l.
910
911*** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
912overline and text.
913
914*** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
915position of the underline. When set, it overrides the
916`x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.
917
918** New faces:
919
920*** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive
921elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
922areas.
923
924*** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
925parts of the mode line.
926
927*** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.
928the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text.
929This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either
930black or white default foreground color. This generic shadow face
931allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place,
932so package-specific faces can inherit from it.
933
934*** `vertical-border' face is used for the vertical divider between windows.
935
936** Font-Lock (syntax highlighting) changes:
937
938*** All modes now support using M-x font-lock-mode to toggle
939fontification, even those such as Occur, Info, and comint-derived
940modes that do their own fontification in a special way.
941
942The variable `Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable
943fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from
944`Info-mode-hook'.
945
946*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
947
948*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.
949
950*** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked.
951You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of
952the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode,
953cperl-mode and make-mode support this.
954
955*** Font-Lock mode: in major modes such as Lisp mode, where some Emacs
956features assume that an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of
957any string or comment, Font-Lock now highlights any such open-paren in
958bold-red if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it
959can cause trouble. You should rewrite the string or comment so that
960the open-paren is not in column 0.
961
962*** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
963M-o M-o requests refontification.
964
965*** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed.
966The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now nil
967instead of 3. This setting of jit-lock-stealth-time disables stealth
968fontification: on today's machines, it may be a bug in font lock
969patterns if fontification otherwise noticeably degrades interactivity.
970If you find movement in infrequently visited buffers sluggish (and the
971major mode maintainer has no better idea), customizing
972jit-lock-stealth-time to a non-nil value will let Emacs fontify
973buffers in the background when it considers the system to be idle.
974jit-lock-stealth-nice is now 0.5 instead of 0.125 which is supposed to
975cause less load than the old defaults.
976
977*** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'.
978
979If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs
980idle time in seconds to wait before starting fontification. For
981example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will
982only happen after 0.25s of idle time.
983
984*** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification.
985
986jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and
987jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual
988refontification takes place.
989
990*** lazy-lock is considered obsolete.
991
992The `lazy-lock' package is superseded by `jit-lock' and is considered
993obsolete. `jit-lock' is activated by default; if you wish to continue
994using `lazy-lock', activate it in your ~/.emacs like this:
995 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
996
997If you invoke `lazy-lock-mode' directly rather than through
998`font-lock-support-mode', it now issues a warning:
999 "Use font-lock-support-mode rather than calling lazy-lock-mode"
1000
1001** Menu support:
1002
1003*** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
1004This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such
1005as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself).
1006You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn
1007it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of
1008current date and time, current line and column number in the mode-line.
1009
1010*** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".
1011
1012*** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..."
1013and "Open File...". "Open File..." now opens only existing files. This is
1014to support existing GUI file selection dialogs better.
1015
1016*** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/LessTif can be
1017disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'.
1018
1019*** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can
1020be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32).
1021
1022*** The menu bar for Motif/LessTif/Lucid/Gtk+ can be navigated with keys.
1023Pressing F10 shows the first menu in the menu bar. Navigation is done with
1024the arrow keys, select with the return key and cancel with the escape keys.
1025
1026*** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have
1027to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example
1028`-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'.
1029
1030*** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and LessTif/Motif now pop down on pressing
1031ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32.
1032
1033*** For the Gtk+ version, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog
1034by setting the variable `x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use
1035the new dialog.
1036
1037*** You can exit dialog windows and menus by typing C-g.
1038
1039** Buffer Menu changes:
1040
1041*** The new options `buffers-menu-show-directories' and
1042`buffers-menu-show-status' let you control how buffers are displayed
1043in the menu dropped down when you click "Buffers" from the menu bar.
1044
1045`buffers-menu-show-directories' controls whether the menu displays
1046leading directories as part of the file name visited by the buffer.
1047If its value is `unless-uniquify', the default, directories are
1048shown unless uniquify-buffer-name-style' is non-nil. The value of nil
1049and t turn the display of directories off and on, respectively.
1050
1051`buffers-menu-show-status' controls whether the Buffers menu includes
1052the modified and read-only status of the buffers. By default it is
1053t, and the status is shown.
1054
1055Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time
1056the Buffers menu is regenerated.
1057
1058*** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file
1059buffers only in the Buffer Menu. It is bound to T in Buffer Menu
1060mode.
1061
1062*** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
1063with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers
1064whose names begin with space are omitted.
1065
1066** Mouse changes:
1067
1068*** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
1069
1070Traditionally, Emacs uses a Mouse-1 click to set point and a Mouse-2
1071click to follow a link, whereas most other applications use a Mouse-1
1072click for both purposes, depending on whether you click outside or
1073inside a link. Now the behavior of a Mouse-1 click has been changed
1074to match this context-sensitive dual behavior. (If you prefer the old
1075behavior, set the user option `mouse-1-click-follows-link' to nil.)
1076
1077Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs can do much
1078more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
1079activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
1080(see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details). The Lisp
1081packages that are included in release 22.1 have been adapted to do
1082this, but external packages may not yet support this. However, there
1083is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
1084happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
1085on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.
1086
1087If you want to get the original Mouse-1 action also inside a link, you
1088just need to press the Mouse-1 button a little longer than a normal
1089click (i.e. press and hold the Mouse-1 button for half a second before
1090you release it).
1091
1092Dragging the Mouse-1 inside a link still performs the original
1093drag-mouse-1 action, typically copy the text.
1094
1095You can customize the new Mouse-1 behavior via the new user options
1096`mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'.
1097
1098*** If you set the new variable `mouse-autoselect-window' to a non-nil
1099value, windows are automatically selected as you move the mouse from
1100one Emacs window to another, even within a frame. A minibuffer window
1101can be selected only when it is active.
1102
1103*** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
1104select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
1105normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set
1106the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected
1107window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame
1108to give it focus.
1109
1110*** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse
1111is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
1112can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
1113mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can
1114also disable mouse highlighting.
1115
1116*** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
1117shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
1118variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.
1119
1120*** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.
1121
1122*** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved.
1123
1124People tend to push the mouse wheel (which counts as a mouse-2 click)
1125unintentionally while turning the wheel, so these clicks are now
1126ignored. You can customize this with the mouse-wheel-click-event and
1127mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.
1128
1129*** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
1130(rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.
1131
1132** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:
1133
1134*** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
1135construct. Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
1136-*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
1137various global and per-coding-system translation tables. You can also
1138specify it in a local variable list at the end of the file. For
1139shortcut, instead of using this long variable name, you can append the
1140character "!" at the end of coding-system name specified in -*-
1141construct or in a local variable list. For example, if a file has the
1142following header, it is decoded by the coding system `iso-latin-1'
1143without any character translation:
1144;; -*- coding: iso-latin-1!; -*-
1145
1146*** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup
1147more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale
1148name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
1149This change can result in using the different coding systems as
1150default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN).
1151
1152*** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your
1153current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This
1154can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
1155characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
1156emulator) works. Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
1157keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
1158or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
1159by the keyboard. See Info node `Unibyte Mode'.
1160
1161*** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
1162coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item
1163(Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
1164command.
1165
1166*** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
1167revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.
1168
1169*** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
1170coding system.
1171
1172*** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
1173of a file.
1174
1175*** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
1176unicode.
1177
1178*** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type
1179in the current input method to input a character at point.
1180
1181*** Limited support for character `unification' has been added.
1182Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of
1183the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard
1184Unicode mappings. This applies mainly to characters in the ISO 8859
1185sets plus some other 8-bit sets, but can be extended. For instance,
1186translation works amongst the Emacs ...-iso8859-... charsets and the
1187mule-unicode-... ones.
1188
1189By default this translation happens automatically on encoding.
1190Self-inserting characters are translated to make the input conformant
1191with the encoding of the buffer in which it's being used, where
1192possible.
1193
1194You can force a more complete unification with the user option
1195unify-8859-on-decoding-mode. That maps all the Latin-N character sets
1196into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and
1197mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode
1198will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding.
1199
1200*** New language environments (set up automatically according to the
1201locale): Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, Esperanto,
1202French, Georgian, Italian, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam,
1203Russian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8,Ukrainian,
1204Welsh,Latin-6, Windows-1255.
1205
1206*** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
1207belarusian, bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng (for
1208Chinese Pinyin characters), croatian, dutch, georgian, latvian-keyboard,
1209lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, malayalam-inscript, rfc1345,
1210russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, tamil-inscript, ukrainian-computer,
1211ucs, vietnamese-telex, welsh.
1212
1213*** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
1214either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
1215when possible. The latter are more space-efficient.
1216 This is controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.
1217
1218*** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is
1219automatically activated if you select Thai as a language
1220environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to
1221versions which recognize Thai words. Affected commands are
1222 M-f (forward-word)
1223 M-b (backward-word)
1224 M-d (kill-word)
1225 M-DEL (backward-kill-word)
1226 M-t (transpose-words)
1227 M-q (fill-paragraph)
1228
1229*** Indian support has been updated.
1230The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are
1231assumed. There is a framework for supporting various Indian scripts,
1232but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are supported.
1233
1234*** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
1235By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into
1236single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is
1237turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character
1238sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS
1239system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not
1240interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil.
1241You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
1242`ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8
1243coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's
1244one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones.
1245The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly.
1246
1247*** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.
1248
1249*** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
1250in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
1251Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
1252
1253*** Many new coding systems are available in the `code-pages' library.
1254These include complete versions of most of those in codepage.el, based
1255on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now obsolete and is used
1256only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. All coding systems defined in
1257`code-pages' are auto-loaded.
1258
1259*** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which
1260Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'.
1261
1262*** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of
1263characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the
1264fontset appropriately.
1265
1266** Customize changes:
1267
1268*** Custom themes are collections of customize options. Create a
1269custom theme with M-x customize-create-theme. Use M-x load-theme to
1270load and enable a theme, and M-x disable-theme to disable it. Use M-x
1271enable-theme to enable a disabled theme.
1272
1273*** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
1274now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are
1275specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
1276faces.
1277
1278*** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing.
1279In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding
1280check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection
1281for that attribute; the values you can choose are only those which make
1282sense for the attribute. When an attribute is de-selected by unchecking
1283its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in
1284case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden.
1285
1286*** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer,
1287the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable.
1288You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value"
1289under the "[State]" button.
1290
1291** Dired mode:
1292
1293*** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
1294control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
1295by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
1296too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
1297double quotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
1298special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
1299
1300*** The Dired command `dired-goto-file' is now bound to j, not M-g.
1301This is to avoid hiding the global key binding of M-g.
1302
1303*** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
1304dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
1305introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
1306
1307*** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
1308with different file attributes in two dired buffers.
1309
1310*** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
1311of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.
1312
1313*** In Dired, the w command now stores the current line's file name
1314into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, it stores the absolute file name.
1315
1316*** In Dired-x, Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode.
1317
1318The mode toggling command is bound to M-o. A new command
1319dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, marks omitted files. The variable
1320dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the mode toggling function
1321instead.
1322
1323*** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args
1324have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and
1325directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a
1326directory listing into a buffer.
1327
1328** Comint changes:
1329
1330*** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in subshells
1331running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment variable,
1332which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs that need
1333to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check INSIDE_EMACS
1334instead of EMACS.
1335
1336*** The comint prompt can now be made read-only, using the new user
1337option `comint-prompt-read-only'. This is not enabled by default,
1338except in IELM buffers. The read-only status of IELM prompts can be
1339controlled with the new user option `ielm-prompt-read-only', which
1340overrides `comint-prompt-read-only'.
1341
1342The new commands `comint-kill-whole-line' and `comint-kill-region'
1343support editing comint buffers with read-only prompts.
1344
1345`comint-kill-whole-line' is like `kill-whole-line', but ignores both
1346read-only and field properties. Hence, it always kill entire
1347lines, including any prompts.
1348
1349`comint-kill-region' is like `kill-region', except that it ignores
1350read-only properties, if it is safe to do so. This means that if any
1351part of a prompt is deleted, then the entire prompt must be deleted
1352and that all prompts must stay at the beginning of a line. If this is
1353not the case, then `comint-kill-region' behaves just like
1354`kill-region' if read-only properties are involved: it copies the text
1355to the kill-ring, but does not delete it.
1356
1357*** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived
1358modes (shell-mode, etc.) inserts arguments from previous command lines,
1359like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but
1360otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.
1361
1362*** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed
1363`comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias,
1364but declared obsolete.
1365
1366** M-x Compile changes:
1367
1368*** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable
1369
1370Quite a few more kinds of messages are recognized. Messages that are
1371recognized as warnings or informational come in orange or green, instead of
1372red. Informational messages are by default skipped with `next-error'
1373(controlled by `compilation-skip-threshold').
1374
1375Location data is collected on the fly as the *compilation* buffer changes.
1376This means you could modify messages to make them point to different files.
1377This also means you can not go to locations of messages you may have deleted.
1378
1379The variable `compilation-error-regexp-alist' has now become customizable. If
1380you had added your own regexps to this, you'll probably need to include a
1381leading `^', otherwise they'll match anywhere on a line. There is now also a
1382`compilation-mode-font-lock-keywords' and it nicely handles all the checks
1383that configure outputs and -o options so you see at a glance where you are.
1384
1385The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message.
1386
1387*** New user option `compilation-environment'.
1388This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
1389compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
1390subprocesses inherit.
1391
1392*** New user option `compilation-disable-input'.
1393If this is non-nil, send end-of-file as compilation process input.
1394
1395*** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'
1396specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line
1397in new face `next-error'.
1398
1399*** A new minor mode `next-error-follow-minor-mode' can be used in
1400compilation-mode, grep-mode, occur-mode, and diff-mode (i.e. all the
1401modes that can use `next-error'). In this mode, cursor motion in the
1402buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
1403matches, compilation errors, etc. This minor mode can be toggled with
1404C-c C-f.
1405
1406*** When the left fringe is displayed, an arrow points to current message in
1407the compilation buffer.
1408
1409*** The new variable `compilation-context-lines' controls lines of leading
1410context before the current message. If nil and the left fringe is displayed,
1411it doesn't scroll the compilation output window. If there is no left fringe,
1412no arrow is displayed and a value of nil means display the message at the top
1413of the window.
1414
1415** Occur mode changes:
1416
1417*** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
1418search multiple buffers. There is also a new command
1419`multi-occur-in-matching-buffers' which allows you to specify the
1420buffers to search by their filenames or buffer names. Internally,
1421Occur mode has been rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other
1422changes.
1423
1424*** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
1425the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.
1426
1427*** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
1428C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without
1429switching to it.
1430
1431** Grep changes:
1432
1433*** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.
1434
1435There's a new separate package grep.el, with its own submenu and
1436customization group.
1437
1438*** `grep-find' is now also available under the name `find-grep' where
1439people knowing `find-grep-dired' would probably expect it.
1440
1441*** New commands `lgrep' (local grep) and `rgrep' (recursive grep) are
1442more user-friendly versions of `grep' and `grep-find', which prompt
1443separately for the regular expression to match, the files to search,
1444and the base directory for the search. Case sensitivity of the
1445search is controlled by the current value of `case-fold-search'.
1446
1447These commands build the shell commands based on the new variables
1448`grep-template' (lgrep) and `grep-find-template' (rgrep).
1449
1450The files to search can use aliases defined in `grep-files-aliases'.
1451
1452Subdirectories listed in `grep-find-ignored-directories' such as those
1453typically used by various version control systems, like CVS and arch,
1454are automatically skipped by `rgrep'.
1455
1456*** The grep commands provide highlighting support.
1457
1458Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange. Grep buffers
1459can be saved and automatically revisited.
1460
1461*** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlights matches in *grep*
1462buffer. It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept
1463--color option to output markers around matches. When going to the next
1464match with `next-error' the exact match is highlighted in the source
1465buffer. Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole
1466source line is highlighted.
1467
1468*** New key bindings in grep output window:
1469SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down. C-n and C-p moves to next and
1470previous match in the grep window. RET jumps to the source line of
1471the current match. `n' and `p' shows next and previous match in
1472other window, but does not switch buffer. `{' and `}' jumps to the
1473previous or next file in the grep output. TAB also jumps to the next
1474file.
1475
1476*** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
1477by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically
1478detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
1479When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed
1480unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated
1481command lines to be used than was possible before.
1482
1483*** The new variables `grep-window-height' and `grep-scroll-output' override
1484the corresponding compilation mode settings, for grep commands only.
1485
1486** Cursor display changes:
1487
1488*** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor.
1489The underscore cursor is set by putting `(cursor-type . hbar)' in
1490default-frame-alist. It supports variable heights, like the `bar'
1491cursor does.
1492
1493*** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any
1494of the recognized cursor types.
1495
1496*** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any)
1497of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor
1498appears in.
1499
1500*** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs
1501uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor.
1502
1503*** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking.
1504
1505*** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is
1506now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'.
1507
1508** X Windows Support:
1509
1510*** Emacs now supports drag and drop for X. Dropping a file on a window
1511opens it, dropping text inserts the text. Dropping a file on a dired
1512buffer copies or moves the file to that directory.
1513
1514*** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper).
1515The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym',
1516and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should
1517use for the modifiers. For example, the following two lines swap
1518Meta and Alt:
1519 (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)
1520 (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt)
1521
1522*** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which can
1523speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.
1524
1525If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of
1526XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on.
1527
1528*** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
1529requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that
1530Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
1531and use the more appropriately result.
1532
1533*** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
1534On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
1535amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).
1536
1537** Xterm support:
1538
1539*** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
1540on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.
1541
1542*** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
1543When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
1544The following should work:
1545{C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
1546These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8 (and later versions),
1547they might not work on some older versions of xterm, or on some
1548proprietary versions.
1549The various keys generated by xterm when the "modifyOtherKeys"
1550resource is set are also supported.
1551
1552** Character terminal color support changes:
1553
1554*** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard
1555mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character
1556terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal
1557database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't
1558set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable
1559terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls'
1560when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors
1561in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the
1562user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter.
1563
1564*** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more
1565than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and
1566256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup
1567the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for
1568all of these colors.
1569
1570*** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default
1571faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and
1572256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an
157388-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face
1574colors as on X.
1575
1576*** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.
1577
1578** ebnf2ps changes:
1579
1580*** New option `ebnf-arrow-extra-width' which specify extra width for arrow
1581shape drawing.
1582The extra width is used to avoid that the arrowhead and the terminal border
1583overlap. It depends on `ebnf-arrow-shape' and `ebnf-line-width'.
1584
1585*** New option `ebnf-arrow-scale' which specify the arrow scale.
1586Values lower than 1.0, shrink the arrow.
1587Values greater than 1.0, expand the arrow.
1588\f
1589* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1
1590
1591** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1592
1593The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
1594cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
1595With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
1596keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
1597region (like delete-selection-mode). Do not enable these modes with
1598cua-mode. Customize the variable `cua-mode' to enable cua.
1599
1600The cua-selection-mode enables the CUA keybindings for the region but
1601does not change the bindings for C-z/C-x/C-c/C-v. It can be used as a
1602replacement for pc-selection-mode.
1603
1604In addition, cua provides unified rectangle support with visible
1605rectangle highlighting: Use C-return to start a rectangle, extend it
1606using the movement commands (or mouse-3), and cut or copy it using C-x
1607or C-c (using C-w and M-w also works).
1608
1609Use M-o and M-c to `open' or `close' the rectangle, use M-b or M-f, to
1610fill it with blanks or another character, use M-u or M-l to upcase or
1611downcase the rectangle, use M-i to increment the numbers in the
1612rectangle, use M-n to fill the rectangle with a numeric sequence (such
1613as 10 20 30...), use M-r to replace a regexp in the rectangle, and use
1614M-' or M-/ to restrict command on the rectangle to a subset of the
1615rows. See the commentary in cua-base.el for more rectangle commands.
1616
1617Cua also provides unified support for registers: Use a numeric
1618prefix argument between 0 and 9, i.e. M-0 .. M-9, for C-x, C-c, and
1619C-v to cut or copy into register 0-9, or paste from register 0-9.
1620
1621The last text deleted (not killed) is automatically stored in
1622register 0. This includes text deleted by typing text.
1623
1624Finally, cua provides a global mark which is set using S-C-space.
1625When the global mark is active, any text which is cut or copied is
1626automatically inserted at the global mark position. See the
1627commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.
1628
1629The features of cua also works with the standard Emacs bindings for
1630kill, copy, yank, and undo. If you want to use cua mode, but don't
1631want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
1632`cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.
1633
1634Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older
1635versions of cua.el and cua-mode.el. To ensure proper operation, you
1636must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
1637loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.
1638
1639** Tramp is now part of the distribution.
1640
1641This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote
1642files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host,
1643Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used
1644for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for
1645the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called
1646`inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell
1647connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods
1648(which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or
1649`rsync' to do the copying).
1650
1651Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also
1652`su' and `sudo'. Ange-FTP is still supported via the `ftp' method.
1653
1654If you want to disable Tramp you should set
1655
1656 (setq tramp-default-method "ftp")
1657
1658Removing Tramp, and re-enabling Ange-FTP, can be achieved by M-x
1659tramp-unload-tramp.
1660
1661** The image-dired.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in
1662other ways manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as
1663the main interface. Image-Dired provides functionality to generate
1664simple image galleries.
1665
1666** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle
1667between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c.
1668
1669** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
1670
1671** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
1672
1673** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1674
1675Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in
1676Emacs Lisp. The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc
1677can be started with `C-x * *'. The Calc manual is separate from the
1678Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the
1679manual. A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and
1680`etc/calccard.ps'.
1681
1682** Org mode is now part of the Emacs distribution
1683
1684Org mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and
1685doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
1686It also contains a plain-text table editor with spreadsheet-like
1687capabilities.
1688
1689The Org mode table editor can be integrated into any major mode by
1af74d06 1690activating the minor mode, Orgtbl mode.
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1691
1692The documentation for org-mode is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
1693type "C-h i m org RET" to read that manual. A reference card is
1694available in `etc/orgcard.tex' and `etc/orgcard.ps'.
1695
1696** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1697
1698ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
1699
1700To see what modules are available, type
1701M-x customize-option erc-modules RET.
1702
1703To start an IRC session with ERC, type M-x erc, and follow the prompts
1704for server, port, and nick.
1705
1706** Rcirc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1707
1708Rcirc is an Internet relay chat (IRC) client. It supports
1709simultaneous connections to multiple IRC servers. Each discussion
1710takes place in its own buffer. For each connection you can join
1711several channels (many-to-many) and participate in private
1712(one-to-one) chats. Both channel and private chats are contained in
1713separate buffers.
1714
1715To start an IRC session using the default parameters, type M-x irc.
1716If you type C-u M-x irc, it prompts you for the server, nick, port and
1717startup channel parameters before connecting.
1718
1719** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
1720customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
1721
1722** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1723
1724Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news
1725sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the
1726corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a
1727separate manual.
1728
1729** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
1730buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...
1731
1732** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1733
1734The ido (interactively do) package is an extension of the iswitchb
1735package to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition
1736to interactive buffer switching. Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with
1737a few exceptions), so don't enable both packages.
1738
1739** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
1740filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
1741that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
1742Emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim,
1743invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable. The display method can
1744be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.
1745
1746** Emacs' keyboard macro facilities have been enhanced by the new
1747kmacro package.
1748
1749Keyboard macros are now defined and executed via the F3 and F4 keys:
1750F3 starts a macro, F4 ends the macro, and pressing F4 again executes
1751the last macro. While defining the macro, F3 inserts a counter value
1752which automatically increments every time the macro is executed.
1753
1754There is now a keyboard macro ring which stores the most recently
1755defined macros.
1756
1757The C-x C-k sequence is now a prefix for the kmacro keymap which
1758defines bindings for moving through the keyboard macro ring,
1759C-x C-k C-p and C-x C-k C-n, editing the last macro C-x C-k C-e,
1760manipulating the macro counter and format via C-x C-k C-c,
1761C-x C-k C-a, and C-x C-k C-f. See the commentary in kmacro.el
1762for more commands.
1763
1764The original macro bindings C-x (, C-x ), and C-x e are still
1765available, but they now interface to the keyboard macro ring too.
1766
1767The C-x e command now automatically terminates the current macro
1768before calling it, if used while defining a macro.
1769
1770In addition, when ending or calling a macro with C-x e, the macro can
1771be repeated immediately by typing just the `e'. You can customize
1772this behavior via the variables kmacro-call-repeat-key and
1773kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg.
1774
1775Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
1776C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence
1777at a time, prompting for the actions to take.
1778
1779** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
1780the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards. The numeric
1781keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
1782+, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key. The keypad
1783package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys.
1784
1785By customizing the variables `keypad-setup', `keypad-shifted-setup',
1786`keypad-numlock-setup', and `keypad-numlock-shifted-setup', or by
1787using the function `keypad-setup', you can rebind all digit keys and
1788the decimal key of the keypad in one step for each of the four
1789possible combinations of the Shift key state (not pressed/pressed) and
1790the NumLock toggle state (off/on).
1791
1792The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are:
1793`Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits,
1794`Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
1795decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
1796`Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
1797for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
1798where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
1799`Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
1800are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
1801or local keymaps.
1802
1803** The printing package is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1804
1805If you enable the printing package by including (require 'printing) in
1806the .emacs file, the normal Print item on the File menu is replaced
1807with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through
1808ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript
1809printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by
1810`ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information.
1811
1812** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
1813files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
1814mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
1815which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or
1816copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc. By default, Longlines
1817mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior
1818referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors. This is
1819similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap
1820feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil.
1821
1822** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing
1823spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command
1824letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers
1825viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values.
1826
1827** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
1828`text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting
1829these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG
1830table editing available in modern word processors. The package also
1831can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such
1832as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.
1833
1834** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in
1835various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
1836program files that include other program files.
1837
1838Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on
1839all the files in it, such as visiting them or searching and replacing
1840in them.
1841
1842** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you
1843move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer.
1844It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts
1845of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ...
1846
1847There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers.
1848
1849** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
1850When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible. When disabled, it
1851restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
1852
1853** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
1854source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.
1855
1856** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions.
1857To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file.
1858
1859** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an
1860"active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually
1861change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list'
1862settings.
1863
1864** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
1865events from the console. It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
1866for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.
1867
1868** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
1869for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or
1870paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
1871instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
1872boundaries during scrolling.
1873
1874** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
1875shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.
1876
1877** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
1878varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
1879var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
1880section { }). Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
1881.config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
1882recognized.
1883
1884** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
1885
1886** The new package dns-mode.el adds syntax highlighting of DNS master files.
1887It is a modern replacement for zone-mode.el, which is now obsolete.
1888
1889** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
1890configuration files.
1891
1892** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
1893This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
1894\f
1895* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:
1896
1897** Changes in Dired
1898
1899*** Bindings for Image-Dired added.
1900Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been
1901added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Image-Dired. As a
1902starting point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d
1903to display thumbnails of them in a separate buffer.
1904
1905** Info mode changes
1906
1907*** Images in Info pages are supported.
1908
1909Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
1910Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
1911version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.
1912
1913*** `Info-index' offers completion.
1914
1915*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
1916references and following them calls `browse-url'.
1917
1918*** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.
1919
1920Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error
1921message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through
1922other nodes. When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps
1923around the whole manual to the top/final node. The user option
1924`Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch,
1925or the default isearch search function that wraps around the current
1926Info node.
1927
1928*** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
1929`Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
1930search without prompting for a new search string.
1931
1932*** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
1933Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
1934possible matches.
1935
1936*** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon)
1937moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using
1938`Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last').
1939
1940*** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.
1941
1942*** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
1943from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.
1944
1945*** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
1946the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix
1947arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
1948
1949*** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
1950and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
1951
1952*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
1953with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").
1954
1955*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
1956
1957If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
1958`Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
1959
1960*** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil.
1961
1962** Emacs server changes
1963
1964*** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.
1965
1966 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
1967 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start &
1968 % emacsclient -s foo file1
1969 % emacsclient -s bar file2
1970
1971*** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
1972`--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given Lisp
1973expression and to use the given display when visiting files.
1974
1975*** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.
1976
1977** Locate changes
1978
1979*** By default, reverting the *Locate* buffer now just runs the last
1980`locate' command back over again without offering to update the locate
1981database (which normally only works if you have root privileges). If
1982you prefer the old behavior, set the new customizable option
1983`locate-update-when-revert' to t.
1984
1985** Desktop package
1986
1987*** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, `desktop-save-mode'.
1988
1989*** The variable `desktop-enable' is obsolete.
1990
1991Customize `desktop-save-mode' to enable desktop saving.
1992
1993*** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
1994buffer list.
1995
1996*** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers
1997immediately, remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is
1998idle).
1999
2000*** New command line option --no-desktop
2001
2002*** New commands:
2003 - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
2004 - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
2005 - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
2006 it was loaded.
2007 - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
2008 - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.
2009
2010*** New customizable variables:
2011 - desktop-save. Determines whether the desktop should be saved when it is
2012 killed.
2013 - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
2014 - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
2015 - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save.
2016 - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear.
2017 - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear'
2018 should not delete.
2019 - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are
2020 restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
2021 - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers.
2022 - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.
2023
2024*** New hooks:
2025 - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
2026 - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
2027
2028** Recentf changes
2029
2030The recent file list is now automatically cleaned up when recentf mode is
2031enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do
2032automatic cleanup.
2033
2034The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut
2035keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via
2036the `recentf-open-files', or `recentf-open-more-files' commands.
2037
2038The `recentf-keep' option replaces `recentf-keep-non-readable-files-p'
2039and provides a more general mechanism to customize which file names to
2040keep in the recent list.
2041
2042With the more advanced option `recentf-filename-handlers', you can
2043specify functions that successively transform recent file names. For
2044example, if set to `file-truename' plus `abbreviate-file-name', the
2045same file will not be in the recent list with different symbolic
2046links, and the file name will be abbreviated.
2047
2048To follow naming convention, `recentf-menu-append-commands-flag'
2049replaces the misnamed option `recentf-menu-append-commands-p'. The
2050old name remains available as alias, but has been marked obsolete.
2051
2052** Auto-Revert changes
2053
2054*** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
2055
2056If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert
2057mode keeps it at the end after reverting. Similarly if point is
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2058displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at the end
2059of the buffer in that window. This allows you to "tail" a file: just
2060put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there. This rule
2061applies to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the behavior can be mode
2062dependent.
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2063
2064If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end,
2065then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor
2066mode Auto Revert Tail mode. The function `auto-revert-tail-mode'
2067toggles this mode.
2068
2069*** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
2070other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
2071revert. This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
2072and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil. Auto Revert
2073mode only reverts a non-file buffer if the buffer has a non-nil
2074`revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which
2075decides whether the buffer should be reverted. Currently, this means
2076that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
2077work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.
2078
2079*** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
2080Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
2081control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
2082which it is active. If the option is nil, the default, then this info
2083only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.
2084
2085** Changes in Shell Mode
2086
2087*** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
2088bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text. (This
2089is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)
2090
2091** Changes in Hi Lock
2092
2093*** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function
2094`global-hi-lock-mode' enables Hi Lock in all buffers. By default, if
2095hi-lock-mode is used in what appears to be the initialization file, a
2096warning message suggests to use global-hi-lock-mode instead. However,
2097if the new variable `hi-lock-archaic-interface-deduce' is non-nil,
2098using hi-lock-mode in an initialization file will turn on Hi Lock in all
2099buffers and no warning will be issued (for compatibility with the
2100behavior in older versions of Emacs).
2101
2102** Changes in Allout
2103
2104*** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and
2105decryption. Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and
2106clear-text within a single file to your heart's content, using symmetric
2107and/or public key modes. Time-limited key caching, user-provided
2108symmetric key hinting and consistency verification, auto-encryption of
2109pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in
2110powerful ways. Encryption behavior customization is collected in the
2111allout-encryption customization group.
2112
2113*** Default command prefix was changed to "\C-c " (control-c space), to
2114avoid intruding on user's keybinding space. Customize the
2115`allout-command-prefix' variable to your preference.
2116
2117*** Some previously rough topic-header format edge cases are reconciled.
2118Level 1 topics use the mode's comment format, and lines starting with the
2119asterisk - for instance, the comment close of some languages (eg, c's "*/"
2120or mathematica's "*)") - at the beginning of line are no longer are
2121interpreted as level 1 topics in those modes.
2122
2123*** Many or most commonly occurring "accidental" topics are disqualified.
2124Text in item bodies that looks like a low-depth topic is no longer mistaken
2125for one unless its first offspring (or that of its next sibling with
2126offspring) is only one level deeper.
2127
2128For example, pasting some text with a bunch of leading asterisks into a
2129topic that's followed by a level 3 or deeper topic will not cause the
2130pasted text to be mistaken for outline structure.
2131
2132The same constraint is applied to any level 2 or 3 topics.
2133
2134This settles an old issue where typed or pasted text needed to be carefully
2135reviewed, and sometimes doctored, to avoid accidentally disrupting the
2136outline structure. Now that should be generally unnecessary, as the most
2137prone-to-occur accidents are disqualified.
2138
2139*** Allout now refuses to create "containment discontinuities", where a
2140topic is shifted deeper than the offspring-depth of its container. On the
2141other hand, allout now operates gracefully with existing containment
2142discontinuities, revealing excessively contained topics rather than either
2143leaving them hidden or raising an error.
2144
2145*** Navigation within an item is easier. Repeated beginning-of-line and
2146end-of-line key commands (usually, ^A and ^E) cycle through the
2147beginning/end-of-line and then beginning/end of topic, etc. See new
2148customization vars `allout-beginning-of-line-cycles' and
2149`allout-end-of-line-cycles'.
2150
2151*** New or revised allout-mode activity hooks enable creation of
2152cooperative enhancements to allout mode without changes to the mode,
2153itself.
2154
2155See `allout-exposure-change-hook', `allout-structure-added-hook',
2156`allout-structure-deleted-hook', and `allout-structure-shifted-hook'.
2157
2158`allout-exposure-change-hook' replaces the existing
2159`allout-view-change-hook', which is being deprecated. Both are still
2160invoked, but `allout-view-change-hook' will eventually be ignored.
2161`allout-exposure-change-hook' is called with explicit arguments detailing
2162the specifics of each change (as are the other new hooks), making it easier
2163to use than the old version.
2164
2165There is a new mode deactivation hook, `allout-mode-deactivate-hook', for
2166coordinating with deactivation of allout-mode. Both that and the mode
2167activation hook, `allout-mode-hook' are now run after the `allout-mode'
2168variable is changed, rather than before.
2169
2170*** Allout now uses text overlay's `invisible' property for concealed text,
2171instead of selective-display. This simplifies the code, in particular
2172avoiding the need for kludges for isearch dynamic-display, discretionary
2173handling of edits of concealed text, undo concerns, etc.
2174
2175*** There are many other fixes and refinements, including:
2176
2177 - repaired inhibition of inadvertent edits to concealed text, without
2178 inhibiting undo; we now reveal undo changes within concealed text.
2179 - auto-fill-mode is now left inactive when allout-mode starts, if it
2180 already was inactive. also, `allout-inhibit-auto-fill' custom
2181 configuration variable makes it easy to disable auto fill in allout
2182 outlines in general or on a per-buffer basis.
2183 - allout now tolerates fielded text in outlines without disruption.
2184 - hot-spot navigation now is modularized with a new function,
2185 `allout-hotspot-key-handler', enabling easier use and enhancement of
2186 the functionality in allout addons.
2187 - repaired retention of topic body hanging indent upon topic depth shifts
2188 - bulleting variation is simpler and more accommodating, both in the
2189 default behavior and in ability to vary when creating new topics
2190 - mode deactivation now does cleans up effectively, more properly
2191 restoring affected variables and hooks to former state, removing
2192 overlays, etc. see `allout-add-resumptions' and
2193 `allout-do-resumptions', which replace the old `allout-resumptions'.
2194 - included a few unit-tests for interior functionality. developers can
2195 have them automatically run at the end of module load by customizing
2196 the option `allout-run-unit-tests-on-load'.
2197 - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
2198 - version number incremented to 2.2
2199
2200** Hideshow mode changes
2201
2202*** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
2203used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch
2204handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
2205temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
2206
2207*** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does
2208not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent
2209block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil.
2210
2211** FFAP changes
2212
2213*** New ffap commands and keybindings:
2214
2215C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'),
2216C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'),
2217C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'),
2218C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame').
2219
2220*** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default.
2221
2222C-x C-f passes the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS
2223argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.
2224
2225** Changes in Skeleton
2226
2227*** In skeleton.el, `-' marks the `skeleton-point' without interregion interaction.
2228
2229`@' has reverted to only setting `skeleton-positions' and no longer
2230sets `skeleton-point'. Skeletons which used @ to mark
2231`skeleton-point' independent of `_' should now use `-' instead. The
2232updated `skeleton-insert' docstring explains these new features along
2233with other details of skeleton construction.
2234
2235*** The variables `skeleton-transformation', `skeleton-filter', and
2236`skeleton-pair-filter' have been renamed to
2237`skeleton-transformation-function', `skeleton-filter-function', and
2238`skeleton-pair-filter-function'. The old names are still available
2239as aliases.
2240
2241** HTML/SGML changes
2242
2243*** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files
2244automatically.
2245
2246*** SGML mode has indentation and supports XML syntax.
2247The new variable `sgml-xml-mode' tells SGML mode to use XML syntax.
2248When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
2249i.e., there is always a closing tag.
2250By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
2251from the file name or buffer contents.
2252
2253*** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
2254`sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as
2255alias.
2256
2257*** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support.
2258
2259** TeX modes
2260
2261*** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.
2262
2263*** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default.
2264
2265*** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
2266by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
2267command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
2268TeX commands to use at startup.
2269
2270*** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
2271and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.
2272
2273** RefTeX mode changes
2274
2275*** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents
2276
2277The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the
2278section at point or all sections in the current region, with full
2279support for multifile documents.
2280
2281The new command `reftex-toc-recenter' (`C-c -') shows the current
2282section in the TOC buffer without selecting the TOC window.
2283Recentering can happen automatically in idle time when the option
2284`reftex-auto-recenter-toc' is turned on. The highlight in the TOC
2285buffer stays when the focus moves to a different window. A dedicated
2286frame can show the TOC with the current section always automatically
2287highlighted. The frame is created and deleted from the toc buffer
2288with the `d' key.
2289
2290The toc window can be split off horizontally instead of vertically.
2291See new option `reftex-toc-split-windows-horizontally'.
2292
2293Labels can be renamed globally from the table of contents using the
2294key `M-%'.
2295
2296The new command `reftex-goto-label' jumps directly to a label
2297location.
2298
2299*** Changes related to citations and BibTeX database files
2300
2301Commands that insert a citation now prompt for optional arguments when
2302called with a prefix argument. Related new options are
2303`reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' and `reftex-cite-cleanup-optional-args'.
2304
2305The new command `reftex-create-bibtex-file' creates a BibTeX database
2306with all entries referenced in the current document. The keys "e" and
2307"E" allow to produce a BibTeX database file from entries marked in a
2308citation selection buffer.
2309
2310The command `reftex-citation' uses the word in the buffer before the
2311cursor as a default search string.
2312
2313The support for chapterbib has been improved. Different chapters can
2314now use BibTeX or an explicit `thebibliography' environment.
2315
2316The macros which specify the bibliography file (like \bibliography)
2317can be configured with the new option `reftex-bibliography-commands'.
2318
2319Support for jurabib has been added.
2320
2321*** Global index matched may be verified with a user function.
2322
2323During global indexing, a user function can verify an index match.
2324See new option `reftex-index-verify-function'.
2325
2326*** Parsing documents with many labels can be sped up.
2327
2328Operating in a document with thousands of labels can be sped up
2329considerably by allowing RefTeX to derive the type of a label directly
2330from the label prefix like `eq:' or `fig:'. The option
2331`reftex-trust-label-prefix' needs to be configured in order to enable
2332this feature. While the speed-up is significant, this may reduce the
2333quality of the context offered by RefTeX to describe a label.
2334
2335*** Miscellaneous changes
2336
2337The macros which input a file in LaTeX (like \input, \include) can be
2338configured in the new option `reftex-include-file-commands'.
2339
2340RefTeX supports global incremental search.
2341
2342** BibTeX mode
2343
2344*** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
2345point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).
2346
2347*** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
2348an existing BibTeX entry by inserting fields that may occur but are not
2349present.
2350
2351*** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.
2352
2353*** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
2354`crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used
2355for BibTeX entries. `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting
2356scheme `entry-class'. TAB completion for reference keys and
2357automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that
2358`bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' is non-nil.
2359
2360*** The new command `bibtex-complete' completes word fragment before
2361point according to context (bound to M-tab).
2362
2363*** In BibTeX mode the command `fill-paragraph' (M-q) fills
2364individual fields of a BibTeX entry.
2365
2366*** The new variable `bibtex-autofill-types' contains a list of entry
2367types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible).
2368
2369*** The new commands `bibtex-find-entry' and `bibtex-find-crossref'
2370locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x).
2371Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET).
2372
2373*** The new variables `bibtex-files' and `bibtex-file-path' define a set
2374of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys.
2375
2376*** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
2377in multiple BibTeX files.
2378
2379*** If the new variable `bibtex-autoadd-commas' is non-nil,
2380automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields.
2381
2382*** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
2383of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).
2384
2385*** If the new variable `bibtex-parse-keys-fast' is non-nil,
2386use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys.
2387
2388*** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and
2389bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when
2390extracting the content of a BibTeX field.
2391
2392*** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and
2393`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
2394`bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
2395`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are
2396still available as aliases.
2397
2398** GUD changes
2399
2400*** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
2401GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
2402there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
2403state of your program. It can separate the input/output of your program from
2404that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of
2405Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
2406breakpoints.
2407
2408To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the
2409old behaviour.
2410
2411*** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
2412and other common debugger commands.
2413
2414*** In GUD mode, when talking to GDB, C-x C-a C-j "jumps" the program
2415counter to the specified source line (the one where point is).
2416
2417*** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be
2418toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
2419`gud-tooltip-mode'.
2420
2421*** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to
2422display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is
2423not executing.
2424
2425*** GUD mode improvements for jdb:
2426
2427**** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class information.
2428Fast startup since there is no need to scan all source files up front.
2429There is also no need to create and maintain lists of source
2430directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' and
2431`gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation.
2432
2433**** The previous method of searching for source files has been
2434preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
2435Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.
2436
2437**** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear)
2438set/clear operations from Java source files under the classpath, stack
2439traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish
2440(gud-finish).
2441
2442**** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
2443(Java 1.1 jdb).
2444
2445*** Added jdb Customization Variables
2446
2447**** `gud-jdb-command-name'. What command line to use to invoke jdb.
2448
2449**** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'. Allows selection of java source file searching
2450method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
2451java sources (previous method).
2452
2453**** `gud-jdb-directories'. List of directories to scan and search for Java
2454classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
2455is nil).
2456
2457*** Minor Improvements
2458
2459**** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
2460instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool. For backwards
2461compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
2462`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
2463`starttls' tool).
2464
2465**** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
2466
2467** Lisp mode changes
2468
2469*** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings.
2470
2471*** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list after point.
2472
2473*** New features in evaluation commands
2474
2475**** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
2476the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
2477
2478**** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
2479in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified
2480by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'. The same
2481function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
2482`eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.
2483
2484** Changes to cmuscheme
2485
2486*** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to
2487evaluate a Scheme expression but no Scheme subprocess is running.
2488
2489*** If the file ~/.emacs_NAME or ~/.emacs.d/init_NAME.scm (where NAME
2490is the name of the Scheme interpreter) exists, its contents are sent
2491to the Scheme subprocess upon startup.
2492
2493*** There are new commands to instruct the Scheme interpreter to trace
2494procedure calls (`scheme-trace-procedure') and to expand syntactic forms
2495(`scheme-expand-current-form'). The commands actually sent to the Scheme
2496subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command',
2497`scheme-untrace-command' and `scheme-expand-current-form'.
2498
2499** Ewoc changes
2500
2501*** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.
2502
2503*** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of
2504a newline after each pretty-printed entry and after the header and footer.
2505This allows you to create multiple-entry ewocs on a single line and to
2506effect "invisible" nodes by arranging for the pretty-printer to not print
2507anything for those nodes.
2508
2509For example, these two sequences of expressions behave identically:
2510
2511;; NOSEP nil
2512(defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S" data)))
2513(ewoc-create 'PP "start\n")
2514
2515;; NOSEP t
2516(defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S\n" data)))
2517(ewoc-create 'PP "start\n\n" "\n" t)
2518
2519** CC mode changes
2520
2521*** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised.
2522The information about using CC Mode has been separated from the larger
2523and more difficult chapters about configuration.
2524
2525*** New Minor Modes
2526**** Electric Minor Mode toggles the electric action of non-alphabetic keys.
2527The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. Turning the
2528mode off can be helpful for editing chaotically indented code and for
2529users new to CC Mode, who sometimes find electric indentation
2530disconcerting. Its current state is displayed in the mode line with an
2531'l', e.g. "C/al".
2532
2533**** Subword Minor Mode makes Emacs recognize word boundaries at upper case
2534letters in StudlyCapsIdentifiers. You enable this feature by C-c C-w. It can
2535also be used in non-CC Mode buffers. :-) Contributed by Masatake YAMATO.
2536
2537*** Support for the AWK language.
2538Support for the AWK language has been introduced. The implementation is
2539based around GNU AWK version 3.1, but it should work pretty well with
2540any AWK. As yet, not all features of CC Mode have been adapted for AWK.
2541Here is a summary:
2542
2543**** Indentation Engine
2544The CC Mode indentation engine fully supports AWK mode.
2545
2546AWK mode handles code formatted in the conventional AWK fashion: `{'s
2547which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are
2548placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s
2549are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function
2550definition, or structured statement.
2551
2552The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK
2553mode, though some of them may work serendipitously. There shouldn't
2554be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode.
2555
2556**** Font Locking
2557There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the
2558three distinct levels the other modes have. There are several
2559idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of
2560the AWK language itself.
2561
2562**** Comment and Movement Commands
2563These commands all work for AWK buffers. The notion of "defun" has
2564been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard
2565"defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this
2566extended definition.
2567
2568**** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups
2569A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default
2570style for AWK code. With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up
2571c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful.
2572
2573*** Font lock support.
2574CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages. This
2575supersedes the font lock patterns that have been in the core font lock
2576package for C, C++, Java and Objective-C. Like indentation, font
2577locking is done in a uniform way across all languages (except the new
2578AWK mode - see below). That means that the new font locking will be
2579different from the old patterns in various details for most languages.
2580
2581The main goal of the font locking in CC Mode is accuracy, to provide a
2582dependable aid in recognizing the various constructs. Some, like
2583strings and comments, are easy to recognize while others like
2584declarations and types can be very tricky. CC Mode can go to great
2585lengths to recognize declarations and casts correctly, especially when
2586the types aren't recognized by standard patterns. This is a fairly
2587demanding analysis which can be slow on older hardware, and it can
2588therefore be disabled by choosing a lower decoration level with the
2589variable font-lock-maximum-decoration.
2590
2591Note that the most demanding font lock level has been tuned with lazy
2592fontification in mind; Just-In-Time-Lock mode should be enabled for
2593the highest font lock level (by default, it is). Fontifying a file
2594with several thousand lines in one go can take the better part of a
2595minute.
2596
2597**** The (c|c++|objc|java|idl|pike)-font-lock-extra-types variables
2598are now used by CC Mode to recognize identifiers that are certain to
2599be types. (They are also used in cases that aren't related to font
2600locking.) At the maximum decoration level, types are often recognized
2601properly anyway, so these variables should be fairly restrictive and
2602not contain patterns for uncertain types.
2603
2604**** Support for documentation comments.
2605There is a "plugin" system to fontify documentation comments like
2606Javadoc and the markup within them. It's independent of the host
2607language, so it's possible to e.g. turn on Javadoc font locking in C
2608buffers. See the variable c-doc-comment-style for details.
2609
2610Currently three kinds of doc comment styles are recognized: Sun's
2611Javadoc, Autodoc (which is used in Pike) and GtkDoc (used in C). (The
2612last was contributed by Masatake YAMATO). This is by no means a
2613complete list of the most common tools; if your doc comment extractor
2614of choice is missing then please drop a note to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2615
2616**** Better handling of C++ templates.
2617As a side effect of the more accurate font locking, C++ templates are
2618now handled much better. The angle brackets that delimit them are
2619given parenthesis syntax so that they can be navigated like other
2620parens.
2621
2622This also improves indentation of templates, although there still is
2623work to be done in that area. E.g. it's required that multiline
2624template clauses are written in full and then refontified to be
2625recognized, and the indentation of nested templates is a bit odd and
2626not as configurable as it ought to be.
2627
2628**** Improved handling of Objective-C and CORBA IDL.
2629Especially the support for Objective-C and IDL has gotten an overhaul.
2630The special "@" declarations in Objective-C are handled correctly.
2631All the keywords used in CORBA IDL, PSDL, and CIDL are recognized and
2632handled correctly, also wrt indentation.
2633
2634*** Changes in Key Sequences
2635**** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t.
2636
2637**** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d.
2638This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards.
2639
2640**** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline.
2641c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias.
2642
2643**** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards
2644have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and
2645C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively. These
2646commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single
2647key-sequence. [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.]
2648
2649**** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l.
2650
2651**** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w.
2652
2653*** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor
2654position(s).
2655
2656*** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode.
2657The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are
2658now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
2659module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
2660composition-close, and incomposition.
2661
2662*** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
2663The new functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward'
2664provide hungry deletion without having to toggle a mode. They are
2665bound to C-c C-DEL and C-c C-d (and several variants, for the benefit
2666of different keyboard setups. See "Changes in key sequences" above).
2667
2668*** Better control over `require-final-newline'.
2669
2670The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
2671implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines. Its value is a
2672list of modes, and only those modes should do it. By default the list
2673includes C, C++ and Objective-C modes.
2674
2675Whichever modes are in this list will set `require-final-newline'
2676based on `mode-require-final-newline'.
2677
2678*** Format change for syntactic context elements.
2679
2680The elements in the syntactic context returned by `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2681and stored in `c-syntactic-context' has been changed somewhat to allow
2682attaching more information. They are now lists instead of single cons
2683cells. E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis
2684
2685((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13))
2686
2687is now analyzed as
2688
2689((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))
2690
2691In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
2692symbol.
2693
2694This change might affect code that calls `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2695directly, and custom lineup functions if they use
2696`c-syntactic-context'. However, the argument given to lineup
2697functions is still a single cons cell with nil or an integer in the
2698cdr.
2699
2700*** API changes for derived modes.
2701
2702There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
2703derived mode writers. Some of these changes are likely to cause
2704incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
2705care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
2706Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.
2707
2708**** New language variable system.
2709These are variables whose values vary between CC Mode's different
2710languages. See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.
2711
2712**** New initialization functions.
2713The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
2714give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
2715`c-init-language-vars'.
2716
2717*** Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.
2718The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where
2719several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line. They are
2720now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.
2721
2722This means that CC Mode now indents some cases differently, and
2723although it's more consistent there might be cases where the old way
2724gave results that's more to one's liking. So if you find a situation
2725where you think that the indentation has become worse, please report
2726it to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2727
2728**** New syntactic symbol substatement-label.
2729This symbol is used when a label is inserted between a statement and
2730its substatement. E.g:
2731
2732 if (x)
2733 x_is_true:
2734 do_stuff();
2735
2736*** Better handling of multiline macros.
2737
2738**** Syntactic indentation inside macros.
2739The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented
2740syntactically just like other code. This can be disabled by the new
2741variable `c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros'. A new syntactic symbol
2742`cpp-define-intro' has been added to control the initial indentation
2743inside `#define's.
2744
2745**** New lineup function `c-lineup-cpp-define'.
2746
2747Now used by default to line up macro continuation lines. The behavior
2748of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro
2749is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily
2750removed. If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works
2751much line `c-lineup-dont-change', which was used earlier, but handles
2752empty lines within the macro better.
2753
2754**** Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one.
2755This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
2756`c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.
2757
2758**** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2759`c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes. New
2760variable `c-backslash-max-column' puts a limit on how far out
2761backslashes can be moved.
2762
2763**** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2764This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'. It
2765affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
2766inserted in Auto-Newline mode.
2767
2768**** Line indentation works better inside macros.
2769Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
2770inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
2771line continuation backslashes. This is most noticeable when syntactic
2772indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
2773backslash) in the macro.
2774
2775*** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
2776The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
2777the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'. The indentation behavior is
2778based on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after
2779#else and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other
2780cases (something which was hardcoded earlier).
2781
2782*** New function `c-context-open-line'.
2783It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.
2784
2785*** New clean-ups
2786
2787**** `comment-close-slash'.
2788With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by
2789typing a slash at the start of a line.
2790
2791**** `c-one-liner-defun'
2792This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK
2793pattern/action pair) onto a single line. "Short enough" is configurable.
2794
2795*** New lineup functions
2796
2797**** `c-lineup-string-cont'
2798This lineup function lines up a continued string under the one it
2799continues. E.g:
2800
2801result = prefix + "A message "
2802 "string."; <- c-lineup-string-cont
2803
2804**** `c-lineup-cascaded-calls'
2805Lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".
2806
2807**** `c-lineup-knr-region-comment'
2808Gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in
2809the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.
2810
2811**** `c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg'
2812Provides better indentation inside asm blocks.
2813
2814**** `c-lineup-argcont'
2815Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma.
2816
2817*** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
2818The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
2819syntactic indentation.
2820
2821*** Better caching of the syntactic context.
2822CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind)
2823of the lists surrounding the point. Those positions are used in many
2824places as anchor points for various searches. The cache is now
2825improved so that it can be reused to a large extent when the point is
2826moved. The less it moves, the less needs to be recalculated.
2827
2828The effect is that CC Mode should be fast most of the time even when
2829opening parens are hung (i.e. aren't in column zero). It's typically
2830only the first time after the point is moved far down in a complex
2831file that it'll take noticeable time to find out the syntactic
2832context.
2833
2834*** Statements are recognized in a more robust way.
2835Statements are recognized most of the time even when they occur in an
2836"invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument. In practice that can
2837happen when macros are involved.
2838
2839*** Improved the way `c-indent-exp' chooses the block to indent.
2840It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point
2841whose closing paren ends on a different line. This means that the
2842point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent.
2843Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current
2844line is left untouched.
2845
2846** Changes in Makefile mode
2847
2848*** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp, BSD make and imake.
2849
2850The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter three
2851are new. Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable
2852faces.
2853
2854*** The variable `makefile-query-one-target-method' has been renamed
2855to `makefile-query-one-target-method-function'. The old name is still
2856available as alias.
2857
2858** Sql changes
2859
2860*** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlighting of different
2861SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a
2862buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current
2863session using the new SQL->Product submenu. (This menu replaces the
2864SQL->Highlighting submenu.)
2865
2866The following values are supported:
2867
2868 ansi ANSI Standard (default)
2869 db2 DB2
2870 informix Informix
2871 ingres Ingres
2872 interbase Interbase
2873 linter Linter
2874 ms Microsoft
2875 mysql MySQL
2876 oracle Oracle
2877 postgres Postgres
2878 solid Solid
2879 sqlite SQLite
2880 sybase Sybase
2881
2882The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the
2883SQL mode indicator.
2884
2885The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in
2886your `.emacs' will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use
2887`sql-product' to accomplish this.
2888
2889ANSI keywords are always highlighted.
2890
2891*** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add
2892font-lock rules to the product specific rules. For example, to have
2893all identifiers ending in `_t' under MS SQLServer treated as a type,
2894you would use the following line in your .emacs file:
2895
2896 (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
2897 '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face)))
2898
2899*** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i.
2900
2901Most SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented. SQL*Plus commands are
2902highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'.
2903
2904*** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved.
2905
2906Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented.
2907sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because
2908osql flushes its error stream more frequently. Thus error messages
2909are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is
2910terminated.
2911
2912If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is
2913called with the `-E' command line argument to use the operating system
2914credentials to authenticate the user.
2915
2916*** Postgres support is enhanced.
2917Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented. Prompting for
2918the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added.
2919
2920*** MySQL support is enhanced.
2921Keyword highlighting of MySql 4.0 is implemented.
2922
2923*** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes,
2924packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and
2925defaults.
2926
2927*** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
2928appropriate `sql-interactive-mode' wrapper for the current setting of
2929`sql-product'.
2930
2931*** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'.
2932
2933** Fortran mode changes
2934
2935*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
2936It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
2937majority.
2938
2939*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
2940`f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
2941`f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
2942`fortran-beginning-of-block'.
2943
2944*** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
2945highlighting for the old default.
2946
2947*** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
2948Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
2949Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.
2950
2951*** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change
2952the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers.
2953
2954** Miscellaneous programming mode changes
2955
2956*** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
2957preceded by a SPC or a TAB.
2958
2959*** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
2960
2961*** The old Octave mode bindings C-c f and C-c i have been changed
2962to C-c C-f and C-c C-i. The C-c C-i subcommands now have duplicate
2963bindings on control characters--thus, C-c C-i C-b is the same as
2964C-c C-i b, and so on.
2965
2966*** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords'
2967to support use of font-lock.
2968
2969** VC Changes
2970
2971*** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.
2972
2973*** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies switches that
2974are passed to any CVS command invoked by VC.
2975
2976These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which means they
2977are inserted before the command name. For example, this allows you to
2978specify a compression level using the `-z#' option for CVS.
2979
2980*** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
2981(toggle-read-only). It no longer checks files in or out.
2982
2983We made this change because we held a poll and found that many users
2984were unhappy with the previous behavior. If you do prefer this
2985behavior, you can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your
2986`.emacs' file:
2987
2988 (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only)
2989
2990The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist.
2991
2992*** VC-Annotate mode enhancements
2993
2994In VC-Annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for
2995enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or
2996to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode:
2997
2998 P: annotates the previous revision
2999 N: annotates the next revision
3000 J: annotates the revision at line
3001 A: annotates the revision previous to line
3002 D: shows the diff of the revision at line with its previous revision
3003 L: shows the log of the revision at line
3004 W: annotates the workfile (most up to date) version
3005
3006** pcl-cvs changes
3007
3008*** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d y' command to view the diffs
3009between the local version of the file and yesterday's head revision
3010in the repository.
3011
3012*** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
3013anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
3014`checkout', `update' or `commit'. That means using cvs diff options
3015-rBASE -rHEAD.
3016
3017** Diff changes
3018
3019*** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode.
3020
3021*** Diff mode key bindings changed.
3022
3023These are the new bindings:
3024
3025C-c C-e diff-ediff-patch (old M-A)
3026C-c C-n diff-restrict-view (old M-r)
3027C-c C-r diff-reverse-direction (old M-R)
3028C-c C-u diff-context->unified (old M-U)
3029C-c C-w diff-refine-hunk (old C-c C-r)
3030
3031To convert unified to context format, use C-u C-c C-u.
3032In addition, C-c C-u now operates on the region
3033in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active.
3034
3035** EDiff changes.
3036
3037*** When comparing directories.
3038Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of
3039directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files
3040from one directory to another.
3041
3042*** When comparing files or buffers.
3043Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the
3044currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n'
3045then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
3046comparison.
3047
3048*** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
3049backup using `ediff'. If you specify the name of a backup file,
3050`ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.
3051
3052** Etags changes.
3053
3054*** New regular expressions features
3055
3056**** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.
3057
3058The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained
3059only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is
3060--regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS,
3061where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or
3062more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'
3063(single-line). The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular
3064expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
3065(which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines. The ability to
3066span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
3067and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.
3068
3069**** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.
3070
3071The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
3072respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
3073CR, TAB, VT.
3074
3075**** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.
3076
3077The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
3078only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is
3079particularly useful when storing regexps in a file.
3080
3081**** Regular expressions can be read from a file.
3082
3083The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one
3084per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.
3085
3086*** New language parsing features
3087
3088**** New language HTML.
3089
3090Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'. Also,
3091when `name=' is used inside an anchor and whenever `id=' is used.
3092
3093**** New language PHP.
3094
3095Functions, classes and defines are tags. If the --members option is
3096specified to etags, variables are tags also.
3097
3098**** New language Lua.
3099
3100All functions are tagged.
3101
3102**** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.
3103
3104Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.
3105
3106**** The GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognized and ignored.
3107
3108**** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for #undef
3109
3110**** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
3111
3112If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
3113size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.
3114
3115**** In Perl, packages are tags.
3116
3117Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags
3118as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
3119package::sub.
3120
3121**** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.
3122
3123**** New default keywords for TeX.
3124
3125The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
3126renewenvironment.
3127
3128*** Honor #line directives.
3129
3130When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
3131directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
3132specified in those directives. This is useful when dealing with code
3133created from Cweb source files. When Etags tags the generated file, it
3134writes tags pointing to the source file.
3135
3136*** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.
3137
3138This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs. It can
3139be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line. Etags
3140reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
3141the file FILE.
3142
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3143** Ctags changes.
3144
3145*** Ctags now allows duplicate tags
3146
3147** Rmail changes
3148
3149*** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
3150
73187b26 3151This version of `movemail' allows you to read mail from a wide range of
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3152mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
3153without TLS encryption. If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
3154and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
3155used instead of the native one.
3156
3157*** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
3158by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
3159Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.
3160
3161*** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.
3162
3163** Gnus package
3164
3165*** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
3166
3167Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts. PGG is a library to handle
3168PGP/MIME.
3169
3170*** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
3171
3172See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
3173
3174** MH-E changes.
3175
3176Upgraded to MH-E version 8.0.3. There have been major changes since
3177version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.
3178
3179** Miscellaneous mail changes
3180
3181*** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies
3182`default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for
3183auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to "~/".
3184
3185*** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file.
3186
3187See the documentation of the user option `display-time-mail-directory'.
3188
3189** Calendar changes
3190
3191*** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to
3192convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format.
3193
3194*** The new package cal-html.el writes HTML files with calendar and
3195diary entries.
3196
3197*** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
3198and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
3199from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages. The variable
3200`diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional
3201formats.
3202
3203*** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed:
3204use the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable
3205`appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing
3206`appt-issue-message', `appt-visible', and `appt-msg-window'.
3207
3208*** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
3209This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
3210and `diary-header-line-format'.
3211
3212*** Diary sexp entries can have custom marking in the calendar.
3213Diary sexp functions which only apply to certain days (such as
3214`diary-block' or `diary-cyclic') now take an optional parameter MARK,
3215which is the name of a face or a single-character string indicating
3216how to highlight the day in the calendar display. Specifying a
3217single-character string as @var{mark} places the character next to the
3218day in the calendar. Specifying a face highlights the day with that
3219face. This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations,
3220appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp.
3221
3222*** The meanings of C-x < and C-x > have been interchanged.
3223< means to scroll backward in time, and > means to scroll forward.
3224
3225*** You can now use < and >, instead of C-x < and C-x >, to scroll
3226the calendar left or right.
3227
3228*** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a
3229year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers
3230count backward from the end of the year.
3231
3232*** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
3233prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
3234day of that ISO week.
3235
3236*** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
3237optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
3238rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
3239`christian-holidays' simpler.
3240
3241*** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
3242window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
3243
3244** Speedbar changes
3245
3246*** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on
3247the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism.
3248
3249*** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC,
3250contracts or expands the line under the cursor.
3251
3252*** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'.
3253
3254*** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
3255`speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
3256respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
3257its descendents.
3258
3259*** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
3260means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.
3261
3262*** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls
3263how querying is performed for file operations. A value of 'always
3264means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means
3265to not query before any file operations, except before a file
3266deletion.
3267
3268*** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how
3269to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar. A
3270value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that
3271speedbar was started from.) A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass
3272that number to `other-frame'.
3273
3274*** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar
3275keymap.
3276
3277*** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new
3278`dframe' library. Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar
3279should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of
3280`speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer',
3281`dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and
3282`dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of
3283`speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'. The variables
3284`speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also
3285obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead.
3286
3287** battery.el changes
3288
3289*** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery.
3290
3291*** battery.el now works on recent versions of OS X.
3292
3293** Games
3294
3295*** The game `mpuz' is enhanced.
3296
3297`mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits. By
3298default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
3299automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
3300
3301** Obsolete and deleted packages
3302
3303*** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead.
3304
3305*** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead.
3306
3307*** zone-mode.el is now obsolete. Use dns-mode.el instead.
3308
3309*** cplus-md.el has been deleted.
3310
3311** Miscellaneous
3312
3313*** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' is renamed
3314to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
3315variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
3316automatically, without asking for a confirmation. Otherwise, the word
3317at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt.
3318
3319*** You can now customize `fill-nobreak-predicate' to control where
3320filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of
3321functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.
3322
3323Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and
3324`fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of
3325`fill-nobreak-predicate'.
3326
3327*** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
3328with special modes such as Tar mode.
3329
3330*** `global-whitespace-mode' is a new alias for `whitespace-global-mode'.
3331
3332*** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
3333
3334When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
3335include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist.
3336Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
3337to get the old behavior. The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
3338and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
3339feature.
3340
3341*** Commands `winner-redo' and `winner-undo', from winner.el, are now
3342bound to C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively. This is an
3343incompatible change.
3344
3345*** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
3346and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if
3347you don't want the `.type-break' file in your home directory or are
3348annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.
3349
3350*** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.
3351
3352Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with
3353`ps-print', provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF
3354fonts. See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts.
3355
3356*** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
3357This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
3358the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for
3359using strokes as an input method.
3360
3361*** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top
3362of the file that precede the first header line.
3363
3364*** `hide-ifdef-mode' now uses overlays rather than selective-display
3365to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly
3366changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p.
3367
3368*** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
3369renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still
3370available as alias.
3371
3372*** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
3373by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'
3374and `C-c C-r'.
3375
3376*** `partial-completion-mode' now handles partial completion on directory names.
3377
3378*** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it.
3379
3380M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no
3381argument it toggles the mode. Turning off PC-Selection mode restores
3382the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode.
3383
3384*** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
3385`file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.
3386
3387*** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
3388
3389When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
3390starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.
3391
3392*** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
3393resync points in both windows.
3394
3395*** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers
3396when Emacs visits them.
3397
3398*** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.
3399
3400*** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode.
3401
3402To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil. In this mode a
3403separator character is used every few digits, making it easier to see
3404byte boundaries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the
3405variable `calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.
3406
3407*** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2.
3408
3409*** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can
3410run most curses applications now.
3411
3412*** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
3413
3414Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to
3415use standout mode, but they can no longer display mode-lines in
3416inverse-video.
3417
3418\f
3419* Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems
3420
3421** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile.
3422
3423If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME
3424environment variable and a `.emacs' was saved, then Emacs will continue
3425using C:/ as the default HOME. But if you are installing Emacs afresh,
3426the default location will be the "Application Data" (or similar
3427localized name) subdirectory of your user profile. A typical location
3428of this directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data",
3429where USERNAME is your user name.
3430
3431This change means that users can now have their own `.emacs' files on
3432shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be
3433read-only on computers that are administered by someone else.
3434
3435** Images are now supported on MS Windows.
3436
3437PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
3438depend on external libraries. All of these libraries have been ported
3439to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
3440http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. Note that libpng also depends on
3441zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
3442against. For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.
3443
3444** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
3445
3446WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
3447as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of
3448Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
3449sound support for those formats.
3450
3451** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
3452
3453See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.
3454
3455** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
3456
3457The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
3458whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
3459pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.
3460
3461** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
3462
3463You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
3464existing values. For example:
3465
3466 emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"
3467
3468will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
3469irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
3470
3471** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.
3472
3473The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much
3474the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X. Emacs now adds these
3475colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu for the
3476default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground), and uses
3477some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
3478`list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
3479you wish to use them in other faces.
3480
3481** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size.
3482
3483Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs
3484through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in
3485a local console window with a scrollback buffer. The default value of
3486w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favors local console
3487windows. Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this
3488setting. If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects
3489that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and
3490defaults to 80x25. If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size
3491other than 80x25, you can still manually set
3492w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.
3493
3494** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows.
3495
3496The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer.
3497
3498** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
3499
3500This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the
3501cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
3502When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible
3503instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by
3504some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows
3505the caret visibility to be manually toggled.
3506
3507** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.
3508
3509Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
3510multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
3511MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
3512the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
3513any customizations.
3514
3515** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.
3516
3517** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
3518`kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
3519`kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.
3520
3521** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete. Use
3522`mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.
3523\f
3524* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3525
3526** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
3527:propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
3528`risky-local-variable' property is nil.
3529
3530The function `comint-send-input' now accepts 3 optional arguments:
3531
3532 (comint-send-input &optional no-newline artificial)
3533
3534Callers sending input not from the user should use bind the 3rd
3535argument `artificial' to a non-nil value, to prevent Emacs from
3536deleting the part of subprocess output that matches the input.
3537
3538** The `read-file-name' function now returns a null string if the
3539user just types RET.
3540
3541** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have
3542been removed. Use run-with-idle-timer instead.
3543
3544** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to
3545be multibyte or unibyte, respectively.
3546
3547** The explicit method of creating a display table element by
3548combining a face number and a character code into a numeric
3549glyph code is deprecated.
3550
3551Instead, the new functions `make-glyph-code', `glyph-char', and
3552`glyph-face' must be used to create and decode glyph codes in
3553display tables.
3554
3555** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
3556the command `undefined'. (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
3557`substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to
3558`undefined'.)
3559
3560** The third argument of `accept-process-output' is now milliseconds.
3561It used to be microseconds.
3562
3563** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons
3564(FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument
3565OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in
3566`file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument.
3567
3568** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates
3569input events: sigusr1 or sigusr2. Use special-event-map to
3570handle these events.
3571
3572** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
3573there is no longer a shortage of memory.
3574
3575** Support for Mocklisp has been removed.
3576
3577\f
3578* Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3579
3580** General Lisp changes:
3581
3582*** New syntax: \s now stands for the SPACE character.
3583
3584`?\s' is a new way to write the space character. You must make sure
3585it is not followed by a dash, since `?\s-...' indicates the "super"
3586modifier. However, it would be strange to write a character constant
3587and a following symbol (beginning with `-') with no space between
3588them.
3589
3590`\s' stands for space in strings, too, but it is not really meant for
3591strings; it is easier and nicer just to write a space.
3592
3593*** New syntax: \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX specify Unicode code points in hex.
3594
3595For instance, you can use "\u0428" to specify a string consisting of
3596CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA, or `"U0001D6E2" to specify one consisting
3597of MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL ALPHA (the latter is greater than
3598#xFFFF and thus needs the longer syntax).
3599
3600This syntax works for both character constants and strings.
3601
3602*** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.
3603
3604It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
3605dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
3606(calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.).
3607
3608*** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.
3609
3610*** The new function `memql' is like `memq', but uses `eql' for comparison,
3611that is, floats are compared by value and other elements with `eq'.
3612
3613*** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.
3614
37cc095b
MB
3615`string-or-null-p' returns non-nil if OBJECT is a string or nil.
3616`booleanp' returns non-nil if OBJECT is t or nil.
782f8379
GM
3617
3618*** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead.
3619
3620*** Minor change in the function `format'.
3621
3622Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no
3623longer accepted.
3624
3625*** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND.
3626
3627If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the
3628list instead of at the beginning. This change actually occurred in
3629Emacs 21.1, but was not documented then.
3630
3631*** New function `add-to-ordered-list' is like `add-to-list' but
3632associates a numeric ordering of each element added to the list.
3633
3634*** New function `add-to-history' adds an element to a history list.
3635
3636Lisp packages should use this function to add elements to their
3637history lists.
3638
3639If `history-delete-duplicates' is non-nil, it removes duplicates of
3640the new element from the history list it updates.
3641
3642*** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree.
3643
3644It recursively copies through both CARs and CDRs.
3645
3646*** New function `delete-dups' deletes `equal' duplicate elements from a list.
3647
3648It modifies the list destructively, like `delete'. Of several `equal'
3649occurrences of an element in the list, the one that's kept is the
3650first one.
3651
3652*** New function `rassq-delete-all'.
3653
3654(rassq-delete-all VALUE ALIST) deletes, from ALIST, each element whose
3655CDR is `eq' to the specified value.
3656
3657*** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists.
3658
3659They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is
3660cyclic.
3661
3662*** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.
3663
3664They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare
3665the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.
3666
3667*** The function `number-sequence' makes a list of equally-separated numbers.
3668
3669For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). By
3670default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different
3671separation as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns
3672(1.5 3.5 5.5).
3673
3674*** New variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'.
3675
3676They hold the largest and smallest possible integer values.
3677
3678*** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
3679The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
3680negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
3681
3682*** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument.
3683
3684When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
3685angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis. (This is
3686equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)
3687
3688*** New macro `with-case-table'
3689
3690This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given
3691case table.
3692
3693*** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting.
3694
3695A quit inside the body of `with-local-quit' is caught by the
3696`with-local-quit' form itself, but another quit will happen later once
3697the code that has inhibited quitting exits.
3698
3699This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code
3700inside timer functions and `post-command-hook' functions.
3701
3702*** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.
3703
3704This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.
3705
3706*** New macro `eval-at-startup' specifies expressions to
3707evaluate when Emacs starts up. If this is done after startup,
3708it evaluates those expressions immediately.
3709
3710This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.
3711
3712*** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
3713
3714It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
3715One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
3716if no expansion is done, which can be tested using `eq'.
3717
3718*** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern.
3719
3720You put this info in the doc string's last line. It should be
3721formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'". If you don't
3722specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument
3723names. Usually that default is right, but not always.
3724
3725*** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'.
3726
3727When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single
3728numbering scheme for circular structure references. This is only
3729relevant when `print-circle' is non-nil.
3730
3731When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
3732also bind `print-number-table' to nil.
3733
3734*** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.
3735
3736If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.
3737
3738*** New hook `command-error-function'.
3739
3740By setting this variable to a function, you can control
3741how the editor command loop shows the user an error message.
3742
3743*** `debug-on-entry' accepts primitive functions that are not special forms.
3744
3745** Lisp code indentation features:
3746
3747*** The `defmacro' form can contain indentation and edebug declarations.
3748
3749These declarations specify how to indent the macro calls in Lisp mode
3750and how to debug them with Edebug. You write them like this:
3751
3752 (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...)
3753
3754DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'. The
3755possible declaration specifiers are:
3756
3757(indent INDENT)
3758 Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT.
3759
3760(edebug DEBUG)
3761 Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG. (This is
3762 equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro,
3763 but this is cleaner.)
3764
3765*** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms.
3766
3767See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.
3768
3769*** cl-indent now handles indentation of simple and extended `loop' forms.
3770
3771The new user options `lisp-loop-keyword-indentation',
3772`lisp-loop-forms-indentation', and `lisp-simple-loop-indentation' can
3773be used to customize the indentation of keywords and forms in loop
3774forms.
3775
3776** Variable aliases:
3777
3778*** New function: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING]
3779
3780This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for
3781symbol BASE-VAR. This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR
3782returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR
3783changes the value of BASE-VAR.
3784
3785DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has
3786the same documentation as BASE-VAR.
3787
3788*** The macro `define-obsolete-variable-alias' combines `defvaralias' and
3789`make-obsolete-variable'.
3790
3791*** New function: indirect-variable VARIABLE
3792
3793This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases
3794of VARIABLE. If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not
3795defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE.
3796
3797It might be noteworthy that variables aliases work for all kinds of
3798variables, including buffer-local and frame-local variables.
3799
3800** defcustom changes:
3801
3802*** The package-version keyword has been added to provide
3803`customize-changed-options' functionality to packages in the future.
3804Developers who make use of this keyword must also update the new
3805variable `customize-package-emacs-version-alist'.
3806
3807*** The new customization type `float' requires a floating point number.
3808
3809** String changes:
3810
3811*** A hex escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte.
3812
3813*** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte.
3814
3815*** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
3816multibyte string with the same individual character codes.
3817
3818*** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if
3819the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for
3820SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is
3821nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all
3822empty matches are omitted from the returned list.
3823
3824*** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and
3825`assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have
3826been declared obsolete.
3827
3828*** New function `substring-no-properties' returns a substring without
3829text properties.
3830
3831** Displaying warnings to the user.
3832
3833See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual.
3834If you want to be sure the warning will not be overlooked, this
3835facility is much better than using `message', since it displays
3836warnings in a separate window.
3837
3838** Progress reporters.
3839
3840These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present
3841progress messages for the user.
3842
3843See the new functions `make-progress-reporter',
3844`progress-reporter-update', `progress-reporter-force-update',
3845`progress-reporter-done', and `dotimes-with-progress-reporter'.
3846
3847** Buffer positions:
3848
3849*** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
3850width if the WIDTH argument is nil. If the TOPOS argument is nil,
3851the usable window height and width is used.
3852
3853*** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now
3854modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
3855taller that the height of the window, for example in the presence of
3856large images. To disable this feature, bind the new variable
3857`auto-window-vscroll' to nil.
3858
3859*** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word' is optional.
3860
3861It defaults to 1.
3862
3863*** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.
3864
3865It defaults to 1.
3866
3867*** `field-beginning' and `field-end' take new optional argument, LIMIT.
3868
3869This argument tells them not to search beyond LIMIT. Instead they
3870give up and return LIMIT.
3871
3872*** New function `window-line-height' is an efficient way to get
3873information about a specific text line in a window provided that the
3874window's display is up-to-date.
3875
3876*** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position.
3877
3878It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point.
3879
3880*** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates
3881and partial visibility state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
3882arg is non-nil.
3883
3884*** New functions `posn-at-point' and `posn-at-x-y' return
3885click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
3886position or for a given window pixel coordinate.
3887
3888*** New function `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link.
3889
3890This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
3891functionality.
3892
3893** Text modification:
3894
3895*** The new function `buffer-chars-modified-tick' returns a buffer's
3896tick counter for changes to characters. Each time text in that buffer
3897is inserted or deleted, the character-change counter is updated to the
3898tick counter (`buffer-modified-tick'). Text property changes leave it
3899unchanged.
3900
3901*** The new function `insert-for-yank' normally works like `insert', but
3902removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list
3903and handles the `yank-handler' text property.
3904
3905*** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' is like
3906`insert-for-yank' except that it gets the text from another buffer as
3907in `insert-buffer-substring'.
3908
3909*** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like
3910`insert-buffer-substring', but removes all text properties from the
3911inserted substring.
3912
3913*** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
3914substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
3915the filtered substring. Use it instead of `buffer-substring' or
3916`delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
3917data structure, such as the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.
3918
3919The list of filter function is specified by the new variable
3920`buffer-substring-filters'. For example, Longlines mode adds to
3921`buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
3922text.
3923
3924*** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
3925argument.
3926
3927*** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
3928is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to
3929be inserted is translated through it.
3930
3931*** Text clones.
3932
3933The new function `text-clone-create'. Text clones are chunks of text
3934that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one
3935clone to the other.
3936
3937*** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete.
3938
3939** Filling changes.
3940
3941*** In determining an adaptive fill prefix, Emacs now tries the function in
3942`adaptive-fill-function' _before_ matching the buffer line against
3943`adaptive-fill-regexp' rather than _after_ it.
3944
3945** Atomic change groups.
3946
3947To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
3948they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
3949around the code that makes changes. For instance:
3950
3951 (atomic-change-group
3952 (insert foo)
3953 (delete-region x y))
3954
3955If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of
3956`atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that
3957were during the execution of the body. The change group has no effect
3958on any other buffers--any such changes remain.
3959
3960If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the
3961lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses. Here is how.
3962
3963To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'.
3964Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer.
3965This function returns a "handle" for the change group. You must save
3966the handle to activate the change group and then finish it.
3967
3968Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change
3969group. Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to
3970do this.
3971
3972After you make the changes, you must finish the change group. You can
3973either accept the changes or cancel them all. Call
3974`accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final;
3975call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all.
3976
3977You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always
3978finished. The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the
3979`unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs.
3980(This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and
3981`activate-change-group' are separate functions.) Once you finish the
3982group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group
3983twice.
3984
3985To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once
3986for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the
3987returned values, like this:
3988
3989 (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1)
3990 (prepare-change-group buffer-2))
3991
3992You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call
3993to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to
3994`accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'.
3995
3996Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you
3997would expect. Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer
3998will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first
3999change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one
4000finished.
4001
4002** Buffer-related changes:
4003
4004*** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
4005binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER. If VARIABLE does not
4006have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
4007value of VARIABLE instead.
4008
4009*** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST.
4010
4011If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list.
4012
4013*** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local.
4014
4015*** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
4016various status records in parallel.
4017
4018It takes a variable (a symbol) as argument. If the variable is non-nil,
4019then its value should be a vector installed previously by
4020`frame-or-buffer-changed-p'. If the frame names, buffer names, buffer
4021order, or their read-only or modified flags have changed, since the
4022time the vector's contents were recorded by a previous call to
4023`frame-or-buffer-changed-p', then the function returns t. Otherwise
4024it returns nil.
4025
4026On the first call to `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', the variable's
4027value should be nil. `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' stores a suitable
4028vector into the variable and returns t.
4029
4030If the variable is itself nil, then `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' uses,
4031for compatibility, an internal variable which exists only for this
4032purpose.
4033
4034*** The function `read-buffer' follows the convention for reading from
4035the minibuffer with a default value: if DEF is non-nil, the minibuffer
4036prompt provided in PROMPT is edited to show the default value provided
4037in DEF before the terminal colon and space.
4038
4039** Searching and matching changes:
4040
4041*** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
4042the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
4043back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.
4044
4045*** The new variable `search-spaces-regexp' controls how to search
4046for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a
4047regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular
4048expression. If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves.
4049
4050Spaces inside of constructs such as `[..]' and inside loops such as
4051`*', `+', and `?' are never replaced with `search-spaces-regexp'.
4052
4053*** New regular expression operators, `\_<' and `\_>'.
4054
4055These match the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a
4056non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
4057specified by the syntax table.
4058
4059*** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
4060character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
4061characters and ranges.
4062
4063*** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits
4064properties from surrounding text.
4065
4066*** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final
4067element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data'
4068accepts such a list for restoring the match state.
4069
4070*** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional
4071argument `reseat'. When non-nil, all markers in the match data list
4072passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere.
4073
4074*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements.
4075
4076*** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
4077variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
4078that end a sentence without following spaces.
4079
4080The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the
4081variable `sentence-end'. If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then
4082this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables
4083`sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and
4084`sentence-end-without-space'.
4085
4086** Undo changes:
4087
4088*** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements.
4089
4090These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
4091a symbol other than t or nil. That stands for a high-level change
4092that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).
4093
4094These entries can also have the form (apply DELTA BEG END FUNNAME . ARGS)
4095which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the
4096range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA.
4097
4098*** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than
4099`undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent
4100it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.
4101
4102** Killing and yanking changes:
4103
4104*** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how
4105previously killed text on the kill ring is reinserted.
4106
4107The value of the `yank-handler' property must be a list with one to four
4108elements with the following format:
4109 (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).
4110
4111The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
4112the first character on its string argument (typically the first
4113element on the kill-ring). If a `yank-handler' property is found,
4114the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:
4115
4116 When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
4117to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
4118 If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object
4119passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is
4120`yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a
4121rectangle.
4122 If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the
4123`yank-excluded-properties' is not performed; instead FUNCTION is
4124responsible for removing those properties. This may be necessary
4125if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object.
4126 If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
4127by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object. It is
4128called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
4129FUNCTION can set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.
4130
4131*** The functions `kill-new', `kill-append', and `kill-region' now have an
4132optional argument to specify the `yank-handler' text property to put on
4133the killed text.
4134
4135*** The function `yank-pop' will now use a non-nil value of the variable
4136`yank-undo-function' (instead of `delete-region') to undo the previous
4137`yank' or `yank-pop' command (or a call to `insert-for-yank'). The function
4138`insert-for-yank' automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
4139element of the string argument's `yank-handler' text property if present.
4140
4141*** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
4142`yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
4143string. The old behavior is available if you call
4144`insert-for-yank-1' instead.
4145
4146** Syntax table changes:
4147
4148*** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the
4149current syntactic context at point.
4150
4151*** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code
4152of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account
4153of text properties as well as the character code.
4154
4155*** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned
4156by `syntax-after').
4157
4158*** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table.
4159
4160** File operation changes:
4161
4162*** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
4163searching for an executable or an Emacs Lisp file.
4164
4165*** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories.
4166`locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two
4167lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to
4168try; typical usage might use `exec-path' and `load-path' for the list
4169of directories, and `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' for the list
4170of suffixes. The function also accepts a predicate argument to
4171further filter candidate files.
4172
4173One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
4174`exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
4175executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.
4176
4177*** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns
4178non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using
4179its own special methods and not directly through the file system).
4180The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system.
4181
4182*** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
4183before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final
4184tasks. For example, it can be used by the copyright package to make
4185sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.
4186
4187*** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which
4188specifies the maximum number of links to chase through. If after that
4189many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link,
4190`file-chase-links' returns it anyway.
4191
4192*** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now
4193ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as
4194`.emacs' are treated as extensionless.
4195
4196*** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
4197`save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if
4198it's modified).
4199
4200*** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was
4201formerly called `auto-save-file-format'. It is now a permanent local.
4202
4203*** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
4204a list of two integers, instead of a cons.
4205
4206*** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.
4207
4208Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,
4209`find-file-name-handler' now gives precedence to a file name handler
4210that matches nearest the end of the file name. More precisely, the
4211handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. In case
4212of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies.
4213
4214*** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles.
4215
4216You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name
4217symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that
4218the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other
4219operations.
4220
4221This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being
4222autoloaded when not really necessary.
4223
4224*** The function `make-auto-save-file-name' is now handled by file
4225name handlers. This will be exploited for remote files mainly.
4226
4227*** The function `file-name-completion' accepts an optional argument
4228PREDICATE, and rejects completion candidates that don't satisfy PREDICATE.
4229
4230*** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and
4231modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this
4232operation.
4233
4234** Input changes:
4235
4236*** Functions `y-or-n-p', `read-char', `read-key-sequence' and the like, that
4237display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
4238using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
4239
4240*** The functions `read-event', `read-char', and `read-char-exclusive'
4241have a new optional argument SECONDS. If non-nil, this specifies a
4242maximum time to wait for input, in seconds. If no input arrives after
4243this time elapses, the functions stop waiting and return nil.
4244
4245*** An interactive specification can now use the code letter `U' to get
4246the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
4247previous `k' or `K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.
4248
4249*** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
4250much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
4251it returns just the directory name.
4252
4253*** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input
4254arrives. If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a
4255quit had occurred. `while-no-input' returns the value of BODY, if BODY
4256finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted by a quit, and t if
4257BODY was aborted by arrival of input.
4258
4259*** `recent-keys' now returns the last 300 keys.
4260
4261** Minibuffer changes:
4262
4263*** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional
4264buffer argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted, it
4265defaults to the current buffer.
4266
4267*** New function `minibuffer-selected-window' returns the window which
4268was selected when entering the minibuffer.
4269
4270*** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
4271specifies a predicate which the file name read must satisfy. The
4272new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
4273while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
4274variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.
4275
4276*** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by Lisp code
4277to override the built-in `read-file-name' function.
4278
4279*** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
4280whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
4281`read-file-name' function.
4282
4283*** The new function `read-directory-name' is for reading a directory name.
4284
4285It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
4286for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.
4287
4288*** The new variable `history-add-new-input' specifies whether to add new
4289elements in history. If set to nil, minibuffer reading functions don't
4290add new elements to the history list, so it is possible to do this
4291afterwards by calling `add-to-history' explicitly.
4292
4293** Completion changes:
4294
4295*** The new function `minibuffer-completion-contents' returns the contents
4296of the minibuffer just before point. That is what completion commands
4297operate on.
4298
4299*** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
4300of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
4301and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
4302exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables can be either
4303strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.
4304
4305*** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions
4306as a dynamic completion table.
4307
4308 (dynamic-completion-table FUN)
4309
4310FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required,
4311and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible
4312completions. This alist can be a full list of possible completions so that FUN
4313can ignore the value of its argument. If completion is performed in the
4314minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was
4315entered. `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion.
4316
4317*** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
4318as a lazy completion table.
4319
4320 (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN)
4321
4322If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
4323as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with no
4324arguments. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR.
4325If completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
4326from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
4327`lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.
4328
4329** Abbrev changes:
4330
4331*** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG.
4332
4333If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means
4334that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the
4335abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always
4336specify this flag.
4337
4338*** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table.
4339
4340It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table.
4341
4342** Enhancements to keymaps.
4343
4344*** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.
4345
4346You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
4347same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'. For
4348example,
4349
4350(kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"
4351
4352Actually, this format has existed since Emacs 20.1.
4353
4354*** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.
4355
4356This is an alternative to using `defadvice' or `substitute-key-definition'
4357to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
4358binding and lookup functionality.
4359
4360When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is
4361remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the
4362original command.
4363
4364Example:
4365Suppose that minor mode `my-mode' has defined the commands
4366`my-kill-line' and `my-kill-word', and it wants C-k (and any other key
4367bound to `kill-line') to run the command `my-kill-line' instead of
4368`kill-line', and likewise it wants to run `my-kill-word' instead of
4369`kill-word'.
4370
4371Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map,
4372command remapping allows you to directly map `kill-line' into
4373`my-kill-line' and `kill-word' into `my-kill-word' using `define-key':
4374
4375 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line)
4376 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word)
4377
4378When `my-mode' is enabled, its minor mode keymap is enabled too. So
4379when the user types C-k, that runs the command `my-kill-line'.
4380
4381Only one level of remapping is supported. In the above example, this
4382means that if `my-kill-line' is remapped to `other-kill', then C-k still
4383runs `my-kill-line'.
4384
4385The following changes have been made to provide command remapping:
4386
4387- Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
4388 `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD
4389 to definition DEF in keymap MAP. The definition is not limited to
4390 another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding.
4391
4392- The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a
4393 remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped.
4394
4395- `key-binding' now remaps interactive commands unless the optional
4396 third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil.
4397
4398- `where-is-internal' now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g.
4399 `kill-line', when `my-mode' is enabled), and the actual key binding for
4400 the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line).
4401 It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits
4402 remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns "C-k" for `kill-line', and
4403 "<kill-line>" for `my-kill-line').
4404
4405- The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
4406 command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the
4407 command was not remapped.
4408
4409*** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style
4410key-sequences, such as [(control a)].
4411
4412*** New keymaps for typing file names
4413
4414Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' and
4415`minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
4416Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer. These key maps override
4417the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
4418names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
4419the spaces).
4420
4421*** New function `current-active-maps' returns a list of currently
4422active keymaps.
4423
4424*** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all
4425defined keys and their definitions.
4426
4427*** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt string of a keymap.
4428
4429*** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
4430over minor mode keymaps.
4431
4432*** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and
4433text properties, according to their stickiness. This also means that it
4434works with empty overlays. The same hold for the `local-map' property.
4435
4436*** `key-binding' will now look up mouse-specific bindings. The
4437keymaps consulted by `key-binding' will get adapted if the key
4438sequence is started with a mouse event. Instead of letting the click
4439position be determined from the key sequence itself, it is also
4440possible to specify it with an optional argument explicitly.
4441
4442*** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1.
4443
4444*** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
4445in the keymap.
4446
4447*** New variable `emulation-mode-map-alists'.
4448
4449Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
4450keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their
4451keymap alist to this list.
4452
4453*** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly.
4454
4455Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key
4456bindings of the parent keymap.
4457
4458** Enhancements to process support
4459
4460*** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.
4461
4462On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
4463output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
4464very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent
4465by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
4466non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
4467from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before
4468Emacs tries to read it.
4469
4470*** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can
4471maintain process state and other per-process related information.
4472
4473Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add,
4474and modify elements on this property list. Use the new functions
4475`process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the
4476entire property list of a process.
4477
4478*** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
4479it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set.
4480
4481*** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'.
4482
4483These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'. That
4484function is still supported, but new code should use the new
4485functions.
4486
4487*** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.
4488
4489This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.
4490
4491*** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but
4492obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
4493`default-directory'.
4494
4495*** Function `signal-process' now accepts a process object or process
4496name in addition to a process id to identify the signaled process.
4497
4498*** Function `accept-process-output' has a new optional fourth arg
4499JUST-THIS-ONE. If non-nil, only output from the specified process
4500is handled, suspending output from other processes. If value is an
4501integer, also inhibit running timers. This feature is generally not
4502recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
4503speech synthesis.
4504
4505*** A process filter function gets the output as multibyte string
4506if the process specifies t for its filter's multibyteness.
4507
4508That multibyteness is decided by the value of
4509`default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is created, and
4510you can change it later with `set-process-filter-multibyte'.
4511
4512*** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the
4513multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4514
4515*** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns the
4516multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4517
4518*** If a process's coding system is `raw-text' or `no-conversion' and its
4519buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted
4520to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer.
4521Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte',
4522which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.
4523
4524** Enhanced networking support.
4525
4526*** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
4527It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
4528create a stream or datagram server inside Emacs.
4529
4530- A server is started using :server t arg.
4531- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
4532- A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
4533- Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.
4534- IPv6 is supported (when available). You may explicitly select IPv6
4535 using :family 'ipv6 arg.
4536- Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg.
4537- The process' property list can be initialized using :plist PLIST arg;
4538 a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited
4539 by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.
4540
4541To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
4542 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))
4543 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:family ipv6))
4544
4545*** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.
4546
4547*** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument.
4548
4549Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network
4550process properties or a specific property. Using :local or :remote as
4551the KEY, you get the address of the local or remote end-point.
4552
4553An Inet address is represented as a 5 element vector, where the first
45544 elements contain the IP address and the fifth is the port number.
4555
4556*** New functions `stop-process' and `continue-process'.
4557
4558These functions stop and restart communication through a network
4559connection. For a server process, no connections are accepted in the
4560stopped state. For a client process, no input is received in the
4561stopped state.
4562
4563*** New function `format-network-address'.
4564
4565This function reformats the Lisp representation of a network address
4566to a printable string. For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port
4567number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the
4568printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc
4569string for other formatting options.
4570
4571*** New function `network-interface-list'.
4572
4573This function returns a list of network interface names and their
4574current network addresses.
4575
4576*** New function `network-interface-info'.
4577
4578This function returns the network address, hardware address, current
4579status, and other information about a specific network interface.
4580
4581*** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.
4582
4583These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get
4584and set the current address of the remote partner.
4585
4586*** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel.
4587
4588The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network
4589process is "deleted". The message passed to the sentinel when the
4590connection is closed by the remote peer has been changed to
4591"connection broken by remote peer".
4592
4593** Using window objects:
4594
4595*** You can now make a window as short as one line.
4596
4597A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode
4598line or a header line, even if the variables `mode-line-format' and
4599`header-line-format' call for them. A window that is two lines tall
4600cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the
4601variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears.
4602
4603*** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
4604actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
4605divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
4606the mode line.
4607
4608*** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges'
4609return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines.
4610
4611*** New function `window-body-height'.
4612
4613This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the
4614header line.
4615
4616*** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right
4617or bottom edge of a window. It does not move other window edges.
4618
4619*** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the
4620selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'.
4621It saves and restores the current buffer, too.
4622
4623*** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD.
4624
4625This is like `switch-to-buffer'.
4626
4627*** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
4628of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed
4629by calling `select-window'. It also saves and restores the current
4630buffer.
4631
4632*** `set-window-buffer' has an optional argument KEEP-MARGINS.
4633
4634If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
4635and scroll-bar settings.
4636
4637*** The new function `window-tree' returns a frame's window tree.
4638
4639*** The functions `get-lru-window' and `get-largest-window' take an optional
4640argument `dedicated'. If non-nil, those functions do not ignore
4641dedicated windows.
4642
4643** Customizable fringe bitmaps
4644
4645*** There are new display properties, `left-fringe' and `right-fringe',
4646that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe
4647bitmap of the display line.
4648
4649Format is `display (left-fringe BITMAP [FACE])', where BITMAP is a
4650symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with
4651`define-fringe-bitmap', and FACE is an optional face name to be used
4652for displaying the bitmap instead of the default `fringe' face.
4653When specified, FACE is automatically merged with the `fringe' face.
4654
4655*** New buffer-local variables `fringe-indicator-alist' and
4656`fringe-cursor-alist' maps between logical (internal) fringe indicator
4657and cursor symbols and the actual fringe bitmaps to be displayed.
4658This decouples the logical meaning of the fringe indicators from the
4659physical appearance, as well as allowing different fringe bitmaps to
4660be used in different windows showing different buffers.
4661
4662*** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new
4663fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps.
4664
4665*** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
4666or restores a built-in one to its default value.
4667
4668*** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be
4669used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is automatically merged
4670with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face should only specify the
4671foreground color of the bitmap.
4672
4673*** New function `fringe-bitmaps-at-pos' returns the current fringe
4674bitmaps in the display line at a given buffer position.
4675
4676** Other window fringe features:
4677
4678*** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths.
4679
4680The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame
4681can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe'
4682frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels.
4683Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe.
4684
4685The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the
4686specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an
4687integral number of columns. The extra width is distributed evenly
4688between the left and right fringe. To force a specific fringe width,
4689specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative,
4690only the left fringe gets the specified width).
4691
4692Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe
4693width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any
4694of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in
4695fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels.
4696
4697*** Per-window fringe and scrollbar settings
4698
4699**** Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and
4700position settings.
4701
4702To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local
4703variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call
4704`set-window-fringes'.
4705
4706To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes
4707are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area,
4708or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable
4709`fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'.
4710
4711The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current
4712settings. To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
4713`fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
4714displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
4715an update of the display margins.
4716
4717**** Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
4718controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.
4719
4720To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local
4721variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call
4722`set-window-scroll-bars'. The function `window-scroll-bars' can be
4723used to obtain the current settings. To make `scroll-bar-mode' and
4724`scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
4725the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
4726of the display margins.
4727
4728** Redisplay features:
4729
4730*** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP).
4731
4732*** Iconifying or deiconifying a frame no longer makes sit-for return.
4733
4734*** New function `redisplay' causes an immediate redisplay if no input is
4735available, equivalent to (sit-for 0). The call (redisplay t) forces
4736an immediate redisplay even if input is pending.
4737
4738*** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of
4739one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window
4740contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit
4741changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
4742forcing an explicit window update.
4743
4744*** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able
4745to display CHAR. More precisely, if the selected frame's fontset has
4746a font to display the character set that CHAR belongs to.
4747
4748Fontsets can specify a font on a per-character basis; when the fontset
4749does that, this value cannot be accurate.
4750
4751*** You can define multiple overlay arrows via the new
4752variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'.
4753
4754It contains a list of variables which contain overlay arrow position
4755markers, including the original `overlay-arrow-position' variable.
4756
4757Each variable on this list can have individual `overlay-arrow-string'
4758and `overlay-arrow-bitmap' properties that specify an overlay arrow
4759string (for non-window terminals) or fringe bitmap (for window
4760systems) to display at the corresponding overlay arrow position.
4761If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or
4762'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used.
4763
4764*** New `line-height' and `line-spacing' properties for newline characters
4765
4766A newline can now have `line-height' and `line-spacing' text or overlay
4767properties that control the height of the corresponding display row.
4768
4769If the `line-height' property value is t, the newline does not
4770contribute to the height of the display row; instead the height of the
4771newline glyph is reduced. Also, a `line-spacing' property on this
4772newline is ignored. This can be used to tile small images or image
4773slices without adding blank areas between the images.
4774
4775If the `line-height' property value is a positive integer, the value
4776specifies the minimum line height in pixels. If necessary, the line
4777height it increased by increasing the line's ascent.
4778
4779If the `line-height' property value is a float, the minimum line
4780height is calculated by multiplying the default frame line height by
4781the given value.
4782
4783If the `line-height' property value is a cons (FACE . RATIO), the
4784minimum line height is calculated as RATIO * height of named FACE.
4785RATIO is int or float. If FACE is t, it specifies the current face.
4786
4787If the `line-height' property value is a cons (nil . RATIO), the line
4788height is calculated as RATIO * actual height of the line's contents.
4789
4790If the `line-height' value is a cons (HEIGHT . TOTAL), HEIGHT specifies
4791the line height as described above, while TOTAL is any of the forms
4792described above and specifies the total height of the line, causing a
4793varying number of pixels to be inserted after the line to make it line
4794exactly that many pixels high.
4795
4796If the `line-spacing' property value is an positive integer, the value
4797is used as additional pixels to insert after the display line; this
4798overrides the default frame `line-spacing' and any buffer local value of
4799the `line-spacing' variable.
4800
4801If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing
4802is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property.
4803
4804*** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value,
4805which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.
4806
4807*** Enhancements to stretch display properties
4808
4809The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where
4810PROPS is a property list, now allows pixel based width and height
4811specifications, as well as enhanced horizontal text alignment.
4812
4813The value of these properties can now be a (primitive) expression
4814which is evaluated during redisplay. The following expressions
4815are supported:
4816
4817EXPR ::= NUM | (NUM) | UNIT | ELEM | POS | IMAGE | FORM
4818NUM ::= INTEGER | FLOAT | SYMBOL
4819UNIT ::= in | mm | cm | width | height
4820ELEM ::= left-fringe | right-fringe | left-margin | right-margin
4821 | scroll-bar | text
4822POS ::= left | center | right
4823FORM ::= (NUM . EXPR) | (OP EXPR ...)
4824OP ::= + | -
4825
4826The form `NUM' specifies a fractional width or height of the default
4827frame font size. The form `(NUM)' specifies an absolute number of
4828pixels. If a symbol is specified, its buffer-local variable binding
4829is used. The `in', `mm', and `cm' units specifies the number of
4830pixels per inch, milli-meter, and centi-meter, resp. The `width' and
4831`height' units correspond to the width and height of the current face
4832font. An image specification corresponds to the width or height of
4833the image.
4834
4835The `left-fringe', `right-fringe', `left-margin', `right-margin',
4836`scroll-bar', and `text' elements specify to the width of the
4837corresponding area of the window.
4838
4839The `left', `center', and `right' positions can be used with :align-to
4840to specify a position relative to the left edge, center, or right edge
4841of the text area. One of the above window elements (except `text')
4842can also be used with :align-to to specify that the position is
4843relative to the left edge of the given area. Once the base offset for
4844a relative position has been set (by the first occurrence of one of
4845these symbols), further occurrences of these symbols are interpreted as
4846the width of the area.
4847
4848For example, to align to the center of the left-margin, use
4849 :align-to (+ left-margin (0.5 . left-margin))
4850
4851If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative
4852to the left edge of the text area. For example, :align-to 0 in a
4853header line aligns with the first text column in the text area.
4854
4855The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by
4856the value of the expression EXPR. For example, (2 . in) specifies a
4857width of 2 inches, while (0.5 . IMAGE) specifies half the width (or
4858height) of the specified image.
4859
4860The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions.
4861The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions.
4862
4863*** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and
4864text property string that may be present at the current window
4865position. The cursor can now be placed on any character of such
4866strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property.
4867
4868*** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now
4869supported on text terminals.
4870
4871*** Support for displaying image slices
4872
4873**** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with
4874an image property to display only a specific slice of the image.
4875
4876**** Function `insert-image' has new optional fourth arg to
4877specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT).
4878
4879**** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a
4880specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns).
4881
4882*** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property.
4883
4884An image map is an alist where each element has the format (AREA ID PLIST).
4885An AREA is specified as either a rectangle, a circle, or a polygon:
4886A rectangle is a cons (rect . ((X0 . Y0) . (X1 . Y1))) specifying the
4887pixel coordinates of the upper left and bottom right corners.
4888A circle is a cons (circle . ((X0 . Y0) . R)) specifying the center
4889and the radius of the circle; R can be a float or integer.
4890A polygon is a cons (poly . [X0 Y0 X1 Y1 ...]) where each pair in the
4891vector describes one corner in the polygon.
4892
4893When the mouse pointer is above a hot-spot area of an image, the
4894PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo'
4895property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains
4896a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when
4897it is over the hot-spot. See the variable `void-area-text-pointer'
4898for possible pointer shapes.
4899
4900When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
4901an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
4902mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.
4903
4904*** The function `find-image' now searches in etc/images/ and etc/.
4905The new variable `image-load-path' is a list of locations in which to
4906search for image files. The default is to search in etc/images, then
4907in etc/, and finally in the directories specified by `load-path'.
4908Subdirectories of etc/ and etc/images are not recursively searched; if
4909you put an image file in a subdirectory, you have to specify it
4910explicitly; for example, if an image is put in etc/images/foo/bar.xpm:
4911
4912 (defimage foo-image '((:type xpm :file "foo/bar.xpm")))
4913
4914Note that all images formerly located in the lisp directory have been
4915moved to etc/images.
4916
4917*** New function `image-load-path-for-library' returns a suitable
4918search path for images relative to library. This function is useful in
4919external packages to save users from having to update
4920`image-load-path'.
4921
4922*** The new variable `max-image-size' defines the maximum size of
4923images that Emacs will load and display.
4924
4925*** The new variable `display-mm-dimensions-alist' can be used to
4926override incorrect graphical display dimensions returned by functions
4927`display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'.
4928
4929** Mouse pointer features:
4930
4931*** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a
4932line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now
4933controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default
4934is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text'
4935(or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'.
4936
4937*** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the
4938:pointer image property.
4939
4940*** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images can now be
4941controlled/overridden via the `pointer' text property.
4942
4943** Mouse event enhancements:
4944
4945*** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where
4946you clicked. For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is
4947a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text.
4948
4949*** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe'
4950or `right-fringe' as the area.
4951
4952*** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types
4953and all areas.
4954
4955*** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on.
4956
4957*** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to
4958the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on.
4959
4960*** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object
4961(image or character) clicked on.
4962
4963*** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area.
4964
4965*** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events.
4966
4967*** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means
4968text area).
4969
4970*** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates
4971of the mouse event position.
4972
4973*** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'.
4974
4975These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y
4976pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of that object, and
4977the total width and height of that object.
4978
4979** Text property and overlay changes:
4980
4981*** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can
4982remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays).
4983
4984*** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
4985
4986This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
4987properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
4988although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced
4989to implement the `font-lock-face' property.
4990
4991*** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
4992arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
4993return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
4994whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
4995it was found as a text property or not found at all.
4996
4997*** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'.
4998
4999It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of
5000property names as argument rather than a property list.
5001
5002** Face changes
5003
5004*** The variable `facemenu-unlisted-faces' has been removed.
5005Emacs has a lot more faces than in the past, and nearly all of them
5006needed to be excluded. The new variable `facemenu-listed-faces' lists
5007the faces to include in the face menu.
5008
5009*** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor
5010the face color to the number of colors supported by a display, and
5011define the foreground and background colors accordingly so that they
5012look best on a terminal that supports at least this many colors. This
5013is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that
5014makes a good use of the capabilities of the display.
5015
5016*** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test
5017whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.
5018
5019A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
5020specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
5021defined with `defface'.
5022
5023*** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR'
5024or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the
5025`defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use
5026the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background
5027directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face.
5028
5029*** The first face specification element in a defface can specify
5030`default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as
5031defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and can be overridden
5032by them).
5033
5034*** The function `face-differs-from-default-p' now truly checks
5035whether the given face displays differently from the default face or
5036not (previously it did only a very cursory check).
5037
5038*** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'.
5039
5040These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how
5041face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face
5042attribute.
5043
5044*** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute'
5045help with handling relative face attributes.
5046
5047*** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face list is reversed.
5048
5049If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
5050faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous
5051releases of Emacs, the order was the opposite. This change was made
5052so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text
5053`face' properties.
5054
5055*** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger
5056(or smaller) font we should use. For instance, if the value is
5057'((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10
5058point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches
5059SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN.
5060
5061*** On terminals, faces with the :inverse-video attribute are displayed
5062with swapped foreground and background colors even when one of them is
5063not specified. In previous releases of Emacs, if either foreground
5064or background color was unspecified, colors were not swapped. This
5065was inconsistent with the face behavior under X.
5066
5067*** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
5068the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..
5069
5070** Font-Lock changes:
5071
5072*** New special text property `font-lock-face'.
5073
5074This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by
5075M-x font-lock-mode. It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text
5076property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the
5077new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
5078
5079*** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.
5080
5081**** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the
5082form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other
5083properties than `face'.
5084
5085**** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those
5086extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.
5087
5088*** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'.
5089
5090If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified
5091(see `jit-lock-defer-contextually'), then all of that text will
5092be refontified. This is useful when the syntax of a textual element
5093depends on text several lines further down (and when `font-lock-multiline'
5094is not appropriate to solve that problem). For example in Perl:
5095
5096 s{
5097 foo
5098 }{
5099 bar
5100 }e
5101
5102Adding/removing the last `e' changes the `bar' from being a piece of
5103text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a `jit-lock-defer-multiline'
5104property over the second half of the command to force (deferred)
5105refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed.
5106
5107*** `font-lock-extend-region-functions' makes it possible to alter the way
5108the fontification region is chosen. This can be used to prevent rounding
5109up to whole lines, or to extend the region to include all related lines
5110of multiline constructs so that such constructs get properly recognized.
5111
5112** Major mode mechanism changes:
5113
5114*** New variable `magic-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5115looking at the file contents. It takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist'.
5116
5117*** New variable `magic-fallback-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5118looking at the file contents. It is handled after `auto-mode-alist',
5119only if `auto-mode-alist' (and `magic-mode-alist') says nothing about the file.
5120
5121*** XML or SGML major mode is selected when file starts with an `<?xml'
5122or `<!DOCTYPE' declaration.
5123
5124*** An interpreter magic line (if present) takes precedence over the
5125file name when setting the major mode.
5126
5127*** If new variable `auto-mode-case-fold' is set to a non-nil value,
5128Emacs will perform a second case-insensitive search through
5129`auto-mode-alist' if the first case-sensitive search fails. This
5130means that a file FILE.TXT is opened in text-mode, and a file
5131PROG.HTML is opened in html-mode. Note however, that independent of
5132this setting, *.C files are usually recognized as C++ files. It also
5133has no effect on systems with case-insensitive file names.
5134
5135*** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook
5136`after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode
5137hooks. `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically.
5138
5139*** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function'
5140locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to
5141the language.
5142
5143*** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.
5144
5145*** The new function `run-mode-hooks' and the new macro `delay-mode-hooks'
5146are used by `define-derived-mode' to make sure the mode hook for the
5147parent mode is run at the end of the child mode.
5148
5149*** `define-derived-mode' by default creates a new empty abbrev table.
5150It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table.
5151
5152*** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect'
5153property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use
5154it in that buffer.
5155
5156** Minor mode changes:
5157
5158*** `define-minor-mode' now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments
5159and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable.
5160
5161*** `define-globalized-minor-mode'.
5162
5163This is a new name for what was formerly called
5164`easy-mmode-define-global-mode'. The old name remains as an alias.
5165
5166*** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.
5167
5168** Command loop changes:
5169
5170*** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people
5171have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the
5172calling function was called through `call-interactively'.
5173
5174Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new
5175INTERACTIVE argument to the command.
5176
5177*** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument.
5178
5179If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks for a function that could be
5180called with `call-interactively', and does not return t for keyboard
5181macros.
5182
5183*** When a command returns, the command loop moves point out from
5184within invisible text, in the same way it moves out from within text
5185covered by an image or composition property.
5186
5187This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible.
5188This is particularly good because the intangible property often has
5189unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything
5190(including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after
5191`post-command-hook' and thus does not care about intermediate states.
5192
5193*** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to `only', that
5194enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
5195During that following command, the value of `transient-mark-mode'
5196is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command,
5197the next return to the command loop changes to nil.
5198
5199*** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
5200been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable
5201`disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.
5202
5203*** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook'
5204when it receives a request from emacsclient.
5205
5206*** `current-idle-time' reports how long Emacs has been idle.
5207
5208** Lisp file loading changes:
5209
5210*** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
5211which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the
5212current file redefined it).
5213
5214*** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is
5215defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name.
5216
5217*** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function,
5218variable or face definitions.
5219
5220*** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
5221to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
5222and runs any code associated with the provided feature.
5223
5224*** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted.
5225Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more
5226than 3 levels of nesting.
5227
5228** Byte compiler changes:
5229
5230*** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character
5231position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form of its
5232warning and error messages have been brought into line with GNU standards
5233for these. As a result, you can use next-error and friends on the
5234compilation output buffer.
5235
5236*** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
5237inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.
5238
5239*** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a
5240simple convention that the compiler understands. (This is mostly
5241useful in code meant to be portable to different Emacs versions.)
5242Write forms like the following, or code that macroexpands into such
5243forms:
5244
5245 (if (fboundp 'foo) <then> <else>)
5246 (if (boundp 'foo) <then> <else)
5247
5248In the first case, using `foo' as a function inside the <then> form
5249won't produce a warning if it's not defined as a function, and in the
5250second case, using `foo' as a variable won't produce a warning if it's
5251unbound. The test must be in exactly one of the above forms (after
5252macro expansion), but such tests can be nested. Note that `when' and
5253`unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't.
5254
5255*** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil. This
5256helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both
5257Emacs and XEmacs and can sometimes make the result significantly more
5258efficient. Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't
5259generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
5260you anything.
5261
5262*** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in Lisp files is now obeyed.
5263
5264*** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file
5265now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs
5266(require 'cl) when loaded.
5267
5268** Frame operations:
5269
5270*** New functions `frame-current-scroll-bars' and `window-current-scroll-bars'.
5271
5272These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
5273horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window.
5274
5275*** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
5276for all (existing and future) frames.
5277
5278*** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use
5279for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a
5280number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp
5281Reference manual for more detailed documentation.
5282
5283*** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width,
5284the `scroll-bar-width' frame parameter value is nil.
5285
5286** Mode line changes:
5287
5288*** New function `format-mode-line'.
5289
5290This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a
5291specified) window as a string with or without text properties.
5292
5293*** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
5294used to add text properties to mode-line elements.
5295
5296*** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used
5297to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode
5298line.
5299
5300*** Mouse-face on mode-line (and header-line) is now supported.
5301
5302** Menu manipulation changes:
5303
5304*** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the
5305proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify
5306"files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File"
5307several versions ago.
5308
5309*** The dummy function keys made by easy-menu are now always lower case.
5310If you specify the menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'
5311as the "key" bound by that key binding.
5312
5313This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for the bindings that were
5314made with easy-menu.
5315
5316*** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name
5317if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu
5318into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't
5319need to have a name.
5320
5321** Mule changes:
5322
5323*** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
5324
5325Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
5326from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte
5327buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them
5328now:
5329
53301. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time.
5331
53322. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid
5333the time it takes to convert the format.
5334
53353. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
5336wasteful.
5337
5338*** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
5339to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
5340for it. (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
5341file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)
5342
5343*** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the
5344ascii character set. Language environments (such as Turkish) may
5345alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters. This variable
5346saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes.
5347
5348*** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
5349of one coding system from another coding system.
5350
5351*** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that
5352the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text
5353parts, e.g. utf-16.
5354
5355*** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if
5356it is read from a file without decoding.
5357
5358*** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
5359hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.
5360
5361*** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the
5362current input method to input a character.
5363
5364*** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument,
5365NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified.
5366
5367** Operating system access:
5368
5369*** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor
5370run time used by Emacs since start-up.
5371
5372*** Functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid' now return floats if the
5373user UID doesn't fit in a Lisp integer. Function `user-full-name'
5374accepts a float as UID parameter.
5375
5376*** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information.
5377
5378*** On MS Windows, locale-coding-system is used to interact with the OS.
5379The Windows specific variable w32-system-coding-system, which was
5380formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system.
5381
5382*** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
5383debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.
5384
5385** GC changes:
5386
5387*** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold
5388as the heap size increases.
5389
5390*** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
5391on garbage collection.
5392
5393*** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection.
5394
5395The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care.
5396
5397** Miscellaneous:
5398
5399*** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions:
5400
5401`find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook',
5402`find-file-not-found-hooks' to `find-file-not-found-functions',
5403`write-file-hooks' to `write-file-functions',
5404`write-contents-hooks' to `write-contents-functions',
5405`x-lost-selection-hooks' to `x-lost-selection-functions',
5406`x-sent-selection-hooks' to `x-sent-selection-functions',
5407`delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.
5408
5409In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.
5410
5411*** Variable `local-write-file-hooks' is marked obsolete.
5412
5413Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.
5414
5415*** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
5416running under X.
5417\f
5418* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1
5419
5420** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
5421buttons' in Emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
5422`widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
5423doesn't require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for
5424such things as help and apropos buffers.
5425
5426** The new library tree-widget.el provides a widget to display a set
5427of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is
5428well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.
5429
5430** The new library bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
5431binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
5432data structures.
5433
5434** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
5435buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.
5436
5437It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
5438and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi
5439buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the
5440commands.
5441
5442This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable
5443sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the
5444SQL buffer.
5445
5446(add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
5447 (function (lambda ()
5448 (master-mode t)
5449 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5450(add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
5451 (function (lambda ()
5452 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5453
5454** The new library benchmark.el does timing measurements on Lisp code.
5455
5456This includes measuring garbage collection time.
5457
5458** The new library testcover.el does test coverage checking.
5459
5460This is so you can tell whether you've tested all paths in your Lisp
5461code. It works with edebug.
5462
5463The function `testcover-start' instruments all functions in a given
5464file. Then test your code. The function `testcover-mark-all' adds
5465overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to show where coverage
5466is lacking. The command `testcover-next-mark' (bind it to a key!)
5467will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch.
5468
5469Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely
5470evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same
5471value. The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly
5472complete their evaluation, such as `error'. The brown splotches are
5473skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same
5474value, such as (setq x 14).
5475
5476For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to
5477help out the test coverage tool. The macro `noreturn' suppresses a
5478red splotch. It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does
5479return. The macro `1value' suppresses a brown splotch for its argument.
5480This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals
5481an error if the argument actually returns differing values.
5482
5483
5484\f
5485----------------------------------------------------------------------
5486This file is part of GNU Emacs.
5487
5488GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5489it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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5491any later version.
5492
5493GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
5494but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
5495MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
5496GNU General Public License for more details.
5497
5498You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
5499along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
5500Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
5501Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
5502
5503\f
5504Local variables:
5505mode: outline
5506paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
5507end:
5508
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