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29b7722a | 1 | GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
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eb199145 | 3 | Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
5b87ad55 | 4 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
a933dad1 | 5 | |
893db5bc | 6 | Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
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7 | If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. |
8 | ||
eb199145 | 9 | This file is about changes in Emacs version 24. |
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11 | See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, |
12 | and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions. | |
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13 | |
14 | You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' | |
15 | with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. | |
3f7194ed | 16 | |
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17 | |
18 | Temporary note: | |
19 | +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. | |
20 | --- means no change in the manuals is called for. | |
21 | When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- | |
22 | so we will look at it and add it to the manual. | |
23 | ||
24 | \f | |
eb199145 | 25 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
09e18d03 | 26 | |
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27 | --- |
28 | ** There are new configure options: | |
29 | --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost. | |
30 | These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit | |
31 | lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features. | |
32 | ||
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eb199145 | 34 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
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0bfd685e | 36 | \f |
eb199145 | 37 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
7841339b | 38 | |
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39 | ** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default. |
40 | ||
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41 | +++ |
42 | ** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text. | |
43 | Warning: This is still very much experimental! The existing support | |
44 | is minimal, and when it's turned on (see below), many features are | |
45 | likely to give unexpected results, or break, or even crash! Use at | |
46 | your own risk! | |
47 | ||
48 | See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some | |
49 | initial documentation. | |
50 | ||
51 | To turn this on in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable | |
52 | `bidi-display-reordering' to a non-nil value. The default is nil. | |
53 | ||
54 | The buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction', if non-nil, | |
55 | forces each paragraph in the buffer to have its base direction | |
56 | according to the value of this variable. Possible values are | |
57 | `right-to-left' and `left-to-right'. If the value is nil (the | |
58 | default), Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph from | |
59 | its text, as specified by the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. | |
60 | ||
61 | Reordering of bidirectional text for display in Emacs is a "Full | |
62 | bidirectionality" class implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional | |
63 | Algorithm. | |
64 | ||
303500aa | 65 | ** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default. |
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66 | Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this. |
67 | ||
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68 | ** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is built |
69 | with Xft. | |
99852628 | 70 | |
79ce172a | 71 | ** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command' |
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72 | (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) does not signal errors at top/bottom |
73 | of buffer at first key-press (instead moves to top/bottom of buffer) | |
74 | when a new variable `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil. | |
79ce172a | 75 | |
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76 | ** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line' |
77 | scroll a line instead of full screen. | |
78 | ||
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79 | ** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to |
80 | define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position. | |
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eb199145 | 83 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
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9bae34bf | 85 | \f |
eb199145 | 86 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 |
efeb796b | 87 | |
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88 | ** Archive Mode has basic support to browse 7z archives. |
89 | ||
c1e25821 | 90 | ** partial-completion-mode is now obsolete. |
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91 | You can get the same behavior with |
92 | (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials)). | |
c1e25821 | 93 | |
18c812bd | 94 | ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags. |
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95 | ** Customize |
96 | ||
97 | *** Customize buffers now contain a search field. | |
98 | The search is performed using `customize-apropos'. | |
99 | To turn off the search field, set custom-search-field to nil . | |
100 | ||
101 | *** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values. | |
102 | Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility. | |
103 | ||
104 | *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t. | |
105 | ||
106 | *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to | |
107 | choose a color via list-colors-display. | |
108 | ||
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109 | ** VC and related modes |
110 | ||
e97a42c1 | 111 | *** New VC commands: vc-log-incoming, vc-log-outgoing, vc-find-conflicted-file. |
31527c56 | 112 | |
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113 | *** vc-dir for Bzr supports viewing shelve contents and shelving snapshots. |
114 | ||
09158997 | 115 | *** Special markup can be added to log-edit buffers. |
e97a42c1 SM |
116 | The log-edit buffers are expected to have a format similar to email messages |
117 | with headers of the form: | |
118 | Author: <author of this change> | |
119 | Summary: <one line summary of this change> | |
120 | Fixes: <reference to the bug fixed by this change> | |
121 | Some backends handle some of those headers specially, but any unknown header | |
122 | is just left as is in the message, so it is not lost. | |
09158997 | 123 | |
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124 | ** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers. |
125 | For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your | |
126 | .dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* | |
127 | buffers. | |
128 | ||
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129 | ** s-region.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by shift-select-mode |
130 | enabled by default in 23.1. | |
131 | ||
691cf4a0 NR |
132 | ** gdb-mi |
133 | ||
134 | *** GDB User Interface migrated to GDB Machine Interface and now | |
135 | supports multithread non-stop debugging and debugging of several | |
136 | threads simultaneously. | |
137 | ||
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138 | \f |
139 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 | |
d445b3f8 | 140 | |
7725ebb7 MA |
141 | ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an |
142 | interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The | |
143 | Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. | |
144 | ||
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145 | \f |
146 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
6dfcbe31 | 147 | |
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148 | ** Test for special mode-class was moved from view-file to view-buffer. |
149 | ||
3b7e1d5f SM |
150 | ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function now turns the mode |
151 | ON unconditionally. | |
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152 | \f |
153 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
9097e8af | 154 | |
00278747 SM |
155 | ** New completion style `substring'. |
156 | ||
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157 | ** Image API |
158 | ||
159 | *** When the image type is one of listed in `image-animated-types' | |
1546c559 | 160 | and the number of sub-images in the image is more than one, then the |
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161 | new function `create-animated-image' creates an animated image where |
162 | sub-images are displayed successively with the duration defined by | |
163 | `image-animate-max-time' and the delay between sub-images defined | |
164 | by the Graphic Control Extension of the image. | |
165 | ||
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166 | *** `image-extension-data' is renamed to `image-metadata'. |
167 | ||
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168 | ** Progress reporters can now "spin". |
169 | The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can | |
170 | now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each | |
171 | time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter, | |
172 | with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is | |
173 | displayed with a "spinning bar". | |
174 | ||
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175 | \f |
176 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems | |
d53a60a6 | 177 | |
05197f40 | 178 | \f |
a933dad1 | 179 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
5b87ad55 | 180 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
a933dad1 | 181 | |
ab73e885 | 182 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
5b87ad55 | 183 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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184 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
185 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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186 | |
187 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
188 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
189 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
190 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
a933dad1 | 191 | |
5b87ad55 | 192 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
ab73e885 | 193 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
a933dad1 | 194 | |
05197f40 | 195 | \f |
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196 | Local variables: |
197 | mode: outline | |
198 | paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$" | |
199 | end: |