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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. |
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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. | |
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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 |
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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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eb199145 | 37 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
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303500aa | 39 | ** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default. |
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40 | Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this. |
41 | ||
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eb199145 | 43 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
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eb199145 | 46 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 |
efeb796b | 47 | |
18c812bd | 48 | ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags. |
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49 | ** Customize |
50 | ||
51 | *** Customize buffers now contain a search field. | |
52 | The search is performed using `customize-apropos'. | |
53 | To turn off the search field, set custom-search-field to nil . | |
54 | ||
55 | *** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values. | |
56 | Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility. | |
57 | ||
58 | *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t. | |
59 | ||
60 | *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to | |
61 | choose a color via list-colors-display. | |
62 | ||
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63 | ** VC and related modes |
64 | ||
65 | *** vc-dir for Bzr supports viewing shelve contents and shelving snapshots. | |
66 | ||
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67 | *** Special markup can be added to log-edit buffers. |
68 | ||
69 | **** For Bzr, adding an | |
70 | Author: NAME | |
71 | line will add "--author NAME" to the "bzr commit" command. | |
72 | ||
73 | **** For Hg, adding an | |
74 | Author: NAME | |
75 | line will add "--user NAME" to the "hg commit" command. | |
76 | ||
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77 | ** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers. |
78 | For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your | |
79 | .dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* | |
80 | buffers. | |
81 | ||
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82 | ** s-region.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by shift-select-mode |
83 | enabled by default in 23.1. | |
84 | ||
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85 | ** gdb-mi |
86 | ||
87 | *** GDB User Interface migrated to GDB Machine Interface and now | |
88 | supports multithread non-stop debugging and debugging of several | |
89 | threads simultaneously. | |
90 | ||
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91 | \f |
92 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 | |
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94 | ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an |
95 | interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The | |
96 | Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. | |
97 | ||
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98 | \f |
99 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
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101 | \f |
102 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
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104 | ** New completion style `substring'. |
105 | ||
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106 | ** Image API |
107 | ||
108 | *** When the image type is one of listed in `image-animated-types' | |
109 | and the number of sub-images in the image is more then one, then the | |
110 | new function `create-animated-image' creates an animated image where | |
111 | sub-images are displayed successively with the duration defined by | |
112 | `image-animate-max-time' and the delay between sub-images defined | |
113 | by the Graphic Control Extension of the image. | |
114 | ||
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115 | \f |
116 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems | |
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a933dad1 | 119 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
5b87ad55 | 120 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
a933dad1 | 121 | |
ab73e885 | 122 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
5b87ad55 | 123 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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124 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
125 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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126 | |
127 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
128 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
129 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
130 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
a933dad1 | 131 | |
5b87ad55 | 132 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
ab73e885 | 133 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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136 | Local variables: |
137 | mode: outline | |
138 | paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$" | |
139 | end: |