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29b7722a 1GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
5b87ad55 2
eb199145 3Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5b87ad55 4See the end of the file for license conditions.
a933dad1 5
893db5bc 6Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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7If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
eb199145 9This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
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11See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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14You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
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18Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
20 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
21When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
22so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
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eb199145 25* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
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27** Configure links against libselinux if it is found.
28You can disable this by using --without-selinux.
29
30---
31** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
32You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
33
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35** There are new configure options:
36--with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
37These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
38lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
39
e547b051 40---
30c4d8dc 41** Emacs can be compiled against Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
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42to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
43also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
44--without-gconf.
45
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46** There is a new configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
47This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
b2957ea8 48This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
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51** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available
52Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
53automatically select it.
54
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eb199145 56* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
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198a7a97 58** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
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59command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
60longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
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eb199145 63* Changes in Emacs 24.1
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65** emacsclient changes
66
67*** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID can be used to open a
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68client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed. This works like the
69--parent-id argument to Emacs.
70
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71*** If emacsclient shuts down as a result of Emacs signalling an
72error, its exit status is 1.
73
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74** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold.
75
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76** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default.
77
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78+++
79** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
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80
81See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some
82initial documentation.
83
84To turn this on in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable
85`bidi-display-reordering' to a non-nil value. The default is nil.
86
87The buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction', if non-nil,
88forces each paragraph in the buffer to have its base direction
89according to the value of this variable. Possible values are
90`right-to-left' and `left-to-right'. If the value is nil (the
91default), Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph from
92its text, as specified by the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
93
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94The function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction' returns the actual
95value of paragraph base direction at point.
96
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97Reordering of bidirectional text for display in Emacs is a "Full
98bidirectionality" class implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional
99Algorithm.
100
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101Note that some advanced display features, such as overlay strings and
102`display' text properties, do not yet work correctly when
103bidirectional text is reordered for display.
104
303500aa 105** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
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106Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.
107
20fe03ad 108** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
d8004abe 109Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose style. On a Gnome desktop, the default
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110is taken from the desktop settings.
111
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112** GTK tool bars can be placed on the left/right or top/bottom of the frame.
113The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the values
1c0d77cc 114top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has entries
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115for this.
116
8740c12d 117** ImageMagick support.
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118It is now possible to use the ImageMagick library to load many new
119image formats in Emacs. By default, Emacs links with the ImageMagick
120libraries if they are present at build time. To disable this, use
8ea189f7 121the configure option `--without-imagemagick'.
16a91140 122
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123The new function `imagemagick-types' returns a list of image file
124extensions that your installation of ImageMagick supports. The
125function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick support for
b2957ea8 126these image types, minus those listed in `imagemagick-types-inhibit'.
16a91140 127
8740c12d 128See the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual for more information.
16a91140 129
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130** The colors for selected text (the region face) are taken from the GTK
131theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
132
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133** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK. You can turn that
134off by customizing x-gtk-use-system-tooltips.
135
1ecb2d3f 136** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is built
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137with Xft. To change font, use X resource faceName, for example:
138Emacs.pane.menubar.faceName: Courier-12
139Set faceName to none and use font to use the old X fonts.
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142** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts
143If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs by
144default will display it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a
145thin 1-pixel space. In addition to these two methods, Emacs can
146display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display
147them at all. To change how these characters are displayed, customize
148the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'.
149
150On character terminals these methods are used for characters that
151cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'.
152
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153** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
154
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155** Basic SELinux support has been added.
156This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
157
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158*** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up, and
159optionally when copying files. To this end, copy-file has an extra
160optional argument, and backup-buffer and friends include the SELinux
161context in their return values.
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162
163*** The new functions file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
164get and set the SELinux context of a file.
165
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166*** Tramp offers handlers for file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
167for remote machines which support SELinux.
168
9c524fcb 169** The function kill-emacs is now run upon receipt of the signals SIGTERM
383ebd15 170and SIGHUP, and upon SIGINT in batch mode.
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171
172** kill-emacs-hook is now also run in batch mode.
173
79ce172a 174** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
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175(bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) does not signal errors at top/bottom
176of buffer at first key-press (instead moves to top/bottom of buffer)
177when a new variable `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
79ce172a 178
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179** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
180scroll a line instead of full screen.
181
a4b000fb 182** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
b2957ea8 183define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
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185** Trash changes
186
187*** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
188trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
189
190*** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
191now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
192
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193** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
194for `list-colors-display'.
195
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196** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
197This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
42d9cffa 198from a package repository at elpa.gnu.org.
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199
200*** `M-x list-packages' shows a list of packages, which can be
201selected for installation.
202
203*** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
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205*** By default, all installed packages are loaded and activated
206automatically when Emacs starts up. To disable this, set
207`package-enable-at-startup' to nil. To change which packages are
208loaded, customize `package-load-list'.
209
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210** Custom Themes
211
212*** `M-x customize-themes' lists Custom themes which can be enabled.
213
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214*** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
215Emacs no longer looks for custom themes in `load-path'. The default
216is to search in `custom-theme-directory', followed by a built-in theme
217directory named "themes/" in `data-directory'.
218
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219** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
220the remote file-name cache is used for read access.
221
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222** The standalone programs lib-src/digest-doc and sorted-doc have been
223replaced with Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
224
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eb199145 226* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
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229** There is a new command `count-words-region', which does what you expect.
230
67027b49 231** completion-at-point now handles tags and semantic completion.
a982c7ec 232
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233** The default value of `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' is now t.
234
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235** The command `just-one-space' (C-SPC), if given a negative argument,
236also deletes newlines around point.
237
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238** Deletion changes
239
240*** New option `delete-active-region'.
241If non-nil, C-d, [delete], and DEL delete the region if it is active
242and no prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', these commands
243kill instead.
244
245*** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to C-d and [delete].
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246This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
247The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
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248
249*** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
250Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
251However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; you
252should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
253
254*** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
255
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256** Selection changes.
257
7c23dd44 258The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
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259changed to conform with other X applications. The exact changes are
260described below; in short, mouse commands to select and paste text now
261use the primary selection, while all other commands for killing and
262yanking text now use the clipboard.
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264*** Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) does not add it to
265the kill-ring. On systems with a primary selection separate from the
266clipboard (such as X), the selected text is put in the primary
267selection.
268
269*** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary', which pastes from
270the primary selection regardless of the contents of the kill-ring.
271
272*** Commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (M-w, C-w,
273C-k, etc.) also put the killed text into the clipboard. This change
274also means that the "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit"
275menu are now exactly equivalent to, respectively M-w, C-w, and C-y.
276
277*** Yank commands, such as C-y and M-y, retrieve text from the
278clipboard if it is available.
279
280*** The above changes are reflected in the following new defaults:
281
282**** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
d1b08c88 283It also accepts a new value, `only', which means to only set the
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284primary selection for temporarily active regions (usually made by
285mouse-dragging or shift-selection).
286
42d9cffa 287**** `mouse-2' is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
7c9b11be 288Previously, it was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click' (which is now
4c0f50c9 289unbound by default).
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291**** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
292Note that this variable was already non-nil by default on MS-Windows,
293which does not support the primary selection between applications.
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42d9cffa 295**** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
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296This variable exists only on X; its default value was t in previous
297versions.
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299**** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
300
301*** To return to the previous behavior, where mouse commands use the
302clipboard, change `mouse-drag-copy-region' and (on X only)
303`x-select-enable-primary' to t. If you don't want Emacs to put the
304text into the clipboard, only to the primary selection, additionally
305set `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
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307*** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
308
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309** New command `rectangle-number-lines', bound to `C-x r N', numbers
310the lines in the current rectangle. With an prefix argument, this
311prompts for a number to count from and for a format string.
312
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eb199145 314* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
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316** shell-mode can track your cwd by reading it from your prompt.
317Just set shell-dir-cookie-re to an appropriate regexp.
318
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319** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
320
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321** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
322
360ac530 323** FIXME: xdg-open for browse-url and reportbug, 2010/08.
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325** Archive Mode has basic support to browse 7z archives.
326
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327** browse-url has gotten a new variable that is used for mailto: URLs,
328 `browse-url-mailto-function', which defaults to `browse-url-mail'.
329
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330** ERC changes
331
332*** New vars `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay'.
333If the value of `erc-autojoin-timing' is 'ident, ERC autojoins after a
334successful NickServ identification, or after `erc-autojoin-delay'
335seconds. The default value, 'ident, means to autojoin immediately
336after connecting.
337
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338*** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
339as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
340The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
341utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
342
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343** Eshell changes
344
345*** The default value of eshell-directory-name is a directory named
346"eshell" in `user-emacs-directory'. If the old "~/.eshell/" directory
347exists, that is used instead.
348
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349** In ido-mode, C-v is no longer bound to ido-toggle-vc.
350The reason is that this interferes with cua-mode.
351
c1e25821 352** partial-completion-mode is now obsolete.
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353You can get a comparable behavior with:
354(setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
355(setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
c1e25821 356
18c812bd 357** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
b2957ea8 358
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359** server can listen on a specific port using the server-port option.
360
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361** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
362
363---
364*** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt package
365by adding appt-make-list to diary-hook has been removed. Use appt-activate.
366
367---
368*** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
369appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
370appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
371
372---
373*** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
374view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
375
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376** Customize
377
378*** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
379The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
42d9cffa 380To turn off the search field, set custom-search-field to nil.
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381
382*** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values.
383Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
384
385*** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
386
387*** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
388choose a color via list-colors-display.
389
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390** Dired-x
391
392*** dired-jump and dired-jump-other-window called with a prefix argument
393read a file name from the minibuffer instead of using buffer-file-name.
394
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395** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers.
396For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your
d8004abe 397.dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers.
8117868f 398
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399** SQL Mode enhancements.
400
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401*** Several variables have been marked as safe local variables. The
402variables `sql-product', `sql-user', `sql-server', `sql-database' and
403`sql-port' can now be safely used as local variables.
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405*** `sql-dialect' is a synonym for `sql-product'.
406
74790210 407*** Added ability to login with a port on MySQL and Postgres.
7492acc9 408The custom variable `sql-port' can be specified for connection to
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409MySQL or Postgres servers. By default, the port is not listed in
410either login parameter, but will be added to the command line if set
411to a non-zero value.
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413*** Dynamic selection of product in an SQL interactive session.
414If you use `sql-product-interactive' to start an SQL interactive
415session it uses the current value of `sql-product'. Preceding the
416invocation with C-u will force it to ask for the product before
417creating the session.
418
419*** Renaming a SQL interactive buffer when it is created.
420Prefixing the SQL interactive commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres',
421`sql-mysql', etc.) with C-u will force a new interactive session to be
422started and will prompt for the new name. This will reduce the need
423for `sql-rename-buffer' is most common use cases.
424
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425*** Command continuation prompts in SQL interactive mode are suppressed.
426Multiple line commands in SQL interactive mode, generate command
427continuation prompts which needlessly confuse the output. These
428prompts are now filtered out from the output. This change impacts
429multiple line SQL statements entered with C-j between each line,
430statements yanked into the buffer and statements sent with
431`sql-send-*' functions.
432
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433*** Custom variables control prompting for login parameters.
434Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params'
435which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
436connection is established.
437
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438The lists consist of the following five tokens: `user', `password',
439`database', `server', and `port'. The order in which they appear is
440the order in which they are prompted. The tokens symbols can be
441replaced by a sublist starting with the token and followed by a plist
442which control the prompting for values. The tokens `user',
443`database', and `server' each can take a property of :default which
444specifies the value to be used if no value is entered. The
445`database', `server', and `port' tokens handle the :completion
446property which restricts the entry to either one of the values in the
447list or to one of the values returned by the function provided as the
448property value. The `database' and `server' tokens also accept the
449:file property whose value is a regexp to identify useful file names.
450
451 (user :default DEF)
452 (database :default DEF
453 :file FILEPAT
454 :completion COMPLETE)
455 (server :default DEF
456 :file FILEPAT
457 :completion COMPLETE)
458
459The FILEPAT when :file is specified is a regexp that will match valid
460file names (without the directory portion). Generally these strings
461will be of the form ".+\.SUF" where SUF is the desired file suffix.
462
463When :completion is specified, the COMPLETE corresponds to the
464PREDICATE argument to the `completing-read' function (a list of
465possible values or a function returning such a list).
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467*** Added `sql-connection-alist' to record login parameter values.
468An alist for recording different username, database and server
469values. If there are multiple databases that you connect to the
470parameters needed can be stored in this alist.
471
472For example, the following might be set in the user's init.el:
473
474 (setq sql-connection-alist
475 '((dev (sql-product 'sqlite)
476 (sql-database "/home/mmaug/dev.db"))
477 (prd (sql-product 'oracle)
478 (sql-user "mmaug")
479 (sql-database "iprd2a"))))
480
481This defines two connections named "dev" and "prd".
482
483*** Added `sql-connect' to use predefined connections.
484Sets the login parameters based on the values in the
485`sql-connection-alist' and start a SQL interactive session. Any
486values specified in the connection will not be prompted for.
487
488In the example above, if the user were to invoke M-x sql-connect, they
489would be prompted for the connection. The user can respond with
490either "dev" or "prd". The "dev" connection would connect to the
491SQLite database without prompting; the "prd" connection would prompt
492for the users password and then connect to the Oracle database.
493
d26b0ea9 494**** Added SQL->Start... submenu when connections are defined.
b2957ea8 495When connections have been defined, there is a submenu available that
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496allows the user to select one to start a SQLi session. The "Start
497SQLi Session" item moves to the "Start..." submenu when cnnections
498have been defined.
499
500**** Added "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
501When a SQLi session is not started by a connection then
502`sql-save-connection' will gather the login params specified for the
503session and save them as a new connection.
504
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505*** List database objects and details.
506Once a SQL interactive session has been started, you can get a list of
507the objects in the database and see details of those objects. The
508objects shown and the details available are product specific.
509
510**** List all objects.
511Using `M-x sql-list-all', `C-c C-l a' or selecting "SQL->List all
512objects" will list all the objects in the database. At a minimum it
513lists the tables and views in the database. Preceeding the command by
514universal argument may provide additional details or extend the
515listing to include other schemas objects. The list will appear in a
516separate window in view-mode.
517
518**** List Table details.
519Using `M-x sql-list-table', `C-c C-l t' or selecting "SQL->List Table
520details" will ask for the name of a database table or view and display
521the list of columns in the relation. Preceeding the comand with the
522universal argument may provide additional details about each column.
523The list will appear in a separate window in view-mode.
524
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525*** Added option `sql-send-terminator'.
526When set makes sure that each command sent with `sql-send-*' commands
527are properly terminated and submitted to the SQL processor.
528
529*** Added option `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
530When set commands sent to Oracle's SQL*Plus are scanned for strings
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531starting with an ampersand and the user is asked for replacement text.
532In general, the SQL*Plus option SCAN should always be set OFF under
533SQL interactive mode and this option used in its place.
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535*** SQL interactive mode will replace tabs with spaces.
536This prevents the comand interpretter for MySQL and Postgres from
537listing object name completions when being sent text via
538`sql-send-*' functions.
539
540*** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
541
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542** s-region.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by shift-select-mode
543enabled by default in 23.1.
544
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546
547*** GDB User Interface migrated to GDB Machine Interface and now
548supports multithread non-stop debugging and debugging of several
549threads simultaneously.
550
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552
553*** It is possible now, to access alternative buses than the default
554system or session bus.
555
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556** Tramp
557
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558*** There exists a new inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
559
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560*** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
561"ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old" and "fish".
562
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563** VC and related modes
564
565*** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
566The vc-update command now runs a "pull" operation, if it is supported.
567This updates the current branch from upstream. A prefix argument
568means to prompt the user for command specifics, e.g. a pull location.
569
570**** vc-pull is an alias for vc-update.
571
572**** Currently supported by Bzr.
573
574*** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
575The vc-merge command now runs a "merge" operation, if it is supported.
576This merges another branch into the current one. A prefix argument
577means to prompt the user for command specifics, e.g. a merge location.
578
579**** Currently supported by Bzr.
580
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582* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
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584** New global minor modes electric-pair-mode, electric-indent-mode,
585and electric-layout-mode.
3b843809 586
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587** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
588
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589** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
590interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
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591Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
592`secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
593secrets.
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595** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
596Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
597
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599* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
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601** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
602coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
603area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
604of the header line.
605
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606** Remove obsolete name `e' (use `float-e' instead).
607
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608** A backquote not followed by a space is now always treated as new-style.
609
fd5c9dfa 610** Test for special mode-class was moved from view-file to view-buffer.
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611FIXME: This only says what was changed, but not what are the
612programmer-visible consequences.
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614** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function now turns the mode
615 ON unconditionally.
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616
617** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
618and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and
619`initial-frame-alist'. With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame'
620checks the value of the variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to
621determine whether to create a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively.
622If the alist entries are added, they override the value of
623`menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
624
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625** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
626similar to the ones created by shift-selection. In previous Emacs
627versions, these regions were delineated by `mouse-drag-overlay', which
628has now been removed.
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630** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
631
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632** The following functions and aliases, obsolete since at least Emacs 21.1,
633have been removed:
634comint-kill-output, decompose-composite-char, outline-visible,
635internal-find-face, internal-get-face, frame-update-faces,
636frame-update-face-colors, x-frob-font-weight, x-frob-font-slant,
637x-make-font-bold, x-make-font-demibold, x-make-font-unbold
638x-make-font-italic, x-make-font-oblique, x-make-font-unitalic
639x-make-font-bold-italic, mldrag-drag-mode-line, mldrag-drag-vertical-line,
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640iswitchb-default-keybindings, char-bytes, isearch-return-char,
641make-local-hook
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643** The following variables and aliases, obsolete since at least Emacs 21.1,
644have been removed:
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645checkdoc-minor-keymap, vc-header-alist, directory-sep-char,
646font-lock-defaults-alist
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648** The following files, obsolete since at least Emacs 21.1, have been removed:
649sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
650
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652
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654* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
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656** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
657The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
658not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
659obsolete alias.
660
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662Replaces font-lock-syntactic-keywords which are now obsolete.
663This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
664just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
665Together with this new variable come a new hook
666syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
667syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
668as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
669syntactic rules.
670
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671** New hook post-self-insert-hook run at the end of self-insert-command.
672
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c5683ceb 674** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
4e2db1fe 675** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
10dcc561 676** prog-mode is a new major-mode meant to be the parent of programming mode.
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677** define-minor-mode accepts a new keyword :variable.
678
b2957ea8 679** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
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680Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
681both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
682argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
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684** buffer-substring-filters is obsoleted by filter-buffer-substring-functions.
685
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686** New completion style `substring'.
687
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688** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
689The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name or RGB
690triplet, instead of signalling an error if the user provides a invalid
691input.
692
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693** Tool-bars can display separators.
694Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
94975270 695i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
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698
699*** When the image type is one of listed in `image-animated-types'
1546c559 700and the number of sub-images in the image is more than one, then the
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701new function `create-animated-image' creates an animated image where
702sub-images are displayed successively with the duration defined by
703`image-animate-max-time' and the delay between sub-images defined
704by the Graphic Control Extension of the image.
705
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706*** `image-extension-data' is renamed to `image-metadata'.
707
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708** XML and HTML parsing
709
710*** If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support (which is the default),
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711two new Emacs Lisp-level functions are defined:
712`xml-parse-html-string-internal' (which will parse "real world" HTML)
713and `xml-parse-string-internal' (which parses XML). Both return an
714Emacs Lisp parse tree.
715
716FIXME: These should be front-ended by xml.el.
717
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720** Isearch
721
722*** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
723
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724** Progress reporters can now "spin".
725The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
726now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
727time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
728with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
729displayed with a "spinning bar".
730
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732* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
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734** New configure.bat option --enable-checking builds emacs with extra
735runtime checks.
736
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737** New configure.bat option --distfiles to specify files to be
738 included in binary distribution
739
740** New make target `dist' to create binary disttribution for Windows
741 platform
742
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5b87ad55 745This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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ab73e885 747GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5b87ad55 748it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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749the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
750(at your option) any later version.
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752GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
753but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
754MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
755GNU General Public License for more details.
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5b87ad55 757You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
ab73e885 758along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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761Local variables:
762mode: outline
763paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
764end: