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29b7722a 1GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
5b87ad55 2
acaf905b 3Copyright (C) 2010-2012 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
09e18d03 26
a49ca6b9 27---
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28** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
29to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
30also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
31--without-gconf.
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33---
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34** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
35This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
36found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
37`--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
338648ad 38
aded53ff 39---
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40** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
41This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
42found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
43`--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
aded53ff 44
e547b051 45---
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46** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
47This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
48found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
49`--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
c1f10868 50This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
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52---
53** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
54This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
55found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
56`--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
57
3fd50d5c 58---
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59** There is a new configure option --with-wide-int.
60With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
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61On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
62to about 2 GiB.
81eafe29 63
d064e6a6 64---
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65** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
66You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
d064e6a6 67
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68---
69** There are new configure options:
70--with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
71These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
72lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
73
74---
75** There is a new configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
76This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
77This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
041d709f 78
ddb54206 79---
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80** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
81Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
82
83---
84** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
85If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
86
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eb199145 88* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
4a263588 89
fdeb32ec 90---
198a7a97 91** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
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92command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
93longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
198a7a97 94
fdeb32ec 95+++
66b7b0fe 96** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
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97from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
98EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
99Nextstep builds.)
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eb199145 102* Changes in Emacs 24.1
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3fd50d5c 104+++
041d709f 105** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default.
2a847524 106
a2a25d24 107** Completion
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e17d9003 109*** shell-mode uses pcomplete rules, with the standard completion UI.
3d992aa0 110+++
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111*** Many packages have been changed to use `completion-at-point'
112rather than their own completion code.
3d992aa0 113+++
de0bde62 114*** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
27a16462 115---
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116*** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
117and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
de09aa52 118+++
a2a25d24 119*** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold.
27a16462 120+++
a2a25d24 121*** New completion style `substring'.
939db9ac 122+++
620c53a6 123*** Completion style can be set per-category `completion-category-overrides'.
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125*** Completion of buffers now uses substring completion by default.
126
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127** Mail changes
128
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129+++
130*** The default of `send-mail-function' is now `sendmail-query-once',
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131which asks the user (once) whether to use the smtpmail package to send
132email, or to use the old defaults that rely on external mail
133facilities (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like
134systems, and `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
6870aaef 135
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137*** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
138passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
139action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail.
140For example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
141
142*** smtpmail
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144**** smtpmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) if the
145mail server supports them. It also uses the auth-source framework for
146getting credentials.
95f41d9a 147
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148**** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
149That variable used to have the default value "~/.authinfo", in which
150case you won't see any difference. But if you changed it to be a list
151of user names and passwords, that setting is now ignored; you will be
152prompted for the user name and the password, which will then be saved
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153to ~/.authinfo. (To control where and how the credentials are stored,
154see the auth-source manual. You may want to change the auth-source
155preferences if you want to store the credentials encrypted, for
156instance.)
e2430e31 157
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158You can also manually copy the credentials to your ~/.authinfo file.
159For example, if you had
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161 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
162 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
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164then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
165
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166 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
167
168**** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
95f41d9a 169
cd1181db 170If you had that set, then you need to put
95f41d9a 171
041d709f 172 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
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174in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
175
b30941db 176*** Mail mode changes (this is the old Mail mode, not Message mode)
c3760c17 177+++
b30941db 178**** New command `mail-add-attachment' for adding MIME attachments
c3760c17 179---
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180**** The command `mail-attach-file' was renamed to `mail-insert-file'.
181The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
c3760c17 182
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184*** You can type C-c m from M-x report-emacs-bug if you prefer, and if
185your system supports it, to transfer your report to your desktop's
186preferred mail client. This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or
187OS X's "open" command.
3f88cd72 188
041d709f 189** Emacs server and client changes
ddb54206 190+++
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191*** New option `server-port' specifies the port on which the Emacs
192server should listen.
193+++
194*** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
195+++
196*** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters can be used to set the
197frame parameters of a newly-created graphical frame.
198+++
8350f087 199*** If emacsclient shuts down as a result of Emacs signaling an
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200error, its exit status is 1.
201+++
202*** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
203This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
204to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
205
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206** Internationalization changes
207
f4b6ba46 208+++
d0ce9f8c 209*** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
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211Text that includes characters from right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such
212as Arabic, Farsi, or Hebrew, is displayed in the correct visual order
213as expected by users of those scripts. This display reordering is a
214"Full bidirectionality" class implementation of the Unicode
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215Bidirectional Algorithm. Buffers with no RTL text should look exactly
216the same as before.
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218For more information, see the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the
219Emacs Manual.
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222**** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
223To disable display reordering in any given buffer, change this to nil.
d20e1419 224
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226**** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
227If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
228paragraph from its text, as specified by the Unicode Bidirectional
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229Algorithm.
230
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231Setting this to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a particular
232base direction on each paragraph in the buffer.
233
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234Paragraphs whose base direction is right-to-left are displayed
235starting at the right margin of the window.
236
d0ce9f8c 237+++
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238*** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts.
239If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs
240normally displays it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a
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241thin 1-pixel space. In addition to these two methods, Emacs can
242display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display
243them at all. To change how these characters are displayed, customize
244the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'.
245
041d709f 246On character terminals, these methods are used for characters that
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247cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'.
248
ddb54206 249---
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250*** New input methods for Farsi: farsi and farsi-translit.
251
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252+++
253*** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
254(U+2010 and U+2011).
255
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257*** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available.
258Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
259automatically select it.
260
041d709f 261** Improved GTK integration
da97a9e6 262+++
041d709f 263*** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
52834b6b 264Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.
da97a9e6 265+++
041d709f 266*** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
d8004abe 267Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose style. On a Gnome desktop, the default
20fe03ad 268is taken from the desktop settings.
da97a9e6 269---
041d709f 270*** GTK tool bars can be placed on the left/right or top/bottom of the frame.
8b2dd508 271The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the values
1c0d77cc 272top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has entries
8b2dd508 273for this.
d366bd53 274+++
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275*** The colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken from
276the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
d366bd53 277+++
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278*** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK. You can turn that
279off by customizing x-gtk-use-system-tooltips.
16a91140 280
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282** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success' are available to
283highlight strings that indicate failure, caution or successful operation.
284
b22b1918 285---
1ecb2d3f 286** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is built
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287with Xft. To change font, use the X resource font, for example:
288Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
99852628 289
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917794d5 291** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
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292Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
293displayed as a space.
917794d5 294
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296** Basic SELinux support has been added.
297This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
298
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300*** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up, and
301optionally when copying files. To this end, copy-file has an extra
302optional argument, and backup-buffer and friends include the SELinux
303context in their return values.
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306*** The new functions file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
307get and set the SELinux context of a file.
bfd779dd 308---
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309*** Tramp offers handlers for file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
310for remote machines which support SELinux.
311
041d709f 312** Changes for exiting Emacs
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314*** The function kill-emacs is now run upon receipt of the signals
315SIGTERM and SIGHUP, and upon SIGINT in batch mode.
ddb54206 316+++
041d709f 317*** kill-emacs-hook is now also run in batch mode.
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318If you have code that adds something to kill-emacs-hook, you should
319consider if it is still appropriate to add it in the noninteractive case.
9c524fcb 320
041d709f 321** Scrolling changes
550f41cd 322+++
041d709f 323*** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
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324(bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
325of buffer at first key-press (instead move to top/bottom of buffer)
550f41cd 326when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
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327+++
328*** New variable `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
e7a3ff06 329+++
041d709f 330*** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
5a97d2da 331scroll a line instead of full screen.
550f41cd 332+++
041d709f 333*** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
b2957ea8 334define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
d0f69533 335+++
041d709f 336*** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
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337Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
338cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
339Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
340`scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
d0f69533 341---
041d709f 342*** ``Aggressive'' scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
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343If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
344`scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
345scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
346margin.
347
f1a5d776 348** Trash changes
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350*** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
351trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
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353*** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
354now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
355
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357** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
358for `list-colors-display'.
359
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360** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
361This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
3fd50d5c 362from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
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364*** `M-x list-packages' shows a list of packages, which can be
365selected for installation.
d43f5a42 366+++
cb6c4991 367*** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
d43f5a42 368+++
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369*** By default, all installed packages are loaded and activated
370automatically when Emacs starts up. To disable this, set
371`package-enable-at-startup' to nil. To change which packages are
372loaded, customize `package-load-list'.
373
f065864f 374** Custom Themes
b0d7d8af 375+++
f065864f 376*** `M-x customize-themes' lists Custom themes which can be enabled.
b0d7d8af 377+++
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378*** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
379Emacs no longer looks for custom themes in `load-path'. The default
380is to search in `custom-theme-directory', followed by a built-in theme
381directory named "themes/" in `data-directory'.
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383*** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
384If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
385offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
386default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
278f6845 387
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388** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
389the remote file-name cache is used for read access.
390
041d709f 391** File- and directory-local variable changes
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393*** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
394Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
395settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
396subdirectories.
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398*** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
399Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
400adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
401turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
402`hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
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404*** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
405Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
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408*** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
409to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
410applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- mode ones.
411The associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed
412in the corresponding way.
413
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415** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
416
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417** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms
418including md5, sha-1 and sha-2 (sha-224, sha-256, sha-384 and sha-512).
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419The elisp implementation sha1.el is removed. Feature sha1 is provided
420by default.
421
5d907d6c 422** Menu-bar changes
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424*** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
425instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
426
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427** Window changes
428
429+++
430*** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
431modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
432
433*** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
717a1362 434+++
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435**** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
436user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
437for choosing the displaying window).
438
439This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
440specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
441
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443**** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
444display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
445
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447*** New option `window-combination-limit'.
448The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
449obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
450from which such space was obtained.
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451
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453*** New option `window-combination-resize'.
454The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
455otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
456other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
457of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
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458
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460*** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
53964682 461These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
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462
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464*** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
465These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
466been shown in a specific window.
467
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468** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
469This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the "mouse-1
470pops up *Messages*" feature, which can now easily be changed.
471
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eb199145 473* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
b350bdf2 474
892777ba 475** Search changes
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476+++
477*** C-y in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-kill, instead of
478isearch-yank-line.
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480*** M-y in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-pop, instead of
481isearch-yank-kill.
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482+++
483*** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-line.
484
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486** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
487
488*** `count-lines-region' is now an alias for `count-words-region',
489bound to M-=, which shows the number of lines, words, and characters.
ea4f7750 490
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492** The default value of `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' is now t.
493
21100e7d 494+++
ec9da840 495** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
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496also deletes newlines around point.
497
b9229673 498** Deletion changes
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b9229673 500*** New option `delete-active-region'.
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501If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
502prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', these commands kill
503instead.
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59ee0542 505*** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
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506This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
507The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
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509*** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
510Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
511However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; you
512should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
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514*** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
515
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516** Selection changes.
517
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518The default handling of clipboard and primary selections was changed
519to conform with modern X applications. In short, most commands for
520killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while mouse commands
521use the primary selection.
522
523In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
524list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
525
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527*** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
528Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
963578d3 529the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
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530the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
531
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533**** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
534This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
535regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
536"ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
537point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
538
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540**** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
541
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543*** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
544This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
545Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
546
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b1ab31ae 548*** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
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550*** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
551Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
552M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
553
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555**** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
556exactly equivalent to, respectively M-w, C-w, and C-y.
557
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559**** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
560non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
561between applications.
562
963578d3 563---
b1ab31ae 564*** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
104c2fe9 565**** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
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566**** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
567**** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
568**** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
569**** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
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573
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574*** X clipboard managers are now supported.
575To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
4b80f674 576
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99f053cf 578** New command `rectangle-number-lines', bound to `C-x r N', numbers
6b2c221e 579the lines in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this
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580prompts for a number to count from and for a format string.
581
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db7ab02f 583** The default value of redisplay-dont-pause is now t
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584This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
585at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
586in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
587updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
588
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590** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
591In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
592when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
593region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
594region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
595
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efeb796b 598
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041d709f 600** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
d76674bb 601
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603** BibTeX mode
604
2de69e00 605*** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
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606Use the variable bibtex-dialect to select support for different BibTeX
607dialects. bibtex-entry-field-alist is now an obsolete alias for
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608bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist.
609
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610*** New command `bibtex-search-entries' bound to C-c C-a.
611
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612*** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
613
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614*** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
615
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617
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619*** Diary entries can contain non-printing `comments'.
620See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
621
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623*** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
624See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
625
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627*** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
628lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
629If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
630
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632*** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
633
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635*** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
636may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
637
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639*** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt package
640by adding appt-make-list to diary-hook has been removed. Use appt-activate.
641
642---
643*** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
644appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
645appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
646
647---
648*** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
649view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
650
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652
653+++
654*** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
655
656---
657*** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
658on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
659
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660** CC Mode (C, C++, etc.)
661
662*** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
663
664** comint and modes derived from it use the generic completion code.
665
666** Compilation mode
29eabb8e 667---
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668*** Compilation mode can be used without font-lock-mode.
669`compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
670
671*** `compilation-filter-start' is let-bound to the start of the text
672inserted by the compilation filter function, when calling
673compilation-filter-hook.
674
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676*** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
677are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
678set them, whereas previously only the value in the *compilation* buffer
679was used.
1dce7193 680
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681** Customize
682
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684*** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
685The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
42d9cffa 686To turn off the search field, set custom-search-field to nil.
52834b6b 687
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689*** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values.
690Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
691
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693*** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
694
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696*** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
697choose a color via list-colors-display.
698
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699** D-Bus
700
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701*** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
702or session bus.
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704*** The dbus-register-method and dbus-register-property functions
705optionally do not register names.
041d709f 706
5da3be7f 707*** The new function dbus-register-service registers a known service name
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708on a D-Bus without simultaneously registering a property or a method.
709
f5d6548a 710** Dired-x
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712*** dired-jump and dired-jump-other-window called with a prefix argument
713read a file name from the minibuffer instead of using buffer-file-name.
714
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716*** The `dired local variables' feature provided by Dired-x is obsolete.
717The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
8117868f 718
041d709f 719** ERC changes
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722*** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
723controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
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725*** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
726as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
727The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
728utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
7492acc9 729
041d709f 730** Eshell changes
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732---
733*** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
734to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
735The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
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737** gdb-mi
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739*** The GDB User Interface has been migrated to GDB Machine Interface.
740It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
741debugging of several threads.
7492acc9 742
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744
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746*** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
747Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
18af70d0 748
041d709f 749** Info
723ee192 750
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752*** New command `info-display-manual' displays a named Info manual.
753If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
754that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
755buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
756you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
691cf4a0 757
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759*** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
760This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
761and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
762by default.
763
764+++
06b08b88 765** MH-E has been upgraded to MH-E version 8.3.1.
041d709f 766See MH-E-NEWS for details.
37221432 767
ff1796f3 768---
041d709f 769** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
37221432 770
ff1796f3 771---
041d709f 772** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
3c3d4f5b 773
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775** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
776functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity, support for
777more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
778
779** Rmail
780
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782*** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
783in the Rmail incoming message.
784
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786*** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
787This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
788Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
789
717a1362 790** Shell mode
88c5c7c8 791+++
de0bde62 792*** Shell mode uses pcomplete rules, with the standard completion UI.
88c5c7c8 793+++
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794*** The `shell' command prompts for the shell path name if the default
795directory is a remote file name and neither the environment variable
796$ESHELL nor the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
797
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34e8a2da 799** SQL mode
041d709f 800
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801---
802*** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
803and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
041d709f 804
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805---
806*** New custom variables control prompting for login parameters.
807Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
808which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
809connection is established.
041d709f 810
34e8a2da 811---
041d709f 812*** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
34e8a2da 813which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
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816*** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
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817These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
818given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
819buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
820
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822*** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
823replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
824statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
825the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
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826second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
827object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
041d709f 828
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830*** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
831using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
832
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834*** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
835This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
836was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
837
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839*** New commands for listing database objects and details:
840sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
041d709f 841
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843*** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
844
845** TeX modes
846
e74e58c9 847+++
041d709f 848*** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
412b9ee5 849
459bba37 850** Tramp
bfd779dd 851---
a808d31f 852*** There exists a new inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
bfd779dd 853---
459bba37 854*** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
ea843702 855"ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
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857*** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
858default value to "".
859
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860** `url-queue-retrieve' downloads web pages asynchronously, but allow
861controlling the degree of parallelism.
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863** VC and related modes
864
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0c32ce32 866*** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
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867`C-x v +' (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is supported
868(currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the current branch
869and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt the user for
870specifics, e.g. a pull location.
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872---
873*** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
0c32ce32 874
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0c32ce32 876*** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
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877The vc-merge command now runs a "merge" operation, if it is supported
878(currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge changes from
879another branch into the current one. It prompts for specifics, e.g. a
880merge source.
0c32ce32 881
bc859d5f 882+++
2afef60a 883*** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
bbe43420 884shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
2afef60a 885
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887*** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
888longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
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889This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
890another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
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891In the Log View buffers made by `C-x v L' (vc-print-root-log), you can
892use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
893
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896of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
897
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899*** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
900this was not advertised at the time.
901
902+++
903*** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
904Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
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905this was not advertised at the time.
906
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907** Obsolete modes
908
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910*** abbrevlist.el
911
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912---
913*** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
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914
915*** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
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916You can get a comparable behavior with:
917(setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
918(setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
919
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921*** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
922
923*** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead)
041d709f 924
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927
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928---
929*** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
930They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
931
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933*** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer)
ca5eed61 934
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936
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938*** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
939
940---
941*** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to ido-toggle-vc.
942(This interfered with cua-mode.)
943
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945*** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
946
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948*** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
949
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951*** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
952
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954* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
d445b3f8 955
5abc31ef 956+++
60e56523 957** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
8c0f49f0 958original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
60e56523 959
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961When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
962matching closing one.
963
964** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
965When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
966
967** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
968When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
3b843809 969
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970** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
971from which other modes can be derived.
972
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973** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
974
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976interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
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977Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
978`secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
979secrets.
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981** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
982Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
983
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984** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
985soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
986
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988** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
ad7d6ecb 989
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53bbe3ad 991** New emacs-lock.el package.
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992(The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.)
993Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'.
994Protection against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set
995separately. The mechanism for automatically turning off protection
996for buffers with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
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999* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
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1002** `char-direction-table' and the associated function `char-direction'
1003were deleted. They were buggy and inferior to the new support of
1004bidirectional editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the
1005bidirectional properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property'
1006with the last argument `bidi-class'.
1007
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1010of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
1011new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
1012the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
1013
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1016coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
1017area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
1018of the header line.
1019
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1021** Support for "old-style" backquotes, which have been obsolete for
1022more than 10 years, has been further reduced. Now a backquote not
1023followed by a space is always treated as a "new-style" backquote.
1024Please consider completely removing all "old-style" backquotes from
1025your code as a matter of some urgency. If your code uses backquotes
1026as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
1027you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
1028appropriate conventions may fail to compile. The most common cause of
1029trouble seems to be an old-style backquote followed by a newline.
288cf4e9 1030
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1032** view-buffer now treats special mode-class in the same way that
1033view-file has since Emacs 22 (ie, it won't enable View mode if the
1034major-mode is special).
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1038now turns the mode ON unconditionally. This is so that you can write, e.g.
1039 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-minor-mode)
1040to enable foo-minor-mode in Text mode buffers, thus removing the need
1041for `turn-on-foo-minor-mode' style functions.
6431f2e6 1042
ddb54206 1043+++
6431f2e6 1044** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
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1046With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
1047variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
1048a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
1049they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
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1052** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
1053similar to the ones created by shift-selection. In previous Emacs
1054versions, these regions were delineated by `mouse-drag-overlay', which
1055has now been removed.
d6d8ee7a 1056
34c99998
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1057+++
1058** The fourth argument of filter-buffer-substring, which says to remove
1059text properties from the final result, has been removed.
1060Eg simply pass the result through substring-no-properties if you need this.
1061
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4583e796
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1063** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
1064
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1065** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
1066Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
1067
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1068+++
1069** The following obsolete (mostly since at least 21.1) functions and aliases
1070have been removed (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses):
1071comint-kill-output (comint-delete-output),
1072decompose-composite-char (char-to-string),
1073outline-visible (outline-invisible-p),
1074internal-find-face (facep), internal-get-face (facep and check-face),
1075frame-update-faces (not needed),
1076frame-update-face-colors (frame-set-background-mode),
1077x-frob-font-weight and x-frob-font-slant (appropriate make-face-* function),
1078x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (make-face-bold),
1079x-make-font-italic and x-make-font-oblique (make-face-italic),
1080x-make-font-bold-italic (make-face-bold-italic),
1081x-make-font-unbold (make-face-unbold),
1082x-make-font-unitalic (make-face-unitalic),
1083mldrag-drag-mode-line (mouse-drag-mode-line),
1084mldrag-drag-vertical-line (mouse-drag-vertical-line),
1085iswitchb-default-keybindings (iswitchb-mode), char-bytes (== 1),
1086isearch-return-char (isearch-printing-char), make-local-hook (not needed)
1087
1088+++
1089** The following obsolete (mostly since at least 21.1) variables and varaliases
1090have been removed (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
1091checkdoc-minor-keymap (checkdoc-minor-mode-map),
1092vc-header-alist (vc-BACKEND-header), directory-sep-char (== ?/)
1093font-lock-defaults-alist (font-lock-defaults), and e (float-e).
3226d6ca 1094
334023be 1095---
041d709f 1096** The following obsolete files were removed:
7b0e3048
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1097sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
1098
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1099** FIXME finder-inf.el changes.
1100
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1101\f
1102* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
9097e8af 1103
735cc5ca 1104+++
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1105** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
1106The `lexical-binding' variable lets code use lexical scoping for local
48da7392
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1107variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
1108line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that file.
735cc5ca 1109+++
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1110*** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
1111binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
735cc5ca 1112+++
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1113*** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
1114of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
1115
1116*** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
735cc5ca 1117+++
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1118*** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
1119declared as dynamically bound.
1120
d273439c 1121+++
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1122** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
1123Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
1124their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
1125
1126** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
f1816485 1127
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1128+++
1129*** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
f1816485
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1130This returns the actual value of base direction of the paragraph at
1131point.
041d709f
CY
1132
1133+++
1134*** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
f1816485
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1135Given a string containing characters from right-to-left (RTL) scripts,
1136this function returns another string which can be safely inserted into
1137a buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
1138right of that string. (This works by appending the Unicode
1139"LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character when the argument string might need that.)
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1140
1141This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right (LTR)
1142paragraph direction and you need to insert a string whose contents and
f1816485
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1143directionality are not known in advance, without disrupting the layout
1144of the line.
041d709f 1145
bee0fcef 1146** Window changes
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1147+++
1148*** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
1149Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
1150of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
1151buffer) in the window tree.
291d142b 1152+++
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CY
1153**** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
1154windows.
c4682d18 1155+++
24300f5f 1156**** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
c4682d18
MR
1157Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
1158`delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
1159act on any window including internal ones.
c4682d18
MR
1160+++
1161*** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
1162The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
1163and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
1164names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
1165and `window-body-height' are provided.
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1166+++
1167*** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
1168For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
1169behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
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MR
1170and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
1171allows to ignore processing such parameters.
c4682d18
MR
1172+++
1173*** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
c4682d18
MR
1174The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
1175set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
1176new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
1177split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
1178window into two side-by-side windows as before.
c4682d18
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1179+++
1180*** Window resizing functions.
487ffd7a 1181A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
c4682d18
MR
1182been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
1183longer delete any windows when they become too small.
b3c0dbfd
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1184+++
1185*** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
1186live window on that frame instead.
c4682d18
MR
1187+++
1188*** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
1189`adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
1190is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
1191edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
1192that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
1193windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
c4682d18
MR
1194+++
1195*** Window-local buffer lists.
1196Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
1197from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
1198shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
1199positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
1200shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
0e406a72 1201+++
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CY
1202*** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
1203which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
1204selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
1205can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
24300f5f 1206+++
0a2132ba 1207*** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
2d197ffb
CY
1208to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
1209The old names are kept as aliases.
24300f5f 1210+++
0a2132ba
CY
1211*** Display actions
1212
1213**** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
1214named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
1215`display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
1216non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
1217
1218**** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
1219
1220**** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
1221determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
1222`display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
1223and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
1224are user-customizable variables.
1225
1226See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
bee0fcef 1227
ed6235ea
MR
1228+++
1229*** New behavior of `quit-window'.
1230The behavior of `quit-window' has been changed in order to restore the
1231state before the last buffer display operation in that window.
1232
d83dc65b
MR
1233+++
1234*** The new option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
53964682 1235iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer shown in a dedicated
d83dc65b
MR
1236frame or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
1237
20d2304d
CY
1238+++
1239*** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
1240These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
1241frame or window as an Elisp object.
1242
a2a25d24 1243** Completion
041d709f 1244
a2a25d24
SM
1245*** New variable completion-extra-properties used to specify extra properties
1246of the current completion:
1247- :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
1248- :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
1249
1250*** Functions on completion-at-point-functions can return any of the properties
1251valid for completion-extra-properties.
1252
1253*** completion-annotate-function is obsolete.
1254
620c53a6
SM
1255*** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
1256can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
1257- `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
1258 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
1259- `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
1260- `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
1261- `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
1262
de09aa52
CY
1263*** minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map is not used any more.
1264Instead, the bindings in minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map are
1265combined with minibuffer-local-must-match-map.
1266
1267*** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
1268behavior of `completing-read'.
1269
d366bd53 1270+++
f042970d 1271** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
16a43933
CY
1272text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
1273
da91b5f2
CY
1274** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
1275It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
1276connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
1277parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
1278must also be supplied.
1279
ddb54206 1280+++
f6d62986
SM
1281** pre/post-command-hook are not reset to nil upon error.
1282Instead, the offending function is removed.
1283
b1f6fa26
CY
1284** New hook types
1285
e7bc51d0 1286+++
b1f6fa26
CY
1287*** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
1288passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
e7bc51d0 1289Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
5385447f 1290non-nil return value.
e7bc51d0 1291
b1f6fa26
CY
1292+++
1293*** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
1294set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
54521c99
GM
1295(A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
1296advertised at the time.)
f6d62986 1297
866c1d22
GM
1298+++
1299** The macros `condition-case-no-debug' and `with-demoted-errors' were
1300added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
d6b1d521 1301
953cebf5
GM
1302+++
1303** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
1304named Emacs server instances, using TCP sockets.
7deebf1b 1305
1b9f60cc
GM
1306+++
1307** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
1308to redirect STDOUT to a file.
7deebf1b 1309
04e2ce72
CY
1310---
1311** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
e7f7fbaa
SM
1312Also the debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will jump
1313to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked instead of
1314jumping all the way to the top-level.
1315
da97a9e6
CY
1316+++
1317** The function format-time-string now supports the %N directive, for
1318higher-resolution time stamps.
1319
7e2734bc 1320+++
3ef01959
CY
1321** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of characters,
1322discarding any inputs not inside the set.
1323
4dee2dea 1324+++
2e288d54
JB
1325** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
1326The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
1327not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
1328obsolete alias.
1329
04e2ce72
CY
1330** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
1331This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
cf38dd42
SM
1332This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
1333just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
1334Together with this new variable come a new hook
1335syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
1336syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
1337as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
1338syntactic rules.
1339
f58b9822 1340+++
a2e5caf7
SM
1341** New hook post-self-insert-hook run at the end of self-insert-command.
1342
7cf78aac 1343+++
c5683ceb 1344** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
041d709f 1345
4dee2dea 1346---
4e2db1fe 1347** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
041d709f 1348
15de15c6 1349** Major and minor mode changes
3fd50d5c 1350+++
15de15c6
CY
1351*** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
1352should be derived.
041d709f 1353
c2f03a4a 1354+++
15de15c6
CY
1355**** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
1356modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
1357on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
1358
12f381b7 1359+++
15de15c6
CY
1360*** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
1361`run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
1362
c7301fe4 1363+++
7a9a2fc6
GM
1364*** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
1365If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
1366major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
15de15c6 1367
56afad3a 1368+++
15de15c6 1369*** `define-minor-mode' accepts a new keyword :variable.
f44379e7 1370
04e2ce72 1371+++
b2957ea8 1372** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
f1a5d776
CY
1373Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
1374both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
1375argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
53967e09 1376
94bc7984 1377---
9317e499 1378** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
94bc7984
GM
1379
1380+++
1381** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
1382or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
1383invalid input.
9317e499 1384
f7c9199f 1385+++
4039c786
CY
1386** Tool-bars can display separators.
1387Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
94975270 1388i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
9317e499 1389
00fe2df1
JL
1390** Image API
1391
eea14f31 1392+++
18af70d0
CY
1393*** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
1394
eea14f31 1395+++
18af70d0
CY
1396**** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
1397
eea14f31 1398+++
18af70d0
CY
1399**** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
1400
eea14f31 1401+++
18af70d0
CY
1402**** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
1403is being animated.
00fe2df1 1404
7cb76fe0
GM
1405---
1406*** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
1407The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
1546c559 1408
bba26374 1409+++
b4ac6e8c
GM
1410*** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
1411This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
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1412Then the function `imagemagick-types' returns a list of image file
1413extensions that your installation of ImageMagick supports. The
041d709f
CY
1414function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick support for
1415these image types, minus those listed in `imagemagick-types-inhibit'.
bba26374 1416Visiting one of these file types will then use Image mode.
041d709f 1417
b4ac6e8c
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1418---
1419*** New commands to resize and rotate images in Image mode.
1420These require Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
1421image-transform-fit-to-height, image-transform-fit-to-width,
1422image-transform-set-rotation, image-transform-set-scale.
1423
71c17aec 1424** XML and HTML parsing
043efd56
GM
1425If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new functions:
1426`libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML) and
1427`libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an Emacs
1428Lisp parse tree.
4b9832a6
CY
1429
1430FIXME: These should be front-ended by xml.el.
1431
e2574f2c
TZ
1432** GnuTLS
1433
31fd3586 1434*** New library `gnutls.el'.
573559b4 1435This requires Emacs to have been built with GnuTLS support.
31fd3586
GM
1436The main functions are `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'.
1437It's easiest to use these functions through `open-network-stream'
1438because it can upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically
1439or use plain SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set
1440`gnutls-log-level' greater than 0.
71c17aec 1441
a6020335
MH
1442** Isearch
1443
7cb76fe0 1444---
a6020335
MH
1445*** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
1446
ddb54206 1447+++
9326ba26
CY
1448** Progress reporters can now "spin".
1449The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
1450now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
1451time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
1452with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
1453displayed with a "spinning bar".
1454
8f05da42 1455+++
3e214b50
JB
1456** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
1457being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
1458
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1459---
1460** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
1461If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
1462delayed-warnings-hook after post-command-hook. At present, this is
1463only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
1464startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the functions
1465display-delayed-warnings and collapse-delayed-warnings.
1466
638f053a 1467
e145f188
GM
1468+++
1469** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
1470as well as those in the -*- line.
1471
6420d28b
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1472---
1473** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
1474
dac86404
GM
1475+++
1476** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
1477from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
1478inherits from multiple maps, eg:
1479 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
43dc9f5b 1480
7aa5aad8
GM
1481+++
1482** Set `debug-on-event' to make Emacs enter the debugger e.g. on receipt
1483of SIGUSR1. This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
12ca40ec 1484
ddb54206 1485+++
27f7ef2f 1486** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
43dc9f5b
AS
1487This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
1488(when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
1489an empty uninterned symbol.
041d709f 1490
fead402d
CY
1491+++
1492** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
1493
041d709f
CY
1494** Obsolete functions and variables
1495
05f77e38
GM
1496---
1497*** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
1498Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
1499
34c99998 1500+++
041d709f
CY
1501*** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
1502Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
1503
7cb76fe0 1504---
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1505*** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
1506
f160676e 1507---
041d709f 1508*** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
f160676e
GM
1509Use `post-command-hook' instead.
1510
d366bd53 1511+++
67e729a5
CY
1512*** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
1513
eb199145
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1514\f
1515* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
d53a60a6 1516
a2f0118c 1517---
7a22e700 1518** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
a2f0118c
GM
1519and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
1520
7a22e700 1521** New configure.bat options
04779484 1522
a0d363f4 1523+++
7a22e700 1524*** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
e3aef5c6 1525
a0d363f4 1526+++
7a22e700 1527*** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
e2574f2c 1528
a0d363f4 1529+++
7a22e700
OK
1530*** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
1531
a0d363f4
GM
1532+++
1533*** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
e2574f2c 1534
a0d363f4 1535+++
0a19a6f8 1536** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
e3aef5c6 1537
1f5e1a16
GM
1538---
1539** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
1540(It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
5430d399 1541
1f5e1a16
GM
1542+++
1543** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
1544reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
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5b87ad55 1548This file is part of GNU Emacs.
a933dad1 1549
ab73e885 1550GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5b87ad55 1551it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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1552the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1553(at your option) any later version.
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1555GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1556but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1557MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1558GNU General Public License for more details.
a933dad1 1559
5b87ad55 1560You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
ab73e885 1561along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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1564Local variables:
1565mode: outline
1566paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
1567end: