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29b7722a | 1 | GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
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0bfd685e | 3 | Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
5b87ad55 | 4 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
a933dad1 | 5 | |
3f7194ed | 6 | Please send Emacs bug reports to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org. |
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7 | If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. |
8 | ||
0bfd685e | 9 | This file is about changes in Emacs version 23. |
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11 | See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 |
12 | for changes in older Emacs versions. | |
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13 | |
14 | You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' | |
15 | with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. | |
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16 | |
17 | Temporary note: | |
18 | +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. | |
19 | --- means no change in the manuals is called for. | |
20 | When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- | |
21 | so we will look at it and add it to the manual. | |
22 | ||
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24 | * About external Lisp packages |
25 | ||
9c576ea0 | 26 | \f |
0bfd685e | 27 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1 |
c58dccad | 28 | |
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29 | ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid. |
30 | ||
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31 | ** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for |
32 | a GIF library. | |
b5ac89f8 | 33 | |
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6dadd99f NR |
35 | * Changes in Emacs 23.1 |
36 | ||
75f6af19 | 37 | ** If you set find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file to t, then C-x C-f |
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38 | requires confirmation before opening a non-existent file. |
39 | ||
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40 | ** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode enabled, Emacs uses a |
41 | Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server, rather than faking events | |
42 | using the client program mev. This C level approach provides mouse | |
43 | highlighting, and help echoing in the minibuffer. | |
44 | ||
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45 | ** The new variable next-error-recenter specifies how next-error should |
46 | recenter the visited source file. Its value can be a number (for example, | |
47 | 0 for top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering. | |
48 | ||
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49 | ** The mode-line display a `@' if the default-directory for the current buffer |
50 | is on a remote machine, or a hyphen otherwise. | |
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51 | ** The new command balance-window-area balances windows both vertically |
52 | and horizontally. | |
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53 | |
54 | ** The new command close-display-connection can be used to close a connection | |
55 | to a remote display, e.g. because the display is about to become unreachable. | |
6dadd99f | 56 | \f |
0bfd685e | 57 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1 |
21f7b9d8 | 58 | |
c44da964 | 59 | \f |
0bfd685e | 60 | * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 |
b58cb59f | 61 | |
406c0f12 | 62 | \f |
0bfd685e | 63 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 |
406c0f12 | 64 | |
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65 | ** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp. |
66 | ||
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67 | ** Minibuffer changes: |
68 | ||
69 | *** isearch started in the minibuffer searches in the minibuffer history. | |
70 | Reverse isearch commands (C-r, C-M-r) search in previous minibuffer | |
71 | history elements, and forward isearch commands (C-s, C-M-s) search in | |
72 | next history elements. When the reverse search reaches the first history | |
73 | element, it wraps to the last history element, and the forward search | |
74 | wraps to the first history element. When the search is terminated, the | |
75 | history element containing the search string becomes the current. | |
76 | ||
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77 | \f |
78 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 | |
0091c67e | 79 | |
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80 | ** css-mode to edit Cascading Style Sheets. |
81 | ||
ede96990 | 82 | ** bibtex-style-mode helps you write BibTeX's *.bst files. |
7253ac49 | 83 | |
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84 | ** vera-mode to edit Vera files. |
85 | ||
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86 | ** socks.el (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs. |
87 | ||
88 | ** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt. | |
3f7194ed | 89 | |
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90 | \f |
91 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 | |
61d244ca | 92 | |
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93 | ** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to |
94 | the first error encountered during compilations. | |
95 | ||
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96 | ** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names. |
97 | Only copyright lines with holders matching copyright-names-regexp will be | |
98 | considered for update. | |
99 | ||
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100 | ** VC |
101 | *** VC backends can provide completion of revision names. | |
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102 | |
103 | *** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu. | |
104 | ||
105 | *** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip. | |
106 | ||
56dada42 | 107 | *** VC has some support for Bazaar (bzr). |
d3cce191 | 108 | |
56dada42 | 109 | *** VC has some support for Mercurial (hg). |
61223448 | 110 | |
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111 | *** VC has some support for Git. |
112 | ||
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113 | ** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs. |
114 | ||
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115 | ** BibTeX mode: |
116 | ||
117 | *** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and | |
118 | `string', disabled by default. | |
119 | ||
120 | *** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to | |
121 | identify cited keys in BibTeX entries, used by `bibtex-find-crossref. | |
122 | ||
123 | *** Command `bibtex-url' now allows multiple URLs per entry. | |
124 | ||
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125 | +++ |
126 | ** Tramp | |
127 | ||
128 | *** New connection methods. | |
129 | The new methods "plinkx", "plink2", "psftp", "sftp" and "fish" have | |
130 | been introduced. There are also new so-called gateway methods | |
131 | "tunnel" and "socks". | |
132 | ||
133 | *** Multihop syntax has been removed. | |
134 | The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed. Instead of, multi hops | |
135 | can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'. | |
136 | ||
137 | *** More default settings. | |
138 | Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user', | |
139 | `tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-host'. | |
140 | ||
141 | *** Connection information is cached. | |
142 | In order to reduce connection setup, information about used | |
143 | connections are kept persistent in a file. The name of this file is | |
144 | defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'. | |
145 | ||
146 | *** Control of remote processes. | |
147 | Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in | |
148 | `tramp-remote-path' and `tramp-remote-process-environment'. | |
149 | ||
150 | *** Success of remote copy is checked. | |
151 | When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote | |
152 | file copy is checked via the file's checksum. | |
153 | ||
154 | ** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes). | |
155 | If `default-directory' is a remote file name, subprocesses are started | |
156 | on the corresponding remote system. | |
157 | ||
212b2681 | 158 | ** C-x C-q in dired-mode now runs the command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode. |
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159 | \f |
160 | * Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems | |
8ab314f9 | 161 | |
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162 | --- |
163 | ** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows. | |
164 | Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions | |
165 | of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. Previously IPv6 was | |
166 | supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock | |
167 | 1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library. | |
168 | ||
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169 | \f |
170 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 | |
8ec65cd7 | 171 | |
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172 | +++ |
173 | ** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed. | |
174 | ||
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175 | \f |
176 | * Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 | |
8ab314f9 | 177 | |
41bd52f7 | 178 | +++ |
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179 | ** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first". |
180 | ||
181 | You do this by writing `debug' in the list of conditions to be handled, | |
182 | like this: | |
183 | ||
184 | (condition-case nil | |
185 | (foo bar) | |
186 | ((debug error) nil)) | |
187 | ||
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188 | ** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts a new value |
189 | `confirm-only'. | |
190 | ||
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191 | +++ |
192 | ** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly. | |
193 | ||
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194 | +++ |
195 | ** New variable `user-emacs-directory'. | |
196 | Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d". | |
197 | ||
14a6c6ab CY |
198 | +++ |
199 | ** The new function `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated | |
200 | with a given image specification. | |
201 | ||
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202 | +++ |
203 | ** The new function `start-file-process is similar to `start-process', | |
204 | but obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on | |
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205 | `default-directory'. The functions `start-file-process-shell-command' |
206 | and `process-file-shell-command' are also new; they call internally | |
207 | `start-file-process and `process-file', respectively. | |
b2b387f9 | 208 | |
64639e26 | 209 | +++ |
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210 | ** `file-remote-p' has new optional parameters IDENTIFICATION and CONNECTED. |
211 | IDENTIFICATION specifies which part of the remote identifier has to be | |
212 | returned. With CONNECTED passed non-nil, it is checked whether a | |
213 | remote connection has been established already. | |
64639e26 | 214 | |
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215 | ** The two new functions `looking-at-p' and `string-match-p' can do |
216 | the same matching as `looking-at' and `string-match' without changing | |
217 | the match data. | |
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218 | |
219 | ** The interactive-form of a function can be added post-facto via the | |
220 | `interactive-form' symbol property. Mostly useful to add complex interactive | |
221 | forms to subroutines. | |
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0bfd685e | 223 | * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1 |
efeb796b | 224 | |
05197f40 | 225 | \f |
a933dad1 | 226 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
5b87ad55 | 227 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
a933dad1 | 228 | |
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229 | GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
230 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
64be3a42 | 231 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) |
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232 | any later version. |
233 | ||
234 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
235 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
236 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
237 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
a933dad1 | 238 | |
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239 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
240 | along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the | |
241 | Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, | |
242 | Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. | |
a933dad1 | 243 | |
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245 | Local variables: |
246 | mode: outline | |
247 | paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$" | |
248 | end: | |
ab5796a9 | 249 | |
a533413c | 250 | arch-tag: e759449d-88b3-4de4-9900-3a6c3dfa23e2 |