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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
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12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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24 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.4
26 ** Emacs can be compiled with POSIX ACL support.
27 This happens by default if a suitable support library is found at
28 build time, like libacl on GNU/Linux. To prevent this, use the
29 configure option `--without-acl'.
32 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
35 * Changes in Emacs 24.4
38 ** `apropos-variable' is now `apropos-user-option'
39 `apropos-user-option' shows all user options while `apropos-variable'
40 shows all variables. When called with a universal prefix argument,
41 the two commands swap their behaviors. When `apropos-do-all' is
42 non-nil, they output the same results.
45 ** `eval-defun' on an already defined defcustom calls the :set function,
48 ** If the new variable `enable-dir-local-variables' is nil,
49 directory local variables are ignored. May be useful for some modes
50 that want to ignore directory-locals while still respecting file-locals.
52 ** The option `set-mark-default-inactive' has been deleted.
53 This unfinished feature was introduced by accident in Emacs 23.1;
54 simply disabling Transient Mark mode does the same thing.
56 ** `initial-buffer-choice' can now specify a function to set up the
59 ** ACL support has been added.
61 *** Emacs preserves the ACL entries of files when backing up.
63 *** New functions `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' get and set the ACL
64 entries of a file. On GNU/Linux, the POSIX ACL interface is used via
65 libacl. On MS-Windows, the NT Security APIs are used to emulate the
68 ** New option `scroll-bar-adjust-thumb-portion'.
69 Available only on X, this option allows to control over-scrolling
70 using the scroll bar (i.e. dragging the thumb down even when the end
71 of the buffer is visible).
74 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
76 ** New commands `toggle-frame-fullscreen' and `toggle-frame-maximized',
77 bound to <f11> and M-<f10>, respectively.
79 ** In keymaps where SPC scrolls, S-SPC now scrolls in the reverse direction.
83 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
85 ** Delphi mode is now called OPascal mode.
86 *** All delphi-* variables and functions have been renamed to opascal-*.
87 *** `delphi-newline-always-indents' is not supported any more
88 use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
89 *** `delphi-tab' is gone, replaced by `indent-for-tab-command'.
91 ** jit-lock-debug-mode lets you use the debuggers on code run via jit-lock.
93 ** completing-read-multiple's separator can now be a regexp.
94 The default separator is changed to allow surrounding spaces around the comma.
98 *** Battery information via the BSD `apm' utility is now supported.
102 *** New macro cl-tagbody.
105 *** letf is now just an alias for cl-letf.
109 *** Calc by default now uses the Gregorian calendar for all dates, and
110 uses January 1, 1 AD as its day number 1. Previously Calc used the
111 Julian calendar for dates before September 14, 1752, and it used
112 December 31, 1 BC as its day number 1; the new scheme is more
113 consistent with Calendar's calendrical system and day numbering.
115 *** The new variable `calc-gregorian-switch' lets you configure the
116 date when Calc switches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
117 Nil, the default value, means to always use the Gregorian calendar.
118 The value (YEAR MONTH DAY) means to start using the Gregorian calendar
121 *** Support for ISO 8601 dates.
125 *** New minor mode `dired-hide-details-mode' hides details.
129 *** New option `erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds'.
130 If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally paste large
131 amounts of data into the ERC input.
133 ** Icomplete is a bit more like IDO.
134 *** key bindings to navigate through and select the completions.
135 *** The icomplete-separator is customizable, and its default has changed.
136 *** Removed icomplete-show-key-bindings.
140 *** New commands `n' (`image-next-file') and `p' (`image-previous-file')
141 visit the next image file and the previous image file in the same
142 directory, respectively.
144 *** New commands to show specific frames of multi-frame images.
145 `f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the
146 next or previous frame. `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame.
148 *** `image-animated-p' is now `image-multi-frame-p'.
151 *** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows.
152 When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration.
153 It also has an optional frame argument, which can be used by Lisp
154 callers to fit the image to a frame other than the selected frame.
158 *** `C-x 8 RET' in Isearch mode reads a character by its Unicode name
159 and adds it to the search string.
161 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.4.
162 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
165 ** The unrmail command converts from BABYL to mboxrd rather than mboxo.
166 Customize `unrmail-mbox-format' to change this.
169 ** Similarly, customize `rmail-mbox-format' to influence some minor aspects
170 of how Rmail displays non-MIME messages.
173 ** New function `ses-rename-cell' to give SES cells arbitrary names.
175 ** trace-function was largely rewritten.
176 New features include:
177 - no prompting for the destination buffer, unless a prefix-arg was used.
178 - additionally to prompting for a destination buffer, when a prefix-arg is
179 used, the user can enter a "context", i.e. Lisp expression whose value at the
180 time the function is entered/exited will be printed along with the function
181 name and arguments. Useful to trace the value of (current-buffer) or
182 (point) when the function is invoked.
184 ** New command `delete-duplicate-lines' has two types of operation:
185 when its arg ADJACENT is non-nil (when called interactively with C-u C-u)
186 it works like the utility `uniq'. Otherwise by default it deletes
187 duplicate lines everywhere in the region without regard to adjacency.
189 ** New `cycle-spacing' command allows cycling between having just one
190 space, no spaces, or reverting to the original spacing. Like
191 `just-one-space' command it can handle or ignore newlines and
192 leave different number of spaces.
197 *** New connection method "adb", which allows to access Android
198 devices by the Android Debug Bridge. The variable `tramp-adb-sdk-dir'
199 must be set to the Android SDK installation directory.
201 *** The connection methods "scpc" and "rsyncc" are discontinued. The
202 ssh option "ControlMaster=auto" is set automatically in all ssh-based
203 methods, when possible.
206 *** Handlers for `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' for remote machines
207 which support POSIX ACLs.
211 *** The commands `woman-default-faces' and `woman-monochrome-faces'
212 are obsolete. Customize the `woman-* faces instead.
214 ** Obsolete packages:
216 *** longlines.el is obsolete; use visual-line-mode instead.
218 *** terminal.el is obsolete; use term.el instead.
221 *** yow.el is obsolete; use fortune.el or cookie1.el instead.
224 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
225 ** New nadvice.el package offering lighter-weight advice facilities.
227 - add-function/remove-function which can be used to add/remove code on any
228 function-carrying place, such as process-filters or `<foo>-function' hooks.
229 - advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named function,
230 much like `defadvice' does.
233 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
235 ** Removed inhibit-local-menu-bar-menus.
237 ** frame-local variables that affect redisplay do not work any more.
238 More specifically, the redisplay does not bother to check for a frame-local
239 value when looking up variables.
241 ** nil and "unbound" are indistinguishable in symbol-function.
242 `symbol-function' never signals `void-function' any more.
243 `fboundp' returns non-nil if the symbol was `fset' to nil.
245 ** `defadvice' does not honor the `freeze' flag and cannot advise
246 special-forms any more.
248 ** `dolist' in lexical-binding mode does not bind VAR in RESULT any more.
249 VAR was bound to nil which was not tremendously useful and just lead to
250 spurious warnings about an unused var.
252 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
253 The second argument is no longer an SELinux context, instead it is an
254 alist of extended attributes as returned by the new function
255 `file-extended-attributes'. The attributes can be applied to another
256 file using `set-file-extended-attributes'.
259 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
261 ** Support for filesystem notifications.
262 Emacs now supports notifications of filesystem changes, such as
263 creation, modification, and deletion of files. This requires the
264 'inotify' API on GNU/Linux systems. On MS-Windows systems, this is
265 supported for Windows XP and newer versions.
267 ** Changes in autorevert.el
270 *** If Emacs is compiled with file notification support, notifications
271 are used instead of checking the time stamp of the files. You can
272 disable this by setting the user option `auto-revert-use-notify' to
273 nil. Alternatively, a regular expression of directories to be
274 excluded from file notifications can be specified by
275 `auto-revert-notify-exclude-dir-regexp'.
278 *** The new user option `auto-revert-remote-files' enables reversion
279 of remote files when set to non-nil.
283 *** The `face-spec-set' is now analogous to `setq' for face specs.
284 Its third arg now accepts values specifying exactly which face spec to
285 set (defface, custom, or user spec), and it directly sets the relevant
286 property using the supplied face spec.
288 *** Face specs set via Custom themes now replace the `defface' spec
289 rather than inheriting from it (as do face specs set via Customize).
291 *** New face characteristic (supports :underline (:style wave))
292 specifies whether or not the terminal can display a wavy line.
294 ** time-to-seconds is not obsolete any more.
295 ** New function special-form-p.
296 ** Docstrings can be made dynamic by adding a `dynamic-docstring-function'
297 text-property on the first char.
299 ** The `defalias-fset-function' property lets you catch calls to defalias
300 and redirect them to your own function instead of `fset'.
302 ** The 9th element returned by `file-attributes' is now unspecified.
303 Formerly, it was t if the file's gid would change if file were deleted
304 and recreated. This value has been inaccurate for years on many
305 platforms, and nobody seems to have noticed or cared.
307 ** The function `file-ownership-preserved-p' now has an optional
308 argument GROUP which causes it check for file group too. This can be
309 used in place of the 9th element of `file-attributes'.
311 ** New functions `group-gid' and `group-real-gid'.
313 ** The 6th argument to `copy-file' has been renamed to
314 `preserve-extended-attributes' as it now handles both SELinux context
318 * Changes in Emacs 24.4 on Non-Free Operating Systems
321 ** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS Windows.
322 The backtrace is written to the 'emacs_backtrace.txt' file in the
323 directory where Emacs was running.
326 ** The variable `buffer-file-type' is no longer supported.
327 Setting it has no effect, and %t in the mode-line format is ignored.
328 Likewise, `file-name-buffer-file-type-alist' is now obsolete, and
329 modifying it has no effect.
331 ** Improved fullscreen support on Mac OS X.
332 Both native (>= OSX 10.7) and "old style" fullscreen are supported.
333 Customize `ns-use-native-fullscreen' to change style. For >= 10.7
334 native is the default.
337 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
339 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+ version 3.
340 If you don't pass `--with-x-toolkit' to configure, or if you use
341 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' or `--with-x-toolkit=yes', configure will try
342 to build with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2.
343 You can explicitly require a specific version by passing
344 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk2' or `--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' to configure.
346 ** New configure option `--enable-link-time-optimization', to utilize
347 an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
349 ** New configure option `--without-all' to disable most of the optional
350 features (image support, etc.) that are normally enabled by default.
352 ** New configure option `--enable-gcc-warnings' (for developing/debugging
353 Emacs). If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that
354 warn/give errors about possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU
355 system there should be no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems
356 the results may be useful to developers.
358 ** The configure option `--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
359 renamed to `--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
360 Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
361 check that this option enables.
363 ** The configure option `--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
364 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
366 ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and
367 `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed
368 binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the
369 etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break
370 links between the various manuals.
372 ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
373 overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
376 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
378 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
379 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
382 ** The standalone scripts `rcs-checkin' and `vcdiff' have been removed
383 (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
384 no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
387 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
389 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
390 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
391 been adding them there, put them somewhere else; e.g., site-lisp.
393 ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
396 * Changes in Emacs 24.3
400 *** `C-h f' (`describe-function') can now perform autoloading.
401 When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
402 contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
403 automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
404 correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
406 *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
407 even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
408 autoloads have been redefined as functions).
412 *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
413 :background image specification property.
415 *** When available, ImageMagick support is automatically enabled.
416 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
417 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
418 automatically at startup, or when customizing an imagemagick- option.
420 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
421 ImageMagick to view images. (You must call `imagemagick-register-types'
422 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.)
424 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
425 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
426 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
431 *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the
432 next and previous path separator, respectively.
434 *** `minibuffer-electric-default-mode' can shorten "(default ...)" to "[...]"
435 in minibuffer prompts. Just set `minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default'
436 non-nil before enabling the mode.
440 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
441 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
442 that does not have its own specialized help text.
444 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke
445 `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
449 *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice',
450 if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit
451 or expression to evaluate.
453 *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key.
455 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
456 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
457 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
458 that support backtraces.
460 ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'.
461 This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete.
463 ** Most `y-or-n' prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window.
464 Typing `C-v' or `M-v' at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward
465 respectively, without exiting from the prompt.
467 ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new",
468 and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
470 ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
471 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used.
473 ** New option `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles.
474 It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock
475 files (use this with caution).
477 ** New option `enable-remote-dir-locals', if non-nil, allows directory-local
478 variables on remote hosts.
480 ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
481 The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
483 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
484 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
486 ** In the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug', the `C-c m' binding
487 has been changed to `C-c M-i' (`report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer').
488 The previous binding, introduced in Emacs 24.1, was a mistake, because
489 `C-c LETTER' bindings are reserved for user customizations.
491 ** Internationalization
493 *** New language environment: Persian.
495 *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
497 ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port
499 *** Support for fullscreen and the frame parameter fullscreen.
501 *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the
505 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
507 ** Search and Replace
509 *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching.
510 Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any
511 sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the
512 variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a
513 similar existing feature for regexp Isearch.)
515 *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching.
516 This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch.
518 *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'.
519 If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too.
522 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
523 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
524 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
526 ** Navigation commands
528 *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'.
530 *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'.
532 *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called
533 interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1.
535 ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
536 properties on yanked text, in ways that are more general than just
537 removing them (as is done by `yank-excluded-properties').
539 ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether
540 M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end
541 of the buffer. It defaults to t.
543 ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
545 ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command.
546 `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'.
548 ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
549 It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
552 ** New command `C-x r M-w' (`copy-rectangle-as-kill').
553 It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
557 *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register'.
559 *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing
560 the text to put between collected texts for use with
561 M-x append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register.
564 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
566 ** Common Lisp emulation (CL)
568 *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
569 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly;
570 i.e., all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions
571 use the "cl--" prefix).
573 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib'
574 provides it under the name `cl-foo' instead; with the exceptions of the
575 few `cl' definitions that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with
576 pre-existing Elisp entities. These have been renamed to `cl-foo'
577 rather than `cl-foo*'.
579 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is mainly just a bunch of aliases that
580 provide the old, non-prefixed names. Some exceptions are listed below:
582 *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
583 Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
584 In particular, in cl-flet function definitions are lexically scoped,
585 whereas in flet the scoping is dynamic.
587 *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
588 The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery
589 (as opposed to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture
590 definitions in closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding'
593 *** `cl-letf' is not exactly like `letf'.
594 The only difference is in details that relate to some deprecated usage
595 of `symbol-function' in place forms.
597 *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
598 A side effect is that variables without corresponding values are bound
599 to nil rather than being made unbound.
601 *** The following methods of extending `setf' are obsolete
602 (use features from gv.el instead):
603 `define-modify-macro' (use `gv-letplace')
604 `defsetf' (use `gv-define-simple-setter' or `gv-define-setter')
605 `define-setf-expander' (use `gv-define-setter' or `gv-define-expander')
606 `get-setf-method' no longer exists (see "Incompatible Lisp Changes")
610 *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in
611 modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces
612 `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed', and new definition
613 of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added'
614 and `smerge-refined-added', and new definition of `diff-added').
616 *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the
617 face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight
618 changes in context diffs.
620 *** The new command `diff-delete-trailing-whitespace' removes trailing
621 whitespace introduced by a diff.
623 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode.
627 A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
628 per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
629 shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
632 *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed, including (old -> new):
633 **** python-indent -> python-indent-offset
634 **** python-guess-indent -> python-indent-guess-indent-offset
635 **** python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p -> python-pdbtrack-activate
636 **** python-use-skeletons -> python-skeleton-autoinsert
638 *** Some user options have been removed, including:
640 **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
642 **** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
643 Comments are always considered as indentation markers.
645 **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
646 calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
648 **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
649 Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
651 **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
652 Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
654 **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
655 `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
658 *** Some commands have been replaced (old -> new):
659 **** python-insert-class -> python-skeleton-class
660 **** python-insert-def -> python-skeleton-def
661 **** python-insert-for -> python-skeleton-for
662 **** python-insert-if -> python-skeleton-if
663 **** python-insert-try/except -> python-skeleton-try
664 **** python-insert-try/finally -> python-skeleton-try
665 **** python-insert-while -> python-skeleton-while
666 **** python-find-function -> python-nav-jump-to-defun
667 **** python-next-statement -> python-nav-forward-sentence
668 **** python-previous-statement -> python-nav-backward-sentence
669 **** python-beginning-of-defun-function -> python-nav-beginning-of-defun
670 **** python-end-of-defun-function -> python-nav-end-of-defun
671 **** python-send-buffer -> python-shell-send-buffer
672 **** python-send-defun -> python-shell-send-defun
673 **** python-send-region -> python-shell-send-region
674 **** python-send-region-and-go -> emulate with python-shell-send-region
675 and python-shell-switch-to-shell
676 **** python-send-string -> python-shell-send-string
677 **** python-switch-to-python -> python-shell-switch-to-shell
678 **** python-describe-symbol -> python-eldoc-at-point
682 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
684 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
686 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
687 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
689 *** The function `dbus-call-method' is now non-blocking.
690 It can be interrupted by `C-g'. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
692 *** Signals can also be sent as unicast messages.
694 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
695 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus.
697 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
699 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
701 ** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory.
702 Desktop files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
706 *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
707 if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
708 Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
710 *** Typing `M-n' in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp',
711 `dired-do-chown', and `dired-do-touch' yanks the attributes of the
714 *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'),
715 `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), and `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion')
716 mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region.
718 *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff) has changed.
719 It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists.
720 In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark.
722 *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers.
723 The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect.
727 *** New module "notifications", which can send a notification when you
728 receive a private message or your nickname is mentioned.
730 *** ERC will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use any
733 *** New option `erc-lurker-hide-list', similar to `erc-hide-list', but
734 only applies to messages sent by lurkers.
736 ** reStructuredText mode
738 *** Keybindings (see `C-c C-h'), TAB indentation, filling and auto-filling,
739 fontification, comment handling, and customization have all been revised
742 *** Support for `imenu' and `which-function-mode'.
744 *** The reStructuredText syntax is more closely covered.
745 Sphinx support has been improved.
747 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
749 *** A negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
751 *** The window configuration is reset after displaying a TOC.
753 *** The constant `rst-version' describes the rst.el package version.
757 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses `electric-pair-mode' instead of skeleton-pair.
759 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
761 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
765 *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
767 *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
769 *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
771 *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
775 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
776 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
777 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
779 *** The old options whose values specified faces to use have been removed
780 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
784 *** This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
786 *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
787 Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
791 *** Algebraic simplification mode is now the default.
792 To restrict to the limited simplifications given by the former
793 default simplification mode, use `m I'.
797 *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month.
798 See the variable `calendar-month-header'.
800 *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'.
802 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
803 Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this.
805 ** Compile has a new option `compilation-always-kill'.
809 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
811 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
812 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e., the prefix argument does nothing for
817 *** The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color'
818 are now deprecated in favor of the customizable face `term'.
820 *** You can customize how to display ANSI terminal colors and styles
821 by customizing the corresponding `term-color-<COLOR>',
822 `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold' faces.
826 *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy definitions.
828 *** Remote processes are now also supported on remote MS-Windows hosts.
832 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
833 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
834 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
835 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components,
836 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
838 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
839 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
840 in case that is not properly encoded.
842 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
843 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
846 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
847 See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and
848 `flymake-warning-bitmap'.
850 ** The FFAP option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
851 specifying URL types that should be converted to remote file names at
852 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
854 ** New Ibuffer `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'.
855 The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'.
857 ** New option `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' specifies where the
858 `banish' mouse avoidance setting moves the mouse.
860 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
861 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
863 ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes.
865 ** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies the buffer to use
866 for a new asynchronous `shell-command' when the default output buffer
867 `*Async Shell Command*' is already in use.
869 ** SQL mode has a new option `sql-db2-escape-newlines'.
870 If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped
871 by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes
872 that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon.
874 ** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S' in Tabulated List mode
875 (and modes that derive from it), sorts the column at point, or the Nth
876 column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
878 ** `which-func-modes' now defaults to t, so Which Function mode, when
879 enabled, applies to all applicable major modes.
881 ** `winner-mode-hook' now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when
884 ** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
885 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
887 ** `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'.
889 ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix:
890 *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions
891 *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions
892 *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions
893 *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions
894 *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions
895 *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions
896 *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook
897 *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions
898 *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions
899 *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions
900 *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions
901 *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions
902 *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions
903 *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions
904 *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions
905 *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook
906 *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook
907 *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook
908 *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions
909 *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions
910 *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions
911 *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions
916 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
917 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
918 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
927 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
929 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
930 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
931 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
934 ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
935 and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, `defun' and
936 `defmacro' currently return the name of the newly defined
937 function/macro, but this should not be relied upon.
939 ** `random' by default now returns a different random sequence in
940 every Emacs run. Use `(random S)', where S is a string, to set the
941 random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
942 sequence in later calls.
944 ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
945 that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
946 non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
948 ** `select-window' now always makes the window's buffer current.
949 It does so even if the window was selected before.
951 ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
952 font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
953 depends on the graphical library.
955 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
956 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
958 ** `set-buffer-multibyte' now signals an error in narrowed buffers.
960 ** The CL package's `get-setf-method' function no longer exists.
961 Generalized variables are now part of core Emacs Lisp, and implemented
962 differently to the way cl.el used to do it. It is not possible to
963 define a compatible replacement for `get-setf-method'. See the file
964 gv.el for internal details of the new implementation.
966 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
967 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
968 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
970 ** Miscellaneous name changes
971 Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to correct their spelling,
972 or to be more consistent with standard Emacs terminology.
974 *** Renamed functions
975 **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
976 **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
977 **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
978 **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
979 **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
980 **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
981 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
982 **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
985 The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
986 are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
987 **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
988 **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
989 **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
991 *** Renamed variables
992 **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
993 **** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
994 deactivate-current-input-method-function
996 ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed:
997 *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char'
998 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
999 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
1000 *** `iswitchb-read-buffer'
1001 *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report'
1002 *** `set-char-table-default'
1003 *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector')
1004 *** `compile-internal'
1006 *** `mode-line-inverse-video'
1007 *** `follow-mode-off-hook'
1008 *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline'
1009 (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead)
1010 *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs'
1011 (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead)
1012 *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name'
1013 *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
1014 *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
1015 *** `vc-checkout-carefully'
1018 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
1020 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
1021 `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
1022 You can define your own generalized variables using `gv-define-simple-setter',
1023 `gv-define-setter', etc.
1025 ** Emacs tries to macroexpand interpreted (non-compiled) files during load.
1026 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code,
1027 but can also bump into previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
1028 These are generally harmless: they will simply cause the macro calls
1029 to be left for later expansion (as before), but will result in a
1030 warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle") describing the cycle.
1031 You may wish to restructure your code so this does not happen.
1033 ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
1034 Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report.
1035 When finished, use M-x profiler-stop. The sampling rate can be based on
1036 CPU time or memory allocations.
1038 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
1039 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
1041 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
1043 ** Face underlining can now use a wave.
1045 ** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT
1046 of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its
1047 second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via `M-n'
1048 in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values.
1049 More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments.
1053 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
1054 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
1056 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
1057 table, but with a different prefix.
1061 *** New error type and new function `user-error'.
1062 These do not trigger the debugger.
1064 *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill', saying what to do with the
1065 debugger buffer when exiting debug.
1067 *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
1068 message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
1069 to work out which code is doing something.
1071 *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental
1072 recursive invocations.
1076 *** New command `fit-frame-to-buffer' adjusts the frame height to
1079 *** The command `fit-window-to-buffer' can adjust the frame height
1080 if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil.
1082 *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window', similar to
1083 `with-output-to-temp-buffer'.
1085 *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been
1088 *** New option `switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' to restore a
1089 window's point when switching buffers.
1091 *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width'
1092 specify the size of new windows created by `display-buffer'.
1094 *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
1095 non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
1097 *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
1098 tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
1101 *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil,
1102 specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
1104 *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected',
1105 and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
1107 *** The functions `get-lru-window', `get-mru-window' and `get-largest-window'
1108 now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
1110 *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'.
1112 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
1113 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
1115 **** `dired-shrink-to-fit'
1116 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
1117 **** `display-buffer-function'
1118 **** `special-display-buffer-names'
1119 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
1120 **** `special-display-function'
1121 **** `special-display-regexps'
1125 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
1126 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
1127 by the underlying C implementation.
1129 *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
1130 (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds.
1131 PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other
1132 functions that use this format, such as `file-attributes' and
1133 `format-time-string', have been changed accordingly. Old-format time
1134 stamps are still accepted.
1136 *** The format of timers in `timer-list' and `timer-idle-list' is now
1137 [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS].
1138 The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be
1139 accessed via the new `timer--psecs' accessor.
1141 *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form
1142 (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS).
1144 ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN,
1145 instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args; e.g., (log -1.0).
1146 Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
1147 on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt,
1148 log, log10, sqrt, and mod.
1150 ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'.
1152 ** Miscellaneous changes to special forms and macros
1154 *** `defun' and `defmacro' are now macros rather than special forms.
1156 *** `kbd' is now a function rather than a macro.
1158 ** Miscellaneous new functions
1160 *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary keymap that
1161 takes precedence over most other maps for a short while (normally one key).
1163 *** `autoloadp' tests if its argument is an autoloaded object.
1165 *** `autoload-do-load' performs the autoloading operation.
1167 *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed.
1169 *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension.
1171 *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases.
1173 *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'.
1175 *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system.
1177 *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system.
1179 *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
1181 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
1182 *** `automount-dir-prefix' (use `directory-abbrev-alist')
1183 *** `buffer-has-markers-at'
1184 *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist')
1185 *** `window-system-version' (provides no useful information)
1186 *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up')
1187 *** `query-replace-interactive'
1188 *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23)
1191 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1193 ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface.
1194 Pass `--with-w32' to configure. The default remains the X11 interface.
1196 ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds:
1197 `cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows' and
1198 `cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows'. These functions allow Lisp
1199 code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping machinery to convert
1200 between Cygwin and Windows-native file and directory names.
1202 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
1203 Emacs now supports `mouse-highlight', help-echo (in the echo area), and
1204 `mouse-autoselect-window'.
1206 ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
1208 ** On MS Windows, you can pass `--without-libxml2' to configure.bat to omit
1209 support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected.
1211 ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later.
1213 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink "/sw"
1214 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
1217 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
1219 ** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
1222 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
1224 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
1225 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
1226 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
1229 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
1230 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1231 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1232 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
1234 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
1235 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1236 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1237 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
1239 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
1240 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1241 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1242 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
1243 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
1245 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
1246 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1247 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1248 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
1250 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
1251 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
1253 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
1254 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
1255 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
1258 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
1259 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
1260 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
1262 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
1263 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
1264 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
1266 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
1267 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
1269 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
1270 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
1273 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
1275 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
1276 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
1277 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
1279 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
1280 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
1281 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
1285 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
1289 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
1290 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
1292 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
1294 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
1295 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
1297 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
1299 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
1300 default completion style in certain circumstances.
1302 *** New completion style `substring'.
1304 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
1306 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
1310 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
1311 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
1312 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
1313 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
1314 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
1315 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
1317 *** Typing `C-c m' in the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug'
1318 transfers the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there
1319 is one. This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open"
1322 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
1323 and Mail mode changes
1325 ** Emacs server and client changes
1327 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
1329 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
1331 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
1332 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
1334 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
1335 its exit status is 1.
1337 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
1338 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
1339 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
1341 ** Internationalization changes
1343 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
1344 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
1345 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
1346 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
1347 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
1348 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
1350 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
1351 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
1353 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
1354 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
1355 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
1356 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
1359 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
1360 the right window edge.
1362 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
1363 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
1364 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
1365 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
1366 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
1368 *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
1369 (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
1371 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
1372 (U+2010 and U+2011).
1374 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
1375 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
1376 automatically select it.
1378 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
1379 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
1380 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
1382 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
1383 selected for installation.
1385 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
1387 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
1388 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
1389 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
1391 ** Custom theme changes
1393 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
1394 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
1396 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
1397 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
1398 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
1399 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
1400 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
1401 built-in Custom themes.
1403 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
1404 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
1405 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
1406 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
1408 ** Improved GTK integration
1410 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
1411 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
1413 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
1414 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
1415 the default is taken from desktop settings.
1417 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
1418 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
1419 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
1422 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
1423 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
1425 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
1426 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
1428 ** Graphical interface changes
1430 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
1431 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
1432 displayed as a space.
1434 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
1435 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
1437 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
1438 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
1439 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
1443 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
1444 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
1446 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
1447 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
1448 do the right thing in batch mode.
1450 ** Scrolling changes
1452 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
1453 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
1454 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
1455 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
1457 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
1459 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
1460 scroll a line instead of full screen.
1462 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
1463 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
1465 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
1466 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
1467 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
1468 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
1469 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
1471 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
1472 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
1473 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
1474 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
1477 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
1478 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
1480 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
1481 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
1482 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
1483 now includes the SELinux context.
1485 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
1486 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
1490 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
1491 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
1493 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
1494 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
1496 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
1498 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
1499 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
1500 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
1503 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
1504 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
1505 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
1506 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
1507 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
1509 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
1510 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
1512 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
1513 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
1514 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
1515 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
1520 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
1521 in the quitted window.
1523 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
1524 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
1526 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
1528 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
1529 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
1530 for choosing the displaying window).
1532 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
1533 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
1535 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
1536 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
1538 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
1539 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
1540 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
1541 from which such space was obtained.
1543 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
1544 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
1545 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
1546 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
1547 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
1549 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
1550 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
1551 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
1553 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
1554 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
1556 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
1557 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
1558 been shown in a specific window.
1560 ** Minibuffer changes
1562 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
1563 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
1564 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
1566 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
1567 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
1568 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1570 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
1572 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
1574 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
1575 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
1576 successful operation.
1578 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
1579 for `list-colors-display'.
1581 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
1584 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
1588 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
1589 `isearch-yank-line'.
1591 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
1592 `isearch-yank-kill'.
1594 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
1596 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
1598 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
1599 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
1600 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
1601 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
1604 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
1605 also deletes newlines around point.
1609 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
1610 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
1611 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
1614 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
1615 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
1616 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
1618 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
1619 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
1620 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
1621 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
1623 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
1625 ** Selection changes.
1627 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
1628 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
1629 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
1630 mouse commands use the primary selection.
1632 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
1633 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
1635 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
1636 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
1637 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
1638 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
1640 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
1641 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
1642 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
1643 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
1644 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
1646 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
1648 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
1649 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
1650 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
1652 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
1654 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
1655 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
1656 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
1658 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
1659 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
1661 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
1662 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
1663 between applications.
1665 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
1667 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
1668 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
1669 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
1670 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
1671 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
1673 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
1675 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
1676 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
1678 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
1679 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
1680 number to count from and for a format string.
1682 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
1683 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
1684 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
1685 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
1686 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
1688 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
1689 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
1690 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
1691 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
1692 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
1694 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
1695 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
1696 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
1697 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
1698 follows `replace-match'.
1701 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
1703 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
1707 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
1708 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
1709 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
1710 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
1712 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
1714 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
1716 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
1720 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
1722 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
1723 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
1727 *** Support for musical notes.
1729 *** Support for logarithmic units.
1731 *** No longer uses the tex prefix for TeX specific unit names when
1732 using TeX or LaTeX mode.
1734 *** New option to highlight selections using faces.
1736 *** `calc-histogram' has the option of using a vector to determine the bins.
1738 *** New "O" option prefix.
1740 *** Use the "O" prefix to "d r" (`calc-radix') to turn on twos-complement mode.
1742 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
1744 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
1745 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
1747 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
1748 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
1750 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
1751 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
1752 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
1754 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
1756 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
1757 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
1759 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
1760 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
1761 Use `appt-activate' instead.
1763 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1764 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
1765 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
1767 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1768 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
1772 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
1773 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
1775 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
1777 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
1778 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
1781 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
1782 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
1783 parsed as a statement continuation.
1785 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
1789 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
1790 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
1792 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
1793 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
1794 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
1796 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
1797 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
1798 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
1803 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
1804 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
1805 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
1807 *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
1808 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
1810 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
1812 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
1813 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
1817 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
1820 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
1821 optionally do not register names.
1823 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
1824 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
1828 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
1829 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
1830 instead of using the current buffer.
1832 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
1833 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
1837 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
1838 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
1840 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
1841 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
1842 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
1843 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
1847 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
1848 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
1849 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
1853 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
1854 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
1855 debugging of several threads.
1859 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
1860 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
1864 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
1865 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
1866 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
1867 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
1868 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
1870 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
1871 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
1872 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
1875 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
1877 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
1879 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
1880 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
1881 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
1883 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
1884 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
1886 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
1888 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
1890 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
1891 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
1892 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
1893 default), this performs tag completion.
1895 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
1896 See ORG-NEWS for details.
1898 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
1899 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
1900 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
1904 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
1905 in the Rmail incoming message.
1907 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
1908 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
1909 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
1913 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
1914 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
1915 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
1917 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
1918 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
1922 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
1923 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
1924 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
1927 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
1928 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
1929 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
1930 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
1931 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
1932 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
1933 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
1934 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
1936 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
1937 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
1939 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
1941 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
1943 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
1944 the credentials file.
1946 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
1947 If you had that set, you need to put
1949 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
1951 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
1953 *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
1954 SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
1955 to the address you wish to use instead.
1959 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
1960 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
1962 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
1963 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
1964 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
1965 connection is established.
1967 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
1968 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
1970 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
1971 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
1972 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
1973 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
1975 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
1976 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
1977 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
1978 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
1979 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
1980 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
1982 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
1983 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
1985 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
1986 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
1987 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
1989 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
1990 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
1992 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
1996 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
2000 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
2002 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
2003 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
2005 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
2006 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
2008 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
2009 default value to "".
2011 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
2012 for remote machines which support SELinux.
2014 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
2015 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
2016 the degree of parallelism.
2018 ** VC and related modes
2020 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
2021 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
2022 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
2023 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
2024 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
2026 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
2028 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
2029 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
2030 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
2031 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
2032 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
2034 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
2035 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
2037 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
2038 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
2039 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
2040 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
2041 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
2042 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
2044 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
2045 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
2047 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
2048 this was not advertised at the time.
2050 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
2051 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
2052 this was not advertised at the time.
2058 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
2060 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
2061 You can get a comparable behavior with:
2062 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
2063 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
2065 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
2067 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
2069 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
2071 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
2072 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
2074 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
2078 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
2079 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
2081 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
2082 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
2084 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
2086 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
2088 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
2091 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
2093 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
2094 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
2096 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
2097 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
2098 matching closing one.
2100 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
2101 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
2102 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
2103 electric-indent-functions.
2105 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
2106 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
2107 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
2109 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
2110 from which other modes can be derived.
2112 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
2114 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
2115 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
2116 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
2117 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
2120 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
2121 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
2123 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
2124 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
2126 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
2128 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
2129 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
2130 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
2131 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
2132 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
2133 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
2136 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
2138 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
2139 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
2141 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
2143 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
2144 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
2145 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
2146 command still toggles the minor mode.
2148 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
2149 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
2150 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
2151 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
2152 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
2154 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
2155 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
2156 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
2157 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
2158 argument `bidi-class'.
2160 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
2161 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
2162 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
2163 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
2165 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
2166 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
2167 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
2170 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
2171 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
2172 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
2173 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
2174 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
2175 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
2176 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
2178 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
2179 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
2180 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
2181 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
2184 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
2185 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
2186 replaced all known uses.
2188 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
2189 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
2190 major mode is special).
2192 ** Menu and tool bar changes
2194 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
2195 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
2196 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
2197 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
2198 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
2199 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
2201 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
2202 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
2204 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
2205 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
2206 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
2207 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
2209 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
2210 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
2211 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
2213 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
2215 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
2216 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
2217 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
2219 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
2220 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
2221 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
2222 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
2223 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
2224 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
2225 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
2226 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
2227 *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold')
2228 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
2229 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
2230 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
2231 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
2232 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
2233 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
2234 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
2235 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
2236 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
2237 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
2238 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
2239 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
2241 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
2242 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
2244 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
2245 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
2246 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
2247 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
2248 *** `e' (`float-e').
2250 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
2251 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
2253 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
2254 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
2255 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
2256 `finder-keywords-hash'.
2258 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
2259 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
2260 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
2263 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
2265 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
2266 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
2267 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
2268 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
2271 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
2272 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
2274 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
2275 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
2277 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
2279 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
2280 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
2282 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
2283 declared as dynamically bound.
2285 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
2287 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
2288 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
2289 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
2291 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
2293 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
2294 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
2296 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
2297 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
2298 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
2299 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
2300 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
2301 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
2303 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
2304 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
2305 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
2309 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
2310 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
2311 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
2312 buffer) in the window tree.
2314 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
2317 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
2318 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
2319 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
2320 act on any window including internal ones.
2322 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
2323 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
2324 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
2325 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
2326 and `window-body-height' are provided.
2328 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
2329 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
2330 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
2331 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
2332 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
2334 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
2335 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
2336 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
2337 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
2338 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
2339 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
2341 *** Window resizing functions.
2342 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
2343 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
2344 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
2346 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
2347 live window on that frame instead.
2349 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
2350 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
2351 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
2352 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
2353 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
2354 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
2356 *** Window-local buffer lists.
2357 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
2358 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
2359 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
2360 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
2361 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
2363 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
2364 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
2365 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
2366 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
2368 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
2369 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
2370 The old names are kept as aliases.
2374 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
2375 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
2376 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
2377 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
2379 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
2381 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
2382 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
2383 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
2384 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
2385 are user-customizable variables.
2387 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
2389 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
2390 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
2391 frame or window as an Elisp object.
2395 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
2396 properties of the current completion:
2397 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
2398 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
2400 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
2401 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
2403 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
2405 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
2406 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
2407 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
2408 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
2409 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
2410 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
2411 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
2413 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
2414 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
2415 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
2417 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
2418 behavior of `completing-read'.
2420 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
2421 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
2423 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
2424 Instead, the offending function is removed.
2428 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
2429 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
2430 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
2431 non-nil return value.
2433 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
2434 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
2435 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
2436 advertised at the time.)
2440 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
2441 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
2443 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
2445 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
2447 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
2448 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
2449 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
2451 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
2452 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
2454 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
2455 named Emacs server instances.
2457 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
2458 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
2460 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
2461 for higher-resolution time stamps.
2463 ** New input reading functions
2465 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
2466 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
2468 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
2469 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
2472 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
2474 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
2475 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
2476 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
2479 ** Syntax parsing changes
2481 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
2482 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
2483 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
2484 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
2485 Together with this new variable come a new hook
2486 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
2487 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
2488 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
2491 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
2493 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
2495 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
2497 ** Major and minor mode changes
2499 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
2500 as well as those in the -*- line.
2502 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
2505 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
2506 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
2507 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
2509 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
2510 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
2512 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
2513 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
2514 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
2516 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
2518 ** File-handling changes
2520 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
2521 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
2522 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
2523 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
2525 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
2527 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
2528 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
2529 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
2533 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
2535 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
2537 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
2539 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
2542 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
2543 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
2545 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
2546 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
2548 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
2549 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
2550 ImageMagick installation supports.
2552 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
2553 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
2556 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
2557 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
2559 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
2560 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
2561 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
2562 `image-transform-set-scale'.
2564 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
2565 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
2566 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
2567 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
2569 ** XML and HTML parsing
2570 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
2571 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
2572 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
2573 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
2575 ** Networking and encryption changes
2577 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
2578 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
2579 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
2580 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
2581 must also be supplied.
2583 *** New library gnutls.el.
2584 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
2585 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
2586 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
2587 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
2588 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
2589 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
2592 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
2593 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
2594 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
2598 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
2600 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
2601 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
2602 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
2603 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
2604 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
2605 displayed with a "spinning bar".
2607 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
2608 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
2610 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
2611 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
2612 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
2613 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
2614 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
2615 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
2617 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
2619 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
2620 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
2621 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
2622 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
2624 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
2625 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
2627 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
2628 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
2629 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
2630 an empty uninterned symbol.
2632 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
2634 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
2636 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
2637 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
2639 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
2640 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
2642 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
2644 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
2645 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
2647 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
2650 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
2652 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
2653 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
2655 ** New configure.bat options
2657 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
2659 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
2661 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
2663 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
2665 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
2667 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
2668 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
2670 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
2671 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
2673 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
2674 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
2677 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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2683 (at your option) any later version.
2685 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2686 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2687 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2688 GNU General Public License for more details.
2690 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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