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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
11 See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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24 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
27 ** The default toolkit has been changed to Gtk+ version 3.
28 If you don't pass --with-x-toolkit to configure or if you pass
29 --with-x-toolkit=gtk or --with-x-toolkit=yes, configure will try to build
30 with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2.
31 You can explicitly require a specific version by passing
32 --with-x-toolkit=gtk2 or --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 to configure.
35 ** New configure option '--without-all' to disable additional features.
36 This disables most of the features that are normally enabled by default.
39 ** New configure option '--enable-link-time-optimization' to utilize
40 an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
43 ** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers.
44 If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about
45 possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be
46 no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings
50 ** The configure option '--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
51 renamed to '--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
52 Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
53 check that this option enables.
56 ** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
57 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
60 ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
61 overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
65 ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and
66 `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed
67 binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the
68 etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break
69 links between the various manuals.
72 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
75 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
76 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
80 ** The standalone scripts rcs-checkin and vcdiff have been removed
81 (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
82 no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
85 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
88 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
89 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
90 been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
93 ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
96 * Changes in Emacs 24.3
99 ** Most y-or-n prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window.
100 Typing C-v or M-v at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward
101 respectively, without exiting from the prompt.
105 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
106 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
107 that does not have its own specialized help text.
109 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke
110 `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
115 *** `C-h f' (describe-function) can now perform autoloading.
116 When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
117 contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
118 automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
119 correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
122 *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
123 even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
124 autoloads have been redefined as functions).
126 ** Minibuffer changes
128 *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the
129 next and previous path separator, respectively.
131 *** minibuffer-electric-default-mode can rewrite (default ...) to [...].
132 Just set minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default to t before enabling the mode.
134 ** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled.
135 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
136 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
137 automatically at startup, or when customizing a relevant imagemagick-
140 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
141 ImageMagick to view images. You must call imagemagick-register-types
142 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.
144 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
145 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
146 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
149 *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
150 :background image spec property.
152 ** Server and client changes
154 *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice',
155 if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit
156 or expression to evaluate.
158 *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key.
160 ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new",
161 and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
164 ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'.
165 This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete.
167 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
168 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
169 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
170 that support backtraces.
173 ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
174 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used.
177 ** New variable `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles.
178 It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock
179 files (use this with caution).
182 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
183 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
186 ** Setting `enable-remote-dir-locals' to non-nil allows directory
187 local variables on remote hosts.
190 ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
191 The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
193 ** Internationalization changes
195 *** New language environment: Persian.
197 *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
199 ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port changes
201 *** Fullscreen and frame parameter fullscreen is supported.
203 *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the
207 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
209 ** Navigation command changes
211 *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'.
213 *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'.
215 *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called
216 interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1.
218 ** Search and Replace changes
220 *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching.
221 Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any
222 sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the
223 variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a
224 similar existing feature for regexp Isearch).
226 *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching.
227 This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch.
229 *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'.
230 If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too.
233 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
234 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
235 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
238 ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command.
239 `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'.
242 ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
243 It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
247 ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether
248 M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end
249 of the buffer. It defaults to t.
253 *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register.
255 *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing
256 the text to put between collected texts for use with M-x
257 append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register.
260 ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
263 ** New command `C-x r M-w' (copy-rectangle-as-kill).
264 It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
266 ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
267 properties on yanked text, in more ways that are more general than
268 just removing them, as done by `yank-excluded-properties'.
271 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
275 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
276 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
277 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
279 *** The old options whose values specified faces to use were removed
280 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
283 This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
285 *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
286 Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
291 *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month.
292 See the variable `calendar-month-header'.
295 *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'.
298 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
299 Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this.
303 *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
304 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly,
305 i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions use
308 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it
309 under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions
310 that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities,
311 which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'.
313 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is just a bunch of aliases that
314 provide the old non-prefixed names.
316 *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
317 Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
319 *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
320 The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery (as opposed
321 to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture definitions in
322 closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding' is in use.
325 *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
326 A side effect is that vars without corresponding value are bound to nil
327 rather than making them unbound.
331 *** New option `compilation-always-kill'.
335 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
337 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
338 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e. the prefix argument does nothing for
343 *** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory. Desktop
344 files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
349 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
352 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
355 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
356 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
359 *** The function `dbus-call-method' works non-blocking now, it can be
360 interrupted by C-g. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
363 *** Signals can be sent also as unicast message.
366 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
367 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus. See the manual for
371 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
374 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
378 *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in
379 modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces
380 `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed' and new definition
381 of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added'
382 and `smerge-refined-added' and new definition of `diff-added').
384 *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the
385 face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight
386 changes in context diffs.
388 *** The new command `diff-remove-trailing-whitespace' fixes trailing
389 whitespace problems introduced by the diff.
393 *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
394 if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
395 Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
397 *** Typing M-n in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp',
398 `dired-do-chown', `dired-do-touch' pulls the file attributes of the
401 *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'),
402 `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion')
403 mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region.
405 *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff) has changed.
406 It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists.
407 In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark.
409 *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers.
410 The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect.
413 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode.
415 ** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the
416 channel keys found, if any.
418 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
419 See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and
420 `flymake-warning-bitmap'.
424 *** The obsolete variable `follow-mode-off-hook' has been removed.
426 *** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
427 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
431 *** The option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
432 specifying URL types which should be converted to remote file names at
433 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
436 `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'.
440 *** New `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'.
441 The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'.
443 ** Mouse Avoidance mode
445 The new variable `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' can now be used to
446 customize Mouse Avoidance mode further.
449 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
450 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
453 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
454 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
456 ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes.
460 A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
461 per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
462 shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
465 *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed:
466 Old defcustom: | New defcustom:
467 python-indent | python-indent-offset
468 python-guess-indent | python-indent-guess-indent-offset
469 python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p | python-pdbtrack-activate
470 python-use-skeletons | python-skeleton-autoinsert
472 *** Some user options have been removed:
474 **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
476 **** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
477 Comments are never considered as indentation markers themselves.
479 **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
480 calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
482 **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
483 Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
485 **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
486 Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
488 **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
489 `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
492 *** Some commands have been replaced:
493 Old command | New command
494 python-insert-class | python-skeleton-class
495 python-insert-def | python-skeleton-def
496 python-insert-for | python-skeleton-for
497 python-insert-if | python-skeleton-if
498 python-insert-try/except | python-skeleton-try
499 python-insert-try/finally | python-skeleton-try
500 python-insert-while | python-skeleton-while
501 python-find-function | python-nav-jump-to-defun
502 python-next-statement | python-nav-forward-sentence
503 python-previous-statement | python-nav-backward-sentence
504 python-send-buffer | python-shell-send-buffer
505 python-send-defun | python-shell-send-defun
506 python-send-region | python-shell-send-region
507 python-send-region-and-go | Emulate with python-shell-send-region and
508 python-shell-switch-to-shell
509 python-send-string | python-shell-send-string
510 python-switch-to-python | python-shell-switch-to-shell
511 python-describe-symbol | python-eldoc-at-point
513 ** reStructuredText mode
515 *** Rebind nearly all keys making room for more keys and complying
516 better to usage in other modes. Describe bindings with C-c C-h.
518 *** Major revision of indentation working very similar to other
519 modes. TAB is your friend.
521 *** Major revision of filling working fine with most of
522 reStructuredText syntax. Support auto-filling.
524 *** Major revision of comment handling.
526 *** Major revision of fontification working with `jit-lock-mode'.
528 *** Cover reStructuredText syntax more closely. Improve
529 the experience for Sphinx users.
531 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
533 *** Extend correct and improve customization.
535 *** Negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
537 *** Reset window configuration after displaying TOC.
539 *** Package version in `rst-version'.
541 *** Support `imenu' and `which-func'.
545 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair.
547 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
549 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
553 *** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies what buffer to use
554 for a new asynchronous shell command when the default output buffer
555 `*Async Shell Command*' is already taken by another running command.
559 *** DB2 added `sql-db2-escape-newlines'
561 If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped
562 by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes
563 that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon.
565 ** Tabulated List and packages derived from it
567 *** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S', sorts the column
568 at point, or the Nth column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
572 The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color' are
573 now deprecated in favor of the `term-face' face, that you can
574 customize. Also, it is now possible to customize how are displayed the
575 ANSI terminal colors and styles by customizing the corresponding
576 `term-color-<COLOR>', `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold'
581 *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy
582 definitions. See the manual for details.
584 *** Remote processes are now supported also on remote Windows host.
588 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
589 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
590 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
591 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components
592 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
594 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
595 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
596 in case that is not properly encoded.
600 *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
602 *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
604 *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
606 *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
608 ** which-function-mode now applies to all applicable major modes by default.
611 ** winner-mode-hook now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when it is
614 ** FIXME something happened to ses.el, 2012-04-17.
616 ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix:
617 *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions
618 *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions
619 *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions
620 *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions
621 *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions
622 *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions
623 *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook
624 *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions
625 *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions
626 *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions
627 *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions
628 *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions
629 *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions
630 *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions
631 *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions
632 *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook
633 *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook
634 *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook
635 *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions
636 *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions
637 *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions
638 *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions
640 ** Obsolete packages:
643 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
644 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
645 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
660 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
662 FIXME? erc-desktop-notifications.el, gv.el, profiler.el,
663 gnus-notifications.el, mm-archive.el
666 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
669 ** set-buffer-multibyte now signals an error in narrowed buffers.
672 ** (random) by default now returns a different random sequence in
673 every Emacs run. Use (random S), where S is a string, to set the
674 random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
675 sequence in later calls.
678 ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
679 font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
680 depends on the graphical library.
682 ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
683 that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
684 non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
687 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
688 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
689 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
693 ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
694 and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, defun and
695 defmacro currently return the name of the newly defined function/macro
696 but this should not be relied upon.
699 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
700 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
703 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
704 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
705 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
708 Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to avoid problems with spelling
709 that is incorrect or inconsistent with how Emacs normally spells a word.
711 *** Renamed functions
713 **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
714 **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
715 **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
716 **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
717 **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
718 **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
719 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
720 **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
723 The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
724 are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
726 **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
727 **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
728 **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
730 *** Renamed Lisp variables
732 **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
733 **** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
734 deactivate-current-input-method-function
736 ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces were removed:
738 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
739 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
740 *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char'.
741 *** `iswitchb-read-buffer'
742 *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report'
743 *** `set-char-table-default'
744 *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector').
745 *** `compile-internal'
746 *** `mode-line-inverse-video'
747 *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline'
748 (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead)
749 *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs'
750 (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead)
751 *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name'
752 *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
753 *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
754 *** `vc-checkout-carefully'
758 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3
760 ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
761 Try M-x profiler-start ... M-x profiler-stop; and then M-x profiler-report.
762 The sampling rate can be based on CPU time (only supported on some
763 systems), or based on memory allocations.
765 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
766 `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
769 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
770 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
774 *** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT
775 of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its
776 second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via M-n
777 in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values.
778 More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments.
782 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
783 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
785 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
786 table, but with a different prefix.
790 *** New error type and new function `user-error'.
791 These do not trigger the debugger.
793 *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill'.
795 *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
796 message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
797 to work out which code is doing something.
799 *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental
800 recursive invocations.
804 *** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
805 now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
807 *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'.
809 *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window'.
811 *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been
814 *** New function `fit-frame-to-buffer' and new options
815 `fit-frame-to-buffer' and `fit-frame-to-buffer-bottom-margin'.
817 *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected',
818 `display-buffer-at-bottom' and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
820 *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
821 tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
824 *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
825 non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
827 *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil,
828 specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
830 *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width'
831 to specify size of new window created by `display-buffer'.
833 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
834 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
837 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
838 **** `special-display-regexps'
839 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
840 **** `special-display-buffer-names'
841 **** `special-display-function'
842 **** `display-buffer-function'
843 **** `dired-shrink-to-fit'
847 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
848 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
849 by the underlying C implementation.
851 *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
852 (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds.
853 PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other
854 functions that use this format, such as file-attributes and
855 format-time-string, have been changed accordingly. Old-format time
856 stamps are still accepted.
858 *** The format of timers in timer-list and timer-idle-list is now
859 [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS].
860 The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be
861 accessed via the new timer--psecs accessor.
863 *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form
864 (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS).
867 ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN,
868 instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args, e.g. (log -1.0).
869 Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
870 on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt,
871 log, log10, sqrt, and mod.
873 ** Interpreted files are eagerly macro-expanded during load.
874 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code,
875 but can also bump into harmless and previously unnoticed cyclic
876 dependencies. These should not be fatal: they will simply cause the
877 macro-calls to be left for later expansion (as before), but will also
878 result in a warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle")
879 describing the cycle.
881 ** Miscellaneous new functions:
884 *** `autoload-do-load'
886 *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed.
887 *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension.
888 *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases.
890 *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'.
891 *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary overlay map.
893 *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system.
895 *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system.
896 *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
898 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
900 ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'.
902 ** Face underlining can now use a wave.
903 See the "Face Attributes" section of the Elisp manual.
905 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
907 *** `automount-dir-prefix'
908 *** `buffer-has-markers-at'
909 *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist')
910 *** `window-system-version'
911 *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up')
912 *** `query-replace-interactive'
913 *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23)
916 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on non-free operating systems
919 ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface.
920 Pass --with-w32 to configure. The default remains the X11 interface.
922 ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds:
923 `cygwin-convert-path-from-windows' and `cygwin-convert-path-to-windows'.
924 These functions allow Lisp code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping
925 machinery to convert between Cygwin and Windows-native file names.
927 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
928 Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and
929 `mouse-autoselect-window'.
931 ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
934 ** On MS Windows, you can pass --without-libxml2 to configure.bat to omit
935 support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected.
938 ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later.
941 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw
942 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
945 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
947 ** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
950 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
952 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
953 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
954 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
957 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
958 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
959 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
960 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
962 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
963 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
964 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
965 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
967 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
968 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
969 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
970 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
971 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
973 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
974 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
975 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
976 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
978 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
979 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
981 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
982 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
983 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
986 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
987 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
988 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
990 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
991 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
992 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
994 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
995 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
997 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
998 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
1001 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
1003 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
1004 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
1005 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
1007 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
1008 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
1009 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
1013 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
1017 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
1018 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
1020 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
1022 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
1023 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
1025 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
1027 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
1028 default completion style in certain circumstances.
1030 *** New completion style `substring'.
1032 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
1034 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
1038 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
1039 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
1040 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
1041 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
1042 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
1043 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
1045 *** Typing C-c m in the buffer made by M-x report-emacs-bug transfers
1046 the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there is one.
1047 This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open" command.
1049 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
1050 and Mail mode changes
1052 ** Emacs server and client changes
1054 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
1056 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
1058 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
1059 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
1061 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
1062 its exit status is 1.
1064 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
1065 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
1066 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
1068 ** Internationalization changes
1070 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
1071 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
1072 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
1073 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
1074 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
1075 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
1077 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
1078 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
1080 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
1081 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
1082 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
1083 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
1086 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
1087 the right window edge.
1089 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
1090 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
1091 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
1092 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
1093 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
1095 *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
1096 (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
1098 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
1099 (U+2010 and U+2011).
1101 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
1102 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
1103 automatically select it.
1105 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
1106 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
1107 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
1109 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
1110 selected for installation.
1112 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
1114 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
1115 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
1116 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
1118 ** Custom theme changes
1120 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
1121 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
1123 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
1124 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
1125 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
1126 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
1127 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
1128 built-in Custom themes.
1130 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
1131 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
1132 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
1133 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
1135 ** Improved GTK integration
1137 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
1138 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
1140 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
1141 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
1142 the default is taken from desktop settings.
1144 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
1145 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
1146 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
1149 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
1150 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
1152 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
1153 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
1155 ** Graphical interface changes
1157 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
1158 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
1159 displayed as a space.
1161 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
1162 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
1164 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
1165 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
1166 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
1170 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
1171 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
1173 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
1174 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
1175 do the right thing in batch mode.
1177 ** Scrolling changes
1179 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
1180 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
1181 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
1182 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
1184 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
1186 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
1187 scroll a line instead of full screen.
1189 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
1190 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
1192 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
1193 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
1194 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
1195 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
1196 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
1198 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
1199 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
1200 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
1201 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
1204 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
1205 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
1207 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
1208 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
1209 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
1210 now includes the SELinux context.
1212 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
1213 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
1217 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
1218 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
1220 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
1221 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
1223 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
1225 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
1226 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
1227 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
1230 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
1231 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
1232 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
1233 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
1234 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
1236 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
1237 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
1239 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
1240 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
1241 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
1242 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
1247 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
1248 in the quitted window.
1250 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
1251 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
1253 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
1255 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
1256 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
1257 for choosing the displaying window).
1259 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
1260 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
1262 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
1263 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
1265 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
1266 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
1267 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
1268 from which such space was obtained.
1270 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
1271 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
1272 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
1273 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
1274 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
1276 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
1277 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
1278 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
1280 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
1281 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
1283 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
1284 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
1285 been shown in a specific window.
1287 ** Minibuffer changes
1289 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
1290 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
1291 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
1293 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
1294 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
1295 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1297 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
1299 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
1301 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
1302 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
1303 successful operation.
1305 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
1306 for `list-colors-display'.
1308 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
1311 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
1315 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
1316 `isearch-yank-line'.
1318 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
1319 `isearch-yank-kill'.
1321 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
1323 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
1325 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
1326 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
1327 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
1328 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
1331 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
1332 also deletes newlines around point.
1336 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
1337 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
1338 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
1341 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
1342 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
1343 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
1345 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
1346 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
1347 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
1348 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
1350 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
1352 ** Selection changes.
1354 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
1355 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
1356 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
1357 mouse commands use the primary selection.
1359 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
1360 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
1362 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
1363 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
1364 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
1365 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
1367 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
1368 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
1369 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
1370 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
1371 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
1373 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
1375 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
1376 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
1377 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
1379 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
1381 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
1382 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
1383 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
1385 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
1386 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
1388 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
1389 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
1390 between applications.
1392 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
1394 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
1395 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
1396 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
1397 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
1398 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
1400 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
1402 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
1403 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
1405 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
1406 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
1407 number to count from and for a format string.
1409 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
1410 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
1411 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
1412 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
1413 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
1415 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
1416 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
1417 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
1418 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
1419 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
1421 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
1422 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
1423 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
1424 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
1425 follows `replace-match'.
1428 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
1430 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
1434 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
1435 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
1436 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
1437 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
1439 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
1441 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
1443 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
1447 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
1449 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
1450 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
1452 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
1454 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
1455 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
1457 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
1458 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
1460 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
1461 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
1462 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
1464 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
1466 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
1467 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
1469 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
1470 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
1471 Use `appt-activate' instead.
1473 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1474 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
1475 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
1477 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1478 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
1482 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
1483 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
1485 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
1487 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
1488 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
1491 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
1492 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
1493 parsed as a statement continuation.
1495 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
1499 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
1500 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
1502 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
1503 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
1504 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
1506 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
1507 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
1508 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
1513 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
1514 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
1515 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
1517 *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
1518 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
1520 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
1522 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
1523 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
1527 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
1530 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
1531 optionally do not register names.
1533 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
1534 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
1538 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
1539 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
1540 instead of using the current buffer.
1542 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
1543 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
1547 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
1548 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
1550 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
1551 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
1552 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
1553 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
1557 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
1558 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
1559 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
1563 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
1564 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
1565 debugging of several threads.
1569 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
1570 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
1574 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
1575 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
1576 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
1577 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
1578 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
1580 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
1581 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
1582 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
1585 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
1587 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
1589 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
1590 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
1591 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
1593 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
1594 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
1596 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
1598 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
1600 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
1601 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
1602 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
1603 default), this performs tag completion.
1605 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
1606 See ORG-NEWS for details.
1608 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
1609 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
1610 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
1614 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
1615 in the Rmail incoming message.
1617 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
1618 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
1619 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
1623 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
1624 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
1625 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
1627 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
1628 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
1632 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
1633 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
1634 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
1637 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
1638 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
1639 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
1640 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
1641 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
1642 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
1643 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
1644 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
1646 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
1647 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
1649 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
1651 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
1653 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
1654 the credentials file.
1656 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
1657 If you had that set, you need to put
1659 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
1661 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
1663 *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
1664 SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
1665 to the address you wish to use instead.
1669 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
1670 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
1672 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
1673 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
1674 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
1675 connection is established.
1677 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
1678 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
1680 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
1681 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
1682 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
1683 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
1685 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
1686 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
1687 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
1688 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
1689 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
1690 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
1692 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
1693 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
1695 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
1696 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
1697 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
1699 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
1700 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
1702 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
1706 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
1710 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
1712 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
1713 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
1715 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
1716 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
1718 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
1719 default value to "".
1721 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
1722 for remote machines which support SELinux.
1724 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
1725 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
1726 the degree of parallelism.
1728 ** VC and related modes
1730 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
1731 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
1732 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
1733 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
1734 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
1736 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
1738 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
1739 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
1740 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
1741 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
1742 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
1744 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
1745 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
1747 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
1748 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
1749 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
1750 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
1751 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
1752 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
1754 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
1755 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
1757 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
1758 this was not advertised at the time.
1760 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
1761 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
1762 this was not advertised at the time.
1768 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
1770 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
1771 You can get a comparable behavior with:
1772 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
1773 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
1775 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
1777 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
1779 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
1781 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
1782 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
1784 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
1788 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
1789 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
1791 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
1792 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
1794 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
1796 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
1798 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
1801 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
1803 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
1804 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
1806 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
1807 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
1808 matching closing one.
1810 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
1811 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
1812 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
1813 electric-indent-functions.
1815 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
1816 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
1817 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
1819 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
1820 from which other modes can be derived.
1822 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
1824 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
1825 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
1826 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
1827 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
1830 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
1831 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
1833 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
1834 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
1836 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
1838 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
1839 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
1840 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
1841 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
1842 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
1843 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
1846 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
1848 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
1849 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
1851 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
1853 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
1854 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
1855 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
1856 command still toggles the minor mode.
1858 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
1859 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
1860 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
1861 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
1862 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
1864 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
1865 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
1866 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
1867 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
1868 argument `bidi-class'.
1870 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
1871 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
1872 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
1873 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
1875 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
1876 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
1877 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
1880 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
1881 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
1882 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
1883 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
1884 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
1885 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
1886 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
1888 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
1889 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
1890 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
1891 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
1894 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
1895 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
1896 replaced all known uses.
1898 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
1899 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
1900 major mode is special).
1902 ** Menu and tool bar changes
1904 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
1905 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
1906 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
1907 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
1908 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
1909 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
1911 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
1912 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
1914 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
1915 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
1916 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
1917 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
1919 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
1920 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
1921 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
1923 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
1925 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
1926 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
1927 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
1929 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
1930 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
1931 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
1932 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
1933 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
1934 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
1935 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
1936 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
1937 *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold')
1938 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
1939 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
1940 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
1941 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
1942 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
1943 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
1944 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
1945 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
1946 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
1947 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
1948 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
1949 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
1951 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
1952 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
1954 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
1955 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
1956 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
1957 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
1958 *** `e' (`float-e').
1960 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
1961 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
1963 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
1964 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
1965 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
1966 `finder-keywords-hash'.
1968 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
1969 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
1970 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
1973 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
1975 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
1976 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
1977 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
1978 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
1981 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
1982 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
1984 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
1985 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
1987 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
1989 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
1990 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
1992 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
1993 declared as dynamically bound.
1995 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
1997 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
1998 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
1999 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
2001 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
2003 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
2004 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
2006 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
2007 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
2008 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
2009 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
2010 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
2011 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
2013 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
2014 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
2015 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
2019 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
2020 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
2021 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
2022 buffer) in the window tree.
2024 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
2027 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
2028 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
2029 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
2030 act on any window including internal ones.
2032 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
2033 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
2034 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
2035 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
2036 and `window-body-height' are provided.
2038 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
2039 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
2040 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
2041 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
2042 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
2044 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
2045 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
2046 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
2047 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
2048 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
2049 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
2051 *** Window resizing functions.
2052 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
2053 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
2054 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
2056 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
2057 live window on that frame instead.
2059 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
2060 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
2061 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
2062 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
2063 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
2064 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
2066 *** Window-local buffer lists.
2067 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
2068 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
2069 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
2070 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
2071 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
2073 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
2074 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
2075 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
2076 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
2078 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
2079 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
2080 The old names are kept as aliases.
2084 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
2085 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
2086 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
2087 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
2089 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
2091 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
2092 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
2093 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
2094 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
2095 are user-customizable variables.
2097 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
2099 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
2100 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
2101 frame or window as an Elisp object.
2105 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
2106 properties of the current completion:
2107 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
2108 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
2110 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
2111 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
2113 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
2115 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
2116 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
2117 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
2118 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
2119 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
2120 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
2121 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
2123 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
2124 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
2125 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
2127 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
2128 behavior of `completing-read'.
2130 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
2131 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
2133 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
2134 Instead, the offending function is removed.
2138 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
2139 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
2140 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
2141 non-nil return value.
2143 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
2144 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
2145 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
2146 advertised at the time.)
2150 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
2151 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
2153 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
2155 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
2157 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
2158 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
2159 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
2161 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
2162 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
2164 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
2165 named Emacs server instances.
2167 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
2168 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
2170 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
2171 for higher-resolution time stamps.
2173 ** New input reading functions
2175 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
2176 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
2178 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
2179 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
2182 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
2184 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
2185 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
2186 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
2189 ** Syntax parsing changes
2191 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
2192 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
2193 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
2194 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
2195 Together with this new variable come a new hook
2196 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
2197 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
2198 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
2201 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
2203 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
2205 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
2207 ** Major and minor mode changes
2209 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
2210 as well as those in the -*- line.
2212 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
2215 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
2216 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
2217 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
2219 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
2220 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
2222 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
2223 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
2224 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
2226 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
2228 ** File-handling changes
2230 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
2231 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
2232 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
2233 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
2235 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
2237 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
2238 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
2239 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
2243 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
2245 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
2247 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
2249 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
2252 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
2253 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
2255 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
2256 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
2258 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
2259 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
2260 ImageMagick installation supports.
2262 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
2263 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
2266 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
2267 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
2269 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
2270 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
2271 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
2272 `image-transform-set-scale'.
2274 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
2275 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
2276 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
2277 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
2279 ** XML and HTML parsing
2280 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
2281 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
2282 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
2283 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
2285 ** Networking and encryption changes
2287 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
2288 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
2289 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
2290 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
2291 must also be supplied.
2293 *** New library gnutls.el.
2294 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
2295 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
2296 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
2297 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
2298 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
2299 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
2302 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
2303 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
2304 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
2308 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
2310 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
2311 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
2312 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
2313 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
2314 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
2315 displayed with a "spinning bar".
2317 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
2318 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
2320 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
2321 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
2322 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
2323 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
2324 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
2325 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
2327 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
2329 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
2330 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
2331 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
2332 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
2334 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
2335 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
2337 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
2338 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
2339 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
2340 an empty uninterned symbol.
2342 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
2344 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
2346 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
2347 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
2349 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
2350 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
2352 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
2354 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
2355 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
2357 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
2360 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
2362 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
2363 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
2365 ** New configure.bat options
2367 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
2369 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
2371 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
2373 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
2375 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
2377 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
2378 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
2380 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
2381 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
2383 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
2384 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
2387 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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2390 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2391 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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2393 (at your option) any later version.
2395 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2396 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2397 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2398 GNU General Public License for more details.
2400 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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