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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
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12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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24 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.2
26 ** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers.
27 If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about
28 possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be
29 no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings
32 ** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
33 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
36 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
39 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
40 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
44 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw
45 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
48 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.2
50 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
51 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
52 been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
55 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
57 ** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user
58 name, group names known to the system (where possible).
60 ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
61 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about which bzr revision was used.
63 ** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled.
64 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
65 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
66 automatically at startup, or when customizing a relevant imagemagick-
69 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
70 ImageMagick to view images. You must call imagemagick-register-types
71 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.
73 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
74 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
75 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
78 ** String values for `initial-buffer-choice' also apply to emacsclient
79 frames, if emacsclient is only told to open a new frame without
80 specifying any file to visit or expression to evaluate.
83 ** You can prevent the creation of lock files by setting `create-lockfiles'
84 to nil. Use with caution, and only if you really need to.
87 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
88 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
92 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
93 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
94 that does not have its own specialized help text.
96 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to
97 invokes `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
100 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.2
104 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
105 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
106 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
108 ** M-x move-to-column, if called interactively with no prefix arg, now
109 prompts for a column number.
111 ** `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' can now be used to customize
112 `mouse-avoidance-mode' further.
114 ** `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' will now move to the path name separator
115 character when doing minibuffer filename prompts.
117 ** `goto-char' is now bound to `M-g c'.
120 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
122 ** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
123 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly,
124 i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix.
126 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it
127 under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions
128 that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities,
129 which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'.
131 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is nothing more than a bunch of aliases that
132 provide the old non-prefixed names.
135 - Support for ghdl (free vhdl compiler). Now default.
136 - Add/update support for VHDL-AMS packages.
137 - Update to VHDL'02 standard.
138 - Accept \r and \f as whitespace.
142 Faces for changes now use the same diff color scheme as in modern VCSes
143 where deletions are displayed in red (new faces `diff-refine-removed'
144 and `smerge-refined-removed' and new definition of `diff-removed'),
145 insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added' and
146 `smerge-refined-added' and new definition of `diff-added').
147 The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use
148 the face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added'
149 to highlight changes in context diffs.
151 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode
152 on high color displays.
155 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair.
156 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
157 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
159 ** reStructuredText mode
161 *** Rebind nearly all keys making room for more keys and complying
162 better to usage in other modes. Describe bindings with C-c C-h.
164 *** Major revision of indentation working very similar to other
165 modes. TAB is your friend.
167 *** Major revision of filling working fine with most of
168 reStructuredText syntax. Support auto-filling.
170 *** Major revision of comment handling.
172 *** Major revision of fontification working with `jit-lock-mode'.
174 *** Cover reStructuredText syntax more closely. Improve
175 the experience for Sphinx users.
177 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
179 *** Extend correct and improve customization.
181 *** Negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
183 *** Reset window configuration after displaying TOC.
185 *** Package version in `rst-version'.
187 ** New `derived-mode' filter for Ibuffer, bound to `/ M'.
188 `/ m' is now bound to filter by used-mode, which used to be bound to `/ M'.
192 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
193 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
194 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
196 **** The old options whose values specified faces to use were removed
197 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
201 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
202 Customize cal-html-holidays to change this.
206 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
208 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
209 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e. the prefix argument does nothing for
212 ** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the
213 channel keys found, if any.
217 *** The option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
218 specifying URL types which should be converted to remote file names at
219 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
223 *** The obsolete variable `follow-mode-off-hook' has been removed.
225 *** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
226 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
228 ** The `server-auth-key' variable can be used to set a permanent
229 shared key for Emacs Server.
231 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
232 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
234 ** FIXME something happened to ses.el, 2012-04-17.
236 ** which-function-mode now applies to all applicable major modes by default.
241 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
244 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
247 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
248 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
251 *** The function `dbus-call-method' works non-blocking now, it can be
252 interrupted by C-g. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
255 *** Signals can be sent also as unicast message.
258 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
259 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus. See the manual for
263 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
266 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
269 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
270 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
273 ** Tabulated List and packages derived from it
275 *** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S', sorts the column
276 at point, or the Nth column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
280 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
281 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
282 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
283 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components
284 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
286 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
287 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
288 in case that is not properly encoded.
290 ** Obsolete packages:
293 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
294 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
295 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
306 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
308 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.2
311 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
312 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
313 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
316 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
317 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
320 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
321 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
322 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
324 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed:
326 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
327 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
330 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.2
332 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
333 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
335 ** `macro-declaration-function' is obsolete, use `macro-declarations-alist'.
337 ** New function `set-temporary-overlay-map'.
339 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
341 ** New error type and new function `user-error'. Doesn't trigger the debugger.
343 ** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
344 now accept a third argument to avoid chosing the selected window.
348 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
349 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
351 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
352 table, but with a different prefix.
356 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
357 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
358 by the underlying C implementation.
360 ** `automount-dir-prefix' is obsolete.
361 ** `buffer-has-markers-at' is obsolete.
363 * Changes in Emacs 24.2 on non-free operating systems
365 ** New configure.bat options on MS-Windows:
367 *** --without-libxml2 omits support for libxml2, even if its presence
370 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
371 Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and
372 mouse-autoselect-window.
375 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
377 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
378 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
379 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
382 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
383 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
384 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
385 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
387 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
388 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
389 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
390 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
392 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
393 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
394 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
395 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
396 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
398 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
399 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
400 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
401 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
403 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
404 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
406 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
407 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
408 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
411 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
412 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
413 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
415 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
416 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
417 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
419 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
420 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
422 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
423 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
426 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
428 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
429 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
430 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
432 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
433 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
434 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
438 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
442 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
443 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
445 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
447 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
448 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
450 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
452 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
453 default completion style in certain circumstances.
455 *** New completion style `substring'.
457 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
459 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
463 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
464 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
465 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
466 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
467 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
468 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
470 *** Typing C-c m in the buffer made by M-x report-emacs-bug transfers
471 the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there is one.
472 This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open" command.
474 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
475 and Mail mode changes
477 ** Emacs server and client changes
479 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
481 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
483 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
484 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
486 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
487 its exit status is 1.
489 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
490 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
491 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
493 ** Internationalization changes
495 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
496 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
497 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
498 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
499 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
500 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
502 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
503 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
505 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
506 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
507 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
508 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
511 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
512 the right window edge.
514 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
515 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
516 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
517 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
518 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
520 *** New input methods: farsi, farsi-translit, bulgarian-alt-phonetic.
522 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
525 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
526 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
527 automatically select it.
529 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
530 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
531 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
533 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
534 selected for installation.
536 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
538 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
539 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
540 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
542 ** Custom theme changes
544 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
545 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
547 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
548 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
549 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
550 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
551 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
552 built-in Custom themes.
554 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
555 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
556 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
557 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
559 ** Improved GTK integration
561 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
562 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
564 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
565 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
566 the default is taken from desktop settings.
568 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
569 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
570 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
573 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
574 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
576 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
577 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
579 ** Graphical interface changes
581 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
582 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
583 displayed as a space.
585 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
586 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
588 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
589 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
590 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
594 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
595 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
597 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
598 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
599 do the right thing in batch mode.
603 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
604 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
605 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
606 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
608 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
610 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
611 scroll a line instead of full screen.
613 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
614 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
616 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
617 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
618 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
619 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
620 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
622 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
623 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
624 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
625 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
628 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
629 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
631 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
632 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
633 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
634 now includes the SELinux context.
636 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
637 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
641 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
642 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
644 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
645 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
647 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
649 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
650 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
651 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
654 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
655 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
656 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
657 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
658 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
660 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
661 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
663 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
664 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
665 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
666 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
671 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
672 in the quitted window.
674 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
675 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
677 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
679 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
680 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
681 for choosing the displaying window).
683 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
684 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
686 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
687 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
689 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
690 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
691 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
692 from which such space was obtained.
694 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
695 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
696 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
697 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
698 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
700 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
701 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
702 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
704 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
705 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
707 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
708 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
709 been shown in a specific window.
711 ** Minibuffer changes
713 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
714 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
715 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
717 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
718 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
719 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
721 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
723 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
725 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
726 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
727 successful operation.
729 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
730 for `list-colors-display'.
732 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
735 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
739 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
742 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
745 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
747 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
749 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
750 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
751 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
752 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
755 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
756 also deletes newlines around point.
760 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
761 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
762 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
765 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
766 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
767 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
769 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
770 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
771 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
772 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
774 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
776 ** Selection changes.
778 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
779 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
780 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
781 mouse commands use the primary selection.
783 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
784 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
786 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
787 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
788 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
789 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
791 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
792 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
793 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
794 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
795 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
797 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
799 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
800 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
801 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
803 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
805 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
806 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
807 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
809 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
810 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
812 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
813 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
814 between applications.
816 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
818 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
819 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
820 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
821 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
822 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
824 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
826 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
827 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
829 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
830 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
831 number to count from and for a format string.
833 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
834 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
835 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
836 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
837 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
839 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
840 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
841 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
842 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
843 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
845 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
846 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
847 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
848 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
849 follows `replace-match'.
852 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
854 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
858 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
859 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
860 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
861 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
863 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
865 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
867 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
871 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
873 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
874 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
876 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
878 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
879 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
881 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
882 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
884 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
885 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
886 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
888 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
890 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
891 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
893 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
894 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
895 Use `appt-activate' instead.
897 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
898 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
899 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
901 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
902 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
906 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
907 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
909 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
911 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
912 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
915 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
916 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
917 parsed as a statement continuation.
919 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
923 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
924 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
926 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
927 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
928 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
930 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
931 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
932 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
937 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
938 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
939 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
941 *** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values.
942 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
944 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
946 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
947 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
951 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
954 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
955 optionally do not register names.
957 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
958 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
962 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
963 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
964 instead of using the current buffer.
966 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
967 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
971 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
972 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
974 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
975 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
976 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
977 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
981 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
982 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
983 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
987 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
988 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
989 debugging of several threads.
993 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
994 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
998 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
999 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
1000 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
1001 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
1002 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
1004 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
1005 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
1006 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
1009 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
1011 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
1013 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
1014 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
1015 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
1017 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
1018 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
1020 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
1022 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
1024 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
1025 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
1026 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
1027 default), this performs tag completion.
1029 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
1030 See ORG-NEWS for details.
1032 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
1033 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
1034 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
1038 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
1039 in the Rmail incoming message.
1041 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
1042 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
1043 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
1047 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
1048 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
1049 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
1051 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
1052 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
1056 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
1057 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
1058 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
1061 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
1062 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
1063 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
1064 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
1065 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
1066 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
1067 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
1068 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
1070 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
1071 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
1073 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
1075 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
1077 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
1078 the credentials file.
1080 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
1081 If you had that set, you need to put
1083 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
1085 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
1089 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
1090 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
1092 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
1093 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
1094 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
1095 connection is established.
1097 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
1098 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
1100 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
1101 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
1102 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
1103 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
1105 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
1106 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
1107 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
1108 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
1109 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
1110 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
1112 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
1113 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
1115 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
1116 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
1117 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
1119 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
1120 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
1122 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
1126 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
1130 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
1132 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
1133 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
1135 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
1136 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
1138 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
1139 default value to "".
1141 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
1142 for remote machines which support SELinux.
1144 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
1145 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
1146 the degree of parallelism.
1148 ** VC and related modes
1150 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
1151 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
1152 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
1153 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
1154 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
1156 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
1158 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
1159 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
1160 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
1161 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
1162 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
1164 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
1165 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
1167 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
1168 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
1169 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
1170 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
1171 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
1172 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
1174 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
1175 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
1177 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
1178 this was not advertised at the time.
1180 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
1181 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
1182 this was not advertised at the time.
1188 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
1190 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
1191 You can get a comparable behavior with:
1192 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
1193 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
1195 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
1197 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
1199 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
1201 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
1202 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
1204 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
1208 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
1209 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
1211 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
1212 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
1214 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
1216 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
1218 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
1221 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
1223 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
1224 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
1226 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
1227 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
1228 matching closing one.
1230 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
1231 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
1232 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
1233 electric-indent-functions.
1235 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
1236 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
1237 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
1239 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
1240 from which other modes can be derived.
1242 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
1244 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
1245 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
1246 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
1247 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
1250 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
1251 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
1253 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
1254 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
1256 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
1258 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
1259 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
1260 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
1261 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
1262 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
1263 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
1266 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
1268 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
1269 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
1271 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
1273 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
1274 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
1275 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
1276 command still toggles the minor mode.
1278 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
1279 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
1280 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
1281 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
1282 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
1284 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
1285 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
1286 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
1287 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
1288 argument `bidi-class'.
1290 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
1291 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
1292 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
1293 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
1295 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
1296 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
1297 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
1300 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
1301 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
1302 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
1303 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
1304 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
1305 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
1306 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
1308 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
1309 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
1310 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
1311 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
1314 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
1315 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
1316 replaced all known uses.
1318 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
1319 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
1320 major mode is special).
1322 ** Menu and tool bar changes
1324 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
1325 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
1326 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
1327 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
1328 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
1329 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
1331 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
1332 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
1334 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
1335 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
1336 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
1337 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
1339 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
1340 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
1341 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
1343 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
1345 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
1346 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
1347 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
1349 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
1350 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
1351 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
1352 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
1353 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
1354 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
1355 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
1356 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
1357 *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold')
1358 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
1359 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
1360 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
1361 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
1362 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
1363 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
1364 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
1365 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
1366 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
1367 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
1368 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
1369 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
1371 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
1372 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
1374 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
1375 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
1376 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
1377 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
1378 *** `e' (`float-e').
1380 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
1381 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
1383 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
1384 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
1385 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
1386 `finder-keywords-hash'.
1388 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
1389 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
1390 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
1393 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
1395 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
1396 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
1397 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
1398 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
1401 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
1402 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
1404 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
1405 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
1407 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
1409 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
1410 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
1412 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
1413 declared as dynamically bound.
1415 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
1417 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
1418 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
1419 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
1421 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
1423 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
1424 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
1426 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
1427 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
1428 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
1429 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
1430 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
1431 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
1433 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
1434 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
1435 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
1439 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
1440 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
1441 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
1442 buffer) in the window tree.
1444 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
1447 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
1448 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
1449 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
1450 act on any window including internal ones.
1452 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
1453 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
1454 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
1455 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
1456 and `window-body-height' are provided.
1458 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
1459 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
1460 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
1461 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
1462 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
1464 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
1465 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
1466 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
1467 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
1468 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
1469 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
1471 *** Window resizing functions.
1472 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
1473 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
1474 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
1476 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
1477 live window on that frame instead.
1479 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
1480 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
1481 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
1482 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
1483 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
1484 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
1486 *** Window-local buffer lists.
1487 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
1488 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
1489 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
1490 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
1491 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
1493 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
1494 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
1495 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
1496 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
1498 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
1499 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
1500 The old names are kept as aliases.
1504 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
1505 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
1506 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
1507 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
1509 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
1511 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
1512 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
1513 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
1514 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
1515 are user-customizable variables.
1517 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
1519 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
1520 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
1521 frame or window as an Elisp object.
1525 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
1526 properties of the current completion:
1527 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
1528 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
1530 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
1531 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
1533 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
1535 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
1536 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
1537 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
1538 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
1539 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
1540 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
1541 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
1543 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
1544 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
1545 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
1547 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
1548 behavior of `completing-read'.
1550 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
1551 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
1553 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
1554 Instead, the offending function is removed.
1558 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
1559 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
1560 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
1561 non-nil return value.
1563 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
1564 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
1565 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
1566 advertised at the time.)
1570 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
1571 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
1573 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
1575 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
1577 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
1578 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
1579 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
1581 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
1582 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
1584 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
1585 named Emacs server instances.
1587 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
1588 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
1590 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
1591 for higher-resolution time stamps.
1593 ** New input reading functions
1595 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
1596 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
1598 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
1599 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
1602 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
1604 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
1605 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
1606 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
1609 ** Syntax parsing changes
1611 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
1612 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
1613 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
1614 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
1615 Together with this new variable come a new hook
1616 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
1617 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
1618 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
1621 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
1623 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
1625 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
1627 ** Major and minor mode changes
1629 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
1630 as well as those in the -*- line.
1632 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
1635 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
1636 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
1637 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
1639 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
1640 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
1642 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
1643 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
1644 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
1646 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
1648 ** File-handling changes
1650 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
1651 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
1652 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
1653 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
1655 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
1657 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
1658 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
1659 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
1663 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
1665 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
1667 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
1669 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
1672 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
1673 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
1675 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
1676 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
1678 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
1679 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
1680 ImageMagick installation supports.
1682 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
1683 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
1686 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
1687 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
1689 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
1690 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
1691 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
1692 `image-transform-set-scale'.
1694 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
1695 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
1696 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
1697 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
1699 ** XML and HTML parsing
1700 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
1701 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
1702 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
1703 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
1705 ** Networking and encryption changes
1707 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
1708 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
1709 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
1710 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
1711 must also be supplied.
1713 *** New library gnutls.el.
1714 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
1715 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
1716 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
1717 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
1718 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
1719 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
1722 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
1723 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
1724 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
1728 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
1730 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
1731 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
1732 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
1733 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
1734 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
1735 displayed with a "spinning bar".
1737 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
1738 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
1740 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
1741 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
1742 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
1743 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
1744 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
1745 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
1747 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
1749 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
1750 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
1751 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
1752 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
1754 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
1755 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
1757 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
1758 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
1759 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
1760 an empty uninterned symbol.
1762 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
1764 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
1766 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
1767 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
1769 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
1770 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
1772 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
1774 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
1775 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
1777 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
1780 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
1782 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
1783 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
1785 ** New configure.bat options
1787 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
1789 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
1791 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
1793 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
1795 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
1797 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
1798 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
1800 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
1801 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
1803 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
1804 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
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