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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
10
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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14 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
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17
18 Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
20 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
21 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
22 so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
23
24 \f
25 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
26
27 ---
28 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
29 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
30 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
31 --without-gconf.
32
33 ---
34 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
35 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
36 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
37 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
38
39 ---
40 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
41 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
42 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
43 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
44
45 ---
46 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
47 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
48 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
49 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
50 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
51
52 ---
53 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
54 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
55 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
56 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
57
58 ---
59 ** There is a new configure option --with-wide-int.
60 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
61 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
62 to about 2 GiB.
63
64 ---
65 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
66 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
67
68 ---
69 ** There are new configure options:
70 --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
71 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
72 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
73
74 ---
75 ** There is a new configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
76 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
77 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
78
79 ---
80 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
81 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
82
83 ---
84 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
85 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
86
87 \f
88 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
89
90 ---
91 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
92 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
93 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
94
95 +++
96 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
97 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
98 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
99 Nextstep builds.)
100
101 \f
102 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
103
104 +++
105 ** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default.
106
107 ** Completion
108
109 *** shell-mode uses pcomplete rules, with the standard completion UI.
110 +++
111 *** Many packages have been changed to use `completion-at-point'
112 rather than their own completion code.
113 +++
114 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
115 ---
116 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
117 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
118 +++
119 *** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold.
120 +++
121 *** New completion style `substring'.
122 +++
123 *** Completion style can be set per-category `completion-category-overrides'.
124 +++
125 *** Completion of buffers now uses substring completion by default.
126
127 ** Mail changes
128
129 +++
130 *** The default of `send-mail-function' is now `sendmail-query-once',
131 which asks the user (once) whether to use the smtpmail package to send
132 email, or to use the old defaults that rely on external mail
133 facilities (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like
134 systems, and `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
135
136 ---
137 *** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
138 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
139 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail.
140 For example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
141
142 *** smtpmail
143
144 **** smtpmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) if the
145 mail server supports them. It also uses the auth-source framework for
146 getting credentials.
147
148 **** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
149 That variable used to have the default value "~/.authinfo", in which
150 case you won't see any difference. But if you changed it to be a list
151 of user names and passwords, that setting is now ignored; you will be
152 prompted for the user name and the password, which will then be saved
153 to ~/.authinfo. (To control where and how the credentials are stored,
154 see the auth-source manual. You may want to change the auth-source
155 preferences if you want to store the credentials encrypted, for
156 instance.)
157
158 You can also manually copy the credentials to your ~/.authinfo file.
159 For example, if you had
160
161 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
162 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
163
164 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
165
166 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
167
168 **** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
169
170 If you had that set, then you need to put
171
172 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
173
174 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
175
176 *** Mail mode changes (this is the old Mail mode, not Message mode)
177 +++
178 **** New command `mail-add-attachment' for adding MIME attachments
179 ---
180 **** The command `mail-attach-file' was renamed to `mail-insert-file'.
181 The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
182
183 +++
184 *** You can type C-c m from M-x report-emacs-bug if you prefer, and if
185 your system supports it, to transfer your report to your desktop's
186 preferred mail client. This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or
187 OS X's "open" command.
188
189 ** Emacs server and client changes
190 +++
191 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port on which the Emacs
192 server should listen.
193 +++
194 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
195 +++
196 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters can be used to set the
197 frame parameters of a newly-created graphical frame.
198 +++
199 *** If emacsclient shuts down as a result of Emacs signaling an
200 error, its exit status is 1.
201 +++
202 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
203 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
204 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
205
206 ** Internationalization changes
207
208 +++
209 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
210
211 Text that includes characters from right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such
212 as Arabic, Farsi, or Hebrew, is displayed in the correct visual order
213 as expected by users of those scripts. This display reordering is a
214 "Full bidirectionality" class implementation of the Unicode
215 Bidirectional Algorithm. Buffers with no RTL text should look exactly
216 the same as before.
217
218 For more information, see the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the
219 Emacs Manual.
220
221 +++
222 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
223 To disable display reordering in any given buffer, change this to nil.
224
225 +++
226 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
227 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
228 paragraph from its text, as specified by the Unicode Bidirectional
229 Algorithm.
230
231 Setting this to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a particular
232 base direction on each paragraph in the buffer.
233
234 Paragraphs whose base direction is right-to-left are displayed
235 starting at the right margin of the window.
236
237 +++
238 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts.
239 If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs
240 normally displays it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a
241 thin 1-pixel space. In addition to these two methods, Emacs can
242 display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display
243 them at all. To change how these characters are displayed, customize
244 the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'.
245
246 On character terminals, these methods are used for characters that
247 cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'.
248
249 ---
250 *** New input methods for Farsi: farsi and farsi-translit.
251
252 +++
253 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
254 (U+2010 and U+2011).
255
256 ---
257 *** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available.
258 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
259 automatically select it.
260
261 ** Improved GTK integration
262 +++
263 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
264 Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.
265 +++
266 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
267 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose style. On a Gnome desktop, the default
268 is taken from the desktop settings.
269 ---
270 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on the left/right or top/bottom of the frame.
271 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the values
272 top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has entries
273 for this.
274 +++
275 *** The colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken from
276 the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
277 +++
278 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK. You can turn that
279 off by customizing x-gtk-use-system-tooltips.
280
281 +++
282 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success' are available to
283 highlight strings that indicate failure, caution or successful operation.
284
285 ---
286 ** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is built
287 with Xft. To change font, use the X resource font, for example:
288 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
289
290 +++
291 ** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
292 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
293 displayed as a space.
294
295 +++
296 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
297 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
298
299 +++
300 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up, and
301 optionally when copying files. To this end, copy-file has an extra
302 optional argument, and backup-buffer and friends include the SELinux
303 context in their return values.
304
305 +++
306 *** The new functions file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
307 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
308 ---
309 *** Tramp offers handlers for file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
310 for remote machines which support SELinux.
311
312 ** Changes for exiting Emacs
313 +++
314 *** The function kill-emacs is now run upon receipt of the signals
315 SIGTERM and SIGHUP, and upon SIGINT in batch mode.
316 +++
317 *** kill-emacs-hook is now also run in batch mode.
318 If you have code that adds something to kill-emacs-hook, you should
319 consider if it is still appropriate to add it in the noninteractive case.
320
321 ** Scrolling changes
322 +++
323 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
324 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
325 of buffer at first key-press (instead move to top/bottom of buffer)
326 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
327 +++
328 *** New variable `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
329 +++
330 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
331 scroll a line instead of full screen.
332 +++
333 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
334 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
335 +++
336 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
337 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
338 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
339 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
340 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
341 ---
342 *** ``Aggressive'' scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
343 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
344 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
345 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
346 margin.
347
348 ** Trash changes
349 +++
350 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
351 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
352 +++
353 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
354 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
355
356 +++
357 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
358 for `list-colors-display'.
359
360 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
361 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
362 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
363 +++
364 *** `M-x list-packages' shows a list of packages, which can be
365 selected for installation.
366 +++
367 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
368 +++
369 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded and activated
370 automatically when Emacs starts up. To disable this, set
371 `package-enable-at-startup' to nil. To change which packages are
372 loaded, customize `package-load-list'.
373
374 ** Custom Themes
375 +++
376 *** `M-x customize-themes' lists Custom themes which can be enabled.
377 +++
378 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
379 Emacs no longer looks for custom themes in `load-path'. The default
380 is to search in `custom-theme-directory', followed by a built-in theme
381 directory named "themes/" in `data-directory'.
382 +++
383 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
384 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
385 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
386 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
387
388 ** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
389 the remote file-name cache is used for read access.
390
391 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
392 +++
393 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
394 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
395 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
396 subdirectories.
397 +++
398 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
399 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
400 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
401 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
402 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
403 +++
404 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
405 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
406
407 +++
408 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
409 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
410 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- mode ones.
411 The associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed
412 in the corresponding way.
413
414 +++
415 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
416
417 ** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms
418 including md5, sha-1 and sha-2 (sha-224, sha-256, sha-384 and sha-512).
419 The elisp implementation sha1.el is removed. Feature sha1 is provided
420 by default.
421
422 ** Menu-bar changes
423 ---
424 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
425 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
426
427 ** Window changes
428
429 +++
430 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
431 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
432
433 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
434 +++
435 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
436 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
437 for choosing the displaying window).
438
439 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
440 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
441
442 +++
443 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
444 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
445
446 +++
447 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
448 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
449 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
450 from which such space was obtained.
451
452 +++
453 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
454 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
455 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
456 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
457 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
458
459 +++
460 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
461 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
462
463 +++
464 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
465 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
466 been shown in a specific window.
467
468 ** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
469 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the "mouse-1
470 pops up *Messages*" feature, which can now easily be changed.
471
472 \f
473 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
474
475 ** Search changes
476 +++
477 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-kill, instead of
478 isearch-yank-line.
479 +++
480 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-pop, instead of
481 isearch-yank-kill.
482 +++
483 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-line.
484
485 +++
486 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
487
488 *** `count-lines-region' is now an alias for `count-words-region',
489 bound to M-=, which shows the number of lines, words, and characters.
490
491 +++
492 ** The default value of `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' is now t.
493
494 +++
495 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
496 also deletes newlines around point.
497
498 ** Deletion changes
499 +++
500 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
501 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
502 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', these commands kill
503 instead.
504 +++
505 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
506 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
507 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
508 ---
509 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
510 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
511 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; you
512 should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
513 ---
514 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
515
516 ** Selection changes.
517
518 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections was changed
519 to conform with modern X applications. In short, most commands for
520 killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while mouse commands
521 use the primary selection.
522
523 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
524 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
525
526 +++
527 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
528 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
529 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
530 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
531
532 +++
533 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
534 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
535 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
536 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
537 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
538
539 ---
540 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
541
542 +++
543 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
544 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
545 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
546
547 +++
548 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
549 +++
550 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
551 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
552 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
553
554 ---
555 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
556 exactly equivalent to, respectively M-w, C-w, and C-y.
557
558 ---
559 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
560 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
561 between applications.
562
563 ---
564 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
565 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
566 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
567 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
568 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
569 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
570
571 +++
572 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
573
574 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
575 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
576
577 +++
578 ** New command `rectangle-number-lines', bound to `C-x r N', numbers
579 the lines in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this
580 prompts for a number to count from and for a format string.
581
582 +++
583 ** The default value of redisplay-dont-pause is now t
584 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
585 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
586 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
587 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
588
589 +++
590 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
591 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
592 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
593 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
594 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
595
596 \f
597 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
598
599 +++
600 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
601
602 ---
603 ** BibTeX mode
604
605 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
606 Use the variable bibtex-dialect to select support for different BibTeX
607 dialects. bibtex-entry-field-alist is now an obsolete alias for
608 bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist.
609
610 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries' bound to C-c C-a.
611
612 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
613
614 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
615
616 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
617
618 +++
619 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing `comments'.
620 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
621
622 +++
623 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
624 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
625
626 ---
627 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
628 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
629 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
630
631 +++
632 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
633
634 ---
635 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
636 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
637
638 ---
639 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt package
640 by adding appt-make-list to diary-hook has been removed. Use appt-activate.
641
642 ---
643 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
644 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
645 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
646
647 ---
648 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
649 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
650
651 ** Browse-url
652
653 +++
654 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
655
656 ---
657 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
658 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
659
660 ** CC Mode (C, C++, etc.)
661
662 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
663
664 ** comint and modes derived from it use the generic completion code.
665
666 ** Compilation mode
667 ---
668 *** Compilation mode can be used without font-lock-mode.
669 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
670
671 *** `compilation-filter-start' is let-bound to the start of the text
672 inserted by the compilation filter function, when calling
673 compilation-filter-hook.
674
675 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
676 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
677 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *compilation* buffer
678 was used.
679
680 ** Customize
681
682 +++
683 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
684 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
685 To turn off the search field, set custom-search-field to nil.
686
687 +++
688 *** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values.
689 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
690
691 ---
692 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
693
694 +++
695 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
696 choose a color via list-colors-display.
697
698 ** D-Bus
699
700 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
701 or session bus.
702
703 *** The dbus-register-method and dbus-register-property functions
704 optionally do not register names.
705
706 *** The new function dbus-register-service registers a known service name
707 on a D-Bus without simultaneously registering a property or a method.
708
709 ** Dired-x
710 ---
711 *** dired-jump and dired-jump-other-window called with a prefix argument
712 read a file name from the minibuffer instead of using buffer-file-name.
713
714 +++
715 *** The `dired local variables' feature provided by Dired-x is obsolete.
716 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
717
718 ** ERC changes
719
720 ---
721 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
722 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
723
724 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
725 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
726 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
727 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
728
729 ** Eshell changes
730
731 ---
732 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
733 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
734 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
735
736 ** gdb-mi
737 +++
738 *** The GDB User Interface has been migrated to GDB Machine Interface.
739 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
740 debugging of several threads.
741
742 ** Image mode
743
744 +++
745 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
746 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
747
748 ** Info
749
750 +++
751 *** New command `info-display-manual' displays a named Info manual.
752 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
753 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
754 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
755 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
756
757 +++
758 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
759 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
760 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
761 by default.
762
763 +++
764 ** MH-E has been upgraded to MH-E version 8.3.1.
765 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
766
767 ---
768 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
769
770 ---
771 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
772
773 ---
774 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
775 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity, support for
776 more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
777
778 ** Rmail
779
780 +++
781 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
782 in the Rmail incoming message.
783
784 ---
785 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
786 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
787 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
788
789 ** Shell mode
790 +++
791 *** Shell mode uses pcomplete rules, with the standard completion UI.
792 +++
793 *** The `shell' command prompts for the shell path name if the default
794 directory is a remote file name and neither the environment variable
795 $ESHELL nor the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
796
797 ---
798 ** SQL mode
799
800 ---
801 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
802 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
803
804 ---
805 *** New custom variables control prompting for login parameters.
806 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
807 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
808 connection is established.
809
810 ---
811 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
812 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
813
814 ---
815 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
816 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
817 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
818 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
819
820 ---
821 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
822 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
823 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
824 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
825 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
826 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
827
828 ---
829 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
830 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
831
832 ---
833 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
834 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
835 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
836
837 ---
838 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
839 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
840
841 ---
842 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
843
844 ** TeX modes
845
846 +++
847 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
848
849 ** Tramp
850 ---
851 *** There exists a new inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
852 ---
853 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
854 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
855 ---
856 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
857 default value to "".
858
859 ** `url-queue-retrieve' downloads web pages asynchronously, but allow
860 controlling the degree of parallelism.
861
862 ** VC and related modes
863
864 +++
865 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
866 `C-x v +' (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is supported
867 (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the current branch
868 and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt the user for
869 specifics, e.g. a pull location.
870
871 ---
872 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
873
874 +++
875 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
876 The vc-merge command now runs a "merge" operation, if it is supported
877 (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge changes from
878 another branch into the current one. It prompts for specifics, e.g. a
879 merge source.
880
881 +++
882 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
883 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
884
885 +++
886 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
887 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
888 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
889 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
890 In the Log View buffers made by `C-x v L' (vc-print-root-log), you can
891 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
892
893 +++
894 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
895 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
896
897 +++
898 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
899 this was not advertised at the time.
900
901 +++
902 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
903 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
904 this was not advertised at the time.
905
906 ** Obsolete modes
907
908 ---
909 *** abbrevlist.el
910
911 ---
912 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
913
914 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
915 You can get a comparable behavior with:
916 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
917 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
918
919 ---
920 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
921
922 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead)
923
924 ---
925 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
926
927 ---
928 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
929 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
930
931 +++
932 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer)
933
934 ** Miscellaneous
935
936 +++
937 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
938
939 ---
940 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to ido-toggle-vc.
941 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
942
943 +++
944 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
945
946 ---
947 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
948
949 +++
950 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
951
952 \f
953 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
954
955 +++
956 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
957 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
958
959 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
960 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
961 matching closing one.
962
963 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
964 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
965
966 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
967 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
968
969 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
970 from which other modes can be derived.
971
972 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
973
974 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
975 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
976 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
977 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
978 secrets.
979
980 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
981 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
982
983 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
984 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
985
986 ---
987 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
988
989 ---
990 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
991 (The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.)
992 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'.
993 Protection against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set
994 separately. The mechanism for automatically turning off protection
995 for buffers with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
996
997 \f
998 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
999
1000 ---
1001 ** `char-direction-table' and the associated function `char-direction'
1002 were deleted. They were buggy and inferior to the new support of
1003 bidirectional editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the
1004 bidirectional properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property'
1005 with the last argument `bidi-class'.
1006
1007 +++
1008 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
1009 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
1010 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
1011 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
1012
1013 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
1014 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
1015 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
1016 of the header line.
1017
1018 ---
1019 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, which have been obsolete for
1020 more than 10 years, has been further reduced. Now a backquote not
1021 followed by a space is always treated as a "new-style" backquote.
1022 Please consider completely removing all "old-style" backquotes from
1023 your code as a matter of some urgency. If your code uses backquotes
1024 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
1025 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
1026 appropriate conventions may fail to compile. The most common cause of
1027 trouble seems to be an old-style backquote followed by a newline.
1028
1029 ---
1030 ** view-buffer now treats special mode-class in the same way that
1031 view-file has since Emacs 22 (ie, it won't enable View mode if the
1032 major-mode is special).
1033
1034 +++
1035 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode defined by define-minor-mode
1036 now turns the mode ON unconditionally. This is so that you can write, e.g.
1037 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-minor-mode)
1038 to enable foo-minor-mode in Text mode buffers, thus removing the need
1039 for `turn-on-foo-minor-mode' style functions.
1040
1041 +++
1042 ** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
1043 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
1044 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
1045 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
1046 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
1047 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
1048
1049 +++
1050 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
1051 similar to the ones created by shift-selection. In previous Emacs
1052 versions, these regions were delineated by `mouse-drag-overlay', which
1053 has now been removed.
1054
1055 +++
1056 ** The fourth argument of filter-buffer-substring, which says to remove
1057 text properties from the final result, has been removed.
1058 Eg simply pass the result through substring-no-properties if you need this.
1059
1060 ---
1061 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
1062
1063 ** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
1064 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
1065
1066 +++
1067 ** The following obsolete (mostly since at least 21.1) functions and aliases
1068 have been removed (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses):
1069 comint-kill-output (comint-delete-output),
1070 decompose-composite-char (char-to-string),
1071 outline-visible (outline-invisible-p),
1072 internal-find-face (facep), internal-get-face (facep and check-face),
1073 frame-update-faces (not needed),
1074 frame-update-face-colors (frame-set-background-mode),
1075 x-frob-font-weight and x-frob-font-slant (appropriate make-face-* function),
1076 x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (make-face-bold),
1077 x-make-font-italic and x-make-font-oblique (make-face-italic),
1078 x-make-font-bold-italic (make-face-bold-italic),
1079 x-make-font-unbold (make-face-unbold),
1080 x-make-font-unitalic (make-face-unitalic),
1081 mldrag-drag-mode-line (mouse-drag-mode-line),
1082 mldrag-drag-vertical-line (mouse-drag-vertical-line),
1083 iswitchb-default-keybindings (iswitchb-mode), char-bytes (== 1),
1084 isearch-return-char (isearch-printing-char), make-local-hook (not needed)
1085
1086 +++
1087 ** The following obsolete (mostly since at least 21.1) variables and varaliases
1088 have been removed (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
1089 checkdoc-minor-keymap (checkdoc-minor-mode-map),
1090 vc-header-alist (vc-BACKEND-header), directory-sep-char (== ?/)
1091 font-lock-defaults-alist (font-lock-defaults), and e (float-e).
1092
1093 ---
1094 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
1095 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
1096
1097 ** FIXME finder-inf.el changes.
1098
1099 \f
1100 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
1101
1102 +++
1103 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
1104 The `lexical-binding' variable lets code use lexical scoping for local
1105 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
1106 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that file.
1107 +++
1108 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
1109 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
1110 +++
1111 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
1112 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
1113
1114 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
1115 +++
1116 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
1117 declared as dynamically bound.
1118
1119 +++
1120 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
1121 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
1122 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
1123
1124 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
1125
1126 +++
1127 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
1128 This returns the actual value of base direction of the paragraph at
1129 point.
1130
1131 +++
1132 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
1133 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left (RTL) scripts,
1134 this function returns another string which can be safely inserted into
1135 a buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
1136 right of that string. (This works by appending the Unicode
1137 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character when the argument string might need that.)
1138
1139 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right (LTR)
1140 paragraph direction and you need to insert a string whose contents and
1141 directionality are not known in advance, without disrupting the layout
1142 of the line.
1143
1144 ** Window changes
1145 +++
1146 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
1147 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
1148 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
1149 buffer) in the window tree.
1150 +++
1151 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
1152 windows.
1153 +++
1154 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
1155 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
1156 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
1157 act on any window including internal ones.
1158 +++
1159 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
1160 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
1161 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
1162 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
1163 and `window-body-height' are provided.
1164 +++
1165 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
1166 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
1167 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
1168 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
1169 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
1170 +++
1171 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
1172 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
1173 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
1174 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
1175 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
1176 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
1177 +++
1178 *** Window resizing functions.
1179 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
1180 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
1181 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
1182 +++
1183 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
1184 live window on that frame instead.
1185 +++
1186 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
1187 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
1188 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
1189 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
1190 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
1191 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
1192 +++
1193 *** Window-local buffer lists.
1194 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
1195 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
1196 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
1197 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
1198 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
1199 +++
1200 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
1201 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
1202 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
1203 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
1204 +++
1205 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
1206 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
1207 The old names are kept as aliases.
1208 +++
1209 *** Display actions
1210
1211 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
1212 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
1213 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
1214 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
1215
1216 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
1217
1218 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
1219 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
1220 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
1221 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
1222 are user-customizable variables.
1223
1224 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
1225
1226 +++
1227 *** New behavior of `quit-window'.
1228 The behavior of `quit-window' has been changed in order to restore the
1229 state before the last buffer display operation in that window.
1230
1231 +++
1232 *** The new option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
1233 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer shown in a dedicated
1234 frame or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
1235
1236 +++
1237 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
1238 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
1239 frame or window as an Elisp object.
1240
1241 ** Completion
1242
1243 *** New variable completion-extra-properties used to specify extra properties
1244 of the current completion:
1245 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
1246 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
1247
1248 *** Functions on completion-at-point-functions can return any of the properties
1249 valid for completion-extra-properties.
1250
1251 *** completion-annotate-function is obsolete.
1252
1253 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
1254 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
1255 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
1256 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
1257 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
1258 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
1259 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
1260
1261 *** minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map is not used any more.
1262 Instead, the bindings in minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map are
1263 combined with minibuffer-local-must-match-map.
1264
1265 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
1266 behavior of `completing-read'.
1267
1268 +++
1269 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
1270 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
1271
1272 ** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
1273 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
1274 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
1275 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
1276 must also be supplied.
1277
1278 +++
1279 ** pre/post-command-hook are not reset to nil upon error.
1280 Instead, the offending function is removed.
1281
1282 ** New hook types
1283
1284 +++
1285 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
1286 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
1287 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
1288 non-nil return value.
1289
1290 +++
1291 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
1292 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
1293 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
1294 advertised at the time.)
1295
1296 +++
1297 ** The macros `condition-case-no-debug' and `with-demoted-errors' were
1298 added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
1299
1300 +++
1301 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
1302 named Emacs server instances, using TCP sockets.
1303
1304 +++
1305 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
1306 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
1307
1308 ---
1309 ** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
1310 Also the debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will jump
1311 to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked instead of
1312 jumping all the way to the top-level.
1313
1314 +++
1315 ** The function format-time-string now supports the %N directive, for
1316 higher-resolution time stamps.
1317
1318 +++
1319 ** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of characters,
1320 discarding any inputs not inside the set.
1321
1322 +++
1323 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
1324 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
1325 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
1326 obsolete alias.
1327
1328 ** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
1329 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
1330 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
1331 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
1332 Together with this new variable come a new hook
1333 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
1334 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
1335 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
1336 syntactic rules.
1337
1338 +++
1339 ** New hook post-self-insert-hook run at the end of self-insert-command.
1340
1341 +++
1342 ** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
1343
1344 ---
1345 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
1346
1347 ** Major and minor mode changes
1348 +++
1349 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
1350 should be derived.
1351
1352 +++
1353 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
1354 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
1355 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
1356
1357 +++
1358 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
1359 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
1360
1361 +++
1362 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
1363 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
1364 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
1365
1366 +++
1367 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts a new keyword :variable.
1368
1369 +++
1370 ** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
1371 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
1372 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
1373 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
1374
1375 ---
1376 ** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
1377
1378 +++
1379 ** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
1380 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
1381 invalid input.
1382
1383 +++
1384 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
1385 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
1386 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
1387
1388 ** Image API
1389
1390 +++
1391 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
1392
1393 +++
1394 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
1395
1396 +++
1397 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
1398
1399 +++
1400 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
1401 is being animated.
1402
1403 ---
1404 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
1405 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
1406
1407 +++
1408 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
1409 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
1410 Then the function `imagemagick-types' returns a list of image file
1411 extensions that your installation of ImageMagick supports. The
1412 function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick support for
1413 these image types, minus those listed in `imagemagick-types-inhibit'.
1414 Visiting one of these file types will then use Image mode.
1415
1416 ---
1417 *** New commands to resize and rotate images in Image mode.
1418 These require Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
1419 image-transform-fit-to-height, image-transform-fit-to-width,
1420 image-transform-set-rotation, image-transform-set-scale.
1421
1422 ** XML and HTML parsing
1423 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new functions:
1424 `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML) and
1425 `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an Emacs
1426 Lisp parse tree.
1427
1428 FIXME: These should be front-ended by xml.el.
1429
1430 ** GnuTLS
1431
1432 *** New library `gnutls.el'.
1433 This requires Emacs to have been built with GnuTLS support.
1434 The main functions are `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'.
1435 It's easiest to use these functions through `open-network-stream'
1436 because it can upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically
1437 or use plain SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set
1438 `gnutls-log-level' greater than 0.
1439
1440 ** Isearch
1441
1442 ---
1443 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
1444
1445 +++
1446 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
1447 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
1448 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
1449 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
1450 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
1451 displayed with a "spinning bar".
1452
1453 +++
1454 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
1455 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
1456
1457 ---
1458 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
1459 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
1460 delayed-warnings-hook after post-command-hook. At present, this is
1461 only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
1462 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the functions
1463 display-delayed-warnings and collapse-delayed-warnings.
1464
1465
1466 +++
1467 ** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
1468 as well as those in the -*- line.
1469
1470 ---
1471 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
1472
1473 +++
1474 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
1475 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
1476 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
1477 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
1478
1479 +++
1480 ** Set `debug-on-event' to make Emacs enter the debugger e.g. on receipt
1481 of SIGUSR1. This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
1482
1483 +++
1484 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
1485 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
1486 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
1487 an empty uninterned symbol.
1488
1489 +++
1490 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
1491
1492 ** Obsolete functions and variables
1493
1494 ---
1495 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
1496 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
1497
1498 +++
1499 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
1500 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
1501
1502 ---
1503 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
1504
1505 ---
1506 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
1507 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
1508
1509 +++
1510 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
1511
1512 \f
1513 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
1514
1515 ---
1516 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
1517 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
1518
1519 ** New configure.bat options
1520
1521 +++
1522 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
1523
1524 +++
1525 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
1526
1527 +++
1528 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
1529
1530 +++
1531 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
1532
1533 +++
1534 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
1535
1536 ---
1537 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
1538 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
1539
1540 +++
1541 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
1542 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
1543
1544 \f
1545 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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1547
1548 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
1549 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
1550 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1551 (at your option) any later version.
1552
1553 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1554 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1555 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1556 GNU General Public License for more details.
1557
1558 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
1559 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
1560
1561 \f
1562 Local variables:
1563 mode: outline
1564 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
1565 end: