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-Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
from load-path. -Q now implies this.
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-** On Windows, Emacs now warns when the obsolete _emacs init file is used,
-and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
-
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* Changes in Emacs 24.1
** Completion
*** shell-mode uses pcomplete rules, with the standard completion UI.
-
++++
*** Many packages have been changed to use `completion-at-point'
rather than their own completion code.
-
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*** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
---
*** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
** Mail changes
-The default of `send-mail-function' is now `sendmail-query-once',
++++
+*** The default of `send-mail-function' is now `sendmail-query-once',
which asks the user (once) whether to use the smtpmail package to send
email, or to use the old defaults that rely on external mail
facilities (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like
in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
-*** sendmail changes
+*** Mail mode changes (this is the old Mail mode, not Message mode)
+++
-You can now add MIME attachments to outgoing messages with the new
-command `mail-add-attachment'.
-
+**** New command `mail-add-attachment' for adding MIME attachments
---
-The command `mail-attach-file' was renamed to `mail-insert-file'; the
-old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
+**** The command `mail-attach-file' was renamed to `mail-insert-file'.
+The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
** Emacs server and client changes
+++
loaded, customize `package-load-list'.
** Custom Themes
-
++++
*** `M-x customize-themes' lists Custom themes which can be enabled.
-
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*** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
Emacs no longer looks for custom themes in `load-path'. The default
is to search in `custom-theme-directory', followed by a built-in theme
directory named "themes/" in `data-directory'.
-
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*** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
subdirectories.
-
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*** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
*** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
++++
+*** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
+to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
+applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- mode ones.
+The associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed
+in the corresponding way.
+
+++
** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
prompts for a number to count from and for a format string.
+++
-** The default value of redisplay-dont-change is now t
+** The default value of redisplay-dont-pause is now t
This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
+++
** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
++++
** browse-url has a new variable `browse-url-mailto-function'
specifies how mailto: URLs are handled. The default is `browse-url-mail'.
** Customize
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*** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
To turn off the search field, set custom-search-field to nil.
++++
*** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values.
Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
*** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
++++
*** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
choose a color via list-colors-display.
on a D-Bus without simultaneously registering a property or a method.
** Dired-x
-
+---
*** dired-jump and dired-jump-other-window called with a prefix argument
read a file name from the minibuffer instead of using buffer-file-name.
exists, that is used instead.
** gdb-mi
-
++++
*** GDB User Interface migrated to GDB Machine Interface and now
supports multithread non-stop debugging and debugging of several
threads simultaneously.
remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual you want to
consult.
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+*** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
+This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
+and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
+by default.
+
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** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
** MH-E has been upgraded to MH-E version 8.3.1.
Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
** Shell mode
-
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*** Shell mode uses pcomplete rules, with the standard completion UI.
-
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*** The `shell' command prompts for the shell path name if the default
directory is a remote file name and neither the environment variable
$ESHELL nor the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
-*** New variable `shell-dir-cookie-re'.
-If set to an appropriate regexp, Shell mode can track your cwd by
-reading it from your prompt.
-
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** SQL Mode enhancements.
---
*** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
++++
*** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
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* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
+---
+** On MS Windows, Emacs now warns when the obsolete _emacs init file is used,
+and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
+
** New configure.bat option --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra
runtime checks.
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