no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings
may be useful.
+** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
+as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
+
---
** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw
directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
+---
+** The standalone scripts rcs-checkin and vcdiff have been removed
+(from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
+no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
+
\f
* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.2
** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled.
It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
-automatically at startup or when customizing `imagemagick-types-inhibit'.
+automatically at startup, or when customizing a relevant imagemagick-
+option.
*** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
ImageMagick to view images. You must call imagemagick-register-types
afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.
+*** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
+ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
+`imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
+treated as images.
+
** String values for `initial-buffer-choice' also apply to emacsclient
frames, if emacsclient is only told to open a new frame without
specifying any file to visit or expression to evaluate.
** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
+** Mode line changes
+
+*** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
+(shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
+that does not have its own specialized help text.
+
+*** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to
+invokes `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
+
\f
* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.2
+** Search changes
+
+*** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
+and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
+`M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
+
** M-x move-to-column, if called interactively with no prefix arg, now
prompts for a column number.
\f
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
+** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
+`cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly,
+i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix.
+
+If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it
+under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions
+that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities,
+which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'.
+
+The old `cl' is now deprecated and is nothing more than a bunch of aliases that
+provide the old non-prefixed names.
+
+** VHDL-mode
+- Support for ghdl (free vhdl compiler). Now default.
+- Add/update support for VHDL-AMS packages.
+- Update to VHDL'02 standard.
+- Accept \r and \f as whitespace.
+
** Diff mode
Faces for changes now use the same diff color scheme as in modern VCSes
the face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added'
to highlight changes in context diffs.
+** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode
+on high color displays.
+
** `sh-script'
*** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair.
*** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
** reStructuredText mode
-*** Nearly all keys are rebound making room for more keys and comply
-better to usage in other modes. Bindings are described with C-c C-h.
+*** Rebind nearly all keys making room for more keys and complying
+better to usage in other modes. Describe bindings with C-c C-h.
-*** Major revision of indentation. Now works very similarly to other modes.
-TAB is your friend.
+*** Major revision of indentation working very similar to other
+modes. TAB is your friend.
-*** Major revision of filling. Works fine with most of
-reStructuredText syntax. Auto-filling is also supported.
+*** Major revision of filling working fine with most of
+reStructuredText syntax. Support auto-filling.
*** Major revision of comment handling.
-*** Major revision of fontification. Now works with `jit-lock-mode'.
+*** Major revision of fontification working with `jit-lock-mode'.
-*** reStructuredText syntax is covered more closely in many cases.
-Among other things this improves the experience for Sphinx users.
+*** Cover reStructuredText syntax more closely. Improve
+the experience for Sphinx users.
-*** `rst-insert-list' inserts a new list or continues existing lists.
+*** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
-*** Customization is extended, corrected and improved.
+*** Extend correct and improve customization.
*** Negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
-*** Window configuration is reset after displaying TOC.
+*** Reset window configuration after displaying TOC.
-*** There is a package version in `rst-version'.
+*** Package version in `rst-version'.
** New `derived-mode' filter for Ibuffer, bound to `/ M'.
`/ m' is now bound to filter by used-mode, which used to be bound to `/ M'.
*** bruce.el
+*** ledit.el
+
*** mailpost.el
*** mouse-sel.el
*** patcomp.el
+*** cust-print.el
+
\f
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
\f
\f
* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.2
+** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
+The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
+
+** `macro-declaration-function' is obsolete, use `macro-declarations-alist'.
+
** New function `set-temporary-overlay-map'.
** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
** New error type and new function `user-error'. Doesn't trigger the debugger.
+** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
+now accept a third argument to avoid chosing the selected window.
+
** Completion
*** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
by the underlying C implementation.
** `automount-dir-prefix' is obsolete.
+** `buffer-has-markers-at' is obsolete.
\f
* Changes in Emacs 24.2 on non-free operating systems
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