** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
from load-path. -Q now implies this.
+** On Windows, Emacs now warns when the obsolete _emacs init file is used.
+
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* Changes in Emacs 24.1
** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold.
+** `completing-read' can be customized using the new variable
+`completing-read-function'
+
** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default.
+++
** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
+** On Nextstep/OSX, the menu bar can be hidden by customizing
+ ns-auto-hide-menu-bar.
+
** Basic SELinux support has been added.
This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
consider if it is still appropriate to add it in the noninteractive case.
** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
-(bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) does not signal errors at top/bottom
-of buffer at first key-press (instead moves to top/bottom of buffer)
+(bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
+of buffer at first key-press (instead move to top/bottom of buffer)
when a new variable `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
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* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
+** Search changes
+
++++
+*** C-y in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-kill, instead of
+isearch-yank-line.
+
++++
+*** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-line.
+
+++
** There is a new command `count-words-region', which does what you expect.
the lines in the current rectangle. With an prefix argument, this
prompts for a number to count from and for a format string.
+** The command shell prompts for the shell path name, when the default
+directory is a remote file name and neither environment variable
+$ESHELL nor variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
+
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* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
** Archive Mode has basic support to browse 7z archives.
** browse-url has gotten a new variable that is used for mailto: URLs,
- `browse-url-mailto-function', which defaults to `browse-url-mail'.
+`browse-url-mailto-function', which defaults to `browse-url-mail'.
** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers, in certain modes
(eg dired, vc-dir, log-edit). For example, adding
---
*** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
+*** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
+
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* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
+** xmodmap-generic-mode for xmodmap files.
+
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* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
programmer-visible consequences.
** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function now turns the mode
- ON unconditionally.
+ON unconditionally.
** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
-and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and
-`initial-frame-alist'. With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame'
-checks the value of the variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to
-determine whether to create a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively.
-If the alist entries are added, they override the value of
-`menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
+and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
+With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
+variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
+a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
+they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
similar to the ones created by shift-selection. In previous Emacs
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* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
+** pre/post-command-hook are not reset to nil upon error.
+Instead, the offending function is removed.
+
+** New low-level function run-hook-wrapped.
+
** byte-compile-disable-print-circle is obsolete.
+** deferred-action-list and deferred-action-function are obsolete.
** Removed the stack-trace-on-error variable.
Also the debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will jump
to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked instead of
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* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
-** New configure.bat option --enable-checking builds emacs with extra
+** New configure.bat option --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra
runtime checks.
** New configure.bat option --distfiles to specify files to be
-included in binary distribution
+included in binary distribution.
-** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows
+** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
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