Generic commands are interactive functions whose implementation can be
selected among several alternatives, as a matter of user preference.
+** The blink cursor stops blinking after 10 blinks (default) on X and NS.
+You can change the default by customizing the variable blink-cursor-blinks.
+Also timers for blinking are stopped when no blinking is done, so Emacs does
+not consume CPU cycles.
+
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* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
\f
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
+** The debugger's `e' command evaluates the code in the context at point.
+This includes using the lexical environment at point, which means that
+`e' now lets you access lexical variables as well.
+
** `eshell' now supports visual subcommands and options
Eshell has been able to handle "visual" commands (interactive,
non-line oriented commands such as top that require display
See `remember-data-directory' and `remember-directory-file-name-format'
for new options related to this function.
-** `ido-use-virtual-buffers' takes a new value 'auto.
-** `ido-decorations' has been slightly extended to give a bit more control.
-
** More packages look for ~/.emacs.d/<foo> additionally to ~/.<foo>.
Affected files:
~/.emacs.d/timelog replaces ~/.timelog
*** New variable `diary-from-outlook-function', used by the command
`diary-from-outlook'.
+** VC and related modes
+
+*** In VC directory mode, `D' displays diffs between VC-controlled
+whole tree revisions.
+
+*** In VC directory mode, `L' lists the change log for the current VC
+controlled tree in a window.
+
+*** `C-x v G' (globally) and `G' (in VC directory mode) ignores a
+file under current version control system.
+
** cl-lib
*** New macro cl-tagbody.
If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally paste large
amounts of data into the ERC input.
+** EPA
+
+*** New option `epa-mail-aliases'.
+
+You can set this to a list of alias expansions for keys to use
+in `epa-mail-encrypt'.
+
+If one element of the variable's value is ("foo@bar.com" "foo@hello.org"),
+that means: when one of the recipients of the message being encrypted
+is `foo@bar.com', encrypt the message for `foo@hello.org' instead.
+
+If one element of the variable's value is ("foo@bar.com"),
+that means: when one of the recipients of the message being encrypted
+is `foo@bar.com', ignore that name as regards encryption.
+This is useful to avoid a query when you have no key for that name.
+
---
** New F90 mode option `f90-smart-end-names'.
*** The icomplete-separator is customizable, and its default has changed.
*** Removed icomplete-show-key-bindings.
+** Ido
+*** Ido has a manual now.
+*** `ido-use-virtual-buffers' takes a new value 'auto.
+*** `ido-decorations' has been slightly extended to give a bit more control.
+
** Image mode
*** New commands `n' (`image-next-file') and `p' (`image-previous-file')
*** The Info-edit command is obsolete. Editing Info nodes by hand
has not been relevant for some time.
+** Shell
+
+*** `explicit-bash-args' now always defaults to use --noediting.
+During initialization, Emacs no longer expends a process to decide
+whether it is safe to use Bash's --noediting option. These days
+--noediting is ubiquitous; it was introduced in 1996 in Bash version 2.
+
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* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
- advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named function,
much like `defadvice' does.
-** The package file-notify.el provides an interface for file system
+** New frameset.el package.
+It provides a set of operations to save a frameset (the state of all
+or a subset of the existing frames and windows, somewhat similar to a
+frame configuration), both in-session and persistently, and restore it
+at some point in the future.
+
++++
+** The package filenotify.el provides an interface for file system
notifications. It requires, that Emacs is compiled with one of the
low-level libraries gfilenotify.c, inotify.c or w32notify.c.
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* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
+** `defvar' and `defcustom' in a let-binding affect the "external" default.
+
** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
Some languages match those as »...« and others as «...» so better stay neutral.
*** `completion-in-region-function' obsoletes `completion-in-region-functions'.
*** `filter-buffer-substring-function' obsoletes `filter-buffer-substring-functions'.
+** `split-string' now takes an optional argument TRIM.
+The value, if non-nil, is a regexp that specifies what to trim from
+the start and end of each substring.
** `get-upcase-table' is obsoleted by the new `case-table-get-table'.
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