** `make install' now consistently ignores umask, creating a
world-readable install.
++++
** Emacs compiles with Gconf support, if it is detected.
Use the configure option --without-gconf to disable this.
+This is used by the `font-use-system-font' feature (see below).
* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.2
+++
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* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2
+---
** The bookmark menu has a narrowing search via bookmark-bmenu-search.
** LaTeX mode now provides completion (via completion-at-point).
** GDB-UI
++++
*** Toolbar functionality for reverse debugging. Display of STL
-collections as watch expressions. These features require GDB 7.0
-or later.
+collections as watch expressions. These features require GDB 7.0 or later.
** Grep
+++
** Info
++++
*** The new command `Info-virtual-index' bound to "I" displays a menu of
matched topics found in the index.
++++
*** The new command `info-finder' replaces finder.el with a virtual Info
manual that generates an Info file which gives the same information
through a menu structure.
backends do not support this.
---
*** When a file is not found, VC will not try to check it out of RCS anymore.
-
++++
*** Diff and log operations can be used from Dired buffers.
*** vc-git changes
-**** The short log format for git makes use of the graph display, so
-it's not supported on git versions earlier than 1.5.
-
-**** Support for operating with stashes has been added to vc-dir: the stash list is
-displayed in the *vc-dir* header, stashes can be created, removed, applied and
-their content displayed.
+---
+**** The short log format for git makes use of the graph display,
+so it's not supported on git versions earlier than 1.5.6.
-**** vc-dir displays the stash status
+---
+**** vc-dir uses the --relative option of git, and so requires at least
+git version 1.5.5.
-**** vc-dir requires at least git-1.5.5.
++++
+**** Support for operating with stashes has been added to vc-dir:
+the stash list is displayed in the *vc-dir* header, stashes can be
+created, removed, applied and their content displayed.
++++
*** vc-bzr supports operating with shelves: the shelve list is
displayed in the *vc-dir* header, shelves can be created, removed and applied.
---
+++
*** Autorevert Tail mode now works also for remote files.
+++
-*** The new built-in commands `su' and `sudo' support Tramp.
+*** The new eshell built-in commands `su' and `sudo' support Tramp.
That means, they change `default-directory' to the new users value,
and let commands run under that user permissions. It works even when
`default-directory' is already remote. Calling the external commands
This is a collection of packages to aid with using Emacs as an IDE
(integrated development environment):
++++
*** The Semantic package allows the use of parsers to intelligently
edit and navigate source code. Parsers for C/C++, Java, Javascript,
and several other languages are included by default, and Semantic can
To enable Semantic, use the global minor mode `semantic-mode'.
See the Semantic manual for details.
++++
*** EDE (Emacs Development Environment) is a package for managing code
projects, including features such as automatic Makefile generation.
code. It is currently used by some parts of Semantic and EDE; in the
future, it may be used for code generation features.
++++
*** The EIEIO library implements a subset of the Common Lisp Object
System (CLOS). It is used by the other CEDET packages.
+---
** mpc.el is a front end for the Music Player Daemon. Run it with M-x mpc.
++++
** htmlfontify.el turns a fontified Emacs buffer into an HTML page.
+++
** js.el is a new major mode for JavaScript files.
+---
** imap-hash.el is a new library to address IMAP mailboxes as hashtables.
\f
** Support for generating Emacs 18 compatible bytecode (by setting
the variable `byte-compile-compatibility') has been removed.
-** In image-mode.el `image-mode-maybe' is obsolete. Instead, you can
-either use `image-mode' that displays an image file as the actual image
-initially, or `image-mode-as-text' when you want to display an image file
-as text initially. `image-mode-as-text' is a combination of a non-image
-mode from `auto-mode-alist' (or Fundamental mode) and `image-minor-mode'.
-`image-minor-mode' provides `C-c C-c' key binding to toggle image display.
+---
+** In image-mode.el `image-mode-maybe' is obsolete.
+Instead, you can either use `image-mode' (which displays an image file
+as the actual image initially), or `image-mode-as-text' (when you want
+to display an image file as text initially). `image-mode-as-text' is a
+combination of a non-image mode from `auto-mode-alist' (or Fundamental
+mode) and `image-minor-mode'. `image-minor-mode' provides a `C-c C-c'
+key binding to toggle image display.
`image-toggle-display-text' removes image properties.
`image-toggle-display-image' adds image properties.
-`image-toggle-display' toggles between `image-mode-as-text' and
-`image-mode'.
+`image-toggle-display' toggles between `image-mode-as-text' and `image-mode'.
\f
* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.2
** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO
variable, are now declared obsolete.
++++
** read-key is a function halfway between read-event and read-key-sequence.
It reads a single key, but obeys input and escape sequence decoding.
virtual desktops.
** Completion changes
-
+---
*** completion-base-size is obsoleted by completion-base-position.
This change causes a few backward incompatibilities, mostly with
choose-completion-string-functions where the `mini-p' argument has
been replaced by a `base-position' argument, and where the `base-size'
argument is now always nil.
-
++++
*** New function `completion-in-region' to use the standard completion
facilities on a particular region of text.
+++
*** The 4th arg to all-completions (aka hide-spaces) is declared obsolete.
-
++++
*** completion-annotate-function specifies how to compute annotations
for completions displayed in *Completions*.
+++
*** New function `copy-directory', which copies a directory recursively.
++++
** called-interactively-p now takes one argument and replaces interactive-p
which is now marked obsolete.
++++
** New function set-advertised-calling-convention makes it possible
to obsolete arguments as well as make some arguments mandatory.
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