From c868201778e2d818f5e21441b7efbed6237f74d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:03:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mark (almost) all entries either --- or +++. --- etc/NEWS | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 4fc81dd55b..9054dcd47e 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ a TTY or when Emacs is invoked with the -nw option. Emacs supports playing sound files on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD (Voxware driver and native BSD driver, a.k.a. Luigi's driver). Currently supported file formats are RIFF-WAVE (*.wav) and Sun Audio (*.au). +You must configure Emacs with the option `--with-sound=yes' to enable +sound support. +++ ** Emacs now resizes mini-windows if appropriate. @@ -2458,12 +2460,15 @@ will not have any effect when support for this variable is removed. * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) +--- ** The new function amimate-string, from lisp/play/animate.el allows the animated display of strings. ++++ ** The new function `interactive-form' can be used to obtain the interactive form of a function. ++++ ** The keyword :set-after in defcustom allows to specify dependencies between custom options. Example: @@ -2479,6 +2484,7 @@ This specifies that default-input-method should be set after current-language-environment even if default-input-method appears first in a custom-set-variables statement. ++++ ** The new hook `kbd-macro-termination-hook' is run at the end of function execute-kbd-macro. Functions on this hook are called with no args. The hook is run independent of how the macro was terminated @@ -2496,6 +2502,7 @@ to prevent `display-buffer' from evening out window heights. ** The user-option `face-font-registry-alternatives' specifies alternative font registry names to try when looking for a font. ++++ ** Function `md5' calculates the MD5 "message digest"/"checksum". +++ @@ -2519,6 +2526,7 @@ charset. the echo area or pops up a buffer, depending on the length of the message. +--- ** The new macro `with-auto-compression-mode' allows evaluating an expression with auto-compression-mode enabled. @@ -2529,6 +2537,7 @@ with the more general `:mask' property. +++ ** Image specifications accept more `:conversion's. +--- ** A `?' can be used in a symbol name without escaping it with a backslash. @@ -2545,6 +2554,7 @@ to standard output. ** The argument of `down-list', `backward-up-list', `up-list', `kill-sexp', `backward-kill-sexp' and `mark-sexp' is now optional. ++++ ** If `display-buffer-reuse-frames' is set, function `display-buffer' will raise frames displaying a buffer, instead of creating a new frame or window. @@ -2566,8 +2576,10 @@ comparison is done with `eq'. +++ ** The function `delete' now also works with vectors and strings. ++++ ** The meaning of the `:weakness WEAK' argument of make-hash-table -has been changed. +has been changed: WEAK can now have new values `key-or-value' and +`key-and-value', in addtion the `nil', `key', `value', and `t'. +++ ** Function `aset' stores any multibyte character in any string @@ -2578,6 +2590,7 @@ convert a unibyte string to multibyte if necessary. ** The value of the `help-echo' text property is called as a function or evaluated, if it is not a string already, to obtain a help string. +--- ** Function `make-obsolete' now has an optional arg to say when the function was declared obsolete. @@ -2585,10 +2598,12 @@ function was declared obsolete. ** Function `plist-member' is renamed from `widget-plist-member' (which is retained as an alias). +--- ** Easy-menu's :filter now works as in XEmacs. It takes the unconverted (i.e. XEmacs) form of the menu and the result is automatically converted to Emacs' form. ++++ ** The new function `window-list' has been defined - Function: window-list &optional FRAME WINDOW MINIBUF @@ -2600,6 +2615,7 @@ even if it isn't active. MINIBUF nil or omitted means include the minibuffer window only if it's active. MINIBUF neither nil nor t means never include the minibuffer window. ++++ ** There's a new function `some-window' defined as follows - Function: some-window PREDICATE &optional MINIBUF ALL-FRAMES DEFAULT @@ -2632,10 +2648,12 @@ ALL-FRAMES = t means include windows on all frames including invisible frames. If ALL-FRAMES is a frame, it means include windows on that frame. Anything else means restrict to the selected frame. ++++ ** The function `single-key-description' now encloses function key and event names in angle brackets. When called with a second optional argument non-nil, angle brackets won't be printed. ++++ ** If the variable `message-truncate-lines' is bound to t around a call to `message', the echo area will not be resized to display that message; it will be truncated instead, as it was done in 20.x. @@ -2650,6 +2668,7 @@ meaning no limit. the maximum width of lines in a buffer for which Emacs displays line numbers in the mode line. The default is 200. ++++ ** `select-safe-coding-system' now also checks the most preferred coding-system if buffer-file-coding-system is `undecided' and DEFAULT-CODING-SYSTEM is not specified, @@ -2658,6 +2677,7 @@ DEFAULT-CODING-SYSTEM is not specified, ** The function `subr-arity' provides information about the argument list of a primitive. ++++ ** `where-is-internal' now also accepts a list of keymaps. +++ @@ -2666,19 +2686,23 @@ buffer's local map and the map specified by the `local-map' property. This is probably what most current uses of `local-map' want, rather than replacing the local map. +--- ** The obsolete variables `before-change-function' and `after-change-function' are no longer acted upon and have been removed. Use `before-change-functions' and `after-change-functions' instead. ++++ ** The function `apropos-mode' runs the hook `apropos-mode-hook'. +++ ** `concat' no longer accepts individual integer arguments, as promised long ago. ++++ ** The new function `float-time' returns the current time as a float. ++++ ** The new variable auto-coding-regexp-alist specifies coding systems for reading specific files, analogous to auto-coding-alist, but patterns are checked against file contents instead of file names. @@ -2691,22 +2715,27 @@ Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms. +--- *** The features `md5' and `overlay' are now provided by default. +--- *** The special form `save-restriction' now works correctly even if the buffer is widened inside the save-restriction and changes made outside the original restriction. Previously, doing this would cause the saved restriction to be restored incorrectly. +--- *** The functions `find-charset-region' and `find-charset-string' include `eight-bit-control' and/or `eight-bit-graphic' in the returned list when they find 8-bit characters. Previously, they included `ascii' in a multibyte buffer and `unknown' in a unibyte buffer. +--- *** The functions `set-buffer-modified', `string-as-multibyte' and `string-as-unibyte' change the byte sequence of a buffer if it contains a character from the `eight-bit-control' character set. +--- *** The handling of multibyte sequences in a multibyte buffer is changed. Previously, a byte sequence matching the pattern [\200-\237][\240-\377]+ was interpreted as a single character @@ -2716,6 +2745,7 @@ extra trailing bytes were ignored by Lisp functions. Now such extra bytes are independent 8-bit characters belonging to the charset eight-bit-graphic. +--- ** Fontsets are now implemented using char-tables. A fontset can now be specified for each independent character, for @@ -2777,9 +2807,11 @@ a composition at a specified position in a buffer or a string. *** The function `decompose-composite-char' is now labeled as obsolete. +--- ** The new coding system `mac-roman' is primarily intended for use on the Macintosh but may be used generally for Macintosh-encoded text. +--- ** The new character sets `mule-unicode-0100-24ff', `mule-unicode-2500-33ff', and `mule-unicode-e000-ffff' have been introduced for Unicode characters in the range U+0100..U+24FF, @@ -2792,14 +2824,17 @@ different characters, as far as Emacs is concerned. For example, text which includes Unicode characters from the Latin-2 locale cannot be encoded by Emacs with ISO 8859-2 coding system. +--- ** The new coding system `mule-utf-8' has been added. It provides limited support for decoding/encoding UTF-8 text. For details, please see the documentation string of this coding system. +--- ** The new character sets `japanese-jisx0213-1' and `japanese-jisx0213-2' have been introduced for the new Japanese standard JIS X 0213 Plane 1 and Plane 2. ++++ ** The new character sets `latin-iso8859-14' and `latin-iso8859-15' have been introduced. @@ -2818,19 +2853,23 @@ their multibyte equivalent. ** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to that offset in the file before writing. +--- ** The function `add-minor-mode' has been added for convenience and compatibility with XEmacs (and is used internally by define-minor-mode). +--- ** The function `shell-command' now sets the default directory of the `*Shell Command Output*' buffer to the default directory of the buffer from which the command was issued. +--- ** The functions `query-replace', `query-replace-regexp', `query-replace-regexp-eval' `map-query-replace-regexp', `replace-string', `replace-regexp', and `perform-replace' take two additional optional arguments START and END that specify the region to operate on. +--- ** The new function `count-screen-lines' is a more flexible alternative to `window-buffer-height'. @@ -2855,21 +2894,26 @@ buffer, regardless of which buffer is displayed in WINDOW. This makes possible to use `count-screen-lines' in any buffer, whether or not it is currently displayed in some window. ++++ ** The new function `mapc' is like `mapcar' but doesn't collect the argument function's results. ++++ ** The functions base64-decode-region and base64-decode-string now signal an error instead of returning nil if decoding fails. Also, -base64-decode-string now always returns a unibyte string (in Emacs 20, -it returned a multibyte string when the result was a valid multibyte +`base64-decode-string' now always returns a unibyte string (in Emacs +20, it returned a multibyte string when the result was a valid multibyte sequence). +--- ** The function sendmail-user-agent-compose now recognizes a `body' header in the list of headers passed to it. ++++ ** The new function member-ignore-case works like `member', but ignores differences in case and text representation. ++++ ** The buffer-local variable cursor-type can be used to specify the cursor to use in windows displaying a buffer. Values are interpreted as follows: @@ -2880,11 +2924,13 @@ as follows: (bar . WIDTH) display a bar cursor with width WIDTH others display a box cursor. ++++ ** The variable open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start controls whether an open parenthesis in column 0 is considered to be the start of a defun. If set, the default, it is considered a defun start. If not set, an open parenthesis in column 0 has no special meaning. ++++ ** The new function `string-to-syntax' can be used to translate syntax specifications in string form as accepted by `modify-syntax-entry' to the cons-cell form that is used for the values of the `syntax-table' @@ -2895,6 +2941,7 @@ Example: (string-to-syntax "()") => (4 . 41) ++++ ** Emacs' reader supports CL read syntax for integers in bases other than 10. @@ -2923,10 +2970,12 @@ INTEGER optionally contains a sign. #25rah => 267 ++++ ** The function `documentation-property' now evaluates the value of the given property to obtain a string if it doesn't refer to etc/DOC and isn't a string. ++++ ** If called for a symbol, the function `documentation' now looks for a `function-documentation' property of that symbol. If it has a non-nil value, the documentation is taken from that value. If the value is @@ -2938,12 +2987,15 @@ not a string, it is evaluated to obtain a string. ** The new function `replace-regexp-in-string' replaces all matches for a regexp in a string. ++++ ** `mouse-position' now runs the abnormal hook `mouse-position-function'. ++++ ** The function string-to-number now returns a float for numbers that don't fit into a Lisp integer. ++++ ** The variable keyword-symbols-constants-flag has been removed. Keywords are now always considered constants. @@ -2951,6 +3003,7 @@ Keywords are now always considered constants. ** The new function `delete-and-extract-region' deletes text and returns it. ++++ ** The function `clear-this-command-keys' now also clears the vector returned by function `recent-keys'. @@ -3066,6 +3119,7 @@ as the place that holds the list to be changed. (pop LISTNAME) return first elt of LISTNAME, and remove it (thus altering the value of LISTNAME). +--- ** New dolist and dotimes macros. Simple versions of the dolist and dotimes macros of Common Lisp @@ -3399,12 +3453,14 @@ Other properties are ignored. An alternative interface is called as (play-sound-file FILE &optional VOLUME DEVICE). +--- ** `multimedia' is a new Finder keyword and Custom group. +++ ** keywordp is a new predicate to test efficiently for an object being a keyword symbol. ++++ ** Changes to garbage collection *** The function garbage-collect now additionally returns the number @@ -3426,6 +3482,7 @@ mini-windows. argument, PARTIALLY. If a character is only partially visible, nil is returned, unless PARTIALLY is non-nil. ++++ ** On window systems, `glyph-table' is no longer used. +++ @@ -3475,6 +3532,7 @@ Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms. +--- ** The function tty-suppress-bold-inverse-default-colors can be used to make Emacs avoid displaying text with bold black foreground on TTYs. @@ -3815,6 +3873,7 @@ VALUE is the name of a face from which to inherit attributes, or a list of face names. Attributes from inherited faces are merged into the face like an underlying face would be, with higher priority than underlying faces. ++++ *** Face attributes and X resources The following X resource names can be used to set face attributes @@ -3886,6 +3945,7 @@ modify their color-related behavior. The primitives `color-gray-p' and `color-supported-p' also work for any frame type. ++++ ** Platform-independent functions to describe display capabilities. The new functions `display-mouse-p', `display-popup-menus-p', @@ -3913,6 +3973,7 @@ The function minibuffer-prompt-end returns the current position of the end of the minibuffer prompt, if the minibuffer is current. Otherwise, it returns zero. ++++ ** New `field' abstraction in buffers. There is now code to support an abstraction called `fields' in emacs @@ -4517,6 +4578,7 @@ The same mechanism is used to determine the `face' and `help-echo' properties of strings in the mode line. See `bindings.el' for an example. ++++ *** If a mode line element has the form `(:eval FORM)', FORM is evaluated and the result is used as mode line element. -- 2.20.1