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29b7722a | 1 | GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
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a1ed8b05 | 3 | Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
5b87ad55 | 4 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
a933dad1 | 5 | |
893db5bc | 6 | Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
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7 | If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. |
8 | ||
eb199145 | 9 | This file is about changes in Emacs version 24. |
9a21d88b | 10 | |
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11 | See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, |
12 | and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions. | |
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13 | |
14 | You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' | |
15 | with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. | |
3f7194ed | 16 | |
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17 | Temporary note: |
18 | +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. | |
19 | --- means no change in the manuals is called for. | |
20 | When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- | |
21 | so we will look at it and add it to the manual. | |
22 | ||
23 | \f | |
24 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
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25 | |
26 | ** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers. | |
27 | If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about | |
28 | possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be | |
29 | no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings | |
ae6e112d | 30 | may be useful. |
b8df54ff | 31 | |
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32 | ** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed, |
33 | as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful. | |
34 | ||
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35 | --- |
36 | ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available. | |
37 | ||
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38 | --- |
39 | ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and | |
40 | /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if | |
41 | you want them. | |
42 | ||
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43 | --- |
44 | ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw | |
45 | directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them. | |
46 | ||
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47 | --- |
48 | ** The standalone scripts rcs-checkin and vcdiff have been removed | |
49 | (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is | |
50 | no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el). | |
51 | ||
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52 | ** The configuration option '--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been |
53 | renamed to '--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting | |
54 | Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time | |
55 | check that this option enables. | |
56 | ||
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57 | \f |
58 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
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59 | |
60 | ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard | |
61 | lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have | |
62 | been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp. | |
63 | ||
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64 | --- |
65 | ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds. | |
66 | ||
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67 | \f |
68 | * Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
69 | ||
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70 | ** Help changes |
71 | ||
72 | *** `C-h f' (describe-function) can now perform autoloading. | |
73 | When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring | |
74 | contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is | |
75 | automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown | |
76 | correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil. | |
77 | ||
78 | *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded", | |
79 | even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the | |
80 | autoloads have been redefined as functions). | |
81 | ||
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82 | ** The function `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps |
83 | (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC) that use picosecond resolution; the PSEC | |
84 | component is new. PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current | |
85 | machines. Other functions that use this format, such as | |
86 | file-attributes and format-time-string, have been changed accordingly. | |
87 | Old-format time stamps are still accepted. | |
88 | ||
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89 | ** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user |
90 | name, group names known to the system (where possible). | |
91 | ||
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92 | ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable |
93 | `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about which bzr revision was used. | |
94 | ||
c505aaeb CY |
95 | ** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled. |
96 | It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types' | |
97 | explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called | |
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98 | automatically at startup, or when customizing a relevant imagemagick- |
99 | option. | |
c505aaeb CY |
100 | |
101 | *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of | |
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102 | ImageMagick to view images. You must call imagemagick-register-types |
103 | afterwards if you do not use customize to change this. | |
c505aaeb | 104 | |
7afbaca4 | 105 | *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which |
60b5f187 GM |
106 | ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function |
107 | `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be | |
108 | treated as images. | |
32d72c2f | 109 | |
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110 | *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the |
111 | :background image spec property. | |
c505aaeb | 112 | |
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113 | ** Face underlining can now use a wave. |
114 | See the "Face Attributes" section of the Elisp manual. | |
115 | ||
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116 | ** New fringe bitmap exclamation-mark. |
117 | ||
de6ff46d CY |
118 | ** String values for `initial-buffer-choice' also apply to emacsclient |
119 | frames, if emacsclient is only told to open a new frame without | |
120 | specifying any file to visit or expression to evaluate. | |
121 | ||
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122 | +++ |
123 | ** You can prevent the creation of lock files by setting `create-lockfiles' | |
124 | to nil. Use with caution, and only if you really need to. | |
125 | ||
b8a82b69 | 126 | +++ |
03794570 | 127 | ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete. |
57699e37 | 128 | Use "coding: raw-text" instead. |
03794570 | 129 | |
383f7350 CY |
130 | ** Mode line changes |
131 | ||
132 | *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text | |
133 | (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line | |
134 | that does not have its own specialized help text. | |
135 | ||
cbe46e5f CY |
136 | *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to |
137 | invokes `set-buffer-file-coding-system'. | |
138 | ||
21ffb35a MA |
139 | +++ |
140 | ** Setting `enable-remote-dir-locals' to non-nil allows directory | |
141 | local variables on remote hosts. | |
142 | ||
9ea10cc3 | 143 | +++ |
ddfc8813 RK |
144 | ** `insert-char' is now a command, and `ucs-insert' an obsolete alias |
145 | for it. | |
146 | ||
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147 | ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu. |
148 | The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard. | |
149 | ||
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150 | \f |
151 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
c25df26e | 152 | |
a5c66610 JB |
153 | ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether the M-x |
154 | delete-trailing-whitespace command should delete trailing lines at the | |
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155 | end of the buffer. It defaults to t. |
156 | ||
b9cb2387 JL |
157 | ** Search changes |
158 | ||
159 | *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search, | |
160 | and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode. | |
161 | `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity. | |
162 | ||
c25df26e RT |
163 | ** M-x move-to-column, if called interactively with no prefix arg, now |
164 | prompts for a column number. | |
165 | ||
0f84437b TV |
166 | ** `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' can now be used to customize |
167 | `mouse-avoidance-mode' further. | |
168 | ||
0fe776a1 CY |
169 | ** `M-=' is now bound to `count-words', not `count-words-region'. |
170 | ||
09b95ce3 MY |
171 | ** `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' will now move to the path name separator |
172 | character when doing minibuffer filename prompts. | |
173 | ||
5dd1713e CY |
174 | ** `goto-char' is now bound to `M-g c'. |
175 | ||
be755c79 RT |
176 | ** New command `C-x r M-w' (copy-rectangle-as-kill). |
177 | It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill. | |
178 | ||
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179 | ** New input method `vietnamese-vni'. |
180 | ||
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181 | \f |
182 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2 | |
b2459884 | 183 | |
ae4969c2 JD |
184 | ** Term changes |
185 | ||
186 | The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color' are | |
187 | now deprecated in favor of the `term-face' face, that you can | |
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188 | customize. Also, it is now possible to customize how are displayed the |
189 | ANSI terminal colors and styles by customizing the corresponding | |
ae4969c2 JD |
190 | `term-color-<COLOR>', `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold' |
191 | faces. | |
192 | ||
7c1898a7 SM |
193 | ** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib). |
194 | `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly, | |
195 | i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix. | |
196 | ||
197 | If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it | |
198 | under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions | |
199 | that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities, | |
200 | which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'. | |
201 | ||
202 | The old `cl' is now deprecated and is nothing more than a bunch of aliases that | |
203 | provide the old non-prefixed names. | |
204 | ||
e76f0800 CY |
205 | ** Desktop |
206 | ||
207 | *** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory. Desktop | |
208 | files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default. | |
209 | ||
358c19d9 GM |
210 | ** Python mode |
211 | ||
212 | A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including: | |
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213 | per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved |
214 | shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other | |
215 | text based shell). | |
216 | ||
217 | *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed: | |
218 | Old defcustom: | New defcustom: | |
219 | python-indent | python-indent-offset | |
220 | python-guess-indent | python-indent-guess-indent-offset | |
221 | python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p | python-pdbtrack-activate | |
222 | python-use-skeletons | python-skeleton-autoinsert | |
223 | ||
224 | *** Some user options have been removed: | |
225 | ||
226 | **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented. | |
227 | ||
228 | **** `python-honour-comment-indentation': | |
229 | Comments are never considered as indentation markers themselves. | |
230 | ||
231 | **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically | |
232 | calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context. | |
233 | ||
234 | **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist': | |
235 | Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different. | |
236 | ||
237 | **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command': | |
238 | Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'. | |
239 | ||
240 | **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path', | |
241 | `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes': | |
242 | No longer relevant. | |
243 | ||
244 | *** Some commands have been replaced: | |
245 | Old command | New command | |
246 | python-insert-class | python-skeleton-class | |
247 | python-insert-def | python-skeleton-def | |
248 | python-insert-for | python-skeleton-for | |
249 | python-insert-if | python-skeleton-if | |
250 | python-insert-try/except | python-skeleton-try | |
251 | python-insert-try/finally | python-skeleton-try | |
252 | python-insert-while | python-skeleton-while | |
253 | python-find-function | python-nav-jump-to-defun | |
254 | python-next-statement | python-nav-forward-sentence | |
255 | python-previous-statement | python-nav-backward-sentence | |
256 | python-send-buffer | python-shell-send-buffer | |
257 | python-send-defun | python-shell-send-defun | |
258 | python-send-region | python-shell-send-region | |
259 | python-send-region-and-go | Emulate with python-shell-send-region and | |
260 | python-shell-switch-to-shell | |
261 | python-send-string | python-shell-send-string | |
262 | python-switch-to-python | python-shell-switch-to-shell | |
263 | python-describe-symbol | python-eldoc-at-point | |
264 | ||
358c19d9 GM |
265 | ** VHDL mode |
266 | ||
267 | *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default). | |
268 | ||
269 | *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated. | |
270 | ||
271 | *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard. | |
272 | ||
273 | *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace. | |
fda91268 | 274 | |
bc1b21bb JL |
275 | ** Diff mode |
276 | ||
277 | Faces for changes now use the same diff color scheme as in modern VCSes | |
278 | where deletions are displayed in red (new faces `diff-refine-removed' | |
279 | and `smerge-refined-removed' and new definition of `diff-removed'), | |
280 | insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added' and | |
281 | `smerge-refined-added' and new definition of `diff-added'). | |
282 | The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use | |
283 | the face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' | |
284 | to highlight changes in context diffs. | |
285 | ||
6dafa0d5 JL |
286 | ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode |
287 | on high color displays. | |
288 | ||
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289 | ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings. |
290 | See flymake-fringe-indicator-position, flymake-error-bitmap and | |
291 | flymake-warning-bitmap. | |
292 | ||
ff46c759 SM |
293 | ** `sh-script' |
294 | *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair. | |
295 | *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs. | |
296 | *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code. | |
297 | ||
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298 | ** reStructuredText mode |
299 | ||
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300 | *** Rebind nearly all keys making room for more keys and complying |
301 | better to usage in other modes. Describe bindings with C-c C-h. | |
d13c8be6 | 302 | |
6d3f7c2f SM |
303 | *** Major revision of indentation working very similar to other |
304 | modes. TAB is your friend. | |
d13c8be6 | 305 | |
6d3f7c2f SM |
306 | *** Major revision of filling working fine with most of |
307 | reStructuredText syntax. Support auto-filling. | |
d13c8be6 SM |
308 | |
309 | *** Major revision of comment handling. | |
310 | ||
6d3f7c2f | 311 | *** Major revision of fontification working with `jit-lock-mode'. |
d13c8be6 | 312 | |
6d3f7c2f SM |
313 | *** Cover reStructuredText syntax more closely. Improve |
314 | the experience for Sphinx users. | |
d13c8be6 | 315 | |
6d3f7c2f | 316 | *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists. |
d13c8be6 | 317 | |
6d3f7c2f | 318 | *** Extend correct and improve customization. |
d13c8be6 SM |
319 | |
320 | *** Negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'. | |
321 | ||
6d3f7c2f | 322 | *** Reset window configuration after displaying TOC. |
d13c8be6 | 323 | |
6d3f7c2f | 324 | *** Package version in `rst-version'. |
d13c8be6 | 325 | |
d81bd059 SM |
326 | ** New `derived-mode' filter for Ibuffer, bound to `/ M'. |
327 | `/ m' is now bound to filter by used-mode, which used to be bound to `/ M'. | |
c4cf6d91 | 328 | |
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329 | ** Apropos |
330 | ||
331 | *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable. | |
332 | These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on; | |
333 | see the `apropos' Custom group for details. | |
334 | ||
335 | **** The old options whose values specified faces to use were removed | |
336 | (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.). | |
337 | ||
8b0823d6 CY |
338 | ** Buffer Menu |
339 | This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode. | |
340 | ||
341 | *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete. | |
342 | Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead. | |
343 | ||
48176e8b GM |
344 | ** Calendar |
345 | ||
03794570 GM |
346 | *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays. |
347 | Customize cal-html-holidays to change this. | |
48176e8b | 348 | |
cf20dee0 CY |
349 | ** Customize |
350 | ||
351 | *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t. | |
ab036cd7 | 352 | |
775c916b CY |
353 | *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and |
354 | `customize-apropos-options' (i.e. the prefix argument does nothing for | |
355 | these commands now). | |
356 | ||
b2459884 | 357 | ** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the |
29734c21 | 358 | channel keys found, if any. |
b2459884 | 359 | |
6dafa0d5 JL |
360 | ** Dired |
361 | ||
362 | *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially | |
363 | if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files). | |
494913d6 | 364 | Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel. |
6dafa0d5 | 365 | |
17711ed9 JL |
366 | ** Shell |
367 | ||
368 | *** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies what buffer to use | |
369 | for a new asynchronous shell command when the default output buffer | |
370 | `*Async Shell Command*' is already taken by another running command. | |
371 | ||
9f9aa044 CY |
372 | ** FFAP |
373 | ||
374 | *** The option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings, | |
375 | specifying URL types which should be converted to remote file names at | |
376 | the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp"). | |
377 | ||
782fbf2a CY |
378 | ** Follow mode |
379 | ||
380 | *** The obsolete variable `follow-mode-off-hook' has been removed. | |
381 | ||
382 | *** Follow mode no longer works by using advice. | |
383 | The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed. | |
384 | ||
29734c21 MN |
385 | ** The `server-auth-key' variable can be used to set a permanent |
386 | shared key for Emacs Server. | |
fc72b15c PO |
387 | |
388 | ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block | |
389 | closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket. | |
390 | ||
25a9a140 GM |
391 | ** FIXME something happened to ses.el, 2012-04-17. |
392 | ||
cf20dee0 CY |
393 | ** which-function-mode now applies to all applicable major modes by default. |
394 | ||
05ecb497 MA |
395 | ** Tramp |
396 | ||
397 | +++ | |
398 | *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy | |
399 | definitions. See the manual for details. | |
400 | ||
401 | +++ | |
402 | *** Remote processes are now supported also on remote Windows host. | |
403 | ||
dcbf5805 MA |
404 | ** D-Bus |
405 | ||
406 | +++ | |
407 | *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'. | |
408 | ||
409 | +++ | |
410 | *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented. | |
411 | ||
412 | +++ | |
413 | *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points, | |
414 | if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range. | |
415 | ||
416 | +++ | |
417 | *** The function `dbus-call-method' works non-blocking now, it can be | |
418 | interrupted by C-g. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete. | |
419 | ||
420 | +++ | |
421 | *** Signals can be sent also as unicast message. | |
422 | ||
423 | +++ | |
424 | *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended, | |
425 | according to the new match rule types of D-Bus. See the manual for | |
426 | details. | |
427 | ||
428 | +++ | |
429 | *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections. | |
430 | ||
431 | +++ | |
432 | *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'. | |
433 | ||
0268cf45 MA |
434 | +++ |
435 | ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API. | |
436 | The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported | |
437 | server properties. | |
438 | ||
60057926 CY |
439 | ** Package Menu |
440 | ||
441 | *** Newly-available packages are listed in the Package Menu as "new", | |
442 | and sorted above the other "available" packages by default. | |
443 | ||
6632d361 CY |
444 | ** Tabulated List and packages derived from it |
445 | ||
e5f9458f | 446 | *** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S', sorts the column |
6632d361 CY |
447 | at point, or the Nth column if a numeric prefix argument is given. |
448 | ||
ce7b18ec CY |
449 | ** URL |
450 | ||
451 | *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot. | |
452 | Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs | |
453 | appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986. | |
454 | So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components | |
455 | and the `attributes' slot is always nil. | |
456 | ||
457 | *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string. | |
458 | The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument, | |
459 | in case that is not properly encoded. | |
460 | ||
82f289a4 GM |
461 | ** Obsolete packages: |
462 | ||
797e6e88 SM |
463 | *** assoc.el |
464 | In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well. | |
465 | And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible | |
466 | inefficiency, and not namespace-clean. | |
467 | ||
3c74813a GM |
468 | *** bruce.el |
469 | ||
daed4003 GM |
470 | *** ledit.el |
471 | ||
82f289a4 | 472 | *** mailpost.el |
d57de7fe CY |
473 | |
474 | *** mouse-sel.el | |
475 | ||
3c74813a GM |
476 | *** patcomp.el |
477 | ||
d32926ff SM |
478 | *** cust-print.el |
479 | ||
a1ed8b05 GM |
480 | \f |
481 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2 | |
482 | \f | |
483 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
b4d3bc10 CY |
484 | |
485 | +++ | |
486 | ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options. | |
487 | Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options. | |
488 | The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for | |
489 | `custom-variable-p'. | |
490 | ||
bbf908bc LM |
491 | +++ |
492 | ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed, | |
493 | and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, defun and | |
494 | defmacro currently return the name of the newly defined function/macro | |
495 | but this should not be relied upon. | |
496 | ||
eeddc531 CY |
497 | ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the |
498 | third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2). | |
499 | ||
a59d531e MA |
500 | +++ |
501 | ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings, | |
502 | but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will | |
503 | still be supported for Emacs 24.x. | |
504 | ||
72b255c7 PE |
505 | ** Spelling changes. |
506 | Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to avoid problems with spelling | |
507 | that is incorrect or inconsistent with how Emacs normally spells a word. | |
508 | ||
509 | *** Renamed functions | |
510 | ||
511 | **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate | |
512 | **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method | |
513 | **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate | |
514 | **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate | |
515 | **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method | |
516 | **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action -> | |
517 | viper-deactivate-input-method-action | |
518 | **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate | |
519 | ||
520 | *** Renamed hooks | |
521 | The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they | |
522 | are deprecated and will be removed eventually. | |
523 | ||
524 | **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook | |
525 | **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook | |
526 | **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook | |
527 | ||
528 | *** Renamed Lisp variables | |
529 | ||
530 | **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu | |
531 | **** inactivate-current-input-method-function -> | |
532 | deactivate-current-input-method-function | |
533 | ||
78f3273a CY |
534 | ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed: |
535 | ||
536 | *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces' | |
537 | *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset' | |
d7d9a499 | 538 | *** `last-input-char' and `last-command-char' |
78f3273a | 539 | |
a1ed8b05 GM |
540 | \f |
541 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
ef24141c | 542 | |
7abaf5cc SM |
543 | ** New functions `autoloadp' and `autoload-do-load'. |
544 | ||
545 | ** `function-get' fetches the property of a function, following aliases. | |
546 | ||
b68b3337 CY |
547 | ** `toggle-read-only' accepts a second argument specifying whether to |
548 | print a message, if called from Lisp. | |
549 | ||
2ee3d7f0 SM |
550 | ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp. |
551 | `setf' is autoloaded and `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables. | |
552 | ||
500fcedc SM |
553 | ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'. |
554 | The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'. | |
555 | ||
556 | ** `macro-declaration-function' is obsolete, use `macro-declarations-alist'. | |
557 | ||
f95e9344 SM |
558 | ** New function `set-temporary-overlay-map'. |
559 | ||
560 | ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'. | |
561 | ||
71873e2b | 562 | ** New error type and new function `user-error'. Doesn't trigger the debugger. |
f95e9344 | 563 | |
51a5f9d8 | 564 | ** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window |
48d1354e | 565 | now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window. |
51a5f9d8 | 566 | |
ef24141c SM |
567 | ** Completion |
568 | ||
569 | *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion | |
570 | in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers. | |
571 | ||
572 | *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion | |
573 | table, but with a different prefix. | |
ab0fa4e4 PE |
574 | |
575 | ** Time | |
576 | ||
577 | *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year | |
578 | must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported | |
579 | by the underlying C implementation. | |
8a61ee22 | 580 | |
0d14cc21 GM |
581 | ** New function file-name-base. |
582 | ||
86aa551c EZ |
583 | ** New function `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal. |
584 | ||
8a61ee22 | 585 | ** `automount-dir-prefix' is obsolete. |
43416392 | 586 | ** `buffer-has-markers-at' is obsolete. |
adce950d | 587 | \f |
9078ead6 EZ |
588 | * Changes in Emacs 24.2 on non-free operating systems |
589 | ||
590 | ** New configure.bat options on MS-Windows: | |
591 | ||
592 | *** --without-libxml2 omits support for libxml2, even if its presence | |
593 | is detected. | |
594 | ||
53a63be6 EZ |
595 | ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal, |
596 | Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and | |
597 | mouse-autoselect-window. | |
598 | ||
6dad7178 EZ |
599 | ** On MS-Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links. |
600 | ||
9078ead6 | 601 | \f |
eb199145 | 602 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
09e18d03 | 603 | |
31fd3586 GM |
604 | ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 |
605 | to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf, | |
606 | also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and | |
607 | --without-gconf. | |
338648ad | 608 | |
31fd3586 GM |
609 | ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support. |
610 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
611 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
612 | `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features. | |
338648ad | 613 | |
31fd3586 GM |
614 | ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support. |
615 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
616 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
617 | `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features. | |
aded53ff | 618 | |
31fd3586 GM |
619 | ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support. |
620 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
621 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
622 | `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features. | |
c1f10868 | 623 | This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports. |
d9170db5 | 624 | |
043efd56 GM |
625 | ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support. |
626 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
627 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
628 | `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features. | |
629 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
630 | ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed. |
631 | You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info. | |
632 | ||
7d301ae6 | 633 | ** New configure option --with-wide-int. |
81eafe29 | 634 | With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines. |
0a768890 PE |
635 | On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB |
636 | to about 2 GiB. | |
81eafe29 | 637 | |
7d301ae6 | 638 | ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost. |
31fd3586 GM |
639 | These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit |
640 | lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features. | |
641 | ||
7d301ae6 | 642 | ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type. |
31fd3586 GM |
643 | This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs. |
644 | This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new. | |
041d709f CY |
645 | |
646 | ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed. | |
647 | Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'. | |
648 | ||
041d709f CY |
649 | ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed. |
650 | If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality. | |
651 | ||
0bfd685e | 652 | \f |
eb199145 | 653 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
4a263588 | 654 | |
198a7a97 | 655 | ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte |
adbf62ff GM |
656 | command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no |
657 | longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.) | |
198a7a97 | 658 | |
66b7b0fe | 659 | ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories |
1b5e5b0c GM |
660 | from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the |
661 | EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for | |
c8d59ba3 | 662 | Nextstep builds). |
66b7b0fe | 663 | |
0bfd685e | 664 | \f |
eb199145 | 665 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
7841339b | 666 | |
a2a25d24 | 667 | ** Completion |
fdeb32ec | 668 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
669 | *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command, |
670 | rather than implementing separate completion commands. | |
671 | ||
de0bde62 | 672 | *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion. |
dfdb4cad | 673 | |
a2a25d24 SM |
674 | *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion |
675 | and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
676 | |
677 | *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling. | |
678 | ||
679 | *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the | |
2c719188 | 680 | default completion style in certain circumstances. |
dfdb4cad | 681 | |
a2a25d24 | 682 | *** New completion style `substring'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
683 | |
684 | *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default. | |
685 | ||
686 | *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed. | |
620c53a6 | 687 | |
6870aaef | 688 | ** Mail changes |
dfdb4cad | 689 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
690 | *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method. |
691 | This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which | |
692 | is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or | |
693 | to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities | |
694 | (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and | |
695 | `mailclient-send-it' on Windows). | |
dfdb4cad | 696 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
697 | *** Typing C-c m in the buffer made by M-x report-emacs-bug transfers |
698 | the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there is one. | |
699 | This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open" command. | |
dfdb4cad | 700 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
701 | *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes |
702 | and Mail mode changes | |
3f88cd72 | 703 | |
041d709f | 704 | ** Emacs server and client changes |
dfdb4cad | 705 | |
7d301ae6 | 706 | *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers. |
dfdb4cad | 707 | |
041d709f | 708 | *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages. |
dfdb4cad | 709 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
710 | *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame |
711 | parameters of any newly-created graphical frame. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
712 | |
713 | *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error, | |
714 | its exit status is 1. | |
715 | ||
041d709f CY |
716 | *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID. |
717 | This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar | |
718 | to the --parent-id argument to Emacs. | |
719 | ||
d0ce9f8c MB |
720 | ** Internationalization changes |
721 | ||
d0ce9f8c | 722 | *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text. |
7d301ae6 CY |
723 | Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are |
724 | displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those | |
dfdb4cad CY |
725 | scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class |
726 | implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers | |
727 | with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before. | |
f4b6ba46 | 728 | |
041d709f | 729 | **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'. |
7d301ae6 | 730 | To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil. |
d20e1419 | 731 | |
041d709f CY |
732 | **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'. |
733 | If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each | |
dfdb4cad CY |
734 | paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value |
735 | to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each | |
736 | paragraph. | |
f4b6ba46 | 737 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
738 | Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at |
739 | the right window edge. | |
f1816485 | 740 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
741 | *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts, |
742 | or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the | |
743 | terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control' | |
744 | specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin | |
745 | 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc. | |
d0ce9f8c | 746 | |
9702b7a1 GM |
747 | *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian |
748 | (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic). | |
041d709f | 749 | |
939db9ac CY |
750 | *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars |
751 | (U+2010 and U+2011). | |
752 | ||
7d301ae6 | 753 | *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial. |
31fd3586 GM |
754 | Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't |
755 | automatically select it. | |
756 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
757 | ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included. |
758 | This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages, | |
759 | from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org. | |
dfdb4cad | 760 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
761 | *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be |
762 | selected for installation. | |
dfdb4cad | 763 | |
7d301ae6 | 764 | *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'. |
dfdb4cad | 765 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
766 | *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when |
767 | Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to | |
768 | nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'. | |
16a91140 | 769 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
770 | ** Custom theme changes |
771 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
772 | *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient |
773 | interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes. | |
dfdb4cad | 774 | |
7d301ae6 | 775 | *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes. |
dfdb4cad CY |
776 | Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default |
777 | value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in | |
778 | `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of | |
779 | `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of | |
780 | built-in Custom themes. | |
781 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
782 | *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files. |
783 | If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and | |
784 | offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By | |
785 | default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe. | |
b7d65a5f | 786 | |
7d301ae6 | 787 | ** Improved GTK integration |
dfdb4cad | 788 | |
7d301ae6 | 789 | *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default. |
dfdb4cad CY |
790 | The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this. |
791 | ||
7d301ae6 | 792 | *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text. |
dfdb4cad CY |
793 | Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop, |
794 | the default is taken from desktop settings. | |
795 | ||
796 | *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
797 | The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the |
798 | values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has | |
799 | entries for this. | |
dfdb4cad | 800 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
801 | *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken |
802 | from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK. | |
dfdb4cad | 803 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
804 | *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK. |
805 | You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil. | |
a5bee597 | 806 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
807 | ** Graphical interface changes |
808 | ||
809 | *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes. | |
810 | Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just | |
811 | displayed as a space. | |
812 | ||
813 | *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation | |
814 | instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu. | |
815 | ||
816 | *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is | |
817 | built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example: | |
818 | Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12 | |
819 | ||
7d301ae6 | 820 | ** Exiting changes |
dfdb4cad | 821 | |
7d301ae6 | 822 | *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP, |
dfdb4cad CY |
823 | or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode. |
824 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
825 | *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode. |
826 | Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they | |
827 | do the right thing in batch mode. | |
9c524fcb | 828 | |
041d709f | 829 | ** Scrolling changes |
dfdb4cad | 830 | |
041d709f | 831 | *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command' |
0a19a6f8 | 832 | (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom |
7d301ae6 | 833 | of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer) |
550f41cd | 834 | when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil. |
dfdb4cad CY |
835 | |
836 | *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above). | |
837 | ||
041d709f | 838 | *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line' |
5a97d2da | 839 | scroll a line instead of full screen. |
dfdb4cad | 840 | |
041d709f | 841 | *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to |
b2957ea8 | 842 | define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'. |
dfdb4cad | 843 | |
041d709f | 844 | *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100, |
d0f69533 EZ |
845 | Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to |
846 | cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g'). | |
847 | Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of | |
848 | `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect. | |
dfdb4cad | 849 | |
7d301ae6 | 850 | *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins. |
d0f69533 EZ |
851 | If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or |
852 | `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now | |
853 | scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll | |
854 | margin. | |
855 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
856 | ** Basic SELinux support has been added. |
857 | This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time. | |
f1a5d776 | 858 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
859 | *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up. |
860 | Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for | |
861 | preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer' | |
862 | now includes the SELinux context. | |
f0bf7c8e | 863 | |
dfdb4cad | 864 | *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context' |
7d301ae6 | 865 | get and set the SELinux context of a file. |
44198b6e | 866 | |
7d301ae6 | 867 | ** Trash changes |
dfdb4cad | 868 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
869 | *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify |
870 | trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files. | |
dfdb4cad | 871 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
872 | *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument |
873 | now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'. | |
278f6845 | 874 | |
041d709f | 875 | ** File- and directory-local variable changes |
dfdb4cad | 876 | |
041d709f CY |
877 | *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories. |
878 | Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables | |
879 | settings to indicate that the section should not apply to | |
880 | subdirectories. | |
dfdb4cad | 881 | |
041d709f CY |
882 | *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers. |
883 | Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example, | |
884 | adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will | |
885 | turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call | |
886 | `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this. | |
dfdb4cad | 887 | |
041d709f CY |
888 | *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated. |
889 | Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)". | |
c136e5cd | 890 | |
7b447e9b GM |
891 | *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed |
892 | to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now | |
dfdb4cad CY |
893 | applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The |
894 | associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the | |
895 | corresponding way. | |
5d907d6c | 896 | |
0a2132ba CY |
897 | ** Window changes |
898 | ||
91b65361 CY |
899 | *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed |
900 | in the quitted window. | |
901 | ||
0a2132ba CY |
902 | *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes, |
903 | modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows. | |
904 | ||
905 | *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail. | |
dfdb4cad | 906 | |
0a2132ba CY |
907 | **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of |
908 | user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments | |
909 | for choosing the displaying window). | |
910 | ||
911 | This takes precedence over the default display action, which is | |
912 | specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'. | |
913 | ||
914 | **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to | |
915 | display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'. | |
916 | ||
a0c2d0ae MR |
917 | *** New option `window-combination-limit'. |
918 | The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space | |
919 | obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window | |
920 | from which such space was obtained. | |
0a2132ba | 921 | |
a0c2d0ae MR |
922 | *** New option `window-combination-resize'. |
923 | The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that | |
924 | otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from | |
925 | other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion | |
926 | of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well. | |
0a2132ba | 927 | |
91b65361 CY |
928 | *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between |
929 | iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated | |
930 | frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own. | |
931 | ||
0a2132ba | 932 | *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'. |
53964682 | 933 | These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame. |
0a2132ba | 934 | |
0a2132ba CY |
935 | *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'. |
936 | These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have | |
937 | been shown in a specific window. | |
938 | ||
7d301ae6 | 939 | ** Minibuffer changes |
dfdb4cad | 940 | |
7d301ae6 | 941 | *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'. |
104dc9c6 GM |
942 | This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature |
943 | where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed. | |
041d709f | 944 | |
7d301ae6 | 945 | *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil. |
f66eca26 | 946 | If you want to change the value to something else, you could use |
7d301ae6 CY |
947 | for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'. |
948 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
949 | ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default. |
950 | ||
7d301ae6 | 951 | ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t. |
f66eca26 | 952 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
953 | ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'. |
954 | These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or | |
955 | successful operation. | |
956 | ||
957 | ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order | |
958 | for `list-colors-display'. | |
959 | ||
960 | ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil. | |
961 | ||
0bfd685e | 962 | \f |
eb199145 | 963 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
b350bdf2 | 964 | |
892777ba | 965 | ** Search changes |
dfdb4cad CY |
966 | |
967 | *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of | |
968 | `isearch-yank-line'. | |
969 | ||
970 | *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of | |
971 | `isearch-yank-kill'. | |
972 | ||
973 | *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'. | |
974 | ||
b2b0776e | 975 | ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'. |
dfdb4cad | 976 | |
10607bea CY |
977 | *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'. |
978 | The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports | |
979 | the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a | |
980 | superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete | |
981 | alias for it. | |
ea4f7750 | 982 | |
ec9da840 | 983 | ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument, |
1c708c1a CY |
984 | also deletes newlines around point. |
985 | ||
b9229673 | 986 | ** Deletion changes |
dfdb4cad | 987 | |
b9229673 | 988 | *** New option `delete-active-region'. |
ddb54206 | 989 | If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no |
dfdb4cad | 990 | prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill |
ddb54206 | 991 | instead. |
dfdb4cad | 992 | |
59ee0542 | 993 | *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete]. |
42d9cffa CY |
994 | This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'. |
995 | The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'. | |
dfdb4cad | 996 | |
b9229673 CY |
997 | *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function. |
998 | Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
999 | However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp |
1000 | callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead. | |
dfdb4cad | 1001 | |
b9229673 CY |
1002 | *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted. |
1003 | ||
f9d71b42 CY |
1004 | ** Selection changes. |
1005 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1006 | The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been |
1007 | changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most | |
1008 | commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while | |
1009 | mouse commands use the primary selection. | |
b1ab31ae CY |
1010 | |
1011 | In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a | |
1012 | list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that. | |
1013 | ||
b1ab31ae CY |
1014 | *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t. |
1015 | Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in | |
963578d3 | 1016 | the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if |
b1ab31ae CY |
1017 | the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X). |
1018 | ||
1019 | **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'. | |
1020 | This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active | |
1021 | regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection); | |
1022 | "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by | |
1023 | point motion, do not alter the primary selection. | |
1024 | ||
963578d3 CY |
1025 | **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil. |
1026 | ||
b1ab31ae CY |
1027 | *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'. |
1028 | This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring. | |
1029 | Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'. | |
dfdb4cad | 1030 | |
b1ab31ae | 1031 | *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms. |
dfdb4cad | 1032 | |
b1ab31ae CY |
1033 | *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil. |
1034 | Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as | |
1035 | M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection. | |
1036 | ||
1037 | **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now | |
dfdb4cad | 1038 | exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively. |
b1ab31ae CY |
1039 | |
1040 | **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already | |
1041 | non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection | |
1042 | between applications. | |
1043 | ||
1044 | *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following: | |
dfdb4cad | 1045 | |
104c2fe9 | 1046 | **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil. |
b1ab31ae CY |
1047 | **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t. |
1048 | **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only). | |
1049 | **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil. | |
1050 | **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2. | |
f9d71b42 | 1051 | |
084e6df3 | 1052 | *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed. |
dfdb4cad | 1053 | |
3fd50d5c CY |
1054 | *** X clipboard managers are now supported. |
1055 | To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil. | |
4b80f674 | 1056 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1057 | ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines |
1058 | in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a | |
1059 | number to count from and for a format string. | |
99f053cf | 1060 | |
7d301ae6 | 1061 | ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t. |
6bf7006f EZ |
1062 | This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive |
1063 | at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay | |
1064 | in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive | |
1065 | updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up. | |
1066 | ||
e70b5064 CY |
1067 | ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed. |
1068 | In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command') | |
1069 | when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the | |
1070 | region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the | |
1071 | region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line). | |
1072 | ||
dfdb4cad CY |
1073 | ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are |
1074 | collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there | |
1075 | are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur' | |
1076 | reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention | |
1077 | follows `replace-match'. | |
1078 | ||
9bae34bf | 1079 | \f |
eb199145 | 1080 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 |
efeb796b | 1081 | |
041d709f | 1082 | ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives. |
d76674bb | 1083 | |
b7c3692a | 1084 | ** BibTeX mode |
dfdb4cad | 1085 | |
2de69e00 | 1086 | *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex. |
7d301ae6 CY |
1087 | Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects. |
1088 | `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for | |
1089 | `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'. | |
1090 | ||
dfdb4cad CY |
1091 | *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a. |
1092 | ||
b7c3692a | 1093 | *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default. |
dfdb4cad | 1094 | |
022fe7ce RW |
1095 | *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'. |
1096 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1097 | ** Browse-url |
dfdb4cad | 1098 | |
7d301ae6 | 1099 | *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s. |
dfdb4cad | 1100 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1101 | *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program, |
1102 | on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser. | |
1103 | ||
cf16af42 GM |
1104 | ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt |
1105 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1106 | *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments". |
548d0a63 GM |
1107 | See the variable `diary-comment-start'. |
1108 | ||
5006e634 GM |
1109 | *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times. |
1110 | See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'. | |
1111 | ||
0a2bb1a9 GM |
1112 | *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed |
1113 | lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times. | |
1114 | If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it. | |
1115 | ||
7454f200 GM |
1116 | *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'. |
1117 | ||
e565dd37 GM |
1118 | *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array' |
1119 | may no longer be nil, but must all be strings. | |
1120 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1121 | *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt |
1122 | package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed. | |
1123 | Use `appt-activate' instead. | |
cf16af42 | 1124 | |
cf16af42 GM |
1125 | *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: |
1126 | appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate) | |
1127 | appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format) | |
1128 | ||
cf16af42 GM |
1129 | *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: |
1130 | view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries | |
1131 | ||
551b046f | 1132 | ** CC Mode |
dfdb4cad | 1133 | |
551b046f | 1134 | *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer. |
7d301ae6 | 1135 | The main entry point is M-x c-guess. |
041d709f | 1136 | |
551b046f AM |
1137 | *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang). |
1138 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1139 | *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes. |
551b046f AM |
1140 | Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function, |
1141 | not the top level. | |
1142 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1143 | *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation. |
551b046f AM |
1144 | Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer |
1145 | parsed as a statement continuation. | |
1146 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1147 | ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code. |
041d709f CY |
1148 | |
1149 | ** Compilation mode | |
dfdb4cad | 1150 | |
7d301ae6 | 1151 | *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode. |
041d709f CY |
1152 | `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete. |
1153 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1154 | *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while |
7d301ae6 CY |
1155 | `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the |
1156 | text inserted by `compilation-filter'. | |
041d709f | 1157 | |
47a6a35f GM |
1158 | *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column' |
1159 | are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1160 | set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation* |
1161 | buffer was used. | |
1dce7193 | 1162 | |
52834b6b CY |
1163 | ** Customize |
1164 | ||
1165 | *** Customize buffers now contain a search field. | |
1166 | The search is performed using `customize-apropos'. | |
7d301ae6 | 1167 | To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil. |
52834b6b CY |
1168 | |
1169 | *** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values. | |
1170 | Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility. | |
1171 | ||
1172 | *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t. | |
1173 | ||
1174 | *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to | |
7d301ae6 | 1175 | choose a color via `list-colors-display'. |
52834b6b | 1176 | |
041d709f CY |
1177 | ** D-Bus |
1178 | ||
5da3be7f GM |
1179 | *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system |
1180 | or session bus. | |
041d709f | 1181 | |
7d301ae6 | 1182 | *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions |
5da3be7f | 1183 | optionally do not register names. |
041d709f | 1184 | |
7d301ae6 | 1185 | *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service |
dfdb4cad | 1186 | name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method. |
041d709f | 1187 | |
f5d6548a | 1188 | ** Dired-x |
425a25f1 | 1189 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1190 | *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'), |
1191 | if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer | |
1192 | instead of using the current buffer. | |
f5d6548a | 1193 | |
7d301ae6 | 1194 | *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete. |
817b48a7 | 1195 | The standard directory local variables feature replaces it. |
8117868f | 1196 | |
041d709f | 1197 | ** ERC changes |
7492acc9 | 1198 | |
c4077254 GM |
1199 | *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay', |
1200 | controlling attempts to autojoin a channel. | |
041d709f CY |
1201 | |
1202 | *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided' | |
1203 | as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted. | |
1204 | The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as | |
1205 | utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest. | |
7492acc9 | 1206 | |
041d709f | 1207 | ** Eshell changes |
7492acc9 | 1208 | |
05f77e38 GM |
1209 | *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed |
1210 | to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'. | |
1211 | The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though. | |
041d709f CY |
1212 | |
1213 | ** gdb-mi | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1214 | |
1215 | *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol. | |
05f77e38 GM |
1216 | It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous |
1217 | debugging of several threads. | |
7492acc9 | 1218 | |
18af70d0 CY |
1219 | ** Image mode |
1220 | ||
05f77e38 GM |
1221 | *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable. |
1222 | Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil. | |
18af70d0 | 1223 | |
041d709f | 1224 | ** Info |
723ee192 | 1225 | |
7d301ae6 | 1226 | *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual. |
2ebc3b94 GM |
1227 | If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays |
1228 | that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info* | |
1229 | buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual | |
1230 | you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual. | |
691cf4a0 | 1231 | |
24ea72d3 EZ |
1232 | *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'. |
1233 | This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program, | |
1234 | and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled | |
1235 | by default. | |
1236 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1237 | ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode) |
dfdb4cad | 1238 | |
7d301ae6 | 1239 | *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments |
7d301ae6 | 1240 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1241 | *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file. |
1242 | (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME | |
1243 | attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name. | |
1244 | ||
f2c3a9eb | 1245 | ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1. |
041d709f | 1246 | See MH-E-NEWS for details. |
37221432 | 1247 | |
041d709f | 1248 | ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation. |
37221432 | 1249 | |
041d709f | 1250 | ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags. |
3c3d4f5b | 1251 | |
5d1ac394 | 1252 | ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1253 | Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i |
1254 | or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the | |
1255 | default), this performs tag completion. | |
5d1ac394 | 1256 | |
f2c3a9eb CY |
1257 | ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09. |
1258 | See ORG-NEWS for details. | |
1259 | ||
041d709f | 1260 | ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional |
7d301ae6 CY |
1261 | functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity, |
1262 | support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more. | |
041d709f CY |
1263 | |
1264 | ** Rmail | |
1265 | ||
1266 | *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data | |
1267 | in the Rmail incoming message. | |
1268 | ||
50419064 GM |
1269 | *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect. |
1270 | This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time. | |
1271 | Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead. | |
1272 | ||
717a1362 | 1273 | ** Shell mode |
dfdb4cad CY |
1274 | |
1275 | *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory | |
1276 | is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor | |
1277 | the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set. | |
1278 | ||
1279 | *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command, | |
1280 | which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion. | |
717a1362 | 1281 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1282 | ** SMTPmail |
1283 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1284 | *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default |
7d301ae6 CY |
1285 | if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS |
1286 | support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type' | |
1287 | to change this. | |
1288 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1289 | *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed. |
1290 | By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1291 | This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had |
1292 | customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and | |
1293 | passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection | |
1294 | to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password, | |
1295 | and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the | |
1296 | credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1297 | |
1298 | (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials | |
1299 | '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret"))) | |
1300 | ||
1301 | then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be | |
1302 | ||
1303 | machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret | |
1304 | ||
1305 | See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting | |
1306 | the credentials file. | |
1307 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1308 | *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed. |
dfdb4cad | 1309 | If you had that set, you need to put |
7d301ae6 CY |
1310 | |
1311 | machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert" | |
1312 | ||
1313 | in your ~/.authinfo file instead. | |
1314 | ||
34e8a2da | 1315 | ** SQL mode |
041d709f | 1316 | |
34e8a2da GM |
1317 | *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator', |
1318 | and `sql-oracle-scan-on'. | |
041d709f | 1319 | |
dfdb4cad | 1320 | *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters. |
34e8a2da GM |
1321 | Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params', |
1322 | which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a | |
1323 | connection is established. | |
041d709f CY |
1324 | |
1325 | *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument, | |
34e8a2da | 1326 | which causes it to prompt for an SQL product. |
041d709f | 1327 | |
34e8a2da | 1328 | *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments. |
041d709f CY |
1329 | These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.), |
1330 | given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive | |
1331 | buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'. | |
1332 | ||
1333 | *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and | |
1334 | replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL | |
1335 | statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into | |
1336 | the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The | |
34e8a2da GM |
1337 | second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing |
1338 | object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions. | |
041d709f CY |
1339 | |
1340 | *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session, | |
1341 | using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'. | |
1342 | ||
1343 | *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers. | |
1344 | This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it | |
1345 | was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection. | |
1346 | ||
34e8a2da GM |
1347 | *** New commands for listing database objects and details: |
1348 | sql-list-all and sql-list-table. | |
041d709f CY |
1349 | |
1350 | *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added. | |
1351 | ||
1352 | ** TeX modes | |
1353 | ||
1354 | *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly. | |
412b9ee5 | 1355 | |
459bba37 | 1356 | ** Tramp |
dfdb4cad | 1357 | |
7d301ae6 | 1358 | *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su). |
dfdb4cad | 1359 | |
459bba37 | 1360 | *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old", |
ea843702 | 1361 | "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish". |
dfdb4cad | 1362 | |
b011fbfe GM |
1363 | *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether |
1364 | remote file attributes are cached for better performance. | |
dfdb4cad | 1365 | |
58f74fe4 MA |
1366 | *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its |
1367 | default value to "". | |
dfdb4cad | 1368 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1369 | *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context' |
1370 | for remote machines which support SELinux. | |
58f74fe4 | 1371 | |
dfdb4cad | 1372 | ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve, |
a48ec60c GM |
1373 | but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on |
1374 | the degree of parallelism. | |
177549d0 | 1375 | |
0c32ce32 CY |
1376 | ** VC and related modes |
1377 | ||
1378 | *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1379 | The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is |
1380 | supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the | |
1381 | current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt | |
1382 | the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location. | |
0c32ce32 | 1383 | |
dab3703d | 1384 | *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'. |
0c32ce32 CY |
1385 | |
1386 | *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1387 | The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it |
1388 | is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge | |
1389 | changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for | |
1390 | specifics, e.g. a merge source. | |
0c32ce32 | 1391 | |
2afef60a | 1392 | *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert' |
bbe43420 | 1393 | shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t. |
2afef60a | 1394 | |
d4eb88c7 CY |
1395 | *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a |
1396 | longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display). | |
dab3703d GM |
1397 | This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support |
1398 | another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function'). | |
7d301ae6 | 1399 | In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can |
d4eb88c7 CY |
1400 | use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point. |
1401 | ||
1c6c854e CS |
1402 | *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions |
1403 | of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend. | |
1404 | ||
86c60681 CY |
1405 | *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but |
1406 | this was not advertised at the time. | |
1407 | ||
86c60681 CY |
1408 | *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'. |
1409 | Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but | |
80c6d77f GM |
1410 | this was not advertised at the time. |
1411 | ||
041d709f CY |
1412 | ** Obsolete modes |
1413 | ||
23d70505 GM |
1414 | *** abbrevlist.el |
1415 | ||
f8ca9162 | 1416 | *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead) |
23d70505 GM |
1417 | |
1418 | *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete. | |
041d709f CY |
1419 | You can get a comparable behavior with: |
1420 | (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials)) | |
1421 | (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t) | |
1422 | ||
23d70505 GM |
1423 | *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive). |
1424 | ||
2c719188 | 1425 | *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead). |
041d709f CY |
1426 | |
1427 | *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset. | |
1428 | ||
23d70505 GM |
1429 | *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete. |
1430 | They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1. | |
1431 | ||
2c719188 | 1432 | *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer). |
ca5eed61 | 1433 | |
0fe719e6 GM |
1434 | ** Miscellaneous |
1435 | ||
05f77e38 | 1436 | *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'. |
c6ad2a4e | 1437 | Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed. |
05f77e38 | 1438 | |
dfdb4cad | 1439 | *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'. |
05f77e38 GM |
1440 | (This interfered with cua-mode.) |
1441 | ||
9f678528 GM |
1442 | *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax. |
1443 | ||
0fe719e6 GM |
1444 | *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges. |
1445 | ||
5b3e6db8 GM |
1446 | *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet. |
1447 | ||
eb199145 GM |
1448 | \f |
1449 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 | |
d445b3f8 | 1450 | |
60e56523 | 1451 | ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the |
8c0f49f0 | 1452 | original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode. |
60e56523 | 1453 | |
a075a2c5 GM |
1454 | ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode. |
1455 | When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the | |
1456 | matching closing one. | |
1457 | ||
1458 | ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode. | |
1459 | When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation. | |
cd3308f3 GM |
1460 | Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or |
1461 | electric-indent-functions. | |
a075a2c5 GM |
1462 | |
1463 | ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode. | |
1464 | When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines. | |
cd3308f3 | 1465 | Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules. |
3b843809 | 1466 | |
a83ec3c9 CY |
1467 | ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data, |
1468 | from which other modes can be derived. | |
1469 | ||
d02c9bcd SM |
1470 | ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'. |
1471 | ||
7725ebb7 MA |
1472 | ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an |
1473 | interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The | |
065f2743 MA |
1474 | Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command |
1475 | `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the | |
1476 | secrets. | |
7725ebb7 | 1477 | |
f9e78150 MA |
1478 | ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop |
1479 | Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication. | |
1480 | ||
12fe5bcc MA |
1481 | ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs. |
1482 | soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures. | |
1483 | ||
ff1796f3 | 1484 | ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files. |
ad7d6ecb | 1485 | |
53bbe3ad | 1486 | ** New emacs-lock.el package. |
7d301ae6 CY |
1487 | The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el. |
1488 | Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection | |
1489 | against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately. | |
1490 | The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers | |
1491 | with dead inferior processes has been generalized. | |
53bbe3ad | 1492 | |
eb199145 GM |
1493 | \f |
1494 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
6dfcbe31 | 1495 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1496 | ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES |
1497 | the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g. | |
1498 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1499 | (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode) |
7d301ae6 | 1500 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1501 | to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for |
1502 | `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands | |
1503 | defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode | |
1504 | command still toggles the minor mode. | |
7d301ae6 | 1505 | |
d268b4fe CY |
1506 | ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed. |
1507 | It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list | |
1508 | describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the | |
f003f294 | 1509 | system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil). |
7d301ae6 | 1510 | See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1". |
d268b4fe | 1511 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1512 | ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted. |
1513 | They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional | |
1514 | editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional | |
1515 | properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last | |
1516 | argument `bidi-class'. | |
fa6996bc | 1517 | |
470d996d TV |
1518 | ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory |
1519 | of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The | |
1520 | new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy | |
1521 | the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory. | |
1522 | ||
9173a8fb CY |
1523 | ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel |
1524 | coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text | |
1525 | area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top | |
1526 | of the header line. | |
1527 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1528 | ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has |
1529 | been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is | |
1530 | always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all | |
1531 | "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes | |
1532 | as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then | |
1533 | you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the | |
1534 | appropriate conventions may fail to compile. | |
50ab02c5 CY |
1535 | |
1536 | The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote | |
1537 | followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation | |
1538 | for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')], | |
1539 | you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in | |
7d301ae6 | 1540 | older Emacsen too. |
288cf4e9 | 1541 | |
520f2425 GM |
1542 | ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this |
1543 | was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay' | |
1544 | replaced all known uses. | |
1545 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1546 | ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that |
1547 | `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the | |
1548 | major mode is special). | |
fd5c9dfa | 1549 | |
7d301ae6 | 1550 | ** Menu and tool bar changes |
6431f2e6 | 1551 | |
7d301ae6 | 1552 | *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines' |
0a19a6f8 JB |
1553 | and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'. |
1554 | With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the | |
1555 | variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create | |
1556 | a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added, | |
1557 | they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'. | |
6431f2e6 | 1558 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1559 | *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more. |
1560 | Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead. | |
1561 | ||
fe0aa820 | 1562 | ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions, |
dfdb4cad | 1563 | similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes |
7d301ae6 CY |
1564 | above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by |
1565 | `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed. | |
d6d8ee7a | 1566 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1567 | ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed. |
1568 | If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply | |
1569 | pass the result through substring-no-properties. | |
34c99998 | 1570 | |
4583e796 GM |
1571 | ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'. |
1572 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1573 | ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed |
1574 | (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed" | |
1575 | means you can just remove all calls to the function in question): | |
1576 | ||
1577 | *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output') | |
1578 | *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string') | |
1579 | *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p') | |
1580 | *** `internal-find-face' (`facep') | |
1581 | *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face') | |
1582 | *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed) | |
1583 | *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode') | |
1584 | *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions) | |
2c719188 | 1585 | *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold') |
7d301ae6 CY |
1586 | *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic') |
1587 | *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic') | |
1588 | *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold') | |
1589 | *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic') | |
1590 | *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line') | |
1591 | *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line') | |
1592 | *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode') | |
1593 | *** `char-bytes' (== 1) | |
1594 | *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char') | |
1595 | *** `make-local-hook' (not needed) | |
1596 | *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height') | |
1597 | *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width') | |
1598 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1599 | ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed |
1600 | (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses): | |
1601 | ||
1602 | *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map') | |
1603 | *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header') | |
1604 | *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/) | |
1605 | *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults') | |
1606 | *** `e' (`float-e'). | |
3226d6ca | 1607 | |
041d709f | 1608 | ** The following obsolete files were removed: |
7b0e3048 GM |
1609 | sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el |
1610 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1611 | ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder |
1612 | mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable | |
1613 | `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and | |
1614 | `finder-keywords-hash'. | |
33658d4e | 1615 | |
c2c79260 DE |
1616 | ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer |
1617 | assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead | |
1618 | generates relative names according to the current `load-path'. | |
1619 | ||
eb199145 GM |
1620 | \f |
1621 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
9097e8af | 1622 | |
041d709f | 1623 | ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping. |
dfdb4cad | 1624 | The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local |
48da7392 | 1625 | variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first |
dfdb4cad CY |
1626 | line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that |
1627 | file. | |
1628 | ||
041d709f CY |
1629 | *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical |
1630 | binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode. | |
dfdb4cad | 1631 | |
041d709f CY |
1632 | *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form |
1633 | of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY). | |
1634 | ||
1635 | *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1636 | |
1637 | *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic). | |
1638 | So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine. | |
1639 | ||
041d709f CY |
1640 | *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is |
1641 | declared as dynamically bound. | |
1642 | ||
88ed9e87 SM |
1643 | *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated. |
1644 | ||
041d709f CY |
1645 | ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included. |
1646 | Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for | |
1647 | their code. See the ERT info manual for details. | |
1648 | ||
1649 | ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing | |
f1816485 | 1650 | |
041d709f | 1651 | *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'. |
7d301ae6 | 1652 | This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point. |
041d709f | 1653 | |
041d709f | 1654 | *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1655 | Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this |
1656 | function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a | |
1657 | buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1658 | right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode |
1659 | "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.) | |
041d709f | 1660 | |
7d301ae6 | 1661 | This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph |
dfdb4cad CY |
1662 | direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known |
1663 | in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line. | |
041d709f | 1664 | |
bee0fcef | 1665 | ** Window changes |
dfdb4cad | 1666 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1667 | *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp. |
1668 | Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows | |
1669 | of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a | |
1670 | buffer) in the window tree. | |
dfdb4cad | 1671 | |
24300f5f CY |
1672 | **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal |
1673 | windows. | |
dfdb4cad | 1674 | |
24300f5f | 1675 | **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows. |
c4682d18 MR |
1676 | Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or |
1677 | `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now | |
1678 | act on any window including internal ones. | |
dfdb4cad | 1679 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1680 | *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width. |
1681 | The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height' | |
1682 | and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old | |
1683 | names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width' | |
1684 | and `window-body-height' are provided. | |
dfdb4cad | 1685 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1686 | *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions. |
1687 | For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default | |
1688 | behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window' | |
ed6235ea MR |
1689 | and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters' |
1690 | allows to ignore processing such parameters. | |
dfdb4cad | 1691 | |
c4682d18 | 1692 | *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'. |
c4682d18 MR |
1693 | The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be |
1694 | set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the | |
1695 | new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be | |
1696 | split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the | |
1697 | window into two side-by-side windows as before. | |
dfdb4cad | 1698 | |
c4682d18 | 1699 | *** Window resizing functions. |
487ffd7a | 1700 | A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has |
c4682d18 MR |
1701 | been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no |
1702 | longer delete any windows when they become too small. | |
dfdb4cad | 1703 | |
b3c0dbfd MR |
1704 | *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected |
1705 | live window on that frame instead. | |
dfdb4cad | 1706 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1707 | *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments. |
1708 | `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and | |
1709 | is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing | |
1710 | edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to | |
1711 | that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete | |
1712 | windows which was introduced in Emacs 22. | |
dfdb4cad | 1713 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1714 | *** Window-local buffer lists. |
1715 | Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer | |
1716 | from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously | |
1717 | shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point | |
1718 | positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically | |
1719 | shown twice even if it already appears in another window. | |
dfdb4cad | 1720 | |
bee0fcef CY |
1721 | *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW, |
1722 | which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently | |
1723 | selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window | |
1724 | can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated. | |
dfdb4cad | 1725 | |
0a2132ba | 1726 | *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed |
2d197ffb CY |
1727 | to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively. |
1728 | The old names are kept as aliases. | |
dfdb4cad | 1729 | |
0a2132ba CY |
1730 | *** Display actions |
1731 | ||
1732 | **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now | |
1733 | named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as | |
1734 | `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil, | |
1735 | non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning. | |
1736 | ||
1737 | **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'. | |
1738 | ||
1739 | **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is | |
1740 | determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action', | |
1741 | `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action', | |
1742 | and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these | |
1743 | are user-customizable variables. | |
1744 | ||
1745 | See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details. | |
bee0fcef | 1746 | |
20d2304d CY |
1747 | *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'. |
1748 | These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary | |
1749 | frame or window as an Elisp object. | |
1750 | ||
a2a25d24 | 1751 | ** Completion |
041d709f | 1752 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1753 | *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra |
1754 | properties of the current completion: | |
a2a25d24 SM |
1755 | - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function. |
1756 | - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place. | |
1757 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1758 | *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the |
1759 | properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'. | |
a2a25d24 | 1760 | |
7d301ae6 | 1761 | *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete. |
a2a25d24 | 1762 | |
620c53a6 SM |
1763 | *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned |
1764 | can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions': | |
1765 | - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...), | |
1766 | used to select a style in completion-category-overrides. | |
1767 | - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*. | |
1768 | - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*. | |
1769 | - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling. | |
1770 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1771 | *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more. |
1772 | Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' | |
1773 | are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'. | |
de09aa52 CY |
1774 | |
1775 | *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the | |
1776 | behavior of `completing-read'. | |
1777 | ||
f042970d | 1778 | ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and |
16a43933 CY |
1779 | text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell. |
1780 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1781 | ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error. |
f6d62986 SM |
1782 | Instead, the offending function is removed. |
1783 | ||
b1f6fa26 CY |
1784 | ** New hook types |
1785 | ||
1786 | *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by | |
1787 | passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function. | |
e7bc51d0 | 1788 | Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first |
5385447f | 1789 | non-nil return value. |
e7bc51d0 | 1790 | |
b1f6fa26 CY |
1791 | *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a |
1792 | set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice. | |
54521c99 GM |
1793 | (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not |
1794 | advertised at the time.) | |
f6d62986 | 1795 | |
0b19b281 | 1796 | ** Debugger changes |
dfdb4cad | 1797 | |
0b19b281 | 1798 | *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in |
1be3ca5a | 1799 | Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised) |
dfdb4cad | 1800 | |
0b19b281 | 1801 | *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised. |
dfdb4cad | 1802 | |
0b19b281 | 1803 | *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed. |
dfdb4cad | 1804 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1805 | *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will |
1806 | jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked | |
1807 | instead of jumping all the way to the top-level. | |
dfdb4cad | 1808 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1809 | *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1. |
1810 | This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set. | |
d6b1d521 | 1811 | |
953cebf5 | 1812 | ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on |
37576acd | 1813 | named Emacs server instances. |
7deebf1b | 1814 | |
1b9f60cc GM |
1815 | ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec |
1816 | to redirect STDOUT to a file. | |
7deebf1b | 1817 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1818 | ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive, |
1819 | for higher-resolution time stamps. | |
da97a9e6 | 1820 | |
0b19b281 | 1821 | ** New input reading functions |
dfdb4cad | 1822 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1823 | *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of |
1824 | characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set. | |
dfdb4cad | 1825 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1826 | *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name |
1827 | or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides | |
1828 | invalid input. | |
dfdb4cad | 1829 | |
0b19b281 | 1830 | **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'. |
3ef01959 | 1831 | |
2e288d54 JB |
1832 | ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'. |
1833 | The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries, | |
1834 | not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an | |
1835 | obsolete alias. | |
1836 | ||
0b19b281 | 1837 | ** Syntax parsing changes |
dfdb4cad | 1838 | |
0b19b281 | 1839 | *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'. |
04e2ce72 | 1840 | This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete. |
cf38dd42 SM |
1841 | This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock: |
1842 | just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized. | |
1843 | Together with this new variable come a new hook | |
1844 | syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions: | |
1845 | syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords | |
1846 | as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify | |
1847 | syntactic rules. | |
dfdb4cad | 1848 | |
0b19b281 | 1849 | *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b. |
a2e5caf7 | 1850 | |
7d301ae6 | 1851 | ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'. |
041d709f | 1852 | |
4e2db1fe | 1853 | ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more. |
041d709f | 1854 | |
15de15c6 | 1855 | ** Major and minor mode changes |
dfdb4cad | 1856 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1857 | *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files, |
1858 | as well as those in the -*- line. | |
dfdb4cad | 1859 | |
15de15c6 CY |
1860 | *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes |
1861 | should be derived. | |
dfdb4cad | 1862 | |
15de15c6 CY |
1863 | **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming |
1864 | modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable | |
1865 | on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings. | |
dfdb4cad | 1866 | |
15de15c6 CY |
1867 | *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by |
1868 | `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks. | |
dfdb4cad | 1869 | |
7a9a2fc6 GM |
1870 | *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes. |
1871 | If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the | |
1872 | major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis. | |
dfdb4cad | 1873 | |
feb8a83a | 1874 | *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook. |
f44379e7 | 1875 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1876 | ** File-handling changes |
1877 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1878 | *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH. |
f1a5d776 CY |
1879 | Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are |
1880 | both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix | |
1881 | argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above). | |
53967e09 | 1882 | |
7d301ae6 | 1883 | *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'. |
ec70a47d | 1884 | |
4039c786 CY |
1885 | ** Tool-bars can display separators. |
1886 | Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps, | |
94975270 | 1887 | i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'. |
9317e499 | 1888 | |
00fe2df1 JL |
1889 | ** Image API |
1890 | ||
18af70d0 CY |
1891 | *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only). |
1892 | ||
1893 | **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated. | |
1894 | ||
1895 | **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec. | |
1896 | ||
1897 | **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that | |
1898 | is being animated. | |
00fe2df1 | 1899 | |
7cb76fe0 GM |
1900 | *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'. |
1901 | The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one. | |
1546c559 | 1902 | |
b4ac6e8c GM |
1903 | *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports. |
1904 | This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1905 | |
1906 | **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support | |
1907 | is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your | |
1908 | ImageMagick installation supports. | |
1909 | ||
1910 | **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick | |
1911 | image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper | |
1912 | functions. | |
1913 | ||
1914 | **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain | |
1915 | ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'. | |
1916 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1917 | **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to |
1918 | resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height', | |
1919 | `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and | |
1920 | `image-transform-set-scale'. | |
041d709f | 1921 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1922 | ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and |
1923 | passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an | |
1924 | action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For | |
1925 | example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window. | |
b4ac6e8c | 1926 | |
71c17aec | 1927 | ** XML and HTML parsing |
483ab230 CY |
1928 | If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new |
1929 | functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML) | |
1930 | and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an | |
1931 | Emacs Lisp parse tree. | |
4b9832a6 | 1932 | |
7d301ae6 | 1933 | ** Networking and encryption changes |
e2574f2c | 1934 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1935 | *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream. |
1936 | It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS | |
1937 | connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional | |
1938 | parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command') | |
1939 | must also be supplied. | |
1940 | ||
1941 | *** New library gnutls.el. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1942 | The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is |
1943 | built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are | |
1944 | `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use | |
1945 | these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1946 | upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain |
1947 | SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level' | |
1948 | greater than 0. | |
1949 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1950 | *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms: |
1951 | md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library | |
1952 | sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default. | |
71c17aec | 1953 | |
a6020335 MH |
1954 | ** Isearch |
1955 | ||
1956 | *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'. | |
1957 | ||
9326ba26 CY |
1958 | ** Progress reporters can now "spin". |
1959 | The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can | |
1960 | now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each | |
1961 | time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter, | |
1962 | with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is | |
1963 | displayed with a "spinning bar". | |
1964 | ||
3e214b50 JB |
1965 | ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is |
1966 | being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'. | |
1967 | ||
001bf877 GM |
1968 | ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'. |
1969 | If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1970 | `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this |
1971 | is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during | |
1972 | startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the | |
1973 | functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'. | |
001bf877 | 1974 | |
6420d28b CY |
1975 | ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups. |
1976 | ||
dac86404 GM |
1977 | ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap |
1978 | from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that | |
1979 | inherits from multiple maps, eg: | |
1980 | (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent)) | |
43dc9f5b | 1981 | |
c8f6ec5c GM |
1982 | ** New function `string-prefix-p'. |
1983 | (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.) | |
1984 | ||
27f7ef2f | 1985 | ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol. |
43dc9f5b AS |
1986 | This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself |
1987 | (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for | |
1988 | an empty uninterned symbol. | |
041d709f | 1989 | |
fead402d CY |
1990 | ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'. |
1991 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1992 | ** The following functions and variables are obsolete: |
041d709f | 1993 | |
05f77e38 GM |
1994 | *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete. |
1995 | Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead. | |
1996 | ||
041d709f CY |
1997 | *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete. |
1998 | Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead. | |
1999 | ||
2000 | *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete. | |
2001 | ||
2002 | *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete. | |
f160676e GM |
2003 | Use `post-command-hook' instead. |
2004 | ||
67e729a5 CY |
2005 | *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete. |
2006 | ||
eb199145 GM |
2007 | \f |
2008 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems | |
d53a60a6 | 2009 | |
7a22e700 | 2010 | ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs, |
a2f0118c GM |
2011 | and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default. |
2012 | ||
7a22e700 | 2013 | ** New configure.bat options |
04779484 | 2014 | |
7a22e700 | 2015 | *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks. |
e3aef5c6 | 2016 | |
7a22e700 | 2017 | *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution. |
e2574f2c | 2018 | |
7a22e700 OK |
2019 | *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection. |
2020 | ||
a0d363f4 | 2021 | *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable. |
e2574f2c | 2022 | |
0a19a6f8 | 2023 | ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows. |
e3aef5c6 | 2024 | |
1f5e1a16 GM |
2025 | ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete. |
2026 | (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.) | |
5430d399 | 2027 | |
1f5e1a16 GM |
2028 | ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but |
2029 | reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.) | |
04e2ce72 | 2030 | |
ad7c802c CY |
2031 | ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on |
2032 | other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer. | |
2033 | ||
05197f40 | 2034 | \f |
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2042 | |
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5b87ad55 | 2048 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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a933dad1 | 2050 | |
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2052 | Local variables: |
2053 | mode: outline | |
2054 | paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$" | |
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