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29b7722a | 1 | GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
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73b0cd50 | 3 | Copyright (C) 2010-2011 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. |
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eb199145 GM |
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 | |
18 | Temporary note: | |
19 | +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. | |
20 | --- means no change in the manuals is called for. | |
21 | When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- | |
22 | so we will look at it and add it to the manual. | |
23 | ||
24 | \f | |
eb199145 | 25 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
09e18d03 | 26 | |
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27 | ** Configure links against libselinux if it is found. |
28 | You can disable this by using --without-selinux. | |
29 | ||
30 | --- | |
31 | ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed. | |
32 | You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info. | |
33 | ||
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34 | --- |
35 | ** There are new configure options: | |
36 | --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost. | |
37 | These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit | |
38 | lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features. | |
39 | ||
e547b051 | 40 | --- |
30c4d8dc | 41 | ** Emacs can be compiled against Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 |
e547b051 J |
42 | to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf, |
43 | also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and | |
44 | --without-gconf. | |
45 | ||
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46 | ** There is a new configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type. |
47 | This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs. | |
b2957ea8 | 48 | This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new. |
d9170db5 | 49 | |
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50 | --- |
51 | ** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available | |
52 | Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't | |
53 | automatically select it. | |
54 | ||
0bfd685e | 55 | \f |
eb199145 | 56 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
4a263588 | 57 | |
198a7a97 | 58 | ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte |
adbf62ff GM |
59 | command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no |
60 | longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.) | |
198a7a97 | 61 | |
66b7b0fe GM |
62 | ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories |
63 | from load-path. -Q now implies this. | |
64 | ||
0bfd685e | 65 | \f |
eb199145 | 66 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
7841339b | 67 | |
2a847524 CY |
68 | ** emacsclient changes |
69 | ||
70 | *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID can be used to open a | |
0191e222 CY |
71 | client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed. This works like the |
72 | --parent-id argument to Emacs. | |
73 | ||
2a847524 CY |
74 | *** If emacsclient shuts down as a result of Emacs signalling an |
75 | error, its exit status is 1. | |
76 | ||
902a6d8d SM |
77 | ** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold. |
78 | ||
2372f278 SM |
79 | ** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default. |
80 | ||
f4b6ba46 EZ |
81 | +++ |
82 | ** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text. | |
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83 | |
84 | See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some | |
85 | initial documentation. | |
86 | ||
87 | To turn this on in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable | |
88 | `bidi-display-reordering' to a non-nil value. The default is nil. | |
89 | ||
90 | The buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction', if non-nil, | |
91 | forces each paragraph in the buffer to have its base direction | |
92 | according to the value of this variable. Possible values are | |
93 | `right-to-left' and `left-to-right'. If the value is nil (the | |
94 | default), Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph from | |
95 | its text, as specified by the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. | |
96 | ||
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97 | The function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction' returns the actual |
98 | value of paragraph base direction at point. | |
99 | ||
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100 | Reordering of bidirectional text for display in Emacs is a "Full |
101 | bidirectionality" class implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional | |
102 | Algorithm. | |
103 | ||
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104 | Note that some advanced display features, such as overlay strings and |
105 | `display' text properties, do not yet work correctly when | |
106 | bidirectional text is reordered for display. | |
107 | ||
303500aa | 108 | ** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default. |
52834b6b CY |
109 | Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this. |
110 | ||
20fe03ad | 111 | ** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text. |
d8004abe | 112 | Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose style. On a Gnome desktop, the default |
20fe03ad JD |
113 | is taken from the desktop settings. |
114 | ||
8b2dd508 JD |
115 | ** GTK tool bars can be placed on the left/right or top/bottom of the frame. |
116 | The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the values | |
1c0d77cc | 117 | top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has entries |
8b2dd508 JD |
118 | for this. |
119 | ||
8740c12d | 120 | ** ImageMagick support. |
b2fa3a09 GM |
121 | It is now possible to use the ImageMagick library to load many new |
122 | image formats in Emacs. By default, Emacs links with the ImageMagick | |
123 | libraries if they are present at build time. To disable this, use | |
8ea189f7 | 124 | the configure option `--without-imagemagick'. |
16a91140 | 125 | |
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126 | The new function `imagemagick-types' returns a list of image file |
127 | extensions that your installation of ImageMagick supports. The | |
128 | function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick support for | |
b2957ea8 | 129 | these image types, minus those listed in `imagemagick-types-inhibit'. |
16a91140 | 130 | |
8740c12d | 131 | See the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual for more information. |
16a91140 | 132 | |
3a46642b J |
133 | ** The colors for selected text (the region face) are taken from the GTK |
134 | theme when Emacs is built with GTK. | |
135 | ||
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136 | ** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK. You can turn that |
137 | off by customizing x-gtk-use-system-tooltips. | |
138 | ||
1ecb2d3f | 139 | ** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is built |
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140 | with Xft. To change font, use X resource faceName, for example: |
141 | Emacs.pane.menubar.faceName: Courier-12 | |
142 | Set faceName to none and use font to use the old X fonts. | |
99852628 | 143 | |
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144 | +++ |
145 | ** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts | |
146 | If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs by | |
147 | default will display it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a | |
148 | thin 1-pixel space. In addition to these two methods, Emacs can | |
149 | display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display | |
150 | them at all. To change how these characters are displayed, customize | |
151 | the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'. | |
152 | ||
153 | On character terminals these methods are used for characters that | |
154 | cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'. | |
155 | ||
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156 | ** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes. |
157 | ||
b7d65a5f GM |
158 | ** Basic SELinux support has been added. |
159 | This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time. | |
160 | ||
d8004abe GM |
161 | *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up, and |
162 | optionally when copying files. To this end, copy-file has an extra | |
163 | optional argument, and backup-buffer and friends include the SELinux | |
164 | context in their return values. | |
b7d65a5f GM |
165 | |
166 | *** The new functions file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context | |
167 | get and set the SELinux context of a file. | |
168 | ||
a5bee597 MA |
169 | *** Tramp offers handlers for file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context |
170 | for remote machines which support SELinux. | |
171 | ||
a4180391 PE |
172 | +++ |
173 | ** The function format-time-string now supports the %N directive, for | |
174 | higher-resolution time stamps. | |
175 | ||
9c524fcb | 176 | ** The function kill-emacs is now run upon receipt of the signals SIGTERM |
383ebd15 | 177 | and SIGHUP, and upon SIGINT in batch mode. |
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178 | |
179 | ** kill-emacs-hook is now also run in batch mode. | |
180 | ||
79ce172a | 181 | ** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command' |
7b05466f JL |
182 | (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) does not signal errors at top/bottom |
183 | of buffer at first key-press (instead moves to top/bottom of buffer) | |
184 | when a new variable `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil. | |
79ce172a | 185 | |
5a97d2da JL |
186 | ** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line' |
187 | scroll a line instead of full screen. | |
188 | ||
a4b000fb | 189 | ** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to |
b2957ea8 | 190 | define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'. |
9013a7f8 | 191 | |
f1a5d776 CY |
192 | ** Trash changes |
193 | ||
194 | *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify | |
195 | trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files. | |
196 | ||
197 | *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument | |
198 | now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'. | |
199 | ||
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200 | ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order |
201 | for `list-colors-display'. | |
202 | ||
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203 | ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included. |
204 | This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages, | |
42d9cffa | 205 | from a package repository at elpa.gnu.org. |
cb6c4991 CY |
206 | |
207 | *** `M-x list-packages' shows a list of packages, which can be | |
208 | selected for installation. | |
209 | ||
210 | *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'. | |
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211 | |
212 | *** By default, all installed packages are loaded and activated | |
213 | automatically when Emacs starts up. To disable this, set | |
214 | `package-enable-at-startup' to nil. To change which packages are | |
215 | loaded, customize `package-load-list'. | |
216 | ||
d221e780 CO |
217 | ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included. |
218 | Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for | |
219 | their code. See the ERT info manual for details. | |
220 | ||
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221 | ** Custom Themes |
222 | ||
223 | *** `M-x customize-themes' lists Custom themes which can be enabled. | |
224 | ||
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225 | *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes. |
226 | Emacs no longer looks for custom themes in `load-path'. The default | |
227 | is to search in `custom-theme-directory', followed by a built-in theme | |
228 | directory named "themes/" in `data-directory'. | |
229 | ||
b7617f6d CY |
230 | *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files. |
231 | If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and | |
232 | offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By | |
233 | default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe. | |
278f6845 | 234 | |
4ddf410a MA |
235 | ** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether |
236 | the remote file-name cache is used for read access. | |
237 | ||
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238 | ** The standalone programs lib-src/digest-doc and sorted-doc have been |
239 | replaced with Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'. | |
240 | ||
f13183cf CY |
241 | ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil. |
242 | ||
0bfd685e | 243 | \f |
eb199145 | 244 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
b350bdf2 | 245 | |
ea4f7750 GM |
246 | +++ |
247 | ** There is a new command `count-words-region', which does what you expect. | |
248 | ||
67027b49 | 249 | ** completion-at-point now handles tags and semantic completion. |
a982c7ec | 250 | |
d74cba8f MA |
251 | ** The default value of `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' is now t. |
252 | ||
1c708c1a CY |
253 | ** The command `just-one-space' (C-SPC), if given a negative argument, |
254 | also deletes newlines around point. | |
255 | ||
b9229673 CY |
256 | ** Deletion changes |
257 | ||
258 | *** New option `delete-active-region'. | |
259 | If non-nil, C-d, [delete], and DEL delete the region if it is active | |
260 | and no prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', these commands | |
261 | kill instead. | |
262 | ||
263 | *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to C-d and [delete]. | |
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264 | This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'. |
265 | The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'. | |
b9229673 CY |
266 | |
267 | *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function. | |
268 | Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged. | |
269 | However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; you | |
270 | should use delete-char with a negative argument instead. | |
271 | ||
272 | *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted. | |
273 | ||
f9d71b42 CY |
274 | ** Selection changes. |
275 | ||
b1ab31ae CY |
276 | The default handling of clipboard and primary selections was changed |
277 | to conform with modern X applications. In short, most commands for | |
278 | killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while mouse commands | |
279 | use the primary selection. | |
280 | ||
281 | In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a | |
282 | list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that. | |
283 | ||
284 | *** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil. | |
285 | *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t. | |
286 | Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in | |
287 | the kill-ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if | |
288 | the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X). | |
289 | ||
290 | **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'. | |
291 | This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active | |
292 | regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection); | |
293 | "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by | |
294 | point motion, do not alter the primary selection. | |
295 | ||
296 | *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'. | |
297 | This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring. | |
298 | Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'. | |
299 | ||
300 | *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms. | |
301 | *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil. | |
302 | Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as | |
303 | M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection. | |
304 | ||
305 | **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now | |
306 | exactly equivalent to, respectively M-w, C-w, and C-y. | |
307 | ||
308 | **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already | |
309 | non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection | |
310 | between applications. | |
311 | ||
312 | *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following: | |
313 | ||
314 | **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t. | |
315 | **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only). | |
316 | **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil. | |
317 | **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2. | |
f9d71b42 | 318 | |
084e6df3 JD |
319 | *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed. |
320 | ||
99f053cf JA |
321 | ** New command `rectangle-number-lines', bound to `C-x r N', numbers |
322 | the lines in the current rectangle. With an prefix argument, this | |
323 | prompts for a number to count from and for a format string. | |
324 | ||
9bae34bf | 325 | \f |
eb199145 | 326 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 |
efeb796b | 327 | |
9ffae6d0 SM |
328 | ** The compile.el mode can be used without font-lock-mode. |
329 | `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete. | |
330 | ||
4d0143e6 JA |
331 | ** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'. |
332 | ||
04380ff1 SM |
333 | ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional |
334 | functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricty, support for | |
335 | more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more. | |
336 | ||
78835dd0 SM |
337 | ** shell-mode can track your cwd by reading it from your prompt. |
338 | Just set shell-dir-cookie-re to an appropriate regexp. | |
339 | ||
cbf83ce9 SM |
340 | ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation. |
341 | ||
b879a6e2 SM |
342 | ** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly. |
343 | ||
360ac530 | 344 | ** FIXME: xdg-open for browse-url and reportbug, 2010/08. |
0ac3effe | 345 | |
b3671a51 JL |
346 | ** Archive Mode has basic support to browse 7z archives. |
347 | ||
876d1684 LMI |
348 | ** browse-url has gotten a new variable that is used for mailto: URLs, |
349 | `browse-url-mailto-function', which defaults to `browse-url-mail'. | |
350 | ||
8a8d54cd VD |
351 | ** ERC changes |
352 | ||
353 | *** New vars `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay'. | |
354 | If the value of `erc-autojoin-timing' is 'ident, ERC autojoins after a | |
355 | successful NickServ identification, or after `erc-autojoin-delay' | |
356 | seconds. The default value, 'ident, means to autojoin immediately | |
357 | after connecting. | |
358 | ||
5c0c0f77 LMI |
359 | *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided' |
360 | as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted. | |
361 | The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as | |
362 | utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest. | |
363 | ||
c0e505e5 CY |
364 | ** Eshell changes |
365 | ||
366 | *** The default value of eshell-directory-name is a directory named | |
367 | "eshell" in `user-emacs-directory'. If the old "~/.eshell/" directory | |
368 | exists, that is used instead. | |
369 | ||
27d3cd56 CY |
370 | ** In ido-mode, C-v is no longer bound to ido-toggle-vc. |
371 | The reason is that this interferes with cua-mode. | |
372 | ||
c1e25821 | 373 | ** partial-completion-mode is now obsolete. |
79ccd68f SM |
374 | You can get a comparable behavior with: |
375 | (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials)) | |
376 | (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t) | |
c1e25821 | 377 | |
18c812bd | 378 | ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags. |
b2957ea8 | 379 | |
1d83b0e9 GM |
380 | ** server can listen on a specific port using the server-port option. |
381 | ||
cf16af42 GM |
382 | ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt |
383 | ||
384 | --- | |
385 | *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt package | |
386 | by adding appt-make-list to diary-hook has been removed. Use appt-activate. | |
387 | ||
388 | --- | |
389 | *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: | |
390 | appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate) | |
391 | appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format) | |
392 | ||
393 | --- | |
394 | *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: | |
395 | view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries | |
396 | ||
52834b6b CY |
397 | ** Customize |
398 | ||
399 | *** Customize buffers now contain a search field. | |
400 | The search is performed using `customize-apropos'. | |
42d9cffa | 401 | To turn off the search field, set custom-search-field to nil. |
52834b6b CY |
402 | |
403 | *** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values. | |
404 | Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility. | |
405 | ||
406 | *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t. | |
407 | ||
408 | *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to | |
409 | choose a color via list-colors-display. | |
410 | ||
f5d6548a JL |
411 | ** Dired-x |
412 | ||
413 | *** dired-jump and dired-jump-other-window called with a prefix argument | |
414 | read a file name from the minibuffer instead of using buffer-file-name. | |
415 | ||
8117868f DN |
416 | ** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers. |
417 | For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your | |
d8004abe | 418 | .dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. |
8117868f | 419 | |
7492acc9 MM |
420 | ** SQL Mode enhancements. |
421 | ||
30c4d8dc MM |
422 | *** Several variables have been marked as safe local variables. The |
423 | variables `sql-product', `sql-user', `sql-server', `sql-database' and | |
424 | `sql-port' can now be safely used as local variables. | |
7492acc9 | 425 | |
9250002f MM |
426 | *** `sql-dialect' is a synonym for `sql-product'. |
427 | ||
74790210 | 428 | *** Added ability to login with a port on MySQL and Postgres. |
7492acc9 | 429 | The custom variable `sql-port' can be specified for connection to |
74790210 MM |
430 | MySQL or Postgres servers. By default, the port is not listed in |
431 | either login parameter, but will be added to the command line if set | |
432 | to a non-zero value. | |
7492acc9 | 433 | |
9250002f MM |
434 | *** Dynamic selection of product in an SQL interactive session. |
435 | If you use `sql-product-interactive' to start an SQL interactive | |
436 | session it uses the current value of `sql-product'. Preceding the | |
437 | invocation with C-u will force it to ask for the product before | |
438 | creating the session. | |
439 | ||
440 | *** Renaming a SQL interactive buffer when it is created. | |
441 | Prefixing the SQL interactive commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', | |
442 | `sql-mysql', etc.) with C-u will force a new interactive session to be | |
443 | started and will prompt for the new name. This will reduce the need | |
444 | for `sql-rename-buffer' is most common use cases. | |
445 | ||
3bd2cfef MM |
446 | *** Command continuation prompts in SQL interactive mode are suppressed. |
447 | Multiple line commands in SQL interactive mode, generate command | |
448 | continuation prompts which needlessly confuse the output. These | |
449 | prompts are now filtered out from the output. This change impacts | |
450 | multiple line SQL statements entered with C-j between each line, | |
451 | statements yanked into the buffer and statements sent with | |
452 | `sql-send-*' functions. | |
453 | ||
7492acc9 MM |
454 | *** Custom variables control prompting for login parameters. |
455 | Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params' | |
456 | which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a | |
457 | connection is established. | |
458 | ||
74790210 MM |
459 | The lists consist of the following five tokens: `user', `password', |
460 | `database', `server', and `port'. The order in which they appear is | |
461 | the order in which they are prompted. The tokens symbols can be | |
462 | replaced by a sublist starting with the token and followed by a plist | |
463 | which control the prompting for values. The tokens `user', | |
464 | `database', and `server' each can take a property of :default which | |
465 | specifies the value to be used if no value is entered. The | |
466 | `database', `server', and `port' tokens handle the :completion | |
467 | property which restricts the entry to either one of the values in the | |
468 | list or to one of the values returned by the function provided as the | |
469 | property value. The `database' and `server' tokens also accept the | |
470 | :file property whose value is a regexp to identify useful file names. | |
471 | ||
472 | (user :default DEF) | |
473 | (database :default DEF | |
474 | :file FILEPAT | |
475 | :completion COMPLETE) | |
476 | (server :default DEF | |
477 | :file FILEPAT | |
478 | :completion COMPLETE) | |
479 | ||
480 | The FILEPAT when :file is specified is a regexp that will match valid | |
481 | file names (without the directory portion). Generally these strings | |
482 | will be of the form ".+\.SUF" where SUF is the desired file suffix. | |
483 | ||
484 | When :completion is specified, the COMPLETE corresponds to the | |
485 | PREDICATE argument to the `completing-read' function (a list of | |
486 | possible values or a function returning such a list). | |
5474c40f | 487 | |
30c4d8dc MM |
488 | *** Added `sql-connection-alist' to record login parameter values. |
489 | An alist for recording different username, database and server | |
490 | values. If there are multiple databases that you connect to the | |
491 | parameters needed can be stored in this alist. | |
492 | ||
493 | For example, the following might be set in the user's init.el: | |
494 | ||
495 | (setq sql-connection-alist | |
496 | '((dev (sql-product 'sqlite) | |
497 | (sql-database "/home/mmaug/dev.db")) | |
498 | (prd (sql-product 'oracle) | |
499 | (sql-user "mmaug") | |
500 | (sql-database "iprd2a")))) | |
501 | ||
502 | This defines two connections named "dev" and "prd". | |
503 | ||
504 | *** Added `sql-connect' to use predefined connections. | |
505 | Sets the login parameters based on the values in the | |
506 | `sql-connection-alist' and start a SQL interactive session. Any | |
507 | values specified in the connection will not be prompted for. | |
508 | ||
509 | In the example above, if the user were to invoke M-x sql-connect, they | |
510 | would be prompted for the connection. The user can respond with | |
511 | either "dev" or "prd". The "dev" connection would connect to the | |
512 | SQLite database without prompting; the "prd" connection would prompt | |
513 | for the users password and then connect to the Oracle database. | |
514 | ||
d26b0ea9 | 515 | **** Added SQL->Start... submenu when connections are defined. |
b2957ea8 | 516 | When connections have been defined, there is a submenu available that |
d26b0ea9 MM |
517 | allows the user to select one to start a SQLi session. The "Start |
518 | SQLi Session" item moves to the "Start..." submenu when cnnections | |
519 | have been defined. | |
520 | ||
521 | **** Added "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers. | |
522 | When a SQLi session is not started by a connection then | |
523 | `sql-save-connection' will gather the login params specified for the | |
524 | session and save them as a new connection. | |
525 | ||
74790210 MM |
526 | *** List database objects and details. |
527 | Once a SQL interactive session has been started, you can get a list of | |
528 | the objects in the database and see details of those objects. The | |
529 | objects shown and the details available are product specific. | |
530 | ||
531 | **** List all objects. | |
532 | Using `M-x sql-list-all', `C-c C-l a' or selecting "SQL->List all | |
533 | objects" will list all the objects in the database. At a minimum it | |
534 | lists the tables and views in the database. Preceeding the command by | |
535 | universal argument may provide additional details or extend the | |
536 | listing to include other schemas objects. The list will appear in a | |
537 | separate window in view-mode. | |
538 | ||
539 | **** List Table details. | |
540 | Using `M-x sql-list-table', `C-c C-l t' or selecting "SQL->List Table | |
541 | details" will ask for the name of a database table or view and display | |
542 | the list of columns in the relation. Preceeding the comand with the | |
543 | universal argument may provide additional details about each column. | |
544 | The list will appear in a separate window in view-mode. | |
545 | ||
7492acc9 MM |
546 | *** Added option `sql-send-terminator'. |
547 | When set makes sure that each command sent with `sql-send-*' commands | |
548 | are properly terminated and submitted to the SQL processor. | |
549 | ||
550 | *** Added option `sql-oracle-scan-on'. | |
551 | When set commands sent to Oracle's SQL*Plus are scanned for strings | |
30c4d8dc MM |
552 | starting with an ampersand and the user is asked for replacement text. |
553 | In general, the SQL*Plus option SCAN should always be set OFF under | |
554 | SQL interactive mode and this option used in its place. | |
7492acc9 MM |
555 | |
556 | *** SQL interactive mode will replace tabs with spaces. | |
557 | This prevents the comand interpretter for MySQL and Postgres from | |
558 | listing object name completions when being sent text via | |
559 | `sql-send-*' functions. | |
560 | ||
561 | *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added. | |
562 | ||
723ee192 SM |
563 | ** sregex.el is now obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset. |
564 | ||
5e418f17 JL |
565 | ** s-region.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by shift-select-mode |
566 | enabled by default in 23.1. | |
567 | ||
691cf4a0 NR |
568 | ** gdb-mi |
569 | ||
570 | *** GDB User Interface migrated to GDB Machine Interface and now | |
571 | supports multithread non-stop debugging and debugging of several | |
572 | threads simultaneously. | |
573 | ||
37221432 MA |
574 | ** D-Bus |
575 | ||
576 | *** It is possible now, to access alternative buses than the default | |
577 | system or session bus. | |
578 | ||
3c3d4f5b MA |
579 | *** dbus-register-{service,method,property} |
580 | The -method and -property functions do not automatically register | |
581 | names anymore. | |
582 | ||
583 | The new function dbus-register-service registers a service known name | |
584 | on a D-Bus without simultaneously registering a property or a method. | |
412b9ee5 | 585 | |
459bba37 MA |
586 | ** Tramp |
587 | ||
a808d31f MA |
588 | *** There exists a new inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su). |
589 | ||
459bba37 MA |
590 | *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old", |
591 | "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old" and "fish". | |
592 | ||
0c32ce32 CY |
593 | ** VC and related modes |
594 | ||
595 | *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems. | |
659114fd | 596 | The vc-pull command runs a "pull" operation, if it is supported. |
0c32ce32 | 597 | This updates the current branch from upstream. A prefix argument |
659114fd | 598 | means to prompt the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location. |
0c32ce32 | 599 | |
659114fd | 600 | **** vc-update is now an alias for vc-update. |
0c32ce32 | 601 | |
659114fd | 602 | **** Currently supported by Bzr, Git, and Mercurial. |
0c32ce32 CY |
603 | |
604 | *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems. | |
605 | The vc-merge command now runs a "merge" operation, if it is supported. | |
659114fd CY |
606 | This merges another branch into the current one. This command prompts |
607 | the user for specifics, e.g. a merge source. | |
0c32ce32 | 608 | |
659114fd | 609 | **** Currently supported by Bzr, Git, and Mercurial. |
0c32ce32 | 610 | |
0fe719e6 GM |
611 | ** Miscellaneous |
612 | ||
613 | --- | |
614 | *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges. | |
615 | ||
eb199145 GM |
616 | \f |
617 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 | |
d445b3f8 | 618 | |
7100ff98 SM |
619 | ** New global minor modes electric-pair-mode, electric-indent-mode, |
620 | and electric-layout-mode. | |
3b843809 | 621 | |
d02c9bcd SM |
622 | ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'. |
623 | ||
7725ebb7 MA |
624 | ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an |
625 | interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The | |
065f2743 MA |
626 | Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command |
627 | `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the | |
628 | secrets. | |
7725ebb7 | 629 | |
f9e78150 MA |
630 | ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop |
631 | Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication. | |
632 | ||
eb199145 GM |
633 | \f |
634 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
6dfcbe31 | 635 | |
25ca2e61 CY |
636 | ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and |
637 | passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an | |
638 | action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. | |
639 | This is currently used by Rmail to delete a mail window. | |
640 | ||
9173a8fb CY |
641 | ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel |
642 | coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text | |
643 | area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top | |
644 | of the header line. | |
645 | ||
c4d17d50 SM |
646 | ** Remove obsolete name `e' (use `float-e' instead). |
647 | ||
288cf4e9 SM |
648 | ** A backquote not followed by a space is now always treated as new-style. |
649 | ||
fd5c9dfa | 650 | ** Test for special mode-class was moved from view-file to view-buffer. |
288cf4e9 SM |
651 | FIXME: This only says what was changed, but not what are the |
652 | programmer-visible consequences. | |
fd5c9dfa | 653 | |
3b7e1d5f SM |
654 | ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function now turns the mode |
655 | ON unconditionally. | |
6431f2e6 CY |
656 | |
657 | ** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines' | |
658 | and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and | |
659 | `initial-frame-alist'. With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' | |
660 | checks the value of the variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to | |
661 | determine whether to create a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. | |
662 | If the alist entries are added, they override the value of | |
663 | `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'. | |
664 | ||
fe0aa820 CY |
665 | ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions, |
666 | similar to the ones created by shift-selection. In previous Emacs | |
667 | versions, these regions were delineated by `mouse-drag-overlay', which | |
668 | has now been removed. | |
d6d8ee7a | 669 | |
4583e796 GM |
670 | ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'. |
671 | ||
3226d6ca GM |
672 | ** The following functions and aliases, obsolete since at least Emacs 21.1, |
673 | have been removed: | |
674 | comint-kill-output, decompose-composite-char, outline-visible, | |
675 | internal-find-face, internal-get-face, frame-update-faces, | |
676 | frame-update-face-colors, x-frob-font-weight, x-frob-font-slant, | |
677 | x-make-font-bold, x-make-font-demibold, x-make-font-unbold | |
678 | x-make-font-italic, x-make-font-oblique, x-make-font-unitalic | |
679 | x-make-font-bold-italic, mldrag-drag-mode-line, mldrag-drag-vertical-line, | |
922ad43e GM |
680 | iswitchb-default-keybindings, char-bytes, isearch-return-char, |
681 | make-local-hook | |
3226d6ca GM |
682 | |
683 | ** The following variables and aliases, obsolete since at least Emacs 21.1, | |
684 | have been removed: | |
6aecca99 GM |
685 | checkdoc-minor-keymap, vc-header-alist, directory-sep-char, |
686 | font-lock-defaults-alist | |
3226d6ca | 687 | |
7b0e3048 GM |
688 | ** The following files, obsolete since at least Emacs 21.1, have been removed: |
689 | sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el | |
690 | ||
33658d4e CY |
691 | ** FIXME finder-inf.el changes. |
692 | ||
eb199145 GM |
693 | \f |
694 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
9097e8af | 695 | |
e7f7fbaa SM |
696 | ** Removed the stack-trace-on-error variable. |
697 | Also the debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will jump | |
698 | to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked instead of | |
699 | jumping all the way to the top-level. | |
700 | ||
3ef01959 CY |
701 | ** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of characters, |
702 | discarding any inputs not inside the set. | |
703 | ||
2e288d54 JB |
704 | ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'. |
705 | The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries, | |
706 | not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an | |
707 | obsolete alias. | |
708 | ||
cf38dd42 SM |
709 | ** New variable syntax-propertize-function to set syntax-table properties. |
710 | Replaces font-lock-syntactic-keywords which are now obsolete. | |
711 | This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock: | |
712 | just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized. | |
713 | Together with this new variable come a new hook | |
714 | syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions: | |
715 | syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords | |
716 | as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify | |
717 | syntactic rules. | |
718 | ||
a2e5caf7 SM |
719 | ** New hook post-self-insert-hook run at the end of self-insert-command. |
720 | ||
7cf78aac | 721 | +++ |
c5683ceb | 722 | ** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b. |
4e2db1fe | 723 | ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more. |
10dcc561 | 724 | ** prog-mode is a new major-mode meant to be the parent of programming mode. |
f44379e7 SM |
725 | ** define-minor-mode accepts a new keyword :variable. |
726 | ||
b2957ea8 | 727 | ** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH. |
f1a5d776 CY |
728 | Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are |
729 | both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix | |
730 | argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above). | |
53967e09 | 731 | |
8f92b8ad SM |
732 | ** buffer-substring-filters is obsoleted by filter-buffer-substring-functions. |
733 | ||
00278747 SM |
734 | ** New completion style `substring'. |
735 | ||
9317e499 CY |
736 | ** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'. |
737 | The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name or RGB | |
738 | triplet, instead of signalling an error if the user provides a invalid | |
739 | input. | |
740 | ||
4039c786 CY |
741 | ** Tool-bars can display separators. |
742 | Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps, | |
94975270 | 743 | i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'. |
9317e499 | 744 | |
00fe2df1 JL |
745 | ** Image API |
746 | ||
747 | *** When the image type is one of listed in `image-animated-types' | |
1546c559 | 748 | and the number of sub-images in the image is more than one, then the |
00fe2df1 JL |
749 | new function `create-animated-image' creates an animated image where |
750 | sub-images are displayed successively with the duration defined by | |
751 | `image-animate-max-time' and the delay between sub-images defined | |
752 | by the Graphic Control Extension of the image. | |
753 | ||
1546c559 JL |
754 | *** `image-extension-data' is renamed to `image-metadata'. |
755 | ||
71c17aec LMI |
756 | ** XML and HTML parsing |
757 | ||
758 | *** If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support (which is the default), | |
4b9832a6 | 759 | two new Emacs Lisp-level functions are defined: |
84156e94 MA |
760 | `libxml-parse-html-region' (which will parse "real world" HTML) |
761 | and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an | |
4b9832a6 CY |
762 | Emacs Lisp parse tree. |
763 | ||
764 | FIXME: These should be front-ended by xml.el. | |
765 | ||
cf16af42 | 766 | ** FIXME GnuTLS |
71c17aec | 767 | |
a6020335 MH |
768 | ** Isearch |
769 | ||
770 | *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'. | |
771 | ||
9326ba26 CY |
772 | ** Progress reporters can now "spin". |
773 | The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can | |
774 | now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each | |
775 | time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter, | |
776 | with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is | |
777 | displayed with a "spinning bar". | |
778 | ||
eb199145 GM |
779 | \f |
780 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems | |
d53a60a6 | 781 | |
04779484 JB |
782 | ** New configure.bat option --enable-checking builds emacs with extra |
783 | runtime checks. | |
784 | ||
e3aef5c6 CS |
785 | ** New configure.bat option --distfiles to specify files to be |
786 | included in binary distribution | |
787 | ||
788 | ** New make target `dist' to create binary disttribution for Windows | |
789 | platform | |
790 | ||
05197f40 | 791 | \f |
a933dad1 | 792 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
5b87ad55 | 793 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
a933dad1 | 794 | |
ab73e885 | 795 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
5b87ad55 | 796 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
ab73e885 GM |
797 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
798 | (at your option) any later version. | |
5b87ad55 GM |
799 | |
800 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
801 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
802 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
803 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
a933dad1 | 804 | |
5b87ad55 | 805 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
ab73e885 | 806 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
a933dad1 | 807 | |
05197f40 | 808 | \f |
a933dad1 DL |
809 | Local variables: |
810 | mode: outline | |
811 | paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$" | |
812 | end: |