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29b7722a 1GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
5b87ad55 2
a1ed8b05 3Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5b87ad55 4See the end of the file for license conditions.
a933dad1 5
893db5bc 6Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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7If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
eb199145 9This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
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11See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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14You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
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17Temporary note:
18+++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
19--- means no change in the manuals is called for.
20When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
21so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
22
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2a1e2476 24* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
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8b2e00a3 26** New configure option '--without-all' to disable additional features.
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27This disables most of the features that are normally enabled by default.
28
29** New configure option '--enable-link-time-optimization' to utilize
30an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
31
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32** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers.
33If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about
34possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be
35no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings
ae6e112d 36may be useful.
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38** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
39as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
40
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41---
42** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
43overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
44to emacs-VERSION.
45
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46---
47** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
48
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49---
50** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
51/usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
52you want them.
53
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55** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw
56directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
57
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58---
59** The standalone scripts rcs-checkin and vcdiff have been removed
60(from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
61no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
62
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63** The configuration option '--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
64renamed to '--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
65Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
66check that this option enables.
67
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2a1e2476 69* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
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71** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
72lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
73been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
74
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75---
76** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
77
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2a1e2476 79* Changes in Emacs 24.3
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81** Help changes
82
83*** `C-h f' (describe-function) can now perform autoloading.
84When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
85contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
86automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
87correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
88
89*** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
90even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
91autoloads have been redefined as functions).
92
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93** The function `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
94(HIGH LOW USEC PSEC) that use picosecond resolution; the PSEC
95component is new. PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current
96machines. Other functions that use this format, such as
97file-attributes and format-time-string, have been changed accordingly.
98Old-format time stamps are still accepted.
99
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100** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
101On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
102of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
103that support backtraces.
104
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105** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user
106name, group names known to the system (where possible).
107
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108** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
109`emacs-bzr-version' contains information about which bzr revision was used.
110
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111** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled.
112It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
113explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
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114automatically at startup, or when customizing a relevant imagemagick-
115option.
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116
117*** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
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118ImageMagick to view images. You must call imagemagick-register-types
119afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.
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7afbaca4 121*** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
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122ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
123`imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
124treated as images.
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126*** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
127:background image spec property.
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129** Internationalization changes
130
32ac3a6b 131*** New language environment: Persian.
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133** Face underlining can now use a wave.
134See the "Face Attributes" section of the Elisp manual.
135
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136** New fringe bitmap exclamation-mark.
137
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138** String values for `initial-buffer-choice' also apply to emacsclient
139frames, if emacsclient is only told to open a new frame without
140specifying any file to visit or expression to evaluate.
141
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143** You can prevent the creation of lock files by setting `create-lockfiles'
144to nil. Use with caution, and only if you really need to.
145
b8a82b69 146+++
03794570 147** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
57699e37 148Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
03794570 149
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150** Mode line changes
151
152*** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
153(shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
154that does not have its own specialized help text.
155
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156*** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to
157invokes `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
158
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160** Setting `enable-remote-dir-locals' to non-nil allows directory
161local variables on remote hosts.
162
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164** `insert-char' is now a command, and `ucs-insert' an obsolete alias
165for it.
166
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167** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
168The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
169
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2a1e2476 171* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
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b1183529 173** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
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174It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
175accidentally type.
b1183529 176
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177** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
178properties on yanked text, in more ways that are more general than
179just removing them, as done by `yank-excluded-properties'.
180
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181** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether the M-x
182delete-trailing-whitespace command should delete trailing lines at the
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183end of the buffer. It defaults to t.
184
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185** Search changes
186
187*** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
188and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
189`M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
190
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191*** `M-s SPC' in Isearch toggles whitespace matching mode
192in both ordinary and regexp incremental search, so that each
193sequence of spaces in the search string matches any combination
194of one or more whitespace characters defined by the variable
195`search-whitespace-regexp'. In ordinary incremental search,
196`isearch-toggle-lax-whitespace' toggles the value of the variable
197`isearch-lax-whitespace'. In regexp incremental search, it toggles
198the value of the variable `isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace'.
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200** query-replace changes
201
202*** When new option `replace-lax-whitespace' is non-nil,
203and you enter a space or spaces in the strings or regexps
204to be replaced, `query-replace' will match any sequence matched
205by the regexp `search-whitespace-regexp'.
206
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207** M-x move-to-column, if called interactively with no prefix arg, now
208prompts for a column number.
209
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210** `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' can now be used to customize
211`mouse-avoidance-mode' further.
212
e1293765 213** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
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215** `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' will now move to the path name separator
216character when doing minibuffer filename prompts.
217
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218** `goto-char' is now bound to `M-g c'.
219
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220** New command `C-x r M-w' (copy-rectangle-as-kill).
221It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
222
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223** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
224
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2a1e2476 226* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
b2459884 227
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228** Compilation has a new `compilation-always-kill' configuration variable.
229
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230** Term changes
231
232The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color' are
233now deprecated in favor of the `term-face' face, that you can
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234customize. Also, it is now possible to customize how are displayed the
235ANSI terminal colors and styles by customizing the corresponding
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236`term-color-<COLOR>', `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold'
237faces.
238
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239** CL
240*** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
7c1898a7 241`cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly,
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242i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions use
243the "cl--" prefix).
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244
245If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it
246under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions
247that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities,
248which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'.
249
89660017 250The old `cl' is now deprecated and is just a bunch of aliases that
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251provide the old non-prefixed names.
252
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253*** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
254Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
255
256*** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
257The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery (as opposed
258to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture definitions in
259closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding' is in use.
260
261*** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
262A side effect is that vars without corresponding value are bound to nil
263rather than making them unbound.
264
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265** Desktop
266
267*** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory. Desktop
268files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
269
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270** Python mode
271
272A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
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273per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
274shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
275text based shell).
276
277*** Some user options have been replaced/renamed:
278Old defcustom: | New defcustom:
279python-indent | python-indent-offset
280python-guess-indent | python-indent-guess-indent-offset
281python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p | python-pdbtrack-activate
282python-use-skeletons | python-skeleton-autoinsert
283
284*** Some user options have been removed:
285
286**** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
287
288**** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
289Comments are never considered as indentation markers themselves.
290
291**** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
292calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
293
294**** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
295Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
296
297**** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
298Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
299
300**** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
301`python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
302No longer relevant.
303
304*** Some commands have been replaced:
305Old command | New command
306python-insert-class | python-skeleton-class
307python-insert-def | python-skeleton-def
308python-insert-for | python-skeleton-for
309python-insert-if | python-skeleton-if
310python-insert-try/except | python-skeleton-try
311python-insert-try/finally | python-skeleton-try
312python-insert-while | python-skeleton-while
313python-find-function | python-nav-jump-to-defun
314python-next-statement | python-nav-forward-sentence
315python-previous-statement | python-nav-backward-sentence
316python-send-buffer | python-shell-send-buffer
317python-send-defun | python-shell-send-defun
318python-send-region | python-shell-send-region
319python-send-region-and-go | Emulate with python-shell-send-region and
320 python-shell-switch-to-shell
321python-send-string | python-shell-send-string
322python-switch-to-python | python-shell-switch-to-shell
323python-describe-symbol | python-eldoc-at-point
324
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325** VHDL mode
326
327*** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
328
329*** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
330
331*** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
332
333*** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
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335** Diff mode
336
337Faces for changes now use the same diff color scheme as in modern VCSes
338where deletions are displayed in red (new faces `diff-refine-removed'
339and `smerge-refined-removed' and new definition of `diff-removed'),
340insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added' and
341`smerge-refined-added' and new definition of `diff-added').
342The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use
343the face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added'
344to highlight changes in context diffs.
345
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346** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode
347on high color displays.
348
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349** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
350See flymake-fringe-indicator-position, flymake-error-bitmap and
351flymake-warning-bitmap.
352
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353** `sh-script'
354*** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair.
355*** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
356*** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
357
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358** reStructuredText mode
359
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360*** Rebind nearly all keys making room for more keys and complying
361better to usage in other modes. Describe bindings with C-c C-h.
d13c8be6 362
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363*** Major revision of indentation working very similar to other
364modes. TAB is your friend.
d13c8be6 365
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366*** Major revision of filling working fine with most of
367reStructuredText syntax. Support auto-filling.
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368
369*** Major revision of comment handling.
370
6d3f7c2f 371*** Major revision of fontification working with `jit-lock-mode'.
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373*** Cover reStructuredText syntax more closely. Improve
374the experience for Sphinx users.
d13c8be6 375
6d3f7c2f 376*** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
d13c8be6 377
6d3f7c2f 378*** Extend correct and improve customization.
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379
380*** Negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
381
6d3f7c2f 382*** Reset window configuration after displaying TOC.
d13c8be6 383
6d3f7c2f 384*** Package version in `rst-version'.
d13c8be6 385
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386** New `derived-mode' filter for Ibuffer, bound to `/ M'.
387`/ m' is now bound to filter by used-mode, which used to be bound to `/ M'.
c4cf6d91 388
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389** Apropos
390
391*** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
392These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
393see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
394
395**** The old options whose values specified faces to use were removed
396(i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
397
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398** Buffer Menu
399This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
400
401*** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
402Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
403
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404** Calendar
405
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406*** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
407Customize cal-html-holidays to change this.
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409** Customize
410
411*** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
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413*** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
414`customize-apropos-options' (i.e. the prefix argument does nothing for
415these commands now).
416
b2459884 417** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the
29734c21 418channel keys found, if any.
b2459884 419
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420** Dired
421
422*** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
423if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
494913d6 424Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
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426** Shell
427
428*** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies what buffer to use
429for a new asynchronous shell command when the default output buffer
430`*Async Shell Command*' is already taken by another running command.
431
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432** FFAP
433
434*** The option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
435specifying URL types which should be converted to remote file names at
436the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
437
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438** Follow mode
439
440*** The obsolete variable `follow-mode-off-hook' has been removed.
441
442*** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
443The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
444
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445** The `server-auth-key' variable can be used to set a permanent
446shared key for Emacs Server.
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447
448** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
449closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
450
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451** FIXME something happened to ses.el, 2012-04-17.
452
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453** which-function-mode now applies to all applicable major modes by default.
454
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455** Tramp
456
457+++
458*** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy
459definitions. See the manual for details.
460
461+++
462*** Remote processes are now supported also on remote Windows host.
463
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464** D-Bus
465
466+++
467*** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
468
469+++
470*** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
471
472+++
473*** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
474if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
475
476+++
477*** The function `dbus-call-method' works non-blocking now, it can be
478interrupted by C-g. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
479
480+++
481*** Signals can be sent also as unicast message.
482
483+++
484*** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
485according to the new match rule types of D-Bus. See the manual for
486details.
487
488+++
489*** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
490
491+++
492*** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
493
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495** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
496The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
497server properties.
498
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499** Package Menu
500
501*** Newly-available packages are listed in the Package Menu as "new",
502and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
503
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504** Tabulated List and packages derived from it
505
e5f9458f 506*** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S', sorts the column
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507at point, or the Nth column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
508
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509** URL
510
511*** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
512Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
513appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
514So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components
515and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
516
517*** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
518The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
519in case that is not properly encoded.
520
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521** Obsolete packages:
522
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523*** assoc.el
524In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
525And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
526inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
527
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528*** bruce.el
529
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530*** ledit.el
531
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534*** mouse-sel.el
535
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536*** patcomp.el
537
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538*** cust-print.el
539
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2a1e2476 541* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
a1ed8b05 542\f
2a1e2476 543* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
b4d3bc10 544
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545** (random) by default now returns a different random sequence in
546every Emacs run. Use (random S), where S is a string, to set the
547random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
548sequence in later calls.
549
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550** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
551font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
552depends on the graphical library.
553
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554** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
555that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
556non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
557
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559** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
560Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
561The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
562`custom-variable-p'.
563
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565** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
566and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, defun and
567defmacro currently return the name of the newly defined function/macro
568but this should not be relied upon.
569
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570** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
571third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
572
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574** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
575but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
576still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
577
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578** Spelling changes.
579Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to avoid problems with spelling
580that is incorrect or inconsistent with how Emacs normally spells a word.
581
582*** Renamed functions
583
584**** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
585**** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
586**** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
587**** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
588**** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
589**** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
590 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
591**** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
592
593*** Renamed hooks
594The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
595are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
596
597**** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
598**** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
599**** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
600
601*** Renamed Lisp variables
602
603**** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
604**** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
605 deactivate-current-input-method-function
606
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607** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed:
608
609*** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
610*** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
d7d9a499 611*** `last-input-char' and `last-command-char'
78f3273a 612
a1ed8b05 613\f
2a1e2476 614* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3
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616** Interpreted files get eagerly macro-expanded during load.
617This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code, but can
618also bump into harmless and previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
619These should not be fatal: they will simply cause the macro-calls to be left
620for later expansion (as before), but will also result in a warning describing
621the cycle.
622
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623** New minor mode `read-only-mode' to replace toggle-read-only (now obsolete).
624
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625** New functions `autoloadp' and `autoload-do-load'.
626
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627** New function `posnp' to test if an object is a `posn'.
628
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629** `function-get' fetches the property of a function, following aliases.
630
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631** `toggle-read-only' accepts a second argument specifying whether to
632print a message, if called from Lisp.
633
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634** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
635`setf' is autoloaded and `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
636
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637** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
638The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
639
640** `macro-declaration-function' is obsolete, use `macro-declarations-alist'.
641
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642** New function `set-temporary-overlay-map'.
643
644** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
645
71873e2b 646** New error type and new function `user-error'. Doesn't trigger the debugger.
f95e9344 647
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648** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill'.
649
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650+++
651** New utility function `buffer-narrowed-p'.
652
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653** Window changes
654
655*** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
48d1354e 656now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
51a5f9d8 657
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658*** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window'.
659
660*** New option `temp-buffer-resize-frames'.
c5e28e39 661
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662*** New function `fit-frame-to-buffer' and new option
663 `fit-frame-to-buffer-bottom-margin'.
ef654460 664
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665*** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected' and
666`display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
ef654460 667
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668*** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
669tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
670selected.
c5e28e39 671
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672*** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
673non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
90749b53 674
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675*** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil,
676specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
d97af5a0 677
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678*** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
679appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
680in Emacs 24.1:
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682**** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
683**** `special-display-regexps'
684**** `special-display-frame-alist'
685**** `special-display-buffer-names'
686**** `special-display-function'
687
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688** Completion
689
690*** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
691in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
692
693*** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
694table, but with a different prefix.
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696** Time
697
698*** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
699must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
700by the underlying C implementation.
8a61ee22 701
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702** New function file-name-base.
703
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704** New function `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
705
8a61ee22 706** `automount-dir-prefix' is obsolete.
43416392 707** `buffer-has-markers-at' is obsolete.
3424a4f6 708** `window-system-version' is obsolete.
adce950d 709\f
2a1e2476 710* Changes in Emacs 24.3 on non-free operating systems
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711
712** New configure.bat options on MS-Windows:
713
714*** --without-libxml2 omits support for libxml2, even if its presence
715is detected.
716
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717** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
718Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and
719mouse-autoselect-window.
720
6dad7178 721** On MS-Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
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722\f
723* Changes in Emacs 24.2
724
5190da91 725** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
6dad7178 726
9078ead6 727\f
eb199145 728* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
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730** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
731to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
732also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
733--without-gconf.
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735** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
736This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
737found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
738`--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
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740** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
741This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
742found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
743`--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
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745** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
746This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
747found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
748`--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
c1f10868 749This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
d9170db5 750
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751** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
752This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
753found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
754`--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
755
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756** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
757You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
758
7d301ae6 759** New configure option --with-wide-int.
81eafe29 760With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
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761On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
762to about 2 GiB.
81eafe29 763
7d301ae6 764** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
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765These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
766lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
767
7d301ae6 768** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
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769This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
770This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
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772** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
773Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
774
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775** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
776If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
777
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eb199145 779* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
4a263588 780
198a7a97 781** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
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782command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
783longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
198a7a97 784
66b7b0fe 785** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
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786from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
787EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
c8d59ba3 788Nextstep builds).
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eb199145 791* Changes in Emacs 24.1
7841339b 792
a2a25d24 793** Completion
fdeb32ec 794
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795*** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
796rather than implementing separate completion commands.
797
de0bde62 798*** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
dfdb4cad 799
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800*** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
801and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
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803*** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
804
805*** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
2c719188 806default completion style in certain circumstances.
dfdb4cad 807
a2a25d24 808*** New completion style `substring'.
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810*** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
811
812*** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
620c53a6 813
6870aaef 814** Mail changes
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816*** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
817This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
818is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
819to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
820(`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
821`mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
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823*** Typing C-c m in the buffer made by M-x report-emacs-bug transfers
824the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there is one.
825This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open" command.
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827*** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
828and Mail mode changes
3f88cd72 829
041d709f 830** Emacs server and client changes
dfdb4cad 831
7d301ae6 832*** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
dfdb4cad 833
041d709f 834*** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
dfdb4cad 835
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836*** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
837parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
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838
839*** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
840its exit status is 1.
841
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842*** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
843This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
844to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
845
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846** Internationalization changes
847
d0ce9f8c 848*** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
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849Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
850displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
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851scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
852implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
853with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
f4b6ba46 854
041d709f 855**** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
7d301ae6 856To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
d20e1419 857
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858**** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
859If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
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860paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
861to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
862paragraph.
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864Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
865the right window edge.
f1816485 866
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867*** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
868or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
869terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
870specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
8711-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
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873*** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
874(farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
041d709f 875
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876*** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
877(U+2010 and U+2011).
878
7d301ae6 879*** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
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880Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
881automatically select it.
882
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883** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
884This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
885from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
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887*** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
888selected for installation.
dfdb4cad 889
7d301ae6 890*** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
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892*** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
893Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
894nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
16a91140 895
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896** Custom theme changes
897
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898*** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
899interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
dfdb4cad 900
7d301ae6 901*** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
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902Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
903value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
904`custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
905`data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
906built-in Custom themes.
907
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908*** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
909If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
910offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
911default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
b7d65a5f 912
7d301ae6 913** Improved GTK integration
dfdb4cad 914
7d301ae6 915*** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
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916The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
917
7d301ae6 918*** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
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919Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
920the default is taken from desktop settings.
921
922*** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
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923The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
924values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
925entries for this.
dfdb4cad 926
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927*** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
928from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
dfdb4cad 929
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930*** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
931You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
a5bee597 932
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933** Graphical interface changes
934
935*** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
936Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
937displayed as a space.
938
939*** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
940instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
941
942*** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
943built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
944Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
945
7d301ae6 946** Exiting changes
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7d301ae6 948*** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
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949or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
950
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951*** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
952Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
953do the right thing in batch mode.
9c524fcb 954
041d709f 955** Scrolling changes
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041d709f 957*** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
0a19a6f8 958(bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
7d301ae6 959of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
550f41cd 960when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
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962*** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
963
041d709f 964*** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
5a97d2da 965scroll a line instead of full screen.
dfdb4cad 966
041d709f 967*** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
b2957ea8 968define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
dfdb4cad 969
041d709f 970*** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
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972cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
973Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
974`scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
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7d301ae6 976*** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
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978`scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
979scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
980margin.
981
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982** Basic SELinux support has been added.
983This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
f1a5d776 984
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985*** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
986Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
987preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
988now includes the SELinux context.
f0bf7c8e 989
dfdb4cad 990*** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
7d301ae6 991get and set the SELinux context of a file.
44198b6e 992
7d301ae6 993** Trash changes
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995*** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
996trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
dfdb4cad 997
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998*** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
999now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
278f6845 1000
041d709f 1001** File- and directory-local variable changes
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1003*** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
1004Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
1005settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
1006subdirectories.
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1008*** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
1009Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
1010adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
1011turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
1012`hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
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1014*** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
1015Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
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1018to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
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1019applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
1020associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
1021corresponding way.
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1023** Window changes
1024
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1025*** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
1026in the quitted window.
1027
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1028*** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
1029modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
1030
1031*** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
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1033**** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
1034user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
1035for choosing the displaying window).
1036
1037This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
1038specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
1039
1040**** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
1041display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
1042
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1044The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
1045obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
1046from which such space was obtained.
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1048*** New option `window-combination-resize'.
1049The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
1050otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
1051other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
1052of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
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1054*** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
1055iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
1056frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
1057
0a2132ba 1058*** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
53964682 1059These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
0a2132ba 1060
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1061*** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
1062These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
1063been shown in a specific window.
1064
7d301ae6 1065** Minibuffer changes
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7d301ae6 1067*** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
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1069where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
041d709f 1070
7d301ae6 1071*** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
f66eca26 1072If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
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1073for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1074
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1075** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
1076
7d301ae6 1077** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
f66eca26 1078
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1079** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
1080These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
1081successful operation.
1082
1083** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
1084for `list-colors-display'.
1085
1086** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
1087
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eb199145 1089* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
b350bdf2 1090
892777ba 1091** Search changes
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1092
1093*** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
1094`isearch-yank-line'.
1095
1096*** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
1097`isearch-yank-kill'.
1098
1099*** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
1100
b2b0776e 1101** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
dfdb4cad 1102
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1103*** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
1104The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
1105the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
1106superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
1107alias for it.
ea4f7750 1108
ec9da840 1109** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
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1110also deletes newlines around point.
1111
b9229673 1112** Deletion changes
dfdb4cad 1113
b9229673 1114*** New option `delete-active-region'.
ddb54206 1115If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
dfdb4cad 1116prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
ddb54206 1117instead.
dfdb4cad 1118
59ee0542 1119*** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
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1120This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
1121The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
dfdb4cad 1122
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1123*** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
1124Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
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1125However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
1126callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
dfdb4cad 1127
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1128*** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
1129
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1130** Selection changes.
1131
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1132The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
1133changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
1134commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
1135mouse commands use the primary selection.
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1136
1137In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
1138list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
1139
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1140*** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
1141Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
963578d3 1142the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
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1143the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
1144
1145**** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
1146This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
1147regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
1148"ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
1149point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
1150
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1151**** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
1152
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1153*** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
1154This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
1155Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
dfdb4cad 1156
b1ab31ae 1157*** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
dfdb4cad 1158
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1159*** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
1160Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
1161M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
1162
1163**** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
dfdb4cad 1164exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
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1166**** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
1167non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
1168between applications.
1169
1170*** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
dfdb4cad 1171
104c2fe9 1172**** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
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1173**** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
1174**** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
1175**** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
1176**** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
f9d71b42 1177
084e6df3 1178*** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
dfdb4cad 1179
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1180*** X clipboard managers are now supported.
1181To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
4b80f674 1182
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1183** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
1184in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
1185number to count from and for a format string.
99f053cf 1186
7d301ae6 1187** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
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1189at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
1190in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
1191updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
1192
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1193** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
1194In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
1195when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
1196region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
1197region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
1198
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1199** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
1200collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
1201are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
1202reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
1203follows `replace-match'.
1204
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eb199145 1206* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
efeb796b 1207
041d709f 1208** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
d76674bb 1209
b7c3692a 1210** BibTeX mode
dfdb4cad 1211
2de69e00 1212*** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
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1213Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
1214`bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
1215`bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
1216
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1217*** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
1218
b7c3692a 1219*** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
dfdb4cad 1220
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1222
7d301ae6 1223** Browse-url
dfdb4cad 1224
7d301ae6 1225*** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
dfdb4cad 1226
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1227*** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
1228on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
1229
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1230** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
1231
7d301ae6 1232*** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
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1233See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
1234
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1235*** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
1236See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
1237
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1238*** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
1239lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
1240If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
1241
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1242*** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
1243
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1244*** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
1245may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
1246
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1247*** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
1248package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
1249Use `appt-activate' instead.
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1251*** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1252appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
1253appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
1254
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1255*** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1256view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
1257
551b046f 1258** CC Mode
dfdb4cad 1259
551b046f 1260*** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
7d301ae6 1261The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
041d709f 1262
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1263*** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
1264
dfdb4cad 1265*** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
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1267not the top level.
1268
dfdb4cad 1269*** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
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1271parsed as a statement continuation.
1272
dfdb4cad 1273** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
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1275** Compilation mode
dfdb4cad 1276
7d301ae6 1277*** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
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1278`compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
1279
dfdb4cad 1280*** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
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1281`compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
1282text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
041d709f 1283
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1284*** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
1285are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
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1286set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
1287buffer was used.
1dce7193 1288
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1289** Customize
1290
1291*** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
1292The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
7d301ae6 1293To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
52834b6b 1294
8d5dd370 1295*** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
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1296Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
1297
1298*** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
1299
1300*** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
7d301ae6 1301choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
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1303** D-Bus
1304
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1305*** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
1306or session bus.
041d709f 1307
7d301ae6 1308*** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
5da3be7f 1309optionally do not register names.
041d709f 1310
7d301ae6 1311*** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
dfdb4cad 1312name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
041d709f 1313
f5d6548a 1314** Dired-x
425a25f1 1315
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1316*** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
1317if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
1318instead of using the current buffer.
f5d6548a 1319
7d301ae6 1320*** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
817b48a7 1321The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
8117868f 1322
041d709f 1323** ERC changes
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1325*** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
1326controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
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1327
1328*** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
1329as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
1330The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
1331utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
7492acc9 1332
041d709f 1333** Eshell changes
7492acc9 1334
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1335*** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
1336to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
1337The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
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1339** gdb-mi
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1340
1341*** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
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1342It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
1343debugging of several threads.
7492acc9 1344
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1345** Image mode
1346
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1347*** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
1348Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
18af70d0 1349
041d709f 1350** Info
723ee192 1351
7d301ae6 1352*** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
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1353If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
1354that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
1355buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
1356you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
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1358*** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
1359This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
1360and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
1361by default.
1362
7d301ae6 1363** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
dfdb4cad 1364
7d301ae6 1365*** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
7d301ae6 1366
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1367*** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
1368(Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
1369attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
1370
f2c3a9eb 1371** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
041d709f 1372See MH-E-NEWS for details.
37221432 1373
041d709f 1374** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
37221432 1375
041d709f 1376** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
3c3d4f5b 1377
5d1ac394 1378** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
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1379Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
1380or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
1381default), this performs tag completion.
5d1ac394 1382
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1383** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
1384See ORG-NEWS for details.
1385
041d709f 1386** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
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1387functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
1388support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
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1389
1390** Rmail
1391
1392*** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
1393in the Rmail incoming message.
1394
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1395*** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
1396This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
1397Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
1398
717a1362 1399** Shell mode
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1401*** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
1402is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
1403the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
1404
1405*** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
1406which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
717a1362 1407
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1408** SMTPmail
1409
dfdb4cad 1410*** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
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1411if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
1412support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
1413to change this.
1414
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1415*** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
1416By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
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1417This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
1418customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
1419passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
1420to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
1421and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
1422credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
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1424 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
1425 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
1426
1427then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
1428
1429 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
1430
1431See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
1432the credentials file.
1433
7d301ae6 1434*** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
dfdb4cad 1435If you had that set, you need to put
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1437 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
1438
1439in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
1440
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1442SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
1443to the address you wish to use instead.
1444
34e8a2da 1445** SQL mode
041d709f 1446
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1447*** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
1448and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
041d709f 1449
dfdb4cad 1450*** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
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1451Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
1452which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
1453connection is established.
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1455*** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
34e8a2da 1456which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
041d709f 1457
34e8a2da 1458*** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
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1459These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
1460given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
1461buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
1462
1463*** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
1464replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
1465statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
1466the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
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1467second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
1468object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
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1470*** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
1471using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
1472
1473*** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
1474This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
1475was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
1476
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1477*** New commands for listing database objects and details:
1478sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
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1479
1480*** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
1481
1482** TeX modes
1483
1484*** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
412b9ee5 1485
459bba37 1486** Tramp
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7d301ae6 1488*** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
dfdb4cad 1489
459bba37 1490*** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
ea843702 1491"ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
dfdb4cad 1492
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1493*** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
1494remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
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1497default value to "".
dfdb4cad 1498
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1499*** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
1500for remote machines which support SELinux.
58f74fe4 1501
dfdb4cad 1502** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
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1503but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
1504the degree of parallelism.
177549d0 1505
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1506** VC and related modes
1507
1508*** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
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1509The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
1510supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
1511current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
1512the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
0c32ce32 1513
dab3703d 1514*** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
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1516*** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
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1517The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
1518is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
1519changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
1520specifics, e.g. a merge source.
0c32ce32 1521
2afef60a 1522*** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
bbe43420 1523shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
2afef60a 1524
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1525*** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
1526longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
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1528another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
7d301ae6 1529In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
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1531
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1533of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
1534
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1535*** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
1536this was not advertised at the time.
1537
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1538*** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
1539Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
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1540this was not advertised at the time.
1541
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1543
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1544*** abbrevlist.el
1545
f8ca9162 1546*** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
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1547
1548*** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
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1549You can get a comparable behavior with:
1550(setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
1551(setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
1552
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1553*** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
1554
2c719188 1555*** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
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1556
1557*** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
1558
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1559*** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
1560They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
1561
2c719188 1562*** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
ca5eed61 1563
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1564** Miscellaneous
1565
05f77e38 1566*** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
c6ad2a4e 1567Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
05f77e38 1568
dfdb4cad 1569*** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
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1570(This interfered with cua-mode.)
1571
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1572*** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
1573
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1574*** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
1575
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1576*** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
1577
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1579* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
d445b3f8 1580
60e56523 1581** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
8c0f49f0 1582original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
60e56523 1583
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1584** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
1585When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
1586matching closing one.
1587
1588** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
1589When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
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1590Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
1591electric-indent-functions.
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1592
1593** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
1594When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
cd3308f3 1595Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
3b843809 1596
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1597** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
1598from which other modes can be derived.
1599
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1600** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
1601
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1602** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
1603interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
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1604Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
1605`secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
1606secrets.
7725ebb7 1607
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1608** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
1609Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
1610
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1611** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
1612soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
1613
ff1796f3 1614** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
ad7d6ecb 1615
53bbe3ad 1616** New emacs-lock.el package.
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1617The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
1618Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
1619against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
1620The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
1621with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
53bbe3ad 1622
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1624* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
6dfcbe31 1625
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1626** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
1627the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
1628
dfdb4cad 1629 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
7d301ae6 1630
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1631to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
1632`turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
1633defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
1634command still toggles the minor mode.
7d301ae6 1635
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1636** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
1637It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
1638describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
f003f294 1639system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
7d301ae6 1640See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
d268b4fe 1641
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1642** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
1643They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
1644editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
1645properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
1646argument `bidi-class'.
fa6996bc 1647
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1648** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
1649of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
1650new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
1651the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
1652
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1653** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
1654coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
1655area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
1656of the header line.
1657
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1658** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
1659been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
1660always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
1661"old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
1662as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
1663you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
1664appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
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1665
1666The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
1667followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
1668for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
1669you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
7d301ae6 1670older Emacsen too.
288cf4e9 1671
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1672** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
1673was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
1674replaced all known uses.
1675
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1676** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
1677`view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
1678major mode is special).
fd5c9dfa 1679
7d301ae6 1680** Menu and tool bar changes
6431f2e6 1681
7d301ae6 1682*** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
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1683and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
1684With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
1685variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
1686a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
1687they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
6431f2e6 1688
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1689*** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
1690Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
1691
fe0aa820 1692** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
dfdb4cad 1693similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
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1694above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
1695`mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
d6d8ee7a 1696
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1697** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
1698If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
1699pass the result through substring-no-properties.
34c99998 1700
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1701** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
1702
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1703** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
1704(the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
1705means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
1706
1707*** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
1708*** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
1709*** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
1710*** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
1711*** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
1712*** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
1713*** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
1714*** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
2c719188 1715*** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold')
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1716*** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
1717*** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
1718*** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
1719*** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
1720*** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
1721*** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
1722*** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
1723*** `char-bytes' (== 1)
1724*** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
1725*** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
1726*** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
1727*** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
1728
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1729** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
1730(the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
1731
1732*** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
1733*** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
1734*** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
1735*** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
1736*** `e' (`float-e').
3226d6ca 1737
041d709f 1738** The following obsolete files were removed:
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1739sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
1740
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1741** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
1742mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
1743`finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
1744`finder-keywords-hash'.
33658d4e 1745
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1746** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
1747assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
1748generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
1749
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1750\f
1751* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
9097e8af 1752
041d709f 1753** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
dfdb4cad 1754The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
48da7392 1755variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
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1756line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
1757file.
1758
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1759*** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
1760binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
dfdb4cad 1761
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1762*** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
1763of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
1764
1765*** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
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1766
1767*** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
1768So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
1769
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1770*** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
1771declared as dynamically bound.
1772
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1773*** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
1774
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1775** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
1776Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
1777their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
1778
1779** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
f1816485 1780
041d709f 1781*** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
7d301ae6 1782This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
041d709f 1783
041d709f 1784*** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
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1785Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
1786function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
1787buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
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1788right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
1789"LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
041d709f 1790
7d301ae6 1791This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
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1792direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
1793in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
041d709f 1794
bee0fcef 1795** Window changes
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1797*** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
1798Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
1799of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
1800buffer) in the window tree.
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1802**** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
1803windows.
dfdb4cad 1804
24300f5f 1805**** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
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1806Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
1807`delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
1808act on any window including internal ones.
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1810*** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
1811The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
1812and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
1813names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
1814and `window-body-height' are provided.
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1816*** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
1817For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
1818behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
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1819and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
1820allows to ignore processing such parameters.
dfdb4cad 1821
c4682d18 1822*** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
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1823The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
1824set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
1825new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
1826split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
1827window into two side-by-side windows as before.
dfdb4cad 1828
c4682d18 1829*** Window resizing functions.
487ffd7a 1830A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
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1831been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
1832longer delete any windows when they become too small.
dfdb4cad 1833
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1834*** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
1835live window on that frame instead.
dfdb4cad 1836
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1837*** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
1838`adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
1839is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
1840edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
1841that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
1842windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
dfdb4cad 1843
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1844*** Window-local buffer lists.
1845Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
1846from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
1847shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
1848positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
1849shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
dfdb4cad 1850
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1851*** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
1852which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
1853selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
1854can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
dfdb4cad 1855
0a2132ba 1856*** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
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1857to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
1858The old names are kept as aliases.
dfdb4cad 1859
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1860*** Display actions
1861
1862**** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
1863named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
1864`display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
1865non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
1866
1867**** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
1868
1869**** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
1870determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
1871`display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
1872and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
1873are user-customizable variables.
1874
1875See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
bee0fcef 1876
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1877*** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
1878These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
1879frame or window as an Elisp object.
1880
a2a25d24 1881** Completion
041d709f 1882
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1883*** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
1884properties of the current completion:
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1885- :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
1886- :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
1887
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1888*** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
1889properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
a2a25d24 1890
7d301ae6 1891*** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
a2a25d24 1892
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1893*** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
1894can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
1895- `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
1896 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
1897- `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
1898- `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
1899- `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
1900
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1901*** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
1902Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
1903are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
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1904
1905*** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
1906behavior of `completing-read'.
1907
f042970d 1908** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
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1909text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
1910
7d301ae6 1911** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
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1912Instead, the offending function is removed.
1913
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1914** New hook types
1915
1916*** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
1917passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
e7bc51d0 1918Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
5385447f 1919non-nil return value.
e7bc51d0 1920
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1921*** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
1922set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
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1923(A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
1924advertised at the time.)
f6d62986 1925
0b19b281 1926** Debugger changes
dfdb4cad 1927
0b19b281 1928*** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
1be3ca5a 1929Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
dfdb4cad 1930
0b19b281 1931*** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
dfdb4cad 1932
0b19b281 1933*** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
dfdb4cad 1934
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1935*** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
1936jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
1937instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
dfdb4cad 1938
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1939*** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
1940This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
d6b1d521 1941
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1942*** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
1943message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
1944to work out which code is doing something.
1945
953cebf5 1946** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
37576acd 1947named Emacs server instances.
7deebf1b 1948
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1949** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
1950to redirect STDOUT to a file.
7deebf1b 1951
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1952** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
1953for higher-resolution time stamps.
da97a9e6 1954
0b19b281 1955** New input reading functions
dfdb4cad 1956
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1957*** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
1958characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
dfdb4cad 1959
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1960*** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
1961or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
1962invalid input.
dfdb4cad 1963
0b19b281 1964**** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
3ef01959 1965
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1966** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
1967The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
1968not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
1969obsolete alias.
1970
0b19b281 1971** Syntax parsing changes
dfdb4cad 1972
0b19b281 1973*** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
04e2ce72 1974This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
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1975This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
1976just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
1977Together with this new variable come a new hook
1978syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
1979syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
1980as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
1981syntactic rules.
dfdb4cad 1982
0b19b281 1983*** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
a2e5caf7 1984
7d301ae6 1985** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
041d709f 1986
4e2db1fe 1987** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
041d709f 1988
15de15c6 1989** Major and minor mode changes
dfdb4cad 1990
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1991*** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
1992as well as those in the -*- line.
dfdb4cad 1993
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1994*** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
1995should be derived.
dfdb4cad 1996
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1997**** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
1998modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
1999on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
dfdb4cad 2000
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2001*** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
2002`run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
dfdb4cad 2003
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2004*** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
2005If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
2006major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
dfdb4cad 2007
feb8a83a 2008*** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
f44379e7 2009
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2010** File-handling changes
2011
7d301ae6 2012*** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
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2013Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
2014both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
2015argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
53967e09 2016
7d301ae6 2017*** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
ec70a47d 2018
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2019** Tool-bars can display separators.
2020Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
94975270 2021i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
9317e499 2022
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2023** Image API
2024
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2025*** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
2026
2027**** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
2028
2029**** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
2030
2031**** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
2032is being animated.
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2034*** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
2035The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
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2037*** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
2038This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
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2039
2040**** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
2041is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
2042ImageMagick installation supports.
2043
2044**** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
2045image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
2046functions.
2047
2048**** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
2049ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
2050
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2051**** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
2052resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
2053`image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
2054`image-transform-set-scale'.
041d709f 2055
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2056** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
2057passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
2058action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
2059example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
b4ac6e8c 2060
71c17aec 2061** XML and HTML parsing
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2062If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
2063functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
2064and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
2065Emacs Lisp parse tree.
4b9832a6 2066
7d301ae6 2067** Networking and encryption changes
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2069*** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
2070It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
2071connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
2072parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
2073must also be supplied.
2074
2075*** New library gnutls.el.
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2076The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
2077built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
2078`open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
2079these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
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2080upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
2081SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
2082greater than 0.
2083
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2084*** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
2085md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
2086sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
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2088** Isearch
2089
2090*** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
2091
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2092** Progress reporters can now "spin".
2093The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
2094now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
2095time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
2096with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
2097displayed with a "spinning bar".
2098
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2099** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
2100being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
2101
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2102** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
2103If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
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2104`delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
2105is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
2106startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
2107functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
001bf877 2108
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2109** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
2110
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2111** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
2112from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
2113inherits from multiple maps, eg:
2114 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
43dc9f5b 2115
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2116** New function `string-prefix-p'.
2117(This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
2118
27f7ef2f 2119** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
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2120This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
2121(when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
2122an empty uninterned symbol.
041d709f 2123
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2124** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
2125
7d301ae6 2126** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
041d709f 2127
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2128*** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
2129Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
2130
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2131*** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
2132Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
2133
2134*** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
2135
2136*** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
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2137Use `post-command-hook' instead.
2138
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2139*** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
2140
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2141\f
2142* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
d53a60a6 2143
7a22e700 2144** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
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2145and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
2146
7a22e700 2147** New configure.bat options
04779484 2148
7a22e700 2149*** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
e3aef5c6 2150
7a22e700 2151*** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
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2153*** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
2154
a0d363f4 2155*** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
e2574f2c 2156
0a19a6f8 2157** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
e3aef5c6 2158
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2159** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
2160(It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
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2162** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
2163reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
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2165** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
2166other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
2167
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a933dad1 2169----------------------------------------------------------------------
5b87ad55 2170This file is part of GNU Emacs.
a933dad1 2171
ab73e885 2172GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5b87ad55 2173it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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2174the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2175(at your option) any later version.
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2176
2177GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2178but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2179MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2180GNU General Public License for more details.
a933dad1 2181
5b87ad55 2182You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
ab73e885 2183along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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2186Local variables:
2187mode: outline
2188paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
2189end: