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29b7722a 1GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
5b87ad55 2
dcb8ac09 3Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5b87ad55 4See the end of the file for license conditions.
a933dad1 5
3f7194ed 6Please send Emacs bug reports to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.
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7If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
0bfd685e 9This file is about changes in Emacs version 23.
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11See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17
12for 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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24* About external Lisp packages
25
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0bfd685e 27* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1
c58dccad 28
3f7194ed 29** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid.
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30The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the
31default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary.
3f7194ed 32
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33** New font code.
34Fonts are handled by new code capable of dealing with multiple font
de9efca0 35backends. This uses the freetype and fontconfig libraries.
2b7a2553 36
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37*** Emacs now accepts font names supplied in the fontconfig format
38(e.g. "monospace-12:bold") and GTK format (e.g. "Monospace Bold 12").
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40*** Added support for local fonts (fonts installed on the machine
41where Emacs is running).
42
43*** Added support for the Xft library for antialiasing.
44
45*** Added support for the otf library for complex text layout by
46OpenType fonts.
47
48*** Added support for the m17n library for text shaping.
15f02f65 49
09e18d03 50** Changes to image support
2e0ef05b 51---
09e18d03 52*** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for
9d3cc9b2 53a GIF library.
2e0ef05b 54+++
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55*** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2.
56
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57** New NeXTSTEP-based port
58This provides support for GNUStep (via the GNUStep libraries) and Mac
59OS X (via the Cocoa libraries). See nextstep/README and
60nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory.
61
62** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon.
63Use the NeXTSTEP port, described above.
36e625ec 64
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65** The new configuration option "--with-dbus" enables D-Bus language
66bindings for Emacs.
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68** Support for many obsolete platforms has been removed.
69See the list at the end of etc/MACHINES for details.
2e0ef05b 70---
09e18d03 71*** Support for systems without alloca has been removed.
2e0ef05b 72---
09e18d03 73*** Support for Sun windows has been removed.
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74---
75*** The `emacstool' utility has been removed.
09e18d03 76
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77** The following platforms will be removed in a future Emacs version:
78
79*** Libc version 5 on GNU/Linux.
80
81*** Old FreeBSD and NetBSD systems based on the COFF executable
82 format.
83
84*** Solaris versions 2.6 and below.
85
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86*** Solaris on IBM RS6000 machines.
87
88*** UNIX System V (the original SysV, not later platforms based on it).
89
90*** Platforms not supporting shared libraries (i.e., requiring the
91NO_SHARED_LIBS compilation flag).
006a2cde 92
2e0ef05b 93---
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94** The configure options `--with-gcc', `--without-gcc' have been removed.
95Configure will use gcc by default. Set the CC environment variable if
96you need control over which C compiler is used.
97
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98** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files.
99
2e0ef05b 100---
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101** Emacs 23 comes with a new set of default icons.
102Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
103The Emacs 22 icon is available as `emacs22.png' in the same location.
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105* Changes in Emacs 23.1
106
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107** Emacs can now be built under the Cocoa libraries on Mac OS X and GNUstep
108 libraries on other machines. Specify --with-ns to configure for this. By
109 default a self-contained app will be built (containing all lisp). To
110 install/share lisp with other emacsen (e.g. X11 build) use
111 --disable-ns-self-contained. Use 'info-ns-emacs' or first entry under Help
112 menu when running for more information.
113
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114** `where-is-preferred-modifier' can specify your favorite modifier.
115
09e18d03 116** Improved X Window System support
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118*** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session.
119With an Emacs server active (M-x server-start), `emacsclient -t'
120creates a tty frame connected to the running emacs server. You can
121use any number of different ttys. `emacsclient -c' creates a new X11
122frame on the current $DISPLAY (or a tty frame if $DISPLAY is not set).
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124You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by
125testing for the `multi-tty' feature.
126
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127**** Emacsclient can now open new terminal frames.
128Now, the default behavior is to open a new Emacs frame by default.
129Use the -c option to get the old behavior of opening files in the
130currently selected Emacs frame.
d82c3d44 131
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132*** The new command close-display-connection closes a connection to a
133remote display.
d82c3d44 134
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135*** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification.
136You can embed Emacs in another application on X11. The new command line
137option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs. See
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138http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html
139for details about XEmbed.
140
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141*** Emacs can now set the frame opacity.
142The opacity of a frame can be controlled by setting the `alpha' frame
143parameter. This only takes effect on a compositing window manager for
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144the X Window System, such as Compiz, Beryl and Compiz Fusion, or on
145Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows.
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147The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and
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148100 (opaque), or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0. It can also be a
149cons cell (ACTIVE . INACTIVE), where ACTIVE is the opacity of an
150active frame and INACTIVE is the opactity of non-active frames.
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152The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the
153opacity; the default is 20.
55f9bad5 154
09e18d03 155** Internationalization changes
fec8ef06 156
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157*** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.
158(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).
0a963185 159
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160The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now
161Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'. This encoding is backwards
162compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 encoding. The internal encoding
163previously used by Emacs, `emacs-mule', is still available.
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165During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files.
166As a result, byte-compiled files containing non-ASCII characters can't
167be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files compiled by Emacs 20, 21,
168or 22 are loaded correctly as emacs-mule (whether or not they contain
169multibyte characters). This takes somewhat more time, so it may be
170worth recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be shared
171with older Emacsen.
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09e18d03 173*** There are new coding systems/aliases; see M-x list-coding-systems.
c2e8590b 174
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175*** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets.
176See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently
177as tables of unicodes.
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179**** The dimension of a charset is now 1, 2, 3, or 4, and the size of
180each dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96.
eb28688c 181
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182**** A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of
183characters for display.
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185*** There are new language environments for Chinese-GBK,
186Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu,
187Sinhala, and TaiViet.
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189*** The minor modes unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and
190unify-8859-on-decoding-mode are obsolete.
d466e9fc 191
09e18d03 192** Emacs now supports serial port access on GNU/Linux, Unix, and
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193Windows. The new command `serial-term' starts an interactive terminal
194on a serial port. The serial port can be configured at runtime with
195the mode-line mouse menu.
6c5d503f 196
09e18d03 197** Menu Bar changes
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199*** In the Options menu, the "Set Default Font" item applies the
200selected font to the `default' face on all frames, not just the
201current frame. Furthermore, if Emacs is compiled with both GTK and
202Fontconfig support, the "Set Default Font" item uses the GTK font
203selection dialog instead of an Emacs pop-up menu.
81efacf9 204---
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205*** The font setting chosen by "Set Default Font" is saved if the
206"Save Options" item is used.
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208*** The Tools menu contains a new Encryption/Decryption submenu.
209This contains commands provided by EasyPG, the newly-included
210interface to GnuPG (see New Modes and Packages).
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212*** In the Options menu, the "Truncate Long Lines in the Buffer" entry
213has been replaced with a submenu offering three different ways to
214handle long lines: truncation, continuation at the window edge, and
215the new word wrapping option (see Editing Changes, below).
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09e18d03 217** Mode-line changes
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219*** The mode-line displays a `@', instead of `-', if the
220default-directory for the current buffer is on a remote machine.
c4c9b6f9 221
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222*** The mode-line displays a mode menu when mouse-1 is clicked on a
223minor mode, in the same way as it already did for major modes.
b3cf10d7 224
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225*** The `mode-line-emphasis' face is used to highlight certain
226mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish).
d82c3d44 227
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228** Directory-local variables can now be defined.
229By default, Emacs looks in .dir-settings.el for directory-local
230variables. For more information, see `set-directory-project' and
231`define-project-bindings'.
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0bfd685e 234* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1
21f7b9d8 235
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237** The option `inhibit-startup-screen' (with aliases to old names
238`inhibit-splash-screen' and `inhibit-startup-message') doesn't inhibit
239display of the initial message in the *scratch* buffer. If you don't
240want to display the initial message in the *scratch* buffer at startup,
241you can set the option `initial-scratch-message' to nil.
242
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243** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display
244after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a
245file or directory.
246
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247** New alias `argv' for `command-line-args-left'
248This is a convenience alias, so that one can write `(pop argv)'
249inside of --eval command line arguments in order to access
250following arguments.
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252** The abbrev file is no longer read at startup in batch mode.
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0bfd685e 254* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
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256+++
257** In Dired-x, all command guesses for ! are now added to the default
258list accessible by M-n instead of pushing all guesses temporarily into
259the history list.
260
81efacf9 261---
e405fa5f 262** The following input methods were removed in Emacs 22.2, but this was
9a930d75 263not advertised: danish-alt-postfix, esperanto-alt-postfix,
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264finnish-alt-postfix, german-alt-postfix, icelandic-alt-postfix,
265norwegian-alt-postfix, scandinavian-alt-postfix, spanish-alt-postfix,
266and swedish-alt-postfix. Use the versions without "alt-", which are
267identical.
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0bfd685e 270* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
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272** The C-n and C-p line-motion commands now move by screen lines,
273taking continued lines and variable-width characters into account.
274Setting `line-move-visual' to nil reverts this to the previous
275behavior (motion by logical lines based on buffer contents alone).
276
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277** C-x C-c now invokes `save-buffers-kill-terminal', and C-z now
278invokes `suspend-frame'. This change is for compatibility with the
279new multi-tty support (see `Improved X Window System support' above).
3ae459e5 280
09e18d03 281** Mark changes
59b5d020 282+++
3ae459e5 283*** Transient Mark mode is now on by default.
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284+++
285*** mark-even-if-inactive now defaults to t
3ae459e5 286+++
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287*** When Transient Mark mode is on, C-SPC C-SPC pushes a mark without
288activating it.
1ac03a31 289+++
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290*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-q now fills the region if the
291region is active. Otherwise, it fills the current paragraph.
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293*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-$ now checks spelling of the
294region if the region is active. Otherwise, it checks spelling of the
dc868f13 295word at point.
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296*** When Transient Mark mode is on, TAB now indents the region if the
297region is active.
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298*** `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty active region
299in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on that empty
300region.
301
302** Temporarily active regions
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304*** The new variable shift-select-mode, non-nil by default, controls
305shift-selection. When Shift Select mode is on, shift-translated
306motion keys (e.g. S-left and S-down) activate and extend a temporary
307region, similar to mouse-selection.
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309*** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or
310mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command.
311They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not
312shift-translated, or after commands that would ordinarily deactivate
313the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the
314buffer).
315
505d8756 316** Minibuffer changes
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318*** Operations like C-x b and C-x C-f, which use switch-to-buffer, do
319not fail any more when used in a minibuffer or a dedicated window.
320Instead, they fallback on using pop-to-buffer, which will use some
321other window.
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323*** When M-n in the minibuffer reaches the end of the list of defaults,
324it adds the completion list to the end, so next M-n continues putting
325completion items to the minibuffer. The same principle applies to
326incremental search commands as well: C-s or C-M-s starts searching
327the default values and after the end of defaults they continue
328searching minibuffer completion items.
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330*** Minibuffer input of shell commands now comes with completion.
331
332*** In the `C-x d' (Dired) prompt, typing M-n gives the visited file
333name of the current buffer.
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335*** In the M-! (shell-command) prompt, M-n provides some default commands.
336These are guessed using the file extension of the current file, based
337on the file-handlers specified in the operating system's `mailcap'
338file. The ! command in Dired (dired-do-shell-command) works
339similarly, using the file displayed on the current line.
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341*** A list of regexp default values is available via M-n for `occur',
342`keep-lines', `flush-lines' and `how-many'. This list includes the active
343region in transient-mark-mode, the word under the cursor, the last isearch
344regexp, the last isearch string and the last replacement regexp.
345
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346*** isearch started in the minibuffer searches in the minibuffer history.
347Reverse isearch commands (C-r, C-M-r) search in previous minibuffer
348history elements, and forward isearch commands (C-s, C-M-s) search in
349next history elements. When the reverse search reaches the first history
350element, it wraps to the last history element, and the forward search
351wraps to the first history element. When the search is terminated, the
352history element containing the search string becomes the current.
353
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354** Face changes
355
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356*** S-down-mouse-1 now pops up a menu for changing the font and text
357size of the default face in the current buffer. The face is changed
358via face remapping (see below).
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361
09e18d03 362** Primary selection changes
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364*** If `select-active-regions' is t, setting the mark automatically
365makes the new region into the primary selection (for interaction with
366other window applications). If you enable this, you might want to
367bind `mouse-yank-primary' to Mouse-2.
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369*** You can disable kill ring commands from accessing the primary
370selection by setting `x-select-enable-primary' to nil.
2e282009 371
09e18d03 372** Completion changes
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374*** `completion-styles' can be customized to choose your favorite
375completion style.
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09e18d03 377*** The default completion styles include a form of partial-completion.
c06c430f 378
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379*** The new command `minibuffer-force-complete' chooses one of the
380possible completions, rather than stopping at the common prefix.
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382*** `completion-auto-help' can be set to `lazy' to list the
383completions only if you repeat the completion. This was already
384supported in `partial-completion-mode'.
a0818148 385
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386** Continuation lines can be wrapped at word boundaries
387(word-wrapping) instead of the right window edge. The new per-buffer
388variable `word-wrap', if non-nil turns on word-wrapping. Word
389wrapping does not take place if continuation lines are not shown,
390e.g. if truncate-lines is non-nil.
391
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393
394*** truncate-partial-width-windows now accepts integer values, which
395specify a minimum window width for partial-width windows, below which
396lines are truncated. The default has been changed to 30.
397
398*** The new command balance-windows-area balances windows both
399vertically and horizontally.
400
09e18d03 401** Miscellaneous changes:
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403*** New keymap `search-map' bound to `M-s' provides global bindings
404for search related commands: `M-s o' for `occur', `M-s h r' for
405`highlight-regexp' and other hi-lock commands on the `M-s h' prefix.
406
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407*** C-l is bound to the new command recenter-top-bottom, rather than recenter.
408This moves the current line to window center, top and bottom on
409successive invokations.
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09e18d03 411*** scroll-preserve-screen-position also preserves the column position.
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413*** If `yank-pop-change-selection' is t, rotating the kill ring also
414updates the selection or clipboard to the current yank, just as M-w
415would do so with the text it copies to the kill ring.
416
417+++
418*** C-M-% now shows replacement as it would look in the buffer, with
419`\N' and `\&' substituted according to the match. Old behavior can be
420restored by customizing `query-replace-show-replacement'.
421
422*** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is
423called with a prefix and the default directory is a remote file name.
424This is because some file name handlers (like ange-ftp) are not able to
425run processes remotely.
426
427*** The new command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name
428matches a regexp.
429
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430*** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and
431`pp-macroexpand-last-sexp' pretty-print macro expansions.
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434* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
e11910e2 435
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436** FIXME add details of new packages imported from lisp/gnus.
437[Maybe some information from doc/misc/gnus-coding.texi can be reused]
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439** Auto Composition Mode is a minor mode that composes characters
440automatically when they are displayed. It is globally on by default.
441It uses `auto-composition-function' (default `auto-compose-chars').
442
09e18d03 443** Bubbles, a new game, is similar to SameGame.
f6b26818 444
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445** bug-reference.el provides clickable links to bug reports.
446
b350bdf2 447** copyright.el provides utilities for updating copyright notices in files.
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449** dbus.el provides D-Bus language bindings.
450D-Bus is an inter-process communication mechanism for applications
b350bdf2 451residing on the same host. See the manual for details.
09e18d03 452
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453** Doc View Mode allows viewing of PDF, PostScript and DVI documents.
454One can also search for a regular expression in the document. For
455details, see the commentary in doc-view.el.
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457** EasyPG provides an interface to the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG).
458It includes a GnuPG keyring browser, cryptographic operations on
459regions and files, and automatic encryption of *.gpg files. For
460details, see the EasyPG Assistant User's Manual.
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462** json.el is a library for parsing and generating JSON
463(JavaScript Object Notation), a lightweight data-interchange format.
464
465** linum.el is a new minor mode to display line numbers for the
466current buffer.
467
468** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt.
469
470** nXML Mode
471This is a new mode for editing XML documents. It allows a schema to
472be associated with the XML document being edited, using Relax NG as
473the schema language. The schema is used to provide two key features:
474
475*** Continuous validation. nXML validates as you type, highlighting
476any invalid parts of your document.
477
478*** Completion. nXML can assist you in entering an element name,
479attribute name or data value by using information about what is
480allowed by the schema in that context.
481
482** proced.el provides a Dired-like interface for operating on processes.
483Proced makes an Emacs buffer containing a listing of the current
484processes (using ps(1)). You can use the normal Emacs commands to
485move around in this buffer, and special Proced commands to operate on
486the processes listed.
487
488** Remember Mode is a mode for jotting down things to remember.
489Notes can be saved to a Diary file. For details, see the Remember
490Manual.
491
492** RST mode is a major mode for editing ReSTructured-Text files.
c2d0b538 493
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494** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines.
495It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e,
496and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical
497lines. This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode.
498
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500renamed to `old-whitespace'.
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501Now, besides reporting bogus blanks, whitespace package has a minor mode and a
502global minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD) SPACE and NEWLINE). The
503visualization is made via faces and/or display table. Also it is possible to
504select which kind of blanks should be visualized, for example, trailing blanks,
505leading blanks, spaces, tabs, newlines, etc.
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508search engines like Beagle, Strigi, and Tracker. The Xesam API
509requires D-Bus for communication.
510
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511** zeroconf.el offers service discovery and service publishing
512interfaces according to the zeroconf specification. It communicates
513with Avahi, a zeroconf implementation, via D-Bus messages on systems
514which have installed this software.
515
516\f
517* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
518
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520*** New function `diff-show-trailing-blanks'.
521
09e18d03 522** Abbrev has been rewritten in Elisp and extended with more flexibility.
e047f448 523*** New functions: abbrev-get, abbrev-put, abbrev-table-get, abbrev-table-put,
a3709a8c 524 abbrev-table-p, abbrev-insert, abbrev-table-menu.
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525*** Special hook `abbrev-expand-functions' obsoletes `pre-abbrev-expand-hook'.
526*** `make-abbrev-table', `define-abbrev', `define-abbrev-table' all take
527 extra arguments for arbitrary properties.
528*** New variable `abbrev-minor-mode-table-alist'.
529*** `local-abbrev-table' can hold a list of abbrev-tables.
530*** Abbrevs have now the following special properties:
79415279 531 `:count', `:system', `:enable-function', `:case-fixed'.
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532*** Abbrev-tables have now the following special properties:
533 `:parents', `:case-fixed', `:enable-function', `:regexp',
534 `abbrev-table-modiff'.
535
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536** Apropos
537*** `apropos-library' describes the elements defined in a given library.
538*** Set `apropos-compact-layout' is you want a more compact (but wider) layout.
0253fffa 539
09e18d03 540** Archive Mode has basic support to browse Rar archives.
0253fffa 541
09e18d03 542** BibTeX mode
bafbec39 543
09e18d03 544*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers.
bafbec39 545
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546*** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and
547`string', disabled by default.
12bbb989 548
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549*** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to
550identify cited keys in BibTeX entries, used by `bibtex-find-crossref'.
9097e8af 551
09e18d03 552*** Command `bibtex-url' allows multiple URLs per entry.
4c24d241 553
09e18d03 554** Calendar and diary
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556+++
557*** There is a new date style, `iso', essentially year/month/day.
558The variable `european-calendar-style' is obsolete - use `calendar-date-style'.
559Similarly, the commands `american-calendar' and `european-calendar'
560should be replaced by `calendar-set-date-style'.
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563*** The calendar namespace has been rationalized.
564All functions and variables now begin with a `calendar-', `diary-', or
565`holiday-' prefix. The various calendar systems have secondary
566prefixes, eg `calendar-french-'. The old names you are likely to use
567directly still exist, for the time being, as aliases, but please start
568using the new names.
569
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571See the variables:
572calendar-left-margin, calendar-intermonth-spacing, calendar-column-width,
573calendar-day-header-width, and calendar-day-digit-width.
574
575*** Text (e.g. ISO weeks) can be displayed between the calendar months.
576See the variables calendar-intermonth-header and calendar-intermonth-text.
577
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578*** The function `holiday-chinese' computes holidays on the Chinese calendar.
579It has been used to add items to the list `holiday-oriental-holidays'.
580
581*** `diary-remind' accepts a negative number -DAYS as a shorthand for
582the list (1 2 ... DAYS).
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584** Change Log mode
585
586*** The new command C-c C-f (change-log-find-file) finds the file
587associated with the current log entry.
588
589*** The new command C-c C-c (change-log-goto-source) goes to the
590source code associated with a log entry.
591
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593
594*** The mode-line entry for the *compilation* and *grep* buffer is color coded.
595It has different colors for to show that: (a) the command is still
596running, (b) successful completion, (c) error.
597
598*** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to
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600
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601*** The `cc' alias for C++ files in `grep-file-aliases' has been
602improved. `hh' can be used to match C++ header files and `cchh' both
603C++ sources and headers.
604
09e18d03 605** Custom
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09e18d03 607*** defcustom accepts new keyword arguments, `:safe' and `:risky', which
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608set a variable's `safe-local-variable' and `risky-local-variable' property.
609
09e18d03 610** Diff mode
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612*** diff-refine-hunk highlights word-level details of changes in a diff hunk.
613It's used automatically as you move through hunks, see
7381be9d 614diff-auto-refine-mode. It is bound to `C-c C-b'.
b58a65fa 615
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616*** diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window iterates through the diff
617buffer and tries to create ChangeLog entries for each change.
618It is bound to `C-x 4 A'.
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621
622*** In Dired, C-x C-q now runs the command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode,
623and C-x C-q in wdired-mode exits it with asking a question about
624saving changes.
625
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626*** `M-s f C-s' and `M-s f M-C-s' run Isearch that matches only at file names.
627When a new user option `dired-isearch-filenames' is non-nil, then even
628ordinary Isearch started with `C-s' and `C-M-s' matches only at file names
629in the Dired buffer.
630
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632They visit the first marked file in the sequence and display the usual Isearch
633prompt for a string or a regexp where all Isearch commands are available.
634
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636The upper case key `Y' replaces all remaining matches in all remaining files
637with no more questions. The upper case key `N' stops doing replacements
638in the current file and skips to the next file. These multi-file keys
639are available for all commands that use `tags-query-replace'
640including `dired-do-query-replace-regexp', `vc-dir-query-replace-regexp',
641`reftex-query-replace-document'.
642
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643** Fortran
644*** The variable `fortran-line-length' can change the fixed-form line-length.
117d3cc5 645
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646*** In Fortran mode, M-; is now bound to the standard comment-dwim,
647rather than fortran-indent-comment.
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649+++
650*** (The increasingly misnamed) F90 mode supports Fortran 2003 syntax.
b592c357 651
09e18d03 652** Gnus
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654*** The Gnus package has been updated
655There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements; see the file
656GNUS-NEWS or the node "No Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
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658*** In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for
659saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld. These file may not be read
660correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to Gnus across different Emacs
661versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'.
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663** Help mode
664*** New macro `with-help-window' should set up help windows better
665than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'.
666*** New option `help-window-select' permits to customize whether help
667window shall be automatically selected when invoking help.
668*** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits to specify new
669position of point in help window (for example in `view-lossage').
15947a44 670
09e18d03 671** Isearch
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674in isearch mode runs `highlight-regexp' (`hi-lock-face-buffer')
675with the current search string as its regexp argument.
676
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677*** New command `isearch-occur' bound to `M-s o' in isearch mode
678runs `occur' with the current search string.
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680*** isearch can now search through multiple ChangeLog files.
681When running isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails,
682then another C-s tries searching the previous ChangeLog,
683if there is one (e.g. go from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12).
babc4609 684This is enabled if multi-isearch-search is non-nil.
93a142e1 685
babc4609 686*** Two new commands to start Isearch on a list of marked buffers
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688`M-s a M-C-s'.
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690*** The part of an isearch that failed to match is highlighted in `isearch-fail'
691face.
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693*** `C-h C-h' in isearch mode displays isearch-specific Help screen,
694`C-h b' displays all isearch key bindings, `C-h k' displays the full
695documentation of the given isearch key sequence, `C-h m' displays
696documentation of isearch mode. All the rest Help commands exit isearch mode
697and execute their global definitions.
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699*** When started in the minibuffer, Isearch searches in the minibuffer
700history. See `Minibuffer changes', above.
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702** Python
703*** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning
704that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el.
c5578d5f 705
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706*** Python mode now has `pdbtrack' functionality. When using pdb to
707debug a Python program, pdbtrack notices the pdb prompt and displays
708the source file and line that the program is stopped at, much the same
709way as gud-mode does for debugging C programs with gdb.
2793c9bb 710
09e18d03 711** T-mouse Mode
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713*** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode is enabled,
714Emacs uses a Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server,
715rather than faking events using the client program mev. This C level
716approach provides mouse highlighting and help echoing in the
717minibuffer.
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720** Tramp
721
722*** New connection methods.
723The new methods "plinkx", "plink2", "psftp", "sftp" and "fish" have
724been introduced. There are also new so-called gateway methods
725"tunnel" and "socks".
726
727*** Multihop syntax has been removed.
728The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed. Instead of, multi hops
729can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'.
730
731*** More default settings.
732Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user',
733`tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-host'.
734
735*** Connection information is cached.
736In order to reduce connection setup, information about used
737connections are kept persistent in a file. The name of this file is
738defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'.
739
740*** Control of remote processes.
741Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in
742`tramp-remote-path' and `tramp-remote-process-environment'.
743
744*** Success of remote copy is checked.
745When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote
746file copy is checked via the file's checksum.
747
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749Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if
750necessary.
751
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754*** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time.
755This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented
756version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, Git
757and Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems as
758a single changeset.
d15f7b68 759
09e18d03 760*** vc-dir is a new command that displays file names and their VC
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761status. It allows to apply various VC operations to a file, a
762directory or a set of files/directories.
c3f01f42 763
09e18d03 764*** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu.
4c24d241 765
09e18d03 766*** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip that explains the VC file status.
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768*** In VC Annotate mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can
769see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file)
e86fa02b 770by typing the D key.
a9f480e8 771
e86fa02b 772*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type v to toggle the annotation visibility.
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774*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type f to show the file revision on
775the current line.
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777*** In VC Annotate mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you
778can see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current
779file) by typing the D key or using the "Show changeset diff of
780revision at line" menu entry.
781
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782*** Asynchronous VC commands display [Waiting...] in the mode-line
783of the corresponding buffer as long as the asynchronous process is
784active.
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786*** Log entries can be modified using the key "e" in log-view.
787For now only CVS, RCS, SCCS and SVN support this functionality.
788This is done by the `modify-change-comment' backend function.
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790*** In log-view-mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can
791see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file)
792by typing the D key or using the "Changeset Diff" menu entry.
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794*** In Log Edit mode, C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved.
795
796*** vc-git supports the "git grep" command.
797
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798*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of maintainer able
799to update it to the new VC.
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802
803*** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes).
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804If `default-directory' is a remote file name, subprocesses are started
805on the corresponding remote system.
806
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807*** Eldoc highlights the function argument under point
808with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'.
4596901f 809
09e18d03 810*** In Etags, the --members option is now the default.
fffa137c 811Use --no-members if you want the old default behavior of not tagging
09e18d03 812struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP.
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814*** The `gdb' command only works with the graphical interface now.
815Use `gud-gdb' if you want the (old) text command mode.
816
817*** goto-address.el provides two new minor modes, goto-address-mode and
818goto-address-prog-mode, which buttonize URLS and email addresses.
819
820*** The new command `eshell/info' runs info in an eshell buffer.
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823directories in which `ffap-rfc' will first search for RFCs.
824
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825*** hide-ifdef-mode allows shadowing ifdef-blocks instead of hiding them.
826See option `hide-ifdef-shadow' and function `hide-ifdef-toggle-shadowing'.
827
828*** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supercedes `icomplete-prospects-length'.
829
830*** Info displays breadcrumbs in the header of the page.
831See Info-breadcrumbs-depth to control it.
832
d2c98acc 833*** net-utils has an `iwconfig' command, similar to the existing `ifconfig'.
b7bfcc8a 834It is used to configure wireless interfaces.
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836*** The pcmpl-unix package supports hostname completion for ssh and scp.
837
838*** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs.
839
840*** smerge-refine highlights word-level details of changes in conflict.
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842smerge-auto-refine-mode.
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844*** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support.
845
846*** A new command `display-time-world' has been added to the Time
847package. It creates a buffer with an updating time display using
848several time zones.
849
850*** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable.
851See the documentation of the variables: tex-fontify-script,
852tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and
853tex-suscript-height-minimum.
854
855*** view-remove-frame-by-deleting is now by default t
856since users found iconification of view-mode frames distracting.
857
858*** WoMan tries to add locale-specific manual page directories to the
859search path. This can be disabled by setting `woman-locale' to nil.
860
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862* Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems
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864** Case is now considered significant in completion on MS-Windows.
865The default value of `completion-ignore-case' is now nil on
866MS-Windows, the same as it is for other operating systems. The
867variable doesn't apply to reading a file name -- in that case Emacs
868heeds `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' instead.
869
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871** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows.
872Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions
2660a9da 873of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. In Emacs 22, IPv6 was
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874supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock
8751.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library.
876
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878** Busy cursor (hourglass) now displays on MS-Windows.
879When Emacs is busy, an hourglass mouse cursor is displayed on Windows.
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880In Emacs 22 only X supported the busy cursor.
881
882---
883** Battery status is available on MS-Windows
884Emacs can now display the battery status in the mode-line when enabled with
885display-battery-mode or from the Options menu. More verbose battery
886information is also available with the command `battery'. In Emacs 22
887battery status was supported only on GNU/Linux and Mac.
6e344060 888
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890Keys normally associated with IMEs, and some exotic keys not normally found
891on standard keyboards have been given names so they can be bound to functions
892inside Emacs. If there are keys on your keyboard that have not been exposed
893to Emacs in the past, try C-h k to see if they are available now.
894
895Emacs can now bind functions to the extra buttons for media player and
896browser control present on some keyboards. These buttons are disabled
897by default, since enabling them prevents their system-wide use when
898Emacs has focus. To enable them, set the variable
0caa490b 899w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable
3280c5c5 900for the list of extra keys that are available.
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903* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
8ec65cd7 904
fd9440c5 905** Variables cannot be both buffer-local and frame-local any more.
a9b08254 906
fc944cd4 907** `functionp' returns nil for special forms.
65f81a0b 908I.e., it only returns t for objects that can be passed to `funcall'.
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911specified function with a cons (FROM . TO) as a key if characters in
912that range have the same value.
913
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915+++
916*** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed.
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918*** The multibyteness of process filters is now determined by the
919coding-system used for decoding. The functions
920`process-filter-multibyte-p' and `set-process-filter-multibyte' are
921obsolete.
03605a28 922
777ea444 923** The variable `byte-compile-warnings' can now be a list starting with `not',
0caa490b 924meaning to disable the specified warnings. The meaning of this list
777ea444 925may therefore be the reverse of what you expect (of course, this is
0caa490b 926only an issue if you make use of the new `not' syntax). Rather than
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928`byte-compile-warning-enabled-p', `byte-compile-disable-warning', and
929`byte-compile-enable-warning.'
930
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932Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value.
933
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935
936*** The value of the function `charset-id' is now always 0.
937
938*** The functions `register-char-codings' and `coding-system-spec'
939have been removed.
940
941*** The cpXXX coding systems are now supported automatically.
942The functions cp-...-codepage, which you had to use in Emacs 22 to
943enable support for these coding systems, have been deleted.
944
945*** The following features have been removed. They were used for
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947needed now that OpenType font support is available:
948
b350bdf2 949**** `devanagari' and `devan-util', and all associated devanagari-* and
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950dev-* functions and variables (formerly used for Devanagari script).
951
b350bdf2 952**** `kannada' and `knd-util', and all associated kannada-* and knd-*
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953functions and variables (formerly used for Kannada script).
954
b350bdf2 955**** `malayalam' and `mlm-util', and all associated malayalam-* and
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956mlm-* functions and variables (formerly used for Malayalam script).
957
b350bdf2 958**** `tamil' and `tml-util, and all associated tamil-* and tml-*
85a1f98d 959functions and variables (formerly used for Tamil script).
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962* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
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965** New variable `user-emacs-directory'.
966Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d".
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968** If a local hook function has a non-nil `permanent-local-hook'
969property, `kill-all-local-variables' does not remove it from the local
970value of the hook variable; it remains even if you change major modes.
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972** `frame-inherited-parameters' lets new frames inherit parameters from
973the selected frame.
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975** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but
976applies before function-key-map. Also it is terminal-local contrary to
977key-translation-map. Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to
978this map rather than to function-key-map now.
09e18d03 979
b350bdf2 980** `ignore-errors' is now a standard macro (does not require the CL package).
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982** `interprogram-paste-function' can now return one string or a list
983of strings. In the latter case, Emacs puts the second and following
984strings on the kill ring.
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987** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first".
988You do this by writing `debug' in the list of conditions to be handled,
989like this:
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991 (condition-case nil
992 (foo bar)
993 ((debug error) nil))
09e18d03 994
b350bdf2 995** clone-indirect-buffer now runs the clone-indirect-buffer-hook.
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997** `beginning-of-defun-function' now takes one argument, the count
998given to `beginning-of-defun'.
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1001** `file-remote-p' has new optional parameters IDENTIFICATION and CONNECTED.
1002IDENTIFICATION specifies which part of the remote identifier has to be
1003returned. With CONNECTED passed non-nil, it is checked whether a
1004remote connection has been established already.
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1006** The new macro `declare-function' suppresses compiler warnings about
1007undefined functions.
a1562258 1008
b350bdf2 1009** Changes to interactive function handling
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1011*** The new interactive spec code ^ says to first call
1012handle-shift-selection if shift-select-mode is non-nil, before reading
1013the command arguments. This is used for shift-selection (see above).
e2947429 1014
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1015*** Built-in functions can now have an interactive specification that
1016is not a prompt string. If the `intspec' parameter of a `DEFUN'
1017starts with a `(', the string is evaluated as a Lisp form.
e2947429 1018
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1019*** The interactive-form of a function can be added post-facto via the
1020`interactive-form' symbol property. Mostly useful to add complex
1021interactive forms to subroutines.
d87be1df 1022
b350bdf2 1023** Region changes
3ae459e5 1024
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1025*** Commands should use `use-region-p' to test whether there is
1026an active region that they should operate on.
3ae459e5 1027
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1028*** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode is
1029enabled and there is an active region. This is NOT the best function
1030to use to test whether a command should operate on the region instead
1031of the usual behavior -- for that, use `use-region-p'.
58555d81 1032
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1033*** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to (only . OLDVAL), that
1034means to activate transient-mark-mode temporarily, until the next
1035unshifted point motion command or mark deactivation. Afterwards,
1036reset transient-mark-mode to the value OLDVAL. The values `only' and
1037`identity', introduced in Emacs 22, are now deprecated.
e5c4079c 1038
b350bdf2 1039** Emacs session information
13cda5f9 1040
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1041*** The new variables `before-init-time' and `after-init-time' record the
1042value of `current-time' before and after Emacs loads the init files.
a2bc5bdd 1043
b350bdf2 1044*** The new function `emacs-uptime' returns the uptime of an Emacs instance.
d82c3d44 1045
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1046*** The new function `emacs-init-time' returns the duration of the
1047Emacs initialization.
50bfa18a 1048
b350bdf2 1049** Changes affecting display-buffer
39d0bf74 1050
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1051*** New value nil for split-height-threshold inhibits vertical splitting
1052unless there's no other window.
59b5d020 1053
b350bdf2 1054*** New option split-width-threshold controls horizontal splitting.
426e6ba0 1055
b350bdf2 1056*** A window can be split horizontally even when it's not full-width.
426e6ba0 1057
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1058*** New option split-window-preferred-function can be set to a function
1059to override the default splitting mechanism of display-buffer.
2d105adf 1060
b350bdf2 1061** Minibuffer and completion changes
b9694062 1062+++
b350bdf2 1063*** A list of default values can be specified for the DEFAULT argument of
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1064functions `read-from-minibuffer', `read-string', `read-command',
1065`read-variable', `read-buffer', `completing-read'. Elements of this list
1066are available for inserting into the minibuffer by typing `M-n'.
1067For empty input these functions return the first element of this list.
1068
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1069*** New function `read-regexp' uses the regexp history and some useful
1070regexp defaults (string at point, last isearch/replacement regexp/string)
1071via M-n when reading a regexp in the minibuffer.
1072
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1073*** minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map is now named
1074minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map.
66dc1ca2 1075
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1076*** `all-completions' may now return the base size in the last cdr.
1077Since this means the returned list is not properly nil-terminated, this
1078is an incompatible change and is thus enabled by the new variable
1079completion-all-completions-with-base-size.
66dc1ca2 1080
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1081*** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts a new value
1082`confirm-only'.
d03b9b31 1083
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1084** Search and replacement changes
1085+++
1086*** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly.
1087+++
1088*** New function `match-substitute-replacement' returns the result of
1089`replace-match' without actually using it in the buffer.
c60d543d 1090
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1091*** The new variable `replace-search-function' determines the function
1092to use for searching in query-replace and replace-string.
3ae459e5 1093
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1094*** The new variable `replace-re-search-function' determines the
1095function to use for searching in `query-replace-regexp',
1096`replace-regexp', `query-replace-regexp-eval', and
1097`map-query-replace-regexp'.
4f4a84ec 1098
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1099*** The new keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additonal keys bound
1100to `automatic-all' and `exit-current' for multi-buffer interactive replacement.
1101
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1102*** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents
1103the search and match primitives from changing the match data.
967b2682 1104
b350bdf2 1105** File handling changes
8bf5c8a6 1106
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1107*** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in
1108symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions.
d9774611 1109
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1110*** If you set find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file to t, then C-x C-f
1111requires confirmation before opening a non-existent file.
1112
1113** Process changes
1114+++
1115*** The new function `start-file-process' is similar to `start-process',
1116but obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
1117`default-directory'. The functions `start-file-process-shell-command'
1118and `process-file-shell-command' are also new; they call internally
1119`start-file-process' and `process-file', respectively.
1120
1121*** The new function `process-lines' executes an external program and
1122returns its output as a list of lines.
63571b5a 1123
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1124** Character code, representation, and charset changes.
1125
0caa490b 1126The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF with no gap.
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1127Characters of code 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the same code points.
1128Characters of code 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit bytes.
1129
0caa490b 1130Generic characters no longer exist.
d82c3d44 1131
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1132In buffers and strings, characters are represented by UTF-8 byte
1133sequences in a multibyte buffer/string.
d82c3d44 1134
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1135The concept of a charset has changed. A single character may belong
1136to multiple charsets (e.g. a-grave, U+00E0, belongs to charsets
1137unicode, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-3, etc).
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1138
1139*** The functions `encode-char' and `decode-char' now accept any character sets.
1140
1141*** The function `define-charset' now accepts a completely different
1142form of arguments (old-style arguments still work).
1143
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1144*** The value of the function `char-charset' depends on the current
1145priorities of charsets.
1146
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1147*** The function get-char-code-property now accepts many Unicode base
1148character properties. They are `name', `general-category',
1149`canonical-combining-class', `bidi-class', `decomposition',
1150`decimal-digit-value', `digit-value', `numeric-value', `mirrored',
1151`old-name', `iso-10646-comment', `uppercase', `lowercase', and
1152`titlecase'.
1153
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1154*** The functions `modify-syntax-entry' and `modify-category-entry' now
1155accept a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all
1156entries in that range of characters.
d82c3d44 1157
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1158+++
1159*** `translation-table-for-input' is now obsolete.
d82c3d44 1160
b350bdf2 1161*** New functions:
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1163**** `characterp' returns t if and only if the argument is a character.
1164This replaces `char-valid-p', which is now obsolete.
d82c3d44 1165
b350bdf2 1166**** `max-char' returns the maximum character code (currently #x3FFFFF).
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1168**** `define-charset-alias' defines an alias of a charset.
1169
1170**** `set-charset-priority' sets priorities of charsets.
1171
1172**** `charset-priority-list' returns a prioritized list of charsets.
1173
1174**** `unibyte-string' makes a unibyte string from bytes.
1175
1176**** `define-char-code-property' defines a character code property.
1177
1178**** `char-code-property-description' returns the description string of
1179a character code property.
1180
1181*** New variables:
1182
1183**** `find-word-boundary-function-table' is a char-table of functions to
1184search for a word boundary.
1185
1186**** `char-script-table' is a char-table of script names.
1187
1188**** `char-width-table' is a char-table of character widths.
1189
1190**** `print-charset-text-property' controls how to handle `charset' text
1191property on printing a string.
1192
1193**** `printable-chars' is a char-table of printable characters.
d82c3d44 1194
505d8756 1195** Code conversion changes
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1197*** The new function `define-coding-system' should be used to define a
1198coding system instead of `make-coding-system' (which is now obsolete).
1199
1200*** The functions `encode-coding-region' and `decode-coding-region'
1201have an optional 4th argument to specify where the result of
1202conversion should go.
1203
1204*** The functions `encode-coding-string' and `decode-coding-string'
1205have an optional 4th argument specifying a buffer to store the result
1206of conversion.
1207
b350bdf2 1208*** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete.
d82c3d44 1209
b350bdf2 1210*** New functions:
d82c3d44 1211
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1212**** `with-coding-priority' executes Lisp code using the specified
1213coding system priority order.
d82c3d44 1214
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1215**** `check-coding-systems-region' checks if the text in the region is
1216encodable by the specified coding systems.
d82c3d44 1217
b350bdf2 1218**** `coding-system-aliases' returns a list of aliases of a coding system.
d82c3d44 1219
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1220**** `coding-system-charset-list' returns a list of charsets supported
1221by a coding system.
d82c3d44 1222
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1223**** `coding-system-priority-list' returns a list of coding systems
1224ordered by their priorities.
1225
1226**** `set-coding-system-priority' sets priorities of coding systems.
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1227
1228** There is a new input method, Robin, different from Quail.
0caa490b 1229It has three functionalities:
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1230 i) a simple input method (converts an ASCII sequence into a string).
1231ii) converts an existing buffer substring into another string
1232iii) reverse conversion (each character produced by a
1233robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a char-code-property)
1234
1235*** The new function `robin-define-package' defines a Robin package.
1236
1237*** The new function `robin-modify-package' modifies an existing Robin package.
1238
1239*** The new function `robin-use-package' starts using a Robin package
1240as an input method.
1241
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1242*** The new function `string-to-unibyte' is like `string-as-unibyte'
1243but signals an error if STRING contains a non-ASCII, non-eight-bit
1244character.
1245
505d8756 1246** Changes related to the new font backend
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1248Which font backends to use can be specified by the X resource "FontBackend".
1249For instance, to use both X core fonts and Xft fonts:
2b7a2553 1250
b19aa6dd 1251Emacs.FontBackend: x,xft
2b7a2553 1252
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1253If this resource is not set, Emacs tries to use all font backends
1254available on your graphic device.
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1255
1256*** New frame parameter `font-backend' specifies a list of
1257font-backends supported by the frame's graphic device. On X, they are
1258currently `x' and `xft'.
1259
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1260*** The function `set-fontset-font' now accepts a script name as the
1261second argument, and has an optional 5th argument to control how to
1262set the font.
d82c3d44 1263
b350bdf2 1264*** New functions:
d82c3d44 1265
b350bdf2 1266**** `fontp' checks if the argument is a font-spec or font-entity.
d82c3d44 1267
b350bdf2 1268**** `font-spec' creates a new font-spec object.
d54b8954 1269
b350bdf2 1270**** `font-get' returns a font property value.
d82c3d44 1271
b350bdf2 1272**** `font-put' sets a font property value.
d82c3d44 1273
b350bdf2 1274**** `font-face-attributes' returns a plist of face attributes set by a font.
d82c3d44 1275
b350bdf2 1276**** `list-fonts' returns a list of font-entities matching a font spec.
d82c3d44 1277
b350bdf2 1278**** `font-font' returns the font-entity best matching the given font spec.
d82c3d44 1279
b350bdf2 1280**** `list-families' returns a list of family names of available fonts.
d82c3d44 1281
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1282**** `font-xlfd-name' returns an XLFD name of a given font spec, font
1283entity, or font object.
1284
1285**** `clear-font-cache' clears all font caches.
d82c3d44 1286
b350bdf2 1287** Changes related to multiple-terminal (multi-tty) support
24cdde13 1288
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1289*** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses. If you want to know the
1290$TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment.
1291
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1292*** $DISPLAY is now dynamically inherited from the frame's `display'.
1293
b350bdf2 1294*** The `window-system' variable is now frame-local. The new
24cdde13 1295`initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value
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1296for the first frame. `window-system' is also now a function that
1297takes a frame argument.
24cdde13 1298
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1299*** The `keyboard-translate-table' variable and the terminal and
1300keyboard coding systems are now terminal-local.
1301
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1302*** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal
1303type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'.
1304
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1305*** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a tty
1306session, and `make-frame-on-tty' works during a graphical session.
1307
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1308*** A new data type for terminals with functions: `get-device-terminal',
1309`terminal-parameters', `terminal-parameter', `set-terminal-parameter'.
24cdde13 1310
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1311*** Function key sequences are now mapped using `local-function-key-map',
1312a new variable. This inherits from the global variable function-key-map,
1313which is not used directly any more.
92cd6a7c 1314
b350bdf2 1315*** New hooks:
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1317**** `suspend-tty-functions' and `resume-tty-functions' are called
1318after a tty frame has been suspended or resumed, respectively. The
1319functions are called with the terminal id of the frame being
1320suspended/resumed as a parameter.
da406961 1321
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1322**** The special hook `delete-terminal-functions' is called before
1323deleting a terminal.
82866ad5 1324
b350bdf2 1325*** New functions:
24cdde13 1326
b350bdf2 1327**** `environment'
24cdde13 1328
b350bdf2 1329**** `make-frame-on-tty' creates a new frame on another tty device.
24cdde13 1330
b350bdf2 1331**** `delete-tty'
9f44d41a 1332
b350bdf2 1333**** `suspend-tty'
ea2e3ef4 1334
b350bdf2 1335**** `resume-tty'.
8d371994 1336
b350bdf2 1337*** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent.
8d371994 1338
b350bdf2 1339** Redisplay changes
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1341*** For underlined characters, the distance between the underline and
1342the baseline is controlled by a new variable, `underline-minimum-offset'.
0a963185 1343
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1344*** You can now pass the value of the `invisible' property to
1345invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible.
1346Convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer position
1347(e.g. in before/after-strings).
c69b0314 1348
b350bdf2 1349*** Non-breaking space is now displayed as whitespace.
9f44d41a 1350
b350bdf2 1351*** `clear-image-cache' can be told to flush only images of a specific file.
9f44d41a 1352
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1353*** `vertical-motion' can now be given a goal column.
1354It now accepts a cons cell (COLS . LINES) in its first argument, which
1355says to stop, where possible, at a pixel x-position equal to COLS
1356times the default column width.
1357
b350bdf2 1358** Miscellaneous new functions
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1360*** `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a readable
1361string of days, hours, etc.
9f44d41a 1362
b350bdf2 1363*** `apply-partially' performs a "curried" application of a function.
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1365*** `read-shell-command' does what its name says, with completion. It
1366uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that.
b2b387f9 1367
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1368*** `buffer-swap-text' swaps text between two buffers. This can be
1369useful for modes such as tar-mode, archive-mode, RMAIL.
967b2682 1370
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1371*** `read-color' reads a color name using the minibuffer.
1372
1373*** `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing all the basic
1374attributes of a given face.
1375
1376*** `window-full-width-p' returns t if a window is as wide as its
1377frame.
1378
1379*** `split-string-and-unquote' does (what?)
1380
1381*** `combine-and-quote-strings' does (what?)
1382
1383*** `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image
1384specification.
64639e26 1385
b350bdf2 1386*** The two new functions `looking-at-p' and `string-match-p' can do
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1388the match data.
89835619 1389
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1390*** The two new functions `make-serial-process' and
1391`serial-process-configure' provide a Lisp interface to the new serial
1392port support (see Emacs changes, above).
1393
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1394** Miscellaneous new variables
1395
1396*** `this-command-keys-shift-translated' is non-nil if the key
1397sequence invoking the current command was found by shift-translation.
1398
1399*** `window-point-insertion-type' determines the insertion-type of the
1400marker used for window-point.
1401
1402*** bookmark provides `bookmark-make-record-function' so special major
1403modes like Info can teach bookmark.el how to save and restore the
1404relevant data.
1405
1406*** `next-error-recenter' specifies how next-error should recenter the
1407visited source file. Its value can be a number (for example, 0 for
1408top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering.
1409
1410*** `fill-forward-paragraph-function' specifies which function the
1411filling code should use to find paragraph boundaries.
1412
1413*** `custom-note-var-changed' tells Custom to treat the change in a
1414certain variable as having been made within Custom.
1415
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0bfd685e 1417* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1
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1419** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure.
1420
1421** The new package check-declare.el verifies the accuracy of
1422declare-function macros (see Lisp Changes, above).
d445b3f8 1423
20202f5e 1424** find-cmd.el can build `find' commands using lisp syntax.
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1426** The package misearch.el has been added. It allows Isearch to search
1427through multiple buffers. A variable `multi-isearch-next-buffer-function'
1428defines the function to call to get the next buffer to search in the series
1429of multiple buffers. Top-level commands `multi-isearch-buffers',
1430`multi-isearch-buffers-regexp', `multi-isearch-files' and
1431`multi-isearch-files-regexp' accept a single argument that specifies
1432a list of buffers/files to search for a string/regexp.
9097e8af 1433
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1434** The new major mode `special-mode' is intended as a parent for
1435major modes such as those that set the "'mode-class 'special" property.
d53a60a6 1436
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5b87ad55 1439This file is part of GNU Emacs.
a933dad1 1440
ab73e885 1441GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5b87ad55 1442it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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1443the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1444(at your option) any later version.
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1445
1446GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1447but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1448MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1449GNU General Public License for more details.
a933dad1 1450
5b87ad55 1451You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
ab73e885 1452along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
a933dad1 1453
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1455Local variables:
1456mode: outline
1457paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
1458end:
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