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29b7722a | 1 | GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
5b87ad55 | 2 | |
a1ed8b05 | 3 | Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
5b87ad55 | 4 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
a933dad1 | 5 | |
893db5bc | 6 | Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
9a21d88b KS |
7 | If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. |
8 | ||
eb199145 | 9 | This file is about changes in Emacs version 24. |
9a21d88b | 10 | |
eb199145 GM |
11 | See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, |
12 | and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions. | |
9a21d88b KS |
13 | |
14 | You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' | |
15 | with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. | |
3f7194ed | 16 | |
a1ed8b05 GM |
17 | Temporary note: |
18 | +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. | |
19 | --- means no change in the manuals is called for. | |
20 | When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- | |
21 | so we will look at it and add it to the manual. | |
22 | ||
23 | \f | |
2a1e2476 | 24 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
b8df54ff | 25 | |
d71a6517 GM |
26 | --- |
27 | ** The default toolkit has been changed to Gtk+ version 3. | |
28 | If you don't pass --with-x-toolkit to configure or if you pass | |
29 | --with-x-toolkit=gtk or --with-x-toolkit=yes, configure will try to build | |
30 | with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2. | |
31 | You can explicitly require a specific version by passing | |
32 | --with-x-toolkit=gtk2 or --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 to configure. | |
33 | ||
34 | --- | |
8b2e00a3 | 35 | ** New configure option '--without-all' to disable additional features. |
da3d2105 DA |
36 | This disables most of the features that are normally enabled by default. |
37 | ||
d71a6517 | 38 | --- |
da3d2105 DA |
39 | ** New configure option '--enable-link-time-optimization' to utilize |
40 | an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0. | |
41 | ||
d71a6517 | 42 | --- |
b8df54ff PE |
43 | ** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers. |
44 | If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about | |
45 | possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be | |
46 | no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings | |
ae6e112d | 47 | may be useful. |
b8df54ff | 48 | |
d71a6517 | 49 | --- |
1a9c6830 | 50 | ** The configure option '--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been |
d71a6517 GM |
51 | renamed to '--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting |
52 | Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time | |
53 | check that this option enables. | |
54 | ||
55 | --- | |
501390c5 PE |
56 | ** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed, |
57 | as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful. | |
58 | ||
5af9cb6b GM |
59 | --- |
60 | ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation | |
61 | overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link | |
62 | to emacs-VERSION. | |
63 | ||
1a9c6830 | 64 | --- |
f14a4380 GM |
65 | ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and |
66 | `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed | |
67 | binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the | |
68 | etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break | |
69 | links between the various manuals. | |
1a9c6830 | 70 | |
a4a18b8b GM |
71 | --- |
72 | ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available. | |
73 | ||
187e9b90 GM |
74 | --- |
75 | ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and | |
76 | /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if | |
77 | you want them. | |
78 | ||
276d5f5d GM |
79 | --- |
80 | ** The standalone scripts rcs-checkin and vcdiff have been removed | |
81 | (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is | |
82 | no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el). | |
83 | ||
a1ed8b05 | 84 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 85 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
e5fcdb5e | 86 | |
48de8b12 | 87 | +++ |
e5fcdb5e GM |
88 | ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard |
89 | lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have | |
90 | been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp. | |
91 | ||
4107c81e GM |
92 | --- |
93 | ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds. | |
94 | ||
a1ed8b05 | 95 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 96 | * Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
a1ed8b05 | 97 | |
48de8b12 | 98 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
99 | ** Most y-or-n prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window. |
100 | Typing C-v or M-v at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward | |
101 | respectively, without exiting from the prompt. | |
102 | ||
f938eda9 | 103 | ** Mode line changes |
e109c4a6 | 104 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
105 | *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text |
106 | (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line | |
107 | that does not have its own specialized help text. | |
cd996018 CY |
108 | +++ |
109 | *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke | |
110 | `set-buffer-file-coding-system'. | |
011474aa | 111 | |
c89926a5 CY |
112 | ** Help changes |
113 | ||
48de8b12 | 114 | +++ |
c89926a5 CY |
115 | *** `C-h f' (describe-function) can now perform autoloading. |
116 | When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring | |
117 | contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is | |
118 | automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown | |
119 | correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil. | |
120 | ||
48de8b12 | 121 | --- |
c89926a5 CY |
122 | *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded", |
123 | even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the | |
124 | autoloads have been redefined as functions). | |
125 | ||
cd996018 CY |
126 | ** Minibuffer changes |
127 | --- | |
128 | *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the | |
129 | next and previous path separator, respectively. | |
7d806bfe | 130 | +++ |
cd996018 CY |
131 | *** minibuffer-electric-default-mode can rewrite (default ...) to [...]. |
132 | Just set minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default to t before enabling the mode. | |
133 | ||
8f2cb64f | 134 | +++ |
c505aaeb CY |
135 | ** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled. |
136 | It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types' | |
137 | explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called | |
7d806bfe | 138 | automatically at startup, or when customizing an imagemagick- option. |
73f2b4ab | 139 | +++ |
c505aaeb | 140 | *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of |
87eb79c2 GM |
141 | ImageMagick to view images. You must call imagemagick-register-types |
142 | afterwards if you do not use customize to change this. | |
73f2b4ab | 143 | +++ |
7afbaca4 | 144 | *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which |
60b5f187 GM |
145 | ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function |
146 | `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be | |
147 | treated as images. | |
73f2b4ab | 148 | --- |
1b9b4cf4 CY |
149 | *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the |
150 | :background image spec property. | |
c505aaeb | 151 | |
f938eda9 | 152 | ** Server and client changes |
48de8b12 | 153 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
154 | *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice', |
155 | if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit | |
156 | or expression to evaluate. | |
48de8b12 | 157 | --- |
f938eda9 | 158 | *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key. |
db80bdc8 | 159 | |
05b621a6 | 160 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
161 | ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new", |
162 | and sorted above the other "available" packages by default. | |
163 | ||
e109c4a6 | 164 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
165 | ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'. |
166 | This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete. | |
167 | ||
4c1f6a5b | 168 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
169 | ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors. |
170 | On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description | |
171 | of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc | |
172 | that support backtraces. | |
2e2d2a13 | 173 | |
48de8b12 | 174 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
175 | ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable |
176 | `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used. | |
de6ff46d | 177 | |
dc0f75c8 | 178 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
179 | ** New variable `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles. |
180 | It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock | |
181 | files (use this with caution). | |
dc0f75c8 | 182 | |
b8a82b69 | 183 | +++ |
03794570 | 184 | ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete. |
57699e37 | 185 | Use "coding: raw-text" instead. |
03794570 | 186 | |
21ffb35a MA |
187 | +++ |
188 | ** Setting `enable-remote-dir-locals' to non-nil allows directory | |
189 | local variables on remote hosts. | |
190 | ||
f938eda9 | 191 | --- |
f85f636a CY |
192 | ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu. |
193 | The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard. | |
194 | ||
f938eda9 CY |
195 | ** Internationalization changes |
196 | --- | |
197 | *** New language environment: Persian. | |
198 | --- | |
199 | *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'. | |
200 | ||
4e98ad15 | 201 | ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port changes |
335f5ae4 | 202 | --- |
d7e642cc JD |
203 | *** Fullscreen and frame parameter fullscreen is supported. |
204 | --- | |
1a9c6830 GM |
205 | *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the |
206 | menu/toolbar. | |
207 | ||
a1ed8b05 | 208 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 209 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
c25df26e | 210 | |
d39d3c8e | 211 | ** Navigation command changes |
48de8b12 | 212 | +++ |
d39d3c8e | 213 | *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'. |
48de8b12 | 214 | +++ |
d39d3c8e | 215 | *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'. |
48de8b12 | 216 | +++ |
d39d3c8e CY |
217 | *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called |
218 | interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1. | |
219 | ||
f938eda9 | 220 | ** Search and Replace changes |
48de8b12 | 221 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
222 | *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching. |
223 | Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any | |
224 | sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the | |
225 | variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a | |
226 | similar existing feature for regexp Isearch). | |
48de8b12 | 227 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
228 | *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching. |
229 | This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch. | |
48de8b12 | 230 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
231 | *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'. |
232 | If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too. | |
233 | The default is nil. | |
05b621a6 | 234 | +++ |
b9cb2387 JL |
235 | *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search, |
236 | and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode. | |
237 | `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity. | |
238 | ||
48de8b12 CY |
239 | +++ |
240 | ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command. | |
241 | `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'. | |
242 | ||
243 | --- | |
244 | ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes. | |
245 | It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to | |
246 | accidentally type. | |
247 | ||
248 | +++ | |
249 | ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether | |
250 | M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end | |
251 | of the buffer. It defaults to t. | |
252 | ||
f938eda9 CY |
253 | ** Register changes |
254 | +++ | |
255 | *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register. | |
256 | +++ | |
257 | *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing | |
258 | the text to put between collected texts for use with M-x | |
259 | append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register. | |
dd7ffad6 | 260 | |
48de8b12 | 261 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 262 | ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer. |
826b3235 | 263 | |
48de8b12 | 264 | +++ |
be755c79 RT |
265 | ** New command `C-x r M-w' (copy-rectangle-as-kill). |
266 | It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill. | |
267 | ||
05b621a6 | 268 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
269 | ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text |
270 | properties on yanked text, in more ways that are more general than | |
271 | just removing them, as done by `yank-excluded-properties'. | |
6b79ce7e | 272 | |
a1ed8b05 | 273 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 274 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3 |
b2459884 | 275 | |
f938eda9 | 276 | ** Apropos |
48de8b12 | 277 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
278 | *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable. |
279 | These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on; | |
280 | see the `apropos' Custom group for details. | |
48de8b12 CY |
281 | --- |
282 | *** The old options whose values specified faces to use were removed | |
f938eda9 CY |
283 | (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.). |
284 | ||
285 | ** Buffer Menu | |
286 | This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode. | |
48de8b12 | 287 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
288 | *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete. |
289 | Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead. | |
290 | ||
291 | ** Calendar | |
292 | ||
cad4f290 | 293 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
294 | *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month. |
295 | See the variable `calendar-month-header'. | |
296 | ||
f1f4dba0 GM |
297 | +++ |
298 | *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'. | |
299 | ||
b859a383 | 300 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 301 | *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays. |
b859a383 | 302 | Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this. |
ae4969c2 | 303 | |
89660017 | 304 | ** CL |
f938eda9 | 305 | |
92246540 | 306 | +++ |
89660017 | 307 | *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib). |
7c1898a7 | 308 | `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly, |
89660017 SM |
309 | i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions use |
310 | the "cl--" prefix). | |
7c1898a7 SM |
311 | |
312 | If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it | |
313 | under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions | |
314 | that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities, | |
315 | which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'. | |
316 | ||
92246540 GM |
317 | The old `cl' is now deprecated and is mainly just a bunch of aliases that |
318 | provide the old non-prefixed names. Some exceptions are listed below. | |
7c1898a7 | 319 | |
69c1c2e6 | 320 | +++ |
89660017 SM |
321 | *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated). |
322 | Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'. | |
e8693c96 GM |
323 | In particular, in cl-flet function definitions are lexically scoped, |
324 | whereas in flet the scoping is dynamic. | |
89660017 | 325 | |
69c1c2e6 | 326 | +++ |
89660017 SM |
327 | *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'. |
328 | The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery (as opposed | |
329 | to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture definitions in | |
330 | closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding' is in use. | |
331 | ||
4ddedf94 | 332 | +++ |
f94b04fc | 333 | *** `cl-letf' is not exactly like `letf'. |
4ddedf94 GM |
334 | The only difference is in details that relate to some deprecated usage |
335 | of `symbol-function' in place forms. | |
f94b04fc | 336 | |
a05cb6e3 | 337 | +++ |
89660017 SM |
338 | *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery. |
339 | A side effect is that vars without corresponding value are bound to nil | |
340 | rather than making them unbound. | |
341 | ||
bdd8064f | 342 | +++ |
9512f820 GM |
343 | *** The following methods of extending `setf' are obsolete |
344 | (use features from gv.el instead): | |
345 | `define-modify-macro' (use `gv-letplace') | |
031b2ea7 GM |
346 | `defsetf' (use `gv-define-simple-setter' or `gv-define-setter') |
347 | `define-setf-expander' (use `gv-define-setter' or `gv-define-expander') | |
2b4da3ff | 348 | `get-setf-method' no longer exists (see "Incompatible Lisp Changes") |
f94b04fc | 349 | |
05b621a6 | 350 | +++ |
02969baf | 351 | ** New compilation option `compilation-always-kill'. |
f938eda9 CY |
352 | |
353 | ** Customize | |
cd996018 | 354 | --- |
f938eda9 | 355 | *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t. |
cd996018 | 356 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
357 | *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and |
358 | `customize-apropos-options' (i.e. the prefix argument does nothing for | |
359 | these commands now). | |
360 | ||
cd996018 | 361 | --- |
02969baf GM |
362 | ** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory. |
363 | Desktop files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default. | |
e76f0800 | 364 | |
f938eda9 CY |
365 | ** D-Bus |
366 | ||
367 | +++ | |
368 | *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'. | |
369 | ||
370 | +++ | |
371 | *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented. | |
372 | ||
373 | +++ | |
374 | *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points, | |
375 | if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range. | |
376 | ||
377 | +++ | |
378 | *** The function `dbus-call-method' works non-blocking now, it can be | |
379 | interrupted by C-g. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete. | |
380 | ||
381 | +++ | |
382 | *** Signals can be sent also as unicast message. | |
383 | ||
384 | +++ | |
385 | *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended, | |
386 | according to the new match rule types of D-Bus. See the manual for | |
387 | details. | |
388 | ||
389 | +++ | |
390 | *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections. | |
391 | ||
392 | +++ | |
393 | *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'. | |
394 | ||
395 | ** Diff mode | |
396 | ||
26f59676 | 397 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
398 | *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in |
399 | modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces | |
26f59676 | 400 | `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed', and new definition |
f938eda9 | 401 | of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added' |
26f59676 | 402 | and `smerge-refined-added', and new definition of `diff-added'). |
f938eda9 | 403 | |
26f59676 | 404 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
405 | *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the |
406 | face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight | |
407 | changes in context diffs. | |
408 | ||
26f59676 | 409 | +++ |
9d9e48d9 | 410 | *** The new command `diff-delete-trailing-whitespace' removes trailing |
26f59676 | 411 | whitespace introduced by a diff. |
f938eda9 CY |
412 | |
413 | ** Dired | |
fc83c2de | 414 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
415 | *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially |
416 | if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files). | |
417 | Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel. | |
cd996018 | 418 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
419 | *** Typing M-n in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp', |
420 | `dired-do-chown', `dired-do-touch' pulls the file attributes of the | |
421 | file at point. | |
cd996018 | 422 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
423 | *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'), |
424 | `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion') | |
425 | mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region. | |
cd996018 | 426 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
427 | *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff) has changed. |
428 | It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists. | |
429 | In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark. | |
cd996018 | 430 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
431 | *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers. |
432 | The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect. | |
433 | ||
cd996018 | 434 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
435 | ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode. |
436 | ||
02969baf GM |
437 | ** ERC |
438 | ||
6e5e9b70 GM |
439 | +++ |
440 | *** New module "notifications", which can send a notification when you | |
441 | receive a private message or your nickname is mentioned. | |
02969baf | 442 | |
f925b109 | 443 | +++ |
02969baf GM |
444 | *** ERC will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use any |
445 | channel keys found. | |
f938eda9 | 446 | |
274f5de6 GM |
447 | +++ |
448 | *** New option `erc-lurker-hide-list', similar to `erc-hide-list', but | |
449 | only applies to messages sent by lurkers. | |
f925b109 | 450 | |
24c38527 | 451 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 452 | ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings. |
1a9c6830 GM |
453 | See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and |
454 | `flymake-warning-bitmap'. | |
f938eda9 | 455 | |
cd996018 | 456 | --- |
02969baf | 457 | ** Follow mode no longer works by using advice. |
f938eda9 CY |
458 | The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed. |
459 | ||
49d04669 | 460 | --- |
02969baf | 461 | ** The FFAP option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings, |
49d04669 | 462 | specifying URL types that should be converted to remote file names at |
f938eda9 CY |
463 | the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp"). |
464 | ||
a1d3e07e | 465 | --- |
02969baf GM |
466 | ** New Ibuffer `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'. |
467 | The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'. | |
82f84fa3 CY |
468 | |
469 | --- | |
02969baf | 470 | ** `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'. |
f938eda9 | 471 | |
05b621a6 | 472 | +++ |
02969baf | 473 | ** New option `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' specifies where the |
05b621a6 | 474 | `banish' mouse avoidance setting moves the mouse. |
f938eda9 CY |
475 | |
476 | +++ | |
477 | ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API. | |
478 | The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported | |
479 | server properties. | |
480 | ||
49d04669 | 481 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
482 | ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block |
483 | closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket. | |
484 | ||
49d04669 | 485 | --- |
6d5842da | 486 | ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes. |
bc7be45d | 487 | |
49d04669 | 488 | --- |
358c19d9 GM |
489 | ** Python mode |
490 | ||
491 | A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including: | |
40d8bcb8 GM |
492 | per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved |
493 | shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other | |
494 | text based shell). | |
495 | ||
496 | *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed: | |
497 | Old defcustom: | New defcustom: | |
498 | python-indent | python-indent-offset | |
499 | python-guess-indent | python-indent-guess-indent-offset | |
500 | python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p | python-pdbtrack-activate | |
501 | python-use-skeletons | python-skeleton-autoinsert | |
502 | ||
503 | *** Some user options have been removed: | |
504 | ||
505 | **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented. | |
506 | ||
507 | **** `python-honour-comment-indentation': | |
508 | Comments are never considered as indentation markers themselves. | |
509 | ||
510 | **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically | |
511 | calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context. | |
512 | ||
513 | **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist': | |
514 | Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different. | |
515 | ||
516 | **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command': | |
517 | Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'. | |
518 | ||
519 | **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path', | |
520 | `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes': | |
521 | No longer relevant. | |
522 | ||
523 | *** Some commands have been replaced: | |
524 | Old command | New command | |
525 | python-insert-class | python-skeleton-class | |
526 | python-insert-def | python-skeleton-def | |
527 | python-insert-for | python-skeleton-for | |
528 | python-insert-if | python-skeleton-if | |
529 | python-insert-try/except | python-skeleton-try | |
530 | python-insert-try/finally | python-skeleton-try | |
531 | python-insert-while | python-skeleton-while | |
532 | python-find-function | python-nav-jump-to-defun | |
533 | python-next-statement | python-nav-forward-sentence | |
534 | python-previous-statement | python-nav-backward-sentence | |
53f8dc84 GM |
535 | python-beginning-of-defun-function | python-nav-beginning-of-defun |
536 | python-end-of-defun-function | python-nav-end-of-defun | |
40d8bcb8 GM |
537 | python-send-buffer | python-shell-send-buffer |
538 | python-send-defun | python-shell-send-defun | |
539 | python-send-region | python-shell-send-region | |
540 | python-send-region-and-go | Emulate with python-shell-send-region and | |
541 | python-shell-switch-to-shell | |
542 | python-send-string | python-shell-send-string | |
543 | python-switch-to-python | python-shell-switch-to-shell | |
544 | python-describe-symbol | python-eldoc-at-point | |
545 | ||
82f84fa3 | 546 | --- |
d13c8be6 SM |
547 | ** reStructuredText mode |
548 | ||
b4617547 GM |
549 | *** Keybindings (see `C-c C-h'), TAB indentation, filling and auto-filling, |
550 | fontification, comment handling, and customization have all been revised | |
551 | and improved. | |
d13c8be6 | 552 | |
b4617547 | 553 | *** Support for `imenu' and `which-function-mode'. |
d13c8be6 | 554 | |
b4617547 GM |
555 | *** The reStructuredText syntax is more closely covered. |
556 | Sphinx support has been improved. | |
d13c8be6 | 557 | |
6d3f7c2f | 558 | *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists. |
d13c8be6 | 559 | |
b4617547 | 560 | *** A negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'. |
d13c8be6 | 561 | |
b4617547 | 562 | *** The window configuration is reset after displaying a TOC. |
d13c8be6 | 563 | |
b4617547 | 564 | *** The constant `rst-version' describes the rst.el package version. |
ee97deee | 565 | |
82f84fa3 | 566 | --- |
02969baf | 567 | ** Shell Script mode |
8b0823d6 | 568 | |
f938eda9 | 569 | *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair. |
42917e79 | 570 | |
f938eda9 | 571 | *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs. |
35d98877 | 572 | |
f938eda9 | 573 | *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code. |
35d98877 | 574 | |
adad6d8f | 575 | +++ |
02969baf | 576 | ** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies the buffer to use |
adad6d8f | 577 | for a new asynchronous `shell-command' when the default output buffer |
02969baf | 578 | `*Async Shell Command*' is already in use. |
17711ed9 | 579 | |
82f84fa3 | 580 | --- |
02969baf | 581 | ** SQL mode has a new option `sql-db2-escape-newlines'. |
f938eda9 CY |
582 | If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped |
583 | by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes | |
584 | that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon. | |
782fbf2a | 585 | |
f938eda9 | 586 | ** Tabulated List and packages derived from it |
cce0aa5a | 587 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
588 | *** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S', sorts the column |
589 | at point, or the Nth column if a numeric prefix argument is given. | |
fc72b15c | 590 | |
f938eda9 | 591 | ** Term |
4eeba558 | 592 | +++ |
02969baf | 593 | *** The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color' are |
19e09879 | 594 | now deprecated in favor of the customizable face `term'. |
af8bf5b3 | 595 | +++ |
02969baf GM |
596 | *** You can customize how to display ANSI terminal colors and styles |
597 | by customizing the corresponding `term-color-<COLOR>', | |
598 | `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold' faces. | |
cf20dee0 | 599 | |
05ecb497 | 600 | ** Tramp |
05ecb497 | 601 | +++ |
02969baf GM |
602 | *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy definitions. |
603 | See the manual for details. | |
05ecb497 MA |
604 | +++ |
605 | *** Remote processes are now supported also on remote Windows host. | |
606 | ||
ce7b18ec | 607 | ** URL |
82f84fa3 | 608 | +++ |
ce7b18ec CY |
609 | *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot. |
610 | Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs | |
611 | appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986. | |
612 | So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components | |
613 | and the `attributes' slot is always nil. | |
5b637222 | 614 | +++ |
ce7b18ec CY |
615 | *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string. |
616 | The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument, | |
617 | in case that is not properly encoded. | |
618 | ||
05b621a6 | 619 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
620 | ** VHDL mode |
621 | ||
622 | *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default). | |
623 | ||
624 | *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated. | |
625 | ||
626 | *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard. | |
627 | ||
628 | *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace. | |
629 | ||
05b621a6 | 630 | +++ |
02969baf | 631 | ** `which-func-modes' now defaults to t, so Which Function mode, when |
05b621a6 | 632 | enabled, applies to all applicable major modes. |
f938eda9 | 633 | |
5cc2e639 GM |
634 | --- |
635 | ** winner-mode-hook now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when it is | |
636 | enabled. | |
f938eda9 | 637 | |
7b1bf173 | 638 | +++ |
d1069532 SM |
639 | ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix: |
640 | *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions | |
641 | *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions | |
642 | *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions | |
643 | *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions | |
644 | *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions | |
645 | *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions | |
646 | *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook | |
647 | *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions | |
648 | *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions | |
649 | *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions | |
650 | *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions | |
651 | *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions | |
652 | *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions | |
653 | *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions | |
654 | *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions | |
655 | *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook | |
656 | *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook | |
657 | *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook | |
658 | *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions | |
659 | *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions | |
660 | *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions | |
661 | *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions | |
f938eda9 | 662 | |
82f289a4 | 663 | ** Obsolete packages: |
48de8b12 | 664 | +++ |
797e6e88 SM |
665 | *** assoc.el |
666 | In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well. | |
667 | And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible | |
668 | inefficiency, and not namespace-clean. | |
48de8b12 | 669 | --- |
3c74813a | 670 | *** bruce.el |
b4617547 GM |
671 | +++ |
672 | *** cust-print.el | |
48de8b12 | 673 | --- |
daed4003 | 674 | *** ledit.el |
48de8b12 | 675 | --- |
82f289a4 | 676 | *** mailpost.el |
48de8b12 | 677 | +++ |
d57de7fe | 678 | *** mouse-sel.el |
48de8b12 | 679 | --- |
3c74813a | 680 | *** patcomp.el |
d32926ff | 681 | |
a1ed8b05 | 682 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 683 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
b4d3bc10 | 684 | |
cd996018 | 685 | +++ |
090cf9db SM |
686 | ** set-buffer-multibyte now signals an error in narrowed buffers. |
687 | ||
48de8b12 | 688 | +++ |
0e23ef9d PE |
689 | ** (random) by default now returns a different random sequence in |
690 | every Emacs run. Use (random S), where S is a string, to set the | |
691 | random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable | |
692 | sequence in later calls. | |
693 | ||
48de8b12 | 694 | --- |
f2045622 CY |
695 | ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a |
696 | font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name | |
697 | depends on the graphical library. | |
698 | ||
8a3afaf9 | 699 | +++ |
d32e47af LM |
700 | ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?", |
701 | that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is | |
702 | non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled. | |
703 | ||
b4d3bc10 CY |
704 | +++ |
705 | ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options. | |
706 | Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options. | |
707 | The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for | |
708 | `custom-variable-p'. | |
709 | ||
bbf908bc LM |
710 | +++ |
711 | ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed, | |
712 | and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, defun and | |
713 | defmacro currently return the name of the newly defined function/macro | |
714 | but this should not be relied upon. | |
715 | ||
48de8b12 | 716 | --- |
eeddc531 CY |
717 | ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the |
718 | third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2). | |
719 | ||
a59d531e MA |
720 | +++ |
721 | ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings, | |
722 | but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will | |
723 | still be supported for Emacs 24.x. | |
724 | ||
ab7f1c43 GM |
725 | +++ |
726 | ** The CL package's `get-setf-method' function no longer exists. | |
727 | Generalized variables are now part of core Emacs Lisp, and implemented | |
728 | differently to the way cl.el used to do it. It is not possible to | |
729 | define a compatible replacement for `get-setf-method'. See the file | |
730 | gv.el for internal details of the new implementation. | |
731 | ||
72b255c7 PE |
732 | ** Spelling changes. |
733 | Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to avoid problems with spelling | |
734 | that is incorrect or inconsistent with how Emacs normally spells a word. | |
735 | ||
05b621a6 | 736 | --- |
72b255c7 PE |
737 | *** Renamed functions |
738 | ||
739 | **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate | |
740 | **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method | |
741 | **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate | |
742 | **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate | |
743 | **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method | |
744 | **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action -> | |
745 | viper-deactivate-input-method-action | |
746 | **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate | |
747 | ||
05b621a6 | 748 | --- |
72b255c7 PE |
749 | *** Renamed hooks |
750 | The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they | |
751 | are deprecated and will be removed eventually. | |
72b255c7 PE |
752 | **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook |
753 | **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook | |
754 | **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook | |
755 | ||
05b621a6 | 756 | --- |
72b255c7 | 757 | *** Renamed Lisp variables |
72b255c7 PE |
758 | **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu |
759 | **** inactivate-current-input-method-function -> | |
760 | deactivate-current-input-method-function | |
761 | ||
05b621a6 | 762 | +++ |
02969baf GM |
763 | ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed: |
764 | *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char' | |
78f3273a CY |
765 | *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces' |
766 | *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset' | |
a5f2b6ec CY |
767 | *** `iswitchb-read-buffer' |
768 | *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report' | |
769 | *** `set-char-table-default' | |
02969baf | 770 | *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector') |
a5f2b6ec | 771 | *** `compile-internal' |
02969baf | 772 | *** `modeline' |
59f7af81 | 773 | *** `mode-line-inverse-video' |
02969baf | 774 | *** `follow-mode-off-hook' |
a5f2b6ec | 775 | *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline' |
63820c5c | 776 | (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead) |
a5f2b6ec CY |
777 | *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs' |
778 | (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead) | |
779 | *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name' | |
780 | *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead) | |
781 | *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead) | |
782 | *** `vc-checkout-carefully' | |
78f3273a | 783 | |
a1ed8b05 | 784 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 785 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3 |
ef24141c | 786 | |
3a880af4 | 787 | ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler. |
028a5e50 GM |
788 | Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report. |
789 | When finished, use M-x profiler-stop. The sampling rate can be based on | |
790 | CPU time (only supported on some systems) or memory allocations. | |
b68b3337 | 791 | |
7c08f8ba | 792 | +++ |
2ee3d7f0 | 793 | ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp. |
f938eda9 | 794 | `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables. |
ebdbfb95 GM |
795 | You can define your own generalized variables using `gv-define-simple-setter', |
796 | `gv-define-setter', etc. | |
2ee3d7f0 | 797 | |
cd996018 | 798 | +++ |
500fcedc SM |
799 | ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'. |
800 | The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'. | |
801 | ||
cd996018 CY |
802 | ** Minibuffer |
803 | +++ | |
804 | *** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT | |
805 | of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its | |
806 | second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via M-n | |
807 | in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values. | |
808 | More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments. | |
809 | ||
f938eda9 | 810 | ** Completion |
500fcedc | 811 | |
f938eda9 CY |
812 | *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion |
813 | in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers. | |
f95e9344 | 814 | |
f938eda9 CY |
815 | *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion |
816 | table, but with a different prefix. | |
817 | ||
b0634f5d GM |
818 | FIXME? |
819 | *** There are several other completion-table- functions that never got | |
820 | added to NEWS or documented: completion-table-case-fold (24.1), | |
821 | completion-table-with-context (23,1), completion-table-with-terminator (23.1), | |
822 | completion-table-with-predicate (23.1), completion-table-in-turn (23.1) | |
823 | ||
f938eda9 | 824 | ** Debugger changes |
f95e9344 | 825 | |
38868ad7 | 826 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
827 | *** New error type and new function `user-error'. |
828 | These do not trigger the debugger. | |
f95e9344 | 829 | |
57fc0fee GM |
830 | +++ |
831 | *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill', saying what to do with the | |
832 | debugger buffer when exiting debug. | |
45b82ad0 | 833 | |
164f28b5 | 834 | +++ |
45b82ad0 SM |
835 | *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain |
836 | message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying | |
837 | to work out which code is doing something. | |
7c08f8ba | 838 | --- |
45b82ad0 SM |
839 | *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental |
840 | recursive invocations. | |
fa2bcf43 | 841 | |
90749b53 | 842 | ** Window changes |
43bcfda6 | 843 | +++ |
90749b53 | 844 | *** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window |
48d1354e | 845 | now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window. |
fdaf534a | 846 | +++ |
8e17c9ba MR |
847 | *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'. |
848 | ||
fa2bcf43 MR |
849 | *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window'. |
850 | ||
6439ae19 | 851 | --- |
8e17c9ba MR |
852 | *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been |
853 | reused. | |
c5e28e39 | 854 | |
6439ae19 | 855 | +++ |
7c82753d GM |
856 | *** New command `fit-frame-to-buffer' adjusts the frame height to |
857 | fit the contents. | |
858 | ||
6439ae19 | 859 | +++ |
7c82753d GM |
860 | *** The command `fit-window-to-buffer' can adjust the frame height |
861 | if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil. | |
862 | ||
43bcfda6 MR |
863 | +++ |
864 | *** New option switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point to restore a | |
865 | window's point when switching buffers. | |
866 | +++ | |
8e17c9ba | 867 | *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected', |
43bcfda6 | 868 | and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'. |
ef654460 | 869 | |
fa2bcf43 MR |
870 | *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil, |
871 | tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is | |
872 | selected. | |
c5e28e39 | 873 | |
fa2bcf43 MR |
874 | *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if |
875 | non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame. | |
43bcfda6 | 876 | +++ |
fa2bcf43 MR |
877 | *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil, |
878 | specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'. | |
43bcfda6 | 879 | +++ |
5938d519 MR |
880 | *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width' |
881 | to specify size of new window created by `display-buffer'. | |
882 | ||
77f1f99c CY |
883 | *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by |
884 | appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced | |
885 | in Emacs 24.1: | |
14ba4cf3 | 886 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 887 | **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames' |
05b621a6 | 888 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 889 | **** `special-display-regexps' |
05b621a6 | 890 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 891 | **** `special-display-frame-alist' |
05b621a6 | 892 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 893 | **** `special-display-buffer-names' |
05b621a6 | 894 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 895 | **** `special-display-function' |
05b621a6 | 896 | +++ |
71ce58e7 | 897 | **** `display-buffer-function' |
05b621a6 | 898 | --- |
93cacb6d | 899 | **** `dired-shrink-to-fit' |
77f1f99c | 900 | |
ab0fa4e4 | 901 | ** Time |
48de8b12 | 902 | --- |
ab0fa4e4 PE |
903 | *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year |
904 | must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported | |
905 | by the underlying C implementation. | |
8f2cb64f | 906 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
907 | *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps |
908 | (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds. | |
909 | PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other | |
910 | functions that use this format, such as file-attributes and | |
911 | format-time-string, have been changed accordingly. Old-format time | |
912 | stamps are still accepted. | |
48de8b12 | 913 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
914 | *** The format of timers in timer-list and timer-idle-list is now |
915 | [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS]. | |
916 | The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be | |
917 | accessed via the new timer--psecs accessor. | |
8f2cb64f | 918 | +++ |
c4132fd4 PE |
919 | *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form |
920 | (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS). | |
921 | ||
48de8b12 | 922 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
923 | ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN, |
924 | instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args, e.g. (log -1.0). | |
925 | Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors | |
926 | on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt, | |
927 | log, log10, sqrt, and mod. | |
928 | ||
929 | ** Interpreted files are eagerly macro-expanded during load. | |
930 | This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code, | |
931 | but can also bump into harmless and previously unnoticed cyclic | |
932 | dependencies. These should not be fatal: they will simply cause the | |
933 | macro-calls to be left for later expansion (as before), but will also | |
dac009a4 GM |
934 | result in a warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle") |
935 | describing the cycle. | |
f938eda9 | 936 | |
63820c5c | 937 | ** Miscellaneous new functions: |
e29e39c9 | 938 | +++ |
847a0561 | 939 | *** `autoloadp' tests if its argument is an autoloaded object. |
e29e39c9 | 940 | +++ |
847a0561 | 941 | *** `autoload-do-load' performs the autoloading operation. |
48de8b12 | 942 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 943 | *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed. |
e29e39c9 | 944 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 945 | *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension. |
e29e39c9 | 946 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 947 | *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases. |
48de8b12 | 948 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 949 | *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'. |
921c067f | 950 | +++ |
e0ea8060 GM |
951 | *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary keymap that |
952 | takes precedence over most other maps for a short while (normally one key). | |
48de8b12 | 953 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 954 | *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system. |
48de8b12 | 955 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 956 | *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system. |
e29e39c9 | 957 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 958 | *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal. |
c990426a | 959 | |
7c08f8ba | 960 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
961 | ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'. |
962 | ||
05b621a6 | 963 | +++ |
48de8b12 | 964 | ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'. |
f938eda9 | 965 | |
bde3c6c0 | 966 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 967 | ** Face underlining can now use a wave. |
c990426a | 968 | |
f938eda9 | 969 | ** The following functions and variables are obsolete: |
05b621a6 | 970 | --- |
847a0561 | 971 | *** `automount-dir-prefix' (use `directory-abbrev-alist') |
05b621a6 | 972 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 973 | *** `buffer-has-markers-at' |
05b621a6 | 974 | --- |
1a9c6830 | 975 | *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist') |
05b621a6 | 976 | --- |
847a0561 | 977 | *** `window-system-version' (provides no useful information) |
05b621a6 | 978 | --- |
93cacb6d | 979 | *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up') |
05b621a6 | 980 | --- |
0e2ae83d | 981 | *** `query-replace-interactive' |
05b621a6 | 982 | --- |
49238e7f | 983 | *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23) |
86aa551c | 984 | |
adce950d | 985 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 986 | * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on non-free operating systems |
9078ead6 | 987 | |
4e98ad15 GM |
988 | --- |
989 | ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface. | |
990 | Pass --with-w32 to configure. The default remains the X11 interface. | |
53a63be6 | 991 | |
1a9c6830 GM |
992 | ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds: |
993 | `cygwin-convert-path-from-windows' and `cygwin-convert-path-to-windows'. | |
64a261b1 EZ |
994 | These functions allow Lisp code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping |
995 | machinery to convert between Cygwin and Windows-native file names. | |
de6e3a60 | 996 | |
4e98ad15 GM |
997 | ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal, |
998 | Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and | |
999 | `mouse-autoselect-window'. | |
1000 | ||
05b621a6 | 1001 | +++ |
1a9c6830 | 1002 | ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links. |
4e98ad15 GM |
1003 | |
1004 | +++ | |
1005 | ** On MS Windows, you can pass --without-libxml2 to configure.bat to omit | |
1006 | support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected. | |
1007 | ||
1008 | --- | |
1009 | ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later. | |
1010 | ||
1011 | --- | |
1012 | ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw | |
1013 | directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them. | |
1014 | ||
2a1e2476 GM |
1015 | \f |
1016 | * Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
1017 | ||
5190da91 | 1018 | ** This is mainly a bug-fix release. |
6dad7178 | 1019 | |
9078ead6 | 1020 | \f |
eb199145 | 1021 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
09e18d03 | 1022 | |
31fd3586 GM |
1023 | ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 |
1024 | to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf, | |
1025 | also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and | |
1026 | --without-gconf. | |
338648ad | 1027 | |
31fd3586 GM |
1028 | ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support. |
1029 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
1030 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
1031 | `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features. | |
338648ad | 1032 | |
31fd3586 GM |
1033 | ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support. |
1034 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
1035 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
1036 | `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features. | |
aded53ff | 1037 | |
31fd3586 GM |
1038 | ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support. |
1039 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
1040 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
1041 | `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features. | |
c1f10868 | 1042 | This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports. |
d9170db5 | 1043 | |
043efd56 GM |
1044 | ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support. |
1045 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
1046 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
1047 | `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features. | |
1048 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1049 | ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed. |
1050 | You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info. | |
1051 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1052 | ** New configure option --with-wide-int. |
81eafe29 | 1053 | With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines. |
0a768890 PE |
1054 | On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB |
1055 | to about 2 GiB. | |
81eafe29 | 1056 | |
7d301ae6 | 1057 | ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost. |
31fd3586 GM |
1058 | These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit |
1059 | lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features. | |
1060 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1061 | ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type. |
31fd3586 GM |
1062 | This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs. |
1063 | This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new. | |
041d709f CY |
1064 | |
1065 | ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed. | |
1066 | Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'. | |
1067 | ||
041d709f CY |
1068 | ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed. |
1069 | If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality. | |
1070 | ||
0bfd685e | 1071 | \f |
eb199145 | 1072 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
4a263588 | 1073 | |
198a7a97 | 1074 | ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte |
adbf62ff GM |
1075 | command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no |
1076 | longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.) | |
198a7a97 | 1077 | |
66b7b0fe | 1078 | ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories |
1b5e5b0c GM |
1079 | from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the |
1080 | EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for | |
c8d59ba3 | 1081 | Nextstep builds). |
66b7b0fe | 1082 | |
0bfd685e | 1083 | \f |
eb199145 | 1084 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
7841339b | 1085 | |
a2a25d24 | 1086 | ** Completion |
fdeb32ec | 1087 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1088 | *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command, |
1089 | rather than implementing separate completion commands. | |
1090 | ||
de0bde62 | 1091 | *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion. |
dfdb4cad | 1092 | |
a2a25d24 SM |
1093 | *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion |
1094 | and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1095 | |
1096 | *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling. | |
1097 | ||
1098 | *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the | |
2c719188 | 1099 | default completion style in certain circumstances. |
dfdb4cad | 1100 | |
a2a25d24 | 1101 | *** New completion style `substring'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1102 | |
1103 | *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default. | |
1104 | ||
1105 | *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed. | |
620c53a6 | 1106 | |
6870aaef | 1107 | ** Mail changes |
dfdb4cad | 1108 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1109 | *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method. |
1110 | This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which | |
1111 | is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or | |
1112 | to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities | |
1113 | (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and | |
1114 | `mailclient-send-it' on Windows). | |
dfdb4cad | 1115 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1116 | *** Typing C-c m in the buffer made by M-x report-emacs-bug transfers |
1117 | the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there is one. | |
1118 | This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open" command. | |
dfdb4cad | 1119 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1120 | *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes |
1121 | and Mail mode changes | |
3f88cd72 | 1122 | |
041d709f | 1123 | ** Emacs server and client changes |
dfdb4cad | 1124 | |
7d301ae6 | 1125 | *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers. |
dfdb4cad | 1126 | |
041d709f | 1127 | *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages. |
dfdb4cad | 1128 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1129 | *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame |
1130 | parameters of any newly-created graphical frame. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1131 | |
1132 | *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error, | |
1133 | its exit status is 1. | |
1134 | ||
041d709f CY |
1135 | *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID. |
1136 | This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar | |
1137 | to the --parent-id argument to Emacs. | |
1138 | ||
d0ce9f8c MB |
1139 | ** Internationalization changes |
1140 | ||
d0ce9f8c | 1141 | *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text. |
7d301ae6 CY |
1142 | Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are |
1143 | displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1144 | scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class |
1145 | implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers | |
1146 | with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before. | |
f4b6ba46 | 1147 | |
041d709f | 1148 | **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'. |
7d301ae6 | 1149 | To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil. |
d20e1419 | 1150 | |
041d709f CY |
1151 | **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'. |
1152 | If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1153 | paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value |
1154 | to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each | |
1155 | paragraph. | |
f4b6ba46 | 1156 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1157 | Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at |
1158 | the right window edge. | |
f1816485 | 1159 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1160 | *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts, |
1161 | or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the | |
1162 | terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control' | |
1163 | specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin | |
1164 | 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc. | |
d0ce9f8c | 1165 | |
9702b7a1 GM |
1166 | *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian |
1167 | (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic). | |
041d709f | 1168 | |
939db9ac CY |
1169 | *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars |
1170 | (U+2010 and U+2011). | |
1171 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1172 | *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial. |
31fd3586 GM |
1173 | Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't |
1174 | automatically select it. | |
1175 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1176 | ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included. |
1177 | This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages, | |
1178 | from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org. | |
dfdb4cad | 1179 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1180 | *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be |
1181 | selected for installation. | |
dfdb4cad | 1182 | |
7d301ae6 | 1183 | *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'. |
dfdb4cad | 1184 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1185 | *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when |
1186 | Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to | |
1187 | nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'. | |
16a91140 | 1188 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1189 | ** Custom theme changes |
1190 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1191 | *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient |
1192 | interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes. | |
dfdb4cad | 1193 | |
7d301ae6 | 1194 | *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1195 | Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default |
1196 | value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in | |
1197 | `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of | |
1198 | `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of | |
1199 | built-in Custom themes. | |
1200 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1201 | *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files. |
1202 | If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and | |
1203 | offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By | |
1204 | default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe. | |
b7d65a5f | 1205 | |
7d301ae6 | 1206 | ** Improved GTK integration |
dfdb4cad | 1207 | |
7d301ae6 | 1208 | *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1209 | The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this. |
1210 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1211 | *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1212 | Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop, |
1213 | the default is taken from desktop settings. | |
1214 | ||
1215 | *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1216 | The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the |
1217 | values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has | |
1218 | entries for this. | |
dfdb4cad | 1219 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1220 | *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken |
1221 | from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK. | |
dfdb4cad | 1222 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1223 | *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK. |
1224 | You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil. | |
a5bee597 | 1225 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1226 | ** Graphical interface changes |
1227 | ||
1228 | *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes. | |
1229 | Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just | |
1230 | displayed as a space. | |
1231 | ||
1232 | *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation | |
1233 | instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu. | |
1234 | ||
1235 | *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is | |
1236 | built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example: | |
1237 | Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12 | |
1238 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1239 | ** Exiting changes |
dfdb4cad | 1240 | |
7d301ae6 | 1241 | *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP, |
dfdb4cad CY |
1242 | or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode. |
1243 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1244 | *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode. |
1245 | Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they | |
1246 | do the right thing in batch mode. | |
9c524fcb | 1247 | |
041d709f | 1248 | ** Scrolling changes |
dfdb4cad | 1249 | |
041d709f | 1250 | *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command' |
0a19a6f8 | 1251 | (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom |
7d301ae6 | 1252 | of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer) |
550f41cd | 1253 | when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1254 | |
1255 | *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above). | |
1256 | ||
041d709f | 1257 | *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line' |
5a97d2da | 1258 | scroll a line instead of full screen. |
dfdb4cad | 1259 | |
041d709f | 1260 | *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to |
b2957ea8 | 1261 | define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'. |
dfdb4cad | 1262 | |
041d709f | 1263 | *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100, |
d0f69533 EZ |
1264 | Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to |
1265 | cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g'). | |
1266 | Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of | |
1267 | `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect. | |
dfdb4cad | 1268 | |
7d301ae6 | 1269 | *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins. |
d0f69533 EZ |
1270 | If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or |
1271 | `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now | |
1272 | scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll | |
1273 | margin. | |
1274 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1275 | ** Basic SELinux support has been added. |
1276 | This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time. | |
f1a5d776 | 1277 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1278 | *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up. |
1279 | Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for | |
1280 | preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer' | |
1281 | now includes the SELinux context. | |
f0bf7c8e | 1282 | |
dfdb4cad | 1283 | *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context' |
7d301ae6 | 1284 | get and set the SELinux context of a file. |
44198b6e | 1285 | |
7d301ae6 | 1286 | ** Trash changes |
dfdb4cad | 1287 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1288 | *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify |
1289 | trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files. | |
dfdb4cad | 1290 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1291 | *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument |
1292 | now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'. | |
278f6845 | 1293 | |
041d709f | 1294 | ** File- and directory-local variable changes |
dfdb4cad | 1295 | |
041d709f CY |
1296 | *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories. |
1297 | Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables | |
1298 | settings to indicate that the section should not apply to | |
1299 | subdirectories. | |
dfdb4cad | 1300 | |
041d709f CY |
1301 | *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers. |
1302 | Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example, | |
1303 | adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will | |
1304 | turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call | |
1305 | `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this. | |
dfdb4cad | 1306 | |
041d709f CY |
1307 | *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated. |
1308 | Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)". | |
c136e5cd | 1309 | |
7b447e9b GM |
1310 | *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed |
1311 | to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1312 | applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The |
1313 | associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the | |
1314 | corresponding way. | |
5d907d6c | 1315 | |
0a2132ba CY |
1316 | ** Window changes |
1317 | ||
91b65361 CY |
1318 | *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed |
1319 | in the quitted window. | |
1320 | ||
0a2132ba CY |
1321 | *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes, |
1322 | modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows. | |
1323 | ||
1324 | *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail. | |
dfdb4cad | 1325 | |
0a2132ba CY |
1326 | **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of |
1327 | user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments | |
1328 | for choosing the displaying window). | |
1329 | ||
1330 | This takes precedence over the default display action, which is | |
1331 | specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'. | |
1332 | ||
1333 | **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to | |
1334 | display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'. | |
1335 | ||
a0c2d0ae MR |
1336 | *** New option `window-combination-limit'. |
1337 | The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space | |
1338 | obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window | |
1339 | from which such space was obtained. | |
0a2132ba | 1340 | |
a0c2d0ae MR |
1341 | *** New option `window-combination-resize'. |
1342 | The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that | |
1343 | otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from | |
1344 | other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion | |
1345 | of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well. | |
0a2132ba | 1346 | |
91b65361 CY |
1347 | *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between |
1348 | iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated | |
1349 | frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own. | |
1350 | ||
0a2132ba | 1351 | *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'. |
53964682 | 1352 | These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame. |
0a2132ba | 1353 | |
0a2132ba CY |
1354 | *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'. |
1355 | These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have | |
1356 | been shown in a specific window. | |
1357 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1358 | ** Minibuffer changes |
dfdb4cad | 1359 | |
7d301ae6 | 1360 | *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'. |
104dc9c6 GM |
1361 | This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature |
1362 | where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed. | |
041d709f | 1363 | |
7d301ae6 | 1364 | *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil. |
f66eca26 | 1365 | If you want to change the value to something else, you could use |
7d301ae6 CY |
1366 | for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'. |
1367 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1368 | ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default. |
1369 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1370 | ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t. |
f66eca26 | 1371 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1372 | ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'. |
1373 | These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or | |
1374 | successful operation. | |
1375 | ||
1376 | ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order | |
1377 | for `list-colors-display'. | |
1378 | ||
1379 | ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil. | |
1380 | ||
0bfd685e | 1381 | \f |
eb199145 | 1382 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
b350bdf2 | 1383 | |
892777ba | 1384 | ** Search changes |
dfdb4cad CY |
1385 | |
1386 | *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of | |
1387 | `isearch-yank-line'. | |
1388 | ||
1389 | *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of | |
1390 | `isearch-yank-kill'. | |
1391 | ||
1392 | *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'. | |
1393 | ||
b2b0776e | 1394 | ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'. |
dfdb4cad | 1395 | |
10607bea CY |
1396 | *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'. |
1397 | The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports | |
1398 | the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a | |
1399 | superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete | |
1400 | alias for it. | |
ea4f7750 | 1401 | |
ec9da840 | 1402 | ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument, |
1c708c1a CY |
1403 | also deletes newlines around point. |
1404 | ||
b9229673 | 1405 | ** Deletion changes |
dfdb4cad | 1406 | |
b9229673 | 1407 | *** New option `delete-active-region'. |
ddb54206 | 1408 | If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no |
dfdb4cad | 1409 | prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill |
ddb54206 | 1410 | instead. |
dfdb4cad | 1411 | |
59ee0542 | 1412 | *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete]. |
42d9cffa CY |
1413 | This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'. |
1414 | The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'. | |
dfdb4cad | 1415 | |
b9229673 CY |
1416 | *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function. |
1417 | Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1418 | However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp |
1419 | callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead. | |
dfdb4cad | 1420 | |
b9229673 CY |
1421 | *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted. |
1422 | ||
f9d71b42 CY |
1423 | ** Selection changes. |
1424 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1425 | The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been |
1426 | changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most | |
1427 | commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while | |
1428 | mouse commands use the primary selection. | |
b1ab31ae CY |
1429 | |
1430 | In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a | |
1431 | list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that. | |
1432 | ||
b1ab31ae CY |
1433 | *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t. |
1434 | Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in | |
963578d3 | 1435 | the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if |
b1ab31ae CY |
1436 | the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X). |
1437 | ||
1438 | **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'. | |
1439 | This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active | |
1440 | regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection); | |
1441 | "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by | |
1442 | point motion, do not alter the primary selection. | |
1443 | ||
963578d3 CY |
1444 | **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil. |
1445 | ||
b1ab31ae CY |
1446 | *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'. |
1447 | This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring. | |
1448 | Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'. | |
dfdb4cad | 1449 | |
b1ab31ae | 1450 | *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms. |
dfdb4cad | 1451 | |
b1ab31ae CY |
1452 | *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil. |
1453 | Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as | |
1454 | M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection. | |
1455 | ||
1456 | **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now | |
dfdb4cad | 1457 | exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively. |
b1ab31ae CY |
1458 | |
1459 | **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already | |
1460 | non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection | |
1461 | between applications. | |
1462 | ||
1463 | *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following: | |
dfdb4cad | 1464 | |
104c2fe9 | 1465 | **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil. |
b1ab31ae CY |
1466 | **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t. |
1467 | **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only). | |
1468 | **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil. | |
1469 | **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2. | |
f9d71b42 | 1470 | |
084e6df3 | 1471 | *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed. |
dfdb4cad | 1472 | |
3fd50d5c CY |
1473 | *** X clipboard managers are now supported. |
1474 | To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil. | |
4b80f674 | 1475 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1476 | ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines |
1477 | in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a | |
1478 | number to count from and for a format string. | |
99f053cf | 1479 | |
7d301ae6 | 1480 | ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t. |
6bf7006f EZ |
1481 | This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive |
1482 | at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay | |
1483 | in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive | |
1484 | updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up. | |
1485 | ||
e70b5064 CY |
1486 | ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed. |
1487 | In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command') | |
1488 | when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the | |
1489 | region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the | |
1490 | region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line). | |
1491 | ||
dfdb4cad CY |
1492 | ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are |
1493 | collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there | |
1494 | are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur' | |
1495 | reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention | |
1496 | follows `replace-match'. | |
1497 | ||
9bae34bf | 1498 | \f |
eb199145 | 1499 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 |
efeb796b | 1500 | |
041d709f | 1501 | ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives. |
d76674bb | 1502 | |
b7c3692a | 1503 | ** BibTeX mode |
dfdb4cad | 1504 | |
2de69e00 | 1505 | *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex. |
7d301ae6 CY |
1506 | Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects. |
1507 | `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for | |
1508 | `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'. | |
1509 | ||
dfdb4cad CY |
1510 | *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a. |
1511 | ||
b7c3692a | 1512 | *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default. |
dfdb4cad | 1513 | |
022fe7ce RW |
1514 | *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'. |
1515 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1516 | ** Browse-url |
dfdb4cad | 1517 | |
7d301ae6 | 1518 | *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s. |
dfdb4cad | 1519 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1520 | *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program, |
1521 | on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser. | |
1522 | ||
cf16af42 GM |
1523 | ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt |
1524 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1525 | *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments". |
548d0a63 GM |
1526 | See the variable `diary-comment-start'. |
1527 | ||
5006e634 GM |
1528 | *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times. |
1529 | See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'. | |
1530 | ||
0a2bb1a9 GM |
1531 | *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed |
1532 | lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times. | |
1533 | If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it. | |
1534 | ||
7454f200 GM |
1535 | *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'. |
1536 | ||
e565dd37 GM |
1537 | *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array' |
1538 | may no longer be nil, but must all be strings. | |
1539 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1540 | *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt |
1541 | package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed. | |
1542 | Use `appt-activate' instead. | |
cf16af42 | 1543 | |
cf16af42 GM |
1544 | *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: |
1545 | appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate) | |
1546 | appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format) | |
1547 | ||
cf16af42 GM |
1548 | *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: |
1549 | view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries | |
1550 | ||
551b046f | 1551 | ** CC Mode |
dfdb4cad | 1552 | |
551b046f | 1553 | *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer. |
7d301ae6 | 1554 | The main entry point is M-x c-guess. |
041d709f | 1555 | |
551b046f AM |
1556 | *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang). |
1557 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1558 | *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes. |
551b046f AM |
1559 | Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function, |
1560 | not the top level. | |
1561 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1562 | *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation. |
551b046f AM |
1563 | Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer |
1564 | parsed as a statement continuation. | |
1565 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1566 | ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code. |
041d709f CY |
1567 | |
1568 | ** Compilation mode | |
dfdb4cad | 1569 | |
7d301ae6 | 1570 | *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode. |
041d709f CY |
1571 | `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete. |
1572 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1573 | *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while |
7d301ae6 CY |
1574 | `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the |
1575 | text inserted by `compilation-filter'. | |
041d709f | 1576 | |
47a6a35f GM |
1577 | *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column' |
1578 | are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1579 | set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation* |
1580 | buffer was used. | |
1dce7193 | 1581 | |
52834b6b CY |
1582 | ** Customize |
1583 | ||
1584 | *** Customize buffers now contain a search field. | |
1585 | The search is performed using `customize-apropos'. | |
7d301ae6 | 1586 | To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil. |
52834b6b | 1587 | |
8d5dd370 | 1588 | *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized. |
52834b6b CY |
1589 | Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility. |
1590 | ||
1591 | *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t. | |
1592 | ||
1593 | *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to | |
7d301ae6 | 1594 | choose a color via `list-colors-display'. |
52834b6b | 1595 | |
041d709f CY |
1596 | ** D-Bus |
1597 | ||
5da3be7f GM |
1598 | *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system |
1599 | or session bus. | |
041d709f | 1600 | |
7d301ae6 | 1601 | *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions |
5da3be7f | 1602 | optionally do not register names. |
041d709f | 1603 | |
7d301ae6 | 1604 | *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service |
dfdb4cad | 1605 | name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method. |
041d709f | 1606 | |
f5d6548a | 1607 | ** Dired-x |
425a25f1 | 1608 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1609 | *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'), |
1610 | if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer | |
1611 | instead of using the current buffer. | |
f5d6548a | 1612 | |
7d301ae6 | 1613 | *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete. |
817b48a7 | 1614 | The standard directory local variables feature replaces it. |
8117868f | 1615 | |
041d709f | 1616 | ** ERC changes |
7492acc9 | 1617 | |
c4077254 GM |
1618 | *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay', |
1619 | controlling attempts to autojoin a channel. | |
041d709f CY |
1620 | |
1621 | *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided' | |
1622 | as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted. | |
1623 | The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as | |
1624 | utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest. | |
7492acc9 | 1625 | |
041d709f | 1626 | ** Eshell changes |
7492acc9 | 1627 | |
05f77e38 GM |
1628 | *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed |
1629 | to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'. | |
1630 | The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though. | |
041d709f CY |
1631 | |
1632 | ** gdb-mi | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1633 | |
1634 | *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol. | |
05f77e38 GM |
1635 | It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous |
1636 | debugging of several threads. | |
7492acc9 | 1637 | |
18af70d0 CY |
1638 | ** Image mode |
1639 | ||
05f77e38 GM |
1640 | *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable. |
1641 | Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil. | |
18af70d0 | 1642 | |
041d709f | 1643 | ** Info |
723ee192 | 1644 | |
7d301ae6 | 1645 | *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual. |
2ebc3b94 GM |
1646 | If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays |
1647 | that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info* | |
1648 | buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual | |
1649 | you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual. | |
691cf4a0 | 1650 | |
24ea72d3 EZ |
1651 | *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'. |
1652 | This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program, | |
1653 | and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled | |
1654 | by default. | |
1655 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1656 | ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode) |
dfdb4cad | 1657 | |
7d301ae6 | 1658 | *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments |
7d301ae6 | 1659 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1660 | *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file. |
1661 | (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME | |
1662 | attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name. | |
1663 | ||
f2c3a9eb | 1664 | ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1. |
041d709f | 1665 | See MH-E-NEWS for details. |
37221432 | 1666 | |
041d709f | 1667 | ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation. |
37221432 | 1668 | |
041d709f | 1669 | ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags. |
3c3d4f5b | 1670 | |
5d1ac394 | 1671 | ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1672 | Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i |
1673 | or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the | |
1674 | default), this performs tag completion. | |
5d1ac394 | 1675 | |
f2c3a9eb CY |
1676 | ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09. |
1677 | See ORG-NEWS for details. | |
1678 | ||
041d709f | 1679 | ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional |
7d301ae6 CY |
1680 | functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity, |
1681 | support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more. | |
041d709f CY |
1682 | |
1683 | ** Rmail | |
1684 | ||
1685 | *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data | |
1686 | in the Rmail incoming message. | |
1687 | ||
50419064 GM |
1688 | *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect. |
1689 | This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time. | |
1690 | Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead. | |
1691 | ||
717a1362 | 1692 | ** Shell mode |
dfdb4cad CY |
1693 | |
1694 | *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory | |
1695 | is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor | |
1696 | the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set. | |
1697 | ||
1698 | *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command, | |
1699 | which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion. | |
717a1362 | 1700 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1701 | ** SMTPmail |
1702 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1703 | *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default |
7d301ae6 CY |
1704 | if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS |
1705 | support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type' | |
1706 | to change this. | |
1707 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1708 | *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed. |
1709 | By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1710 | This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had |
1711 | customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and | |
1712 | passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection | |
1713 | to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password, | |
1714 | and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the | |
1715 | credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1716 | |
1717 | (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials | |
1718 | '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret"))) | |
1719 | ||
1720 | then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be | |
1721 | ||
1722 | machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret | |
1723 | ||
1724 | See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting | |
1725 | the credentials file. | |
1726 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1727 | *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed. |
dfdb4cad | 1728 | If you had that set, you need to put |
7d301ae6 CY |
1729 | |
1730 | machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert" | |
1731 | ||
1732 | in your ~/.authinfo file instead. | |
1733 | ||
8ce192e3 LI |
1734 | *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the |
1735 | SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from' | |
1736 | to the address you wish to use instead. | |
1737 | ||
34e8a2da | 1738 | ** SQL mode |
041d709f | 1739 | |
34e8a2da GM |
1740 | *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator', |
1741 | and `sql-oracle-scan-on'. | |
041d709f | 1742 | |
dfdb4cad | 1743 | *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters. |
34e8a2da GM |
1744 | Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params', |
1745 | which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a | |
1746 | connection is established. | |
041d709f CY |
1747 | |
1748 | *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument, | |
34e8a2da | 1749 | which causes it to prompt for an SQL product. |
041d709f | 1750 | |
34e8a2da | 1751 | *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments. |
041d709f CY |
1752 | These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.), |
1753 | given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive | |
1754 | buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'. | |
1755 | ||
1756 | *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and | |
1757 | replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL | |
1758 | statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into | |
1759 | the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The | |
34e8a2da GM |
1760 | second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing |
1761 | object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions. | |
041d709f CY |
1762 | |
1763 | *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session, | |
1764 | using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'. | |
1765 | ||
1766 | *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers. | |
1767 | This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it | |
1768 | was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection. | |
1769 | ||
34e8a2da GM |
1770 | *** New commands for listing database objects and details: |
1771 | sql-list-all and sql-list-table. | |
041d709f CY |
1772 | |
1773 | *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added. | |
1774 | ||
1775 | ** TeX modes | |
1776 | ||
1777 | *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly. | |
412b9ee5 | 1778 | |
459bba37 | 1779 | ** Tramp |
dfdb4cad | 1780 | |
7d301ae6 | 1781 | *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su). |
dfdb4cad | 1782 | |
459bba37 | 1783 | *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old", |
ea843702 | 1784 | "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish". |
dfdb4cad | 1785 | |
b011fbfe GM |
1786 | *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether |
1787 | remote file attributes are cached for better performance. | |
dfdb4cad | 1788 | |
58f74fe4 MA |
1789 | *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its |
1790 | default value to "". | |
dfdb4cad | 1791 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1792 | *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context' |
1793 | for remote machines which support SELinux. | |
58f74fe4 | 1794 | |
dfdb4cad | 1795 | ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve, |
a48ec60c GM |
1796 | but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on |
1797 | the degree of parallelism. | |
177549d0 | 1798 | |
0c32ce32 CY |
1799 | ** VC and related modes |
1800 | ||
1801 | *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1802 | The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is |
1803 | supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the | |
1804 | current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt | |
1805 | the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location. | |
0c32ce32 | 1806 | |
dab3703d | 1807 | *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'. |
0c32ce32 CY |
1808 | |
1809 | *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1810 | The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it |
1811 | is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge | |
1812 | changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for | |
1813 | specifics, e.g. a merge source. | |
0c32ce32 | 1814 | |
2afef60a | 1815 | *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert' |
bbe43420 | 1816 | shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t. |
2afef60a | 1817 | |
d4eb88c7 CY |
1818 | *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a |
1819 | longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display). | |
dab3703d GM |
1820 | This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support |
1821 | another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function'). | |
7d301ae6 | 1822 | In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can |
d4eb88c7 CY |
1823 | use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point. |
1824 | ||
1c6c854e CS |
1825 | *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions |
1826 | of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend. | |
1827 | ||
86c60681 CY |
1828 | *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but |
1829 | this was not advertised at the time. | |
1830 | ||
86c60681 CY |
1831 | *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'. |
1832 | Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but | |
80c6d77f GM |
1833 | this was not advertised at the time. |
1834 | ||
041d709f CY |
1835 | ** Obsolete modes |
1836 | ||
23d70505 GM |
1837 | *** abbrevlist.el |
1838 | ||
f8ca9162 | 1839 | *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead) |
23d70505 GM |
1840 | |
1841 | *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete. | |
041d709f CY |
1842 | You can get a comparable behavior with: |
1843 | (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials)) | |
1844 | (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t) | |
1845 | ||
23d70505 GM |
1846 | *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive). |
1847 | ||
2c719188 | 1848 | *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead). |
041d709f CY |
1849 | |
1850 | *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset. | |
1851 | ||
23d70505 GM |
1852 | *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete. |
1853 | They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1. | |
1854 | ||
2c719188 | 1855 | *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer). |
ca5eed61 | 1856 | |
0fe719e6 GM |
1857 | ** Miscellaneous |
1858 | ||
05f77e38 | 1859 | *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'. |
c6ad2a4e | 1860 | Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed. |
05f77e38 | 1861 | |
dfdb4cad | 1862 | *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'. |
05f77e38 GM |
1863 | (This interfered with cua-mode.) |
1864 | ||
9f678528 GM |
1865 | *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax. |
1866 | ||
0fe719e6 GM |
1867 | *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges. |
1868 | ||
5b3e6db8 GM |
1869 | *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet. |
1870 | ||
eb199145 GM |
1871 | \f |
1872 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 | |
d445b3f8 | 1873 | |
60e56523 | 1874 | ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the |
8c0f49f0 | 1875 | original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode. |
60e56523 | 1876 | |
a075a2c5 GM |
1877 | ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode. |
1878 | When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the | |
1879 | matching closing one. | |
1880 | ||
1881 | ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode. | |
1882 | When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation. | |
cd3308f3 GM |
1883 | Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or |
1884 | electric-indent-functions. | |
a075a2c5 GM |
1885 | |
1886 | ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode. | |
1887 | When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines. | |
cd3308f3 | 1888 | Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules. |
3b843809 | 1889 | |
a83ec3c9 CY |
1890 | ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data, |
1891 | from which other modes can be derived. | |
1892 | ||
d02c9bcd SM |
1893 | ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'. |
1894 | ||
7725ebb7 MA |
1895 | ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an |
1896 | interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The | |
065f2743 MA |
1897 | Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command |
1898 | `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the | |
1899 | secrets. | |
7725ebb7 | 1900 | |
f9e78150 MA |
1901 | ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop |
1902 | Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication. | |
1903 | ||
12fe5bcc MA |
1904 | ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs. |
1905 | soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures. | |
1906 | ||
ff1796f3 | 1907 | ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files. |
ad7d6ecb | 1908 | |
53bbe3ad | 1909 | ** New emacs-lock.el package. |
7d301ae6 CY |
1910 | The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el. |
1911 | Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection | |
1912 | against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately. | |
1913 | The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers | |
1914 | with dead inferior processes has been generalized. | |
53bbe3ad | 1915 | |
eb199145 GM |
1916 | \f |
1917 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
6dfcbe31 | 1918 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1919 | ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES |
1920 | the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g. | |
1921 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1922 | (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode) |
7d301ae6 | 1923 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1924 | to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for |
1925 | `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands | |
1926 | defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode | |
1927 | command still toggles the minor mode. | |
7d301ae6 | 1928 | |
d268b4fe CY |
1929 | ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed. |
1930 | It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list | |
1931 | describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the | |
f003f294 | 1932 | system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil). |
7d301ae6 | 1933 | See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1". |
d268b4fe | 1934 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1935 | ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted. |
1936 | They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional | |
1937 | editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional | |
1938 | properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last | |
1939 | argument `bidi-class'. | |
fa6996bc | 1940 | |
470d996d TV |
1941 | ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory |
1942 | of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The | |
1943 | new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy | |
1944 | the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory. | |
1945 | ||
9173a8fb CY |
1946 | ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel |
1947 | coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text | |
1948 | area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top | |
1949 | of the header line. | |
1950 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1951 | ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has |
1952 | been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is | |
1953 | always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all | |
1954 | "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes | |
1955 | as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then | |
1956 | you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the | |
1957 | appropriate conventions may fail to compile. | |
50ab02c5 CY |
1958 | |
1959 | The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote | |
1960 | followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation | |
1961 | for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')], | |
1962 | you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in | |
7d301ae6 | 1963 | older Emacsen too. |
288cf4e9 | 1964 | |
520f2425 GM |
1965 | ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this |
1966 | was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay' | |
1967 | replaced all known uses. | |
1968 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1969 | ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that |
1970 | `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the | |
1971 | major mode is special). | |
fd5c9dfa | 1972 | |
7d301ae6 | 1973 | ** Menu and tool bar changes |
6431f2e6 | 1974 | |
7d301ae6 | 1975 | *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines' |
0a19a6f8 JB |
1976 | and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'. |
1977 | With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the | |
1978 | variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create | |
1979 | a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added, | |
1980 | they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'. | |
6431f2e6 | 1981 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1982 | *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more. |
1983 | Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead. | |
1984 | ||
fe0aa820 | 1985 | ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions, |
dfdb4cad | 1986 | similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes |
7d301ae6 CY |
1987 | above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by |
1988 | `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed. | |
d6d8ee7a | 1989 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1990 | ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed. |
1991 | If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply | |
1992 | pass the result through substring-no-properties. | |
34c99998 | 1993 | |
4583e796 GM |
1994 | ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'. |
1995 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1996 | ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed |
1997 | (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed" | |
1998 | means you can just remove all calls to the function in question): | |
1999 | ||
2000 | *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output') | |
2001 | *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string') | |
2002 | *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p') | |
2003 | *** `internal-find-face' (`facep') | |
2004 | *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face') | |
2005 | *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed) | |
2006 | *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode') | |
2007 | *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions) | |
2c719188 | 2008 | *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold') |
7d301ae6 CY |
2009 | *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic') |
2010 | *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic') | |
2011 | *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold') | |
2012 | *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic') | |
2013 | *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line') | |
2014 | *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line') | |
2015 | *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode') | |
2016 | *** `char-bytes' (== 1) | |
2017 | *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char') | |
2018 | *** `make-local-hook' (not needed) | |
2019 | *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height') | |
2020 | *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width') | |
2021 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2022 | ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed |
2023 | (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses): | |
2024 | ||
2025 | *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map') | |
2026 | *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header') | |
2027 | *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/) | |
2028 | *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults') | |
2029 | *** `e' (`float-e'). | |
3226d6ca | 2030 | |
041d709f | 2031 | ** The following obsolete files were removed: |
7b0e3048 GM |
2032 | sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el |
2033 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2034 | ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder |
2035 | mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable | |
2036 | `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and | |
2037 | `finder-keywords-hash'. | |
33658d4e | 2038 | |
c2c79260 DE |
2039 | ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer |
2040 | assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead | |
2041 | generates relative names according to the current `load-path'. | |
2042 | ||
eb199145 GM |
2043 | \f |
2044 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
9097e8af | 2045 | |
041d709f | 2046 | ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping. |
dfdb4cad | 2047 | The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local |
48da7392 | 2048 | variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first |
dfdb4cad CY |
2049 | line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that |
2050 | file. | |
2051 | ||
041d709f CY |
2052 | *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical |
2053 | binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode. | |
dfdb4cad | 2054 | |
041d709f CY |
2055 | *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form |
2056 | of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY). | |
2057 | ||
2058 | *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
2059 | |
2060 | *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic). | |
2061 | So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine. | |
2062 | ||
041d709f CY |
2063 | *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is |
2064 | declared as dynamically bound. | |
2065 | ||
88ed9e87 SM |
2066 | *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated. |
2067 | ||
041d709f CY |
2068 | ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included. |
2069 | Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for | |
2070 | their code. See the ERT info manual for details. | |
2071 | ||
2072 | ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing | |
f1816485 | 2073 | |
041d709f | 2074 | *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'. |
7d301ae6 | 2075 | This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point. |
041d709f | 2076 | |
041d709f | 2077 | *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
2078 | Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this |
2079 | function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a | |
2080 | buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2081 | right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode |
2082 | "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.) | |
041d709f | 2083 | |
7d301ae6 | 2084 | This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph |
dfdb4cad CY |
2085 | direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known |
2086 | in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line. | |
041d709f | 2087 | |
bee0fcef | 2088 | ** Window changes |
dfdb4cad | 2089 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2090 | *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp. |
2091 | Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows | |
2092 | of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a | |
2093 | buffer) in the window tree. | |
dfdb4cad | 2094 | |
24300f5f CY |
2095 | **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal |
2096 | windows. | |
dfdb4cad | 2097 | |
24300f5f | 2098 | **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows. |
c4682d18 MR |
2099 | Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or |
2100 | `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now | |
2101 | act on any window including internal ones. | |
dfdb4cad | 2102 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2103 | *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width. |
2104 | The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height' | |
2105 | and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old | |
2106 | names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width' | |
2107 | and `window-body-height' are provided. | |
dfdb4cad | 2108 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2109 | *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions. |
2110 | For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default | |
2111 | behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window' | |
ed6235ea MR |
2112 | and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters' |
2113 | allows to ignore processing such parameters. | |
dfdb4cad | 2114 | |
c4682d18 | 2115 | *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'. |
c4682d18 MR |
2116 | The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be |
2117 | set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the | |
2118 | new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be | |
2119 | split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the | |
2120 | window into two side-by-side windows as before. | |
dfdb4cad | 2121 | |
c4682d18 | 2122 | *** Window resizing functions. |
487ffd7a | 2123 | A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has |
c4682d18 MR |
2124 | been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no |
2125 | longer delete any windows when they become too small. | |
dfdb4cad | 2126 | |
b3c0dbfd MR |
2127 | *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected |
2128 | live window on that frame instead. | |
dfdb4cad | 2129 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2130 | *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments. |
2131 | `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and | |
2132 | is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing | |
2133 | edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to | |
2134 | that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete | |
2135 | windows which was introduced in Emacs 22. | |
dfdb4cad | 2136 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2137 | *** Window-local buffer lists. |
2138 | Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer | |
2139 | from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously | |
2140 | shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point | |
2141 | positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically | |
2142 | shown twice even if it already appears in another window. | |
dfdb4cad | 2143 | |
bee0fcef CY |
2144 | *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW, |
2145 | which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently | |
2146 | selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window | |
2147 | can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated. | |
dfdb4cad | 2148 | |
0a2132ba | 2149 | *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed |
2d197ffb CY |
2150 | to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively. |
2151 | The old names are kept as aliases. | |
dfdb4cad | 2152 | |
0a2132ba CY |
2153 | *** Display actions |
2154 | ||
2155 | **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now | |
2156 | named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as | |
2157 | `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil, | |
2158 | non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning. | |
2159 | ||
2160 | **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'. | |
2161 | ||
2162 | **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is | |
2163 | determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action', | |
2164 | `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action', | |
2165 | and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these | |
2166 | are user-customizable variables. | |
2167 | ||
2168 | See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details. | |
bee0fcef | 2169 | |
20d2304d CY |
2170 | *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'. |
2171 | These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary | |
2172 | frame or window as an Elisp object. | |
2173 | ||
a2a25d24 | 2174 | ** Completion |
041d709f | 2175 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2176 | *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra |
2177 | properties of the current completion: | |
a2a25d24 SM |
2178 | - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function. |
2179 | - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place. | |
2180 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2181 | *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the |
2182 | properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'. | |
a2a25d24 | 2183 | |
7d301ae6 | 2184 | *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete. |
a2a25d24 | 2185 | |
620c53a6 SM |
2186 | *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned |
2187 | can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions': | |
2188 | - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...), | |
2189 | used to select a style in completion-category-overrides. | |
2190 | - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*. | |
2191 | - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*. | |
2192 | - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling. | |
2193 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2194 | *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more. |
2195 | Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' | |
2196 | are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'. | |
de09aa52 CY |
2197 | |
2198 | *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the | |
2199 | behavior of `completing-read'. | |
2200 | ||
f042970d | 2201 | ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and |
16a43933 CY |
2202 | text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell. |
2203 | ||
7d301ae6 | 2204 | ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error. |
f6d62986 SM |
2205 | Instead, the offending function is removed. |
2206 | ||
b1f6fa26 CY |
2207 | ** New hook types |
2208 | ||
2209 | *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by | |
2210 | passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function. | |
e7bc51d0 | 2211 | Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first |
5385447f | 2212 | non-nil return value. |
e7bc51d0 | 2213 | |
b1f6fa26 CY |
2214 | *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a |
2215 | set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice. | |
54521c99 GM |
2216 | (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not |
2217 | advertised at the time.) | |
f6d62986 | 2218 | |
0b19b281 | 2219 | ** Debugger changes |
dfdb4cad | 2220 | |
0b19b281 | 2221 | *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in |
1be3ca5a | 2222 | Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised) |
dfdb4cad | 2223 | |
0b19b281 | 2224 | *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised. |
dfdb4cad | 2225 | |
0b19b281 | 2226 | *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed. |
dfdb4cad | 2227 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2228 | *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will |
2229 | jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked | |
2230 | instead of jumping all the way to the top-level. | |
dfdb4cad | 2231 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2232 | *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1. |
2233 | This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set. | |
d6b1d521 | 2234 | |
953cebf5 | 2235 | ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on |
37576acd | 2236 | named Emacs server instances. |
7deebf1b | 2237 | |
1b9f60cc GM |
2238 | ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec |
2239 | to redirect STDOUT to a file. | |
7deebf1b | 2240 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2241 | ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive, |
2242 | for higher-resolution time stamps. | |
da97a9e6 | 2243 | |
0b19b281 | 2244 | ** New input reading functions |
dfdb4cad | 2245 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2246 | *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of |
2247 | characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set. | |
dfdb4cad | 2248 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2249 | *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name |
2250 | or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides | |
2251 | invalid input. | |
dfdb4cad | 2252 | |
0b19b281 | 2253 | **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'. |
3ef01959 | 2254 | |
2e288d54 JB |
2255 | ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'. |
2256 | The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries, | |
2257 | not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an | |
2258 | obsolete alias. | |
2259 | ||
0b19b281 | 2260 | ** Syntax parsing changes |
dfdb4cad | 2261 | |
0b19b281 | 2262 | *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'. |
04e2ce72 | 2263 | This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete. |
cf38dd42 SM |
2264 | This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock: |
2265 | just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized. | |
2266 | Together with this new variable come a new hook | |
2267 | syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions: | |
2268 | syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords | |
2269 | as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify | |
2270 | syntactic rules. | |
dfdb4cad | 2271 | |
0b19b281 | 2272 | *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b. |
a2e5caf7 | 2273 | |
7d301ae6 | 2274 | ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'. |
041d709f | 2275 | |
4e2db1fe | 2276 | ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more. |
041d709f | 2277 | |
15de15c6 | 2278 | ** Major and minor mode changes |
dfdb4cad | 2279 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2280 | *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files, |
2281 | as well as those in the -*- line. | |
dfdb4cad | 2282 | |
15de15c6 CY |
2283 | *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes |
2284 | should be derived. | |
dfdb4cad | 2285 | |
15de15c6 CY |
2286 | **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming |
2287 | modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable | |
2288 | on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings. | |
dfdb4cad | 2289 | |
15de15c6 CY |
2290 | *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by |
2291 | `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks. | |
dfdb4cad | 2292 | |
7a9a2fc6 GM |
2293 | *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes. |
2294 | If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the | |
2295 | major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis. | |
dfdb4cad | 2296 | |
feb8a83a | 2297 | *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook. |
f44379e7 | 2298 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2299 | ** File-handling changes |
2300 | ||
7d301ae6 | 2301 | *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH. |
f1a5d776 CY |
2302 | Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are |
2303 | both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix | |
2304 | argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above). | |
53967e09 | 2305 | |
7d301ae6 | 2306 | *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'. |
ec70a47d | 2307 | |
4039c786 CY |
2308 | ** Tool-bars can display separators. |
2309 | Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps, | |
94975270 | 2310 | i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'. |
9317e499 | 2311 | |
00fe2df1 JL |
2312 | ** Image API |
2313 | ||
18af70d0 CY |
2314 | *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only). |
2315 | ||
2316 | **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated. | |
2317 | ||
2318 | **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec. | |
2319 | ||
2320 | **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that | |
2321 | is being animated. | |
00fe2df1 | 2322 | |
7cb76fe0 GM |
2323 | *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'. |
2324 | The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one. | |
1546c559 | 2325 | |
b4ac6e8c GM |
2326 | *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports. |
2327 | This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2328 | |
2329 | **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support | |
2330 | is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your | |
2331 | ImageMagick installation supports. | |
2332 | ||
2333 | **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick | |
2334 | image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper | |
2335 | functions. | |
2336 | ||
2337 | **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain | |
2338 | ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'. | |
2339 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2340 | **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to |
2341 | resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height', | |
2342 | `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and | |
2343 | `image-transform-set-scale'. | |
041d709f | 2344 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2345 | ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and |
2346 | passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an | |
2347 | action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For | |
2348 | example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window. | |
b4ac6e8c | 2349 | |
71c17aec | 2350 | ** XML and HTML parsing |
483ab230 CY |
2351 | If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new |
2352 | functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML) | |
2353 | and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an | |
2354 | Emacs Lisp parse tree. | |
4b9832a6 | 2355 | |
7d301ae6 | 2356 | ** Networking and encryption changes |
e2574f2c | 2357 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2358 | *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream. |
2359 | It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS | |
2360 | connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional | |
2361 | parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command') | |
2362 | must also be supplied. | |
2363 | ||
2364 | *** New library gnutls.el. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
2365 | The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is |
2366 | built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are | |
2367 | `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use | |
2368 | these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2369 | upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain |
2370 | SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level' | |
2371 | greater than 0. | |
2372 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2373 | *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms: |
2374 | md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library | |
2375 | sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default. | |
71c17aec | 2376 | |
a6020335 MH |
2377 | ** Isearch |
2378 | ||
2379 | *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'. | |
2380 | ||
9326ba26 CY |
2381 | ** Progress reporters can now "spin". |
2382 | The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can | |
2383 | now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each | |
2384 | time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter, | |
2385 | with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is | |
2386 | displayed with a "spinning bar". | |
2387 | ||
3e214b50 JB |
2388 | ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is |
2389 | being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'. | |
2390 | ||
001bf877 GM |
2391 | ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'. |
2392 | If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2393 | `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this |
2394 | is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during | |
2395 | startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the | |
2396 | functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'. | |
001bf877 | 2397 | |
6420d28b CY |
2398 | ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups. |
2399 | ||
dac86404 GM |
2400 | ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap |
2401 | from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that | |
2402 | inherits from multiple maps, eg: | |
2403 | (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent)) | |
43dc9f5b | 2404 | |
c8f6ec5c GM |
2405 | ** New function `string-prefix-p'. |
2406 | (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.) | |
2407 | ||
27f7ef2f | 2408 | ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol. |
43dc9f5b AS |
2409 | This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself |
2410 | (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for | |
2411 | an empty uninterned symbol. | |
041d709f | 2412 | |
fead402d CY |
2413 | ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'. |
2414 | ||
7d301ae6 | 2415 | ** The following functions and variables are obsolete: |
041d709f | 2416 | |
05f77e38 GM |
2417 | *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete. |
2418 | Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead. | |
2419 | ||
041d709f CY |
2420 | *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete. |
2421 | Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead. | |
2422 | ||
2423 | *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete. | |
2424 | ||
2425 | *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete. | |
f160676e GM |
2426 | Use `post-command-hook' instead. |
2427 | ||
67e729a5 CY |
2428 | *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete. |
2429 | ||
eb199145 GM |
2430 | \f |
2431 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems | |
d53a60a6 | 2432 | |
7a22e700 | 2433 | ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs, |
a2f0118c GM |
2434 | and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default. |
2435 | ||
7a22e700 | 2436 | ** New configure.bat options |
04779484 | 2437 | |
7a22e700 | 2438 | *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks. |
e3aef5c6 | 2439 | |
7a22e700 | 2440 | *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution. |
e2574f2c | 2441 | |
7a22e700 OK |
2442 | *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection. |
2443 | ||
a0d363f4 | 2444 | *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable. |
e2574f2c | 2445 | |
0a19a6f8 | 2446 | ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows. |
e3aef5c6 | 2447 | |
1f5e1a16 GM |
2448 | ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete. |
2449 | (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.) | |
5430d399 | 2450 | |
1f5e1a16 GM |
2451 | ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but |
2452 | reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.) | |
04e2ce72 | 2453 | |
ad7c802c CY |
2454 | ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on |
2455 | other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer. | |
2456 | ||
05197f40 | 2457 | \f |
a933dad1 | 2458 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
5b87ad55 | 2459 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
a933dad1 | 2460 | |
ab73e885 | 2461 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
5b87ad55 | 2462 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
ab73e885 GM |
2463 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
2464 | (at your option) any later version. | |
5b87ad55 GM |
2465 | |
2466 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
2467 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
2468 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
2469 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
a933dad1 | 2470 | |
5b87ad55 | 2471 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
ab73e885 | 2472 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
a933dad1 | 2473 | |
05197f40 | 2474 | \f |
a933dad1 DL |
2475 | Local variables: |
2476 | mode: outline | |
2477 | paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$" | |
2478 | end: |