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29b7722a | 1 | GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
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a1ed8b05 | 3 | Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
5b87ad55 | 4 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
a933dad1 | 5 | |
893db5bc | 6 | Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
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7 | If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. |
8 | ||
eb199145 | 9 | This file is about changes in Emacs version 24. |
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11 | See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, |
12 | and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions. | |
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13 | |
14 | You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' | |
15 | with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. | |
3f7194ed | 16 | |
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17 | Temporary note: |
18 | +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. | |
19 | --- means no change in the manuals is called for. | |
20 | When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- | |
21 | so we will look at it and add it to the manual. | |
22 | ||
23 | \f | |
24 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
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25 | |
26 | ** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers. | |
27 | If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about | |
28 | possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be | |
29 | no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings | |
30 | may or may not be useful. By default, these warnings are not generated. | |
31 | ||
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32 | \f |
33 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
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34 | |
35 | ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard | |
36 | lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have | |
37 | been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp. | |
38 | ||
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39 | \f |
40 | * Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
41 | ||
42 | ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable | |
43 | `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about which bzr revision was used. | |
44 | ||
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45 | ** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled. |
46 | It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types' | |
47 | explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called | |
48 | automatically when setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit'. | |
49 | ||
50 | *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of | |
51 | ImageMagick to view images, set | |
52 | ||
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53 | \f |
54 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
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55 | |
56 | ** M-x move-to-column, if called interactively with no prefix arg, now | |
57 | prompts for a column number. | |
58 | ||
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59 | ** `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' can now be used to customize |
60 | `mouse-avoidance-mode' further. | |
61 | ||
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62 | ** `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' will now move to the path name separator |
63 | character when doing minibuffer filename prompts. | |
64 | ||
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65 | ** `goto-char' is now bound to `M-g c'. |
66 | ||
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67 | \f |
68 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2 | |
b2459884 | 69 | |
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70 | ** which-function-mode now applies to all applicable major modes by default. |
71 | ||
b2459884 | 72 | ** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the |
29734c21 | 73 | channel keys found, if any. |
b2459884 | 74 | |
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75 | ** The `server-auth-key' variable can be used to set a permanent |
76 | shared key for Emacs Server. | |
77 | ||
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78 | ** Obsolete packages: |
79 | ||
80 | *** mailpost.el | |
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81 | |
82 | *** mouse-sel.el | |
83 | ||
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84 | \f |
85 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2 | |
86 | \f | |
87 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
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88 | |
89 | +++ | |
90 | ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options. | |
91 | Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options. | |
92 | The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for | |
93 | `custom-variable-p'. | |
94 | ||
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95 | \f |
96 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
adce950d | 97 | \f |
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98 | * Changes in Emacs 24.2 on non-free operating systems |
99 | ||
100 | ** New configure.bat options on MS-Windows: | |
101 | ||
102 | *** --without-libxml2 omits support for libxml2, even if its presence | |
103 | is detected. | |
104 | ||
105 | \f | |
eb199145 | 106 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
09e18d03 | 107 | |
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108 | ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 |
109 | to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf, | |
110 | also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and | |
111 | --without-gconf. | |
338648ad | 112 | |
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113 | ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support. |
114 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
115 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
116 | `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features. | |
338648ad | 117 | |
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118 | ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support. |
119 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
120 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
121 | `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features. | |
aded53ff | 122 | |
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123 | ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support. |
124 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
125 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
126 | `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features. | |
c1f10868 | 127 | This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports. |
d9170db5 | 128 | |
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129 | ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support. |
130 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
131 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
132 | `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features. | |
133 | ||
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134 | ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed. |
135 | You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info. | |
136 | ||
7d301ae6 | 137 | ** New configure option --with-wide-int. |
81eafe29 | 138 | With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines. |
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139 | On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB |
140 | to about 2 GiB. | |
81eafe29 | 141 | |
7d301ae6 | 142 | ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost. |
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143 | These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit |
144 | lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features. | |
145 | ||
7d301ae6 | 146 | ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type. |
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147 | This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs. |
148 | This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new. | |
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149 | |
150 | ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed. | |
151 | Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'. | |
152 | ||
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153 | ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed. |
154 | If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality. | |
155 | ||
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eb199145 | 157 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
4a263588 | 158 | |
198a7a97 | 159 | ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte |
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160 | command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no |
161 | longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.) | |
198a7a97 | 162 | |
66b7b0fe | 163 | ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories |
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164 | from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the |
165 | EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for | |
c8d59ba3 | 166 | Nextstep builds). |
66b7b0fe | 167 | |
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eb199145 | 169 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
7841339b | 170 | |
a2a25d24 | 171 | ** Completion |
fdeb32ec | 172 | |
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173 | *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command, |
174 | rather than implementing separate completion commands. | |
175 | ||
de0bde62 | 176 | *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion. |
dfdb4cad | 177 | |
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178 | *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion |
179 | and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly. | |
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180 | |
181 | *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling. | |
182 | ||
183 | *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the | |
2c719188 | 184 | default completion style in certain circumstances. |
dfdb4cad | 185 | |
a2a25d24 | 186 | *** New completion style `substring'. |
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187 | |
188 | *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default. | |
189 | ||
190 | *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed. | |
620c53a6 | 191 | |
6870aaef | 192 | ** Mail changes |
dfdb4cad | 193 | |
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194 | *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method. |
195 | This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which | |
196 | is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or | |
197 | to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities | |
198 | (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and | |
199 | `mailclient-send-it' on Windows). | |
dfdb4cad | 200 | |
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201 | *** Typing C-c m in the buffer made by M-x report-emacs-bug transfers |
202 | the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there is one. | |
203 | This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open" command. | |
dfdb4cad | 204 | |
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205 | *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes |
206 | and Mail mode changes | |
3f88cd72 | 207 | |
041d709f | 208 | ** Emacs server and client changes |
dfdb4cad | 209 | |
7d301ae6 | 210 | *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers. |
dfdb4cad | 211 | |
041d709f | 212 | *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages. |
dfdb4cad | 213 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
214 | *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame |
215 | parameters of any newly-created graphical frame. | |
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216 | |
217 | *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error, | |
218 | its exit status is 1. | |
219 | ||
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220 | *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID. |
221 | This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar | |
222 | to the --parent-id argument to Emacs. | |
223 | ||
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224 | ** Internationalization changes |
225 | ||
d0ce9f8c | 226 | *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text. |
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227 | Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are |
228 | displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those | |
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229 | scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class |
230 | implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers | |
231 | with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before. | |
f4b6ba46 | 232 | |
041d709f | 233 | **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'. |
7d301ae6 | 234 | To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil. |
d20e1419 | 235 | |
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236 | **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'. |
237 | If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each | |
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238 | paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value |
239 | to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each | |
240 | paragraph. | |
f4b6ba46 | 241 | |
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242 | Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at |
243 | the right window edge. | |
f1816485 | 244 | |
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245 | *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts, |
246 | or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the | |
247 | terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control' | |
248 | specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin | |
249 | 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc. | |
d0ce9f8c | 250 | |
7d301ae6 | 251 | *** New input methods: farsi, farsi-translit, bulgarian-alt-phonetic. |
041d709f | 252 | |
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253 | *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars |
254 | (U+2010 and U+2011). | |
255 | ||
7d301ae6 | 256 | *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial. |
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257 | Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't |
258 | automatically select it. | |
259 | ||
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260 | ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included. |
261 | This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages, | |
262 | from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org. | |
dfdb4cad | 263 | |
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264 | *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be |
265 | selected for installation. | |
dfdb4cad | 266 | |
7d301ae6 | 267 | *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'. |
dfdb4cad | 268 | |
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269 | *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when |
270 | Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to | |
271 | nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'. | |
16a91140 | 272 | |
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273 | ** Custom theme changes |
274 | ||
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275 | *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient |
276 | interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes. | |
dfdb4cad | 277 | |
7d301ae6 | 278 | *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes. |
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279 | Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default |
280 | value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in | |
281 | `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of | |
282 | `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of | |
283 | built-in Custom themes. | |
284 | ||
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285 | *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files. |
286 | If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and | |
287 | offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By | |
288 | default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe. | |
b7d65a5f | 289 | |
7d301ae6 | 290 | ** Improved GTK integration |
dfdb4cad | 291 | |
7d301ae6 | 292 | *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default. |
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293 | The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this. |
294 | ||
7d301ae6 | 295 | *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text. |
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296 | Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop, |
297 | the default is taken from desktop settings. | |
298 | ||
299 | *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame. | |
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300 | The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the |
301 | values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has | |
302 | entries for this. | |
dfdb4cad | 303 | |
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304 | *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken |
305 | from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK. | |
dfdb4cad | 306 | |
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307 | *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK. |
308 | You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil. | |
a5bee597 | 309 | |
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310 | ** Graphical interface changes |
311 | ||
312 | *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes. | |
313 | Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just | |
314 | displayed as a space. | |
315 | ||
316 | *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation | |
317 | instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu. | |
318 | ||
319 | *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is | |
320 | built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example: | |
321 | Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12 | |
322 | ||
7d301ae6 | 323 | ** Exiting changes |
dfdb4cad | 324 | |
7d301ae6 | 325 | *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP, |
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326 | or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode. |
327 | ||
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328 | *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode. |
329 | Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they | |
330 | do the right thing in batch mode. | |
9c524fcb | 331 | |
041d709f | 332 | ** Scrolling changes |
dfdb4cad | 333 | |
041d709f | 334 | *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command' |
0a19a6f8 | 335 | (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom |
7d301ae6 | 336 | of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer) |
550f41cd | 337 | when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil. |
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338 | |
339 | *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above). | |
340 | ||
041d709f | 341 | *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line' |
5a97d2da | 342 | scroll a line instead of full screen. |
dfdb4cad | 343 | |
041d709f | 344 | *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to |
b2957ea8 | 345 | define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'. |
dfdb4cad | 346 | |
041d709f | 347 | *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100, |
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348 | Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to |
349 | cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g'). | |
350 | Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of | |
351 | `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect. | |
dfdb4cad | 352 | |
7d301ae6 | 353 | *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins. |
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354 | If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or |
355 | `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now | |
356 | scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll | |
357 | margin. | |
358 | ||
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359 | ** Basic SELinux support has been added. |
360 | This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time. | |
f1a5d776 | 361 | |
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362 | *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up. |
363 | Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for | |
364 | preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer' | |
365 | now includes the SELinux context. | |
f0bf7c8e | 366 | |
dfdb4cad | 367 | *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context' |
7d301ae6 | 368 | get and set the SELinux context of a file. |
44198b6e | 369 | |
7d301ae6 | 370 | ** Trash changes |
dfdb4cad | 371 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
372 | *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify |
373 | trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files. | |
dfdb4cad | 374 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
375 | *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument |
376 | now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'. | |
278f6845 | 377 | |
041d709f | 378 | ** File- and directory-local variable changes |
dfdb4cad | 379 | |
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380 | *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories. |
381 | Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables | |
382 | settings to indicate that the section should not apply to | |
383 | subdirectories. | |
dfdb4cad | 384 | |
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385 | *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers. |
386 | Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example, | |
387 | adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will | |
388 | turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call | |
389 | `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this. | |
dfdb4cad | 390 | |
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391 | *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated. |
392 | Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)". | |
c136e5cd | 393 | |
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394 | *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed |
395 | to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now | |
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396 | applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The |
397 | associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the | |
398 | corresponding way. | |
5d907d6c | 399 | |
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400 | ** Window changes |
401 | ||
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402 | *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed |
403 | in the quitted window. | |
404 | ||
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405 | *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes, |
406 | modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows. | |
407 | ||
408 | *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail. | |
dfdb4cad | 409 | |
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410 | **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of |
411 | user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments | |
412 | for choosing the displaying window). | |
413 | ||
414 | This takes precedence over the default display action, which is | |
415 | specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'. | |
416 | ||
417 | **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to | |
418 | display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'. | |
419 | ||
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420 | *** New option `window-combination-limit'. |
421 | The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space | |
422 | obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window | |
423 | from which such space was obtained. | |
0a2132ba | 424 | |
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425 | *** New option `window-combination-resize'. |
426 | The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that | |
427 | otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from | |
428 | other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion | |
429 | of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well. | |
0a2132ba | 430 | |
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431 | *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between |
432 | iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated | |
433 | frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own. | |
434 | ||
0a2132ba | 435 | *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'. |
53964682 | 436 | These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame. |
0a2132ba | 437 | |
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438 | *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'. |
439 | These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have | |
440 | been shown in a specific window. | |
441 | ||
7d301ae6 | 442 | ** Minibuffer changes |
dfdb4cad | 443 | |
7d301ae6 | 444 | *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'. |
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445 | This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature |
446 | where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed. | |
041d709f | 447 | |
7d301ae6 | 448 | *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil. |
f66eca26 | 449 | If you want to change the value to something else, you could use |
7d301ae6 CY |
450 | for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'. |
451 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
452 | ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default. |
453 | ||
7d301ae6 | 454 | ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t. |
f66eca26 | 455 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
456 | ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'. |
457 | These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or | |
458 | successful operation. | |
459 | ||
460 | ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order | |
461 | for `list-colors-display'. | |
462 | ||
463 | ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil. | |
464 | ||
0bfd685e | 465 | \f |
eb199145 | 466 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
b350bdf2 | 467 | |
892777ba | 468 | ** Search changes |
dfdb4cad CY |
469 | |
470 | *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of | |
471 | `isearch-yank-line'. | |
472 | ||
473 | *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of | |
474 | `isearch-yank-kill'. | |
475 | ||
476 | *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'. | |
477 | ||
b2b0776e | 478 | ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'. |
dfdb4cad | 479 | |
10607bea CY |
480 | *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'. |
481 | The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports | |
482 | the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a | |
483 | superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete | |
484 | alias for it. | |
ea4f7750 | 485 | |
ec9da840 | 486 | ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument, |
1c708c1a CY |
487 | also deletes newlines around point. |
488 | ||
b9229673 | 489 | ** Deletion changes |
dfdb4cad | 490 | |
b9229673 | 491 | *** New option `delete-active-region'. |
ddb54206 | 492 | If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no |
dfdb4cad | 493 | prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill |
ddb54206 | 494 | instead. |
dfdb4cad | 495 | |
59ee0542 | 496 | *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete]. |
42d9cffa CY |
497 | This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'. |
498 | The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'. | |
dfdb4cad | 499 | |
b9229673 CY |
500 | *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function. |
501 | Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
502 | However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp |
503 | callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead. | |
dfdb4cad | 504 | |
b9229673 CY |
505 | *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted. |
506 | ||
f9d71b42 CY |
507 | ** Selection changes. |
508 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
509 | The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been |
510 | changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most | |
511 | commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while | |
512 | mouse commands use the primary selection. | |
b1ab31ae CY |
513 | |
514 | In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a | |
515 | list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that. | |
516 | ||
b1ab31ae CY |
517 | *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t. |
518 | Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in | |
963578d3 | 519 | the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if |
b1ab31ae CY |
520 | the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X). |
521 | ||
522 | **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'. | |
523 | This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active | |
524 | regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection); | |
525 | "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by | |
526 | point motion, do not alter the primary selection. | |
527 | ||
963578d3 CY |
528 | **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil. |
529 | ||
b1ab31ae CY |
530 | *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'. |
531 | This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring. | |
532 | Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'. | |
dfdb4cad | 533 | |
b1ab31ae | 534 | *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms. |
dfdb4cad | 535 | |
b1ab31ae CY |
536 | *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil. |
537 | Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as | |
538 | M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection. | |
539 | ||
540 | **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now | |
dfdb4cad | 541 | exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively. |
b1ab31ae CY |
542 | |
543 | **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already | |
544 | non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection | |
545 | between applications. | |
546 | ||
547 | *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following: | |
dfdb4cad | 548 | |
104c2fe9 | 549 | **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil. |
b1ab31ae CY |
550 | **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t. |
551 | **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only). | |
552 | **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil. | |
553 | **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2. | |
f9d71b42 | 554 | |
084e6df3 | 555 | *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed. |
dfdb4cad | 556 | |
3fd50d5c CY |
557 | *** X clipboard managers are now supported. |
558 | To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil. | |
4b80f674 | 559 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
560 | ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines |
561 | in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a | |
562 | number to count from and for a format string. | |
99f053cf | 563 | |
7d301ae6 | 564 | ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t. |
6bf7006f EZ |
565 | This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive |
566 | at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay | |
567 | in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive | |
568 | updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up. | |
569 | ||
e70b5064 CY |
570 | ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed. |
571 | In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command') | |
572 | when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the | |
573 | region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the | |
574 | region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line). | |
575 | ||
dfdb4cad CY |
576 | ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are |
577 | collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there | |
578 | are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur' | |
579 | reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention | |
580 | follows `replace-match'. | |
581 | ||
9bae34bf | 582 | \f |
eb199145 | 583 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 |
efeb796b | 584 | |
041d709f | 585 | ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives. |
d76674bb | 586 | |
b7c3692a | 587 | ** BibTeX mode |
dfdb4cad | 588 | |
2de69e00 | 589 | *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex. |
7d301ae6 CY |
590 | Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects. |
591 | `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for | |
592 | `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'. | |
593 | ||
dfdb4cad CY |
594 | *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a. |
595 | ||
b7c3692a | 596 | *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default. |
dfdb4cad | 597 | |
022fe7ce RW |
598 | *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'. |
599 | ||
7d301ae6 | 600 | ** Browse-url |
dfdb4cad | 601 | |
7d301ae6 | 602 | *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s. |
dfdb4cad | 603 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
604 | *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program, |
605 | on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser. | |
606 | ||
cf16af42 GM |
607 | ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt |
608 | ||
7d301ae6 | 609 | *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments". |
548d0a63 GM |
610 | See the variable `diary-comment-start'. |
611 | ||
5006e634 GM |
612 | *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times. |
613 | See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'. | |
614 | ||
0a2bb1a9 GM |
615 | *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed |
616 | lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times. | |
617 | If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it. | |
618 | ||
7454f200 GM |
619 | *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'. |
620 | ||
e565dd37 GM |
621 | *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array' |
622 | may no longer be nil, but must all be strings. | |
623 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
624 | *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt |
625 | package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed. | |
626 | Use `appt-activate' instead. | |
cf16af42 | 627 | |
cf16af42 GM |
628 | *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: |
629 | appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate) | |
630 | appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format) | |
631 | ||
cf16af42 GM |
632 | *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: |
633 | view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries | |
634 | ||
551b046f | 635 | ** CC Mode |
dfdb4cad | 636 | |
551b046f | 637 | *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer. |
7d301ae6 | 638 | The main entry point is M-x c-guess. |
041d709f | 639 | |
551b046f AM |
640 | *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang). |
641 | ||
dfdb4cad | 642 | *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes. |
551b046f AM |
643 | Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function, |
644 | not the top level. | |
645 | ||
dfdb4cad | 646 | *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation. |
551b046f AM |
647 | Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer |
648 | parsed as a statement continuation. | |
649 | ||
dfdb4cad | 650 | ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code. |
041d709f CY |
651 | |
652 | ** Compilation mode | |
dfdb4cad | 653 | |
7d301ae6 | 654 | *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode. |
041d709f CY |
655 | `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete. |
656 | ||
dfdb4cad | 657 | *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while |
7d301ae6 CY |
658 | `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the |
659 | text inserted by `compilation-filter'. | |
041d709f | 660 | |
47a6a35f GM |
661 | *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column' |
662 | are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can | |
7d301ae6 CY |
663 | set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation* |
664 | buffer was used. | |
1dce7193 | 665 | |
52834b6b CY |
666 | ** Customize |
667 | ||
668 | *** Customize buffers now contain a search field. | |
669 | The search is performed using `customize-apropos'. | |
7d301ae6 | 670 | To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil. |
52834b6b CY |
671 | |
672 | *** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values. | |
673 | Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility. | |
674 | ||
675 | *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t. | |
676 | ||
677 | *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to | |
7d301ae6 | 678 | choose a color via `list-colors-display'. |
52834b6b | 679 | |
041d709f CY |
680 | ** D-Bus |
681 | ||
5da3be7f GM |
682 | *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system |
683 | or session bus. | |
041d709f | 684 | |
7d301ae6 | 685 | *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions |
5da3be7f | 686 | optionally do not register names. |
041d709f | 687 | |
7d301ae6 | 688 | *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service |
dfdb4cad | 689 | name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method. |
041d709f | 690 | |
f5d6548a | 691 | ** Dired-x |
425a25f1 | 692 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
693 | *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'), |
694 | if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer | |
695 | instead of using the current buffer. | |
f5d6548a | 696 | |
7d301ae6 | 697 | *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete. |
817b48a7 | 698 | The standard directory local variables feature replaces it. |
8117868f | 699 | |
041d709f | 700 | ** ERC changes |
7492acc9 | 701 | |
c4077254 GM |
702 | *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay', |
703 | controlling attempts to autojoin a channel. | |
041d709f CY |
704 | |
705 | *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided' | |
706 | as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted. | |
707 | The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as | |
708 | utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest. | |
7492acc9 | 709 | |
041d709f | 710 | ** Eshell changes |
7492acc9 | 711 | |
05f77e38 GM |
712 | *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed |
713 | to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'. | |
714 | The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though. | |
041d709f CY |
715 | |
716 | ** gdb-mi | |
dfdb4cad CY |
717 | |
718 | *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol. | |
05f77e38 GM |
719 | It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous |
720 | debugging of several threads. | |
7492acc9 | 721 | |
18af70d0 CY |
722 | ** Image mode |
723 | ||
05f77e38 GM |
724 | *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable. |
725 | Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil. | |
18af70d0 | 726 | |
041d709f | 727 | ** Info |
723ee192 | 728 | |
7d301ae6 | 729 | *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual. |
2ebc3b94 GM |
730 | If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays |
731 | that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info* | |
732 | buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual | |
733 | you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual. | |
691cf4a0 | 734 | |
24ea72d3 EZ |
735 | *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'. |
736 | This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program, | |
737 | and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled | |
738 | by default. | |
739 | ||
7d301ae6 | 740 | ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode) |
dfdb4cad | 741 | |
7d301ae6 | 742 | *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments |
7d301ae6 | 743 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
744 | *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file. |
745 | (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME | |
746 | attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name. | |
747 | ||
06b08b88 | 748 | ** MH-E has been upgraded to MH-E version 8.3.1. |
041d709f | 749 | See MH-E-NEWS for details. |
37221432 | 750 | |
041d709f | 751 | ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation. |
37221432 | 752 | |
041d709f | 753 | ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags. |
3c3d4f5b | 754 | |
5d1ac394 | 755 | ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
756 | Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i |
757 | or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the | |
758 | default), this performs tag completion. | |
5d1ac394 | 759 | |
041d709f | 760 | ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional |
7d301ae6 CY |
761 | functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity, |
762 | support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more. | |
041d709f CY |
763 | |
764 | ** Rmail | |
765 | ||
766 | *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data | |
767 | in the Rmail incoming message. | |
768 | ||
50419064 GM |
769 | *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect. |
770 | This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time. | |
771 | Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead. | |
772 | ||
717a1362 | 773 | ** Shell mode |
dfdb4cad CY |
774 | |
775 | *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory | |
776 | is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor | |
777 | the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set. | |
778 | ||
779 | *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command, | |
780 | which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion. | |
717a1362 | 781 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
782 | ** SMTPmail |
783 | ||
dfdb4cad | 784 | *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default |
7d301ae6 CY |
785 | if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS |
786 | support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type' | |
787 | to change this. | |
788 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
789 | *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed. |
790 | By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
791 | This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had |
792 | customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and | |
793 | passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection | |
794 | to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password, | |
795 | and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the | |
796 | credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had | |
7d301ae6 CY |
797 | |
798 | (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials | |
799 | '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret"))) | |
800 | ||
801 | then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be | |
802 | ||
803 | machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret | |
804 | ||
805 | See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting | |
806 | the credentials file. | |
807 | ||
7d301ae6 | 808 | *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed. |
dfdb4cad | 809 | If you had that set, you need to put |
7d301ae6 CY |
810 | |
811 | machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert" | |
812 | ||
813 | in your ~/.authinfo file instead. | |
814 | ||
34e8a2da | 815 | ** SQL mode |
041d709f | 816 | |
34e8a2da GM |
817 | *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator', |
818 | and `sql-oracle-scan-on'. | |
041d709f | 819 | |
dfdb4cad | 820 | *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters. |
34e8a2da GM |
821 | Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params', |
822 | which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a | |
823 | connection is established. | |
041d709f CY |
824 | |
825 | *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument, | |
34e8a2da | 826 | which causes it to prompt for an SQL product. |
041d709f | 827 | |
34e8a2da | 828 | *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments. |
041d709f CY |
829 | These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.), |
830 | given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive | |
831 | buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'. | |
832 | ||
833 | *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and | |
834 | replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL | |
835 | statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into | |
836 | the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The | |
34e8a2da GM |
837 | second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing |
838 | object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions. | |
041d709f CY |
839 | |
840 | *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session, | |
841 | using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'. | |
842 | ||
843 | *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers. | |
844 | This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it | |
845 | was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection. | |
846 | ||
34e8a2da GM |
847 | *** New commands for listing database objects and details: |
848 | sql-list-all and sql-list-table. | |
041d709f CY |
849 | |
850 | *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added. | |
851 | ||
852 | ** TeX modes | |
853 | ||
854 | *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly. | |
412b9ee5 | 855 | |
459bba37 | 856 | ** Tramp |
dfdb4cad | 857 | |
7d301ae6 | 858 | *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su). |
dfdb4cad | 859 | |
459bba37 | 860 | *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old", |
ea843702 | 861 | "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish". |
dfdb4cad | 862 | |
b011fbfe GM |
863 | *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether |
864 | remote file attributes are cached for better performance. | |
dfdb4cad | 865 | |
58f74fe4 MA |
866 | *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its |
867 | default value to "". | |
dfdb4cad | 868 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
869 | *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context' |
870 | for remote machines which support SELinux. | |
58f74fe4 | 871 | |
dfdb4cad | 872 | ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve, |
a48ec60c GM |
873 | but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on |
874 | the degree of parallelism. | |
177549d0 | 875 | |
0c32ce32 CY |
876 | ** VC and related modes |
877 | ||
878 | *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
879 | The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is |
880 | supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the | |
881 | current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt | |
882 | the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location. | |
0c32ce32 | 883 | |
dab3703d | 884 | *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'. |
0c32ce32 CY |
885 | |
886 | *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
887 | The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it |
888 | is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge | |
889 | changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for | |
890 | specifics, e.g. a merge source. | |
0c32ce32 | 891 | |
2afef60a | 892 | *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert' |
bbe43420 | 893 | shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t. |
2afef60a | 894 | |
d4eb88c7 CY |
895 | *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a |
896 | longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display). | |
dab3703d GM |
897 | This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support |
898 | another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function'). | |
7d301ae6 | 899 | In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can |
d4eb88c7 CY |
900 | use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point. |
901 | ||
1c6c854e CS |
902 | *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions |
903 | of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend. | |
904 | ||
86c60681 CY |
905 | *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but |
906 | this was not advertised at the time. | |
907 | ||
86c60681 CY |
908 | *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'. |
909 | Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but | |
80c6d77f GM |
910 | this was not advertised at the time. |
911 | ||
041d709f CY |
912 | ** Obsolete modes |
913 | ||
23d70505 GM |
914 | *** abbrevlist.el |
915 | ||
f8ca9162 | 916 | *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead) |
23d70505 GM |
917 | |
918 | *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete. | |
041d709f CY |
919 | You can get a comparable behavior with: |
920 | (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials)) | |
921 | (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t) | |
922 | ||
23d70505 GM |
923 | *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive). |
924 | ||
2c719188 | 925 | *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead). |
041d709f CY |
926 | |
927 | *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset. | |
928 | ||
23d70505 GM |
929 | *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete. |
930 | They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1. | |
931 | ||
2c719188 | 932 | *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer). |
ca5eed61 | 933 | |
0fe719e6 GM |
934 | ** Miscellaneous |
935 | ||
05f77e38 | 936 | *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'. |
c6ad2a4e | 937 | Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed. |
05f77e38 | 938 | |
dfdb4cad | 939 | *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'. |
05f77e38 GM |
940 | (This interfered with cua-mode.) |
941 | ||
9f678528 GM |
942 | *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax. |
943 | ||
0fe719e6 GM |
944 | *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges. |
945 | ||
5b3e6db8 GM |
946 | *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet. |
947 | ||
eb199145 GM |
948 | \f |
949 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 | |
d445b3f8 | 950 | |
60e56523 | 951 | ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the |
8c0f49f0 | 952 | original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode. |
60e56523 | 953 | |
a075a2c5 GM |
954 | ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode. |
955 | When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the | |
956 | matching closing one. | |
957 | ||
958 | ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode. | |
959 | When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation. | |
cd3308f3 GM |
960 | Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or |
961 | electric-indent-functions. | |
a075a2c5 GM |
962 | |
963 | ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode. | |
964 | When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines. | |
cd3308f3 | 965 | Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules. |
3b843809 | 966 | |
a83ec3c9 CY |
967 | ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data, |
968 | from which other modes can be derived. | |
969 | ||
d02c9bcd SM |
970 | ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'. |
971 | ||
7725ebb7 MA |
972 | ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an |
973 | interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The | |
065f2743 MA |
974 | Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command |
975 | `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the | |
976 | secrets. | |
7725ebb7 | 977 | |
f9e78150 MA |
978 | ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop |
979 | Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication. | |
980 | ||
12fe5bcc MA |
981 | ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs. |
982 | soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures. | |
983 | ||
ff1796f3 | 984 | ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files. |
ad7d6ecb | 985 | |
53bbe3ad | 986 | ** New emacs-lock.el package. |
7d301ae6 CY |
987 | The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el. |
988 | Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection | |
989 | against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately. | |
990 | The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers | |
991 | with dead inferior processes has been generalized. | |
53bbe3ad | 992 | |
eb199145 GM |
993 | \f |
994 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
6dfcbe31 | 995 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
996 | ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES |
997 | the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g. | |
998 | ||
dfdb4cad | 999 | (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode) |
7d301ae6 | 1000 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1001 | to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for |
1002 | `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands | |
1003 | defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode | |
1004 | command still toggles the minor mode. | |
7d301ae6 | 1005 | |
d268b4fe CY |
1006 | ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed. |
1007 | It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list | |
1008 | describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the | |
f003f294 | 1009 | system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil). |
7d301ae6 | 1010 | See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1". |
d268b4fe | 1011 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1012 | ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted. |
1013 | They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional | |
1014 | editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional | |
1015 | properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last | |
1016 | argument `bidi-class'. | |
fa6996bc | 1017 | |
470d996d TV |
1018 | ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory |
1019 | of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The | |
1020 | new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy | |
1021 | the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory. | |
1022 | ||
9173a8fb CY |
1023 | ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel |
1024 | coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text | |
1025 | area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top | |
1026 | of the header line. | |
1027 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1028 | ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has |
1029 | been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is | |
1030 | always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all | |
1031 | "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes | |
1032 | as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then | |
1033 | you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the | |
1034 | appropriate conventions may fail to compile. | |
50ab02c5 CY |
1035 | |
1036 | The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote | |
1037 | followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation | |
1038 | for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')], | |
1039 | you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in | |
7d301ae6 | 1040 | older Emacsen too. |
288cf4e9 | 1041 | |
520f2425 GM |
1042 | ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this |
1043 | was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay' | |
1044 | replaced all known uses. | |
1045 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1046 | ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that |
1047 | `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the | |
1048 | major mode is special). | |
fd5c9dfa | 1049 | |
7d301ae6 | 1050 | ** Menu and tool bar changes |
6431f2e6 | 1051 | |
7d301ae6 | 1052 | *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines' |
0a19a6f8 JB |
1053 | and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'. |
1054 | With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the | |
1055 | variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create | |
1056 | a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added, | |
1057 | they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'. | |
6431f2e6 | 1058 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1059 | *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more. |
1060 | Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead. | |
1061 | ||
fe0aa820 | 1062 | ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions, |
dfdb4cad | 1063 | similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes |
7d301ae6 CY |
1064 | above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by |
1065 | `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed. | |
d6d8ee7a | 1066 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1067 | ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed. |
1068 | If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply | |
1069 | pass the result through substring-no-properties. | |
34c99998 | 1070 | |
4583e796 GM |
1071 | ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'. |
1072 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1073 | ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed |
1074 | (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed" | |
1075 | means you can just remove all calls to the function in question): | |
1076 | ||
1077 | *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output') | |
1078 | *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string') | |
1079 | *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p') | |
1080 | *** `internal-find-face' (`facep') | |
1081 | *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face') | |
1082 | *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed) | |
1083 | *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode') | |
1084 | *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions) | |
2c719188 | 1085 | *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold') |
7d301ae6 CY |
1086 | *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic') |
1087 | *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic') | |
1088 | *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold') | |
1089 | *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic') | |
1090 | *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line') | |
1091 | *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line') | |
1092 | *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode') | |
1093 | *** `char-bytes' (== 1) | |
1094 | *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char') | |
1095 | *** `make-local-hook' (not needed) | |
1096 | *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height') | |
1097 | *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width') | |
1098 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1099 | ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed |
1100 | (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses): | |
1101 | ||
1102 | *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map') | |
1103 | *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header') | |
1104 | *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/) | |
1105 | *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults') | |
1106 | *** `e' (`float-e'). | |
3226d6ca | 1107 | |
041d709f | 1108 | ** The following obsolete files were removed: |
7b0e3048 GM |
1109 | sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el |
1110 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1111 | ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder |
1112 | mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable | |
1113 | `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and | |
1114 | `finder-keywords-hash'. | |
33658d4e | 1115 | |
c2c79260 DE |
1116 | ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer |
1117 | assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead | |
1118 | generates relative names according to the current `load-path'. | |
1119 | ||
eb199145 GM |
1120 | \f |
1121 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
9097e8af | 1122 | |
041d709f | 1123 | ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping. |
dfdb4cad | 1124 | The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local |
48da7392 | 1125 | variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first |
dfdb4cad CY |
1126 | line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that |
1127 | file. | |
1128 | ||
041d709f CY |
1129 | *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical |
1130 | binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode. | |
dfdb4cad | 1131 | |
041d709f CY |
1132 | *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form |
1133 | of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY). | |
1134 | ||
1135 | *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1136 | |
1137 | *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic). | |
1138 | So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine. | |
1139 | ||
041d709f CY |
1140 | *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is |
1141 | declared as dynamically bound. | |
1142 | ||
1143 | ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included. | |
1144 | Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for | |
1145 | their code. See the ERT info manual for details. | |
1146 | ||
1147 | ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing | |
f1816485 | 1148 | |
041d709f | 1149 | *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'. |
7d301ae6 | 1150 | This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point. |
041d709f | 1151 | |
041d709f | 1152 | *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1153 | Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this |
1154 | function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a | |
1155 | buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1156 | right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode |
1157 | "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.) | |
041d709f | 1158 | |
7d301ae6 | 1159 | This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph |
dfdb4cad CY |
1160 | direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known |
1161 | in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line. | |
041d709f | 1162 | |
bee0fcef | 1163 | ** Window changes |
dfdb4cad | 1164 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1165 | *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp. |
1166 | Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows | |
1167 | of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a | |
1168 | buffer) in the window tree. | |
dfdb4cad | 1169 | |
24300f5f CY |
1170 | **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal |
1171 | windows. | |
dfdb4cad | 1172 | |
24300f5f | 1173 | **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows. |
c4682d18 MR |
1174 | Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or |
1175 | `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now | |
1176 | act on any window including internal ones. | |
dfdb4cad | 1177 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1178 | *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width. |
1179 | The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height' | |
1180 | and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old | |
1181 | names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width' | |
1182 | and `window-body-height' are provided. | |
dfdb4cad | 1183 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1184 | *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions. |
1185 | For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default | |
1186 | behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window' | |
ed6235ea MR |
1187 | and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters' |
1188 | allows to ignore processing such parameters. | |
dfdb4cad | 1189 | |
c4682d18 | 1190 | *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'. |
c4682d18 MR |
1191 | The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be |
1192 | set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the | |
1193 | new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be | |
1194 | split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the | |
1195 | window into two side-by-side windows as before. | |
dfdb4cad | 1196 | |
c4682d18 | 1197 | *** Window resizing functions. |
487ffd7a | 1198 | A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has |
c4682d18 MR |
1199 | been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no |
1200 | longer delete any windows when they become too small. | |
dfdb4cad | 1201 | |
b3c0dbfd MR |
1202 | *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected |
1203 | live window on that frame instead. | |
dfdb4cad | 1204 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1205 | *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments. |
1206 | `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and | |
1207 | is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing | |
1208 | edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to | |
1209 | that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete | |
1210 | windows which was introduced in Emacs 22. | |
dfdb4cad | 1211 | |
c4682d18 MR |
1212 | *** Window-local buffer lists. |
1213 | Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer | |
1214 | from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously | |
1215 | shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point | |
1216 | positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically | |
1217 | shown twice even if it already appears in another window. | |
dfdb4cad | 1218 | |
bee0fcef CY |
1219 | *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW, |
1220 | which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently | |
1221 | selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window | |
1222 | can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated. | |
dfdb4cad | 1223 | |
0a2132ba | 1224 | *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed |
2d197ffb CY |
1225 | to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively. |
1226 | The old names are kept as aliases. | |
dfdb4cad | 1227 | |
0a2132ba CY |
1228 | *** Display actions |
1229 | ||
1230 | **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now | |
1231 | named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as | |
1232 | `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil, | |
1233 | non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning. | |
1234 | ||
1235 | **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'. | |
1236 | ||
1237 | **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is | |
1238 | determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action', | |
1239 | `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action', | |
1240 | and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these | |
1241 | are user-customizable variables. | |
1242 | ||
1243 | See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details. | |
bee0fcef | 1244 | |
20d2304d CY |
1245 | *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'. |
1246 | These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary | |
1247 | frame or window as an Elisp object. | |
1248 | ||
a2a25d24 | 1249 | ** Completion |
041d709f | 1250 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1251 | *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra |
1252 | properties of the current completion: | |
a2a25d24 SM |
1253 | - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function. |
1254 | - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place. | |
1255 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1256 | *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the |
1257 | properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'. | |
a2a25d24 | 1258 | |
7d301ae6 | 1259 | *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete. |
a2a25d24 | 1260 | |
620c53a6 SM |
1261 | *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned |
1262 | can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions': | |
1263 | - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...), | |
1264 | used to select a style in completion-category-overrides. | |
1265 | - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*. | |
1266 | - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*. | |
1267 | - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling. | |
1268 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1269 | *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more. |
1270 | Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' | |
1271 | are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'. | |
de09aa52 CY |
1272 | |
1273 | *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the | |
1274 | behavior of `completing-read'. | |
1275 | ||
f042970d | 1276 | ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and |
16a43933 CY |
1277 | text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell. |
1278 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1279 | ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error. |
f6d62986 SM |
1280 | Instead, the offending function is removed. |
1281 | ||
b1f6fa26 CY |
1282 | ** New hook types |
1283 | ||
1284 | *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by | |
1285 | passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function. | |
e7bc51d0 | 1286 | Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first |
5385447f | 1287 | non-nil return value. |
e7bc51d0 | 1288 | |
b1f6fa26 CY |
1289 | *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a |
1290 | set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice. | |
54521c99 GM |
1291 | (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not |
1292 | advertised at the time.) | |
f6d62986 | 1293 | |
0b19b281 | 1294 | ** Debugger changes |
dfdb4cad | 1295 | |
0b19b281 | 1296 | *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in |
1be3ca5a | 1297 | Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised) |
dfdb4cad | 1298 | |
0b19b281 | 1299 | *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised. |
dfdb4cad | 1300 | |
0b19b281 | 1301 | *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed. |
dfdb4cad | 1302 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1303 | *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will |
1304 | jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked | |
1305 | instead of jumping all the way to the top-level. | |
dfdb4cad | 1306 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1307 | *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1. |
1308 | This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set. | |
d6b1d521 | 1309 | |
953cebf5 | 1310 | ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on |
37576acd | 1311 | named Emacs server instances. |
7deebf1b | 1312 | |
1b9f60cc GM |
1313 | ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec |
1314 | to redirect STDOUT to a file. | |
7deebf1b | 1315 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1316 | ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive, |
1317 | for higher-resolution time stamps. | |
da97a9e6 | 1318 | |
0b19b281 | 1319 | ** New input reading functions |
dfdb4cad | 1320 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1321 | *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of |
1322 | characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set. | |
dfdb4cad | 1323 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1324 | *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name |
1325 | or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides | |
1326 | invalid input. | |
dfdb4cad | 1327 | |
0b19b281 | 1328 | **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'. |
3ef01959 | 1329 | |
2e288d54 JB |
1330 | ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'. |
1331 | The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries, | |
1332 | not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an | |
1333 | obsolete alias. | |
1334 | ||
0b19b281 | 1335 | ** Syntax parsing changes |
dfdb4cad | 1336 | |
0b19b281 | 1337 | *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'. |
04e2ce72 | 1338 | This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete. |
cf38dd42 SM |
1339 | This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock: |
1340 | just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized. | |
1341 | Together with this new variable come a new hook | |
1342 | syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions: | |
1343 | syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords | |
1344 | as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify | |
1345 | syntactic rules. | |
dfdb4cad | 1346 | |
0b19b281 | 1347 | *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b. |
a2e5caf7 | 1348 | |
7d301ae6 | 1349 | ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'. |
041d709f | 1350 | |
4e2db1fe | 1351 | ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more. |
041d709f | 1352 | |
15de15c6 | 1353 | ** Major and minor mode changes |
dfdb4cad | 1354 | |
0b19b281 CY |
1355 | *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files, |
1356 | as well as those in the -*- line. | |
dfdb4cad | 1357 | |
15de15c6 CY |
1358 | *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes |
1359 | should be derived. | |
dfdb4cad | 1360 | |
15de15c6 CY |
1361 | **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming |
1362 | modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable | |
1363 | on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings. | |
dfdb4cad | 1364 | |
15de15c6 CY |
1365 | *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by |
1366 | `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks. | |
dfdb4cad | 1367 | |
7a9a2fc6 GM |
1368 | *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes. |
1369 | If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the | |
1370 | major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis. | |
dfdb4cad | 1371 | |
feb8a83a | 1372 | *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook. |
f44379e7 | 1373 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1374 | ** File-handling changes |
1375 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1376 | *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH. |
f1a5d776 CY |
1377 | Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are |
1378 | both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix | |
1379 | argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above). | |
53967e09 | 1380 | |
7d301ae6 | 1381 | *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'. |
ec70a47d | 1382 | |
4039c786 CY |
1383 | ** Tool-bars can display separators. |
1384 | Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps, | |
94975270 | 1385 | i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'. |
9317e499 | 1386 | |
00fe2df1 JL |
1387 | ** Image API |
1388 | ||
18af70d0 CY |
1389 | *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only). |
1390 | ||
1391 | **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated. | |
1392 | ||
1393 | **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec. | |
1394 | ||
1395 | **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that | |
1396 | is being animated. | |
00fe2df1 | 1397 | |
7cb76fe0 GM |
1398 | *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'. |
1399 | The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one. | |
1546c559 | 1400 | |
b4ac6e8c GM |
1401 | *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports. |
1402 | This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1403 | |
1404 | **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support | |
1405 | is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your | |
1406 | ImageMagick installation supports. | |
1407 | ||
1408 | **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick | |
1409 | image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper | |
1410 | functions. | |
1411 | ||
1412 | **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain | |
1413 | ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'. | |
1414 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1415 | **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to |
1416 | resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height', | |
1417 | `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and | |
1418 | `image-transform-set-scale'. | |
041d709f | 1419 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1420 | ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and |
1421 | passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an | |
1422 | action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For | |
1423 | example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window. | |
b4ac6e8c | 1424 | |
71c17aec | 1425 | ** XML and HTML parsing |
483ab230 CY |
1426 | If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new |
1427 | functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML) | |
1428 | and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an | |
1429 | Emacs Lisp parse tree. | |
4b9832a6 | 1430 | |
7d301ae6 | 1431 | ** Networking and encryption changes |
e2574f2c | 1432 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1433 | *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream. |
1434 | It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS | |
1435 | connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional | |
1436 | parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command') | |
1437 | must also be supplied. | |
1438 | ||
1439 | *** New library gnutls.el. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1440 | The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is |
1441 | built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are | |
1442 | `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use | |
1443 | these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1444 | upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain |
1445 | SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level' | |
1446 | greater than 0. | |
1447 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1448 | *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms: |
1449 | md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library | |
1450 | sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default. | |
71c17aec | 1451 | |
a6020335 MH |
1452 | ** Isearch |
1453 | ||
1454 | *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'. | |
1455 | ||
9326ba26 CY |
1456 | ** Progress reporters can now "spin". |
1457 | The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can | |
1458 | now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each | |
1459 | time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter, | |
1460 | with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is | |
1461 | displayed with a "spinning bar". | |
1462 | ||
3e214b50 JB |
1463 | ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is |
1464 | being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'. | |
1465 | ||
001bf877 GM |
1466 | ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'. |
1467 | If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1468 | `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this |
1469 | is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during | |
1470 | startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the | |
1471 | functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'. | |
001bf877 | 1472 | |
6420d28b CY |
1473 | ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups. |
1474 | ||
dac86404 GM |
1475 | ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap |
1476 | from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that | |
1477 | inherits from multiple maps, eg: | |
1478 | (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent)) | |
43dc9f5b | 1479 | |
c8f6ec5c GM |
1480 | ** New function `string-prefix-p'. |
1481 | (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.) | |
1482 | ||
27f7ef2f | 1483 | ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol. |
43dc9f5b AS |
1484 | This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself |
1485 | (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for | |
1486 | an empty uninterned symbol. | |
041d709f | 1487 | |
fead402d CY |
1488 | ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'. |
1489 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1490 | ** The following functions and variables are obsolete: |
041d709f | 1491 | |
05f77e38 GM |
1492 | *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete. |
1493 | Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead. | |
1494 | ||
041d709f CY |
1495 | *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete. |
1496 | Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead. | |
1497 | ||
1498 | *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete. | |
1499 | ||
1500 | *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete. | |
f160676e GM |
1501 | Use `post-command-hook' instead. |
1502 | ||
67e729a5 CY |
1503 | *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete. |
1504 | ||
eb199145 GM |
1505 | \f |
1506 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems | |
d53a60a6 | 1507 | |
7a22e700 | 1508 | ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs, |
a2f0118c GM |
1509 | and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default. |
1510 | ||
7a22e700 | 1511 | ** New configure.bat options |
04779484 | 1512 | |
7a22e700 | 1513 | *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks. |
e3aef5c6 | 1514 | |
7a22e700 | 1515 | *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution. |
e2574f2c | 1516 | |
7a22e700 OK |
1517 | *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection. |
1518 | ||
a0d363f4 | 1519 | *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable. |
e2574f2c | 1520 | |
0a19a6f8 | 1521 | ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows. |
e3aef5c6 | 1522 | |
1f5e1a16 GM |
1523 | ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete. |
1524 | (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.) | |
5430d399 | 1525 | |
1f5e1a16 GM |
1526 | ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but |
1527 | reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.) | |
04e2ce72 | 1528 | |
ad7c802c CY |
1529 | ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on |
1530 | other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer. | |
1531 | ||
05197f40 | 1532 | \f |
a933dad1 | 1533 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
5b87ad55 | 1534 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
a933dad1 | 1535 | |
ab73e885 | 1536 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
5b87ad55 | 1537 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
ab73e885 GM |
1538 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
1539 | (at your option) any later version. | |
5b87ad55 GM |
1540 | |
1541 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
1542 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
1543 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
1544 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
a933dad1 | 1545 | |
5b87ad55 | 1546 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
ab73e885 | 1547 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
a933dad1 | 1548 | |
05197f40 | 1549 | \f |
a933dad1 DL |
1550 | Local variables: |
1551 | mode: outline | |
1552 | paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$" | |
1553 | end: |