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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. |
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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. |
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 | |
95a32efb GM |
24 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.4 |
25 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4 | |
26 | * Changes in Emacs 24.4 | |
27 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4 | |
28 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4 | |
29 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4 | |
30 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4 | |
da03ef8a SM |
31 | |
32 | ** `dolist' in lexical-binding mode does not bind VAR in RESULT any more. | |
33 | VAR was bound to nil which was not tremendously useful and just lead to | |
34 | spurious warnings about an unused var. | |
35 | ||
95a32efb | 36 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.4 |
57618ecf SM |
37 | |
38 | ** Docstrings can be made dynamic by adding a `dynamic-docstring-function' | |
39 | text-property on the first char. | |
40 | ||
32e5c58c SM |
41 | ** The `defalias-fset-function' property lets you catch calls to defalias |
42 | and redirect them to your own function instead of `fset'. | |
43 | ||
95a32efb GM |
44 | * Changes in Emacs 24.4 on non-free operating systems |
45 | ||
46 | \f | |
2a1e2476 | 47 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
b8df54ff | 48 | |
d71a6517 GM |
49 | --- |
50 | ** The default toolkit has been changed to Gtk+ version 3. | |
51 | If you don't pass --with-x-toolkit to configure or if you pass | |
52 | --with-x-toolkit=gtk or --with-x-toolkit=yes, configure will try to build | |
53 | with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2. | |
54 | You can explicitly require a specific version by passing | |
55 | --with-x-toolkit=gtk2 or --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 to configure. | |
56 | ||
57 | --- | |
8b2e00a3 | 58 | ** New configure option '--without-all' to disable additional features. |
da3d2105 DA |
59 | This disables most of the features that are normally enabled by default. |
60 | ||
d71a6517 | 61 | --- |
da3d2105 DA |
62 | ** New configure option '--enable-link-time-optimization' to utilize |
63 | an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0. | |
64 | ||
d71a6517 | 65 | --- |
b8df54ff PE |
66 | ** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers. |
67 | If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about | |
68 | possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be | |
69 | no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings | |
ae6e112d | 70 | may be useful. |
b8df54ff | 71 | |
d71a6517 | 72 | --- |
1a9c6830 | 73 | ** The configure option '--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been |
d71a6517 GM |
74 | renamed to '--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting |
75 | Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time | |
76 | check that this option enables. | |
77 | ||
78 | --- | |
501390c5 PE |
79 | ** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed, |
80 | as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful. | |
81 | ||
5af9cb6b GM |
82 | --- |
83 | ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation | |
84 | overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link | |
85 | to emacs-VERSION. | |
86 | ||
1a9c6830 | 87 | --- |
f14a4380 GM |
88 | ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and |
89 | `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed | |
90 | binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the | |
91 | etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break | |
92 | links between the various manuals. | |
1a9c6830 | 93 | |
a4a18b8b GM |
94 | --- |
95 | ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available. | |
96 | ||
187e9b90 GM |
97 | --- |
98 | ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and | |
99 | /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if | |
100 | you want them. | |
101 | ||
276d5f5d GM |
102 | --- |
103 | ** The standalone scripts rcs-checkin and vcdiff have been removed | |
104 | (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is | |
105 | no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el). | |
106 | ||
a1ed8b05 | 107 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 108 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
e5fcdb5e | 109 | |
48de8b12 | 110 | +++ |
e5fcdb5e GM |
111 | ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard |
112 | lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have | |
113 | been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp. | |
114 | ||
4107c81e GM |
115 | --- |
116 | ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds. | |
117 | ||
a1ed8b05 | 118 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 119 | * Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
a1ed8b05 | 120 | |
48de8b12 | 121 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
122 | ** Most y-or-n prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window. |
123 | Typing C-v or M-v at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward | |
124 | respectively, without exiting from the prompt. | |
125 | ||
f938eda9 | 126 | ** Mode line changes |
e109c4a6 | 127 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
128 | *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text |
129 | (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line | |
130 | that does not have its own specialized help text. | |
cd996018 CY |
131 | +++ |
132 | *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke | |
133 | `set-buffer-file-coding-system'. | |
011474aa | 134 | |
c89926a5 CY |
135 | ** Help changes |
136 | ||
48de8b12 | 137 | +++ |
c89926a5 CY |
138 | *** `C-h f' (describe-function) can now perform autoloading. |
139 | When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring | |
140 | contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is | |
141 | automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown | |
142 | correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil. | |
143 | ||
48de8b12 | 144 | --- |
c89926a5 CY |
145 | *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded", |
146 | even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the | |
147 | autoloads have been redefined as functions). | |
148 | ||
cd996018 CY |
149 | ** Minibuffer changes |
150 | --- | |
151 | *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the | |
152 | next and previous path separator, respectively. | |
7d806bfe | 153 | +++ |
cd996018 CY |
154 | *** minibuffer-electric-default-mode can rewrite (default ...) to [...]. |
155 | Just set minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default to t before enabling the mode. | |
156 | ||
c505aaeb CY |
157 | ** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled. |
158 | It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types' | |
159 | explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called | |
7d806bfe | 160 | automatically at startup, or when customizing an imagemagick- option. |
73f2b4ab | 161 | +++ |
c505aaeb | 162 | *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of |
87eb79c2 GM |
163 | ImageMagick to view images. You must call imagemagick-register-types |
164 | afterwards if you do not use customize to change this. | |
73f2b4ab | 165 | +++ |
7afbaca4 | 166 | *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which |
60b5f187 GM |
167 | ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function |
168 | `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be | |
169 | treated as images. | |
73f2b4ab | 170 | --- |
1b9b4cf4 CY |
171 | *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the |
172 | :background image spec property. | |
c505aaeb | 173 | |
f938eda9 | 174 | ** Server and client changes |
48de8b12 | 175 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
176 | *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice', |
177 | if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit | |
178 | or expression to evaluate. | |
48de8b12 | 179 | --- |
f938eda9 | 180 | *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key. |
db80bdc8 | 181 | |
05b621a6 | 182 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
183 | ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new", |
184 | and sorted above the other "available" packages by default. | |
185 | ||
e109c4a6 | 186 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
187 | ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'. |
188 | This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete. | |
189 | ||
4c1f6a5b | 190 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
191 | ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors. |
192 | On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description | |
193 | of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc | |
194 | that support backtraces. | |
2e2d2a13 | 195 | |
48de8b12 | 196 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
197 | ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable |
198 | `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used. | |
de6ff46d | 199 | |
dc0f75c8 | 200 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
201 | ** New variable `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles. |
202 | It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock | |
203 | files (use this with caution). | |
dc0f75c8 | 204 | |
b8a82b69 | 205 | +++ |
03794570 | 206 | ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete. |
57699e37 | 207 | Use "coding: raw-text" instead. |
03794570 | 208 | |
21ffb35a MA |
209 | +++ |
210 | ** Setting `enable-remote-dir-locals' to non-nil allows directory | |
211 | local variables on remote hosts. | |
212 | ||
f938eda9 | 213 | --- |
f85f636a CY |
214 | ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu. |
215 | The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard. | |
216 | ||
f938eda9 CY |
217 | ** Internationalization changes |
218 | --- | |
219 | *** New language environment: Persian. | |
220 | --- | |
221 | *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'. | |
222 | ||
4e98ad15 | 223 | ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port changes |
335f5ae4 | 224 | --- |
d7e642cc JD |
225 | *** Fullscreen and frame parameter fullscreen is supported. |
226 | --- | |
1a9c6830 GM |
227 | *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the |
228 | menu/toolbar. | |
229 | ||
a1ed8b05 | 230 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 231 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
c25df26e | 232 | |
d39d3c8e | 233 | ** Navigation command changes |
48de8b12 | 234 | +++ |
d39d3c8e | 235 | *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'. |
48de8b12 | 236 | +++ |
d39d3c8e | 237 | *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'. |
48de8b12 | 238 | +++ |
d39d3c8e CY |
239 | *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called |
240 | interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1. | |
241 | ||
f938eda9 | 242 | ** Search and Replace changes |
48de8b12 | 243 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
244 | *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching. |
245 | Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any | |
246 | sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the | |
247 | variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a | |
248 | similar existing feature for regexp Isearch). | |
48de8b12 | 249 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
250 | *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching. |
251 | This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch. | |
48de8b12 | 252 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
253 | *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'. |
254 | If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too. | |
255 | The default is nil. | |
05b621a6 | 256 | +++ |
b9cb2387 JL |
257 | *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search, |
258 | and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode. | |
259 | `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity. | |
260 | ||
48de8b12 CY |
261 | +++ |
262 | ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command. | |
263 | `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'. | |
264 | ||
265 | --- | |
266 | ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes. | |
267 | It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to | |
268 | accidentally type. | |
269 | ||
270 | +++ | |
271 | ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether | |
272 | M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end | |
273 | of the buffer. It defaults to t. | |
274 | ||
f938eda9 CY |
275 | ** Register changes |
276 | +++ | |
277 | *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register. | |
278 | +++ | |
279 | *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing | |
280 | the text to put between collected texts for use with M-x | |
281 | append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register. | |
dd7ffad6 | 282 | |
48de8b12 | 283 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 284 | ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer. |
826b3235 | 285 | |
48de8b12 | 286 | +++ |
be755c79 RT |
287 | ** New command `C-x r M-w' (copy-rectangle-as-kill). |
288 | It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill. | |
289 | ||
05b621a6 | 290 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
291 | ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text |
292 | properties on yanked text, in more ways that are more general than | |
293 | just removing them, as done by `yank-excluded-properties'. | |
6b79ce7e | 294 | |
a1ed8b05 | 295 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 296 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3 |
b2459884 | 297 | |
f938eda9 | 298 | ** Apropos |
48de8b12 | 299 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
300 | *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable. |
301 | These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on; | |
302 | see the `apropos' Custom group for details. | |
48de8b12 CY |
303 | --- |
304 | *** The old options whose values specified faces to use were removed | |
f938eda9 CY |
305 | (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.). |
306 | ||
307 | ** Buffer Menu | |
308 | This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode. | |
48de8b12 | 309 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
310 | *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete. |
311 | Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead. | |
312 | ||
313 | ** Calendar | |
314 | ||
cad4f290 | 315 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
316 | *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month. |
317 | See the variable `calendar-month-header'. | |
318 | ||
f1f4dba0 GM |
319 | +++ |
320 | *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'. | |
321 | ||
b859a383 | 322 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 323 | *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays. |
b859a383 | 324 | Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this. |
ae4969c2 | 325 | |
89660017 | 326 | ** CL |
f938eda9 | 327 | |
92246540 | 328 | +++ |
89660017 | 329 | *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib). |
7c1898a7 | 330 | `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly, |
89660017 SM |
331 | i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions use |
332 | the "cl--" prefix). | |
7c1898a7 SM |
333 | |
334 | If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it | |
335 | under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions | |
336 | that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities, | |
337 | which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'. | |
338 | ||
92246540 GM |
339 | The old `cl' is now deprecated and is mainly just a bunch of aliases that |
340 | provide the old non-prefixed names. Some exceptions are listed below. | |
7c1898a7 | 341 | |
69c1c2e6 | 342 | +++ |
89660017 SM |
343 | *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated). |
344 | Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'. | |
345 | ||
69c1c2e6 | 346 | +++ |
89660017 SM |
347 | *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'. |
348 | The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery (as opposed | |
349 | to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture definitions in | |
350 | closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding' is in use. | |
351 | ||
4ddedf94 | 352 | +++ |
f94b04fc | 353 | *** `cl-letf' is not exactly like `letf'. |
4ddedf94 GM |
354 | The only difference is in details that relate to some deprecated usage |
355 | of `symbol-function' in place forms. | |
f94b04fc | 356 | |
a05cb6e3 | 357 | +++ |
89660017 SM |
358 | *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery. |
359 | A side effect is that vars without corresponding value are bound to nil | |
360 | rather than making them unbound. | |
361 | ||
bdd8064f | 362 | +++ |
9512f820 GM |
363 | *** The following methods of extending `setf' are obsolete |
364 | (use features from gv.el instead): | |
365 | `define-modify-macro' (use `gv-letplace') | |
031b2ea7 GM |
366 | `defsetf' (use `gv-define-simple-setter' or `gv-define-setter') |
367 | `define-setf-expander' (use `gv-define-setter' or `gv-define-expander') | |
2b4da3ff | 368 | `get-setf-method' no longer exists (see "Incompatible Lisp Changes") |
f94b04fc | 369 | |
05b621a6 | 370 | +++ |
02969baf | 371 | ** New compilation option `compilation-always-kill'. |
f938eda9 CY |
372 | |
373 | ** Customize | |
cd996018 | 374 | --- |
f938eda9 | 375 | *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t. |
cd996018 | 376 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
377 | *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and |
378 | `customize-apropos-options' (i.e. the prefix argument does nothing for | |
379 | these commands now). | |
380 | ||
cd996018 | 381 | --- |
02969baf GM |
382 | ** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory. |
383 | Desktop files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default. | |
e76f0800 | 384 | |
f938eda9 CY |
385 | ** D-Bus |
386 | ||
387 | +++ | |
388 | *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'. | |
389 | ||
390 | +++ | |
391 | *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented. | |
392 | ||
393 | +++ | |
394 | *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points, | |
395 | if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range. | |
396 | ||
397 | +++ | |
398 | *** The function `dbus-call-method' works non-blocking now, it can be | |
399 | interrupted by C-g. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete. | |
400 | ||
401 | +++ | |
402 | *** Signals can be sent also as unicast message. | |
403 | ||
404 | +++ | |
405 | *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended, | |
406 | according to the new match rule types of D-Bus. See the manual for | |
407 | details. | |
408 | ||
409 | +++ | |
410 | *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections. | |
411 | ||
412 | +++ | |
413 | *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'. | |
414 | ||
415 | ** Diff mode | |
416 | ||
26f59676 | 417 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
418 | *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in |
419 | modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces | |
26f59676 | 420 | `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed', and new definition |
f938eda9 | 421 | of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added' |
26f59676 | 422 | and `smerge-refined-added', and new definition of `diff-added'). |
f938eda9 | 423 | |
26f59676 | 424 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
425 | *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the |
426 | face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight | |
427 | changes in context diffs. | |
428 | ||
26f59676 | 429 | +++ |
9d9e48d9 | 430 | *** The new command `diff-delete-trailing-whitespace' removes trailing |
26f59676 | 431 | whitespace introduced by a diff. |
f938eda9 CY |
432 | |
433 | ** Dired | |
fc83c2de | 434 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
435 | *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially |
436 | if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files). | |
437 | Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel. | |
cd996018 | 438 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
439 | *** Typing M-n in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp', |
440 | `dired-do-chown', `dired-do-touch' pulls the file attributes of the | |
441 | file at point. | |
cd996018 | 442 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
443 | *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'), |
444 | `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion') | |
445 | mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region. | |
cd996018 | 446 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
447 | *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff) has changed. |
448 | It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists. | |
449 | In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark. | |
cd996018 | 450 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
451 | *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers. |
452 | The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect. | |
453 | ||
cd996018 | 454 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
455 | ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode. |
456 | ||
02969baf GM |
457 | ** ERC |
458 | ||
459 | *** New package `erc-desktop-notifications.el', which can send a notification | |
460 | when you receive a private message or your nickname is mentioned. | |
461 | ||
462 | *** ERC will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use any | |
463 | channel keys found. | |
f938eda9 CY |
464 | |
465 | ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings. | |
1a9c6830 GM |
466 | See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and |
467 | `flymake-warning-bitmap'. | |
f938eda9 | 468 | |
cd996018 | 469 | --- |
02969baf | 470 | ** Follow mode no longer works by using advice. |
f938eda9 CY |
471 | The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed. |
472 | ||
02969baf | 473 | ** The FFAP option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings, |
f938eda9 CY |
474 | specifying URL types which should be converted to remote file names at |
475 | the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp"). | |
476 | ||
02969baf | 477 | ** New Ibuffer `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'. |
f938eda9 CY |
478 | The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'. |
479 | ||
82f84fa3 | 480 | --- |
02969baf | 481 | ** `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'. |
f938eda9 | 482 | |
05b621a6 | 483 | +++ |
02969baf | 484 | ** New option `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' specifies where the |
05b621a6 | 485 | `banish' mouse avoidance setting moves the mouse. |
f938eda9 CY |
486 | |
487 | +++ | |
488 | ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API. | |
489 | The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported | |
490 | server properties. | |
491 | ||
492 | ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block | |
493 | closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket. | |
494 | ||
6d5842da | 495 | ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes. |
bc7be45d | 496 | |
358c19d9 GM |
497 | ** Python mode |
498 | ||
499 | A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including: | |
40d8bcb8 GM |
500 | per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved |
501 | shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other | |
502 | text based shell). | |
503 | ||
504 | *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed: | |
505 | Old defcustom: | New defcustom: | |
506 | python-indent | python-indent-offset | |
507 | python-guess-indent | python-indent-guess-indent-offset | |
508 | python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p | python-pdbtrack-activate | |
509 | python-use-skeletons | python-skeleton-autoinsert | |
510 | ||
511 | *** Some user options have been removed: | |
512 | ||
513 | **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented. | |
514 | ||
515 | **** `python-honour-comment-indentation': | |
516 | Comments are never considered as indentation markers themselves. | |
517 | ||
518 | **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically | |
519 | calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context. | |
520 | ||
521 | **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist': | |
522 | Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different. | |
523 | ||
524 | **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command': | |
525 | Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'. | |
526 | ||
527 | **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path', | |
528 | `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes': | |
529 | No longer relevant. | |
530 | ||
531 | *** Some commands have been replaced: | |
532 | Old command | New command | |
533 | python-insert-class | python-skeleton-class | |
534 | python-insert-def | python-skeleton-def | |
535 | python-insert-for | python-skeleton-for | |
536 | python-insert-if | python-skeleton-if | |
537 | python-insert-try/except | python-skeleton-try | |
538 | python-insert-try/finally | python-skeleton-try | |
539 | python-insert-while | python-skeleton-while | |
540 | python-find-function | python-nav-jump-to-defun | |
541 | python-next-statement | python-nav-forward-sentence | |
542 | python-previous-statement | python-nav-backward-sentence | |
543 | python-send-buffer | python-shell-send-buffer | |
544 | python-send-defun | python-shell-send-defun | |
545 | python-send-region | python-shell-send-region | |
546 | python-send-region-and-go | Emulate with python-shell-send-region and | |
547 | python-shell-switch-to-shell | |
548 | python-send-string | python-shell-send-string | |
549 | python-switch-to-python | python-shell-switch-to-shell | |
550 | python-describe-symbol | python-eldoc-at-point | |
551 | ||
82f84fa3 | 552 | --- |
d13c8be6 SM |
553 | ** reStructuredText mode |
554 | ||
b4617547 GM |
555 | *** Keybindings (see `C-c C-h'), TAB indentation, filling and auto-filling, |
556 | fontification, comment handling, and customization have all been revised | |
557 | and improved. | |
d13c8be6 | 558 | |
b4617547 | 559 | *** Support for `imenu' and `which-function-mode'. |
d13c8be6 | 560 | |
b4617547 GM |
561 | *** The reStructuredText syntax is more closely covered. |
562 | Sphinx support has been improved. | |
d13c8be6 | 563 | |
6d3f7c2f | 564 | *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists. |
d13c8be6 | 565 | |
b4617547 | 566 | *** A negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'. |
d13c8be6 | 567 | |
b4617547 | 568 | *** The window configuration is reset after displaying a TOC. |
d13c8be6 | 569 | |
b4617547 | 570 | *** The constant `rst-version' describes the rst.el package version. |
ee97deee | 571 | |
82f84fa3 | 572 | --- |
02969baf | 573 | ** Shell Script mode |
8b0823d6 | 574 | |
f938eda9 | 575 | *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair. |
42917e79 | 576 | |
f938eda9 | 577 | *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs. |
35d98877 | 578 | |
f938eda9 | 579 | *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code. |
35d98877 | 580 | |
02969baf | 581 | ** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies the buffer to use |
17711ed9 | 582 | for a new asynchronous shell command when the default output buffer |
02969baf | 583 | `*Async Shell Command*' is already in use. |
782fbf2a | 584 | |
82f84fa3 | 585 | --- |
02969baf | 586 | ** SQL mode has a new option `sql-db2-escape-newlines'. |
f938eda9 CY |
587 | If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped |
588 | by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes | |
589 | that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon. | |
782fbf2a | 590 | |
f938eda9 | 591 | ** Tabulated List and packages derived from it |
cce0aa5a | 592 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
593 | *** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S', sorts the column |
594 | at point, or the Nth column if a numeric prefix argument is given. | |
fc72b15c | 595 | |
f938eda9 | 596 | ** Term |
4eeba558 | 597 | +++ |
02969baf | 598 | *** The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color' are |
19e09879 | 599 | now deprecated in favor of the customizable face `term'. |
af8bf5b3 | 600 | +++ |
02969baf GM |
601 | *** You can customize how to display ANSI terminal colors and styles |
602 | by customizing the corresponding `term-color-<COLOR>', | |
603 | `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold' faces. | |
cf20dee0 | 604 | |
05ecb497 | 605 | ** Tramp |
05ecb497 | 606 | +++ |
02969baf GM |
607 | *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy definitions. |
608 | See the manual for details. | |
05ecb497 MA |
609 | +++ |
610 | *** Remote processes are now supported also on remote Windows host. | |
611 | ||
ce7b18ec | 612 | ** URL |
82f84fa3 | 613 | +++ |
ce7b18ec CY |
614 | *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot. |
615 | Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs | |
616 | appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986. | |
617 | So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components | |
618 | and the `attributes' slot is always nil. | |
5b637222 | 619 | +++ |
ce7b18ec CY |
620 | *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string. |
621 | The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument, | |
622 | in case that is not properly encoded. | |
623 | ||
05b621a6 | 624 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
625 | ** VHDL mode |
626 | ||
627 | *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default). | |
628 | ||
629 | *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated. | |
630 | ||
631 | *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard. | |
632 | ||
633 | *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace. | |
634 | ||
05b621a6 | 635 | +++ |
02969baf | 636 | ** `which-func-modes' now defaults to t, so Which Function mode, when |
05b621a6 | 637 | enabled, applies to all applicable major modes. |
f938eda9 | 638 | |
5cc2e639 GM |
639 | --- |
640 | ** winner-mode-hook now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when it is | |
641 | enabled. | |
f938eda9 CY |
642 | |
643 | ** FIXME something happened to ses.el, 2012-04-17. | |
644 | ||
d1069532 SM |
645 | ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix: |
646 | *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions | |
647 | *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions | |
648 | *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions | |
649 | *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions | |
650 | *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions | |
651 | *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions | |
652 | *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook | |
653 | *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions | |
654 | *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions | |
655 | *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions | |
656 | *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions | |
657 | *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions | |
658 | *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions | |
659 | *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions | |
660 | *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions | |
661 | *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook | |
662 | *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook | |
663 | *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook | |
664 | *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions | |
665 | *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions | |
666 | *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions | |
667 | *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions | |
f938eda9 | 668 | |
82f289a4 | 669 | ** Obsolete packages: |
48de8b12 | 670 | +++ |
797e6e88 SM |
671 | *** assoc.el |
672 | In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well. | |
673 | And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible | |
674 | inefficiency, and not namespace-clean. | |
48de8b12 | 675 | --- |
3c74813a | 676 | *** bruce.el |
b4617547 GM |
677 | +++ |
678 | *** cust-print.el | |
48de8b12 | 679 | --- |
daed4003 | 680 | *** ledit.el |
48de8b12 | 681 | --- |
82f289a4 | 682 | *** mailpost.el |
48de8b12 | 683 | +++ |
d57de7fe | 684 | *** mouse-sel.el |
48de8b12 | 685 | --- |
3c74813a | 686 | *** patcomp.el |
1a9c6830 | 687 | |
a1ed8b05 | 688 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 689 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3 |
b4d3bc10 | 690 | |
cd996018 | 691 | +++ |
090cf9db SM |
692 | ** set-buffer-multibyte now signals an error in narrowed buffers. |
693 | ||
48de8b12 | 694 | +++ |
0e23ef9d PE |
695 | ** (random) by default now returns a different random sequence in |
696 | every Emacs run. Use (random S), where S is a string, to set the | |
697 | random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable | |
698 | sequence in later calls. | |
699 | ||
48de8b12 | 700 | --- |
f2045622 CY |
701 | ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a |
702 | font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name | |
703 | depends on the graphical library. | |
704 | ||
8a3afaf9 | 705 | +++ |
d32e47af LM |
706 | ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?", |
707 | that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is | |
708 | non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled. | |
709 | ||
b4d3bc10 CY |
710 | +++ |
711 | ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options. | |
712 | Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options. | |
713 | The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for | |
714 | `custom-variable-p'. | |
715 | ||
bbf908bc LM |
716 | +++ |
717 | ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed, | |
718 | and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, defun and | |
719 | defmacro currently return the name of the newly defined function/macro | |
720 | but this should not be relied upon. | |
721 | ||
48de8b12 | 722 | --- |
eeddc531 CY |
723 | ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the |
724 | third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2). | |
725 | ||
a59d531e MA |
726 | +++ |
727 | ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings, | |
728 | but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will | |
729 | still be supported for Emacs 24.x. | |
730 | ||
ab7f1c43 GM |
731 | +++ |
732 | ** The CL package's `get-setf-method' function no longer exists. | |
733 | Generalized variables are now part of core Emacs Lisp, and implemented | |
734 | differently to the way cl.el used to do it. It is not possible to | |
735 | define a compatible replacement for `get-setf-method'. See the file | |
736 | gv.el for internal details of the new implementation. | |
737 | ||
72b255c7 PE |
738 | ** Spelling changes. |
739 | Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to avoid problems with spelling | |
740 | that is incorrect or inconsistent with how Emacs normally spells a word. | |
741 | ||
05b621a6 | 742 | --- |
72b255c7 PE |
743 | *** Renamed functions |
744 | ||
745 | **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate | |
746 | **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method | |
747 | **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate | |
748 | **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate | |
749 | **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method | |
750 | **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action -> | |
751 | viper-deactivate-input-method-action | |
752 | **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate | |
753 | ||
05b621a6 | 754 | --- |
72b255c7 PE |
755 | *** Renamed hooks |
756 | The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they | |
757 | are deprecated and will be removed eventually. | |
72b255c7 PE |
758 | **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook |
759 | **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook | |
760 | **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook | |
761 | ||
05b621a6 | 762 | --- |
72b255c7 | 763 | *** Renamed Lisp variables |
72b255c7 PE |
764 | **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu |
765 | **** inactivate-current-input-method-function -> | |
766 | deactivate-current-input-method-function | |
767 | ||
05b621a6 | 768 | +++ |
02969baf GM |
769 | ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed: |
770 | *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char' | |
78f3273a CY |
771 | *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces' |
772 | *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset' | |
a5f2b6ec CY |
773 | *** `iswitchb-read-buffer' |
774 | *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report' | |
775 | *** `set-char-table-default' | |
02969baf | 776 | *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector') |
a5f2b6ec | 777 | *** `compile-internal' |
02969baf | 778 | *** `modeline' |
59f7af81 | 779 | *** `mode-line-inverse-video' |
02969baf | 780 | *** `follow-mode-off-hook' |
a5f2b6ec | 781 | *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline' |
63820c5c | 782 | (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead) |
a5f2b6ec CY |
783 | *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs' |
784 | (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead) | |
785 | *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name' | |
786 | *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead) | |
787 | *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead) | |
788 | *** `vc-checkout-carefully' | |
78f3273a | 789 | |
a1ed8b05 | 790 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 791 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3 |
ef24141c | 792 | |
3a880af4 | 793 | ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler. |
028a5e50 GM |
794 | Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report. |
795 | When finished, use M-x profiler-stop. The sampling rate can be based on | |
796 | CPU time (only supported on some systems) or memory allocations. | |
b68b3337 | 797 | |
7c08f8ba | 798 | +++ |
2ee3d7f0 | 799 | ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp. |
f938eda9 | 800 | `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables. |
ebdbfb95 GM |
801 | You can define your own generalized variables using `gv-define-simple-setter', |
802 | `gv-define-setter', etc. | |
2ee3d7f0 | 803 | |
cd996018 | 804 | +++ |
500fcedc SM |
805 | ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'. |
806 | The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'. | |
807 | ||
cd996018 CY |
808 | ** Minibuffer |
809 | +++ | |
810 | *** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT | |
811 | of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its | |
812 | second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via M-n | |
813 | in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values. | |
814 | More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments. | |
815 | ||
f938eda9 | 816 | ** Completion |
500fcedc | 817 | |
f938eda9 CY |
818 | *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion |
819 | in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers. | |
f95e9344 | 820 | |
f938eda9 CY |
821 | *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion |
822 | table, but with a different prefix. | |
823 | ||
824 | ** Debugger changes | |
f95e9344 | 825 | |
f938eda9 CY |
826 | *** New error type and new function `user-error'. |
827 | These do not trigger the debugger. | |
f95e9344 | 828 | |
45b82ad0 SM |
829 | *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill'. |
830 | ||
831 | *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain | |
832 | message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying | |
833 | to work out which code is doing something. | |
7c08f8ba | 834 | --- |
45b82ad0 SM |
835 | *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental |
836 | recursive invocations. | |
fa2bcf43 | 837 | |
90749b53 | 838 | ** Window changes |
43bcfda6 | 839 | +++ |
90749b53 | 840 | *** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window |
48d1354e | 841 | now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window. |
fdaf534a | 842 | +++ |
8e17c9ba MR |
843 | *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'. |
844 | ||
fa2bcf43 MR |
845 | *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window'. |
846 | ||
8e17c9ba MR |
847 | *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been |
848 | reused. | |
c5e28e39 | 849 | |
5938d519 MR |
850 | *** New function `fit-frame-to-buffer' and new options |
851 | `fit-frame-to-buffer' and `fit-frame-to-buffer-bottom-margin'. | |
43bcfda6 MR |
852 | +++ |
853 | *** New option switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point to restore a | |
854 | window's point when switching buffers. | |
855 | +++ | |
8e17c9ba | 856 | *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected', |
43bcfda6 | 857 | and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'. |
ef654460 | 858 | |
fa2bcf43 MR |
859 | *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil, |
860 | tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is | |
861 | selected. | |
c5e28e39 | 862 | |
fa2bcf43 MR |
863 | *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if |
864 | non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame. | |
43bcfda6 | 865 | +++ |
fa2bcf43 MR |
866 | *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil, |
867 | specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'. | |
43bcfda6 | 868 | +++ |
5938d519 MR |
869 | *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width' |
870 | to specify size of new window created by `display-buffer'. | |
871 | ||
77f1f99c CY |
872 | *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by |
873 | appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced | |
874 | in Emacs 24.1: | |
14ba4cf3 | 875 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 876 | **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames' |
05b621a6 | 877 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 878 | **** `special-display-regexps' |
05b621a6 | 879 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 880 | **** `special-display-frame-alist' |
05b621a6 | 881 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 882 | **** `special-display-buffer-names' |
05b621a6 | 883 | +++ |
77f1f99c | 884 | **** `special-display-function' |
05b621a6 | 885 | +++ |
71ce58e7 | 886 | **** `display-buffer-function' |
05b621a6 | 887 | --- |
93cacb6d | 888 | **** `dired-shrink-to-fit' |
77f1f99c | 889 | |
ab0fa4e4 | 890 | ** Time |
48de8b12 | 891 | --- |
ab0fa4e4 PE |
892 | *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year |
893 | must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported | |
894 | by the underlying C implementation. | |
7108f8e3 | 895 | |
f938eda9 CY |
896 | *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps |
897 | (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds. | |
898 | PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other | |
899 | functions that use this format, such as file-attributes and | |
900 | format-time-string, have been changed accordingly. Old-format time | |
901 | stamps are still accepted. | |
48de8b12 | 902 | --- |
f938eda9 CY |
903 | *** The format of timers in timer-list and timer-idle-list is now |
904 | [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS]. | |
905 | The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be | |
906 | accessed via the new timer--psecs accessor. | |
907 | ||
c4132fd4 PE |
908 | *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form |
909 | (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS). | |
910 | ||
48de8b12 | 911 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
912 | ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN, |
913 | instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args, e.g. (log -1.0). | |
914 | Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors | |
915 | on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt, | |
916 | log, log10, sqrt, and mod. | |
917 | ||
918 | ** Interpreted files are eagerly macro-expanded during load. | |
919 | This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code, | |
920 | but can also bump into harmless and previously unnoticed cyclic | |
921 | dependencies. These should not be fatal: they will simply cause the | |
922 | macro-calls to be left for later expansion (as before), but will also | |
dac009a4 GM |
923 | result in a warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle") |
924 | describing the cycle. | |
f938eda9 | 925 | |
63820c5c | 926 | ** Miscellaneous new functions: |
e29e39c9 | 927 | +++ |
847a0561 | 928 | *** `autoloadp' tests if its argument is an autoloaded object. |
e29e39c9 | 929 | +++ |
847a0561 | 930 | *** `autoload-do-load' performs the autoloading operation. |
48de8b12 | 931 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 932 | *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed. |
e29e39c9 | 933 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 934 | *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension. |
e29e39c9 | 935 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 936 | *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases. |
48de8b12 | 937 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
938 | *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'. |
939 | *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary overlay map. | |
48de8b12 | 940 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 941 | *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system. |
48de8b12 | 942 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 943 | *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system. |
e29e39c9 | 944 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 945 | *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal. |
c990426a | 946 | |
7c08f8ba | 947 | +++ |
f938eda9 CY |
948 | ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'. |
949 | ||
05b621a6 | 950 | +++ |
48de8b12 | 951 | ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'. |
f938eda9 CY |
952 | |
953 | ** Face underlining can now use a wave. | |
954 | See the "Face Attributes" section of the Elisp manual. | |
c990426a | 955 | |
f938eda9 | 956 | ** The following functions and variables are obsolete: |
05b621a6 | 957 | --- |
847a0561 | 958 | *** `automount-dir-prefix' (use `directory-abbrev-alist') |
05b621a6 | 959 | +++ |
f938eda9 | 960 | *** `buffer-has-markers-at' |
05b621a6 | 961 | --- |
1a9c6830 | 962 | *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist') |
05b621a6 | 963 | --- |
847a0561 | 964 | *** `window-system-version' (provides no useful information) |
05b621a6 | 965 | --- |
93cacb6d | 966 | *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up') |
05b621a6 | 967 | --- |
0e2ae83d | 968 | *** `query-replace-interactive' |
05b621a6 | 969 | --- |
49238e7f | 970 | *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23) |
86aa551c | 971 | |
adce950d | 972 | \f |
2a1e2476 | 973 | * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on non-free operating systems |
9078ead6 | 974 | |
4e98ad15 GM |
975 | --- |
976 | ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface. | |
977 | Pass --with-w32 to configure. The default remains the X11 interface. | |
53a63be6 | 978 | |
1a9c6830 GM |
979 | ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds: |
980 | `cygwin-convert-path-from-windows' and `cygwin-convert-path-to-windows'. | |
64a261b1 EZ |
981 | These functions allow Lisp code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping |
982 | machinery to convert between Cygwin and Windows-native file names. | |
de6e3a60 | 983 | |
4e98ad15 GM |
984 | ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal, |
985 | Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and | |
986 | `mouse-autoselect-window'. | |
987 | ||
05b621a6 | 988 | +++ |
1a9c6830 | 989 | ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links. |
4e98ad15 GM |
990 | |
991 | +++ | |
992 | ** On MS Windows, you can pass --without-libxml2 to configure.bat to omit | |
993 | support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected. | |
994 | ||
995 | --- | |
996 | ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later. | |
997 | ||
998 | --- | |
999 | ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw | |
1000 | directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them. | |
1001 | ||
2a1e2476 GM |
1002 | \f |
1003 | * Changes in Emacs 24.2 | |
1004 | ||
5190da91 | 1005 | ** This is mainly a bug-fix release. |
6dad7178 | 1006 | |
9078ead6 | 1007 | \f |
eb199145 | 1008 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
09e18d03 | 1009 | |
31fd3586 GM |
1010 | ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 |
1011 | to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf, | |
1012 | also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and | |
1013 | --without-gconf. | |
338648ad | 1014 | |
31fd3586 GM |
1015 | ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support. |
1016 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
1017 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
1018 | `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features. | |
338648ad | 1019 | |
31fd3586 GM |
1020 | ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support. |
1021 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
1022 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
1023 | `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features. | |
aded53ff | 1024 | |
31fd3586 GM |
1025 | ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support. |
1026 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
1027 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
1028 | `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features. | |
c1f10868 | 1029 | This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports. |
d9170db5 | 1030 | |
043efd56 GM |
1031 | ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support. |
1032 | This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is | |
1033 | found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option | |
1034 | `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features. | |
1035 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1036 | ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed. |
1037 | You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info. | |
1038 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1039 | ** New configure option --with-wide-int. |
81eafe29 | 1040 | With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines. |
0a768890 PE |
1041 | On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB |
1042 | to about 2 GiB. | |
81eafe29 | 1043 | |
7d301ae6 | 1044 | ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost. |
31fd3586 GM |
1045 | These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit |
1046 | lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features. | |
1047 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1048 | ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type. |
31fd3586 GM |
1049 | This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs. |
1050 | This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new. | |
041d709f CY |
1051 | |
1052 | ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed. | |
1053 | Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'. | |
1054 | ||
041d709f CY |
1055 | ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed. |
1056 | If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality. | |
1057 | ||
0bfd685e | 1058 | \f |
eb199145 | 1059 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
4a263588 | 1060 | |
198a7a97 | 1061 | ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte |
adbf62ff GM |
1062 | command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no |
1063 | longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.) | |
198a7a97 | 1064 | |
66b7b0fe | 1065 | ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories |
1b5e5b0c GM |
1066 | from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the |
1067 | EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for | |
c8d59ba3 | 1068 | Nextstep builds). |
66b7b0fe | 1069 | |
0bfd685e | 1070 | \f |
eb199145 | 1071 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
7841339b | 1072 | |
a2a25d24 | 1073 | ** Completion |
fdeb32ec | 1074 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1075 | *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command, |
1076 | rather than implementing separate completion commands. | |
1077 | ||
de0bde62 | 1078 | *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion. |
dfdb4cad | 1079 | |
a2a25d24 SM |
1080 | *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion |
1081 | and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1082 | |
1083 | *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling. | |
1084 | ||
1085 | *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the | |
2c719188 | 1086 | default completion style in certain circumstances. |
dfdb4cad | 1087 | |
a2a25d24 | 1088 | *** New completion style `substring'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1089 | |
1090 | *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default. | |
1091 | ||
1092 | *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed. | |
620c53a6 | 1093 | |
6870aaef | 1094 | ** Mail changes |
dfdb4cad | 1095 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1096 | *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method. |
1097 | This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which | |
1098 | is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or | |
1099 | to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities | |
1100 | (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and | |
1101 | `mailclient-send-it' on Windows). | |
dfdb4cad | 1102 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1103 | *** Typing C-c m in the buffer made by M-x report-emacs-bug transfers |
1104 | the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there is one. | |
1105 | This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open" command. | |
dfdb4cad | 1106 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1107 | *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes |
1108 | and Mail mode changes | |
3f88cd72 | 1109 | |
041d709f | 1110 | ** Emacs server and client changes |
dfdb4cad | 1111 | |
7d301ae6 | 1112 | *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers. |
dfdb4cad | 1113 | |
041d709f | 1114 | *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages. |
dfdb4cad | 1115 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1116 | *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame |
1117 | parameters of any newly-created graphical frame. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1118 | |
1119 | *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error, | |
1120 | its exit status is 1. | |
1121 | ||
041d709f CY |
1122 | *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID. |
1123 | This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar | |
1124 | to the --parent-id argument to Emacs. | |
1125 | ||
d0ce9f8c MB |
1126 | ** Internationalization changes |
1127 | ||
d0ce9f8c | 1128 | *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text. |
7d301ae6 CY |
1129 | Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are |
1130 | displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1131 | scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class |
1132 | implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers | |
1133 | with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before. | |
f4b6ba46 | 1134 | |
041d709f | 1135 | **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'. |
7d301ae6 | 1136 | To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil. |
d20e1419 | 1137 | |
041d709f CY |
1138 | **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'. |
1139 | If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1140 | paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value |
1141 | to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each | |
1142 | paragraph. | |
f4b6ba46 | 1143 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1144 | Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at |
1145 | the right window edge. | |
f1816485 | 1146 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1147 | *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts, |
1148 | or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the | |
1149 | terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control' | |
1150 | specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin | |
1151 | 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc. | |
d0ce9f8c | 1152 | |
9702b7a1 GM |
1153 | *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian |
1154 | (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic). | |
041d709f | 1155 | |
939db9ac CY |
1156 | *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars |
1157 | (U+2010 and U+2011). | |
1158 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1159 | *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial. |
31fd3586 GM |
1160 | Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't |
1161 | automatically select it. | |
1162 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1163 | ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included. |
1164 | This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages, | |
1165 | from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org. | |
dfdb4cad | 1166 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1167 | *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be |
1168 | selected for installation. | |
dfdb4cad | 1169 | |
7d301ae6 | 1170 | *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'. |
dfdb4cad | 1171 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1172 | *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when |
1173 | Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to | |
1174 | nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'. | |
16a91140 | 1175 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1176 | ** Custom theme changes |
1177 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1178 | *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient |
1179 | interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes. | |
dfdb4cad | 1180 | |
7d301ae6 | 1181 | *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1182 | Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default |
1183 | value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in | |
1184 | `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of | |
1185 | `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of | |
1186 | built-in Custom themes. | |
1187 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1188 | *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files. |
1189 | If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and | |
1190 | offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By | |
1191 | default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe. | |
b7d65a5f | 1192 | |
7d301ae6 | 1193 | ** Improved GTK integration |
dfdb4cad | 1194 | |
7d301ae6 | 1195 | *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1196 | The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this. |
1197 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1198 | *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1199 | Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop, |
1200 | the default is taken from desktop settings. | |
1201 | ||
1202 | *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1203 | The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the |
1204 | values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has | |
1205 | entries for this. | |
dfdb4cad | 1206 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1207 | *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken |
1208 | from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK. | |
dfdb4cad | 1209 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1210 | *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK. |
1211 | You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil. | |
a5bee597 | 1212 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1213 | ** Graphical interface changes |
1214 | ||
1215 | *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes. | |
1216 | Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just | |
1217 | displayed as a space. | |
1218 | ||
1219 | *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation | |
1220 | instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu. | |
1221 | ||
1222 | *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is | |
1223 | built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example: | |
1224 | Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12 | |
1225 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1226 | ** Exiting changes |
dfdb4cad | 1227 | |
7d301ae6 | 1228 | *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP, |
dfdb4cad CY |
1229 | or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode. |
1230 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1231 | *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode. |
1232 | Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they | |
1233 | do the right thing in batch mode. | |
9c524fcb | 1234 | |
041d709f | 1235 | ** Scrolling changes |
dfdb4cad | 1236 | |
041d709f | 1237 | *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command' |
0a19a6f8 | 1238 | (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom |
7d301ae6 | 1239 | of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer) |
550f41cd | 1240 | when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1241 | |
1242 | *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above). | |
1243 | ||
041d709f | 1244 | *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line' |
5a97d2da | 1245 | scroll a line instead of full screen. |
dfdb4cad | 1246 | |
041d709f | 1247 | *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to |
b2957ea8 | 1248 | define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'. |
dfdb4cad | 1249 | |
041d709f | 1250 | *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100, |
d0f69533 EZ |
1251 | Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to |
1252 | cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g'). | |
1253 | Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of | |
1254 | `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect. | |
dfdb4cad | 1255 | |
7d301ae6 | 1256 | *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins. |
d0f69533 EZ |
1257 | If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or |
1258 | `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now | |
1259 | scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll | |
1260 | margin. | |
1261 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1262 | ** Basic SELinux support has been added. |
1263 | This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time. | |
f1a5d776 | 1264 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1265 | *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up. |
1266 | Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for | |
1267 | preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer' | |
1268 | now includes the SELinux context. | |
f0bf7c8e | 1269 | |
dfdb4cad | 1270 | *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context' |
7d301ae6 | 1271 | get and set the SELinux context of a file. |
44198b6e | 1272 | |
7d301ae6 | 1273 | ** Trash changes |
dfdb4cad | 1274 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1275 | *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify |
1276 | trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files. | |
dfdb4cad | 1277 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1278 | *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument |
1279 | now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'. | |
278f6845 | 1280 | |
041d709f | 1281 | ** File- and directory-local variable changes |
dfdb4cad | 1282 | |
041d709f CY |
1283 | *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories. |
1284 | Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables | |
1285 | settings to indicate that the section should not apply to | |
1286 | subdirectories. | |
dfdb4cad | 1287 | |
041d709f CY |
1288 | *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers. |
1289 | Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example, | |
1290 | adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will | |
1291 | turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call | |
1292 | `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this. | |
dfdb4cad | 1293 | |
041d709f CY |
1294 | *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated. |
1295 | Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)". | |
c136e5cd | 1296 | |
7b447e9b GM |
1297 | *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed |
1298 | to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1299 | applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The |
1300 | associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the | |
1301 | corresponding way. | |
5d907d6c | 1302 | |
0a2132ba CY |
1303 | ** Window changes |
1304 | ||
91b65361 CY |
1305 | *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed |
1306 | in the quitted window. | |
1307 | ||
0a2132ba CY |
1308 | *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes, |
1309 | modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows. | |
1310 | ||
1311 | *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail. | |
dfdb4cad | 1312 | |
0a2132ba CY |
1313 | **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of |
1314 | user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments | |
1315 | for choosing the displaying window). | |
1316 | ||
1317 | This takes precedence over the default display action, which is | |
1318 | specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'. | |
1319 | ||
1320 | **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to | |
1321 | display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'. | |
1322 | ||
a0c2d0ae MR |
1323 | *** New option `window-combination-limit'. |
1324 | The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space | |
1325 | obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window | |
1326 | from which such space was obtained. | |
0a2132ba | 1327 | |
a0c2d0ae MR |
1328 | *** New option `window-combination-resize'. |
1329 | The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that | |
1330 | otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from | |
1331 | other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion | |
1332 | of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well. | |
0a2132ba | 1333 | |
91b65361 CY |
1334 | *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between |
1335 | iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated | |
1336 | frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own. | |
1337 | ||
0a2132ba | 1338 | *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'. |
53964682 | 1339 | These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame. |
0a2132ba | 1340 | |
0a2132ba CY |
1341 | *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'. |
1342 | These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have | |
1343 | been shown in a specific window. | |
1344 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1345 | ** Minibuffer changes |
dfdb4cad | 1346 | |
7d301ae6 | 1347 | *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'. |
104dc9c6 GM |
1348 | This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature |
1349 | where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed. | |
041d709f | 1350 | |
7d301ae6 | 1351 | *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil. |
f66eca26 | 1352 | If you want to change the value to something else, you could use |
7d301ae6 CY |
1353 | for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'. |
1354 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1355 | ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default. |
1356 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1357 | ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t. |
f66eca26 | 1358 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1359 | ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'. |
1360 | These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or | |
1361 | successful operation. | |
1362 | ||
1363 | ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order | |
1364 | for `list-colors-display'. | |
1365 | ||
1366 | ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil. | |
1367 | ||
0bfd685e | 1368 | \f |
eb199145 | 1369 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1 |
b350bdf2 | 1370 | |
892777ba | 1371 | ** Search changes |
dfdb4cad CY |
1372 | |
1373 | *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of | |
1374 | `isearch-yank-line'. | |
1375 | ||
1376 | *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of | |
1377 | `isearch-yank-kill'. | |
1378 | ||
1379 | *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'. | |
1380 | ||
b2b0776e | 1381 | ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'. |
dfdb4cad | 1382 | |
10607bea CY |
1383 | *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'. |
1384 | The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports | |
1385 | the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a | |
1386 | superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete | |
1387 | alias for it. | |
ea4f7750 | 1388 | |
ec9da840 | 1389 | ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument, |
1c708c1a CY |
1390 | also deletes newlines around point. |
1391 | ||
b9229673 | 1392 | ** Deletion changes |
dfdb4cad | 1393 | |
b9229673 | 1394 | *** New option `delete-active-region'. |
ddb54206 | 1395 | If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no |
dfdb4cad | 1396 | prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill |
ddb54206 | 1397 | instead. |
dfdb4cad | 1398 | |
59ee0542 | 1399 | *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete]. |
42d9cffa CY |
1400 | This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'. |
1401 | The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'. | |
dfdb4cad | 1402 | |
b9229673 CY |
1403 | *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function. |
1404 | Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1405 | However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp |
1406 | callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead. | |
dfdb4cad | 1407 | |
b9229673 CY |
1408 | *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted. |
1409 | ||
f9d71b42 CY |
1410 | ** Selection changes. |
1411 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1412 | The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been |
1413 | changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most | |
1414 | commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while | |
1415 | mouse commands use the primary selection. | |
b1ab31ae CY |
1416 | |
1417 | In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a | |
1418 | list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that. | |
1419 | ||
b1ab31ae CY |
1420 | *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t. |
1421 | Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in | |
963578d3 | 1422 | the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if |
b1ab31ae CY |
1423 | the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X). |
1424 | ||
1425 | **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'. | |
1426 | This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active | |
1427 | regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection); | |
1428 | "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by | |
1429 | point motion, do not alter the primary selection. | |
1430 | ||
963578d3 CY |
1431 | **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil. |
1432 | ||
b1ab31ae CY |
1433 | *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'. |
1434 | This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring. | |
1435 | Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'. | |
dfdb4cad | 1436 | |
b1ab31ae | 1437 | *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms. |
dfdb4cad | 1438 | |
b1ab31ae CY |
1439 | *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil. |
1440 | Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as | |
1441 | M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection. | |
1442 | ||
1443 | **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now | |
dfdb4cad | 1444 | exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively. |
b1ab31ae CY |
1445 | |
1446 | **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already | |
1447 | non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection | |
1448 | between applications. | |
1449 | ||
1450 | *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following: | |
dfdb4cad | 1451 | |
104c2fe9 | 1452 | **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil. |
b1ab31ae CY |
1453 | **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t. |
1454 | **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only). | |
1455 | **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil. | |
1456 | **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2. | |
f9d71b42 | 1457 | |
084e6df3 | 1458 | *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed. |
dfdb4cad | 1459 | |
3fd50d5c CY |
1460 | *** X clipboard managers are now supported. |
1461 | To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil. | |
4b80f674 | 1462 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1463 | ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines |
1464 | in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a | |
1465 | number to count from and for a format string. | |
99f053cf | 1466 | |
7d301ae6 | 1467 | ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t. |
6bf7006f EZ |
1468 | This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive |
1469 | at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay | |
1470 | in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive | |
1471 | updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up. | |
1472 | ||
e70b5064 CY |
1473 | ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed. |
1474 | In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command') | |
1475 | when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the | |
1476 | region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the | |
1477 | region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line). | |
1478 | ||
dfdb4cad CY |
1479 | ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are |
1480 | collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there | |
1481 | are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur' | |
1482 | reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention | |
1483 | follows `replace-match'. | |
1484 | ||
9bae34bf | 1485 | \f |
eb199145 | 1486 | * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 |
efeb796b | 1487 | |
041d709f | 1488 | ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives. |
d76674bb | 1489 | |
b7c3692a | 1490 | ** BibTeX mode |
dfdb4cad | 1491 | |
2de69e00 | 1492 | *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex. |
7d301ae6 CY |
1493 | Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects. |
1494 | `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for | |
1495 | `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'. | |
1496 | ||
dfdb4cad CY |
1497 | *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a. |
1498 | ||
b7c3692a | 1499 | *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default. |
dfdb4cad | 1500 | |
022fe7ce RW |
1501 | *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'. |
1502 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1503 | ** Browse-url |
dfdb4cad | 1504 | |
7d301ae6 | 1505 | *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s. |
dfdb4cad | 1506 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1507 | *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program, |
1508 | on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser. | |
1509 | ||
cf16af42 GM |
1510 | ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt |
1511 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1512 | *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments". |
548d0a63 GM |
1513 | See the variable `diary-comment-start'. |
1514 | ||
5006e634 GM |
1515 | *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times. |
1516 | See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'. | |
1517 | ||
0a2bb1a9 GM |
1518 | *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed |
1519 | lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times. | |
1520 | If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it. | |
1521 | ||
7454f200 GM |
1522 | *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'. |
1523 | ||
e565dd37 GM |
1524 | *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array' |
1525 | may no longer be nil, but must all be strings. | |
1526 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1527 | *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt |
1528 | package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed. | |
1529 | Use `appt-activate' instead. | |
cf16af42 | 1530 | |
cf16af42 GM |
1531 | *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: |
1532 | appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate) | |
1533 | appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format) | |
1534 | ||
cf16af42 GM |
1535 | *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed: |
1536 | view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries | |
1537 | ||
551b046f | 1538 | ** CC Mode |
dfdb4cad | 1539 | |
551b046f | 1540 | *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer. |
7d301ae6 | 1541 | The main entry point is M-x c-guess. |
041d709f | 1542 | |
551b046f AM |
1543 | *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang). |
1544 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1545 | *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes. |
551b046f AM |
1546 | Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function, |
1547 | not the top level. | |
1548 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1549 | *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation. |
551b046f AM |
1550 | Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer |
1551 | parsed as a statement continuation. | |
1552 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1553 | ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code. |
041d709f CY |
1554 | |
1555 | ** Compilation mode | |
dfdb4cad | 1556 | |
7d301ae6 | 1557 | *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode. |
041d709f CY |
1558 | `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete. |
1559 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1560 | *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while |
7d301ae6 CY |
1561 | `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the |
1562 | text inserted by `compilation-filter'. | |
041d709f | 1563 | |
47a6a35f GM |
1564 | *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column' |
1565 | are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1566 | set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation* |
1567 | buffer was used. | |
1dce7193 | 1568 | |
52834b6b CY |
1569 | ** Customize |
1570 | ||
1571 | *** Customize buffers now contain a search field. | |
1572 | The search is performed using `customize-apropos'. | |
7d301ae6 | 1573 | To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil. |
52834b6b | 1574 | |
8d5dd370 | 1575 | *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized. |
52834b6b CY |
1576 | Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility. |
1577 | ||
1578 | *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t. | |
1579 | ||
1580 | *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to | |
7d301ae6 | 1581 | choose a color via `list-colors-display'. |
52834b6b | 1582 | |
041d709f CY |
1583 | ** D-Bus |
1584 | ||
5da3be7f GM |
1585 | *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system |
1586 | or session bus. | |
041d709f | 1587 | |
7d301ae6 | 1588 | *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions |
5da3be7f | 1589 | optionally do not register names. |
041d709f | 1590 | |
7d301ae6 | 1591 | *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service |
dfdb4cad | 1592 | name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method. |
041d709f | 1593 | |
f5d6548a | 1594 | ** Dired-x |
425a25f1 | 1595 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1596 | *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'), |
1597 | if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer | |
1598 | instead of using the current buffer. | |
f5d6548a | 1599 | |
7d301ae6 | 1600 | *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete. |
817b48a7 | 1601 | The standard directory local variables feature replaces it. |
8117868f | 1602 | |
041d709f | 1603 | ** ERC changes |
7492acc9 | 1604 | |
c4077254 GM |
1605 | *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay', |
1606 | controlling attempts to autojoin a channel. | |
041d709f CY |
1607 | |
1608 | *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided' | |
1609 | as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted. | |
1610 | The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as | |
1611 | utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest. | |
7492acc9 | 1612 | |
041d709f | 1613 | ** Eshell changes |
7492acc9 | 1614 | |
05f77e38 GM |
1615 | *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed |
1616 | to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'. | |
1617 | The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though. | |
041d709f CY |
1618 | |
1619 | ** gdb-mi | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1620 | |
1621 | *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol. | |
05f77e38 GM |
1622 | It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous |
1623 | debugging of several threads. | |
7492acc9 | 1624 | |
18af70d0 CY |
1625 | ** Image mode |
1626 | ||
05f77e38 GM |
1627 | *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable. |
1628 | Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil. | |
18af70d0 | 1629 | |
041d709f | 1630 | ** Info |
723ee192 | 1631 | |
7d301ae6 | 1632 | *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual. |
2ebc3b94 GM |
1633 | If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays |
1634 | that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info* | |
1635 | buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual | |
1636 | you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual. | |
691cf4a0 | 1637 | |
24ea72d3 EZ |
1638 | *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'. |
1639 | This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program, | |
1640 | and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled | |
1641 | by default. | |
1642 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1643 | ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode) |
dfdb4cad | 1644 | |
7d301ae6 | 1645 | *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments |
7d301ae6 | 1646 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1647 | *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file. |
1648 | (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME | |
1649 | attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name. | |
1650 | ||
f2c3a9eb | 1651 | ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1. |
041d709f | 1652 | See MH-E-NEWS for details. |
37221432 | 1653 | |
041d709f | 1654 | ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation. |
37221432 | 1655 | |
041d709f | 1656 | ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags. |
3c3d4f5b | 1657 | |
5d1ac394 | 1658 | ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
1659 | Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i |
1660 | or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the | |
1661 | default), this performs tag completion. | |
5d1ac394 | 1662 | |
f2c3a9eb CY |
1663 | ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09. |
1664 | See ORG-NEWS for details. | |
1665 | ||
041d709f | 1666 | ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional |
7d301ae6 CY |
1667 | functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity, |
1668 | support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more. | |
041d709f CY |
1669 | |
1670 | ** Rmail | |
1671 | ||
1672 | *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data | |
1673 | in the Rmail incoming message. | |
1674 | ||
50419064 GM |
1675 | *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect. |
1676 | This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time. | |
1677 | Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead. | |
1678 | ||
717a1362 | 1679 | ** Shell mode |
dfdb4cad CY |
1680 | |
1681 | *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory | |
1682 | is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor | |
1683 | the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set. | |
1684 | ||
1685 | *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command, | |
1686 | which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion. | |
717a1362 | 1687 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1688 | ** SMTPmail |
1689 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1690 | *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default |
7d301ae6 CY |
1691 | if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS |
1692 | support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type' | |
1693 | to change this. | |
1694 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1695 | *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed. |
1696 | By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1697 | This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had |
1698 | customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and | |
1699 | passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection | |
1700 | to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password, | |
1701 | and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the | |
1702 | credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1703 | |
1704 | (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials | |
1705 | '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret"))) | |
1706 | ||
1707 | then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be | |
1708 | ||
1709 | machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret | |
1710 | ||
1711 | See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting | |
1712 | the credentials file. | |
1713 | ||
7d301ae6 | 1714 | *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed. |
dfdb4cad | 1715 | If you had that set, you need to put |
7d301ae6 CY |
1716 | |
1717 | machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert" | |
1718 | ||
1719 | in your ~/.authinfo file instead. | |
1720 | ||
8ce192e3 LI |
1721 | *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the |
1722 | SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from' | |
1723 | to the address you wish to use instead. | |
1724 | ||
34e8a2da | 1725 | ** SQL mode |
041d709f | 1726 | |
34e8a2da GM |
1727 | *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator', |
1728 | and `sql-oracle-scan-on'. | |
041d709f | 1729 | |
dfdb4cad | 1730 | *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters. |
34e8a2da GM |
1731 | Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params', |
1732 | which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a | |
1733 | connection is established. | |
041d709f CY |
1734 | |
1735 | *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument, | |
34e8a2da | 1736 | which causes it to prompt for an SQL product. |
041d709f | 1737 | |
34e8a2da | 1738 | *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments. |
041d709f CY |
1739 | These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.), |
1740 | given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive | |
1741 | buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'. | |
1742 | ||
1743 | *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and | |
1744 | replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL | |
1745 | statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into | |
1746 | the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The | |
34e8a2da GM |
1747 | second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing |
1748 | object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions. | |
041d709f CY |
1749 | |
1750 | *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session, | |
1751 | using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'. | |
1752 | ||
1753 | *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers. | |
1754 | This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it | |
1755 | was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection. | |
1756 | ||
34e8a2da GM |
1757 | *** New commands for listing database objects and details: |
1758 | sql-list-all and sql-list-table. | |
041d709f CY |
1759 | |
1760 | *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added. | |
1761 | ||
1762 | ** TeX modes | |
1763 | ||
1764 | *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly. | |
412b9ee5 | 1765 | |
459bba37 | 1766 | ** Tramp |
dfdb4cad | 1767 | |
7d301ae6 | 1768 | *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su). |
dfdb4cad | 1769 | |
459bba37 | 1770 | *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old", |
ea843702 | 1771 | "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish". |
dfdb4cad | 1772 | |
b011fbfe GM |
1773 | *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether |
1774 | remote file attributes are cached for better performance. | |
dfdb4cad | 1775 | |
58f74fe4 MA |
1776 | *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its |
1777 | default value to "". | |
dfdb4cad | 1778 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1779 | *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context' |
1780 | for remote machines which support SELinux. | |
58f74fe4 | 1781 | |
dfdb4cad | 1782 | ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve, |
a48ec60c GM |
1783 | but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on |
1784 | the degree of parallelism. | |
177549d0 | 1785 | |
0c32ce32 CY |
1786 | ** VC and related modes |
1787 | ||
1788 | *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1789 | The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is |
1790 | supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the | |
1791 | current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt | |
1792 | the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location. | |
0c32ce32 | 1793 | |
dab3703d | 1794 | *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'. |
0c32ce32 CY |
1795 | |
1796 | *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1797 | The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it |
1798 | is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge | |
1799 | changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for | |
1800 | specifics, e.g. a merge source. | |
0c32ce32 | 1801 | |
2afef60a | 1802 | *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert' |
bbe43420 | 1803 | shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t. |
2afef60a | 1804 | |
d4eb88c7 CY |
1805 | *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a |
1806 | longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display). | |
dab3703d GM |
1807 | This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support |
1808 | another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function'). | |
7d301ae6 | 1809 | In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can |
d4eb88c7 CY |
1810 | use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point. |
1811 | ||
1c6c854e CS |
1812 | *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions |
1813 | of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend. | |
1814 | ||
86c60681 CY |
1815 | *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but |
1816 | this was not advertised at the time. | |
1817 | ||
86c60681 CY |
1818 | *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'. |
1819 | Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but | |
80c6d77f GM |
1820 | this was not advertised at the time. |
1821 | ||
041d709f CY |
1822 | ** Obsolete modes |
1823 | ||
23d70505 GM |
1824 | *** abbrevlist.el |
1825 | ||
f8ca9162 | 1826 | *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead) |
23d70505 GM |
1827 | |
1828 | *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete. | |
041d709f CY |
1829 | You can get a comparable behavior with: |
1830 | (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials)) | |
1831 | (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t) | |
1832 | ||
23d70505 GM |
1833 | *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive). |
1834 | ||
2c719188 | 1835 | *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead). |
041d709f CY |
1836 | |
1837 | *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset. | |
1838 | ||
23d70505 GM |
1839 | *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete. |
1840 | They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1. | |
1841 | ||
2c719188 | 1842 | *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer). |
ca5eed61 | 1843 | |
0fe719e6 GM |
1844 | ** Miscellaneous |
1845 | ||
05f77e38 | 1846 | *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'. |
c6ad2a4e | 1847 | Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed. |
05f77e38 | 1848 | |
dfdb4cad | 1849 | *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'. |
05f77e38 GM |
1850 | (This interfered with cua-mode.) |
1851 | ||
9f678528 GM |
1852 | *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax. |
1853 | ||
0fe719e6 GM |
1854 | *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges. |
1855 | ||
5b3e6db8 GM |
1856 | *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet. |
1857 | ||
eb199145 GM |
1858 | \f |
1859 | * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 | |
d445b3f8 | 1860 | |
60e56523 | 1861 | ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the |
8c0f49f0 | 1862 | original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode. |
60e56523 | 1863 | |
a075a2c5 GM |
1864 | ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode. |
1865 | When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the | |
1866 | matching closing one. | |
1867 | ||
1868 | ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode. | |
1869 | When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation. | |
cd3308f3 GM |
1870 | Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or |
1871 | electric-indent-functions. | |
a075a2c5 GM |
1872 | |
1873 | ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode. | |
1874 | When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines. | |
cd3308f3 | 1875 | Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules. |
3b843809 | 1876 | |
a83ec3c9 CY |
1877 | ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data, |
1878 | from which other modes can be derived. | |
1879 | ||
d02c9bcd SM |
1880 | ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'. |
1881 | ||
7725ebb7 MA |
1882 | ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an |
1883 | interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The | |
065f2743 MA |
1884 | Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command |
1885 | `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the | |
1886 | secrets. | |
7725ebb7 | 1887 | |
f9e78150 MA |
1888 | ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop |
1889 | Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication. | |
1890 | ||
12fe5bcc MA |
1891 | ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs. |
1892 | soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures. | |
1893 | ||
ff1796f3 | 1894 | ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files. |
ad7d6ecb | 1895 | |
53bbe3ad | 1896 | ** New emacs-lock.el package. |
7d301ae6 CY |
1897 | The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el. |
1898 | Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection | |
1899 | against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately. | |
1900 | The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers | |
1901 | with dead inferior processes has been generalized. | |
53bbe3ad | 1902 | |
eb199145 GM |
1903 | \f |
1904 | * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
6dfcbe31 | 1905 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1906 | ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES |
1907 | the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g. | |
1908 | ||
dfdb4cad | 1909 | (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode) |
7d301ae6 | 1910 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1911 | to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for |
1912 | `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands | |
1913 | defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode | |
1914 | command still toggles the minor mode. | |
7d301ae6 | 1915 | |
d268b4fe CY |
1916 | ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed. |
1917 | It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list | |
1918 | describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the | |
f003f294 | 1919 | system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil). |
7d301ae6 | 1920 | See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1". |
d268b4fe | 1921 | |
dfdb4cad CY |
1922 | ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted. |
1923 | They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional | |
1924 | editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional | |
1925 | properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last | |
1926 | argument `bidi-class'. | |
fa6996bc | 1927 | |
470d996d TV |
1928 | ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory |
1929 | of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The | |
1930 | new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy | |
1931 | the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory. | |
1932 | ||
9173a8fb CY |
1933 | ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel |
1934 | coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text | |
1935 | area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top | |
1936 | of the header line. | |
1937 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1938 | ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has |
1939 | been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is | |
1940 | always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all | |
1941 | "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes | |
1942 | as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then | |
1943 | you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the | |
1944 | appropriate conventions may fail to compile. | |
50ab02c5 CY |
1945 | |
1946 | The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote | |
1947 | followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation | |
1948 | for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')], | |
1949 | you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in | |
7d301ae6 | 1950 | older Emacsen too. |
288cf4e9 | 1951 | |
520f2425 GM |
1952 | ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this |
1953 | was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay' | |
1954 | replaced all known uses. | |
1955 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1956 | ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that |
1957 | `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the | |
1958 | major mode is special). | |
fd5c9dfa | 1959 | |
7d301ae6 | 1960 | ** Menu and tool bar changes |
6431f2e6 | 1961 | |
7d301ae6 | 1962 | *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines' |
0a19a6f8 JB |
1963 | and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'. |
1964 | With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the | |
1965 | variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create | |
1966 | a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added, | |
1967 | they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'. | |
6431f2e6 | 1968 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1969 | *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more. |
1970 | Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead. | |
1971 | ||
fe0aa820 | 1972 | ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions, |
dfdb4cad | 1973 | similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes |
7d301ae6 CY |
1974 | above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by |
1975 | `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed. | |
d6d8ee7a | 1976 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
1977 | ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed. |
1978 | If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply | |
1979 | pass the result through substring-no-properties. | |
34c99998 | 1980 | |
4583e796 GM |
1981 | ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'. |
1982 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
1983 | ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed |
1984 | (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed" | |
1985 | means you can just remove all calls to the function in question): | |
1986 | ||
1987 | *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output') | |
1988 | *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string') | |
1989 | *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p') | |
1990 | *** `internal-find-face' (`facep') | |
1991 | *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face') | |
1992 | *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed) | |
1993 | *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode') | |
1994 | *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions) | |
2c719188 | 1995 | *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold') |
7d301ae6 CY |
1996 | *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic') |
1997 | *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic') | |
1998 | *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold') | |
1999 | *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic') | |
2000 | *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line') | |
2001 | *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line') | |
2002 | *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode') | |
2003 | *** `char-bytes' (== 1) | |
2004 | *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char') | |
2005 | *** `make-local-hook' (not needed) | |
2006 | *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height') | |
2007 | *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width') | |
2008 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2009 | ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed |
2010 | (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses): | |
2011 | ||
2012 | *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map') | |
2013 | *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header') | |
2014 | *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/) | |
2015 | *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults') | |
2016 | *** `e' (`float-e'). | |
3226d6ca | 2017 | |
041d709f | 2018 | ** The following obsolete files were removed: |
7b0e3048 GM |
2019 | sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el |
2020 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2021 | ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder |
2022 | mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable | |
2023 | `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and | |
2024 | `finder-keywords-hash'. | |
33658d4e | 2025 | |
c2c79260 DE |
2026 | ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer |
2027 | assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead | |
2028 | generates relative names according to the current `load-path'. | |
2029 | ||
eb199145 GM |
2030 | \f |
2031 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1 | |
9097e8af | 2032 | |
041d709f | 2033 | ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping. |
dfdb4cad | 2034 | The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local |
48da7392 | 2035 | variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first |
dfdb4cad CY |
2036 | line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that |
2037 | file. | |
2038 | ||
041d709f CY |
2039 | *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical |
2040 | binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode. | |
dfdb4cad | 2041 | |
041d709f CY |
2042 | *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form |
2043 | of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY). | |
2044 | ||
2045 | *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
2046 | |
2047 | *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic). | |
2048 | So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine. | |
2049 | ||
041d709f CY |
2050 | *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is |
2051 | declared as dynamically bound. | |
2052 | ||
88ed9e87 SM |
2053 | *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated. |
2054 | ||
041d709f CY |
2055 | ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included. |
2056 | Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for | |
2057 | their code. See the ERT info manual for details. | |
2058 | ||
2059 | ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing | |
f1816485 | 2060 | |
041d709f | 2061 | *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'. |
7d301ae6 | 2062 | This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point. |
041d709f | 2063 | |
041d709f | 2064 | *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'. |
dfdb4cad CY |
2065 | Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this |
2066 | function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a | |
2067 | buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2068 | right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode |
2069 | "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.) | |
041d709f | 2070 | |
7d301ae6 | 2071 | This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph |
dfdb4cad CY |
2072 | direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known |
2073 | in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line. | |
041d709f | 2074 | |
bee0fcef | 2075 | ** Window changes |
dfdb4cad | 2076 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2077 | *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp. |
2078 | Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows | |
2079 | of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a | |
2080 | buffer) in the window tree. | |
dfdb4cad | 2081 | |
24300f5f CY |
2082 | **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal |
2083 | windows. | |
dfdb4cad | 2084 | |
24300f5f | 2085 | **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows. |
c4682d18 MR |
2086 | Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or |
2087 | `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now | |
2088 | act on any window including internal ones. | |
dfdb4cad | 2089 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2090 | *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width. |
2091 | The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height' | |
2092 | and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old | |
2093 | names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width' | |
2094 | and `window-body-height' are provided. | |
dfdb4cad | 2095 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2096 | *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions. |
2097 | For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default | |
2098 | behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window' | |
ed6235ea MR |
2099 | and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters' |
2100 | allows to ignore processing such parameters. | |
dfdb4cad | 2101 | |
c4682d18 | 2102 | *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'. |
c4682d18 MR |
2103 | The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be |
2104 | set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the | |
2105 | new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be | |
2106 | split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the | |
2107 | window into two side-by-side windows as before. | |
dfdb4cad | 2108 | |
c4682d18 | 2109 | *** Window resizing functions. |
487ffd7a | 2110 | A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has |
c4682d18 MR |
2111 | been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no |
2112 | longer delete any windows when they become too small. | |
dfdb4cad | 2113 | |
b3c0dbfd MR |
2114 | *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected |
2115 | live window on that frame instead. | |
dfdb4cad | 2116 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2117 | *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments. |
2118 | `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and | |
2119 | is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing | |
2120 | edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to | |
2121 | that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete | |
2122 | windows which was introduced in Emacs 22. | |
dfdb4cad | 2123 | |
c4682d18 MR |
2124 | *** Window-local buffer lists. |
2125 | Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer | |
2126 | from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously | |
2127 | shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point | |
2128 | positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically | |
2129 | shown twice even if it already appears in another window. | |
dfdb4cad | 2130 | |
bee0fcef CY |
2131 | *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW, |
2132 | which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently | |
2133 | selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window | |
2134 | can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated. | |
dfdb4cad | 2135 | |
0a2132ba | 2136 | *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed |
2d197ffb CY |
2137 | to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively. |
2138 | The old names are kept as aliases. | |
dfdb4cad | 2139 | |
0a2132ba CY |
2140 | *** Display actions |
2141 | ||
2142 | **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now | |
2143 | named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as | |
2144 | `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil, | |
2145 | non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning. | |
2146 | ||
2147 | **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'. | |
2148 | ||
2149 | **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is | |
2150 | determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action', | |
2151 | `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action', | |
2152 | and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these | |
2153 | are user-customizable variables. | |
2154 | ||
2155 | See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details. | |
bee0fcef | 2156 | |
20d2304d CY |
2157 | *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'. |
2158 | These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary | |
2159 | frame or window as an Elisp object. | |
2160 | ||
a2a25d24 | 2161 | ** Completion |
041d709f | 2162 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2163 | *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra |
2164 | properties of the current completion: | |
a2a25d24 SM |
2165 | - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function. |
2166 | - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place. | |
2167 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2168 | *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the |
2169 | properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'. | |
a2a25d24 | 2170 | |
7d301ae6 | 2171 | *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete. |
a2a25d24 | 2172 | |
620c53a6 SM |
2173 | *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned |
2174 | can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions': | |
2175 | - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...), | |
2176 | used to select a style in completion-category-overrides. | |
2177 | - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*. | |
2178 | - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*. | |
2179 | - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling. | |
2180 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2181 | *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more. |
2182 | Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' | |
2183 | are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'. | |
de09aa52 CY |
2184 | |
2185 | *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the | |
2186 | behavior of `completing-read'. | |
2187 | ||
f042970d | 2188 | ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and |
16a43933 CY |
2189 | text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell. |
2190 | ||
7d301ae6 | 2191 | ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error. |
f6d62986 SM |
2192 | Instead, the offending function is removed. |
2193 | ||
b1f6fa26 CY |
2194 | ** New hook types |
2195 | ||
2196 | *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by | |
2197 | passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function. | |
e7bc51d0 | 2198 | Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first |
5385447f | 2199 | non-nil return value. |
e7bc51d0 | 2200 | |
b1f6fa26 CY |
2201 | *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a |
2202 | set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice. | |
54521c99 GM |
2203 | (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not |
2204 | advertised at the time.) | |
f6d62986 | 2205 | |
0b19b281 | 2206 | ** Debugger changes |
dfdb4cad | 2207 | |
0b19b281 | 2208 | *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in |
1be3ca5a | 2209 | Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised) |
dfdb4cad | 2210 | |
0b19b281 | 2211 | *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised. |
dfdb4cad | 2212 | |
0b19b281 | 2213 | *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed. |
dfdb4cad | 2214 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2215 | *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will |
2216 | jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked | |
2217 | instead of jumping all the way to the top-level. | |
dfdb4cad | 2218 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2219 | *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1. |
2220 | This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set. | |
d6b1d521 | 2221 | |
953cebf5 | 2222 | ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on |
37576acd | 2223 | named Emacs server instances. |
7deebf1b | 2224 | |
1b9f60cc GM |
2225 | ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec |
2226 | to redirect STDOUT to a file. | |
7deebf1b | 2227 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2228 | ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive, |
2229 | for higher-resolution time stamps. | |
da97a9e6 | 2230 | |
0b19b281 | 2231 | ** New input reading functions |
dfdb4cad | 2232 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2233 | *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of |
2234 | characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set. | |
dfdb4cad | 2235 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2236 | *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name |
2237 | or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides | |
2238 | invalid input. | |
dfdb4cad | 2239 | |
0b19b281 | 2240 | **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'. |
3ef01959 | 2241 | |
2e288d54 JB |
2242 | ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'. |
2243 | The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries, | |
2244 | not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an | |
2245 | obsolete alias. | |
2246 | ||
0b19b281 | 2247 | ** Syntax parsing changes |
dfdb4cad | 2248 | |
0b19b281 | 2249 | *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'. |
04e2ce72 | 2250 | This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete. |
cf38dd42 SM |
2251 | This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock: |
2252 | just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized. | |
2253 | Together with this new variable come a new hook | |
2254 | syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions: | |
2255 | syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords | |
2256 | as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify | |
2257 | syntactic rules. | |
dfdb4cad | 2258 | |
0b19b281 | 2259 | *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b. |
a2e5caf7 | 2260 | |
7d301ae6 | 2261 | ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'. |
041d709f | 2262 | |
4e2db1fe | 2263 | ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more. |
041d709f | 2264 | |
15de15c6 | 2265 | ** Major and minor mode changes |
dfdb4cad | 2266 | |
0b19b281 CY |
2267 | *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files, |
2268 | as well as those in the -*- line. | |
dfdb4cad | 2269 | |
15de15c6 CY |
2270 | *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes |
2271 | should be derived. | |
dfdb4cad | 2272 | |
15de15c6 CY |
2273 | **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming |
2274 | modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable | |
2275 | on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings. | |
dfdb4cad | 2276 | |
15de15c6 CY |
2277 | *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by |
2278 | `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks. | |
dfdb4cad | 2279 | |
7a9a2fc6 GM |
2280 | *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes. |
2281 | If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the | |
2282 | major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis. | |
dfdb4cad | 2283 | |
feb8a83a | 2284 | *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook. |
f44379e7 | 2285 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2286 | ** File-handling changes |
2287 | ||
7d301ae6 | 2288 | *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH. |
f1a5d776 CY |
2289 | Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are |
2290 | both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix | |
2291 | argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above). | |
53967e09 | 2292 | |
7d301ae6 | 2293 | *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'. |
ec70a47d | 2294 | |
4039c786 CY |
2295 | ** Tool-bars can display separators. |
2296 | Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps, | |
94975270 | 2297 | i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'. |
9317e499 | 2298 | |
00fe2df1 JL |
2299 | ** Image API |
2300 | ||
18af70d0 CY |
2301 | *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only). |
2302 | ||
2303 | **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated. | |
2304 | ||
2305 | **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec. | |
2306 | ||
2307 | **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that | |
2308 | is being animated. | |
00fe2df1 | 2309 | |
7cb76fe0 GM |
2310 | *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'. |
2311 | The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one. | |
1546c559 | 2312 | |
b4ac6e8c GM |
2313 | *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports. |
2314 | This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support. | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2315 | |
2316 | **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support | |
2317 | is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your | |
2318 | ImageMagick installation supports. | |
2319 | ||
2320 | **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick | |
2321 | image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper | |
2322 | functions. | |
2323 | ||
2324 | **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain | |
2325 | ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'. | |
2326 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2327 | **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to |
2328 | resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height', | |
2329 | `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and | |
2330 | `image-transform-set-scale'. | |
041d709f | 2331 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2332 | ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and |
2333 | passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an | |
2334 | action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For | |
2335 | example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window. | |
b4ac6e8c | 2336 | |
71c17aec | 2337 | ** XML and HTML parsing |
483ab230 CY |
2338 | If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new |
2339 | functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML) | |
2340 | and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an | |
2341 | Emacs Lisp parse tree. | |
4b9832a6 | 2342 | |
7d301ae6 | 2343 | ** Networking and encryption changes |
e2574f2c | 2344 | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2345 | *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream. |
2346 | It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS | |
2347 | connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional | |
2348 | parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command') | |
2349 | must also be supplied. | |
2350 | ||
2351 | *** New library gnutls.el. | |
dfdb4cad CY |
2352 | The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is |
2353 | built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are | |
2354 | `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use | |
2355 | these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2356 | upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain |
2357 | SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level' | |
2358 | greater than 0. | |
2359 | ||
7d301ae6 CY |
2360 | *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms: |
2361 | md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library | |
2362 | sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default. | |
71c17aec | 2363 | |
a6020335 MH |
2364 | ** Isearch |
2365 | ||
2366 | *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'. | |
2367 | ||
9326ba26 CY |
2368 | ** Progress reporters can now "spin". |
2369 | The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can | |
2370 | now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each | |
2371 | time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter, | |
2372 | with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is | |
2373 | displayed with a "spinning bar". | |
2374 | ||
3e214b50 JB |
2375 | ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is |
2376 | being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'. | |
2377 | ||
001bf877 GM |
2378 | ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'. |
2379 | If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls | |
7d301ae6 CY |
2380 | `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this |
2381 | is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during | |
2382 | startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the | |
2383 | functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'. | |
001bf877 | 2384 | |
6420d28b CY |
2385 | ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups. |
2386 | ||
dac86404 GM |
2387 | ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap |
2388 | from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that | |
2389 | inherits from multiple maps, eg: | |
2390 | (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent)) | |
43dc9f5b | 2391 | |
c8f6ec5c GM |
2392 | ** New function `string-prefix-p'. |
2393 | (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.) | |
2394 | ||
27f7ef2f | 2395 | ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol. |
43dc9f5b AS |
2396 | This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself |
2397 | (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for | |
2398 | an empty uninterned symbol. | |
041d709f | 2399 | |
fead402d CY |
2400 | ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'. |
2401 | ||
7d301ae6 | 2402 | ** The following functions and variables are obsolete: |
041d709f | 2403 | |
05f77e38 GM |
2404 | *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete. |
2405 | Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead. | |
2406 | ||
041d709f CY |
2407 | *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete. |
2408 | Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead. | |
2409 | ||
2410 | *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete. | |
2411 | ||
2412 | *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete. | |
f160676e GM |
2413 | Use `post-command-hook' instead. |
2414 | ||
67e729a5 CY |
2415 | *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete. |
2416 | ||
eb199145 GM |
2417 | \f |
2418 | * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems | |
d53a60a6 | 2419 | |
7a22e700 | 2420 | ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs, |
a2f0118c GM |
2421 | and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default. |
2422 | ||
7a22e700 | 2423 | ** New configure.bat options |
04779484 | 2424 | |
7a22e700 | 2425 | *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks. |
e3aef5c6 | 2426 | |
7a22e700 | 2427 | *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution. |
e2574f2c | 2428 | |
7a22e700 OK |
2429 | *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection. |
2430 | ||
a0d363f4 | 2431 | *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable. |
e2574f2c | 2432 | |
0a19a6f8 | 2433 | ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows. |
e3aef5c6 | 2434 | |
1f5e1a16 GM |
2435 | ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete. |
2436 | (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.) | |
5430d399 | 2437 | |
1f5e1a16 GM |
2438 | ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but |
2439 | reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.) | |
04e2ce72 | 2440 | |
ad7c802c CY |
2441 | ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on |
2442 | other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer. | |
2443 | ||
05197f40 | 2444 | \f |
a933dad1 | 2445 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
5b87ad55 | 2446 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
a933dad1 | 2447 | |
ab73e885 | 2448 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
5b87ad55 | 2449 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
ab73e885 GM |
2450 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
2451 | (at your option) any later version. | |
5b87ad55 GM |
2452 | |
2453 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
2454 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
2455 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
2456 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
a933dad1 | 2457 | |
5b87ad55 | 2458 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
ab73e885 | 2459 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
a933dad1 | 2460 | |
05197f40 | 2461 | \f |
a933dad1 DL |
2462 | Local variables: |
2463 | mode: outline | |
2464 | paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$" | |
2465 | end: |