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29b7722a 1GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
5b87ad55 2
eb199145 3Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5b87ad55 4See the end of the file for license conditions.
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893db5bc 6Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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7If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
eb199145 9This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
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11See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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14You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
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18Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
20 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
21When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
22so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
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eb199145 25* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
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27** Configure links against libselinux if it is found.
28You can disable this by using --without-selinux.
29
30---
31** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
32You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
33
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35** There are new configure options:
36--with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
37These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
38lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
39
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41** There is a new configure option --with-crt-dir.
42This is only useful if your crt*.o files are in a non-standard location.
43
e547b051 44---
30c4d8dc 45** Emacs can be compiled against Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
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46to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
47also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
48--without-gconf.
49
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50** There is a new configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
51This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
b2957ea8 52This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
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55** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available
56Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
57automatically select it.
58
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eb199145 60* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
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62** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
63command line arguments no longer have any effect. (They were declared
64obsolete in Emacs 23.)
65
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eb199145 67* Changes in Emacs 24.1
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69** emacsclient changes
70
71*** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID can be used to open a
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72client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed. This works like the
73--parent-id argument to Emacs.
74
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75*** If emacsclient shuts down as a result of Emacs signalling an
76error, its exit status is 1.
77
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78** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold.
79
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80** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default.
81
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83** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
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85See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some
86initial documentation.
87
88To turn this on in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable
89`bidi-display-reordering' to a non-nil value. The default is nil.
90
91The buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction', if non-nil,
92forces each paragraph in the buffer to have its base direction
93according to the value of this variable. Possible values are
94`right-to-left' and `left-to-right'. If the value is nil (the
95default), Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph from
96its text, as specified by the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
97
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98The function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction' returns the actual
99value of paragraph base direction at point.
100
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101Reordering of bidirectional text for display in Emacs is a "Full
102bidirectionality" class implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional
103Algorithm.
104
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105Note that some advanced display features, such as overlay strings and
106`display' text properties, do not yet work correctly when
107bidirectional text is reordered for display.
108
303500aa 109** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
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110Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.
111
20fe03ad 112** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
d8004abe 113Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose style. On a Gnome desktop, the default
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114is taken from the desktop settings.
115
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116** GTK tool bars can be placed on the left/right or top/bottom of the frame.
117The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the values
1c0d77cc 118top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has entries
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119for this.
120
8740c12d 121** ImageMagick support.
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122It is now possible to use the ImageMagick library to load many new
123image formats in Emacs. By default, Emacs links with the ImageMagick
124libraries if they are present at build time. To disable this, use
8ea189f7 125the configure option `--without-imagemagick'.
16a91140 126
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127The new function `imagemagick-types' returns a list of image file
128extensions that your installation of ImageMagick supports. The
129function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick support for
b2957ea8 130these image types, minus those listed in `imagemagick-types-inhibit'.
16a91140 131
8740c12d 132See the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual for more information.
16a91140 133
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134** The colors for selected text (the region face) are taken from the GTK
135theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
136
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137** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK. You can turn that
138off by customizing x-gtk-use-system-tooltips.
139
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140** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is built
141with Xft.
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143** Basic SELinux support has been added.
144This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
145
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146*** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up, and
147optionally when copying files. To this end, copy-file has an extra
148optional argument, and backup-buffer and friends include the SELinux
149context in their return values.
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150
151*** The new functions file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
152get and set the SELinux context of a file.
153
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154*** Tramp offers handlers for file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
155for remote machines which support SELinux.
156
9c524fcb 157** The function kill-emacs is now run upon receipt of the signals SIGTERM
383ebd15 158and SIGHUP, and upon SIGINT in batch mode.
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160** kill-emacs-hook is now also run in batch mode.
161
79ce172a 162** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
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163(bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) does not signal errors at top/bottom
164of buffer at first key-press (instead moves to top/bottom of buffer)
165when a new variable `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
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167** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
168scroll a line instead of full screen.
169
a4b000fb 170** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
b2957ea8 171define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
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173** Trash changes
174
175*** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
176trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
177
178*** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
179now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
180
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181** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
182for `list-colors-display'.
183
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184** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
185This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
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186from elpa.gnu.org.
187
188*** `M-x list-packages' shows a list of packages, which can be
189selected for installation.
190
191*** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
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193*** By default, all installed packages are loaded and activated
194automatically when Emacs starts up. To disable this, set
195`package-enable-at-startup' to nil. To change which packages are
196loaded, customize `package-load-list'.
197
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eb199145 199* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
b350bdf2 200
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201** completion-at-point is now an alias for complete-symbol.
202
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203** Deletion changes
204
205*** New option `delete-active-region'.
206If non-nil, C-d, [delete], and DEL delete the region if it is active
207and no prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', these commands
208kill instead.
209
210*** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to C-d and [delete].
211This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region';
212delete-char, meant for Lisp, does not obey `delete-active-region'.
213
214*** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
215Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
216However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; you
217should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
218
219*** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
220
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221** Selection changes.
222
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223The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
224changed to conform with other X applications.
f9d71b42 225
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226*** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t, so active regions set
227the primary selection.
228
229It also accepts a new value, `lazy', which means to only set the
230primary selection for temporarily active regions (usually made by
231mouse-dragging or shift-selection).
232
233*** `mouse-2' is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
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234
235*** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t.
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236Thus, killing and yanking now use the clipboard (in addition to the
237kill ring).
f9d71b42 238
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239*** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
240
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241*** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
242
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243*** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
244
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eb199145 246* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
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248** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
249
3b083a0f 250** FIXME: xdg-open for browse-url and reportbug, 2010/08. (Close bug#4546?)
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252** Archive Mode has basic support to browse 7z archives.
253
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254** ERC changes
255
256*** New vars `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay'.
257If the value of `erc-autojoin-timing' is 'ident, ERC autojoins after a
258successful NickServ identification, or after `erc-autojoin-delay'
259seconds. The default value, 'ident, means to autojoin immediately
260after connecting.
261
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262** In ido-mode, C-v is no longer bound to ido-toggle-vc.
263The reason is that this interferes with cua-mode.
264
c1e25821 265** partial-completion-mode is now obsolete.
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266You can get a comparable behavior with:
267(setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
268(setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
c1e25821 269
18c812bd 270** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
b2957ea8 271
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272** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
273
274---
275*** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt package
276by adding appt-make-list to diary-hook has been removed. Use appt-activate.
277
278---
279*** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
280appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
281appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
282
283---
284*** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
285view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
286
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287** Customize
288
289*** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
290The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
291To turn off the search field, set custom-search-field to nil .
292
293*** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values.
294Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
295
296*** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
297
298*** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
299choose a color via list-colors-display.
300
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301** Dired-x
302
303*** dired-jump and dired-jump-other-window called with a prefix argument
304read a file name from the minibuffer instead of using buffer-file-name.
305
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306** VC and related modes
307
e97a42c1 308*** New VC commands: vc-log-incoming, vc-log-outgoing, vc-find-conflicted-file.
31527c56 309
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310**** vc-log-incoming for Git runs "git fetch" so that the necessary
311data is available locally.
312
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313**** vc-log-incoming and vc-log-outgoing for Git require version 1.7 (or newer).
314
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315*** New key bindings: C-x v I and C-x v O bound to vc-log-incoming and
316vc-log-outgoing, respectively.
317
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318*** vc-dir for Bzr supports viewing shelve contents and shelving snapshots.
319
09158997 320*** Special markup can be added to log-edit buffers.
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321The log-edit buffers are expected to have a format similar to email messages
322with headers of the form:
323 Author: <author of this change>
324 Summary: <one line summary of this change>
325 Fixes: <reference to the bug fixed by this change>
326Some backends handle some of those headers specially, but any unknown header
327is just left as is in the message, so it is not lost.
09158997 328
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329**** vc-git handles Author: and Date:
330**** vc-hg handles Author: and Date:
331**** vc-bzr handles Author:, Date: and Fixes:
332**** vc-mtn handles Author: and Date:
333
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334*** Pressing g in a *vc-diff* buffer reruns vc-diff, so it will
335produce an up to date diff.
336
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337** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers.
338For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your
d8004abe 339.dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers.
8117868f 340
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341** SQL Mode enhancements.
342
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343*** Several variables have been marked as safe local variables. The
344variables `sql-product', `sql-user', `sql-server', `sql-database' and
345`sql-port' can now be safely used as local variables.
7492acc9 346
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347*** `sql-dialect' is a synonym for `sql-product'.
348
74790210 349*** Added ability to login with a port on MySQL and Postgres.
7492acc9 350The custom variable `sql-port' can be specified for connection to
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351MySQL or Postgres servers. By default, the port is not listed in
352either login parameter, but will be added to the command line if set
353to a non-zero value.
7492acc9 354
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355*** Dynamic selection of product in an SQL interactive session.
356If you use `sql-product-interactive' to start an SQL interactive
357session it uses the current value of `sql-product'. Preceding the
358invocation with C-u will force it to ask for the product before
359creating the session.
360
361*** Renaming a SQL interactive buffer when it is created.
362Prefixing the SQL interactive commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres',
363`sql-mysql', etc.) with C-u will force a new interactive session to be
364started and will prompt for the new name. This will reduce the need
365for `sql-rename-buffer' is most common use cases.
366
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367*** Command continuation prompts in SQL interactive mode are suppressed.
368Multiple line commands in SQL interactive mode, generate command
369continuation prompts which needlessly confuse the output. These
370prompts are now filtered out from the output. This change impacts
371multiple line SQL statements entered with C-j between each line,
372statements yanked into the buffer and statements sent with
373`sql-send-*' functions.
374
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375*** Custom variables control prompting for login parameters.
376Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params'
377which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
378connection is established.
379
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380The lists consist of the following five tokens: `user', `password',
381`database', `server', and `port'. The order in which they appear is
382the order in which they are prompted. The tokens symbols can be
383replaced by a sublist starting with the token and followed by a plist
384which control the prompting for values. The tokens `user',
385`database', and `server' each can take a property of :default which
386specifies the value to be used if no value is entered. The
387`database', `server', and `port' tokens handle the :completion
388property which restricts the entry to either one of the values in the
389list or to one of the values returned by the function provided as the
390property value. The `database' and `server' tokens also accept the
391:file property whose value is a regexp to identify useful file names.
392
393 (user :default DEF)
394 (database :default DEF
395 :file FILEPAT
396 :completion COMPLETE)
397 (server :default DEF
398 :file FILEPAT
399 :completion COMPLETE)
400
401The FILEPAT when :file is specified is a regexp that will match valid
402file names (without the directory portion). Generally these strings
403will be of the form ".+\.SUF" where SUF is the desired file suffix.
404
405When :completion is specified, the COMPLETE corresponds to the
406PREDICATE argument to the `completing-read' function (a list of
407possible values or a function returning such a list).
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409*** Added `sql-connection-alist' to record login parameter values.
410An alist for recording different username, database and server
411values. If there are multiple databases that you connect to the
412parameters needed can be stored in this alist.
413
414For example, the following might be set in the user's init.el:
415
416 (setq sql-connection-alist
417 '((dev (sql-product 'sqlite)
418 (sql-database "/home/mmaug/dev.db"))
419 (prd (sql-product 'oracle)
420 (sql-user "mmaug")
421 (sql-database "iprd2a"))))
422
423This defines two connections named "dev" and "prd".
424
425*** Added `sql-connect' to use predefined connections.
426Sets the login parameters based on the values in the
427`sql-connection-alist' and start a SQL interactive session. Any
428values specified in the connection will not be prompted for.
429
430In the example above, if the user were to invoke M-x sql-connect, they
431would be prompted for the connection. The user can respond with
432either "dev" or "prd". The "dev" connection would connect to the
433SQLite database without prompting; the "prd" connection would prompt
434for the users password and then connect to the Oracle database.
435
d26b0ea9 436**** Added SQL->Start... submenu when connections are defined.
b2957ea8 437When connections have been defined, there is a submenu available that
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438allows the user to select one to start a SQLi session. The "Start
439SQLi Session" item moves to the "Start..." submenu when cnnections
440have been defined.
441
442**** Added "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
443When a SQLi session is not started by a connection then
444`sql-save-connection' will gather the login params specified for the
445session and save them as a new connection.
446
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447*** List database objects and details.
448Once a SQL interactive session has been started, you can get a list of
449the objects in the database and see details of those objects. The
450objects shown and the details available are product specific.
451
452**** List all objects.
453Using `M-x sql-list-all', `C-c C-l a' or selecting "SQL->List all
454objects" will list all the objects in the database. At a minimum it
455lists the tables and views in the database. Preceeding the command by
456universal argument may provide additional details or extend the
457listing to include other schemas objects. The list will appear in a
458separate window in view-mode.
459
460**** List Table details.
461Using `M-x sql-list-table', `C-c C-l t' or selecting "SQL->List Table
462details" will ask for the name of a database table or view and display
463the list of columns in the relation. Preceeding the comand with the
464universal argument may provide additional details about each column.
465The list will appear in a separate window in view-mode.
466
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467*** Added option `sql-send-terminator'.
468When set makes sure that each command sent with `sql-send-*' commands
469are properly terminated and submitted to the SQL processor.
470
471*** Added option `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
472When set commands sent to Oracle's SQL*Plus are scanned for strings
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473starting with an ampersand and the user is asked for replacement text.
474In general, the SQL*Plus option SCAN should always be set OFF under
475SQL interactive mode and this option used in its place.
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477*** SQL interactive mode will replace tabs with spaces.
478This prevents the comand interpretter for MySQL and Postgres from
479listing object name completions when being sent text via
480`sql-send-*' functions.
481
482*** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
483
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484** s-region.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by shift-select-mode
485enabled by default in 23.1.
486
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487** gdb-mi
488
489*** GDB User Interface migrated to GDB Machine Interface and now
490supports multithread non-stop debugging and debugging of several
491threads simultaneously.
492
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493** D-Bus
494
495*** It is possible now, to access alternative buses than the default
496system or session bus.
497
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498** Tramp
499
500*** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
501"ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old" and "fish".
502
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504* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
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506** New global minor modes electric-pair-mode and electric-indent-mode.
507
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508** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
509
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510** smie.el is a package providing a simple generic indentation engine.
511
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512** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
513interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
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514Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
515`secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
516secrets.
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518** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
519Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
520
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522* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
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524** A backquote not followed by a space is now always treated as new-style.
525
fd5c9dfa 526** Test for special mode-class was moved from view-file to view-buffer.
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527FIXME: This only says what was changed, but not what are the
528programmer-visible consequences.
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530** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function now turns the mode
531 ON unconditionally.
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533** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
534and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and
535`initial-frame-alist'. With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame'
536checks the value of the variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to
537determine whether to create a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively.
538If the alist entries are added, they override the value of
539`menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
540
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541** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
542similar to the ones created by shift-selection. In previous Emacs
543versions, these regions were delineated by `mouse-drag-overlay', which
544has now been removed.
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546** The following functions and aliases, obsolete since at least Emacs 21.1,
547have been removed:
548comint-kill-output, decompose-composite-char, outline-visible,
549internal-find-face, internal-get-face, frame-update-faces,
550frame-update-face-colors, x-frob-font-weight, x-frob-font-slant,
551x-make-font-bold, x-make-font-demibold, x-make-font-unbold
552x-make-font-italic, x-make-font-oblique, x-make-font-unitalic
553x-make-font-bold-italic, mldrag-drag-mode-line, mldrag-drag-vertical-line,
554iswitchb-default-keybindings, char-bytes, isearch-return-char
555
556** The following variables and aliases, obsolete since at least Emacs 21.1,
557have been removed:
558checkdoc-minor-keymap
559
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561* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
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563** New variable syntax-propertize-function to set syntax-table properties.
564Replaces font-lock-syntactic-keywords which are now obsolete.
565This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
566just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
567Together with this new variable come a new hook
568syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
569syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
570as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
571syntactic rules.
572
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573** New hook post-self-insert-hook run at the end of self-insert-command.
574
7cf78aac 575+++
c5683ceb 576** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
4e2db1fe 577** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
10dcc561 578** prog-mode is a new major-mode meant to be the parent of programming mode.
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579** define-minor-mode accepts a new keyword :variable.
580
b2957ea8 581** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
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582Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
583both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
584argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
53967e09 585
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586** buffer-substring-filters is obsoleted by filter-buffer-substring-functions.
587
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588** New completion style `substring'.
589
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590** Image API
591
592*** When the image type is one of listed in `image-animated-types'
1546c559 593and the number of sub-images in the image is more than one, then the
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594new function `create-animated-image' creates an animated image where
595sub-images are displayed successively with the duration defined by
596`image-animate-max-time' and the delay between sub-images defined
597by the Graphic Control Extension of the image.
598
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599*** `image-extension-data' is renamed to `image-metadata'.
600
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601** XML and HTML parsing
602
603*** If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support (which is the default),
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604two new Emacs Lisp-level functions are defined:
605`xml-parse-html-string-internal' (which will parse "real world" HTML)
606and `xml-parse-string-internal' (which parses XML). Both return an
607Emacs Lisp parse tree.
608
609FIXME: These should be front-ended by xml.el.
610
cf16af42 611** FIXME GnuTLS
71c17aec 612
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613** Isearch
614
615*** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
616
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617** Progress reporters can now "spin".
618The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
619now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
620time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
621with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
622displayed with a "spinning bar".
623
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625* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
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627** New configure.bat option --enable-checking builds emacs with extra
628runtime checks.
629
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630** New configure.bat option --distfiles to specify files to be
631 included in binary distribution
632
633** New make target `dist' to create binary disttribution for Windows
634 platform
635
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a933dad1 637----------------------------------------------------------------------
5b87ad55 638This file is part of GNU Emacs.
a933dad1 639
ab73e885 640GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5b87ad55 641it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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642the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
643(at your option) any later version.
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644
645GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
646but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
647MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
648GNU General Public License for more details.
a933dad1 649
5b87ad55 650You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
ab73e885 651along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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654Local variables:
655mode: outline
656paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
657end: