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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
11 See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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25 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.5
28 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.5
31 * Changes in Emacs 24.5
34 ** The default value of `history-length' has increased to 100.
37 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.5
40 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.5
43 ** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u now handle repeat counts
44 to delete or undelete multiple messages.
52 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.5
55 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.5
58 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.5
61 ** You can specify a function's interactive-only property via `declare'.
62 However you specify it, the property affects `describe-function' output.
65 * Changes in Emacs 24.5 on Non-Free Operating Systems
68 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.4
71 ** Emacs can now be compiled with ACL support.
72 This happens by default if a suitable support library is found at
73 build time, like libacl on GNU/Linux. To prevent this, use the
74 configure option `--disable-acl'. See below for related features.
77 ** Emacs can now be compiled with file notification support.
78 This happens by default if a suitable system library is found at
79 build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
80 `--without-file-notification'. See below for file-notify features.
81 This feature is not available for the Nextstep port.
84 ** Emacs can now be compiled with zlib support.
85 This happens by default if zlib is present, which it normally is.
86 To prevent this, use the configure option `--without-zlib'.
87 This provides the function `zlib-decompress-region'; see below for details.
90 ** The configure option `--without-compress-info' has been generalized,
91 and renamed to `--without-compress-install'. It now prevents compression
92 of _any_ files during installation.
95 ** The configure option `--with-crt-dir' has been removed.
96 It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked specially.
99 ** Directories passed to configure option `--enable-locallisppath' are
100 no longer created during installation.
103 ** Emacs for NS (Mac OS X, GNUstep) can be built with ImageMagick support.
104 This requires pkg-config to be available at build time.
107 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
110 ** When initializing `load-path', an empty element in the EMACSLOADPATH
111 environment variable (either leading, e.g., ":/foo"; trailing, e.g.,
112 "/foo:"; or embedded, e.g., "/foo::/bar") is replaced with the default
113 load-path (the one that would have been used if EMACSLOADPATH was unset).
114 This makes it easier to _extend_ the load-path via EMACSLOADPATH
115 (previously, EMACSLOADPATH had to specify the complete load-path,
116 including the defaults). (In older versions of Emacs, an empty element
117 was replaced by ".", so use an explicit "." now if that is what you want.)
120 ** The -L option, which normally prepends its argument to load-path,
121 will instead append, if the argument begins with `:' (or `;' on MS Windows;
122 i.e., `path-separator').
125 ** If you use either site-load.el or site-init.el to customize the dumped
126 Emacs executable, any changes to `load-path' that these files make
127 will no longer be present after dumping. To affect a permanent change
128 to `load-path', use the `--enable-locallisppath' option of `configure'.
131 ** The user option `initial-buffer-choice' can now specify a function
132 to set up the initial buffer.
135 * Changes in Emacs 24.4
138 ** New function `zlib-decompress-region', which decompresses gzip- and
139 zlib-format compressed data using built-in zlib support, if available.
142 ** New option `gnutls-verify-error', if non-nil, means that Emacs
143 should reject SSL/TLS certificates that GnuTLS determines as invalid.
144 (This option defaults to nil at present, but this is expected to change
145 in a future release.)
148 ** Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals.
149 If the terminal supports a mouse, clicking on the menu bar, or on
150 sensitive portions of the mode line or header line, will drop down the
151 menu defined at that position. Likewise, clicking C-mouse-2 or
152 C-mouse-2 or C-mouse-3 on the text area will pop up the menus defined
155 If the text terminal does not support a mouse, you can activate the
156 first menu-bar menu by typing F10, which invokes `menu-bar-open'.
158 If you want the previous behavior, whereby F10 invoked `tmm-menubar',
159 customize the option `tty-menu-open-use-tmm' to a non-nil value.
160 (Typing M-` always invokes `tmm-menubar', even if `tty-menu-open-use-tmm'
164 ** The *Messages* buffer is created in `messages-buffer-mode',
165 a new major mode, with read-only status. Any code that might create
166 the *Messages* buffer should call the function `messages-buffer' to do
167 so and set up the mode.
170 ** Emacs can now support ACLs (access control lists).
171 This requires a suitable support library to be found at build time.
172 On GNU/Linux, the POSIX ACL interface is used via libacl.
173 On MS-Windows, the NT Security APIs are used to emulate the POSIX interface.
176 *** Emacs preserves the ACL entries of files when backing up.
178 *** New functions `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' get and set the ACL
181 ** Multi-monitor support has been added.
184 *** New functions `display-monitor-attributes-list' and
185 `frame-monitor-attributes' can be used to obtain information about
186 each physical monitor on multi-monitor setups.
189 *** The functions `display-pixel-width' and `display-pixel-height' now
190 behave consistently among the platforms: they return the pixel width
191 or height for all physical monitors associated with the given display
192 as if they were on X. To get information for each physical
193 monitor, use the new functions above. Similar notes also apply to
194 `x-display-pixel-width', `x-display-pixel-height', `display-mm-width',
195 `display-mm-height', `x-display-mm-width', and `x-display-mm-height'.
198 ** The cursor stops blinking after 10 blinks (by default) on X and NS.
199 You can change the default by customizing `blink-cursor-blinks'.
202 ** In keymaps where SPC scrolls forward, S-SPC now scrolls backward.
203 This affects View mode, etc.
208 *** The command `apropos-variable' is renamed to `apropos-user-option'.
209 `apropos-user-option' shows all user options while `apropos-variable'
210 shows all variables. When called with a universal prefix argument,
211 the two commands swap their behaviors. When `apropos-do-all' is
212 non-nil, they output the same results.
215 *** The key `?' now describes prefix bindings, like `C-h'.
218 *** The command `describe-function' has been extended for EIEIO.
219 Running it on constructors will show a full description of the
220 generated class. For generic functions, it will show all
221 implementations together with links to the source. The old commands
222 `describe-class', `describe-constructor' and `describe-generic' were
226 *** The function `quail-help' is no longer an interactive command.
227 Use `C-h C-\' (`describe-input-method') instead.
232 *** ImageMagick images now support the :max-width and :max-height keywords.
235 *** When using `create-image' with image data, you can pass a :format
236 attribute (via the property-list argument) in order to help
237 ImageMagick detect the image type. The value should be a MIME
238 content-type that is found in the new variable `image-format-suffixes'.
240 ** Frame and window changes
243 *** The function `window-in-direction' introduced in Emacs 24.1 now
244 takes additional arguments for specifying a reference point, wrapping
245 selection around frame borders, and specifying ways to select the
249 *** New commands `toggle-frame-fullscreen' and `toggle-frame-maximized',
250 bound to <f11> and M-<f10>, respectively.
253 *** New hooks `focus-in-hook', `focus-out-hook'.
254 These are normal hooks run when an Emacs frame gains or loses input focus.
257 *** Emacs can now change frame sizes in units of pixels, rather than
258 text rows or columns. When maximizing a frame or making it fullscreen,
259 remaining extra pixels are no longer given to the minibuffer, the rightmost
260 fringe, or other unusable space, but are distributed among the text
261 areas of the frame's windows. If the new option `frame-resize-pixelwise'
262 is non-nil, all frame size changes happen pixelwise and set the
263 corresponding size hints for the window manager.
266 *** Emacs can now change window sizes in units of pixels.
267 Mouse-dragging a mode line or window divider now changes the size of
268 adjacent windows pixelwise. If the new option `window-resize-pixelwise'
269 is non-nil, functions like `balance-windows-area' and `fit-window-to-buffer'
270 resize windows pixelwise. Most functions for changing or accessing
271 window sizes now have an additional argument that allows changes to apply,
272 or values to be returned, in pixels instead of lines/columns.
275 *** The functions `window-body-height' and `window-body-width' now never
276 count partially visible lines or columns if called with a nil PIXELWISE
280 *** Emacs can now draw dividers between adjacent windows. To put
281 dividers between side-by-side/vertically stacked windows customize the
282 frame parameters `right-divider-width' and `bottom-divider-width' to
283 some positive integer. You can drag dividers with the mouse (they show
284 a corresponding cursor when the mouse hovers over them). You can change
285 the appearance of dividers by customizing the faces `window-divider',
286 `window-divider-first-pixel', and `window-divider-last-pixel'. The last
287 two are useful to provide a 3D effect, or to better distinguish dividers
288 from surrounding display objects.
291 *** New functions are provided to return the pixel sizes of window
292 components, namely `window-scroll-bar-width', `window-mode-line-height'
293 `window-header-line-height', `window-right-divider-width' and
294 `window-bottom-divider-width'.
297 *** The new function `window-text-pixel-size' returns the size of the
298 text of a window's buffer in pixels. This allows functions like
299 `fit-frame-to-buffer' and `fit-window-to-buffer' to accurately fit a
300 window to its buffer as it will be displayed.
303 *** `fit-window-to-buffer' can now resize windows in both dimensions.
304 This behavior is controlled by the new option
305 `fit-window-to-buffer-horizontally'. The new option
306 `fit-frame-to-buffer' allows to fit the window's frame to its buffer.
309 *** `fit-frame-to-buffer' now fits frames in both dimensions. The new
310 options `fit-frame-to-buffer-margins' and `fit-frame-to-buffer-sizes'
311 control the size of the frame and its position on screen.
314 *** Temp Buffer Resize Mode can now adjust height and width of windows
315 and frames. `temp-buffer-resize-mode' is now able to adjust the height
316 and the width of a window displaying a temporary buffer. The new option
317 `temp-buffer-max-width' allows to control the width of temporary buffer
318 windows. Moreover, if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil
319 and the buffer appears in the root window of a frame, Temp Buffer Resize
320 Mode will try to adjust width and/or height of the frame.
323 *** `split-window' is now a non-interactive function, not a command.
324 As a command, it was a special case of `C-x 2' (`split-window-below'),
325 and as such superfluous. After being reimplemented in Lisp, its
326 interactive form was mistakenly retained.
329 *** The functions `window-size' and `window-total-size' now have an
330 optional argument to return a rounded size value.
333 *** `window-state-put' now allows to put a window state into internal
337 *** New option `scroll-bar-adjust-thumb-portion'.
338 Available only on X, this option allows to control over-scrolling
339 using the scroll bar (i.e. dragging the thumb down even when the end
340 of the buffer is visible).
343 *** New basic action function `display-buffer-in-previous-window' has
344 `display-buffer' display a buffer in a window previously showing that
348 *** New basic action function `display-buffer-at-bottom' has
349 `display-buffer' choose or make a window at the bottom of the selected
353 *** New display action function `display-buffer-no-window' to not
354 display the buffer in a window.
357 *** New display action alist entry `allow-no-window' to indicate the
358 caller of `display-buffer' is ready to handle the case of not
359 displaying the buffer in a window.
361 ** Lisp evaluation changes
363 *** `eval-defun' on an already defined defcustom calls the :set function,
367 *** The commands `eval-expression' (`M-:'), `eval-last-sexp' (`C-x C-e'),
368 and `eval-print-last-sexp' (`C-j' in Lisp Interaction mode) can take a
369 zero prefix argument. This disables truncation of lists in the output,
370 equivalent to setting `(eval-expression-)print-length' and
371 `(eval-expression-)print-level' to nil. Additionally, it causes integers
372 to be printed in other formats (octal, hexadecimal, and character).
375 *** New hook `eval-expression-minibuffer-setup-hook' run by
376 `eval-expression' on entering the minibuffer.
379 ** `write-region-inhibit-fsync' now defaults to t in batch mode.
382 ** `cache-long-line-scans' is now non-nil, and renamed to `cache-long-scans',
383 because it affects caching of paragraph scanning results as well.
384 There is no reason to set this to nil except for debugging purposes.
387 ** The option `set-mark-default-inactive' has been deleted.
388 This unfinished feature was introduced by accident in Emacs 23.1;
389 simply disabling Transient Mark mode does the same thing.
392 ** The default value of `comment-use-global-state' is now t,
393 and this variable has been marked obsolete.
396 ** `emacs-bzr-version' has been renamed to `emacs-repository-version',
397 and works for git too, if you fetch the repository notes.
400 ** New option `load-prefer-newer' affects how the `load' function chooses
401 the file to load. If this is non-nil, then when both .el and .elc
402 versions of a file exist, and the caller did not explicitly specify
403 which one to load, then the newer file is loaded. The default, nil,
404 means to always load the .elc file.
407 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
409 ** Indentation changes
412 *** `electric-indent-mode' is now enabled by default.
413 E.g., typing RET reindents the current line and indents the new line.
414 `C-j' inserts a newline but does not indent.
417 *** New buffer-local `electric-indent-local-mode'.
420 *** The behavior of `C-x TAB' (`indent-rigidly') has changed.
421 When invoked without a prefix argument, it now activates a transient
422 mode in which typing <left>, <right>, <S-left>, and <S-right> adjusts
423 the text indentation in the region. Typing any other key resumes
424 normal editing behavior.
427 *** `tab-stop-list' is now implicitly extended to infinity by repeating
428 the last step. Its default value is changed to nil, which means a tab
429 stop every `tab-width' columns.
432 ** New command `cycle-spacing' acts like a smarter `just-one-space'.
433 When called in succession, it cycles between spacing conventions:
434 one space, no spaces, original spacing.
437 ** The new function `fill-single-char-nobreak-p' can stop fill from breaking
438 a line after a one-letter word, which is an error in some typographical
439 conventions. To use it, add it to the `fill-nobreak-predicate' hook.
442 ** Uniquify is enabled by default, with `post-forward-angle-brackets' style.
445 ** New command `C-x SPC' (`rectangle-mark-mode') makes a rectangular region.
446 Most commands are still unaware of it, but kill/yank do work on the rectangle.
449 ** New option `visual-order-cursor-movement'.
450 If this is non-nil, cursor motion with arrow keys will follow the
451 visual order of characters on the screen: <left> always moves to the
452 left, <right> always moves to the right, disregarding the surrounding
453 bidirectional context.
458 *** All interactive commands that read a register (`copy-to-register', etc.)
459 now display a temporary window after `register-preview-delay' seconds
460 that summarizes existing registers. To disable this, set that option to nil.
461 Interactive commands that read registers and want to make use of this
462 should use `register-read-with-preview' to read register names.
465 *** New command `frameset-to-register' bound to `C-x r f', replacing
466 `frame-configuration-to-register'. It offers similar functionality,
467 plus enhancements like the ability to restore deleted frames.
468 (`frame-configuration-to-register' still exists, but no longer has a
472 *** New command `C-x C-k x' (`kmacro-to-register') stores keyboard
476 ** New command `delete-duplicate-lines'.
477 This searches the region for identical lines, and removes all but one
478 copy of each repeated line. The lines need not be sorted.
481 ** `blink-matching-paren' now only highlights the matching open-paren
482 by default, instead of moving cursor. Set this variable to `jump' to
483 enable the old behavior.
486 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
489 ** More packages look for ~/.emacs.d/<foo> additionally to ~/.<foo>.
491 ~/.emacs.d/timelog replaces ~/.timelog
492 ~/.emacs.d/vip replaces ~/.vip
493 ~/.emacs.d/viper replaces ~/.viper
494 ~/.emacs.d/ido.last replaces ~/.ido.last
495 ~/.emacs.d/kkcrc replaces ~/.kkcrc
496 ~/.emacs.d/quickurls replaces ~/.quickurls
497 ~/.emacs.d/idlwave/ replaces ~/.idlwave/
498 ~/.emacs.d/bdfcache.el replaces ~/.bdfcache.el
499 ~/.emacs.d/places replaces ~/.emacs-places
500 ~/.emacs.d/shadows replaces ~/.shadows
501 ~/.emacs.d/shadow_todo replaces ~/.shadow_todo
502 ~/.emacs.d/strokes replaces ~/.strokes
503 ~/.emacs.d/notes replaces ~/.notes
504 ~/.emacs.d/type-break replaces ~/.type-break
505 Also the following files used by the now obsolete otodo-mode.el:
506 ~/.emacs.d/todo-do replaces ~/.todo-do
507 ~/.emacs.d/todo-done replaces ~/.todo-done
508 ~/.emacs.d/todo-top replaces ~/.todo-top
510 ** Backtrace and debugger
513 *** New Lisp debugger command `v' (`debugger-toggle-locals') toggles the
514 display of local variables of the current stack frame.
517 *** The Lisp debugger's `e' command (`debugger-eval-expression') now includes
518 the lexical environment when evaluating the code in the context at point
519 (and so allows you to access lexical variables).
522 *** New minor mode `jit-lock-debug-mode' helps you debug code run via JIT Lock.
525 ** Battery information can now be retrieved from BSD's `apm' utility.
528 ** In the Buffer Menu, `M-s a C-o' shows matches for a regexp in marked buffers.
530 ** Calendar and Diary
533 *** New faces `calendar-weekday-header', `calendar-weekend-header',
534 and `calendar-month-header'.
537 *** New option `calendar-day-header-array'.
540 *** New variable `diary-from-outlook-function', used by the command
541 `diary-from-outlook'.
544 *** The variable `calendar-font-lock-keywords' is obsolete.
549 *** Calc by default now uses the Gregorian calendar for all dates, and
550 uses January 1, 1 AD as its day number 1. Previously Calc used the
551 Julian calendar for dates before September 14, 1752, and it used
552 December 31, 1 BC as its day number 1; the new scheme is more
553 consistent with Calendar's calendrical system and day numbering.
556 *** The new option `calc-gregorian-switch' lets you configure if
557 (and when) Calc switches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
560 *** Support for ISO 8601 dates.
567 **** The cpp-root project now supports executing a compile command.
568 It can be set through the new :compile-command slot or the
569 buffer-local variable `compile-command'.
572 **** Better selection of include directories for the 'linux' project.
573 Include directories now support out-of-tree build directories and
574 target architecture auto-detection.
579 **** Improved detection of used namespaces in current scope in C++.
581 **** Parsing of default values for variables and function arguments in C/C++.
582 They are also displayed by the summarize feature in the mode line.
584 **** Improved parsing of function pointers in C/C++.
585 This also includes parsing of function pointers as function arguments.
587 **** Parsing of C/C++ preprocessor macros that open new scope.
588 For example, this enables parsing of macros that open new namespaces.
590 **** Support for 'this' pointer in inline member functions in C++.
595 *** New macro `cl-tagbody'.
596 This executes statements while allowing for control transfer to labels.
599 *** letf is now just an alias for cl-letf.
604 *** CUA mode now uses `delete-selection-mode' and `shift-select-mode'.
605 Hence, you can now enable it independently from those modes, and from
606 `transient-mark-mode'.
609 *** `cua-highlight-region-shift-only' is now obsolete.
610 You can disable `transient-mark-mode' to get the same result.
613 *** CUA's rectangles can now be used without CUA by calling the command
614 `cua-rectangle-mark-mode'.
619 *** Support for completion, ElDoc, and Flycheck has been added.
622 *** The current CFEngine syntax is parsed from "cf-promises -s json".
623 There is a fallback syntax available if you don't have cf-promises or
624 if your version doesn't support that option. See option `cfengine-cf-promises'.
627 ** Delete Selection mode can now be used without Transient Mark mode.
632 *** `desktop-save-mode' by default now auto-saves an existing desktop file
633 after `desktop-auto-save-timeout'. To disable this, customize that option
637 *** Desktop now saves and restores the frame/window configuration.
638 To disable this, set `desktop-restore-frames' to nil.
639 See also related options `desktop-restore-reuses-frames',
640 `desktop-restore-in-current-display', and `desktop-restore-forces-onscreen'.
643 ** New Dired minor mode `dired-hide-details-mode' toggles whether details,
644 such as file ownership or permissions, are visible.
647 ** You can enable ElDoc inside the `eval-expression' minibuffer with:
648 (add-hook 'eval-expression-minibuffer-setup-hook 'eldoc-mode)
649 The results display in the mode line.
651 ** Electric Pair mode
654 *** New option `electric-pair-preserve-balance', enabled by default.
655 If non-nil, pairing/skipping only kicks in when that help the balance
656 of parentheses and quotes, i.e. the buffer should end up at least as
659 You can further control this behavior by adjusting the predicates
660 stored in `electric-pair-inhibit-predicate' and `electric-pair-skip-self'.
663 *** New option `electric-pair-delete-adjacent-pairs', enabled by default.
664 In `electric-pair-mode', the commands `backward-delete-char' and
665 `backward-delete-char-untabify' are now bound to electric variants
666 that delete the closer when invoked between adjacent pairs.
669 *** New option `electric-pair-open-newline-between-pairs', enabled by default.
670 In `electric-pair-mode', inserting a newline between adjacent pairs
671 opens an extra newline after point, which is indented if
672 `electric-indent-mode' is also set.
675 *** New option `electric-pair-skip-whitespace', enabled by default.
676 This controls if skipping over closing delimiters should jump over any
677 whitespace slack. Setting it to `chomp' makes it delete this
678 whitespace. See also the variable `electric-pair-skip-whitespace-chars'.
681 *** New variables control the pairing in strings and comments.
682 You can customize `electric-pair-text-pairs' and
683 `electric-pair-text-syntax-table' to tweak pairing behavior inside
684 strings and comments.
687 ** New EPA option `epa-mail-aliases'.
688 You can set this to a list of email address aliases that `epa-mail-encrypt'
689 should use to find keys.
692 ** New ERC option `erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds'.
693 If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally pasting large
694 amounts of data into the ERC input.
697 ** New ERT macro `skip-unless' allows skipping ERT tests.
698 See the ERT manual for details.
703 *** `eshell' now supports visual subcommands and options.
704 Eshell has been able to handle "visual" commands (interactive,
705 non-line oriented commands such as top that require display
706 capabilities not provided by eshell) by running them in an Emacs
707 terminal emulator. See `eshell-visual-commands'.
709 This feature has been extended to subcommands and options that make a
710 usually line-oriented command a visual command. Typical examples are
711 "git log" and "git <command> --help", which display their output in a
712 pager by default. See `eshell-visual-subcommands' and
713 `eshell-visual-options'.
716 *** New Eshell-Tramp module.
717 External su and sudo commands are now the default; the internal,
718 Tramp-using variants can still be used by enabling the eshell-tramp
722 ** New F90 mode option `f90-smart-end-names'.
725 Icomplete is now more similar to Ido.
728 *** Icomplete by default now applies to all forms of minibuffer completion.
729 The variable `icomplete-with-completion-tables' (now a user option)
730 controls this. To restore the old behavior, set it back to
731 '(internal-complete-buffer).
734 *** You can navigate through and select completions using the keys
735 from `icomplete-minibuffer-map'.
738 *** The string that separates potential completions is now a customizable
739 option (`icomplete-separator'). The default is " | " rather than ",".
742 *** New face `icomplete-first-match'; and new options
743 `icomplete-hide-common-prefix' and `icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input'.
746 *** The option `icomplete-show-key-bindings' has been removed.
751 *** An Ido user manual is now included.
754 *** The option `ido-use-virtual-buffers' can now take the value `auto'.
755 This means to use virtual buffers if the current ido input does not match
759 *** The variable `ido-decorations' can optionally have two new elements,
760 which are the brackets to use around the sole remaining completion.
765 *** New commands `n' (`image-next-file') and `p' (`image-previous-file')
766 visit the next image file and the previous image file in the same
767 directory, respectively.
770 *** New commands to show specific frames of multi-frame images.
771 `f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the
772 next or previous frame. `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame.
775 *** New commands to speed up, slow down, or reverse animation.
776 `a +' (`image-increase-speed') and `a -' (`image-decrease-speed') to
777 speed up and slow down the animation. `a r' (`image-reverse-speed')
778 to reverse it and `a 0' (`image-reset-speed') to reset it.
781 *** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows.
782 When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration.
783 It also has an optional frame argument, which can be used by Lisp
784 callers to fit the image to a frame other than the selected frame.
789 *** New global command `M-s h .' (`highlight-symbol-at-point') highlights
790 the symbol found near point.
793 *** New option `hi-lock-auto-select-face'. When non-nil, hi-lock commands
794 will cycle through faces in `hi-lock-face-defaults' without prompting.
797 ** New Imenu option `imenu-generic-skip-comments-and-strings'.
802 *** New Info face `info-index-match', used to highlight matches in index
803 entries displayed by `Info-index-next', `Info-virtual-index' and
807 *** The Info-edit command is obsolete. Editing Info nodes by hand
808 has not been relevant for some time.
813 *** New option `js-switch-indent-offset'.
816 *** Better indentation of multiple-variable declarations.
817 If a declaration spans several lines, variables on the following lines
818 are lined up to the first one.
821 *** Recognition and better indentation of continuations in array comprehensions.
824 ** MH-E has been updated to version 8.5 - see separate MH-E-NEWS file.
829 *** Font locking for Texinfo comments and new keywords.
831 *** Completion in Octave file buffers.
835 *** Jump to definition.
837 *** Documentation lookup/search.
840 ** OPascal mode is the new name for Delphi mode
843 *** All delphi-* variables and functions have been renamed to opascal-*.
844 Obsolete aliases exist for those likely to have been used externally.
847 *** The option `delphi-newline-always-indents' has been removed.
848 Use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
851 *** The TAB key runs the standard `indent-for-tab-command', not `delphi-tab'.
856 *** In the `list-packages' buffer, you can use `f' (`package-menu-filter')
857 to filter the list of packages by a keyword.
860 *** In the `describe-package' buffer, there are now buttons listing the
861 keywords related to the package. Click on a button to see other packages
862 related to that keyword.
865 *** The format of `archive-contents' files, generated by package
866 repositories, has changed to allow a new (fifth) element in the data
867 vectors, containing an associative list with extra properties.
868 (For example, `describe-package' uses the `:url' extra property to
869 display a "Homepage" header.)
872 ** In Prolog mode, `prolog-use-smie' has been removed,
873 along with the non-SMIE indentation code.
878 *** The new command `remember-notes' creates a buffer that is saved on exit.
879 You can use it as a more permanent *scratch* buffer.
882 *** Remember can now store notes in separate files.
883 To use this, add `remember-store-in-files' to the `remember-handler-functions'
884 option. The files are saved in `remember-data-directory' using
885 names specified by `remember-directory-file-name-format'.
890 *** Customize `rmail-mbox-format' to influence some minor aspects of
891 how Rmail displays non-MIME messages.
894 *** The `unrmail' command now converts from BABYL to mboxrd format,
895 rather than mboxo. Customize `unrmail-mbox-format' to change this.
900 *** Improved syntax highlighting and indentation.
903 *** New `electric-indent-mode' integration.
906 *** New option `ruby-encoding-magic-comment-style'.
909 *** New option `ruby-custom-encoding-magic-comment-template'.
912 *** New option `ruby-align-to-stmt-keywords'.
915 *** New option `ruby-align-chained-calls'.
918 *** More Ruby file types have been added to `auto-mode-alist'.
920 ** Search and Replace
923 *** New global command `M-s .' (`isearch-forward-symbol-at-point')
924 starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search forward with the
925 symbol found near point added to the search string initially.
928 *** `C-x 8 RET' in Isearch mode reads a character by its Unicode name
929 and adds it to the search string.
932 *** `M-s i' in Isearch mode toggles whether search matches invisible text.
935 *** `query-replace' skips invisible text when `search-invisible' is nil,
936 and opens overlays with hidden text when `search-invisible' is `open'.
939 *** A negative prefix arg of replacement commands replaces backward.
940 `M-- M-%' replaces a string backward, `M-- C-M-%' replaces a regexp
941 backward, `M-s w words M-- M-%' replaces a sequence of words backward.
944 *** By default, prefix arguments do not now terminate Isearch mode.
945 Set `isearch-allow-prefix' to nil to restore old behavior.
948 *** More Isearch commands accept prefix arguments, namely
949 `isearch-printing-char', `isearch-quote-char', `isearch-yank-word',
953 *** Word search now matches whitespace at the beginning/end
954 of the search string if it contains leading/trailing whitespace.
955 In an incremental word search or when using a non-nil LAX argument
956 of `word-search-regexp', the lax matching can also match part of
957 the first word (in addition to the lax matching of the last word).
958 The same rules are now applied to the symbol search with the difference
959 that it matches symbols, and non-symbol characters between symbols.
962 ** New SES command `ses-rename-cell' allows assignment of names to SES cells.
965 ** The shell.el option `explicit-bash-args' includes --noediting by default.
966 All non-ancient Bash versions support this option.
971 *** The SMIE indentation engine is now used by default - see `sh-use-smie'.
974 *** `sh-mode' now has its own setting for `add-log-current-defun-function'.
979 *** You can customize the SMIE indentation of a mode via `smie-config'.
980 The command `smie-config-guess' can help you derive the appropriate
981 indentation settings, if you provide it with an indented sample file.
982 Use `smie-config-save' to save the result.
985 *** You can customize the SMIE indentation of a file by adding an entry to
986 the file's local variables of the form: `eval: (smie-config-local '(RULES))'.
989 *** New commands `smie-config-show-indent' and `smie-config-set-indent'.
994 *** Improved login monitoring and appropriate response to login failures.
995 New variable `sql-login-delay' defines maximum wait time for a connection.
998 SQL*Plus script placeholders are properly highlighted and identified
999 in `sql-placeholders-filter'. When starting SQL*Plus, `sql-oracle-options'
1000 are passed before the logon parameter, as required. The default now
1001 includes `-L', to limit the number of logon attempts per invocation.
1004 ** New Term mode option `term-suppress-hard-newline'.
1007 ** Todo mode has been rewritten and enhanced.
1008 The Todo mode user manual describes all commands and most user
1009 options. To support some of these features, a new file format is
1010 used, which is incompatible with the old format; however, you can
1011 convert old todo and done item files to the new format on initializing
1012 the first new todo file, or at any later time with the provided
1013 conversion command. The previous version of todo-mode.el has been
1014 renamed to otodo-mode.el and is now obsolete. New features include:
1016 *** Support for multiple todo files and archive files of done items.
1018 *** Renaming, reordering, moving, merging, and deleting categories.
1020 *** Sortable tabular summaries of categories and the item types they contain.
1022 *** Cross-category lists of items filtered by specific criteria.
1024 *** More fine-grained interaction with the Emacs diary, by being able to
1025 decide for each todo item whether it appears in the Fancy Diary display.
1027 *** Highly flexible new item insertion and item editing.
1029 *** Moving items between categories, storing done items in their category
1030 or in archive files, undoing or unarchiving done items.
1032 *** Reprioritizing items by inputting a numerical priority.
1034 *** Extensive customizability of operation and display, including many faces.
1039 *** `trace-function' and `trace-function-background' no longer prompt for
1040 the output buffer. Unless you use a prefix argument, they output to
1044 *** With a prefix argument, `trace-function' and `trace-function-background'
1045 will prompt for a "context". This is a Lisp expression, whose value at the
1046 time the function is entered/exited is printed along with the function's
1052 *** The experimental url syntax for remote file names has been removed.
1055 *** New connection method "adb", which allows to access Android
1056 devices by the Android Debug Bridge. The variable `tramp-adb-program'
1057 can be used to adapt the path of the "adb" program, if needed.
1060 *** The connection methods "plink1", "ssh1", "ssh2", "scp1", "scp2",
1061 "scpc" and "rsyncc" are discontinued. The ssh option
1062 "ControlMaster=auto" is set automatically in all ssh-based methods,
1063 when possible. See `tramp-use-ssh-controlmaster-options'.
1066 *** Handlers for `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' for remote machines
1067 which support POSIX ACLs.
1070 *** Handlers for `file-notify-add-watch' and `file-notify-rm-watch'
1071 for remote machines which support filesystem notifications.
1074 ** New URL command `url-cookie-list' displays the current cookies,
1075 and allows you to interactively remove cookies.
1077 ** VC and related modes
1080 *** In VC directory mode, `D' displays diffs between VC-controlled
1081 whole tree revisions.
1084 *** In VC directory mode, `L' lists the change log for the current VC
1085 controlled tree in a window.
1088 *** In VC directory mode, `I' shows a log of changes that will be
1089 received with a pull operation.
1092 *** `C-x v G' (globally) and `G' (in VC directory mode) ignores a file
1093 under current version control system. When called with a prefix
1094 argument, you can remove a file from the ignored file list.
1099 *** New options: `vhdl-actual-generic-name', `vhdl-beautify-options'.
1102 *** New commands: `vhdl-fix-statement-region', `vhdl-fix-statement-buffer'.
1105 ** The Woman commands `woman-default-faces' and `woman-monochrome-faces'
1106 are obsolete. Customize the `woman-*' faces instead.
1108 ** Obsolete packages
1111 *** iswitchb.el; use icomplete-mode.
1114 *** longlines.el; use visual-line-mode.
1123 *** terminal.el; use term.el instead.
1126 *** the old version of todo-mode.el (renamed to otodo-mode.el).
1129 *** xesam.el (owing to the cancellation of the XESAM project).
1132 *** yow.el; use fortune.el or cookie1.el instead.
1135 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
1138 ** New package `eww' is a built-in web browser.
1139 It is only available if Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support.
1142 ** New minor mode `superword-mode'.
1143 This overrides the default word motion commands to treat "symbol_words"
1144 as a single word, similar to what `subword-mode' does.
1147 ** New package nadvice.el offers lighter-weight advice facilities.
1150 *** add-function/remove-function, which can be used to add/remove code on any
1151 function-carrying place, such as process-filters or `<foo>-function' hooks.
1153 *** advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named
1154 function, much like `defadvice' does.
1156 ** New package frameset.el.
1157 It provides a set of operations to save a frameset (the state of all
1158 or a subset of the existing frames and windows, somewhat similar to a
1159 frame configuration), both in-session and persistently, and restore it
1160 at some point in the future.
1163 ** New package filenotify.el provides an interface for file system
1164 notifications. It requires that Emacs be compiled with one of the
1165 low-level libraries gfilenotify.c, inotify.c or w32notify.c.
1168 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
1171 ** `kill-region' has lost its `yank-handler' optional argument.
1174 ** `(input-pending-p)' no longer runs other timers that are ready to run.
1175 The new optional CHECK-TIMERS parameter allows for the prior behavior.
1178 ** `defvar' and `defcustom' in a let-binding affect the "external" default.
1181 ** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
1182 Some languages match those as »...«, and others as «...», so it is
1183 better for Emacs to stay neutral by default.
1186 ** In compiled Lisp files, the header no longer includes a timestamp.
1189 ** The default file coding for Emacs Lisp files is now utf-8.
1190 (See `file-coding-system-alist'.) In most cases, this change is
1191 transparent, but files that contain unusual characters without
1192 specifying an explicit coding system may fail to load with obscure
1193 errors. You should either convert them to utf-8 or add an explicit
1197 ** `overriding-terminal-local-map' no longer replaces the local keymaps.
1198 It used to disable the minor mode, major mode, and text-property keymaps,
1199 whereas now it simply has higher precedence.
1202 ** Default process filters and sentinels are not nil any more.
1203 Instead they default to a function that does what the nil value used to do.
1206 ** `read-event' does not return decoded chars in ttys any more.
1207 As was the case in Emacs 22 and before, the decoding of terminal
1208 input, according to `keyboard-coding-system', is not performed in
1209 `read-event' any more. But unlike in Emacs 22, this decoding is still
1210 done before input-decode-map, function-key-map, etc.
1213 ** The option `inhibit-local-menu-bar-menus' has been removed.
1216 ** Frame-local variables that affect redisplay do not work any more.
1217 More specifically, redisplay does not bother to check for a frame-local
1218 value when looking up variables.
1221 ** nil and "unbound" are indistinguishable in `symbol-function'.
1222 `symbol-function' does not signal a `void-function' error any more.
1223 To determine if a symbol's function definition is void, use `fboundp'.
1226 ** `defadvice' does not honor the `freeze' flag and cannot advise
1227 special-forms any more.
1230 ** `dolist' no longer binds VAR while evaluating the RESULT form,
1231 when lexical binding is enabled. Previously, VAR was bound to nil,
1232 which often led to spurious unused-variable warnings.
1235 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
1236 The second argument is no longer an SELinux context, instead it is an
1237 alist of extended attributes as returned by the new function
1238 `file-extended-attributes'. The attributes can be applied to another
1239 file using `set-file-extended-attributes'.
1242 ** By default `copy-file' no longer copies file permission bits to an
1243 existing destination; and it sets the file permission bits of a newly
1244 created destination to those of the source, masked by the default file
1245 permissions. To copy the file permission bits, pass t as the
1246 PRESERVE-PERMISSIONS argument of `copy-file'.
1249 ** `visited-file-modtime' now returns -1 for nonexistent files.
1250 Formerly it returned a list (-1 LOW USEC PSEC), but this was ambiguous
1251 in the presence of files with negative time stamps.
1254 ** The cars of the elements in `interpreter-mode-alist' are now
1255 treated as regexps rather than literal strings.
1258 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
1261 ** The second argument of `eval' can now specify a lexical environment.
1264 ** New functions `special-form-p' and `macrop'.
1267 ** New macro `define-alternatives' can be used to define generic commands.
1268 Generic commands are interactive functions whose implementation can be
1269 selected among several alternatives, as a matter of user preference.
1272 ** If you give a symbol a `defalias-fset-function' property, `defalias'
1273 on that symbol will use the associated value as a function to call
1277 ** New variable `enable-dir-local-variables'.
1278 Directory-local variables are ignored if this is nil. This may be
1279 useful for modes that want to ignore directory-locals while still
1280 respecting file-local variables.
1283 ** New function `get-pos-property'.
1286 ** `read-regexp' now uses the new variable `read-regexp-defaults-function'
1287 as a function to call to provide default values.
1289 ** Completion changes
1292 *** The separator used by `completing-read-multiple' is now a regexp.
1293 The default `crm-separator' has been changed to allow surrounding spaces
1297 *** The `common-substring' argument of `display-completion-list',
1298 which has been documented as obsolete since Emacs 23.1, is now _really_
1299 obsolete, and no longer advertised. Instead either call
1300 `completion-hilit-commonality' to add the highlighting; or use
1301 `completion-all-completions', which returns highlighted strings.
1304 *** New function `completion-table-with-cache' is a wrapper for
1305 `completion-table-dynamic' that caches the result of the last lookup.
1308 *** New function `completion-table-merge' to combine several
1309 completion tables by merging their completions.
1312 ** New minor modes `prettify-symbols-mode' and `global-prettify-symbols-mode'
1313 display specified symbols as composed characters. E.g., in Emacs Lisp mode,
1314 this replaces the string "lambda" with the Greek lambda character.
1319 *** Functions to pop up menus and dialogs now work on all terminals,
1320 including TTYs. This includes `x-popup-menu', `x-popup-dialog',
1321 `message-box', `yes-or-no-p', etc.
1323 The function `display-popup-menus-p' will now return non-nil for a
1324 display or frame whenever a mouse is supported on that display or
1328 *** New hook `tty-setup-hook', run at the end of initializing a text terminal.
1331 *** The hook `term-setup-hook' is obsolete. It is entirely equivalent
1332 to `emacs-startup-hook'. See also the new `tty-setup-hook'.
1335 ** New hook `pre-redisplay-function'.
1338 ** New bool-vector set operation functions
1339 *** `bool-vector-exclusive-or'
1340 *** `bool-vector-union'
1341 *** `bool-vector-intersection'
1342 *** `bool-vector-set-difference'
1343 *** `bool-vector-not'
1344 *** `bool-vector-subsetp'
1345 *** `bool-vector-count-consecutive'
1346 *** `bool-vector-count-population'
1349 ** Comparison functions =, <, >, <=, >= can now take many arguments.
1351 ** Error-handling changes
1354 *** New function `define-error'.
1357 *** `with-demoted-errors' takes an additional argument `format'.
1360 ** New macro `with-eval-after-load'.
1361 This is like the old `eval-after-load', but better behaved.
1364 ** New library subr-x.el with miscellaneous small utility functions
1365 *** `hash-table-keys'
1366 *** `hash-table-values'
1367 *** `string-blank-p'
1368 *** `string-empty-p'
1370 *** `string-reverse'
1371 *** `string-trim-left'
1372 *** `string-trim-right'
1374 *** `string-remove-prefix'
1375 *** `string-remove-suffix'
1378 ** Obsoleted functions
1381 *** `lisp-complete-symbol'
1382 *** `field-complete'
1383 *** `minibuffer-completion-contents'
1384 *** `isearch-nonincremental-exit-minibuffer'
1385 *** `isearch-filter-visible'
1386 *** `generic-make-keywords-list'
1387 *** `get-upcase-table' (use `case-table-get-table' instead).
1390 ** `with-wrapper-hook' is obsoleted by `add-function'.
1391 The few hooks that used with-wrapper-hook are replaced as follows:
1392 *** `abbrev-expand-function' obsoletes `abbrev-expand-functions'.
1393 *** `completion-in-region-function' obsoletes `completion-in-region-functions'.
1394 *** `filter-buffer-substring-function' obsoletes `filter-buffer-substring-functions'.
1397 ** `byte-compile-interactive-only-functions' is now obsolete.
1398 To specify that a command should only be called interactively, give it
1399 a non-nil `interactive-only' property.
1402 ** `split-string' now takes an optional argument TRIM.
1403 The value, if non-nil, is a regexp that specifies what to trim from
1404 the start and end of each substring.
1407 ** New function `string-suffix-p'.
1409 ** File-handling changes
1412 *** Support for filesystem notifications.
1413 Emacs now supports notifications of filesystem changes, such as
1414 creation, modification, and deletion of files. This requires the
1415 `glib' API, or the 'inotify' API (on GNU/Linux systems only). On
1416 MS-Windows systems, this is supported for Windows XP and newer
1420 *** The 9th element returned by `file-attributes' is now unspecified.
1421 Formerly, it was t if the file's gid would change if file were deleted
1422 and recreated. This value has been inaccurate for years on many
1423 platforms, and nobody seems to have noticed or cared.
1426 *** The 6th argument to `copy-file' has been renamed to
1427 PRESERVE-PERMISSIONS as it now handles ACL entries and the traditional
1428 Unix file permission bits as well as SELinux context.
1431 *** The function `file-ownership-preserved-p' now has an optional
1432 argument GROUP which causes it check for file group too. This can be
1433 used in place of the 9th element of `file-attributes'.
1436 *** The function `set-visited-file-modtime' now accepts a 0 or -1
1437 argument, with the same interpretation as the returned value of
1438 `visited-file-modtime'.
1440 ** Autorevert changes
1443 *** If Emacs is compiled with file notification support, notifications
1444 are used instead of checking the time stamp of the files. You can
1445 disable this by setting the user option `auto-revert-use-notify' to
1446 nil. Alternatively, a regular expression of directories to be
1447 excluded from file notifications can be specified by
1448 `auto-revert-notify-exclude-dir-regexp'.
1451 *** The new user option `auto-revert-remote-files' enables reversion
1452 of remote files when set to non-nil.
1457 *** The function `face-spec-set' is now like `setq' for face specs.
1458 Its third arg now accepts values specifying a face spec type (defface,
1459 custom, or override spec), and the relevant spec is set accordingly.
1462 *** New function `add-face-text-property', which can be used to
1463 conveniently prepend/append new face properties.
1466 *** Face specs set via Custom themes now replace the `defface' spec
1467 rather than inheriting from it. In other words, setting a face via a
1468 theme now behaves like setting it via Customize: you only need to
1469 specify the attributes that you want, you don't need to unset those
1470 that you don't want.
1473 *** New face characteristic (supports :underline (:style wave))
1474 specifies whether or not the terminal can display a wavy line.
1477 *** New face spec attribute :distant-foreground
1478 specifies foreground to use if background color is near the foreground
1479 color that would otherwise have been used.
1484 *** `image-animated-p' is now `image-multi-frame-p'.
1485 It returns non-nil for any image that contains multiple frames,
1486 whether or not it specifies a frame delay.
1489 *** New variable `image-default-frame-delay' gives the frame delay for
1490 animated images which do not specify a frame delay.
1493 *** New functions `image-current-frame' and `image-show-frame' for getting
1494 and setting the current frame of a multi-frame image.
1499 *** Namespace cleanup by obsolete-aliasing functions to use `eieio-' prefix.
1500 **** object-name -> eieio-object-name
1501 **** object-class -> eieio-object-class
1502 **** object-class-fast -> eieio--object-class
1503 **** object-class-name -> eieio-object-class-name
1504 **** object-name-string -> eieio-object-name-string
1505 **** object-num-slots -> eieio--object-num-slots
1506 **** object-set-name-string -> eieio-object-set-name-string
1507 **** class-of -> eieio-object-class
1508 **** class-name -> eieio-class-name
1509 **** class-parent -> eieio-class-parent
1510 **** class-parents -> eieio-class-parents
1511 **** class-parents-fast -> eieio-class-parents-fast
1512 **** class-children -> eieio-class-children
1513 **** class-num-slots -> eieio--class-num-slots
1514 **** class-precedence-list -> eieio-class-precedence-list
1515 **** class-direct-subclasses -> eieio-class-children
1516 **** class-direct-superclasses -> eieio-class-parents
1518 ** Changes in encoding and decoding of text
1521 *** New coding-system `prefer-utf-8'.
1522 This is like `undecided' but prefers UTF-8 on decoding if the text to
1523 be decoded does not contain any invalid UTF-8 sequences. On encoding,
1524 any non-ASCII characters are automatically encoded as UTF-8.
1527 *** New attributes of coding-systems whose type is `undecided'.
1528 Two new attributes, `:inhibit-null-byte-detection' and
1529 `:inhibit-iso-escape-detection', determine how to detect encoding of
1530 text that includes null bytes and ISO-2022 escape sequences,
1531 respectively. Each of these attributes can be either nil, zero, or
1532 t. If it is t, decoding text ignores null bytes and, respectively,
1533 ISO-2022 sequences. If it is nil, null bytes cause text to be decoded
1534 with no-conversion and ISO-2022 sequences cause Emacs to assume the
1535 text is encoded in one of the ISO-2022 encodings, such as
1536 iso-2022-7bit. If the value is zero, Emacs consults the variables
1537 inhibit-null-byte-detection and inhibit-iso-escape-detection, which
1539 The new attribute `:prefer-utf-8', if non-nil, causes Emacs to prefer
1540 UTF-8 encoding and decoding, whenever possible.
1542 These attributes are only meaningful for coding-systems of type
1543 `undecided'. (The type of a coding-system is determined by its
1544 `:coding-type' attribute and can be accessed by calling the
1545 `coding-system-type' function.)
1548 ** The `time-to-seconds' alias to `float-time' is no longer marked obsolete.
1551 ** New functions `group-gid' and `group-real-gid'.
1554 ** The spelling of the rx.el category `chinese-two-byte' has been
1555 corrected (the first 'e' was missing).
1558 ** Minor internal changes to the details of lock files.
1559 The lock for DIR/FILE is now _always_ DIR/.#FILE.
1560 If DIR/.#FILE already exists and is not an Emacs lock file,
1561 Emacs makes no attempt to lock DIR/FILE. (Previously, it fell back to
1562 numbered lock files DIR/.#FILE.0...).
1563 On file systems that do not support symbolic links, the lock is now a
1564 regular file with contents being what would have been in the symlink.
1566 ** Changes to the Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions in Emacs 24.4
1569 *** The package descriptor and name of global variables, constants,
1570 and functions should be separated by two hyphens if the symbol is not
1571 meant to be used by other packages.
1574 * Changes in Emacs 24.4 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1577 ** The procedure for building Emacs on MS-Windows has changed.
1578 It is now built by running the same configure script as on all other
1579 platforms. This requires the MSYS environment and MinGW development
1580 tools. See the updated instructions in nt/INSTALL for details.
1582 Using the Posix configure script and Makefile's also means a change in
1583 the directory structure of the Emacs installation on Windows. It is
1584 now the same as on GNU and Unix systems. In particular, the auxiliary
1585 programs, such as cmdproxy.exe and hexl.exe, are in
1586 libexec/emacs/VERSION/i686-pc-mingw32 (where VERSION is the Emacs
1587 version), version-independent site-lisp is in share/emacs/site-lisp,
1588 version-specific Lisp files are in share/emacs/VERSION/lisp and in
1589 share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp, Info docs are in share/info, and data
1590 files are in share/emacs/VERSION/etc. (Emacs knows about all these
1591 directories and will find the files in there automatically; there's no
1592 need to set any variables due to this change.)
1595 ** Emacs on Windows 2000 and later can now access files and directories
1596 whose names cannot be encoded in the current system codepage.
1598 The new variable `w32-unicode-filenames' controls this feature: if it
1599 is t, Emacs uses Unicode APIs to pass file names to system calls,
1600 which lifts the limitation of file names to the current locale.
1603 ** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS Windows.
1604 The backtrace is written to the 'emacs_backtrace.txt' file in the
1605 directory where Emacs was running.
1608 ** The variable `buffer-file-type' is no longer supported.
1609 Setting it has no effect, and %t in the mode-line format is ignored.
1610 Likewise, `file-name-buffer-file-type-alist' is now obsolete, and
1611 modifying it has no effect.
1614 ** Lock files now work on MS-Windows.
1615 This helps to prevent losing your edits if the same file is being
1616 edited in another Emacs session or by another user. See the node
1617 "Interlocking" in the Emacs User Manual for the details. To disable
1618 file locking, customize `create-lockfiles' to nil.
1620 ** New Core Text based font backend for Mac OS X 10.5 and newer.
1621 GNUstep and Mac OS X 10.4 use the old font backend.
1622 To use the old backend by default, do on the command line:
1623 % defaults write org.gnu.Emacs FontBackend ns
1625 ** Improved fullscreen support on Mac OS X.
1626 Emacs supports both native (Mac OS X 10.7 and newer) and "old style" fullscreen.
1627 Customize `ns-use-native-fullscreen' to change the style.
1628 For Mac OS X 10.7 and newer, native is the default.
1630 ** On Mac OS X 10.7 and newer, Emacs uses sRGB colorspace by default.
1631 Customize `ns-use-srgb-colorspace' to disable this. Note that this
1632 does not apply to images.
1635 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
1637 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+ version 3.
1638 If you don't pass `--with-x-toolkit' to configure, or if you use
1639 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' or `--with-x-toolkit=yes', configure will try
1640 to build with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2.
1641 You can explicitly require a specific version by passing
1642 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk2' or `--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' to configure.
1644 ** New configure option `--enable-link-time-optimization', to utilize
1645 an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
1647 ** New configure option `--without-all' to disable most of the optional
1648 features (image support, etc.) that are normally enabled by default.
1650 ** New configure option `--enable-gcc-warnings' (for developing/debugging
1651 Emacs). If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that
1652 warn/give errors about possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU
1653 system there should be no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems
1654 the results may be useful to developers.
1656 ** The configure option `--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
1657 renamed to `--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
1658 Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
1659 check that this option enables.
1661 ** The configure option `--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
1662 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
1664 ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and
1665 `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed
1666 binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the
1667 etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break
1668 links between the various manuals.
1670 ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
1671 overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
1674 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
1676 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
1677 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
1680 ** The standalone scripts `rcs-checkin' and `vcdiff' have been removed
1681 (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
1682 no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
1685 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
1687 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
1688 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
1689 been adding them there, put them somewhere else; e.g., site-lisp.
1691 ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
1694 * Changes in Emacs 24.3
1698 *** `C-h f' (`describe-function') can now perform autoloading.
1699 When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
1700 contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
1701 automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
1702 correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
1704 *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
1705 even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
1706 autoloads have been redefined as functions).
1710 *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
1711 :background image specification property.
1713 *** When available, ImageMagick support is automatically enabled.
1714 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
1715 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
1716 automatically at startup, or when customizing an imagemagick- option.
1718 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
1719 ImageMagick to view images. (You must call `imagemagick-register-types'
1720 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.)
1722 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
1723 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
1724 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
1729 *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the
1730 next and previous path separator, respectively.
1732 *** `minibuffer-electric-default-mode' can shorten "(default ...)" to "[...]"
1733 in minibuffer prompts. Just set `minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default'
1734 non-nil before enabling the mode.
1738 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
1739 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
1740 that does not have its own specialized help text.
1742 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke
1743 `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
1745 ** Server and client
1747 *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice',
1748 if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit
1749 or expression to evaluate.
1751 *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key.
1753 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
1754 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
1755 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
1756 that support backtraces.
1758 ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'.
1759 This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete.
1761 ** Most `y-or-n' prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window.
1762 Typing `C-v' or `M-v' at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward
1763 respectively, without exiting from the prompt.
1765 ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new",
1766 and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
1768 ** If your Emacs was built from a repository checkout, the new variable
1769 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used.
1771 ** New option `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles.
1772 It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock
1773 files (use this with caution).
1775 ** New option `enable-remote-dir-locals', if non-nil, allows directory-local
1776 variables on remote hosts.
1778 ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
1779 The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
1781 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
1782 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
1784 ** In the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug', the `C-c m' binding
1785 has been changed to `C-c M-i' (`report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer').
1786 The previous binding, introduced in Emacs 24.1, was a mistake, because
1787 `C-c LETTER' bindings are reserved for user customizations.
1789 ** Internationalization
1791 *** New language environment: Persian.
1793 *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
1795 ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port
1797 *** Support for fullscreen and the frame parameter fullscreen.
1799 *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the
1803 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
1805 ** Search and Replace
1807 *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching.
1808 Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any
1809 sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the
1810 variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a
1811 similar existing feature for regexp Isearch.)
1813 *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching.
1814 This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch.
1816 *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'.
1817 If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too.
1820 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
1821 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
1822 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
1824 ** Navigation commands
1826 *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'.
1828 *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'.
1830 *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called
1831 interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1.
1833 ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
1834 properties on yanked text, in ways that are more general than just
1835 removing them (as is done by `yank-excluded-properties').
1837 ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether
1838 M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end
1839 of the buffer. It defaults to t.
1841 ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
1843 ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command.
1844 `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'.
1846 ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
1847 It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
1850 ** New command `C-x r M-w' (`copy-rectangle-as-kill').
1851 It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
1855 *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register'.
1857 *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing
1858 the text to put between collected texts for use with
1859 M-x append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register.
1862 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
1864 ** Common Lisp emulation (CL)
1866 *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
1867 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly;
1868 i.e., all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions
1869 use the "cl--" prefix).
1871 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib'
1872 provides it under the name `cl-foo' instead; with the exceptions of the
1873 few `cl' definitions that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with
1874 pre-existing Elisp entities. These have been renamed to `cl-foo'
1875 rather than `cl-foo*'.
1877 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is mainly just a bunch of aliases that
1878 provide the old, non-prefixed names. Some exceptions are listed below:
1880 *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
1881 Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
1882 In particular, in cl-flet function definitions are lexically scoped,
1883 whereas in flet the scoping is dynamic.
1885 *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
1886 The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery
1887 (as opposed to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture
1888 definitions in closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding'
1891 *** `cl-letf' is not exactly like `letf'.
1892 The only difference is in details that relate to some deprecated usage
1893 of `symbol-function' in place forms.
1895 *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
1896 A side effect is that variables without corresponding values are bound
1897 to nil rather than being made unbound.
1899 *** The following methods of extending `setf' are obsolete
1900 (use features from gv.el instead):
1901 `define-modify-macro' (use `gv-letplace')
1902 `defsetf' (use `gv-define-simple-setter' or `gv-define-setter')
1903 `define-setf-expander' (use `gv-define-setter' or `gv-define-expander')
1904 `get-setf-method' no longer exists (see "Incompatible Lisp Changes")
1908 *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in
1909 modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces
1910 `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed', and new definition
1911 of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added'
1912 and `smerge-refined-added', and new definition of `diff-added').
1914 *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the
1915 face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight
1916 changes in context diffs.
1918 *** The new command `diff-delete-trailing-whitespace' removes trailing
1919 whitespace introduced by a diff.
1921 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode.
1925 A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
1926 per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
1927 shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
1930 *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed, including (old -> new):
1931 **** python-indent -> python-indent-offset
1932 **** python-guess-indent -> python-indent-guess-indent-offset
1933 **** python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p -> python-pdbtrack-activate
1934 **** python-use-skeletons -> python-skeleton-autoinsert
1936 *** Some user options have been removed, including:
1938 **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
1940 **** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
1941 Comments are always considered as indentation markers.
1943 **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
1944 calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
1946 **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
1947 Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
1949 **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
1950 Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
1952 **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
1953 `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
1956 *** Some commands have been replaced (old -> new):
1957 **** python-insert-class -> python-skeleton-class
1958 **** python-insert-def -> python-skeleton-def
1959 **** python-insert-for -> python-skeleton-for
1960 **** python-insert-if -> python-skeleton-if
1961 **** python-insert-try/except -> python-skeleton-try
1962 **** python-insert-try/finally -> python-skeleton-try
1963 **** python-insert-while -> python-skeleton-while
1964 **** python-find-function -> python-nav-jump-to-defun
1965 **** python-next-statement -> python-nav-forward-sentence
1966 **** python-previous-statement -> python-nav-backward-sentence
1967 **** python-beginning-of-defun-function -> python-nav-beginning-of-defun
1968 **** python-end-of-defun-function -> python-nav-end-of-defun
1969 **** python-send-buffer -> python-shell-send-buffer
1970 **** python-send-defun -> python-shell-send-defun
1971 **** python-send-region -> python-shell-send-region
1972 **** python-send-region-and-go -> emulate with python-shell-send-region
1973 and python-shell-switch-to-shell
1974 **** python-send-string -> python-shell-send-string
1975 **** python-switch-to-python -> python-shell-switch-to-shell
1976 **** python-describe-symbol -> python-eldoc-at-point
1980 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
1982 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
1984 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
1985 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
1987 *** The function `dbus-call-method' is now non-blocking.
1988 It can be interrupted by `C-g'. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
1990 *** Signals can also be sent as unicast messages.
1992 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
1993 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus.
1995 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
1997 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
1999 ** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory.
2000 Desktop files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
2004 *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
2005 if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
2006 Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
2008 *** Typing `M-n' in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp',
2009 `dired-do-chown', and `dired-do-touch' yanks the attributes of the
2012 *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'),
2013 `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), and `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion')
2014 mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region.
2016 *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff') has changed.
2017 It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists.
2018 In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark.
2020 *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers.
2021 The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect.
2025 *** New module "notifications", which can send a notification when you
2026 receive a private message or your nickname is mentioned.
2028 *** ERC will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use any
2031 *** New option `erc-lurker-hide-list', similar to `erc-hide-list', but
2032 only applies to messages sent by lurkers.
2034 ** reStructuredText mode
2036 *** Keybindings (see `C-c C-h'), TAB indentation, filling and auto-filling,
2037 fontification, comment handling, and customization have all been revised
2040 *** Support for `imenu' and `which-function-mode'.
2042 *** The reStructuredText syntax is more closely covered.
2043 Sphinx support has been improved.
2045 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
2047 *** A negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
2049 *** The window configuration is reset after displaying a TOC.
2051 *** The constant `rst-version' describes the rst.el package version.
2055 *** Support for percent literals and recognition of regular expressions
2056 in method calls without parentheses with more methods, including Cucumber
2059 *** Improved syntax highlighting and indentation.
2061 *** New command `ruby-toggle-block', bound to `C-c {'.
2063 *** Some non-standard keybindings/commands have been removed:
2065 **** `ruby-electric-brace'; use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
2067 **** `ruby-mark-defun'; use `mark-defun'.
2069 **** `ruby-beginning-of-defun' and `ruby-end-of-defun' are replaced by
2070 appropriate settings for the variables `beginning-of-defun-function'
2071 and `end-of-defun-function'.
2073 **** Non-standard keybindings for `backward-kill-word', `comment-region',
2074 `reindent-then-newline-and-indent' and `newline' have been removed.
2076 ** Shell Script mode
2078 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses `electric-pair-mode' instead of skeleton-pair.
2080 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
2082 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
2086 *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
2088 *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
2090 *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
2092 *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
2096 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
2097 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
2098 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
2100 *** The old options whose values specified faces to use have been removed
2101 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', `apropos-label-face',
2102 `apropos-match-face' and `apropos-property-face'.).
2106 *** This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
2108 *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
2109 Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
2113 *** Algebraic simplification mode is now the default.
2114 To restrict to the limited simplifications given by the former
2115 default simplification mode, use `m I'.
2119 *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month.
2120 See the variable `calendar-month-header'.
2122 *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'.
2124 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
2125 Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this.
2129 *** The major modes from the parser generators "Bovine" and "Wisent"
2130 are now properly integrated in Emacs. The file suffixes ".by" and ".wy"
2131 are in `auto-mode-alist', and the corresponding manuals are included.
2135 **** Menu support for the "Configuration" feature. This allows users to
2136 choose the active configuration (such as debug or install) from the menu.
2138 **** New command `ede-set' to interactively set project-local variables.
2140 **** Support for compiling, debugging, and running in "generic" projects.
2142 **** Autoconf editing support for M4 macros with complex arguments.
2144 **** Compilation support for the "linux" project type.
2146 **** "simple" projects have been removed; use "generic" projects instead.
2150 **** Support for parsing #include statements inside a namespace in C/C++.
2152 **** Improved support for 'extern "C"' declarations in C/C++.
2154 **** The ability to ignore more common special C/C++ preprocessor symbols,
2155 such as '__nonnull' and '__asm'. Add '__cplusplus' macro when parsing C++.
2156 If available, include cdefs.h as an additional source of preprocessor symbols.
2158 **** Improved C/C++ function pointer parsing.
2160 **** In Python, support for converting imports to include file names.
2162 **** Ability to dynamically determine the Python load path.
2164 **** Support for the Python 'WITH' and 'AT' keywords.
2166 **** Improved tooltip completion.
2170 **** The SRecode manual is now included.
2172 **** Tag generation supports constructor/destructor settings and system
2173 include differentiation.
2175 **** Addition of 'Framework' support: Frameworks are specified when a
2176 particular kind of library (such as Android) is needed in a common language
2179 **** Support for nested templates and let variables override based on priority.
2181 **** Support for merging tables from multiple related modes, such as
2182 default -> c++ -> arduino.
2184 ** Compile has a new option `compilation-always-kill'.
2188 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
2190 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
2191 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e., the prefix argument does nothing for
2192 these commands now).
2196 *** The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color'
2197 are now deprecated in favor of the customizable face `term'.
2199 *** You can customize how to display ANSI terminal colors and styles
2200 by customizing the corresponding `term-color-<COLOR>',
2201 `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold' faces.
2205 *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy definitions.
2207 *** Remote processes are now also supported on remote MS-Windows hosts.
2211 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
2212 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
2213 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
2214 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components,
2215 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
2217 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
2218 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
2219 in case that is not properly encoded.
2221 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
2222 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
2225 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
2226 See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and
2227 `flymake-warning-bitmap'.
2229 ** The FFAP option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
2230 specifying URL types that should be converted to remote file names at
2231 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
2233 ** New Ibuffer `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'.
2234 The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'.
2236 ** New option `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' specifies where the
2237 `banish' mouse avoidance setting moves the mouse.
2239 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
2240 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
2242 ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes.
2244 ** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies the buffer to use
2245 for a new asynchronous `shell-command' when the default output buffer
2246 `*Async Shell Command*' is already in use.
2248 ** SQL mode has a new option `sql-db2-escape-newlines'.
2249 If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped
2250 by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes
2251 that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon.
2253 ** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S' in Tabulated List mode
2254 (and modes that derive from it), sorts the column at point, or the Nth
2255 column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
2257 ** `which-func-modes' now defaults to t, so Which Function mode, when
2258 enabled, applies to all applicable major modes.
2260 ** `winner-mode-hook' now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when
2263 ** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
2264 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
2266 ** `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'.
2268 ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix:
2269 *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions
2270 *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions
2271 *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions
2272 *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions
2273 *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions
2274 *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions
2275 *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook
2276 *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions
2277 *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions
2278 *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions
2279 *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions
2280 *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions
2281 *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions
2282 *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions
2283 *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions
2284 *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook
2285 *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook
2286 *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook
2287 *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions
2288 *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions
2289 *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions
2290 *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions
2292 ** Obsolete packages
2295 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
2296 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
2297 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
2306 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
2308 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
2309 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
2310 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
2311 `custom-variable-p'.
2313 ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
2314 and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, `defun' and
2315 `defmacro' currently return the name of the newly defined
2316 function/macro, but this should not be relied upon.
2318 ** `random' by default now returns a different random sequence in
2319 every Emacs run. Use `(random S)', where S is a string, to set the
2320 random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
2321 sequence in later calls.
2323 ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
2324 that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
2325 non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
2327 ** `select-window' now always makes the window's buffer current.
2328 It does so even if the window was selected before.
2330 ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
2331 font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
2332 depends on the graphical library.
2334 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
2335 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
2337 ** `set-buffer-multibyte' now signals an error in narrowed buffers.
2339 ** The CL package's `get-setf-method' function no longer exists.
2340 Generalized variables are now part of core Emacs Lisp, and implemented
2341 differently to the way cl.el used to do it. It is not possible to
2342 define a compatible replacement for `get-setf-method'. See the file
2343 gv.el for internal details of the new implementation.
2345 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
2346 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
2347 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
2349 ** Miscellaneous name changes
2350 Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to correct their spelling,
2351 or to be more consistent with standard Emacs terminology.
2353 *** Renamed functions
2354 **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
2355 **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
2356 **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
2357 **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
2358 **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
2359 **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
2360 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
2361 **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
2364 The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
2365 are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
2366 **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
2367 **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
2368 **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
2370 *** Renamed variables
2371 **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
2372 **** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
2373 deactivate-current-input-method-function
2375 ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed:
2376 *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char'
2377 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
2378 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
2379 *** `iswitchb-read-buffer'
2380 *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report'
2381 *** `set-char-table-default'
2382 *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector')
2383 *** `compile-internal'
2385 *** `mode-line-inverse-video'
2386 *** `follow-mode-off-hook'
2387 *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline'
2388 (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead)
2389 *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs'
2390 (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead)
2391 *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name'
2392 *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
2393 *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
2394 *** `vc-checkout-carefully'
2397 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
2399 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
2400 `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
2401 You can define your own generalized variables using `gv-define-simple-setter',
2402 `gv-define-setter', etc.
2404 ** Emacs tries to macroexpand interpreted (non-compiled) files during load.
2405 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code,
2406 but can also bump into previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
2407 These are generally harmless: they will simply cause the macro calls
2408 to be left for later expansion (as before), but will result in a
2409 warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle") describing the cycle.
2410 You may wish to restructure your code so this does not happen.
2412 ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
2413 Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report.
2414 When finished, use M-x profiler-stop. The sampling rate can be based on
2415 CPU time or memory allocations.
2417 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
2418 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
2420 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
2422 ** Face underlining can now use a wave.
2424 ** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT
2425 of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its
2426 second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via `M-n'
2427 in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values.
2428 More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments.
2432 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
2433 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
2435 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
2436 table, but with a different prefix.
2440 *** New error type and new function `user-error'.
2441 These do not trigger the debugger.
2443 *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill', saying what to do with the
2444 debugger buffer when exiting debug.
2446 *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
2447 message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
2448 to work out which code is doing something.
2450 *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental
2451 recursive invocations.
2455 *** New command `fit-frame-to-buffer' adjusts the frame height to
2458 *** The command `fit-window-to-buffer' can adjust the frame height
2459 if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil.
2461 *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window', similar to
2462 `with-output-to-temp-buffer'.
2464 *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been
2467 *** New option `switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' to restore a
2468 window's point when switching buffers.
2470 *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width'
2471 specify the size of new windows created by `display-buffer'.
2473 *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
2474 non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
2476 *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
2477 tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
2480 *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil,
2481 specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
2483 *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected',
2484 and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
2486 *** The functions `get-lru-window', `get-mru-window' and `get-largest-window'
2487 now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
2489 *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'.
2491 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
2492 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
2494 **** `dired-shrink-to-fit'
2495 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
2496 **** `display-buffer-function'
2497 **** `special-display-buffer-names'
2498 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
2499 **** `special-display-function'
2500 **** `special-display-regexps'
2504 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
2505 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
2506 by the underlying C implementation.
2508 *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
2509 (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds.
2510 PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other
2511 functions that use this format, such as `file-attributes' and
2512 `format-time-string', have been changed accordingly. Old-format time
2513 stamps are still accepted.
2515 *** The format of timers in `timer-list' and `timer-idle-list' is now
2516 [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS].
2517 The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be
2518 accessed via the new `timer--psecs' accessor.
2520 *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form
2521 (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS).
2525 *** Improved security when handling persistent objects:
2527 **** `eieio-persistent-read' now features optional arguments for specifying
2528 the class to load, as well as a flag stating whether subclasses are allowed;
2529 if provided, other classes will be rejected by the reader. For
2530 compatibility with existing code, if the class is omitted only a
2533 **** New specialized reader for pulling in classes and signaling errors
2534 without evaluation of suspicious code.
2536 **** All slots that contain objects must have a :type. Slots with lists
2537 of objects must use a new type predicate for a list of an object type.
2539 *** Support for `find-function' and similar utilities, through the addition
2540 of filename support to generated symbols.
2542 ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN,
2543 instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args; e.g., (log -1.0).
2544 Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
2545 on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt,
2546 log, log10, sqrt, and mod.
2548 ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'.
2550 ** Miscellaneous changes to special forms and macros
2552 *** `defun' and `defmacro' are now macros rather than special forms.
2554 *** `kbd' is now a function rather than a macro.
2556 ** Miscellaneous new functions
2558 *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary keymap that
2559 takes precedence over most other maps for a short while (normally one key).
2561 *** `autoloadp' tests if its argument is an autoloaded object.
2563 *** `autoload-do-load' performs the autoloading operation.
2565 *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed.
2567 *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension.
2569 *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases.
2571 *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'.
2573 *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system.
2575 *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system.
2577 *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
2579 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
2580 *** `automount-dir-prefix' (use `directory-abbrev-alist')
2581 *** `buffer-has-markers-at'
2582 *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist')
2583 *** `window-system-version' (provides no useful information)
2584 *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up')
2585 *** `query-replace-interactive'
2586 *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23)
2589 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on Non-Free Operating Systems
2591 ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface.
2592 Pass `--with-w32' to configure. The default remains the X11 interface.
2594 ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds:
2595 `cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows' and
2596 `cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows'. These functions allow Lisp
2597 code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping machinery to convert
2598 between Cygwin and Windows-native file and directory names.
2600 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
2601 Emacs now supports `mouse-highlight', help-echo (in the echo area), and
2602 `mouse-autoselect-window'.
2604 ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
2606 ** On MS Windows, you can pass `--without-libxml2' to configure.bat to omit
2607 support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected.
2609 ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later.
2611 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink "/sw"
2612 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
2615 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
2617 ** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
2620 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
2622 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
2623 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
2624 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
2627 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
2628 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
2629 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
2630 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
2632 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
2633 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
2634 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
2635 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
2637 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
2638 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
2639 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
2640 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
2641 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
2643 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
2644 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
2645 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
2646 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
2648 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
2649 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
2651 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
2652 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
2653 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
2656 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
2657 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
2658 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
2660 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
2661 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
2662 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
2664 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
2665 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
2667 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
2668 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
2671 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
2673 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
2674 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
2675 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
2677 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
2678 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
2679 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
2683 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
2687 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
2688 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
2690 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
2692 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
2693 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
2695 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
2697 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
2698 default completion style in certain circumstances.
2700 *** New completion style `substring'.
2702 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
2704 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
2708 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
2709 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
2710 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
2711 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
2712 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
2713 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
2715 *** Typing `C-c m' in the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug'
2716 transfers the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there
2717 is one. This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open"
2720 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
2721 and Mail mode changes
2723 ** Emacs server and client changes
2725 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
2727 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
2729 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
2730 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
2732 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
2733 its exit status is 1.
2735 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
2736 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
2737 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
2739 ** Internationalization changes
2741 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
2742 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
2743 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
2744 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
2745 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
2746 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
2748 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
2749 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
2751 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
2752 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
2753 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
2754 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
2757 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
2758 the right window edge.
2760 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
2761 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
2762 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
2763 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
2764 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
2766 *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
2767 (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
2769 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
2770 (U+2010 and U+2011).
2772 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
2773 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
2774 automatically select it.
2776 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
2777 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
2778 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
2780 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
2781 selected for installation.
2783 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
2785 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
2786 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
2787 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
2789 ** Custom theme changes
2791 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
2792 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
2794 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
2795 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
2796 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
2797 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
2798 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
2799 built-in Custom themes.
2801 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
2802 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
2803 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
2804 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
2806 ** Improved GTK integration
2808 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
2809 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
2811 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
2812 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
2813 the default is taken from desktop settings.
2815 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
2816 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
2817 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
2820 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
2821 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
2823 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
2824 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
2826 ** Graphical interface changes
2828 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
2829 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
2830 displayed as a space.
2832 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
2833 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
2835 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
2836 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
2837 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
2841 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
2842 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
2844 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
2845 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
2846 do the right thing in batch mode.
2848 ** Scrolling changes
2850 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
2851 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
2852 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
2853 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
2855 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
2857 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
2858 scroll a line instead of full screen.
2860 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
2861 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
2863 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
2864 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
2865 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
2866 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
2867 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
2869 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
2870 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
2871 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
2872 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
2875 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
2876 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
2878 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
2879 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
2880 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
2881 now includes the SELinux context.
2883 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
2884 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
2888 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
2889 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
2891 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
2892 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
2894 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
2896 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
2897 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
2898 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
2901 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
2902 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
2903 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
2904 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
2905 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
2907 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
2908 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
2910 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
2911 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
2912 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
2913 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
2918 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
2919 in the quitted window.
2921 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
2922 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
2924 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
2926 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
2927 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
2928 for choosing the displaying window).
2930 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
2931 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
2933 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
2934 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
2936 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
2937 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
2938 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
2939 from which such space was obtained.
2941 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
2942 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
2943 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
2944 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
2945 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
2947 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
2948 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
2949 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
2951 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
2952 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
2954 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
2955 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
2956 been shown in a specific window.
2958 ** Minibuffer changes
2960 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
2961 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
2962 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
2964 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
2965 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
2966 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
2968 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
2970 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
2972 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
2973 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
2974 successful operation.
2976 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
2977 for `list-colors-display'.
2979 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
2982 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
2986 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
2987 `isearch-yank-line'.
2989 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
2990 `isearch-yank-kill'.
2992 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
2994 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
2996 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
2997 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
2998 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
2999 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
3002 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
3003 also deletes newlines around point.
3007 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
3008 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
3009 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
3012 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
3013 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
3014 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
3016 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
3017 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
3018 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
3019 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
3021 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
3023 ** Selection changes.
3025 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
3026 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
3027 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
3028 mouse commands use the primary selection.
3030 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
3031 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
3033 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
3034 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
3035 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
3036 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
3038 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
3039 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
3040 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
3041 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
3042 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
3044 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
3046 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
3047 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
3048 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
3050 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
3052 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
3053 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
3054 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
3056 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
3057 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
3059 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
3060 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
3061 between applications.
3063 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
3065 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
3066 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
3067 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
3068 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
3069 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
3071 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
3073 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
3074 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
3076 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
3077 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
3078 number to count from and for a format string.
3080 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
3081 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
3082 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
3083 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
3084 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
3086 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
3087 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
3088 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
3089 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
3090 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
3092 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
3093 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
3094 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
3095 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
3096 follows `replace-match'.
3099 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
3101 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
3105 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
3106 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
3107 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
3108 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
3110 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
3112 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
3114 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
3118 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
3120 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
3121 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
3125 *** Support for musical notes.
3127 *** Support for logarithmic units.
3129 *** No longer uses the tex prefix for TeX specific unit names when
3130 using TeX or LaTeX mode.
3132 *** New option to highlight selections using faces.
3134 *** `calc-histogram' has the option of using a vector to determine the bins.
3136 *** New "O" option prefix.
3138 *** Use the "O" prefix to "d r" (`calc-radix') to turn on twos-complement mode.
3140 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
3142 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
3143 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
3145 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
3146 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
3148 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
3149 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
3150 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
3152 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
3154 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
3155 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
3157 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
3158 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
3159 Use `appt-activate' instead.
3161 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
3162 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
3163 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
3165 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
3166 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
3170 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
3171 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
3173 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
3175 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
3176 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
3179 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
3180 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
3181 parsed as a statement continuation.
3183 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
3187 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
3188 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
3190 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
3191 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
3192 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
3194 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
3195 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
3196 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
3201 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
3202 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
3203 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
3205 *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
3206 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
3208 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
3210 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
3211 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
3215 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
3218 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
3219 optionally do not register names.
3221 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
3222 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
3226 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
3227 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
3228 instead of using the current buffer.
3230 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
3231 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
3235 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
3236 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
3238 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
3239 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
3240 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
3241 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
3245 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
3246 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
3247 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
3251 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
3252 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
3253 debugging of several threads.
3257 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
3258 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
3262 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
3263 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
3264 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
3265 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
3266 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
3268 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
3269 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
3270 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
3273 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
3275 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
3277 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
3278 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
3279 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
3281 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
3282 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
3284 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
3286 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
3288 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
3289 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
3290 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
3291 default), this performs tag completion.
3293 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
3294 See ORG-NEWS for details.
3296 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
3297 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
3298 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
3302 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
3303 in the Rmail incoming message.
3305 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
3306 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
3307 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
3311 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
3312 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
3313 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
3315 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
3316 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
3320 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
3321 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
3322 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
3325 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
3326 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
3327 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
3328 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
3329 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
3330 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
3331 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
3332 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
3334 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
3335 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
3337 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
3339 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
3341 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
3342 the credentials file.
3344 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
3345 If you had that set, you need to put
3347 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
3349 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
3351 *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
3352 SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
3353 to the address you wish to use instead.
3357 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
3358 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
3360 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
3361 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
3362 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
3363 connection is established.
3365 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
3366 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
3368 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
3369 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
3370 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
3371 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
3373 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
3374 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
3375 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
3376 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
3377 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
3378 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
3380 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
3381 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
3383 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
3384 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
3385 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
3387 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
3388 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
3390 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
3394 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
3398 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
3400 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
3401 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
3403 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
3404 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
3406 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
3407 default value to "".
3409 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
3410 for remote machines which support SELinux.
3412 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
3413 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
3414 the degree of parallelism.
3416 ** VC and related modes
3418 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
3419 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
3420 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
3421 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
3422 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
3424 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
3426 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
3427 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
3428 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
3429 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
3430 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
3432 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
3433 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
3435 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
3436 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
3437 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
3438 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
3439 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
3440 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
3442 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
3443 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
3445 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
3446 this was not advertised at the time.
3448 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
3449 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
3450 this was not advertised at the time.
3456 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
3458 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
3459 You can get a comparable behavior with:
3460 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
3461 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
3463 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
3465 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
3467 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
3469 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
3470 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
3472 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
3476 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
3477 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
3479 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
3480 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
3482 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
3484 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
3486 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
3489 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
3491 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
3492 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
3494 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
3495 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
3496 matching closing one.
3498 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
3499 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
3500 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
3501 electric-indent-functions.
3503 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
3504 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
3505 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
3507 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
3508 from which other modes can be derived.
3510 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
3512 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
3513 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
3514 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
3515 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
3518 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
3519 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
3521 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
3522 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
3524 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
3526 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
3527 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
3528 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
3529 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
3530 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
3531 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
3534 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
3536 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
3537 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
3539 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
3541 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
3542 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
3543 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
3544 command still toggles the minor mode.
3546 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
3547 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
3548 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
3549 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
3550 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
3552 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
3553 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
3554 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
3555 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
3556 argument `bidi-class'.
3558 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
3559 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
3560 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
3561 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
3563 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
3564 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
3565 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
3568 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
3569 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
3570 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
3571 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
3572 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
3573 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
3574 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
3576 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
3577 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
3578 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
3579 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
3582 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
3583 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
3584 replaced all known uses.
3586 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
3587 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
3588 major mode is special).
3590 ** Menu and tool bar changes
3592 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
3593 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
3594 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
3595 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
3596 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
3597 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
3599 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
3600 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
3602 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
3603 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
3604 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
3605 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
3607 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
3608 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
3609 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
3611 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
3613 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
3614 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
3615 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
3617 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
3618 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
3619 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
3620 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
3621 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
3622 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
3623 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
3624 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
3625 *** `x-make-font-bold' and `x-make-font-demibold' (`make-face-bold')
3626 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
3627 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
3628 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
3629 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
3630 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
3631 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
3632 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
3633 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
3634 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
3635 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
3636 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
3637 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
3639 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
3640 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
3642 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
3643 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
3644 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
3645 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
3646 *** `e' (`float-e').
3648 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
3649 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
3651 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
3652 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
3653 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
3654 `finder-keywords-hash'.
3656 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
3657 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
3658 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
3661 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
3663 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
3664 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
3665 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
3666 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
3669 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
3670 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
3672 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
3673 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
3675 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
3677 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
3678 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
3680 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
3681 declared as dynamically bound.
3683 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
3685 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
3686 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
3687 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
3689 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
3691 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
3692 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
3694 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
3695 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
3696 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
3697 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
3698 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
3699 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
3701 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
3702 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
3703 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
3707 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
3708 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
3709 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
3710 buffer) in the window tree.
3712 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
3715 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
3716 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
3717 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
3718 act on any window including internal ones.
3720 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
3721 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
3722 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
3723 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
3724 and `window-body-height' are provided.
3726 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
3727 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
3728 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
3729 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
3730 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
3732 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
3733 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
3734 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
3735 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
3736 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
3737 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
3739 *** Window resizing functions.
3740 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
3741 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
3742 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
3744 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
3745 live window on that frame instead.
3747 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
3748 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
3749 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
3750 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
3751 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
3752 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
3754 *** Window-local buffer lists.
3755 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
3756 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
3757 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
3758 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
3759 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
3761 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
3762 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
3763 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
3764 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
3766 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
3767 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
3768 The old names are kept as aliases.
3772 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
3773 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
3774 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
3775 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
3777 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
3779 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
3780 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
3781 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
3782 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
3783 are user-customizable variables.
3785 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
3787 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
3788 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
3789 frame or window as an Elisp object.
3793 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
3794 properties of the current completion:
3795 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
3796 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
3798 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
3799 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
3801 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
3803 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
3804 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
3805 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
3806 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
3807 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
3808 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
3809 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
3811 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
3812 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
3813 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
3815 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
3816 behavior of `completing-read'.
3818 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
3819 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
3821 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
3822 Instead, the offending function is removed.
3826 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
3827 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
3828 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
3829 non-nil return value.
3831 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
3832 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
3833 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
3834 advertised at the time.)
3838 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
3839 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
3841 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
3843 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
3845 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
3846 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
3847 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
3849 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
3850 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
3852 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
3853 named Emacs server instances.
3855 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
3856 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
3858 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
3859 for higher-resolution time stamps.
3861 ** New input reading functions
3863 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
3864 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
3866 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
3867 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
3870 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
3872 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
3873 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
3874 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
3877 ** Syntax parsing changes
3879 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
3880 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
3881 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
3882 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
3883 Together with this new variable come a new hook
3884 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
3885 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
3886 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
3889 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
3891 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
3893 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
3895 ** Major and minor mode changes
3897 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
3898 as well as those in the -*- line.
3900 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
3903 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
3904 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
3905 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
3907 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
3908 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
3910 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
3911 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
3912 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
3914 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
3916 ** File-handling changes
3918 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
3919 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
3920 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
3921 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
3923 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
3925 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
3926 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
3927 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
3931 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
3933 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
3935 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
3937 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
3940 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
3941 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
3943 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
3944 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
3946 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
3947 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
3948 ImageMagick installation supports.
3950 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
3951 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
3954 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
3955 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
3957 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
3958 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
3959 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
3960 `image-transform-set-scale'.
3962 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
3963 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
3964 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
3965 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
3967 ** XML and HTML parsing
3968 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
3969 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
3970 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
3971 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
3973 ** Networking and encryption changes
3975 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
3976 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
3977 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
3978 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
3979 must also be supplied.
3981 *** New library gnutls.el.
3982 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
3983 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
3984 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
3985 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
3986 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
3987 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
3990 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
3991 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
3992 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
3996 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
3998 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
3999 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
4000 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
4001 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
4002 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
4003 displayed with a "spinning bar".
4005 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
4006 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
4008 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
4009 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
4010 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
4011 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
4012 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
4013 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
4015 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
4017 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
4018 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
4019 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
4020 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
4022 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
4023 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
4025 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
4026 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
4027 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
4028 an empty uninterned symbol.
4030 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
4032 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
4034 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
4035 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
4037 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
4038 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
4040 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
4042 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
4043 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
4045 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
4048 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
4050 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
4051 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
4053 ** New configure.bat options
4055 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
4057 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
4059 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
4061 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
4063 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
4065 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
4066 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
4068 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
4069 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
4071 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
4072 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
4075 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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4078 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
4079 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
4080 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
4081 (at your option) any later version.
4083 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
4084 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
4085 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
4086 GNU General Public License for more details.
4088 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
4089 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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