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24 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.4
26 ** Emacs can be compiled with ACL support.
27 This happens by default if a suitable support library is found at
28 build time, like libacl on GNU/Linux. To prevent this, use the
29 configure option `--disable-acl'.
31 ** Emacs can be compiled with file notification support.
32 This happens by default if a suitable system library is found at
33 build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
34 `--with-file-notification-no'. See below for file-notify features.
35 FIXME? This feature is not available for the Nextstep port. (?)
37 ** The configure option --with-crt-dir has been removed.
38 It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked
41 ** Directories passed to configure option `--enable-locallisppath' are
42 no longer created during installation.
44 ** Emacs can be compiled with zlib support. If this library is present
45 (which it normally is on most systems), the function
46 `zlib-decompress-region' becomes available, which can decompress gzip-
47 and zlib-format compressed data.
50 ** Emacs for NS (OSX, GNUStep) can be built with ImageMagick support.
51 pkg-config is required to find ImageMagick libraries.
54 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
57 * Changes in Emacs 24.4
59 ** Key ? also describes prefix bindings like C-h.
62 ** `cache-long-line-scans' has been renamed to `cache-long-scans'
63 because it affects caching of paragraph scanning results as well.
66 ** `apropos-variable' is now `apropos-user-option'
67 `apropos-user-option' shows all user options while `apropos-variable'
68 shows all variables. When called with a universal prefix argument,
69 the two commands swap their behaviors. When `apropos-do-all' is
70 non-nil, they output the same results.
73 ** `eval-defun' on an already defined defcustom calls the :set function,
76 ** If the new variable `enable-dir-local-variables' is nil,
77 directory local variables are ignored. May be useful for some modes
78 that want to ignore directory-locals while still respecting file-locals.
80 ** The option `set-mark-default-inactive' has been deleted.
81 This unfinished feature was introduced by accident in Emacs 23.1;
82 simply disabling Transient Mark mode does the same thing.
84 ** `initial-buffer-choice' can now specify a function to set up the
87 ** `remember-notes' creates a buffer whose content is saved on kill-emacs.
88 You may think of it as a *scratch* buffer whose content is preserved.
89 In fact, it was designed as a replacement for *scratch* buffer and can
90 be used that way by setting `initial-buffer-choice' to `remember-notes'
91 and `remember-notes-buffer-name' to "*scratch*". Without the second
92 change, *scratch* buffer will still be there for notes that do not
95 ** `write-region-inhibit-fsync' now defaults to t in batch mode.
97 ** ACL support has been added.
99 *** Emacs preserves the ACL entries of files when backing up.
101 *** New functions `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' get and set the ACL
102 entries of a file. On GNU/Linux, the POSIX ACL interface is used via
103 libacl. On MS-Windows, the NT Security APIs are used to emulate the
104 POSIX ACL interfaces.
106 ** New option `scroll-bar-adjust-thumb-portion'.
107 Available only on X, this option allows to control over-scrolling
108 using the scroll bar (i.e. dragging the thumb down even when the end
109 of the buffer is visible).
111 ** New function `add-face-text-property' has been added, which can be
112 used to conveniently prepend/append new face attributes to text.
114 ** In compiled Lisp files, the header no longer includes a timestamp.
116 ** Multi-monitor support has been added.
118 *** New functions `display-monitor-attributes-list' and
119 `frame-monitor-attributes' can be used to obtain information about
120 each physical monitor on multi-monitor setups.
122 *** The functions `display-pixel-width' and `display-pixel-height' now
123 behave consistently among the platforms: they return the pixel width
124 or height for all physical monitors associated with the given display
125 as just they were on X11. To get information for each physical
126 monitor, use the new functions above. Similar notes also apply to
127 `x-display-pixel-width', `x-display-pixel-height', `display-mm-width',
128 `display-mm-height', `x-display-mm-width', and `x-display-mm-height'.
130 ** New macro `alternatives-define' can be used to define generic commands.
131 Generic commands are interactive functions whose implementation can be
132 selected among several alternatives, as a matter of user preference.
134 ** The blink cursor stops blinking after 10 blinks (default) on X and NS.
135 You can change the default by customizing the variable blink-cursor-blinks.
136 Also timers for blinking are stopped when no blinking is done, so Emacs does
137 not consume CPU cycles.
139 ** New command `frameset-to-register' is now bound to `C-x r f', replacing
140 `frame-configuration-to-register'. It offers similar functionality, plus
141 some enhancements, like the ability to restore deleted frames. Command
142 `frame-configuration-to-register' is still available, but unbound.
145 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
147 ** `split-window' is no longer a command, just a non-interactive function.
148 As a command it was a special case of `split-window-below', and as such
149 superfluous. After being reimplemented in Lisp, its interactive form
150 was mistakenly retained.
152 ** New commands `toggle-frame-fullscreen' and `toggle-frame-maximized',
153 bound to <f11> and M-<f10>, respectively.
155 ** In keymaps where SPC scrolls, S-SPC now scrolls in the reverse direction.
159 ** New option `visual-order-cursor-movement'.
160 If this is non-nil, cursor motion with arrow keys will follow the
161 visual order of characters on the screen: <left> always moves to the
162 left, <right> always moves to the right, disregarding the surrounding
163 bidirectional context.
165 ** New command `kmacro-to-register' to store keyboard macros in registers.
169 *** `sh-mode' now has the mode own `add-log-current-defun-function'.
170 You can pick the name of the function and the variables with `C-x 4 a'.
173 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
175 ** The debugger's `e' command evaluates the code in the context at point.
176 This includes using the lexical environment at point, which means that
177 `e' now lets you access lexical variables as well.
179 ** `eshell' now supports visual subcommands and options
180 Eshell has been able to handle "visual" commands (interactive,
181 non-line oriented commands such as top that require display
182 capabilities not provided by eshell) by running them in an Emacs
183 terminal emulator. See `eshell-visual-commands'.
185 This feature has been extended to subcommands and options that make a
186 usually line-oriented command a visual command. Typical examples are
187 "git log" and "git <command> --help" which display their output in a
188 pager by default. See `eshell-visual-subcommands' and
189 `eshell-visual-options'.
191 ** If your Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, you can use the new
192 built-in web browser `eww'.
194 ** `remember' can now store notes in separates files
195 You can use the new function `remember-store-in-files' within the
196 `remember-handler-functions' option.
198 See `remember-data-directory' and `remember-directory-file-name-format'
199 for new options related to this function.
201 ** More packages look for ~/.emacs.d/<foo> additionally to ~/.<foo>.
203 ~/.emacs.d/timelog replaces ~/.timelog
204 ~/.emacs.d/vip replaces ~/.vip
205 ~/.emacs.d/viper replaces ~/.viper
206 ~/.emacs.d/ido.last replaces ~/.ido.last
207 ~/.emacs.d/kkcrc replaces ~/.kkcrc
208 ~/.emacs.d/quickurls replaces ~/.quickurls
209 ~/.emacs.d/idlwave replaces ~/.idlwave
210 ~/.emacs.d/bdfcache.el replaces ~/.bdfcache.el
211 ~/.emacs.d/places replaces ~/.emacs-places
212 ~/.emacs.d/shadows replaces ~/.shadows
213 ~/.emacs.d/shadow_todo replaces ~/.shadow_todo
214 ~/.emacs.d/strokes replaces ~/.strokes
215 ~/.emacs.d/notes replaces ~/.notes
216 ~/.emacs.d/type-break replaces ~/.type-break
217 Also the following files used by the now obsolete otodo-mode.el:
218 ~/.emacs.d/todo-do replaces ~/.todo-do
219 ~/.emacs.d/todo-done replaces ~/.todo-done
220 ~/.emacs.d/todo-top replaces ~/.todo-top
223 ** Delphi mode is now called OPascal mode.
224 *** All delphi-* variables and functions have been renamed to opascal-*.
225 *** `delphi-newline-always-indents' is not supported any more.
226 Use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
227 *** `delphi-tab' is gone, replaced by `indent-for-tab-command'.
229 ** Eldoc Mode works properly in the minibuffer.
231 ** jit-lock-debug-mode lets you use the debuggers on code run via jit-lock.
233 ** completing-read-multiple's separator can now be a regexp.
234 The default separator is changed to allow surrounding spaces around the comma.
238 *** Battery information via the BSD `apm' utility is now supported.
242 *** `M-s a C-o' shows lines matching a regexp in marked buffers using Occur.
244 ** Calendar and Diary
246 *** New faces: `calendar-weekday-header', `calendar-weekend-header',
247 `calendar-month-header'.
249 *** New option `calendar-day-header-array'.
251 *** The variable `calendar-font-lock-keywords' is obsolete.
254 *** New variable `diary-from-outlook-function', used by the command
255 `diary-from-outlook'.
257 ** VC and related modes
259 *** In VC directory mode, `D' displays diffs between VC-controlled
260 whole tree revisions.
262 *** In VC directory mode, `L' lists the change log for the current VC
263 controlled tree in a window.
265 *** `C-x v G' (globally) and `G' (in VC directory mode) ignores a
266 file under current version control system.
270 *** New macro cl-tagbody.
273 *** letf is now just an alias for cl-letf.
277 *** Calc by default now uses the Gregorian calendar for all dates, and
278 uses January 1, 1 AD as its day number 1. Previously Calc used the
279 Julian calendar for dates before September 14, 1752, and it used
280 December 31, 1 BC as its day number 1; the new scheme is more
281 consistent with Calendar's calendrical system and day numbering.
283 *** The new variable `calc-gregorian-switch' lets you configure the
284 date when Calc switches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
285 Nil, the default value, means to always use the Gregorian calendar.
286 The value (YEAR MONTH DAY) means to start using the Gregorian calendar
289 *** Support for ISO 8601 dates.
293 *** `desktop-auto-save-timeout' defines the number of seconds between
294 auto-saves of the desktop.
296 *** `desktop-restore-frames', enabled by default, allows saving and
297 restoring the frame/window configuration (frameset). Additional options
298 `desktop-restore-in-current-display', `desktop-restore-reuses-frames'
299 and `desktop-restore-forces-onscreen' offer further customization.
303 *** New minor mode `dired-hide-details-mode' hides details.
307 *** New option `erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds'.
308 If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally paste large
309 amounts of data into the ERC input.
313 *** New option `epa-mail-aliases'.
315 You can set this to a list of alias expansions for keys to use
316 in `epa-mail-encrypt'.
318 If one element of the variable's value is ("foo@bar.com" "foo@hello.org"),
319 that means: when one of the recipients of the message being encrypted
320 is `foo@bar.com', encrypt the message for `foo@hello.org' instead.
322 If one element of the variable's value is ("foo@bar.com"),
323 that means: when one of the recipients of the message being encrypted
324 is `foo@bar.com', ignore that name as regards encryption.
325 This is useful to avoid a query when you have no key for that name.
328 ** New F90 mode option `f90-smart-end-names'.
330 ** Icomplete is a bit more like Ido.
331 *** key bindings to navigate through and select the completions.
332 *** The icomplete-separator is customizable, and its default has changed.
333 *** Removed icomplete-show-key-bindings.
336 *** Ido has a manual now.
337 *** `ido-use-virtual-buffers' takes a new value 'auto.
338 *** `ido-decorations' has been slightly extended to give a bit more control.
342 *** New commands `n' (`image-next-file') and `p' (`image-previous-file')
343 visit the next image file and the previous image file in the same
344 directory, respectively.
346 *** New commands to show specific frames of multi-frame images.
347 `f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the
348 next or previous frame. `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame.
351 *** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows.
352 When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration.
353 It also has an optional frame argument, which can be used by Lisp
354 callers to fit the image to a frame other than the selected frame.
358 *** New face `info-index-match' is used to highlight matches in index
359 entries displayed by `Info-index-next', `Info-virtual-index' and
364 *** New option `hi-lock-auto-select-face'. When non-nil, hi-lock commands
365 will cycle through faces in `hi-lock-face-defaults' without prompting.
368 *** New global command `M-s h .' (`highlight-symbol-at-point')
369 highlights the symbol found near point without prompting,
370 using the next face automatically.
372 ** Search and Replace
374 *** New global command `M-s .' (`isearch-forward-symbol-at-point')
375 starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search forward with the
376 symbol found near point added to the search string initially.
378 *** `C-x 8 RET' in Isearch mode reads a character by its Unicode name
379 and adds it to the search string.
381 *** `M-s i' in Isearch mode toggles the variable `isearch-invisible'
382 between nil and the value of the option `search-invisible' (or `open'
385 *** `query-replace' skips invisible text when `search-invisible' is nil,
386 and opens overlays with hidden text when `search-invisible' is `open'.
389 *** By default, prefix arguments do not now terminate Isearch mode.
390 Set `isearch-allow-prefix' to nil to restore old behavior.
392 *** More Isearch commands accept prefix arguments, namely
393 `isearch-printing-char', `isearch-quote-char', `isearch-yank-word',
396 *** Word search now matches whitespace at the beginning/end
397 of the search string if it contains leading/trailing whitespace.
398 In an incremental word search or when using a non-nil LAX argument
399 of `word-search-regexp', the lax matching can also match part of
400 the first word (in addition to the lax matching of the last word).
401 The same rules are now applied to the symbol search with the difference
402 that it matches symbols, and non-symbol characters between symbols.
404 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.5.
405 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
408 ** The unrmail command converts from BABYL to mboxrd rather than mboxo.
409 Customize `unrmail-mbox-format' to change this.
412 ** Similarly, customize `rmail-mbox-format' to influence some minor aspects
413 of how Rmail displays non-MIME messages.
416 ** New function `ses-rename-cell' to give SES cells arbitrary names.
418 ** trace-function was largely rewritten.
419 New features include:
420 - no prompting for the destination buffer, unless a prefix-arg was used.
421 - additionally to prompting for a destination buffer, when a prefix-arg is
422 used, the user can enter a "context", i.e. Lisp expression whose value at the
423 time the function is entered/exited will be printed along with the function
424 name and arguments. Useful to trace the value of (current-buffer) or
425 (point) when the function is invoked.
427 ** New command `delete-duplicate-lines' has new types of operation:
428 When its arg ADJACENT is non-nil (when called interactively with C-u C-u)
429 it works like the utility `uniq'. Otherwise by default it deletes
430 duplicate lines everywhere in the region without regard to adjacency.
431 When its arg KEEP-BLANKS is non-nil (when called interactively with
432 C-u C-u C-u), duplicate blank lines are preserved.
434 ** New `cycle-spacing' command allows cycling between having just one
435 space, no spaces, or reverting to the original spacing. Like
436 `just-one-space' command it can handle or ignore newlines and
437 leave different number of spaces.
439 ** Todo mode has been rewritten and enhanced.
440 New features include:
441 - support for multiple todo files and archive files of done items;
442 - renaming, reordering, moving, merging, and deleting categories;
443 - sortable tabular summaries of categories and the types of items they contain;
444 - cross-category lists of items filtered by specific criteria;
445 - more fine-grained interaction with the Emacs diary, by being able to decide
446 for each todo item whether it appears in the Fancy Diary display;
447 - highly flexible new item insertion and item editing;
448 - moving items between categories, storing done items in their category or in
449 archive files, undoing or unarchiving done items;
450 - reprioritizing items by inputting a numerical priority;
451 - extensive customizability of operation and display, including numerous faces.
452 The Todo mode user manual describes all commands and most user options.
453 To support some of these features, a new file format is used, which is
454 incompatible with the old format; however, you can convert old todo and done
455 item files to the new format on initializing the first new todo file, or at any
456 later time with the provided conversion command. The old version of
457 todo-mode.el has been made obsolete and renamed otodo-mode.el.
462 *** New connection method "adb", which allows to access Android
463 devices by the Android Debug Bridge. The variable `tramp-adb-program'
464 can be used to adapt the path of the "adb" program, if needed.
466 *** The connection methods "plink1", "ssh1", "ssh2", "scp1", "scp2",
467 "scpc" and "rsyncc" are discontinued. The ssh option
468 "ControlMaster=auto" is set automatically in all ssh-based methods,
472 *** Handlers for `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' for remote machines
473 which support POSIX ACLs.
476 *** Handlers for `file-notify-add-watch' and `file-notify-rm-watch'
477 for remote machines which support filesystem notifications.
481 *** New options: `vhdl-actual-generic-name', `vhdl-beautify-options'.
483 *** New commands: `vhdl-fix-statement-region', `vhdl-fix-statement-buffer'.
487 *** The commands `woman-default-faces' and `woman-monochrome-faces'
488 are obsolete. Customize the `woman-*' faces instead.
492 *** Added Eshell-Tramp module
493 External su and sudo commands are now the default; the internal,
494 Tramp-using variants can still be used by enabling the eshell-tramp
497 ** New term.el option `term-suppress-hard-newline'.
499 ** Obsolete packages:
501 *** longlines.el is obsolete; use visual-line-mode instead.
506 *** terminal.el is obsolete; use term.el instead.
508 *** The previous version of todo-mode.el is obsolete and renamed otodo-mode.el.
513 *** yow.el is obsolete; use fortune.el or cookie1.el instead.
516 *** The Info-edit command is obsolete. Editing Info nodes by hand
517 has not been relevant for some time.
521 *** `explicit-bash-args' now always defaults to use --noediting.
522 During initialization, Emacs no longer expends a process to decide
523 whether it is safe to use Bash's --noediting option. These days
524 --noediting is ubiquitous; it was introduced in 1996 in Bash version 2.
527 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
529 ** New `superword-mode' in subword.el
530 `superword-mode' overrides the default word motion commands to treat
531 symbol_words as a single word, similar to what `subword-mode' does and
532 using the same internal functions.
534 ** New nadvice.el package offering lighter-weight advice facilities.
536 - add-function/remove-function which can be used to add/remove code on any
537 function-carrying place, such as process-filters or `<foo>-function' hooks.
538 - advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named function,
539 much like `defadvice' does.
541 ** New frameset.el package.
542 It provides a set of operations to save a frameset (the state of all
543 or a subset of the existing frames and windows, somewhat similar to a
544 frame configuration), both in-session and persistently, and restore it
545 at some point in the future.
548 ** The package filenotify.el provides an interface for file system
549 notifications. It requires, that Emacs is compiled with one of the
550 low-level libraries gfilenotify.c, inotify.c or w32notify.c.
553 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
555 ** `defvar' and `defcustom' in a let-binding affect the "external" default.
557 ** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
558 Some languages match those as »...« and others as «...» so better stay neutral.
560 ** The default file coding for Emacs Lisp files is now utf-8.
561 (See file-coding-system-alist.) In most cases, this change is transparent, but
562 files that contain unusual characters without specifying an explicit coding
563 system may fail to load with obscure errors.
564 You should either convert them to utf-8 or add an explicit `coding:' cookie.
566 ** overriding-terminal-local-map does not replace the local keymaps any more.
567 It used to disable the minor mode, major mode, and text-property keymaps,
568 whereas now it simply has higher precedence.
570 ** Default process filters and sentinels are not nil any more.
571 Instead they default to a function which does what the nil value used to do.
573 ** `read-event' does not return decoded chars in ttys any more.
574 Just as was the case in Emacs-22 and before, decoding of tty input according to
575 keyboard-coding-system is not performed in read-event any more. But contrary
576 to that past, it is still done before input-decode-map/function-key-map/...
578 ** Removed inhibit-local-menu-bar-menus.
580 ** frame-local variables that affect redisplay do not work any more.
581 More specifically, the redisplay does not bother to check for a frame-local
582 value when looking up variables.
584 ** nil and "unbound" are indistinguishable in symbol-function.
585 `symbol-function' never signals `void-function' any more.
586 `fboundp' returns non-nil if the symbol was `fset' to nil.
588 ** `defadvice' does not honor the `freeze' flag and cannot advise
589 special-forms any more.
591 ** `dolist' in lexical-binding mode does not bind VAR in RESULT any more.
592 VAR was bound to nil which was not tremendously useful and just lead to
593 spurious warnings about an unused var.
595 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
596 The second argument is no longer an SELinux context, instead it is an
597 alist of extended attributes as returned by the new function
598 `file-extended-attributes'. The attributes can be applied to another
599 file using `set-file-extended-attributes'.
601 ** `visited-file-modtime' now returns -1 for nonexistent files.
602 Formerly it returned a list (-1 LOW USEC PSEC), but this was ambiguous
603 in the presence of files with negative time stamps.
605 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
608 ** New function `define-error'.
610 ** New hook `tty-setup-hook'.
613 ** New macro with-eval-after-load. Like eval-after-load, but better behaved.
615 ** Obsoleted functions:
618 *** `lisp-complete-symbol'
620 *** `minibuffer-completion-contents'
621 *** `isearch-nonincremental-exit-minibuffer'
622 *** `isearch-filter-visible'
623 *** `generic-make-keywords-list'
625 ** `with-wrapper-hook' is obsoleted by `add-function'.
626 The few hooks that used with-wrapper-hook are replaced as follows:
627 *** `abbrev-expand-function' obsoletes `abbrev-expand-functions'.
628 *** `completion-in-region-function' obsoletes `completion-in-region-functions'.
629 *** `filter-buffer-substring-function' obsoletes `filter-buffer-substring-functions'.
631 ** `split-string' now takes an optional argument TRIM.
632 The value, if non-nil, is a regexp that specifies what to trim from
633 the start and end of each substring.
635 ** `get-upcase-table' is obsoleted by the new `case-table-get-table'.
637 ** Support for filesystem notifications.
638 Emacs now supports notifications of filesystem changes, such as
639 creation, modification, and deletion of files. This requires the
640 `glib' API, or the 'inotify' API (on GNU/Linux systems only). On
641 MS-Windows systems, this is supported for Windows XP and newer
644 ** Changes in autorevert.el
647 *** If Emacs is compiled with file notification support, notifications
648 are used instead of checking the time stamp of the files. You can
649 disable this by setting the user option `auto-revert-use-notify' to
650 nil. Alternatively, a regular expression of directories to be
651 excluded from file notifications can be specified by
652 `auto-revert-notify-exclude-dir-regexp'.
655 *** The new user option `auto-revert-remote-files' enables reversion
656 of remote files when set to non-nil.
660 *** The function `face-spec-set' is now analogous to `setq' for face specs.
661 Its third arg now accepts values specifying exactly which face spec to
662 set (defface, custom, or user spec), and it directly sets the relevant
663 property using the supplied face spec.
665 *** Face specs set via Custom themes now replace the `defface' spec
666 rather than inheriting from it (as do face specs set via Customize).
668 *** New face characteristic (supports :underline (:style wave))
669 specifies whether or not the terminal can display a wavy line.
674 *** `image-animated-p' is now `image-multi-frame-p'.
675 It returns non-nil for any image that contains multiple frames,
676 whether or not it specifies a frame delay.
679 *** When animating images that do not specify a frame delay,
680 Emacs uses `image-default-frame-delay'.
683 *** New functions `image-current-frame' and `image-show-frame' for getting
684 and setting the current frame of a multi-frame image.
686 ** Changes in encoding and decoding of text
689 *** New coding-system `prefer-utf-8'.
690 This is like `undecided' but prefers UTF-8 on decoding if the text to
691 be decoded does not contain any invalid UTF-8 sequences. On encoding,
692 any non-ASCII characters are automatically encoded as UTF-8.
695 *** New attributes of coding-systems whose type is `undecided'.
696 Two new attributes, `:inhibit-null-byte-detection' and
697 `:inhibit-iso-escape-detection', determine how to detect encoding of
698 text that includes null bytes and ISO-2022 escape sequences,
699 respectively. Each of these attributes can be either nil, zero, or
700 t. If it is t, decoding text ignores null bytes and, respectively,
701 ISO-2022 sequences. If it is nil, null bytes cause text to be decoded
702 with no-conversion and ISO-2022 sequences cause Emacs to assume the
703 text is encoded in one of the ISO-2022 encodings, such as
704 iso-2022-7bit. If the value is zero, Emacs consults the variables
705 inhibit-null-byte-detection and inhibit-iso-escape-detection, which
707 The new attribute `:prefer-utf-8', if non-nil, causes Emacs to prefer
708 UTF-8 encoding and decoding, whenever possible.
710 These attributes are only meaningful for coding-systems of type
711 `undecided'. (The type of a coding-system is determined by its
712 `:coding-type' attribute and can be accessed by calling the
713 `coding-system-type' function.)
715 ** The function `set-visited-file-modtime' now accepts a 0 or -1 argument
716 with the same interpretation as the returned value of `visited-file-modtime'.
718 ** time-to-seconds is not obsolete any more.
719 ** New functions special-form-p and macrop.
720 ** Docstrings can be made dynamic by adding a `dynamic-docstring-function'
721 text-property on the first char.
723 ** The `defalias-fset-function' property lets you catch calls to defalias
724 and redirect them to your own function instead of `fset'.
726 ** The lock for 'DIR/FILE' is now 'DIR/.#FILE' and may be a regular file.
727 When you edit DIR/FILE, Emacs normally creates a symbolic link
728 DIR/.#FILE as a lock that warns other instances of Emacs that DIR/FILE
729 is being edited. Formerly, if there was already a non-symlink file
730 named DIR/.#FILE, Emacs fell back on the lock names DIR/.#FILE.0
731 through DIR/.#FILE.9. These fallbacks have been removed, so that
732 Emacs now no longer locks DIR/FILE in that case.
734 On file systems that do not support symbolic links, the lock is now a
735 regular file with contents being what would have been in the symlink.
737 ** The 9th element returned by `file-attributes' is now unspecified.
738 Formerly, it was t if the file's gid would change if file were deleted
739 and recreated. This value has been inaccurate for years on many
740 platforms, and nobody seems to have noticed or cared.
742 ** The function `file-ownership-preserved-p' now has an optional
743 argument GROUP which causes it check for file group too. This can be
744 used in place of the 9th element of `file-attributes'.
746 ** New functions `group-gid' and `group-real-gid'.
748 ** The 6th argument to `copy-file' has been renamed to
749 `preserve-extended-attributes' as it now handles both SELinux context
752 ** Changes to the Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions in Emacs 24.4
754 *** The package descriptor and name of global variables, constants,
755 and functions should be separated by two hyphens if the symbol is not
756 meant to be used by other packages.
759 * Changes in Emacs 24.4 on Non-Free Operating Systems
761 ** Emacs for MS-Windows can now be built by running the configure script
762 using the MSYS environment and MinGW development tools.
763 This is from now on the preferred method of building Emacs on
764 MS-Windows. The Windows-specific configure.bat and makefile.w32-in
765 files are deprecated. See the file nt/INSTALL.MSYS for detailed
768 Using the Posix configure script and Makefile's also means a change in
769 the directory structure of the Emacs installation on Windows. It is
770 now the same as on GNU and Unix systems. In particular, the auxiliary
771 programs, such as cmdproxy.exe and hexl.exe, are in
772 libexec/emacs/VERSION/i686-pc-mingw32 (where VERSION is the Emacs
773 version), version-independent site-lisp is in share/emacs/site-lisp,
774 version-specific Lisp files are in share/emacs/VERSION/lisp and in
775 share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp, Info docs are in share/info, and data
776 files are in share/emacs/VERSION/etc. (Emacs knows about all these
777 directories and will find the files in there automatically; there's no
778 need to set any variables due to this change.)
781 ** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS Windows.
782 The backtrace is written to the 'emacs_backtrace.txt' file in the
783 directory where Emacs was running.
786 ** The variable `buffer-file-type' is no longer supported.
787 Setting it has no effect, and %t in the mode-line format is ignored.
788 Likewise, `file-name-buffer-file-type-alist' is now obsolete, and
789 modifying it has no effect.
792 ** Lock files now work on MS-Windows.
793 This allows to avoid losing your edits if the same file is being
794 edited in another Emacs session or by another user. See the node
795 "Interlocking" in the Emacs User Manual for the details. To disable
796 file locking, customize `create-lockfiles' to nil.
798 ** Improved fullscreen support on Mac OS X.
799 Both native (>= OSX 10.7) and "old style" fullscreen are supported.
800 Customize `ns-use-native-fullscreen' to change style. For >= 10.7
801 native is the default.
804 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
806 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+ version 3.
807 If you don't pass `--with-x-toolkit' to configure, or if you use
808 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' or `--with-x-toolkit=yes', configure will try
809 to build with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2.
810 You can explicitly require a specific version by passing
811 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk2' or `--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' to configure.
813 ** New configure option `--enable-link-time-optimization', to utilize
814 an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
816 ** New configure option `--without-all' to disable most of the optional
817 features (image support, etc.) that are normally enabled by default.
819 ** New configure option `--enable-gcc-warnings' (for developing/debugging
820 Emacs). If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that
821 warn/give errors about possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU
822 system there should be no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems
823 the results may be useful to developers.
825 ** The configure option `--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
826 renamed to `--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
827 Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
828 check that this option enables.
830 ** The configure option `--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
831 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
833 ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and
834 `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed
835 binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the
836 etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break
837 links between the various manuals.
839 ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
840 overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
843 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
845 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
846 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
849 ** The standalone scripts `rcs-checkin' and `vcdiff' have been removed
850 (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
851 no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
854 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
856 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
857 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
858 been adding them there, put them somewhere else; e.g., site-lisp.
860 ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
863 * Changes in Emacs 24.3
867 *** `C-h f' (`describe-function') can now perform autoloading.
868 When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
869 contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
870 automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
871 correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
873 *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
874 even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
875 autoloads have been redefined as functions).
879 *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
880 :background image specification property.
882 *** When available, ImageMagick support is automatically enabled.
883 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
884 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
885 automatically at startup, or when customizing an imagemagick- option.
887 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
888 ImageMagick to view images. (You must call `imagemagick-register-types'
889 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.)
891 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
892 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
893 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
896 *** ImageMagick images now support the :max-width and :max-height
901 *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the
902 next and previous path separator, respectively.
904 *** `minibuffer-electric-default-mode' can shorten "(default ...)" to "[...]"
905 in minibuffer prompts. Just set `minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default'
906 non-nil before enabling the mode.
910 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
911 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
912 that does not have its own specialized help text.
914 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke
915 `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
919 *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice',
920 if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit
921 or expression to evaluate.
923 *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key.
925 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
926 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
927 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
928 that support backtraces.
930 ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'.
931 This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete.
933 ** Most `y-or-n' prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window.
934 Typing `C-v' or `M-v' at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward
935 respectively, without exiting from the prompt.
937 ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new",
938 and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
940 ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
941 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used.
943 ** New option `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles.
944 It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock
945 files (use this with caution).
947 ** New option `enable-remote-dir-locals', if non-nil, allows directory-local
948 variables on remote hosts.
950 ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
951 The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
953 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
954 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
956 ** In the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug', the `C-c m' binding
957 has been changed to `C-c M-i' (`report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer').
958 The previous binding, introduced in Emacs 24.1, was a mistake, because
959 `C-c LETTER' bindings are reserved for user customizations.
961 ** Internationalization
963 *** New language environment: Persian.
965 *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
967 ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port
969 *** Support for fullscreen and the frame parameter fullscreen.
971 *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the
975 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
977 ** Search and Replace
979 *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching.
980 Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any
981 sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the
982 variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a
983 similar existing feature for regexp Isearch.)
985 *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching.
986 This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch.
988 *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'.
989 If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too.
992 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
993 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
994 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
996 ** Navigation commands
998 *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'.
1000 *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'.
1002 *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called
1003 interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1.
1005 ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
1006 properties on yanked text, in ways that are more general than just
1007 removing them (as is done by `yank-excluded-properties').
1009 ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether
1010 M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end
1011 of the buffer. It defaults to t.
1013 ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
1015 ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command.
1016 `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'.
1018 ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
1019 It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
1022 ** New command `C-x r M-w' (`copy-rectangle-as-kill').
1023 It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
1027 *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register'.
1029 *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing
1030 the text to put between collected texts for use with
1031 M-x append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register.
1034 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
1036 ** Common Lisp emulation (CL)
1038 *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
1039 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly;
1040 i.e., all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions
1041 use the "cl--" prefix).
1043 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib'
1044 provides it under the name `cl-foo' instead; with the exceptions of the
1045 few `cl' definitions that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with
1046 pre-existing Elisp entities. These have been renamed to `cl-foo'
1047 rather than `cl-foo*'.
1049 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is mainly just a bunch of aliases that
1050 provide the old, non-prefixed names. Some exceptions are listed below:
1052 *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
1053 Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
1054 In particular, in cl-flet function definitions are lexically scoped,
1055 whereas in flet the scoping is dynamic.
1057 *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
1058 The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery
1059 (as opposed to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture
1060 definitions in closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding'
1063 *** `cl-letf' is not exactly like `letf'.
1064 The only difference is in details that relate to some deprecated usage
1065 of `symbol-function' in place forms.
1067 *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
1068 A side effect is that variables without corresponding values are bound
1069 to nil rather than being made unbound.
1071 *** The following methods of extending `setf' are obsolete
1072 (use features from gv.el instead):
1073 `define-modify-macro' (use `gv-letplace')
1074 `defsetf' (use `gv-define-simple-setter' or `gv-define-setter')
1075 `define-setf-expander' (use `gv-define-setter' or `gv-define-expander')
1076 `get-setf-method' no longer exists (see "Incompatible Lisp Changes")
1080 *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in
1081 modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces
1082 `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed', and new definition
1083 of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added'
1084 and `smerge-refined-added', and new definition of `diff-added').
1086 *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the
1087 face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight
1088 changes in context diffs.
1090 *** The new command `diff-delete-trailing-whitespace' removes trailing
1091 whitespace introduced by a diff.
1093 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode.
1097 A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
1098 per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
1099 shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
1102 *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed, including (old -> new):
1103 **** python-indent -> python-indent-offset
1104 **** python-guess-indent -> python-indent-guess-indent-offset
1105 **** python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p -> python-pdbtrack-activate
1106 **** python-use-skeletons -> python-skeleton-autoinsert
1108 *** Some user options have been removed, including:
1110 **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
1112 **** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
1113 Comments are always considered as indentation markers.
1115 **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
1116 calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
1118 **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
1119 Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
1121 **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
1122 Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
1124 **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
1125 `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
1128 *** Some commands have been replaced (old -> new):
1129 **** python-insert-class -> python-skeleton-class
1130 **** python-insert-def -> python-skeleton-def
1131 **** python-insert-for -> python-skeleton-for
1132 **** python-insert-if -> python-skeleton-if
1133 **** python-insert-try/except -> python-skeleton-try
1134 **** python-insert-try/finally -> python-skeleton-try
1135 **** python-insert-while -> python-skeleton-while
1136 **** python-find-function -> python-nav-jump-to-defun
1137 **** python-next-statement -> python-nav-forward-sentence
1138 **** python-previous-statement -> python-nav-backward-sentence
1139 **** python-beginning-of-defun-function -> python-nav-beginning-of-defun
1140 **** python-end-of-defun-function -> python-nav-end-of-defun
1141 **** python-send-buffer -> python-shell-send-buffer
1142 **** python-send-defun -> python-shell-send-defun
1143 **** python-send-region -> python-shell-send-region
1144 **** python-send-region-and-go -> emulate with python-shell-send-region
1145 and python-shell-switch-to-shell
1146 **** python-send-string -> python-shell-send-string
1147 **** python-switch-to-python -> python-shell-switch-to-shell
1148 **** python-describe-symbol -> python-eldoc-at-point
1152 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
1154 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
1156 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
1157 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
1159 *** The function `dbus-call-method' is now non-blocking.
1160 It can be interrupted by `C-g'. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
1162 *** Signals can also be sent as unicast messages.
1164 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
1165 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus.
1167 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
1169 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
1171 ** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory.
1172 Desktop files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
1176 *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
1177 if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
1178 Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
1180 *** Typing `M-n' in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp',
1181 `dired-do-chown', and `dired-do-touch' yanks the attributes of the
1184 *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'),
1185 `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), and `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion')
1186 mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region.
1188 *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff') has changed.
1189 It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists.
1190 In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark.
1192 *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers.
1193 The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect.
1197 *** New module "notifications", which can send a notification when you
1198 receive a private message or your nickname is mentioned.
1200 *** ERC will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use any
1203 *** New option `erc-lurker-hide-list', similar to `erc-hide-list', but
1204 only applies to messages sent by lurkers.
1206 ** reStructuredText mode
1208 *** Keybindings (see `C-c C-h'), TAB indentation, filling and auto-filling,
1209 fontification, comment handling, and customization have all been revised
1212 *** Support for `imenu' and `which-function-mode'.
1214 *** The reStructuredText syntax is more closely covered.
1215 Sphinx support has been improved.
1217 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
1219 *** A negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
1221 *** The window configuration is reset after displaying a TOC.
1223 *** The constant `rst-version' describes the rst.el package version.
1227 *** Support for percent literals and recognition of regular expressions
1228 in method calls without parentheses with more methods, including Cucumber
1231 *** Improved syntax highlighting and indentation.
1233 *** New command `ruby-toggle-block', bound to `C-c {'.
1235 *** Some non-standard keybindings/commands have been removed:
1237 **** `ruby-electric-brace'; use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
1239 **** `ruby-mark-defun'; use `mark-defun'.
1241 **** `ruby-beginning-of-defun' and `ruby-end-of-defun' are replaced by
1242 appropriate settings for the variables `beginning-of-defun-function'
1243 and `end-of-defun-function'.
1245 **** Non-standard keybindings for `backward-kill-word', `comment-region',
1246 `reindent-then-newline-and-indent' and `newline' have been removed.
1248 ** Shell Script mode
1250 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses `electric-pair-mode' instead of skeleton-pair.
1252 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
1254 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
1258 *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
1260 *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
1262 *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
1264 *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
1268 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
1269 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
1270 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
1272 *** The old options whose values specified faces to use have been removed
1273 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
1277 *** This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
1279 *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
1280 Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
1284 *** Algebraic simplification mode is now the default.
1285 To restrict to the limited simplifications given by the former
1286 default simplification mode, use `m I'.
1290 *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month.
1291 See the variable `calendar-month-header'.
1293 *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'.
1295 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
1296 Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this.
1300 *** The major modes from the parser generators "Bovine" and "Wisent"
1301 are now properly integrated in Emacs. The file suffixes ".by" and ".wy"
1302 are in `auto-mode-alist', and the corresponding manuals are included.
1306 **** Menu support for the "Configuration" feature. This allows users to
1307 choose the active configuration (such as debug or install) from the menu.
1309 **** New command `ede-set' to interactively set project-local variables.
1311 **** Support for compiling, debugging, and running in "generic" projects.
1313 **** Autoconf editing support for M4 macros with complex arguments.
1315 **** Compilation support for the "linux" project type.
1317 **** "simple" projects have been removed; use "generic" projects instead.
1321 **** Support for parsing #include statements inside a namespace in C/C++.
1323 **** Improved support for 'extern "C"' declarations in C/C++.
1325 **** The ability to ignore more common special C/C++ preprocessor symbols,
1326 such as '__nonnull' and '__asm'. Add '__cplusplus' macro when parsing C++.
1327 If available, include cdefs.h as an additional source of preprocessor symbols.
1329 **** Improved C/C++ function pointer parsing.
1331 **** In Python, support for converting imports to include file names.
1333 **** Ability to dynamically determine the Python load path.
1335 **** Support for the Python 'WITH' and 'AT' keywords.
1337 **** Improved tooltip completion.
1341 **** The SRecode manual is now included.
1343 **** Tag generation supports constructor/destructor settings and system
1344 include differentiation.
1346 **** Addition of 'Framework' support: Frameworks are specified when a
1347 particular kind of library (such as Android) is needed in a common language
1350 **** Support for nested templates and let variables override based on priority.
1352 **** Support for merging tables from multiple related modes, such as
1353 default -> c++ -> arduino.
1355 ** Compile has a new option `compilation-always-kill'.
1359 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
1361 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
1362 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e., the prefix argument does nothing for
1363 these commands now).
1367 *** The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color'
1368 are now deprecated in favor of the customizable face `term'.
1370 *** You can customize how to display ANSI terminal colors and styles
1371 by customizing the corresponding `term-color-<COLOR>',
1372 `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold' faces.
1376 *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy definitions.
1378 *** Remote processes are now also supported on remote MS-Windows hosts.
1382 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
1383 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
1384 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
1385 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components,
1386 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
1388 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
1389 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
1390 in case that is not properly encoded.
1392 *** New command `url-cookie-list' displays all the current cookies, and
1393 allows deleting selected cookies.
1395 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
1396 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
1399 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
1400 See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and
1401 `flymake-warning-bitmap'.
1403 ** The FFAP option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
1404 specifying URL types that should be converted to remote file names at
1405 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
1407 ** New Ibuffer `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'.
1408 The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'.
1410 ** New option `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' specifies where the
1411 `banish' mouse avoidance setting moves the mouse.
1413 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
1414 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
1416 ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes.
1418 ** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies the buffer to use
1419 for a new asynchronous `shell-command' when the default output buffer
1420 `*Async Shell Command*' is already in use.
1422 ** SQL mode has a new option `sql-db2-escape-newlines'.
1423 If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped
1424 by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes
1425 that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon.
1427 ** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S' in Tabulated List mode
1428 (and modes that derive from it), sorts the column at point, or the Nth
1429 column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
1431 ** `which-func-modes' now defaults to t, so Which Function mode, when
1432 enabled, applies to all applicable major modes.
1434 ** `winner-mode-hook' now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when
1437 ** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
1438 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
1440 ** `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'.
1442 ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix:
1443 *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions
1444 *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions
1445 *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions
1446 *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions
1447 *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions
1448 *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions
1449 *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook
1450 *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions
1451 *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions
1452 *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions
1453 *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions
1454 *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions
1455 *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions
1456 *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions
1457 *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions
1458 *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook
1459 *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook
1460 *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook
1461 *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions
1462 *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions
1463 *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions
1464 *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions
1466 ** Obsolete packages
1469 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
1470 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
1471 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
1480 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
1482 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
1483 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
1484 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
1485 `custom-variable-p'.
1487 ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
1488 and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, `defun' and
1489 `defmacro' currently return the name of the newly defined
1490 function/macro, but this should not be relied upon.
1492 ** `random' by default now returns a different random sequence in
1493 every Emacs run. Use `(random S)', where S is a string, to set the
1494 random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
1495 sequence in later calls.
1497 ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
1498 that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
1499 non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
1501 ** `select-window' now always makes the window's buffer current.
1502 It does so even if the window was selected before.
1504 ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
1505 font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
1506 depends on the graphical library.
1508 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
1509 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
1511 ** `set-buffer-multibyte' now signals an error in narrowed buffers.
1513 ** The CL package's `get-setf-method' function no longer exists.
1514 Generalized variables are now part of core Emacs Lisp, and implemented
1515 differently to the way cl.el used to do it. It is not possible to
1516 define a compatible replacement for `get-setf-method'. See the file
1517 gv.el for internal details of the new implementation.
1519 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
1520 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
1521 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
1523 ** Miscellaneous name changes
1524 Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to correct their spelling,
1525 or to be more consistent with standard Emacs terminology.
1527 *** Renamed functions
1528 **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
1529 **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
1530 **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
1531 **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
1532 **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
1533 **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
1534 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
1535 **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
1538 The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
1539 are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
1540 **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
1541 **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
1542 **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
1544 *** Renamed variables
1545 **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
1546 **** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
1547 deactivate-current-input-method-function
1549 ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed:
1550 *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char'
1551 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
1552 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
1553 *** `iswitchb-read-buffer'
1554 *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report'
1555 *** `set-char-table-default'
1556 *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector')
1557 *** `compile-internal'
1559 *** `mode-line-inverse-video'
1560 *** `follow-mode-off-hook'
1561 *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline'
1562 (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead)
1563 *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs'
1564 (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead)
1565 *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name'
1566 *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
1567 *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
1568 *** `vc-checkout-carefully'
1571 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
1573 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
1574 `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
1575 You can define your own generalized variables using `gv-define-simple-setter',
1576 `gv-define-setter', etc.
1578 ** Emacs tries to macroexpand interpreted (non-compiled) files during load.
1579 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code,
1580 but can also bump into previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
1581 These are generally harmless: they will simply cause the macro calls
1582 to be left for later expansion (as before), but will result in a
1583 warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle") describing the cycle.
1584 You may wish to restructure your code so this does not happen.
1586 ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
1587 Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report.
1588 When finished, use M-x profiler-stop. The sampling rate can be based on
1589 CPU time or memory allocations.
1591 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
1592 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
1594 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
1596 ** Face underlining can now use a wave.
1598 ** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT
1599 of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its
1600 second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via `M-n'
1601 in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values.
1602 More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments.
1606 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
1607 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
1609 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
1610 table, but with a different prefix.
1614 *** New error type and new function `user-error'.
1615 These do not trigger the debugger.
1617 *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill', saying what to do with the
1618 debugger buffer when exiting debug.
1620 *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
1621 message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
1622 to work out which code is doing something.
1624 *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental
1625 recursive invocations.
1629 *** New command `fit-frame-to-buffer' adjusts the frame height to
1632 *** The command `fit-window-to-buffer' can adjust the frame height
1633 if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil.
1635 *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window', similar to
1636 `with-output-to-temp-buffer'.
1638 *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been
1641 *** New option `switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' to restore a
1642 window's point when switching buffers.
1644 *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width'
1645 specify the size of new windows created by `display-buffer'.
1647 *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
1648 non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
1650 *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
1651 tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
1654 *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil,
1655 specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
1657 *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected',
1658 and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
1660 *** The functions `get-lru-window', `get-mru-window' and `get-largest-window'
1661 now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
1663 *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'.
1665 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
1666 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
1668 **** `dired-shrink-to-fit'
1669 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
1670 **** `display-buffer-function'
1671 **** `special-display-buffer-names'
1672 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
1673 **** `special-display-function'
1674 **** `special-display-regexps'
1678 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
1679 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
1680 by the underlying C implementation.
1682 *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
1683 (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds.
1684 PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other
1685 functions that use this format, such as `file-attributes' and
1686 `format-time-string', have been changed accordingly. Old-format time
1687 stamps are still accepted.
1689 *** The format of timers in `timer-list' and `timer-idle-list' is now
1690 [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS].
1691 The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be
1692 accessed via the new `timer--psecs' accessor.
1694 *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form
1695 (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS).
1699 *** Improved security when handling persistent objects:
1701 **** `eieio-persistent-read' now features optional arguments for specifying
1702 the class to load, as well as a flag stating whether subclasses are allowed;
1703 if provided, other classes will be rejected by the reader. For
1704 compatibility with existing code, if the class is omitted only a
1707 **** New specialized reader for pulling in classes and signaling errors
1708 without evaluation of suspicious code.
1710 **** All slots that contain objects must have a :type. Slots with lists
1711 of objects must use a new type predicate for a list of an object type.
1713 *** Support for `find-function' and similar utilities, through the addition
1714 of filename support to generated symbols.
1716 ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN,
1717 instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args; e.g., (log -1.0).
1718 Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
1719 on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt,
1720 log, log10, sqrt, and mod.
1722 ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'.
1724 ** Miscellaneous changes to special forms and macros
1726 *** `defun' and `defmacro' are now macros rather than special forms.
1728 *** `kbd' is now a function rather than a macro.
1730 ** Miscellaneous new functions
1732 *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary keymap that
1733 takes precedence over most other maps for a short while (normally one key).
1735 *** `autoloadp' tests if its argument is an autoloaded object.
1737 *** `autoload-do-load' performs the autoloading operation.
1739 *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed.
1741 *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension.
1743 *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases.
1745 *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'.
1747 *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system.
1749 *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system.
1751 *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
1753 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
1754 *** `automount-dir-prefix' (use `directory-abbrev-alist')
1755 *** `buffer-has-markers-at'
1756 *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist')
1757 *** `window-system-version' (provides no useful information)
1758 *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up')
1759 *** `query-replace-interactive'
1760 *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23)
1763 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1765 ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface.
1766 Pass `--with-w32' to configure. The default remains the X11 interface.
1768 ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds:
1769 `cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows' and
1770 `cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows'. These functions allow Lisp
1771 code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping machinery to convert
1772 between Cygwin and Windows-native file and directory names.
1774 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
1775 Emacs now supports `mouse-highlight', help-echo (in the echo area), and
1776 `mouse-autoselect-window'.
1778 ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
1780 ** On MS Windows, you can pass `--without-libxml2' to configure.bat to omit
1781 support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected.
1783 ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later.
1785 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink "/sw"
1786 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
1789 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
1791 ** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
1794 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
1796 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
1797 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
1798 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
1801 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
1802 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1803 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1804 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
1806 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
1807 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1808 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1809 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
1811 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
1812 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1813 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1814 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
1815 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
1817 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
1818 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1819 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1820 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
1822 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
1823 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
1825 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
1826 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
1827 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
1830 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
1831 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
1832 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
1834 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
1835 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
1836 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
1838 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
1839 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
1841 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
1842 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
1845 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
1847 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
1848 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
1849 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
1851 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
1852 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
1853 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
1857 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
1861 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
1862 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
1864 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
1866 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
1867 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
1869 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
1871 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
1872 default completion style in certain circumstances.
1874 *** New completion style `substring'.
1876 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
1878 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
1882 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
1883 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
1884 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
1885 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
1886 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
1887 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
1889 *** Typing `C-c m' in the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug'
1890 transfers the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there
1891 is one. This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open"
1894 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
1895 and Mail mode changes
1897 ** Emacs server and client changes
1899 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
1901 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
1903 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
1904 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
1906 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
1907 its exit status is 1.
1909 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
1910 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
1911 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
1913 ** Internationalization changes
1915 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
1916 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
1917 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
1918 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
1919 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
1920 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
1922 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
1923 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
1925 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
1926 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
1927 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
1928 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
1931 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
1932 the right window edge.
1934 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
1935 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
1936 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
1937 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
1938 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
1940 *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
1941 (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
1943 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
1944 (U+2010 and U+2011).
1946 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
1947 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
1948 automatically select it.
1950 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
1951 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
1952 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
1954 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
1955 selected for installation.
1957 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
1959 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
1960 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
1961 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
1963 ** Custom theme changes
1965 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
1966 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
1968 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
1969 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
1970 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
1971 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
1972 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
1973 built-in Custom themes.
1975 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
1976 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
1977 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
1978 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
1980 ** Improved GTK integration
1982 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
1983 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
1985 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
1986 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
1987 the default is taken from desktop settings.
1989 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
1990 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
1991 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
1994 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
1995 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
1997 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
1998 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
2000 ** Graphical interface changes
2002 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
2003 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
2004 displayed as a space.
2006 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
2007 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
2009 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
2010 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
2011 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
2015 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
2016 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
2018 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
2019 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
2020 do the right thing in batch mode.
2022 ** Scrolling changes
2024 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
2025 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
2026 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
2027 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
2029 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
2031 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
2032 scroll a line instead of full screen.
2034 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
2035 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
2037 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
2038 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
2039 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
2040 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
2041 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
2043 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
2044 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
2045 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
2046 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
2049 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
2050 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
2052 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
2053 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
2054 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
2055 now includes the SELinux context.
2057 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
2058 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
2062 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
2063 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
2065 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
2066 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
2068 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
2070 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
2071 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
2072 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
2075 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
2076 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
2077 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
2078 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
2079 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
2081 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
2082 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
2084 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
2085 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
2086 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
2087 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
2092 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
2093 in the quitted window.
2095 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
2096 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
2098 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
2100 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
2101 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
2102 for choosing the displaying window).
2104 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
2105 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
2107 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
2108 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
2110 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
2111 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
2112 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
2113 from which such space was obtained.
2115 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
2116 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
2117 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
2118 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
2119 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
2121 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
2122 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
2123 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
2125 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
2126 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
2128 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
2129 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
2130 been shown in a specific window.
2132 ** Minibuffer changes
2134 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
2135 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
2136 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
2138 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
2139 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
2140 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
2142 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
2144 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
2146 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
2147 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
2148 successful operation.
2150 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
2151 for `list-colors-display'.
2153 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
2156 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
2160 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
2161 `isearch-yank-line'.
2163 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
2164 `isearch-yank-kill'.
2166 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
2168 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
2170 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
2171 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
2172 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
2173 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
2176 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
2177 also deletes newlines around point.
2181 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
2182 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
2183 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
2186 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
2187 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
2188 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
2190 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
2191 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
2192 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
2193 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
2195 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
2197 ** Selection changes.
2199 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
2200 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
2201 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
2202 mouse commands use the primary selection.
2204 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
2205 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
2207 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
2208 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
2209 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
2210 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
2212 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
2213 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
2214 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
2215 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
2216 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
2218 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
2220 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
2221 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
2222 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
2224 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
2226 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
2227 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
2228 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
2230 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
2231 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
2233 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
2234 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
2235 between applications.
2237 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
2239 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
2240 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
2241 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
2242 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
2243 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
2245 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
2247 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
2248 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
2250 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
2251 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
2252 number to count from and for a format string.
2254 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
2255 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
2256 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
2257 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
2258 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
2260 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
2261 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
2262 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
2263 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
2264 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
2266 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
2267 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
2268 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
2269 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
2270 follows `replace-match'.
2273 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
2275 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
2279 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
2280 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
2281 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
2282 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
2284 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
2286 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
2288 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
2292 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
2294 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
2295 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
2299 *** Support for musical notes.
2301 *** Support for logarithmic units.
2303 *** No longer uses the tex prefix for TeX specific unit names when
2304 using TeX or LaTeX mode.
2306 *** New option to highlight selections using faces.
2308 *** `calc-histogram' has the option of using a vector to determine the bins.
2310 *** New "O" option prefix.
2312 *** Use the "O" prefix to "d r" (`calc-radix') to turn on twos-complement mode.
2314 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
2316 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
2317 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
2319 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
2320 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
2322 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
2323 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
2324 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
2326 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
2328 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
2329 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
2331 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
2332 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
2333 Use `appt-activate' instead.
2335 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
2336 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
2337 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
2339 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
2340 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
2344 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
2345 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
2347 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
2349 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
2350 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
2353 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
2354 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
2355 parsed as a statement continuation.
2357 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
2361 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
2362 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
2364 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
2365 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
2366 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
2368 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
2369 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
2370 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
2375 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
2376 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
2377 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
2379 *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
2380 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
2382 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
2384 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
2385 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
2389 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
2392 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
2393 optionally do not register names.
2395 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
2396 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
2400 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
2401 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
2402 instead of using the current buffer.
2404 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
2405 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
2409 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
2410 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
2412 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
2413 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
2414 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
2415 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
2419 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
2420 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
2421 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
2425 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
2426 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
2427 debugging of several threads.
2431 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
2432 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
2436 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
2437 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
2438 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
2439 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
2440 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
2442 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
2443 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
2444 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
2447 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
2449 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
2451 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
2452 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
2453 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
2455 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
2456 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
2458 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
2460 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
2462 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
2463 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
2464 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
2465 default), this performs tag completion.
2467 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
2468 See ORG-NEWS for details.
2470 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
2471 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
2472 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
2476 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
2477 in the Rmail incoming message.
2479 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
2480 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
2481 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
2485 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
2486 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
2487 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
2489 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
2490 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
2494 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
2495 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
2496 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
2499 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
2500 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
2501 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
2502 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
2503 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
2504 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
2505 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
2506 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
2508 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
2509 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
2511 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
2513 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
2515 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
2516 the credentials file.
2518 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
2519 If you had that set, you need to put
2521 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
2523 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
2525 *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
2526 SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
2527 to the address you wish to use instead.
2531 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
2532 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
2534 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
2535 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
2536 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
2537 connection is established.
2539 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
2540 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
2542 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
2543 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
2544 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
2545 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
2547 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
2548 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
2549 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
2550 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
2551 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
2552 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
2554 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
2555 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
2557 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
2558 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
2559 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
2561 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
2562 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
2564 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
2568 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
2572 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
2574 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
2575 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
2577 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
2578 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
2580 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
2581 default value to "".
2583 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
2584 for remote machines which support SELinux.
2586 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
2587 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
2588 the degree of parallelism.
2590 ** VC and related modes
2592 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
2593 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
2594 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
2595 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
2596 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
2598 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
2600 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
2601 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
2602 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
2603 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
2604 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
2606 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
2607 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
2609 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
2610 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
2611 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
2612 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
2613 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
2614 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
2616 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
2617 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
2619 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
2620 this was not advertised at the time.
2622 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
2623 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
2624 this was not advertised at the time.
2630 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
2632 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
2633 You can get a comparable behavior with:
2634 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
2635 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
2637 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
2639 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
2641 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
2643 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
2644 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
2646 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
2650 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
2651 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
2653 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
2654 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
2656 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
2658 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
2660 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
2663 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
2665 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
2666 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
2668 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
2669 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
2670 matching closing one.
2672 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
2673 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
2674 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
2675 electric-indent-functions.
2677 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
2678 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
2679 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
2681 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
2682 from which other modes can be derived.
2684 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
2686 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
2687 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
2688 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
2689 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
2692 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
2693 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
2695 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
2696 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
2698 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
2700 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
2701 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
2702 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
2703 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
2704 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
2705 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
2708 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
2710 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
2711 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
2713 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
2715 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
2716 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
2717 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
2718 command still toggles the minor mode.
2720 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
2721 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
2722 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
2723 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
2724 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
2726 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
2727 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
2728 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
2729 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
2730 argument `bidi-class'.
2732 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
2733 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
2734 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
2735 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
2737 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
2738 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
2739 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
2742 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
2743 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
2744 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
2745 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
2746 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
2747 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
2748 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
2750 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
2751 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
2752 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
2753 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
2756 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
2757 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
2758 replaced all known uses.
2760 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
2761 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
2762 major mode is special).
2764 ** Menu and tool bar changes
2766 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
2767 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
2768 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
2769 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
2770 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
2771 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
2773 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
2774 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
2776 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
2777 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
2778 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
2779 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
2781 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
2782 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
2783 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
2785 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
2787 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
2788 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
2789 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
2791 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
2792 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
2793 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
2794 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
2795 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
2796 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
2797 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
2798 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
2799 *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold')
2800 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
2801 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
2802 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
2803 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
2804 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
2805 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
2806 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
2807 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
2808 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
2809 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
2810 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
2811 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
2813 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
2814 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
2816 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
2817 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
2818 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
2819 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
2820 *** `e' (`float-e').
2822 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
2823 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
2825 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
2826 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
2827 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
2828 `finder-keywords-hash'.
2830 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
2831 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
2832 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
2835 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
2837 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
2838 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
2839 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
2840 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
2843 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
2844 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
2846 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
2847 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
2849 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
2851 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
2852 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
2854 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
2855 declared as dynamically bound.
2857 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
2859 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
2860 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
2861 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
2863 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
2865 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
2866 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
2868 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
2869 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
2870 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
2871 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
2872 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
2873 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
2875 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
2876 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
2877 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
2881 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
2882 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
2883 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
2884 buffer) in the window tree.
2886 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
2889 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
2890 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
2891 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
2892 act on any window including internal ones.
2894 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
2895 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
2896 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
2897 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
2898 and `window-body-height' are provided.
2900 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
2901 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
2902 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
2903 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
2904 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
2906 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
2907 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
2908 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
2909 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
2910 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
2911 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
2913 *** Window resizing functions.
2914 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
2915 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
2916 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
2918 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
2919 live window on that frame instead.
2921 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
2922 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
2923 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
2924 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
2925 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
2926 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
2928 *** Window-local buffer lists.
2929 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
2930 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
2931 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
2932 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
2933 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
2935 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
2936 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
2937 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
2938 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
2940 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
2941 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
2942 The old names are kept as aliases.
2946 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
2947 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
2948 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
2949 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
2951 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
2953 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
2954 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
2955 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
2956 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
2957 are user-customizable variables.
2959 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
2961 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
2962 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
2963 frame or window as an Elisp object.
2967 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
2968 properties of the current completion:
2969 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
2970 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
2972 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
2973 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
2975 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
2977 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
2978 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
2979 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
2980 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
2981 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
2982 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
2983 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
2985 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
2986 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
2987 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
2989 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
2990 behavior of `completing-read'.
2992 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
2993 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
2995 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
2996 Instead, the offending function is removed.
3000 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
3001 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
3002 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
3003 non-nil return value.
3005 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
3006 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
3007 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
3008 advertised at the time.)
3012 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
3013 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
3015 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
3017 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
3019 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
3020 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
3021 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
3023 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
3024 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
3026 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
3027 named Emacs server instances.
3029 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
3030 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
3032 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
3033 for higher-resolution time stamps.
3035 ** New input reading functions
3037 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
3038 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
3040 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
3041 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
3044 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
3046 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
3047 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
3048 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
3051 ** Syntax parsing changes
3053 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
3054 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
3055 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
3056 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
3057 Together with this new variable come a new hook
3058 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
3059 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
3060 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
3063 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
3065 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
3067 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
3069 ** Major and minor mode changes
3071 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
3072 as well as those in the -*- line.
3074 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
3077 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
3078 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
3079 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
3081 **** New minor modes `prettify-symbols-mode' and
3082 `global-prettify-symbols-mode' let the user enable symbol
3083 prettification (replacing a string like "lambda" with the Greek lambda
3086 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
3087 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
3089 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
3090 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
3091 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
3093 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
3095 ** File-handling changes
3097 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
3098 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
3099 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
3100 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
3102 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
3104 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
3105 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
3106 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
3110 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
3112 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
3114 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
3116 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
3119 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
3120 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
3122 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
3123 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
3125 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
3126 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
3127 ImageMagick installation supports.
3129 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
3130 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
3133 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
3134 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
3136 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
3137 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
3138 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
3139 `image-transform-set-scale'.
3141 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
3142 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
3143 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
3144 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
3146 ** XML and HTML parsing
3147 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
3148 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
3149 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
3150 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
3152 ** Networking and encryption changes
3154 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
3155 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
3156 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
3157 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
3158 must also be supplied.
3160 *** New library gnutls.el.
3161 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
3162 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
3163 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
3164 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
3165 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
3166 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
3169 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
3170 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
3171 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
3175 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
3177 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
3178 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
3179 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
3180 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
3181 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
3182 displayed with a "spinning bar".
3184 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
3185 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
3187 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
3188 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
3189 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
3190 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
3191 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
3192 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
3194 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
3196 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
3197 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
3198 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
3199 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
3201 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
3202 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
3204 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
3205 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
3206 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
3207 an empty uninterned symbol.
3209 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
3211 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
3213 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
3214 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
3216 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
3217 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
3219 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
3221 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
3222 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
3224 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
3227 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
3229 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
3230 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
3232 ** New configure.bat options
3234 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
3236 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
3238 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
3240 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
3242 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
3244 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
3245 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
3247 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
3248 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
3250 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
3251 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
3254 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
3255 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
3257 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
3258 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
3259 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
3260 (at your option) any later version.
3262 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
3263 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
3264 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
3265 GNU General Public License for more details.
3267 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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