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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
10
11 See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
13
14 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
16
17 Temporary note:
18 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
19 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
20 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
21 so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
22
23 \f
24 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
25
26 ** New configure option '--without-all' to disable additional features.
27 This disables most of the features that are normally enabled by default.
28
29 ** New configure option '--enable-link-time-optimization' to utilize
30 an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
31
32 ** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers.
33 If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about
34 possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be
35 no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings
36 may be useful.
37
38 ** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
39 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
40
41 ---
42 ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
43 overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
44 to emacs-VERSION.
45
46 ---
47 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
48
49 ---
50 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
51 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
52 you want them.
53
54 ---
55 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw
56 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
57
58 ---
59 ** The standalone scripts rcs-checkin and vcdiff have been removed
60 (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
61 no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
62
63 ** The configuration option '--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
64 renamed to '--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
65 Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
66 check that this option enables.
67
68 \f
69 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
70
71 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
72 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
73 been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
74
75 ---
76 ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
77
78 \f
79 * Changes in Emacs 24.3
80
81 ** Help changes
82
83 *** `C-h f' (describe-function) can now perform autoloading.
84 When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
85 contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
86 automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
87 correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
88
89 *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
90 even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
91 autoloads have been redefined as functions).
92
93 ** The function `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
94 (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC) that use picosecond resolution; the PSEC
95 component is new. PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current
96 machines. Other functions that use this format, such as
97 file-attributes and format-time-string, have been changed accordingly.
98 Old-format time stamps are still accepted.
99
100 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
101 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
102 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
103 that support backtraces.
104
105 ** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user
106 name, group names known to the system (where possible).
107
108 ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
109 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about which bzr revision was used.
110
111 ** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled.
112 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
113 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
114 automatically at startup, or when customizing a relevant imagemagick-
115 option.
116
117 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
118 ImageMagick to view images. You must call imagemagick-register-types
119 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.
120
121 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
122 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
123 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
124 treated as images.
125
126 *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
127 :background image spec property.
128
129 ** Internationalization changes
130
131 *** New language environment: Persian.
132
133 ** Face underlining can now use a wave.
134 See the "Face Attributes" section of the Elisp manual.
135
136 ** New fringe bitmap exclamation-mark.
137
138 ** String values for `initial-buffer-choice' also apply to emacsclient
139 frames, if emacsclient is only told to open a new frame without
140 specifying any file to visit or expression to evaluate.
141
142 +++
143 ** You can prevent the creation of lock files by setting `create-lockfiles'
144 to nil. Use with caution, and only if you really need to.
145
146 +++
147 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
148 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
149
150 ** Mode line changes
151
152 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
153 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
154 that does not have its own specialized help text.
155
156 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to
157 invokes `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
158
159 +++
160 ** Setting `enable-remote-dir-locals' to non-nil allows directory
161 local variables on remote hosts.
162
163 +++
164 ** `insert-char' is now a command, and `ucs-insert' an obsolete alias
165 for it.
166
167 ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
168 The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
169
170 \f
171 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
172
173 ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
174 It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
175 accidentally type.
176
177 ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
178 properties on yanked text, in more ways that are more general than
179 just removing them, as done by `yank-excluded-properties'.
180
181 ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether the M-x
182 delete-trailing-whitespace command should delete trailing lines at the
183 end of the buffer. It defaults to t.
184
185 ** Search changes
186
187 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
188 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
189 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
190
191 *** `M-s SPC' in Isearch toggles whitespace matching mode
192 in both ordinary and regexp incremental search, so that each
193 sequence of spaces in the search string matches any combination
194 of one or more whitespace characters defined by the variable
195 `search-whitespace-regexp'. In ordinary incremental search,
196 `isearch-toggle-lax-whitespace' toggles the value of the variable
197 `isearch-lax-whitespace'. In regexp incremental search, it toggles
198 the value of the variable `isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace'.
199
200 ** query-replace changes
201
202 *** When new option `replace-lax-whitespace' is non-nil,
203 and you enter a space or spaces in the strings or regexps
204 to be replaced, `query-replace' will match any sequence matched
205 by the regexp `search-whitespace-regexp'.
206
207 ** M-x move-to-column, if called interactively with no prefix arg, now
208 prompts for a column number.
209
210 ** `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' can now be used to customize
211 `mouse-avoidance-mode' further.
212
213 ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
214
215 ** `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' will now move to the path name separator
216 character when doing minibuffer filename prompts.
217
218 ** `goto-char' is now bound to `M-g c'.
219
220 ** New command `C-x r M-w' (copy-rectangle-as-kill).
221 It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
222
223 ** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
224
225 \f
226 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
227
228 ** Compilation has a new `compilation-always-kill' configuration variable.
229
230 ** Term changes
231
232 The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color' are
233 now deprecated in favor of the `term-face' face, that you can
234 customize. Also, it is now possible to customize how are displayed the
235 ANSI terminal colors and styles by customizing the corresponding
236 `term-color-<COLOR>', `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold'
237 faces.
238
239 ** CL
240 *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
241 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly,
242 i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions use
243 the "cl--" prefix).
244
245 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it
246 under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions
247 that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities,
248 which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'.
249
250 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is just a bunch of aliases that
251 provide the old non-prefixed names.
252
253 *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
254 Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
255
256 *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
257 The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery (as opposed
258 to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture definitions in
259 closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding' is in use.
260
261 *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
262 A side effect is that vars without corresponding value are bound to nil
263 rather than making them unbound.
264
265 ** Desktop
266
267 *** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory. Desktop
268 files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
269
270 ** Python mode
271
272 A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
273 per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
274 shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
275 text based shell).
276
277 *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed:
278 Old defcustom: | New defcustom:
279 python-indent | python-indent-offset
280 python-guess-indent | python-indent-guess-indent-offset
281 python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p | python-pdbtrack-activate
282 python-use-skeletons | python-skeleton-autoinsert
283
284 *** Some user options have been removed:
285
286 **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
287
288 **** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
289 Comments are never considered as indentation markers themselves.
290
291 **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
292 calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
293
294 **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
295 Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
296
297 **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
298 Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
299
300 **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
301 `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
302 No longer relevant.
303
304 *** Some commands have been replaced:
305 Old command | New command
306 python-insert-class | python-skeleton-class
307 python-insert-def | python-skeleton-def
308 python-insert-for | python-skeleton-for
309 python-insert-if | python-skeleton-if
310 python-insert-try/except | python-skeleton-try
311 python-insert-try/finally | python-skeleton-try
312 python-insert-while | python-skeleton-while
313 python-find-function | python-nav-jump-to-defun
314 python-next-statement | python-nav-forward-sentence
315 python-previous-statement | python-nav-backward-sentence
316 python-send-buffer | python-shell-send-buffer
317 python-send-defun | python-shell-send-defun
318 python-send-region | python-shell-send-region
319 python-send-region-and-go | Emulate with python-shell-send-region and
320 python-shell-switch-to-shell
321 python-send-string | python-shell-send-string
322 python-switch-to-python | python-shell-switch-to-shell
323 python-describe-symbol | python-eldoc-at-point
324
325 ** VHDL mode
326
327 *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
328
329 *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
330
331 *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
332
333 *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
334
335 ** Diff mode
336
337 Faces for changes now use the same diff color scheme as in modern VCSes
338 where deletions are displayed in red (new faces `diff-refine-removed'
339 and `smerge-refined-removed' and new definition of `diff-removed'),
340 insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added' and
341 `smerge-refined-added' and new definition of `diff-added').
342 The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use
343 the face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added'
344 to highlight changes in context diffs.
345
346 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode
347 on high color displays.
348
349 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
350 See flymake-fringe-indicator-position, flymake-error-bitmap and
351 flymake-warning-bitmap.
352
353 ** `sh-script'
354 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair.
355 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
356 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
357
358 ** reStructuredText mode
359
360 *** Rebind nearly all keys making room for more keys and complying
361 better to usage in other modes. Describe bindings with C-c C-h.
362
363 *** Major revision of indentation working very similar to other
364 modes. TAB is your friend.
365
366 *** Major revision of filling working fine with most of
367 reStructuredText syntax. Support auto-filling.
368
369 *** Major revision of comment handling.
370
371 *** Major revision of fontification working with `jit-lock-mode'.
372
373 *** Cover reStructuredText syntax more closely. Improve
374 the experience for Sphinx users.
375
376 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
377
378 *** Extend correct and improve customization.
379
380 *** Negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
381
382 *** Reset window configuration after displaying TOC.
383
384 *** Package version in `rst-version'.
385
386 ** New `derived-mode' filter for Ibuffer, bound to `/ M'.
387 `/ m' is now bound to filter by used-mode, which used to be bound to `/ M'.
388
389 ** Apropos
390
391 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
392 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
393 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
394
395 **** The old options whose values specified faces to use were removed
396 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
397
398 ** Buffer Menu
399 This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
400
401 *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
402 Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
403
404 ** Calendar
405
406 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
407 Customize cal-html-holidays to change this.
408
409 ** Customize
410
411 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
412
413 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
414 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e. the prefix argument does nothing for
415 these commands now).
416
417 ** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the
418 channel keys found, if any.
419
420 ** Dired
421
422 *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
423 if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
424 Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
425
426 ** Shell
427
428 *** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies what buffer to use
429 for a new asynchronous shell command when the default output buffer
430 `*Async Shell Command*' is already taken by another running command.
431
432 ** FFAP
433
434 *** The option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
435 specifying URL types which should be converted to remote file names at
436 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
437
438 ** Follow mode
439
440 *** The obsolete variable `follow-mode-off-hook' has been removed.
441
442 *** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
443 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
444
445 ** The `server-auth-key' variable can be used to set a permanent
446 shared key for Emacs Server.
447
448 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
449 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
450
451 ** FIXME something happened to ses.el, 2012-04-17.
452
453 ** which-function-mode now applies to all applicable major modes by default.
454
455 ** Tramp
456
457 +++
458 *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy
459 definitions. See the manual for details.
460
461 +++
462 *** Remote processes are now supported also on remote Windows host.
463
464 ** D-Bus
465
466 +++
467 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
468
469 +++
470 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
471
472 +++
473 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
474 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
475
476 +++
477 *** The function `dbus-call-method' works non-blocking now, it can be
478 interrupted by C-g. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
479
480 +++
481 *** Signals can be sent also as unicast message.
482
483 +++
484 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
485 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus. See the manual for
486 details.
487
488 +++
489 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
490
491 +++
492 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
493
494 +++
495 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
496 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
497 server properties.
498
499 ** Package Menu
500
501 *** Newly-available packages are listed in the Package Menu as "new",
502 and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
503
504 ** Tabulated List and packages derived from it
505
506 *** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S', sorts the column
507 at point, or the Nth column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
508
509 ** URL
510
511 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
512 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
513 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
514 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components
515 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
516
517 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
518 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
519 in case that is not properly encoded.
520
521 ** Obsolete packages:
522
523 *** assoc.el
524 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
525 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
526 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
527
528 *** bruce.el
529
530 *** ledit.el
531
532 *** mailpost.el
533
534 *** mouse-sel.el
535
536 *** patcomp.el
537
538 *** cust-print.el
539
540 \f
541 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
542 \f
543 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
544
545 ** (random) by default now returns a different random sequence in
546 every Emacs run. Use (random S), where S is a string, to set the
547 random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
548 sequence in later calls.
549
550 ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
551 font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
552 depends on the graphical library.
553
554 ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
555 that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
556 non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
557
558 +++
559 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
560 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
561 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
562 `custom-variable-p'.
563
564 +++
565 ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
566 and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, defun and
567 defmacro currently return the name of the newly defined function/macro
568 but this should not be relied upon.
569
570 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
571 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
572
573 +++
574 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
575 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
576 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
577
578 ** Spelling changes.
579 Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to avoid problems with spelling
580 that is incorrect or inconsistent with how Emacs normally spells a word.
581
582 *** Renamed functions
583
584 **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
585 **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
586 **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
587 **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
588 **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
589 **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
590 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
591 **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
592
593 *** Renamed hooks
594 The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
595 are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
596
597 **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
598 **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
599 **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
600
601 *** Renamed Lisp variables
602
603 **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
604 **** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
605 deactivate-current-input-method-function
606
607 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed:
608
609 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
610 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
611 *** `last-input-char' and `last-command-char'
612
613 \f
614 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3
615
616 ** Interpreted files get eagerly macro-expanded during load.
617 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code, but can
618 also bump into harmless and previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
619 These should not be fatal: they will simply cause the macro-calls to be left
620 for later expansion (as before), but will also result in a warning describing
621 the cycle.
622
623 ** New minor mode `read-only-mode' to replace toggle-read-only (now obsolete).
624
625 ** New functions `autoloadp' and `autoload-do-load'.
626
627 ** New function `posnp' to test if an object is a `posn'.
628
629 ** `function-get' fetches the property of a function, following aliases.
630
631 ** `toggle-read-only' accepts a second argument specifying whether to
632 print a message, if called from Lisp.
633
634 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
635 `setf' is autoloaded and `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
636
637 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
638 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
639
640 ** `macro-declaration-function' is obsolete, use `macro-declarations-alist'.
641
642 ** New function `set-temporary-overlay-map'.
643
644 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
645
646 ** New error type and new function `user-error'. Doesn't trigger the debugger.
647
648 ** Window changes
649
650 *** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
651 now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
652
653 *** New macro with-temp-buffer-window.
654
655 *** New option temp-buffer-resize-frames.
656
657 *** New function fit-frame-to-buffer and new option
658 fit-frame-to-buffer-bottom-margin.
659
660 *** New display action function display-buffer-below-selected.
661
662 *** New display action alist `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil, tells
663 display action functions to avoid changing which frame is selected.
664
665 *** New display action alist `pop-up-frame-parameters', if non-nil,
666 specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
667
668 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
669 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
670 in Emacs 24.1:
671
672 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
673 **** `special-display-regexps'
674 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
675 **** `special-display-buffer-names'
676 **** `special-display-function'
677
678 ** Completion
679
680 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
681 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
682
683 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
684 table, but with a different prefix.
685
686 ** Time
687
688 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
689 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
690 by the underlying C implementation.
691
692 ** New function file-name-base.
693
694 ** New function `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
695
696 ** `automount-dir-prefix' is obsolete.
697 ** `buffer-has-markers-at' is obsolete.
698 ** `window-system-version' is obsolete.
699 \f
700 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on non-free operating systems
701
702 ** New configure.bat options on MS-Windows:
703
704 *** --without-libxml2 omits support for libxml2, even if its presence
705 is detected.
706
707 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
708 Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and
709 mouse-autoselect-window.
710
711 ** On MS-Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
712 \f
713 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
714
715 ** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
716
717 \f
718 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
719
720 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
721 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
722 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
723 --without-gconf.
724
725 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
726 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
727 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
728 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
729
730 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
731 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
732 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
733 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
734
735 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
736 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
737 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
738 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
739 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
740
741 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
742 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
743 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
744 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
745
746 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
747 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
748
749 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
750 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
751 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
752 to about 2 GiB.
753
754 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
755 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
756 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
757
758 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
759 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
760 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
761
762 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
763 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
764
765 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
766 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
767
768 \f
769 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
770
771 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
772 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
773 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
774
775 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
776 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
777 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
778 Nextstep builds).
779
780 \f
781 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
782
783 ** Completion
784
785 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
786 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
787
788 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
789
790 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
791 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
792
793 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
794
795 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
796 default completion style in certain circumstances.
797
798 *** New completion style `substring'.
799
800 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
801
802 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
803
804 ** Mail changes
805
806 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
807 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
808 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
809 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
810 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
811 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
812
813 *** Typing C-c m in the buffer made by M-x report-emacs-bug transfers
814 the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there is one.
815 This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open" command.
816
817 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
818 and Mail mode changes
819
820 ** Emacs server and client changes
821
822 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
823
824 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
825
826 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
827 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
828
829 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
830 its exit status is 1.
831
832 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
833 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
834 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
835
836 ** Internationalization changes
837
838 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
839 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
840 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
841 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
842 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
843 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
844
845 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
846 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
847
848 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
849 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
850 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
851 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
852 paragraph.
853
854 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
855 the right window edge.
856
857 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
858 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
859 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
860 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
861 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
862
863 *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
864 (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
865
866 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
867 (U+2010 and U+2011).
868
869 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
870 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
871 automatically select it.
872
873 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
874 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
875 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
876
877 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
878 selected for installation.
879
880 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
881
882 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
883 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
884 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
885
886 ** Custom theme changes
887
888 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
889 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
890
891 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
892 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
893 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
894 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
895 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
896 built-in Custom themes.
897
898 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
899 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
900 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
901 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
902
903 ** Improved GTK integration
904
905 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
906 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
907
908 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
909 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
910 the default is taken from desktop settings.
911
912 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
913 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
914 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
915 entries for this.
916
917 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
918 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
919
920 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
921 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
922
923 ** Graphical interface changes
924
925 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
926 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
927 displayed as a space.
928
929 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
930 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
931
932 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
933 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
934 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
935
936 ** Exiting changes
937
938 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
939 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
940
941 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
942 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
943 do the right thing in batch mode.
944
945 ** Scrolling changes
946
947 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
948 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
949 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
950 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
951
952 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
953
954 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
955 scroll a line instead of full screen.
956
957 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
958 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
959
960 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
961 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
962 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
963 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
964 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
965
966 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
967 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
968 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
969 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
970 margin.
971
972 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
973 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
974
975 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
976 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
977 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
978 now includes the SELinux context.
979
980 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
981 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
982
983 ** Trash changes
984
985 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
986 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
987
988 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
989 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
990
991 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
992
993 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
994 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
995 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
996 subdirectories.
997
998 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
999 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
1000 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
1001 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
1002 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
1003
1004 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
1005 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
1006
1007 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
1008 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
1009 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
1010 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
1011 corresponding way.
1012
1013 ** Window changes
1014
1015 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
1016 in the quitted window.
1017
1018 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
1019 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
1020
1021 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
1022
1023 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
1024 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
1025 for choosing the displaying window).
1026
1027 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
1028 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
1029
1030 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
1031 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
1032
1033 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
1034 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
1035 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
1036 from which such space was obtained.
1037
1038 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
1039 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
1040 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
1041 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
1042 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
1043
1044 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
1045 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
1046 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
1047
1048 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
1049 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
1050
1051 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
1052 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
1053 been shown in a specific window.
1054
1055 ** Minibuffer changes
1056
1057 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
1058 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
1059 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
1060
1061 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
1062 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
1063 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1064
1065 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
1066
1067 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
1068
1069 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
1070 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
1071 successful operation.
1072
1073 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
1074 for `list-colors-display'.
1075
1076 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
1077
1078 \f
1079 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
1080
1081 ** Search changes
1082
1083 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
1084 `isearch-yank-line'.
1085
1086 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
1087 `isearch-yank-kill'.
1088
1089 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
1090
1091 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
1092
1093 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
1094 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
1095 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
1096 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
1097 alias for it.
1098
1099 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
1100 also deletes newlines around point.
1101
1102 ** Deletion changes
1103
1104 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
1105 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
1106 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
1107 instead.
1108
1109 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
1110 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
1111 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
1112
1113 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
1114 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
1115 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
1116 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
1117
1118 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
1119
1120 ** Selection changes.
1121
1122 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
1123 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
1124 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
1125 mouse commands use the primary selection.
1126
1127 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
1128 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
1129
1130 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
1131 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
1132 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
1133 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
1134
1135 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
1136 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
1137 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
1138 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
1139 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
1140
1141 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
1142
1143 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
1144 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
1145 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
1146
1147 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
1148
1149 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
1150 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
1151 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
1152
1153 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
1154 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
1155
1156 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
1157 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
1158 between applications.
1159
1160 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
1161
1162 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
1163 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
1164 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
1165 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
1166 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
1167
1168 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
1169
1170 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
1171 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
1172
1173 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
1174 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
1175 number to count from and for a format string.
1176
1177 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
1178 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
1179 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
1180 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
1181 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
1182
1183 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
1184 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
1185 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
1186 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
1187 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
1188
1189 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
1190 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
1191 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
1192 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
1193 follows `replace-match'.
1194
1195 \f
1196 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
1197
1198 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
1199
1200 ** BibTeX mode
1201
1202 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
1203 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
1204 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
1205 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
1206
1207 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
1208
1209 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
1210
1211 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
1212
1213 ** Browse-url
1214
1215 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
1216
1217 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
1218 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
1219
1220 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
1221
1222 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
1223 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
1224
1225 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
1226 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
1227
1228 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
1229 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
1230 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
1231
1232 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
1233
1234 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
1235 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
1236
1237 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
1238 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
1239 Use `appt-activate' instead.
1240
1241 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1242 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
1243 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
1244
1245 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1246 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
1247
1248 ** CC Mode
1249
1250 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
1251 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
1252
1253 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
1254
1255 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
1256 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
1257 not the top level.
1258
1259 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
1260 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
1261 parsed as a statement continuation.
1262
1263 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
1264
1265 ** Compilation mode
1266
1267 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
1268 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
1269
1270 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
1271 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
1272 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
1273
1274 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
1275 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
1276 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
1277 buffer was used.
1278
1279 ** Customize
1280
1281 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
1282 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
1283 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
1284
1285 *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
1286 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
1287
1288 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
1289
1290 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
1291 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
1292
1293 ** D-Bus
1294
1295 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
1296 or session bus.
1297
1298 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
1299 optionally do not register names.
1300
1301 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
1302 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
1303
1304 ** Dired-x
1305
1306 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
1307 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
1308 instead of using the current buffer.
1309
1310 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
1311 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
1312
1313 ** ERC changes
1314
1315 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
1316 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
1317
1318 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
1319 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
1320 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
1321 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
1322
1323 ** Eshell changes
1324
1325 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
1326 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
1327 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
1328
1329 ** gdb-mi
1330
1331 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
1332 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
1333 debugging of several threads.
1334
1335 ** Image mode
1336
1337 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
1338 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
1339
1340 ** Info
1341
1342 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
1343 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
1344 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
1345 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
1346 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
1347
1348 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
1349 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
1350 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
1351 by default.
1352
1353 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
1354
1355 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
1356
1357 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
1358 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
1359 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
1360
1361 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
1362 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
1363
1364 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
1365
1366 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
1367
1368 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
1369 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
1370 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
1371 default), this performs tag completion.
1372
1373 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
1374 See ORG-NEWS for details.
1375
1376 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
1377 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
1378 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
1379
1380 ** Rmail
1381
1382 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
1383 in the Rmail incoming message.
1384
1385 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
1386 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
1387 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
1388
1389 ** Shell mode
1390
1391 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
1392 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
1393 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
1394
1395 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
1396 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
1397
1398 ** SMTPmail
1399
1400 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
1401 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
1402 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
1403 to change this.
1404
1405 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
1406 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
1407 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
1408 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
1409 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
1410 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
1411 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
1412 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
1413
1414 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
1415 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
1416
1417 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
1418
1419 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
1420
1421 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
1422 the credentials file.
1423
1424 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
1425 If you had that set, you need to put
1426
1427 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
1428
1429 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
1430
1431 *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
1432 SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
1433 to the address you wish to use instead.
1434
1435 ** SQL mode
1436
1437 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
1438 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
1439
1440 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
1441 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
1442 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
1443 connection is established.
1444
1445 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
1446 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
1447
1448 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
1449 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
1450 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
1451 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
1452
1453 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
1454 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
1455 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
1456 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
1457 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
1458 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
1459
1460 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
1461 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
1462
1463 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
1464 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
1465 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
1466
1467 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
1468 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
1469
1470 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
1471
1472 ** TeX modes
1473
1474 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
1475
1476 ** Tramp
1477
1478 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
1479
1480 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
1481 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
1482
1483 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
1484 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
1485
1486 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
1487 default value to "".
1488
1489 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
1490 for remote machines which support SELinux.
1491
1492 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
1493 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
1494 the degree of parallelism.
1495
1496 ** VC and related modes
1497
1498 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
1499 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
1500 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
1501 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
1502 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
1503
1504 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
1505
1506 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
1507 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
1508 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
1509 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
1510 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
1511
1512 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
1513 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
1514
1515 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
1516 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
1517 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
1518 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
1519 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
1520 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
1521
1522 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
1523 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
1524
1525 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
1526 this was not advertised at the time.
1527
1528 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
1529 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
1530 this was not advertised at the time.
1531
1532 ** Obsolete modes
1533
1534 *** abbrevlist.el
1535
1536 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
1537
1538 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
1539 You can get a comparable behavior with:
1540 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
1541 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
1542
1543 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
1544
1545 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
1546
1547 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
1548
1549 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
1550 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
1551
1552 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
1553
1554 ** Miscellaneous
1555
1556 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
1557 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
1558
1559 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
1560 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
1561
1562 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
1563
1564 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
1565
1566 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
1567
1568 \f
1569 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
1570
1571 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
1572 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
1573
1574 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
1575 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
1576 matching closing one.
1577
1578 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
1579 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
1580 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
1581 electric-indent-functions.
1582
1583 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
1584 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
1585 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
1586
1587 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
1588 from which other modes can be derived.
1589
1590 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
1591
1592 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
1593 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
1594 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
1595 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
1596 secrets.
1597
1598 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
1599 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
1600
1601 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
1602 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
1603
1604 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
1605
1606 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
1607 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
1608 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
1609 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
1610 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
1611 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
1612
1613 \f
1614 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
1615
1616 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
1617 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
1618
1619 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
1620
1621 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
1622 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
1623 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
1624 command still toggles the minor mode.
1625
1626 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
1627 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
1628 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
1629 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
1630 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
1631
1632 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
1633 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
1634 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
1635 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
1636 argument `bidi-class'.
1637
1638 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
1639 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
1640 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
1641 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
1642
1643 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
1644 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
1645 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
1646 of the header line.
1647
1648 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
1649 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
1650 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
1651 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
1652 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
1653 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
1654 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
1655
1656 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
1657 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
1658 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
1659 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
1660 older Emacsen too.
1661
1662 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
1663 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
1664 replaced all known uses.
1665
1666 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
1667 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
1668 major mode is special).
1669
1670 ** Menu and tool bar changes
1671
1672 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
1673 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
1674 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
1675 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
1676 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
1677 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
1678
1679 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
1680 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
1681
1682 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
1683 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
1684 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
1685 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
1686
1687 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
1688 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
1689 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
1690
1691 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
1692
1693 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
1694 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
1695 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
1696
1697 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
1698 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
1699 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
1700 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
1701 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
1702 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
1703 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
1704 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
1705 *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold')
1706 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
1707 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
1708 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
1709 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
1710 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
1711 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
1712 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
1713 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
1714 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
1715 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
1716 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
1717 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
1718
1719 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
1720 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
1721
1722 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
1723 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
1724 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
1725 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
1726 *** `e' (`float-e').
1727
1728 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
1729 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
1730
1731 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
1732 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
1733 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
1734 `finder-keywords-hash'.
1735
1736 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
1737 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
1738 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
1739
1740 \f
1741 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
1742
1743 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
1744 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
1745 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
1746 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
1747 file.
1748
1749 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
1750 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
1751
1752 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
1753 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
1754
1755 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
1756
1757 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
1758 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
1759
1760 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
1761 declared as dynamically bound.
1762
1763 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
1764
1765 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
1766 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
1767 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
1768
1769 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
1770
1771 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
1772 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
1773
1774 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
1775 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
1776 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
1777 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
1778 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
1779 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
1780
1781 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
1782 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
1783 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
1784
1785 ** Window changes
1786
1787 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
1788 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
1789 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
1790 buffer) in the window tree.
1791
1792 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
1793 windows.
1794
1795 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
1796 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
1797 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
1798 act on any window including internal ones.
1799
1800 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
1801 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
1802 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
1803 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
1804 and `window-body-height' are provided.
1805
1806 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
1807 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
1808 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
1809 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
1810 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
1811
1812 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
1813 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
1814 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
1815 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
1816 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
1817 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
1818
1819 *** Window resizing functions.
1820 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
1821 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
1822 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
1823
1824 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
1825 live window on that frame instead.
1826
1827 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
1828 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
1829 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
1830 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
1831 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
1832 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
1833
1834 *** Window-local buffer lists.
1835 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
1836 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
1837 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
1838 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
1839 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
1840
1841 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
1842 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
1843 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
1844 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
1845
1846 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
1847 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
1848 The old names are kept as aliases.
1849
1850 *** Display actions
1851
1852 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
1853 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
1854 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
1855 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
1856
1857 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
1858
1859 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
1860 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
1861 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
1862 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
1863 are user-customizable variables.
1864
1865 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
1866
1867 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
1868 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
1869 frame or window as an Elisp object.
1870
1871 ** Completion
1872
1873 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
1874 properties of the current completion:
1875 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
1876 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
1877
1878 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
1879 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
1880
1881 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
1882
1883 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
1884 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
1885 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
1886 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
1887 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
1888 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
1889 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
1890
1891 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
1892 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
1893 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
1894
1895 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
1896 behavior of `completing-read'.
1897
1898 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
1899 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
1900
1901 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
1902 Instead, the offending function is removed.
1903
1904 ** New hook types
1905
1906 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
1907 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
1908 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
1909 non-nil return value.
1910
1911 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
1912 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
1913 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
1914 advertised at the time.)
1915
1916 ** Debugger changes
1917
1918 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
1919 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
1920
1921 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
1922
1923 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
1924
1925 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
1926 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
1927 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
1928
1929 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
1930 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
1931
1932 *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
1933 message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
1934 to work out which code is doing something.
1935
1936 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
1937 named Emacs server instances.
1938
1939 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
1940 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
1941
1942 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
1943 for higher-resolution time stamps.
1944
1945 ** New input reading functions
1946
1947 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
1948 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
1949
1950 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
1951 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
1952 invalid input.
1953
1954 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
1955
1956 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
1957 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
1958 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
1959 obsolete alias.
1960
1961 ** Syntax parsing changes
1962
1963 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
1964 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
1965 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
1966 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
1967 Together with this new variable come a new hook
1968 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
1969 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
1970 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
1971 syntactic rules.
1972
1973 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
1974
1975 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
1976
1977 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
1978
1979 ** Major and minor mode changes
1980
1981 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
1982 as well as those in the -*- line.
1983
1984 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
1985 should be derived.
1986
1987 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
1988 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
1989 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
1990
1991 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
1992 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
1993
1994 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
1995 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
1996 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
1997
1998 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
1999
2000 ** File-handling changes
2001
2002 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
2003 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
2004 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
2005 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
2006
2007 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
2008
2009 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
2010 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
2011 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
2012
2013 ** Image API
2014
2015 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
2016
2017 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
2018
2019 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
2020
2021 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
2022 is being animated.
2023
2024 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
2025 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
2026
2027 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
2028 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
2029
2030 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
2031 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
2032 ImageMagick installation supports.
2033
2034 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
2035 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
2036 functions.
2037
2038 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
2039 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
2040
2041 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
2042 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
2043 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
2044 `image-transform-set-scale'.
2045
2046 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
2047 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
2048 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
2049 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
2050
2051 ** XML and HTML parsing
2052 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
2053 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
2054 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
2055 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
2056
2057 ** Networking and encryption changes
2058
2059 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
2060 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
2061 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
2062 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
2063 must also be supplied.
2064
2065 *** New library gnutls.el.
2066 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
2067 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
2068 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
2069 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
2070 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
2071 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
2072 greater than 0.
2073
2074 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
2075 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
2076 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
2077
2078 ** Isearch
2079
2080 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
2081
2082 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
2083 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
2084 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
2085 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
2086 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
2087 displayed with a "spinning bar".
2088
2089 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
2090 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
2091
2092 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
2093 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
2094 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
2095 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
2096 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
2097 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
2098
2099 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
2100
2101 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
2102 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
2103 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
2104 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
2105
2106 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
2107 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
2108
2109 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
2110 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
2111 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
2112 an empty uninterned symbol.
2113
2114 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
2115
2116 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
2117
2118 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
2119 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
2120
2121 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
2122 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
2123
2124 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
2125
2126 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
2127 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
2128
2129 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
2130
2131 \f
2132 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
2133
2134 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
2135 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
2136
2137 ** New configure.bat options
2138
2139 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
2140
2141 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
2142
2143 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
2144
2145 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
2146
2147 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
2148
2149 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
2150 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
2151
2152 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
2153 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
2154
2155 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
2156 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
2157
2158 \f
2159 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2160 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
2161
2162 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2163 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
2164 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2165 (at your option) any later version.
2166
2167 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2168 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2169 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2170 GNU General Public License for more details.
2171
2172 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
2173 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
2174
2175 \f
2176 Local variables:
2177 mode: outline
2178 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
2179 end: