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24 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.4
26 ** Emacs can be compiled with ACL support.
27 This happens by default if a suitable support library is found at
28 build time, like libacl on GNU/Linux. To prevent this, use the
29 configure option `--disable-acl'.
31 ** Emacs can be compiled with file notification support.
32 This happens by default if a suitable system library is found at
33 build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
34 `--with-file-notification-no'. See below for file-notify features.
35 FIXME? This feature is not available for the Nextstep port. (?)
37 ** The configure option --with-crt-dir has been removed.
38 It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked
41 ** Directories passed to configure option `--enable-locallisppath' are
42 no longer created during installation.
45 ** Emacs for NS (OSX, GNUStep) can be built with ImageMagick support.
46 pkg-config is required to find ImageMagick libraries.
49 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
52 * Changes in Emacs 24.4
54 ** Key ? also describes prefix bindings like C-h.
57 ** `apropos-variable' is now `apropos-user-option'
58 `apropos-user-option' shows all user options while `apropos-variable'
59 shows all variables. When called with a universal prefix argument,
60 the two commands swap their behaviors. When `apropos-do-all' is
61 non-nil, they output the same results.
64 ** `eval-defun' on an already defined defcustom calls the :set function,
67 ** If the new variable `enable-dir-local-variables' is nil,
68 directory local variables are ignored. May be useful for some modes
69 that want to ignore directory-locals while still respecting file-locals.
71 ** The option `set-mark-default-inactive' has been deleted.
72 This unfinished feature was introduced by accident in Emacs 23.1;
73 simply disabling Transient Mark mode does the same thing.
75 ** `initial-buffer-choice' can now specify a function to set up the
78 ** `remember-notes' creates a buffer whose content is saved on kill-emacs.
79 You may think of it as a *scratch* buffer whose content is preserved.
80 In fact, it was designed as a replacement for *scratch* buffer and can
81 be used that way by setting `initial-buffer-choice' to `remember-notes'
82 and `remember-notes-buffer-name' to "*scratch*". Without the second
83 change, *scratch* buffer will still be there for notes that do not
86 ** `write-region-inhibit-fsync' now defaults to t in batch mode.
88 ** ACL support has been added.
90 *** Emacs preserves the ACL entries of files when backing up.
92 *** New functions `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' get and set the ACL
93 entries of a file. On GNU/Linux, the POSIX ACL interface is used via
94 libacl. On MS-Windows, the NT Security APIs are used to emulate the
97 ** New option `scroll-bar-adjust-thumb-portion'.
98 Available only on X, this option allows to control over-scrolling
99 using the scroll bar (i.e. dragging the thumb down even when the end
100 of the buffer is visible).
102 ** New function `add-face-text-property' has been added, which can be
103 used to conveniently prepend/append new face attributes to text.
105 ** In compiled Lisp files, the header no longer includes a timestamp.
107 ** Multi-monitor support has been added.
109 *** New functions `display-monitor-attributes-list' and
110 `frame-monitor-attributes' can be used to obtain information about
111 each physical monitor on multi-monitor setups.
113 *** The functions `display-pixel-width' and `display-pixel-height' now
114 behave consistently among the platforms: they return the pixel width
115 or height for all physical monitors associated with the given display
116 as just they were on X11. To get information for each physical
117 monitor, use the new functions above. Similar notes also apply to
118 `x-display-pixel-width', `x-display-pixel-height', `display-mm-width',
119 `display-mm-height', `x-display-mm-width', and `x-display-mm-height'.
121 ** New macro `alternatives-define' can be used to define generic commands.
122 Generic commands are interactive functions whose implementation can be
123 selected among several alternatives, as a matter of user preference.
125 ** The blink cursor stops blinking after 10 blinks (default) on X and NS.
126 You can change the default by customizing the variable blink-cursor-blinks.
127 Also timers for blinking are stopped when no blinking is done, so Emacs does
128 not consume CPU cycles.
131 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
133 ** `split-window' is no longer a command, just a non-interactive function.
134 As a command it was a special case of `split-window-below', and as such
135 superfluous. After being reimplemented in Lisp, its interactive form
136 was mistakenly retained.
138 ** New commands `toggle-frame-fullscreen' and `toggle-frame-maximized',
139 bound to <f11> and M-<f10>, respectively.
141 ** In keymaps where SPC scrolls, S-SPC now scrolls in the reverse direction.
145 ** New option `visual-order-cursor-movement'.
146 If this is non-nil, cursor motion with arrow keys will follow the
147 visual order of characters on the screen: <left> always moves to the
148 left, <right> always moves to the right, disregarding the surrounding
149 bidirectional context.
151 ** New command `kmacro-to-register' to store keyboard macros in registers.
155 *** `sh-mode' now has the mode own `add-log-current-defun-function'.
156 You can pick the name of the function and the variables with `C-x 4 a'.
159 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
161 ** The debugger's `e' command evaluates the code in the context at point.
162 This includes using the lexical environment at point, which means that
163 `e' now lets you access lexical variables as well.
165 ** `eshell' now supports visual subcommands and options
166 Eshell has been able to handle "visual" commands (interactive,
167 non-line oriented commands such as top that require display
168 capabilities not provided by eshell) by running them in an Emacs
169 terminal emulator. See `eshell-visual-commands'.
171 This feature has been extended to subcommands and options that make a
172 usually line-oriented command a visual command. Typical examples are
173 "git log" and "git <command> --help" which display their output in a
174 pager by default. See `eshell-visual-subcommands' and
175 `eshell-visual-options'.
177 ** If your Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, you can use the new
178 built-in web browser `eww'.
180 ** `remember' can now store notes in separates files
181 You can use the new function `remember-store-in-files' within the
182 `remember-handler-functions' option.
184 See `remember-data-directory' and `remember-directory-file-name-format'
185 for new options related to this function.
187 ** More packages look for ~/.emacs.d/<foo> additionally to ~/.<foo>.
189 ~/.emacs.d/timelog replaces ~/.timelog
190 ~/.emacs.d/vip replaces ~/.vip
191 ~/.emacs.d/viper replaces ~/.viper
192 ~/.emacs.d/ido.last replaces ~/.ido.last
193 ~/.emacs.d/kkcrc replaces ~/.kkcrc
194 ~/.emacs.d/quickurls replaces ~/.quickurls
195 ~/.emacs.d/idlwave replaces ~/.idlwave
196 ~/.emacs.d/bdfcache.el replaces ~/.bdfcache.el
197 ~/.emacs.d/places replaces ~/.emacs-places
198 ~/.emacs.d/shadows replaces ~/.shadows
199 ~/.emacs.d/shadow_todo replaces ~/.shadow_todo
200 ~/.emacs.d/strokes replaces ~/.strokes
201 ~/.emacs.d/notes replaces ~/.notes
202 ~/.emacs.d/type-break replaces ~/.type-break
203 Also the following files used by the now obsolete otodo-mode.el:
204 ~/.emacs.d/todo-do replaces ~/.todo-do
205 ~/.emacs.d/todo-done replaces ~/.todo-done
206 ~/.emacs.d/todo-top replaces ~/.todo-top
209 ** Delphi mode is now called OPascal mode.
210 *** All delphi-* variables and functions have been renamed to opascal-*.
211 *** `delphi-newline-always-indents' is not supported any more.
212 Use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
213 *** `delphi-tab' is gone, replaced by `indent-for-tab-command'.
215 ** Eldoc Mode works properly in the minibuffer.
217 ** jit-lock-debug-mode lets you use the debuggers on code run via jit-lock.
219 ** completing-read-multiple's separator can now be a regexp.
220 The default separator is changed to allow surrounding spaces around the comma.
224 *** Battery information via the BSD `apm' utility is now supported.
228 *** `M-s a C-o' shows lines matching a regexp in marked buffers using Occur.
230 ** Calendar and Diary
233 *** New variable `diary-from-outlook-function', used by the command
234 `diary-from-outlook'.
238 *** `D' displays diffs between VC-controlled whole tree revisions.
239 *** `L' lists the change log for the current VC controlled tree in a window.
240 *** `I' ignores the file under current version control system.
244 *** New macro cl-tagbody.
247 *** letf is now just an alias for cl-letf.
251 *** Calc by default now uses the Gregorian calendar for all dates, and
252 uses January 1, 1 AD as its day number 1. Previously Calc used the
253 Julian calendar for dates before September 14, 1752, and it used
254 December 31, 1 BC as its day number 1; the new scheme is more
255 consistent with Calendar's calendrical system and day numbering.
257 *** The new variable `calc-gregorian-switch' lets you configure the
258 date when Calc switches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
259 Nil, the default value, means to always use the Gregorian calendar.
260 The value (YEAR MONTH DAY) means to start using the Gregorian calendar
263 *** Support for ISO 8601 dates.
267 *** `desktop-auto-save-timeout' defines the number of seconds between
268 auto-saves of the desktop.
270 *** `desktop-restore-frames', enabled by default, allows saving and
271 restoring the window/frame configuration. Additional options
272 `desktop-restore-in-current-display' and
273 `desktop-restoring-reuses-frames' allow further customization.
277 *** New minor mode `dired-hide-details-mode' hides details.
281 *** New option `erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds'.
282 If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally paste large
283 amounts of data into the ERC input.
287 *** New option `epa-mail-aliases'.
289 You can set this to a list of alias expansions for keys to use
290 in `epa-mail-encrypt'.
292 If one element of the variable's value is ("foo@bar.com" "foo@hello.org"),
293 that means: when one of the recipients of the message being encrypted
294 is `foo@bar.com', encrypt the message for `foo@hello.org' instead.
296 If one element of the variable's value is ("foo@bar.com"),
297 that means: when one of the recipients of the message being encrypted
298 is `foo@bar.com', ignore that name as regards encryption.
299 This is useful to avoid a query when you have no key for that name.
302 ** New F90 mode option `f90-smart-end-names'.
304 ** Icomplete is a bit more like Ido.
305 *** key bindings to navigate through and select the completions.
306 *** The icomplete-separator is customizable, and its default has changed.
307 *** Removed icomplete-show-key-bindings.
310 *** Ido has a manual now.
311 *** `ido-use-virtual-buffers' takes a new value 'auto.
312 *** `ido-decorations' has been slightly extended to give a bit more control.
316 *** New commands `n' (`image-next-file') and `p' (`image-previous-file')
317 visit the next image file and the previous image file in the same
318 directory, respectively.
320 *** New commands to show specific frames of multi-frame images.
321 `f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the
322 next or previous frame. `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame.
325 *** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows.
326 When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration.
327 It also has an optional frame argument, which can be used by Lisp
328 callers to fit the image to a frame other than the selected frame.
332 *** New face `info-index-match' is used to highlight matches in index
333 entries displayed by `Info-index-next', `Info-virtual-index' and
338 *** New option `hi-lock-auto-select-face'. When non-nil, hi-lock commands
339 will cycle through faces in `hi-lock-face-defaults' without prompting.
342 *** New global command `M-s h .' (`highlight-symbol-at-point')
343 highlights the symbol found near point without prompting,
344 using the next face automatically.
346 ** Search and Replace
348 *** New global command `M-s .' (`isearch-forward-symbol-at-point')
349 starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search forward with the
350 symbol found near point added to the search string initially.
352 *** `C-x 8 RET' in Isearch mode reads a character by its Unicode name
353 and adds it to the search string.
355 *** `M-s i' in Isearch mode toggles the variable `isearch-invisible'
356 between nil and the value of the option `search-invisible' (or `open'
359 *** `query-replace' skips invisible text when `search-invisible' is nil,
360 and opens overlays with hidden text when `search-invisible' is `open'.
363 *** By default, prefix arguments do not now terminate Isearch mode.
364 Set `isearch-allow-prefix' to nil to restore old behavior.
366 *** More Isearch commands accept prefix arguments, namely
367 `isearch-printing-char', `isearch-quote-char', `isearch-yank-word',
370 *** Word search now matches whitespace at the beginning/end
371 of the search string if it contains leading/trailing whitespace.
372 In an incremental word search or when using a non-nil LAX argument
373 of `word-search-regexp', the lax matching can also match part of
374 the first word (in addition to the lax matching of the last word).
375 The same rules are now applied to the symbol search with the difference
376 that it matches symbols, and non-symbol characters between symbols.
378 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.5.
379 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
382 ** The unrmail command converts from BABYL to mboxrd rather than mboxo.
383 Customize `unrmail-mbox-format' to change this.
386 ** Similarly, customize `rmail-mbox-format' to influence some minor aspects
387 of how Rmail displays non-MIME messages.
390 ** New function `ses-rename-cell' to give SES cells arbitrary names.
392 ** trace-function was largely rewritten.
393 New features include:
394 - no prompting for the destination buffer, unless a prefix-arg was used.
395 - additionally to prompting for a destination buffer, when a prefix-arg is
396 used, the user can enter a "context", i.e. Lisp expression whose value at the
397 time the function is entered/exited will be printed along with the function
398 name and arguments. Useful to trace the value of (current-buffer) or
399 (point) when the function is invoked.
401 ** New command `delete-duplicate-lines' has new types of operation:
402 When its arg ADJACENT is non-nil (when called interactively with C-u C-u)
403 it works like the utility `uniq'. Otherwise by default it deletes
404 duplicate lines everywhere in the region without regard to adjacency.
405 When its arg KEEP-BLANKS is non-nil (when called interactively with
406 C-u C-u C-u), duplicate blank lines are preserved.
408 ** New `cycle-spacing' command allows cycling between having just one
409 space, no spaces, or reverting to the original spacing. Like
410 `just-one-space' command it can handle or ignore newlines and
411 leave different number of spaces.
413 ** Todo mode has been rewritten and enhanced.
414 New features include:
415 - support for multiple todo files and archive files of done items;
416 - renaming, reordering, moving, merging, and deleting categories;
417 - sortable tabular summaries of categories and the types of items they contain;
418 - cross-category lists of items filtered by specific criteria;
419 - more fine-grained interaction with the Emacs diary, by being able to decide
420 for each todo item whether it appears in the Fancy Diary display;
421 - highly flexible new item insertion and item editing;
422 - moving items between categories, storing done items in their category or in
423 archive files, undoing or unarchiving done items;
424 - reprioritizing items by inputting a numerical priority;
425 - extensive customizability of operation and display, including numerous faces.
426 To support some of these features, a new file format is used, which is
427 incompatible with the old format; however, you can convert old todo and done
428 item files to the new format on initializing the first new todo file, or at any
429 later time with the provided conversion command. The old version of
430 todo-mode.el has been made obsolete and renamed otodo-mode.el.
435 *** New connection method "adb", which allows to access Android
436 devices by the Android Debug Bridge. The variable `tramp-adb-program'
437 can be used to adapt the path of the "adb" program, if needed.
439 *** The connection methods "plink1", "ssh1", "ssh2", "scp1", "scp2",
440 "scpc" and "rsyncc" are discontinued. The ssh option
441 "ControlMaster=auto" is set automatically in all ssh-based methods,
445 *** Handlers for `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' for remote machines
446 which support POSIX ACLs.
449 *** Handlers for `file-notify-add-watch' and `file-notify-rm-watch'
450 for remote machines which support filesystem notifications.
454 *** New options: `vhdl-actual-generic-name', `vhdl-beautify-options'.
456 *** New commands: `vhdl-fix-statement-region', `vhdl-fix-statement-buffer'.
460 *** The commands `woman-default-faces' and `woman-monochrome-faces'
461 are obsolete. Customize the `woman-*' faces instead.
465 *** Added Eshell-Tramp module
466 External su and sudo commands are now the default; the internal,
467 Tramp-using variants can still be used by enabling the eshell-tramp
470 ** New term.el option `term-suppress-hard-newline'.
472 ** Obsolete packages:
474 *** longlines.el is obsolete; use visual-line-mode instead.
479 *** terminal.el is obsolete; use term.el instead.
481 *** The previous version of todo-mode.el is obsolete and renamed otodo-mode.el.
486 *** yow.el is obsolete; use fortune.el or cookie1.el instead.
489 *** The Info-edit command is obsolete. Editing Info nodes by hand
490 has not been relevant for some time.
494 *** `explicit-bash-args' now always defaults to use --noediting.
495 During initialization, Emacs no longer expends a process to decide
496 whether it is safe to use Bash's --noediting option. These days
497 --noediting is ubiquitous; it was introduced in 1996 in Bash version 2.
500 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
502 ** New `superword-mode' in subword.el
503 `superword-mode' overrides the default word motion commands to treat
504 symbol_words as a single word, similar to what `subword-mode' does and
505 using the same internal functions.
507 ** New nadvice.el package offering lighter-weight advice facilities.
509 - add-function/remove-function which can be used to add/remove code on any
510 function-carrying place, such as process-filters or `<foo>-function' hooks.
511 - advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named function,
512 much like `defadvice' does.
515 ** The package filenotify.el provides an interface for file system
516 notifications. It requires, that Emacs is compiled with one of the
517 low-level libraries gfilenotify.c, inotify.c or w32notify.c.
520 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
522 ** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
523 Some languages match those as »...« and others as «...» so better stay neutral.
525 ** The default file coding for Emacs Lisp files is now utf-8.
526 (See file-coding-system-alist.) In most cases, this change is transparent, but
527 files that contain unusual characters without specifying an explicit coding
528 system may fail to load with obscure errors.
529 You should either convert them to utf-8 or add an explicit `coding:' cookie.
531 ** overriding-terminal-local-map does not replace the local keymaps any more.
532 It used to disable the minor mode, major mode, and text-property keymaps,
533 whereas now it simply has higher precedence.
535 ** Default process filters and sentinels are not nil any more.
536 Instead they default to a function which does what the nil value used to do.
538 ** `read-event' does not return decoded chars in ttys any more.
539 Just as was the case in Emacs-22 and before, decoding of tty input according to
540 keyboard-coding-system is not performed in read-event any more. But contrary
541 to that past, it is still done before input-decode-map/function-key-map/...
543 ** Removed inhibit-local-menu-bar-menus.
545 ** frame-local variables that affect redisplay do not work any more.
546 More specifically, the redisplay does not bother to check for a frame-local
547 value when looking up variables.
549 ** nil and "unbound" are indistinguishable in symbol-function.
550 `symbol-function' never signals `void-function' any more.
551 `fboundp' returns non-nil if the symbol was `fset' to nil.
553 ** `defadvice' does not honor the `freeze' flag and cannot advise
554 special-forms any more.
556 ** `dolist' in lexical-binding mode does not bind VAR in RESULT any more.
557 VAR was bound to nil which was not tremendously useful and just lead to
558 spurious warnings about an unused var.
560 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
561 The second argument is no longer an SELinux context, instead it is an
562 alist of extended attributes as returned by the new function
563 `file-extended-attributes'. The attributes can be applied to another
564 file using `set-file-extended-attributes'.
566 ** `visited-file-modtime' now returns -1 for nonexistent files.
567 Formerly it returned a list (-1 LOW USEC PSEC), but this was ambiguous
568 in the presence of files with negative time stamps.
570 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
572 ** New hook `tty-setup-hook'.
575 ** New macro with-eval-after-load. Like eval-after-load, but better behaved.
577 ** Obsoleted functions:
580 *** `lisp-complete-symbol'
582 *** `minibuffer-completion-contents'
583 *** `isearch-nonincremental-exit-minibuffer'
584 *** `isearch-filter-visible'
585 *** `generic-make-keywords-list'
587 ** `with-wrapper-hook' is obsoleted by `add-function'.
588 The few hooks that used with-wrapper-hook are replaced as follows:
589 *** `abbrev-expand-function' obsoletes `abbrev-expand-functions'.
590 *** `completion-in-region-function' obsoletes `completion-in-region-functions'.
591 *** `filter-buffer-substring-function' obsoletes `filter-buffer-substring-functions'.
593 ** `split-string' now takes an optional argument TRIM.
594 The value, if non-nil, is a regexp that specifies what to trim from
595 the start and end of each substring.
597 ** `get-upcase-table' is obsoleted by the new `case-table-get-table'.
599 ** Support for filesystem notifications.
600 Emacs now supports notifications of filesystem changes, such as
601 creation, modification, and deletion of files. This requires the
602 `glib' API, or the 'inotify' API (on GNU/Linux systems only). On
603 MS-Windows systems, this is supported for Windows XP and newer
606 ** Changes in autorevert.el
609 *** If Emacs is compiled with file notification support, notifications
610 are used instead of checking the time stamp of the files. You can
611 disable this by setting the user option `auto-revert-use-notify' to
612 nil. Alternatively, a regular expression of directories to be
613 excluded from file notifications can be specified by
614 `auto-revert-notify-exclude-dir-regexp'.
617 *** The new user option `auto-revert-remote-files' enables reversion
618 of remote files when set to non-nil.
622 *** The function `face-spec-set' is now analogous to `setq' for face specs.
623 Its third arg now accepts values specifying exactly which face spec to
624 set (defface, custom, or user spec), and it directly sets the relevant
625 property using the supplied face spec.
627 *** Face specs set via Custom themes now replace the `defface' spec
628 rather than inheriting from it (as do face specs set via Customize).
630 *** New face characteristic (supports :underline (:style wave))
631 specifies whether or not the terminal can display a wavy line.
636 *** `image-animated-p' is now `image-multi-frame-p'.
637 It returns non-nil for any image that contains multiple frames,
638 whether or not it specifies a frame delay.
641 *** When animating images that do not specify a frame delay,
642 Emacs uses `image-default-frame-delay'.
645 *** New functions `image-current-frame' and `image-show-frame' for getting
646 and setting the current frame of a multi-frame image.
648 ** Changes in encoding and decoding of text
651 *** New coding-system `prefer-utf-8'.
652 This is like `undecided' but prefers UTF-8 on decoding if the text to
653 be decoded does not contain any invalid UTF-8 sequences. On encoding,
654 any non-ASCII characters are automatically encoded as UTF-8.
657 *** New attributes of coding-systems whose type is `undecided'.
658 Two new attributes, `:inhibit-null-byte-detection' and
659 `:inhibit-iso-escape-detection', determine how to detect encoding of
660 text that includes null bytes and ISO-2022 escape sequences,
661 respectively. Each of these attributes can be either nil, zero, or
662 t. If it is t, decoding text ignores null bytes and, respectively,
663 ISO-2022 sequences. If it is nil, null bytes cause text to be decoded
664 with no-conversion and ISO-2022 sequences cause Emacs to assume the
665 text is encoded in one of the ISO-2022 encodings, such as
666 iso-2022-7bit. If the value is zero, Emacs consults the variables
667 inhibit-null-byte-detection and inhibit-iso-escape-detection, which
669 The new attribute `:prefer-utf-8', if non-nil, causes Emacs to prefer
670 UTF-8 encoding and decoding, whenever possible.
672 These attributes are only meaningful for coding-systems of type
673 `undecided'. (The type of a coding-system is determined by its
674 `:coding-type' attribute and can be accessed by calling the
675 `coding-system-type' function.)
677 ** The function `set-visited-file-modtime' now accepts a 0 or -1 argument
678 with the same interpretation as the returned value of `visited-file-modtime'.
680 ** time-to-seconds is not obsolete any more.
681 ** New function special-form-p.
682 ** Docstrings can be made dynamic by adding a `dynamic-docstring-function'
683 text-property on the first char.
685 ** The `defalias-fset-function' property lets you catch calls to defalias
686 and redirect them to your own function instead of `fset'.
688 ** The lock for 'DIR/FILE' is now 'DIR/.#FILE' and may be a regular file.
689 When you edit DIR/FILE, Emacs normally creates a symbolic link
690 DIR/.#FILE as a lock that warns other instances of Emacs that DIR/FILE
691 is being edited. Formerly, if there was already a non-symlink file
692 named DIR/.#FILE, Emacs fell back on the lock names DIR/.#FILE.0
693 through DIR/.#FILE.9. These fallbacks have been removed, so that
694 Emacs now no longer locks DIR/FILE in that case.
696 On file systems that do not support symbolic links, the lock is now a
697 regular file with contents being what would have been in the symlink.
699 ** The 9th element returned by `file-attributes' is now unspecified.
700 Formerly, it was t if the file's gid would change if file were deleted
701 and recreated. This value has been inaccurate for years on many
702 platforms, and nobody seems to have noticed or cared.
704 ** The function `file-ownership-preserved-p' now has an optional
705 argument GROUP which causes it check for file group too. This can be
706 used in place of the 9th element of `file-attributes'.
708 ** New functions `group-gid' and `group-real-gid'.
710 ** The 6th argument to `copy-file' has been renamed to
711 `preserve-extended-attributes' as it now handles both SELinux context
714 ** Changes to the Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions in Emacs 24.4
716 *** The package descriptor and name of global variables, constants,
717 and functions should be separated by two hyphens if the symbol is not
718 meant to be used by other packages.
721 * Changes in Emacs 24.4 on Non-Free Operating Systems
723 ** Emacs for MS-Windows can now be built by running the configure script
724 using the MSYS environment and MinGW development tools.
725 This is from now on the preferred method of building Emacs on
726 MS-Windows. The Windows-specific configure.bat and makefile.w32-in
727 files are deprecated. See the file nt/INSTALL.MSYS for detailed
730 Using the Posix configure script and Makefile's also means a change in
731 the directory structure of the Emacs installation on Windows. It is
732 now the same as on GNU and Unix systems. In particular, the auxiliary
733 programs, such as cmdproxy.exe and hexl.exe, are in
734 libexec/emacs/VERSION/i686-pc-mingw32 (where VERSION is the Emacs
735 version), version-independent site-lisp is in share/emacs/site-lisp,
736 version-specific Lisp files are in share/emacs/VERSION/lisp and in
737 share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp, Info docs are in share/info, and data
738 files are in share/emacs/VERSION/etc. (Emacs knows about all these
739 directories and will find the files in there automatically; there's no
740 need to set any variables due to this change.)
743 ** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS Windows.
744 The backtrace is written to the 'emacs_backtrace.txt' file in the
745 directory where Emacs was running.
748 ** The variable `buffer-file-type' is no longer supported.
749 Setting it has no effect, and %t in the mode-line format is ignored.
750 Likewise, `file-name-buffer-file-type-alist' is now obsolete, and
751 modifying it has no effect.
754 ** Lock files now work on MS-Windows.
755 This allows to avoid losing your edits if the same file is being
756 edited in another Emacs session or by another user. See the node
757 "Interlocking" in the Emacs User Manual for the details. To disable
758 file locking, customize `create-lockfiles' to nil.
760 ** Improved fullscreen support on Mac OS X.
761 Both native (>= OSX 10.7) and "old style" fullscreen are supported.
762 Customize `ns-use-native-fullscreen' to change style. For >= 10.7
763 native is the default.
766 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
768 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+ version 3.
769 If you don't pass `--with-x-toolkit' to configure, or if you use
770 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' or `--with-x-toolkit=yes', configure will try
771 to build with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2.
772 You can explicitly require a specific version by passing
773 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk2' or `--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' to configure.
775 ** New configure option `--enable-link-time-optimization', to utilize
776 an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
778 ** New configure option `--without-all' to disable most of the optional
779 features (image support, etc.) that are normally enabled by default.
781 ** New configure option `--enable-gcc-warnings' (for developing/debugging
782 Emacs). If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that
783 warn/give errors about possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU
784 system there should be no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems
785 the results may be useful to developers.
787 ** The configure option `--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
788 renamed to `--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
789 Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
790 check that this option enables.
792 ** The configure option `--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
793 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
795 ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and
796 `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed
797 binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the
798 etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break
799 links between the various manuals.
801 ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
802 overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
805 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
807 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
808 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
811 ** The standalone scripts `rcs-checkin' and `vcdiff' have been removed
812 (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
813 no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
816 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
818 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
819 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
820 been adding them there, put them somewhere else; e.g., site-lisp.
822 ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
825 * Changes in Emacs 24.3
829 *** `C-h f' (`describe-function') can now perform autoloading.
830 When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
831 contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
832 automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
833 correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
835 *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
836 even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
837 autoloads have been redefined as functions).
841 *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
842 :background image specification property.
844 *** When available, ImageMagick support is automatically enabled.
845 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
846 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
847 automatically at startup, or when customizing an imagemagick- option.
849 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
850 ImageMagick to view images. (You must call `imagemagick-register-types'
851 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.)
853 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
854 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
855 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
858 *** ImageMagick images now support the :max-width and :max-height
863 *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the
864 next and previous path separator, respectively.
866 *** `minibuffer-electric-default-mode' can shorten "(default ...)" to "[...]"
867 in minibuffer prompts. Just set `minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default'
868 non-nil before enabling the mode.
872 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
873 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
874 that does not have its own specialized help text.
876 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke
877 `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
881 *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice',
882 if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit
883 or expression to evaluate.
885 *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key.
887 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
888 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
889 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
890 that support backtraces.
892 ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'.
893 This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete.
895 ** Most `y-or-n' prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window.
896 Typing `C-v' or `M-v' at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward
897 respectively, without exiting from the prompt.
899 ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new",
900 and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
902 ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
903 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used.
905 ** New option `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles.
906 It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock
907 files (use this with caution).
909 ** New option `enable-remote-dir-locals', if non-nil, allows directory-local
910 variables on remote hosts.
912 ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
913 The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
915 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
916 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
918 ** In the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug', the `C-c m' binding
919 has been changed to `C-c M-i' (`report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer').
920 The previous binding, introduced in Emacs 24.1, was a mistake, because
921 `C-c LETTER' bindings are reserved for user customizations.
923 ** Internationalization
925 *** New language environment: Persian.
927 *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
929 ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port
931 *** Support for fullscreen and the frame parameter fullscreen.
933 *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the
937 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
939 ** Search and Replace
941 *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching.
942 Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any
943 sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the
944 variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a
945 similar existing feature for regexp Isearch.)
947 *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching.
948 This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch.
950 *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'.
951 If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too.
954 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
955 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
956 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
958 ** Navigation commands
960 *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'.
962 *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'.
964 *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called
965 interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1.
967 ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
968 properties on yanked text, in ways that are more general than just
969 removing them (as is done by `yank-excluded-properties').
971 ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether
972 M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end
973 of the buffer. It defaults to t.
975 ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
977 ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command.
978 `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'.
980 ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
981 It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
984 ** New command `C-x r M-w' (`copy-rectangle-as-kill').
985 It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
989 *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register'.
991 *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing
992 the text to put between collected texts for use with
993 M-x append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register.
996 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
998 ** Common Lisp emulation (CL)
1000 *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
1001 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly;
1002 i.e., all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions
1003 use the "cl--" prefix).
1005 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib'
1006 provides it under the name `cl-foo' instead; with the exceptions of the
1007 few `cl' definitions that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with
1008 pre-existing Elisp entities. These have been renamed to `cl-foo'
1009 rather than `cl-foo*'.
1011 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is mainly just a bunch of aliases that
1012 provide the old, non-prefixed names. Some exceptions are listed below:
1014 *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
1015 Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
1016 In particular, in cl-flet function definitions are lexically scoped,
1017 whereas in flet the scoping is dynamic.
1019 *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
1020 The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery
1021 (as opposed to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture
1022 definitions in closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding'
1025 *** `cl-letf' is not exactly like `letf'.
1026 The only difference is in details that relate to some deprecated usage
1027 of `symbol-function' in place forms.
1029 *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
1030 A side effect is that variables without corresponding values are bound
1031 to nil rather than being made unbound.
1033 *** The following methods of extending `setf' are obsolete
1034 (use features from gv.el instead):
1035 `define-modify-macro' (use `gv-letplace')
1036 `defsetf' (use `gv-define-simple-setter' or `gv-define-setter')
1037 `define-setf-expander' (use `gv-define-setter' or `gv-define-expander')
1038 `get-setf-method' no longer exists (see "Incompatible Lisp Changes")
1042 *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in
1043 modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces
1044 `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed', and new definition
1045 of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added'
1046 and `smerge-refined-added', and new definition of `diff-added').
1048 *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the
1049 face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight
1050 changes in context diffs.
1052 *** The new command `diff-delete-trailing-whitespace' removes trailing
1053 whitespace introduced by a diff.
1055 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode.
1059 A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
1060 per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
1061 shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
1064 *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed, including (old -> new):
1065 **** python-indent -> python-indent-offset
1066 **** python-guess-indent -> python-indent-guess-indent-offset
1067 **** python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p -> python-pdbtrack-activate
1068 **** python-use-skeletons -> python-skeleton-autoinsert
1070 *** Some user options have been removed, including:
1072 **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
1074 **** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
1075 Comments are always considered as indentation markers.
1077 **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
1078 calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
1080 **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
1081 Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
1083 **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
1084 Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
1086 **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
1087 `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
1090 *** Some commands have been replaced (old -> new):
1091 **** python-insert-class -> python-skeleton-class
1092 **** python-insert-def -> python-skeleton-def
1093 **** python-insert-for -> python-skeleton-for
1094 **** python-insert-if -> python-skeleton-if
1095 **** python-insert-try/except -> python-skeleton-try
1096 **** python-insert-try/finally -> python-skeleton-try
1097 **** python-insert-while -> python-skeleton-while
1098 **** python-find-function -> python-nav-jump-to-defun
1099 **** python-next-statement -> python-nav-forward-sentence
1100 **** python-previous-statement -> python-nav-backward-sentence
1101 **** python-beginning-of-defun-function -> python-nav-beginning-of-defun
1102 **** python-end-of-defun-function -> python-nav-end-of-defun
1103 **** python-send-buffer -> python-shell-send-buffer
1104 **** python-send-defun -> python-shell-send-defun
1105 **** python-send-region -> python-shell-send-region
1106 **** python-send-region-and-go -> emulate with python-shell-send-region
1107 and python-shell-switch-to-shell
1108 **** python-send-string -> python-shell-send-string
1109 **** python-switch-to-python -> python-shell-switch-to-shell
1110 **** python-describe-symbol -> python-eldoc-at-point
1114 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
1116 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
1118 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
1119 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
1121 *** The function `dbus-call-method' is now non-blocking.
1122 It can be interrupted by `C-g'. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
1124 *** Signals can also be sent as unicast messages.
1126 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
1127 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus.
1129 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
1131 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
1133 ** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory.
1134 Desktop files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
1138 *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
1139 if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
1140 Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
1142 *** Typing `M-n' in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp',
1143 `dired-do-chown', and `dired-do-touch' yanks the attributes of the
1146 *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'),
1147 `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), and `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion')
1148 mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region.
1150 *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff') has changed.
1151 It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists.
1152 In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark.
1154 *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers.
1155 The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect.
1159 *** New module "notifications", which can send a notification when you
1160 receive a private message or your nickname is mentioned.
1162 *** ERC will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use any
1165 *** New option `erc-lurker-hide-list', similar to `erc-hide-list', but
1166 only applies to messages sent by lurkers.
1168 ** reStructuredText mode
1170 *** Keybindings (see `C-c C-h'), TAB indentation, filling and auto-filling,
1171 fontification, comment handling, and customization have all been revised
1174 *** Support for `imenu' and `which-function-mode'.
1176 *** The reStructuredText syntax is more closely covered.
1177 Sphinx support has been improved.
1179 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
1181 *** A negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
1183 *** The window configuration is reset after displaying a TOC.
1185 *** The constant `rst-version' describes the rst.el package version.
1189 *** Support for percent literals and recognition of regular expressions
1190 in method calls without parentheses with more methods, including Cucumber
1193 *** Improved syntax highlighting and indentation.
1195 *** New command `ruby-toggle-block', bound to `C-c {'.
1197 *** Some non-standard keybindings/commands have been removed:
1199 **** `ruby-electric-brace'; use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
1201 **** `ruby-mark-defun'; use `mark-defun'.
1203 **** `ruby-beginning-of-defun' and `ruby-end-of-defun' are replaced by
1204 appropriate settings for the variables `beginning-of-defun-function'
1205 and `end-of-defun-function'.
1207 **** Non-standard keybindings for `backward-kill-word', `comment-region',
1208 `reindent-then-newline-and-indent' and `newline' have been removed.
1210 ** Shell Script mode
1212 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses `electric-pair-mode' instead of skeleton-pair.
1214 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
1216 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
1220 *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
1222 *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
1224 *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
1226 *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
1230 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
1231 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
1232 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
1234 *** The old options whose values specified faces to use have been removed
1235 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
1239 *** This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
1241 *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
1242 Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
1246 *** Algebraic simplification mode is now the default.
1247 To restrict to the limited simplifications given by the former
1248 default simplification mode, use `m I'.
1252 *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month.
1253 See the variable `calendar-month-header'.
1255 *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'.
1257 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
1258 Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this.
1262 *** The major modes from the parser generators "Bovine" and "Wisent"
1263 are now properly integrated in Emacs. The file suffixes ".by" and ".wy"
1264 are in `auto-mode-alist', and the corresponding manuals are included.
1268 **** Menu support for the "Configuration" feature. This allows users to
1269 choose the active configuration (such as debug or install) from the menu.
1271 **** New command `ede-set' to interactively set project-local variables.
1273 **** Support for compiling, debugging, and running in "generic" projects.
1275 **** Autoconf editing support for M4 macros with complex arguments.
1277 **** Compilation support for the "linux" project type.
1279 **** "simple" projects have been removed; use "generic" projects instead.
1283 **** Support for parsing #include statements inside a namespace in C/C++.
1285 **** Improved support for 'extern "C"' declarations in C/C++.
1287 **** The ability to ignore more common special C/C++ preprocessor symbols,
1288 such as '__nonnull' and '__asm'. Add '__cplusplus' macro when parsing C++.
1289 If available, include cdefs.h as an additional source of preprocessor symbols.
1291 **** Improved C/C++ function pointer parsing.
1293 **** In Python, support for converting imports to include file names.
1295 **** Ability to dynamically determine the Python load path.
1297 **** Support for the Python 'WITH' and 'AT' keywords.
1299 **** Improved tooltip completion.
1303 **** The SRecode manual is now included.
1305 **** Tag generation supports constructor/destructor settings and system
1306 include differentiation.
1308 **** Addition of 'Framework' support: Frameworks are specified when a
1309 particular kind of library (such as Android) is needed in a common language
1312 **** Support for nested templates and let variables override based on priority.
1314 **** Support for merging tables from multiple related modes, such as
1315 default -> c++ -> arduino.
1317 ** Compile has a new option `compilation-always-kill'.
1321 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
1323 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
1324 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e., the prefix argument does nothing for
1325 these commands now).
1329 *** The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color'
1330 are now deprecated in favor of the customizable face `term'.
1332 *** You can customize how to display ANSI terminal colors and styles
1333 by customizing the corresponding `term-color-<COLOR>',
1334 `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold' faces.
1338 *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy definitions.
1340 *** Remote processes are now also supported on remote MS-Windows hosts.
1344 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
1345 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
1346 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
1347 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components,
1348 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
1350 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
1351 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
1352 in case that is not properly encoded.
1354 *** New command `url-cookie-list' displays all the current cookies, and
1355 allows deleting selected cookies.
1357 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
1358 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
1361 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
1362 See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and
1363 `flymake-warning-bitmap'.
1365 ** The FFAP option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
1366 specifying URL types that should be converted to remote file names at
1367 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
1369 ** New Ibuffer `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'.
1370 The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'.
1372 ** New option `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' specifies where the
1373 `banish' mouse avoidance setting moves the mouse.
1375 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
1376 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
1378 ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes.
1380 ** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies the buffer to use
1381 for a new asynchronous `shell-command' when the default output buffer
1382 `*Async Shell Command*' is already in use.
1384 ** SQL mode has a new option `sql-db2-escape-newlines'.
1385 If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped
1386 by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes
1387 that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon.
1389 ** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S' in Tabulated List mode
1390 (and modes that derive from it), sorts the column at point, or the Nth
1391 column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
1393 ** `which-func-modes' now defaults to t, so Which Function mode, when
1394 enabled, applies to all applicable major modes.
1396 ** `winner-mode-hook' now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when
1399 ** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
1400 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
1402 ** `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'.
1404 ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix:
1405 *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions
1406 *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions
1407 *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions
1408 *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions
1409 *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions
1410 *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions
1411 *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook
1412 *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions
1413 *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions
1414 *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions
1415 *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions
1416 *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions
1417 *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions
1418 *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions
1419 *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions
1420 *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook
1421 *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook
1422 *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook
1423 *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions
1424 *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions
1425 *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions
1426 *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions
1428 ** Obsolete packages
1431 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
1432 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
1433 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
1442 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
1444 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
1445 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
1446 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
1447 `custom-variable-p'.
1449 ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
1450 and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, `defun' and
1451 `defmacro' currently return the name of the newly defined
1452 function/macro, but this should not be relied upon.
1454 ** `random' by default now returns a different random sequence in
1455 every Emacs run. Use `(random S)', where S is a string, to set the
1456 random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
1457 sequence in later calls.
1459 ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
1460 that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
1461 non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
1463 ** `select-window' now always makes the window's buffer current.
1464 It does so even if the window was selected before.
1466 ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
1467 font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
1468 depends on the graphical library.
1470 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
1471 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
1473 ** `set-buffer-multibyte' now signals an error in narrowed buffers.
1475 ** The CL package's `get-setf-method' function no longer exists.
1476 Generalized variables are now part of core Emacs Lisp, and implemented
1477 differently to the way cl.el used to do it. It is not possible to
1478 define a compatible replacement for `get-setf-method'. See the file
1479 gv.el for internal details of the new implementation.
1481 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
1482 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
1483 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
1485 ** Miscellaneous name changes
1486 Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to correct their spelling,
1487 or to be more consistent with standard Emacs terminology.
1489 *** Renamed functions
1490 **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
1491 **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
1492 **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
1493 **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
1494 **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
1495 **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
1496 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
1497 **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
1500 The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
1501 are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
1502 **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
1503 **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
1504 **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
1506 *** Renamed variables
1507 **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
1508 **** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
1509 deactivate-current-input-method-function
1511 ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed:
1512 *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char'
1513 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
1514 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
1515 *** `iswitchb-read-buffer'
1516 *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report'
1517 *** `set-char-table-default'
1518 *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector')
1519 *** `compile-internal'
1521 *** `mode-line-inverse-video'
1522 *** `follow-mode-off-hook'
1523 *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline'
1524 (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead)
1525 *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs'
1526 (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead)
1527 *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name'
1528 *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
1529 *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
1530 *** `vc-checkout-carefully'
1533 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
1535 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
1536 `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
1537 You can define your own generalized variables using `gv-define-simple-setter',
1538 `gv-define-setter', etc.
1540 ** Emacs tries to macroexpand interpreted (non-compiled) files during load.
1541 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code,
1542 but can also bump into previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
1543 These are generally harmless: they will simply cause the macro calls
1544 to be left for later expansion (as before), but will result in a
1545 warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle") describing the cycle.
1546 You may wish to restructure your code so this does not happen.
1548 ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
1549 Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report.
1550 When finished, use M-x profiler-stop. The sampling rate can be based on
1551 CPU time or memory allocations.
1553 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
1554 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
1556 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
1558 ** Face underlining can now use a wave.
1560 ** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT
1561 of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its
1562 second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via `M-n'
1563 in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values.
1564 More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments.
1568 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
1569 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
1571 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
1572 table, but with a different prefix.
1576 *** New error type and new function `user-error'.
1577 These do not trigger the debugger.
1579 *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill', saying what to do with the
1580 debugger buffer when exiting debug.
1582 *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
1583 message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
1584 to work out which code is doing something.
1586 *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental
1587 recursive invocations.
1591 *** New command `fit-frame-to-buffer' adjusts the frame height to
1594 *** The command `fit-window-to-buffer' can adjust the frame height
1595 if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil.
1597 *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window', similar to
1598 `with-output-to-temp-buffer'.
1600 *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been
1603 *** New option `switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' to restore a
1604 window's point when switching buffers.
1606 *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width'
1607 specify the size of new windows created by `display-buffer'.
1609 *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
1610 non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
1612 *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
1613 tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
1616 *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil,
1617 specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
1619 *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected',
1620 and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
1622 *** The functions `get-lru-window', `get-mru-window' and `get-largest-window'
1623 now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
1625 *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'.
1627 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
1628 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
1630 **** `dired-shrink-to-fit'
1631 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
1632 **** `display-buffer-function'
1633 **** `special-display-buffer-names'
1634 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
1635 **** `special-display-function'
1636 **** `special-display-regexps'
1640 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
1641 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
1642 by the underlying C implementation.
1644 *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
1645 (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds.
1646 PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other
1647 functions that use this format, such as `file-attributes' and
1648 `format-time-string', have been changed accordingly. Old-format time
1649 stamps are still accepted.
1651 *** The format of timers in `timer-list' and `timer-idle-list' is now
1652 [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS].
1653 The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be
1654 accessed via the new `timer--psecs' accessor.
1656 *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form
1657 (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS).
1661 *** Improved security when handling persistent objects:
1663 **** `eieio-persistent-read' now features optional arguments for specifying
1664 the class to load, as well as a flag stating whether subclasses are allowed;
1665 if provided, other classes will be rejected by the reader. For
1666 compatibility with existing code, if the class is omitted only a
1669 **** New specialized reader for pulling in classes and signaling errors
1670 without evaluation of suspicious code.
1672 **** All slots that contain objects must have a :type. Slots with lists
1673 of objects must use a new type predicate for a list of an object type.
1675 *** Support for `find-function' and similar utilities, through the addition
1676 of filename support to generated symbols.
1678 ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN,
1679 instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args; e.g., (log -1.0).
1680 Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
1681 on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt,
1682 log, log10, sqrt, and mod.
1684 ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'.
1686 ** Miscellaneous changes to special forms and macros
1688 *** `defun' and `defmacro' are now macros rather than special forms.
1690 *** `kbd' is now a function rather than a macro.
1692 ** Miscellaneous new functions
1694 *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary keymap that
1695 takes precedence over most other maps for a short while (normally one key).
1697 *** `autoloadp' tests if its argument is an autoloaded object.
1699 *** `autoload-do-load' performs the autoloading operation.
1701 *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed.
1703 *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension.
1705 *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases.
1707 *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'.
1709 *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system.
1711 *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system.
1713 *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
1715 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
1716 *** `automount-dir-prefix' (use `directory-abbrev-alist')
1717 *** `buffer-has-markers-at'
1718 *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist')
1719 *** `window-system-version' (provides no useful information)
1720 *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up')
1721 *** `query-replace-interactive'
1722 *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23)
1725 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1727 ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface.
1728 Pass `--with-w32' to configure. The default remains the X11 interface.
1730 ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds:
1731 `cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows' and
1732 `cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows'. These functions allow Lisp
1733 code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping machinery to convert
1734 between Cygwin and Windows-native file and directory names.
1736 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
1737 Emacs now supports `mouse-highlight', help-echo (in the echo area), and
1738 `mouse-autoselect-window'.
1740 ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
1742 ** On MS Windows, you can pass `--without-libxml2' to configure.bat to omit
1743 support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected.
1745 ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later.
1747 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink "/sw"
1748 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
1751 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
1753 ** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
1756 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
1758 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
1759 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
1760 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
1763 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
1764 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1765 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1766 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
1768 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
1769 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1770 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1771 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
1773 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
1774 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1775 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1776 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
1777 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
1779 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
1780 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1781 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1782 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
1784 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
1785 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
1787 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
1788 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
1789 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
1792 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
1793 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
1794 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
1796 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
1797 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
1798 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
1800 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
1801 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
1803 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
1804 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
1807 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
1809 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
1810 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
1811 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
1813 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
1814 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
1815 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
1819 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
1823 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
1824 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
1826 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
1828 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
1829 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
1831 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
1833 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
1834 default completion style in certain circumstances.
1836 *** New completion style `substring'.
1838 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
1840 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
1844 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
1845 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
1846 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
1847 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
1848 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
1849 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
1851 *** Typing `C-c m' in the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug'
1852 transfers the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there
1853 is one. This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open"
1856 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
1857 and Mail mode changes
1859 ** Emacs server and client changes
1861 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
1863 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
1865 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
1866 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
1868 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
1869 its exit status is 1.
1871 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
1872 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
1873 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
1875 ** Internationalization changes
1877 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
1878 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
1879 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
1880 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
1881 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
1882 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
1884 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
1885 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
1887 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
1888 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
1889 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
1890 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
1893 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
1894 the right window edge.
1896 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
1897 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
1898 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
1899 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
1900 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
1902 *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
1903 (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
1905 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
1906 (U+2010 and U+2011).
1908 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
1909 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
1910 automatically select it.
1912 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
1913 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
1914 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
1916 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
1917 selected for installation.
1919 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
1921 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
1922 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
1923 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
1925 ** Custom theme changes
1927 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
1928 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
1930 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
1931 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
1932 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
1933 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
1934 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
1935 built-in Custom themes.
1937 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
1938 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
1939 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
1940 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
1942 ** Improved GTK integration
1944 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
1945 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
1947 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
1948 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
1949 the default is taken from desktop settings.
1951 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
1952 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
1953 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
1956 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
1957 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
1959 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
1960 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
1962 ** Graphical interface changes
1964 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
1965 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
1966 displayed as a space.
1968 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
1969 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
1971 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
1972 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
1973 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
1977 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
1978 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
1980 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
1981 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
1982 do the right thing in batch mode.
1984 ** Scrolling changes
1986 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
1987 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
1988 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
1989 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
1991 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
1993 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
1994 scroll a line instead of full screen.
1996 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
1997 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
1999 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
2000 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
2001 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
2002 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
2003 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
2005 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
2006 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
2007 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
2008 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
2011 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
2012 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
2014 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
2015 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
2016 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
2017 now includes the SELinux context.
2019 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
2020 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
2024 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
2025 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
2027 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
2028 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
2030 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
2032 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
2033 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
2034 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
2037 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
2038 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
2039 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
2040 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
2041 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
2043 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
2044 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
2046 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
2047 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
2048 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
2049 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
2054 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
2055 in the quitted window.
2057 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
2058 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
2060 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
2062 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
2063 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
2064 for choosing the displaying window).
2066 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
2067 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
2069 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
2070 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
2072 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
2073 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
2074 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
2075 from which such space was obtained.
2077 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
2078 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
2079 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
2080 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
2081 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
2083 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
2084 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
2085 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
2087 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
2088 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
2090 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
2091 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
2092 been shown in a specific window.
2094 ** Minibuffer changes
2096 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
2097 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
2098 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
2100 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
2101 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
2102 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
2104 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
2106 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
2108 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
2109 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
2110 successful operation.
2112 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
2113 for `list-colors-display'.
2115 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
2118 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
2122 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
2123 `isearch-yank-line'.
2125 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
2126 `isearch-yank-kill'.
2128 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
2130 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
2132 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
2133 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
2134 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
2135 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
2138 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
2139 also deletes newlines around point.
2143 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
2144 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
2145 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
2148 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
2149 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
2150 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
2152 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
2153 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
2154 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
2155 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
2157 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
2159 ** Selection changes.
2161 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
2162 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
2163 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
2164 mouse commands use the primary selection.
2166 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
2167 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
2169 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
2170 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
2171 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
2172 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
2174 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
2175 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
2176 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
2177 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
2178 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
2180 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
2182 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
2183 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
2184 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
2186 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
2188 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
2189 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
2190 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
2192 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
2193 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
2195 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
2196 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
2197 between applications.
2199 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
2201 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
2202 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
2203 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
2204 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
2205 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
2207 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
2209 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
2210 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
2212 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
2213 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
2214 number to count from and for a format string.
2216 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
2217 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
2218 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
2219 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
2220 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
2222 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
2223 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
2224 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
2225 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
2226 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
2228 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
2229 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
2230 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
2231 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
2232 follows `replace-match'.
2235 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
2237 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
2241 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
2242 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
2243 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
2244 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
2246 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
2248 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
2250 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
2254 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
2256 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
2257 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
2261 *** Support for musical notes.
2263 *** Support for logarithmic units.
2265 *** No longer uses the tex prefix for TeX specific unit names when
2266 using TeX or LaTeX mode.
2268 *** New option to highlight selections using faces.
2270 *** `calc-histogram' has the option of using a vector to determine the bins.
2272 *** New "O" option prefix.
2274 *** Use the "O" prefix to "d r" (`calc-radix') to turn on twos-complement mode.
2276 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
2278 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
2279 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
2281 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
2282 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
2284 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
2285 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
2286 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
2288 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
2290 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
2291 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
2293 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
2294 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
2295 Use `appt-activate' instead.
2297 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
2298 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
2299 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
2301 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
2302 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
2306 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
2307 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
2309 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
2311 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
2312 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
2315 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
2316 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
2317 parsed as a statement continuation.
2319 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
2323 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
2324 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
2326 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
2327 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
2328 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
2330 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
2331 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
2332 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
2337 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
2338 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
2339 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
2341 *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
2342 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
2344 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
2346 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
2347 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
2351 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
2354 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
2355 optionally do not register names.
2357 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
2358 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
2362 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
2363 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
2364 instead of using the current buffer.
2366 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
2367 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
2371 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
2372 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
2374 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
2375 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
2376 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
2377 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
2381 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
2382 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
2383 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
2387 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
2388 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
2389 debugging of several threads.
2393 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
2394 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
2398 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
2399 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
2400 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
2401 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
2402 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
2404 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
2405 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
2406 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
2409 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
2411 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
2413 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
2414 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
2415 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
2417 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
2418 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
2420 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
2422 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
2424 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
2425 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
2426 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
2427 default), this performs tag completion.
2429 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
2430 See ORG-NEWS for details.
2432 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
2433 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
2434 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
2438 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
2439 in the Rmail incoming message.
2441 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
2442 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
2443 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
2447 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
2448 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
2449 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
2451 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
2452 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
2456 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
2457 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
2458 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
2461 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
2462 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
2463 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
2464 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
2465 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
2466 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
2467 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
2468 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
2470 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
2471 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
2473 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
2475 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
2477 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
2478 the credentials file.
2480 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
2481 If you had that set, you need to put
2483 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
2485 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
2487 *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
2488 SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
2489 to the address you wish to use instead.
2493 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
2494 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
2496 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
2497 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
2498 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
2499 connection is established.
2501 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
2502 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
2504 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
2505 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
2506 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
2507 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
2509 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
2510 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
2511 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
2512 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
2513 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
2514 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
2516 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
2517 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
2519 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
2520 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
2521 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
2523 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
2524 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
2526 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
2530 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
2534 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
2536 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
2537 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
2539 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
2540 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
2542 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
2543 default value to "".
2545 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
2546 for remote machines which support SELinux.
2548 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
2549 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
2550 the degree of parallelism.
2552 ** VC and related modes
2554 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
2555 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
2556 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
2557 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
2558 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
2560 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
2562 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
2563 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
2564 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
2565 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
2566 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
2568 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
2569 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
2571 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
2572 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
2573 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
2574 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
2575 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
2576 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
2578 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
2579 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
2581 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
2582 this was not advertised at the time.
2584 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
2585 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
2586 this was not advertised at the time.
2592 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
2594 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
2595 You can get a comparable behavior with:
2596 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
2597 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
2599 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
2601 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
2603 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
2605 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
2606 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
2608 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
2612 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
2613 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
2615 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
2616 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
2618 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
2620 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
2622 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
2625 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
2627 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
2628 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
2630 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
2631 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
2632 matching closing one.
2634 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
2635 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
2636 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
2637 electric-indent-functions.
2639 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
2640 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
2641 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
2643 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
2644 from which other modes can be derived.
2646 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
2648 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
2649 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
2650 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
2651 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
2654 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
2655 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
2657 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
2658 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
2660 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
2662 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
2663 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
2664 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
2665 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
2666 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
2667 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
2670 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
2672 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
2673 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
2675 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
2677 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
2678 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
2679 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
2680 command still toggles the minor mode.
2682 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
2683 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
2684 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
2685 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
2686 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
2688 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
2689 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
2690 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
2691 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
2692 argument `bidi-class'.
2694 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
2695 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
2696 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
2697 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
2699 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
2700 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
2701 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
2704 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
2705 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
2706 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
2707 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
2708 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
2709 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
2710 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
2712 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
2713 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
2714 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
2715 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
2718 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
2719 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
2720 replaced all known uses.
2722 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
2723 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
2724 major mode is special).
2726 ** Menu and tool bar changes
2728 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
2729 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
2730 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
2731 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
2732 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
2733 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
2735 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
2736 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
2738 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
2739 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
2740 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
2741 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
2743 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
2744 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
2745 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
2747 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
2749 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
2750 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
2751 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
2753 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
2754 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
2755 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
2756 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
2757 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
2758 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
2759 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
2760 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
2761 *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold')
2762 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
2763 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
2764 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
2765 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
2766 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
2767 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
2768 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
2769 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
2770 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
2771 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
2772 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
2773 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
2775 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
2776 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
2778 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
2779 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
2780 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
2781 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
2782 *** `e' (`float-e').
2784 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
2785 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
2787 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
2788 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
2789 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
2790 `finder-keywords-hash'.
2792 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
2793 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
2794 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
2797 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
2799 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
2800 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
2801 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
2802 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
2805 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
2806 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
2808 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
2809 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
2811 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
2813 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
2814 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
2816 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
2817 declared as dynamically bound.
2819 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
2821 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
2822 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
2823 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
2825 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
2827 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
2828 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
2830 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
2831 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
2832 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
2833 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
2834 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
2835 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
2837 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
2838 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
2839 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
2843 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
2844 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
2845 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
2846 buffer) in the window tree.
2848 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
2851 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
2852 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
2853 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
2854 act on any window including internal ones.
2856 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
2857 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
2858 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
2859 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
2860 and `window-body-height' are provided.
2862 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
2863 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
2864 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
2865 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
2866 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
2868 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
2869 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
2870 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
2871 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
2872 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
2873 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
2875 *** Window resizing functions.
2876 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
2877 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
2878 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
2880 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
2881 live window on that frame instead.
2883 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
2884 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
2885 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
2886 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
2887 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
2888 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
2890 *** Window-local buffer lists.
2891 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
2892 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
2893 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
2894 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
2895 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
2897 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
2898 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
2899 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
2900 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
2902 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
2903 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
2904 The old names are kept as aliases.
2908 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
2909 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
2910 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
2911 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
2913 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
2915 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
2916 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
2917 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
2918 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
2919 are user-customizable variables.
2921 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
2923 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
2924 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
2925 frame or window as an Elisp object.
2929 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
2930 properties of the current completion:
2931 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
2932 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
2934 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
2935 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
2937 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
2939 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
2940 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
2941 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
2942 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
2943 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
2944 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
2945 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
2947 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
2948 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
2949 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
2951 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
2952 behavior of `completing-read'.
2954 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
2955 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
2957 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
2958 Instead, the offending function is removed.
2962 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
2963 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
2964 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
2965 non-nil return value.
2967 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
2968 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
2969 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
2970 advertised at the time.)
2974 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
2975 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
2977 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
2979 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
2981 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
2982 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
2983 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
2985 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
2986 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
2988 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
2989 named Emacs server instances.
2991 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
2992 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
2994 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
2995 for higher-resolution time stamps.
2997 ** New input reading functions
2999 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
3000 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
3002 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
3003 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
3006 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
3008 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
3009 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
3010 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
3013 ** Syntax parsing changes
3015 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
3016 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
3017 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
3018 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
3019 Together with this new variable come a new hook
3020 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
3021 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
3022 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
3025 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
3027 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
3029 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
3031 ** Major and minor mode changes
3033 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
3034 as well as those in the -*- line.
3036 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
3039 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
3040 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
3041 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
3043 **** New minor modes `prettify-symbols-mode' and
3044 `global-prettify-symbols-mode' let the user enable symbol
3045 prettification (replacing a string like "lambda" with the Greek lambda
3048 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
3049 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
3051 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
3052 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
3053 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
3055 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
3057 ** File-handling changes
3059 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
3060 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
3061 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
3062 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
3064 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
3066 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
3067 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
3068 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
3072 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
3074 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
3076 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
3078 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
3081 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
3082 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
3084 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
3085 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
3087 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
3088 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
3089 ImageMagick installation supports.
3091 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
3092 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
3095 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
3096 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
3098 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
3099 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
3100 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
3101 `image-transform-set-scale'.
3103 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
3104 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
3105 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
3106 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
3108 ** XML and HTML parsing
3109 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
3110 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
3111 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
3112 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
3114 ** Networking and encryption changes
3116 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
3117 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
3118 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
3119 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
3120 must also be supplied.
3122 *** New library gnutls.el.
3123 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
3124 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
3125 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
3126 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
3127 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
3128 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
3131 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
3132 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
3133 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
3137 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
3139 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
3140 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
3141 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
3142 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
3143 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
3144 displayed with a "spinning bar".
3146 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
3147 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
3149 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
3150 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
3151 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
3152 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
3153 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
3154 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
3156 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
3158 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
3159 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
3160 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
3161 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
3163 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
3164 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
3166 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
3167 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
3168 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
3169 an empty uninterned symbol.
3171 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
3173 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
3175 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
3176 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
3178 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
3179 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
3181 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
3183 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
3184 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
3186 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
3189 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
3191 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
3192 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
3194 ** New configure.bat options
3196 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
3198 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
3200 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
3202 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
3204 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
3206 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
3207 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
3209 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
3210 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
3212 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
3213 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
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3224 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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