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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
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25 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.4
28 ** Emacs can now be compiled with ACL support.
29 This happens by default if a suitable support library is found at
30 build time, like libacl on GNU/Linux. To prevent this, use the
31 configure option `--disable-acl'. See below for related features.
34 ** Emacs can now be compiled with file notification support.
35 This happens by default if a suitable system library is found at
36 build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
37 `--without-file-notification'. See below for file-notify features.
38 This feature is not available for the Nextstep port.
41 ** Emacs can now be compiled with zlib support.
42 This happens by default if zlib is present, which it normally is.
43 To prevent this, use the configure option `--without-zlib'.
44 This provides the function `zlib-decompress-region'; see below for details.
47 ** The configure option `--without-compress-info' has been generalized,
48 and renamed to `--without-compress-install'. It now prevents compression
49 of _any_ files during installation.
52 ** The configure option `--with-crt-dir' has been removed.
53 It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked specially.
56 ** Directories passed to configure option `--enable-locallisppath' are
57 no longer created during installation.
60 ** Emacs for NS (Mac OS X, GNUstep) can be built with ImageMagick support.
61 This requires pkg-config to be available at build time.
64 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
67 ** When initializing `load-path', an empty element in the EMACSLOADPATH
68 environment variable (either leading, e.g., ":/foo"; trailing, e.g.,
69 "/foo:"; or embedded, e.g., "/foo::/bar") is replaced with the default
70 load-path (the one that would have been used if EMACSLOADPATH was unset).
71 This makes it easier to _extend_ the load-path via EMACSLOADPATH
72 (previously, EMACSLOADPATH had to specify the complete load-path,
73 including the defaults). (In older versions of Emacs, an empty element
74 was replaced by ".", so use an explicit "." now if that is what you want.)
77 ** The -L option, which normally prepends its argument to load-path,
78 will instead append, if the argument begins with `:' (or `;' on MS Windows;
79 i.e., `path-separator').
82 ** If you use either site-load.el or site-init.el to customize the dumped
83 Emacs executable, any changes to `load-path' that these files make
84 will no longer be present after dumping. To affect a permanent change
85 to `load-path', use the `--enable-locallisppath' option of `configure'.
88 ** The user option `initial-buffer-choice' can now specify a function
89 to set up the initial buffer.
92 * Changes in Emacs 24.4
95 ** New function `zlib-decompress-region', which decompresses gzip- and
96 zlib-format compressed data using built-in zlib support, if available.
99 ** New option `gnutls-verify-error', if non-nil, means that Emacs
100 should reject SSL/TLS certificates that GnuTLS determines as invalid.
101 (This option defaults to nil at present, but this is expected to change
102 in a future release.)
105 ** Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals.
106 If the terminal supports a mouse, clicking on the menu bar, or on
107 sensitive portions of the mode line or header line, will drop down the
108 menu defined at that position. Likewise, clicking C-mouse-2 or
109 C-mouse-2 or C-mouse-3 on the text area will pop up the menus defined
112 If the text terminal does not support a mouse, you can activate the
113 first menu-bar menu by typing F10, which invokes `menu-bar-open'.
115 If you want the previous behavior, whereby F10 invoked `tmm-menubar',
116 customize the option `tty-menu-open-use-tmm' to a non-nil value.
117 (Typing M-` always invokes `tmm-menubar', even if `tty-menu-open-use-tmm'
121 ** The *Messages* buffer is created in `messages-buffer-mode',
122 a new major mode, with read-only status. Any code that might create
123 the *Messages* buffer should call the function `messages-buffer' to do
124 so and set up the mode.
127 ** Emacs can now support ACLs (access control lists).
128 This requires a suitable support library to be found at build time.
129 On GNU/Linux, the POSIX ACL interface is used via libacl.
130 On MS-Windows, the NT Security APIs are used to emulate the POSIX interface.
133 *** Emacs preserves the ACL entries of files when backing up.
135 *** New functions `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' get and set the ACL
138 ** Multi-monitor support has been added.
141 *** New functions `display-monitor-attributes-list' and
142 `frame-monitor-attributes' can be used to obtain information about
143 each physical monitor on multi-monitor setups.
146 *** The functions `display-pixel-width' and `display-pixel-height' now
147 behave consistently among the platforms: they return the pixel width
148 or height for all physical monitors associated with the given display
149 as if they were on X. To get information for each physical
150 monitor, use the new functions above. Similar notes also apply to
151 `x-display-pixel-width', `x-display-pixel-height', `display-mm-width',
152 `display-mm-height', `x-display-mm-width', and `x-display-mm-height'.
155 ** The cursor stops blinking after 10 blinks (by default) on X and NS.
156 You can change the default by customizing `blink-cursor-blinks'.
159 ** In keymaps where SPC scrolls forward, S-SPC now scrolls backward.
160 This affects View mode, etc.
162 ** The default value of `buffer-stale-function' is no longer nil.
163 Instead it defaults to a function that does what the nil value used to.
168 *** The command `apropos-variable' is renamed to `apropos-user-option'.
169 `apropos-user-option' shows all user options while `apropos-variable'
170 shows all variables. When called with a universal prefix argument,
171 the two commands swap their behaviors. When `apropos-do-all' is
172 non-nil, they output the same results.
175 *** The key `?' now describes prefix bindings, like `C-h'.
178 *** The command `describe-function' has been extended for EIEIO.
179 Running it on constructors will show a full description of the
180 generated class. For generic functions, it will show all
181 implementations together with links to the source. The old commands
182 `describe-class', `describe-constructor' and `describe-generic' were
186 *** The function `quail-help' is no longer an interactive command.
187 Use `C-h C-\' (`describe-input-method') instead.
192 *** ImageMagick images now support the :max-width and :max-height keywords.
195 *** When using `create-image' with image data, you can pass a :format
196 attribute (via the property-list argument) in order to help
197 ImageMagick detect the image type. The value should be a MIME
198 content-type that is found in the new variable `image-format-suffixes'.
200 ** Frame and window changes
203 *** The function `window-in-direction' introduced in Emacs 24.1 now
204 takes additional arguments for specifying a reference point, wrapping
205 selection around frame borders, and specifying ways to select the
209 *** New commands `toggle-frame-fullscreen' and `toggle-frame-maximized',
210 bound to <f11> and M-<f10>, respectively.
213 *** New hooks `focus-in-hook', `focus-out-hook'.
214 These are normal hooks run when an Emacs frame gains or loses input focus.
217 *** Emacs can now change frame sizes in units of pixels, rather than
218 text rows or columns. When maximizing a frame or making it fullscreen,
219 remaining extra pixels are no longer given to the minibuffer, the rightmost
220 fringe, or other unusable space, but are distributed among the text
221 areas of the frame's windows. If the new option `frame-resize-pixelwise'
222 is non-nil, all frame size changes happen pixelwise and set the
223 corresponding size hints for the window manager.
226 *** Emacs can now change window sizes in units of pixels.
227 Mouse-dragging a mode line or window divider now changes the size of
228 adjacent windows pixelwise. If the new option `window-resize-pixelwise'
229 is non-nil, functions like `balance-windows-area' and `fit-window-to-buffer'
230 resize windows pixelwise. Most functions for changing or accessing
231 window sizes now have an additional argument that allows changes to apply,
232 or values to be returned, in pixels instead of lines/columns.
235 *** The functions `window-body-height' and `window-body-width' now never
236 count partially visible lines or columns if called with a nil PIXELWISE
240 *** Emacs can now draw dividers between adjacent windows. To put
241 dividers between side-by-side/vertically stacked windows customize the
242 frame parameters `right-divider-width' and `bottom-divider-width' to
243 some positive integer. You can drag dividers with the mouse (they show
244 a corresponding cursor when the mouse hovers over them). You can change
245 the appearance of dividers by customizing the faces `window-divider',
246 `window-divider-first-pixel', and `window-divider-last-pixel'. The last
247 two are useful to provide a 3D effect, or to better distinguish dividers
248 from surrounding display objects.
251 *** New functions are provided to return the pixel sizes of window
252 components, namely `window-scroll-bar-width', `window-mode-line-height'
253 `window-header-line-height', `window-right-divider-width' and
254 `window-bottom-divider-width'.
257 *** The new function `window-text-pixel-size' returns the size of the
258 text of a window's buffer in pixels. This allows functions like
259 `fit-frame-to-buffer' and `fit-window-to-buffer' to accurately fit a
260 window to its buffer as it will be displayed.
263 *** `fit-window-to-buffer' can now resize windows in both dimensions.
264 This behavior is controlled by the new option
265 `fit-window-to-buffer-horizontally'. The new option
266 `fit-frame-to-buffer' allows to fit the window's frame to its buffer.
269 *** `fit-frame-to-buffer' now fits frames in both dimensions. The new
270 options `fit-frame-to-buffer-margins' and `fit-frame-to-buffer-sizes'
271 control the size of the frame and its position on screen.
274 *** Temp Buffer Resize Mode can now adjust height and width of windows
275 and frames. `temp-buffer-resize-mode' is now able to adjust the height
276 and the width of a window displaying a temporary buffer. The new option
277 `temp-buffer-max-width' allows to control the width of temporary buffer
278 windows. Moreover, if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil
279 and the buffer appears in the root window of a frame, Temp Buffer Resize
280 Mode will try to adjust width and/or height of the frame.
283 *** `split-window' is now a non-interactive function, not a command.
284 As a command, it was a special case of `C-x 2' (`split-window-below'),
285 and as such superfluous. After being reimplemented in Lisp, its
286 interactive form was mistakenly retained.
289 *** The functions `window-size' and `window-total-size' now have an
290 optional argument to return a rounded size value.
293 *** `window-state-put' now allows to put a window state into internal
297 *** New option `scroll-bar-adjust-thumb-portion'.
298 Available only on X, this option allows to control over-scrolling
299 using the scroll bar (i.e. dragging the thumb down even when the end
300 of the buffer is visible).
303 *** New basic action function `display-buffer-in-previous-window' has
304 `display-buffer' display a buffer in a window previously showing that
308 *** New basic action function `display-buffer-at-bottom' has
309 `display-buffer' choose or make a window at the bottom of the selected
313 *** New display action function `display-buffer-no-window' to not
314 display the buffer in a window.
317 *** New display action alist entry `allow-no-window' to indicate the
318 caller of `display-buffer' is ready to handle the case of not
319 displaying the buffer in a window.
321 ** Lisp evaluation changes
323 *** `eval-defun' on an already defined defcustom calls the :set function,
327 *** The commands `eval-expression' (`M-:'), `eval-last-sexp' (`C-x C-e'),
328 and `eval-print-last-sexp' (`C-j' in Lisp Interaction mode) can take a
329 zero prefix argument. This disables truncation of lists in the output,
330 equivalent to setting `(eval-expression-)print-length' and
331 `(eval-expression-)print-level' to nil. Additionally, it causes integers
332 to be printed in other formats (octal, hexadecimal, and character).
335 *** New hook `eval-expression-minibuffer-setup-hook' run by
336 `eval-expression' on entering the minibuffer.
339 ** `write-region-inhibit-fsync' now defaults to t in batch mode.
342 ** `cache-long-line-scans' is now non-nil, and renamed to `cache-long-scans',
343 because it affects caching of paragraph scanning results as well.
344 There is no reason to set this to nil except for debugging purposes.
347 ** The option `set-mark-default-inactive' has been deleted.
348 This unfinished feature was introduced by accident in Emacs 23.1;
349 simply disabling Transient Mark mode does the same thing.
352 ** The default value of `comment-use-global-state' is now t,
353 and this variable has been marked obsolete.
356 ** `emacs-bzr-version' has been renamed to `emacs-repository-version',
357 and works for git too, if you fetch the repository notes.
360 ** New option `load-prefer-newer' affects how the `load' function chooses
361 the file to load. If this is non-nil, then when both .el and .elc
362 versions of a file exist, and the caller did not explicitly specify
363 which one to load, then the newer file is loaded. The default, nil,
364 means to always load the .elc file.
367 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
369 ** Indentation changes
372 *** `electric-indent-mode' is now enabled by default.
373 Typing RET reindents the current line and indents the new line.
374 `C-j' inserts a newline but does not indent. In some programming modes,
375 additional characters are electric (eg `{').
378 *** New buffer-local `electric-indent-local-mode'.
381 *** The behavior of `C-x TAB' (`indent-rigidly') has changed.
382 When invoked without a prefix argument, it now activates a transient
383 mode in which typing <left>, <right>, <S-left>, and <S-right> adjusts
384 the text indentation in the region. Typing any other key resumes
385 normal editing behavior.
388 *** `tab-stop-list' is now implicitly extended to infinity by repeating
389 the last step. Its default value is changed to nil, which means a tab
390 stop every `tab-width' columns.
393 ** New command `cycle-spacing' acts like a smarter `just-one-space'.
394 When called in succession, it cycles between spacing conventions:
395 one space, no spaces, original spacing.
398 ** The new function `fill-single-char-nobreak-p' can stop fill from breaking
399 a line after a one-letter word, which is an error in some typographical
400 conventions. To use it, add it to the `fill-nobreak-predicate' hook.
403 ** Uniquify is enabled by default, with `post-forward-angle-brackets' style.
406 ** New command `C-x SPC' (`rectangle-mark-mode') makes a rectangular region.
407 Most commands are still unaware of it, but kill/yank do work on the rectangle.
410 ** New option `visual-order-cursor-movement'.
411 If this is non-nil, cursor motion with arrow keys will follow the
412 visual order of characters on the screen: <left> always moves to the
413 left, <right> always moves to the right, disregarding the surrounding
414 bidirectional context.
419 *** All interactive commands that read a register (`copy-to-register', etc.)
420 now display a temporary window after `register-preview-delay' seconds
421 that summarizes existing registers. To disable this, set that option to nil.
422 Interactive commands that read registers and want to make use of this
423 should use `register-read-with-preview' to read register names.
426 *** New command `frameset-to-register' bound to `C-x r f', replacing
427 `frame-configuration-to-register'. It offers similar functionality,
428 plus enhancements like the ability to restore deleted frames.
429 (`frame-configuration-to-register' still exists, but no longer has a
433 *** New command `C-x C-k x' (`kmacro-to-register') stores keyboard
437 ** New command `delete-duplicate-lines'.
438 This searches the region for identical lines, and removes all but one
439 copy of each repeated line. The lines need not be sorted.
442 ** `blink-matching-paren' now only highlights the matching open-paren
443 by default, instead of moving cursor. Set this variable to `jump' to
444 enable the old behavior.
447 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
450 ** More packages look for ~/.emacs.d/<foo> additionally to ~/.<foo>.
452 ~/.emacs.d/timelog replaces ~/.timelog
453 ~/.emacs.d/vip replaces ~/.vip
454 ~/.emacs.d/viper replaces ~/.viper
455 ~/.emacs.d/ido.last replaces ~/.ido.last
456 ~/.emacs.d/kkcrc replaces ~/.kkcrc
457 ~/.emacs.d/quickurls replaces ~/.quickurls
458 ~/.emacs.d/idlwave/ replaces ~/.idlwave/
459 ~/.emacs.d/bdfcache.el replaces ~/.bdfcache.el
460 ~/.emacs.d/places replaces ~/.emacs-places
461 ~/.emacs.d/shadows replaces ~/.shadows
462 ~/.emacs.d/shadow_todo replaces ~/.shadow_todo
463 ~/.emacs.d/strokes replaces ~/.strokes
464 ~/.emacs.d/notes replaces ~/.notes
465 ~/.emacs.d/type-break replaces ~/.type-break
466 Also the following files used by the now obsolete otodo-mode.el:
467 ~/.emacs.d/todo-do replaces ~/.todo-do
468 ~/.emacs.d/todo-done replaces ~/.todo-done
469 ~/.emacs.d/todo-top replaces ~/.todo-top
471 ** Backtrace and debugger
474 *** New Lisp debugger command `v' (`debugger-toggle-locals') toggles the
475 display of local variables of the current stack frame.
478 *** The Lisp debugger's `e' command (`debugger-eval-expression') now includes
479 the lexical environment when evaluating the code in the context at point
480 (and so allows you to access lexical variables).
483 *** New minor mode `jit-lock-debug-mode' helps you debug code run via JIT Lock.
486 ** Battery information can now be retrieved from BSD's `apm' utility.
489 ** In the Buffer Menu, `M-s a C-o' shows matches for a regexp in marked buffers.
491 ** Calendar and Diary
494 *** New faces `calendar-weekday-header', `calendar-weekend-header',
495 and `calendar-month-header'.
498 *** New option `calendar-day-header-array'.
501 *** New variable `diary-from-outlook-function', used by the command
502 `diary-from-outlook'.
505 *** The variable `calendar-font-lock-keywords' is obsolete.
510 *** Calc by default now uses the Gregorian calendar for all dates, and
511 uses January 1, 1 AD as its day number 1. Previously Calc used the
512 Julian calendar for dates before September 14, 1752, and it used
513 December 31, 1 BC as its day number 1; the new scheme is more
514 consistent with Calendar's calendrical system and day numbering.
517 *** The new option `calc-gregorian-switch' lets you configure if
518 (and when) Calc switches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
521 *** Support for ISO 8601 dates.
528 **** The cpp-root project now supports executing a compile command.
529 It can be set through the new :compile-command slot or the
530 buffer-local variable `compile-command'.
533 **** Better selection of include directories for the 'linux' project.
534 Include directories now support out-of-tree build directories and
535 target architecture auto-detection.
540 **** Improved detection of used namespaces in current scope in C++.
542 **** Parsing of default values for variables and function arguments in C/C++.
543 They are also displayed by the summarize feature in the mode line.
545 **** Improved parsing of function pointers in C/C++.
546 This also includes parsing of function pointers as function arguments.
548 **** Parsing of C/C++ preprocessor macros that open new scope.
549 For example, this enables parsing of macros that open new namespaces.
551 **** Support for 'this' pointer in inline member functions in C++.
556 *** New macro `cl-tagbody'.
557 This executes statements while allowing for control transfer to labels.
560 *** letf is now just an alias for cl-letf.
565 *** CUA mode now uses `delete-selection-mode' and `shift-select-mode'.
566 Hence, you can now enable it independently from those modes, and from
567 `transient-mark-mode'.
570 *** `cua-highlight-region-shift-only' is now obsolete.
571 You can disable `transient-mark-mode' to get the same result.
574 *** CUA's rectangles can now be used without CUA by calling the command
575 `cua-rectangle-mark-mode'.
580 *** Support for completion, ElDoc, and Flycheck has been added.
583 *** The current CFEngine syntax is parsed from "cf-promises -s json".
584 There is a fallback syntax available if you don't have cf-promises or
585 if your version doesn't support that option. See option `cfengine-cf-promises'.
588 ** Delete Selection mode can now be used without Transient Mark mode.
593 *** `desktop-save-mode' by default now auto-saves an existing desktop file
594 after `desktop-auto-save-timeout'. To disable this, customize that option
598 *** Desktop now saves and restores the frame/window configuration.
599 To disable this, set `desktop-restore-frames' to nil.
600 See also related options `desktop-restore-reuses-frames',
601 `desktop-restore-in-current-display', and `desktop-restore-forces-onscreen'.
604 ** New Dired minor mode `dired-hide-details-mode' toggles whether details,
605 such as file ownership or permissions, are visible.
608 ** You can enable ElDoc inside the `eval-expression' minibuffer with:
609 (add-hook 'eval-expression-minibuffer-setup-hook 'eldoc-mode)
610 The results display in the mode line.
612 ** Electric Pair mode
615 *** New option `electric-pair-preserve-balance', enabled by default.
616 If non-nil, pairing/skipping only kicks in when that help the balance
617 of parentheses and quotes, i.e. the buffer should end up at least as
620 You can further control this behavior by adjusting the predicates
621 stored in `electric-pair-inhibit-predicate' and `electric-pair-skip-self'.
624 *** New option `electric-pair-delete-adjacent-pairs', enabled by default.
625 In `electric-pair-mode', the commands `backward-delete-char' and
626 `backward-delete-char-untabify' are now bound to electric variants
627 that delete the closer when invoked between adjacent pairs.
630 *** New option `electric-pair-open-newline-between-pairs', enabled by default.
631 In `electric-pair-mode', inserting a newline between adjacent pairs
632 opens an extra newline after point, which is indented if
633 `electric-indent-mode' is also set.
636 *** New option `electric-pair-skip-whitespace', enabled by default.
637 This controls if skipping over closing delimiters should jump over any
638 whitespace slack. Setting it to `chomp' makes it delete this
639 whitespace. See also the variable `electric-pair-skip-whitespace-chars'.
642 *** New variables control the pairing in strings and comments.
643 You can customize `electric-pair-text-pairs' and
644 `electric-pair-text-syntax-table' to tweak pairing behavior inside
645 strings and comments.
648 ** New EPA option `epa-mail-aliases'.
649 You can set this to a list of email address aliases that `epa-mail-encrypt'
650 should use to find keys.
653 ** New ERC option `erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds'.
654 If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally pasting large
655 amounts of data into the ERC input.
658 ** New ERT macro `skip-unless' allows skipping ERT tests.
659 See the ERT manual for details.
664 *** `eshell' now supports visual subcommands and options.
665 Eshell has been able to handle "visual" commands (interactive,
666 non-line oriented commands such as top that require display
667 capabilities not provided by eshell) by running them in an Emacs
668 terminal emulator. See `eshell-visual-commands'.
670 This feature has been extended to subcommands and options that make a
671 usually line-oriented command a visual command. Typical examples are
672 "git log" and "git <command> --help", which display their output in a
673 pager by default. See `eshell-visual-subcommands' and
674 `eshell-visual-options'.
677 *** New Eshell-Tramp module.
678 External su and sudo commands are now the default; the internal,
679 Tramp-using variants can still be used by enabling the eshell-tramp
683 ** New F90 mode option `f90-smart-end-names'.
686 Icomplete is now more similar to Ido.
689 *** Icomplete by default now applies to all forms of minibuffer completion.
690 The variable `icomplete-with-completion-tables' (now a user option)
691 controls this. To restore the old behavior, set it back to
692 '(internal-complete-buffer).
695 *** You can navigate through and select completions using the keys
696 from `icomplete-minibuffer-map'.
699 *** The string that separates potential completions is now a customizable
700 option (`icomplete-separator'). The default is " | " rather than ",".
703 *** New face `icomplete-first-match'; and new options
704 `icomplete-hide-common-prefix' and `icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input'.
707 *** The option `icomplete-show-key-bindings' has been removed.
712 *** An Ido user manual is now included.
715 *** The option `ido-use-virtual-buffers' can now take the value `auto'.
716 This means to use virtual buffers if the current ido input does not match
720 *** The variable `ido-decorations' can optionally have two new elements,
721 which are the brackets to use around the sole remaining completion.
726 *** New commands `n' (`image-next-file') and `p' (`image-previous-file')
727 visit the next image file and the previous image file in the same
728 directory, respectively.
731 *** New commands to show specific frames of multi-frame images.
732 `f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the
733 next or previous frame. `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame.
736 *** New commands to speed up, slow down, or reverse animation.
737 `a +' (`image-increase-speed') and `a -' (`image-decrease-speed') to
738 speed up and slow down the animation. `a r' (`image-reverse-speed')
739 to reverse it and `a 0' (`image-reset-speed') to reset it.
742 *** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows.
743 When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration.
744 It also has an optional frame argument, which can be used by Lisp
745 callers to fit the image to a frame other than the selected frame.
750 *** New global command `M-s h .' (`highlight-symbol-at-point') highlights
751 the symbol found near point.
754 *** New option `hi-lock-auto-select-face'. When non-nil, hi-lock commands
755 will cycle through faces in `hi-lock-face-defaults' without prompting.
758 ** New Imenu option `imenu-generic-skip-comments-and-strings'.
763 *** New Info face `info-index-match', used to highlight matches in index
764 entries displayed by `Info-index-next', `Info-virtual-index' and
768 *** The Info-edit command is obsolete. Editing Info nodes by hand
769 has not been relevant for some time.
774 *** New option `js-switch-indent-offset'.
777 *** Better indentation of multiple-variable declarations.
778 If a declaration spans several lines, variables on the following lines
779 are lined up to the first one.
782 *** Recognition and better indentation of continuations in array comprehensions.
785 ** MH-E has been updated to version 8.5 - see separate MH-E-NEWS file.
790 *** Font locking for Texinfo comments and new keywords.
792 *** Completion in Octave file buffers.
796 *** Jump to definition.
798 *** Documentation lookup/search.
801 ** OPascal mode is the new name for Delphi mode
804 *** All delphi-* variables and functions have been renamed to opascal-*.
805 Obsolete aliases exist for those likely to have been used externally.
808 *** The option `delphi-newline-always-indents' has been removed.
809 Use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
812 *** The TAB key runs the standard `indent-for-tab-command', not `delphi-tab'.
817 *** In the `list-packages' buffer, you can use `f' (`package-menu-filter')
818 to filter the list of packages by a keyword.
821 *** In the `describe-package' buffer, there are now buttons listing the
822 keywords related to the package. Click on a button to see other packages
823 related to that keyword.
826 *** The format of `archive-contents' files, generated by package
827 repositories, has changed to allow a new (fifth) element in the data
828 vectors, containing an associative list with extra properties.
829 (For example, `describe-package' uses the `:url' extra property to
830 display a "Homepage" header.)
833 ** In Prolog mode, `prolog-use-smie' has been removed,
834 along with the non-SMIE indentation code.
839 *** The new command `remember-notes' creates a buffer that is saved on exit.
840 You can use it as a more permanent *scratch* buffer.
843 *** Remember can now store notes in separate files.
844 To use this, add `remember-store-in-files' to the `remember-handler-functions'
845 option. The files are saved in `remember-data-directory' using
846 names specified by `remember-directory-file-name-format'.
851 *** Customize `rmail-mbox-format' to influence some minor aspects of
852 how Rmail displays non-MIME messages.
855 *** The `unrmail' command now converts from BABYL to mboxrd format,
856 rather than mboxo. Customize `unrmail-mbox-format' to change this.
861 *** Improved syntax highlighting and indentation.
864 *** New `electric-indent-mode' integration.
867 *** New option `ruby-encoding-magic-comment-style'.
870 *** New option `ruby-custom-encoding-magic-comment-template'.
873 *** New option `ruby-align-to-stmt-keywords'.
876 *** New option `ruby-align-chained-calls'.
879 *** More Ruby file types have been added to `auto-mode-alist'.
881 ** Search and Replace
884 *** New global command `M-s .' (`isearch-forward-symbol-at-point')
885 starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search forward with the
886 symbol found near point added to the search string initially.
889 *** `C-x 8 RET' in Isearch mode reads a character by its Unicode name
890 and adds it to the search string.
893 *** `M-s i' in Isearch mode toggles whether search matches invisible text.
896 *** `query-replace' skips invisible text when `search-invisible' is nil,
897 and opens overlays with hidden text when `search-invisible' is `open'.
900 *** A negative prefix arg of replacement commands replaces backward.
901 `M-- M-%' replaces a string backward, `M-- C-M-%' replaces a regexp
902 backward, `M-s w words M-- M-%' replaces a sequence of words backward.
905 *** By default, prefix arguments do not now terminate Isearch mode.
906 Set `isearch-allow-prefix' to nil to restore old behavior.
909 *** More Isearch commands accept prefix arguments, namely
910 `isearch-printing-char', `isearch-quote-char', `isearch-yank-word',
914 *** Word search now matches whitespace at the beginning/end
915 of the search string if it contains leading/trailing whitespace.
916 In an incremental word search or when using a non-nil LAX argument
917 of `word-search-regexp', the lax matching can also match part of
918 the first word (in addition to the lax matching of the last word).
919 The same rules are now applied to the symbol search with the difference
920 that it matches symbols, and non-symbol characters between symbols.
923 ** New SES command `ses-rename-cell' allows assignment of names to SES cells.
926 ** The shell.el option `explicit-bash-args' includes --noediting by default.
927 All non-ancient Bash versions support this option.
932 *** The SMIE indentation engine is now used by default - see `sh-use-smie'.
935 *** `sh-mode' now has its own setting for `add-log-current-defun-function'.
940 *** You can customize the SMIE indentation of a mode via `smie-config'.
941 The command `smie-config-guess' can help you derive the appropriate
942 indentation settings, if you provide it with an indented sample file.
943 Use `smie-config-save' to save the result.
946 *** You can customize the SMIE indentation of a file by adding an entry to
947 the file's local variables of the form: `eval: (smie-config-local '(RULES))'.
950 *** New commands `smie-config-show-indent' and `smie-config-set-indent'.
955 *** Improved login monitoring and appropriate response to login failures.
956 New variable `sql-login-delay' defines maximum wait time for a connection.
959 SQL*Plus script placeholders are properly highlighted and identified
960 in `sql-placeholders-filter'. When starting SQL*Plus, `sql-oracle-options'
961 are passed before the logon parameter, as required. The default now
962 includes `-L', to limit the number of logon attempts per invocation.
965 ** New Term mode option `term-suppress-hard-newline'.
968 ** Todo mode has been rewritten and enhanced.
969 The Todo mode user manual describes all commands and most user
970 options. To support some of these features, a new file format is
971 used, which is incompatible with the old format; however, you can
972 convert old todo and done item files to the new format on initializing
973 the first new todo file, or at any later time with the provided
974 conversion command. The previous version of todo-mode.el has been
975 renamed to otodo-mode.el and is now obsolete. New features include:
977 *** Support for multiple todo files and archive files of done items.
979 *** Renaming, reordering, moving, merging, and deleting categories.
981 *** Sortable tabular summaries of categories and the item types they contain.
983 *** Cross-category lists of items filtered by specific criteria.
985 *** More fine-grained interaction with the Emacs diary, by being able to
986 decide for each todo item whether it appears in the Fancy Diary display.
988 *** Highly flexible new item insertion and item editing.
990 *** Moving items between categories, storing done items in their category
991 or in archive files, undoing or unarchiving done items.
993 *** Reprioritizing items by inputting a numerical priority.
995 *** Extensive customizability of operation and display, including many faces.
1000 *** `trace-function' and `trace-function-background' no longer prompt for
1001 the output buffer. Unless you use a prefix argument, they output to
1005 *** With a prefix argument, `trace-function' and `trace-function-background'
1006 will prompt for a "context". This is a Lisp expression, whose value at the
1007 time the function is entered/exited is printed along with the function's
1013 *** The experimental url syntax for remote file names has been removed.
1016 *** New connection method "adb", which allows to access Android
1017 devices by the Android Debug Bridge. The variable `tramp-adb-program'
1018 can be used to adapt the path of the "adb" program, if needed.
1021 *** The connection methods "plink1", "ssh1", "ssh2", "scp1", "scp2",
1022 "scpc" and "rsyncc" are discontinued. The ssh option
1023 "ControlMaster=auto" is set automatically in all ssh-based methods,
1024 when possible. See `tramp-use-ssh-controlmaster-options'.
1027 *** Handlers for `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' for remote machines
1028 which support POSIX ACLs.
1031 *** Handlers for `file-notify-add-watch' and `file-notify-rm-watch'
1032 for remote machines which support filesystem notifications.
1035 ** New URL command `url-cookie-list' displays the current cookies,
1036 and allows you to interactively remove cookies.
1038 ** VC and related modes
1041 *** In VC directory mode, `D' displays diffs between VC-controlled
1042 whole tree revisions.
1045 *** In VC directory mode, `L' lists the change log for the current VC
1046 controlled tree in a window.
1049 *** In VC directory mode, `I' shows a log of changes that will be
1050 received with a pull operation.
1053 *** `C-x v G' (globally) and `G' (in VC directory mode) ignores a file
1054 under current version control system. When called with a prefix
1055 argument, you can remove a file from the ignored file list.
1060 *** New options: `vhdl-actual-generic-name', `vhdl-beautify-options'.
1063 *** New commands: `vhdl-fix-statement-region', `vhdl-fix-statement-buffer'.
1066 ** The Woman commands `woman-default-faces' and `woman-monochrome-faces'
1067 are obsolete. Customize the `woman-*' faces instead.
1069 ** Obsolete packages
1072 *** iswitchb.el; use icomplete-mode.
1075 *** longlines.el; use visual-line-mode.
1084 *** terminal.el; use term.el instead.
1087 *** the old version of todo-mode.el (renamed to otodo-mode.el).
1090 *** xesam.el (owing to the cancellation of the XESAM project).
1093 *** yow.el; use fortune.el or cookie1.el instead.
1096 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
1099 ** New package `eww' is a built-in web browser.
1100 It is only available if Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support.
1103 ** New minor mode `superword-mode'.
1104 This overrides the default word motion commands to treat "symbol_words"
1105 as a single word, similar to what `subword-mode' does.
1108 ** New package nadvice.el offers lighter-weight advice facilities.
1111 *** add-function/remove-function, which can be used to add/remove code on any
1112 function-carrying place, such as process-filters or `<foo>-function' hooks.
1114 *** advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named
1115 function, much like `defadvice' does.
1117 ** New package frameset.el.
1118 It provides a set of operations to save a frameset (the state of all
1119 or a subset of the existing frames and windows, somewhat similar to a
1120 frame configuration), both in-session and persistently, and restore it
1121 at some point in the future.
1124 ** New package filenotify.el provides an interface for file system
1125 notifications. It requires that Emacs be compiled with one of the
1126 low-level libraries gfilenotify.c, inotify.c or w32notify.c.
1129 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
1132 ** `kill-region' has lost its `yank-handler' optional argument.
1135 ** `(input-pending-p)' no longer runs other timers that are ready to run.
1136 The new optional CHECK-TIMERS parameter allows for the prior behavior.
1139 ** `defvar' and `defcustom' in a let-binding affect the "external" default.
1142 ** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
1143 Some languages match those as »...«, and others as «...», so it is
1144 better for Emacs to stay neutral by default.
1147 ** In compiled Lisp files, the header no longer includes a timestamp.
1150 ** The default file coding for Emacs Lisp files is now utf-8.
1151 (See `file-coding-system-alist'.) In most cases, this change is
1152 transparent, but files that contain unusual characters without
1153 specifying an explicit coding system may fail to load with obscure
1154 errors. You should either convert them to utf-8 or add an explicit
1158 ** `overriding-terminal-local-map' no longer replaces the local keymaps.
1159 It used to disable the minor mode, major mode, and text-property keymaps,
1160 whereas now it simply has higher precedence.
1163 ** Default process filters and sentinels are not nil any more.
1164 Instead they default to a function that does what the nil value used to do.
1167 ** `read-event' does not return decoded chars in ttys any more.
1168 As was the case in Emacs 22 and before, the decoding of terminal
1169 input, according to `keyboard-coding-system', is not performed in
1170 `read-event' any more. But unlike in Emacs 22, this decoding is still
1171 done before input-decode-map, function-key-map, etc.
1174 ** The option `inhibit-local-menu-bar-menus' has been removed.
1177 ** Frame-local variables that affect redisplay do not work any more.
1178 More specifically, redisplay does not bother to check for a frame-local
1179 value when looking up variables.
1182 ** nil and "unbound" are indistinguishable in `symbol-function'.
1183 `symbol-function' does not signal a `void-function' error any more.
1184 To determine if a symbol's function definition is void, use `fboundp'.
1187 ** `defadvice' does not honor the `freeze' flag and cannot advise
1188 special-forms any more.
1191 ** `dolist' no longer binds VAR while evaluating the RESULT form,
1192 when lexical binding is enabled. Previously, VAR was bound to nil,
1193 which often led to spurious unused-variable warnings.
1196 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
1197 The second argument is no longer an SELinux context, instead it is an
1198 alist of extended attributes as returned by the new function
1199 `file-extended-attributes'. The attributes can be applied to another
1200 file using `set-file-extended-attributes'.
1203 ** By default `copy-file' no longer copies file permission bits to an
1204 existing destination; and it sets the file permission bits of a newly
1205 created destination to those of the source, masked by the default file
1206 permissions. To copy the file permission bits, pass t as the
1207 PRESERVE-PERMISSIONS argument of `copy-file'.
1210 ** `visited-file-modtime' now returns -1 for nonexistent files.
1211 Formerly it returned a list (-1 LOW USEC PSEC), but this was ambiguous
1212 in the presence of files with negative time stamps.
1215 ** The cars of the elements in `interpreter-mode-alist' are now
1216 treated as regexps rather than literal strings.
1219 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
1222 ** The second argument of `eval' can now specify a lexical environment.
1225 ** New functions `special-form-p' and `macrop'.
1228 ** New macro `define-alternatives' can be used to define generic commands.
1229 Generic commands are interactive functions whose implementation can be
1230 selected among several alternatives, as a matter of user preference.
1233 ** If you give a symbol a `defalias-fset-function' property, `defalias'
1234 on that symbol will use the associated value as a function to call
1238 ** New variable `enable-dir-local-variables'.
1239 Directory-local variables are ignored if this is nil. This may be
1240 useful for modes that want to ignore directory-locals while still
1241 respecting file-local variables.
1244 ** New function `get-pos-property'.
1247 ** `read-regexp' now uses the new variable `read-regexp-defaults-function'
1248 as a function to call to provide default values.
1250 ** Completion changes
1253 *** The separator used by `completing-read-multiple' is now a regexp.
1254 The default `crm-separator' has been changed to allow surrounding spaces
1258 *** The `common-substring' argument of `display-completion-list',
1259 which has been documented as obsolete since Emacs 23.1, is now _really_
1260 obsolete, and no longer advertised. Instead either call
1261 `completion-hilit-commonality' to add the highlighting; or use
1262 `completion-all-completions', which returns highlighted strings.
1265 *** New function `completion-table-with-cache' is a wrapper for
1266 `completion-table-dynamic' that caches the result of the last lookup.
1269 *** New function `completion-table-merge' to combine several
1270 completion tables by merging their completions.
1273 ** New minor modes `prettify-symbols-mode' and `global-prettify-symbols-mode'
1274 display specified symbols as composed characters. E.g., in Emacs Lisp mode,
1275 this replaces the string "lambda" with the Greek lambda character.
1280 *** Functions to pop up menus and dialogs now work on all terminals,
1281 including TTYs. This includes `x-popup-menu', `x-popup-dialog',
1282 `message-box', `yes-or-no-p', etc.
1284 The function `display-popup-menus-p' will now return non-nil for a
1285 display or frame whenever a mouse is supported on that display or
1289 *** New hook `tty-setup-hook', run at the end of initializing a text terminal.
1292 *** The hook `term-setup-hook' is obsolete. It is entirely equivalent
1293 to `emacs-startup-hook'. See also the new `tty-setup-hook'.
1296 ** New hook `pre-redisplay-function'.
1299 ** New bool-vector set operation functions
1300 *** `bool-vector-exclusive-or'
1301 *** `bool-vector-union'
1302 *** `bool-vector-intersection'
1303 *** `bool-vector-set-difference'
1304 *** `bool-vector-not'
1305 *** `bool-vector-subsetp'
1306 *** `bool-vector-count-consecutive'
1307 *** `bool-vector-count-population'
1310 ** Comparison functions =, <, >, <=, >= can now take many arguments.
1312 ** Error-handling changes
1315 *** New function `define-error'.
1318 *** `with-demoted-errors' takes an additional argument `format'.
1321 ** New macro `with-eval-after-load'.
1322 This is like the old `eval-after-load', but better behaved.
1325 ** New library subr-x.el with miscellaneous small utility functions
1326 *** `hash-table-keys'
1327 *** `hash-table-values'
1328 *** `string-blank-p'
1329 *** `string-empty-p'
1331 *** `string-reverse'
1332 *** `string-trim-left'
1333 *** `string-trim-right'
1335 *** `string-remove-prefix'
1336 *** `string-remove-suffix'
1339 ** Obsoleted functions
1342 *** `lisp-complete-symbol'
1343 *** `field-complete'
1344 *** `minibuffer-completion-contents'
1345 *** `isearch-nonincremental-exit-minibuffer'
1346 *** `isearch-filter-visible'
1347 *** `generic-make-keywords-list'
1348 *** `get-upcase-table' (use `case-table-get-table' instead).
1351 ** `with-wrapper-hook' is obsoleted by `add-function'.
1352 The few hooks that used with-wrapper-hook are replaced as follows:
1353 *** `abbrev-expand-function' obsoletes `abbrev-expand-functions'.
1354 *** `completion-in-region-function' obsoletes `completion-in-region-functions'.
1355 *** `filter-buffer-substring-function' obsoletes `filter-buffer-substring-functions'.
1358 ** `byte-compile-interactive-only-functions' is now obsolete.
1359 To specify that a command should only be called interactively, give it
1360 a non-nil `interactive-only' property.
1363 ** `split-string' now takes an optional argument TRIM.
1364 The value, if non-nil, is a regexp that specifies what to trim from
1365 the start and end of each substring.
1368 ** New function `string-suffix-p'.
1370 ** File-handling changes
1373 *** Support for filesystem notifications.
1374 Emacs now supports notifications of filesystem changes, such as
1375 creation, modification, and deletion of files. This requires the
1376 `glib' API, or the 'inotify' API (on GNU/Linux systems only). On
1377 MS-Windows systems, this is supported for Windows XP and newer
1381 *** The 9th element returned by `file-attributes' is now unspecified.
1382 Formerly, it was t if the file's gid would change if file were deleted
1383 and recreated. This value has been inaccurate for years on many
1384 platforms, and nobody seems to have noticed or cared.
1387 *** The 6th argument to `copy-file' has been renamed to
1388 PRESERVE-PERMISSIONS as it now handles ACL entries and the traditional
1389 Unix file permission bits as well as SELinux context.
1392 *** The function `file-ownership-preserved-p' now has an optional
1393 argument GROUP which causes it check for file group too. This can be
1394 used in place of the 9th element of `file-attributes'.
1397 *** The function `set-visited-file-modtime' now accepts a 0 or -1
1398 argument, with the same interpretation as the returned value of
1399 `visited-file-modtime'.
1401 ** Revert and Autorevert changes
1403 *** The default values of `buffer-stale-function', `revert-buffer-function',
1404 and `revert-buffer-insert-file-contents-function' are no longer nil.
1405 Instead they default to functions that do what the nil value used to.
1408 *** If Emacs is compiled with file notification support, it uses notifications
1409 instead of checking file time stamps. To disable this, set the user option
1410 `auto-revert-use-notify' to nil. Alternatively, you can specify a regular
1411 expression matching directories to be excluded from file notifications via
1412 `auto-revert-notify-exclude-dir-regexp'.
1415 *** The new user option `auto-revert-remote-files' enables reversion
1416 of remote files, if set to non-nil.
1421 *** The function `face-spec-set' is now like `setq' for face specs.
1422 Its third arg now accepts values specifying a face spec type (defface,
1423 custom, or override spec), and the relevant spec is set accordingly.
1426 *** New function `add-face-text-property', which can be used to
1427 conveniently prepend/append new face properties.
1430 *** Face specs set via Custom themes now replace the `defface' spec
1431 rather than inheriting from it. In other words, setting a face via a
1432 theme now behaves like setting it via Customize: you only need to
1433 specify the attributes that you want, you don't need to unset those
1434 that you don't want.
1437 *** New face characteristic (supports :underline (:style wave))
1438 specifies whether or not the terminal can display a wavy line.
1441 *** New face spec attribute :distant-foreground
1442 specifies foreground to use if background color is near the foreground
1443 color that would otherwise have been used.
1448 *** `image-animated-p' is now `image-multi-frame-p'.
1449 It returns non-nil for any image that contains multiple frames,
1450 whether or not it specifies a frame delay.
1453 *** New variable `image-default-frame-delay' gives the frame delay for
1454 animated images which do not specify a frame delay.
1457 *** New functions `image-current-frame' and `image-show-frame' for getting
1458 and setting the current frame of a multi-frame image.
1463 *** Namespace cleanup by obsolete-aliasing functions to use `eieio-' prefix.
1464 **** object-name -> eieio-object-name
1465 **** object-class -> eieio-object-class
1466 **** object-class-fast -> eieio--object-class
1467 **** object-class-name -> eieio-object-class-name
1468 **** object-name-string -> eieio-object-name-string
1469 **** object-num-slots -> eieio--object-num-slots
1470 **** object-set-name-string -> eieio-object-set-name-string
1471 **** class-of -> eieio-object-class
1472 **** class-name -> eieio-class-name
1473 **** class-parent -> eieio-class-parent
1474 **** class-parents -> eieio-class-parents
1475 **** class-parents-fast -> eieio-class-parents-fast
1476 **** class-children -> eieio-class-children
1477 **** class-num-slots -> eieio--class-num-slots
1478 **** class-precedence-list -> eieio-class-precedence-list
1479 **** class-direct-subclasses -> eieio-class-children
1480 **** class-direct-superclasses -> eieio-class-parents
1482 ** Changes in encoding and decoding of text
1485 *** New coding-system `prefer-utf-8'.
1486 This is like `undecided' but prefers UTF-8 on decoding if the text to
1487 be decoded does not contain any invalid UTF-8 sequences. On encoding,
1488 any non-ASCII characters are automatically encoded as UTF-8.
1491 *** New attributes of coding-systems whose type is `undecided'.
1492 Two new attributes, `:inhibit-null-byte-detection' and
1493 `:inhibit-iso-escape-detection', determine how to detect encoding of
1494 text that includes null bytes and ISO-2022 escape sequences,
1495 respectively. Each of these attributes can be either nil, zero, or
1496 t. If it is t, decoding text ignores null bytes and, respectively,
1497 ISO-2022 sequences. If it is nil, null bytes cause text to be decoded
1498 with no-conversion and ISO-2022 sequences cause Emacs to assume the
1499 text is encoded in one of the ISO-2022 encodings, such as
1500 iso-2022-7bit. If the value is zero, Emacs consults the variables
1501 inhibit-null-byte-detection and inhibit-iso-escape-detection, which
1503 The new attribute `:prefer-utf-8', if non-nil, causes Emacs to prefer
1504 UTF-8 encoding and decoding, whenever possible.
1506 These attributes are only meaningful for coding-systems of type
1507 `undecided'. (The type of a coding-system is determined by its
1508 `:coding-type' attribute and can be accessed by calling the
1509 `coding-system-type' function.)
1512 ** The `time-to-seconds' alias to `float-time' is no longer marked obsolete.
1515 ** New functions `group-gid' and `group-real-gid'.
1518 ** The spelling of the rx.el category `chinese-two-byte' has been
1519 corrected (the first 'e' was missing).
1522 ** Minor internal changes to the details of lock files.
1523 The lock for DIR/FILE is now _always_ DIR/.#FILE.
1524 If DIR/.#FILE already exists and is not an Emacs lock file,
1525 Emacs makes no attempt to lock DIR/FILE. (Previously, it fell back to
1526 numbered lock files DIR/.#FILE.0...).
1527 On file systems that do not support symbolic links, the lock is now a
1528 regular file with contents being what would have been in the symlink.
1530 ** Changes to the Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions in Emacs 24.4
1533 *** The package descriptor and name of global variables, constants,
1534 and functions should be separated by two hyphens if the symbol is not
1535 meant to be used by other packages.
1538 * Changes in Emacs 24.4 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1541 ** The procedure for building Emacs on MS-Windows has changed.
1542 It is now built by running the same configure script as on all other
1543 platforms. This requires the MSYS environment and MinGW development
1544 tools. See the updated instructions in nt/INSTALL for details.
1546 Using the Posix configure script and Makefile's also means a change in
1547 the directory structure of the Emacs installation on Windows. It is
1548 now the same as on GNU and Unix systems. In particular, the auxiliary
1549 programs, such as cmdproxy.exe and hexl.exe, are in
1550 libexec/emacs/VERSION/i686-pc-mingw32 (where VERSION is the Emacs
1551 version), version-independent site-lisp is in share/emacs/site-lisp,
1552 version-specific Lisp files are in share/emacs/VERSION/lisp and in
1553 share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp, Info docs are in share/info, and data
1554 files are in share/emacs/VERSION/etc. (Emacs knows about all these
1555 directories and will find the files in there automatically; there's no
1556 need to set any variables due to this change.)
1559 ** Emacs on Windows 2000 and later can now access files and directories
1560 whose names cannot be encoded in the current system codepage.
1562 The new variable `w32-unicode-filenames' controls this feature: if it
1563 is t, Emacs uses Unicode APIs to pass file names to system calls,
1564 which lifts the limitation of file names to the current locale.
1567 ** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS Windows.
1568 The backtrace is written to the 'emacs_backtrace.txt' file in the
1569 directory where Emacs was running.
1572 ** The variable `buffer-file-type' is no longer supported.
1573 Setting it has no effect, and %t in the mode-line format is ignored.
1574 Likewise, `file-name-buffer-file-type-alist' is now obsolete, and
1575 modifying it has no effect.
1578 ** Lock files now work on MS-Windows.
1579 This helps to prevent losing your edits if the same file is being
1580 edited in another Emacs session or by another user. See the node
1581 "Interlocking" in the Emacs User Manual for the details. To disable
1582 file locking, customize `create-lockfiles' to nil.
1584 ** New Core Text based font backend for Mac OS X 10.5 and newer.
1585 GNUstep and Mac OS X 10.4 use the old font backend.
1586 To use the old backend by default, do on the command line:
1587 % defaults write org.gnu.Emacs FontBackend ns
1589 ** Improved fullscreen support on Mac OS X.
1590 Emacs supports both native (Mac OS X 10.7 and newer) and "old style" fullscreen.
1591 Customize `ns-use-native-fullscreen' to change the style.
1592 For Mac OS X 10.7 and newer, native is the default.
1594 ** On Mac OS X 10.7 and newer, Emacs uses sRGB colorspace by default.
1595 Customize `ns-use-srgb-colorspace' to disable this. Note that this
1596 does not apply to images.
1599 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
1601 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+ version 3.
1602 If you don't pass `--with-x-toolkit' to configure, or if you use
1603 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' or `--with-x-toolkit=yes', configure will try
1604 to build with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2.
1605 You can explicitly require a specific version by passing
1606 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk2' or `--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' to configure.
1608 ** New configure option `--enable-link-time-optimization', to utilize
1609 an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
1611 ** New configure option `--without-all' to disable most of the optional
1612 features (image support, etc.) that are normally enabled by default.
1614 ** New configure option `--enable-gcc-warnings' (for developing/debugging
1615 Emacs). If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that
1616 warn/give errors about possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU
1617 system there should be no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems
1618 the results may be useful to developers.
1620 ** The configure option `--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
1621 renamed to `--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
1622 Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
1623 check that this option enables.
1625 ** The configure option `--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
1626 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
1628 ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and
1629 `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed
1630 binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the
1631 etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break
1632 links between the various manuals.
1634 ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
1635 overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
1638 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
1640 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
1641 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
1644 ** The standalone scripts `rcs-checkin' and `vcdiff' have been removed
1645 (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
1646 no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
1649 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
1651 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
1652 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
1653 been adding them there, put them somewhere else; e.g., site-lisp.
1655 ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
1658 * Changes in Emacs 24.3
1662 *** `C-h f' (`describe-function') can now perform autoloading.
1663 When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
1664 contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
1665 automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
1666 correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
1668 *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
1669 even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
1670 autoloads have been redefined as functions).
1674 *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
1675 :background image specification property.
1677 *** When available, ImageMagick support is automatically enabled.
1678 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
1679 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
1680 automatically at startup, or when customizing an imagemagick- option.
1682 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
1683 ImageMagick to view images. (You must call `imagemagick-register-types'
1684 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.)
1686 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
1687 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
1688 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
1693 *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the
1694 next and previous path separator, respectively.
1696 *** `minibuffer-electric-default-mode' can shorten "(default ...)" to "[...]"
1697 in minibuffer prompts. Just set `minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default'
1698 non-nil before enabling the mode.
1702 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
1703 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
1704 that does not have its own specialized help text.
1706 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke
1707 `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
1709 ** Server and client
1711 *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice',
1712 if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit
1713 or expression to evaluate.
1715 *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key.
1717 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
1718 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
1719 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
1720 that support backtraces.
1722 ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'.
1723 This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete.
1725 ** Most `y-or-n' prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window.
1726 Typing `C-v' or `M-v' at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward
1727 respectively, without exiting from the prompt.
1729 ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new",
1730 and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
1732 ** If your Emacs was built from a repository checkout, the new variable
1733 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used.
1735 ** New option `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles.
1736 It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock
1737 files (use this with caution).
1739 ** New option `enable-remote-dir-locals', if non-nil, allows directory-local
1740 variables on remote hosts.
1742 ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
1743 The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
1745 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
1746 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
1748 ** In the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug', the `C-c m' binding
1749 has been changed to `C-c M-i' (`report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer').
1750 The previous binding, introduced in Emacs 24.1, was a mistake, because
1751 `C-c LETTER' bindings are reserved for user customizations.
1753 ** Internationalization
1755 *** New language environment: Persian.
1757 *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
1759 ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port
1761 *** Support for fullscreen and the frame parameter fullscreen.
1763 *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the
1767 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
1769 ** Search and Replace
1771 *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching.
1772 Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any
1773 sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the
1774 variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a
1775 similar existing feature for regexp Isearch.)
1777 *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching.
1778 This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch.
1780 *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'.
1781 If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too.
1784 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
1785 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
1786 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
1788 ** Navigation commands
1790 *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'.
1792 *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'.
1794 *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called
1795 interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1.
1797 ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
1798 properties on yanked text, in ways that are more general than just
1799 removing them (as is done by `yank-excluded-properties').
1801 ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether
1802 M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end
1803 of the buffer. It defaults to t.
1805 ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
1807 ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command.
1808 `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'.
1810 ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
1811 It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
1814 ** New command `C-x r M-w' (`copy-rectangle-as-kill').
1815 It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
1819 *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register'.
1821 *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing
1822 the text to put between collected texts for use with
1823 M-x append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register.
1826 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
1828 ** Common Lisp emulation (CL)
1830 *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
1831 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly;
1832 i.e., all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions
1833 use the "cl--" prefix).
1835 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib'
1836 provides it under the name `cl-foo' instead; with the exceptions of the
1837 few `cl' definitions that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with
1838 pre-existing Elisp entities. These have been renamed to `cl-foo'
1839 rather than `cl-foo*'.
1841 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is mainly just a bunch of aliases that
1842 provide the old, non-prefixed names. Some exceptions are listed below:
1844 *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
1845 Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
1846 In particular, in cl-flet function definitions are lexically scoped,
1847 whereas in flet the scoping is dynamic.
1849 *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
1850 The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery
1851 (as opposed to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture
1852 definitions in closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding'
1855 *** `cl-letf' is not exactly like `letf'.
1856 The only difference is in details that relate to some deprecated usage
1857 of `symbol-function' in place forms.
1859 *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
1860 A side effect is that variables without corresponding values are bound
1861 to nil rather than being made unbound.
1863 *** The following methods of extending `setf' are obsolete
1864 (use features from gv.el instead):
1865 `define-modify-macro' (use `gv-letplace')
1866 `defsetf' (use `gv-define-simple-setter' or `gv-define-setter')
1867 `define-setf-expander' (use `gv-define-setter' or `gv-define-expander')
1868 `get-setf-method' no longer exists (see "Incompatible Lisp Changes")
1872 *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in
1873 modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces
1874 `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed', and new definition
1875 of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added'
1876 and `smerge-refined-added', and new definition of `diff-added').
1878 *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the
1879 face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight
1880 changes in context diffs.
1882 *** The new command `diff-delete-trailing-whitespace' removes trailing
1883 whitespace introduced by a diff.
1885 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode.
1889 A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
1890 per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
1891 shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
1894 *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed, including (old -> new):
1895 **** python-indent -> python-indent-offset
1896 **** python-guess-indent -> python-indent-guess-indent-offset
1897 **** python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p -> python-pdbtrack-activate
1898 **** python-use-skeletons -> python-skeleton-autoinsert
1900 *** Some user options have been removed, including:
1902 **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
1904 **** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
1905 Comments are always considered as indentation markers.
1907 **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
1908 calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
1910 **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
1911 Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
1913 **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
1914 Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
1916 **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
1917 `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
1920 *** Some commands have been replaced (old -> new):
1921 **** python-insert-class -> python-skeleton-class
1922 **** python-insert-def -> python-skeleton-def
1923 **** python-insert-for -> python-skeleton-for
1924 **** python-insert-if -> python-skeleton-if
1925 **** python-insert-try/except -> python-skeleton-try
1926 **** python-insert-try/finally -> python-skeleton-try
1927 **** python-insert-while -> python-skeleton-while
1928 **** python-find-function -> python-nav-jump-to-defun
1929 **** python-next-statement -> python-nav-forward-sentence
1930 **** python-previous-statement -> python-nav-backward-sentence
1931 **** python-beginning-of-defun-function -> python-nav-beginning-of-defun
1932 **** python-end-of-defun-function -> python-nav-end-of-defun
1933 **** python-send-buffer -> python-shell-send-buffer
1934 **** python-send-defun -> python-shell-send-defun
1935 **** python-send-region -> python-shell-send-region
1936 **** python-send-region-and-go -> emulate with python-shell-send-region
1937 and python-shell-switch-to-shell
1938 **** python-send-string -> python-shell-send-string
1939 **** python-switch-to-python -> python-shell-switch-to-shell
1940 **** python-describe-symbol -> python-eldoc-at-point
1944 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
1946 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
1948 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
1949 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
1951 *** The function `dbus-call-method' is now non-blocking.
1952 It can be interrupted by `C-g'. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
1954 *** Signals can also be sent as unicast messages.
1956 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
1957 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus.
1959 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
1961 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
1963 ** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory.
1964 Desktop files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
1968 *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
1969 if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
1970 Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
1972 *** Typing `M-n' in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp',
1973 `dired-do-chown', and `dired-do-touch' yanks the attributes of the
1976 *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'),
1977 `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), and `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion')
1978 mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region.
1980 *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff') has changed.
1981 It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists.
1982 In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark.
1984 *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers.
1985 The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect.
1989 *** New module "notifications", which can send a notification when you
1990 receive a private message or your nickname is mentioned.
1992 *** ERC will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use any
1995 *** New option `erc-lurker-hide-list', similar to `erc-hide-list', but
1996 only applies to messages sent by lurkers.
1998 ** reStructuredText mode
2000 *** Keybindings (see `C-c C-h'), TAB indentation, filling and auto-filling,
2001 fontification, comment handling, and customization have all been revised
2004 *** Support for `imenu' and `which-function-mode'.
2006 *** The reStructuredText syntax is more closely covered.
2007 Sphinx support has been improved.
2009 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
2011 *** A negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
2013 *** The window configuration is reset after displaying a TOC.
2015 *** The constant `rst-version' describes the rst.el package version.
2019 *** Support for percent literals and recognition of regular expressions
2020 in method calls without parentheses with more methods, including Cucumber
2023 *** Improved syntax highlighting and indentation.
2025 *** New command `ruby-toggle-block', bound to `C-c {'.
2027 *** Some non-standard keybindings/commands have been removed:
2029 **** `ruby-electric-brace'; use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
2031 **** `ruby-mark-defun'; use `mark-defun'.
2033 **** `ruby-beginning-of-defun' and `ruby-end-of-defun' are replaced by
2034 appropriate settings for the variables `beginning-of-defun-function'
2035 and `end-of-defun-function'.
2037 **** Non-standard keybindings for `backward-kill-word', `comment-region',
2038 `reindent-then-newline-and-indent' and `newline' have been removed.
2040 ** Shell Script mode
2042 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses `electric-pair-mode' instead of skeleton-pair.
2044 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
2046 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
2050 *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
2052 *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
2054 *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
2056 *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
2060 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
2061 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
2062 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
2064 *** The old options whose values specified faces to use have been removed
2065 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', `apropos-label-face',
2066 `apropos-match-face' and `apropos-property-face'.).
2070 *** This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
2072 *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
2073 Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
2077 *** Algebraic simplification mode is now the default.
2078 To restrict to the limited simplifications given by the former
2079 default simplification mode, use `m I'.
2083 *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month.
2084 See the variable `calendar-month-header'.
2086 *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'.
2088 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
2089 Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this.
2093 *** The major modes from the parser generators "Bovine" and "Wisent"
2094 are now properly integrated in Emacs. The file suffixes ".by" and ".wy"
2095 are in `auto-mode-alist', and the corresponding manuals are included.
2099 **** Menu support for the "Configuration" feature. This allows users to
2100 choose the active configuration (such as debug or install) from the menu.
2102 **** New command `ede-set' to interactively set project-local variables.
2104 **** Support for compiling, debugging, and running in "generic" projects.
2106 **** Autoconf editing support for M4 macros with complex arguments.
2108 **** Compilation support for the "linux" project type.
2110 **** "simple" projects have been removed; use "generic" projects instead.
2114 **** Support for parsing #include statements inside a namespace in C/C++.
2116 **** Improved support for 'extern "C"' declarations in C/C++.
2118 **** The ability to ignore more common special C/C++ preprocessor symbols,
2119 such as '__nonnull' and '__asm'. Add '__cplusplus' macro when parsing C++.
2120 If available, include cdefs.h as an additional source of preprocessor symbols.
2122 **** Improved C/C++ function pointer parsing.
2124 **** In Python, support for converting imports to include file names.
2126 **** Ability to dynamically determine the Python load path.
2128 **** Support for the Python 'WITH' and 'AT' keywords.
2130 **** Improved tooltip completion.
2134 **** The SRecode manual is now included.
2136 **** Tag generation supports constructor/destructor settings and system
2137 include differentiation.
2139 **** Addition of 'Framework' support: Frameworks are specified when a
2140 particular kind of library (such as Android) is needed in a common language
2143 **** Support for nested templates and let variables override based on priority.
2145 **** Support for merging tables from multiple related modes, such as
2146 default -> c++ -> arduino.
2148 ** Compile has a new option `compilation-always-kill'.
2152 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
2154 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
2155 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e., the prefix argument does nothing for
2156 these commands now).
2160 *** The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color'
2161 are now deprecated in favor of the customizable face `term'.
2163 *** You can customize how to display ANSI terminal colors and styles
2164 by customizing the corresponding `term-color-<COLOR>',
2165 `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold' faces.
2169 *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy definitions.
2171 *** Remote processes are now also supported on remote MS-Windows hosts.
2175 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
2176 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
2177 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
2178 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components,
2179 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
2181 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
2182 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
2183 in case that is not properly encoded.
2185 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
2186 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
2189 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
2190 See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and
2191 `flymake-warning-bitmap'.
2193 ** The FFAP option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
2194 specifying URL types that should be converted to remote file names at
2195 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
2197 ** New Ibuffer `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'.
2198 The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'.
2200 ** New option `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' specifies where the
2201 `banish' mouse avoidance setting moves the mouse.
2203 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
2204 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
2206 ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes.
2208 ** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies the buffer to use
2209 for a new asynchronous `shell-command' when the default output buffer
2210 `*Async Shell Command*' is already in use.
2212 ** SQL mode has a new option `sql-db2-escape-newlines'.
2213 If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped
2214 by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes
2215 that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon.
2217 ** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S' in Tabulated List mode
2218 (and modes that derive from it), sorts the column at point, or the Nth
2219 column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
2221 ** `which-func-modes' now defaults to t, so Which Function mode, when
2222 enabled, applies to all applicable major modes.
2224 ** `winner-mode-hook' now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when
2227 ** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
2228 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
2230 ** `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'.
2232 ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix:
2233 *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions
2234 *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions
2235 *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions
2236 *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions
2237 *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions
2238 *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions
2239 *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook
2240 *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions
2241 *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions
2242 *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions
2243 *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions
2244 *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions
2245 *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions
2246 *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions
2247 *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions
2248 *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook
2249 *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook
2250 *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook
2251 *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions
2252 *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions
2253 *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions
2254 *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions
2256 ** Obsolete packages
2259 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
2260 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
2261 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
2270 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
2272 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
2273 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
2274 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
2275 `custom-variable-p'.
2277 ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
2278 and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, `defun' and
2279 `defmacro' currently return the name of the newly defined
2280 function/macro, but this should not be relied upon.
2282 ** `random' by default now returns a different random sequence in
2283 every Emacs run. Use `(random S)', where S is a string, to set the
2284 random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
2285 sequence in later calls.
2287 ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
2288 that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
2289 non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
2291 ** `select-window' now always makes the window's buffer current.
2292 It does so even if the window was selected before.
2294 ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
2295 font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
2296 depends on the graphical library.
2298 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
2299 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
2301 ** `set-buffer-multibyte' now signals an error in narrowed buffers.
2303 ** The CL package's `get-setf-method' function no longer exists.
2304 Generalized variables are now part of core Emacs Lisp, and implemented
2305 differently to the way cl.el used to do it. It is not possible to
2306 define a compatible replacement for `get-setf-method'. See the file
2307 gv.el for internal details of the new implementation.
2309 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
2310 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
2311 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
2313 ** Miscellaneous name changes
2314 Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to correct their spelling,
2315 or to be more consistent with standard Emacs terminology.
2317 *** Renamed functions
2318 **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
2319 **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
2320 **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
2321 **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
2322 **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
2323 **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
2324 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
2325 **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
2328 The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
2329 are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
2330 **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
2331 **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
2332 **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
2334 *** Renamed variables
2335 **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
2336 **** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
2337 deactivate-current-input-method-function
2339 ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed:
2340 *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char'
2341 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
2342 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
2343 *** `iswitchb-read-buffer'
2344 *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report'
2345 *** `set-char-table-default'
2346 *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector')
2347 *** `compile-internal'
2349 *** `mode-line-inverse-video'
2350 *** `follow-mode-off-hook'
2351 *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline'
2352 (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead)
2353 *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs'
2354 (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead)
2355 *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name'
2356 *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
2357 *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
2358 *** `vc-checkout-carefully'
2361 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
2363 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
2364 `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
2365 You can define your own generalized variables using `gv-define-simple-setter',
2366 `gv-define-setter', etc.
2368 ** Emacs tries to macroexpand interpreted (non-compiled) files during load.
2369 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code,
2370 but can also bump into previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
2371 These are generally harmless: they will simply cause the macro calls
2372 to be left for later expansion (as before), but will result in a
2373 warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle") describing the cycle.
2374 You may wish to restructure your code so this does not happen.
2376 ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
2377 Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report.
2378 When finished, use M-x profiler-stop. The sampling rate can be based on
2379 CPU time or memory allocations.
2381 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
2382 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
2384 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
2386 ** Face underlining can now use a wave.
2388 ** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT
2389 of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its
2390 second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via `M-n'
2391 in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values.
2392 More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments.
2396 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
2397 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
2399 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
2400 table, but with a different prefix.
2404 *** New error type and new function `user-error'.
2405 These do not trigger the debugger.
2407 *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill', saying what to do with the
2408 debugger buffer when exiting debug.
2410 *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
2411 message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
2412 to work out which code is doing something.
2414 *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental
2415 recursive invocations.
2419 *** New command `fit-frame-to-buffer' adjusts the frame height to
2422 *** The command `fit-window-to-buffer' can adjust the frame height
2423 if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil.
2425 *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window', similar to
2426 `with-output-to-temp-buffer'.
2428 *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been
2431 *** New option `switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' to restore a
2432 window's point when switching buffers.
2434 *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width'
2435 specify the size of new windows created by `display-buffer'.
2437 *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
2438 non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
2440 *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
2441 tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
2444 *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil,
2445 specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
2447 *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected',
2448 and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
2450 *** The functions `get-lru-window', `get-mru-window' and `get-largest-window'
2451 now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
2453 *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'.
2455 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
2456 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
2458 **** `dired-shrink-to-fit'
2459 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
2460 **** `display-buffer-function'
2461 **** `special-display-buffer-names'
2462 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
2463 **** `special-display-function'
2464 **** `special-display-regexps'
2468 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
2469 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
2470 by the underlying C implementation.
2472 *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
2473 (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds.
2474 PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other
2475 functions that use this format, such as `file-attributes' and
2476 `format-time-string', have been changed accordingly. Old-format time
2477 stamps are still accepted.
2479 *** The format of timers in `timer-list' and `timer-idle-list' is now
2480 [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS].
2481 The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be
2482 accessed via the new `timer--psecs' accessor.
2484 *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form
2485 (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS).
2489 *** Improved security when handling persistent objects:
2491 **** `eieio-persistent-read' now features optional arguments for specifying
2492 the class to load, as well as a flag stating whether subclasses are allowed;
2493 if provided, other classes will be rejected by the reader. For
2494 compatibility with existing code, if the class is omitted only a
2497 **** New specialized reader for pulling in classes and signaling errors
2498 without evaluation of suspicious code.
2500 **** All slots that contain objects must have a :type. Slots with lists
2501 of objects must use a new type predicate for a list of an object type.
2503 *** Support for `find-function' and similar utilities, through the addition
2504 of filename support to generated symbols.
2506 ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN,
2507 instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args; e.g., (log -1.0).
2508 Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
2509 on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt,
2510 log, log10, sqrt, and mod.
2512 ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'.
2514 ** Miscellaneous changes to special forms and macros
2516 *** `defun' and `defmacro' are now macros rather than special forms.
2518 *** `kbd' is now a function rather than a macro.
2520 ** Miscellaneous new functions
2522 *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary keymap that
2523 takes precedence over most other maps for a short while (normally one key).
2525 *** `autoloadp' tests if its argument is an autoloaded object.
2527 *** `autoload-do-load' performs the autoloading operation.
2529 *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed.
2531 *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension.
2533 *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases.
2535 *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'.
2537 *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system.
2539 *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system.
2541 *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
2543 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
2544 *** `automount-dir-prefix' (use `directory-abbrev-alist')
2545 *** `buffer-has-markers-at'
2546 *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist')
2547 *** `window-system-version' (provides no useful information)
2548 *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up')
2549 *** `query-replace-interactive'
2550 *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23)
2553 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on Non-Free Operating Systems
2555 ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface.
2556 Pass `--with-w32' to configure. The default remains the X11 interface.
2558 ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds:
2559 `cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows' and
2560 `cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows'. These functions allow Lisp
2561 code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping machinery to convert
2562 between Cygwin and Windows-native file and directory names.
2564 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
2565 Emacs now supports `mouse-highlight', help-echo (in the echo area), and
2566 `mouse-autoselect-window'.
2568 ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
2570 ** On MS Windows, you can pass `--without-libxml2' to configure.bat to omit
2571 support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected.
2573 ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later.
2575 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink "/sw"
2576 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
2579 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
2581 ** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
2584 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
2586 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
2587 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
2588 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
2591 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
2592 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
2593 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
2594 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
2596 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
2597 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
2598 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
2599 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
2601 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
2602 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
2603 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
2604 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
2605 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
2607 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
2608 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
2609 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
2610 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
2612 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
2613 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
2615 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
2616 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
2617 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
2620 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
2621 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
2622 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
2624 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
2625 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
2626 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
2628 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
2629 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
2631 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
2632 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
2635 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
2637 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
2638 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
2639 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
2641 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
2642 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
2643 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
2647 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
2651 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
2652 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
2654 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
2656 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
2657 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
2659 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
2661 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
2662 default completion style in certain circumstances.
2664 *** New completion style `substring'.
2666 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
2668 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
2672 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
2673 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
2674 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
2675 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
2676 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
2677 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
2679 *** Typing `C-c m' in the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug'
2680 transfers the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there
2681 is one. This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open"
2684 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
2685 and Mail mode changes
2687 ** Emacs server and client changes
2689 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
2691 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
2693 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
2694 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
2696 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
2697 its exit status is 1.
2699 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
2700 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
2701 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
2703 ** Internationalization changes
2705 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
2706 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
2707 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
2708 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
2709 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
2710 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
2712 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
2713 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
2715 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
2716 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
2717 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
2718 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
2721 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
2722 the right window edge.
2724 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
2725 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
2726 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
2727 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
2728 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
2730 *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
2731 (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
2733 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
2734 (U+2010 and U+2011).
2736 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
2737 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
2738 automatically select it.
2740 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
2741 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
2742 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
2744 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
2745 selected for installation.
2747 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
2749 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
2750 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
2751 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
2753 ** Custom theme changes
2755 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
2756 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
2758 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
2759 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
2760 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
2761 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
2762 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
2763 built-in Custom themes.
2765 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
2766 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
2767 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
2768 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
2770 ** Improved GTK integration
2772 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
2773 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
2775 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
2776 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
2777 the default is taken from desktop settings.
2779 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
2780 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
2781 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
2784 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
2785 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
2787 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
2788 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
2790 ** Graphical interface changes
2792 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
2793 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
2794 displayed as a space.
2796 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
2797 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
2799 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
2800 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
2801 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
2805 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
2806 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
2808 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
2809 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
2810 do the right thing in batch mode.
2812 ** Scrolling changes
2814 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
2815 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
2816 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
2817 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
2819 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
2821 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
2822 scroll a line instead of full screen.
2824 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
2825 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
2827 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
2828 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
2829 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
2830 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
2831 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
2833 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
2834 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
2835 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
2836 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
2839 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
2840 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
2842 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
2843 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
2844 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
2845 now includes the SELinux context.
2847 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
2848 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
2852 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
2853 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
2855 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
2856 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
2858 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
2860 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
2861 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
2862 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
2865 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
2866 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
2867 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
2868 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
2869 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
2871 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
2872 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
2874 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
2875 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
2876 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
2877 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
2882 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
2883 in the quitted window.
2885 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
2886 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
2888 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
2890 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
2891 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
2892 for choosing the displaying window).
2894 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
2895 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
2897 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
2898 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
2900 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
2901 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
2902 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
2903 from which such space was obtained.
2905 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
2906 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
2907 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
2908 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
2909 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
2911 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
2912 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
2913 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
2915 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
2916 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
2918 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
2919 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
2920 been shown in a specific window.
2922 ** Minibuffer changes
2924 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
2925 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
2926 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
2928 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
2929 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
2930 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
2932 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
2934 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
2936 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
2937 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
2938 successful operation.
2940 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
2941 for `list-colors-display'.
2943 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
2946 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
2950 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
2951 `isearch-yank-line'.
2953 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
2954 `isearch-yank-kill'.
2956 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
2958 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
2960 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
2961 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
2962 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
2963 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
2966 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
2967 also deletes newlines around point.
2971 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
2972 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
2973 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
2976 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
2977 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
2978 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
2980 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
2981 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
2982 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
2983 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
2985 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
2987 ** Selection changes.
2989 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
2990 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
2991 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
2992 mouse commands use the primary selection.
2994 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
2995 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
2997 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
2998 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
2999 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
3000 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
3002 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
3003 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
3004 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
3005 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
3006 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
3008 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
3010 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
3011 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
3012 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
3014 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
3016 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
3017 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
3018 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
3020 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
3021 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
3023 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
3024 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
3025 between applications.
3027 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
3029 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
3030 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
3031 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
3032 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
3033 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
3035 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
3037 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
3038 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
3040 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
3041 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
3042 number to count from and for a format string.
3044 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
3045 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
3046 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
3047 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
3048 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
3050 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
3051 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
3052 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
3053 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
3054 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
3056 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
3057 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
3058 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
3059 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
3060 follows `replace-match'.
3063 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
3065 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
3069 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
3070 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
3071 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
3072 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
3074 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
3076 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
3078 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
3082 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
3084 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
3085 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
3089 *** Support for musical notes.
3091 *** Support for logarithmic units.
3093 *** No longer uses the tex prefix for TeX specific unit names when
3094 using TeX or LaTeX mode.
3096 *** New option to highlight selections using faces.
3098 *** `calc-histogram' has the option of using a vector to determine the bins.
3100 *** New "O" option prefix.
3102 *** Use the "O" prefix to "d r" (`calc-radix') to turn on twos-complement mode.
3104 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
3106 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
3107 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
3109 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
3110 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
3112 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
3113 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
3114 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
3116 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
3118 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
3119 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
3121 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
3122 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
3123 Use `appt-activate' instead.
3125 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
3126 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
3127 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
3129 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
3130 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
3134 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
3135 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
3137 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
3139 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
3140 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
3143 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
3144 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
3145 parsed as a statement continuation.
3147 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
3151 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
3152 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
3154 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
3155 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
3156 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
3158 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
3159 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
3160 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
3165 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
3166 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
3167 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
3169 *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
3170 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
3172 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
3174 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
3175 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
3179 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
3182 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
3183 optionally do not register names.
3185 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
3186 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
3190 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
3191 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
3192 instead of using the current buffer.
3194 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
3195 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
3199 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
3200 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
3202 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
3203 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
3204 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
3205 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
3209 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
3210 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
3211 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
3215 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
3216 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
3217 debugging of several threads.
3221 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
3222 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
3226 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
3227 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
3228 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
3229 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
3230 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
3232 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
3233 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
3234 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
3237 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
3239 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
3241 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
3242 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
3243 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
3245 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
3246 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
3248 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
3250 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
3252 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
3253 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
3254 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
3255 default), this performs tag completion.
3257 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
3258 See ORG-NEWS for details.
3260 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
3261 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
3262 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
3266 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
3267 in the Rmail incoming message.
3269 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
3270 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
3271 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
3275 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
3276 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
3277 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
3279 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
3280 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
3284 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
3285 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
3286 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
3289 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
3290 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
3291 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
3292 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
3293 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
3294 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
3295 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
3296 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
3298 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
3299 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
3301 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
3303 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
3305 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
3306 the credentials file.
3308 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
3309 If you had that set, you need to put
3311 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
3313 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
3315 *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
3316 SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
3317 to the address you wish to use instead.
3321 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
3322 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
3324 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
3325 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
3326 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
3327 connection is established.
3329 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
3330 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
3332 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
3333 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
3334 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
3335 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
3337 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
3338 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
3339 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
3340 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
3341 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
3342 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
3344 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
3345 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
3347 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
3348 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
3349 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
3351 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
3352 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
3354 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
3358 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
3362 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
3364 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
3365 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
3367 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
3368 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
3370 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
3371 default value to "".
3373 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
3374 for remote machines which support SELinux.
3376 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
3377 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
3378 the degree of parallelism.
3380 ** VC and related modes
3382 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
3383 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
3384 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
3385 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
3386 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
3388 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
3390 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
3391 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
3392 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
3393 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
3394 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
3396 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
3397 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
3399 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
3400 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
3401 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
3402 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
3403 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
3404 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
3406 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
3407 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
3409 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
3410 this was not advertised at the time.
3412 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
3413 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
3414 this was not advertised at the time.
3420 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
3422 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
3423 You can get a comparable behavior with:
3424 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
3425 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
3427 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
3429 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
3431 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
3433 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
3434 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
3436 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
3440 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
3441 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
3443 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
3444 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
3446 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
3448 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
3450 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
3453 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
3455 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
3456 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
3458 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
3459 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
3460 matching closing one.
3462 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
3463 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
3464 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
3465 electric-indent-functions.
3467 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
3468 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
3469 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
3471 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
3472 from which other modes can be derived.
3474 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
3476 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
3477 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
3478 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
3479 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
3482 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
3483 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
3485 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
3486 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
3488 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
3490 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
3491 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
3492 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
3493 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
3494 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
3495 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
3498 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
3500 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
3501 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
3503 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
3505 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
3506 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
3507 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
3508 command still toggles the minor mode.
3510 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
3511 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
3512 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
3513 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
3514 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
3516 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
3517 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
3518 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
3519 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
3520 argument `bidi-class'.
3522 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
3523 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
3524 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
3525 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
3527 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
3528 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
3529 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
3532 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
3533 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
3534 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
3535 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
3536 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
3537 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
3538 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
3540 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
3541 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
3542 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
3543 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
3546 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
3547 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
3548 replaced all known uses.
3550 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
3551 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
3552 major mode is special).
3554 ** Menu and tool bar changes
3556 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
3557 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
3558 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
3559 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
3560 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
3561 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
3563 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
3564 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
3566 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
3567 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
3568 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
3569 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
3571 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
3572 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
3573 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
3575 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
3577 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
3578 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
3579 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
3581 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
3582 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
3583 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
3584 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
3585 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
3586 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
3587 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
3588 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
3589 *** `x-make-font-bold' and `x-make-font-demibold' (`make-face-bold')
3590 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
3591 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
3592 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
3593 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
3594 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
3595 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
3596 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
3597 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
3598 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
3599 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
3600 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
3601 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
3603 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
3604 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
3606 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
3607 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
3608 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
3609 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
3610 *** `e' (`float-e').
3612 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
3613 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
3615 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
3616 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
3617 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
3618 `finder-keywords-hash'.
3620 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
3621 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
3622 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
3625 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
3627 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
3628 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
3629 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
3630 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
3633 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
3634 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
3636 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
3637 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
3639 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
3641 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
3642 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
3644 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
3645 declared as dynamically bound.
3647 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
3649 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
3650 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
3651 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
3653 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
3655 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
3656 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
3658 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
3659 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
3660 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
3661 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
3662 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
3663 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
3665 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
3666 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
3667 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
3671 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
3672 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
3673 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
3674 buffer) in the window tree.
3676 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
3679 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
3680 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
3681 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
3682 act on any window including internal ones.
3684 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
3685 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
3686 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
3687 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
3688 and `window-body-height' are provided.
3690 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
3691 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
3692 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
3693 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
3694 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
3696 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
3697 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
3698 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
3699 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
3700 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
3701 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
3703 *** Window resizing functions.
3704 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
3705 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
3706 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
3708 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
3709 live window on that frame instead.
3711 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
3712 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
3713 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
3714 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
3715 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
3716 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
3718 *** Window-local buffer lists.
3719 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
3720 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
3721 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
3722 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
3723 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
3725 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
3726 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
3727 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
3728 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
3730 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
3731 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
3732 The old names are kept as aliases.
3736 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
3737 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
3738 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
3739 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
3741 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
3743 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
3744 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
3745 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
3746 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
3747 are user-customizable variables.
3749 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
3751 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
3752 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
3753 frame or window as an Elisp object.
3757 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
3758 properties of the current completion:
3759 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
3760 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
3762 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
3763 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
3765 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
3767 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
3768 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
3769 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
3770 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
3771 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
3772 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
3773 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
3775 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
3776 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
3777 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
3779 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
3780 behavior of `completing-read'.
3782 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
3783 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
3785 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
3786 Instead, the offending function is removed.
3790 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
3791 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
3792 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
3793 non-nil return value.
3795 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
3796 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
3797 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
3798 advertised at the time.)
3802 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
3803 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
3805 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
3807 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
3809 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
3810 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
3811 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
3813 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
3814 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
3816 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
3817 named Emacs server instances.
3819 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
3820 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
3822 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
3823 for higher-resolution time stamps.
3825 ** New input reading functions
3827 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
3828 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
3830 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
3831 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
3834 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
3836 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
3837 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
3838 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
3841 ** Syntax parsing changes
3843 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
3844 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
3845 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
3846 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
3847 Together with this new variable come a new hook
3848 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
3849 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
3850 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
3853 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
3855 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
3857 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
3859 ** Major and minor mode changes
3861 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
3862 as well as those in the -*- line.
3864 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
3867 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
3868 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
3869 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
3871 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
3872 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
3874 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
3875 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
3876 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
3878 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
3880 ** File-handling changes
3882 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
3883 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
3884 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
3885 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
3887 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
3889 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
3890 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
3891 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
3895 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
3897 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
3899 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
3901 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
3904 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
3905 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
3907 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
3908 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
3910 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
3911 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
3912 ImageMagick installation supports.
3914 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
3915 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
3918 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
3919 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
3921 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
3922 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
3923 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
3924 `image-transform-set-scale'.
3926 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
3927 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
3928 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
3929 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
3931 ** XML and HTML parsing
3932 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
3933 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
3934 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
3935 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
3937 ** Networking and encryption changes
3939 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
3940 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
3941 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
3942 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
3943 must also be supplied.
3945 *** New library gnutls.el.
3946 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
3947 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
3948 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
3949 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
3950 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
3951 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
3954 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
3955 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
3956 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
3960 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
3962 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
3963 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
3964 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
3965 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
3966 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
3967 displayed with a "spinning bar".
3969 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
3970 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
3972 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
3973 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
3974 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
3975 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
3976 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
3977 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
3979 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
3981 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
3982 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
3983 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
3984 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
3986 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
3987 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
3989 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
3990 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
3991 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
3992 an empty uninterned symbol.
3994 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
3996 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
3998 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
3999 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
4001 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
4002 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
4004 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
4006 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
4007 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
4009 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
4012 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
4014 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
4015 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
4017 ** New configure.bat options
4019 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
4021 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
4023 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
4025 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
4027 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
4029 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
4030 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
4032 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
4033 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
4035 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
4036 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
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4047 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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