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+Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
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+* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.4
+
+** The MS-Windows build prefers libpng version 1.14 or later.
+Versions of libpng before 1.14 had security issues, so we now
+recommend to use version 1.14 or later. Precompiled Windows binaries
+require version 1.14 or later. See README.W32 and nt/INSTALL for
+details and pointers to URLs where the latest libpng can be
+downloaded.
+
+* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.4
+
+** EDE
+
+*** New variable `ede-project-directories'.
+EDE now refuses to automatically load a project file (Project.ede)
+unless the file is in one of the directories specified by this
+variable. This reduces the risk of inadvertently loading malicious
+project files. The commands `M-x ede-new' and `M-x ede' now offer to
+save directories to `ede-project-directories'.
+
+* Changes in Emacs 23.4 on non-free operating systems
+
+** The MS-Windows port can now use more than 500MB of heap.
+Depending on the available virtual memory, Emacs on Windows can now
+have up to 2GB of heap space. This allows, e.g., visiting several
+large (> 256MB) files in the same session.
+
+\f
* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.3
-* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.3
+** New configure option --with-crt-dir specifies the location of your
+crt*.o files, if they are in a non-standard location. This is only
+used on x86-64 and s390x GNU/Linux architectures.
* Changes in Emacs 23.3
-** The nextstep port can have different modifiers for the left and right
-alt/option key by customizing the value for ns-right-alternate-modifier.
+** The last-resort backup file `%backup%~' is now written to
+`user-emacs-directory', instead of the user's home directory.
-\f
-* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.3
+** If Emacs creates `user-emacs-directory', that directory's
+permissions are now set to rwx------, ignoring the umask.
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* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.3
----
-** The appt-add command takes an optional argument for the warning time.
+** Calendar and diary
+
+*** The appt-add command takes an optional argument, the warning time.
This can be used in place of the default appt-message-warning-time.
+** Python mode
+
+*** You can allow inferior Python processes to load modules from the
+current directory by setting `python-remove-cwd-from-path' to nil.
+
+** Rmail
+
+*** The default value of `rmail-enable-mime' is now t. Rmail decodes
+MIME contents automatically. You can customize the variable
+`rmail-enable-mime' back to `nil' to disable this automatic MIME
+decoding.
+
+*** The command `rmail-mime' change the displaying of a MIME message
+between decoded presentation form and raw data if `rmail-enable-mime'
+is non-nil. And, with prefix argument, it change only the displaying
+of the MIME entity at point.
+
+*** The new command `rmail-mime-next-item' (bound to TAB) moves point
+to the next item of MIME message.
+
+*** The new command `rmail-mime-previous-item' (bound to backtab) moves
+point to the previous item of MIME message.
+
+*** The new command `rmail-mime-toggle-hidden' (RET) hide or show the
+body of the MIME entity at point.
+
+** VC and related modes
+
+*** New VC command `vc-log-incoming', bound to `C-x v I'.
+This shows a log of changes to be received with a pull operation.
+For Git, this runs "git fetch" to make the necessary data available
+locally; this requires version 1.7 or newer.
+
+*** New VC command `vc-log-outgoing', bound to `C-x v O'.
+This shows a log of changes to be sent in the next commit.
+
+*** New VC command vc-find-conflicted-file.
+
+*** The 'g' key in VC diff, log, log-incoming and log-outgoing buffers
+reruns the corresponding VC command to compute an up to date version
+of the buffer.
+
+*** vc-dir for Bzr supports viewing shelve contents and shelving snapshots.
+
+*** Special markup can be added to log-edit buffers.
+You can add headers specifying additional information to be supplied
+to the version control system. For example:
+
+ Author: J. R. Hacker <jrh@example.com>
+ Fixes: 4204
+ Actual text of log entry...
+
+Bazaar recognizes the headers "Author", "Date" and "Fixes".
+Git, Mercurial, and Monotone recognize "Author" and "Date".
+Any unknown header is left as is in the message, so it is not lost.
+
+** Obsolete packages
+
+*** lmenu.el and cl-compat.el are now obsolete.
+
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* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.3
+** smie.el is a generic navigation and indentation engine.
+It takes a simple BNF description of the grammar, and provides both
+sexp-style navigation (jumping over begin..end pairs) as well as
+indentation, which can be adjusted via ad-hoc indentation rules.
+
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* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.3
+** posn-col-row now excludes the header line from the row count
+If the frame has a header line, posn-col-row will count row numbers
+starting from the first line of text below the header line.
+
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* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.3
** `e' and `pi' are now called `float-e' and `float-pi'.
The old names are obsolete.
-** The use of unintern without an obarray arg is declared obsolete.
+
+** The use of unintern without an obarray arg is now obsolete.
+
+** The function `princ-list' is now obsolete.
+
+** The yank-handler argument to kill-region and friends is now obsolete.
** New function byte-to-string, like char-to-string but for bytes.
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* Changes in Emacs 23.3 on non-free operating systems
+** The NeXTstep port can have different modifiers for the left and right
+alt/option key by customizing the value for ns-right-alternate-modifier.
+
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* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.2
*** Emacs now supports multi-page TIFF images.
-** New NeXTSTEP-based port.
+** New NeXTstep-based port.
This provides support for GNUstep (via the GNUstep libraries) and Mac
OS X (via the Cocoa libraries).
nextstep/README and nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory.
** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon.
-Use the NeXTSTEP port, described above.
+Use the NeXTstep port, described above.
** The new configuration option "--with-dbus" enables D-Bus language
bindings for Emacs.
terminal frames using emacsclient.
**** emacsclient starts emacs in daemon mode and connects to it when
---alternate-editor="" is used (or when the evironment variable
+--alternate-editor="" is used (or when the environment variable
ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set to "") and emacsclient cannot connect to an
emacs server.
*** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets.
See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently
-as tables of unicodes.
+as tables of Unicode code points.
*** There are new language environments for Chinese-GBK,
Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu,
*** The mode-line tooltips have been improved to provide more details.
-*** The VC, line/colum number and minor mode indicators on the mode
+*** The VC, line/column number and minor mode indicators on the mode
line are now interactive: mouse-1 can be used on them to pop up a menu.
** File deletion can make use of the Recycle Bin or system Trash folder.
region, similar to mouse-selection.
*** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or
-mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command.
-They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not
+mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated after the next command.
+They are deactivated only after point motion commands that are not
shift-translated, or after commands that would ordinarily deactivate
the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the
buffer).
matches a regexp.
*** The value of comment-style now defaults to `indent'.
-Thefore, comment-start markers are inserted at the current indentation
+Therefore, comment-start markers are inserted at the current indentation
of the region to comment, rather than the leftmost column.
*** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and
PDF and DVI files are now opened in Doc View mode by default.
-In Postcript mode, C-c C-c launches Doc View minor mode for viewing
-the postscript file.
+In PostScript mode, C-c C-c launches Doc View minor mode for viewing
+the PostScript file.
** EasyPG provides an interface to the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG).
It includes a GnuPG keyring browser, cryptographic operations on
When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote
file copy is checked via the file's checksum.
-*** Passwords can be read from an authentification file.
+*** Passwords can be read from an authentication file.
Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if
necessary.
*** hide-ifdef-mode allows shadowing ifdef-blocks instead of hiding them.
See option `hide-ifdef-shadow' and function `hide-ifdef-toggle-shadowing'.
-*** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supercedes `icomplete-prospects-length'.
+*** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supersedes `icomplete-prospects-length'.
*** Info displays breadcrumbs in the header of the page.
See Info-breadcrumbs-depth to control it.
** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows.
The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus
-on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode
+on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full Unicode
support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts. A
rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time
and developers. If demand still exists for such a backend even with
*** New keymap `search-map' bound to `M-s' provides global bindings
for search related commands.
-*** New keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additonal keys bound
+*** New keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additional keys bound
to `automatic-all' and `exit-current' for multi-buffer interactive replacement.
*** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents
mode: outline
paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
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