** Directories passed to configure option `--enable-locallisppath' are
no longer created during installation.
+** Emacs can be compiled with zlib support. If this library is present
+(which it normally is on most systems), the function
+`zlib-decompress-region' becomes available, which can decompress gzip-
+and zlib-format compressed data.
+
---
** Emacs for NS (OSX, GNUStep) can be built with ImageMagick support.
pkg-config is required to find ImageMagick libraries.
** Key ? also describes prefix bindings like C-h.
++++
+** `cache-long-line-scans' has been renamed to `cache-long-scans'
+because it affects caching of paragraph scanning results as well.
+
+++
** `apropos-variable' is now `apropos-user-option'
`apropos-user-option' shows all user options while `apropos-variable'
Also timers for blinking are stopped when no blinking is done, so Emacs does
not consume CPU cycles.
+** New command `frameset-to-register' is now bound to `C-x r f', replacing
+`frame-configuration-to-register'. It offers similar functionality, plus
+some enhancements, like the ability to restore deleted frames. Command
+`frame-configuration-to-register' is still available, but unbound.
+
\f
* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
\f
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
+** The debugger's `e' command evaluates the code in the context at point.
+This includes using the lexical environment at point, which means that
+`e' now lets you access lexical variables as well.
+
** `eshell' now supports visual subcommands and options
Eshell has been able to handle "visual" commands (interactive,
non-line oriented commands such as top that require display
** Calendar and Diary
+*** New faces: `calendar-weekday-header', `calendar-weekend-header',
+`calendar-month-header'.
+
+*** New option `calendar-day-header-array'.
+
+*** The variable `calendar-font-lock-keywords' is obsolete.
+
+++
*** New variable `diary-from-outlook-function', used by the command
`diary-from-outlook'.
-** VC Directory Mode
+** VC and related modes
+
+*** In VC directory mode, `D' displays diffs between VC-controlled
+whole tree revisions.
+
+*** In VC directory mode, `L' lists the change log for the current VC
+controlled tree in a window.
-*** `D' displays diffs between VC-controlled whole tree revisions.
-*** `L' lists the change log for the current VC controlled tree in a window.
-*** `I' ignores the file under current version control system.
+*** `C-x v G' (globally) and `G' (in VC directory mode) ignores a
+file under current version control system.
** cl-lib
auto-saves of the desktop.
*** `desktop-restore-frames', enabled by default, allows saving and
-restoring the window/frame configuration. Additional options
-`desktop-restore-in-current-display' and
-`desktop-restoring-reuses-frames' allow further customization.
+restoring the frame/window configuration (frameset). Additional options
+`desktop-restore-in-current-display', `desktop-restore-reuses-frames'
+and `desktop-restore-forces-onscreen' offer further customization.
** Dired
If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally paste large
amounts of data into the ERC input.
+** EPA
+
+*** New option `epa-mail-aliases'.
+
+You can set this to a list of alias expansions for keys to use
+in `epa-mail-encrypt'.
+
+If one element of the variable's value is ("foo@bar.com" "foo@hello.org"),
+that means: when one of the recipients of the message being encrypted
+is `foo@bar.com', encrypt the message for `foo@hello.org' instead.
+
+If one element of the variable's value is ("foo@bar.com"),
+that means: when one of the recipients of the message being encrypted
+is `foo@bar.com', ignore that name as regards encryption.
+This is useful to avoid a query when you have no key for that name.
+
---
** New F90 mode option `f90-smart-end-names'.
`f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the
next or previous frame. `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame.
+*** New commands to speed up, slow down, or reverse animation.
+
---
*** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows.
When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration.
archive files, undoing or unarchiving done items;
- reprioritizing items by inputting a numerical priority;
- extensive customizability of operation and display, including numerous faces.
+The Todo mode user manual describes all commands and most user options.
To support some of these features, a new file format is used, which is
incompatible with the old format; however, you can convert old todo and done
item files to the new format on initializing the first new todo file, or at any
- advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named function,
much like `defadvice' does.
+** New frameset.el package.
+It provides a set of operations to save a frameset (the state of all
+or a subset of the existing frames and windows, somewhat similar to a
+frame configuration), both in-session and persistently, and restore it
+at some point in the future.
+
+++
** The package filenotify.el provides an interface for file system
notifications. It requires, that Emacs is compiled with one of the
\f
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
+** `defvar' and `defcustom' in a let-binding affect the "external" default.
+
** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
Some languages match those as »...« and others as «...» so better stay neutral.
\f
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
++++
+** New function `define-error'.
+
** New hook `tty-setup-hook'.
+++
*** New functions `image-current-frame' and `image-show-frame' for getting
and setting the current frame of a multi-frame image.
+*** You can change the speed of animated images.
+
** Changes in encoding and decoding of text
---
with the same interpretation as the returned value of `visited-file-modtime'.
** time-to-seconds is not obsolete any more.
-** New function special-form-p.
+** New functions special-form-p and macrop.
** Docstrings can be made dynamic by adding a `dynamic-docstring-function'
text-property on the first char.
\f
* Changes in Emacs 24.4 on Non-Free Operating Systems
-** Emacs for MS-Windows can now be built by running the configure script
-using the MSYS environment and MinGW development tools.
-This is from now on the preferred method of building Emacs on
-MS-Windows. The Windows-specific configure.bat and makefile.w32-in
-files are deprecated. See the file nt/INSTALL.MSYS for detailed
-instructions.
+** The procedure for building Emacs on MS-Windows has changed.
+It is now built by running the same configure script as on all other
+platforms. This requires the MSYS environment and MinGW development
+tools. See the updated instructions in nt/INSTALL for details.
Using the Posix configure script and Makefile's also means a change in
the directory structure of the Emacs installation on Windows. It is
*** ImageMagick images now support the :max-width and :max-height
keywords.
+*** Some data types aren't auto-detected by ImageMagick. Adding
+:format to `create-image' may help if the content type is in the
+new variable `image-format-suffixes'.
+
** Minibuffer
*** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the
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