* eshell/esh-util.el (ange-cache): Move declaration earlier.

[bpt/emacs.git] / etc / NEWS

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@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ build time.  To prevent this, use the configure option
 `--with-file-notification-no'.  See below for file-notify features.
 FIXME?  This feature is not available for the Nextstep port. (?)
 
+** The configure option `without-compress-info' has been generalized,
+and renamed to `without-compress-install'.  It now prevents compression
+of _any_ files during installation.
+
 ** The configure option --with-crt-dir has been removed.
 It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked
 specially.
@@ -262,8 +266,9 @@ whole tree revisions.
 *** In VC directory mode, `L' lists the change log for the current VC
 controlled tree in a window.
 
-*** `C-x v G' (globally) and `G' (in VC directory mode) ignores a
-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.  When called with a prefix
+argument, you can remove a file from the ignored file list.
 
 ** cl-lib
 
@@ -331,6 +336,10 @@ This is useful to avoid a query when you have no key for that name.
 *** key bindings to navigate through and select the completions.
 *** The icomplete-separator is customizable, and its default has changed.
 *** Removed icomplete-show-key-bindings.
+*** Icomplete-mode by defaults applies to all forms of minibuffer completion.
+(setq icomplete-with-completion-tables '(internal-complete-buffer))
+will revert to the old behavior.
+
 
 ** Ido
 *** Ido has a manual now.
@@ -347,6 +356,8 @@ directory, respectively.
 `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.
@@ -458,6 +469,8 @@ todo-mode.el has been made obsolete and renamed otodo-mode.el.
 
 ** Tramp
 
+*** The experimental url syntax for remote file names is withdrawn.
+
 +++
 *** New connection method "adb", which allows to access Android
 devices by the Android Debug Bridge.  The variable `tramp-adb-program'
@@ -601,9 +614,20 @@ file using `set-file-extended-attributes'.
 ** `visited-file-modtime' now returns -1 for nonexistent files.
 Formerly it returned a list (-1 LOW USEC PSEC), but this was ambiguous
 in the presence of files with negative time stamps.
+
+** The cars of the elements in `interpreter-mode-alist' are now treated
+as regexps rather than literal strings.  Technically this is an
+incompatible change, but unless you are using interpreter-mode-alist
+for something (not just adding elements to it), it ought not to affect you.
+
 \f
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
+** Comparison functions =, <, >, <=, >= now take many arguments.
+
+** The second argument of `eval' can now be a lexical-environment.
+
+** `with-demoted-errors' takes an additional argument `format'.
 +++
 ** New function `define-error'.
 
@@ -683,6 +707,8 @@ Emacs uses `image-default-frame-delay'.
 *** 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
 
 ---
@@ -749,6 +775,11 @@ used in place of the 9th element of `file-attributes'.
 `preserve-extended-attributes' as it now handles both SELinux context
 and ACL entries.
 
+** The `common-substring' argument of display-completion-list is obsolete.
+Either use `completion-all-completions' which already returns highlighted
+strings (including for partial or substring completion) or call
+`completion-hilit-commonality' to add the highlight.
+
 ** Changes to the Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions in Emacs 24.4
 
 *** The package descriptor and name of global variables, constants,
@@ -758,12 +789,10 @@ meant to be used by other packages.
 \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
@@ -897,8 +926,8 @@ treated as images.
 keywords.
 
 *** Some data types aren't auto-detected by ImageMagick.  Adding
-:content-type to `create-image' may help if the content type is in the
-new variable `image-content-type-suffixes'.
+:format to `create-image' may help if the content type is in the
+new variable `image-format-suffixes'.
 
 ** Minibuffer