X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/d1d6801eb4badab97416d0b6294e1920d0f90c3e..ab422c4d6899b1442cb6954c1829c1fb656b006c:/etc/NEWS.23 diff --git a/etc/NEWS.23 b/etc/NEWS.23 index e1e7ba79d4..eaef3220d4 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS.23 +++ b/etc/NEWS.23 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. @@ -15,48 +15,151 @@ You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. +* 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. + + * 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. - -* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.3 +** If Emacs creates `user-emacs-directory', that directory's +permissions are now set to rwx------, ignoring the umask. * 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 + 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. * 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. + * 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. + * 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. * 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. + * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.2 @@ -622,7 +725,7 @@ a GIF library. *** 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). @@ -632,7 +735,7 @@ other emacsen (e.g. X11 build) use --disable-ns-self-contained. See 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. @@ -700,7 +803,7 @@ starts the server. Clients can connect and create graphical or 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. @@ -750,7 +853,7 @@ shared with older Emacsen. *** 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, @@ -810,7 +913,7 @@ mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish). *** 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. @@ -934,8 +1037,8 @@ motion keys (e.g. S-left and S-down) activate and extend a temporary 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). @@ -1089,7 +1192,7 @@ run processes remotely. 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 @@ -1142,8 +1245,8 @@ details, see the commentary in doc-view.el. 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 @@ -1584,7 +1687,7 @@ Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in 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. @@ -1671,7 +1774,7 @@ directories in which `ffap-rfc' will first search for RFCs. *** 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. @@ -1744,7 +1847,7 @@ for the list of extra keys that are available. ** 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 @@ -2009,7 +2112,7 @@ function to use for searching in `query-replace-regexp', *** 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 @@ -2436,5 +2539,3 @@ Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: - -arch-tag: e759449d-88b3-4de4-9900-3a6c3dfa23e2