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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
11 See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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24 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
27 ** The default toolkit has been changed to Gtk+ version 3.
28 If you don't pass --with-x-toolkit to configure or if you pass
29 --with-x-toolkit=gtk or --with-x-toolkit=yes, configure will try to build
30 with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2.
31 You can explicitly require a specific version by passing
32 --with-x-toolkit=gtk2 or --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 to configure.
35 ** New configure option '--without-all' to disable additional features.
36 This disables most of the features that are normally enabled by default.
39 ** New configure option '--enable-link-time-optimization' to utilize
40 an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
43 ** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers.
44 If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about
45 possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU system there should be
46 no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the generated warnings
50 ** The configure option '--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
51 renamed to '--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
52 Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
53 check that this option enables.
56 ** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
57 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
60 ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
61 overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
65 ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and
66 `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed
67 binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the
68 etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break
69 links between the various manuals.
72 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
75 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
76 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
80 ** The standalone scripts rcs-checkin and vcdiff have been removed
81 (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
82 no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
85 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
88 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
89 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
90 been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
93 ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
96 * Changes in Emacs 24.3
99 ** Most y-or-n prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window.
100 Typing C-v or M-v at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward
101 respectively, without exiting from the prompt.
105 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
106 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
107 that does not have its own specialized help text.
109 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke
110 `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
115 *** `C-h f' (describe-function) can now perform autoloading.
116 When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
117 contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
118 automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
119 correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
122 *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
123 even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
124 autoloads have been redefined as functions).
126 ** Minibuffer changes
128 *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the
129 next and previous path separator, respectively.
131 *** minibuffer-electric-default-mode can rewrite (default ...) to [...].
132 Just set minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default to t before enabling the mode.
134 ** ImageMagick support, if available, is automatically enabled.
135 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
136 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
137 automatically at startup, or when customizing a relevant imagemagick-
140 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
141 ImageMagick to view images. You must call imagemagick-register-types
142 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.
144 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
145 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
146 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
149 *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
150 :background image spec property.
152 ** Server and client changes
154 *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice',
155 if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit
156 or expression to evaluate.
158 *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key.
161 ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new",
162 and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
165 ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'.
166 This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete.
168 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
169 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
170 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
171 that support backtraces.
174 ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
175 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used.
178 ** New variable `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles.
179 It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock
180 files (use this with caution).
183 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
184 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
187 ** Setting `enable-remote-dir-locals' to non-nil allows directory
188 local variables on remote hosts.
191 ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
192 The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
194 ** Internationalization changes
196 *** New language environment: Persian.
198 *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
200 ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port changes
202 *** Fullscreen and frame parameter fullscreen is supported.
204 *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the
208 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
210 ** Navigation command changes
212 *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'.
214 *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'.
216 *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called
217 interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1.
219 ** Search and Replace changes
221 *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching.
222 Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any
223 sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the
224 variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a
225 similar existing feature for regexp Isearch).
227 *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching.
228 This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch.
230 *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'.
231 If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too.
234 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
235 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
236 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
239 ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command.
240 `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'.
243 ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
244 It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
248 ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether
249 M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end
250 of the buffer. It defaults to t.
254 *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register.
256 *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing
257 the text to put between collected texts for use with M-x
258 append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register.
261 ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
264 ** New command `C-x r M-w' (copy-rectangle-as-kill).
265 It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
268 ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
269 properties on yanked text, in more ways that are more general than
270 just removing them, as done by `yank-excluded-properties'.
273 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
277 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
278 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
279 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
281 *** The old options whose values specified faces to use were removed
282 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
285 This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
287 *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
288 Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
293 *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month.
294 See the variable `calendar-month-header'.
297 *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'.
300 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
301 Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this.
305 *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
306 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly,
307 i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions use
310 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it
311 under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions
312 that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities,
313 which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'.
315 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is just a bunch of aliases that
316 provide the old non-prefixed names.
318 *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
319 Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
321 *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
322 The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery (as opposed
323 to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture definitions in
324 closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding' is in use.
327 *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
328 A side effect is that vars without corresponding value are bound to nil
329 rather than making them unbound.
333 *** New option `compilation-always-kill'.
337 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
339 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
340 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e. the prefix argument does nothing for
345 *** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory. Desktop
346 files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
351 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
354 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
357 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
358 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
361 *** The function `dbus-call-method' works non-blocking now, it can be
362 interrupted by C-g. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
365 *** Signals can be sent also as unicast message.
368 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
369 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus. See the manual for
373 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
376 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
380 *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in
381 modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces
382 `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed' and new definition
383 of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added'
384 and `smerge-refined-added' and new definition of `diff-added').
386 *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the
387 face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight
388 changes in context diffs.
390 *** The new command `diff-remove-trailing-whitespace' fixes trailing
391 whitespace problems introduced by the diff.
395 *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
396 if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
397 Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
399 *** Typing M-n in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp',
400 `dired-do-chown', `dired-do-touch' pulls the file attributes of the
403 *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'),
404 `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion')
405 mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region.
407 *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff) has changed.
408 It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists.
409 In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark.
411 *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers.
412 The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect.
415 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode.
417 ** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the
418 channel keys found, if any.
420 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
421 See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and
422 `flymake-warning-bitmap'.
426 *** The obsolete variable `follow-mode-off-hook' has been removed.
428 *** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
429 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
433 *** The option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
434 specifying URL types which should be converted to remote file names at
435 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
438 `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'.
442 *** New `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'.
443 The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'.
445 ** Mouse Avoidance mode
447 *** New variable `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' specifies where the
448 `banish' mouse avoidance setting moves the mouse.
451 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
452 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
455 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
456 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
458 ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes.
462 A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
463 per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
464 shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
467 *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed:
468 Old defcustom: | New defcustom:
469 python-indent | python-indent-offset
470 python-guess-indent | python-indent-guess-indent-offset
471 python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p | python-pdbtrack-activate
472 python-use-skeletons | python-skeleton-autoinsert
474 *** Some user options have been removed:
476 **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
478 **** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
479 Comments are never considered as indentation markers themselves.
481 **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
482 calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
484 **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
485 Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
487 **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
488 Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
490 **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
491 `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
494 *** Some commands have been replaced:
495 Old command | New command
496 python-insert-class | python-skeleton-class
497 python-insert-def | python-skeleton-def
498 python-insert-for | python-skeleton-for
499 python-insert-if | python-skeleton-if
500 python-insert-try/except | python-skeleton-try
501 python-insert-try/finally | python-skeleton-try
502 python-insert-while | python-skeleton-while
503 python-find-function | python-nav-jump-to-defun
504 python-next-statement | python-nav-forward-sentence
505 python-previous-statement | python-nav-backward-sentence
506 python-send-buffer | python-shell-send-buffer
507 python-send-defun | python-shell-send-defun
508 python-send-region | python-shell-send-region
509 python-send-region-and-go | Emulate with python-shell-send-region and
510 python-shell-switch-to-shell
511 python-send-string | python-shell-send-string
512 python-switch-to-python | python-shell-switch-to-shell
513 python-describe-symbol | python-eldoc-at-point
515 ** reStructuredText mode
517 *** Rebind nearly all keys making room for more keys and complying
518 better to usage in other modes. Describe bindings with C-c C-h.
520 *** Major revision of indentation working very similar to other
521 modes. TAB is your friend.
523 *** Major revision of filling working fine with most of
524 reStructuredText syntax. Support auto-filling.
526 *** Major revision of comment handling.
528 *** Major revision of fontification working with `jit-lock-mode'.
530 *** Cover reStructuredText syntax more closely. Improve
531 the experience for Sphinx users.
533 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
535 *** Extend correct and improve customization.
537 *** Negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
539 *** Reset window configuration after displaying TOC.
541 *** Package version in `rst-version'.
543 *** Support `imenu' and `which-func'.
547 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair.
549 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
551 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
555 *** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies what buffer to use
556 for a new asynchronous shell command when the default output buffer
557 `*Async Shell Command*' is already taken by another running command.
561 *** DB2 added `sql-db2-escape-newlines'
563 If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped
564 by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes
565 that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon.
567 ** Tabulated List and packages derived from it
569 *** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S', sorts the column
570 at point, or the Nth column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
574 The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color' are
575 now deprecated in favor of the `term-face' face, that you can
576 customize. Also, it is now possible to customize how are displayed the
577 ANSI terminal colors and styles by customizing the corresponding
578 `term-color-<COLOR>', `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold'
583 *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy
584 definitions. See the manual for details.
586 *** Remote processes are now supported also on remote Windows host.
590 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
591 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
592 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
593 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components
594 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
596 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
597 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
598 in case that is not properly encoded.
603 *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
605 *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
607 *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
609 *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
611 ** Which Function mode
613 *** `which-func-modes' now defaults to t, so Which Function mode, when
614 enabled, applies to all applicable major modes.
617 ** winner-mode-hook now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when it is
620 ** FIXME something happened to ses.el, 2012-04-17.
622 ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix:
623 *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions
624 *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions
625 *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions
626 *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions
627 *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions
628 *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions
629 *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook
630 *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions
631 *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions
632 *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions
633 *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions
634 *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions
635 *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions
636 *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions
637 *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions
638 *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook
639 *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook
640 *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook
641 *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions
642 *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions
643 *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions
644 *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions
646 ** Obsolete packages:
649 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
650 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
651 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
666 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
668 FIXME? erc-desktop-notifications.el, gv.el, profiler.el,
669 gnus-notifications.el, mm-archive.el
672 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
675 ** set-buffer-multibyte now signals an error in narrowed buffers.
678 ** (random) by default now returns a different random sequence in
679 every Emacs run. Use (random S), where S is a string, to set the
680 random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
681 sequence in later calls.
684 ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
685 font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
686 depends on the graphical library.
688 ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
689 that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
690 non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
693 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
694 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
695 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
699 ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
700 and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, defun and
701 defmacro currently return the name of the newly defined function/macro
702 but this should not be relied upon.
705 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
706 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
709 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
710 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
711 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
714 Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to avoid problems with spelling
715 that is incorrect or inconsistent with how Emacs normally spells a word.
718 *** Renamed functions
720 **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
721 **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
722 **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
723 **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
724 **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
725 **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
726 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
727 **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
731 The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
732 are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
733 **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
734 **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
735 **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
738 *** Renamed Lisp variables
739 **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
740 **** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
741 deactivate-current-input-method-function
744 ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces were removed:
745 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
746 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
747 *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char'.
748 *** `iswitchb-read-buffer'
749 *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report'
750 *** `set-char-table-default'
751 *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector').
752 *** `compile-internal'
753 *** `mode-line-inverse-video'
754 *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline'
755 (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead)
756 *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs'
757 (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead)
758 *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name'
759 *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
760 *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
761 *** `vc-checkout-carefully'
765 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3
767 ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
768 Try M-x profiler-start ... M-x profiler-stop; and then M-x profiler-report.
769 The sampling rate can be based on CPU time (only supported on some
770 systems), or based on memory allocations.
772 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
773 `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
776 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
777 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
781 *** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT
782 of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its
783 second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via M-n
784 in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values.
785 More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments.
789 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
790 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
792 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
793 table, but with a different prefix.
797 *** New error type and new function `user-error'.
798 These do not trigger the debugger.
800 *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill'.
802 *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
803 message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
804 to work out which code is doing something.
806 *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental
807 recursive invocations.
811 *** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
812 now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
814 *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'.
816 *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window'.
818 *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been
821 *** New function `fit-frame-to-buffer' and new options
822 `fit-frame-to-buffer' and `fit-frame-to-buffer-bottom-margin'.
824 *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected',
825 `display-buffer-at-bottom' and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
827 *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
828 tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
831 *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
832 non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
834 *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil,
835 specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
837 *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width'
838 to specify size of new window created by `display-buffer'.
840 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
841 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
844 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
846 **** `special-display-regexps'
848 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
850 **** `special-display-buffer-names'
852 **** `special-display-function'
854 **** `display-buffer-function'
856 **** `dired-shrink-to-fit'
860 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
861 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
862 by the underlying C implementation.
864 *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
865 (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds.
866 PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other
867 functions that use this format, such as file-attributes and
868 format-time-string, have been changed accordingly. Old-format time
869 stamps are still accepted.
871 *** The format of timers in timer-list and timer-idle-list is now
872 [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS].
873 The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be
874 accessed via the new timer--psecs accessor.
876 *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form
877 (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS).
880 ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN,
881 instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args, e.g. (log -1.0).
882 Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
883 on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt,
884 log, log10, sqrt, and mod.
886 ** Interpreted files are eagerly macro-expanded during load.
887 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code,
888 but can also bump into harmless and previously unnoticed cyclic
889 dependencies. These should not be fatal: they will simply cause the
890 macro-calls to be left for later expansion (as before), but will also
891 result in a warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle")
892 describing the cycle.
894 ** Miscellaneous new functions:
897 *** `autoload-do-load'
899 *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed.
900 *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension.
901 *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases.
903 *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'.
904 *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary overlay map.
906 *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system.
908 *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system.
909 *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
911 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
914 ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'.
916 ** Face underlining can now use a wave.
917 See the "Face Attributes" section of the Elisp manual.
919 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
921 *** `automount-dir-prefix'
923 *** `buffer-has-markers-at'
925 *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist')
927 *** `window-system-version'
929 *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up')
931 *** `query-replace-interactive'
933 *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23)
936 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on non-free operating systems
939 ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface.
940 Pass --with-w32 to configure. The default remains the X11 interface.
942 ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds:
943 `cygwin-convert-path-from-windows' and `cygwin-convert-path-to-windows'.
944 These functions allow Lisp code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping
945 machinery to convert between Cygwin and Windows-native file names.
947 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
948 Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and
949 `mouse-autoselect-window'.
952 ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
955 ** On MS Windows, you can pass --without-libxml2 to configure.bat to omit
956 support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected.
959 ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later.
962 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink /sw
963 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
966 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
968 ** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
971 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
973 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
974 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
975 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
978 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
979 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
980 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
981 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
983 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
984 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
985 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
986 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
988 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
989 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
990 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
991 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
992 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
994 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
995 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
996 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
997 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
999 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
1000 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
1002 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
1003 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
1004 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
1007 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
1008 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
1009 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
1011 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
1012 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
1013 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
1015 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
1016 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
1018 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
1019 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
1022 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
1024 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
1025 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
1026 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
1028 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
1029 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
1030 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
1034 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
1038 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
1039 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
1041 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
1043 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
1044 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
1046 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
1048 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
1049 default completion style in certain circumstances.
1051 *** New completion style `substring'.
1053 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
1055 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
1059 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
1060 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
1061 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
1062 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
1063 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
1064 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
1066 *** Typing C-c m in the buffer made by M-x report-emacs-bug transfers
1067 the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there is one.
1068 This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open" command.
1070 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
1071 and Mail mode changes
1073 ** Emacs server and client changes
1075 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
1077 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
1079 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
1080 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
1082 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
1083 its exit status is 1.
1085 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
1086 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
1087 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
1089 ** Internationalization changes
1091 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
1092 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
1093 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
1094 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
1095 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
1096 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
1098 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
1099 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
1101 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
1102 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
1103 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
1104 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
1107 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
1108 the right window edge.
1110 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
1111 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
1112 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
1113 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
1114 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
1116 *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
1117 (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
1119 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
1120 (U+2010 and U+2011).
1122 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
1123 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
1124 automatically select it.
1126 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
1127 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
1128 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
1130 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
1131 selected for installation.
1133 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
1135 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
1136 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
1137 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
1139 ** Custom theme changes
1141 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
1142 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
1144 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
1145 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
1146 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
1147 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
1148 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
1149 built-in Custom themes.
1151 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
1152 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
1153 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
1154 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
1156 ** Improved GTK integration
1158 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
1159 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
1161 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
1162 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
1163 the default is taken from desktop settings.
1165 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
1166 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
1167 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
1170 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
1171 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
1173 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
1174 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
1176 ** Graphical interface changes
1178 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
1179 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
1180 displayed as a space.
1182 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
1183 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
1185 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
1186 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
1187 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
1191 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
1192 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
1194 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
1195 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
1196 do the right thing in batch mode.
1198 ** Scrolling changes
1200 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
1201 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
1202 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
1203 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
1205 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
1207 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
1208 scroll a line instead of full screen.
1210 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
1211 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
1213 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
1214 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
1215 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
1216 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
1217 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
1219 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
1220 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
1221 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
1222 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
1225 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
1226 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
1228 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
1229 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
1230 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
1231 now includes the SELinux context.
1233 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
1234 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
1238 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
1239 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
1241 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
1242 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
1244 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
1246 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
1247 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
1248 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
1251 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
1252 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
1253 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
1254 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
1255 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
1257 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
1258 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
1260 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
1261 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
1262 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
1263 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
1268 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
1269 in the quitted window.
1271 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
1272 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
1274 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
1276 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
1277 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
1278 for choosing the displaying window).
1280 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
1281 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
1283 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
1284 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
1286 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
1287 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
1288 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
1289 from which such space was obtained.
1291 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
1292 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
1293 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
1294 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
1295 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
1297 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
1298 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
1299 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
1301 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
1302 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
1304 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
1305 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
1306 been shown in a specific window.
1308 ** Minibuffer changes
1310 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
1311 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
1312 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
1314 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
1315 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
1316 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1318 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
1320 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
1322 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
1323 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
1324 successful operation.
1326 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
1327 for `list-colors-display'.
1329 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
1332 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
1336 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
1337 `isearch-yank-line'.
1339 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
1340 `isearch-yank-kill'.
1342 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
1344 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
1346 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
1347 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
1348 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
1349 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
1352 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
1353 also deletes newlines around point.
1357 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
1358 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
1359 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
1362 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
1363 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
1364 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
1366 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
1367 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
1368 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
1369 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
1371 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
1373 ** Selection changes.
1375 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
1376 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
1377 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
1378 mouse commands use the primary selection.
1380 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
1381 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
1383 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
1384 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
1385 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
1386 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
1388 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
1389 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
1390 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
1391 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
1392 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
1394 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
1396 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
1397 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
1398 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
1400 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
1402 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
1403 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
1404 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
1406 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
1407 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
1409 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
1410 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
1411 between applications.
1413 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
1415 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
1416 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
1417 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
1418 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
1419 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
1421 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
1423 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
1424 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
1426 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
1427 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
1428 number to count from and for a format string.
1430 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
1431 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
1432 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
1433 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
1434 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
1436 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
1437 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
1438 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
1439 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
1440 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
1442 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
1443 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
1444 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
1445 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
1446 follows `replace-match'.
1449 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
1451 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
1455 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
1456 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
1457 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
1458 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
1460 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
1462 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
1464 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
1468 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
1470 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
1471 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
1473 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
1475 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
1476 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
1478 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
1479 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
1481 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
1482 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
1483 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
1485 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
1487 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
1488 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
1490 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
1491 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
1492 Use `appt-activate' instead.
1494 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1495 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
1496 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
1498 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1499 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
1503 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
1504 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
1506 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
1508 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
1509 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
1512 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
1513 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
1514 parsed as a statement continuation.
1516 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
1520 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
1521 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
1523 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
1524 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
1525 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
1527 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
1528 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
1529 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
1534 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
1535 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
1536 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
1538 *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
1539 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
1541 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
1543 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
1544 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
1548 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
1551 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
1552 optionally do not register names.
1554 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
1555 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
1559 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
1560 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
1561 instead of using the current buffer.
1563 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
1564 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
1568 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
1569 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
1571 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
1572 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
1573 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
1574 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
1578 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
1579 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
1580 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
1584 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
1585 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
1586 debugging of several threads.
1590 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
1591 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
1595 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
1596 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
1597 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
1598 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
1599 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
1601 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
1602 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
1603 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
1606 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
1608 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
1610 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
1611 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
1612 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
1614 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
1615 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
1617 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
1619 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
1621 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
1622 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
1623 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
1624 default), this performs tag completion.
1626 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
1627 See ORG-NEWS for details.
1629 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
1630 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
1631 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
1635 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
1636 in the Rmail incoming message.
1638 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
1639 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
1640 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
1644 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
1645 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
1646 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
1648 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
1649 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
1653 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
1654 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
1655 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
1658 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
1659 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
1660 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
1661 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
1662 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
1663 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
1664 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
1665 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
1667 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
1668 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
1670 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
1672 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
1674 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
1675 the credentials file.
1677 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
1678 If you had that set, you need to put
1680 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
1682 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
1684 *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
1685 SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
1686 to the address you wish to use instead.
1690 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
1691 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
1693 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
1694 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
1695 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
1696 connection is established.
1698 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
1699 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
1701 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
1702 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
1703 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
1704 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
1706 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
1707 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
1708 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
1709 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
1710 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
1711 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
1713 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
1714 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
1716 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
1717 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
1718 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
1720 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
1721 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
1723 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
1727 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
1731 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
1733 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
1734 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
1736 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
1737 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
1739 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
1740 default value to "".
1742 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
1743 for remote machines which support SELinux.
1745 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
1746 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
1747 the degree of parallelism.
1749 ** VC and related modes
1751 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
1752 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
1753 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
1754 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
1755 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
1757 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
1759 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
1760 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
1761 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
1762 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
1763 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
1765 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
1766 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
1768 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
1769 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
1770 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
1771 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
1772 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
1773 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
1775 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
1776 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
1778 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
1779 this was not advertised at the time.
1781 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
1782 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
1783 this was not advertised at the time.
1789 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
1791 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
1792 You can get a comparable behavior with:
1793 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
1794 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
1796 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
1798 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
1800 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
1802 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
1803 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
1805 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
1809 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
1810 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
1812 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
1813 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
1815 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
1817 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
1819 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
1822 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
1824 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
1825 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
1827 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
1828 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
1829 matching closing one.
1831 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
1832 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
1833 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
1834 electric-indent-functions.
1836 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
1837 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
1838 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
1840 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
1841 from which other modes can be derived.
1843 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
1845 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
1846 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
1847 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
1848 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
1851 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
1852 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
1854 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
1855 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
1857 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
1859 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
1860 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
1861 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
1862 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
1863 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
1864 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
1867 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
1869 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
1870 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
1872 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
1874 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
1875 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
1876 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
1877 command still toggles the minor mode.
1879 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
1880 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
1881 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
1882 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
1883 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
1885 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
1886 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
1887 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
1888 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
1889 argument `bidi-class'.
1891 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
1892 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
1893 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
1894 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
1896 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
1897 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
1898 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
1901 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
1902 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
1903 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
1904 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
1905 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
1906 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
1907 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
1909 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
1910 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
1911 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
1912 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
1915 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
1916 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
1917 replaced all known uses.
1919 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
1920 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
1921 major mode is special).
1923 ** Menu and tool bar changes
1925 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
1926 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
1927 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
1928 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
1929 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
1930 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
1932 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
1933 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
1935 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
1936 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
1937 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
1938 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
1940 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
1941 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
1942 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
1944 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
1946 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
1947 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
1948 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
1950 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
1951 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
1952 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
1953 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
1954 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
1955 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
1956 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
1957 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
1958 *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold')
1959 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
1960 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
1961 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
1962 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
1963 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
1964 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
1965 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
1966 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
1967 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
1968 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
1969 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
1970 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
1972 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
1973 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
1975 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
1976 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
1977 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
1978 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
1979 *** `e' (`float-e').
1981 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
1982 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
1984 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
1985 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
1986 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
1987 `finder-keywords-hash'.
1989 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
1990 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
1991 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
1994 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
1996 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
1997 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
1998 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
1999 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
2002 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
2003 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
2005 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
2006 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
2008 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
2010 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
2011 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
2013 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
2014 declared as dynamically bound.
2016 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
2018 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
2019 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
2020 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
2022 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
2024 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
2025 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
2027 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
2028 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
2029 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
2030 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
2031 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
2032 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
2034 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
2035 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
2036 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
2040 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
2041 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
2042 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
2043 buffer) in the window tree.
2045 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
2048 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
2049 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
2050 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
2051 act on any window including internal ones.
2053 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
2054 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
2055 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
2056 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
2057 and `window-body-height' are provided.
2059 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
2060 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
2061 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
2062 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
2063 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
2065 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
2066 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
2067 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
2068 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
2069 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
2070 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
2072 *** Window resizing functions.
2073 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
2074 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
2075 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
2077 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
2078 live window on that frame instead.
2080 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
2081 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
2082 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
2083 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
2084 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
2085 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
2087 *** Window-local buffer lists.
2088 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
2089 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
2090 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
2091 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
2092 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
2094 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
2095 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
2096 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
2097 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
2099 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
2100 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
2101 The old names are kept as aliases.
2105 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
2106 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
2107 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
2108 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
2110 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
2112 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
2113 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
2114 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
2115 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
2116 are user-customizable variables.
2118 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
2120 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
2121 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
2122 frame or window as an Elisp object.
2126 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
2127 properties of the current completion:
2128 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
2129 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
2131 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
2132 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
2134 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
2136 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
2137 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
2138 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
2139 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
2140 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
2141 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
2142 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
2144 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
2145 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
2146 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
2148 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
2149 behavior of `completing-read'.
2151 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
2152 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
2154 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
2155 Instead, the offending function is removed.
2159 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
2160 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
2161 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
2162 non-nil return value.
2164 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
2165 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
2166 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
2167 advertised at the time.)
2171 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
2172 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
2174 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
2176 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
2178 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
2179 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
2180 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
2182 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
2183 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
2185 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
2186 named Emacs server instances.
2188 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
2189 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
2191 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
2192 for higher-resolution time stamps.
2194 ** New input reading functions
2196 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
2197 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
2199 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
2200 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
2203 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
2205 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
2206 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
2207 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
2210 ** Syntax parsing changes
2212 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
2213 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
2214 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
2215 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
2216 Together with this new variable come a new hook
2217 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
2218 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
2219 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
2222 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
2224 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
2226 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
2228 ** Major and minor mode changes
2230 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
2231 as well as those in the -*- line.
2233 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
2236 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
2237 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
2238 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
2240 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
2241 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
2243 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
2244 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
2245 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
2247 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
2249 ** File-handling changes
2251 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
2252 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
2253 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
2254 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
2256 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
2258 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
2259 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
2260 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
2264 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
2266 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
2268 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
2270 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
2273 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
2274 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
2276 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
2277 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
2279 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
2280 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
2281 ImageMagick installation supports.
2283 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
2284 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
2287 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
2288 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
2290 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
2291 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
2292 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
2293 `image-transform-set-scale'.
2295 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
2296 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
2297 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
2298 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
2300 ** XML and HTML parsing
2301 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
2302 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
2303 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
2304 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
2306 ** Networking and encryption changes
2308 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
2309 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
2310 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
2311 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
2312 must also be supplied.
2314 *** New library gnutls.el.
2315 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
2316 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
2317 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
2318 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
2319 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
2320 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
2323 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
2324 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
2325 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
2329 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
2331 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
2332 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
2333 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
2334 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
2335 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
2336 displayed with a "spinning bar".
2338 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
2339 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
2341 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
2342 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
2343 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
2344 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
2345 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
2346 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
2348 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
2350 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
2351 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
2352 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
2353 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
2355 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
2356 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
2358 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
2359 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
2360 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
2361 an empty uninterned symbol.
2363 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
2365 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
2367 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
2368 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
2370 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
2371 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
2373 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
2375 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
2376 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
2378 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
2381 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
2383 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
2384 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
2386 ** New configure.bat options
2388 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
2390 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
2392 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
2394 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
2396 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
2398 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
2399 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
2401 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
2402 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
2404 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
2405 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
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2416 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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2419 GNU General Public License for more details.
2421 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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