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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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3 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
5
6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
10
11 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
13
14 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
16
17 \f
18 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
19
20 +++
21
22 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
23
24 ** The default value of `history-length' has increased to 100.
25
26 ** The variable `redisplay-dont-pause' is obsolete.
27
28 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
29
30 ** `call-process-shell-command' and `process-file-shell-command' no longer
31 take "&rest args".
32
33 ** The option `browse-url-firefox-startup-arguments' no longer has an effect.
34
35 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
36 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
37 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
38 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
39 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
40 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
41
42 ** ERC
43
44 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
45 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
46
47 +++
48 *** New option `erc-rename-buffers'.
49
50 *** New faces `erc-my-nick-prefix-face' and `erc-nick-prefix-face'.
51
52 *** `erc-format-@nick' displays all user modes instead of only op and voice.
53
54 *** The display of irc commands in the current buffer has been disabled.
55
56 *** `erc-version' now follows the Emacs version.
57
58 ** Obsolete packages
59
60 *** cc-compat.el
61
62 ---
63 ** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
64 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
65
66 *** crisp.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
67
68 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
69 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
70 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
71 build with 'make V=1'.
72
73 *** tpu-edt.el, ws-mode.el
74 These emulations of old editors are believed to be no longer relevant
75 - contact emacs-devel@gnu.org if you disagree.
76
77 ---
78 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows to specify a
79 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
80 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
81 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
82 be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
83
84 ---
85 ** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
86 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
87 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
88
89 *** vi.el, vip.el (try M-x viper instead)
90
91 \f
92 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
93
94 \f
95 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
96
97 ** New command `comment-line' bound to `C-x C-;'.
98
99 ** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
100 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found).
101
102 +++
103 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
104 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
105 the `network-security-level' variable.
106
107 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
108
109 ---
110 ** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
111 text in the region.
112
113 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
114 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard.
115 x-select-enable-primary and renamed select-enable-primary.
116 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
117 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
118 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
119 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
120
121 +++
122 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
123
124 +++
125 ** New macro `define-advice'.
126
127 ** `insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
128 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
129
130 ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
131
132 +++
133 ** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
134 The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
135 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
136
137 ---
138 ** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the
139 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
140 for use in Emacs bug reports.
141
142 +++
143 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
144 hiding character but the default `.' can be used by let-binding the
145 variable `read-hide-char'.
146
147 ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp'
148 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
149 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
150 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
151 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
152
153 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
154 If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
155 option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
156
157 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
158 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
159 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
160 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
161 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
162 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
163
164 +++
165 ** The new function `bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows to
166 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
167 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
168 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
169 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
170
171 +++
172 ** The new function `buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows to
173 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
174 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
175 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
176 text and directional control characters.
177
178 ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
179 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
180 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
181 this has no effect.
182
183 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
184 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
185
186 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
187 files (recursively) under a directory.
188
189 ** The new `directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
190 name (as returned from, for instance, `file-name-all-completions' is
191 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
192 the name is a forward slash.
193
194 +++
195 ** New variable `fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
196 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
197 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
198 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
199
200 ** The function `font-info' now returns more details about a font.
201 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
202 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
203
204 \f
205 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
206
207 ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
208
209 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
210
211 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
212 that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
213 chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
214 character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
215 paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
216 performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
217
218 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
219 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
220 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
221 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3 and 7.0, and a few changes suggested
222 for Unicode 8.0. This includes full support for directional isolates
223 and the Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these
224 Unicode standards.
225
226 ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
227
228 \f
229 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
230 ** package.el
231 *** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
232 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
233 -pkg file is optional.
234
235 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
236 The FORCE argument to `package-delete' overrides this.
237
238 *** New custom variable `package-selected-packages' tracks packages
239 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
240 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
241
242 *** New command `package-install-user-selected-packages' installs all
243 packages from `package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
244
245 *** New command `package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
246 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
247
248 ** Shell
249
250 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
251 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
252 the `display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
253 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
254 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
255 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
256
257
258 ** EIEIO
259 *** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
260 *** The `newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
261 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
262 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
263 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
264 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
265 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
266 *** `constructor' is now an obsolete alias for `make-instance'.
267
268 ** ido
269 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
270 Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
271 kills the buffer at head.
272
273 ** Minibuffer
274
275 *** You can use <up> and <down> keys to move point in the multi-line
276 minibuffer just as in an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
277 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
278 element. The new commands bound to <up> and <down> in the minibuffer:
279 `next-line-or-history-element' and `previous-line-or-history-element'.
280
281 ** Search and Replace
282
283 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
284 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
285 `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
286 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
287 string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'.
288 To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired
289 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
290 typing RET.
291
292 ** Calc
293 +++
294 *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
295 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
296
297 ** ElDoc
298 *** New minor mode `global-eldoc-mode'
299 *** `eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to `ignore'
300 *** `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
301 and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
302 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
303 ] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.
304
305 ** eww
306
307 ---
308 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
309
310 +++
311 *** A new command `F' (`eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
312 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
313 customize the `shr-use-fonts' variable.
314
315 +++
316 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
317 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
318 the like off the page.
319
320 ---
321 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
322 buffers you want to keep separate.
323
324 +++
325 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
326 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
327
328 +++
329 *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
330 the data in the buffer.
331
332 ---
333 *** The `eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
334 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
335
336 +++
337 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
338 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
339 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
340 details.
341
342 +++
343 *** `mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
344
345 +++
346 *** The new `S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
347 them.
348
349 ---
350 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
351 invalid certificates are marked in red.
352
353 ** Message mode
354
355 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
356 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
357
358 ** pcase
359 *** New UPatterns `quote' and `app'.
360 *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'.
361 +++
362 *** New vector QPattern.
363
364 ** Lisp mode
365 *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
366
367 ** Rectangle editing
368 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
369 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
370 *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
371
372 ** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which
373 should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp.
374
375 ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' takes (:append FUN) to mean
376 appending FUN to `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
377
378 ** cl-lib
379 *** New functions cl-fresh-line, cl-digit-char-p and cl-parse-integer.
380
381 ** seq
382 *** New seq library:
383 The seq library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros that
384 complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions are
385 prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
386
387 ** Calendar and diary
388
389 +++
390 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
391 `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
392 `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
393
394 +++
395 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
396 See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
397
398 ---
399 *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
400 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
401
402 ---
403 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
404 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
405 The remainder were:
406
407 **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
408 `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'.
409
410 **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'.
411
412 **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'.
413
414 **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
415
416 **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'.
417
418 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
419
420 ---
421 ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
422
423 +++
424 ** `info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
425 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
426 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
427
428 ---
429 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
430
431 ---
432 ** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u now handle repeat counts to delete or
433 undelete multiple messages.
434
435 ** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
436 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
437 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
438 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
439 `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that.
440
441 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
442
443 ** In sh-mode, you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
444 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
445
446 ** TLS
447 ---
448 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
449
450 ** URL
451
452 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
453 When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
454 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
455
456 *** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string.
457 The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
458 a function.
459
460 *** The new interface variable `url-request-noninteractive' can be used
461 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
462 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
463
464 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
465 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
466 `gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
467
468 ** Tramp
469
470 *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
471
472 ** SQL mode
473
474 *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote
475 connections using Tramp.
476
477 *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next' sends the current line to the
478 interactive buffer and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace
479 and comments.
480
481 *** Add support for Vertica SQL.
482
483 ** VC and related modes
484
485 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
486
487 *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
488 the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
489 background or to the foreground.
490
491 *** `compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently used window
492 instead of the next window. The new option `compare-windows-get-window-function'
493 allows to customize this.
494
495 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
496 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
497
498 ** VHDL mode supports VHDL'08.
499
500 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
501 fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
502 non-integer inputs.
503
504 ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro expansions
505 , interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of #defined symbols.
506
507 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file
508 name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp and .hxx.
509 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
510 reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden.
511 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
512 name patterns (e.x. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded.
513
514 ** TeX mode
515
516 *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
517 use PDF instead of DVI.
518
519 ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation.
520 By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but
521 `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that.
522
523 ** tildify: `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
524 `tildify-foreach-region-function' variables added making
525 `tildify-string-alist', `tildify-pattern-alist', and
526 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
527 helper functions) obsolete.
528
529 ** xref
530 The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
531 and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
532
533 *** New key bindings
534 `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
535 to pick one destination among several. Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
536 unbound. `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
537 easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
538 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
539 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
540 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
541
542 *** New variables
543 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
544 `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
545 alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and
546 `xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead.
547
548 ** etags
549 As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
550 `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
551 `tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
552
553 ** EUDC
554 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
555
556 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
557
558 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
559 subprocess instead of on the command line.
560
561 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
562 need to configure this manually anymore.
563
564 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
565 rewritten.
566
567 There have also been customization changes.
568
569 *** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
570 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
571
572 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
573 on email and firstname instead of surname.
574
575 *** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
576 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
577
578 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
579 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
580
581 *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
582 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
583 command line's password prompt.
584
585 +++
586 ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
587 be added to the archive.
588
589 ** Autorevert: dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file
590 notifications, if Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
591
592 ** Obsolete packages
593
594 ---
595 *** gulp.el
596
597 \f
598 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
599
600 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
601
602 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
603
604 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
605 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
606
607 ** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
608 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
609 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
610 other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
611 a typographically-correct documents.
612 \f
613 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
614
615 ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer.
616 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
617 from which the minibuffer was entered, call it with the new argument
618 `switch-buffer'.
619
620 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers's marks.
621
622 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
623 active region handling.
624
625 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
626
627 ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
628
629 +++
630 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
631 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
632 position list returned for such events is now nil.
633
634 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
635 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
636 Emacs-21.
637
638 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
639 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
640 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
641 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
642
643 +++
644 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
645 now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
646 If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
647 word syntax, use `\sw' instead.
648
649 \f
650 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
651
652 ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
653
654 ** New finalizer facility for running code when objects
655 become unreachable.
656
657 ** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring.
658 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then
659 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
660
661 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
662
663 ** New function macroexpand-1 to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
664
665 ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
666 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
667 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
668 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
669 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
670 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
671 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
672
673 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
674
675 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
676 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
677 called interactively.
678
679 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
680
681 +++
682 ** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
683 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
684 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
685 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
686 have side effects.
687
688 +++
689 ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
690 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
691
692 ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
693
694 ** Functions `rmail-delete-forward' and `rmail-delete-backward' take an
695 optional repeat-count argument.
696
697 ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
698
699 ** Function `system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
700 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
701 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
702 name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
703
704 +++
705 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
706
707 ---
708 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
709 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to
710 execute code depending whether all values are true.
711 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
712 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
713
714 +++
715 ** Time-related changes:
716
717 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
718 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
719 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
720 Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone',
721 `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time',
722 `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year',
723 `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'.
724
725 *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have
726 been obsoleted.
727
728 *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and
729 `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
730 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
731 integers.
732
733 +++
734 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
735 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
736
737 \f
738 * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1
739
740 +++
741 ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
742 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
743 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
744 *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
745 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
746 *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
747 bars on all existing and future frames.
748 *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
749 scroll bars on the selected frame.
750 *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
751 `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
752 for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
753 *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
754 `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
755 bars on a specific frame or window.
756 *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
757 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
758 *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
759 bars too.
760 *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
761 `scroll-bar-height'.
762
763 +++
764 ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
765 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
766 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
767 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
768 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
769 builds.
770
771 +++
772 ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
773 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
774 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
775 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
776 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
777 *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
778 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
779 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
780 number of columns or lines it displays.
781
782 +++
783 ** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of
784 windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer',
785 `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'.
786
787 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed.
788 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
789
790 \f
791 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
792
793 ---
794 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
795 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
796 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
797
798 +++
799 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
800
801 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
802
803 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
804
805 \f
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