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3 Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6 Please send Emacs bug reports to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 23.
10
11 See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17
12 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
18 Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
20 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
21 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
22 so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
23
24 \f
25 * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.2
26
27 ** New configure options for Emacs developers
28 These are not new features; only the configure flags are new.
29
30 *** --enable-profiling builds Emacs with profiling enabled.
31 This might not work on all platforms.
32
33 *** --enable-checking[=OPTIONS] builds emacs with extra runtime checks.
34
35 ---
36 ** `make install' now consistently ignores umask, creating a
37 world-readable install.
38
39 * Startup Changes in Emacs 23.2
40
41 ** Command-line option -Q (--quick) now also disables loading X resources.
42 On Windows, this option causes Emacs to ignore Registry settings,
43 though environment variables set on the Registry are still honored.
44
45 *** The new variable `inhibit-x-resources' shows whether X resources
46 were loaded.
47
48 * Changes in Emacs 23.2
49
50 ** Unibyte sessions are now considered obsolete.
51 I.e. the use of the environment variable EMACS_UNIBYTE, or command line
52 arguments --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
53 is deprecated. Similarly for custom-izing enable-multibyte-characters, or
54 setting default-enable-multibyte-characters.
55
56 ** The default value of `trash-directory' has changed to nil, which
57 means that `move-file-to-trash' trashes files according to
58 freedesktop.org specifications, the same method used by the Gnome,
59 KDE, and XFCE desktops. (This change has no effect on Windows, which
60 uses `system-move-file-to-trash' for trashing.)
61
62 +++
63 ** Emacs frames can be maximized.
64 The command line arguments -mm/--maximized and the value maximized to the
65 frame parameter fullscreen makes the Emacs frame maximized.
66
67 +++
68 ** New frame parameter sticky makes Emacs frames sticky in virtual desktops.
69
70 ** The pointer now becomes invisible when typing.
71 Customize make-pointer-invisible to turn it off.
72
73 ** Killing a buffer with a running process now asks a confirmation.
74 You can remove this query in two ways: either removing
75 `process-kill-buffer-query-function' from `kill-buffer-query-functions' or
76 setting the appropriate process flag with `set-process-query-on-exit-flag'.
77
78 ** The variable `load-in-progress' won't get corrupted by binding it
79 with `let'. In certain situations, loading an Emacs Lisp file from
80 source while in the midst of loading another file (e.g., with
81 `require' or `autoload') could cause the value of `load-in-progress'
82 to be corrupted once the outer load completed. Most code doesn't care
83 about this, but some (like c-mode) may check it.
84
85 ** File-local variable changes
86
87 *** Specifying a minor mode as a local variables enables that mode,
88 unconditionally. The previous behavior, toggling the mode, was
89 neither reliable nor generally desirable.
90
91 *** New commands for adding and removing file-local variables:
92 `add-file-local-variable', `delete-file-local-variable',
93 `add-file-local-variable-prop-line', and
94 `delete-file-local-variable-prop-line'.
95
96 *** New commands for adding and removing directory-local variables,
97 and copying them to and from file-local variable lists:
98 `add-dir-local-variable', `delete-dir-local-variable',
99 `copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals',
100 `copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals-prop-line' and
101 `copy-file-locals-to-dir-locals'.
102
103 ** New coding system `utf-8-hfs' is available in
104 international/ucs-normalize.el. It is suitable for
105 default-file-name-coding-system on Mac OS X.
106
107 \f
108 * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.2
109
110 ** Selection changes
111 +++
112 *** If `select-active-regions' is t, any active region automatically
113 becomes the primary selection (for interaction with other window
114 applications). If you enable this, you might want to bind
115 `mouse-yank-primary' to Mouse-2.
116
117 *** When `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' is non-nil, emacs will
118 not clobber the the interprogram paste when something is killed in it
119 by saving the former in the `kill-ring' before the latter.
120
121 ** When `kill-do-not-save-duplicates' is non-nil, identical subsequent
122 kills are not duplicated in the `kill-ring'.
123
124 +++
125 ** The default value for `blink-matching-paren-distance' has been increased.
126
127 ** The new completion-style `initials' is available.
128 For instance, this can complete M-x lch to list-command-history.
129
130 \f
131 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2
132
133 ** .calc.el and .abbrev_defs obey user-emacs-directory.
134
135 ** Calc graphing commands (`g f' etc.) now work on MS-Windows,
136 if you have the native Windows port of Gnuplot version 3.8 or later
137 installed.
138
139 ** Calendar and diary
140
141 *** Fancy diary display is now the default.
142 If you prefer the simple display, customize `diary-display-function'.
143
144 *** The diary's fancy display now enables view-mode.
145
146 ---
147 *** The command `calendar-current-date' accepts an optional argument
148 giving an offset from today.
149
150 ** Desktop
151 ---
152 *** The default value for `desktop-buffers-not-to-save' is nil.
153 This means Desktop will try restoring all buffers, when you restart
154 your Emacs session. Also, `desktop-buffers-not-to-save' is only
155 effective for buffers that have no associated file. If you want to
156 exempt buffers that do correspond to files, customize the value of
157 `desktop-files-not-to-save' instead.
158
159 ** FIXME mail-user-agent change
160 This probably affects a lot of documentation.
161
162 ** FIXME gdb-mi
163
164 ** Info
165
166 *** The new command `Info-virtual-index' bound to "I" displays a menu of
167 matched topics found in the index.
168
169 *** The new command `info-finder' replaces finder.el with a virtual Info
170 manual that generates an Info file which gives the same information
171 through a menu structure.
172
173 +++
174 ** New connection methods in Tramp.
175 The new connection method "rsyncc" has been introduced. On systems
176 which support GVFS-Fuse, Tramp offers also the new connection methods
177 "dav", "davs", "obex" and "synce".
178
179 ** nXML mode is now the default for editing XML files.
180
181 ** VC and related modes
182
183 *** FIXME: add info about the new VC functions: vc-root-diff and
184 vc-root-print-log once they stabilize.
185
186 *** When a file is not found, VC will not try to check it out of RCS anymore.
187
188 *** vc-git changes
189
190 **** The new variable vc-git-add-signoff can be used to add a
191 Signed-off-by line when committing.
192
193 **** Support for operating with stashes has been added to vc-dir: the stash list is
194 displayed in the *vc-dir* header, stashes can be created, removed and
195 their content displayed.
196
197 **** vc-dir displays the stash status
198
199 *** log-edit-strip-single-file-name controls whether or not single filenames
200 are stripped when copying text from the ChangeLog to the *VC-Log* buffer.
201
202 ** Elint
203
204 ---
205 *** Elint now uses compilation-mode.
206
207 ---
208 *** Elint can now scan individual files and whole directories,
209 and can be run in batch mode.
210
211 ---
212 *** Elint does a more thorough initialization, and recognizes more built-in
213 functions and variables. Customize `elint-scan-preloaded' if you want
214 to sacrifice some accuracy for a faster startup.
215
216 ---
217 *** Elint attempts some basic understanding of featurep and (f)boundp tests.
218
219 ---
220 *** Customize `elint-ignored-warnings' to suppress some warnings.
221
222 ** Miscellaneous
223
224 *** The new command `async-shell-command' bound globally to `M-&' executes
225 the command asynchronously without the need to manually add ampersand to
226 the end of the command. Its output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell
227 Command*'.
228
229 +++
230 *** Autorevert Tail mode now works now for remote files.
231
232 \f
233 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2
234
235 ** js.el is a new major mode for JavaScript files.
236
237 \f
238 * Lisp changes in Emacs 23.2
239
240 ** eval-next-after-load is obsolete.
241 ** New hook `after-load-functions' run after loading an Elisp file.
242
243 ** You can control which binding is preferentially shown in menus and
244 docstrings by adding a `:advertised-binding' property to the corresponding
245 command's symbol. That property can hold a single binding or a list
246 of bindings.
247
248 ** New macro with-silent-modifications to tweak text properties without
249 affecting the buffer's modification state.
250 ** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO
251 variable, are now declared obsolete.
252
253 ** read-key is a function halfway between read-event and read-key-sequence.
254 It reads a single key, but obeys input and escape sequence decoding.
255
256 ** start-process-shell-command and start-file-process-shell-command
257 now only take a single `command' argument.
258
259 ** The variable `process-file-side-effects' shall be bound to nil, if
260 a `process-file' call does not change a remote file. By this, file
261 name handlers like Tramp can apply optimizations.
262
263 ** Hash tables have a new printed representation that is readable.
264 The feature `hashtable-print-readable' identifies this new
265 functionality.
266
267 ** Functions performing Unicode normalization are added. They are:
268 ucs-normalize-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-NFD-string,
269 ucs-normalize-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-NFC-string,
270 ucs-normalize-NFKD-region, ucs-normalize-NFKD-string,
271 ucs-normalize-NFKC-region, ucs-normalize-NFKC-string,
272 ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-string,
273 ucs-normalize-HFS-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFC-string.
274
275 ** completion-annotate-function specifies how to compute annotations
276 for completions displayed in *Completions*.
277
278 +++
279 ** Face aliases can now be marked as obsolete, using the macro
280 `define-obsolete-face-alias'.
281
282 ---
283 ** Changing the file-names generated by byte-compilation by redefining
284 the function `byte-compile-dest-file' before loading bytecomp.el is obsolete.
285 Instead, customize byte-compile-dest-file-function.
286
287 ** Several obsolete functions removed.
288 The functions have been obsolete since Emacs 19, and are unlikely to
289 be in use:
290
291 time-stamp-month-dd-yyyy, time-stamp-dd/mm/yyyy, time-stamp-mon-dd-yyyy
292 time-stamp-dd-mon-yy, time-stamp-yy/mm/dd, time-stamp-yyyy/mm/dd,
293 time-stamp-yyyy-mm-dd, time-stamp-yymmdd, time-stamp-hh:mm:ss,
294 time-stamp-hhmm, baud-rate
295
296 * Changes in Emacs 23.2 on non-free operating systems
297
298 ---
299 ** On MS-Windows, `display-time' now displays the system load average
300 as well as the time, as it does on GNU and Unix.
301
302 \f
303 * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1
304
305 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid.
306 The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the
307 default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary.
308
309 ** New font code.
310 Fonts are handled by new code capable of dealing with multiple font
311 backends. This uses the freetype and fontconfig libraries.
312
313 *** Emacs now accepts font names supplied in the fontconfig format
314 (e.g. "monospace-12:bold") and GTK format (e.g. "Monospace Bold 12").
315
316 *** Added support for local fonts (fonts installed on the machine
317 where Emacs is running).
318
319 *** Added support for the Xft library for antialiasing.
320
321 *** Added support for the otf library for complex text layout by
322 OpenType fonts.
323
324 *** Added support for the m17n library for text shaping.
325
326 ** Changes to image support
327
328 *** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for
329 a GIF library.
330
331 *** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2.
332
333 *** Emacs now supports multi-page TIFF images.
334
335 ** New NeXTSTEP-based port
336 This provides support for GNUstep (via the GNUstep libraries) and Mac
337 OS X (via the Cocoa libraries).
338
339 Specify --with-ns to configure for this. By default, a self-contained
340 app will be built (containing all lisp). To install/share lisp with
341 other emacsen (e.g. X11 build) use --disable-ns-self-contained. See
342 nextstep/README and nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory.
343
344 ** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon.
345 Use the NeXTSTEP port, described above.
346
347 ** The new configuration option "--with-dbus" enables D-Bus language
348 bindings for Emacs.
349
350 ** Support for many obsolete platforms has been removed.
351 See the list at the end of etc/MACHINES for details.
352
353 *** Support for systems without alloca has been removed.
354
355 *** Support for Sun windows has been removed.
356
357 *** The `emacstool' utility has been removed.
358
359 ** The following platforms will be removed in a future Emacs version:
360 If you are still using Emacs on one of these platforms, please email
361 emacs-devel@gnu.org to inform the Emacs developers.
362
363 *** Old GNU/Linux systems based on libc version 5.
364
365 *** Old FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD systems based on the COFF
366 executable format.
367
368 *** Solaris versions 2.6 and below.
369
370 *** Solaris on IBM RS6000 machines.
371
372 *** UNIX System V (the original SysV, not later platforms based on it).
373
374 *** Unixware on non-x86 machines.
375
376 *** Platforms not supporting shared libraries (i.e., requiring the
377 NO_SHARED_LIBS compilation flag).
378
379 ** The configure options `--with-gcc', `--without-gcc' have been removed.
380 Configure will use gcc by default. Set the CC environment variable if
381 you need control over which C compiler is used.
382
383 ** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files.
384
385 ** The manuals are now licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3,
386 or any later version.
387
388 ** Emacs 23 comes with a new set of default icons.
389 Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
390 The Emacs 22 icon is available as `emacs22.png' in the same location.
391 \f
392 * Changes in Emacs 23.1
393
394 ** Improved X Window System support
395
396 *** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session.
397 With an Emacs server active (M-x server-start), `emacsclient -t'
398 creates a tty frame connected to the running emacs server. You can
399 use any number of different ttys. `emacsclient -c' creates a new X11
400 frame on the current $DISPLAY (or a tty frame if $DISPLAY is not set).
401 There may be problems if a display exits unexpectedly and Emacs is compiled
402 with Gtk+, see etc/PROBLEMS.
403
404 You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by
405 testing for the `multi-tty' feature.
406
407 *** Emacs starts in the background, as a daemon, when given the
408 --daemon command line argument. It disconnects from the terminal and
409 starts the server. Clients can connect and create graphical or
410 terminal frames using emacsclient.
411
412 **** emacsclient starts emacs in daemon mode and connects to it when
413 --alternate-editor="" is used (or when the evironment variable
414 ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set to "") and emacsclient cannot connect to an
415 emacs server.
416
417 *** The new command close-display-connection closes a connection to a
418 remote display. There are some bugs for Gtk+. See etc/PROBLEMS.
419
420 *** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification.
421 You can embed Emacs in another application on X11. The new command line
422 option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs. See
423 http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html
424 for details about XEmbed.
425
426 *** Emacs can now set the frame opacity.
427 The opacity of a frame can be controlled by setting the `alpha' frame
428 parameter. This only takes effect on a compositing window manager for
429 the X Window System, such as Compiz, Beryl and Compiz Fusion, on Mac
430 OS X, or on Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows.
431
432 The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and
433 100 (opaque), or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0. It can also be a
434 cons cell (ACTIVE . INACTIVE), where ACTIVE is the opacity of an
435 active frame and INACTIVE is the opacity of non-active frames.
436
437 The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the
438 opacity; the default is 20.
439
440 ** Internationalization changes
441
442 *** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.
443 (It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).
444
445 The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now
446 Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs' (`emacs-internal' is an alias
447 for this). This encoding is backward-compatible with Unicode's UTF-8
448 encoding. The internal encoding previously used by Emacs,
449 `emacs-mule', is still available for reading and writing files.
450
451 During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files.
452 As a result, byte-compiled files containing non-ASCII characters can't
453 be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files compiled by Emacs 20, 21,
454 or 22 are loaded correctly as `emacs-mule' (whether or not they
455 contain multibyte characters). This takes somewhat more time, so it
456 may be worth recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be
457 shared with older Emacsen.
458
459 *** There are new coding systems/aliases; see M-x list-coding-systems.
460
461 *** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets.
462 See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently
463 as tables of unicodes.
464
465 *** There are new language environments for Chinese-GBK,
466 Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu,
467 Sinhala, and TaiViet.
468
469 *** The minor modes unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and
470 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode are obsolete.
471
472 *** `ucs-insert' is bound to `C-x 8 RET' and in addition to hex numbers
473 accepts numbers in hash notation (e.g. #o21430 for octal, or #10r8984 for
474 decimal). It also accepts Unicode character names with completion.
475
476 *** The `cyrillic-translit' input method supports many new characters.
477 Common typographical characters available from Unicode were added to
478 `cyrillic-translit': punctuation marks, accented characters, fractions,
479 and others.
480
481 ** Emacs now supports serial port access on GNU/Linux, Unix, and
482 Windows. The new command `serial-term' starts an interactive terminal
483 on a serial port. The serial port can be configured at runtime with
484 the mode-line mouse menu.
485
486 ** Menu Bar changes
487
488 *** In the Options menu, the "Set Default Font" item applies the
489 selected font to the `default' face on all frames, not just the
490 current frame. Furthermore, if Emacs is compiled with both GTK and
491 Fontconfig support, the "Set Default Font" item uses the GTK font
492 selection dialog instead of an Emacs pop-up menu.
493
494 *** The font setting chosen by "Set Default Font" is saved if the
495 "Save Options" item is used.
496
497 *** The Tools menu contains a new Encryption/Decryption submenu.
498 This contains commands provided by EasyPG, the newly-included
499 interface to GnuPG (see New Modes and Packages).
500
501 *** In the Options menu, the "Truncate Long Lines in the Buffer" entry
502 has been replaced with a submenu offering three different ways to
503 handle long lines: truncation, continuation at the window edge, and
504 the new word wrapping behavior (see Editing Changes, below).
505
506 *** Improvements to menus for major and minor modes
507 More major and minor modes now have a mode specific menu, and existing
508 mode menus have been improved to include more functionality.
509
510 ** Mode-line changes
511
512 *** The mode-line displays a `@', instead of `-', if the
513 default-directory for the current buffer is on a remote machine.
514
515 *** The mode-line displays a mode menu when mouse-1 is clicked on a
516 minor mode, in the same way as it already did for major modes.
517
518 *** The `mode-line-emphasis' face is used to highlight certain
519 mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish).
520
521 *** The mode-line tooltips have been improved to provide more details.
522
523 *** The VC, line/colum number and minor mode indicators on the mode
524 line are now interactive: mouse-1 can be used on them to pop up a menu.
525
526 ** File deletion can make use of the Recycle Bin or system Trash folder.
527 Set `delete-by-moving-to-trash' non-nil to use this. Deleted files
528 and directories will then be sent to the Recycle Bin on Windows, and
529 to `trash-directory' on other systems.
530
531 ** Directory-local variables can now be defined.
532 By default, Emacs looks in .dir-locals.el for directory-local
533 variables. For more information, see `dir-locals-set-directory-class'
534 and `dir-locals-set-class-variables'.
535
536 ** Emacs can now use `auth-source' for authentication.
537 `smtpmail' and `url' (Tramp and Gnus also) use `auth-source' to obtain
538 login names and passwords. The match, if found, is reported
539 in *Messages* with the password blanked out.
540
541 ** `where-is-preferred-modifier' can specify your favorite modifier.
542
543 \f
544 * Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1
545
546 ** The option `inhibit-startup-screen' (with aliases to old names
547 `inhibit-splash-screen' and `inhibit-startup-message') doesn't inhibit
548 display of the initial message in the *scratch* buffer. If you don't
549 want to display the initial message in the *scratch* buffer at startup,
550 you can set the option `initial-scratch-message' to nil.
551
552 ** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display
553 after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a
554 file or directory.
555
556 ** New alias `argv' for `command-line-args-left'
557 This is a convenience alias, so that one can write `(pop argv)'
558 inside of --eval command line arguments in order to access
559 following arguments.
560
561 ** The abbrev file is no longer read at startup in batch mode.
562
563 ** Emacs now supports invocation by an X session manager.
564 It can save a session and restore it later. See the documentation of
565 the functions `emacs-session-save' and `emacs-session-restore'.
566 (Actually, this feature was introduced with Emacs 22, but it was not
567 documented.)
568 \f
569 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
570
571 ** In Dired, `dired-flag-garbage-files' is rebound from `&' to `%&'
572 on the regexp command prefix map.
573
574 ** In Dired-x, all command guesses for ! are now added to the default
575 list accessible by M-n instead of pushing all guesses temporarily into
576 the history list.
577
578 ** In Isearch mode, a special case of typing `C-w' at the beginning of
579 the minibuffer that toggles word search (i.e. using key sequences
580 `C-s RET C-w' or `C-s M-e C-w') is obsolete. You can use the global key
581 `M-s w' to start word search, or type `M-s w' in Isearch mode to
582 toggle word search. To start nonincremental word search you can now use
583 `M-s w RET' and `M-s w C-r RET' instead of `C-s RET C-w' and `C-r RET C-w'.
584
585 ** In Info, `Info-search' is unbound from `M-s' to allow using `M-s w'
586 for word search as well as other search commands from the global prefix
587 key `M-s'. `Info-search' is still bound to `s', and also incremental
588 search commands `C-s', `C-M-s', `C-r', `C-M-r' are available for searching
589 through multiple Info nodes, together with their nonincremental versions
590 `C-s RET', `C-r RET', `C-M-s RET', `C-M-r RET', `M-s w RET'.
591
592 ** In Text mode, `center-line' and `center-paragraph' are rebound from
593 `M-s' and `M-S' to global keys `M-o M-s' and `M-o M-S' on the global
594 prefix map `M-o', which is intended for such formatting commands.
595
596 ** The following input methods were removed in Emacs 22.2, but this was
597 not advertised: danish-alt-postfix, esperanto-alt-postfix,
598 finnish-alt-postfix, german-alt-postfix, icelandic-alt-postfix,
599 norwegian-alt-postfix, scandinavian-alt-postfix, spanish-alt-postfix,
600 and swedish-alt-postfix. Use the versions without "alt-", which are
601 identical.
602
603 \f
604 * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
605
606 ** The C-n and C-p line-motion commands now move by screen lines,
607 taking continued lines and variable-width characters into account.
608 Setting `line-move-visual' to nil reverts this to the previous
609 behavior (i.e., motion by logical lines based on buffer contents
610 alone).
611
612 ** C-x C-c now invokes `save-buffers-kill-terminal', and C-z now
613 invokes `suspend-frame'. These changes are for compatibility with the
614 new multi-tty support (see `Improved X Window System support' above).
615
616 ** Mark changes
617
618 *** Transient Mark mode is now on by default.
619
620 *** mark-even-if-inactive now defaults to t
621
622 *** When Transient Mark mode is on, C-SPC C-SPC pushes a mark without
623 activating it.
624
625 *** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-q now fills the region if the
626 region is active. Otherwise, it fills the current paragraph.
627
628 *** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-$ now checks spelling of the
629 region if the region is active. Otherwise, it checks spelling of the
630 word at point.
631
632 *** When Transient Mark mode is on, TAB now indents the region if the
633 region is active.
634
635 *** The variable `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty
636 active region in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on
637 that empty region.
638
639 ** Temporarily active regions
640
641 *** The new variable shift-select-mode, non-nil by default, controls
642 shift-selection. When Shift Select mode is on, shift-translated
643 motion keys (e.g. S-left and S-down) activate and extend a temporary
644 region, similar to mouse-selection.
645
646 *** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or
647 mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command.
648 They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not
649 shift-translated, or after commands that would ordinarily deactivate
650 the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the
651 buffer).
652
653 ** Minibuffer and completion changes
654
655 *** Emacs may ask for confirmation before opening a non-existent file
656 or buffer. By default, Emacs requests confirmation if you type RET
657 immediately after TAB, and the resulting input is not an existing file
658 or buffer; this usually happens when the minibuffer input did not
659 complete far enough and you entered RET by mistake. In that case,
660 Emacs puts the message "[Confirm]" in the minibuffer; type RET again
661 to create the file or buffer.
662
663 The new variable confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer determines whether
664 Emacs asks for confirmation. The default value is `after-completion'.
665 If you change it to t, Emacs always asks for confirmation; if you
666 change it to nil, Emacs never asks for confirmation.
667
668 *** The rules for performing completion have been changed.
669 When generating completion alternatives, Emacs now takes the
670 minibuffer text after point, if any, into account: this text is
671 treated as a substring of the remaining part of the completion
672 alternative (i.e., the part not matched by the minibuffer text before
673 point). If no completion alternatives are found this way, Emacs
674 attempts to perform partial-completion. If still no completion
675 alternatives are found, we fall back on the Emacs 22 rules for
676 performing completion.
677
678 The new variable `completion-styles' can be customized to choose your
679 favorite completion style.
680
681 *** When M-n in the minibuffer reaches the end of the list of defaults,
682 it adds the completion list to the end, so next M-n continues putting
683 completion items to the minibuffer. The same principle applies to
684 incremental search commands as well: C-s or C-M-s starts searching
685 the default values and after the end of defaults they continue
686 searching minibuffer completion items.
687
688 *** Minibuffer input of shell commands now comes with completion.
689
690 *** In the `C-x d' (Dired) prompt, typing M-n gives the visited file
691 name of the current buffer.
692
693 *** In the M-! (shell-command) prompt, M-n provides some default commands.
694 These are guessed using the file extension of the current file, based
695 on the file-handlers specified in the operating system's `mailcap'
696 file. The ! command in Dired (dired-do-shell-command) works
697 similarly, using the file displayed on the current line.
698
699 *** A list of regexp default values is available via M-n for `occur',
700 `keep-lines', `flush-lines' and `how-many'. This list includes the active
701 region in transient-mark-mode, the word under the cursor, the last Isearch
702 regexp, the last Isearch string and the last replacement regexp.
703
704 *** When enable-recursive-minibuffers is non-nil, operations which use
705 switch-to-buffer (such as C-x b and C-x C-f) do not fail any more when
706 used in a minibuffer or a dedicated window. Instead, they fallback on
707 using pop-to-buffer, which will use some other window. This change
708 has no effect when enable-recursive-minibuffers is nil (the default).
709
710 *** Isearch started in the minibuffer searches in the minibuffer history.
711 Reverse Isearch commands (C-r, C-M-r) search in previous minibuffer
712 history elements, and forward Isearch commands (C-s, C-M-s) search in
713 next history elements. When the reverse search reaches the first history
714 element, it wraps to the last history element, and the forward search
715 wraps to the first history element. When the search is terminated, the
716 history element containing the search string becomes the current.
717
718 *** The variable read-file-name-completion-ignore-case overrides
719 completion-ignore-case for file name completion.
720
721 *** The variable read-buffer-completion-ignore-case overrides
722 completion-ignore-case for buffer name completion.
723
724 *** The new command `minibuffer-force-complete' chooses one of the
725 possible completions, rather than stopping at the common prefix.
726
727 *** If `completion-auto-help' is `lazy', Emacs shows the completions
728 buffer only on the second attempt to complete. This was already
729 supported in `partial-completion-mode'.
730
731 ** Face changes
732
733 *** S-down-mouse-1 now pops up a menu for changing the font and text
734 size of the default face in the current buffer. The face is changed
735 via face remapping (see Lisp changes, below).
736
737 *** New commands to change the default face size in the current buffer.
738 To increase it, type `C-x C-+' or `C-x C-='. To decrease it, type
739 `C-x C--'. To restore the default (global) face size, type `C-x C-0'.
740 These work via Text Scale mode, a new minor mode.
741
742 The final key in the above commands may be repeated without the
743 leading `C-x', e.g. `C-x C-= C-= C-=' increases the face height by
744 three steps. Each step scales the height of the default face by the
745 value of the variable `text-scale-mode-step'.
746
747 *** The commands buffer-face-mode and buffer-face-set can be used to
748 remap the default face in the current buffer. See "Buffer Face mode",
749 under New Modes and Packages.
750
751 ** Primary selection changes
752
753 *** You can disable kill ring commands from accessing the primary
754 selection by setting `x-select-enable-primary' to nil.
755
756 ** Continuation lines can now be wrapped at word boundaries
757 (word-wrapping). This is controlled by the new per-buffer variable
758 `word-wrap'. Word wrapping does not take place if continuation lines
759 are not shown, e.g. if truncate-lines is non-nil. The most convenient
760 way to enable word-wrapping is using the new minor mode Visual Line
761 mode; in addition to setting `word-wrap' to t, this rebinds some
762 editing commands to work on screen lines rather than text lines. See
763 New Modes and Packages, below.
764
765 ** Window management changes
766
767 *** truncate-partial-width-windows now accepts integer values, which
768 specify a minimum window width for partial-width windows, below which
769 lines are truncated. The default has been changed to 50.
770
771 *** The new command balance-windows-area balances windows both
772 vertically and horizontally.
773
774 *** pop-to-buffer now always sets input focus when the popped-to window
775 is on a different frame.
776
777 ** Miscellaneous changes:
778
779 *** C-l is bound to the new command recenter-top-bottom, rather than recenter.
780 This moves the current line to window center, top and bottom on
781 successive invocations.
782
783 *** scroll-preserve-screen-position also preserves the column position.
784
785 *** If `yank-pop-change-selection' is t, rotating the kill ring also
786 updates the selection or clipboard to the current yank, just as M-w
787 would do so with the text it copies to the kill ring.
788
789 *** C-M-% now shows replacement as it would look in the buffer, with
790 `\N' and `\&' substituted according to the match. Old behavior can be
791 restored by customizing `query-replace-show-replacement'.
792
793 *** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is
794 called with a prefix and the default directory is a remote file name.
795 This is because some file name handlers (like ange-ftp) are not able to
796 run processes remotely.
797
798 *** The new command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name
799 matches a regexp.
800
801 *** The value of comment-style now defaults to `indent'.
802 Thefore, comment-start markers are inserted at the current indentation
803 of the region to comment, rather than the leftmost column.
804
805 *** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and
806 `pp-macroexpand-last-sexp' pretty-print macro expansions.
807
808 *** The new command `set-file-modes' allows to set file's mode bits.
809 The mode bits can be specified in symbolic notation, like with GNU
810 Coreutils, in addition to an octal number. `chmod' is a new
811 convenience alias for this function.
812
813 *** `next-error-recenter' specifies how next-error should recenter the
814 visited source file. Its value can be a number (for example, 0 for
815 top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering.
816
817 *** When typing in a password in the echo area, C-y yanks the current
818 kill into the password.
819
820 *** Tooltip frame parameters `font' and `color' in `tooltip-frame-parameters'
821 are ignored. Customize the `tooltip' face instead.
822
823 *** `mkdir' is a new convenience alias for `make-directory'.
824 \f
825 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
826
827 ** Auto Composition Mode is a minor mode that composes characters
828 automatically when they are displayed. It is globally on by default.
829 It uses `auto-composition-function' (default `auto-compose-chars').
830
831 ** Bubbles, a new game, is similar to SameGame.
832
833 ** Buffer Face mode is a minor mode for remapping the default face in
834 the current buffer. The variable `buffer-face-mode-face' specifies
835 the face to remap to. The command `buffer-face-set' prompts for a
836 face name, sets `buffer-face-mode-face' to it, and enables
837 buffer-face-mode. See "Face changes", under Editing Changes, for a
838 description of face remapping.
839
840 ** butterfly flips the desired bit on the drive platter.
841 See http://xkcd.com/378/
842
843 ** bug-reference.el provides clickable links to bug reports.
844
845 ** dbus.el provides D-Bus language bindings.
846 D-Bus is an inter-process communication mechanism for applications
847 residing on the same host. See the manual for details.
848
849 ** DocView mode allows viewing of PDF, PostScript and DVI documents.
850 One can also search for a regular expression in the document. For
851 details, see the commentary in doc-view.el.
852
853 PDF and DVI files are now opened in Doc View mode by default.
854
855 In Postcript mode, C-c C-c launches Doc View minor mode for viewing
856 the postscript file.
857
858 ** EasyPG provides an interface to the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG).
859 It includes a GnuPG keyring browser, cryptographic operations on
860 regions and files, and automatic encryption of *.gpg files. For
861 details, see the EasyPG Assistant User's Manual.
862
863 ** json.el is a library for parsing and generating JSON
864 (JavaScript Object Notation), a lightweight data-interchange format.
865
866 ** linum.el is a new minor mode to display line numbers for the
867 current buffer.
868
869 ** mairix.el is an interface to mairix, a free tool for indexing and
870 searching locally stored mail. It allows you to query mairix and
871 display the search results with Rmail, Gnus and VM. Note that there
872 is an existing Gnus back end, nnmairix.el, which should be used with
873 Maildir/MH setups.
874
875 ** minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt.
876
877 ** nXML Mode
878 This is a new mode for editing XML documents. It allows a schema to
879 be associated with the XML document being edited, using Relax NG as
880 the schema language. The schema is used to provide two key features:
881
882 *** Continuous validation. nXML validates as you type, highlighting
883 any invalid parts of your document.
884
885 *** Completion. nXML can assist you in entering an element name,
886 attribute name or data value by using information about what is
887 allowed by the schema in that context.
888
889 ** proced.el provides a Dired-like interface for operating on
890 processes. Proced makes an Emacs buffer containing a listing of the
891 current processes. You can use the normal Emacs commands to move
892 around in this buffer, and special Proced commands to operate on the
893 processes listed. It is currently only functional on GNU/Linux,
894 MS-Windows and Solaris.
895
896 ** Remember Mode is a mode for jotting down things to remember.
897 Notes can be saved to a Diary file. For details, see the Remember
898 Manual.
899
900 ** RST mode is a major mode for editing reStructuredText files.
901
902 ** Ruby mode is a major mode for Ruby files.
903
904 ** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines.
905 It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e,
906 and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical
907 lines. This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode.
908 This can also be turned on using the menu bar, via
909 Options -> Line Wrapping in this Buffer -> Word Wrap
910
911 ** xesam.el is an implementation of Xesam, an interface to (desktop)
912 search engines like Beagle, Strigi, and Tracker. The Xesam API
913 requires D-Bus for communication.
914
915 ** zeroconf.el offers service discovery and service publishing
916 interfaces according to the zeroconf specification. It communicates
917 with Avahi, a zeroconf implementation, via D-Bus messages on systems
918 which have installed this software.
919
920 ** There is a new `whitespace' package.
921 (The pre-existing one has been renamed to `old-whitespace'.)
922 Now, besides reporting bogus blanks, the whitespace package has a
923 minor mode and a global minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD)
924 SPACE and NEWLINE). The visualization is made via faces and/or display
925 table. It can also indicate lines that extend beyond a given column,
926 trailing blanks, and empty lines at the start or end of a buffer.
927 See `whitespace-style' for more details. The `whitespace-action' option
928 specifies what to do when a buffer is visited, killed, or written.
929
930 \f
931 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
932
933 ** Abbrev has been rewritten in Elisp and extended with more flexibility.
934
935 *** New functions: abbrev-get, abbrev-put, abbrev-table-get, abbrev-table-put,
936 abbrev-table-p, abbrev-insert, abbrev-table-menu.
937
938 *** Special hook `abbrev-expand-functions' obsoletes `pre-abbrev-expand-hook'.
939
940 *** `make-abbrev-table', `define-abbrev', `define-abbrev-table' all take
941 extra arguments for arbitrary properties.
942
943 *** New variable `abbrev-minor-mode-table-alist'.
944
945 *** `local-abbrev-table' can hold a list of abbrev-tables.
946
947 *** Abbrevs have now the following special properties:
948 `:count', `:system', `:enable-function', `:case-fixed'.
949
950 *** Abbrev-tables have now the following special properties:
951 `:parents', `:case-fixed', `:enable-function', `:regexp',
952 `abbrev-table-modiff'.
953
954 ** Apropos
955
956 *** `apropos-library' describes the elements defined in a given library.
957
958 *** Set `apropos-compact-layout' is you want a more compact (but wider) layout.
959
960 ** Archive Mode has basic support to browse Rar archives.
961 Note, however, that the free version of the unrar command only handles
962 versions 1 and 2 of the Rar format.
963
964 ** BibTeX mode
965
966 *** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers.
967
968 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and
969 `string', disabled by default.
970
971 *** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to
972 identify cited keys in BibTeX entries, used by `bibtex-find-crossref'.
973
974 *** Command `bibtex-url' allows multiple URLs per entry.
975
976 ** Calendar and diary
977
978 *** There is a new date style, `iso', essentially year/month/day.
979 The variable `european-calendar-style' is obsolete - use `calendar-date-style'.
980 Similarly, the commands `american-calendar' and `european-calendar'
981 should be replaced by `calendar-set-date-style'.
982
983 *** The calendar namespace has been rationalized.
984 All functions and variables now begin with a `calendar-', `diary-', or
985 `holiday-' prefix. The various calendar systems have secondary
986 prefixes, eg `calendar-french-'. The old names you are likely to use
987 directly still exist, for the time being, as aliases, but please start
988 using the new names.
989
990 *** The whitespace in the calendar layout can be customized.
991 See the variables:
992 calendar-left-margin, calendar-intermonth-spacing, calendar-column-width,
993 calendar-day-header-width, and calendar-day-digit-width.
994
995 *** Text (e.g. ISO weeks) can be displayed between the calendar months.
996 See the variables calendar-intermonth-header and calendar-intermonth-text.
997
998 *** The function `holiday-chinese' computes holidays on the Chinese calendar.
999 It has been used to add items to the list `holiday-oriental-holidays'.
1000
1001 *** `diary-remind' accepts a negative number -DAYS as a shorthand for
1002 the list (1 2 ... DAYS).
1003
1004 ** Change Log mode
1005
1006 *** The new command C-c C-f (change-log-find-file) finds the file
1007 associated with the current log entry.
1008
1009 *** The new command C-c C-c (change-log-goto-source) goes to the
1010 source code associated with a log entry.
1011
1012 ** Compile and grep modes
1013
1014 *** The mode-line entry for the *compilation* and *grep* buffer is color coded.
1015 It has different colors for to show that: (a) the command is still
1016 running, (b) successful completion, (c) error.
1017
1018 *** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to
1019 the first error encountered during compilations.
1020
1021 *** compilation-scroll-output accepts a new value, `first-error', which
1022 says to stop auto scrolling at the first error that occurs.
1023
1024 *** The `cc' alias for C++ files in `grep-file-aliases' has been
1025 improved. `hh' can be used to match C++ header files and `cchh' both
1026 C++ sources and headers.
1027
1028 ** Copyright
1029
1030 *** You can specify your copyright holders' names.
1031 Only copyright lines with holders matching `copyright-names-regexp' are
1032 considered for update.
1033
1034 *** Copyrights can be at the end of the buffer.
1035 This is controlled by `copyright-at-end-flag' (used by, e.g., change-log-mode).
1036
1037 ** Custom
1038
1039 *** defcustom accepts new keyword arguments, `:safe' and `:risky', which
1040 set a variable's `safe-local-variable' and `risky-local-variable' property.
1041
1042 ** Diff mode
1043
1044 *** diff-refine-hunk highlights word-level details of changes in a diff hunk.
1045 It's used automatically as you move through hunks, see
1046 diff-auto-refine-mode. It is bound to `C-c C-b'.
1047
1048 *** diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window iterates through the diff
1049 buffer and tries to create ChangeLog entries for each change.
1050 It is bound to `C-x 4 A'.
1051
1052 *** Turning on `whitespace-mode' in a diff buffer will show trailing
1053 whitespace problems in the modified lines.
1054
1055 ** Dired
1056
1057 *** In Dired, C-x C-q now runs the command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode,
1058 and C-x C-q in wdired-mode exits it with asking a question about
1059 saving changes.
1060
1061 *** `&' runs the command `dired-do-async-shell-command' that executes
1062 the command asynchronously without the need to manually add ampersand
1063 to the end of the command. Its output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell
1064 Command*'.
1065
1066 *** `M-s f C-s' and `M-s f M-C-s' run Isearch that matches only at file names.
1067 When a new user option `dired-isearch-filenames' is t, then even ordinary
1068 Isearch started with `C-s' and `C-M-s' matches only at file names in the
1069 Dired buffer. When `dired-isearch-filenames' is `dwim' then activation of
1070 file name Isearch depends on the position of point - if point is on a file
1071 name initially, then Isearch matches only file names, otherwise it matches
1072 everywhere in the Dired buffer. You can toggle file names matching on or
1073 off by typing `M-s f' in Isearch mode.
1074
1075 *** `M-s a C-s' and `M-s a M-C-s' run multi-file Isearch on the marked files.
1076 They visit the first marked file in the sequence and display the usual Isearch
1077 prompt for a string or a regexp where all Isearch commands are available.
1078
1079 *** `Q' in Dired provides two new keys for multi-file replacement.
1080 The upper case key `Y' replaces all remaining matches in all remaining files
1081 with no more questions. The upper case key `N' stops doing replacements
1082 in the current file and skips to the next file. These multi-file keys
1083 are available for all commands that use `tags-query-replace'
1084 including `dired-do-query-replace-regexp', `vc-dir-query-replace-regexp',
1085 `reftex-query-replace-document'.
1086
1087 ** Fortran
1088
1089 *** The line length of fixed-form Fortran is not fixed at 72 any more.
1090 Customize the variable `fortran-line-length' to change it.
1091
1092 *** In Fortran mode, M-; is now bound to the standard comment-dwim,
1093 rather than fortran-indent-comment.
1094
1095 *** (The increasingly misnamed) F90 mode supports Fortran 2003 syntax.
1096
1097 ** Gnus
1098
1099 *** The Gnus package has been updated
1100 There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements; see the file
1101 GNUS-NEWS or the node "No Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
1102
1103 *** In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for
1104 saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld. These file may not be read
1105 correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to Gnus across different Emacs
1106 versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'.
1107
1108 *** Passwords are consistently loaded through `auth-source'
1109 Gnus can use `auth-source' for POP and IMAP passwords. Also see that
1110 `smtpmail' and `url' support `auth-source' for SMTP and HTTP/HTTPS/RSS
1111 authentication respectively.
1112
1113 ** Help mode
1114
1115 *** New macro `with-help-window' should set up help windows better
1116 than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'.
1117
1118 *** New option `help-window-select' permits to customize whether help
1119 window shall be automatically selected when invoking help.
1120
1121 *** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits one to specify a new
1122 position for point in help window (for example in `view-lossage').
1123
1124 ** Isearch
1125
1126 *** New command `isearch-forward-word' bound globally to `M-s w' starts
1127 incremental word search. New command `isearch-toggle-word' bound to the
1128 same key `M-s w' in Isearch mode toggles word searching on or off
1129 while Isearch is active.
1130
1131 *** New command `isearch-highlight-regexp' bound to `M-s h r' in Isearch
1132 mode runs `highlight-regexp' (`hi-lock-face-buffer') with the current
1133 search string as its regexp argument. The same key `M-s h r' and
1134 other keys on the `M-s h' prefix are bound globally to the command
1135 `highlight-regexp' and other hi-lock commands.
1136
1137 *** New command `isearch-occur' bound to `M-s o' in Isearch mode
1138 runs `occur' with the current search string. The same key `M-s o'
1139 is bound globally to the command `occur'.
1140
1141 *** Isearch can now search through multiple ChangeLog files.
1142 When running Isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails,
1143 then another C-s tries searching the previous ChangeLog,
1144 if there is one (e.g. going from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12).
1145 This is enabled if multi-isearch-search is non-nil.
1146
1147 *** Two new commands to start Isearch on a list of marked buffers
1148 for buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el are bound to the keys `M-s a C-s' and
1149 `M-s a M-C-s'.
1150
1151 *** The part of an Isearch that failed to match is highlighted in
1152 `isearch-fail' face.
1153
1154 *** `C-h C-h' in Isearch mode displays isearch-specific Help screen,
1155 `C-h b' displays all Isearch key bindings, `C-h k' displays the full
1156 documentation of the given Isearch key sequence, `C-h m' displays
1157 documentation of Isearch mode. All the rest Help commands exit Isearch mode
1158 and execute their global definitions.
1159
1160 *** When started in the minibuffer, Isearch searches in the minibuffer
1161 history. See `Minibuffer changes', above.
1162
1163 ** MH-E
1164
1165 *** Upgraded to MH-E version 8.2. See MH-E-NEWS for details.
1166
1167 ** Python
1168 *** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning
1169 that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el.
1170
1171 *** Python mode now has `pdbtrack' functionality. When using pdb to
1172 debug a Python program, pdbtrack notices the pdb prompt and displays
1173 the source file and line that the program is stopped at, much the same
1174 way as gud-mode does for debugging C programs with gdb.
1175
1176 ** Recentf
1177
1178 *** The default value of `recentf-keep' prevents from checking of
1179 remote files, if there is no established connection to the
1180 corresponding remote host.
1181
1182 ** Rmail
1183
1184 *** Rmail no longer converts the messages to Babyl format.
1185 Instead, it uses UNIX mbox format, both on disk and in Rmail buffers,
1186 and does conversion and decoding when a message is displayed.
1187
1188 The first time you visit an Rmail file in Babyl format, Rmail
1189 automatically converts it to mbox format. This is a one-time
1190 conversion, but it can take a few minutes, depending on how fast is
1191 your machine and on the size of the file. You should find the rest of
1192 Rmail usage unaltered.
1193
1194 However, M-x set-rmail-inbox-list now lasts only for one session
1195 because there is no way to save the list of inbox files in an
1196 mbox-format file.
1197
1198 Also, whereas with Babyl format M-x find-file would switch to Rmail
1199 mode, with mbox format this is no longer the case (there being no way
1200 to add an "-*- rmail-*-" cookie to an mbox file). Use C-u M-x rmail
1201 instead.
1202
1203 If you have written any extensions to Rmail, they are likely to need
1204 updating. Conceptually, the Rmail buffer that you see is no longer
1205 just a narrowed portion of the whole. So you cannot access the whole
1206 of a message (or message collection) by a simple save-restriction and
1207 widen. Instead, there are two buffers: the rmail-buffer, and the
1208 rmail-view-buffer. The former is the buffer that you see, the latter
1209 is invisible. Most of the time, the invisible `view' buffer contains
1210 the full contents of the Rmail file, and the Rmail buffer contains a
1211 decoded copy of the current message (with only a subset of the
1212 headers). In this state, Rmail is said to be `swapped'.
1213
1214 You may find the following functions useful:
1215
1216 `rmail-get-header' and `rmail-set-header' get or set the value of a
1217 message header, whether or not it is currently visible.
1218
1219 `rmail-apply-in-message' is a general purpose function that calls a
1220 function (with arguments) which you specify on the full text of a given
1221 message. To further narrow to just the headers, search forward for "\n\n".
1222
1223 *** The new command `rmail-mime' displays MIME messages.
1224 It is bound to `v' in Rmail buffers and summaries. It displays plain
1225 text and multipart messages in a temporary buffer, and offers buttons
1226 to save attachments.
1227
1228 *** The command `rmail-redecode-body' no longer accepts the optional arg RAW.
1229 Since Rmail now holds messages in their original undecoded form in a
1230 separate buffer, `rmail-redecode-body' no longer encodes the original
1231 message, and therefore there should be no need to avoid encoding it.
1232
1233 *** The o command is now `rmail-output'. It is an all-purpose command
1234 for copying messages from Rmail and appending them to files. It
1235 handles Babyl-format files as well as mbox-format files, and it
1236 handles both kinds properly when they are visited in Emacs. It always
1237 copies the full headers of the message.
1238
1239 *** The C-o command is now `rmail-output-as-seen'. It uses
1240 the message as displayed, appending it to an mbox file.
1241
1242 *** The modified status of the Rmail buffer is reported in the mode-line.
1243 Previously, this information was hidden.
1244
1245 ** TeX modes
1246
1247 *** New option latex-indent-within-escaped-parens
1248 permits to customize indentation of LaTeX environments delimited
1249 by escaped parens.
1250
1251 ** T-mouse Mode
1252
1253 *** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode is enabled,
1254 Emacs uses a Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server,
1255 rather than faking events using the client program mev. This C level
1256 approach provides mouse highlighting and help echoing in the
1257 minibuffer.
1258
1259 ** Tramp
1260
1261 *** New connection methods.
1262 The new methods "plinkx", "plink2", "psftp", "sftp" and "fish" have
1263 been introduced. There are also new so-called gateway methods
1264 "tunnel" and "socks".
1265
1266 *** IPv6 addresses.
1267 IPv6 addresses are supported now as host names. They must be embedded
1268 in square brackets, like in "/ssh:[::1]:".
1269
1270 *** Multihop syntax has been removed.
1271 The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed. Instead, multi hops
1272 can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'.
1273
1274 *** More default settings.
1275 Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user',
1276 `tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-host'.
1277
1278 *** Connection information is cached.
1279 In order to reduce connection setup, information about used
1280 connections is kept persistently in a file. The name of this file is
1281 defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'.
1282
1283 *** Control of remote processes.
1284 Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in
1285 `tramp-remote-path' and `tramp-remote-process-environment'.
1286
1287 *** Success of remote copy is checked.
1288 When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote
1289 file copy is checked via the file's checksum.
1290
1291 *** Passwords can be read from an authentification file.
1292 Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if
1293 necessary.
1294
1295 ** VC and related modes
1296
1297 *** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time.
1298 This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented
1299 version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, Git
1300 and Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems as
1301 a single changeset.
1302
1303 *** vc-dir is a new command that displays file names and their VC
1304 status. It allows to apply various VC operations to a file, a
1305 directory or a set of files/directories.
1306
1307 *** VC switches are no longer appended, rather the first non-nil value is used.
1308 (This was for the most part true in Emacs 22, but was not advertised).
1309 This is because there is an increasing variety of VC systems, and they
1310 do not all accept the same "common" options. For example, a CVS diff
1311 command used to append the values of `vc-cvs-diff-switches',
1312 `vc-diff-switches', and `diff-switches'. Now the first non-nil value
1313 from that sequence is used. The special value `t' means "no switches".
1314
1315 *** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu.
1316
1317 *** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip that explains the VC file status.
1318
1319 *** In VC Annotate mode, the key bindings have changed to use lower
1320 case keys instead of the upper case keys used in the past.
1321
1322 *** In VC Annotate mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can
1323 see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file)
1324 by typing the D key. Using the "Show changeset diff of revision at
1325 line" menu entry does the same thing.
1326
1327 *** In VC Annotate mode, you can type v to toggle the annotation visibility.
1328
1329 *** In VC Annotate mode, you can type f to show the file revision on
1330 the current line.
1331
1332 *** Asynchronous VC commands display [Waiting...] in the mode-line
1333 of the corresponding buffer as long as the asynchronous process is
1334 active.
1335
1336 *** Log entries can be modified using the key "e" in log-view.
1337 For now only CVS, RCS, SCCS and SVN support this functionality.
1338 This is done by the `modify-change-comment' backend function.
1339
1340 *** In log-view-mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can
1341 see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file)
1342 by typing the D key or using the "Changeset Diff" menu entry.
1343
1344 *** In Log Edit mode, C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved.
1345
1346 *** vc-git supports the "git grep" command.
1347
1348 *** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of a maintainer able
1349 to update it to the new VC.
1350
1351 ** Miscellaneous
1352
1353 *** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes).
1354 If `default-directory' is a remote file name, subprocesses are started
1355 on the corresponding remote system.
1356
1357 *** Eldoc highlights the function argument under point
1358 with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'.
1359
1360 *** In Etags, the --members option is now the default.
1361 Use --no-members if you want the old default behavior of not tagging
1362 struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP.
1363
1364 *** The `gdb' command only works with the graphical interface now.
1365 Use `gud-gdb' if you want the (old) text command mode.
1366
1367 *** goto-address.el provides two new minor modes, goto-address-mode and
1368 goto-address-prog-mode, which buttonize URLS and email addresses.
1369
1370 *** The new command `eshell/info' runs info in an eshell buffer.
1371
1372 *** The new variable `ffap-rfc-directories' specifies a list of local
1373 directories in which `ffap-rfc' will first search for RFCs.
1374
1375 *** hide-ifdef-mode allows shadowing ifdef-blocks instead of hiding them.
1376 See option `hide-ifdef-shadow' and function `hide-ifdef-toggle-shadowing'.
1377
1378 *** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supercedes `icomplete-prospects-length'.
1379
1380 *** Info displays breadcrumbs in the header of the page.
1381 See Info-breadcrumbs-depth to control it.
1382
1383 *** net-utils has an `iwconfig' command, similar to the existing `ifconfig'.
1384 It is used to configure wireless interfaces.
1385
1386 *** The pcmpl-unix package supports hostname completion for ssh and scp.
1387
1388 *** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs.
1389
1390 *** smerge-refine highlights word-level details of changes in conflict.
1391 It's used automatically as you move through conflicts, see
1392 smerge-auto-refine-mode.
1393
1394 *** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support.
1395
1396 *** A new command `display-time-world' has been added to the Time
1397 package. It creates a buffer with an updating time display using
1398 several time zones.
1399
1400 *** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable.
1401 See the documentation of the variables: tex-fontify-script,
1402 tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and
1403 tex-suscript-height-minimum.
1404
1405 *** view-remove-frame-by-deleting is now by default t
1406 since users found iconification of view-mode frames distracting.
1407
1408 *** WoMan tries to add locale-specific manual page directories to the
1409 search path. This can be disabled by setting `woman-locale' to nil.
1410
1411 \f
1412 * Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems
1413
1414 ** Case is now considered significant in completion on MS-Windows.
1415 The default value of `completion-ignore-case' is now nil on
1416 MS-Windows, the same as it is for other operating systems. The
1417 variable doesn't apply to reading a file name -- in that case Emacs
1418 heeds `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' instead.
1419
1420 ** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows.
1421 Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions
1422 of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. In Emacs 22, IPv6 was
1423 supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock
1424 1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library.
1425
1426 ** Busy cursor (hourglass) now displays on MS-Windows.
1427 When Emacs is busy, an hourglass mouse cursor is displayed on Windows.
1428 In Emacs 22 only X supported the busy cursor.
1429
1430 ** Battery status is available on MS-Windows
1431 Emacs can now display the battery status in the mode-line when enabled with
1432 display-battery-mode or from the Options menu. More verbose battery
1433 information is also available with the command `battery'. In Emacs 22
1434 battery status was supported only on GNU/Linux and Mac.
1435
1436 ** More keys available on MS-Windows.
1437 Keys normally associated with IMEs, and some exotic keys not normally found
1438 on standard keyboards have been given names so they can be bound to functions
1439 inside Emacs. If there are keys on your keyboard that have not been exposed
1440 to Emacs in the past, try C-h k to see if they are available now.
1441
1442 Emacs can now bind functions to the extra buttons for media player and
1443 browser control present on some keyboards. These buttons are disabled
1444 by default, since enabling them prevents their system-wide use when
1445 Emacs has focus. To enable them, set the variable
1446 w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable
1447 for the list of extra keys that are available.
1448
1449 ** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows.
1450 The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus
1451 on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode
1452 support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts. A
1453 rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time
1454 and developers. If demand still exists for such a backend even with
1455 the improved language support for native Windows fonts, future
1456 development in this direction will most likely be based on the
1457 freetype library, giving access to a wider range of font formats.
1458
1459 \f
1460 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
1461
1462 ** Variables cannot be both buffer-local and frame-local any more.
1463
1464 ** `functionp' returns nil for special forms.
1465 I.e., it only returns t for objects that can be passed to `funcall'.
1466
1467 ** The behavior of map-char-table has changed. It may call the
1468 specified function with a cons (FROM . TO) as a key if characters in
1469 that range have the same value.
1470
1471 ** Process changes
1472
1473 *** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed.
1474
1475 *** The multibyteness of process filters is now determined by the
1476 coding-system used for decoding. The functions
1477 `process-filter-multibyte-p' and `set-process-filter-multibyte' are
1478 obsolete.
1479
1480 ** The variable `byte-compile-warnings' can now be a list starting with `not',
1481 meaning to disable the specified warnings. The meaning of this list
1482 may therefore be the reverse of what you expect (of course, this is
1483 only an issue if you make use of the new `not' syntax). Rather than
1484 checking/manipulating elements directly, use the new functions
1485 `byte-compile-warning-enabled-p', `byte-compile-disable-warning', and
1486 `byte-compile-enable-warning.'
1487
1488 ** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string.
1489 Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value.
1490
1491 ** The function x-font-family-list has been removed.
1492 Use the new function font-family-list (see Lisp Changes, below).
1493
1494 ** Internationalization changes
1495
1496 *** The value of the function `charset-id' is now always 0.
1497
1498 *** The functions `register-char-codings' and `coding-system-spec'
1499 have been removed.
1500
1501 *** The cpXXX coding systems are now supported automatically.
1502 The functions cp-...-codepage, which you had to use in Emacs 22 to
1503 enable support for these coding systems, have been deleted.
1504
1505 *** The following features have been removed. They were used for
1506 displaying various scripts with specific fonts, and are no longer
1507 needed now that OpenType font support is available:
1508
1509 **** `devanagari' and `devan-util', and all associated devanagari-* and
1510 dev-* functions and variables (formerly used for Devanagari script).
1511
1512 **** `kannada' and `knd-util', and all associated kannada-* and knd-*
1513 functions and variables (formerly used for Kannada script).
1514
1515 **** `malayalam' and `mlm-util', and all associated malayalam-* and
1516 mlm-* functions and variables (formerly used for Malayalam script).
1517
1518 **** `tamil' and `tml-util, and all associated tamil-* and tml-*
1519 functions and variables (formerly used for Tamil script).
1520
1521 *** The meaning of NAME argument of `set-fontset-font' is changed.
1522 Previously nil is accepted as the default fontset. Now, nil is for
1523 the fontset of the selected frame and t is for the default fontset.
1524
1525 *** The meaning of FONTSET argument of `print-fontset' is changed.
1526 Now, nil is for the fontset of the selected frame and t is for the
1527 default fontset.
1528
1529 ** If a function in write-region-annotate-functions returns with a
1530 different buffer current, Emacs no longer kills that buffer
1531 automatically. This behavior existed in previous versions of Emacs,
1532 but was undocumented. To kill a buffer after write-region, give the
1533 variable `write-region-post-annotation-function' a buffer-local value
1534 of `kill-buffer'.
1535
1536 ** The variable temp-file-name-pattern has been removed.
1537 This variable was only used by call-process-region, which now uses
1538 temporary-file-directory instead.
1539
1540 ** The COUNT and SYSTEM-FLAG arguments to define-abbrev have been
1541 removed. The function now takes extra arguments for specifying
1542 arbitrary abbrev properties.
1543
1544 ** end-of-defun-function is now guaranteed to work only when called
1545 from the start of a defun. It must now leave point exactly at the end
1546 of defun, since `end-of-defun' now itself moves forward over
1547 whitespace after calling it.
1548
1549 \f
1550 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
1551
1552 ** The new variable `generate-autoload-cookie' controls the magic comment
1553 string used by `update-file-autoloads' to find autoloaded forms. The
1554 variable `generated-autoload-file' similarly controls the name of the
1555 file where `update-file-autoloads' writes the calls to `autoload'.
1556 The default values are ";;;###autoload" and `loaddefs.el',
1557 respectively.
1558
1559 ** New primitives `list-system-processes' and `process-attributes'
1560 let Lisp programs access the processes that are running on the local
1561 machine. See the doc strings of these functions for more details.
1562 Not all platforms support accessing this information; on those that
1563 don't, these primitives will return nil.
1564
1565 ** New variable `user-emacs-directory'.
1566 Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d".
1567
1568 ** If a local hook function has a non-nil `permanent-local-hook'
1569 property, `kill-all-local-variables' does not remove it from the local
1570 value of the hook variable; it remains even if you change major modes.
1571
1572 ** `frame-inherited-parameters' lets new frames inherit parameters from
1573 the selected frame.
1574
1575 ** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but
1576 applies before function-key-map. Also it is terminal-local contrary to
1577 key-translation-map. Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to
1578 this map rather than to function-key-map now.
1579
1580 ** `ignore-errors' is now a standard macro (does not require the CL package).
1581
1582 ** `interprogram-paste-function' can now return one string or a list
1583 of strings. In the latter case, Emacs puts the second and following
1584 strings on the kill ring.
1585
1586 ** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first".
1587 You do this by writing `debug' in the list of conditions to be handled,
1588 like this:
1589
1590 (condition-case nil
1591 (foo bar)
1592 ((debug error) nil))
1593
1594 ** clone-indirect-buffer now runs the clone-indirect-buffer-hook.
1595
1596 ** `beginning-of-defun-function' now takes one argument, the count given to
1597 `beginning-of-defun'. (N.B. `end-of-defun-function' doesn't take any
1598 arguments.)
1599
1600 ** `file-remote-p' has new optional parameters IDENTIFICATION and CONNECTED.
1601 IDENTIFICATION specifies which part of the remote identifier has to be
1602 returned. With CONNECTED passed non-nil, it is checked whether a
1603 remote connection has been established already.
1604
1605 ** The new macro `declare-function' suppresses compiler warnings about
1606 undefined functions.
1607
1608 ** Changes to interactive function handling
1609
1610 *** The new interactive spec code ^ says to first call
1611 handle-shift-selection if shift-select-mode is non-nil, before reading
1612 the command arguments. This is used for shift-selection (see above).
1613
1614 *** Built-in functions can now have an interactive specification that
1615 is not a prompt string. If the `intspec' parameter of a `DEFUN'
1616 starts with a `(', the string is evaluated as a Lisp form.
1617
1618 *** The interactive-form of a function can be added post-facto via the
1619 `interactive-form' symbol property. Mostly useful to add complex
1620 interactive forms to subroutines.
1621
1622 ** Region changes
1623
1624 *** Commands should use `use-region-p' to test whether there is
1625 an active region that they should operate on.
1626
1627 *** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode is
1628 enabled and the mark is active. Most commands that act specially on
1629 the active region in Transient Mark mode should use `use-region-p'
1630 instead of `region-active-p', because `use-region-p' obeys the new
1631 user option `use-empty-active-region' (see Editing Changes, above).
1632
1633 *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to (only . OLDVAL), that
1634 means to activate transient-mark-mode temporarily, until the next
1635 unshifted point motion command or mark deactivation. Afterwards,
1636 reset transient-mark-mode to the value OLDVAL. The values `only' and
1637 `identity', introduced in Emacs 22, are now deprecated.
1638
1639 ** Emacs session information
1640
1641 *** The new variables `before-init-time' and `after-init-time' record the
1642 value of `current-time' before and after Emacs loads the init files.
1643
1644 *** The new function `emacs-uptime' returns the uptime of an Emacs instance.
1645
1646 *** The new function `emacs-init-time' returns the duration of the
1647 Emacs initialization.
1648
1649 ** Changes affecting display-buffer
1650
1651 *** display-buffer tries to be smarter when splitting windows.
1652 The new option split-window-preferred-function lets you specify your own
1653 function to pop up new windows. Its default value split-window-sensibly
1654 can split a window either vertically or horizontally, whichever seems
1655 more suitable in the current configuration. You can tune the behavior
1656 of split-window-sensibly by customizing split-height-threshold and the
1657 new option split-width-threshold. Both options now take the value nil
1658 to inhibit splitting in one direction. Setting split-width-threshold to
1659 nil inhibits horizontal splitting and gets you the behavior of Emacs 22
1660 in this respect. In any case, display-buffer may now split the largest
1661 window vertically even when it is not as wide as the containing frame.
1662
1663 *** If pop-up-frames has the value `graphic-only', display-buffer only
1664 makes a separate frame on graphic displays.
1665
1666 *** select-frame and set-frame-selected-window have a new optional
1667 argument NORECORD. If non-nil, this will avoid messing with the order
1668 of recently selected windows and the buffer list.
1669
1670 ** Window parameters can now be defined.
1671 These are analogous to frame parameters, but are associated with
1672 individual windows.
1673
1674 *** The new functions window-parameters, window-parameter, and
1675 set-window-parameter are used to query and set window parameters.
1676
1677 ** Minibuffer and completion changes
1678
1679 *** A list of default values can be specified for the DEFAULT argument of
1680 functions `read-from-minibuffer', `read-string', `read-command',
1681 `read-variable', `read-buffer', `completing-read'. Elements of this list
1682 are available for inserting into the minibuffer by typing `M-n'.
1683 For empty input these functions return the first element of this list.
1684
1685 *** New function `read-regexp' uses the regexp history and some useful
1686 regexp defaults (string at point, last Isearch/replacement regexp/string)
1687 via M-n when reading a regexp in the minibuffer.
1688
1689 *** minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map is now named
1690 minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map.
1691
1692 *** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts the new
1693 values `confirm-only' and `confirm-after-completion'.
1694
1695 ** Search and replacement changes
1696
1697 *** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly.
1698
1699 *** New function `match-substitute-replacement' returns the result of
1700 `replace-match' without actually using it in the buffer.
1701
1702 *** The new variable `replace-search-function' determines the function
1703 to use for searching in query-replace and replace-string. The
1704 function it specifies is called by `perform-replace' when its 4th
1705 argument is nil.
1706
1707 *** The new variable `replace-re-search-function' determines the
1708 function to use for searching in `query-replace-regexp',
1709 `replace-regexp', `query-replace-regexp-eval', and
1710 `map-query-replace-regexp'. The function it specifies is called by
1711 `perform-replace' when its 4th argument is non-nil.
1712
1713 *** New keymap `search-map' bound to `M-s' provides global bindings
1714 for search related commands.
1715
1716 *** New keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additonal keys bound
1717 to `automatic-all' and `exit-current' for multi-buffer interactive replacement.
1718
1719 *** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents
1720 the search and match primitives from changing the match data.
1721
1722 *** New functions `word-search-forward-lax' and `word-search-backward-lax'.
1723 These are like `word-search-forward and `word-search-backward', except
1724 that the end of the search string need not match a word boundary,
1725 unless it ends in whitespace.
1726
1727 ** File handling changes
1728
1729 *** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in
1730 symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions.
1731
1732 *** file-local-variables-alist stores an alist of file-local
1733 variables defined in the current buffer.
1734
1735 ** Face-remapping
1736
1737 *** Each face can be remapped to a different face definition using the
1738 variable `face-remapping-alist'. This is an alist that maps faces to
1739 replacement definitions (which can be face names, lists of face names,
1740 or attribute/value plists. If this variable is buffer-local, the
1741 remapping occurs only in that buffer.
1742
1743 *** text-scale-mode remaps the default face to a larger or smaller
1744 size in the current buffer. This feature is used by the Buffer Face
1745 menu and the new `C-x C-+', `C-x C--', and `C-x C-0' commands (see
1746 Editing Changes, above).
1747
1748 *** New functions:
1749
1750 **** `face-remap-add-relative' adds a face remapping entry to the
1751 current buffer.
1752
1753 **** ``face-remap-remove-relative' removes a face remapping entry from
1754 the current buffer.
1755
1756 **** `face-remap-reset-base' restores a face to its global definition.
1757
1758 **** `face-remap-set-base' sets the base remapping of a face.
1759
1760 ** Process changes
1761
1762 *** The new function `start-file-process' is similar to `start-process',
1763 but obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
1764 `default-directory'. The functions `start-file-process-shell-command'
1765 and `process-file-shell-command' are also new; they call internally
1766 `start-file-process' and `process-file', respectively.
1767
1768 *** The new function `process-lines' executes an external program and
1769 returns its output as a list of lines.
1770
1771 ** Character code, representation, and charset changes.
1772
1773 *** In multibyte buffers and strings, characters are represented by
1774 UTF-8 byte sequences. The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF
1775 with no gap; code points 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the
1776 same code points, while code points 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit
1777 bytes.
1778
1779 *** Generic characters no longer exist.
1780
1781 *** The concept of a charset has changed. A single character may
1782 belong to multiple charsets (e.g. a-grave, U+00E0, belongs to charsets
1783 unicode, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-3, etc).
1784
1785 **** The dimension of a charset is now 1, 2, 3, or 4, and the size of
1786 each dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96.
1787
1788 **** A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of
1789 characters for display.
1790
1791 *** The functions `split-char' and `make-char' now accept up to 4
1792 positional codes instead of just 2.
1793
1794 *** The functions `encode-char' and `decode-char' now accept any character sets.
1795
1796 *** The function `define-charset' now accepts a completely different
1797 form of arguments (old-style arguments still work).
1798
1799 *** The value of the function `char-charset' depends on the current
1800 priorities of charsets.
1801
1802 *** The function get-char-code-property now accepts many Unicode base
1803 character properties. They are `name', `general-category',
1804 `canonical-combining-class', `bidi-class', `decomposition',
1805 `decimal-digit-value', `digit-value', `numeric-value', `mirrored',
1806 `old-name', `iso-10646-comment', `uppercase', `lowercase', and
1807 `titlecase'.
1808
1809 *** The functions `modify-syntax-entry' and `modify-category-entry' now
1810 accept a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all
1811 entries in that range of characters.
1812
1813 *** Use of `translation-table-for-input' for character code unification
1814 is now obsolete, since Emacs 23.1 and later uses Unicode as basis for
1815 internal representation of characters.
1816
1817 *** New functions:
1818
1819 **** `characterp' returns t if and only if the argument is a character.
1820 This replaces `char-valid-p', which is now obsolete.
1821
1822 **** `max-char' returns the maximum character code (currently #x3FFFFF).
1823
1824 **** `define-charset-alias' defines an alias of a charset.
1825
1826 **** `set-charset-priority' sets priorities of charsets.
1827
1828 **** `charset-priority-list' returns a prioritized list of charsets.
1829
1830 **** `unibyte-string' makes a unibyte string from bytes.
1831
1832 **** `define-char-code-property' defines a character code property.
1833
1834 **** `char-code-property-description' returns the description string of
1835 a character code property.
1836
1837 *** New variables:
1838
1839 **** `find-word-boundary-function-table' is a char-table of functions to
1840 search for a word boundary.
1841
1842 **** `char-script-table' is a char-table of script names.
1843
1844 **** `char-width-table' is a char-table of character widths.
1845
1846 **** `print-charset-text-property' controls how to handle `charset' text
1847 property on printing a string.
1848
1849 **** `printable-chars' is a char-table of printable characters.
1850
1851 ** Code conversion changes
1852
1853 *** The new function `define-coding-system' should be used to define a
1854 coding system instead of `make-coding-system' (which is now obsolete).
1855
1856 *** The functions `encode-coding-region' and `decode-coding-region'
1857 have an optional 4th argument to specify where the result of
1858 conversion should go.
1859
1860 *** The functions `encode-coding-string' and `decode-coding-string'
1861 have an optional 4th argument specifying a buffer to store the result
1862 of conversion.
1863
1864 *** The new variable `inhibit-null-byte-detection' controls whether to
1865 consider text with null bytes as binary data. By default, it is
1866 `nil', and Emacs uses `no-conversion' for any text containing null
1867 bytes.
1868
1869 *** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete.
1870
1871 *** New functions:
1872
1873 **** `with-coding-priority' executes Lisp code using the specified
1874 coding system priority order.
1875
1876 **** `check-coding-systems-region' checks if the text in the region is
1877 encodable by the specified coding systems.
1878
1879 **** `coding-system-aliases' returns a list of aliases of a coding system.
1880
1881 **** `coding-system-charset-list' returns a list of charsets supported
1882 by a coding system.
1883
1884 **** `coding-system-priority-list' returns a list of coding systems
1885 ordered by their priorities.
1886
1887 **** `set-coding-system-priority' sets priorities of coding systems.
1888
1889 **** `coding-system-from-name' returns a coding system matching with
1890 the argument name.
1891
1892
1893 ** There is a new input method, Robin, different from Quail.
1894 It has three functionalities:
1895 i) a simple input method (converts an ASCII sequence into a string).
1896 ii) converts an existing buffer substring into another string
1897 iii) reverse conversion (each character produced by a
1898 robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a char-code-property)
1899
1900 *** The new function `robin-define-package' defines a Robin package.
1901
1902 *** The new function `robin-modify-package' modifies an existing Robin package.
1903
1904 *** The new function `robin-use-package' starts using a Robin package
1905 as an input method.
1906
1907 *** The new function `string-to-unibyte' is like `string-as-unibyte'
1908 but signals an error if STRING contains a non-ASCII, non-eight-bit
1909 character.
1910
1911 ** Changes related to the new font backend
1912
1913 *** Which font backends to use can be specified by the X resource
1914 "FontBackend". For instance, to use both X core fonts and Xft fonts:
1915
1916 Emacs.FontBackend: x,xft
1917
1918 If this resource is not set, Emacs tries to use all font backends
1919 available on your graphic device.
1920
1921 *** New frame parameter `font-backend' specifies a list of
1922 font-backends supported by the frame's graphic device. On X, they are
1923 currently `x' and `xft'.
1924
1925 *** The function `set-fontset-font' now accepts a script name as the
1926 second argument, and has an optional 5th argument to control how to
1927 set the font.
1928
1929 *** New functions:
1930
1931 **** `fontp' checks if the argument is a font-spec or font-entity.
1932
1933 **** `font-spec' creates a new font-spec object.
1934
1935 **** `font-get' returns a font property value.
1936
1937 **** `font-put' sets a font property value.
1938
1939 **** `font-face-attributes' returns a plist of face attributes set by a font.
1940
1941 **** `list-fonts' returns a list of font-entities matching a font spec.
1942
1943 **** `find-font' returns the font-entity best matching the given font spec.
1944
1945 **** `font-family-list' returns a list of family names of available fonts.
1946
1947 **** `font-xlfd-name' returns an XLFD name of a given font spec, font
1948 entity, or font object.
1949
1950 **** `clear-font-cache' clears all font caches.
1951
1952 ** Changes related to multiple-terminal (multi-tty) support
1953
1954 *** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses. If you want to know the
1955 $TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment.
1956
1957 *** $DISPLAY is now dynamically inherited from the frame's `display'.
1958
1959 *** The `window-system' variable is now frame-local. The new
1960 `initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value
1961 for the first frame. `window-system' is also now a function that
1962 takes a frame argument.
1963
1964 *** The `keyboard-translate-table' variable and the terminal and
1965 keyboard coding systems are now terminal-local.
1966
1967 *** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal
1968 type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'.
1969
1970 *** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a tty
1971 session.
1972
1973 *** A new `terminal' data type.
1974 The functions `get-device-terminal', `terminal-parameters',
1975 `terminal-parameter', `set-terminal-parameter' use this data type.
1976
1977 *** Function key sequences are now mapped using `local-function-key-map',
1978 a new variable. This inherits from the global variable function-key-map,
1979 which is not used directly any more.
1980
1981 *** New hooks:
1982
1983 **** before-hack-local-variables-hook is called after setting new
1984 variable file-local-variables-alist, and before actually applying the
1985 file-local variables.
1986
1987 **** `suspend-tty-functions' and `resume-tty-functions' are called
1988 after a tty frame has been suspended or resumed, respectively. The
1989 functions are called with the terminal id of the frame being
1990 suspended/resumed as a parameter.
1991
1992 **** The special hook `delete-terminal-functions' is called before
1993 deleting a terminal.
1994
1995 *** New functions:
1996
1997 **** `delete-terminal'
1998
1999 **** `suspend-tty'
2000
2001 **** `resume-tty'.
2002
2003 *** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent.
2004
2005 ** Redisplay changes
2006
2007 *** For underlined characters, the distance between the underline and
2008 the baseline is controlled by a new variable, `underline-minimum-offset'.
2009
2010 *** You can now pass the value of the `invisible' property to
2011 invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible.
2012 This is convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer
2013 position (e.g. in before/after-strings).
2014
2015 *** `clear-image-cache' can be told to flush only images of a specific file.
2016
2017 *** `vertical-motion' can now be given a goal column.
2018 It now accepts a cons cell (COLS . LINES) in its first argument, which
2019 says to stop, where possible, at a pixel x-position equal to COLS
2020 times the default column width.
2021
2022 *** redisplay-end-trigger-functions, set-window-redisplay-end-trigger,
2023 and window-redisplay-end-trigger are obsolete. Use `jit-lock-register'
2024 instead.
2025
2026 *** The new variables `wrap-prefix' and `line-prefix' specify display
2027 specs which are appended at display-time to every continuation line
2028 and non-continuation line, respectively. In addition, Emacs
2029 recognizes the `wrap-prefix' and `line-prefix' text or overlay
2030 properties; these have the same effects as the variables of the same
2031 name, but take precedence.
2032
2033 ** The Lisp interpreter now treats non-breaking space as whitespace.
2034
2035 ** Miscellaneous new functions
2036
2037 *** `apply-partially' performs a "curried" application of a function.
2038
2039 *** `buffer-swap-text' swaps text between two buffers. This can be
2040 useful for modes such as tar-mode, archive-mode, RMAIL.
2041
2042 *** `combine-and-quote-strings' produces a single string from a list of strings
2043 sticking a separator string in between each pair, and quoting those
2044 strings that include the separator as their substring. Useful for
2045 consing shell command lines from the individual arguments.
2046
2047 *** `custom-note-var-changed' tells Custom to treat the change in a
2048 certain variable as having been made within Custom.
2049
2050 *** `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing all the basic
2051 attributes of a given face.
2052
2053 *** `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a readable
2054 string of days, hours, etc.
2055
2056 *** `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image
2057 specification.
2058
2059 *** `locate-user-emacs-file' helps packages to select the appropriate
2060 place to save user-specific files. It defaults to `user-emacs-directory'
2061 unless the file already exists at $HOME.
2062
2063 *** `read-color' reads a color name using the minibuffer.
2064
2065 *** `read-shell-command' does what its name says, with completion. It
2066 uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that.
2067
2068 *** `split-string-and-unquote' splits a string into a list of substrings
2069 on the boundaries of a given delimiter, and unquotes the substrings that
2070 are quoted. Useful for taking apart shell commands.
2071
2072 *** The two new functions `looking-at-p' and `string-match-p' can do
2073 the same matching as `looking-at' and `string-match' without changing
2074 the match data.
2075
2076 *** The two new functions `make-serial-process' and
2077 `serial-process-configure' provide a Lisp interface to the new serial
2078 port support (see Emacs changes, above).
2079
2080 ** Miscellaneous new variables
2081
2082 *** `auto-save-include-big-deletions', if non-nil, means auto-save is
2083 not turned off automatically after a big deletion.
2084
2085 *** `read-circle', if nil, disables the reading of recursive Lisp
2086 structures using the #N= and #N# syntax.
2087
2088 *** `this-command-keys-shift-translated' is non-nil if the key
2089 sequence invoking the current command was found by shift-translation.
2090
2091 *** `window-point-insertion-type' determines the insertion-type of the
2092 marker used for window-point.
2093
2094 *** bookmark provides `bookmark-make-record-function' so special major
2095 modes like Info can teach bookmark.el how to save and restore the
2096 relevant data.
2097
2098 *** `fill-forward-paragraph-function' specifies which function the
2099 filling code should use to find paragraph boundaries.
2100
2101 \f
2102 * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1
2103
2104 ** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure.
2105
2106 ** The new package check-declare.el verifies the accuracy of
2107 declare-function macros (see Lisp Changes, above).
2108
2109 ** find-cmd.el can build `find' commands using lisp syntax.
2110
2111 ** The package misearch.el has been added. It allows Isearch to search
2112 through multiple buffers. A variable `multi-isearch-next-buffer-function'
2113 defines the function to call to get the next buffer to search in the series
2114 of multiple buffers. Top-level commands `multi-isearch-buffers',
2115 `multi-isearch-buffers-regexp', `multi-isearch-files' and
2116 `multi-isearch-files-regexp' accept a single argument that specifies
2117 a list of buffers/files to search for a string/regexp.
2118
2119 ** The new major mode `special-mode' is intended as a parent for
2120 major modes such as those that set the "'mode-class 'special" property.
2121
2122 \f
2123 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2124 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
2125
2126 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2127 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
2128 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2129 (at your option) any later version.
2130
2131 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2132 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2133 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2134 GNU General Public License for more details.
2135
2136 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
2137 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
2138
2139 \f
2140 Local variables:
2141 mode: outline
2142 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
2143 end:
2144
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