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6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
10
11 See file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates.
12 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
13 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
14
15 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling 'view-emacs-news'
16 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
17
18 Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates are complete.
20 (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
21 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
22 When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
23 otherwise leave it unmarked.
24
25 \f
26 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.2
27
28 ** The new option 'configure --enable-gcc-warnings=warn-only' causes
29 GCC to issue warnings without stopping the bild. This behavior is now
30 the default in developer builds. As before, use
31 '--disable-gcc-warnings' to suppress GCC's warnings, and
32 '--enable-gcc-warnings' to stop the build if GCC issues warnings.
33
34 +++
35 ** New configure option '--disable-build-details' attempts to build an
36 Emacs that is more likely to be reproducible; that is, if you build
37 and install Emacs twice, the second Emacs is a copy of the first.
38 Deterministic builds omit the build date from the output of the
39 emacs-version and erc-cmd-SV functions, and the leave the following
40 variables nil: emacs-build-system, emacs-build-time,
41 erc-emacs-build-time.
42
43 ** Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs users are not
44 affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in December 2013.
45
46 \f
47 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.2
48
49 \f
50 * Changes in Emacs 25.2
51
52 +++
53 ** A number of accessors for the value returned by 'file-attributes'
54 has been added. They are: 'file-attribute-type',
55 'file-attribute-link-number', 'file-attribute-user-id',
56 'file-attribute-group-id', 'file-attribute-access-time',
57 'file-attribute-modification-time',
58 'file-attribute-status-change-time', 'file-attribute-size',
59 'file-attribute-modes', 'file-attribute-inode-number', and
60 'file-attribute-device-number'
61
62 +++
63 ** The new function 'buffer-hash' has been added, and can be used to
64 compute a fash, non-consing hash of the contents of a buffer.
65
66 ---
67 ** 'fill-paragraph' no longer marks the buffer as changed unless it
68 actually changed something.
69
70 ---
71 ** The locale language name 'ca' is now mapped to the language
72 environment 'Catalan', which has been added.
73
74 ---
75 ** 'align-regexp' has a separate history for its interactive argument
76 'align-regexp' no longer shares its history with all other
77 history-less functions that use 'read-string'
78
79 +++
80 ** The networking code has been reworked so that it's more
81 asynchronous than it was (when specifying :nowait t in
82 'make-network-process'). How asynchronous it is varies based on the
83 capabilities of the system, but on a typical GNU/Linux system the DNS
84 resolution, the connection, and (for TLS streams) the TLS negotiation
85 are all done without blocking the main Emacs thread. To get
86 asynchronous TLS, the TLS boot parameters have to be passed in (see
87 the manual for details).
88
89 Certain process oriented functions (like 'process-datagram-address')
90 will block until socket setup has been performed. The recommended way
91 to deal with asynchronous sockets is to avoid interacting with them
92 until they have changed status to "run". This is most easily done
93 from a process sentinel.
94
95 ** 'make-network-process' and 'open-network-stream' sometimes allowed
96 :service to be an integer string (e.g., :service "993") and sometimes
97 required an integer (e.g., :service 993). This difference has been
98 eliminated, and integer strings work everywhere.
99
100 ** It is possible to disable attempted recovery on fatal signals
101
102 Two new variables allow to disable attempts to recover from stack
103 overflow and to avoid automatic auto-save when Emacs is delivered a
104 fatal signal. 'attempt-stack-overflow-recovery', if set to 'nil',
105 will disable attempts to recover from C stack overflows; Emacs will
106 then crash as with any other fatal signal.
107 'attempt-orderly-shutdown-on-fatal-signal', if set to 'nil', will
108 disable attempts to auto-save the session and shut down in an orderly
109 fashion when Emacs receives a fatal signal; instead, Emacs will
110 terminate immediately. Both variables are non-'nil' by default.
111 These variables are for users who would like to avoid the small
112 probability of data corruption due to techniques Emacs uses to recover
113 in these situations.
114
115 \f
116 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.2
117
118 \f
119 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.2
120
121 ** eww
122
123 +++
124 *** A new 's' command for switching to another eww buffer via the minibuffer.
125
126 ---
127 *** The 'o' command ('shr-save-contents') has moved to 'O' to avoid collision
128 with the 'o' command from 'image-map'.
129
130 +++
131 ** The commands that add ChangeLog entries now prefer a VCS root directory
132 for the ChangeLog file, if none already exists. Customize
133 'change-log-directory-files' to nil for the old behavior.
134
135 ---
136 ** Support for non-string values of 'time-stamp-format' has been removed.
137
138 ** Tramp
139
140 +++
141 *** New connection method "sg", which allows to edit files under
142 different group ID.
143
144 +++
145 *** New connection method "doas" for OpenBSD hosts.
146
147 ---
148 ** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set back to t in 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
149
150 ** CSS mode
151
152 ---
153 *** Support for completing attribute values and bang-rules using the
154 'completion-at-point' command.
155
156 \f
157 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.2
158
159 \f
160 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.2
161
162 +++
163 ** Resizing a frame no longer runs 'window-configuration-change-hook'.
164 Put your function on 'window-size-change-functions' instead.
165
166 \f
167 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.2
168
169 ** New var syntax-ppss-table to control the syntax-table used in syntax-ppss
170
171 ** Autoload files can be generated without timestamps,
172 by setting 'autoload-timestamps' to nil.
173 FIXME As an experiment, nil is the current default.
174 If no insurmountable problems before next release, it can stay that way.
175
176 ** 'ert-with-function-mocked' of 'ert-x package allows mocking of functions
177 in unit tests.
178
179 ---
180 ** 'gnutls-boot' now takes a parameter :complete-negotiation that says
181 that negotiation should complete even on non-blocking sockets.
182
183 +++
184 ** New functions 'window-pixel-width-before-size-change' and
185 'window-pixel-height-before-size-change' allow to detect which window
186 changed size when 'window-size-change-functions' are run.
187
188 +++
189 ** New function 'display-buffer-reuse-mode-window' is an action function
190 suitable for use in 'display-buffer-alist'. For example, to avoid creating
191 a new window when opening man pages when there's already one, use
192 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
193 '("\\`\\*Man .*\\*\\'" .
194 (display-buffer-reuse-mode-window
195 (inhibit-same-window . nil)
196 (mode . Man-mode))))
197
198 +++
199 ** New function 'func-arity' returns information about the argument list
200 of an arbitrary function.
201 This is a generalization of 'subr-arity' for functions that are not
202 built-in primitives. We recommend using this new function instead of
203 'subr-arity'.
204
205 +++
206 ** 'parse-partial-sexp' state has a new element. Element 10 is
207 non-nil when the last character scanned might be the first character
208 of a two character construct, i.e. a comment delimiter or escaped
209 character. Its value is the syntax of that last character.
210
211 +++
212 ** 'parse-partial-sexp''s state, element 9, has now been confirmed as
213 permanent and documented, and may be used by Lisp programs. Its value
214 is a list of currently open parenthesis positions, starting with the
215 outermost parenthesis.
216
217 ** The function 'redirect-debugging-output' now works on platforms
218 other than GNU/Linux.
219
220 \f
221 * Changes in Emacs 25.2 on Non-Free Operating Systems
222
223 ** Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.
224 The new keyboard hooking code properly grabs system hotkeys such as
225 Win-* and Alt-TAB, in a way that Emacs can get at them before the
226 system. This makes the 'w32-register-hot-key' functionality work
227 again on all versions of MS-Windows starting with Windows 7. On
228 Windows NT and later you can now register any hotkey combination. (On
229 Windows 9X, the previous limitations, spelled out in the Emacs manual,
230 still apply.)
231
232 \f
233 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
234
235 +++
236 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
237
238 +++
239 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
240
241 +++
242 ** New configure option --with-cairo.
243 This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing. As a side effect, it provides
244 support for built-in printing, when Emacs was built with GTK+.
245 Cairo drawing is an experimental feature in Emacs, and subject to
246 change in future releases.
247
248 +++
249 ** New configure option --with-modules.
250 This enables support for loading dynamic modules; see below.
251
252 ---
253 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
254 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
255 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
256 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
257 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
258 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
259
260 ---
261 ** The Emacs garbage collector assumes GC_MARK_STACK == GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS.
262 The GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS stack-marking variant has been the default
263 since Emacs 24.4, and the other variants were undocumented and were
264 obstacles to maintenance and development. GC_MARK_STACK and its
265 related symbols have been removed from the C internals.
266
267 ---
268 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
269 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
270
271 ---
272 ** 'configure' now prefers inotify to gfile for file notification,
273 unless gfile is explicitly requested via --with-file-notification='gfile'.
274
275 ---
276 ** 'configure' detects the kqueue file notification library on *BSD
277 and Mac OS X machines.
278
279 ---
280 ** The configure option '--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
281 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
282
283 ---
284 ** The configure option '--with-mmdf' has been removed.
285 It was no longer useful, as it relied on libraries that are no longer
286 supported, and its presence led to confusion during configuration.
287 This affects only the 'movemail' utility; Emacs itself can still
288 process MMDF-format files as before.
289
290 +++
291 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
292 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
293 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
294 build with 'make V=1'.
295
296 ---
297 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows you to specify a
298 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
299 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
300 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
301 be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
302
303 ---
304 ** The 'grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
305 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
306 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
307
308 ---
309 ** Emacs 25 comes with a new set of icons.
310 Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
311 The old Emacs logo icons are available as 'emacs23.png' in the same location.
312
313 ---
314 ** New make target 'check-expensive' to run additional tests.
315 This includes all tests which run via "make check", plus additional
316 tests which take more time to perform.
317
318 \f
319 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
320
321 +++
322 ** When Emacs is given a file as a command line argument and
323 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, display both the file and
324 'initial-buffer-choice'. When Emacs is given more than one file and
325 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, show 'initial-buffer-choice'
326 and *Buffer List*. This makes Emacs convenient to use from the
327 command line when 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil.
328
329 +++
330 ** The value of 'initial-scratch-message' is now treated as a doc string
331 and can contain escape sequences for command keys, quotes, and the like.
332
333 ---
334 ** The default height of GUI frames was enlarged.
335 This is so there's enough space in the initial window to display the
336 optional text about recovering crashes sessions, without losing the
337 splash image display.
338
339 \f
340 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
341
342 +++
343 ** Xwidgets: a new feature for embedding native widgets inside Emacs buffers.
344 If you have gtk3 and webkitgtk3 installed, and Emacs was built with
345 xwidget support, you can access the embedded webkit browser with 'M-x
346 xwidget-webkit-browse-url'. This opens a new buffer with the embedded
347 browser. The buffer will have a new mode, 'xwidget-webkit-mode'
348 (similar to 'image-mode'), which supports the webkit widget.
349
350 +++
351 *** New functions for xwidget-webkit mode 'xwidget-webkit-insert-string',
352 'xwidget-webkit-adjust-size-dispatch', 'xwidget-webkit-back',
353 'xwidget-webkit-browse-url', 'xwidget-webkit-reload',
354 'xwidget-webkit-current-url', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-backward',
355 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-forward', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-down',
356 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-up'.
357
358 +++
359 ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules).
360 A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional
361 functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package
362 written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions 'load', 'require',
363 'load-file', etc. were extended to load such modules, as they do with
364 Emacs Lisp packages. The new variable 'module-file-suffix' holds the
365 system-dependent value of the file-name extension ('.so' on Posix
366 hosts) of the module files.
367
368 A module should export a C-callable function named
369 'emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to
370 'load' or 'require' which loads the module. It should also export a
371 symbol named 'plugin_is_GPL_compatible' to indicate that its code is
372 released under the GPL or compatible license; Emacs will refuse to
373 load modules that don't export such a symbol.
374
375 If a module needs to call Emacs functions, it should do so through the
376 API defined and documented in the header file 'emacs-module.h'. Note
377 that any module that provides Lisp-callable functions will have to use
378 Emacs functions such as 'fset' and 'funcall', in order to register its
379 functions with the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
380
381 Modules can create 'user-ptr' Lisp objects that embed pointers to C
382 structs defined by the module. This is useful for keeping around
383 complex data structures created by a module, to be passed back to the
384 module's functions. User-ptr objects can also have associated
385 "finalizers" -- functions to be run when the object is GC'ed; this is
386 useful for freeing any resources allocated for the underlying data
387 structure, such as memory, open file descriptors, etc. A new
388 predicate 'user-ptrp' returns non-nil if its argument is a 'user-ptr'
389 object.
390
391 Loadable modules in Emacs are an experimental feature, and subject to
392 change in future releases. For that reason, their support is disabled
393 by default, and must be enabled by using the '--with-modules' option
394 at configure time.
395
396 +++
397 ** A second dir-local file (.dir-locals-2.el) is now accepted.
398 See the variable 'dir-locals-file-2' for more information.
399
400 +++
401 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
402 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
403 the 'network-security-level' variable.
404
405 ---
406 ** International domain names (IDNA) are now encoded via the new
407 puny.el library, so that one can visit web sites with non-ASCII URLs.
408
409 +++
410 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
411
412 ** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
413 text in the region.
414
415 +++
416 ** The new 'timer-list' command lists all active timers in a buffer
417 where you can cancel them with the 'c' command.
418
419 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
420 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard.
421 x-select-enable-primary and renamed select-enable-primary.
422 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
423 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
424 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
425 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
426
427 +++
428 ** New option 'switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' allows you to
429 customize how 'switch-to-buffer' proceeds interactively when the
430 selected window is strongly dedicated to its buffer.
431
432 +++
433 ** The option 'even-window-heights' has been renamed to
434 'even-window-sizes' and now handles window widths as well.
435
436 +++
437 ** New function 'read-multiple-choice' use to prompt for
438 multiple-choice questions, with a handy way to display help texts.
439
440 +++
441 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
442
443 +++
444 ** 'insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
445 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
446
447 +++
448 ** The new variable 'term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
449 The function 'tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
450 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
451
452 ---
453 ** New variable 'system-configuration-features', listing some of the
454 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
455 for use in Emacs bug reports.
456
457 +++
458 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
459 hiding character but the default '.' can be used by let-binding the
460 variable 'read-hide-char'.
461
462 +++
463 ** The Emacs pseudo-random number generator can be securely seeded.
464 On system where Emacs can access the system entropy or some other
465 cryptographically secure random stream, it now uses that when 'random'
466 is called with its argument 't'. This allows cryptographically strong
467 random values; in particular, the Emacs server now uses this facility
468 to produce its authentication key.
469
470 ---
471 ** New input methods: 'tamil-dvorak' and 'programmer-dvorak'.
472
473 \f
474 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
475
476 +++
477 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
478
479 ** Changes in undo
480
481 +++
482 *** Successive single-char deletions are collapsed in the undo-log just like
483 successive char insertions. Which commands invoke this behavior is
484 controlled by the new 'undo-auto-amalgamate' function. See the node
485 "Undo" in the ELisp manual for more details.
486
487 +++
488 *** The heuristic used to insert 'undo-boundary' after each command
489 has changed, so that if a command causes changes in more than just the
490 current buffer, Emacs now calls 'undo-boundary' in every buffer
491 affected by the command.
492
493 +++
494 ** New command 'comment-line' bound to 'C-x C-;'.
495
496 ** New and improved facilities for inserting Unicode characters
497
498 ---
499 *** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
500
501 +++
502 *** C-x 8 now has shorthands for several chars, such as U+2010
503 (HYPHEN), U+2011 (NON-BREAKING HYPHEN), and U+2012 (FIGURE DASH). As
504 before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
505
506 +++
507 *** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for using curved quotes as you
508 type. See also the new variable 'text-quoting-style'.
509
510 ---
511 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
512
513 ---
514 ** Emacs now uses "bracketed paste mode" on text terminals that support it.
515 Bracketed paste mode causes text terminals to wrap pasted text in special
516 escape sequences that allow Emacs to tell the difference between text
517 you type and text you paste from other applications. Emacs then
518 avoids interpreting each character in the pasted text as it does with
519 keyboard input, which results in a paste experience similar to that
520 under a window system, and significant performance improvements when
521 pasting large amounts of text.
522
523 Bracketed paste mode is disabled by default, so Emacs automatically
524 enables it at startup if the terminal supports it.
525
526 +++
527 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
528 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
529 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
530 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3, 7.0, and the latest Unicode 8.0.
531 This includes full support for directional isolates and the
532 Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these Unicode
533 standards.
534
535 +++
536 ** You can access 'mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
537
538 +++
539 ** New buffer-local 'electric-pair-local-mode'.
540
541 +++
542 ** New variable 'fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
543 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
544 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
545 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
546
547 +++
548 ** New documentation command 'describe-symbol'.
549 Works for functions, variables, faces, etc. It is bound to 'C-h o' by
550 default.
551
552 +++
553 ** New function 'custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
554 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found). It
555 is intended for adding to 'kill-emacs-query-functions'.
556
557 +++
558 ** The old 'C-x w' bindings in hi-lock-mode are officially deprecated
559 in favor of the global 'M-s h' bindings introduced in Emacs-23.1.
560 They'll disappear soon.
561
562 +++
563 ** New bindings for 'query-replace-map'.
564 'undo', undo the last replacement; bound to 'u'.
565 'undo-all', undo all replacements; bound to 'U'.
566
567 \f
568 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
569
570 ** Checkdoc
571
572 +++
573 *** New command 'checkdoc-package-keywords' checks if the
574 current package keywords are recognized. Set the new option
575 'checkdoc-package-keywords-flag' to non-nil to make
576 'checkdoc-current-buffer' call this function automatically.
577
578 +++
579 *** New function 'checkdoc-file' checks for style errors.
580 It's meant for use together with 'compile':
581 emacs -batch --eval "(checkdoc-file \"subr.el\")"
582
583 ** Desktop
584
585 ---
586 *** The desktop format version has been upgraded from 206 to 208.
587 Although Emacs 25.1 can read a version 206 desktop, earlier Emacsen
588 cannot read a version 208 desktop. To upgrade your desktop file, you
589 must explicitly request the upgrade, by C-u M-x desktop-save. You are
590 recommended to do this as soon as you have firmly upgraded to Emacs
591 25.1 (or later). Should you ever need to downgrade your desktop file
592 to version 206, you can do this with C-u C-u M-x desktop-save.
593
594 +++
595 ** New function 'bookmark-set-no-overwrite' bound to C-x r M.
596 It raises an error if a bookmark of that name already exists,
597 unlike 'bookmark-set' which silently updates an existing bookmark.
598
599 ** Gnus
600
601 +++
602 *** New user options 'mm-html-inhibit-images' and 'mm-html-blocked-images'
603 now control how mm-* functions fetch and display images in an HTML
604 message. Gnus still uses 'gnus-inhibit-images' and 'gnus-blocked-images'
605 for that purpose, i.e., binds mm-html- variables with those gnus-
606 variables, but other packages do not have to bind gnus- variables now.
607
608 ---
609 *** 'mm-inline-text-html-with-images' has been removed.
610 Use 'mm-html-inhibit-images' instead. Note that the value is opposite
611 in meaning.
612
613 ** IMAP
614
615 ---
616 *** 'imap-ssl-program' has been removed, and imap.el uses the internal
617 GnuTLS encryption functions if possible.
618
619 ** JSON
620
621 ---
622 *** 'json-pretty-print' and 'json-pretty-print-buffer' now maintain
623 the ordering of object keys by default.
624
625 ---
626 *** New commands 'json-pretty-print-ordered' and
627 'json-pretty-print-buffer-ordered' pretty prints JSON objects with
628 object keys sorted alphabetically.
629
630 +++
631 ** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
632 This allows better indentation support in modes that support multiple
633 programming languages in the same buffer, like literate programming
634 environments or ANTLR programs with embedded Python code.
635
636 A major mode can provide indentation context for a sub-mode through
637 the 'prog-indentation-context' variable. To support this, modes that
638 provide indentation should use 'prog-widen' instead of 'widen' and
639 'prog-first-column' instead of a literal zero. See the node
640 "Mode-Specific Indent" in the ELisp manual for more details.
641
642 ** Prettify Symbols mode
643
644 +++
645 *** Prettify Symbols mode supports custom composition predicates. By
646 overriding the default 'prettify-symbols-compose-predicate', modes can
647 specify in which contexts a symbol may be displayed as some Unicode
648 character. 'prettify-symbols-default-compose-p' is the default which
649 is suitable for most programming languages such as C or Lisp (but not
650 (La)TeX).
651
652 +++
653 *** Symbols can be unprettified while point is inside them.
654 New variable 'prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point' configures this.
655
656 ** Enhanced xterm support
657
658 ---
659 *** The new variable 'xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' for configuring xterm.
660 This variable tells Emacs which advanced capabilities are available in
661 the xterm terminal emulator used to display Emacs text-mode frames.
662 The default is to check each capability, and use it if available.
663 (This variable was introduced in Emacs 24.1, but was not announced in
664 its NEWS.)
665
666 ---
667 *** Killing text now also sets the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection
668 in the surrounding GUI (using the OSC-52 escape sequence). This only works
669 if your xterm supports it and enables the 'allowWindowOps' options (disabled
670 by default at least in Debian, for security reasons).
671
672 Similarly, you can yank the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection (using the OSC-52
673 escape sequence) if your xterm has the feature enabled but for that you
674 additionally need to add 'getSelection' to 'xterm-extra-capabilities'.
675
676 +++
677 *** 'xterm-mouse-mode' now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it).
678
679 ---
680 ** The way to turn on and off 'save-place' mode has changed.
681 It is no longer sufficient to load the saveplace library and set
682 'save-place' non-nil. Instead, use the two new minor modes:
683 'save-place-mode' turns on saving last place in every file, and
684 'save-place-local-mode' does that only for the file in whose buffer it
685 is invoked. The 'save-place' variable is now an obsolete alias for
686 'save-place-mode', which replaces it, and 'toggle-save-place' is an
687 obsolete alias for the new 'save-place-local-mode' command.
688
689 ** ERC
690
691 +++
692 *** ERC can now hide message types by network or channel.
693 'erc-hide-list' will hide all messages of the specified type, while
694 'erc-network-hide-list' and 'erc-channel-hide-list' will only hide the
695 specified message types for the respective specified targets.
696
697 *** New variable 'erc-default-port-tls' used to connect to TLS IRC
698 servers.
699
700 ---
701 *** Reconnection is now asynchronous.
702
703 ---
704 *** Nick completion is now case-insensitive again after inadvertently
705 being made case-sensitive in Emacs 24.2.
706
707 ** MPC
708
709 ---
710 *** New commands, key binds, and menu items.
711
712 **** '<' and '>' for navigating previous and next tracks in playlist
713
714 **** New play/pause command 'mpc-toggle-play' bound to 's'
715
716 **** 'g' bound to new command 'mpc-seek-current' will navigate current
717 track.
718
719 **** New commands 'mpc-toggle-{consume,repeat,single,shuffle}' for
720 toggling playback modes.
721
722 ---
723 *** Now supports connecting to a UNIX domain socket.
724
725 ---
726 *** Looks at more image file names to use as album art.
727 Case-insensitively tries for .folder.png (freedesktop) and folder.jpg
728 (XP) in addition to cover.jpg.
729
730 ---
731 *** Searches in more locations for MPD configuration files.
732 MPD supports the XDG base directory specification since version 0.17.6.
733
734 ** Midnight-mode
735
736 ---
737 *** 'midnight-mode' is now a proper minor mode.
738
739 ---
740 *** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions.
741
742 ** package.el
743
744 +++
745 *** New "external" package status.
746 An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and
747 not from 'package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in
748 'package-directory-list'. They are treated much like built-in
749 packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and
750 are not considered for upgrades.
751
752 The effect is that a user can manually place a specific version of a
753 package inside 'package-directory-list' and the package menu will
754 always respect that.
755
756 +++
757 *** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher
758 priority (as per 'package-archive-priorities') only that one is
759 listed. This can be configured with 'package-menu-hide-low-priority'.
760
761 +++
762 *** 'package-menu-toggle-hiding' now toggles the hiding of packages.
763 This includes the above-mentioned low-priority packages, as well as
764 available packages whose version is lower than the currently installed
765 version (which were previously impossible to display).
766 This allows users to downgrade a package if a lower version is
767 available.
768
769 ---
770 *** When filtering the package menu, keywords starting with "arc:" or
771 "status:" represent package archive or status, respectively, instead
772 of actual keywords.
773
774 ---
775 *** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an
776 ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s)
777 asynchronously.
778
779 ---
780 *** New variable 'package-menu-async' controls whether the
781 package-menu uses asynchronous downloads.
782
783 ---
784 *** 'package-install-from-buffer' and 'package-install-file' work on directories.
785 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
786 -pkg file is optional.
787
788 ---
789 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
790 The FORCE argument to 'package-delete' overrides this.
791
792 ---
793 *** New custom variable 'package-selected-packages' tracks packages
794 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
795 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
796
797 ---
798 *** New command 'package-install-selected-packages' installs all
799 packages from 'package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
800
801 ---
802 *** 'package-install' function now takes a DONT-SELECT argument. If
803 this function is called interactively or if DONT-SELECT is nil, add the
804 package being installed to 'package-selected-packages'.
805
806 ---
807 *** New command 'package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
808 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
809
810 +++
811 ** Shell
812
813 When you invoke 'shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
814 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
815 the 'display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
816 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
817 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
818 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
819
820 ** EIEIO
821 +++
822 *** The ':protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
823 +++
824 *** The 'newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
825 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from 'eieio-named'.
826 +++
827 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
828 +++
829 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
830 +++
831 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
832 +++
833 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
834 Use the equivalent facilities from cl-generic.el instead.
835 +++
836 *** 'constructor' is now an obsolete alias for 'make-instance'.
837 --- 'pcase' accepts a new UPattern 'eieio'.
838
839 ** ido
840
841 +++
842 *** New command 'ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
843 Bury the buffer at the head of 'ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
844 kills the buffer at head.
845
846 ---
847 *** A prefix argument to 'ido-restrict-to-matches' will reverse its
848 meaning, and the list is restricted to those elements that do not
849 match the current input.
850
851 ** Minibuffer
852
853 +++
854 *** You can use <UP> and <DOWN> arrow keys to move through history by lines.
855 The new commands 'next-line-or-history-element' and
856 'previous-line-or-history-element', bound to <UP> and <DOWN> in the
857 minibuffer, allow by-line movement through minibuffer history,
858 similarly to an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
859 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
860 element. 'M-p' and 'M-n' still move directly to previous/next history
861 item as before.
862
863 ** Search and Replace
864
865 +++
866 *** 'isearch' and 'query-replace' can now perform character folding in matches.
867 This is analogous to case folding, but instead of disregarding case
868 variants, it disregards wider classes of distinctions between similar
869 characters. (Case folding is a special case of character folding.)
870 This means many characters in the search string will match entire
871 groups of characters instead of just themselves.
872
873 For instance, the ASCII double quote character " will match all
874 variants of double quotes, and the letter 'a' will match all of its
875 accented cousins, even those composed of multiple characters, as well
876 as many other symbols like U+249C (PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER
877 A).
878
879 Character folding is enabled by customizing 'search-default-mode' to
880 the value 'character-fold-to-regexp'. You can also toggle character
881 folding in the middle of a search by typing 'M-s ''.
882
883 'query-replace' honors character folding if the new variable
884 'replace-character-fold' is customized to a non-nil value.
885
886 +++
887 *** New user option 'search-default-mode'.
888 This option specifies the default mode for Isearch. The default
889 value, nil specifies that Isearch does literal searches (however,
890 'case-fold-search' and 'isearch-lax-whitespace' may still be applied,
891 as in previous Emacs versions).
892
893 +++
894 *** New function 'character-fold-to-regexp' can be used
895 by searching commands to produce a regexp matching anything that
896 character-folds into STRING.
897
898 +++
899 *** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
900 text in the region. The search engine to use for this is specified by
901 the customizable variable 'eww-search-prefix'.
902
903 +++
904 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
905 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
906 'M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
907 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
908 string defined by the new variable 'query-replace-from-to-separator'.
909 To select a prior replacement, type 'M-p' until the desired
910 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
911 typing RET.
912
913 ** Calc
914 +++
915 *** If 'quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
916 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
917
918 +++
919 ** In Edebug, you can now set the initial mode with C-x C-a C-m. With
920 this you can tell Edebug not to stop at the start of the first
921 instrumented function.
922
923 ** ElDoc
924
925 +++
926 *** New minor mode 'global-eldoc-mode'
927 It is turned on by default, and affects '*scratch*' and other buffers
928 whose major mode supports Emacs Lisp.
929
930 ---
931 *** 'eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to 'ignore'
932
933 ---
934 *** 'describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
935 and can be used as a default value of 'eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
936 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces - e.g.,
937 U+00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACE), U+2002 (EN SPACE), and U+2009 (THIN SPACE) - while
938 using mono-spaced font.
939
940 ** eww
941
942 ---
943 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
944
945 +++
946 *** A new command 'F' ('eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
947 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
948 customize the 'shr-use-fonts' variable.
949
950 +++
951 *** A new command 'C' ('eww-toggle-colors') can be used to toggle
952 whether to use the HTML-specified colors or not. The user can also
953 customize the 'shr-use-colors' variable.
954
955 +++
956 *** A new command 'R' ('eww-readable') will try do identify the main
957 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
958 the like off the page.
959
960 +++
961 *** A new command 'D' ('eww-toggle-paragraph-direction') allows you to
962 toggle the paragraph direction between left-to-right and right-to-left.
963
964 ---
965 *** Images that are being loaded are now marked with grey
966 "placeholder" images of the size specified by the HTML. They are then
967 replaced by the real images asynchronously, which will also now
968 respect width/height HTML specs (unless they specify widths/heights
969 bigger than the current window).
970
971 ---
972 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
973 buffers you want to keep separate.
974
975 +++
976 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
977 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
978
979 +++
980 *** 'eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
981 the data in the buffer.
982
983 ---
984 *** The 'eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
985 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
986
987 +++
988 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
989 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
990 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
991 details.
992
993 +++
994 *** 'mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
995
996 +++
997 *** The new 'S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
998 them.
999
1000 ---
1001 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
1002 invalid certificates are marked in red.
1003
1004 ** Message mode
1005
1006 ---
1007 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
1008 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
1009
1010 ---
1011 *** The 'message-valid-fqdn-regexp' variable has been removed, since
1012 there are now top-level domains added all the time. Message will no
1013 longer warn about sending emails to top-level domains it hasn't heard
1014 about.
1015
1016 *** 'message-beginning-of-line' (bound to C-a) understands folded headers.
1017 In 'visual-line-mode' it will look for the true beginning of a header
1018 while in non-'visual-line-mode' it will move the point to the indented
1019 header's value.
1020
1021 +++
1022 ** In Show Paren Mode, a parenthesis can be highlighted when point
1023 stands inside it, and certain parens can be highlighted when point is
1024 at BOL or EOL, or in whitespace there. To enable these, customize,
1025 respectively, 'show-paren-when-point-inside-paren' or
1026 'show-paren-when-point-in-periphery'.
1027
1028 ---
1029 ** If gpg2 exists on the system, it is now used as the default value
1030 of 'epg-gpg-program' (instead of gpg).
1031
1032 ** Images
1033
1034 +++
1035 *** Images are automatically scaled before displaying based on the
1036 'image-scaling-factor' variable (if Emacs supports scaling the images
1037 in question).
1038
1039 +++
1040 *** Images inserted with 'insert-image' and related functions get a
1041 keymap put into the text properties (or overlays) that span the
1042 image. This keymap binds keystrokes for manipulating size and
1043 rotation, as well as saving the image to a file. These commands are
1044 also available in 'image-mode'.
1045
1046 +++
1047 *** A new library for creating and manipulating SVG images has been
1048 added. See the "SVG Images" section in the lispref manual for
1049 details.
1050
1051 +++
1052 *** New setf-able function to access and set image parameters is
1053 provided: 'image-property'.
1054
1055
1056 ** Lisp mode
1057
1058 ---
1059 *** Strings after ':documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
1060 This enhances Lisp mode fontification to handle documentation of the
1061 form '(:documentation "the doc string")' used in Common Lisp code for
1062 CLOS class and slot documentation.
1063
1064 ** Rectangle editing
1065
1066 +++
1067 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
1068
1069 +++
1070 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
1071 *** 'string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
1072
1073 +++
1074 ** New font-lock functions 'font-lock-ensure' and 'font-lock-flush'.
1075 These should be used in preference to 'font-lock-fontify-buffer' when
1076 called from Lisp.
1077
1078 ---
1079 ** Macro 'minibuffer-with-setup-hook' can optionally append a function
1080 to 'minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1081
1082 If the first argument of the macro is of the form '(:append FUN)',
1083 then FUN will be appended to 'minibuffer-setup-hook', instead of
1084 prepending it.
1085
1086 ** cl-lib
1087 +++
1088 *** New functions 'cl-fresh-line', 'cl-digit-char-p', and 'cl-parse-integer'.
1089
1090 ---
1091 *** 'pcase' accepts the new UPattern 'cl-struct'.
1092
1093 ** Calendar and diary
1094
1095 +++
1096 *** The default 'diary-file' is now located in .emacs.d.
1097
1098 +++
1099 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
1100 'diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' 'diary-chinese-insert-entry'
1101 'diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', 'diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
1102
1103 +++
1104 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
1105 See 'diary-chinese-list-entries' and 'diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
1106
1107 ---
1108 *** The option 'calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
1109 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
1110
1111 +++
1112 *** New option 'calendar-weekend-days'.
1113 The option customizes which day headers receive the
1114 'calendar-weekend-header' face.
1115
1116 ---
1117 *** New optional args N and STRING for 'holiday-greek-orthodox-easter'.
1118
1119 ---
1120 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
1121 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
1122 The remainder were:
1123
1124 **** Functions 'calendar-one-frame-setup', 'calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
1125 'calendar-two-frame-setup', 'european-calendar', 'american-calendar'.
1126
1127 **** Hooks 'cal-menu-load-hook', 'cal-x-load-hook'.
1128
1129 **** Macro 'calendar-for-loop'.
1130
1131 **** Variables 'european-calendar-style', 'diary-face', 'hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
1132
1133 **** The nil and list forms of 'diary-display-function'.
1134
1135 +++
1136 ** New ERT function 'ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
1137 If the output of ERT tests in batch mode execution can be saved to a
1138 log file, then it can be passed as an argument to the above function
1139 to produce a neat summary.
1140
1141 ---
1142 ** New js.el option 'js-indent-first-init'.
1143
1144 ** Info
1145
1146 ---
1147 ** Info mode now displays symbol names in fixed-pitch font.
1148 If you want to get the old behavior back, customize the 'Info-quoted'
1149 face to use the same definitions as the default face.
1150
1151 ---
1152 *** 'Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
1153
1154 +++
1155 *** 'info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
1156 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
1157 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
1158
1159 ---
1160 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
1161
1162 ** Rmail
1163
1164 +++
1165 *** The Rmail commands 'd', 'C-d' and 'u' take optional repeat counts
1166 to delete or undelete multiple messages.
1167
1168 +++
1169 *** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
1170 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
1171 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
1172 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
1173 'rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to 'nil' if you don't want that.
1174
1175 +++
1176 *** In the commands that make summaries by subject, recipients, or senders,
1177 you can no longer use commas to separate regular expressions.
1178
1179 +++
1180 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see 'ses-define-local-printer'.
1181
1182 ** Shell-script Mode
1183 ---
1184 *** In sh-mode you can now use 'sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
1185 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
1186
1187 ---
1188 *** New value 'always' for 'sh-indent-after-continuation'.
1189 This provides old-style ("dumb") indentation of continued lines.
1190 See the doc string of 'sh-indent-after-continuation' for details.
1191
1192 ** TLS
1193 ---
1194 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
1195
1196 ---
1197 *** If Emacs isn't built with TLS support, an external TLS-capable
1198 program is used instead. This program used to be run in --insecure
1199 mode by default, but has now changed to be secure instead, and will
1200 fail if you try to connect to non-verifiable hosts. This is
1201 controlled by the 'tls-program' variable.
1202
1203 ** URL
1204
1205 +++
1206 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
1207 When 'url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
1208 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
1209
1210 +++
1211 *** The URL package allows customizing the 'url-user-agent' string.
1212 The new 'url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
1213 a function.
1214
1215 ---
1216 *** The new interface variable 'url-request-noninteractive' can be used
1217 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
1218 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
1219
1220 ---
1221 *** 'url-mime-accept-string' can now be used as in "interface"
1222 variable, meaning you can bind it around an 'url-retrieve' call.
1223
1224 ---
1225 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
1226 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
1227 'gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
1228
1229 +++
1230 *** The new function 'url-cookie-delete-cookie' can be used to
1231 programmatically delete all cookies, or cookies from a specific
1232 domain.
1233
1234 *** The URL package now support https over proxies supporting CONNECT.
1235
1236 ** Tramp
1237
1238 +++
1239 *** New connection method "afp", which allows you to access Mac OS X
1240 volumes via the Apple Filing Protocol.
1241
1242 +++
1243 *** New connection method "nc", which allows you to access dumb
1244 busyboxes.
1245
1246 +++
1247 *** Method-specific parameters can be overwritten now with variable
1248 'tramp-connection-properties'.
1249
1250 ---
1251 *** Handler for 'file-notify-valid-p' for remote machines that support
1252 filesystem notifications.
1253
1254 ** SQL mode
1255
1256 ---
1257 *** New user variable 'sql-default-directory' enables remote
1258 connections using Tramp.
1259
1260 ---
1261 *** New command 'sql-send-line-and-next'.
1262 This command, bound to 'C-c C-n' by default, sends the current line to
1263 the SQL process and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace and
1264 comments.
1265
1266 ---
1267 *** Added support for Vertica SQL.
1268
1269 ** VC and related modes
1270
1271 +++
1272 *** Basic push support, via 'vc-push', bound to 'C-x v P'.
1273 Implemented for Bzr, Git, Hg. As part of this change, the pre-existing
1274 (undocumented) command vc-hg-push now behaves slightly differently.
1275
1276 +++
1277 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
1278
1279 +++
1280 *** You can refresh the VC state of a file buffer with 'M-x vc-refresh-state'.
1281 This command is useful when you perform version control commands
1282 outside Emacs (e.g., from the shell prompt), or if you switch the VC
1283 back-end for the buffer's file, or remove it from version control.
1284
1285 ---
1286 *** The VC state indicator in the mode line now defaults to more
1287 colorful faces to make it more obvious to the user what the state is.
1288 See the 'vc-faces' customization group.
1289
1290 +++
1291 *** New option 'vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
1292 the color range from 'vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
1293 background or to the foreground.
1294
1295 +++
1296 *** 'compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently selected window
1297 instead of the next window. If you want the previous behavior of
1298 comparing with the next window, customize the new option
1299 'compare-windows-get-window-function' to the value
1300 'compare-windows-get-next-window'.
1301
1302 ---
1303 *** Two new faces 'compare-windows-removed' and 'compare-windows-added'
1304 replace the face 'compare-windows', which is now an obsolete alias for
1305 'compare-windows-added'.
1306
1307 ---
1308 *** The VC state indicator in the mode line now has different faces
1309 corresponding to each of the possible states. See the 'vc-faces'
1310 customization group.
1311
1312 ---
1313 *** 'log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to
1314 "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". Set 'log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change'
1315 nil to disable this.
1316
1317 ---
1318 ** VHDL mode now supports VHDL'08.
1319
1320 ** Calculator
1321
1322 ---
1323 *** Decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
1324 fitting for use in money calculations
1325
1326 ---
1327 *** Factorial works with non-integer inputs.
1328
1329 ** Hide-IfDef mode
1330
1331 ---
1332 *** Hide-IfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions in macros,
1333 macro argument expansion, interactive macro evaluation and automatic
1334 scanning of #define'd symbols.
1335
1336 ---
1337 *** New command 'hif-evaluate-macro', bound to 'C-c @ e', displays the
1338 result of evaluating a macro.
1339
1340 ---
1341 *** New command 'hif-clear-all-ifdef-define', bound to 'C-c @ C', clears
1342 all defined symbols in 'hide-ifdef-env'.
1343
1344 ---
1345 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header
1346 file name patterns. Defaults to files whose extension is one of '.h',
1347 '.hh', '.hpp', '.hxx', or '.h++', matched case-insensitively.
1348
1349 ---
1350 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
1351 reinclusion protected (a.k.a. "idempotent") header files from being hidden.
1352 (This could happen when an idempotent header file is visited again,
1353 when its guard symbol is already defined.) Defaults to 't'.
1354
1355 ---
1356 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
1357 name patterns (e.g. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be ignored when
1358 looking for macro definitions. By default, no symbols are ignored.
1359
1360 ** TeX mode
1361
1362 +++
1363 *** New custom variable 'tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
1364 use PDF instead of DVI.
1365
1366 +++
1367 *** TeX mode now supports Prettify Symbols mode. When enabling
1368 'prettify-symbols-mode' in a tex-mode buffer, \alpha ... \omega, and
1369 many other math macros are displayed using unicode characters.
1370
1371 +++
1372 ** New 'big-indent' style in 'whitespace-mode' highlights deep indentation.
1373 By default, 32 consecutive spaces or four consecutive TABs are
1374 considered to be too deep, but the new variable
1375 'whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be customized to change that.
1376
1377 ---
1378 ** New options in 'tildify-mode'.
1379 New options 'tildify-space-string', 'tildify-pattern', and
1380 'tildify-foreach-region-function' variables make
1381 'tildify-string-alist', 'tildify-pattern-alist', and
1382 'tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
1383 helper functions) obsolete.
1384
1385 +++
1386 ** New package Xref replaces Etags's front-end and UI
1387
1388 The new package Xref provides a generic framework and new commands to
1389 find and move to definitions of functions, macros, data structures
1390 etc., as well as go back to the location where you were before moving
1391 to a definition. It supersedes and obsoletes many Etags commands,
1392 while still using the etags.el code that reads the TAGS tables as one
1393 of its back-ends.
1394
1395 The command 'xref-find-definitions' replaces 'find-tag' and provides
1396 an interface to pick one definition among several.
1397 'tags-loop-continue' is now unbound. 'xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces
1398 'pop-tag-mark', but has a keybinding ('M-,') different from the one
1399 'pop-tag-mark' used.
1400
1401 'xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces 'find-tag-other-window'.
1402 'xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces 'find-tag-other-frame'.
1403 'xref-find-apropos' replaces 'find-tag-regexp'.
1404
1405 As a result of this, the following commands are now obsolete:
1406 'find-tag-other-window', 'find-tag-other-frame', 'find-tag-regexp',
1407 'tags-apropos'.
1408
1409 'tags-loop-continue' is not obsolete because it's still useful in
1410 'tags-search' and 'tags-query-replace', for which there are no direct
1411 replacements yet.
1412
1413 +++
1414 *** Variants of 'tags-search' and 'tags-query-replace' in Dired were also
1415 replaced by xref-style commands, see the "Dired" section below.
1416
1417 +++
1418 *** New variables
1419
1420 'find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
1421 'xref-marker-ring-length'. 'find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
1422 alias for a private variable. 'xref-push-marker-stack' and
1423 'xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used instead to manipulate the stack
1424 of searches for definitions.
1425
1426 ---
1427 *** 'xref-find-definitions' and 'describe-function' now display
1428 information about mode local overrides (defined by cedet/mode-local.el
1429 'define-overloadable-function' 'define-mode-local-overrides').
1430
1431 The framework's Lisp API is still experimental and can change in major,
1432 backward-incompatible ways.
1433
1434 ---
1435 ** New package Project
1436
1437 The new package Project provides generic infrastructure for dealing
1438 with projects. The main commands included in it are
1439 'project-find-file' and 'project-find-regexp'.
1440
1441 The Lisp API of this package is still experimental.
1442
1443 ** EUDC
1444 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
1445
1446 +++
1447 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
1448
1449 ---
1450 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
1451 subprocess instead of on the command line.
1452
1453 ---
1454 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
1455 need to configure this manually anymore.
1456
1457 +++
1458 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
1459 rewritten.
1460
1461 There have also been customization changes.
1462
1463 +++
1464 *** New custom variable 'eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
1465 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
1466
1467 +++
1468 *** Custom variable 'eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
1469 on email and firstname instead of surname.
1470
1471 ---
1472 *** Custom variable 'eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
1473 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
1474
1475 +++
1476 *** Custom variable 'eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
1477 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
1478
1479 +++
1480 *** Custom variable 'eudc-options-file' defaults to
1481 "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options".
1482
1483 ---
1484 *** New custom variable 'ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
1485 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
1486 command line's password prompt.
1487
1488 ---
1489 EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3.
1490
1491 ---
1492 EUDC's PH backend (eudcb-ph.el) is obsolete.
1493
1494 ** Eshell
1495
1496 +++
1497 *** The new built-in command 'clear' can scroll window contents out of sight.
1498 If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents will be cleared.
1499
1500 +++
1501 *** New buffer syntax '#<buffer-name>', which is equivalent to
1502 '#<buffer buffer-name>'. This shorthand makes interacting with
1503 buffers from eshell more convenient. Custom variable
1504 'eshell-buffer-shorthand', which has been broken for a while, has been
1505 removed.
1506
1507 +++
1508 *** By default, eshell "visual" program buffers (created by
1509 'eshell-visual-commands' and similar custom vars) are no longer killed
1510 when their processes die. This fixes issues with short-lived commands
1511 and makes visual programs more useful in general. For example, if
1512 "git log" is a visual command, it will always show the visual command
1513 buffer, even if the "git log" process dies. For the old behavior,
1514 make the new option 'eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil.
1515
1516 ** Browse-url
1517
1518 ---
1519 *** Support for the Google Chrome web browser.
1520
1521 ---
1522 *** Support for the Conkeror web browser.
1523
1524 ---
1525 *** Support for several ancient browsers is now officially obsolete.
1526
1527 +++
1528 ** tar-mode: new 'tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
1529 be added to the archive.
1530
1531 ** Autorevert
1532
1533 ---
1534 *** Dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file notifications, if
1535 Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
1536
1537 ---
1538 *** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set to nil in 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
1539 See <http://debbugs.gnu.org/22814>.
1540
1541 ** File Notifications
1542
1543 +++
1544 *** The kqueue library is integrated for *BSD and Mac OS X machines.
1545
1546 +++
1547 *** The new event 'stopped' signals, that a file notification watch is
1548 not active any longer.
1549
1550 +++
1551 *** The new function 'file-notify-valid-p' checks, whether a file
1552 notification descriptor still corresponds to an activate watch.
1553
1554 ** Dired
1555
1556 +++
1557 *** The command 'dired-do-compress' bound to 'Z' now can compress
1558 directories and decompress zip files.
1559
1560 +++
1561 *** New command 'dired-do-compress-to' bound to 'c' can be used to
1562 compress many marked files into a single named archive. The
1563 compression command is determined from the new
1564 'dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
1565
1566 +++
1567 *** In wdired, when editing files to contain slash characters,
1568 the resulting directories are automatically created. Whether
1569 to do this or not is controlled by the
1570 'wdired-create-parent-directories' variable.
1571
1572 +++
1573 *** 'W' is now bound to 'browse-url-of-dired-file', and is useful for
1574 viewing HTML files and the like.
1575
1576 *** New user interface for the 'A' and 'Q' commands.
1577 These keys, now bound to 'dired-do-find-regexp' and
1578 'dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace', work similarly to 'xref-find-apropos'
1579 and 'xref-query-replace-in-results': they present the matches
1580 in the '*xref*' buffer and let you move through the matches. No need
1581 to use 'tags-loop-continue' to resume the search or replace loop. The
1582 previous commands, 'dired-do-search' and
1583 'dired-do-query-replace-regexp', are still available, but not bound to
1584 keys; rebind 'A' and 'Q' to invoke them if you want the old behavior
1585 back. We intend to obsolete the old commands in a future release.
1586
1587 ** Tabulated List Mode
1588
1589 +++
1590 *** It is now safe for a mode that derives 'tabulated-list-mode' to not
1591 call 'tabulated-list-init-header', in which case it will have no
1592 header.
1593
1594 +++
1595 *** 'tabulated-list-print' takes a second optional argument, update,
1596 which specifies an alternative printing method which is faster when
1597 few or no entries have changed.
1598
1599 ** Obsolete packages
1600
1601 ---
1602 *** gulp.el
1603
1604 ---
1605 *** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
1606
1607 \f
1608 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
1609
1610 ---
1611 ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
1612 minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg
1613 command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable
1614 is set). This feature requires newer versions of GnuPG (2.1.5 or
1615 later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later). To use this feature, add
1616 "allow-emacs-pinentry" to "~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf" and reload the
1617 configuration with "gpgconf --reload gpg-agent".
1618
1619 +++
1620 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
1621 The main entry points are 'cl-defgeneric' and 'cl-defmethod'. See the
1622 node "Generic Functions" in the Emacs Lisp manual for more details.
1623
1624 ---
1625 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode) is a major mode for editing
1626 SCSS (Sassy CSS) files.
1627
1628 ---
1629 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
1630 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
1631
1632 ---
1633 ** 'tildify-mode' allows automatic insertion of hard spaces as one
1634 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
1635 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
1636 other languages), so 'auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
1637 a typographically-correct documents.
1638
1639 ---
1640 ** The 'seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros
1641 that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions
1642 are prefixed with 'seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
1643 'pcase' accepts a new Upattern 'seq'.
1644
1645 ---
1646 ** The 'map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on
1647 alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with
1648 'map-'. 'pcase' accepts a new UPattern 'map'.
1649
1650 ---
1651 ** The 'thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the
1652 evaluation of forms.
1653
1654 ---
1655 ** js-jsx-mode (a minor variant of js-mode) provides indentation
1656 support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
1657
1658 \f
1659 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1660
1661 ---
1662 ** 'setq' and 'setf' must now be called with an even number of
1663 arguments. The earlier behavior of silently supplying a nil to the
1664 last variable when there was an odd number of arguments has been
1665 eliminated.
1666
1667 +++
1668 ** 'syntax-begin-function' is declared obsolete.
1669 Removed font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function and the SYNTAX-BEGIN
1670 slot in font-lock-defaults.
1671
1672 +++
1673 ** The new implementation of Subword mode affects word movement everywhere.
1674 When Subword mode is turned on, 'forward-word', 'backward-word', and
1675 everything that uses them will move by sub-words, effectively
1676 overriding the buffer's syntax table. Lisp programs that shouldn't be
1677 affected by Subword mode should call the new functions
1678 'forward-word-strictly' and 'backward-word-strictly' instead.
1679
1680 +++
1681 ** 'package-initialize' now sets 'package-enable-at-startup' to nil if
1682 called during startup. Users who call this function in their init
1683 file and still expect it to be run after startup should set
1684 'package-enable-at-startup' to t after the call to
1685 'package-initialize'.
1686
1687 ---
1688 ** ':global' minor mode use 'setq-default' rather than 'setq'.
1689 This means that you can't use 'make-local-variable' and expect them to
1690 "magically" become buffer-local.
1691
1692 +++
1693 ** 'track-mouse' no longer freezes the shape of the mouse pointer.
1694 The 'track-mouse' form no longer refrains from changing the shape of
1695 the mouse pointer for the entire time the body of that form is
1696 executed. Lisp programs that use 'track-mouse' for dragging across
1697 large portions of the Emacs display, and want to avoid changes in the
1698 pointer shape during dragging, should bind the variable 'track-mouse'
1699 to the special value 'dragging' in the body of the form.
1700
1701 ---
1702 ** The optional 'predicate' argument of 'lisp-complete-symbol' no longer
1703 has any effect. (This change was made in Emacs 24.4 but was not
1704 advertised at the time.)
1705
1706 +++
1707 ** 'indirect-function' does not signal 'void-function' any more.
1708 This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when
1709 symbol-function was changed not to signal 'void-function' any more.
1710
1711 +++
1712 *** As a consequence, the second arg of 'indirect-function' is now obsolete.
1713
1714 +++
1715 ** Although comint, term, and compile still set the EMACS variable,
1716 this is now considered deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
1717 Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
1718
1719 ** 'C-up', 'C-down', 'C-left' and 'C-right' are now defined in term
1720 mode to send the same escape sequences that xterm does. This makes
1721 things like forward-word in readline work.
1722
1723 ---
1724 ** hideshow mode got four key bindings that are analogous to outline
1725 mode bindings: 'C-c @ C-a', 'C-c @ C-t', 'C-c @ C-d', and 'C-c @ C-e.'
1726
1727 +++
1728 ** 'save-excursion' does not save&restore the mark any more.
1729 Use 'save-mark-and-excursion' if you want the old behavior.
1730
1731 +++
1732 ** 'read-buffer' and 'read-buffer-function' can now be called with a 4th
1733 argument ('predicate').
1734
1735 +++
1736 ** 'completion-table-dynamic' by default stays in the minibuffer.
1737 The minibuffer will be the current buffer when the function is called.
1738 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
1739 from which the minibuffer was entered, use the new argument
1740 'switch-buffer' to 'completion-table-dynamic'.
1741
1742 ---
1743 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers' marks.
1744
1745 ---
1746 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
1747 active region handling.
1748
1749 +++
1750 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
1751
1752 +++
1753 ** 'cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
1754
1755 +++
1756 ** 'process-running-child-p' may now return a numeric process
1757 group ID instead of 't'.
1758
1759 +++
1760 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
1761 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
1762 position list returned for such events is now nil.
1763
1764 ---
1765 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
1766 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
1767 Emacs-21.
1768
1769 ---
1770 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
1771 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
1772 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
1773 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
1774
1775 +++
1776 ** New variable 'text-quoting-style' to control how Emacs translates quotes.
1777 Set it to 'curve' for curved single quotes, to 'straight' for straight
1778 apostrophes, and to 'grave' for grave accent and apostrophe. The
1779 default value nil acts like 'curve' if curved single quotes are
1780 displayable, and like 'grave' otherwise. The new variable affects
1781 display of diagnostics and help, but not of info.
1782
1783 +++
1784 ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
1785 That is, it converts documentation strings' quoting style as per the
1786 value of 'text-quoting-style'. Doc strings in source code can use
1787 either curved single quotes or grave accents and apostrophes. As
1788 before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
1789
1790 +++
1791 ** Message-issuing functions 'error', 'message', etc. now convert quotes.
1792 They use the new 'format-message' function instead of plain 'format',
1793 so that they now follow user preference as per 'text-quoting-style'
1794 when processing curved single quotes, grave accents, and apostrophes
1795 in their format argument.
1796
1797 +++
1798 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
1799 now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
1800 If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
1801 word syntax, use '\sw' instead.
1802
1803 +++
1804 ** The character classes [:graph:] and [:print:] in regular expressions
1805 no longer match every multibyte character. Instead, Emacs now
1806 consults the Unicode character properties to determine which
1807 characters are graphic or printable. In particular, surrogates and
1808 unassigned codepoints are now rejected. If you want the old behavior,
1809 use [:multibyte:] instead.
1810
1811 +++
1812 ** The 'diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old
1813 behavior, set 'diff-switches' to '-c'.
1814
1815 ---
1816 ** 'grep-template' and 'grep-find-template' values don't include the
1817 --color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position
1818 dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should
1819 be updated accordingly.
1820
1821 ** The grep/rgrep/lgrep functions will now ask about saving files
1822 before running. This is controlled by the 'grep-save-buffers'
1823 variable.
1824
1825 +++
1826 ** '(/ N)' is now equivalent to '(/ 1 N)' rather than to '(/ N 1)'.
1827 The new behavior is compatible with Common Lisp and with XEmacs.
1828 This change does not affect Lisp code intended to be portable to
1829 Emacs 24.2 and earlier, which did not support unary '/'.
1830
1831 +++
1832 ** The 'default-directory' value doesn't have to end slash. To make
1833 that happen, 'unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
1834 'file-name-as-directory'.
1835
1836 \f
1837 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1838
1839 ** pcase
1840 +++
1841 *** New UPatterns 'quote', 'app'.
1842 +++
1843 *** New UPatterns can be defined with 'pcase-defmacro'.
1844 +++
1845 *** New vector QPattern.
1846
1847 ---
1848 ** syntax-propertize is now automatically called on-demand during forward
1849 parsing functions like 'forward-sexp'.
1850
1851 +++
1852 ** New hooks 'prefix-command-echo-keystrokes-functions' and
1853 'prefix-command-preserve-state-hook' allow the definition of prefix
1854 commands other than the predefined 'C-u'.
1855
1856 +++
1857 ** New functions 'filepos-to-bufferpos' and 'bufferpos-to-filepos'.
1858 These allow conversion between buffer positions and the corresponding
1859 file byte offsets, given the file's encoding.
1860
1861 +++
1862 ** The default value of 'load-read-function' is now 'read'.
1863 Previously, the default value of 'nil' implied using 'read'.
1864
1865 +++
1866 ** New hook 'pre-redisplay-functions'.
1867 It is a bit easier to use than 'pre-redisplay-function'.
1868
1869 +++
1870 ** The second arg of 'looking-back' should always be provided explicitly.
1871 Previously, it was an optional argument, now it's mandatory.
1872
1873 +++
1874 ** Text properties 'intangible', 'point-entered', and 'point-left' are obsolete.
1875 Replaced by properties 'cursor-intangible' and 'cursor-sensor-functions',
1876 implemented by the new 'cursor-intangible-mode' and
1877 'cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes.
1878
1879 +++
1880 ** 'inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to 't' and is obsolete.
1881 Use the new minor modes 'cursor-intangible-mode' and
1882 'cursor-sensor-mode' instead.
1883
1884 +++
1885 ** New process type 'pipe', which can be used in combination with the
1886 ':stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output
1887 of subprocess.
1888
1889 +++
1890 ** New function 'make-process' provides an alternative interface to
1891 'start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as
1892 process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to
1893 'make-network-process').
1894
1895 +++
1896 ** A new function 'directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
1897 files (recursively) under a directory.
1898
1899 +++
1900 ** New variable 'inhibit-message', when bound to non-nil, inhibits
1901 'message' and related functions from displaying messages in the echo
1902 area. The output is still logged to the *Messages* buffer.
1903
1904 +++
1905 ** A new text property 'inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
1906 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
1907
1908 +++
1909 ** A new variable 'comment-end-can-be-escaped' is useful in languages
1910 such as C and C++ where line comments with escaped newlines are
1911 continued to the next line.
1912
1913 +++
1914 ** New macro 'define-advice'.
1915
1916 +++
1917 ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
1918 See the "Generators" section of the ELisp manual for the details.
1919
1920 +++
1921 ** New finalizer facility for running code when objects become unreachable.
1922 See the "Finalizer Type" subsection in the ELisp manual for the
1923 details.
1924
1925 ---
1926 ** lexical closures can use (:documentation FORM) to build their docstring.
1927 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and FORM is then
1928 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
1929
1930 ---
1931 ** The new command 'fortune-message' has been added, which displays
1932 fortunes in the echo area.
1933
1934 +++
1935 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
1936
1937 +++
1938 ** New function 'macroexpand-1' to perform a single step of macro expansion.
1939
1940 +++
1941 ** Some "x-*" functions were obsoleted and/or renamed:
1942 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
1943 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
1944 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
1945 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
1946 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
1947 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
1948
1949 +++
1950 ** New function 'string-greaterp', which return the opposite result of
1951 'string-lessp'.
1952
1953 +++
1954 ** The new functions 'string-collate-lessp' and 'string-collate-equalp'
1955 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
1956 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
1957 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
1958 counterparts 'string-lessp' and 'string-equal'.
1959
1960 +++
1961 ** The new function 'string-version-lessp' compares strings by
1962 interpreting consecutive runs of numerical characters as numbers, and
1963 compares their numerical values. According to this predicate,
1964 "foo2.png" is smaller than "foo12.png".
1965
1966 ---
1967 *** The ls-lisp package uses 'string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
1968 The effect is that, on systems that use ls-lisp for Dired, the default
1969 sort order of the files in Dired is now different from what it was in
1970 previous versions of Emacs. In particular, the file names are sorted
1971 disregarding punctuation, accents, and diacritics, and letter case is
1972 ignored. For example, files whose name begin with a period will no
1973 longer appear near the beginning of the directory listing. If you
1974 want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new option
1975 'ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to the nil value.
1976
1977 +++
1978 *** The MS-Windows specific variable 'w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
1979 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
1980 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
1981 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
1982 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
1983 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
1984
1985 +++
1986 ** New function 'alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
1987
1988 +++
1989 ** New function 'funcall-interactively', which works like 'funcall'
1990 but makes 'called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
1991 called interactively.
1992
1993 +++
1994 ** New function 'function-put' to use instead of 'put' for function properties.
1995
1996 +++
1997 ** The new function 'bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows you to
1998 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
1999 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
2000 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
2001 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
2002
2003 +++
2004 ** The new function 'buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows you to
2005 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
2006 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
2007 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
2008 text and directional control characters.
2009
2010 +++
2011 ** New properties that can be specified with 'declare':
2012 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
2013 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
2014 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
2015 have side effects.
2016
2017 +++
2018 ** New macro 'with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
2019 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
2020
2021 +++
2022 ** You can access the slots of structures using 'cl-struct-slot-value'.
2023
2024 +++
2025 ** Function 'sort' can deal with vectors.
2026
2027 ---
2028 ** Function 'system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
2029 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
2030 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
2031 name. The variable 'system-name' is now obsolete.
2032
2033 +++
2034 ** Function 'write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
2035
2036 ---
2037 ** If 'pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
2038 directory at point.
2039
2040 +++
2041 ** New functions return extended information about fonts and faces.
2042
2043 +++
2044 *** The function 'font-info' now returns more details about a font.
2045 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
2046 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
2047
2048 +++
2049 *** A new function 'default-font-width' returns the average width of a
2050 character in the current buffer's default font. If the default face
2051 is remapped (see 'face-remapping-alist'), the value for the remapped
2052 face is returned. This function complements the existing function
2053 'default-font-height'.
2054
2055 +++
2056 *** New functions 'window-font-height' and 'window-font-width' return
2057 the height and average width of characters in a specified face and
2058 window. If FACE is remapped (see 'face-remapping-alist'), the
2059 function returns the information for the remapped face.
2060
2061 +++
2062 *** A new function 'window-max-chars-per-line' returns the maximal
2063 number of characters that can be displayed on one line. If a face
2064 and/or window are provided, these values are used for the
2065 calculation. This function is different from 'window-body-width' in
2066 that it accounts for (i) continuation glyphs, (ii) the size of the
2067 font, and (iii) the specified window.
2068
2069 ---
2070 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
2071 *** New macros 'if-let' and 'when-let' allow defining bindings and to
2072 execute code depending whether all values are true.
2073 *** New macros 'thread-first' and 'thread-last' allow threading a form
2074 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
2075
2076 +++
2077 ** Documentation strings now support quoting with curved single quotes
2078 in addition to the old style with grave accent and apostrophe. The
2079 new style looks better on today's displays. In the new Electric Quote
2080 mode, you can enter curved single quotes into documentation by typing
2081 grave accent and apostrophe. Outside Electric Quote mode, you can
2082 enter them by typing 'C-x 8 [' and 'C-x 8 ]', or (if your Alt key
2083 works) by typing 'A-[' and 'A-]'. As described above under
2084 'text-quoting-style', the user can specify how to display doc string
2085 quotes.
2086
2087 +++
2088 ** New function 'format-message' is like 'format' and also converts
2089 curved single quotes, grave accents and apostrophes as per
2090 'text-quoting-style'.
2091
2092 +++
2093 ** show-help-function's arg is converted via substitute-command-keys
2094 before being passed to the function. Help strings, help-echo
2095 properties, etc. can therefore contain command key escapes and
2096 quotation marks.
2097
2098 +++
2099 ** Time-related changes:
2100
2101 *** Time conversion functions now accept an optional ZONE argument
2102 that specifies the time zone rules for conversion. ZONE is omitted or
2103 nil for Emacs local time, t for Universal Time, 'wall' for system wall
2104 clock time, or a string as in 'set-time-zone-rule' for a time zone
2105 rule. The affected functions are 'current-time-string',
2106 'current-time-zone', 'decode-time', and 'format-time-string'. The
2107 function 'encode-time', which already accepted a simple time zone rule
2108 argument, has been extended to accept all the new forms.
2109
2110 *** Incompatible change in the third argument of 'format-time-string'.
2111 Previously, any non-nil argument was interpreted as a UTC time zone.
2112 This is no longer true; packages that want UTC time zone should pass t
2113 as the third argument.
2114
2115 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
2116 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
2117 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
2118 Affected functions include 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone',
2119 'decode-time', 'float-time', 'format-time-string', 'seconds-to-time',
2120 'time-add', 'time-less-p', 'time-subtract', 'time-to-day-in-year',
2121 'time-to-days', and 'time-to-seconds'.
2122
2123 *** The 'encode-time-value' and 'with-decoded-time-value' macros have
2124 been obsoleted.
2125
2126 *** 'calendar-next-time-zone-transition', 'time-add', and
2127 'time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
2128 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
2129 integers.
2130
2131 +++
2132 ** New function 'set-binary-mode' allows switching a standard stream
2133 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
2134
2135 +++
2136 ** The new function 'directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
2137 name (as returned from, for instance, 'file-name-all-completions') is
2138 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
2139 the name is a directory separator character (forward slash on GNU and
2140 Unix systems, forward- or backslash on MS-Windows and MS-DOS).
2141
2142 ---
2143 ** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in standard-display-table
2144 if the terminal cannot display curved quotes.
2145
2146 +++
2147 ** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
2148 standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system.
2149 To force a specific encoding, bind 'coding-system-for-write' to the
2150 coding-system of your choice when invoking functions like 'prin1' and
2151 'message'.
2152
2153 +++
2154 ** New var 'truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
2155
2156 +++
2157 ** New possible value for 'system-type': 'nacl'.
2158 This is used by Google's Native Client (NaCl).
2159
2160 ---
2161 ** 'read-color' will now display the color names using the color itself
2162 as the background color.
2163
2164 ---
2165 ** There is now a new variable 'flyspell-sort-corrections-function'
2166 that allows changing the way corrections are sorted.
2167
2168 ** Miscellaneous name change
2169
2170 ---
2171 For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable
2172 'hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to 'hfy-optimizations'.
2173 The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
2174
2175 ** Changes in Frame- and Window- Handling
2176
2177 +++
2178 *** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
2179 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
2180 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
2181
2182 **** New function 'horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
2183 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
2184
2185 **** New mode 'horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
2186 bars on all existing and future frames.
2187
2188 **** New function 'toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
2189 scroll bars on the selected frame.
2190
2191 **** New frame parameters 'horizontal-scroll-bars' and
2192 'scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
2193 for individual frames and in 'default-frame-alist'.
2194
2195 **** New functions 'frame-scroll-bar-height' and
2196 'window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
2197 bars on a specific frame or window.
2198
2199 **** 'set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
2200 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
2201
2202 **** 'window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
2203 bars too.
2204
2205 **** New buffer-local variables 'horizontal-scroll-bar' and
2206 'scroll-bar-height'.
2207
2208 +++
2209 *** New functions 'frame-geometry' and 'frame-edges' give access to a
2210 frame's geometry.
2211
2212 +++
2213 *** New functions 'mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and
2214 'set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' get/set screen coordinates of the
2215 mouse cursor.
2216
2217 +++
2218 *** The function 'window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to
2219 retrieve body, absolute and pixel edges of the window.
2220
2221 +++
2222 *** The functions 'window-inside-edges', 'window-inside-pixel-edges' and
2223 'window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges' have been renamed to respectively
2224 'window-body-edges', 'window-body-pixel-edges' and
2225 'window-absolute-body-pixel-edges'. The old names are kept as aliases.
2226
2227 +++
2228 *** New function 'window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen
2229 coordinates of a visible buffer position.
2230
2231 +++
2232 *** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
2233 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
2234 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
2235 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
2236 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
2237 builds.
2238
2239 +++
2240 *** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
2241 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
2242 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
2243 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
2244 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
2245 **** New option 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
2246 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
2247 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
2248 number of columns or lines it displays.
2249
2250 +++
2251 *** New function 'window-preserve-size' allows you to preserve the size of
2252 a window without "fixing" it. It's supported by 'fit-window-to-buffer',
2253 'temp-buffer-resize-mode' and 'display-buffer'.
2254
2255 +++
2256 *** New 'display-buffer' action function 'display-buffer-use-some-frame'.
2257 This displays the buffer in an existing frame other than the current
2258 frame, and allows the caller to specify a frame predicate to exclude
2259 frames.
2260
2261 +++
2262 *** New minor mode 'window-divider-mode' and options
2263 'window-divider-default-places', 'window-divider-default-bottom-width'
2264 and 'window-divider-default-right-width'.
2265
2266 +++
2267 *** The window displaying the '*Completions*' buffer with minibuffer
2268 completion candidates is now shown at the bottom of the selected
2269 frame. The size of that window is always as large as required to
2270 display all the candidates, except when limited by the minimum size
2271 of the other windows on that frame; those other windows are resized
2272 to provide space for the '*Completions*' display. The Emacs manual
2273 describes how to customize 'display-buffer-alist' to get back the old
2274 behavior, see the node "Temporary Displays" there.
2275
2276 ---
2277 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ have been removed.
2278 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
2279
2280 ** Etags
2281
2282 +++
2283 *** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
2284
2285 By default, 'etags' will not qualify class members for Perl and C-like
2286 object-oriented languages with their class names and namespaces, and
2287 will remove qualifications used explicitly in the code from the tag
2288 names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
2289 'xref-find-definitions' is more accurate and produces less false
2290 positives.
2291
2292 Use --class-qualify (-Q) if you want the old default behavior of
2293 qualifying class members in C++, Java, Objective C, and Perl. Note
2294 that using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to 'M-.'
2295 ('xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use 'C-u M-.' to specify the
2296 qualified names by hand.
2297
2298 +++
2299 *** New language Ruby
2300
2301 Names of modules, classes, methods, functions, and constants are
2302 tagged. Overloaded operators are also tagged.
2303
2304 +++
2305 *** New language Go
2306 Names of packages, functions, and types are tagged.
2307
2308 +++
2309 *** Improved support for Lua
2310
2311 Etags now tags functions even if the "function" keyword follows some
2312 whitespace at line beginning.
2313
2314 \f
2315 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
2316
2317 ---
2318 ** MS-Windows specific Emacs build scripts are no longer in the distribution
2319 This includes the makefile.w32-in files in various subdirectories, and
2320 the support files. The file nt/configure.bat now just tells the user
2321 to use the procedure described in nt/INSTALL, by running the Posix
2322 'configure' script in the top-level directory.
2323
2324 ---
2325 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
2326 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
2327 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
2328
2329 +++
2330 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
2331
2332 ---
2333 ** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
2334 MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
2335
2336 ---
2337 ** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default.
2338 Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default.
2339
2340 ---
2341 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
2342
2343 ---
2344 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
2345
2346 ---
2347 ** New variable 'ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
2348 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
2349 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
2350 this has no effect.
2351
2352 ---
2353 ** The new function 'w32-application-type' returns the type of an
2354 MS-Windows application given the name of its executable program file.
2355
2356 ** New variable 'w32-pipe-buffer-size'.
2357 It can be used to tune the size of the buffer of pipes created for
2358 communicating with subprocesses, when the program run by a subprocess
2359 exhibits unusual buffering behavior. Default is zero, which lets the
2360 OS use its default size.
2361
2362 \f
2363 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2364 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
2365
2366 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2367 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
2368 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2369 (at your option) any later version.
2370
2371 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2372 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2373 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2374 GNU General Public License for more details.
2375
2376 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
2377 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
2378
2379 \f
2380 Local variables:
2381 coding: us-ascii
2382 mode: outline
2383 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
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