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