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3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
4 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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7 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
8 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
9
10 This file is about changes in Emacs version 22.
11
12 See files NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes
13 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 \f
18 * About external Lisp packages
19
20 When you upgrade to Emacs 22 from a previous version, some older
21 versions of external Lisp packages are known to behave badly.
22 So in general, it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest
23 versions of any external Lisp packages that you are using.
24
25 You should also be aware that many Lisp packages have been included
26 with Emacs 22 (see the extensive list below), and you should remove
27 any older versions of these packages to ensure that the Emacs 22
28 version is used. You can use M-x list-load-path-shadows to find such
29 older packages.
30
31 Some specific packages that are known to cause problems are:
32
33 ** Semantic (used by CEDET, ECB, JDEE): upgrade to latest version.
34
35 ** cua.el, cua-mode.el: remove old versions.
36
37 \f
38 * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1
39
40 ** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
41 when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.4 or newer. This port
42 provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).
43
44 ** Emacs comes with a new set of icons.
45 These icons are displayed on the taskbar and/or titlebar when Emacs
46 runs in a graphical environment. Source files for these icons can be
47 found in etc/images/icons. (You can't change the icons displayed by
48 Emacs by changing these files directly. On X, the icon is compiled
49 into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS
50 Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.)
51
52 ** The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is now part of the distribution.
53
54 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in Info format is built as part of the
55 Emacs build procedure and installed together with the Emacs User
56 Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar to make it easily
57 accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference).
58
59 ** The Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp manual is now part of
60 the distribution.
61
62 This manual is now part of the standard distribution and is installed,
63 together with the Emacs User Manual, into the Info directory. A menu
64 item was added to the menu bar to make it easily accessible
65 (Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp).
66
67 ** Leim is now part of the Emacs distribution.
68 You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build
69 Emacs with Leim.
70
71 ** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the
72 following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
73 with simplified and traditional characters), French, Russian, and
74 Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language
75 setup doesn't automatically select the right one.
76
77 ** New translations of the Emacs reference card are available in the
78 Brasilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files
79 are also included.
80
81 ** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
82
83 ** Emacs now includes support for loading image libraries on demand.
84 (Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure
85 the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
86 setting the variable `image-library-alist'.
87
88 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.
89
90 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added.
91
92 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on Tensilica Xtensa machines was added.
93
94 ** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added.
95
96 ** Support for a Cygwin build of Emacs was added.
97
98 ** Support for MacOS X was added.
99 See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
100
101 ** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also
102 create a non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See
103 the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
104
105 ** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code.
106
107 ** The `yow' program has been removed.
108 Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead.
109
110 ** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix',
111 `--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of
112 installed programs.
113
114 ** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game
115 scores. The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal
116 place for game scores to be stored. You can control this with the
117 configure option `--with-game-dir'. The specific user that Emacs uses
118 to own the game scores is controlled by `--with-game-user'. If access
119 to a game user is not available, then scores will be stored separately
120 in each user's home directory.
121
122 ** Emacs can now be built without sound support.
123
124 ** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union
125 types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.
126
127 ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
128 much pure storage it will approximately need.
129
130 ** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
131 contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
132 Emacs crash.
133
134 ** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
135 The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
136 terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.
137
138 ** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available.
139
140 ** All images used in Emacs have been consolidated in etc/images and subdirs.
141 See also the changes to `find-image', documented below.
142
143 \f
144 * Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1
145
146 ** New command line option -Q or --quick.
147 This is like using -q --no-site-file, but in addition it also disables
148 the fancy startup screen.
149
150 ** New command line option -D or --basic-display.
151 Disables the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, and
152 the blinking cursor.
153
154 ** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables
155 the blinking cursor on graphical terminals.
156
157 ** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE.
158 It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they
159 can start with this line:
160
161 #!/usr/bin/emacs --script
162
163 ** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately.
164 Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they
165 appear on the command line. For example, with this command line:
166
167 emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)"
168
169 Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then
170 in the other directories in `load-path'. (-L is short for --directory.)
171
172 ** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
173 --no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated.
174
175 ** If the environment variable DISPLAY specifies an unreachable X display,
176 Emacs will now startup as if invoked with the --no-window-system option.
177
178 ** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function,
179 now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
180 an interactively callable function.
181
182 ** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to
183 all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only
184 affects the initial frame.
185
186 ** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does,
187 with respect to its frame position: if you don't specify a position
188 (in your .emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry
189 command-line option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows'
190 window manager.
191
192 ** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display.
193 When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options
194 `--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame
195 whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire
196 screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.)
197
198 ** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
199 arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash
200 disables the splash screen; see also the variable
201 `inhibit-splash-screen' (which is also aliased as
202 `inhibit-startup-message').
203
204 ** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon.
205 The command-line options --icon-type, -i have been replaced with
206 options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn the bitmap icon off.
207
208 ** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
209 When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
210 displays a buffer menu. This option turns the buffer menu off.
211
212 ** Init file changes
213 If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
214 ~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. Likewise, if the shell init file
215 ~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh.
216
217 ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
218 automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save
219 modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It
220 can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,
221 according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
222
223 ** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value
224 to compute the default value of `user-mail-address', in preference to
225 concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine.
226
227 \f
228 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
229
230 ** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
231
232 See below for more details.
233
234 ** M-g is now a prefix key.
235 M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line.
236 M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `).
237 M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error.
238
239 ** C-u M-g M-g switches to the most recent previous buffer,
240 and goes to the specified line in that buffer.
241
242 When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at
243 point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer.
244
245 ** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
246 M-o M-o requests refontification.
247
248 ** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
249 since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
250 the operating system or your X server.
251
252 ** When the undo information of the current command gets really large
253 (beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns
254 you about it.
255
256 ** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special.
257
258 See below under "incremental search changes".
259
260 ** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name.
261 This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the
262 need to quote the space with a C-q. The underlying changes in the
263 keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under
264 "New keymaps for typing file names".
265
266 ** C-x C-f RET (find-file), typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer
267 a special case.
268
269 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
270 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
271 directory with Dired.
272
273 You can get the old behavior by typing C-x C-f M-n RET, which fetches
274 the actual file name into the minibuffer.
275
276 ** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
277 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
278 it remains unchanged.
279
280 ** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
281 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
282 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
283 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
284 doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
285 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
286
287 ** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
288 previous mark if you set `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' to t. I.e. C-u
289 C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC
290 to set the mark immediately after a jump.
291
292 ** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
293 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
294
295 ** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
296 in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.
297
298 ** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
299
300 ** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
301 It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.
302
303 ** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19)
304 have been removed:
305 C-x / point-to-register (Use: C-x r SPC)
306 C-x j jump-to-register (Use: C-x r j)
307 C-x x copy-to-register (Use: C-x r s)
308 C-x g insert-register (Use: C-x r i)
309
310 \f
311 * Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
312
313 ** !MEM FULL! at the start of the mode line indicates that Emacs
314 cannot get any more memory for Lisp data. This often means it could
315 crash soon if you do things that use more memory. On most systems,
316 killing buffers will get out of this state. If killing buffers does
317 not make !MEM FULL! disappear, you should save your work and start
318 a new Emacs.
319
320 ** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled.
321 On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455).
322
323 ** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left
324 (previous-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and
325 C-x right can be used as well. The functions keep a different buffer
326 cycle for each frame, using the frame-local buffer list.
327
328 ** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.
329
330 ** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N
331 converts whitespace around point to N spaces.
332
333 ** C-x 5 C-o displays a specified buffer in another frame
334 but does not switch to that frame. It's the multi-frame
335 analogue of C-x 4 C-o.
336
337 ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
338 By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
339
340 ** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can
341 be inconvenient when you did not expect them. The variable
342 `yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion
343 of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.
344
345 ** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
346 been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
347 in Indented-Text mode.
348
349 ** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
350 `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
351
352 ** M-x setenv now expands environment variable references.
353
354 Substrings of the form `$foo' and `${foo}' in the specified new value
355 now refer to the value of environment variable foo. To include a `$'
356 in the value, use `$$'.
357
358 ** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now
359 understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and
360 `same-window'.
361
362 ** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken
363 from the locale.
364
365 ** Mark command changes:
366
367 *** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
368 previous mark, i.e. C-u C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the
369 mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC to set the mark immediately after a jump.
370
371 *** Marking commands extend the region when invoked multiple times.
372
373 If you type C-M-SPC (mark-sexp), M-@ (mark-word), M-h
374 (mark-paragraph), or C-M-h (mark-defun) repeatedly, the marked region
375 extends each time, so you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC
376 M-C-SPC, for example. This feature also works for
377 mark-end-of-sentence, if you bind that to a key. It also extends the
378 region when the mark is active in Transient Mark mode, regardless of
379 the last command. To start a new region with one of marking commands
380 in Transient Mark mode, you can deactivate the active region with C-g,
381 or set the new mark with C-SPC.
382
383 *** M-h (mark-paragraph) now accepts a prefix arg.
384
385 With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following paragraphs;
386 if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding
387 paragraphs.
388
389 *** Some commands do something special in Transient Mark mode when the
390 mark is active--for instance, they limit their operation to the
391 region. Even if you don't normally use Transient Mark mode, you might
392 want to get this behavior from a particular command. There are two
393 ways you can enable Transient Mark mode and activate the mark, for one
394 command only.
395
396 One method is to type C-SPC C-SPC; this enables Transient Mark mode
397 and sets the mark at point. The other method is to type C-u C-x C-x.
398 This enables Transient Mark mode temporarily but does not alter the
399 mark or the region.
400
401 After these commands, Transient Mark mode remains enabled until you
402 deactivate the mark. That typically happens when you type a command
403 that alters the buffer, but you can also deactivate the mark by typing
404 C-g.
405
406 *** Movement commands `beginning-of-buffer', `end-of-buffer',
407 `beginning-of-defun', `end-of-defun' do not set the mark if the mark
408 is already active in Transient Mark mode.
409
410 ** Help command changes:
411
412 *** Changes in C-h bindings:
413
414 C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer.
415
416 C-h d runs apropos-documentation.
417
418 C-h r visits the Emacs Manual in Info.
419
420 C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files
421 that do not change:
422
423 C-h C-f displays the FAQ.
424 C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file.
425
426 The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
427 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
428
429 C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands.
430 - C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping)
431 run by the key sequence.
432 - C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the
433 command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run
434 that command.
435
436 For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped
437 to new-kill-line, these commands now report:
438 - C-h c and C-h k C-k reports:
439 C-k runs the command new-kill-line
440 - C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports:
441 kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline>
442 - C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports:
443 new-kill-line is on C-k
444
445 *** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
446 arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the
447 default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
448 `help-default-arg-highlight'.
449
450 *** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for
451 variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available).
452
453 *** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is
454 preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes
455 hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless
456 preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'. It now makes
457 hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is
458 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info
459 anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). In
460 addition, it now makes hyperlinks to URLs as well if the URL is
461 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `URL'.
462
463 *** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
464 description various information about a character, including its
465 encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and
466 widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by
467 clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
468
469 *** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because
470 C-u C-x = gives the same information and more.
471
472 *** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
473 in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the
474 same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
475 `help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
476 keyboard oriented alternative.
477
478 *** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to
479 automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
480 point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is
481 determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
482 to one second. This feature is turned off by default.
483
484 *** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match.
485 When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must
486 be present for an item to match. Regular expression matching is still
487 available.
488
489 *** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
490 to be sorted according to their score. The score for an item is a
491 number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
492 regular expression that you entered to the apropos command. The best
493 match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each
494 matching item.
495
496 ** Incremental Search changes:
497
498 *** Vertical scrolling is now possible within incremental search.
499 To enable this feature, customize the new user option
500 `isearch-allow-scroll'. User written commands which satisfy stringent
501 constraints can be marked as "scrolling commands". See the Emacs manual
502 for details.
503
504 *** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word,
505 making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the
506 command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior,
507 bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'.
508
509 *** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already
510 at the end of a line.
511
512 *** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode.
513 Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e'
514 and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer.
515
516 *** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or
517 `query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current
518 search string used as the string to replace.
519
520 *** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command
521 history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new
522 user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'.
523
524 ** Replace command changes:
525
526 *** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
527 `query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
528 a match if part of it has a read-only property.
529
530 *** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and
531 `replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string,
532 where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement
533 time. `\#' in a replacement string now refers to the count of
534 replacements already made by the replacement command. All regular
535 expression replacement commands now allow `\?' in the replacement
536 string to specify a position where the replacement string can be
537 edited for each replacement. `query-replace-regexp-eval' is now
538 deprecated since it offers no additional functionality.
539
540 *** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option
541 `query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil.
542
543 *** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face
544 `query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face.
545
546 ** Local variables lists:
547
548 *** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and
549 suffix from every line before processing all the lines.
550
551 *** Text properties in local variables.
552
553 A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text
554 properties--any specified text properties are discarded.
555
556 *** If the local variables list contains any variable-value pairs that
557 are not known to be safe, Emacs shows a prompt asking whether to apply
558 the local variables list as a whole. In earlier versions, a prompt
559 was only issued for variables explicitly marked as risky (for the
560 definition of risky variables, see `risky-local-variable-p').
561
562 At the prompt, you can choose to save the contents of this local
563 variables list to `safe-local-variable-values'. This new customizable
564 option is a list of variable-value pairs that are known to be safe.
565 Variables can also be marked as safe with the existing
566 `safe-local-variable' property (see `safe-local-variable-p').
567 However, risky variables will not be added to
568 `safe-local-variable-values' in this way.
569
570 *** The variable `enable-local-variables' controls how local variable
571 lists are handled. t, the default, specifies the standard querying
572 behavior. :safe means use only safe values, and ignore the rest.
573 :all means set all variables, whether or not they are safe.
574 nil means ignore them all. Anything else means always query.
575
576 *** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that
577 are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables
578 specification. Normally Emacs asks for confirmation before evaluating
579 such a form, but if the form appears in this list, no confirmation is
580 needed.
581
582 *** If a function has a non-nil `safe-local-eval-function' property,
583 that means it is ok to evaluate some calls to that function when it
584 appears in an `eval' local variables specification. If the property
585 is t, then any form calling that function with constant arguments is
586 ok. If the property is a function or list of functions, they are called
587 with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.
588
589 If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
590 confirmation as before.
591
592 ** File operation changes:
593
594 *** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
595 the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
596 Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
597 is only rarely needed.
598
599 *** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode,
600 when the file name contains wildcard characters.
601
602 *** find-alternate-file replaces the current file with multiple files,
603 when the file name contains wildcard characters. It now asks if you
604 wish save your changes and not just offer to kill the buffer.
605
606 *** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default.
607
608 *** C-x C-f RET, typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case.
609
610 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
611 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
612 directory with Dired.
613
614 *** When you are root, and you visit a file whose modes specify
615 read-only, the Emacs buffer is now read-only too. Type C-x C-q if you
616 want to make the buffer writable. (As root, you can in fact alter the
617 file.)
618
619 *** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer
620 against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving.
621
622 *** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
623 add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
624 convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of
625 the existing file's name. (This is the same convention that shell
626 commands cp, mv, and ln follow.) Thus, M-x copy-file RET ~/foo RET
627 /tmp RET copies ~/foo to /tmp/foo.
628
629 *** When used interactively, `format-write-file' now asks for confirmation
630 before overwriting an existing file, unless a prefix argument is
631 supplied. This behavior is analogous to `write-file'.
632
633 *** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that
634 controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will
635 attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files).
636
637 *** The new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync
638 in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up
639 the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result
640 in data loss, use with care.
641
642 *** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',
643 Emacs asks for confirmation.
644
645 *** require-final-newline now has two new possible values:
646
647 `visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed
648 when visiting the file.
649
650 `visit-save' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's
651 needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed
652 when saving the file.
653
654 *** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain
655 major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's
656 designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline
657 sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline.
658 So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these
659 modes do.
660
661 ** Minibuffer changes:
662
663 *** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when
664 entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed.
665
666 *** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
667 Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the
668 variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the
669 prompt string.
670
671 *** Enhanced visual feedback in `*Completions*' buffer.
672
673 Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions
674 have in common and where they begin to differ.
675
676 The common prefix shared by all possible completions uses the face
677 `completions-common-part', while the first character that isn't the
678 same uses the face `completions-first-difference'. By default,
679 `completions-common-part' inherits from `default', and
680 `completions-first-difference' inherits from `bold'. The idea of
681 `completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common
682 parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing
683 parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted.
684
685 Above fontification is always done when listing completions is
686 triggered at minibuffer. If you want to fontify completions whose
687 listing is triggered at the other normal buffer, you have to pass
688 the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as
689 its second argument.
690
691 *** File-name completion can now ignore specified directories.
692 If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a
693 slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when
694 completing file names. Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions'
695 which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion
696 candidate is a directory.
697
698 *** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
699 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
700 it remains unchanged.
701
702 *** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'.
703 If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
704 elements are deleted from the history list.
705
706 ** Redisplay changes:
707
708 *** Preemptive redisplay now adapts to current load and bandwidth.
709
710 To avoid preempting redisplay on fast computers, networks, and displays,
711 the arrival of new input is now performed at regular intervals during
712 redisplay. The new variable `redisplay-preemption-period' specifies
713 the period; the default is to check for input every 0.1 seconds.
714
715 *** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
716 When the file is maintained under version control, that information
717 appears between the position information and the major mode.
718
719 *** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs.
720
721 *** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now displayed with a special
722 face, either nobreak-space or escape-glyph. You can turn this off or
723 specify a different mode by setting the variable `nobreak-char-display'.
724
725 *** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized.
726 The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from
727 the window edge point is allowed to get before automatic hscrolling
728 will horizontally scroll the window. The default value is 5.
729
730 The variable `hscroll-step' determines how many columns automatic
731 hscrolling scrolls the window when point gets too close to the
732 window edge. If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the
733 window so as to center point. If its value is an integer, it says how
734 many columns to scroll. If the value is a floating-point number, it
735 gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.
736
737 The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to
738 `auto-hscroll-mode'. The old name is still available as an alias.
739
740 *** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than
741 the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
742 vscroll property.
743
744 *** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
745 overline and text.
746
747 *** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
748 position of the underline. When set, it overrides the
749 `x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.
750
751 *** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line
752 of non-selected windows. The `mode-line' face is now used to display
753 the mode line of the currently selected window.
754
755 The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
756 the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.
757
758 *** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this
759 for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the
760 top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To
761 control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x
762 set-fringe-style.
763
764 *** Angle icons in the fringes can indicate the buffer boundaries. In
765 addition, up and down arrow bitmaps in the fringe indicate which ways
766 the window can be scrolled.
767
768 This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable
769 `indicate-buffer-boundaries' to a non-nil value. The default value of
770 this variable is found in `default-indicate-buffer-boundaries'.
771
772 If value is `left' or `right', both angle and arrow bitmaps are
773 displayed in the left or right fringe, resp.
774
775 The value can also be an alist which specifies the presence and
776 position of each bitmap individually.
777
778 For example, ((top . left) (t . right)) places the top angle bitmap
779 in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both
780 arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the
781 left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).
782
783 *** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window
784 (not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into
785 two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line).
786 Instead, the newline now "overflows" into the right fringe, and the
787 cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline.
788
789 The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' can be set to nil to
790 revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines.
791
792 *** When a window has display margin areas, the fringes are now
793 displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than
794 outside those margins.
795
796 *** A window can now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings,
797 in addition to the individual display margin settings.
798
799 Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
800 horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
801 or when the frame is resized.
802
803 *** The %c and %l constructs are now ignored in frame-title-format.
804 Due to technical limitations in how Emacs interacts with windowing
805 systems, these constructs often failed to render properly, and could
806 even cause Emacs to crash.
807
808 *** If value of `auto-resize-tool-bars' is `grow-only', the tool bar
809 will expand as needed, but not contract automatically. To contract
810 the tool bar, you must type C-l.
811
812 ** Cursor display changes:
813
814 *** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is
815 now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'.
816
817 *** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking.
818
819 *** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor.
820 The underscore cursor is set by putting `(cursor-type . hbar)' in
821 default-frame-alist. It supports variable heights, like the `bar'
822 cursor does.
823
824 *** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any)
825 of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor
826 appears in.
827
828 *** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any
829 of the recognized cursor types.
830
831 *** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs
832 uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor.
833
834 ** New faces:
835
836 *** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive
837 elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
838 areas.
839
840 *** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
841 parts of the mode line.
842
843 *** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.
844 the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text.
845 This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either
846 black or white default foreground color. This generic shadow face
847 allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place,
848 so package-specific faces can inherit from it.
849
850 *** `vertical-border' face is used for the vertical divider between windows.
851
852 ** Font-Lock (syntax highlighting) changes:
853
854 *** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
855 M-o M-o requests refontification.
856
857 *** All modes now support using M-x font-lock-mode to toggle
858 fontification, even those such as Occur, Info, and comint-derived
859 modes that do their own fontification in a special way.
860
861 The variable `Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable
862 fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from
863 `Info-mode-hook'.
864
865 *** Font-Lock mode: in major modes such as Lisp mode, where some Emacs
866 features assume that an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of
867 any string or comment, Font-Lock now highlights any such open-paren in
868 bold-red if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it
869 can cause trouble. You should rewrite the string or comment so that
870 the open-paren is not in column 0.
871
872 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.
873
874 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
875
876 *** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked.
877 You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of
878 the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode,
879 cperl-mode and make-mode support this.
880
881 *** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed.
882 The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now nil
883 instead of 3. This setting of jit-lock-stealth-time disables stealth
884 fontification: on today's machines, it may be a bug in font lock
885 patterns if fontification otherwise noticeably degrades interactivity.
886 If you find movement in infrequently visited buffers sluggish (and the
887 major mode maintainer has no better idea), customizing
888 jit-lock-stealth-time to a non-nil value will let Emacs fontify
889 buffers in the background when it considers the system to be idle.
890 jit-lock-stealth-nice is now 0.5 instead of 0.125 which is supposed to
891 cause less load than the old defaults.
892
893 *** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'.
894
895 If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs
896 idle time in seconds to wait before starting fontification. For
897 example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will
898 only happen after 0.25s of idle time.
899
900 *** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification.
901
902 jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and
903 jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual
904 refontification takes place.
905
906 *** lazy-lock is considered obsolete.
907
908 The `lazy-lock' package is superseded by `jit-lock' and is considered
909 obsolete. `jit-lock' is activated by default; if you wish to continue
910 using `lazy-lock', activate it in your ~/.emacs like this:
911 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
912
913 If you invoke `lazy-lock-mode' directly rather than through
914 `font-lock-support-mode', it now issues a warning:
915 "Use font-lock-support-mode rather than calling lazy-lock-mode"
916
917 ** Menu support:
918
919 *** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
920 This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such
921 as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself).
922 You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn
923 it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of
924 current date and time, current line and column number in the mode-line.
925
926 *** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".
927
928 *** You can exit dialog windows and menus by typing C-g.
929
930 *** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..."
931 and "Open File...". "Open File..." now opens only existing files. This is
932 to support existing GUI file selection dialogs better.
933
934 *** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/LessTif can be
935 disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'.
936
937 *** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can
938 be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32).
939
940 *** The menu bar for Motif/LessTif/Lucid/Gtk+ can be navigated with keys.
941 Pressing F10 shows the first menu in the menu bar. Navigation is done with
942 the arrow keys, select with the return key and cancel with the escape keys.
943
944 *** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have
945 to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example
946 `-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'.
947
948 *** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and LessTif/Motif now pop down on pressing
949 ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32.
950
951 *** For the Gtk+ version, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog
952 by setting the variable `x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use
953 the new dialog.
954
955 ** Mouse changes:
956
957 *** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
958
959 Traditionally, Emacs uses a Mouse-1 click to set point and a Mouse-2
960 click to follow a link, whereas most other applications use a Mouse-1
961 click for both purposes, depending on whether you click outside or
962 inside a link. Now the behavior of a Mouse-1 click has been changed
963 to match this context-sensitive dual behavior. (If you prefer the old
964 behavior, set the user option `mouse-1-click-follows-link' to nil.)
965
966 Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs can do much
967 more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
968 activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
969 (see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details). The Lisp
970 packages that are included in release 22.1 have been adapted to do
971 this, but external packages may not yet support this. However, there
972 is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
973 happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
974 on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.
975
976 If you want to get the original Mouse-1 action also inside a link, you
977 just need to press the Mouse-1 button a little longer than a normal
978 click (i.e. press and hold the Mouse-1 button for half a second before
979 you release it).
980
981 Dragging the Mouse-1 inside a link still performs the original
982 drag-mouse-1 action, typically copy the text.
983
984 You can customize the new Mouse-1 behavior via the new user options
985 `mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'.
986
987 *** If you set the new variable `mouse-autoselect-window' to a non-nil
988 value, windows are automatically selected as you move the mouse from
989 one Emacs window to another, even within a frame. A minibuffer window
990 can be selected only when it is active.
991
992 *** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
993 select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
994 normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set
995 the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected
996 window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame
997 to give it focus.
998
999 *** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse
1000 is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
1001 can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
1002 mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can
1003 also disable mouse highlighting.
1004
1005 *** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
1006 shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
1007 variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.
1008
1009 *** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
1010 (rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.
1011
1012 *** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved.
1013
1014 People tend to push the mouse wheel (which counts as a mouse-2 click)
1015 unintentionally while turning the wheel, so these clicks are now
1016 ignored. You can customize this with the mouse-wheel-click-event and
1017 mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.
1018
1019 *** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.
1020
1021 ** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:
1022
1023 *** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
1024 construct. Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
1025 -*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
1026 various global and per-coding-system translation tables. You can also
1027 specify it in a local variable list at the end of the file. For
1028 shortcut, instead of using this long variable name, you can append the
1029 character "!" at the end of coding-system name specified in -*-
1030 construct or in a local variable list. For example, if a file has the
1031 following header, it is decoded by the coding system `iso-latin-1'
1032 without any character translation:
1033 ;; -*- coding: iso-latin-1!; -*-
1034
1035 *** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup
1036 more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale
1037 name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
1038 This change can result in using the different coding systems as
1039 default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN).
1040
1041 *** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your
1042 current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This
1043 can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
1044 characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
1045 emulator) works. Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
1046 keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
1047 or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
1048 by the keyboard. See Info node `Unibyte Mode'.
1049
1050 *** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
1051 revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.
1052
1053 *** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
1054 coding system.
1055
1056 *** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
1057 of a file.
1058
1059 *** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
1060 unicode.
1061
1062 *** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
1063 coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item
1064 (Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
1065 command.
1066
1067 *** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type
1068 in the current input method to input a character at point.
1069
1070 *** Limited support for character `unification' has been added.
1071 Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of
1072 the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard
1073 Unicode mappings. This applies mainly to characters in the ISO 8859
1074 sets plus some other 8-bit sets, but can be extended. For instance,
1075 translation works amongst the Emacs ...-iso8859-... charsets and the
1076 mule-unicode-... ones.
1077
1078 By default this translation happens automatically on encoding.
1079 Self-inserting characters are translated to make the input conformant
1080 with the encoding of the buffer in which it's being used, where
1081 possible.
1082
1083 You can force a more complete unification with the user option
1084 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode. That maps all the Latin-N character sets
1085 into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and
1086 mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode
1087 will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding.
1088
1089 *** New language environments (set up automatically according to the
1090 locale): Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, Esperanto,
1091 French, Georgian, Italian, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam,
1092 Russian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8,Ukrainian,
1093 Welsh,Latin-6, Windows-1255.
1094
1095 *** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
1096 belarusian, bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng (for
1097 Chinese Pinyin characters), croatian, dutch, georgian, latvian-keyboard,
1098 lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, malayalam-inscript, rfc1345,
1099 russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, tamil-inscript, ukrainian-computer,
1100 ucs, vietnamese-telex, welsh.
1101
1102 *** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
1103 either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
1104 when possible. The latter are more space-efficient.
1105 This is controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.
1106
1107 *** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is
1108 automatically activated if you select Thai as a language
1109 environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to
1110 versions which recognize Thai words. Affected commands are
1111 M-f (forward-word)
1112 M-b (backward-word)
1113 M-d (kill-word)
1114 M-DEL (backward-kill-word)
1115 M-t (transpose-words)
1116 M-q (fill-paragraph)
1117
1118 *** Indian support has been updated.
1119 The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are
1120 assumed. There is a framework for supporting various Indian scripts,
1121 but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are supported.
1122
1123 *** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
1124 By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into
1125 single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is
1126 turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character
1127 sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS
1128 system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not
1129 interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil.
1130 You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
1131 `ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8
1132 coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's
1133 one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones.
1134 The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly.
1135
1136 *** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.
1137
1138 *** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
1139 in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
1140 Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
1141
1142 *** Many new coding systems are available in the `code-pages' library.
1143 These include complete versions of most of those in codepage.el, based
1144 on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now obsolete and is used
1145 only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. All coding systems defined in
1146 `code-pages' are auto-loaded.
1147
1148 *** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which
1149 Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'.
1150
1151 *** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of
1152 characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the
1153 fontset appropriately.
1154
1155 ** Customize changes:
1156
1157 *** Custom themes are collections of customize options. Create a
1158 custom theme with M-x customize-create-theme. Use M-x load-theme to
1159 load and enable a theme, and M-x disable-theme to disable it. Use M-x
1160 enable-theme to enable a disabled theme.
1161
1162 *** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
1163 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are
1164 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
1165 faces.
1166
1167 *** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing.
1168 In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding
1169 check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection
1170 for that attribute; the values you can choose are only those which make
1171 sense for the attribute. When an attribute is de-selected by unchecking
1172 its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in
1173 case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden.
1174
1175 *** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer,
1176 the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable.
1177 You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value"
1178 under the "[State]" button.
1179
1180 ** Buffer Menu changes:
1181
1182 *** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file
1183 buffers only in the Buffer Menu. It is bound to T in Buffer Menu
1184 mode.
1185
1186 *** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
1187 with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers
1188 whose names begin with space are omitted.
1189
1190 *** The new options `buffers-menu-show-directories' and
1191 `buffers-menu-show-status' let you control how buffers are displayed
1192 in the menu dropped down when you click "Buffers" from the menu bar.
1193
1194 `buffers-menu-show-directories' controls whether the menu displays
1195 leading directories as part of the file name visited by the buffer.
1196 If its value is `unless-uniquify', the default, directories are
1197 shown unless uniquify-buffer-name-style' is non-nil. The value of nil
1198 and t turn the display of directories off and on, respectively.
1199
1200 `buffers-menu-show-status' controls whether the Buffers menu includes
1201 the modified and read-only status of the buffers. By default it is
1202 t, and the status is shown.
1203
1204 Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time
1205 the Buffers menu is regenerated.
1206
1207 ** Dired mode:
1208
1209 *** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
1210 dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
1211 introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
1212
1213 *** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
1214 with different file attributes in two dired buffers.
1215
1216 *** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
1217 of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.
1218
1219 *** The Dired command `dired-goto-file' is now bound to j, not M-g.
1220 This is to avoid hiding the global key binding of M-g.
1221
1222 *** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
1223 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
1224 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
1225 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
1226 double quotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
1227 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
1228
1229 *** In Dired, the w command now stores the current line's file name
1230 into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, it stores the absolute file name.
1231
1232 *** In Dired-x, Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode.
1233
1234 The mode toggling command is bound to M-o. A new command
1235 dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, marks omitted files. The variable
1236 dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the mode toggling function
1237 instead.
1238
1239 *** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args
1240 have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and
1241 directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a
1242 directory listing into a buffer.
1243
1244 ** Comint changes:
1245
1246 *** The comint prompt can now be made read-only, using the new user
1247 option `comint-prompt-read-only'. This is not enabled by default,
1248 except in IELM buffers. The read-only status of IELM prompts can be
1249 controlled with the new user option `ielm-prompt-read-only', which
1250 overrides `comint-prompt-read-only'.
1251
1252 The new commands `comint-kill-whole-line' and `comint-kill-region'
1253 support editing comint buffers with read-only prompts.
1254
1255 `comint-kill-whole-line' is like `kill-whole-line', but ignores both
1256 read-only and field properties. Hence, it always kill entire
1257 lines, including any prompts.
1258
1259 `comint-kill-region' is like `kill-region', except that it ignores
1260 read-only properties, if it is safe to do so. This means that if any
1261 part of a prompt is deleted, then the entire prompt must be deleted
1262 and that all prompts must stay at the beginning of a line. If this is
1263 not the case, then `comint-kill-region' behaves just like
1264 `kill-region' if read-only properties are involved: it copies the text
1265 to the kill-ring, but does not delete it.
1266
1267 *** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived
1268 modes (shell-mode, etc.) inserts arguments from previous command lines,
1269 like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but
1270 otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.
1271
1272 *** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed
1273 `comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias,
1274 but declared obsolete.
1275
1276 *** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in subshells
1277 running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment variable,
1278 which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs that need
1279 to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check INSIDE_EMACS
1280 instead of EMACS.
1281
1282 ** M-x Compile changes:
1283
1284 *** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable
1285
1286 Quite a few more kinds of messages are recognized. Messages that are
1287 recognized as warnings or informational come in orange or green, instead of
1288 red. Informational messages are by default skipped with `next-error'
1289 (controlled by `compilation-skip-threshold').
1290
1291 Location data is collected on the fly as the *compilation* buffer changes.
1292 This means you could modify messages to make them point to different files.
1293 This also means you can not go to locations of messages you may have deleted.
1294
1295 The variable `compilation-error-regexp-alist' has now become customizable. If
1296 you had added your own regexps to this, you'll probably need to include a
1297 leading `^', otherwise they'll match anywhere on a line. There is now also a
1298 `compilation-mode-font-lock-keywords' and it nicely handles all the checks
1299 that configure outputs and -o options so you see at a glance where you are.
1300
1301 The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message.
1302
1303 *** New user option `compilation-environment'.
1304 This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
1305 compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
1306 subprocesses inherit.
1307
1308 *** New user option `compilation-disable-input'.
1309 If this is non-nil, send end-of-file as compilation process input.
1310
1311 *** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'
1312 specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line
1313 in new face `next-error'.
1314
1315 *** A new minor mode `next-error-follow-minor-mode' can be used in
1316 compilation-mode, grep-mode, occur-mode, and diff-mode (i.e. all the
1317 modes that can use `next-error'). In this mode, cursor motion in the
1318 buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
1319 matches, compilation errors, etc. This minor mode can be toggled with
1320 C-c C-f.
1321
1322 *** When the left fringe is displayed, an arrow points to current message in
1323 the compilation buffer.
1324
1325 *** The new variable `compilation-context-lines' controls lines of leading
1326 context before the current message. If nil and the left fringe is displayed,
1327 it doesn't scroll the compilation output window. If there is no left fringe,
1328 no arrow is displayed and a value of nil means display the message at the top
1329 of the window.
1330
1331 ** Occur mode changes:
1332
1333 *** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
1334 C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without
1335 switching to it.
1336
1337 *** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
1338 the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.
1339
1340 *** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
1341 search multiple buffers. There is also a new command
1342 `multi-occur-in-matching-buffers' which allows you to specify the
1343 buffers to search by their filenames or buffer names. Internally,
1344 Occur mode has been rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other
1345 changes.
1346
1347 ** Grep changes:
1348
1349 *** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.
1350
1351 There's a new separate package grep.el, with its own submenu and
1352 customization group.
1353
1354 *** `grep-find' is now also available under the name `find-grep' where
1355 people knowing `find-grep-dired' would probably expect it.
1356
1357 *** New commands `lgrep' (local grep) and `rgrep' (recursive grep) are
1358 more user-friendly versions of `grep' and `grep-find', which prompt
1359 separately for the regular expression to match, the files to search,
1360 and the base directory for the search. Case sensitivity of the
1361 search is controlled by the current value of `case-fold-search'.
1362
1363 These commands build the shell commands based on the new variables
1364 `grep-template' (lgrep) and `grep-find-template' (rgrep).
1365
1366 The files to search can use aliases defined in `grep-files-aliases'.
1367
1368 Subdirectories listed in `grep-find-ignored-directories' such as those
1369 typically used by various version control systems, like CVS and arch,
1370 are automatically skipped by `rgrep'.
1371
1372 *** The grep commands provide highlighting support.
1373
1374 Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange. Grep buffers
1375 can be saved and automatically revisited.
1376
1377 *** The new variables `grep-window-height' and `grep-scroll-output' override
1378 the corresponding compilation mode settings, for grep commands only.
1379
1380 *** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlights matches in *grep*
1381 buffer. It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept
1382 --color option to output markers around matches. When going to the next
1383 match with `next-error' the exact match is highlighted in the source
1384 buffer. Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole
1385 source line is highlighted.
1386
1387 *** New key bindings in grep output window:
1388 SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down. C-n and C-p moves to next and
1389 previous match in the grep window. RET jumps to the source line of
1390 the current match. `n' and `p' shows next and previous match in
1391 other window, but does not switch buffer. `{' and `}' jumps to the
1392 previous or next file in the grep output. TAB also jumps to the next
1393 file.
1394
1395 *** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
1396 by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically
1397 detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
1398 When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed
1399 unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated
1400 command lines to be used than was possible before.
1401
1402 ** X Windows Support:
1403
1404 *** Emacs now supports drag and drop for X. Dropping a file on a window
1405 opens it, dropping text inserts the text. Dropping a file on a dired
1406 buffer copies or moves the file to that directory.
1407
1408 *** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper).
1409 The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym',
1410 and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should
1411 use for the modifiers. For example, the following two lines swap
1412 Meta and Alt:
1413 (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)
1414 (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt)
1415
1416 *** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which can
1417 speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.
1418
1419 If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of
1420 XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on.
1421
1422 *** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
1423 requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that
1424 Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
1425 and use the more appropriately result.
1426
1427 *** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
1428 On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
1429 amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).
1430
1431 ** Xterm support:
1432
1433 *** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
1434 on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.
1435
1436 *** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
1437 When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
1438 The following should work:
1439 {C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
1440 These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8 (and later versions),
1441 they might not work on some older versions of xterm, or on some
1442 proprietary versions.
1443 The various keys generated by xterm when the "modifyOtherKeys"
1444 resource is set are also supported.
1445
1446 ** Character terminal color support changes:
1447
1448 *** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard
1449 mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character
1450 terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal
1451 database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't
1452 set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable
1453 terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls'
1454 when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors
1455 in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the
1456 user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter.
1457
1458 *** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more
1459 than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and
1460 256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup
1461 the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for
1462 all of these colors.
1463
1464 *** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default
1465 faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and
1466 256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an
1467 88-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face
1468 colors as on X.
1469
1470 *** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.
1471
1472 ** ebnf2ps changes:
1473
1474 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-extra-width' which specify extra width for arrow
1475 shape drawing.
1476 The extra width is used to avoid that the arrowhead and the terminal border
1477 overlap. It depends on `ebnf-arrow-shape' and `ebnf-line-width'.
1478
1479 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-scale' which specify the arrow scale.
1480 Values lower than 1.0, shrink the arrow.
1481 Values greater than 1.0, expand the arrow.
1482 \f
1483 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1
1484
1485 ** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1486
1487 ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
1488
1489 To see what modules are available, type
1490 M-x customize-option erc-modules RET.
1491
1492 To start an IRC session with ERC, type M-x erc, and follow the prompts
1493 for server, port, and nick.
1494
1495 ** Rcirc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1496
1497 Rcirc is an Internet relay chat (IRC) client. It supports
1498 simultaneous connections to multiple IRC servers. Each discussion
1499 takes place in its own buffer. For each connection you can join
1500 several channels (many-to-many) and participate in private
1501 (one-to-one) chats. Both channel and private chats are contained in
1502 separate buffers.
1503
1504 To start an IRC session using the default parameters, type M-x irc.
1505 If you type C-u M-x irc, it prompts you for the server, nick, port and
1506 startup channel parameters before connecting.
1507
1508 ** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1509
1510 Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news
1511 sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the
1512 corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a
1513 separate manual.
1514
1515 ** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions.
1516 To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file.
1517
1518 ** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in
1519 various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
1520 program files that include other program files.
1521
1522 Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on
1523 all the files in it, such as visiting them or searching and replacing
1524 in them.
1525
1526 ** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1527
1528 Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in
1529 Emacs Lisp. The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc
1530 can be started with `C-x * *'. The Calc manual is separate from the
1531 Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the
1532 manual. A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and
1533 `etc/calccard.ps'.
1534
1535 ** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
1536 customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
1537
1538 ** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1539
1540 The ido (interactively do) package is an extension of the iswitchb
1541 package to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition
1542 to interactive buffer switching. Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with
1543 a few exceptions), so don't enable both packages.
1544
1545 ** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle
1546 between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c.
1547
1548 ** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1549
1550 The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
1551 cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
1552 With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
1553 keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
1554 region (like delete-selection-mode). Do not enable these modes with
1555 cua-mode. Customize the variable `cua-mode' to enable cua.
1556
1557 The cua-selection-mode enables the CUA keybindings for the region but
1558 does not change the bindings for C-z/C-x/C-c/C-v. It can be used as a
1559 replacement for pc-selection-mode.
1560
1561 In addition, cua provides unified rectangle support with visible
1562 rectangle highlighting: Use C-return to start a rectangle, extend it
1563 using the movement commands (or mouse-3), and cut or copy it using C-x
1564 or C-c (using C-w and M-w also works).
1565
1566 Use M-o and M-c to `open' or `close' the rectangle, use M-b or M-f, to
1567 fill it with blanks or another character, use M-u or M-l to upcase or
1568 downcase the rectangle, use M-i to increment the numbers in the
1569 rectangle, use M-n to fill the rectangle with a numeric sequence (such
1570 as 10 20 30...), use M-r to replace a regexp in the rectangle, and use
1571 M-' or M-/ to restrict command on the rectangle to a subset of the
1572 rows. See the commentary in cua-base.el for more rectangle commands.
1573
1574 Cua also provides unified support for registers: Use a numeric
1575 prefix argument between 0 and 9, i.e. M-0 .. M-9, for C-x, C-c, and
1576 C-v to cut or copy into register 0-9, or paste from register 0-9.
1577
1578 The last text deleted (not killed) is automatically stored in
1579 register 0. This includes text deleted by typing text.
1580
1581 Finally, cua provides a global mark which is set using S-C-space.
1582 When the global mark is active, any text which is cut or copied is
1583 automatically inserted at the global mark position. See the
1584 commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.
1585
1586 The features of cua also works with the standard Emacs bindings for
1587 kill, copy, yank, and undo. If you want to use cua mode, but don't
1588 want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
1589 `cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.
1590
1591 Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older
1592 versions of cua.el and cua-mode.el. To ensure proper operation, you
1593 must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
1594 loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.
1595
1596 ** Org mode is now part of the Emacs distribution
1597
1598 Org mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and
1599 doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
1600 It also contains a plain-text table editor with spreadsheet-like
1601 capabilities.
1602
1603 The Org mode table editor can be integrated into any major mode by
1604 activating the minor Orgtbl-mode.
1605
1606 The documentation for org-mode is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
1607 type "C-h i m org RET" to read that manual. A reference card is
1608 available in `etc/orgcard.tex' and `etc/orgcard.ps'.
1609
1610 ** The new package dns-mode.el adds syntax highlighting of DNS master files.
1611 It is a modern replacement for zone-mode.el, which is now obsolete.
1612
1613 ** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
1614 filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
1615 that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
1616 Emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim,
1617 invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable. The display method can
1618 be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.
1619
1620 ** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
1621 source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.
1622
1623 ** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
1624 the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards. The numeric
1625 keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
1626 +, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key. The keypad
1627 package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys.
1628
1629 By customizing the variables `keypad-setup', `keypad-shifted-setup',
1630 `keypad-numlock-setup', and `keypad-numlock-shifted-setup', or by
1631 using the function `keypad-setup', you can rebind all digit keys and
1632 the decimal key of the keypad in one step for each of the four
1633 possible combinations of the Shift key state (not pressed/pressed) and
1634 the NumLock toggle state (off/on).
1635
1636 The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are:
1637 `Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits,
1638 `Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
1639 decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
1640 `Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
1641 for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
1642 where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
1643 `Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
1644 are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
1645 or local keymaps.
1646
1647 ** Emacs' keyboard macro facilities have been enhanced by the new
1648 kmacro package.
1649
1650 Keyboard macros are now defined and executed via the F3 and F4 keys:
1651 F3 starts a macro, F4 ends the macro, and pressing F4 again executes
1652 the last macro. While defining the macro, F3 inserts a counter value
1653 which automatically increments every time the macro is executed.
1654
1655 There is now a keyboard macro ring which stores the most recently
1656 defined macros.
1657
1658 The C-x C-k sequence is now a prefix for the kmacro keymap which
1659 defines bindings for moving through the keyboard macro ring,
1660 C-x C-k C-p and C-x C-k C-n, editing the last macro C-x C-k C-e,
1661 manipulating the macro counter and format via C-x C-k C-c,
1662 C-x C-k C-a, and C-x C-k C-f. See the commentary in kmacro.el
1663 for more commands.
1664
1665 The original macro bindings C-x (, C-x ), and C-x e are still
1666 available, but they now interface to the keyboard macro ring too.
1667
1668 The C-x e command now automatically terminates the current macro
1669 before calling it, if used while defining a macro.
1670
1671 In addition, when ending or calling a macro with C-x e, the macro can
1672 be repeated immediately by typing just the `e'. You can customize
1673 this behavior via the variables kmacro-call-repeat-key and
1674 kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg.
1675
1676 Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
1677 C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence
1678 at a time, prompting for the actions to take.
1679
1680 ** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
1681 When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible. When disabled, it
1682 restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
1683
1684 ** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
1685 buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...
1686
1687 ** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
1688 files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
1689 mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
1690 which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or
1691 copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc. By default, Longlines
1692 mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior
1693 referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors. This is
1694 similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap
1695 feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil.
1696
1697 ** The printing package is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1698
1699 If you enable the printing package by including (require 'printing) in
1700 the .emacs file, the normal Print item on the File menu is replaced
1701 with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through
1702 ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript
1703 printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by
1704 `ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information.
1705
1706 ** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you
1707 move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer.
1708 It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts
1709 of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ...
1710
1711 There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers.
1712
1713 ** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an
1714 "active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually
1715 change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list'
1716 settings.
1717
1718 ** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing
1719 spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command
1720 letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers
1721 viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values.
1722
1723 ** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
1724 shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.
1725
1726 ** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
1727 `text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting
1728 these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG
1729 table editing available in modern word processors. The package also
1730 can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such
1731 as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.
1732
1733 ** The image-dired.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in
1734 other ways manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as
1735 the main interface. Image-Dired provides functionality to generate
1736 simple image galleries.
1737
1738 ** Tramp is now part of the distribution.
1739
1740 This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote
1741 files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host,
1742 Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used
1743 for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for
1744 the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called
1745 `inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell
1746 connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods
1747 (which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or
1748 `rsync' to do the copying).
1749
1750 Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also
1751 `su' and `sudo'. Ange-FTP is still supported via the `ftp' method.
1752
1753 If you want to disable Tramp you should set
1754
1755 (setq tramp-default-method "ftp")
1756
1757 Removing Tramp, and re-enabling Ange-FTP, can be achieved by M-x
1758 tramp-unload-tramp.
1759
1760 ** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
1761
1762 ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
1763 configuration files.
1764
1765 ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
1766 varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
1767 var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
1768 section { }). Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
1769 .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
1770 recognized.
1771
1772 ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
1773
1774 ** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
1775
1776 ** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
1777 This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
1778
1779 ** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
1780 for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or
1781 paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
1782 instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
1783 boundaries during scrolling.
1784
1785 ** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
1786 events from the console. It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
1787 for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.
1788 \f
1789 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:
1790
1791 ** Changes in Shell Mode
1792
1793 *** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
1794 bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text. (This
1795 is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)
1796
1797 ** Changes in Dired
1798
1799 *** Bindings for Image-Dired added
1800 Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been
1801 added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Image-Dired. As a
1802 starting point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d
1803 to display thumbnails of them in a separate buffer.
1804
1805 ** Changes in Hi Lock
1806
1807 *** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function
1808 `global-hi-lock-mode' enables Hi Lock in all buffers. By default, if
1809 hi-lock-mode is used in what appears to be the initialization file, a
1810 warning message suggests to use global-hi-lock-mode instead. However,
1811 if the new variable `hi-lock-archaic-interface-deduce' is non-nil,
1812 using hi-lock-mode in an initialization file will turn on Hi Lock in all
1813 buffers and no warning will be issued (for compatibility with the
1814 behavior in older versions of Emacs).
1815
1816 ** Changes in Allout
1817
1818 *** Some previously rough topic-header format edge cases are reconciled.
1819 Level 1 topics use the mode's comment format, and lines starting with the
1820 asterisk - for instance, the comment close of some languages (eg, c's "*/"
1821 or mathematica's "*)") - at the beginning of line are no longer are
1822 interpreted as level 1 topics in those modes.
1823
1824 *** Many or most commonly occurring "accidental" topics are disqualified.
1825 Text in item bodies that looks like a low-depth topic is no longer mistaken
1826 for one unless its first offspring (or that of its next sibling with
1827 offspring) is only one level deeper.
1828
1829 For example, pasting some text with a bunch of leading asterisks into a
1830 topic that's followed by a level 3 or deeper topic will not cause the
1831 pasted text to be mistaken for outline structure.
1832
1833 The same constraint is applied to any level 2 or 3 topics.
1834
1835 This settles an old issue where typed or pasted text needed to be carefully
1836 reviewed, and sometimes doctored, to avoid accidentally disrupting the
1837 outline structure. Now that should be generally unnecessary, as the most
1838 prone-to-occur accidents are disqualified.
1839
1840 *** Allout now refuses to create "containment discontinuities", where a
1841 topic is shifted deeper than the offspring-depth of its container. On the
1842 other hand, allout now operates gracefully with existing containment
1843 discontinuities, revealing excessively contained topics rather than either
1844 leaving them hidden or raising an error.
1845
1846 *** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and
1847 decryption. Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and
1848 clear-text within a single file to your heart's content, using symmetric
1849 and/or public key modes. Time-limited key caching, user-provided
1850 symmetric key hinting and consistency verification, auto-encryption of
1851 pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in
1852 powerful ways. Encryption behavior customization is collected in the
1853 allout-encryption customization group.
1854
1855 *** Navigation within an item is easier. Repeated beginning-of-line and
1856 end-of-line key commands (usually, ^A and ^E) cycle through the
1857 beginning/end-of-line and then beginning/end of topic, etc. See new
1858 customization vars `allout-beginning-of-line-cycles' and
1859 `allout-end-of-line-cycles'.
1860
1861 *** New or revised allout-mode activity hooks enable creation of
1862 cooperative enhancements to allout mode without changes to the mode,
1863 itself.
1864
1865 See `allout-exposure-change-hook', `allout-structure-added-hook',
1866 `allout-structure-deleted-hook', and `allout-structure-shifted-hook'.
1867
1868 `allout-exposure-change-hook' replaces the existing
1869 `allout-view-change-hook', which is being deprecated. Both are still
1870 invoked, but `allout-view-change-hook' will eventually be ignored.
1871 `allout-exposure-change-hook' is called with explicit arguments detailing
1872 the specifics of each change (as are the other new hooks), making it easier
1873 to use than the old version.
1874
1875 There is a new mode deactivation hook, `allout-mode-deactivate-hook', for
1876 coordinating with deactivation of allout-mode. Both that and the mode
1877 activation hook, `allout-mode-hook' are now run after the `allout-mode'
1878 variable is changed, rather than before.
1879
1880 *** Default command prefix was changed to "\C-c " (control-c space), to
1881 avoid intruding on user's keybinding space. Customize the
1882 `allout-command-prefix' variable to your preference.
1883
1884 *** Allout now uses text overlay's `invisible' property for concealed text,
1885 instead of selective-display. This simplifies the code, in particular
1886 avoiding the need for kludges for isearch dynamic-display, discretionary
1887 handling of edits of concealed text, undo concerns, etc.
1888
1889 *** There are many other fixes and refinements, including:
1890
1891 - repaired inhibition of inadvertent edits to concealed text, without
1892 inhibiting undo; we now reveal undo changes within concealed text.
1893 - auto-fill-mode is now left inactive when allout-mode starts, if it
1894 already was inactive. also, `allout-inhibit-auto-fill' custom
1895 configuration variable makes it easy to disable auto fill in allout
1896 outlines in general or on a per-buffer basis.
1897 - allout now tolerates fielded text in outlines without disruption.
1898 - hot-spot navigation now is modularized with a new function,
1899 `allout-hotspot-key-handler', enabling easier use and enhancement of
1900 the functionality in allout addons.
1901 - repaired retention of topic body hanging indent upon topic depth shifts
1902 - bulleting variation is simpler and more accommodating, both in the
1903 default behavior and in ability to vary when creating new topics
1904 - mode deactivation now does cleans up effectively, more properly
1905 restoring affected variables and hooks to former state, removing
1906 overlays, etc. see `allout-add-resumptions' and
1907 `allout-do-resumptions', which replace the old `allout-resumptions'.
1908 - included a few unit-tests for interior functionality. developers can
1909 have them automatically run at the end of module load by customizing
1910 the option `allout-run-unit-tests-on-load'.
1911 - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
1912 - version number incremented to 2.2
1913
1914 ** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' is renamed
1915 to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
1916 variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
1917 automatically, without asking for a confirmation. Otherwise, the word
1918 at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt.
1919
1920 ** Changes to cmuscheme
1921
1922 *** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to
1923 evaluate a Scheme expression but no Scheme subprocess is running.
1924
1925 *** If the file ~/.emacs_NAME or ~/.emacs.d/init_NAME.scm (where NAME
1926 is the name of the Scheme interpreter) exists, its contents are sent
1927 to the Scheme subprocess upon startup.
1928
1929 *** There are new commands to instruct the Scheme interpreter to trace
1930 procedure calls (`scheme-trace-procedure') and to expand syntactic forms
1931 (`scheme-expand-current-form'). The commands actually sent to the Scheme
1932 subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command',
1933 `scheme-untrace-command' and `scheme-expand-current-form'.
1934
1935 ** Changes in Makefile mode
1936
1937 *** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp, BSD make and imake.
1938
1939 The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter three
1940 are new. Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable
1941 faces.
1942
1943 *** The variable `makefile-query-one-target-method' has been renamed
1944 to `makefile-query-one-target-method-function'. The old name is still
1945 available as alias.
1946
1947 ** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top
1948 of the file that precede the first header line.
1949
1950 ** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.
1951
1952 ** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can
1953 run most curses applications now.
1954
1955 ** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode.
1956
1957 ** Diff mode key bindings changed.
1958
1959 These are the new bindings:
1960
1961 C-c C-e diff-ediff-patch (old M-A)
1962 C-c C-n diff-restrict-view (old M-r)
1963 C-c C-r diff-reverse-direction (old M-R)
1964 C-c C-u diff-context->unified (old M-U)
1965 C-c C-w diff-refine-hunk (old C-c C-r)
1966
1967 To convert unified to context format, use C-u C-c C-u.
1968 In addition, C-c C-u now operates on the region
1969 in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active.
1970
1971 ** You can now customize `fill-nobreak-predicate' to control where
1972 filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of
1973 functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.
1974
1975 Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and
1976 `fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of
1977 `fill-nobreak-predicate'.
1978
1979 ** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
1980 with special modes such as Tar mode.
1981
1982 ** Commands `winner-redo' and `winner-undo', from winner.el, are now
1983 bound to C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively. This is an
1984 incompatible change.
1985
1986 ** `global-whitespace-mode' is a new alias for `whitespace-global-mode'.
1987
1988 ** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
1989 resync points in both windows.
1990
1991 ** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
1992
1993 When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
1994 starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.
1995
1996 ** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers
1997 when Emacs visits them.
1998
1999 ** Info mode changes:
2000
2001 *** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
2002 with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").
2003
2004 *** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.
2005
2006 Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error
2007 message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through
2008 other nodes. When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps
2009 around the whole manual to the top/final node. The user option
2010 `Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch,
2011 or the default isearch search function that wraps around the current
2012 Info node.
2013
2014 *** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
2015 `Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
2016 search without prompting for a new search string.
2017
2018 *** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon)
2019 moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using
2020 `Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last').
2021
2022 *** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.
2023
2024 *** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
2025 from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.
2026
2027 *** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
2028 Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
2029 possible matches.
2030
2031 *** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
2032 the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix
2033 arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
2034
2035 *** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
2036 and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
2037
2038 *** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
2039 references and following them calls `browse-url'.
2040
2041 *** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
2042
2043 If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
2044 `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
2045
2046 *** Images in Info pages are supported.
2047
2048 Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
2049 Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
2050 version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.
2051
2052 *** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil.
2053
2054 *** `Info-index' offers completion.
2055
2056 ** Lisp mode changes:
2057
2058 *** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings.
2059
2060 *** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list after point.
2061
2062 *** New features in evaluation commands
2063
2064 **** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
2065 the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
2066
2067 **** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
2068 in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified
2069 by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'. The same
2070 function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
2071 `eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.
2072
2073 ** CC mode changes.
2074
2075 *** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised.
2076 The information about using CC Mode has been separated from the larger
2077 and more difficult chapters about configuration.
2078
2079 *** Changes in Key Sequences
2080 **** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t.
2081
2082 **** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d.
2083 This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards.
2084
2085 **** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline.
2086 c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias.
2087
2088 **** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards
2089 have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and
2090 C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively. These
2091 commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single
2092 key-sequence. [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.]
2093
2094 **** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l.
2095
2096 **** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w.
2097
2098 *** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor
2099 position(s).
2100
2101 *** New Minor Modes
2102 **** Electric Minor Mode toggles the electric action of non-alphabetic keys.
2103 The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. Turning the
2104 mode off can be helpful for editing chaotically indented code and for
2105 users new to CC Mode, who sometimes find electric indentation
2106 disconcerting. Its current state is displayed in the mode line with an
2107 'l', e.g. "C/al".
2108
2109 **** Subword Minor Mode makes Emacs recognize word boundaries at upper case
2110 letters in StudlyCapsIdentifiers. You enable this feature by C-c C-w. It can
2111 also be used in non-CC Mode buffers. :-) Contributed by Masatake YAMATO.
2112
2113 *** New clean-ups
2114
2115 **** `comment-close-slash'.
2116 With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by
2117 typing a slash at the start of a line.
2118
2119 **** `c-one-liner-defun'
2120 This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK
2121 pattern/action pair) onto a single line. "Short enough" is configurable.
2122
2123 *** Font lock support.
2124 CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages. This
2125 supersedes the font lock patterns that have been in the core font lock
2126 package for C, C++, Java and Objective-C. Like indentation, font
2127 locking is done in a uniform way across all languages (except the new
2128 AWK mode - see below). That means that the new font locking will be
2129 different from the old patterns in various details for most languages.
2130
2131 The main goal of the font locking in CC Mode is accuracy, to provide a
2132 dependable aid in recognizing the various constructs. Some, like
2133 strings and comments, are easy to recognize while others like
2134 declarations and types can be very tricky. CC Mode can go to great
2135 lengths to recognize declarations and casts correctly, especially when
2136 the types aren't recognized by standard patterns. This is a fairly
2137 demanding analysis which can be slow on older hardware, and it can
2138 therefore be disabled by choosing a lower decoration level with the
2139 variable font-lock-maximum-decoration.
2140
2141 Note that the most demanding font lock level has been tuned with lazy
2142 fontification in mind; Just-In-Time-Lock mode should be enabled for
2143 the highest font lock level (by default, it is). Fontifying a file
2144 with several thousand lines in one go can take the better part of a
2145 minute.
2146
2147 **** The (c|c++|objc|java|idl|pike)-font-lock-extra-types variables
2148 are now used by CC Mode to recognize identifiers that are certain to
2149 be types. (They are also used in cases that aren't related to font
2150 locking.) At the maximum decoration level, types are often recognized
2151 properly anyway, so these variables should be fairly restrictive and
2152 not contain patterns for uncertain types.
2153
2154 **** Support for documentation comments.
2155 There is a "plugin" system to fontify documentation comments like
2156 Javadoc and the markup within them. It's independent of the host
2157 language, so it's possible to e.g. turn on Javadoc font locking in C
2158 buffers. See the variable c-doc-comment-style for details.
2159
2160 Currently three kinds of doc comment styles are recognized: Sun's
2161 Javadoc, Autodoc (which is used in Pike) and GtkDoc (used in C). (The
2162 last was contributed by Masatake YAMATO). This is by no means a
2163 complete list of the most common tools; if your doc comment extractor
2164 of choice is missing then please drop a note to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2165
2166 **** Better handling of C++ templates.
2167 As a side effect of the more accurate font locking, C++ templates are
2168 now handled much better. The angle brackets that delimit them are
2169 given parenthesis syntax so that they can be navigated like other
2170 parens.
2171
2172 This also improves indentation of templates, although there still is
2173 work to be done in that area. E.g. it's required that multiline
2174 template clauses are written in full and then refontified to be
2175 recognized, and the indentation of nested templates is a bit odd and
2176 not as configurable as it ought to be.
2177
2178 **** Improved handling of Objective-C and CORBA IDL.
2179 Especially the support for Objective-C and IDL has gotten an overhaul.
2180 The special "@" declarations in Objective-C are handled correctly.
2181 All the keywords used in CORBA IDL, PSDL, and CIDL are recognized and
2182 handled correctly, also wrt indentation.
2183
2184 *** Support for the AWK language.
2185 Support for the AWK language has been introduced. The implementation is
2186 based around GNU AWK version 3.1, but it should work pretty well with
2187 any AWK. As yet, not all features of CC Mode have been adapted for AWK.
2188 Here is a summary:
2189
2190 **** Indentation Engine
2191 The CC Mode indentation engine fully supports AWK mode.
2192
2193 AWK mode handles code formatted in the conventional AWK fashion: `{'s
2194 which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are
2195 placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s
2196 are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function
2197 definition, or structured statement.
2198
2199 The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK
2200 mode, though some of them may work serendipitously. There shouldn't
2201 be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode.
2202
2203 **** Font Locking
2204 There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the
2205 three distinct levels the other modes have. There are several
2206 idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of
2207 the AWK language itself.
2208
2209 **** Comment and Movement Commands
2210 These commands all work for AWK buffers. The notion of "defun" has
2211 been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard
2212 "defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this
2213 extended definition.
2214
2215 **** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups
2216 A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default
2217 style for AWK code. With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up
2218 c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful.
2219
2220 *** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode.
2221 The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are
2222 now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
2223 module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
2224 composition-close, and incomposition.
2225
2226 *** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
2227 The new functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward'
2228 provide hungry deletion without having to toggle a mode. They are
2229 bound to C-c C-DEL and C-c C-d (and several variants, for the benefit
2230 of different keyboard setups. See "Changes in key sequences" above).
2231
2232 *** Better control over `require-final-newline'.
2233
2234 The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
2235 implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines. Its value is a
2236 list of modes, and only those modes should do it. By default the list
2237 includes C, C++ and Objective-C modes.
2238
2239 Whichever modes are in this list will set `require-final-newline'
2240 based on `mode-require-final-newline'.
2241
2242 *** Format change for syntactic context elements.
2243
2244 The elements in the syntactic context returned by `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2245 and stored in `c-syntactic-context' has been changed somewhat to allow
2246 attaching more information. They are now lists instead of single cons
2247 cells. E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis
2248
2249 ((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13))
2250
2251 is now analyzed as
2252
2253 ((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))
2254
2255 In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
2256 symbol.
2257
2258 This change might affect code that calls `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2259 directly, and custom lineup functions if they use
2260 `c-syntactic-context'. However, the argument given to lineup
2261 functions is still a single cons cell with nil or an integer in the
2262 cdr.
2263
2264 *** API changes for derived modes.
2265
2266 There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
2267 derived mode writers. Some of these changes are likely to cause
2268 incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
2269 care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
2270 Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.
2271
2272 **** New language variable system.
2273 These are variables whose values vary between CC Mode's different
2274 languages. See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.
2275
2276 **** New initialization functions.
2277 The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
2278 give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
2279 `c-init-language-vars'.
2280
2281 *** Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.
2282 The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where
2283 several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line. They are
2284 now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.
2285
2286 This means that CC Mode now indents some cases differently, and
2287 although it's more consistent there might be cases where the old way
2288 gave results that's more to one's liking. So if you find a situation
2289 where you think that the indentation has become worse, please report
2290 it to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2291
2292 **** New syntactic symbol substatement-label.
2293 This symbol is used when a label is inserted between a statement and
2294 its substatement. E.g:
2295
2296 if (x)
2297 x_is_true:
2298 do_stuff();
2299
2300 *** Better handling of multiline macros.
2301
2302 **** Syntactic indentation inside macros.
2303 The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented
2304 syntactically just like other code. This can be disabled by the new
2305 variable `c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros'. A new syntactic symbol
2306 `cpp-define-intro' has been added to control the initial indentation
2307 inside `#define's.
2308
2309 **** New lineup function `c-lineup-cpp-define'.
2310
2311 Now used by default to line up macro continuation lines. The behavior
2312 of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro
2313 is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily
2314 removed. If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works
2315 much line `c-lineup-dont-change', which was used earlier, but handles
2316 empty lines within the macro better.
2317
2318 **** Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one.
2319 This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
2320 `c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.
2321
2322 **** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2323 `c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes. New
2324 variable `c-backslash-max-column' puts a limit on how far out
2325 backslashes can be moved.
2326
2327 **** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2328 This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'. It
2329 affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
2330 inserted in Auto-Newline mode.
2331
2332 **** Line indentation works better inside macros.
2333 Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
2334 inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
2335 line continuation backslashes. This is most noticeable when syntactic
2336 indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
2337 backslash) in the macro.
2338
2339 *** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
2340 The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
2341 the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'. The indentation behavior is
2342 based on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after
2343 #else and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other
2344 cases (something which was hardcoded earlier).
2345
2346 *** New function `c-context-open-line'.
2347 It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.
2348
2349 *** New lineup functions
2350
2351 **** `c-lineup-string-cont'
2352 This lineup function lines up a continued string under the one it
2353 continues. E.g:
2354
2355 result = prefix + "A message "
2356 "string."; <- c-lineup-string-cont
2357
2358 **** `c-lineup-cascaded-calls'
2359 Lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".
2360
2361 **** `c-lineup-knr-region-comment'
2362 Gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in
2363 the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.
2364
2365 **** `c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg'
2366 Provides better indentation inside asm blocks.
2367
2368 **** `c-lineup-argcont'
2369 Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma.
2370
2371 *** Better caching of the syntactic context.
2372 CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind)
2373 of the lists surrounding the point. Those positions are used in many
2374 places as anchor points for various searches. The cache is now
2375 improved so that it can be reused to a large extent when the point is
2376 moved. The less it moves, the less needs to be recalculated.
2377
2378 The effect is that CC Mode should be fast most of the time even when
2379 opening parens are hung (i.e. aren't in column zero). It's typically
2380 only the first time after the point is moved far down in a complex
2381 file that it'll take noticeable time to find out the syntactic
2382 context.
2383
2384 *** Statements are recognized in a more robust way.
2385 Statements are recognized most of the time even when they occur in an
2386 "invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument. In practice that can
2387 happen when macros are involved.
2388
2389 *** Improved the way `c-indent-exp' chooses the block to indent.
2390 It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point
2391 whose closing paren ends on a different line. This means that the
2392 point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent.
2393 Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current
2394 line is left untouched.
2395
2396 *** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
2397 The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
2398 syntactic indentation.
2399
2400 ** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
2401 preceded by a SPC or a TAB.
2402
2403 ** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
2404
2405 ** The old Octave mode bindings C-c f and C-c i have been changed
2406 to C-c C-f and C-c C-i. The C-c C-i subcommands now have duplicate
2407 bindings on control characters--thus, C-c C-i C-b is the same as
2408 C-c C-i b, and so on.
2409
2410 ** Fortran mode changes:
2411
2412 *** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
2413 highlighting for the old default.
2414
2415 *** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
2416 Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
2417 Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.
2418
2419 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
2420 `f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
2421 `f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
2422 `fortran-beginning-of-block'.
2423
2424 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
2425 It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
2426 majority.
2427
2428 *** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change
2429 the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers.
2430
2431 ** Reftex mode changes
2432
2433 *** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents
2434
2435 The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the
2436 section at point or all sections in the current region, with full
2437 support for multifile documents.
2438
2439 The new command `reftex-toc-recenter' (`C-c -') shows the current
2440 section in the TOC buffer without selecting the TOC window.
2441 Recentering can happen automatically in idle time when the option
2442 `reftex-auto-recenter-toc' is turned on. The highlight in the TOC
2443 buffer stays when the focus moves to a different window. A dedicated
2444 frame can show the TOC with the current section always automatically
2445 highlighted. The frame is created and deleted from the toc buffer
2446 with the `d' key.
2447
2448 The toc window can be split off horizontally instead of vertically.
2449 See new option `reftex-toc-split-windows-horizontally'.
2450
2451 Labels can be renamed globally from the table of contents using the
2452 key `M-%'.
2453
2454 The new command `reftex-goto-label' jumps directly to a label
2455 location.
2456
2457 *** Changes related to citations and BibTeX database files
2458
2459 Commands that insert a citation now prompt for optional arguments when
2460 called with a prefix argument. Related new options are
2461 `reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' and `reftex-cite-cleanup-optional-args'.
2462
2463 The new command `reftex-create-bibtex-file' creates a BibTeX database
2464 with all entries referenced in the current document. The keys "e" and
2465 "E" allow to produce a BibTeX database file from entries marked in a
2466 citation selection buffer.
2467
2468 The command `reftex-citation' uses the word in the buffer before the
2469 cursor as a default search string.
2470
2471 The support for chapterbib has been improved. Different chapters can
2472 now use BibTeX or an explicit `thebibliography' environment.
2473
2474 The macros which specify the bibliography file (like \bibliography)
2475 can be configured with the new option `reftex-bibliography-commands'.
2476
2477 Support for jurabib has been added.
2478
2479 *** Global index matched may be verified with a user function
2480
2481 During global indexing, a user function can verify an index match.
2482 See new option `reftex-index-verify-function'.
2483
2484 *** Parsing documents with many labels can be sped up.
2485
2486 Operating in a document with thousands of labels can be sped up
2487 considerably by allowing RefTeX to derive the type of a label directly
2488 from the label prefix like `eq:' or `fig:'. The option
2489 `reftex-trust-label-prefix' needs to be configured in order to enable
2490 this feature. While the speed-up is significant, this may reduce the
2491 quality of the context offered by RefTeX to describe a label.
2492
2493 *** Miscellaneous changes
2494
2495 The macros which input a file in LaTeX (like \input, \include) can be
2496 configured in the new option `reftex-include-file-commands'.
2497
2498 RefTeX supports global incremental search.
2499
2500 ** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords'
2501 to support use of font-lock.
2502
2503 ** HTML/SGML changes:
2504
2505 *** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files
2506 automatically.
2507
2508 *** SGML mode has indentation and supports XML syntax.
2509 The new variable `sgml-xml-mode' tells SGML mode to use XML syntax.
2510 When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
2511 i.e., there is always a closing tag.
2512 By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
2513 from the file name or buffer contents.
2514
2515 *** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
2516 `sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as
2517 alias.
2518
2519 *** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support.
2520
2521 ** TeX modes:
2522
2523 *** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default.
2524
2525 *** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
2526 by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
2527 command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
2528 TeX commands to use at startup.
2529
2530 *** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
2531 and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.
2532
2533 *** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.
2534
2535 ** BibTeX mode:
2536
2537 *** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
2538 point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).
2539
2540 *** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
2541 an existing BibTeX entry by inserting fields that may occur but are not
2542 present.
2543
2544 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.
2545
2546 *** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
2547 `crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used
2548 for BibTeX entries. `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting
2549 scheme `entry-class'. TAB completion for reference keys and
2550 automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that
2551 `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' is non-nil.
2552
2553 *** If the new variable `bibtex-parse-keys-fast' is non-nil,
2554 use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys.
2555
2556 *** If the new variable `bibtex-autoadd-commas' is non-nil,
2557 automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields.
2558
2559 *** The new variable `bibtex-autofill-types' contains a list of entry
2560 types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible).
2561
2562 *** The new command `bibtex-complete' completes word fragment before
2563 point according to context (bound to M-tab).
2564
2565 *** The new commands `bibtex-find-entry' and `bibtex-find-crossref'
2566 locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x).
2567 Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET).
2568
2569 *** In BibTeX mode the command `fill-paragraph' (M-q) fills
2570 individual fields of a BibTeX entry.
2571
2572 *** The new variables `bibtex-files' and `bibtex-file-path' define a set
2573 of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys.
2574
2575 *** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
2576 in multiple BibTeX files.
2577
2578 *** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
2579 of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).
2580
2581 *** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and
2582 bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when
2583 extracting the content of a BibTeX field.
2584
2585 *** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and
2586 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
2587 `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
2588 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are
2589 still available as aliases.
2590
2591 ** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
2592 renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still
2593 available as alias.
2594
2595 ** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
2596 by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'
2597 and `C-c C-r'.
2598
2599 ** GUD changes:
2600
2601 *** In GUD mode, when talking to GDB, C-x C-a C-j "jumps" the program
2602 counter to the specified source line (the one where point is).
2603
2604 *** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
2605 and other common debugger commands.
2606
2607 *** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
2608 GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
2609 there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
2610 state of your program. It can separate the input/output of your program from
2611 that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of
2612 Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
2613 breakpoints.
2614
2615 To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the
2616 old behaviour.
2617
2618 *** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be
2619 toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
2620 `gud-tooltip-mode'.
2621
2622 *** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to
2623 display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is
2624 not executing.
2625
2626 ** GUD mode improvements for jdb:
2627
2628 *** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class information.
2629 Fast startup since there is no need to scan all source files up front.
2630 There is also no need to create and maintain lists of source
2631 directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' and
2632 `gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation.
2633
2634 *** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear)
2635 set/clear operations from Java source files under the classpath, stack
2636 traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish
2637 (gud-finish).
2638
2639 *** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
2640 (Java 1.1 jdb).
2641
2642 *** The previous method of searching for source files has been
2643 preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
2644 Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.
2645
2646 *** Added Customization Variables
2647
2648 **** `gud-jdb-command-name'. What command line to use to invoke jdb.
2649
2650 **** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'. Allows selection of java source file searching
2651 method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
2652 java sources (previous method).
2653
2654 **** `gud-jdb-directories'. List of directories to scan and search for Java
2655 classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
2656 is nil).
2657
2658 *** Minor Improvements
2659
2660 **** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
2661 instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool. For backwards
2662 compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
2663 `starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
2664 `starttls' tool).
2665
2666 **** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
2667
2668 ** Auto-Revert changes:
2669
2670 *** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
2671
2672 If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert
2673 mode keeps it at the end after reverting. Similarly if point is
2674 displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at
2675 the end of the buffer in that window. This allows to tail a file:
2676 just put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there. This
2677 rule applies to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the behavior can
2678 be mode dependent.
2679
2680 If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end,
2681 then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor
2682 mode Auto Revert Tail mode. The function `auto-revert-tail-mode'
2683 toggles this mode.
2684
2685 *** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
2686 other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
2687 revert. This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
2688 and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil. Auto Revert
2689 mode only reverts a non-file buffer if the buffer has a non-nil
2690 `revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which
2691 decides whether the buffer should be reverted. Currently, this means
2692 that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
2693 work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.
2694
2695 *** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
2696 Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
2697 control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
2698 which it is active. If the option is nil, the default, then this info
2699 only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.
2700
2701 ** recentf changes.
2702
2703 The recent file list is now automatically cleaned up when recentf mode is
2704 enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do
2705 automatic cleanup.
2706
2707 The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut
2708 keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via
2709 the `recentf-open-files', or `recentf-open-more-files' commands.
2710
2711 The `recentf-keep' option replaces `recentf-keep-non-readable-files-p'
2712 and provides a more general mechanism to customize which file names to
2713 keep in the recent list.
2714
2715 With the more advanced option `recentf-filename-handlers', you can
2716 specify functions that successively transform recent file names. For
2717 example, if set to `file-truename' plus `abbreviate-file-name', the
2718 same file will not be in the recent list with different symbolic
2719 links, and the file name will be abbreviated.
2720
2721 To follow naming convention, `recentf-menu-append-commands-flag'
2722 replaces the misnamed option `recentf-menu-append-commands-p'. The
2723 old name remains available as alias, but has been marked obsolete.
2724
2725 ** Desktop package
2726
2727 *** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, `desktop-save-mode'.
2728
2729 *** The variable `desktop-enable' is obsolete.
2730
2731 Customize `desktop-save-mode' to enable desktop saving.
2732
2733 *** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
2734 buffer list.
2735
2736 *** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers
2737 immediately, remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is
2738 idle).
2739
2740 *** New commands:
2741 - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
2742 - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
2743 - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
2744 it was loaded.
2745 - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
2746 - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.
2747
2748 *** New customizable variables:
2749 - desktop-save. Determines whether the desktop should be saved when it is
2750 killed.
2751 - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
2752 - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
2753 - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save.
2754 - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear.
2755 - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear'
2756 should not delete.
2757 - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are
2758 restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
2759 - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers.
2760 - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.
2761
2762 *** New command line option --no-desktop
2763
2764 *** New hooks:
2765 - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
2766 - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
2767
2768 ** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
2769
2770 When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
2771 include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist.
2772 Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
2773 to get the old behavior. The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
2774 and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
2775 feature.
2776
2777 ** EDiff changes.
2778
2779 *** When comparing directories.
2780 Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of
2781 directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files
2782 from one directory to another.
2783
2784 *** When comparing files or buffers.
2785 Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the
2786 currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n'
2787 then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
2788 comparison.
2789
2790 *** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
2791 backup using `ediff'. If you specify the name of a backup file,
2792 `ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.
2793
2794 ** Etags changes.
2795
2796 *** New regular expressions features
2797
2798 **** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.
2799
2800 The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained
2801 only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is
2802 --regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS,
2803 where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or
2804 more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'
2805 (single-line). The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular
2806 expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
2807 (which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines. The ability to
2808 span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
2809 and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.
2810
2811 **** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.
2812
2813 The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
2814 respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
2815 CR, TAB, VT.
2816
2817 **** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.
2818
2819 The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
2820 only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is
2821 particularly useful when storing regexps in a file.
2822
2823 **** Regular expressions can be read from a file.
2824
2825 The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one
2826 per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.
2827
2828 *** New language parsing features
2829
2830 **** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.
2831
2832 Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.
2833
2834 **** The GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognized and ignored.
2835
2836 **** New language HTML.
2837
2838 Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'. Also,
2839 when `name=' is used inside an anchor and whenever `id=' is used.
2840
2841 **** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
2842
2843 If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
2844 size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.
2845
2846 **** New language Lua.
2847
2848 All functions are tagged.
2849
2850 **** In Perl, packages are tags.
2851
2852 Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags
2853 as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
2854 package::sub.
2855
2856 **** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.
2857
2858 **** New language PHP.
2859
2860 Functions, classes and defines are tags. If the --members option is
2861 specified to etags, variables are tags also.
2862
2863 **** New default keywords for TeX.
2864
2865 The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
2866 renewenvironment.
2867
2868 **** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for #undef
2869
2870 *** Honor #line directives.
2871
2872 When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
2873 directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
2874 specified in those directives. This is useful when dealing with code
2875 created from Cweb source files. When Etags tags the generated file, it
2876 writes tags pointing to the source file.
2877
2878 *** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.
2879
2880 This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs. It can
2881 be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line. Etags
2882 reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
2883 the file FILE.
2884
2885 *** The --members option is now the default.
2886
2887 Use --no-members if you want the old default behaviour of not tagging
2888 struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP.
2889
2890 ** Ctags changes.
2891
2892 *** Ctags now allows duplicate tags
2893
2894 ** VC Changes
2895
2896 *** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
2897 (toggle-read-only). It no longer checks files in or out.
2898
2899 We made this change because we held a poll and found that many users
2900 were unhappy with the previous behavior. If you do prefer this
2901 behavior, you can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your
2902 `.emacs' file:
2903
2904 (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only)
2905
2906 The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist.
2907
2908 *** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies switches that
2909 are passed to any CVS command invoked by VC.
2910
2911 These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which means they
2912 are inserted before the command name. For example, this allows you to
2913 specify a compression level using the `-z#' option for CVS.
2914
2915 *** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.
2916
2917 *** VC-Annotate mode enhancements
2918
2919 In VC-Annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for
2920 enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or
2921 to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode:
2922
2923 P: annotates the previous revision
2924 N: annotates the next revision
2925 J: annotates the revision at line
2926 A: annotates the revision previous to line
2927 D: shows the diff of the revision at line with its previous revision
2928 L: shows the log of the revision at line
2929 W: annotates the workfile (most up to date) version
2930
2931 ** pcl-cvs changes:
2932
2933 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d y' command to view the diffs
2934 between the local version of the file and yesterday's head revision
2935 in the repository.
2936
2937 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
2938 anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
2939 `checkout', `update' or `commit'. That means using cvs diff options
2940 -rBASE -rHEAD.
2941
2942 ** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies
2943 `default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for
2944 auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to "~/".
2945
2946 ** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file.
2947
2948 See the documentation of the user option
2949 `display-time-mail-directory'.
2950
2951 ** Rmail changes:
2952
2953 *** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.
2954
2955 *** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
2956 by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
2957 Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.
2958
2959 *** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
2960
2961 This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of
2962 mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
2963 without TLS encryption. If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
2964 and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
2965 used instead of the native one.
2966
2967 ** Gnus package
2968
2969 *** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
2970
2971 Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts. PGG is a library to handle
2972 PGP/MIME.
2973
2974 *** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
2975
2976 See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
2977
2978 ** MH-E changes.
2979
2980 Upgraded to MH-E version 8.0.3. There have been major changes since
2981 version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.
2982
2983 ** Calendar changes:
2984
2985 *** The meanings of C-x < and C-x > have been interchanged.
2986 < means to scroll backward in time, and > means to scroll forward.
2987
2988 *** You can now use < and >, instead of C-x < and C-x >, to scroll
2989 the calendar left or right.
2990
2991 *** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to
2992 convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format.
2993
2994 *** The new package cal-html.el writes HTML files with calendar and
2995 diary entries.
2996
2997 *** Diary sexp entries can have custom marking in the calendar.
2998 Diary sexp functions which only apply to certain days (such as
2999 `diary-block' or `diary-cyclic') now take an optional parameter MARK,
3000 which is the name of a face or a single-character string indicating
3001 how to highlight the day in the calendar display. Specifying a
3002 single-character string as @var{mark} places the character next to the
3003 day in the calendar. Specifying a face highlights the day with that
3004 face. This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations,
3005 appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp.
3006
3007 *** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a
3008 year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers
3009 count backward from the end of the year.
3010
3011 *** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
3012 prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
3013 day of that ISO week.
3014
3015 *** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
3016 window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
3017
3018 *** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
3019 optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
3020 rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
3021 `christian-holidays' simpler.
3022
3023 *** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
3024 This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
3025 and `diary-header-line-format'.
3026
3027 *** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed:
3028 use the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable
3029 `appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing
3030 `appt-issue-message', `appt-visible', and `appt-msg-window'.
3031
3032 *** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
3033 and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
3034 from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages. The variable
3035 `diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional
3036 formats.
3037
3038 ** Speedbar changes:
3039
3040 *** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on
3041 the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism.
3042
3043 *** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar
3044 keymap.
3045
3046 *** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC,
3047 contracts or expands the line under the cursor.
3048
3049 *** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'.
3050
3051 *** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
3052 `speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
3053 respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
3054 its descendents.
3055
3056 *** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls
3057 how querying is performed for file operations. A value of 'always
3058 means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means
3059 to not query before any file operations, except before a file
3060 deletion.
3061
3062 *** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how
3063 to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar. A
3064 value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that
3065 speedbar was started from.) A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass
3066 that number to `other-frame'.
3067
3068 *** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
3069 means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.
3070
3071 *** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new
3072 `dframe' library. Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar
3073 should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of
3074 `speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer',
3075 `dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and
3076 `dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of
3077 `speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'. The variables
3078 `speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also
3079 obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead.
3080
3081 ** sql changes.
3082
3083 *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlighting of different
3084 SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a
3085 buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current
3086 session using the new SQL->Product submenu. (This menu replaces the
3087 SQL->Highlighting submenu.)
3088
3089 The following values are supported:
3090
3091 ansi ANSI Standard (default)
3092 db2 DB2
3093 informix Informix
3094 ingres Ingres
3095 interbase Interbase
3096 linter Linter
3097 ms Microsoft
3098 mysql MySQL
3099 oracle Oracle
3100 postgres Postgres
3101 solid Solid
3102 sqlite SQLite
3103 sybase Sybase
3104
3105 The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the
3106 SQL mode indicator.
3107
3108 The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in
3109 your `.emacs' will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use
3110 `sql-product' to accomplish this.
3111
3112 ANSI keywords are always highlighted.
3113
3114 *** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add
3115 font-lock rules to the product specific rules. For example, to have
3116 all identifiers ending in `_t' under MS SQLServer treated as a type,
3117 you would use the following line in your .emacs file:
3118
3119 (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
3120 '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face)))
3121
3122 *** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i.
3123
3124 Most SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented. SQL*Plus commands are
3125 highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'.
3126
3127 *** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved.
3128
3129 Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented.
3130 sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because
3131 osql flushes its error stream more frequently. Thus error messages
3132 are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is
3133 terminated.
3134
3135 If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is
3136 called with the `-E' command line argument to use the operating system
3137 credentials to authenticate the user.
3138
3139 *** Postgres support is enhanced.
3140 Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented. Prompting for
3141 the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added.
3142
3143 *** MySQL support is enhanced.
3144 Keyword highlighting of MySql 4.0 is implemented.
3145
3146 *** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes,
3147 packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and
3148 defaults.
3149
3150 *** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
3151 appropriate `sql-interactive-mode' wrapper for the current setting of
3152 `sql-product'.
3153
3154 *** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'.
3155
3156 ** FFAP changes:
3157
3158 *** New ffap commands and keybindings:
3159
3160 C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'),
3161 C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'),
3162 C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'),
3163 C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame').
3164
3165 *** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default.
3166
3167 C-x C-f passes the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS
3168 argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.
3169
3170 ** Changes in Skeleton
3171
3172 *** In skeleton.el, `-' marks the `skeleton-point' without interregion interaction.
3173
3174 `@' has reverted to only setting `skeleton-positions' and no longer
3175 sets `skeleton-point'. Skeletons which used @ to mark
3176 `skeleton-point' independent of `_' should now use `-' instead. The
3177 updated `skeleton-insert' docstring explains these new features along
3178 with other details of skeleton construction.
3179
3180 *** The variables `skeleton-transformation', `skeleton-filter', and
3181 `skeleton-pair-filter' have been renamed to
3182 `skeleton-transformation-function', `skeleton-filter-function', and
3183 `skeleton-pair-filter-function'. The old names are still available
3184 as aliases.
3185
3186 ** Hideshow mode changes
3187
3188 *** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
3189 used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch
3190 handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
3191 temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
3192
3193 *** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does
3194 not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent
3195 block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil.
3196
3197 ** `hide-ifdef-mode' now uses overlays rather than selective-display
3198 to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly
3199 changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p.
3200
3201 ** `partial-completion-mode' now handles partial completion on directory names.
3202
3203 ** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
3204 and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if
3205 you don't want the `.type-break' file in your home directory or are
3206 annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.
3207
3208 ** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.
3209
3210 Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with
3211 `ps-print', provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF
3212 fonts. See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts.
3213
3214 ** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
3215 This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
3216 the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for
3217 using strokes as an input method.
3218
3219 ** Emacs server changes:
3220
3221 *** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.
3222
3223 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
3224 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start &
3225 % emacsclient -s foo file1
3226 % emacsclient -s bar file2
3227
3228 *** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
3229 `--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given Lisp
3230 expression and to use the given display when visiting files.
3231
3232 *** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.
3233
3234 ** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2.
3235
3236 ** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it.
3237
3238 M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no
3239 argument it toggles the mode. Turning off PC-Selection mode restores
3240 the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode.
3241
3242 ** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
3243 `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.
3244
3245 ** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
3246
3247 Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to
3248 use standout mode, but they can no longer display mode-lines in
3249 inverse-video.
3250
3251 ** The game `mpuz' is enhanced.
3252
3253 `mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits. By
3254 default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
3255 automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
3256
3257 ** battery.el changes:
3258
3259 *** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery.
3260
3261 *** battery.el now works on recent versions of OS X.
3262
3263 ** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode.
3264
3265 To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil. In this mode a
3266 separator character is used every few digits, making it easier to see
3267 byte boundaries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the
3268 variable `calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.
3269
3270 ** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead.
3271
3272 ** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead.
3273
3274 ** zone-mode.el is now obsolete. Use dns-mode.el instead.
3275
3276 ** cplus-md.el has been deleted.
3277
3278 ** Ewoc changes
3279
3280 *** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.
3281
3282 *** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of
3283 a newline after each pretty-printed entry and after the header and footer.
3284 This allows you to create multiple-entry ewocs on a single line and to
3285 effect "invisible" nodes by arranging for the pretty-printer to not print
3286 anything for those nodes.
3287
3288 For example, these two sequences of expressions behave identically:
3289
3290 ;; NOSEP nil
3291 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S" data)))
3292 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n")
3293
3294 ;; NOSEP t
3295 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S\n" data)))
3296 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n\n" "\n" t)
3297
3298 ** Locate changes
3299
3300 *** By default, reverting the *Locate* buffer now just runs the last
3301 `locate' command back over again without offering to update the locate
3302 database (which normally only works if you have root privileges). If
3303 you prefer the old behavior, set the new customizable option
3304 `locate-update-when-revert' to t.
3305
3306 \f
3307 * Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems
3308
3309 ** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile.
3310
3311 If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME
3312 environment variable and a `.emacs' was saved, then Emacs will continue
3313 using C:/ as the default HOME. But if you are installing Emacs afresh,
3314 the default location will be the "Application Data" (or similar
3315 localized name) subdirectory of your user profile. A typical location
3316 of this directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data",
3317 where USERNAME is your user name.
3318
3319 This change means that users can now have their own `.emacs' files on
3320 shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be
3321 read-only on computers that are administered by someone else.
3322
3323 ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
3324
3325 You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
3326 existing values. For example:
3327
3328 emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"
3329
3330 will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
3331 irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
3332
3333 ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
3334
3335 This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the
3336 cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
3337 When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible
3338 instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by
3339 some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows
3340 the caret visibility to be manually toggled.
3341
3342 ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
3343
3344 See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.
3345
3346 ** Images are now supported on MS Windows.
3347
3348 PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
3349 depend on external libraries. All of these libraries have been ported
3350 to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
3351 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. Note that libpng also depends on
3352 zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
3353 against. For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.
3354
3355 ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
3356
3357 WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
3358 as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of
3359 Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
3360 sound support for those formats.
3361
3362 ** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows.
3363
3364 The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer.
3365
3366 ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
3367
3368 The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
3369 whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
3370 pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.
3371
3372 ** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.
3373
3374 The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much
3375 the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X. Emacs now adds these
3376 colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu for the
3377 default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground), and uses
3378 some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
3379 `list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
3380 you wish to use them in other faces.
3381
3382 ** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.
3383
3384 Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
3385 multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
3386 MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
3387 the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
3388 any customizations.
3389
3390 ** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size.
3391
3392 Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs
3393 through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in
3394 a local console window with a scrollback buffer. The default value of
3395 w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favors local console
3396 windows. Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this
3397 setting. If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects
3398 that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and
3399 defaults to 80x25. If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size
3400 other than 80x25, you can still manually set
3401 w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.
3402
3403 ** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.
3404
3405 ** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
3406 `kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
3407 `kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.
3408
3409 ** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete. Use
3410 `mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.
3411 \f
3412 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3413
3414 ** The `read-file-name' function now returns a null string if the
3415 user just types RET.
3416
3417 ** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons
3418 (FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument
3419 OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in
3420 `file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument.
3421
3422 ** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have
3423 been removed. Use run-with-idle-timer instead.
3424
3425 ** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
3426 the command `undefined'. (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
3427 `substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to
3428 `undefined'.)
3429
3430 ** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
3431 :propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
3432 `risky-local-variable' property is nil.
3433
3434 The function `comint-send-input' now accepts 3 optional arguments:
3435
3436 (comint-send-input &optional no-newline artificial)
3437
3438 Callers sending input not from the user should use bind the 3rd
3439 argument `artificial' to a non-nil value, to prevent Emacs from
3440 deleting the part of subprocess output that matches the input.
3441
3442 ** Support for Mocklisp has been removed.
3443
3444 ** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
3445 there is no longer a shortage of memory.
3446
3447 ** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates
3448 input events: sigusr1 or sigusr2. Use special-event-map to
3449 handle these events.
3450
3451 ** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to
3452 be multibyte or unibyte, respectively.
3453
3454 ** The explicit method of creating a display table element by
3455 combining a face number and a character code into a numeric
3456 glyph code is deprecated.
3457
3458 Instead, the new functions `make-glyph-code', `glyph-char', and
3459 `glyph-face' must be used to create and decode glyph codes in
3460 display tables.
3461
3462 \f
3463 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3464
3465 ** General Lisp changes:
3466
3467 *** New syntax: \s now stands for the SPACE character.
3468
3469 `?\s' is a new way to write the space character. You must make sure
3470 it is not followed by a dash, since `?\s-...' indicates the "super"
3471 modifier. However, it would be strange to write a character constant
3472 and a following symbol (beginning with `-') with no space between
3473 them.
3474
3475 `\s' stands for space in strings, too, but it is not really meant for
3476 strings; it is easier and nicer just to write a space.
3477
3478 *** New syntax: \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX specify Unicode code points in hex.
3479
3480 For instance, you can use "\u0428" to specify a string consisting of
3481 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA, or `"U0001D6E2" to specify one consisting
3482 of MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL ALPHA (the latter is greater than
3483 #xFFFF and thus needs the longer syntax).
3484
3485 This syntax works for both character constants and strings.
3486
3487 *** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
3488 The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
3489 negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
3490
3491 *** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.
3492
3493 *** The new function `memql' is like `memq', but uses `eql' for comparison,
3494 that is, floats are compared by value and other elements with `eq'.
3495
3496 *** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead.
3497
3498 *** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND.
3499
3500 If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the
3501 list instead of at the beginning. This change actually occurred in
3502 Emacs 21.1, but was not documented then.
3503
3504 *** New function `add-to-ordered-list' is like `add-to-list' but
3505 associates a numeric ordering of each element added to the list.
3506
3507 *** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree.
3508
3509 It recursively copies through both CARs and CDRs.
3510
3511 *** New function `delete-dups' deletes `equal' duplicate elements from a list.
3512
3513 It modifies the list destructively, like `delete'. Of several `equal'
3514 occurrences of an element in the list, the one that's kept is the
3515 first one.
3516
3517 *** New function `add-to-history' adds an element to a history list.
3518
3519 Lisp packages should use this function to add elements to their
3520 history lists.
3521
3522 If `history-delete-duplicates' is non-nil, it removes duplicates of
3523 the new element from the history list it updates.
3524
3525 *** New function `rassq-delete-all'.
3526
3527 (rassq-delete-all VALUE ALIST) deletes, from ALIST, each element whose
3528 CDR is `eq' to the specified value.
3529
3530 *** The function `number-sequence' makes a list of equally-separated numbers.
3531
3532 For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). By
3533 default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different
3534 separation as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns
3535 (1.5 3.5 5.5).
3536
3537 *** New variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'.
3538
3539 They hold the largest and smallest possible integer values.
3540
3541 *** Minor change in the function `format'.
3542
3543 Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no
3544 longer accepted.
3545
3546 *** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists.
3547
3548 They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is
3549 cyclic.
3550
3551 *** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.
3552
3553 They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare
3554 the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.
3555
3556 *** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'.
3557
3558 When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single
3559 numbering scheme for circular structure references. This is only
3560 relevant when `print-circle' is non-nil.
3561
3562 When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
3563 also bind `print-number-table' to nil.
3564
3565 *** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
3566
3567 It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
3568 One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
3569 if no expansion is done, which can be tested using `eq'.
3570
3571 *** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument.
3572
3573 When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
3574 angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis. (This is
3575 equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)
3576
3577 *** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern.
3578
3579 You put this info in the doc string's last line. It should be
3580 formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'". If you don't
3581 specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument
3582 names. Usually that default is right, but not always.
3583
3584 *** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting.
3585
3586 A quit inside the body of `with-local-quit' is caught by the
3587 `with-local-quit' form itself, but another quit will happen later once
3588 the code that has inhibited quitting exits.
3589
3590 This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code
3591 inside timer functions and `post-command-hook' functions.
3592
3593 *** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.
3594
3595 This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.
3596
3597 *** New macro `with-case-table'
3598
3599 This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given
3600 case table.
3601
3602 *** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.
3603
3604 It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
3605 dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
3606 (calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.).
3607
3608 *** New macro `eval-at-startup' specifies expressions to
3609 evaluate when Emacs starts up. If this is done after startup,
3610 it evaluates those expressions immediately.
3611
3612 This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.
3613
3614 *** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.
3615
3616 If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.
3617
3618 *** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.
3619
3620 `string-or-null-p' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a string or nil.
3621 `booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is t or nil.
3622
3623 *** New hook `command-error-function'.
3624
3625 By setting this variable to a function, you can control
3626 how the editor command loop shows the user an error message.
3627
3628 *** `debug-on-entry' accepts primitive functions that are not special forms.
3629
3630 ** Lisp code indentation features:
3631
3632 *** The `defmacro' form can contain indentation and edebug declarations.
3633
3634 These declarations specify how to indent the macro calls in Lisp mode
3635 and how to debug them with Edebug. You write them like this:
3636
3637 (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...)
3638
3639 DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'. The
3640 possible declaration specifiers are:
3641
3642 (indent INDENT)
3643 Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT.
3644
3645 (edebug DEBUG)
3646 Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG. (This is
3647 equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro,
3648 but this is cleaner.)
3649
3650 *** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms.
3651
3652 See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.
3653
3654 *** cl-indent now handles indentation of simple and extended `loop' forms.
3655
3656 The new user options `lisp-loop-keyword-indentation',
3657 `lisp-loop-forms-indentation', and `lisp-simple-loop-indentation' can
3658 be used to customize the indentation of keywords and forms in loop
3659 forms.
3660
3661 ** Variable aliases:
3662
3663 *** New function: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING]
3664
3665 This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for
3666 symbol BASE-VAR. This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR
3667 returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR
3668 changes the value of BASE-VAR.
3669
3670 DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has
3671 the same documentation as BASE-VAR.
3672
3673 *** New function: indirect-variable VARIABLE
3674
3675 This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases
3676 of VARIABLE. If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not
3677 defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE.
3678
3679 It might be noteworthy that variables aliases work for all kinds of
3680 variables, including buffer-local and frame-local variables.
3681
3682 *** The macro `define-obsolete-variable-alias' combines `defvaralias' and
3683 `make-obsolete-variable'.
3684
3685 ** defcustom changes:
3686
3687 *** The package-version keyword has been added to provide
3688 `customize-changed-options' functionality to packages in the future.
3689 Developers who make use of this keyword must also update the new
3690 variable `customize-package-emacs-version-alist'.
3691
3692 *** The new customization type `float' requires a floating point number.
3693
3694 ** String changes:
3695
3696 *** A hex escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte.
3697
3698 *** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte.
3699
3700 *** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if
3701 the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for
3702 SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is
3703 nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all
3704 empty matches are omitted from the returned list.
3705
3706 *** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
3707 multibyte string with the same individual character codes.
3708
3709 *** New function `substring-no-properties' returns a substring without
3710 text properties.
3711
3712 *** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and
3713 `assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have
3714 been declared obsolete.
3715
3716 ** Displaying warnings to the user.
3717
3718 See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual.
3719 If you want to be sure the warning will not be overlooked, this
3720 facility is much better than using `message', since it displays
3721 warnings in a separate window.
3722
3723 ** Progress reporters.
3724
3725 These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present
3726 progress messages for the user.
3727
3728 See the new functions `make-progress-reporter',
3729 `progress-reporter-update', `progress-reporter-force-update',
3730 `progress-reporter-done', and `dotimes-with-progress-reporter'.
3731
3732 ** Buffer positions:
3733
3734 *** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
3735 width if the WIDTH argument is nil. If the TOPOS argument is nil,
3736 the usable window height and width is used.
3737
3738 *** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now
3739 modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
3740 taller that the height of the window, for example in the presence of
3741 large images. To disable this feature, bind the new variable
3742 `auto-window-vscroll' to nil.
3743
3744 *** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word' is optional.
3745
3746 It defaults to 1.
3747
3748 *** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.
3749
3750 It defaults to 1.
3751
3752 *** New function `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link.
3753
3754 This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
3755 functionality.
3756
3757 *** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position.
3758
3759 It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point.
3760
3761 *** `field-beginning' and `field-end' take new optional argument, LIMIT.
3762
3763 This argument tells them not to search beyond LIMIT. Instead they
3764 give up and return LIMIT.
3765
3766 *** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates
3767 and partial visibility state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
3768 arg is non-nil.
3769
3770 *** New function `window-line-height' is an efficient way to get
3771 information about a specific text line in a window provided that the
3772 window's display is up-to-date.
3773
3774 *** New functions `posn-at-point' and `posn-at-x-y' return
3775 click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
3776 position or for a given window pixel coordinate.
3777
3778 ** Text modification:
3779
3780 *** The new function `buffer-chars-modified-tick' returns a buffer's
3781 tick counter for changes to characters. Each time text in that buffer
3782 is inserted or deleted, the character-change counter is updated to the
3783 tick counter (`buffer-modified-tick'). Text property changes leave it
3784 unchanged.
3785
3786 *** The new function `insert-for-yank' normally works like `insert', but
3787 removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list
3788 and handles the `yank-handler' text property.
3789
3790 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' is like
3791 `insert-for-yank' except that it gets the text from another buffer as
3792 in `insert-buffer-substring'.
3793
3794 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like
3795 `insert-buffer-substring', but removes all text properties from the
3796 inserted substring.
3797
3798 *** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
3799 substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
3800 the filtered substring. Use it instead of `buffer-substring' or
3801 `delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
3802 data structure, such as the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.
3803
3804 The list of filter function is specified by the new variable
3805 `buffer-substring-filters'. For example, Longlines mode adds to
3806 `buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
3807 text.
3808
3809 *** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
3810 argument.
3811
3812 *** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
3813 is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to
3814 be inserted is translated through it.
3815
3816 *** Text clones.
3817
3818 The new function `text-clone-create'. Text clones are chunks of text
3819 that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one
3820 clone to the other.
3821
3822 *** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete.
3823
3824 ** Filling changes.
3825
3826 *** In determining an adaptive fill prefix, Emacs now tries the function in
3827 `adaptive-fill-function' _before_ matching the buffer line against
3828 `adaptive-fill-regexp' rather than _after_ it.
3829
3830 ** Atomic change groups.
3831
3832 To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
3833 they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
3834 around the code that makes changes. For instance:
3835
3836 (atomic-change-group
3837 (insert foo)
3838 (delete-region x y))
3839
3840 If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of
3841 `atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that
3842 were during the execution of the body. The change group has no effect
3843 on any other buffers--any such changes remain.
3844
3845 If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the
3846 lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses. Here is how.
3847
3848 To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'.
3849 Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer.
3850 This function returns a "handle" for the change group. You must save
3851 the handle to activate the change group and then finish it.
3852
3853 Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change
3854 group. Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to
3855 do this.
3856
3857 After you make the changes, you must finish the change group. You can
3858 either accept the changes or cancel them all. Call
3859 `accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final;
3860 call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all.
3861
3862 You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always
3863 finished. The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the
3864 `unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs.
3865 (This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and
3866 `activate-change-group' are separate functions.) Once you finish the
3867 group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group
3868 twice.
3869
3870 To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once
3871 for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the
3872 returned values, like this:
3873
3874 (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1)
3875 (prepare-change-group buffer-2))
3876
3877 You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call
3878 to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to
3879 `accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'.
3880
3881 Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you
3882 would expect. Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer
3883 will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first
3884 change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one
3885 finished.
3886
3887 ** Buffer-related changes:
3888
3889 *** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST.
3890
3891 If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list.
3892
3893 *** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local.
3894
3895 *** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
3896 binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER. If VARIABLE does not
3897 have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
3898 value of VARIABLE instead.
3899
3900 *** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
3901 various status records in parallel.
3902
3903 It takes a variable (a symbol) as argument. If the variable is non-nil,
3904 then its value should be a vector installed previously by
3905 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p'. If the frame names, buffer names, buffer
3906 order, or their read-only or modified flags have changed, since the
3907 time the vector's contents were recorded by a previous call to
3908 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', then the function returns t. Otherwise
3909 it returns nil.
3910
3911 On the first call to `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', the variable's
3912 value should be nil. `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' stores a suitable
3913 vector into the variable and returns t.
3914
3915 If the variable is itself nil, then `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' uses,
3916 for compatibility, an internal variable which exists only for this
3917 purpose.
3918
3919 *** The function `read-buffer' follows the convention for reading from
3920 the minibuffer with a default value: if DEF is non-nil, the minibuffer
3921 prompt provided in PROMPT is edited to show the default value provided
3922 in DEF before the terminal colon and space.
3923
3924 ** Searching and matching changes:
3925
3926 *** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
3927 the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
3928 back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.
3929
3930 *** The new variable `search-spaces-regexp' controls how to search
3931 for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a
3932 regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular
3933 expression. If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves.
3934
3935 Spaces inside of constructs such as `[..]' and inside loops such as
3936 `*', `+', and `?' are never replaced with `search-spaces-regexp'.
3937
3938 *** New regular expression operators, `\_<' and `\_>'.
3939
3940 These match the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a
3941 non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
3942 specified by the syntax table.
3943
3944 *** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements.
3945
3946 *** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
3947 character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
3948 characters and ranges.
3949
3950 *** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits
3951 properties from surrounding text.
3952
3953 *** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final
3954 element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data'
3955 accepts such a list for restoring the match state.
3956
3957 *** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional
3958 argument `reseat'. When non-nil, all markers in the match data list
3959 passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere.
3960
3961 *** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
3962 variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
3963 that end a sentence without following spaces.
3964
3965 The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the
3966 variable `sentence-end'. If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then
3967 this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables
3968 `sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and
3969 `sentence-end-without-space'.
3970
3971 ** Undo changes:
3972
3973 *** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements.
3974
3975 These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
3976 a symbol other than t or nil. That stands for a high-level change
3977 that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).
3978
3979 These entries can also have the form (apply DELTA BEG END FUNNAME . ARGS)
3980 which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the
3981 range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA.
3982
3983 *** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than
3984 `undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent
3985 it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.
3986
3987 ** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how
3988 previously killed text on the kill ring is reinserted.
3989
3990 The value of the `yank-handler' property must be a list with one to four
3991 elements with the following format:
3992 (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).
3993
3994 The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
3995 the first character on its string argument (typically the first
3996 element on the kill-ring). If a `yank-handler' property is found,
3997 the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:
3998
3999 When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
4000 to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
4001 If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object
4002 passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is
4003 `yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a
4004 rectangle.
4005 If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the
4006 `yank-excluded-properties' is not performed; instead FUNCTION is
4007 responsible for removing those properties. This may be necessary
4008 if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object.
4009 If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
4010 by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object. It is
4011 called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
4012 FUNCTION can set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.
4013
4014 *** The functions `kill-new', `kill-append', and `kill-region' now have an
4015 optional argument to specify the `yank-handler' text property to put on
4016 the killed text.
4017
4018 *** The function `yank-pop' will now use a non-nil value of the variable
4019 `yank-undo-function' (instead of `delete-region') to undo the previous
4020 `yank' or `yank-pop' command (or a call to `insert-for-yank'). The function
4021 `insert-for-yank' automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
4022 element of the string argument's `yank-handler' text property if present.
4023
4024 *** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
4025 `yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
4026 string. The old behavior is available if you call
4027 `insert-for-yank-1' instead.
4028
4029 ** Syntax table changes:
4030
4031 *** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table.
4032
4033 *** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code
4034 of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account
4035 of text properties as well as the character code.
4036
4037 *** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned
4038 by `syntax-after').
4039
4040 *** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the
4041 current syntactic context at point.
4042
4043 ** File operation changes:
4044
4045 *** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
4046 searching for an executable or an Emacs Lisp file.
4047
4048 *** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and
4049 modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this
4050 operation.
4051
4052 *** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns
4053 non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using
4054 its own special methods and not directly through the file system).
4055 The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system.
4056
4057 *** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was
4058 formerly called `auto-save-file-format'. It is now a permanent local.
4059
4060 *** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now
4061 ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as
4062 `.emacs' are treated as extensionless.
4063
4064 *** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
4065 a list of two integers, instead of a cons.
4066
4067 *** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which
4068 specifies the maximum number of links to chase through. If after that
4069 many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link,
4070 `file-chase-links' returns it anyway.
4071
4072 *** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
4073 before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final
4074 tasks. For example, it can be used by the copyright package to make
4075 sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.
4076
4077 *** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
4078 `save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if
4079 it's modified).
4080
4081 *** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories.
4082 `locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two
4083 lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to
4084 try; typical usage might use `exec-path' and `load-path' for the list
4085 of directories, and `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' for the list
4086 of suffixes. The function also accepts a predicate argument to
4087 further filter candidate files.
4088
4089 One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
4090 `exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
4091 executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.
4092
4093 *** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.
4094
4095 Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,
4096 `find-file-name-handler' now gives precedence to a file name handler
4097 that matches nearest the end of the file name. More precisely, the
4098 handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. In case
4099 of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies.
4100
4101 *** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles.
4102
4103 You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name
4104 symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that
4105 the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other
4106 operations.
4107
4108 This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being
4109 autoloaded when not really necessary.
4110
4111 *** The function `make-auto-save-file-name' is now handled by file
4112 name handlers. This will be exploited for remote files mainly.
4113
4114 *** The function `file-name-completion' accepts an optional argument
4115 PREDICATE, and rejects completion candidates that don't satisfy PREDICATE.
4116
4117 ** Input changes:
4118
4119 *** The functions `read-event', `read-char', and `read-char-exclusive'
4120 have a new optional argument SECONDS. If non-nil, this specifies a
4121 maximum time to wait for input, in seconds. If no input arrives after
4122 this time elapses, the functions stop waiting and return nil.
4123
4124 *** An interactive specification can now use the code letter `U' to get
4125 the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
4126 previous `k' or `K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.
4127
4128 *** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
4129 much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
4130 it returns just the directory name.
4131
4132 *** Functions `y-or-n-p', `read-char', `read-key-sequence' and the like, that
4133 display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
4134 using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
4135
4136 *** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input
4137 arrives. If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a
4138 quit had occurred. `while-no-input' returns the value of BODY, if BODY
4139 finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted by a quit, and t if
4140 BODY was aborted by arrival of input.
4141
4142 *** `recent-keys' now returns the last 300 keys.
4143
4144 ** Minibuffer changes:
4145
4146 *** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional
4147 buffer argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted, it
4148 defaults to the current buffer.
4149
4150 *** New function `minibuffer-selected-window' returns the window which
4151 was selected when entering the minibuffer.
4152
4153 *** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
4154 specifies a predicate which the file name read must satisfy. The
4155 new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
4156 while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
4157 variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.
4158
4159 *** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by Lisp code
4160 to override the built-in `read-file-name' function.
4161
4162 *** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
4163 whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
4164 `read-file-name' function.
4165
4166 *** The new function `read-directory-name' is for reading a directory name.
4167
4168 It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
4169 for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.
4170
4171 *** The new variable `history-add-new-input' specifies whether to add new
4172 elements in history. If set to nil, minibuffer reading functions don't
4173 add new elements to the history list, so it is possible to do this
4174 afterwards by calling `add-to-history' explicitly.
4175
4176 ** Completion changes:
4177
4178 *** The new function `minibuffer-completion-contents' returns the contents
4179 of the minibuffer just before point. That is what completion commands
4180 operate on.
4181
4182 *** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
4183 of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
4184 and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
4185 exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables can be either
4186 strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.
4187
4188 *** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions
4189 as a dynamic completion table.
4190
4191 (dynamic-completion-table FUN)
4192
4193 FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required,
4194 and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible
4195 completions. This alist can be a full list of possible completions so that FUN
4196 can ignore the value of its argument. If completion is performed in the
4197 minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was
4198 entered. `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion.
4199
4200 *** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
4201 as a lazy completion table.
4202
4203 (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN)
4204
4205 If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
4206 as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with no
4207 arguments. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR.
4208 If completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
4209 from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
4210 `lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.
4211
4212 ** Enhancements to keymaps.
4213
4214 *** New keymaps for typing file names
4215
4216 Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' and
4217 `minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
4218 Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer. These key maps override
4219 the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
4220 names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
4221 the spaces).
4222
4223 *** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.
4224
4225 You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
4226 same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'. For
4227 example,
4228
4229 (kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"
4230
4231 Actually, this format has existed since Emacs 20.1.
4232
4233 *** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.
4234
4235 This is an alternative to using `defadvice' or `substitute-key-definition'
4236 to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
4237 binding and lookup functionality.
4238
4239 When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is
4240 remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the
4241 original command.
4242
4243 Example:
4244 Suppose that minor mode `my-mode' has defined the commands
4245 `my-kill-line' and `my-kill-word', and it wants C-k (and any other key
4246 bound to `kill-line') to run the command `my-kill-line' instead of
4247 `kill-line', and likewise it wants to run `my-kill-word' instead of
4248 `kill-word'.
4249
4250 Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map,
4251 command remapping allows you to directly map `kill-line' into
4252 `my-kill-line' and `kill-word' into `my-kill-word' using `define-key':
4253
4254 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line)
4255 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word)
4256
4257 When `my-mode' is enabled, its minor mode keymap is enabled too. So
4258 when the user types C-k, that runs the command `my-kill-line'.
4259
4260 Only one level of remapping is supported. In the above example, this
4261 means that if `my-kill-line' is remapped to `other-kill', then C-k still
4262 runs `my-kill-line'.
4263
4264 The following changes have been made to provide command remapping:
4265
4266 - Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
4267 `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD
4268 to definition DEF in keymap MAP. The definition is not limited to
4269 another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding.
4270
4271 - The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a
4272 remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped.
4273
4274 - `key-binding' now remaps interactive commands unless the optional
4275 third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil.
4276
4277 - `where-is-internal' now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g.
4278 `kill-line', when `my-mode' is enabled), and the actual key binding for
4279 the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line).
4280 It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits
4281 remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns "C-k" for `kill-line', and
4282 "<kill-line>" for `my-kill-line').
4283
4284 - The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
4285 command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the
4286 command was not remapped.
4287
4288 *** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
4289 over minor mode keymaps.
4290
4291 *** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and
4292 text properties, according to their stickiness. This also means that it
4293 works with empty overlays. The same hold for the `local-map' property.
4294
4295 *** `key-binding' will now look up mouse-specific bindings. The
4296 keymaps consulted by `key-binding' will get adapted if the key
4297 sequence is started with a mouse event. Instead of letting the click
4298 position be determined from the key sequence itself, it is also
4299 possible to specify it with an optional argument explicitly.
4300
4301 *** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly.
4302
4303 Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key
4304 bindings of the parent keymap.
4305
4306 *** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1.
4307
4308 *** New function `current-active-maps' returns a list of currently
4309 active keymaps.
4310
4311 *** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all
4312 defined keys and their definitions.
4313
4314 *** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt string of a keymap.
4315
4316 *** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
4317 in the keymap.
4318
4319 *** New variable `emulation-mode-map-alists'.
4320
4321 Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
4322 keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their
4323 keymap alist to this list.
4324
4325 *** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style
4326 key-sequences, such as [(control a)].
4327
4328 ** Abbrev changes:
4329
4330 *** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table.
4331
4332 It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table.
4333
4334 *** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG.
4335
4336 If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means
4337 that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the
4338 abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always
4339 specify this flag.
4340
4341 ** Enhancements to process support
4342
4343 *** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
4344 it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set.
4345
4346 *** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'.
4347
4348 These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'. That
4349 function is still supported, but new code should use the new
4350 functions.
4351
4352 *** Function `signal-process' now accepts a process object or process
4353 name in addition to a process id to identify the signaled process.
4354
4355 *** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can
4356 maintain process state and other per-process related information.
4357
4358 Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add,
4359 and modify elements on this property list. Use the new functions
4360 `process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the
4361 entire property list of a process.
4362
4363 *** Function `accept-process-output' has a new optional fourth arg
4364 JUST-THIS-ONE. If non-nil, only output from the specified process
4365 is handled, suspending output from other processes. If value is an
4366 integer, also inhibit running timers. This feature is generally not
4367 recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
4368 speech synthesis.
4369
4370 *** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.
4371
4372 On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
4373 output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
4374 very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent
4375 by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
4376 non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
4377 from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before
4378 Emacs tries to read it.
4379
4380 *** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.
4381
4382 This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.
4383
4384 *** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but
4385 obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
4386 `default-directory'.
4387
4388 *** A process filter function gets the output as multibyte string
4389 if the process specifies t for its filter's multibyteness.
4390
4391 That multibyteness is decided by the value of
4392 `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is created, and
4393 you can change it later with `set-process-filter-multibyte'.
4394
4395 *** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the
4396 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4397
4398 *** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns the
4399 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4400
4401 *** If a process's coding system is `raw-text' or `no-conversion' and its
4402 buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted
4403 to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer.
4404 Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte',
4405 which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.
4406
4407 ** Enhanced networking support.
4408
4409 *** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
4410 It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
4411 create a stream or datagram server inside Emacs.
4412
4413 - A server is started using :server t arg.
4414 - Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
4415 - A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
4416 - Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.
4417 - IPv6 is supported (when available). You may explicitly select IPv6
4418 using :family 'ipv6 arg.
4419 - Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg.
4420 - The process' property list can be initialized using :plist PLIST arg;
4421 a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited
4422 by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.
4423
4424 To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
4425 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))
4426 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:family ipv6))
4427
4428 *** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.
4429
4430 *** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.
4431
4432 These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get
4433 and set the current address of the remote partner.
4434
4435 *** New function `format-network-address'.
4436
4437 This function reformats the Lisp representation of a network address
4438 to a printable string. For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port
4439 number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the
4440 printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc
4441 string for other formatting options.
4442
4443 *** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument.
4444
4445 Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network
4446 process properties or a specific property. Using :local or :remote as
4447 the KEY, you get the address of the local or remote end-point.
4448
4449 An Inet address is represented as a 5 element vector, where the first
4450 4 elements contain the IP address and the fifth is the port number.
4451
4452 *** New functions `stop-process' and `continue-process'.
4453
4454 These functions stop and restart communication through a network
4455 connection. For a server process, no connections are accepted in the
4456 stopped state. For a client process, no input is received in the
4457 stopped state.
4458
4459 *** New function `network-interface-list'.
4460
4461 This function returns a list of network interface names and their
4462 current network addresses.
4463
4464 *** New function `network-interface-info'.
4465
4466 This function returns the network address, hardware address, current
4467 status, and other information about a specific network interface.
4468
4469 *** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel.
4470
4471 The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network
4472 process is "deleted". The message passed to the sentinel when the
4473 connection is closed by the remote peer has been changed to
4474 "connection broken by remote peer".
4475
4476 ** Using window objects:
4477
4478 *** New function `window-body-height'.
4479
4480 This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the
4481 header line.
4482
4483 *** You can now make a window as short as one line.
4484
4485 A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode
4486 line or a header line, even if the variables `mode-line-format' and
4487 `header-line-format' call for them. A window that is two lines tall
4488 cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the
4489 variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears.
4490
4491 *** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
4492 actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
4493 divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
4494 the mode line.
4495
4496 *** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges'
4497 return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines.
4498
4499 *** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the
4500 selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'.
4501 It saves and restores the current buffer, too.
4502
4503 *** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD.
4504
4505 This is like `switch-to-buffer'.
4506
4507 *** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
4508 of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed
4509 by calling `select-window'. It also saves and restores the current
4510 buffer.
4511
4512 *** `set-window-buffer' has an optional argument KEEP-MARGINS.
4513
4514 If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
4515 and scroll-bar settings.
4516
4517 *** The new function `window-tree' returns a frame's window tree.
4518
4519 *** The functions `get-lru-window' and `get-largest-window' take an optional
4520 argument `dedicated'. If non-nil, those functions do not ignore
4521 dedicated windows.
4522
4523 *** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right
4524 or bottom edge of a window. It does not move other window edges.
4525
4526 ** Customizable fringe bitmaps
4527
4528 *** New buffer-local variables `fringe-indicator-alist' and
4529 `fringe-cursor-alist' maps between logical (internal) fringe indicator
4530 and cursor symbols and the actual fringe bitmaps to be displayed.
4531 This decouples the logical meaning of the fringe indicators from the
4532 physical appearance, as well as allowing different fringe bitmaps to
4533 be used in different windows showing different buffers.
4534
4535 *** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new
4536 fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps.
4537
4538 *** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
4539 or restores a built-in one to its default value.
4540
4541 *** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be
4542 used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is automatically merged
4543 with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face should only specify the
4544 foreground color of the bitmap.
4545
4546 *** There are new display properties, `left-fringe' and `right-fringe',
4547 that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe
4548 bitmap of the display line.
4549
4550 Format is `display (left-fringe BITMAP [FACE])', where BITMAP is a
4551 symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with
4552 `define-fringe-bitmap', and FACE is an optional face name to be used
4553 for displaying the bitmap instead of the default `fringe' face.
4554 When specified, FACE is automatically merged with the `fringe' face.
4555
4556 *** New function `fringe-bitmaps-at-pos' returns the current fringe
4557 bitmaps in the display line at a given buffer position.
4558
4559 ** Other window fringe features:
4560
4561 *** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths.
4562
4563 The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame
4564 can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe'
4565 frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels.
4566 Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe.
4567
4568 The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the
4569 specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an
4570 integral number of columns. The extra width is distributed evenly
4571 between the left and right fringe. To force a specific fringe width,
4572 specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative,
4573 only the left fringe gets the specified width).
4574
4575 Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe
4576 width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any
4577 of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in
4578 fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels.
4579
4580 *** Per-window fringe and scrollbar settings
4581
4582 **** Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and
4583 position settings.
4584
4585 To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local
4586 variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call
4587 `set-window-fringes'.
4588
4589 To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes
4590 are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area,
4591 or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable
4592 `fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'.
4593
4594 The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current
4595 settings. To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
4596 `fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
4597 displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
4598 an update of the display margins.
4599
4600 **** Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
4601 controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.
4602
4603 To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local
4604 variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call
4605 `set-window-scroll-bars'. The function `window-scroll-bars' can be
4606 used to obtain the current settings. To make `scroll-bar-mode' and
4607 `scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
4608 the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
4609 of the display margins.
4610
4611 ** Redisplay features:
4612
4613 *** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP).
4614
4615 *** Iconifying or deiconifying a frame no longer makes sit-for return.
4616
4617 *** New function `redisplay' causes an immediate redisplay if no input is
4618 available, equivalent to (sit-for 0). The call (redisplay t) forces
4619 an immediate redisplay even if input is pending.
4620
4621 *** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of
4622 one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window
4623 contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit
4624 changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
4625 forcing an explicit window update.
4626
4627 *** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able
4628 to display CHAR. More precisely, if the selected frame's fontset has
4629 a font to display the character set that CHAR belongs to.
4630
4631 Fontsets can specify a font on a per-character basis; when the fontset
4632 does that, this value cannot be accurate.
4633
4634 *** You can define multiple overlay arrows via the new
4635 variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'.
4636
4637 It contains a list of variables which contain overlay arrow position
4638 markers, including the original `overlay-arrow-position' variable.
4639
4640 Each variable on this list can have individual `overlay-arrow-string'
4641 and `overlay-arrow-bitmap' properties that specify an overlay arrow
4642 string (for non-window terminals) or fringe bitmap (for window
4643 systems) to display at the corresponding overlay arrow position.
4644 If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or
4645 'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used.
4646
4647 *** New `line-height' and `line-spacing' properties for newline characters
4648
4649 A newline can now have `line-height' and `line-spacing' text or overlay
4650 properties that control the height of the corresponding display row.
4651
4652 If the `line-height' property value is t, the newline does not
4653 contribute to the height of the display row; instead the height of the
4654 newline glyph is reduced. Also, a `line-spacing' property on this
4655 newline is ignored. This can be used to tile small images or image
4656 slices without adding blank areas between the images.
4657
4658 If the `line-height' property value is a positive integer, the value
4659 specifies the minimum line height in pixels. If necessary, the line
4660 height it increased by increasing the line's ascent.
4661
4662 If the `line-height' property value is a float, the minimum line
4663 height is calculated by multiplying the default frame line height by
4664 the given value.
4665
4666 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (FACE . RATIO), the
4667 minimum line height is calculated as RATIO * height of named FACE.
4668 RATIO is int or float. If FACE is t, it specifies the current face.
4669
4670 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (nil . RATIO), the line
4671 height is calculated as RATIO * actual height of the line's contents.
4672
4673 If the `line-height' value is a cons (HEIGHT . TOTAL), HEIGHT specifies
4674 the line height as described above, while TOTAL is any of the forms
4675 described above and specifies the total height of the line, causing a
4676 varying number of pixels to be inserted after the line to make it line
4677 exactly that many pixels high.
4678
4679 If the `line-spacing' property value is an positive integer, the value
4680 is used as additional pixels to insert after the display line; this
4681 overrides the default frame `line-spacing' and any buffer local value of
4682 the `line-spacing' variable.
4683
4684 If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing
4685 is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property.
4686
4687 *** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value,
4688 which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.
4689
4690 *** Enhancements to stretch display properties
4691
4692 The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where
4693 PROPS is a property list, now allows pixel based width and height
4694 specifications, as well as enhanced horizontal text alignment.
4695
4696 The value of these properties can now be a (primitive) expression
4697 which is evaluated during redisplay. The following expressions
4698 are supported:
4699
4700 EXPR ::= NUM | (NUM) | UNIT | ELEM | POS | IMAGE | FORM
4701 NUM ::= INTEGER | FLOAT | SYMBOL
4702 UNIT ::= in | mm | cm | width | height
4703 ELEM ::= left-fringe | right-fringe | left-margin | right-margin
4704 | scroll-bar | text
4705 POS ::= left | center | right
4706 FORM ::= (NUM . EXPR) | (OP EXPR ...)
4707 OP ::= + | -
4708
4709 The form `NUM' specifies a fractional width or height of the default
4710 frame font size. The form `(NUM)' specifies an absolute number of
4711 pixels. If a symbol is specified, its buffer-local variable binding
4712 is used. The `in', `mm', and `cm' units specifies the number of
4713 pixels per inch, milli-meter, and centi-meter, resp. The `width' and
4714 `height' units correspond to the width and height of the current face
4715 font. An image specification corresponds to the width or height of
4716 the image.
4717
4718 The `left-fringe', `right-fringe', `left-margin', `right-margin',
4719 `scroll-bar', and `text' elements specify to the width of the
4720 corresponding area of the window.
4721
4722 The `left', `center', and `right' positions can be used with :align-to
4723 to specify a position relative to the left edge, center, or right edge
4724 of the text area. One of the above window elements (except `text')
4725 can also be used with :align-to to specify that the position is
4726 relative to the left edge of the given area. Once the base offset for
4727 a relative position has been set (by the first occurrence of one of
4728 these symbols), further occurrences of these symbols are interpreted as
4729 the width of the area.
4730
4731 For example, to align to the center of the left-margin, use
4732 :align-to (+ left-margin (0.5 . left-margin))
4733
4734 If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative
4735 to the left edge of the text area. For example, :align-to 0 in a
4736 header line aligns with the first text column in the text area.
4737
4738 The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by
4739 the value of the expression EXPR. For example, (2 . in) specifies a
4740 width of 2 inches, while (0.5 . IMAGE) specifies half the width (or
4741 height) of the specified image.
4742
4743 The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions.
4744 The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions.
4745
4746 *** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and
4747 text property string that may be present at the current window
4748 position. The cursor can now be placed on any character of such
4749 strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property.
4750
4751 *** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now
4752 supported on text terminals.
4753
4754 *** Support for displaying image slices
4755
4756 **** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with
4757 an image property to display only a specific slice of the image.
4758
4759 **** Function `insert-image' has new optional fourth arg to
4760 specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT).
4761
4762 **** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a
4763 specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns).
4764
4765 *** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property.
4766
4767 An image map is an alist where each element has the format (AREA ID PLIST).
4768 An AREA is specified as either a rectangle, a circle, or a polygon:
4769 A rectangle is a cons (rect . ((X0 . Y0) . (X1 . Y1))) specifying the
4770 pixel coordinates of the upper left and bottom right corners.
4771 A circle is a cons (circle . ((X0 . Y0) . R)) specifying the center
4772 and the radius of the circle; R can be a float or integer.
4773 A polygon is a cons (poly . [X0 Y0 X1 Y1 ...]) where each pair in the
4774 vector describes one corner in the polygon.
4775
4776 When the mouse pointer is above a hot-spot area of an image, the
4777 PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo'
4778 property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains
4779 a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when
4780 it is over the hot-spot. See the variable `void-area-text-pointer'
4781 for possible pointer shapes.
4782
4783 When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
4784 an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
4785 mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.
4786
4787 *** The function `find-image' now searches in etc/images/ and etc/.
4788 The new variable `image-load-path' is a list of locations in which to
4789 search for image files. The default is to search in etc/images, then
4790 in etc/, and finally in the directories specified by `load-path'.
4791 Subdirectories of etc/ and etc/images are not recursively searched; if
4792 you put an image file in a subdirectory, you have to specify it
4793 explicitly; for example, if an image is put in etc/images/foo/bar.xpm:
4794
4795 (defimage foo-image '((:type xpm :file "foo/bar.xpm")))
4796
4797 Note that all images formerly located in the lisp directory have been
4798 moved to etc/images.
4799
4800 *** New function `image-load-path-for-library' returns a suitable
4801 search path for images relative to library. This function is useful in
4802 external packages to save users from having to update
4803 `image-load-path'.
4804
4805 *** The new variable `max-image-size' defines the maximum size of
4806 images that Emacs will load and display.
4807
4808 *** The new variable `display-mm-dimensions-alist' can be used to
4809 override incorrect graphical display dimensions returned by functions
4810 `display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'.
4811
4812 ** Mouse pointer features:
4813
4814 *** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a
4815 line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now
4816 controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default
4817 is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text'
4818 (or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'.
4819
4820 *** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the
4821 :pointer image property.
4822
4823 *** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images can now be
4824 controlled/overridden via the `pointer' text property.
4825
4826 ** Mouse event enhancements:
4827
4828 *** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe'
4829 or `right-fringe' as the area.
4830
4831 *** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where
4832 you clicked. For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is
4833 a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text.
4834
4835 *** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events.
4836
4837 *** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area.
4838
4839 *** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means
4840 text area).
4841
4842 *** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types
4843 and all areas.
4844
4845 *** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates
4846 of the mouse event position.
4847
4848 *** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on.
4849
4850 *** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to
4851 the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on.
4852
4853 *** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object
4854 (image or character) clicked on.
4855
4856 *** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'.
4857
4858 These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y
4859 pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of that object, and
4860 the total width and height of that object.
4861
4862 ** Text property and overlay changes:
4863
4864 *** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can
4865 remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays).
4866
4867 *** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
4868
4869 This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
4870 properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
4871 although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced
4872 to implement the `font-lock-face' property.
4873
4874 *** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
4875 arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
4876 return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
4877 whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
4878 it was found as a text property or not found at all.
4879
4880 *** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'.
4881
4882 It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of
4883 property names as argument rather than a property list.
4884
4885 ** Face changes
4886
4887 *** The variable `facemenu-unlisted-faces' has been removed.
4888 Emacs has a lot more faces than in the past, and nearly all of them
4889 needed to be excluded. The new variable `facemenu-listed-faces' lists
4890 the faces to include in the face menu.
4891
4892 *** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor
4893 the face color to the number of colors supported by a display, and
4894 define the foreground and background colors accordingly so that they
4895 look best on a terminal that supports at least this many colors. This
4896 is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that
4897 makes a good use of the capabilities of the display.
4898
4899 *** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test
4900 whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.
4901
4902 A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
4903 specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
4904 defined with `defface'.
4905
4906 *** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR'
4907 or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the
4908 `defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use
4909 the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background
4910 directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face.
4911
4912 *** The first face specification element in a defface can specify
4913 `default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as
4914 defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and can be overridden
4915 by them).
4916
4917 *** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger
4918 (or smaller) font we should use. For instance, if the value is
4919 '((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10
4920 point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches
4921 SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN.
4922
4923 *** The function `face-differs-from-default-p' now truly checks
4924 whether the given face displays differently from the default face or
4925 not (previously it did only a very cursory check).
4926
4927 *** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'.
4928
4929 These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how
4930 face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face
4931 attribute.
4932
4933 *** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute'
4934 help with handling relative face attributes.
4935
4936 *** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face list is reversed.
4937
4938 If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
4939 faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous
4940 releases of Emacs, the order was the opposite. This change was made
4941 so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text
4942 `face' properties.
4943
4944 *** On terminals, faces with the :inverse-video attribute are displayed
4945 with swapped foreground and background colors even when one of them is
4946 not specified. In previous releases of Emacs, if either foreground
4947 or background color was unspecified, colors were not swapped. This
4948 was inconsistent with the face behavior under X.
4949
4950 *** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
4951 the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..
4952
4953 ** Font-Lock changes:
4954
4955 *** New special text property `font-lock-face'.
4956
4957 This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by
4958 M-x font-lock-mode. It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text
4959 property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the
4960 new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
4961
4962 *** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.
4963
4964 **** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the
4965 form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other
4966 properties than `face'.
4967
4968 **** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those
4969 extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.
4970
4971 *** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'.
4972
4973 If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified
4974 (see `jit-lock-defer-contextually'), then all of that text will
4975 be refontified. This is useful when the syntax of a textual element
4976 depends on text several lines further down (and when `font-lock-multiline'
4977 is not appropriate to solve that problem). For example in Perl:
4978
4979 s{
4980 foo
4981 }{
4982 bar
4983 }e
4984
4985 Adding/removing the last `e' changes the `bar' from being a piece of
4986 text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a `jit-lock-defer-multiline'
4987 property over the second half of the command to force (deferred)
4988 refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed.
4989
4990 *** `font-lock-extend-region-functions' makes it possible to alter the way
4991 the fontification region is chosen. This can be used to prevent rounding
4992 up to whole lines, or to extend the region to include all related lines
4993 of multiline constructs so that such constructs get properly recognized.
4994
4995 ** Major mode mechanism changes:
4996
4997 *** If new variable `auto-mode-case-fold' is set to a non-nil value,
4998 Emacs will perform a second case-insensitive search through
4999 `auto-mode-alist' if the first case-sensitive search fails. This
5000 means that a file FILE.TXT is opened in text-mode, and a file
5001 PROG.HTML is opened in html-mode. Note however, that independent of
5002 this setting, *.C files are usually recognized as C++ files. It also
5003 has no effect on systems with case-insensitive file names.
5004
5005 *** New variable `magic-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5006 looking at the file contents. It takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist'.
5007
5008 *** An interpreter magic line (if present) takes precedence over the
5009 file name when setting the major mode.
5010
5011 *** XML or SGML major mode is selected when file starts with an `<?xml'
5012 or `<!DOCTYPE' declaration.
5013
5014 *** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.
5015
5016 *** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook
5017 `after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode
5018 hooks. `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically.
5019
5020 *** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect'
5021 property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use
5022 it in that buffer.
5023
5024 *** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function'
5025 locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to
5026 the language.
5027
5028 *** `define-derived-mode' by default creates a new empty abbrev table.
5029 It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table.
5030
5031 *** The new function `run-mode-hooks' and the new macro `delay-mode-hooks'
5032 are used by `define-derived-mode' to make sure the mode hook for the
5033 parent mode is run at the end of the child mode.
5034
5035 ** Minor mode changes:
5036
5037 *** `define-minor-mode' now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments
5038 and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable.
5039
5040 *** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.
5041
5042 *** `define-globalized-minor-mode'.
5043
5044 This is a new name for what was formerly called
5045 `easy-mmode-define-global-mode'. The old name remains as an alias.
5046
5047 ** Command loop changes:
5048
5049 *** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people
5050 have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the
5051 calling function was called through `call-interactively'.
5052
5053 Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new
5054 INTERACTIVE argument to the command.
5055
5056 *** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument.
5057
5058 If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks for a function that could be
5059 called with `call-interactively', and does not return t for keyboard
5060 macros.
5061
5062 *** When a command returns, the command loop moves point out from
5063 within invisible text, in the same way it moves out from within text
5064 covered by an image or composition property.
5065
5066 This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible.
5067 This is particularly good because the intangible property often has
5068 unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything
5069 (including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after
5070 `post-command-hook' and thus does not care about intermediate states.
5071
5072 *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to `only', that
5073 enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
5074 During that following command, the value of `transient-mark-mode'
5075 is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command,
5076 the next return to the command loop changes to nil.
5077
5078 *** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
5079 been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable
5080 `disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.
5081
5082 *** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook'
5083 when it receives a request from emacsclient.
5084
5085 *** `current-idle-time' reports how long Emacs has been idle.
5086
5087 ** Lisp file loading changes:
5088
5089 *** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
5090 which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the
5091 current file redefined it).
5092
5093 *** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is
5094 defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name.
5095
5096 *** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function,
5097 variable or face definitions.
5098
5099 *** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
5100 to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
5101 and runs any code associated with the provided feature.
5102
5103 *** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted.
5104 Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more
5105 than 3 levels of nesting.
5106
5107 ** Byte compiler changes:
5108
5109 *** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character
5110 position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form of its
5111 warning and error messages have been brought into line with GNU standards
5112 for these. As a result, you can use next-error and friends on the
5113 compilation output buffer.
5114
5115 *** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
5116 inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.
5117
5118 *** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a
5119 simple convention that the compiler understands. (This is mostly
5120 useful in code meant to be portable to different Emacs versions.)
5121 Write forms like the following, or code that macroexpands into such
5122 forms:
5123
5124 (if (fboundp 'foo) <then> <else>)
5125 (if (boundp 'foo) <then> <else)
5126
5127 In the first case, using `foo' as a function inside the <then> form
5128 won't produce a warning if it's not defined as a function, and in the
5129 second case, using `foo' as a variable won't produce a warning if it's
5130 unbound. The test must be in exactly one of the above forms (after
5131 macro expansion), but such tests can be nested. Note that `when' and
5132 `unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't.
5133
5134 *** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil. This
5135 helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both
5136 Emacs and XEmacs and can sometimes make the result significantly more
5137 efficient. Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't
5138 generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
5139 you anything.
5140
5141 *** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in Lisp files is now obeyed.
5142
5143 *** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file
5144 now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs
5145 (require 'cl) when loaded.
5146
5147 ** Frame operations:
5148
5149 *** New functions `frame-current-scroll-bars' and `window-current-scroll-bars'.
5150
5151 These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
5152 horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window.
5153
5154 *** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
5155 for all (existing and future) frames.
5156
5157 *** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use
5158 for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a
5159 number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp
5160 Reference manual for more detailed documentation.
5161
5162 *** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width,
5163 the `scroll-bar-width' frame parameter value is nil.
5164
5165 ** Mule changes:
5166
5167 *** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
5168
5169 Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
5170 from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte
5171 buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them
5172 now:
5173
5174 1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time.
5175
5176 2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid
5177 the time it takes to convert the format.
5178
5179 3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
5180 wasteful.
5181
5182 *** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument,
5183 NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified.
5184
5185 *** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
5186 to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
5187 for it. (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
5188 file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)
5189
5190 *** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the
5191 ascii character set. Language environments (such as Turkish) may
5192 alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters. This variable
5193 saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes.
5194
5195 *** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
5196 of one coding system from another coding system.
5197
5198 *** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that
5199 the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text
5200 parts, e.g. utf-16.
5201
5202 *** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if
5203 it is read from a file without decoding.
5204
5205 *** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
5206 hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.
5207
5208 *** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the
5209 current input method to input a character.
5210
5211 ** Mode line changes:
5212
5213 *** New function `format-mode-line'.
5214
5215 This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a
5216 specified) window as a string with or without text properties.
5217
5218 *** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
5219 used to add text properties to mode-line elements.
5220
5221 *** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used
5222 to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode
5223 line.
5224
5225 *** Mouse-face on mode-line (and header-line) is now supported.
5226
5227 ** Menu manipulation changes:
5228
5229 *** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the
5230 proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify
5231 "files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File"
5232 several versions ago.
5233
5234 *** The dummy function keys made by easy-menu are now always lower case.
5235 If you specify the menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'
5236 as the "key" bound by that key binding.
5237
5238 This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for the bindings that were
5239 made with easy-menu.
5240
5241 *** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name
5242 if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu
5243 into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't
5244 need to have a name.
5245
5246 ** Operating system access:
5247
5248 *** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor
5249 run time used by Emacs since start-up.
5250
5251 *** Functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid' now return floats if the
5252 user UID doesn't fit in a Lisp integer. Function `user-full-name'
5253 accepts a float as UID parameter.
5254
5255 *** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information.
5256
5257 *** On MS Windows, locale-coding-system is used to interact with the OS.
5258 The Windows specific variable w32-system-coding-system, which was
5259 formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system.
5260
5261 *** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
5262 debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.
5263
5264 ** Miscellaneous:
5265
5266 *** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions:
5267
5268 `find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook',
5269 `find-file-not-found-hooks' to `find-file-not-found-functions',
5270 `write-file-hooks' to `write-file-functions',
5271 `write-contents-hooks' to `write-contents-functions',
5272 `x-lost-selection-hooks' to `x-lost-selection-functions',
5273 `x-sent-selection-hooks' to `x-sent-selection-functions',
5274 `delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.
5275
5276 In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.
5277
5278 *** Variable `local-write-file-hooks' is marked obsolete.
5279
5280 Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.
5281
5282 *** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
5283 running under X.
5284
5285 ** GC changes:
5286
5287 *** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold
5288 as the heap size increases.
5289
5290 *** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
5291 on garbage collection.
5292
5293 *** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection.
5294
5295 The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care.
5296 \f
5297 * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1
5298
5299 ** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
5300 buttons' in Emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
5301 `widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
5302 doesn't require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for
5303 such things as help and apropos buffers.
5304
5305 ** The new library tree-widget.el provides a widget to display a set
5306 of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is
5307 well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.
5308
5309 ** The new library bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
5310 binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
5311 data structures.
5312
5313 ** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
5314 buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.
5315
5316 It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
5317 and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi
5318 buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the
5319 commands.
5320
5321 This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable
5322 sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the
5323 SQL buffer.
5324
5325 (add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
5326 (function (lambda ()
5327 (master-mode t)
5328 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5329 (add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
5330 (function (lambda ()
5331 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5332
5333 ** The new library benchmark.el does timing measurements on Lisp code.
5334
5335 This includes measuring garbage collection time.
5336
5337 ** The new library testcover.el does test coverage checking.
5338
5339 This is so you can tell whether you've tested all paths in your Lisp
5340 code. It works with edebug.
5341
5342 The function `testcover-start' instruments all functions in a given
5343 file. Then test your code. The function `testcover-mark-all' adds
5344 overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to show where coverage
5345 is lacking. The command `testcover-next-mark' (bind it to a key!)
5346 will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch.
5347
5348 Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely
5349 evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same
5350 value. The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly
5351 complete their evaluation, such as `error'. The brown splotches are
5352 skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same
5353 value, such as (setq x 14).
5354
5355 For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to
5356 help out the test coverage tool. The macro `noreturn' suppresses a
5357 red splotch. It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does
5358 return. The macro `1value' suppresses a brown splotch for its argument.
5359 This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals
5360 an error if the argument actually returns differing values.
5361
5362
5363 \f
5364 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
5365 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
5366
5367 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5368 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
5369 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
5370 any later version.
5371
5372 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
5373 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
5374 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
5375 GNU General Public License for more details.
5376
5377 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
5378 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
5379 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
5380 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
5381
5382 \f
5383 Local variables:
5384 mode: outline
5385 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
5386 end:
5387
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