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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
11 See file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates.
12 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
13 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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20 (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
21 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
22 When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
23 otherwise leave it unmarked.
26 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.2
28 ** The new option 'configure --enable-gcc-warnings=warn-only' causes
29 GCC to issue warnings without stopping the build. This behavior is
30 now the default in developer builds. As before, use
31 '--disable-gcc-warnings' to suppress GCC's warnings, and
32 '--enable-gcc-warnings' to stop the build if GCC issues warnings.
35 ** The Emacs server now has socket-launching support. This allows
36 socket based activation, where an external process like systemd can
37 invoke the Emacs server process upon a socket connection event and
38 hand the socket over to Emacs. Emacs uses this socket to service
39 emacsclient commands. This new functionality can be disabled with the
40 configure option '--disable-libsystemd'.
42 ** New configure option '--disable-build-details' attempts to build an
43 Emacs that is more likely to be reproducible; that is, if you build
44 and install Emacs twice, the second Emacs is a copy of the first.
45 Deterministic builds omit the build date from the output of the
46 emacs-version and erc-cmd-SV functions, and the leave the following
47 variables nil: emacs-build-system, emacs-build-time,
50 ** Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs users are not
51 affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in December 2013.
54 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.2
57 * Changes in Emacs 25.2
60 ** A number of accessors for the value returned by 'file-attributes'
61 has been added. They are: 'file-attribute-type',
62 'file-attribute-link-number', 'file-attribute-user-id',
63 'file-attribute-group-id', 'file-attribute-access-time',
64 'file-attribute-modification-time',
65 'file-attribute-status-change-time', 'file-attribute-size',
66 'file-attribute-modes', 'file-attribute-inode-number', and
67 'file-attribute-device-number'
70 ** The new function 'buffer-hash' has been added, and can be used to
71 compute a fash, non-consing hash of the contents of a buffer.
74 ** 'fill-paragraph' no longer marks the buffer as changed unless it
75 actually changed something.
78 ** The locale language name 'ca' is now mapped to the language
79 environment 'Catalan', which has been added.
82 ** 'align-regexp' has a separate history for its interactive argument
83 'align-regexp' no longer shares its history with all other
84 history-less functions that use 'read-string'
87 ** The networking code has been reworked so that it's more
88 asynchronous than it was (when specifying :nowait t in
89 'make-network-process'). How asynchronous it is varies based on the
90 capabilities of the system, but on a typical GNU/Linux system the DNS
91 resolution, the connection, and (for TLS streams) the TLS negotiation
92 are all done without blocking the main Emacs thread. To get
93 asynchronous TLS, the TLS boot parameters have to be passed in (see
94 the manual for details).
96 Certain process oriented functions (like 'process-datagram-address')
97 will block until socket setup has been performed. The recommended way
98 to deal with asynchronous sockets is to avoid interacting with them
99 until they have changed status to "run". This is most easily done
100 from a process sentinel.
102 ** 'make-network-process' and 'open-network-stream' sometimes allowed
103 :service to be an integer string (e.g., :service "993") and sometimes
104 required an integer (e.g., :service 993). This difference has been
105 eliminated, and integer strings work everywhere.
107 ** It is possible to disable attempted recovery on fatal signals
109 Two new variables allow to disable attempts to recover from stack
110 overflow and to avoid automatic auto-save when Emacs is delivered a
111 fatal signal. 'attempt-stack-overflow-recovery', if set to 'nil',
112 will disable attempts to recover from C stack overflows; Emacs will
113 then crash as with any other fatal signal.
114 'attempt-orderly-shutdown-on-fatal-signal', if set to 'nil', will
115 disable attempts to auto-save the session and shut down in an orderly
116 fashion when Emacs receives a fatal signal; instead, Emacs will
117 terminate immediately. Both variables are non-'nil' by default.
118 These variables are for users who would like to avoid the small
119 probability of data corruption due to techniques Emacs uses to recover
123 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.2
126 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.2
131 *** Messages from CMake are now recognized.
136 *** A new 's' command for switching to another eww buffer via the minibuffer.
139 *** The 'o' command ('shr-save-contents') has moved to 'O' to avoid collision
140 with the 'o' command from 'image-map'.
143 ** The commands that add ChangeLog entries now prefer a VCS root directory
144 for the ChangeLog file, if none already exists. Customize
145 'change-log-directory-files' to nil for the old behavior.
148 ** Support for non-string values of 'time-stamp-format' has been removed.
155 *** `message-use-idna' now defaults to t (because Emacs comes with
156 built-in IDNA support now).
159 *** New connection method "sg", which allows to edit files under
163 *** New connection method "doas" for OpenBSD hosts.
166 ** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set back to t in 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
171 *** Support for completing attribute values and bang-rules using the
172 'completion-at-point' command.
175 ** Emacs now supports character name escape sequences in character and
176 string literals. The syntax variants \N{character name} and
177 \N{U+code} are supported.
180 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.2
183 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.2
186 ** Resizing a frame no longer runs 'window-configuration-change-hook'.
187 Put your function on 'window-size-change-functions' instead.
190 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.2
192 ** New var syntax-ppss-table to control the syntax-table used in syntax-ppss
194 ** Autoload files can be generated without timestamps,
195 by setting 'autoload-timestamps' to nil.
196 FIXME As an experiment, nil is the current default.
197 If no insurmountable problems before next release, it can stay that way.
199 ** 'ert-with-function-mocked' of 'ert-x package allows mocking of functions
203 ** 'gnutls-boot' now takes a parameter :complete-negotiation that says
204 that negotiation should complete even on non-blocking sockets.
207 ** New functions 'window-pixel-width-before-size-change' and
208 'window-pixel-height-before-size-change' allow to detect which window
209 changed size when 'window-size-change-functions' are run.
212 ** New function 'display-buffer-reuse-mode-window' is an action function
213 suitable for use in 'display-buffer-alist'. For example, to avoid creating
214 a new window when opening man pages when there's already one, use
215 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
216 '("\\`\\*Man .*\\*\\'" .
217 (display-buffer-reuse-mode-window
218 (inhibit-same-window . nil)
222 ** New function 'func-arity' returns information about the argument list
223 of an arbitrary function.
224 This is a generalization of 'subr-arity' for functions that are not
225 built-in primitives. We recommend using this new function instead of
229 ** 'parse-partial-sexp' state has a new element. Element 10 is
230 non-nil when the last character scanned might be the first character
231 of a two character construct, i.e. a comment delimiter or escaped
232 character. Its value is the syntax of that last character.
235 ** 'parse-partial-sexp''s state, element 9, has now been confirmed as
236 permanent and documented, and may be used by Lisp programs. Its value
237 is a list of currently open parenthesis positions, starting with the
238 outermost parenthesis.
240 ** The function 'redirect-debugging-output' now works on platforms
241 other than GNU/Linux.
244 ** New functions 'sxhash-eq' and 'sxhash-eql' return hash codes of a
245 Lisp object suitable for use with 'eq' and 'eql' correspondingly. If
246 two objects are 'eq' ('eql'), then the result of 'sxhash-eq'
247 ('sxhash-eql') on them will be the same.
250 ** Function 'sxhash' has been renamed to 'sxhash-equal' for
251 consistency with the new functions. For compatibility, 'sxhash'
252 remains as an alias to 'sxhash-equal'.
255 ** Time conversion functions that accept a time zone rule argument now
256 allow it to be OFFSET or a list (OFFSET ABBR), where the integer
257 OFFSET is a count of seconds east of Universal Time, and the string
258 ABBR is a time zone abbreviation. The affected functions are
259 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone', 'decode-time',
260 'format-time-string', and 'set-time-zone-rule'.
263 * Changes in Emacs 25.2 on Non-Free Operating Systems
265 ** Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.
266 The new keyboard hooking code properly grabs system hotkeys such as
267 Win-* and Alt-TAB, in a way that Emacs can get at them before the
268 system. This makes the 'w32-register-hot-key' functionality work
269 again on all versions of MS-Windows starting with Windows 7. On
270 Windows NT and later you can now register any hotkey combination. (On
271 Windows 9X, the previous limitations, spelled out in the Emacs manual,
275 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
278 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
281 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
284 ** New configure option --with-cairo.
285 This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing. As a side effect, it provides
286 support for built-in printing, when Emacs was built with GTK+.
287 Cairo drawing is an experimental feature in Emacs, and subject to
288 change in future releases.
291 ** New configure option --with-modules.
292 This enables support for loading dynamic modules; see below.
295 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
296 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
297 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
298 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
299 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
300 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
303 ** The Emacs garbage collector assumes GC_MARK_STACK == GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS.
304 The GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS stack-marking variant has been the default
305 since Emacs 24.4, and the other variants were undocumented and were
306 obstacles to maintenance and development. GC_MARK_STACK and its
307 related symbols have been removed from the C internals.
310 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
311 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
314 ** 'configure' now prefers inotify to gfile for file notification,
315 unless gfile is explicitly requested via --with-file-notification='gfile'.
318 ** 'configure' detects the kqueue file notification library on *BSD
319 and Mac OS X machines.
322 ** The configure option '--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
323 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
326 ** The configure option '--with-mmdf' has been removed.
327 It was no longer useful, as it relied on libraries that are no longer
328 supported, and its presence led to confusion during configuration.
329 This affects only the 'movemail' utility; Emacs itself can still
330 process MMDF-format files as before.
333 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
334 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
335 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
336 build with 'make V=1'.
339 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows you to specify a
340 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
341 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
342 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
343 be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
346 ** The 'grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
347 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
348 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
351 ** Emacs 25 comes with a new set of icons.
352 Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
353 The old Emacs logo icons are available as 'emacs23.png' in the same location.
356 ** New make target 'check-expensive' to run additional tests.
357 This includes all tests which run via "make check", plus additional
358 tests which take more time to perform.
361 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
364 ** When Emacs is given a file as a command line argument and
365 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, display both the file and
366 'initial-buffer-choice'. When Emacs is given more than one file and
367 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, show 'initial-buffer-choice'
368 and *Buffer List*. This makes Emacs convenient to use from the
369 command line when 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil.
372 ** The value of 'initial-scratch-message' is now treated as a doc string
373 and can contain escape sequences for command keys, quotes, and the like.
376 ** The default height of GUI frames was enlarged.
377 This is so there's enough space in the initial window to display the
378 optional text about recovering crashes sessions, without losing the
379 splash image display.
382 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
385 ** Xwidgets: a new feature for embedding native widgets inside Emacs buffers.
386 If you have gtk3 and webkitgtk3 installed, and Emacs was built with
387 xwidget support, you can access the embedded webkit browser with 'M-x
388 xwidget-webkit-browse-url'. This opens a new buffer with the embedded
389 browser. The buffer will have a new mode, 'xwidget-webkit-mode'
390 (similar to 'image-mode'), which supports the webkit widget.
393 *** New functions for xwidget-webkit mode 'xwidget-webkit-insert-string',
394 'xwidget-webkit-adjust-size-dispatch', 'xwidget-webkit-back',
395 'xwidget-webkit-browse-url', 'xwidget-webkit-reload',
396 'xwidget-webkit-current-url', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-backward',
397 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-forward', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-down',
398 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-up'.
401 ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules).
402 A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional
403 functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package
404 written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions 'load', 'require',
405 'load-file', etc. were extended to load such modules, as they do with
406 Emacs Lisp packages. The new variable 'module-file-suffix' holds the
407 system-dependent value of the file-name extension ('.so' on Posix
408 hosts) of the module files.
410 A module should export a C-callable function named
411 'emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to
412 'load' or 'require' which loads the module. It should also export a
413 symbol named 'plugin_is_GPL_compatible' to indicate that its code is
414 released under the GPL or compatible license; Emacs will refuse to
415 load modules that don't export such a symbol.
417 If a module needs to call Emacs functions, it should do so through the
418 API defined and documented in the header file 'emacs-module.h'. Note
419 that any module that provides Lisp-callable functions will have to use
420 Emacs functions such as 'fset' and 'funcall', in order to register its
421 functions with the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
423 Modules can create 'user-ptr' Lisp objects that embed pointers to C
424 structs defined by the module. This is useful for keeping around
425 complex data structures created by a module, to be passed back to the
426 module's functions. User-ptr objects can also have associated
427 "finalizers" -- functions to be run when the object is GC'ed; this is
428 useful for freeing any resources allocated for the underlying data
429 structure, such as memory, open file descriptors, etc. A new
430 predicate 'user-ptrp' returns non-nil if its argument is a 'user-ptr'
433 Loadable modules in Emacs are an experimental feature, and subject to
434 change in future releases. For that reason, their support is disabled
435 by default, and must be enabled by using the '--with-modules' option
439 ** A second dir-local file (.dir-locals-2.el) is now accepted.
440 See the variable 'dir-locals-file-2' for more information.
443 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
444 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
445 the 'network-security-level' variable.
448 ** International domain names (IDNA) are now encoded via the new
449 puny.el library, so that one can visit web sites with non-ASCII URLs.
452 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
454 ** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
458 ** The new 'timer-list' command lists all active timers in a buffer
459 where you can cancel them with the 'c' command.
461 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
462 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard.
463 x-select-enable-primary and renamed select-enable-primary.
464 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
465 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
466 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
467 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
470 ** New option 'switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' allows you to
471 customize how 'switch-to-buffer' proceeds interactively when the
472 selected window is strongly dedicated to its buffer.
475 ** The option 'even-window-heights' has been renamed to
476 'even-window-sizes' and now handles window widths as well.
479 ** New function 'read-multiple-choice' use to prompt for
480 multiple-choice questions, with a handy way to display help texts.
483 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
486 ** 'insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
487 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
490 ** The new variable 'term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
491 The function 'tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
492 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
495 ** New variable 'system-configuration-features', listing some of the
496 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
497 for use in Emacs bug reports.
500 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
501 hiding character but the default '.' can be used by let-binding the
502 variable 'read-hide-char'.
505 ** The Emacs pseudo-random number generator can be securely seeded.
506 On system where Emacs can access the system entropy or some other
507 cryptographically secure random stream, it now uses that when 'random'
508 is called with its argument 't'. This allows cryptographically strong
509 random values; in particular, the Emacs server now uses this facility
510 to produce its authentication key.
513 ** New input methods: 'tamil-dvorak' and 'programmer-dvorak'.
516 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
519 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
524 *** Successive single-char deletions are collapsed in the undo-log just like
525 successive char insertions. Which commands invoke this behavior is
526 controlled by the new 'undo-auto-amalgamate' function. See the node
527 "Undo" in the ELisp manual for more details.
530 *** The heuristic used to insert 'undo-boundary' after each command
531 has changed, so that if a command causes changes in more than just the
532 current buffer, Emacs now calls 'undo-boundary' in every buffer
533 affected by the command.
536 ** New command 'comment-line' bound to 'C-x C-;'.
538 ** New and improved facilities for inserting Unicode characters
541 *** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
544 *** C-x 8 now has shorthands for several chars, such as U+2010
545 (HYPHEN), U+2011 (NON-BREAKING HYPHEN), and U+2012 (FIGURE DASH). As
546 before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
549 *** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for using curved quotes as you
550 type. See also the new variable 'text-quoting-style'.
553 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
556 ** Emacs now uses "bracketed paste mode" on text terminals that support it.
557 Bracketed paste mode causes text terminals to wrap pasted text in special
558 escape sequences that allow Emacs to tell the difference between text
559 you type and text you paste from other applications. Emacs then
560 avoids interpreting each character in the pasted text as it does with
561 keyboard input, which results in a paste experience similar to that
562 under a window system, and significant performance improvements when
563 pasting large amounts of text.
565 Bracketed paste mode is disabled by default, so Emacs automatically
566 enables it at startup if the terminal supports it.
569 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
570 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
571 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
572 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3, 7.0, and the latest Unicode 8.0.
573 This includes full support for directional isolates and the
574 Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these Unicode
578 ** You can access 'mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
581 ** New buffer-local 'electric-pair-local-mode'.
584 ** New variable 'fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
585 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
586 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
587 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
590 ** New documentation command 'describe-symbol'.
591 Works for functions, variables, faces, etc. It is bound to 'C-h o' by
595 ** New function 'custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
596 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found). It
597 is intended for adding to 'kill-emacs-query-functions'.
600 ** The old 'C-x w' bindings in hi-lock-mode are officially deprecated
601 in favor of the global 'M-s h' bindings introduced in Emacs-23.1.
602 They'll disappear soon.
605 ** New bindings for 'query-replace-map'.
606 'undo', undo the last replacement; bound to 'u'.
607 'undo-all', undo all replacements; bound to 'U'.
610 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
615 *** New command 'checkdoc-package-keywords' checks if the
616 current package keywords are recognized. Set the new option
617 'checkdoc-package-keywords-flag' to non-nil to make
618 'checkdoc-current-buffer' call this function automatically.
621 *** New function 'checkdoc-file' checks for style errors.
622 It's meant for use together with 'compile':
623 emacs -batch --eval "(checkdoc-file \"subr.el\")"
628 *** The desktop format version has been upgraded from 206 to 208.
629 Although Emacs 25.1 can read a version 206 desktop, earlier Emacsen
630 cannot read a version 208 desktop. To upgrade your desktop file, you
631 must explicitly request the upgrade, by C-u M-x desktop-save. You are
632 recommended to do this as soon as you have firmly upgraded to Emacs
633 25.1 (or later). Should you ever need to downgrade your desktop file
634 to version 206, you can do this with C-u C-u M-x desktop-save.
637 ** New function 'bookmark-set-no-overwrite' bound to C-x r M.
638 It raises an error if a bookmark of that name already exists,
639 unlike 'bookmark-set' which silently updates an existing bookmark.
644 *** New user options 'mm-html-inhibit-images' and 'mm-html-blocked-images'
645 now control how mm-* functions fetch and display images in an HTML
646 message. Gnus still uses 'gnus-inhibit-images' and 'gnus-blocked-images'
647 for that purpose, i.e., binds mm-html- variables with those gnus-
648 variables, but other packages do not have to bind gnus- variables now.
651 *** 'mm-inline-text-html-with-images' has been removed.
652 Use 'mm-html-inhibit-images' instead. Note that the value is opposite
658 *** 'imap-ssl-program' has been removed, and imap.el uses the internal
659 GnuTLS encryption functions if possible.
664 *** 'json-pretty-print' and 'json-pretty-print-buffer' now maintain
665 the ordering of object keys by default.
668 *** New commands 'json-pretty-print-ordered' and
669 'json-pretty-print-buffer-ordered' pretty prints JSON objects with
670 object keys sorted alphabetically.
673 ** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
674 This allows better indentation support in modes that support multiple
675 programming languages in the same buffer, like literate programming
676 environments or ANTLR programs with embedded Python code.
678 A major mode can provide indentation context for a sub-mode through
679 the 'prog-indentation-context' variable. To support this, modes that
680 provide indentation should use 'prog-widen' instead of 'widen' and
681 'prog-first-column' instead of a literal zero. See the node
682 "Mode-Specific Indent" in the ELisp manual for more details.
684 ** Prettify Symbols mode
687 *** Prettify Symbols mode supports custom composition predicates. By
688 overriding the default 'prettify-symbols-compose-predicate', modes can
689 specify in which contexts a symbol may be displayed as some Unicode
690 character. 'prettify-symbols-default-compose-p' is the default which
691 is suitable for most programming languages such as C or Lisp (but not
695 *** Symbols can be unprettified while point is inside them.
696 New variable 'prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point' configures this.
698 ** Enhanced xterm support
701 *** The new variable 'xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' for configuring xterm.
702 This variable tells Emacs which advanced capabilities are available in
703 the xterm terminal emulator used to display Emacs text-mode frames.
704 The default is to check each capability, and use it if available.
705 (This variable was introduced in Emacs 24.1, but was not announced in
709 *** Killing text now also sets the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection
710 in the surrounding GUI (using the OSC-52 escape sequence). This only works
711 if your xterm supports it and enables the 'allowWindowOps' options (disabled
712 by default at least in Debian, for security reasons).
714 Similarly, you can yank the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection (using the OSC-52
715 escape sequence) if your xterm has the feature enabled but for that you
716 additionally need to add 'getSelection' to 'xterm-extra-capabilities'.
719 *** 'xterm-mouse-mode' now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it).
722 ** The way to turn on and off 'save-place' mode has changed.
723 It is no longer sufficient to load the saveplace library and set
724 'save-place' non-nil. Instead, use the two new minor modes:
725 'save-place-mode' turns on saving last place in every file, and
726 'save-place-local-mode' does that only for the file in whose buffer it
727 is invoked. The 'save-place' variable is now an obsolete alias for
728 'save-place-mode', which replaces it, and 'toggle-save-place' is an
729 obsolete alias for the new 'save-place-local-mode' command.
734 *** ERC can now hide message types by network or channel.
735 'erc-hide-list' will hide all messages of the specified type, while
736 'erc-network-hide-list' and 'erc-channel-hide-list' will only hide the
737 specified message types for the respective specified targets.
739 *** New variable 'erc-default-port-tls' used to connect to TLS IRC
743 *** Reconnection is now asynchronous.
746 *** Nick completion is now case-insensitive again after inadvertently
747 being made case-sensitive in Emacs 24.2.
752 *** New commands, key binds, and menu items.
754 **** '<' and '>' for navigating previous and next tracks in playlist
756 **** New play/pause command 'mpc-toggle-play' bound to 's'
758 **** 'g' bound to new command 'mpc-seek-current' will navigate current
761 **** New commands 'mpc-toggle-{consume,repeat,single,shuffle}' for
762 toggling playback modes.
765 *** Now supports connecting to a UNIX domain socket.
768 *** Looks at more image file names to use as album art.
769 Case-insensitively tries for .folder.png (freedesktop) and folder.jpg
770 (XP) in addition to cover.jpg.
773 *** Searches in more locations for MPD configuration files.
774 MPD supports the XDG base directory specification since version 0.17.6.
779 *** 'midnight-mode' is now a proper minor mode.
782 *** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions.
787 *** New "external" package status.
788 An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and
789 not from 'package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in
790 'package-directory-list'. They are treated much like built-in
791 packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and
792 are not considered for upgrades.
794 The effect is that a user can manually place a specific version of a
795 package inside 'package-directory-list' and the package menu will
799 *** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher
800 priority (as per 'package-archive-priorities') only that one is
801 listed. This can be configured with 'package-menu-hide-low-priority'.
804 *** 'package-menu-toggle-hiding' now toggles the hiding of packages.
805 This includes the above-mentioned low-priority packages, as well as
806 available packages whose version is lower than the currently installed
807 version (which were previously impossible to display).
808 This allows users to downgrade a package if a lower version is
812 *** When filtering the package menu, keywords starting with "arc:" or
813 "status:" represent package archive or status, respectively, instead
817 *** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an
818 ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s)
822 *** New variable 'package-menu-async' controls whether the
823 package-menu uses asynchronous downloads.
826 *** 'package-install-from-buffer' and 'package-install-file' work on directories.
827 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
828 -pkg file is optional.
831 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
832 The FORCE argument to 'package-delete' overrides this.
835 *** New custom variable 'package-selected-packages' tracks packages
836 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
837 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
840 *** New command 'package-install-selected-packages' installs all
841 packages from 'package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
844 *** 'package-install' function now takes a DONT-SELECT argument. If
845 this function is called interactively or if DONT-SELECT is nil, add the
846 package being installed to 'package-selected-packages'.
849 *** New command 'package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
850 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
855 When you invoke 'shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
856 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
857 the 'display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
858 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
859 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
860 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
864 *** The ':protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
866 *** The 'newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
867 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from 'eieio-named'.
869 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
871 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
873 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
875 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
876 Use the equivalent facilities from cl-generic.el instead.
878 *** 'constructor' is now an obsolete alias for 'make-instance'.
879 --- 'pcase' accepts a new UPattern 'eieio'.
884 *** New command 'ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
885 Bury the buffer at the head of 'ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
886 kills the buffer at head.
889 *** A prefix argument to 'ido-restrict-to-matches' will reverse its
890 meaning, and the list is restricted to those elements that do not
891 match the current input.
896 *** You can use <UP> and <DOWN> arrow keys to move through history by lines.
897 The new commands 'next-line-or-history-element' and
898 'previous-line-or-history-element', bound to <UP> and <DOWN> in the
899 minibuffer, allow by-line movement through minibuffer history,
900 similarly to an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
901 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
902 element. 'M-p' and 'M-n' still move directly to previous/next history
905 ** Search and Replace
908 *** 'isearch' and 'query-replace' can now perform character folding in matches.
909 This is analogous to case folding, but instead of disregarding case
910 variants, it disregards wider classes of distinctions between similar
911 characters. (Case folding is a special case of character folding.)
912 This means many characters in the search string will match entire
913 groups of characters instead of just themselves.
915 For instance, the ASCII double quote character " will match all
916 variants of double quotes, and the letter 'a' will match all of its
917 accented cousins, even those composed of multiple characters, as well
918 as many other symbols like U+249C (PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER
921 Character folding is enabled by customizing 'search-default-mode' to
922 the value 'character-fold-to-regexp'. You can also toggle character
923 folding in the middle of a search by typing 'M-s ''.
925 'query-replace' honors character folding if the new variable
926 'replace-character-fold' is customized to a non-nil value.
929 *** New user option 'search-default-mode'.
930 This option specifies the default mode for Isearch. The default
931 value, nil specifies that Isearch does literal searches (however,
932 'case-fold-search' and 'isearch-lax-whitespace' may still be applied,
933 as in previous Emacs versions).
936 *** New function 'character-fold-to-regexp' can be used
937 by searching commands to produce a regexp matching anything that
938 character-folds into STRING.
941 *** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
942 text in the region. The search engine to use for this is specified by
943 the customizable variable 'eww-search-prefix'.
946 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
947 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
948 'M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
949 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
950 string defined by the new variable 'query-replace-from-to-separator'.
951 To select a prior replacement, type 'M-p' until the desired
952 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
957 *** If 'quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
958 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
961 ** In Edebug, you can now set the initial mode with C-x C-a C-m. With
962 this you can tell Edebug not to stop at the start of the first
963 instrumented function.
968 *** New minor mode 'global-eldoc-mode'
969 It is turned on by default, and affects '*scratch*' and other buffers
970 whose major mode supports Emacs Lisp.
973 *** 'eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to 'ignore'
976 *** 'describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
977 and can be used as a default value of 'eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
978 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces - e.g.,
979 U+00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACE), U+2002 (EN SPACE), and U+2009 (THIN SPACE) - while
980 using mono-spaced font.
985 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
988 *** A new command 'F' ('eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
989 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
990 customize the 'shr-use-fonts' variable.
993 *** A new command 'C' ('eww-toggle-colors') can be used to toggle
994 whether to use the HTML-specified colors or not. The user can also
995 customize the 'shr-use-colors' variable.
998 *** A new command 'R' ('eww-readable') will try do identify the main
999 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
1000 the like off the page.
1003 *** A new command 'D' ('eww-toggle-paragraph-direction') allows you to
1004 toggle the paragraph direction between left-to-right and right-to-left.
1007 *** Images that are being loaded are now marked with grey
1008 "placeholder" images of the size specified by the HTML. They are then
1009 replaced by the real images asynchronously, which will also now
1010 respect width/height HTML specs (unless they specify widths/heights
1011 bigger than the current window).
1014 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
1015 buffers you want to keep separate.
1018 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
1019 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
1022 *** 'eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
1023 the data in the buffer.
1026 *** The 'eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
1027 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
1030 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
1031 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
1032 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
1036 *** 'mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
1039 *** The new 'S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
1043 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
1044 invalid certificates are marked in red.
1049 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
1050 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
1053 *** The 'message-valid-fqdn-regexp' variable has been removed, since
1054 there are now top-level domains added all the time. Message will no
1055 longer warn about sending emails to top-level domains it hasn't heard
1058 *** 'message-beginning-of-line' (bound to C-a) understands folded headers.
1059 In 'visual-line-mode' it will look for the true beginning of a header
1060 while in non-'visual-line-mode' it will move the point to the indented
1064 ** In Show Paren Mode, a parenthesis can be highlighted when point
1065 stands inside it, and certain parens can be highlighted when point is
1066 at BOL or EOL, or in whitespace there. To enable these, customize,
1067 respectively, 'show-paren-when-point-inside-paren' or
1068 'show-paren-when-point-in-periphery'.
1071 ** If gpg2 exists on the system, it is now used as the default value
1072 of 'epg-gpg-program' (instead of gpg).
1077 *** Images are automatically scaled before displaying based on the
1078 'image-scaling-factor' variable (if Emacs supports scaling the images
1082 *** Images inserted with 'insert-image' and related functions get a
1083 keymap put into the text properties (or overlays) that span the
1084 image. This keymap binds keystrokes for manipulating size and
1085 rotation, as well as saving the image to a file. These commands are
1086 also available in 'image-mode'.
1089 *** A new library for creating and manipulating SVG images has been
1090 added. See the "SVG Images" section in the lispref manual for
1094 *** New setf-able function to access and set image parameters is
1095 provided: 'image-property'.
1101 *** Strings after ':documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
1102 This enhances Lisp mode fontification to handle documentation of the
1103 form '(:documentation "the doc string")' used in Common Lisp code for
1104 CLOS class and slot documentation.
1106 ** Rectangle editing
1109 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
1112 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
1113 *** 'string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
1116 ** New font-lock functions 'font-lock-ensure' and 'font-lock-flush'.
1117 These should be used in preference to 'font-lock-fontify-buffer' when
1121 ** Macro 'minibuffer-with-setup-hook' can optionally append a function
1122 to 'minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1124 If the first argument of the macro is of the form '(:append FUN)',
1125 then FUN will be appended to 'minibuffer-setup-hook', instead of
1130 *** New functions 'cl-fresh-line', 'cl-digit-char-p', and 'cl-parse-integer'.
1133 *** 'pcase' accepts the new UPattern 'cl-struct'.
1135 ** Calendar and diary
1138 *** The default 'diary-file' is now located in .emacs.d.
1141 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
1142 'diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' 'diary-chinese-insert-entry'
1143 'diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', 'diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
1146 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
1147 See 'diary-chinese-list-entries' and 'diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
1150 *** The option 'calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
1151 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
1154 *** New option 'calendar-weekend-days'.
1155 The option customizes which day headers receive the
1156 'calendar-weekend-header' face.
1159 *** New optional args N and STRING for 'holiday-greek-orthodox-easter'.
1162 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
1163 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
1166 **** Functions 'calendar-one-frame-setup', 'calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
1167 'calendar-two-frame-setup', 'european-calendar', 'american-calendar'.
1169 **** Hooks 'cal-menu-load-hook', 'cal-x-load-hook'.
1171 **** Macro 'calendar-for-loop'.
1173 **** Variables 'european-calendar-style', 'diary-face', 'hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
1175 **** The nil and list forms of 'diary-display-function'.
1178 ** New ERT function 'ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
1179 If the output of ERT tests in batch mode execution can be saved to a
1180 log file, then it can be passed as an argument to the above function
1181 to produce a neat summary.
1184 ** New js.el option 'js-indent-first-init'.
1189 ** Info mode now displays symbol names in fixed-pitch font.
1190 If you want to get the old behavior back, customize the 'Info-quoted'
1191 face to use the same definitions as the default face.
1194 *** 'Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
1197 *** 'info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
1198 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
1199 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
1202 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
1207 *** The Rmail commands 'd', 'C-d' and 'u' take optional repeat counts
1208 to delete or undelete multiple messages.
1211 *** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
1212 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
1213 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
1214 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
1215 'rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to 'nil' if you don't want that.
1218 *** In the commands that make summaries by subject, recipients, or senders,
1219 you can no longer use commas to separate regular expressions.
1222 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see 'ses-define-local-printer'.
1224 ** Shell-script Mode
1226 *** In sh-mode you can now use 'sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
1227 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
1230 *** New value 'always' for 'sh-indent-after-continuation'.
1231 This provides old-style ("dumb") indentation of continued lines.
1232 See the doc string of 'sh-indent-after-continuation' for details.
1236 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
1239 *** If Emacs isn't built with TLS support, an external TLS-capable
1240 program is used instead. This program used to be run in --insecure
1241 mode by default, but has now changed to be secure instead, and will
1242 fail if you try to connect to non-verifiable hosts. This is
1243 controlled by the 'tls-program' variable.
1248 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
1249 When 'url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
1250 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
1253 *** The URL package allows customizing the 'url-user-agent' string.
1254 The new 'url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
1258 *** The new interface variable 'url-request-noninteractive' can be used
1259 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
1260 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
1263 *** 'url-mime-accept-string' can now be used as in "interface"
1264 variable, meaning you can bind it around an 'url-retrieve' call.
1267 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
1268 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
1269 'gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
1272 *** The new function 'url-cookie-delete-cookie' can be used to
1273 programmatically delete all cookies, or cookies from a specific
1276 *** The URL package now support https over proxies supporting CONNECT.
1281 *** New connection method "afp", which allows you to access Mac OS X
1282 volumes via the Apple Filing Protocol.
1285 *** New connection method "nc", which allows you to access dumb
1289 *** Method-specific parameters can be overwritten now with variable
1290 'tramp-connection-properties'.
1293 *** Handler for 'file-notify-valid-p' for remote machines that support
1294 filesystem notifications.
1299 *** New user variable 'sql-default-directory' enables remote
1300 connections using Tramp.
1303 *** New command 'sql-send-line-and-next'.
1304 This command, bound to 'C-c C-n' by default, sends the current line to
1305 the SQL process and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace and
1309 *** Added support for Vertica SQL.
1311 ** VC and related modes
1314 *** Basic push support, via 'vc-push', bound to 'C-x v P'.
1315 Implemented for Bzr, Git, Hg. As part of this change, the pre-existing
1316 (undocumented) command vc-hg-push now behaves slightly differently.
1319 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
1322 *** You can refresh the VC state of a file buffer with 'M-x vc-refresh-state'.
1323 This command is useful when you perform version control commands
1324 outside Emacs (e.g., from the shell prompt), or if you switch the VC
1325 back-end for the buffer's file, or remove it from version control.
1328 *** The VC state indicator in the mode line now defaults to more
1329 colorful faces to make it more obvious to the user what the state is.
1330 See the 'vc-faces' customization group.
1333 *** New option 'vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
1334 the color range from 'vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
1335 background or to the foreground.
1338 *** New options for customizing encoding of Git commit log messages.
1339 The new options `vc-git-commits-coding-system' and
1340 `vc-git-log-output-coding-system' allow to customize the encoding of
1341 the log messages sent to Git when committing, and the decoding of the
1342 log messages read from Git history commands. Both default to UTF-8;
1343 if you customize them, make sure they are consistent with the Git
1344 config variables i18n.commitEncoding and i18n.logOutputEncoding.
1345 (`vc-git-commits-coding-system' existed previously, but was a
1346 variable, not a user option.)
1349 *** 'compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently selected window
1350 instead of the next window. If you want the previous behavior of
1351 comparing with the next window, customize the new option
1352 'compare-windows-get-window-function' to the value
1353 'compare-windows-get-next-window'.
1356 *** Two new faces 'compare-windows-removed' and 'compare-windows-added'
1357 replace the face 'compare-windows', which is now an obsolete alias for
1358 'compare-windows-added'.
1361 *** The VC state indicator in the mode line now has different faces
1362 corresponding to each of the possible states. See the 'vc-faces'
1363 customization group.
1366 *** 'log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to
1367 "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". Set 'log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change'
1368 nil to disable this.
1371 ** VHDL mode now supports VHDL'08.
1376 *** Decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
1377 fitting for use in money calculations
1380 *** Factorial works with non-integer inputs.
1385 *** Hide-IfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions in macros,
1386 macro argument expansion, interactive macro evaluation and automatic
1387 scanning of #define'd symbols.
1390 *** New command 'hif-evaluate-macro', bound to 'C-c @ e', displays the
1391 result of evaluating a macro.
1394 *** New command 'hif-clear-all-ifdef-define', bound to 'C-c @ C', clears
1395 all defined symbols in 'hide-ifdef-env'.
1398 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header
1399 file name patterns. Defaults to files whose extension is one of '.h',
1400 '.hh', '.hpp', '.hxx', or '.h++', matched case-insensitively.
1403 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
1404 reinclusion protected (a.k.a. "idempotent") header files from being hidden.
1405 (This could happen when an idempotent header file is visited again,
1406 when its guard symbol is already defined.) Defaults to 't'.
1409 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
1410 name patterns (e.g. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be ignored when
1411 looking for macro definitions. By default, no symbols are ignored.
1416 *** New custom variable 'tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
1417 use PDF instead of DVI.
1420 *** TeX mode now supports Prettify Symbols mode. When enabling
1421 'prettify-symbols-mode' in a tex-mode buffer, \alpha ... \omega, and
1422 many other math macros are displayed using unicode characters.
1425 ** New 'big-indent' style in 'whitespace-mode' highlights deep indentation.
1426 By default, 32 consecutive spaces or four consecutive TABs are
1427 considered to be too deep, but the new variable
1428 'whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be customized to change that.
1431 ** New options in 'tildify-mode'.
1432 New options 'tildify-space-string', 'tildify-pattern', and
1433 'tildify-foreach-region-function' variables make
1434 'tildify-string-alist', 'tildify-pattern-alist', and
1435 'tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
1436 helper functions) obsolete.
1439 ** New package Xref replaces Etags's front-end and UI
1441 The new package Xref provides a generic framework and new commands to
1442 find and move to definitions of functions, macros, data structures
1443 etc., as well as go back to the location where you were before moving
1444 to a definition. It supersedes and obsoletes many Etags commands,
1445 while still using the etags.el code that reads the TAGS tables as one
1448 The command 'xref-find-definitions' replaces 'find-tag' and provides
1449 an interface to pick one definition among several.
1450 'tags-loop-continue' is now unbound. 'xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces
1451 'pop-tag-mark', but has a keybinding ('M-,') different from the one
1452 'pop-tag-mark' used.
1454 'xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces 'find-tag-other-window'.
1455 'xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces 'find-tag-other-frame'.
1456 'xref-find-apropos' replaces 'find-tag-regexp'.
1458 As a result of this, the following commands are now obsolete:
1459 'find-tag-other-window', 'find-tag-other-frame', 'find-tag-regexp',
1462 'tags-loop-continue' is not obsolete because it's still useful in
1463 'tags-search' and 'tags-query-replace', for which there are no direct
1467 *** Variants of 'tags-search' and 'tags-query-replace' in Dired were also
1468 replaced by xref-style commands, see the "Dired" section below.
1473 'find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
1474 'xref-marker-ring-length'. 'find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
1475 alias for a private variable. 'xref-push-marker-stack' and
1476 'xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used instead to manipulate the stack
1477 of searches for definitions.
1480 *** 'xref-find-definitions' and 'describe-function' now display
1481 information about mode local overrides (defined by cedet/mode-local.el
1482 'define-overloadable-function' 'define-mode-local-overrides').
1484 The framework's Lisp API is still experimental and can change in major,
1485 backward-incompatible ways.
1488 ** New package Project
1490 The new package Project provides generic infrastructure for dealing
1491 with projects. The main commands included in it are
1492 'project-find-file' and 'project-find-regexp'.
1494 The Lisp API of this package is still experimental.
1497 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
1500 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
1503 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
1504 subprocess instead of on the command line.
1507 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
1508 need to configure this manually anymore.
1511 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
1514 There have also been customization changes.
1517 *** New custom variable 'eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
1518 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
1521 *** Custom variable 'eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
1522 on email and firstname instead of surname.
1525 *** Custom variable 'eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
1526 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
1529 *** Custom variable 'eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
1530 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
1533 *** Custom variable 'eudc-options-file' defaults to
1534 "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options".
1537 *** New custom variable 'ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
1538 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
1539 command line's password prompt.
1542 EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3.
1545 EUDC's PH backend (eudcb-ph.el) is obsolete.
1550 *** The new built-in command 'clear' can scroll window contents out of sight.
1551 If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents will be cleared.
1554 *** New buffer syntax '#<buffer-name>', which is equivalent to
1555 '#<buffer buffer-name>'. This shorthand makes interacting with
1556 buffers from eshell more convenient. Custom variable
1557 'eshell-buffer-shorthand', which has been broken for a while, has been
1561 *** By default, eshell "visual" program buffers (created by
1562 'eshell-visual-commands' and similar custom vars) are no longer killed
1563 when their processes die. This fixes issues with short-lived commands
1564 and makes visual programs more useful in general. For example, if
1565 "git log" is a visual command, it will always show the visual command
1566 buffer, even if the "git log" process dies. For the old behavior,
1567 make the new option 'eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil.
1572 *** Support for the Google Chrome web browser.
1575 *** Support for the Conkeror web browser.
1578 *** Support for several ancient browsers is now officially obsolete.
1581 ** tar-mode: new 'tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
1582 be added to the archive.
1587 *** Dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file notifications, if
1588 Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
1591 *** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set to nil in 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
1592 See <http://debbugs.gnu.org/22814>.
1594 ** File Notifications
1597 *** The kqueue library is integrated for *BSD and Mac OS X machines.
1600 *** The new event 'stopped' signals, that a file notification watch is
1601 not active any longer.
1604 *** The new function 'file-notify-valid-p' checks, whether a file
1605 notification descriptor still corresponds to an activate watch.
1610 *** The command 'dired-do-compress' bound to 'Z' now can compress
1611 directories and decompress zip files.
1614 *** New command 'dired-do-compress-to' bound to 'c' can be used to
1615 compress many marked files into a single named archive. The
1616 compression command is determined from the new
1617 'dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
1620 *** In wdired, when editing files to contain slash characters,
1621 the resulting directories are automatically created. Whether
1622 to do this or not is controlled by the
1623 'wdired-create-parent-directories' variable.
1626 *** 'W' is now bound to 'browse-url-of-dired-file', and is useful for
1627 viewing HTML files and the like.
1629 *** New user interface for the 'A' and 'Q' commands.
1630 These keys, now bound to 'dired-do-find-regexp' and
1631 'dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace', work similarly to 'xref-find-apropos'
1632 and 'xref-query-replace-in-results': they present the matches
1633 in the '*xref*' buffer and let you move through the matches. No need
1634 to use 'tags-loop-continue' to resume the search or replace loop. The
1635 previous commands, 'dired-do-search' and
1636 'dired-do-query-replace-regexp', are still available, but not bound to
1637 keys; rebind 'A' and 'Q' to invoke them if you want the old behavior
1638 back. We intend to obsolete the old commands in a future release.
1640 ** Tabulated List Mode
1643 *** It is now safe for a mode that derives 'tabulated-list-mode' to not
1644 call 'tabulated-list-init-header', in which case it will have no
1648 *** 'tabulated-list-print' takes a second optional argument, update,
1649 which specifies an alternative printing method which is faster when
1650 few or no entries have changed.
1652 ** Obsolete packages
1658 *** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
1661 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
1664 ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
1665 minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg
1666 command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable
1667 is set). This feature requires newer versions of GnuPG (2.1.5 or
1668 later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later). To use this feature, add
1669 "allow-emacs-pinentry" to "~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf" and reload the
1670 configuration with "gpgconf --reload gpg-agent".
1673 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
1674 The main entry points are 'cl-defgeneric' and 'cl-defmethod'. See the
1675 node "Generic Functions" in the Emacs Lisp manual for more details.
1678 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode) is a major mode for editing
1679 SCSS (Sassy CSS) files.
1682 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
1683 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
1686 ** 'tildify-mode' allows automatic insertion of hard spaces as one
1687 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
1688 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
1689 other languages), so 'auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
1690 a typographically-correct documents.
1693 ** The 'seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros
1694 that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions
1695 are prefixed with 'seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
1696 'pcase' accepts a new Upattern 'seq'.
1699 ** The 'map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on
1700 alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with
1701 'map-'. 'pcase' accepts a new UPattern 'map'.
1704 ** The 'thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the
1705 evaluation of forms.
1708 ** js-jsx-mode (a minor variant of js-mode) provides indentation
1709 support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
1712 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1715 ** 'setq' and 'setf' must now be called with an even number of
1716 arguments. The earlier behavior of silently supplying a nil to the
1717 last variable when there was an odd number of arguments has been
1721 ** 'syntax-begin-function' is declared obsolete.
1722 Removed font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function and the SYNTAX-BEGIN
1723 slot in font-lock-defaults.
1726 ** The new implementation of Subword mode affects word movement everywhere.
1727 When Subword mode is turned on, 'forward-word', 'backward-word', and
1728 everything that uses them will move by sub-words, effectively
1729 overriding the buffer's syntax table. Lisp programs that shouldn't be
1730 affected by Subword mode should call the new functions
1731 'forward-word-strictly' and 'backward-word-strictly' instead.
1734 ** 'package-initialize' now sets 'package-enable-at-startup' to nil if
1735 called during startup. Users who call this function in their init
1736 file and still expect it to be run after startup should set
1737 'package-enable-at-startup' to t after the call to
1738 'package-initialize'.
1741 ** ':global' minor mode use 'setq-default' rather than 'setq'.
1742 This means that you can't use 'make-local-variable' and expect them to
1743 "magically" become buffer-local.
1746 ** 'track-mouse' no longer freezes the shape of the mouse pointer.
1747 The 'track-mouse' form no longer refrains from changing the shape of
1748 the mouse pointer for the entire time the body of that form is
1749 executed. Lisp programs that use 'track-mouse' for dragging across
1750 large portions of the Emacs display, and want to avoid changes in the
1751 pointer shape during dragging, should bind the variable 'track-mouse'
1752 to the special value 'dragging' in the body of the form.
1755 ** The optional 'predicate' argument of 'lisp-complete-symbol' no longer
1756 has any effect. (This change was made in Emacs 24.4 but was not
1757 advertised at the time.)
1760 ** 'indirect-function' does not signal 'void-function' any more.
1761 This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when
1762 symbol-function was changed not to signal 'void-function' any more.
1765 *** As a consequence, the second arg of 'indirect-function' is now obsolete.
1768 ** M-x shell and M-x compile no longer set the EMACS environment variable.
1769 This avoids clashing when other programs use the variable for other purposes.
1770 Although M-x term still sets EMACS for compatibility with Bash 4.3 and earlier,
1771 this is deprecated and will be phased out when Bash 4.4 or later takes over.
1772 Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
1774 ** 'C-up', 'C-down', 'C-left' and 'C-right' are now defined in term
1775 mode to send the same escape sequences that xterm does. This makes
1776 things like forward-word in readline work.
1779 ** hideshow mode got four key bindings that are analogous to outline
1780 mode bindings: 'C-c @ C-a', 'C-c @ C-t', 'C-c @ C-d', and 'C-c @ C-e.'
1783 ** 'save-excursion' does not save&restore the mark any more.
1784 Use 'save-mark-and-excursion' if you want the old behavior.
1787 ** 'read-buffer' and 'read-buffer-function' can now be called with a 4th
1788 argument ('predicate').
1791 ** 'completion-table-dynamic' by default stays in the minibuffer.
1792 The minibuffer will be the current buffer when the function is called.
1793 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
1794 from which the minibuffer was entered, use the new argument
1795 'switch-buffer' to 'completion-table-dynamic'.
1798 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers' marks.
1801 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
1802 active region handling.
1805 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
1808 ** 'cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
1811 ** 'process-running-child-p' may now return a numeric process
1812 group ID instead of 't'.
1815 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
1816 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
1817 position list returned for such events is now nil.
1820 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
1821 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
1825 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
1826 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
1827 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
1828 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
1831 ** New variable 'text-quoting-style' to control how Emacs translates quotes.
1832 Set it to 'curve' for curved single quotes, to 'straight' for straight
1833 apostrophes, and to 'grave' for grave accent and apostrophe. The
1834 default value nil acts like 'curve' if curved single quotes are
1835 displayable, and like 'grave' otherwise. The new variable affects
1836 display of diagnostics and help, but not of info.
1839 ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
1840 That is, it converts documentation strings' quoting style as per the
1841 value of 'text-quoting-style'. Doc strings in source code can use
1842 either curved single quotes or grave accents and apostrophes. As
1843 before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
1846 ** Message-issuing functions 'error', 'message', etc. now convert quotes.
1847 They use the new 'format-message' function instead of plain 'format',
1848 so that they now follow user preference as per 'text-quoting-style'
1849 when processing curved single quotes, grave accents, and apostrophes
1850 in their format argument.
1853 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
1854 now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
1855 If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
1856 word syntax, use '\sw' instead.
1859 ** The character classes [:graph:] and [:print:] in regular expressions
1860 no longer match every multibyte character. Instead, Emacs now
1861 consults the Unicode character properties to determine which
1862 characters are graphic or printable. In particular, surrogates and
1863 unassigned codepoints are now rejected. If you want the old behavior,
1864 use [:multibyte:] instead.
1867 ** The 'diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old
1868 behavior, set 'diff-switches' to '-c'.
1871 ** 'grep-template' and 'grep-find-template' values don't include the
1872 --color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position
1873 dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should
1874 be updated accordingly.
1876 ** The grep/rgrep/lgrep functions will now ask about saving files
1877 before running. This is controlled by the 'grep-save-buffers'
1881 ** '(/ N)' is now equivalent to '(/ 1 N)' rather than to '(/ N 1)'.
1882 The new behavior is compatible with Common Lisp and with XEmacs.
1883 This change does not affect Lisp code intended to be portable to
1884 Emacs 24.2 and earlier, which did not support unary '/'.
1887 ** The 'default-directory' value doesn't have to end slash. To make
1888 that happen, 'unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
1889 'file-name-as-directory'.
1892 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1896 *** New UPatterns 'quote', 'app'.
1898 *** New UPatterns can be defined with 'pcase-defmacro'.
1900 *** New vector QPattern.
1903 ** syntax-propertize is now automatically called on-demand during forward
1904 parsing functions like 'forward-sexp'.
1907 ** New hooks 'prefix-command-echo-keystrokes-functions' and
1908 'prefix-command-preserve-state-hook' allow the definition of prefix
1909 commands other than the predefined 'C-u'.
1912 ** New functions 'filepos-to-bufferpos' and 'bufferpos-to-filepos'.
1913 These allow conversion between buffer positions and the corresponding
1914 file byte offsets, given the file's encoding.
1917 ** The default value of 'load-read-function' is now 'read'.
1918 Previously, the default value of 'nil' implied using 'read'.
1921 ** New hook 'pre-redisplay-functions'.
1922 It is a bit easier to use than 'pre-redisplay-function'.
1925 ** The second arg of 'looking-back' should always be provided explicitly.
1926 Previously, it was an optional argument, now it's mandatory.
1929 ** Text properties 'intangible', 'point-entered', and 'point-left' are obsolete.
1930 Replaced by properties 'cursor-intangible' and 'cursor-sensor-functions',
1931 implemented by the new 'cursor-intangible-mode' and
1932 'cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes.
1935 ** 'inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to 't' and is obsolete.
1936 Use the new minor modes 'cursor-intangible-mode' and
1937 'cursor-sensor-mode' instead.
1940 ** New process type 'pipe', which can be used in combination with the
1941 ':stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output
1945 ** New function 'make-process' provides an alternative interface to
1946 'start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as
1947 process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to
1948 'make-network-process').
1951 ** A new function 'directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
1952 files (recursively) under a directory.
1955 ** New variable 'inhibit-message', when bound to non-nil, inhibits
1956 'message' and related functions from displaying messages in the echo
1957 area. The output is still logged to the *Messages* buffer.
1960 ** A new text property 'inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
1961 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
1964 ** A new variable 'comment-end-can-be-escaped' is useful in languages
1965 such as C and C++ where line comments with escaped newlines are
1966 continued to the next line.
1969 ** New macro 'define-advice'.
1972 ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
1973 See the "Generators" section of the ELisp manual for the details.
1976 ** New finalizer facility for running code when objects become unreachable.
1977 See the "Finalizer Type" subsection in the ELisp manual for the
1981 ** lexical closures can use (:documentation FORM) to build their docstring.
1982 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and FORM is then
1983 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
1986 ** The new command 'fortune-message' has been added, which displays
1987 fortunes in the echo area.
1990 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
1993 ** New function 'macroexpand-1' to perform a single step of macro expansion.
1996 ** Some "x-*" functions were obsoleted and/or renamed:
1997 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
1998 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
1999 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
2000 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
2001 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
2002 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
2005 ** New function 'string-greaterp', which return the opposite result of
2009 ** The new functions 'string-collate-lessp' and 'string-collate-equalp'
2010 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
2011 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
2012 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
2013 counterparts 'string-lessp' and 'string-equal'.
2016 ** The new function 'string-version-lessp' compares strings by
2017 interpreting consecutive runs of numerical characters as numbers, and
2018 compares their numerical values. According to this predicate,
2019 "foo2.png" is smaller than "foo12.png".
2022 *** The ls-lisp package uses 'string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
2023 The effect is that, on systems that use ls-lisp for Dired, the default
2024 sort order of the files in Dired is now different from what it was in
2025 previous versions of Emacs. In particular, the file names are sorted
2026 disregarding punctuation, accents, and diacritics, and letter case is
2027 ignored. For example, files whose name begin with a period will no
2028 longer appear near the beginning of the directory listing. If you
2029 want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new option
2030 'ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to the nil value.
2033 *** The MS-Windows specific variable 'w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
2034 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
2035 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
2036 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
2037 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
2038 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
2041 ** New function 'alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
2044 ** New function 'funcall-interactively', which works like 'funcall'
2045 but makes 'called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
2046 called interactively.
2049 ** New function 'function-put' to use instead of 'put' for function properties.
2052 ** The new function 'bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows you to
2053 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
2054 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
2055 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
2056 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
2059 ** The new function 'buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows you to
2060 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
2061 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
2062 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
2063 text and directional control characters.
2066 ** New properties that can be specified with 'declare':
2067 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
2068 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
2069 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
2073 ** New macro 'with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
2074 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
2077 ** You can access the slots of structures using 'cl-struct-slot-value'.
2080 ** Function 'sort' can deal with vectors.
2083 ** Function 'system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
2084 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
2085 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
2086 name. The variable 'system-name' is now obsolete.
2089 ** Function 'write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
2092 ** If 'pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
2096 ** New functions return extended information about fonts and faces.
2099 *** The function 'font-info' now returns more details about a font.
2100 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
2101 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
2104 *** A new function 'default-font-width' returns the average width of a
2105 character in the current buffer's default font. If the default face
2106 is remapped (see 'face-remapping-alist'), the value for the remapped
2107 face is returned. This function complements the existing function
2108 'default-font-height'.
2111 *** New functions 'window-font-height' and 'window-font-width' return
2112 the height and average width of characters in a specified face and
2113 window. If FACE is remapped (see 'face-remapping-alist'), the
2114 function returns the information for the remapped face.
2117 *** A new function 'window-max-chars-per-line' returns the maximal
2118 number of characters that can be displayed on one line. If a face
2119 and/or window are provided, these values are used for the
2120 calculation. This function is different from 'window-body-width' in
2121 that it accounts for (i) continuation glyphs, (ii) the size of the
2122 font, and (iii) the specified window.
2125 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
2126 *** New macros 'if-let' and 'when-let' allow defining bindings and to
2127 execute code depending whether all values are true.
2128 *** New macros 'thread-first' and 'thread-last' allow threading a form
2129 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
2132 ** Documentation strings now support quoting with curved single quotes
2133 in addition to the old style with grave accent and apostrophe. The
2134 new style looks better on today's displays. In the new Electric Quote
2135 mode, you can enter curved single quotes into documentation by typing
2136 grave accent and apostrophe. Outside Electric Quote mode, you can
2137 enter them by typing 'C-x 8 [' and 'C-x 8 ]', or (if your Alt key
2138 works) by typing 'A-[' and 'A-]'. As described above under
2139 'text-quoting-style', the user can specify how to display doc string
2143 ** New function 'format-message' is like 'format' and also converts
2144 curved single quotes, grave accents and apostrophes as per
2145 'text-quoting-style'.
2148 ** show-help-function's arg is converted via substitute-command-keys
2149 before being passed to the function. Help strings, help-echo
2150 properties, etc. can therefore contain command key escapes and
2154 ** Time-related changes:
2156 *** Time conversion functions now accept an optional ZONE argument
2157 that specifies the time zone rules for conversion. ZONE is omitted or
2158 nil for Emacs local time, t for Universal Time, 'wall' for system wall
2159 clock time, or a string as in the TZ environment variable. The
2160 affected functions are 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone',
2161 'decode-time', and 'format-time-string'. The function 'encode-time',
2162 which already accepted a simple time zone rule argument, has been
2163 extended to accept all the new forms.
2165 *** Incompatible change in the third argument of 'format-time-string'.
2166 Previously, any non-nil argument was interpreted as specifying Universal Time.
2167 This is no longer true; packages that want Universal Time should pass t
2168 as the third argument.
2170 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
2171 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
2172 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
2173 Affected functions include 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone',
2174 'decode-time', 'float-time', 'format-time-string', 'seconds-to-time',
2175 'time-add', 'time-less-p', 'time-subtract', 'time-to-day-in-year',
2176 'time-to-days', and 'time-to-seconds'.
2178 *** The 'encode-time-value' and 'with-decoded-time-value' macros have
2181 *** 'calendar-next-time-zone-transition', 'time-add', and
2182 'time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
2183 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
2187 ** New function 'set-binary-mode' allows switching a standard stream
2188 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
2191 ** The new function 'directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
2192 name (as returned from, for instance, 'file-name-all-completions') is
2193 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
2194 the name is a directory separator character (forward slash on GNU and
2195 Unix systems, forward- or backslash on MS-Windows and MS-DOS).
2198 ** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in standard-display-table
2199 if the terminal cannot display curved quotes.
2202 ** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
2203 standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system.
2204 To force a specific encoding, bind 'coding-system-for-write' to the
2205 coding-system of your choice when invoking functions like 'prin1' and
2209 ** New var 'truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
2212 ** New possible value for 'system-type': 'nacl'.
2213 This is used by Google's Native Client (NaCl).
2216 ** 'read-color' will now display the color names using the color itself
2217 as the background color.
2220 ** There is now a new variable 'flyspell-sort-corrections-function'
2221 that allows changing the way corrections are sorted.
2223 ** Miscellaneous name change
2226 For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable
2227 'hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to 'hfy-optimizations'.
2228 The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
2230 ** Changes in Frame- and Window- Handling
2233 *** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
2234 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
2235 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
2237 **** New function 'horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
2238 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
2240 **** New mode 'horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
2241 bars on all existing and future frames.
2243 **** New function 'toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
2244 scroll bars on the selected frame.
2246 **** New frame parameters 'horizontal-scroll-bars' and
2247 'scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
2248 for individual frames and in 'default-frame-alist'.
2250 **** New functions 'frame-scroll-bar-height' and
2251 'window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
2252 bars on a specific frame or window.
2254 **** 'set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
2255 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
2257 **** 'window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
2260 **** New buffer-local variables 'horizontal-scroll-bar' and
2261 'scroll-bar-height'.
2264 *** New functions 'frame-geometry' and 'frame-edges' give access to a
2268 *** New functions 'mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and
2269 'set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' get/set screen coordinates of the
2273 *** The function 'window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to
2274 retrieve body, absolute and pixel edges of the window.
2277 *** The functions 'window-inside-edges', 'window-inside-pixel-edges' and
2278 'window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges' have been renamed to respectively
2279 'window-body-edges', 'window-body-pixel-edges' and
2280 'window-absolute-body-pixel-edges'. The old names are kept as aliases.
2283 *** New function 'window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen
2284 coordinates of a visible buffer position.
2287 *** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
2288 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
2289 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
2290 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
2291 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
2295 *** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
2296 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
2297 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
2298 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
2299 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
2300 **** New option 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
2301 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
2302 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
2303 number of columns or lines it displays.
2306 *** New function 'window-preserve-size' allows you to preserve the size of
2307 a window without "fixing" it. It's supported by 'fit-window-to-buffer',
2308 'temp-buffer-resize-mode' and 'display-buffer'.
2311 *** New 'display-buffer' action function 'display-buffer-use-some-frame'.
2312 This displays the buffer in an existing frame other than the current
2313 frame, and allows the caller to specify a frame predicate to exclude
2317 *** New minor mode 'window-divider-mode' and options
2318 'window-divider-default-places', 'window-divider-default-bottom-width'
2319 and 'window-divider-default-right-width'.
2322 *** The window displaying the '*Completions*' buffer with minibuffer
2323 completion candidates is now shown at the bottom of the selected
2324 frame. The size of that window is always as large as required to
2325 display all the candidates, except when limited by the minimum size
2326 of the other windows on that frame; those other windows are resized
2327 to provide space for the '*Completions*' display. The Emacs manual
2328 describes how to customize 'display-buffer-alist' to get back the old
2329 behavior, see the node "Temporary Displays" there.
2332 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ have been removed.
2333 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
2338 *** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
2340 By default, 'etags' will not qualify class members for Perl and C-like
2341 object-oriented languages with their class names and namespaces, and
2342 will remove qualifications used explicitly in the code from the tag
2343 names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
2344 'xref-find-definitions' is more accurate and produces less false
2347 Use --class-qualify (-Q) if you want the old default behavior of
2348 qualifying class members in C++, Java, Objective C, and Perl. Note
2349 that using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to 'M-.'
2350 ('xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use 'C-u M-.' to specify the
2351 qualified names by hand.
2354 *** New language Ruby
2356 Names of modules, classes, methods, functions, and constants are
2357 tagged. Overloaded operators are also tagged.
2361 Names of packages, functions, and types are tagged.
2364 *** Improved support for Lua
2366 Etags now tags functions even if the "function" keyword follows some
2367 whitespace at line beginning.
2370 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
2373 ** MS-Windows specific Emacs build scripts are no longer in the distribution
2374 This includes the makefile.w32-in files in various subdirectories, and
2375 the support files. The file nt/configure.bat now just tells the user
2376 to use the procedure described in nt/INSTALL, by running the Posix
2377 'configure' script in the top-level directory.
2380 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
2381 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
2382 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
2385 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
2388 ** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
2389 MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
2392 ** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default.
2393 Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default.
2396 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
2399 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
2402 ** New variable 'ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
2403 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
2404 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
2408 ** The new function 'w32-application-type' returns the type of an
2409 MS-Windows application given the name of its executable program file.
2411 ** New variable 'w32-pipe-buffer-size'.
2412 It can be used to tune the size of the buffer of pipes created for
2413 communicating with subprocesses, when the program run by a subprocess
2414 exhibits unusual buffering behavior. Default is zero, which lets the
2415 OS use its default size.
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2421 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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2424 (at your option) any later version.
2426 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2427 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2428 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2429 GNU General Public License for more details.
2431 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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