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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2
3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
4 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 See the end of the file for license conditions.
6
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 given
32 below. Emacs tries to warn you about these through `bad-packages-alist'.
33
34 ** Semantic (used by CEDET, ECB, JDEE): upgrade to latest version.
35
36 ** cua.el, cua-mode.el: remove old versions.
37
38 \f
39 * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.2
40
41 ** Emacs is now licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 (or later).
42
43 ** Support for GNU/kFreeBSD (GNU userland and FreeBSD kernel) was added.
44
45 * Changes in Emacs 22.2
46
47 ** `find-name-dired' now uses -iname rather than -name
48 for case-insensitive filesystems. The default behavior is determined
49 by the value of `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case'; if you don't
50 like that, customize the value of the new option `find-name-arg'.
51
52 ** In Image mode, whenever the displayed image is wider and/or higher
53 than the window, the usual keys for moving the cursor cause the image
54 to be scrolled horizontally or vertically instead.
55
56 ** Scrollbars follow the system theme on Windows XP and later.
57 Windows XP introduced themed scrollbars, but applications have to take
58 special steps to use them. Emacs now has the appropriate resources linked
59 in to make it use the scrollbars from the system theme.
60
61 ** focus-follows-mouse defaults to nil on MS Windows.
62 Previously this variable was incorrectly documented as having no effect
63 on MS Windows, and the default was inappropriate for the majority of
64 Windows installations. Users of software which modifies the behaviour of
65 Windows to cause focus to follow the mouse will now need to explicitly set
66 this variable.
67
68 ** `bad-packages-alist' will warn about external packages that are known
69 to cause problems in this version of Emacs.
70
71 ** The values of `dired-recursive-deletes' and `dired-recursive-copies'
72 have been changed to `top'. This means that the user is asked once,
73 before deleting/copying the indicated directory recursively.
74
75 ** `browse-url-emacs' loads a URL into an Emacs buffer. Handy for *.el URLs.
76
77 ** The command gdba has been removed as gdb works now for those cases where it
78 was needed. In text command mode, if you have problems before execution has
79 started, use M-x gud-gdb.
80
81 ** desktop.el now detects conflicting uses of the desktop file.
82 When loading the desktop, desktop.el can now detect that the file is already
83 in use. The default behavior is to ask the user what to do, but you can
84 customize it with the new option `desktop-load-locked-desktop'. When saving,
85 desktop.el warns about attempts to overwrite a desktop file if it determines
86 that the desktop being saved is not an update of the one on disk.
87
88 ** Etags changes.
89
90 *** If tags-loop-revert-buffers has the value `ask', the tags-scanning
91 loop queries the user interactively if an already-visited file has
92 been changed since the last visit. The new default value is `ask'.
93
94 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.2
95
96 ** bibtex-style-mode helps you write BibTeX's *.bst files.
97
98 ** The new package css-mode.el provides a major mode for editing CSS files.
99
100 ** The new package vera-mode.el provides a major mode for editing Vera files.
101
102 ** The new package verilog-mode.el provides a major mode for editing Verilog files.
103
104 ** The new package socks.el implements the SOCKS v5 protocol.
105
106 ** VC
107
108 *** VC backends can provide completion of revision names.
109
110 *** VC backends can provide extra menu entries to be added to the "Version Control" menu.
111 This can be used to add menu entries for backend specific functions.
112
113 *** VC has some support for Mercurial (Hg).
114
115 *** VC has some support for Monotone (Mtn).
116
117 *** VC has some support for Bazaar (Bzr).
118
119 *** VC has some support for Git.
120
121 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.2
122
123 ** shell.el no longer defines the aliases `dirtrack-toggle' and
124 `dirtrack-mode' for `shell-dirtrack-mode'. These names were removed
125 because they clash with commands provided by dirtrack.el. Use
126 `shell-dirtrack-mode' instead.
127
128 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.2.
129
130 ** Frame-local variables are deprecated and are slated for removal.
131 Use frame parameters instead.
132
133 ** The function invisible-p returns non-nil if the character
134 after a specified position is invisible.
135
136 +++
137 ** inhibit-modification-hooks is bound to t while running modification hooks.
138 As a happy consequence, after-change-functions and before-change-functions
139 are not bound to nil any more while running an (after|before)-change-function.
140
141 ** New function `window-full-width-p' returns t if a window is as wide
142 as its frame.
143
144 ** The new function `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated
145 with a given image specification.
146
147 ** The new function `combine-and-quote-strings' concatenates a list of strings
148 using a specified separator. If a string contains double quotes, they
149 are escaped in the output.
150
151 ** The new function `split-string-and-unquote' performs the inverse operation to
152 `combine-and-quote-strings', i.e. splits a single string into a list
153 of strings, undoing any quoting added by `combine-and-quote-strings'.
154 (For some separator/string combinations, the original strings cannot
155 be recovered.)
156
157 \f
158 * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1
159
160 ** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
161 when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.4 or newer. This port
162 provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).
163
164 ** The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is now part of the distribution.
165
166 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in Info format is built as part of the
167 Emacs build procedure and installed together with the Emacs User
168 Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar to make it easily
169 accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference).
170
171 ** The Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp manual is now part of
172 the distribution.
173
174 This manual is now part of the standard distribution and is installed,
175 together with the Emacs User Manual, into the Info directory. A menu
176 item was added to the menu bar to make it easily accessible
177 (Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp).
178
179 ** Leim is now part of the Emacs distribution.
180 You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build
181 Emacs with Leim.
182
183 ** Support for MacOS X was added.
184 See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
185
186 ** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also
187 create a non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See
188 the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
189
190 ** Support for a Cygwin build of Emacs was added.
191
192 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.
193
194 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added.
195
196 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on Tensilica Xtensa machines was added.
197
198 ** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added.
199
200 ** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the
201 following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
202 with simplified and traditional characters), French, Russian, and
203 Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language
204 setup doesn't automatically select the right one.
205
206 ** New translations of the Emacs reference card are available in the
207 Brasilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files
208 are also included.
209
210 ** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
211
212 ** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix',
213 `--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of
214 installed programs.
215
216 ** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game
217 scores. The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal
218 place for game scores to be stored. You can control this with the
219 configure option `--with-game-dir'. The specific user that Emacs uses
220 to own the game scores is controlled by `--with-game-user'. If access
221 to a game user is not available, then scores will be stored separately
222 in each user's home directory.
223
224 ** Emacs now includes support for loading image libraries on demand.
225 (Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure
226 the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
227 setting the variable `image-library-alist'.
228
229 ** Emacs can now be built without sound support.
230
231 ** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available.
232
233 ** All images used in Emacs have been consolidated in etc/images and subdirs.
234 See also the changes to `find-image', documented below.
235
236 ** Emacs comes with a new set of icons.
237 These icons are displayed on the taskbar and/or titlebar when Emacs
238 runs in a graphical environment. Source files for these icons can be
239 found in etc/images/icons. (You can't change the icons displayed by
240 Emacs by changing these files directly. On X, the icon is compiled
241 into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS
242 Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.)
243
244 ** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code.
245
246 ** The `yow' program has been removed.
247 Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead.
248
249 ** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
250 The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
251 terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.
252
253 ** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
254 contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
255 Emacs crash.
256
257 ** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union
258 types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.
259
260 ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
261 much pure storage it will approximately need.
262
263 \f
264 * Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1
265
266 ** Init file changes
267 If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
268 ~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. Likewise, if the shell init file
269 ~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh.
270
271 ** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display.
272 When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options
273 `--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame
274 whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire
275 screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.)
276
277 ** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
278 arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash
279 disables the splash screen; see also the variable
280 `inhibit-splash-screen' (which is also aliased as
281 `inhibit-startup-message').
282
283 ** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
284 When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
285 displays a buffer menu. This option turns the buffer menu off.
286
287 ** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables
288 the blinking cursor on graphical terminals.
289
290 ** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE.
291 It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they
292 can start with this line:
293
294 #!/usr/bin/emacs --script
295
296 ** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function,
297 now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
298 an interactively callable function.
299
300 ** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately.
301 Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they
302 appear on the command line. For example, with this command line:
303
304 emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)"
305
306 Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then
307 in the other directories in `load-path'. (-L is short for --directory.)
308
309 ** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to
310 all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only
311 affects the initial frame.
312
313 ** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does,
314 with respect to its frame position: if you don't specify a position
315 (in your .emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry
316 command-line option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows'
317 window manager.
318
319 ** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
320 --no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated.
321
322 ** If the environment variable DISPLAY specifies an unreachable X display,
323 Emacs will now startup as if invoked with the --no-window-system option.
324
325 ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
326 automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save
327 modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It
328 can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,
329 according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
330
331 ** New command line option -Q or --quick.
332 This is like using -q --no-site-file, but in addition it also disables
333 the fancy startup screen.
334
335 ** New command line option -D or --basic-display.
336 Disables the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, and
337 the blinking cursor.
338
339 ** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon.
340 The command-line options --icon-type, -i have been replaced with
341 options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn the bitmap icon off.
342
343 ** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value
344 to compute the default value of `user-mail-address', in preference to
345 concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine.
346
347 \f
348 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
349
350 ** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
351
352 See below for more details.
353
354 ** When the undo information of the current command gets really large
355 (beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns
356 you about it.
357
358 ** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name.
359 This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the
360 need to quote the space with a C-q. The underlying changes in the
361 keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under
362 "New keymaps for typing file names".
363
364 If you want the old behavior back, add these two key bindings to your
365 ~/.emacs init file:
366
367 (define-key minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map
368 " " 'minibuffer-complete-word)
369 (define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map
370 " " 'minibuffer-complete-word)
371
372 ** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
373 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
374 it remains unchanged.
375
376 ** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special.
377
378 See below under "incremental search changes".
379
380 ** M-g is now a prefix key.
381 M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line.
382 M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `).
383 M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error.
384
385 ** C-u M-g M-g switches to the most recent previous buffer,
386 and goes to the specified line in that buffer.
387
388 When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at
389 point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer.
390
391 ** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
392 M-o M-o requests refontification.
393
394 ** C-x C-f RET (find-file), typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer
395 a special case.
396
397 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
398 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
399 directory with Dired.
400
401 You can get the old behavior by typing C-x C-f M-n RET, which fetches
402 the actual file name into the minibuffer.
403
404 ** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
405 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
406 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
407 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
408 doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
409 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
410
411 ** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
412 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
413
414 ** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
415 in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.
416
417 ** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
418
419 ** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
420 It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.
421
422 ** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
423 since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
424 the operating system or your X server.
425
426 ** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19)
427 have been removed:
428 C-x / point-to-register (Use: C-x r SPC)
429 C-x j jump-to-register (Use: C-x r j)
430 C-x x copy-to-register (Use: C-x r s)
431 C-x g insert-register (Use: C-x r i)
432
433 \f
434 * Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
435
436 ** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled.
437 On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455).
438
439 ** !MEM FULL! at the start of the mode line indicates that Emacs
440 cannot get any more memory for Lisp data. This often means it could
441 crash soon if you do things that use more memory. On most systems,
442 killing buffers will get out of this state. If killing buffers does
443 not make !MEM FULL! disappear, you should save your work and start
444 a new Emacs.
445
446 ** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.
447
448 ** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can
449 be inconvenient when you did not expect them. The variable
450 `yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion
451 of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.
452
453 ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
454 By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
455
456 ** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N
457 converts whitespace around point to N spaces.
458
459 ** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left
460 (previous-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and
461 C-x right can be used as well. The functions keep a different buffer
462 cycle for each frame, using the frame-local buffer list.
463
464 ** C-x 5 C-o displays a specified buffer in another frame
465 but does not switch to that frame. It's the multi-frame
466 analogue of C-x 4 C-o.
467
468 ** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now
469 understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and
470 `same-window'.
471
472 ** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
473 `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
474
475 ** M-x setenv now expands environment variable references.
476
477 Substrings of the form `$foo' and `${foo}' in the specified new value
478 now refer to the value of environment variable foo. To include a `$'
479 in the value, use `$$'.
480
481 ** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
482 been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
483 in Paragraph-Indent Text mode.
484
485 ** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken
486 from the locale.
487
488 ** Help command changes:
489
490 *** Changes in C-h bindings:
491
492 C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer.
493
494 C-h d runs apropos-documentation.
495
496 C-h r visits the Emacs Manual in Info.
497
498 C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files
499 that do not change:
500
501 C-h C-f displays the FAQ.
502 C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file.
503
504 The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
505 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
506
507 C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands.
508 - C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping)
509 run by the key sequence.
510 - C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the
511 command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run
512 that command.
513
514 For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped
515 to new-kill-line, these commands now report:
516 - C-h c and C-h k C-k reports:
517 C-k runs the command new-kill-line
518 - C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports:
519 kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline>
520 - C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports:
521 new-kill-line is on C-k
522
523 *** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match.
524 When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must
525 be present for an item to match. Regular expression matching is still
526 available.
527
528 *** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
529 to be sorted according to their score. The score for an item is a
530 number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
531 regular expression that you entered to the apropos command. The best
532 match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each
533 matching item.
534
535 *** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
536 arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the
537 default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
538 `help-default-arg-highlight'.
539
540 *** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for
541 variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available).
542
543 *** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is
544 preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes
545 hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless
546 preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'. It now makes
547 hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is
548 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info
549 anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). In
550 addition, it now makes hyperlinks to URLs as well if the URL is
551 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `URL'.
552
553 *** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
554 description various information about a character, including its
555 encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and
556 widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by
557 clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
558
559 *** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because
560 C-u C-x = gives the same information and more.
561
562 *** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
563 in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the
564 same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
565 `help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
566 keyboard oriented alternative.
567
568 *** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows you to
569 automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
570 point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is
571 determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
572 to one second. This feature is turned off by default.
573
574 ** Mark command changes:
575
576 *** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
577 previous mark if you set `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' to t. I.e. C-u
578 C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC
579 to set the mark immediately after a jump.
580
581 *** Marking commands extend the region when invoked multiple times.
582
583 If you type C-M-SPC (mark-sexp), M-@ (mark-word), M-h
584 (mark-paragraph), or C-M-h (mark-defun) repeatedly, the marked region
585 extends each time, so you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC
586 M-C-SPC, for example. This feature also works for
587 mark-end-of-sentence, if you bind that to a key. It also extends the
588 region when the mark is active in Transient Mark mode, regardless of
589 the last command. To start a new region with one of marking commands
590 in Transient Mark mode, you can deactivate the active region with C-g,
591 or set the new mark with C-SPC.
592
593 *** Some commands do something special in Transient Mark mode when the
594 mark is active--for instance, they limit their operation to the
595 region. Even if you don't normally use Transient Mark mode, you might
596 want to get this behavior from a particular command. There are two
597 ways you can enable Transient Mark mode and activate the mark, for one
598 command only.
599
600 One method is to type C-SPC C-SPC; this enables Transient Mark mode
601 and sets the mark at point. The other method is to type C-u C-x C-x.
602 This enables Transient Mark mode temporarily but does not alter the
603 mark or the region.
604
605 After these commands, Transient Mark mode remains enabled until you
606 deactivate the mark. That typically happens when you type a command
607 that alters the buffer, but you can also deactivate the mark by typing
608 C-g.
609
610 *** Movement commands `beginning-of-buffer', `end-of-buffer',
611 `beginning-of-defun', `end-of-defun' do not set the mark if the mark
612 is already active in Transient Mark mode.
613
614 *** M-h (mark-paragraph) now accepts a prefix arg.
615
616 With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following paragraphs;
617 if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding
618 paragraphs.
619
620 ** Incremental Search changes:
621
622 *** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or
623 `query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current
624 search string used as the string to replace.
625
626 *** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word,
627 making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the
628 command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior,
629 bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'.
630
631 *** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already
632 at the end of a line.
633
634 *** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode.
635 Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e'
636 and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer.
637
638 *** Vertical scrolling is now possible within incremental search.
639 To enable this feature, customize the new user option
640 `isearch-allow-scroll'. User written commands which satisfy stringent
641 constraints can be marked as "scrolling commands". See the Emacs manual
642 for details.
643
644 *** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command
645 history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new
646 user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'.
647
648 ** Replace command changes:
649
650 *** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and
651 `replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string,
652 where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement
653 time. `\#' in a replacement string now refers to the count of
654 replacements already made by the replacement command. All regular
655 expression replacement commands now allow `\?' in the replacement
656 string to specify a position where the replacement string can be
657 edited for each replacement. `query-replace-regexp-eval' is now
658 deprecated since it offers no additional functionality.
659
660 *** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option
661 `query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil.
662
663 *** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face
664 `query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face.
665
666 *** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
667 `query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
668 a match if part of it has a read-only property.
669
670 ** Local variables lists:
671
672 *** If the local variables list contains any variable-value pairs that
673 are not known to be safe, Emacs shows a prompt asking whether to apply
674 the local variables list as a whole. In earlier versions, a prompt
675 was only issued for variables explicitly marked as risky (for the
676 definition of risky variables, see `risky-local-variable-p').
677
678 At the prompt, you can choose to save the contents of this local
679 variables list to `safe-local-variable-values'. This new customizable
680 option is a list of variable-value pairs that are known to be safe.
681 Variables can also be marked as safe with the existing
682 `safe-local-variable' property (see `safe-local-variable-p').
683 However, risky variables will not be added to
684 `safe-local-variable-values' in this way.
685
686 *** The variable `enable-local-variables' controls how local variable
687 lists are handled. t, the default, specifies the standard querying
688 behavior. :safe means use only safe values, and ignore the rest.
689 :all means set all variables, whether or not they are safe.
690 nil means ignore them all. Anything else means always query.
691
692 *** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that
693 are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables
694 specification. Normally Emacs asks for confirmation before evaluating
695 such a form, but if the form appears in this list, no confirmation is
696 needed.
697
698 *** If a function has a non-nil `safe-local-eval-function' property,
699 that means it is ok to evaluate some calls to that function when it
700 appears in an `eval' local variables specification. If the property
701 is t, then any form calling that function with constant arguments is
702 ok. If the property is a function or list of functions, they are called
703 with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.
704
705 If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
706 confirmation as before.
707
708 *** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and
709 suffix from every line before processing all the lines.
710
711 *** Text properties in local variables.
712
713 A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text
714 properties--any specified text properties are discarded.
715
716 ** File operation changes:
717
718 *** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
719 the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
720 Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
721 is only rarely needed.
722
723 *** C-x C-f RET, typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case.
724
725 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
726 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
727 directory with Dired.
728
729 *** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer
730 against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving.
731
732 *** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default.
733
734 *** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',
735 Emacs asks for confirmation.
736
737 *** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
738 add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
739 convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of
740 the existing file's name. (This is the same convention that shell
741 commands cp, mv, and ln follow.) Thus, M-x copy-file RET ~/foo RET
742 /tmp RET copies ~/foo to /tmp/foo.
743
744 *** require-final-newline now has two new possible values:
745
746 `visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed
747 when visiting the file.
748
749 `visit-save' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's
750 needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed
751 when saving the file.
752
753 *** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain
754 major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's
755 designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline
756 sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline.
757 So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these
758 modes do.
759
760 *** When you are root, and you visit a file whose modes specify
761 read-only, the Emacs buffer is now read-only too. Type C-x C-q if you
762 want to make the buffer writable. (As root, you can in fact alter the
763 file.)
764
765 *** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode,
766 when the file name contains wildcard characters.
767
768 *** find-alternate-file replaces the current file with multiple files,
769 when the file name contains wildcard characters. It now asks if you
770 wish save your changes and not just offer to kill the buffer.
771
772 *** When used interactively, `format-write-file' now asks for confirmation
773 before overwriting an existing file, unless a prefix argument is
774 supplied. This behavior is analogous to `write-file'.
775
776 *** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that
777 controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will
778 attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files).
779
780 *** The new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync
781 in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up
782 the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result
783 in data loss, use with care.
784
785 ** Minibuffer changes:
786
787 *** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
788 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
789 it remains unchanged.
790
791 *** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when
792 entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed.
793
794 *** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
795 Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the
796 variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the
797 prompt string.
798
799 *** Enhanced visual feedback in `*Completions*' buffer.
800
801 Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions
802 have in common and where they begin to differ.
803
804 The common prefix shared by all possible completions uses the face
805 `completions-common-part', while the first character that isn't the
806 same uses the face `completions-first-difference'. By default,
807 `completions-common-part' inherits from `default', and
808 `completions-first-difference' inherits from `bold'. The idea of
809 `completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common
810 parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing
811 parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted.
812
813 Above fontification is always done when listing completions is
814 triggered at minibuffer. If you want to fontify completions whose
815 listing is triggered at the other normal buffer, you have to pass
816 the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as
817 its second argument.
818
819 *** File-name completion can now ignore specified directories.
820 If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a
821 slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when
822 completing file names. Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions'
823 which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion
824 candidate is a directory.
825
826 *** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'.
827 If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
828 elements are deleted from the history list.
829
830 ** Redisplay changes:
831
832 *** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line
833 of non-selected windows. The `mode-line' face is now used to display
834 the mode line of the currently selected window.
835
836 The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
837 the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.
838
839 *** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
840 When the file is maintained under version control, that information
841 appears between the position information and the major mode.
842
843 *** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this
844 for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the
845 top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To
846 control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x
847 set-fringe-style.
848
849 *** Angle icons in the fringes can indicate the buffer boundaries. In
850 addition, up and down arrow bitmaps in the fringe indicate which ways
851 the window can be scrolled.
852
853 This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable
854 `indicate-buffer-boundaries' to a non-nil value. The default value of
855 this variable is found in `default-indicate-buffer-boundaries'.
856
857 If value is `left' or `right', both angle and arrow bitmaps are
858 displayed in the left or right fringe, resp.
859
860 The value can also be an alist which specifies the presence and
861 position of each bitmap individually.
862
863 For example, ((top . left) (t . right)) places the top angle bitmap
864 in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both
865 arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the
866 left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).
867
868 *** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window
869 (not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into
870 two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line).
871 Instead, the newline now "overflows" into the right fringe, and the
872 cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline.
873
874 The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' can be set to nil to
875 revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines.
876
877 *** A window can now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings,
878 in addition to the individual display margin settings.
879
880 Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
881 horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
882 or when the frame is resized.
883
884 *** When a window has display margin areas, the fringes are now
885 displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than
886 outside those margins.
887
888 *** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs.
889
890 *** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now displayed with a special
891 face, either nobreak-space or escape-glyph. You can turn this off or
892 specify a different mode by setting the variable `nobreak-char-display'.
893
894 *** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized.
895 The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from
896 the window edge point is allowed to get before automatic hscrolling
897 will horizontally scroll the window. The default value is 5.
898
899 The variable `hscroll-step' determines how many columns automatic
900 hscrolling scrolls the window when point gets too close to the
901 window edge. If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the
902 window so as to center point. If its value is an integer, it says how
903 many columns to scroll. If the value is a floating-point number, it
904 gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.
905
906 The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to
907 `auto-hscroll-mode'. The old name is still available as an alias.
908
909 *** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than
910 the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
911 vscroll property.
912
913 *** Preemptive redisplay now adapts to current load and bandwidth.
914
915 To avoid preempting redisplay on fast computers, networks, and displays,
916 the arrival of new input is now performed at regular intervals during
917 redisplay. The new variable `redisplay-preemption-period' specifies
918 the period; the default is to check for input every 0.1 seconds.
919
920 *** The %c and %l constructs are now ignored in frame-title-format.
921 Due to technical limitations in how Emacs interacts with windowing
922 systems, these constructs often failed to render properly, and could
923 even cause Emacs to crash.
924
925 *** If value of `auto-resize-tool-bars' is `grow-only', the tool bar
926 will expand as needed, but not contract automatically. To contract
927 the tool bar, you must type C-l.
928
929 *** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
930 overline and text.
931
932 *** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
933 position of the underline. When set, it overrides the
934 `x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.
935
936 ** New faces:
937
938 *** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive
939 elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
940 areas.
941
942 *** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
943 parts of the mode line.
944
945 *** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.
946 the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text.
947 This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either
948 black or white default foreground color. This generic shadow face
949 allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place,
950 so package-specific faces can inherit from it.
951
952 *** `vertical-border' face is used for the vertical divider between windows.
953
954 ** Font-Lock (syntax highlighting) changes:
955
956 *** All modes now support using M-x font-lock-mode to toggle
957 fontification, even those such as Occur, Info, and comint-derived
958 modes that do their own fontification in a special way.
959
960 The variable `Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable
961 fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from
962 `Info-mode-hook'.
963
964 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
965
966 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.
967
968 *** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked.
969 You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of
970 the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode,
971 cperl-mode and make-mode support this.
972
973 *** Font-Lock mode: in major modes such as Lisp mode, where some Emacs
974 features assume that an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of
975 any string or comment, Font-Lock now highlights any such open-paren in
976 bold-red if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it
977 can cause trouble. You should rewrite the string or comment so that
978 the open-paren is not in column 0.
979
980 *** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
981 M-o M-o requests refontification.
982
983 *** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed.
984 The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now nil
985 instead of 3. This setting of jit-lock-stealth-time disables stealth
986 fontification: on today's machines, it may be a bug in font lock
987 patterns if fontification otherwise noticeably degrades interactivity.
988 If you find movement in infrequently visited buffers sluggish (and the
989 major mode maintainer has no better idea), customizing
990 jit-lock-stealth-time to a non-nil value will let Emacs fontify
991 buffers in the background when it considers the system to be idle.
992 jit-lock-stealth-nice is now 0.5 instead of 0.125 which is supposed to
993 cause less load than the old defaults.
994
995 *** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'.
996
997 If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs
998 idle time in seconds to wait before starting fontification. For
999 example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will
1000 only happen after 0.25s of idle time.
1001
1002 *** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification.
1003
1004 jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and
1005 jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual
1006 refontification takes place.
1007
1008 *** lazy-lock is considered obsolete.
1009
1010 The `lazy-lock' package is superseded by `jit-lock' and is considered
1011 obsolete. `jit-lock' is activated by default; if you wish to continue
1012 using `lazy-lock', activate it in your ~/.emacs like this:
1013 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
1014
1015 If you invoke `lazy-lock-mode' directly rather than through
1016 `font-lock-support-mode', it now issues a warning:
1017 "Use font-lock-support-mode rather than calling lazy-lock-mode"
1018
1019 ** Menu support:
1020
1021 *** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
1022 This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such
1023 as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself).
1024 You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn
1025 it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of
1026 current date and time, current line and column number in the mode-line.
1027
1028 *** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".
1029
1030 *** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..."
1031 and "Open File...". "Open File..." now opens only existing files. This is
1032 to support existing GUI file selection dialogs better.
1033
1034 *** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/LessTif can be
1035 disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'.
1036
1037 *** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can
1038 be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32).
1039
1040 *** The menu bar for Motif/LessTif/Lucid/Gtk+ can be navigated with keys.
1041 Pressing F10 shows the first menu in the menu bar. Navigation is done with
1042 the arrow keys, select with the return key and cancel with the escape keys.
1043
1044 *** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have
1045 to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example
1046 `-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'.
1047
1048 *** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and LessTif/Motif now pop down on pressing
1049 ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32.
1050
1051 *** For the Gtk+ version, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog
1052 by setting the variable `x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use
1053 the new dialog.
1054
1055 *** You can exit dialog windows and menus by typing C-g.
1056
1057 ** Buffer Menu changes:
1058
1059 *** The new options `buffers-menu-show-directories' and
1060 `buffers-menu-show-status' let you control how buffers are displayed
1061 in the menu dropped down when you click "Buffers" from the menu bar.
1062
1063 `buffers-menu-show-directories' controls whether the menu displays
1064 leading directories as part of the file name visited by the buffer.
1065 If its value is `unless-uniquify', the default, directories are
1066 shown unless uniquify-buffer-name-style' is non-nil. The value of nil
1067 and t turn the display of directories off and on, respectively.
1068
1069 `buffers-menu-show-status' controls whether the Buffers menu includes
1070 the modified and read-only status of the buffers. By default it is
1071 t, and the status is shown.
1072
1073 Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time
1074 the Buffers menu is regenerated.
1075
1076 *** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file
1077 buffers only in the Buffer Menu. It is bound to T in Buffer Menu
1078 mode.
1079
1080 *** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
1081 with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers
1082 whose names begin with space are omitted.
1083
1084 ** Mouse changes:
1085
1086 *** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
1087
1088 Traditionally, Emacs uses a Mouse-1 click to set point and a Mouse-2
1089 click to follow a link, whereas most other applications use a Mouse-1
1090 click for both purposes, depending on whether you click outside or
1091 inside a link. Now the behavior of a Mouse-1 click has been changed
1092 to match this context-sensitive dual behavior. (If you prefer the old
1093 behavior, set the user option `mouse-1-click-follows-link' to nil.)
1094
1095 Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs can do much
1096 more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
1097 activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
1098 (see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details). The Lisp
1099 packages that are included in release 22.1 have been adapted to do
1100 this, but external packages may not yet support this. However, there
1101 is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
1102 happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
1103 on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.
1104
1105 If you want to get the original Mouse-1 action also inside a link, you
1106 just need to press the Mouse-1 button a little longer than a normal
1107 click (i.e. press and hold the Mouse-1 button for half a second before
1108 you release it).
1109
1110 Dragging the Mouse-1 inside a link still performs the original
1111 drag-mouse-1 action, typically copy the text.
1112
1113 You can customize the new Mouse-1 behavior via the new user options
1114 `mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'.
1115
1116 *** If you set the new variable `mouse-autoselect-window' to a non-nil
1117 value, windows are automatically selected as you move the mouse from
1118 one Emacs window to another, even within a frame. A minibuffer window
1119 can be selected only when it is active.
1120
1121 *** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
1122 select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
1123 normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set
1124 the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected
1125 window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame
1126 to give it focus.
1127
1128 *** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse
1129 is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
1130 can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
1131 mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can
1132 also disable mouse highlighting.
1133
1134 *** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
1135 shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
1136 variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.
1137
1138 *** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.
1139
1140 *** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved.
1141
1142 People tend to push the mouse wheel (which counts as a mouse-2 click)
1143 unintentionally while turning the wheel, so these clicks are now
1144 ignored. You can customize this with the mouse-wheel-click-event and
1145 mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.
1146
1147 *** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
1148 (rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.
1149
1150 ** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:
1151
1152 *** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
1153 construct. Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
1154 -*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
1155 various global and per-coding-system translation tables. You can also
1156 specify it in a local variable list at the end of the file. For
1157 shortcut, instead of using this long variable name, you can append the
1158 character "!" at the end of coding-system name specified in -*-
1159 construct or in a local variable list. For example, if a file has the
1160 following header, it is decoded by the coding system `iso-latin-1'
1161 without any character translation:
1162 ;; -*- coding: iso-latin-1!; -*-
1163
1164 *** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup
1165 more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale
1166 name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
1167 This change can result in using the different coding systems as
1168 default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN).
1169
1170 *** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your
1171 current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This
1172 can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
1173 characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
1174 emulator) works. Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
1175 keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
1176 or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
1177 by the keyboard. See Info node `Unibyte Mode'.
1178
1179 *** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
1180 coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item
1181 (Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
1182 command.
1183
1184 *** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
1185 revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.
1186
1187 *** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
1188 coding system.
1189
1190 *** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
1191 of a file.
1192
1193 *** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
1194 unicode.
1195
1196 *** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type
1197 in the current input method to input a character at point.
1198
1199 *** Limited support for character `unification' has been added.
1200 Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of
1201 the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard
1202 Unicode mappings. This applies mainly to characters in the ISO 8859
1203 sets plus some other 8-bit sets, but can be extended. For instance,
1204 translation works amongst the Emacs ...-iso8859-... charsets and the
1205 mule-unicode-... ones.
1206
1207 By default this translation happens automatically on encoding.
1208 Self-inserting characters are translated to make the input conformant
1209 with the encoding of the buffer in which it's being used, where
1210 possible.
1211
1212 You can force a more complete unification with the user option
1213 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode. That maps all the Latin-N character sets
1214 into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and
1215 mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode
1216 will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding.
1217
1218 *** New language environments (set up automatically according to the
1219 locale): Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, Esperanto,
1220 French, Georgian, Italian, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam,
1221 Russian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8,Ukrainian,
1222 Welsh,Latin-6, Windows-1255.
1223
1224 *** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
1225 belarusian, bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng (for
1226 Chinese Pinyin characters), croatian, dutch, georgian, latvian-keyboard,
1227 lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, malayalam-inscript, rfc1345,
1228 russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, tamil-inscript, ukrainian-computer,
1229 ucs, vietnamese-telex, welsh.
1230
1231 *** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
1232 either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
1233 when possible. The latter are more space-efficient.
1234 This is controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.
1235
1236 *** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is
1237 automatically activated if you select Thai as a language
1238 environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to
1239 versions which recognize Thai words. Affected commands are
1240 M-f (forward-word)
1241 M-b (backward-word)
1242 M-d (kill-word)
1243 M-DEL (backward-kill-word)
1244 M-t (transpose-words)
1245 M-q (fill-paragraph)
1246
1247 *** Indian support has been updated.
1248 The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are
1249 assumed. There is a framework for supporting various Indian scripts,
1250 but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are supported.
1251
1252 *** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
1253 By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into
1254 single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is
1255 turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character
1256 sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS
1257 system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not
1258 interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil.
1259 You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
1260 `ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8
1261 coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's
1262 one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones.
1263 The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly.
1264
1265 *** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.
1266
1267 *** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
1268 in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
1269 Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
1270
1271 *** Many new coding systems are available in the `code-pages' library.
1272 These include complete versions of most of those in codepage.el, based
1273 on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now obsolete and is used
1274 only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. All coding systems defined in
1275 `code-pages' are auto-loaded.
1276
1277 *** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which
1278 Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'.
1279
1280 *** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of
1281 characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the
1282 fontset appropriately.
1283
1284 ** Customize changes:
1285
1286 *** Custom themes are collections of customize options. Create a
1287 custom theme with M-x customize-create-theme. Use M-x load-theme to
1288 load and enable a theme, and M-x disable-theme to disable it. Use M-x
1289 enable-theme to enable a disabled theme.
1290
1291 *** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
1292 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are
1293 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
1294 faces.
1295
1296 *** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing.
1297 In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding
1298 check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection
1299 for that attribute; the values you can choose are only those which make
1300 sense for the attribute. When an attribute is de-selected by unchecking
1301 its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in
1302 case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden.
1303
1304 *** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer,
1305 the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable.
1306 You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value"
1307 under the "[State]" button.
1308
1309 ** Dired mode:
1310
1311 *** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
1312 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
1313 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
1314 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
1315 double quotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
1316 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
1317
1318 *** The Dired command `dired-goto-file' is now bound to j, not M-g.
1319 This is to avoid hiding the global key binding of M-g.
1320
1321 *** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
1322 dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
1323 introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
1324
1325 *** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
1326 with different file attributes in two dired buffers.
1327
1328 *** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
1329 of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.
1330
1331 *** In Dired, the w command now stores the current line's file name
1332 into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, it stores the absolute file name.
1333
1334 *** In Dired-x, Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode.
1335
1336 The mode toggling command is bound to M-o. A new command
1337 dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, marks omitted files. The variable
1338 dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the mode toggling function
1339 instead.
1340
1341 *** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args
1342 have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and
1343 directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a
1344 directory listing into a buffer.
1345
1346 ** Comint changes:
1347
1348 *** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in subshells
1349 running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment variable,
1350 which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs that need
1351 to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check INSIDE_EMACS
1352 instead of EMACS.
1353
1354 *** The comint prompt can now be made read-only, using the new user
1355 option `comint-prompt-read-only'. This is not enabled by default,
1356 except in IELM buffers. The read-only status of IELM prompts can be
1357 controlled with the new user option `ielm-prompt-read-only', which
1358 overrides `comint-prompt-read-only'.
1359
1360 The new commands `comint-kill-whole-line' and `comint-kill-region'
1361 support editing comint buffers with read-only prompts.
1362
1363 `comint-kill-whole-line' is like `kill-whole-line', but ignores both
1364 read-only and field properties. Hence, it always kill entire
1365 lines, including any prompts.
1366
1367 `comint-kill-region' is like `kill-region', except that it ignores
1368 read-only properties, if it is safe to do so. This means that if any
1369 part of a prompt is deleted, then the entire prompt must be deleted
1370 and that all prompts must stay at the beginning of a line. If this is
1371 not the case, then `comint-kill-region' behaves just like
1372 `kill-region' if read-only properties are involved: it copies the text
1373 to the kill-ring, but does not delete it.
1374
1375 *** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived
1376 modes (shell-mode, etc.) inserts arguments from previous command lines,
1377 like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but
1378 otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.
1379
1380 *** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed
1381 `comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias,
1382 but declared obsolete.
1383
1384 ** M-x Compile changes:
1385
1386 *** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable
1387
1388 Quite a few more kinds of messages are recognized. Messages that are
1389 recognized as warnings or informational come in orange or green, instead of
1390 red. Informational messages are by default skipped with `next-error'
1391 (controlled by `compilation-skip-threshold').
1392
1393 Location data is collected on the fly as the *compilation* buffer changes.
1394 This means you could modify messages to make them point to different files.
1395 This also means you can not go to locations of messages you may have deleted.
1396
1397 The variable `compilation-error-regexp-alist' has now become customizable. If
1398 you had added your own regexps to this, you'll probably need to include a
1399 leading `^', otherwise they'll match anywhere on a line. There is now also a
1400 `compilation-mode-font-lock-keywords' and it nicely handles all the checks
1401 that configure outputs and -o options so you see at a glance where you are.
1402
1403 The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message.
1404
1405 *** New user option `compilation-environment'.
1406 This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
1407 compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
1408 subprocesses inherit.
1409
1410 *** New user option `compilation-disable-input'.
1411 If this is non-nil, send end-of-file as compilation process input.
1412
1413 *** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'
1414 specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line
1415 in new face `next-error'.
1416
1417 *** A new minor mode `next-error-follow-minor-mode' can be used in
1418 compilation-mode, grep-mode, occur-mode, and diff-mode (i.e. all the
1419 modes that can use `next-error'). In this mode, cursor motion in the
1420 buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
1421 matches, compilation errors, etc. This minor mode can be toggled with
1422 C-c C-f.
1423
1424 *** When the left fringe is displayed, an arrow points to current message in
1425 the compilation buffer.
1426
1427 *** The new variable `compilation-context-lines' controls lines of leading
1428 context before the current message. If nil and the left fringe is displayed,
1429 it doesn't scroll the compilation output window. If there is no left fringe,
1430 no arrow is displayed and a value of nil means display the message at the top
1431 of the window.
1432
1433 ** Occur mode changes:
1434
1435 *** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
1436 search multiple buffers. There is also a new command
1437 `multi-occur-in-matching-buffers' which allows you to specify the
1438 buffers to search by their filenames or buffer names. Internally,
1439 Occur mode has been rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other
1440 changes.
1441
1442 *** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
1443 the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.
1444
1445 *** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
1446 C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without
1447 switching to it.
1448
1449 ** Grep changes:
1450
1451 *** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.
1452
1453 There's a new separate package grep.el, with its own submenu and
1454 customization group.
1455
1456 *** `grep-find' is now also available under the name `find-grep' where
1457 people knowing `find-grep-dired' would probably expect it.
1458
1459 *** New commands `lgrep' (local grep) and `rgrep' (recursive grep) are
1460 more user-friendly versions of `grep' and `grep-find', which prompt
1461 separately for the regular expression to match, the files to search,
1462 and the base directory for the search. Case sensitivity of the
1463 search is controlled by the current value of `case-fold-search'.
1464
1465 These commands build the shell commands based on the new variables
1466 `grep-template' (lgrep) and `grep-find-template' (rgrep).
1467
1468 The files to search can use aliases defined in `grep-files-aliases'.
1469
1470 Subdirectories listed in `grep-find-ignored-directories' such as those
1471 typically used by various version control systems, like CVS and arch,
1472 are automatically skipped by `rgrep'.
1473
1474 *** The grep commands provide highlighting support.
1475
1476 Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange. Grep buffers
1477 can be saved and automatically revisited.
1478
1479 *** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlights matches in *grep*
1480 buffer. It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept
1481 --color option to output markers around matches. When going to the next
1482 match with `next-error' the exact match is highlighted in the source
1483 buffer. Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole
1484 source line is highlighted.
1485
1486 *** New key bindings in grep output window:
1487 SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down. C-n and C-p moves to next and
1488 previous match in the grep window. RET jumps to the source line of
1489 the current match. `n' and `p' shows next and previous match in
1490 other window, but does not switch buffer. `{' and `}' jumps to the
1491 previous or next file in the grep output. TAB also jumps to the next
1492 file.
1493
1494 *** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
1495 by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically
1496 detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
1497 When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed
1498 unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated
1499 command lines to be used than was possible before.
1500
1501 *** The new variables `grep-window-height' and `grep-scroll-output' override
1502 the corresponding compilation mode settings, for grep commands only.
1503
1504 ** Cursor display changes:
1505
1506 *** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor.
1507 The underscore cursor is set by putting `(cursor-type . hbar)' in
1508 default-frame-alist. It supports variable heights, like the `bar'
1509 cursor does.
1510
1511 *** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any
1512 of the recognized cursor types.
1513
1514 *** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any)
1515 of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor
1516 appears in.
1517
1518 *** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs
1519 uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor.
1520
1521 *** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking.
1522
1523 *** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is
1524 now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'.
1525
1526 ** X Windows Support:
1527
1528 *** Emacs now supports drag and drop for X. Dropping a file on a window
1529 opens it, dropping text inserts the text. Dropping a file on a dired
1530 buffer copies or moves the file to that directory.
1531
1532 *** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper).
1533 The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym',
1534 and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should
1535 use for the modifiers. For example, the following two lines swap
1536 Meta and Alt:
1537 (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)
1538 (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt)
1539
1540 *** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which can
1541 speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.
1542
1543 If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of
1544 XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on.
1545
1546 *** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
1547 requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that
1548 Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
1549 and use the more appropriately result.
1550
1551 *** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
1552 On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
1553 amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).
1554
1555 ** Xterm support:
1556
1557 *** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
1558 on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.
1559
1560 *** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
1561 When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
1562 The following should work:
1563 {C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
1564 These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8 (and later versions),
1565 they might not work on some older versions of xterm, or on some
1566 proprietary versions.
1567 The various keys generated by xterm when the "modifyOtherKeys"
1568 resource is set are also supported.
1569
1570 ** Character terminal color support changes:
1571
1572 *** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard
1573 mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character
1574 terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal
1575 database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't
1576 set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable
1577 terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls'
1578 when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors
1579 in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the
1580 user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter.
1581
1582 *** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more
1583 than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and
1584 256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup
1585 the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for
1586 all of these colors.
1587
1588 *** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default
1589 faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and
1590 256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an
1591 88-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face
1592 colors as on X.
1593
1594 *** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.
1595
1596 ** ebnf2ps changes:
1597
1598 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-extra-width' which specify extra width for arrow
1599 shape drawing.
1600 The extra width is used to avoid that the arrowhead and the terminal border
1601 overlap. It depends on `ebnf-arrow-shape' and `ebnf-line-width'.
1602
1603 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-scale' which specify the arrow scale.
1604 Values lower than 1.0, shrink the arrow.
1605 Values greater than 1.0, expand the arrow.
1606 \f
1607 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1
1608
1609 ** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1610
1611 The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
1612 cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
1613 With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
1614 keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
1615 region (like delete-selection-mode). Do not enable these modes with
1616 cua-mode. Customize the variable `cua-mode' to enable cua.
1617
1618 The cua-selection-mode enables the CUA keybindings for the region but
1619 does not change the bindings for C-z/C-x/C-c/C-v. It can be used as a
1620 replacement for pc-selection-mode.
1621
1622 In addition, cua provides unified rectangle support with visible
1623 rectangle highlighting: Use C-return to start a rectangle, extend it
1624 using the movement commands (or mouse-3), and cut or copy it using C-x
1625 or C-c (using C-w and M-w also works).
1626
1627 Use M-o and M-c to `open' or `close' the rectangle, use M-b or M-f, to
1628 fill it with blanks or another character, use M-u or M-l to upcase or
1629 downcase the rectangle, use M-i to increment the numbers in the
1630 rectangle, use M-n to fill the rectangle with a numeric sequence (such
1631 as 10 20 30...), use M-r to replace a regexp in the rectangle, and use
1632 M-' or M-/ to restrict command on the rectangle to a subset of the
1633 rows. See the commentary in cua-base.el for more rectangle commands.
1634
1635 Cua also provides unified support for registers: Use a numeric
1636 prefix argument between 0 and 9, i.e. M-0 .. M-9, for C-x, C-c, and
1637 C-v to cut or copy into register 0-9, or paste from register 0-9.
1638
1639 The last text deleted (not killed) is automatically stored in
1640 register 0. This includes text deleted by typing text.
1641
1642 Finally, cua provides a global mark which is set using S-C-space.
1643 When the global mark is active, any text which is cut or copied is
1644 automatically inserted at the global mark position. See the
1645 commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.
1646
1647 The features of cua also works with the standard Emacs bindings for
1648 kill, copy, yank, and undo. If you want to use cua mode, but don't
1649 want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
1650 `cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.
1651
1652 Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older
1653 versions of cua.el and cua-mode.el. To ensure proper operation, you
1654 must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
1655 loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.
1656
1657 ** Tramp is now part of the distribution.
1658
1659 This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote
1660 files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host,
1661 Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used
1662 for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for
1663 the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called
1664 `inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell
1665 connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods
1666 (which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or
1667 `rsync' to do the copying).
1668
1669 Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also
1670 `su' and `sudo'. Ange-FTP is still supported via the `ftp' method.
1671
1672 If you want to disable Tramp you should set
1673
1674 (setq tramp-default-method "ftp")
1675
1676 Removing Tramp, and re-enabling Ange-FTP, can be achieved by M-x
1677 tramp-unload-tramp.
1678
1679 ** The image-dired.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in
1680 other ways manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as
1681 the main interface. Image-Dired provides functionality to generate
1682 simple image galleries.
1683
1684 ** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle
1685 between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c.
1686
1687 ** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
1688
1689 ** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
1690
1691 ** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1692
1693 Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in
1694 Emacs Lisp. The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc
1695 can be started with `C-x * *'. The Calc manual is separate from the
1696 Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the
1697 manual. A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and
1698 `etc/calccard.ps'.
1699
1700 ** Org mode is now part of the Emacs distribution
1701
1702 Org mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and
1703 doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
1704 It also contains a plain-text table editor with spreadsheet-like
1705 capabilities.
1706
1707 The Org mode table editor can be integrated into any major mode by
1708 activating the minor mode, Orgtbl mode.
1709
1710 The documentation for org-mode is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
1711 type "C-h i m org RET" to read that manual. A reference card is
1712 available in `etc/orgcard.tex' and `etc/orgcard.ps'.
1713
1714 ** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1715
1716 ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
1717
1718 To see what modules are available, type
1719 M-x customize-option erc-modules RET.
1720
1721 To start an IRC session with ERC, type M-x erc, and follow the prompts
1722 for server, port, and nick.
1723
1724 ** Rcirc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1725
1726 Rcirc is an Internet relay chat (IRC) client. It supports
1727 simultaneous connections to multiple IRC servers. Each discussion
1728 takes place in its own buffer. For each connection you can join
1729 several channels (many-to-many) and participate in private
1730 (one-to-one) chats. Both channel and private chats are contained in
1731 separate buffers.
1732
1733 To start an IRC session using the default parameters, type M-x irc.
1734 If you type C-u M-x irc, it prompts you for the server, nick, port and
1735 startup channel parameters before connecting.
1736
1737 ** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
1738 customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
1739
1740 ** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1741
1742 Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news
1743 sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the
1744 corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a
1745 separate manual.
1746
1747 ** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
1748 buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...
1749
1750 ** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1751
1752 The ido (interactively do) package is an extension of the iswitchb
1753 package to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition
1754 to interactive buffer switching. Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with
1755 a few exceptions), so don't enable both packages.
1756
1757 ** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
1758 filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
1759 that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
1760 Emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim,
1761 invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable. The display method can
1762 be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.
1763
1764 ** Emacs' keyboard macro facilities have been enhanced by the new
1765 kmacro package.
1766
1767 Keyboard macros are now defined and executed via the F3 and F4 keys:
1768 F3 starts a macro, F4 ends the macro, and pressing F4 again executes
1769 the last macro. While defining the macro, F3 inserts a counter value
1770 which automatically increments every time the macro is executed.
1771
1772 There is now a keyboard macro ring which stores the most recently
1773 defined macros.
1774
1775 The C-x C-k sequence is now a prefix for the kmacro keymap which
1776 defines bindings for moving through the keyboard macro ring,
1777 C-x C-k C-p and C-x C-k C-n, editing the last macro C-x C-k C-e,
1778 manipulating the macro counter and format via C-x C-k C-c,
1779 C-x C-k C-a, and C-x C-k C-f. See the commentary in kmacro.el
1780 for more commands.
1781
1782 The original macro bindings C-x (, C-x ), and C-x e are still
1783 available, but they now interface to the keyboard macro ring too.
1784
1785 The C-x e command now automatically terminates the current macro
1786 before calling it, if used while defining a macro.
1787
1788 In addition, when ending or calling a macro with C-x e, the macro can
1789 be repeated immediately by typing just the `e'. You can customize
1790 this behavior via the variables kmacro-call-repeat-key and
1791 kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg.
1792
1793 Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
1794 C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence
1795 at a time, prompting for the actions to take.
1796
1797 ** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
1798 the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards. The numeric
1799 keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
1800 +, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key. The keypad
1801 package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys.
1802
1803 By customizing the variables `keypad-setup', `keypad-shifted-setup',
1804 `keypad-numlock-setup', and `keypad-numlock-shifted-setup', or by
1805 using the function `keypad-setup', you can rebind all digit keys and
1806 the decimal key of the keypad in one step for each of the four
1807 possible combinations of the Shift key state (not pressed/pressed) and
1808 the NumLock toggle state (off/on).
1809
1810 The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are:
1811 `Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits,
1812 `Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
1813 decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
1814 `Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
1815 for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
1816 where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
1817 `Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
1818 are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
1819 or local keymaps.
1820
1821 ** The printing package is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1822
1823 If you enable the printing package by including (require 'printing) in
1824 the .emacs file, the normal Print item on the File menu is replaced
1825 with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through
1826 ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript
1827 printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by
1828 `ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information.
1829
1830 ** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
1831 files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
1832 mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
1833 which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or
1834 copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc. By default, Longlines
1835 mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior
1836 referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors. This is
1837 similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap
1838 feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil.
1839
1840 ** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing
1841 spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command
1842 letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers
1843 viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values.
1844
1845 ** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
1846 `text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting
1847 these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG
1848 table editing available in modern word processors. The package also
1849 can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such
1850 as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.
1851
1852 ** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in
1853 various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
1854 program files that include other program files.
1855
1856 Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on
1857 all the files in it, such as visiting them or searching and replacing
1858 in them.
1859
1860 ** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you
1861 move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer.
1862 It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts
1863 of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ...
1864
1865 There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers.
1866
1867 ** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
1868 When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible. When disabled, it
1869 restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
1870
1871 ** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
1872 source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.
1873
1874 ** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions.
1875 To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file.
1876
1877 ** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an
1878 "active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually
1879 change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list'
1880 settings.
1881
1882 ** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
1883 events from the console. It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
1884 for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.
1885
1886 ** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
1887 for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or
1888 paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
1889 instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
1890 boundaries during scrolling.
1891
1892 ** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
1893 shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.
1894
1895 ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
1896 varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
1897 var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
1898 section { }). Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
1899 .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
1900 recognized.
1901
1902 ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
1903
1904 ** The new package dns-mode.el adds syntax highlighting of DNS master files.
1905 It is a modern replacement for zone-mode.el, which is now obsolete.
1906
1907 ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
1908 configuration files.
1909
1910 ** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
1911 This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
1912 \f
1913 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:
1914
1915 ** Changes in Dired
1916
1917 *** Bindings for Image-Dired added.
1918 Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been
1919 added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Image-Dired. As a
1920 starting point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d
1921 to display thumbnails of them in a separate buffer.
1922
1923 ** Info mode changes
1924
1925 *** Images in Info pages are supported.
1926
1927 Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
1928 Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
1929 version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.
1930
1931 *** `Info-index' offers completion.
1932
1933 *** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
1934 references and following them calls `browse-url'.
1935
1936 *** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.
1937
1938 Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error
1939 message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through
1940 other nodes. When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps
1941 around the whole manual to the top/final node. The user option
1942 `Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch,
1943 or the default isearch search function that wraps around the current
1944 Info node.
1945
1946 *** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
1947 `Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
1948 search without prompting for a new search string.
1949
1950 *** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
1951 Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
1952 possible matches.
1953
1954 *** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon)
1955 moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using
1956 `Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last').
1957
1958 *** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.
1959
1960 *** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
1961 from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.
1962
1963 *** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
1964 the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix
1965 arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
1966
1967 *** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
1968 and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
1969
1970 *** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
1971 with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").
1972
1973 *** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
1974
1975 If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
1976 `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
1977
1978 *** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil.
1979
1980 ** Emacs server changes
1981
1982 *** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.
1983
1984 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
1985 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start &
1986 % emacsclient -s foo file1
1987 % emacsclient -s bar file2
1988
1989 *** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
1990 `--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given Lisp
1991 expression and to use the given display when visiting files.
1992
1993 *** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.
1994
1995 ** Locate changes
1996
1997 *** By default, reverting the *Locate* buffer now just runs the last
1998 `locate' command back over again without offering to update the locate
1999 database (which normally only works if you have root privileges). If
2000 you prefer the old behavior, set the new customizable option
2001 `locate-update-when-revert' to t.
2002
2003 ** Desktop package
2004
2005 *** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, `desktop-save-mode'.
2006
2007 *** The variable `desktop-enable' is obsolete.
2008
2009 Customize `desktop-save-mode' to enable desktop saving.
2010
2011 *** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
2012 buffer list.
2013
2014 *** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers
2015 immediately, remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is
2016 idle).
2017
2018 *** New command line option --no-desktop
2019
2020 *** New commands:
2021 - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
2022 - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
2023 - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
2024 it was loaded.
2025 - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
2026 - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.
2027
2028 *** New customizable variables:
2029 - desktop-save. Determines whether the desktop should be saved when it is
2030 killed.
2031 - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
2032 - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
2033 - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save.
2034 - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear.
2035 - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear'
2036 should not delete.
2037 - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are
2038 restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
2039 - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers.
2040 - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.
2041
2042 *** New hooks:
2043 - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
2044 - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
2045
2046 ** Recentf changes
2047
2048 The recent file list is now automatically cleaned up when recentf mode is
2049 enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do
2050 automatic cleanup.
2051
2052 The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut
2053 keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via
2054 the `recentf-open-files', or `recentf-open-more-files' commands.
2055
2056 The `recentf-keep' option replaces `recentf-keep-non-readable-files-p'
2057 and provides a more general mechanism to customize which file names to
2058 keep in the recent list.
2059
2060 With the more advanced option `recentf-filename-handlers', you can
2061 specify functions that successively transform recent file names. For
2062 example, if set to `file-truename' plus `abbreviate-file-name', the
2063 same file will not be in the recent list with different symbolic
2064 links, and the file name will be abbreviated.
2065
2066 To follow naming convention, `recentf-menu-append-commands-flag'
2067 replaces the misnamed option `recentf-menu-append-commands-p'. The
2068 old name remains available as alias, but has been marked obsolete.
2069
2070 ** Auto-Revert changes
2071
2072 *** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
2073
2074 If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert
2075 mode keeps it at the end after reverting. Similarly if point is
2076 displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at the
2077 end of the buffer in that window. This allows you to "tail" a file:
2078 just put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there. This rule
2079 applies to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the behavior can be
2080 mode dependent.
2081
2082 If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end,
2083 then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor
2084 mode Auto Revert Tail mode. The function `auto-revert-tail-mode'
2085 toggles this mode.
2086
2087 *** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
2088 other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
2089 revert. This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
2090 and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil. Auto Revert
2091 mode only reverts a non-file buffer if the buffer has a non-nil
2092 `revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which
2093 decides whether the buffer should be reverted. Currently, this means
2094 that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
2095 work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.
2096
2097 *** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
2098 Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
2099 control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
2100 which it is active. If the option is nil, the default, then this info
2101 only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.
2102
2103 ** Changes in Shell Mode
2104
2105 *** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
2106 bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text. (This
2107 is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)
2108
2109 ** Changes in Hi Lock
2110
2111 *** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function
2112 `global-hi-lock-mode' enables Hi Lock in all buffers. By default, if
2113 hi-lock-mode is used in what appears to be the initialization file, a
2114 warning message suggests to use global-hi-lock-mode instead. However,
2115 if the new variable `hi-lock-archaic-interface-deduce' is non-nil,
2116 using hi-lock-mode in an initialization file will turn on Hi Lock in all
2117 buffers and no warning will be issued (for compatibility with the
2118 behavior in older versions of Emacs).
2119
2120 ** Changes in Allout
2121
2122 *** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and
2123 decryption. Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and
2124 clear-text within a single file to your heart's content, using symmetric
2125 and/or public key modes. Time-limited key caching, user-provided
2126 symmetric key hinting and consistency verification, auto-encryption of
2127 pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in
2128 powerful ways. Encryption behavior customization is collected in the
2129 allout-encryption customization group.
2130
2131 *** Default command prefix was changed to "\C-c " (control-c space), to
2132 avoid intruding on user's keybinding space. Customize the
2133 `allout-command-prefix' variable to your preference.
2134
2135 *** Some previously rough topic-header format edge cases are reconciled.
2136 Level 1 topics use the mode's comment format, and lines starting with the
2137 asterisk - for instance, the comment close of some languages (eg, c's "*/"
2138 or mathematica's "*)") - at the beginning of line are no longer are
2139 interpreted as level 1 topics in those modes.
2140
2141 *** Many or most commonly occurring "accidental" topics are disqualified.
2142 Text in item bodies that looks like a low-depth topic is no longer mistaken
2143 for one unless its first offspring (or that of its next sibling with
2144 offspring) is only one level deeper.
2145
2146 For example, pasting some text with a bunch of leading asterisks into a
2147 topic that's followed by a level 3 or deeper topic will not cause the
2148 pasted text to be mistaken for outline structure.
2149
2150 The same constraint is applied to any level 2 or 3 topics.
2151
2152 This settles an old issue where typed or pasted text needed to be carefully
2153 reviewed, and sometimes doctored, to avoid accidentally disrupting the
2154 outline structure. Now that should be generally unnecessary, as the most
2155 prone-to-occur accidents are disqualified.
2156
2157 *** Allout now refuses to create "containment discontinuities", where a
2158 topic is shifted deeper than the offspring-depth of its container. On the
2159 other hand, allout now operates gracefully with existing containment
2160 discontinuities, revealing excessively contained topics rather than either
2161 leaving them hidden or raising an error.
2162
2163 *** Navigation within an item is easier. Repeated beginning-of-line and
2164 end-of-line key commands (usually, ^A and ^E) cycle through the
2165 beginning/end-of-line and then beginning/end of topic, etc. See new
2166 customization vars `allout-beginning-of-line-cycles' and
2167 `allout-end-of-line-cycles'.
2168
2169 *** New or revised allout-mode activity hooks enable creation of
2170 cooperative enhancements to allout mode without changes to the mode,
2171 itself.
2172
2173 See `allout-exposure-change-hook', `allout-structure-added-hook',
2174 `allout-structure-deleted-hook', and `allout-structure-shifted-hook'.
2175
2176 `allout-exposure-change-hook' replaces the existing
2177 `allout-view-change-hook', which is being deprecated. Both are still
2178 invoked, but `allout-view-change-hook' will eventually be ignored.
2179 `allout-exposure-change-hook' is called with explicit arguments detailing
2180 the specifics of each change (as are the other new hooks), making it easier
2181 to use than the old version.
2182
2183 There is a new mode deactivation hook, `allout-mode-deactivate-hook', for
2184 coordinating with deactivation of allout-mode. Both that and the mode
2185 activation hook, `allout-mode-hook' are now run after the `allout-mode'
2186 variable is changed, rather than before.
2187
2188 *** Allout now uses text overlay's `invisible' property for concealed text,
2189 instead of selective-display. This simplifies the code, in particular
2190 avoiding the need for kludges for isearch dynamic-display, discretionary
2191 handling of edits of concealed text, undo concerns, etc.
2192
2193 *** There are many other fixes and refinements, including:
2194
2195 - repaired inhibition of inadvertent edits to concealed text, without
2196 inhibiting undo; we now reveal undo changes within concealed text.
2197 - auto-fill-mode is now left inactive when allout-mode starts, if it
2198 already was inactive. also, `allout-inhibit-auto-fill' custom
2199 configuration variable makes it easy to disable auto fill in allout
2200 outlines in general or on a per-buffer basis.
2201 - allout now tolerates fielded text in outlines without disruption.
2202 - hot-spot navigation now is modularized with a new function,
2203 `allout-hotspot-key-handler', enabling easier use and enhancement of
2204 the functionality in allout addons.
2205 - repaired retention of topic body hanging indent upon topic depth shifts
2206 - bulleting variation is simpler and more accommodating, both in the
2207 default behavior and in ability to vary when creating new topics
2208 - mode deactivation now does cleans up effectively, more properly
2209 restoring affected variables and hooks to former state, removing
2210 overlays, etc. see `allout-add-resumptions' and
2211 `allout-do-resumptions', which replace the old `allout-resumptions'.
2212 - included a few unit-tests for interior functionality. developers can
2213 have them automatically run at the end of module load by customizing
2214 the option `allout-run-unit-tests-on-load'.
2215 - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
2216 - version number incremented to 2.2
2217
2218 ** Hideshow mode changes
2219
2220 *** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
2221 used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch
2222 handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
2223 temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
2224
2225 *** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does
2226 not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent
2227 block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil.
2228
2229 ** FFAP changes
2230
2231 *** New ffap commands and keybindings:
2232
2233 C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'),
2234 C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'),
2235 C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'),
2236 C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame').
2237
2238 *** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default.
2239
2240 C-x C-f passes the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS
2241 argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.
2242
2243 ** Changes in Skeleton
2244
2245 *** In skeleton.el, `-' marks the `skeleton-point' without interregion interaction.
2246
2247 `@' has reverted to only setting `skeleton-positions' and no longer
2248 sets `skeleton-point'. Skeletons which used @ to mark
2249 `skeleton-point' independent of `_' should now use `-' instead. The
2250 updated `skeleton-insert' docstring explains these new features along
2251 with other details of skeleton construction.
2252
2253 *** The variables `skeleton-transformation', `skeleton-filter', and
2254 `skeleton-pair-filter' have been renamed to
2255 `skeleton-transformation-function', `skeleton-filter-function', and
2256 `skeleton-pair-filter-function'. The old names are still available
2257 as aliases.
2258
2259 ** HTML/SGML changes
2260
2261 *** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files
2262 automatically.
2263
2264 *** SGML mode has indentation and supports XML syntax.
2265 The new variable `sgml-xml-mode' tells SGML mode to use XML syntax.
2266 When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
2267 i.e., there is always a closing tag.
2268 By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
2269 from the file name or buffer contents.
2270
2271 *** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
2272 `sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as
2273 alias.
2274
2275 *** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support.
2276
2277 ** TeX modes
2278
2279 *** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.
2280
2281 *** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default.
2282
2283 *** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
2284 by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
2285 command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
2286 TeX commands to use at startup.
2287
2288 *** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
2289 and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.
2290
2291 ** RefTeX mode changes
2292
2293 *** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents
2294
2295 The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the
2296 section at point or all sections in the current region, with full
2297 support for multifile documents.
2298
2299 The new command `reftex-toc-recenter' (`C-c -') shows the current
2300 section in the TOC buffer without selecting the TOC window.
2301 Recentering can happen automatically in idle time when the option
2302 `reftex-auto-recenter-toc' is turned on. The highlight in the TOC
2303 buffer stays when the focus moves to a different window. A dedicated
2304 frame can show the TOC with the current section always automatically
2305 highlighted. The frame is created and deleted from the toc buffer
2306 with the `d' key.
2307
2308 The toc window can be split off horizontally instead of vertically.
2309 See new option `reftex-toc-split-windows-horizontally'.
2310
2311 Labels can be renamed globally from the table of contents using the
2312 key `M-%'.
2313
2314 The new command `reftex-goto-label' jumps directly to a label
2315 location.
2316
2317 *** Changes related to citations and BibTeX database files
2318
2319 Commands that insert a citation now prompt for optional arguments when
2320 called with a prefix argument. Related new options are
2321 `reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' and `reftex-cite-cleanup-optional-args'.
2322
2323 The new command `reftex-create-bibtex-file' creates a BibTeX database
2324 with all entries referenced in the current document. The keys "e" and
2325 "E" allow to produce a BibTeX database file from entries marked in a
2326 citation selection buffer.
2327
2328 The command `reftex-citation' uses the word in the buffer before the
2329 cursor as a default search string.
2330
2331 The support for chapterbib has been improved. Different chapters can
2332 now use BibTeX or an explicit `thebibliography' environment.
2333
2334 The macros which specify the bibliography file (like \bibliography)
2335 can be configured with the new option `reftex-bibliography-commands'.
2336
2337 Support for jurabib has been added.
2338
2339 *** Global index matched may be verified with a user function.
2340
2341 During global indexing, a user function can verify an index match.
2342 See new option `reftex-index-verify-function'.
2343
2344 *** Parsing documents with many labels can be sped up.
2345
2346 Operating in a document with thousands of labels can be sped up
2347 considerably by allowing RefTeX to derive the type of a label directly
2348 from the label prefix like `eq:' or `fig:'. The option
2349 `reftex-trust-label-prefix' needs to be configured in order to enable
2350 this feature. While the speed-up is significant, this may reduce the
2351 quality of the context offered by RefTeX to describe a label.
2352
2353 *** Miscellaneous changes
2354
2355 The macros which input a file in LaTeX (like \input, \include) can be
2356 configured in the new option `reftex-include-file-commands'.
2357
2358 RefTeX supports global incremental search.
2359
2360 ** BibTeX mode
2361
2362 *** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
2363 point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).
2364
2365 *** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
2366 an existing BibTeX entry by inserting fields that may occur but are not
2367 present.
2368
2369 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.
2370
2371 *** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
2372 `crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used
2373 for BibTeX entries. `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting
2374 scheme `entry-class'. TAB completion for reference keys and
2375 automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that
2376 `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' is non-nil.
2377
2378 *** The new command `bibtex-complete' completes word fragment before
2379 point according to context (bound to M-tab).
2380
2381 *** In BibTeX mode the command `fill-paragraph' (M-q) fills
2382 individual fields of a BibTeX entry.
2383
2384 *** The new variable `bibtex-autofill-types' contains a list of entry
2385 types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible).
2386
2387 *** The new commands `bibtex-find-entry' and `bibtex-find-crossref'
2388 locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x).
2389 Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET).
2390
2391 *** The new variables `bibtex-files' and `bibtex-file-path' define a set
2392 of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys.
2393
2394 *** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
2395 in multiple BibTeX files.
2396
2397 *** If the new variable `bibtex-autoadd-commas' is non-nil,
2398 automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields.
2399
2400 *** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
2401 of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).
2402
2403 *** If the new variable `bibtex-parse-keys-fast' is non-nil,
2404 use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys.
2405
2406 *** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and
2407 bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when
2408 extracting the content of a BibTeX field.
2409
2410 *** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and
2411 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
2412 `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
2413 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are
2414 still available as aliases.
2415
2416 ** GUD changes
2417
2418 *** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
2419 GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
2420 there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
2421 state of your program. It can separate the input/output of your program from
2422 that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of
2423 Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
2424 breakpoints.
2425
2426 To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the
2427 old behaviour.
2428
2429 *** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
2430 and other common debugger commands.
2431
2432 *** In GUD mode, when talking to GDB, C-x C-a C-j "jumps" the program
2433 counter to the specified source line (the one where point is).
2434
2435 *** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be
2436 toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
2437 `gud-tooltip-mode'.
2438
2439 *** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to
2440 display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is
2441 not executing.
2442
2443 *** GUD mode improvements for jdb:
2444
2445 **** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class information.
2446 Fast startup since there is no need to scan all source files up front.
2447 There is also no need to create and maintain lists of source
2448 directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' and
2449 `gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation.
2450
2451 **** The previous method of searching for source files has been
2452 preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
2453 Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.
2454
2455 **** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear)
2456 set/clear operations from Java source files under the classpath, stack
2457 traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish
2458 (gud-finish).
2459
2460 **** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
2461 (Java 1.1 jdb).
2462
2463 *** Added jdb Customization Variables
2464
2465 **** `gud-jdb-command-name'. What command line to use to invoke jdb.
2466
2467 **** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'. Allows selection of java source file searching
2468 method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
2469 java sources (previous method).
2470
2471 **** `gud-jdb-directories'. List of directories to scan and search for Java
2472 classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
2473 is nil).
2474
2475 *** Minor Improvements
2476
2477 **** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
2478 instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool. For backwards
2479 compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
2480 `starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
2481 `starttls' tool).
2482
2483 **** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
2484
2485 ** Lisp mode changes
2486
2487 *** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings.
2488
2489 *** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list after point.
2490
2491 *** New features in evaluation commands
2492
2493 **** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
2494 the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
2495
2496 **** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
2497 in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified
2498 by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'. The same
2499 function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
2500 `eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.
2501
2502 ** Changes to cmuscheme
2503
2504 *** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to
2505 evaluate a Scheme expression but no Scheme subprocess is running.
2506
2507 *** If the file ~/.emacs_NAME or ~/.emacs.d/init_NAME.scm (where NAME
2508 is the name of the Scheme interpreter) exists, its contents are sent
2509 to the Scheme subprocess upon startup.
2510
2511 *** There are new commands to instruct the Scheme interpreter to trace
2512 procedure calls (`scheme-trace-procedure') and to expand syntactic forms
2513 (`scheme-expand-current-form'). The commands actually sent to the Scheme
2514 subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command',
2515 `scheme-untrace-command' and `scheme-expand-current-form'.
2516
2517 ** Ewoc changes
2518
2519 *** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.
2520
2521 *** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of
2522 a newline after each pretty-printed entry and after the header and footer.
2523 This allows you to create multiple-entry ewocs on a single line and to
2524 effect "invisible" nodes by arranging for the pretty-printer to not print
2525 anything for those nodes.
2526
2527 For example, these two sequences of expressions behave identically:
2528
2529 ;; NOSEP nil
2530 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S" data)))
2531 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n")
2532
2533 ;; NOSEP t
2534 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S\n" data)))
2535 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n\n" "\n" t)
2536
2537 ** CC mode changes
2538
2539 *** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised.
2540 The information about using CC Mode has been separated from the larger
2541 and more difficult chapters about configuration.
2542
2543 *** New Minor Modes
2544 **** Electric Minor Mode toggles the electric action of non-alphabetic keys.
2545 The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. Turning the
2546 mode off can be helpful for editing chaotically indented code and for
2547 users new to CC Mode, who sometimes find electric indentation
2548 disconcerting. Its current state is displayed in the mode line with an
2549 'l', e.g. "C/al".
2550
2551 **** Subword Minor Mode makes Emacs recognize word boundaries at upper case
2552 letters in StudlyCapsIdentifiers. You enable this feature by C-c C-w. It can
2553 also be used in non-CC Mode buffers. :-) Contributed by Masatake YAMATO.
2554
2555 *** Support for the AWK language.
2556 Support for the AWK language has been introduced. The implementation is
2557 based around GNU AWK version 3.1, but it should work pretty well with
2558 any AWK. As yet, not all features of CC Mode have been adapted for AWK.
2559 Here is a summary:
2560
2561 **** Indentation Engine
2562 The CC Mode indentation engine fully supports AWK mode.
2563
2564 AWK mode handles code formatted in the conventional AWK fashion: `{'s
2565 which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are
2566 placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s
2567 are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function
2568 definition, or structured statement.
2569
2570 The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK
2571 mode, though some of them may work serendipitously. There shouldn't
2572 be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode.
2573
2574 **** Font Locking
2575 There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the
2576 three distinct levels the other modes have. There are several
2577 idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of
2578 the AWK language itself.
2579
2580 **** Comment and Movement Commands
2581 These commands all work for AWK buffers. The notion of "defun" has
2582 been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard
2583 "defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this
2584 extended definition.
2585
2586 **** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups
2587 A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default
2588 style for AWK code. With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up
2589 c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful.
2590
2591 *** Font lock support.
2592 CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages. This
2593 supersedes the font lock patterns that have been in the core font lock
2594 package for C, C++, Java and Objective-C. Like indentation, font
2595 locking is done in a uniform way across all languages (except the new
2596 AWK mode - see below). That means that the new font locking will be
2597 different from the old patterns in various details for most languages.
2598
2599 The main goal of the font locking in CC Mode is accuracy, to provide a
2600 dependable aid in recognizing the various constructs. Some, like
2601 strings and comments, are easy to recognize while others like
2602 declarations and types can be very tricky. CC Mode can go to great
2603 lengths to recognize declarations and casts correctly, especially when
2604 the types aren't recognized by standard patterns. This is a fairly
2605 demanding analysis which can be slow on older hardware, and it can
2606 therefore be disabled by choosing a lower decoration level with the
2607 variable font-lock-maximum-decoration.
2608
2609 Note that the most demanding font lock level has been tuned with lazy
2610 fontification in mind; Just-In-Time-Lock mode should be enabled for
2611 the highest font lock level (by default, it is). Fontifying a file
2612 with several thousand lines in one go can take the better part of a
2613 minute.
2614
2615 **** The (c|c++|objc|java|idl|pike)-font-lock-extra-types variables
2616 are now used by CC Mode to recognize identifiers that are certain to
2617 be types. (They are also used in cases that aren't related to font
2618 locking.) At the maximum decoration level, types are often recognized
2619 properly anyway, so these variables should be fairly restrictive and
2620 not contain patterns for uncertain types.
2621
2622 **** Support for documentation comments.
2623 There is a "plugin" system to fontify documentation comments like
2624 Javadoc and the markup within them. It's independent of the host
2625 language, so it's possible to e.g. turn on Javadoc font locking in C
2626 buffers. See the variable c-doc-comment-style for details.
2627
2628 Currently three kinds of doc comment styles are recognized: Sun's
2629 Javadoc, Autodoc (which is used in Pike) and GtkDoc (used in C). (The
2630 last was contributed by Masatake YAMATO). This is by no means a
2631 complete list of the most common tools; if your doc comment extractor
2632 of choice is missing then please drop a note to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2633
2634 **** Better handling of C++ templates.
2635 As a side effect of the more accurate font locking, C++ templates are
2636 now handled much better. The angle brackets that delimit them are
2637 given parenthesis syntax so that they can be navigated like other
2638 parens.
2639
2640 This also improves indentation of templates, although there still is
2641 work to be done in that area. E.g. it's required that multiline
2642 template clauses are written in full and then refontified to be
2643 recognized, and the indentation of nested templates is a bit odd and
2644 not as configurable as it ought to be.
2645
2646 **** Improved handling of Objective-C and CORBA IDL.
2647 Especially the support for Objective-C and IDL has gotten an overhaul.
2648 The special "@" declarations in Objective-C are handled correctly.
2649 All the keywords used in CORBA IDL, PSDL, and CIDL are recognized and
2650 handled correctly, also wrt indentation.
2651
2652 *** Changes in Key Sequences
2653 **** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t.
2654
2655 **** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d.
2656 This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards.
2657
2658 **** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline.
2659 c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias.
2660
2661 **** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards
2662 have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and
2663 C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively. These
2664 commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single
2665 key-sequence. [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.]
2666
2667 **** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l.
2668
2669 **** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w.
2670
2671 *** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor
2672 position(s).
2673
2674 *** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode.
2675 The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are
2676 now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
2677 module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
2678 composition-close, and incomposition.
2679
2680 *** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
2681 The new functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward'
2682 provide hungry deletion without having to toggle a mode. They are
2683 bound to C-c C-DEL and C-c C-d (and several variants, for the benefit
2684 of different keyboard setups. See "Changes in key sequences" above).
2685
2686 *** Better control over `require-final-newline'.
2687
2688 The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
2689 implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines. Its value is a
2690 list of modes, and only those modes should do it. By default the list
2691 includes C, C++ and Objective-C modes.
2692
2693 Whichever modes are in this list will set `require-final-newline'
2694 based on `mode-require-final-newline'.
2695
2696 *** Format change for syntactic context elements.
2697
2698 The elements in the syntactic context returned by `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2699 and stored in `c-syntactic-context' has been changed somewhat to allow
2700 attaching more information. They are now lists instead of single cons
2701 cells. E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis
2702
2703 ((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13))
2704
2705 is now analyzed as
2706
2707 ((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))
2708
2709 In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
2710 symbol.
2711
2712 This change might affect code that calls `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2713 directly, and custom lineup functions if they use
2714 `c-syntactic-context'. However, the argument given to lineup
2715 functions is still a single cons cell with nil or an integer in the
2716 cdr.
2717
2718 *** API changes for derived modes.
2719
2720 There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
2721 derived mode writers. Some of these changes are likely to cause
2722 incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
2723 care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
2724 Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.
2725
2726 **** New language variable system.
2727 These are variables whose values vary between CC Mode's different
2728 languages. See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.
2729
2730 **** New initialization functions.
2731 The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
2732 give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
2733 `c-init-language-vars'.
2734
2735 *** Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.
2736 The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where
2737 several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line. They are
2738 now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.
2739
2740 This means that CC Mode now indents some cases differently, and
2741 although it's more consistent there might be cases where the old way
2742 gave results that's more to one's liking. So if you find a situation
2743 where you think that the indentation has become worse, please report
2744 it to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2745
2746 **** New syntactic symbol substatement-label.
2747 This symbol is used when a label is inserted between a statement and
2748 its substatement. E.g:
2749
2750 if (x)
2751 x_is_true:
2752 do_stuff();
2753
2754 *** Better handling of multiline macros.
2755
2756 **** Syntactic indentation inside macros.
2757 The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented
2758 syntactically just like other code. This can be disabled by the new
2759 variable `c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros'. A new syntactic symbol
2760 `cpp-define-intro' has been added to control the initial indentation
2761 inside `#define's.
2762
2763 **** New lineup function `c-lineup-cpp-define'.
2764
2765 Now used by default to line up macro continuation lines. The behavior
2766 of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro
2767 is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily
2768 removed. If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works
2769 much line `c-lineup-dont-change', which was used earlier, but handles
2770 empty lines within the macro better.
2771
2772 **** Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one.
2773 This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
2774 `c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.
2775
2776 **** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2777 `c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes. New
2778 variable `c-backslash-max-column' puts a limit on how far out
2779 backslashes can be moved.
2780
2781 **** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2782 This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'. It
2783 affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
2784 inserted in Auto-Newline mode.
2785
2786 **** Line indentation works better inside macros.
2787 Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
2788 inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
2789 line continuation backslashes. This is most noticeable when syntactic
2790 indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
2791 backslash) in the macro.
2792
2793 *** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
2794 The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
2795 the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'. The indentation behavior is
2796 based on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after
2797 #else and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other
2798 cases (something which was hardcoded earlier).
2799
2800 *** New function `c-context-open-line'.
2801 It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.
2802
2803 *** New clean-ups
2804
2805 **** `comment-close-slash'.
2806 With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by
2807 typing a slash at the start of a line.
2808
2809 **** `c-one-liner-defun'
2810 This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK
2811 pattern/action pair) onto a single line. "Short enough" is configurable.
2812
2813 *** New lineup functions
2814
2815 **** `c-lineup-string-cont'
2816 This lineup function lines up a continued string under the one it
2817 continues. E.g:
2818
2819 result = prefix + "A message "
2820 "string."; <- c-lineup-string-cont
2821
2822 **** `c-lineup-cascaded-calls'
2823 Lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".
2824
2825 **** `c-lineup-knr-region-comment'
2826 Gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in
2827 the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.
2828
2829 **** `c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg'
2830 Provides better indentation inside asm blocks.
2831
2832 **** `c-lineup-argcont'
2833 Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma.
2834
2835 *** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
2836 The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
2837 syntactic indentation.
2838
2839 *** Better caching of the syntactic context.
2840 CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind)
2841 of the lists surrounding the point. Those positions are used in many
2842 places as anchor points for various searches. The cache is now
2843 improved so that it can be reused to a large extent when the point is
2844 moved. The less it moves, the less needs to be recalculated.
2845
2846 The effect is that CC Mode should be fast most of the time even when
2847 opening parens are hung (i.e. aren't in column zero). It's typically
2848 only the first time after the point is moved far down in a complex
2849 file that it'll take noticeable time to find out the syntactic
2850 context.
2851
2852 *** Statements are recognized in a more robust way.
2853 Statements are recognized most of the time even when they occur in an
2854 "invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument. In practice that can
2855 happen when macros are involved.
2856
2857 *** Improved the way `c-indent-exp' chooses the block to indent.
2858 It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point
2859 whose closing paren ends on a different line. This means that the
2860 point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent.
2861 Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current
2862 line is left untouched.
2863
2864 ** Changes in Makefile mode
2865
2866 *** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp, BSD make and imake.
2867
2868 The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter three
2869 are new. Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable
2870 faces.
2871
2872 *** The variable `makefile-query-one-target-method' has been renamed
2873 to `makefile-query-one-target-method-function'. The old name is still
2874 available as alias.
2875
2876 ** Sql changes
2877
2878 *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlighting of different
2879 SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a
2880 buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current
2881 session using the new SQL->Product submenu. (This menu replaces the
2882 SQL->Highlighting submenu.)
2883
2884 The following values are supported:
2885
2886 ansi ANSI Standard (default)
2887 db2 DB2
2888 informix Informix
2889 ingres Ingres
2890 interbase Interbase
2891 linter Linter
2892 ms Microsoft
2893 mysql MySQL
2894 oracle Oracle
2895 postgres Postgres
2896 solid Solid
2897 sqlite SQLite
2898 sybase Sybase
2899
2900 The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the
2901 SQL mode indicator.
2902
2903 The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in
2904 your `.emacs' will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use
2905 `sql-product' to accomplish this.
2906
2907 ANSI keywords are always highlighted.
2908
2909 *** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add
2910 font-lock rules to the product specific rules. For example, to have
2911 all identifiers ending in `_t' under MS SQLServer treated as a type,
2912 you would use the following line in your .emacs file:
2913
2914 (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
2915 '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face)))
2916
2917 *** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i.
2918
2919 Most SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented. SQL*Plus commands are
2920 highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'.
2921
2922 *** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved.
2923
2924 Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented.
2925 sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because
2926 osql flushes its error stream more frequently. Thus error messages
2927 are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is
2928 terminated.
2929
2930 If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is
2931 called with the `-E' command line argument to use the operating system
2932 credentials to authenticate the user.
2933
2934 *** Postgres support is enhanced.
2935 Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented. Prompting for
2936 the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added.
2937
2938 *** MySQL support is enhanced.
2939 Keyword highlighting of MySql 4.0 is implemented.
2940
2941 *** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes,
2942 packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and
2943 defaults.
2944
2945 *** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
2946 appropriate `sql-interactive-mode' wrapper for the current setting of
2947 `sql-product'.
2948
2949 *** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'.
2950
2951 ** Fortran mode changes
2952
2953 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
2954 It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
2955 majority.
2956
2957 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
2958 `f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
2959 `f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
2960 `fortran-beginning-of-block'.
2961
2962 *** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
2963 highlighting for the old default.
2964
2965 *** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
2966 Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
2967 Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.
2968
2969 *** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change
2970 the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers.
2971
2972 ** Miscellaneous programming mode changes
2973
2974 *** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
2975 preceded by a SPC or a TAB.
2976
2977 *** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
2978
2979 *** The old Octave mode bindings C-c f and C-c i have been changed
2980 to C-c C-f and C-c C-i. The C-c C-i subcommands now have duplicate
2981 bindings on control characters--thus, C-c C-i C-b is the same as
2982 C-c C-i b, and so on.
2983
2984 *** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords'
2985 to support use of font-lock.
2986
2987 ** VC Changes
2988
2989 *** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.
2990
2991 *** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies switches that
2992 are passed to any CVS command invoked by VC.
2993
2994 These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which means they
2995 are inserted before the command name. For example, this allows you to
2996 specify a compression level using the `-z#' option for CVS.
2997
2998 *** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
2999 (toggle-read-only). It no longer checks files in or out.
3000
3001 We made this change because we held a poll and found that many users
3002 were unhappy with the previous behavior. If you do prefer this
3003 behavior, you can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your
3004 `.emacs' file:
3005
3006 (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only)
3007
3008 The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist.
3009
3010 *** VC-Annotate mode enhancements
3011
3012 In VC-Annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for
3013 enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or
3014 to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode:
3015
3016 P: annotates the previous revision
3017 N: annotates the next revision
3018 J: annotates the revision at line
3019 A: annotates the revision previous to line
3020 D: shows the diff of the revision at line with its previous revision
3021 L: shows the log of the revision at line
3022 W: annotates the workfile (most up to date) version
3023
3024 ** pcl-cvs changes
3025
3026 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d y' command to view the diffs
3027 between the local version of the file and yesterday's head revision
3028 in the repository.
3029
3030 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
3031 anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
3032 `checkout', `update' or `commit'. That means using cvs diff options
3033 -rBASE -rHEAD.
3034
3035 ** Diff changes
3036
3037 *** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode.
3038
3039 *** Diff mode key bindings changed.
3040
3041 These are the new bindings:
3042
3043 C-c C-e diff-ediff-patch (old M-A)
3044 C-c C-n diff-restrict-view (old M-r)
3045 C-c C-r diff-reverse-direction (old M-R)
3046 C-c C-u diff-context->unified (old M-U)
3047 C-c C-w diff-refine-hunk (old C-c C-r)
3048
3049 To convert unified to context format, use C-u C-c C-u.
3050 In addition, C-c C-u now operates on the region
3051 in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active.
3052
3053 ** EDiff changes.
3054
3055 *** When comparing directories.
3056 Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of
3057 directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files
3058 from one directory to another.
3059
3060 *** When comparing files or buffers.
3061 Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the
3062 currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n'
3063 then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
3064 comparison.
3065
3066 *** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
3067 backup using `ediff'. If you specify the name of a backup file,
3068 `ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.
3069
3070 ** Etags changes.
3071
3072 *** New regular expressions features
3073
3074 **** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.
3075
3076 The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained
3077 only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is
3078 --regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS,
3079 where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or
3080 more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'
3081 (single-line). The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular
3082 expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
3083 (which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines. The ability to
3084 span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
3085 and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.
3086
3087 **** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.
3088
3089 The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
3090 respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
3091 CR, TAB, VT.
3092
3093 **** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.
3094
3095 The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
3096 only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is
3097 particularly useful when storing regexps in a file.
3098
3099 **** Regular expressions can be read from a file.
3100
3101 The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one
3102 per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.
3103
3104 *** New language parsing features
3105
3106 **** New language HTML.
3107
3108 Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'. Also,
3109 when `name=' is used inside an anchor and whenever `id=' is used.
3110
3111 **** New language PHP.
3112
3113 Functions, classes and defines are tags. If the --members option is
3114 specified to etags, variables are tags also.
3115
3116 **** New language Lua.
3117
3118 All functions are tagged.
3119
3120 **** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.
3121
3122 Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.
3123
3124 **** The GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognized and ignored.
3125
3126 **** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for #undef
3127
3128 **** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
3129
3130 If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
3131 size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.
3132
3133 **** In Perl, packages are tags.
3134
3135 Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags
3136 as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
3137 package::sub.
3138
3139 **** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.
3140
3141 **** New default keywords for TeX.
3142
3143 The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
3144 renewenvironment.
3145
3146 *** Honor #line directives.
3147
3148 When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
3149 directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
3150 specified in those directives. This is useful when dealing with code
3151 created from Cweb source files. When Etags tags the generated file, it
3152 writes tags pointing to the source file.
3153
3154 *** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.
3155
3156 This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs. It can
3157 be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line. Etags
3158 reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
3159 the file FILE.
3160
3161 ** Ctags changes.
3162
3163 *** Ctags now allows duplicate tags
3164
3165 ** Rmail changes
3166
3167 *** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
3168
3169 This version of `movemail' allows you to read mail from a wide range of
3170 mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
3171 without TLS encryption. If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
3172 and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
3173 used instead of the native one.
3174
3175 *** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
3176 by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
3177 Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.
3178
3179 *** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.
3180
3181 ** Gnus package
3182
3183 *** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
3184
3185 Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts. PGG is a library to handle
3186 PGP/MIME.
3187
3188 *** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
3189
3190 See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
3191
3192 ** MH-E changes.
3193
3194 Upgraded to MH-E version 8.0.3. There have been major changes since
3195 version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.
3196
3197 ** Miscellaneous mail changes
3198
3199 *** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies
3200 `default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for
3201 auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to "~/".
3202
3203 *** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file.
3204
3205 See the documentation of the user option `display-time-mail-directory'.
3206
3207 ** Calendar changes
3208
3209 *** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to
3210 convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format.
3211
3212 *** The new package cal-html.el writes HTML files with calendar and
3213 diary entries.
3214
3215 *** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
3216 and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
3217 from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages. The variable
3218 `diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional
3219 formats.
3220
3221 *** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed:
3222 use the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable
3223 `appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing
3224 `appt-issue-message', `appt-visible', and `appt-msg-window'.
3225
3226 *** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
3227 This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
3228 and `diary-header-line-format'.
3229
3230 *** Diary sexp entries can have custom marking in the calendar.
3231 Diary sexp functions which only apply to certain days (such as
3232 `diary-block' or `diary-cyclic') now take an optional parameter MARK,
3233 which is the name of a face or a single-character string indicating
3234 how to highlight the day in the calendar display. Specifying a
3235 single-character string as @var{mark} places the character next to the
3236 day in the calendar. Specifying a face highlights the day with that
3237 face. This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations,
3238 appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp.
3239
3240 *** The meanings of C-x < and C-x > have been interchanged.
3241 < means to scroll backward in time, and > means to scroll forward.
3242
3243 *** You can now use < and >, instead of C-x < and C-x >, to scroll
3244 the calendar left or right.
3245
3246 *** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a
3247 year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers
3248 count backward from the end of the year.
3249
3250 *** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
3251 prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
3252 day of that ISO week.
3253
3254 *** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
3255 optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
3256 rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
3257 `christian-holidays' simpler.
3258
3259 *** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
3260 window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
3261
3262 ** Speedbar changes
3263
3264 *** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on
3265 the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism.
3266
3267 *** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC,
3268 contracts or expands the line under the cursor.
3269
3270 *** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'.
3271
3272 *** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
3273 `speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
3274 respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
3275 its descendents.
3276
3277 *** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
3278 means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.
3279
3280 *** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls
3281 how querying is performed for file operations. A value of 'always
3282 means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means
3283 to not query before any file operations, except before a file
3284 deletion.
3285
3286 *** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how
3287 to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar. A
3288 value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that
3289 speedbar was started from.) A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass
3290 that number to `other-frame'.
3291
3292 *** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar
3293 keymap.
3294
3295 *** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new
3296 `dframe' library. Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar
3297 should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of
3298 `speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer',
3299 `dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and
3300 `dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of
3301 `speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'. The variables
3302 `speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also
3303 obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead.
3304
3305 ** battery.el changes
3306
3307 *** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery.
3308
3309 *** battery.el now works on recent versions of OS X.
3310
3311 ** Games
3312
3313 *** The game `mpuz' is enhanced.
3314
3315 `mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits. By
3316 default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
3317 automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
3318
3319 ** Obsolete and deleted packages
3320
3321 *** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead.
3322
3323 *** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead.
3324
3325 *** zone-mode.el is now obsolete. Use dns-mode.el instead.
3326
3327 *** cplus-md.el has been deleted.
3328
3329 ** Miscellaneous
3330
3331 *** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' is renamed
3332 to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
3333 variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
3334 automatically, without asking for a confirmation. Otherwise, the word
3335 at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt.
3336
3337 *** You can now customize `fill-nobreak-predicate' to control where
3338 filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of
3339 functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.
3340
3341 Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and
3342 `fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of
3343 `fill-nobreak-predicate'.
3344
3345 *** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
3346 with special modes such as Tar mode.
3347
3348 *** `global-whitespace-mode' is a new alias for `whitespace-global-mode'.
3349
3350 *** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
3351
3352 When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
3353 include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist.
3354 Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
3355 to get the old behavior. The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
3356 and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
3357 feature.
3358
3359 *** Commands `winner-redo' and `winner-undo', from winner.el, are now
3360 bound to C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively. This is an
3361 incompatible change.
3362
3363 *** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
3364 and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if
3365 you don't want the `.type-break' file in your home directory or are
3366 annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.
3367
3368 *** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.
3369
3370 Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with
3371 `ps-print', provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF
3372 fonts. See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts.
3373
3374 *** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
3375 This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
3376 the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for
3377 using strokes as an input method.
3378
3379 *** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top
3380 of the file that precede the first header line.
3381
3382 *** `hide-ifdef-mode' now uses overlays rather than selective-display
3383 to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly
3384 changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p.
3385
3386 *** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
3387 renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still
3388 available as alias.
3389
3390 *** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
3391 by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'
3392 and `C-c C-r'.
3393
3394 *** `partial-completion-mode' now handles partial completion on directory names.
3395
3396 *** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it.
3397
3398 M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no
3399 argument it toggles the mode. Turning off PC-Selection mode restores
3400 the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode.
3401
3402 *** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
3403 `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.
3404
3405 *** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
3406
3407 When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
3408 starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.
3409
3410 *** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
3411 resync points in both windows.
3412
3413 *** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers
3414 when Emacs visits them.
3415
3416 *** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.
3417
3418 *** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode.
3419
3420 To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil. In this mode a
3421 separator character is used every few digits, making it easier to see
3422 byte boundaries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the
3423 variable `calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.
3424
3425 *** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2.
3426
3427 *** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can
3428 run most curses applications now.
3429
3430 *** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
3431
3432 Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to
3433 use standout mode, but they can no longer display mode-lines in
3434 inverse-video.
3435
3436 \f
3437 * Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems
3438
3439 ** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile.
3440
3441 If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME
3442 environment variable and a `.emacs' was saved, then Emacs will continue
3443 using C:/ as the default HOME. But if you are installing Emacs afresh,
3444 the default location will be the "Application Data" (or similar
3445 localized name) subdirectory of your user profile. A typical location
3446 of this directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data",
3447 where USERNAME is your user name.
3448
3449 This change means that users can now have their own `.emacs' files on
3450 shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be
3451 read-only on computers that are administered by someone else.
3452
3453 ** Images are now supported on MS Windows.
3454
3455 PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
3456 depend on external libraries. All of these libraries have been ported
3457 to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
3458 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. Note that libpng also depends on
3459 zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
3460 against. For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.
3461
3462 ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
3463
3464 WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
3465 as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of
3466 Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
3467 sound support for those formats.
3468
3469 ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
3470
3471 See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.
3472
3473 ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
3474
3475 The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
3476 whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
3477 pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.
3478
3479 ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
3480
3481 You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
3482 existing values. For example:
3483
3484 emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"
3485
3486 will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
3487 irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
3488
3489 ** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.
3490
3491 The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much
3492 the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X. Emacs now adds these
3493 colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu for the
3494 default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground), and uses
3495 some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
3496 `list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
3497 you wish to use them in other faces.
3498
3499 ** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size.
3500
3501 Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs
3502 through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in
3503 a local console window with a scrollback buffer. The default value of
3504 w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favors local console
3505 windows. Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this
3506 setting. If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects
3507 that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and
3508 defaults to 80x25. If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size
3509 other than 80x25, you can still manually set
3510 w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.
3511
3512 ** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows.
3513
3514 The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer.
3515
3516 ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
3517
3518 This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the
3519 cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
3520 When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible
3521 instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by
3522 some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows
3523 the caret visibility to be manually toggled.
3524
3525 ** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.
3526
3527 Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
3528 multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
3529 MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
3530 the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
3531 any customizations.
3532
3533 ** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.
3534
3535 ** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
3536 `kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
3537 `kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.
3538
3539 ** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete. Use
3540 `mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.
3541 \f
3542 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3543
3544 ** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
3545 :propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
3546 `risky-local-variable' property is nil.
3547
3548 The function `comint-send-input' now accepts 3 optional arguments:
3549
3550 (comint-send-input &optional no-newline artificial)
3551
3552 Callers sending input not from the user should use bind the 3rd
3553 argument `artificial' to a non-nil value, to prevent Emacs from
3554 deleting the part of subprocess output that matches the input.
3555
3556 ** The `read-file-name' function now returns a null string if the
3557 user just types RET.
3558
3559 ** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have
3560 been removed. Use run-with-idle-timer instead.
3561
3562 ** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to
3563 be multibyte or unibyte, respectively.
3564
3565 ** The explicit method of creating a display table element by
3566 combining a face number and a character code into a numeric
3567 glyph code is deprecated.
3568
3569 Instead, the new functions `make-glyph-code', `glyph-char', and
3570 `glyph-face' must be used to create and decode glyph codes in
3571 display tables.
3572
3573 ** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
3574 the command `undefined'. (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
3575 `substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to
3576 `undefined'.)
3577
3578 ** The third argument of `accept-process-output' is now milliseconds.
3579 It used to be microseconds.
3580
3581 ** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons
3582 (FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument
3583 OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in
3584 `file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument.
3585
3586 ** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates
3587 input events: sigusr1 or sigusr2. Use special-event-map to
3588 handle these events.
3589
3590 ** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
3591 there is no longer a shortage of memory.
3592
3593 ** Support for Mocklisp has been removed.
3594
3595 \f
3596 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3597
3598 ** General Lisp changes:
3599
3600 *** New syntax: \s now stands for the SPACE character.
3601
3602 `?\s' is a new way to write the space character. You must make sure
3603 it is not followed by a dash, since `?\s-...' indicates the "super"
3604 modifier. However, it would be strange to write a character constant
3605 and a following symbol (beginning with `-') with no space between
3606 them.
3607
3608 `\s' stands for space in strings, too, but it is not really meant for
3609 strings; it is easier and nicer just to write a space.
3610
3611 *** New syntax: \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX specify Unicode code points in hex.
3612
3613 For instance, you can use "\u0428" to specify a string consisting of
3614 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA, or `"U0001D6E2" to specify one consisting
3615 of MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL ALPHA (the latter is greater than
3616 #xFFFF and thus needs the longer syntax).
3617
3618 This syntax works for both character constants and strings.
3619
3620 *** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.
3621
3622 It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
3623 dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
3624 (calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.).
3625
3626 *** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.
3627
3628 *** The new function `memql' is like `memq', but uses `eql' for comparison,
3629 that is, floats are compared by value and other elements with `eq'.
3630
3631 *** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.
3632
3633 `string-or-null-p' returns non-nil if OBJECT is a string or nil.
3634 `booleanp' returns non-nil if OBJECT is t or nil.
3635
3636 *** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead.
3637
3638 *** Minor change in the function `format'.
3639
3640 Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no
3641 longer accepted.
3642
3643 *** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND.
3644
3645 If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the
3646 list instead of at the beginning. This change actually occurred in
3647 Emacs 21.1, but was not documented then.
3648
3649 *** New function `add-to-ordered-list' is like `add-to-list' but
3650 associates a numeric ordering of each element added to the list.
3651
3652 *** New function `add-to-history' adds an element to a history list.
3653
3654 Lisp packages should use this function to add elements to their
3655 history lists.
3656
3657 If `history-delete-duplicates' is non-nil, it removes duplicates of
3658 the new element from the history list it updates.
3659
3660 *** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree.
3661
3662 It recursively copies through both CARs and CDRs.
3663
3664 *** New function `delete-dups' deletes `equal' duplicate elements from a list.
3665
3666 It modifies the list destructively, like `delete'. Of several `equal'
3667 occurrences of an element in the list, the one that's kept is the
3668 first one.
3669
3670 *** New function `rassq-delete-all'.
3671
3672 (rassq-delete-all VALUE ALIST) deletes, from ALIST, each element whose
3673 CDR is `eq' to the specified value.
3674
3675 *** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists.
3676
3677 They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is
3678 cyclic.
3679
3680 *** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.
3681
3682 They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare
3683 the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.
3684
3685 *** The function `number-sequence' makes a list of equally-separated numbers.
3686
3687 For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). By
3688 default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different
3689 separation as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns
3690 (1.5 3.5 5.5).
3691
3692 *** New variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'.
3693
3694 They hold the largest and smallest possible integer values.
3695
3696 *** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
3697 The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
3698 negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
3699
3700 *** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument.
3701
3702 When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
3703 angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis. (This is
3704 equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)
3705
3706 *** New macro `with-case-table'
3707
3708 This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given
3709 case table.
3710
3711 *** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting.
3712
3713 A quit inside the body of `with-local-quit' is caught by the
3714 `with-local-quit' form itself, but another quit will happen later once
3715 the code that has inhibited quitting exits.
3716
3717 This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code
3718 inside timer functions and `post-command-hook' functions.
3719
3720 *** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.
3721
3722 This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.
3723
3724 *** New macro `eval-at-startup' specifies expressions to
3725 evaluate when Emacs starts up. If this is done after startup,
3726 it evaluates those expressions immediately.
3727
3728 This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.
3729
3730 *** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
3731
3732 It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
3733 One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
3734 if no expansion is done, which can be tested using `eq'.
3735
3736 *** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern.
3737
3738 You put this info in the doc string's last line. It should be
3739 formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'". If you don't
3740 specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument
3741 names. Usually that default is right, but not always.
3742
3743 *** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'.
3744
3745 When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single
3746 numbering scheme for circular structure references. This is only
3747 relevant when `print-circle' is non-nil.
3748
3749 When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
3750 also bind `print-number-table' to nil.
3751
3752 *** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.
3753
3754 If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.
3755
3756 *** New hook `command-error-function'.
3757
3758 By setting this variable to a function, you can control
3759 how the editor command loop shows the user an error message.
3760
3761 *** `debug-on-entry' accepts primitive functions that are not special forms.
3762
3763 ** Lisp code indentation features:
3764
3765 *** The `defmacro' form can contain indentation and edebug declarations.
3766
3767 These declarations specify how to indent the macro calls in Lisp mode
3768 and how to debug them with Edebug. You write them like this:
3769
3770 (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...)
3771
3772 DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'. The
3773 possible declaration specifiers are:
3774
3775 (indent INDENT)
3776 Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT.
3777
3778 (edebug DEBUG)
3779 Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG. (This is
3780 equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro,
3781 but this is cleaner.)
3782
3783 *** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms.
3784
3785 See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.
3786
3787 *** cl-indent now handles indentation of simple and extended `loop' forms.
3788
3789 The new user options `lisp-loop-keyword-indentation',
3790 `lisp-loop-forms-indentation', and `lisp-simple-loop-indentation' can
3791 be used to customize the indentation of keywords and forms in loop
3792 forms.
3793
3794 ** Variable aliases:
3795
3796 *** New function: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING]
3797
3798 This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for
3799 symbol BASE-VAR. This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR
3800 returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR
3801 changes the value of BASE-VAR.
3802
3803 DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has
3804 the same documentation as BASE-VAR.
3805
3806 *** The macro `define-obsolete-variable-alias' combines `defvaralias' and
3807 `make-obsolete-variable'.
3808
3809 *** New function: indirect-variable VARIABLE
3810
3811 This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases
3812 of VARIABLE. If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not
3813 defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE.
3814
3815 It might be noteworthy that variables aliases work for all kinds of
3816 variables, including buffer-local and frame-local variables.
3817
3818 ** defcustom changes:
3819
3820 *** The package-version keyword has been added to provide
3821 `customize-changed-options' functionality to packages in the future.
3822 Developers who make use of this keyword must also update the new
3823 variable `customize-package-emacs-version-alist'.
3824
3825 *** The new customization type `float' requires a floating point number.
3826
3827 ** String changes:
3828
3829 *** A hex escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte.
3830
3831 *** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte.
3832
3833 *** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
3834 multibyte string with the same individual character codes.
3835
3836 *** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if
3837 the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for
3838 SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is
3839 nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all
3840 empty matches are omitted from the returned list.
3841
3842 *** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and
3843 `assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have
3844 been declared obsolete.
3845
3846 *** New function `substring-no-properties' returns a substring without
3847 text properties.
3848
3849 ** Displaying warnings to the user.
3850
3851 See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual.
3852 If you want to be sure the warning will not be overlooked, this
3853 facility is much better than using `message', since it displays
3854 warnings in a separate window.
3855
3856 ** Progress reporters.
3857
3858 These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present
3859 progress messages for the user.
3860
3861 See the new functions `make-progress-reporter',
3862 `progress-reporter-update', `progress-reporter-force-update',
3863 `progress-reporter-done', and `dotimes-with-progress-reporter'.
3864
3865 ** Buffer positions:
3866
3867 *** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
3868 width if the WIDTH argument is nil. If the TOPOS argument is nil,
3869 the usable window height and width is used.
3870
3871 *** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now
3872 modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
3873 taller that the height of the window, for example in the presence of
3874 large images. To disable this feature, bind the new variable
3875 `auto-window-vscroll' to nil.
3876
3877 *** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word' is optional.
3878
3879 It defaults to 1.
3880
3881 *** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.
3882
3883 It defaults to 1.
3884
3885 *** `field-beginning' and `field-end' take new optional argument, LIMIT.
3886
3887 This argument tells them not to search beyond LIMIT. Instead they
3888 give up and return LIMIT.
3889
3890 *** New function `window-line-height' is an efficient way to get
3891 information about a specific text line in a window provided that the
3892 window's display is up-to-date.
3893
3894 *** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position.
3895
3896 It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point.
3897
3898 *** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates
3899 and partial visibility state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
3900 arg is non-nil.
3901
3902 *** New functions `posn-at-point' and `posn-at-x-y' return
3903 click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
3904 position or for a given window pixel coordinate.
3905
3906 *** New function `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link.
3907
3908 This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
3909 functionality.
3910
3911 ** Text modification:
3912
3913 *** The new function `buffer-chars-modified-tick' returns a buffer's
3914 tick counter for changes to characters. Each time text in that buffer
3915 is inserted or deleted, the character-change counter is updated to the
3916 tick counter (`buffer-modified-tick'). Text property changes leave it
3917 unchanged.
3918
3919 *** The new function `insert-for-yank' normally works like `insert', but
3920 removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list
3921 and handles the `yank-handler' text property.
3922
3923 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' is like
3924 `insert-for-yank' except that it gets the text from another buffer as
3925 in `insert-buffer-substring'.
3926
3927 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like
3928 `insert-buffer-substring', but removes all text properties from the
3929 inserted substring.
3930
3931 *** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
3932 substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
3933 the filtered substring. Use it instead of `buffer-substring' or
3934 `delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
3935 data structure, such as the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.
3936
3937 The list of filter function is specified by the new variable
3938 `buffer-substring-filters'. For example, Longlines mode adds to
3939 `buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
3940 text.
3941
3942 *** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
3943 argument.
3944
3945 *** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
3946 is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to
3947 be inserted is translated through it.
3948
3949 *** Text clones.
3950
3951 The new function `text-clone-create'. Text clones are chunks of text
3952 that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one
3953 clone to the other.
3954
3955 *** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete.
3956
3957 ** Filling changes.
3958
3959 *** In determining an adaptive fill prefix, Emacs now tries the function in
3960 `adaptive-fill-function' _before_ matching the buffer line against
3961 `adaptive-fill-regexp' rather than _after_ it.
3962
3963 ** Atomic change groups.
3964
3965 To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
3966 they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
3967 around the code that makes changes. For instance:
3968
3969 (atomic-change-group
3970 (insert foo)
3971 (delete-region x y))
3972
3973 If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of
3974 `atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that
3975 were during the execution of the body. The change group has no effect
3976 on any other buffers--any such changes remain.
3977
3978 If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the
3979 lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses. Here is how.
3980
3981 To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'.
3982 Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer.
3983 This function returns a "handle" for the change group. You must save
3984 the handle to activate the change group and then finish it.
3985
3986 Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change
3987 group. Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to
3988 do this.
3989
3990 After you make the changes, you must finish the change group. You can
3991 either accept the changes or cancel them all. Call
3992 `accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final;
3993 call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all.
3994
3995 You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always
3996 finished. The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the
3997 `unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs.
3998 (This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and
3999 `activate-change-group' are separate functions.) Once you finish the
4000 group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group
4001 twice.
4002
4003 To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once
4004 for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the
4005 returned values, like this:
4006
4007 (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1)
4008 (prepare-change-group buffer-2))
4009
4010 You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call
4011 to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to
4012 `accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'.
4013
4014 Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you
4015 would expect. Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer
4016 will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first
4017 change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one
4018 finished.
4019
4020 ** Buffer-related changes:
4021
4022 *** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
4023 binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER. If VARIABLE does not
4024 have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
4025 value of VARIABLE instead.
4026
4027 *** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST.
4028
4029 If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list.
4030
4031 *** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local.
4032
4033 *** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
4034 various status records in parallel.
4035
4036 It takes a variable (a symbol) as argument. If the variable is non-nil,
4037 then its value should be a vector installed previously by
4038 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p'. If the frame names, buffer names, buffer
4039 order, or their read-only or modified flags have changed, since the
4040 time the vector's contents were recorded by a previous call to
4041 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', then the function returns t. Otherwise
4042 it returns nil.
4043
4044 On the first call to `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', the variable's
4045 value should be nil. `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' stores a suitable
4046 vector into the variable and returns t.
4047
4048 If the variable is itself nil, then `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' uses,
4049 for compatibility, an internal variable which exists only for this
4050 purpose.
4051
4052 *** The function `read-buffer' follows the convention for reading from
4053 the minibuffer with a default value: if DEF is non-nil, the minibuffer
4054 prompt provided in PROMPT is edited to show the default value provided
4055 in DEF before the terminal colon and space.
4056
4057 ** Searching and matching changes:
4058
4059 *** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
4060 the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
4061 back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.
4062
4063 *** The new variable `search-spaces-regexp' controls how to search
4064 for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a
4065 regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular
4066 expression. If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves.
4067
4068 Spaces inside of constructs such as `[..]' and inside loops such as
4069 `*', `+', and `?' are never replaced with `search-spaces-regexp'.
4070
4071 *** New regular expression operators, `\_<' and `\_>'.
4072
4073 These match the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a
4074 non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
4075 specified by the syntax table.
4076
4077 *** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
4078 character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
4079 characters and ranges.
4080
4081 *** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits
4082 properties from surrounding text.
4083
4084 *** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final
4085 element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data'
4086 accepts such a list for restoring the match state.
4087
4088 *** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional
4089 argument `reseat'. When non-nil, all markers in the match data list
4090 passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere.
4091
4092 *** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements.
4093
4094 *** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
4095 variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
4096 that end a sentence without following spaces.
4097
4098 The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the
4099 variable `sentence-end'. If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then
4100 this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables
4101 `sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and
4102 `sentence-end-without-space'.
4103
4104 ** Undo changes:
4105
4106 *** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements.
4107
4108 These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
4109 a symbol other than t or nil. That stands for a high-level change
4110 that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).
4111
4112 These entries can also have the form (apply DELTA BEG END FUNNAME . ARGS)
4113 which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the
4114 range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA.
4115
4116 *** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than
4117 `undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent
4118 it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.
4119
4120 ** Killing and yanking changes:
4121
4122 *** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how
4123 previously killed text on the kill ring is reinserted.
4124
4125 The value of the `yank-handler' property must be a list with one to four
4126 elements with the following format:
4127 (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).
4128
4129 The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
4130 the first character on its string argument (typically the first
4131 element on the kill-ring). If a `yank-handler' property is found,
4132 the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:
4133
4134 When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
4135 to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
4136 If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object
4137 passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is
4138 `yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a
4139 rectangle.
4140 If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the
4141 `yank-excluded-properties' is not performed; instead FUNCTION is
4142 responsible for removing those properties. This may be necessary
4143 if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object.
4144 If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
4145 by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object. It is
4146 called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
4147 FUNCTION can set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.
4148
4149 *** The functions `kill-new', `kill-append', and `kill-region' now have an
4150 optional argument to specify the `yank-handler' text property to put on
4151 the killed text.
4152
4153 *** The function `yank-pop' will now use a non-nil value of the variable
4154 `yank-undo-function' (instead of `delete-region') to undo the previous
4155 `yank' or `yank-pop' command (or a call to `insert-for-yank'). The function
4156 `insert-for-yank' automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
4157 element of the string argument's `yank-handler' text property if present.
4158
4159 *** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
4160 `yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
4161 string. The old behavior is available if you call
4162 `insert-for-yank-1' instead.
4163
4164 ** Syntax table changes:
4165
4166 *** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the
4167 current syntactic context at point.
4168
4169 *** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code
4170 of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account
4171 of text properties as well as the character code.
4172
4173 *** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned
4174 by `syntax-after').
4175
4176 *** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table.
4177
4178 ** File operation changes:
4179
4180 *** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
4181 searching for an executable or an Emacs Lisp file.
4182
4183 *** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories.
4184 `locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two
4185 lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to
4186 try; typical usage might use `exec-path' and `load-path' for the list
4187 of directories, and `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' for the list
4188 of suffixes. The function also accepts a predicate argument to
4189 further filter candidate files.
4190
4191 One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
4192 `exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
4193 executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.
4194
4195 *** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns
4196 non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using
4197 its own special methods and not directly through the file system).
4198 The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system.
4199
4200 *** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
4201 before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final
4202 tasks. For example, it can be used by the copyright package to make
4203 sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.
4204
4205 *** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which
4206 specifies the maximum number of links to chase through. If after that
4207 many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link,
4208 `file-chase-links' returns it anyway.
4209
4210 *** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now
4211 ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as
4212 `.emacs' are treated as extensionless.
4213
4214 *** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
4215 `save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if
4216 it's modified).
4217
4218 *** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was
4219 formerly called `auto-save-file-format'. It is now a permanent local.
4220
4221 *** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
4222 a list of two integers, instead of a cons.
4223
4224 *** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.
4225
4226 Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,
4227 `find-file-name-handler' now gives precedence to a file name handler
4228 that matches nearest the end of the file name. More precisely, the
4229 handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. In case
4230 of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies.
4231
4232 *** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles.
4233
4234 You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name
4235 symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that
4236 the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other
4237 operations.
4238
4239 This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being
4240 autoloaded when not really necessary.
4241
4242 *** The function `make-auto-save-file-name' is now handled by file
4243 name handlers. This will be exploited for remote files mainly.
4244
4245 *** The function `file-name-completion' accepts an optional argument
4246 PREDICATE, and rejects completion candidates that don't satisfy PREDICATE.
4247
4248 *** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and
4249 modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this
4250 operation.
4251
4252 ** Input changes:
4253
4254 *** Functions `y-or-n-p', `read-char', `read-key-sequence' and the like, that
4255 display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
4256 using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
4257
4258 *** The functions `read-event', `read-char', and `read-char-exclusive'
4259 have a new optional argument SECONDS. If non-nil, this specifies a
4260 maximum time to wait for input, in seconds. If no input arrives after
4261 this time elapses, the functions stop waiting and return nil.
4262
4263 *** An interactive specification can now use the code letter `U' to get
4264 the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
4265 previous `k' or `K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.
4266
4267 *** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
4268 much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
4269 it returns just the directory name.
4270
4271 *** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input
4272 arrives. If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a
4273 quit had occurred. `while-no-input' returns the value of BODY, if BODY
4274 finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted by a quit, and t if
4275 BODY was aborted by arrival of input.
4276
4277 *** `recent-keys' now returns the last 300 keys.
4278
4279 ** Minibuffer changes:
4280
4281 *** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional
4282 buffer argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted, it
4283 defaults to the current buffer.
4284
4285 *** New function `minibuffer-selected-window' returns the window which
4286 was selected when entering the minibuffer.
4287
4288 *** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
4289 specifies a predicate which the file name read must satisfy. The
4290 new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
4291 while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
4292 variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.
4293
4294 *** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by Lisp code
4295 to override the built-in `read-file-name' function.
4296
4297 *** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
4298 whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
4299 `read-file-name' function.
4300
4301 *** The new function `read-directory-name' is for reading a directory name.
4302
4303 It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
4304 for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.
4305
4306 *** The new variable `history-add-new-input' specifies whether to add new
4307 elements in history. If set to nil, minibuffer reading functions don't
4308 add new elements to the history list, so it is possible to do this
4309 afterwards by calling `add-to-history' explicitly.
4310
4311 ** Completion changes:
4312
4313 *** The new function `minibuffer-completion-contents' returns the contents
4314 of the minibuffer just before point. That is what completion commands
4315 operate on.
4316
4317 *** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
4318 of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
4319 and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
4320 exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables can be either
4321 strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.
4322
4323 *** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions
4324 as a dynamic completion table.
4325
4326 (dynamic-completion-table FUN)
4327
4328 FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required,
4329 and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible
4330 completions. This alist can be a full list of possible completions so that FUN
4331 can ignore the value of its argument. If completion is performed in the
4332 minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was
4333 entered. `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion.
4334
4335 *** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
4336 as a lazy completion table.
4337
4338 (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN)
4339
4340 If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
4341 as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with no
4342 arguments. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR.
4343 If completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
4344 from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
4345 `lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.
4346
4347 ** Abbrev changes:
4348
4349 *** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG.
4350
4351 If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means
4352 that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the
4353 abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always
4354 specify this flag.
4355
4356 *** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table.
4357
4358 It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table.
4359
4360 ** Enhancements to keymaps.
4361
4362 *** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.
4363
4364 You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
4365 same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'. For
4366 example,
4367
4368 (kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"
4369
4370 Actually, this format has existed since Emacs 20.1.
4371
4372 *** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.
4373
4374 This is an alternative to using `defadvice' or `substitute-key-definition'
4375 to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
4376 binding and lookup functionality.
4377
4378 When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is
4379 remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the
4380 original command.
4381
4382 Example:
4383 Suppose that minor mode `my-mode' has defined the commands
4384 `my-kill-line' and `my-kill-word', and it wants C-k (and any other key
4385 bound to `kill-line') to run the command `my-kill-line' instead of
4386 `kill-line', and likewise it wants to run `my-kill-word' instead of
4387 `kill-word'.
4388
4389 Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map,
4390 command remapping allows you to directly map `kill-line' into
4391 `my-kill-line' and `kill-word' into `my-kill-word' using `define-key':
4392
4393 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line)
4394 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word)
4395
4396 When `my-mode' is enabled, its minor mode keymap is enabled too. So
4397 when the user types C-k, that runs the command `my-kill-line'.
4398
4399 Only one level of remapping is supported. In the above example, this
4400 means that if `my-kill-line' is remapped to `other-kill', then C-k still
4401 runs `my-kill-line'.
4402
4403 The following changes have been made to provide command remapping:
4404
4405 - Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
4406 `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD
4407 to definition DEF in keymap MAP. The definition is not limited to
4408 another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding.
4409
4410 - The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a
4411 remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped.
4412
4413 - `key-binding' now remaps interactive commands unless the optional
4414 third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil.
4415
4416 - `where-is-internal' now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g.
4417 `kill-line', when `my-mode' is enabled), and the actual key binding for
4418 the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line).
4419 It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits
4420 remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns "C-k" for `kill-line', and
4421 "<kill-line>" for `my-kill-line').
4422
4423 - The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
4424 command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the
4425 command was not remapped.
4426
4427 *** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style
4428 key-sequences, such as [(control a)].
4429
4430 *** New keymaps for typing file names
4431
4432 Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' and
4433 `minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
4434 Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer. These key maps override
4435 the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
4436 names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
4437 the spaces).
4438
4439 *** New function `current-active-maps' returns a list of currently
4440 active keymaps.
4441
4442 *** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all
4443 defined keys and their definitions.
4444
4445 *** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt string of a keymap.
4446
4447 *** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
4448 over minor mode keymaps.
4449
4450 *** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and
4451 text properties, according to their stickiness. This also means that it
4452 works with empty overlays. The same hold for the `local-map' property.
4453
4454 *** `key-binding' will now look up mouse-specific bindings. The
4455 keymaps consulted by `key-binding' will get adapted if the key
4456 sequence is started with a mouse event. Instead of letting the click
4457 position be determined from the key sequence itself, it is also
4458 possible to specify it with an optional argument explicitly.
4459
4460 *** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1.
4461
4462 *** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
4463 in the keymap.
4464
4465 *** New variable `emulation-mode-map-alists'.
4466
4467 Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
4468 keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their
4469 keymap alist to this list.
4470
4471 *** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly.
4472
4473 Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key
4474 bindings of the parent keymap.
4475
4476 ** Enhancements to process support
4477
4478 *** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.
4479
4480 On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
4481 output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
4482 very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent
4483 by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
4484 non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
4485 from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before
4486 Emacs tries to read it.
4487
4488 *** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can
4489 maintain process state and other per-process related information.
4490
4491 Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add,
4492 and modify elements on this property list. Use the new functions
4493 `process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the
4494 entire property list of a process.
4495
4496 *** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
4497 it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set.
4498
4499 *** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'.
4500
4501 These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'. That
4502 function is still supported, but new code should use the new
4503 functions.
4504
4505 *** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.
4506
4507 This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.
4508
4509 *** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but
4510 obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
4511 `default-directory'.
4512
4513 *** Function `signal-process' now accepts a process object or process
4514 name in addition to a process id to identify the signaled process.
4515
4516 *** Function `accept-process-output' has a new optional fourth arg
4517 JUST-THIS-ONE. If non-nil, only output from the specified process
4518 is handled, suspending output from other processes. If value is an
4519 integer, also inhibit running timers. This feature is generally not
4520 recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
4521 speech synthesis.
4522
4523 *** A process filter function gets the output as multibyte string
4524 if the process specifies t for its filter's multibyteness.
4525
4526 That multibyteness is decided by the value of
4527 `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is created, and
4528 you can change it later with `set-process-filter-multibyte'.
4529
4530 *** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the
4531 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4532
4533 *** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns the
4534 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4535
4536 *** If a process's coding system is `raw-text' or `no-conversion' and its
4537 buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted
4538 to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer.
4539 Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte',
4540 which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.
4541
4542 ** Enhanced networking support.
4543
4544 *** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
4545 It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
4546 create a stream or datagram server inside Emacs.
4547
4548 - A server is started using :server t arg.
4549 - Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
4550 - A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
4551 - Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.
4552 - IPv6 is supported (when available). You may explicitly select IPv6
4553 using :family 'ipv6 arg.
4554 - Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg.
4555 - The process' property list can be initialized using :plist PLIST arg;
4556 a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited
4557 by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.
4558
4559 To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
4560 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))
4561 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:family ipv6))
4562
4563 *** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.
4564
4565 *** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument.
4566
4567 Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network
4568 process properties or a specific property. Using :local or :remote as
4569 the KEY, you get the address of the local or remote end-point.
4570
4571 An Inet address is represented as a 5 element vector, where the first
4572 4 elements contain the IP address and the fifth is the port number.
4573
4574 *** New functions `stop-process' and `continue-process'.
4575
4576 These functions stop and restart communication through a network
4577 connection. For a server process, no connections are accepted in the
4578 stopped state. For a client process, no input is received in the
4579 stopped state.
4580
4581 *** New function `format-network-address'.
4582
4583 This function reformats the Lisp representation of a network address
4584 to a printable string. For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port
4585 number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the
4586 printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc
4587 string for other formatting options.
4588
4589 *** New function `network-interface-list'.
4590
4591 This function returns a list of network interface names and their
4592 current network addresses.
4593
4594 *** New function `network-interface-info'.
4595
4596 This function returns the network address, hardware address, current
4597 status, and other information about a specific network interface.
4598
4599 *** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.
4600
4601 These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get
4602 and set the current address of the remote partner.
4603
4604 *** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel.
4605
4606 The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network
4607 process is "deleted". The message passed to the sentinel when the
4608 connection is closed by the remote peer has been changed to
4609 "connection broken by remote peer".
4610
4611 ** Using window objects:
4612
4613 *** You can now make a window as short as one line.
4614
4615 A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode
4616 line or a header line, even if the variables `mode-line-format' and
4617 `header-line-format' call for them. A window that is two lines tall
4618 cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the
4619 variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears.
4620
4621 *** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
4622 actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
4623 divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
4624 the mode line.
4625
4626 *** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges'
4627 return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines.
4628
4629 *** New function `window-body-height'.
4630
4631 This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the
4632 header line.
4633
4634 *** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right
4635 or bottom edge of a window. It does not move other window edges.
4636
4637 *** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the
4638 selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'.
4639 It saves and restores the current buffer, too.
4640
4641 *** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD.
4642
4643 This is like `switch-to-buffer'.
4644
4645 *** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
4646 of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed
4647 by calling `select-window'. It also saves and restores the current
4648 buffer.
4649
4650 *** `set-window-buffer' has an optional argument KEEP-MARGINS.
4651
4652 If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
4653 and scroll-bar settings.
4654
4655 *** The new function `window-tree' returns a frame's window tree.
4656
4657 *** The functions `get-lru-window' and `get-largest-window' take an optional
4658 argument `dedicated'. If non-nil, those functions do not ignore
4659 dedicated windows.
4660
4661 ** Customizable fringe bitmaps
4662
4663 *** There are new display properties, `left-fringe' and `right-fringe',
4664 that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe
4665 bitmap of the display line.
4666
4667 Format is `display (left-fringe BITMAP [FACE])', where BITMAP is a
4668 symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with
4669 `define-fringe-bitmap', and FACE is an optional face name to be used
4670 for displaying the bitmap instead of the default `fringe' face.
4671 When specified, FACE is automatically merged with the `fringe' face.
4672
4673 *** New buffer-local variables `fringe-indicator-alist' and
4674 `fringe-cursor-alist' maps between logical (internal) fringe indicator
4675 and cursor symbols and the actual fringe bitmaps to be displayed.
4676 This decouples the logical meaning of the fringe indicators from the
4677 physical appearance, as well as allowing different fringe bitmaps to
4678 be used in different windows showing different buffers.
4679
4680 *** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new
4681 fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps.
4682
4683 *** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
4684 or restores a built-in one to its default value.
4685
4686 *** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be
4687 used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is automatically merged
4688 with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face should only specify the
4689 foreground color of the bitmap.
4690
4691 *** New function `fringe-bitmaps-at-pos' returns the current fringe
4692 bitmaps in the display line at a given buffer position.
4693
4694 ** Other window fringe features:
4695
4696 *** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths.
4697
4698 The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame
4699 can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe'
4700 frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels.
4701 Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe.
4702
4703 The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the
4704 specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an
4705 integral number of columns. The extra width is distributed evenly
4706 between the left and right fringe. To force a specific fringe width,
4707 specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative,
4708 only the left fringe gets the specified width).
4709
4710 Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe
4711 width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any
4712 of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in
4713 fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels.
4714
4715 *** Per-window fringe and scrollbar settings
4716
4717 **** Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and
4718 position settings.
4719
4720 To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local
4721 variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call
4722 `set-window-fringes'.
4723
4724 To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes
4725 are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area,
4726 or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable
4727 `fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'.
4728
4729 The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current
4730 settings. To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
4731 `fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
4732 displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
4733 an update of the display margins.
4734
4735 **** Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
4736 controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.
4737
4738 To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local
4739 variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call
4740 `set-window-scroll-bars'. The function `window-scroll-bars' can be
4741 used to obtain the current settings. To make `scroll-bar-mode' and
4742 `scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
4743 the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
4744 of the display margins.
4745
4746 ** Redisplay features:
4747
4748 *** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP).
4749
4750 *** Iconifying or deiconifying a frame no longer makes sit-for return.
4751
4752 *** New function `redisplay' causes an immediate redisplay if no input is
4753 available, equivalent to (sit-for 0). The call (redisplay t) forces
4754 an immediate redisplay even if input is pending.
4755
4756 *** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of
4757 one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window
4758 contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit
4759 changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
4760 forcing an explicit window update.
4761
4762 *** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able
4763 to display CHAR. More precisely, if the selected frame's fontset has
4764 a font to display the character set that CHAR belongs to.
4765
4766 Fontsets can specify a font on a per-character basis; when the fontset
4767 does that, this value cannot be accurate.
4768
4769 *** You can define multiple overlay arrows via the new
4770 variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'.
4771
4772 It contains a list of variables which contain overlay arrow position
4773 markers, including the original `overlay-arrow-position' variable.
4774
4775 Each variable on this list can have individual `overlay-arrow-string'
4776 and `overlay-arrow-bitmap' properties that specify an overlay arrow
4777 string (for non-window terminals) or fringe bitmap (for window
4778 systems) to display at the corresponding overlay arrow position.
4779 If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or
4780 'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used.
4781
4782 *** New `line-height' and `line-spacing' properties for newline characters
4783
4784 A newline can now have `line-height' and `line-spacing' text or overlay
4785 properties that control the height of the corresponding display row.
4786
4787 If the `line-height' property value is t, the newline does not
4788 contribute to the height of the display row; instead the height of the
4789 newline glyph is reduced. Also, a `line-spacing' property on this
4790 newline is ignored. This can be used to tile small images or image
4791 slices without adding blank areas between the images.
4792
4793 If the `line-height' property value is a positive integer, the value
4794 specifies the minimum line height in pixels. If necessary, the line
4795 height it increased by increasing the line's ascent.
4796
4797 If the `line-height' property value is a float, the minimum line
4798 height is calculated by multiplying the default frame line height by
4799 the given value.
4800
4801 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (FACE . RATIO), the
4802 minimum line height is calculated as RATIO * height of named FACE.
4803 RATIO is int or float. If FACE is t, it specifies the current face.
4804
4805 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (nil . RATIO), the line
4806 height is calculated as RATIO * actual height of the line's contents.
4807
4808 If the `line-height' value is a cons (HEIGHT . TOTAL), HEIGHT specifies
4809 the line height as described above, while TOTAL is any of the forms
4810 described above and specifies the total height of the line, causing a
4811 varying number of pixels to be inserted after the line to make it line
4812 exactly that many pixels high.
4813
4814 If the `line-spacing' property value is an positive integer, the value
4815 is used as additional pixels to insert after the display line; this
4816 overrides the default frame `line-spacing' and any buffer local value of
4817 the `line-spacing' variable.
4818
4819 If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing
4820 is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property.
4821
4822 *** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value,
4823 which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.
4824
4825 *** Enhancements to stretch display properties
4826
4827 The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where
4828 PROPS is a property list, now allows pixel based width and height
4829 specifications, as well as enhanced horizontal text alignment.
4830
4831 The value of these properties can now be a (primitive) expression
4832 which is evaluated during redisplay. The following expressions
4833 are supported:
4834
4835 EXPR ::= NUM | (NUM) | UNIT | ELEM | POS | IMAGE | FORM
4836 NUM ::= INTEGER | FLOAT | SYMBOL
4837 UNIT ::= in | mm | cm | width | height
4838 ELEM ::= left-fringe | right-fringe | left-margin | right-margin
4839 | scroll-bar | text
4840 POS ::= left | center | right
4841 FORM ::= (NUM . EXPR) | (OP EXPR ...)
4842 OP ::= + | -
4843
4844 The form `NUM' specifies a fractional width or height of the default
4845 frame font size. The form `(NUM)' specifies an absolute number of
4846 pixels. If a symbol is specified, its buffer-local variable binding
4847 is used. The `in', `mm', and `cm' units specifies the number of
4848 pixels per inch, milli-meter, and centi-meter, resp. The `width' and
4849 `height' units correspond to the width and height of the current face
4850 font. An image specification corresponds to the width or height of
4851 the image.
4852
4853 The `left-fringe', `right-fringe', `left-margin', `right-margin',
4854 `scroll-bar', and `text' elements specify to the width of the
4855 corresponding area of the window.
4856
4857 The `left', `center', and `right' positions can be used with :align-to
4858 to specify a position relative to the left edge, center, or right edge
4859 of the text area. One of the above window elements (except `text')
4860 can also be used with :align-to to specify that the position is
4861 relative to the left edge of the given area. Once the base offset for
4862 a relative position has been set (by the first occurrence of one of
4863 these symbols), further occurrences of these symbols are interpreted as
4864 the width of the area.
4865
4866 For example, to align to the center of the left-margin, use
4867 :align-to (+ left-margin (0.5 . left-margin))
4868
4869 If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative
4870 to the left edge of the text area. For example, :align-to 0 in a
4871 header line aligns with the first text column in the text area.
4872
4873 The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by
4874 the value of the expression EXPR. For example, (2 . in) specifies a
4875 width of 2 inches, while (0.5 . IMAGE) specifies half the width (or
4876 height) of the specified image.
4877
4878 The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions.
4879 The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions.
4880
4881 *** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and
4882 text property string that may be present at the current window
4883 position. The cursor can now be placed on any character of such
4884 strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property.
4885
4886 *** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now
4887 supported on text terminals.
4888
4889 *** Support for displaying image slices
4890
4891 **** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with
4892 an image property to display only a specific slice of the image.
4893
4894 **** Function `insert-image' has new optional fourth arg to
4895 specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT).
4896
4897 **** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a
4898 specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns).
4899
4900 *** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property.
4901
4902 An image map is an alist where each element has the format (AREA ID PLIST).
4903 An AREA is specified as either a rectangle, a circle, or a polygon:
4904 A rectangle is a cons (rect . ((X0 . Y0) . (X1 . Y1))) specifying the
4905 pixel coordinates of the upper left and bottom right corners.
4906 A circle is a cons (circle . ((X0 . Y0) . R)) specifying the center
4907 and the radius of the circle; R can be a float or integer.
4908 A polygon is a cons (poly . [X0 Y0 X1 Y1 ...]) where each pair in the
4909 vector describes one corner in the polygon.
4910
4911 When the mouse pointer is above a hot-spot area of an image, the
4912 PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo'
4913 property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains
4914 a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when
4915 it is over the hot-spot. See the variable `void-area-text-pointer'
4916 for possible pointer shapes.
4917
4918 When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
4919 an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
4920 mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.
4921
4922 *** The function `find-image' now searches in etc/images/ and etc/.
4923 The new variable `image-load-path' is a list of locations in which to
4924 search for image files. The default is to search in etc/images, then
4925 in etc/, and finally in the directories specified by `load-path'.
4926 Subdirectories of etc/ and etc/images are not recursively searched; if
4927 you put an image file in a subdirectory, you have to specify it
4928 explicitly; for example, if an image is put in etc/images/foo/bar.xpm:
4929
4930 (defimage foo-image '((:type xpm :file "foo/bar.xpm")))
4931
4932 Note that all images formerly located in the lisp directory have been
4933 moved to etc/images.
4934
4935 *** New function `image-load-path-for-library' returns a suitable
4936 search path for images relative to library. This function is useful in
4937 external packages to save users from having to update
4938 `image-load-path'.
4939
4940 *** The new variable `max-image-size' defines the maximum size of
4941 images that Emacs will load and display.
4942
4943 *** The new variable `display-mm-dimensions-alist' can be used to
4944 override incorrect graphical display dimensions returned by functions
4945 `display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'.
4946
4947 ** Mouse pointer features:
4948
4949 *** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a
4950 line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now
4951 controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default
4952 is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text'
4953 (or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'.
4954
4955 *** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the
4956 :pointer image property.
4957
4958 *** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images can now be
4959 controlled/overridden via the `pointer' text property.
4960
4961 ** Mouse event enhancements:
4962
4963 *** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where
4964 you clicked. For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is
4965 a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text.
4966
4967 *** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe'
4968 or `right-fringe' as the area.
4969
4970 *** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types
4971 and all areas.
4972
4973 *** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on.
4974
4975 *** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to
4976 the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on.
4977
4978 *** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object
4979 (image or character) clicked on.
4980
4981 *** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area.
4982
4983 *** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events.
4984
4985 *** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means
4986 text area).
4987
4988 *** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates
4989 of the mouse event position.
4990
4991 *** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'.
4992
4993 These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y
4994 pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of that object, and
4995 the total width and height of that object.
4996
4997 ** Text property and overlay changes:
4998
4999 *** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can
5000 remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays).
5001
5002 *** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
5003
5004 This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
5005 properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
5006 although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced
5007 to implement the `font-lock-face' property.
5008
5009 *** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
5010 arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
5011 return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
5012 whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
5013 it was found as a text property or not found at all.
5014
5015 *** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'.
5016
5017 It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of
5018 property names as argument rather than a property list.
5019
5020 ** Face changes
5021
5022 *** The variable `facemenu-unlisted-faces' has been removed.
5023 Emacs has a lot more faces than in the past, and nearly all of them
5024 needed to be excluded. The new variable `facemenu-listed-faces' lists
5025 the faces to include in the face menu.
5026
5027 *** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor
5028 the face color to the number of colors supported by a display, and
5029 define the foreground and background colors accordingly so that they
5030 look best on a terminal that supports at least this many colors. This
5031 is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that
5032 makes a good use of the capabilities of the display.
5033
5034 *** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test
5035 whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.
5036
5037 A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
5038 specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
5039 defined with `defface'.
5040
5041 *** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR'
5042 or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the
5043 `defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use
5044 the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background
5045 directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face.
5046
5047 *** The first face specification element in a defface can specify
5048 `default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as
5049 defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and can be overridden
5050 by them).
5051
5052 *** The function `face-differs-from-default-p' now truly checks
5053 whether the given face displays differently from the default face or
5054 not (previously it did only a very cursory check).
5055
5056 *** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'.
5057
5058 These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how
5059 face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face
5060 attribute.
5061
5062 *** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute'
5063 help with handling relative face attributes.
5064
5065 *** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face list is reversed.
5066
5067 If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
5068 faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous
5069 releases of Emacs, the order was the opposite. This change was made
5070 so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text
5071 `face' properties.
5072
5073 *** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger
5074 (or smaller) font we should use. For instance, if the value is
5075 '((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10
5076 point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches
5077 SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN.
5078
5079 *** On terminals, faces with the :inverse-video attribute are displayed
5080 with swapped foreground and background colors even when one of them is
5081 not specified. In previous releases of Emacs, if either foreground
5082 or background color was unspecified, colors were not swapped. This
5083 was inconsistent with the face behavior under X.
5084
5085 *** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
5086 the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..
5087
5088 ** Font-Lock changes:
5089
5090 *** New special text property `font-lock-face'.
5091
5092 This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by
5093 M-x font-lock-mode. It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text
5094 property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the
5095 new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
5096
5097 *** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.
5098
5099 **** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the
5100 form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other
5101 properties than `face'.
5102
5103 **** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those
5104 extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.
5105
5106 *** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'.
5107
5108 If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified
5109 (see `jit-lock-defer-contextually'), then all of that text will
5110 be refontified. This is useful when the syntax of a textual element
5111 depends on text several lines further down (and when `font-lock-multiline'
5112 is not appropriate to solve that problem). For example in Perl:
5113
5114 s{
5115 foo
5116 }{
5117 bar
5118 }e
5119
5120 Adding/removing the last `e' changes the `bar' from being a piece of
5121 text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a `jit-lock-defer-multiline'
5122 property over the second half of the command to force (deferred)
5123 refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed.
5124
5125 *** `font-lock-extend-region-functions' makes it possible to alter the way
5126 the fontification region is chosen. This can be used to prevent rounding
5127 up to whole lines, or to extend the region to include all related lines
5128 of multiline constructs so that such constructs get properly recognized.
5129
5130 ** Major mode mechanism changes:
5131
5132 *** New variable `magic-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5133 looking at the file contents. It takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist'.
5134
5135 *** New variable `magic-fallback-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5136 looking at the file contents. It is handled after `auto-mode-alist',
5137 only if `auto-mode-alist' (and `magic-mode-alist') says nothing about the file.
5138
5139 *** XML or SGML major mode is selected when file starts with an `<?xml'
5140 or `<!DOCTYPE' declaration.
5141
5142 *** An interpreter magic line (if present) takes precedence over the
5143 file name when setting the major mode.
5144
5145 *** If new variable `auto-mode-case-fold' is set to a non-nil value,
5146 Emacs will perform a second case-insensitive search through
5147 `auto-mode-alist' if the first case-sensitive search fails. This
5148 means that a file FILE.TXT is opened in text-mode, and a file
5149 PROG.HTML is opened in html-mode. Note however, that independent of
5150 this setting, *.C files are usually recognized as C++ files. It also
5151 has no effect on systems with case-insensitive file names.
5152
5153 *** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook
5154 `after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode
5155 hooks. `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically.
5156
5157 *** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function'
5158 locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to
5159 the language.
5160
5161 *** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.
5162
5163 *** The new function `run-mode-hooks' and the new macro `delay-mode-hooks'
5164 are used by `define-derived-mode' to make sure the mode hook for the
5165 parent mode is run at the end of the child mode.
5166
5167 *** `define-derived-mode' by default creates a new empty abbrev table.
5168 It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table.
5169
5170 *** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect'
5171 property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use
5172 it in that buffer.
5173
5174 ** Minor mode changes:
5175
5176 *** `define-minor-mode' now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments
5177 and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable.
5178
5179 *** `define-globalized-minor-mode'.
5180
5181 This is a new name for what was formerly called
5182 `easy-mmode-define-global-mode'. The old name remains as an alias.
5183
5184 *** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.
5185
5186 ** Command loop changes:
5187
5188 *** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people
5189 have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the
5190 calling function was called through `call-interactively'.
5191
5192 Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new
5193 INTERACTIVE argument to the command.
5194
5195 *** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument.
5196
5197 If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks for a function that could be
5198 called with `call-interactively', and does not return t for keyboard
5199 macros.
5200
5201 *** When a command returns, the command loop moves point out from
5202 within invisible text, in the same way it moves out from within text
5203 covered by an image or composition property.
5204
5205 This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible.
5206 This is particularly good because the intangible property often has
5207 unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything
5208 (including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after
5209 `post-command-hook' and thus does not care about intermediate states.
5210
5211 *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to `only', that
5212 enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
5213 During that following command, the value of `transient-mark-mode'
5214 is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command,
5215 the next return to the command loop changes to nil.
5216
5217 *** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
5218 been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable
5219 `disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.
5220
5221 *** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook'
5222 when it receives a request from emacsclient.
5223
5224 *** `current-idle-time' reports how long Emacs has been idle.
5225
5226 ** Lisp file loading changes:
5227
5228 *** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
5229 which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the
5230 current file redefined it).
5231
5232 *** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is
5233 defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name.
5234
5235 *** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function,
5236 variable or face definitions.
5237
5238 *** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
5239 to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
5240 and runs any code associated with the provided feature.
5241
5242 *** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted.
5243 Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more
5244 than 3 levels of nesting.
5245
5246 ** Byte compiler changes:
5247
5248 *** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character
5249 position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form of its
5250 warning and error messages have been brought into line with GNU standards
5251 for these. As a result, you can use next-error and friends on the
5252 compilation output buffer.
5253
5254 *** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
5255 inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.
5256
5257 *** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a
5258 simple convention that the compiler understands. (This is mostly
5259 useful in code meant to be portable to different Emacs versions.)
5260 Write forms like the following, or code that macroexpands into such
5261 forms:
5262
5263 (if (fboundp 'foo) <then> <else>)
5264 (if (boundp 'foo) <then> <else)
5265
5266 In the first case, using `foo' as a function inside the <then> form
5267 won't produce a warning if it's not defined as a function, and in the
5268 second case, using `foo' as a variable won't produce a warning if it's
5269 unbound. The test must be in exactly one of the above forms (after
5270 macro expansion), but such tests can be nested. Note that `when' and
5271 `unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't.
5272
5273 *** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil. This
5274 helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both
5275 Emacs and XEmacs and can sometimes make the result significantly more
5276 efficient. Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't
5277 generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
5278 you anything.
5279
5280 *** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in Lisp files is now obeyed.
5281
5282 *** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file
5283 now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs
5284 (require 'cl) when loaded.
5285
5286 ** Frame operations:
5287
5288 *** New functions `frame-current-scroll-bars' and `window-current-scroll-bars'.
5289
5290 These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
5291 horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window.
5292
5293 *** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
5294 for all (existing and future) frames.
5295
5296 *** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use
5297 for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a
5298 number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp
5299 Reference manual for more detailed documentation.
5300
5301 *** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width,
5302 the `scroll-bar-width' frame parameter value is nil.
5303
5304 ** Mode line changes:
5305
5306 *** New function `format-mode-line'.
5307
5308 This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a
5309 specified) window as a string with or without text properties.
5310
5311 *** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
5312 used to add text properties to mode-line elements.
5313
5314 *** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used
5315 to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode
5316 line.
5317
5318 *** Mouse-face on mode-line (and header-line) is now supported.
5319
5320 ** Menu manipulation changes:
5321
5322 *** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the
5323 proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify
5324 "files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File"
5325 several versions ago.
5326
5327 *** The dummy function keys made by easy-menu are now always lower case.
5328 If you specify the menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'
5329 as the "key" bound by that key binding.
5330
5331 This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for the bindings that were
5332 made with easy-menu.
5333
5334 *** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name
5335 if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu
5336 into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't
5337 need to have a name.
5338
5339 ** Mule changes:
5340
5341 *** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
5342
5343 Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
5344 from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte
5345 buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them
5346 now:
5347
5348 1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time.
5349
5350 2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid
5351 the time it takes to convert the format.
5352
5353 3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
5354 wasteful.
5355
5356 *** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
5357 to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
5358 for it. (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
5359 file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)
5360
5361 *** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the
5362 ascii character set. Language environments (such as Turkish) may
5363 alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters. This variable
5364 saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes.
5365
5366 *** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
5367 of one coding system from another coding system.
5368
5369 *** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that
5370 the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text
5371 parts, e.g. utf-16.
5372
5373 *** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if
5374 it is read from a file without decoding.
5375
5376 *** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
5377 hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.
5378
5379 *** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the
5380 current input method to input a character.
5381
5382 *** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument,
5383 NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified.
5384
5385 ** Operating system access:
5386
5387 *** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor
5388 run time used by Emacs since start-up.
5389
5390 *** Functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid' now return floats if the
5391 user UID doesn't fit in a Lisp integer. Function `user-full-name'
5392 accepts a float as UID parameter.
5393
5394 *** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information.
5395
5396 *** On MS Windows, locale-coding-system is used to interact with the OS.
5397 The Windows specific variable w32-system-coding-system, which was
5398 formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system.
5399
5400 *** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
5401 debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.
5402
5403 ** GC changes:
5404
5405 *** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold
5406 as the heap size increases.
5407
5408 *** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
5409 on garbage collection.
5410
5411 *** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection.
5412
5413 The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care.
5414
5415 ** Miscellaneous:
5416
5417 *** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions:
5418
5419 `find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook',
5420 `find-file-not-found-hooks' to `find-file-not-found-functions',
5421 `write-file-hooks' to `write-file-functions',
5422 `write-contents-hooks' to `write-contents-functions',
5423 `x-lost-selection-hooks' to `x-lost-selection-functions',
5424 `x-sent-selection-hooks' to `x-sent-selection-functions',
5425 `delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.
5426
5427 In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.
5428
5429 *** Variable `local-write-file-hooks' is marked obsolete.
5430
5431 Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.
5432
5433 *** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
5434 running under X.
5435 \f
5436 * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1
5437
5438 ** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
5439 buttons' in Emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
5440 `widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
5441 doesn't require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for
5442 such things as help and apropos buffers.
5443
5444 ** The new library tree-widget.el provides a widget to display a set
5445 of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is
5446 well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.
5447
5448 ** The new library bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
5449 binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
5450 data structures.
5451
5452 ** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
5453 buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.
5454
5455 It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
5456 and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi
5457 buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the
5458 commands.
5459
5460 This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable
5461 sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the
5462 SQL buffer.
5463
5464 (add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
5465 (function (lambda ()
5466 (master-mode t)
5467 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5468 (add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
5469 (function (lambda ()
5470 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5471
5472 ** The new library benchmark.el does timing measurements on Lisp code.
5473
5474 This includes measuring garbage collection time.
5475
5476 ** The new library testcover.el does test coverage checking.
5477
5478 This is so you can tell whether you've tested all paths in your Lisp
5479 code. It works with edebug.
5480
5481 The function `testcover-start' instruments all functions in a given
5482 file. Then test your code. The function `testcover-mark-all' adds
5483 overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to show where coverage
5484 is lacking. The command `testcover-next-mark' (bind it to a key!)
5485 will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch.
5486
5487 Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely
5488 evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same
5489 value. The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly
5490 complete their evaluation, such as `error'. The brown splotches are
5491 skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same
5492 value, such as (setq x 14).
5493
5494 For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to
5495 help out the test coverage tool. The macro `noreturn' suppresses a
5496 red splotch. It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does
5497 return. The macro `1value' suppresses a brown splotch for its argument.
5498 This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals
5499 an error if the argument actually returns differing values.
5500
5501
5502 \f
5503 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
5504 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
5505
5506 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5507 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
5508 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
5509 any later version.
5510
5511 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
5512 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
5513 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
5514 GNU General Public License for more details.
5515
5516 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
5517 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
5518 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
5519 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
5520
5521 \f
5522 Local variables:
5523 mode: outline
5524 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
5525 end:
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