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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
11 See file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates.
12 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
13 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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21 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
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23 otherwise leave it unmarked.
26 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.2
28 ** The new option 'configure --enable-gcc-warnings=warn-only' causes
29 GCC to issue warnings without stopping the build. This behavior is
30 now the default in developer builds. As before, use
31 '--disable-gcc-warnings' to suppress GCC's warnings, and
32 '--enable-gcc-warnings' to stop the build if GCC issues warnings.
35 ** The Emacs server now has socket-launching support. This allows
36 socket based activation, where an external process like systemd can
37 invoke the Emacs server process upon a socket connection event and
38 hand the socket over to Emacs. Emacs uses this socket to service
39 emacsclient commands. This new functionality can be disabled with the
40 configure option '--disable-libsystemd'.
42 ** New configure option '--disable-build-details' attempts to build an
43 Emacs that is more likely to be reproducible; that is, if you build
44 and install Emacs twice, the second Emacs is a copy of the first.
45 Deterministic builds omit the build date from the output of the
46 emacs-version and erc-cmd-SV functions, and the leave the following
47 variables nil: emacs-build-system, emacs-build-time,
50 ** Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs users are not
51 affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in December 2013.
54 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.2
57 * Changes in Emacs 25.2
60 ** 'find-library-name' will now fall back on looking at 'load-history'
61 to try to locate libraries that have been loaded with an explicit path
65 ** Faces in 'minibuffer-prompt-properties' no longer overwrite properties
66 in the text in functions like 'read-from-minibuffer', but instead are
67 added to the end of the face list. This allows users to say things
68 like '(read-from-minibuffer (propertize "Enter something: " 'face 'bold))'.
71 ** The new variable 'extended-command-suggest-shorter' has been added
72 to control whether to suggest shorter 'M-x' commands or not.
75 ** icomplete now respects 'completion-ignored-extensions'.
78 ** Non-breaking hyphens are now displayed with the 'nobreak-hyphen'
79 face instead of the 'escape-glyph' face.
82 ** 'C-x h' ('mark-whole-buffer') will now avoid marking the prompt
86 ** 'find-library' now takes a prefix argument to pop to a different
89 ** 'find-library', 'help-function-def' and 'help-variable-def' now run
90 'find-function-after-hook'.
93 ** 'process-attributes' on Darwin systems now returns more information.
96 ** Several accessors for the value returned by 'file-attributes'
97 have been added. They are: 'file-attribute-type',
98 'file-attribute-link-number', 'file-attribute-user-id',
99 'file-attribute-group-id', 'file-attribute-access-time',
100 'file-attribute-modification-time',
101 'file-attribute-status-change-time', 'file-attribute-size',
102 'file-attribute-modes', 'file-attribute-inode-number', and
103 'file-attribute-device-number'.
106 ** The new function 'buffer-hash' computes compute a fast, non-consing
107 hash of a buffer's contents.
110 ** 'fill-paragraph' no longer marks the buffer as changed unless it
111 actually changed something.
114 ** The locale language name 'ca' is now mapped to the language
115 environment 'Catalan', which has been added.
118 ** 'align-regexp' has a separate history for its interactive argument.
119 'align-regexp' no longer shares its history with all other
120 history-less functions that use 'read-string'.
123 ** The networking code has been reworked so that it's more
124 asynchronous than it was (when specifying :nowait t in
125 'make-network-process'). How asynchronous it is varies based on the
126 capabilities of the system, but on a typical GNU/Linux system the DNS
127 resolution, the connection, and (for TLS streams) the TLS negotiation
128 are all done without blocking the main Emacs thread. To get
129 asynchronous TLS, the TLS boot parameters have to be passed in (see
130 the manual for details).
132 Certain process oriented functions (like 'process-datagram-address')
133 will block until socket setup has been performed. The recommended way
134 to deal with asynchronous sockets is to avoid interacting with them
135 until they have changed status to "run". This is most easily done
136 from a process sentinel.
138 ** 'make-network-process' and 'open-network-stream' sometimes allowed
139 :service to be an integer string (e.g., :service "993") and sometimes
140 required an integer (e.g., :service 993). This difference has been
141 eliminated, and integer strings work everywhere.
143 ** It is possible to disable attempted recovery on fatal signals.
145 Two new variables support disabling attempts to recover from stack
146 overflow and to avoid automatic auto-save when Emacs is delivered a
147 fatal signal. 'attempt-stack-overflow-recovery', if set to 'nil',
148 will disable attempts to recover from C stack overflows; Emacs will
149 then crash as with any other fatal signal.
150 'attempt-orderly-shutdown-on-fatal-signal', if set to 'nil', will
151 disable attempts to auto-save the session and shut down in an orderly
152 fashion when Emacs receives a fatal signal; instead, Emacs will
153 terminate immediately. Both variables are non-'nil' by default.
154 These variables are for users who would like to avoid the small
155 probability of data corruption due to techniques Emacs uses to recover
159 ** File local and directory local variables are now initialized each
160 time the major mode is set, not just when the file is first visited.
161 These local variables will thus not vanish on setting a major mode.
164 ** A second dir-local file (.dir-locals-2.el) is now accepted.
165 See the variable 'dir-locals-file-2' for more information.
168 ** International domain names (IDNA) are now encoded via the new
169 puny.el library, so that one can visit web sites with non-ASCII URLs.
172 ** The new 'timer-list' command lists all active timers in a buffer,
173 where you can cancel them with the 'c' command.
176 ** The new function 'read-multiple-choice' prompts for multiple-choice
177 questions, with a handy way to display help texts.
180 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.2
183 ** New bindings for 'query-replace-map'.
184 'undo', undo the last replacement; bound to 'u'.
185 'undo-all', undo all replacements; bound to 'U'.
188 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.2
193 *** Messages from CMake are now recognized.
198 *** In wdired, when editing files to contain slash characters,
199 the resulting directories are automatically created. Whether to do
200 this is controlled by the 'wdired-create-parent-directories' variable.
203 *** 'W' is now bound to 'browse-url-of-dired-file', and is useful for
204 viewing HTML files and the like.
208 *** Ediff can be prevented from pausing 1 second after reaching a
209 breakpoint (e.g. with "f" and "o") by customizing the new option
210 'edebug-sit-on-break'.
215 *** A new 's' command for switching to another eww buffer via the minibuffer.
218 *** The 'o' command ('shr-save-contents') has moved to 'O' to avoid collision
219 with the 'o' command from 'image-map'.
222 *** A new command 'C' ('eww-toggle-colors') can be used to toggle
223 whether to use the HTML-specified colors or not. The user can also
224 customize the 'shr-use-colors' variable.
227 *** Images that are being loaded are now marked with gray
228 "placeholder" images of the size specified by the HTML. They are then
229 replaced by the real images asynchronously, which will also now
230 respect width/height HTML specs (unless they specify widths/heights
231 bigger than the current window).
236 *** Images are automatically scaled before displaying based on the
237 'image-scaling-factor' variable (if Emacs supports scaling the images
241 *** Images inserted with 'insert-image' and related functions get a
242 keymap put into the text properties (or overlays) that span the
243 image. This keymap binds keystrokes for manipulating size and
244 rotation, as well as saving the image to a file. These commands are
245 also available in 'image-mode'.
248 *** A new library for creating and manipulating SVG images has been
249 added. See the "SVG Images" section in the lispref manual for
253 *** New setf-able function to access and set image parameters is
254 provided: 'image-property'.
257 ** The commands that add ChangeLog entries now prefer a VCS root directory
258 for the ChangeLog file, if none already exists. Customize
259 'change-log-directory-files' to nil for the old behavior.
262 ** Support for non-string values of 'time-stamp-format' has been removed.
267 *** 'message-use-idna' now defaults to t (because Emacs comes with
268 built-in IDNA support now).
271 *** The 'message-valid-fqdn-regexp' variable has been removed, since
272 there are now top-level domains added all the time. Message will no
273 longer warn about sending emails to top-level domains it hasn't heard
276 *** 'message-beginning-of-line' (bound to C-a) understands folded headers.
277 In 'visual-line-mode' it will look for the true beginning of a header
278 while in non-'visual-line-mode' it will move the point to the indented
284 *** New connection method "sg", which supports editing files under a
288 *** New connection method "doas" for OpenBSD hosts.
291 ** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set back to t in 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
296 *** Support for completing attribute values, at-rules, bang-rules, and
297 HTML tags using the 'completion-at-point' command.
300 ** Emacs now supports character name escape sequences in character and
301 string literals. The syntax variants \N{character name} and
302 \N{U+code} are supported.
305 ** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
306 This allows better indentation support in modes that support multiple
307 programming languages in the same buffer, like literate programming
308 environments or ANTLR programs with embedded Python code.
310 A major mode can provide indentation context for a sub-mode through
311 the 'prog-indentation-context' variable. To support this, modes that
312 provide indentation should use 'prog-widen' instead of 'widen' and
313 'prog-first-column' instead of a literal zero. See the node
314 "Mode-Specific Indent" in the ELisp manual for more details.
318 *** New variable 'erc-default-port-tls' used to connect to TLS IRC
324 *** The new function 'url-cookie-delete-cookie' can be used to
325 programmatically delete all cookies, or cookies from a specific
329 *** 'url-retrieve-synchronously' now takes an optional timeout parameter.
332 *** The URL package now support HTTPS over proxies supporting CONNECT.
335 *** 'url-user-agent' now defaults to 'default', and the User-Agent
336 string is computed dynamically based on 'url-privacy-level'.
338 ** VC and related modes
341 *** The VC state indicator in the mode line now defaults to more
342 colorful faces to make it more obvious to the user what the state is.
343 See the 'vc-faces' customization group.
346 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.2
349 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.2
352 ** Resizing a frame no longer runs 'window-configuration-change-hook'.
353 Put your function on 'window-size-change-functions' instead.
355 ** 'C-up', 'C-down', 'C-left' and 'C-right' are now defined in term
356 mode to send the same escape sequences that xterm does. This makes
357 things like forward-word in readline work.
360 ** hideshow mode got four key bindings that are analogous to outline
361 mode bindings: 'C-c @ C-a', 'C-c @ C-t', 'C-c @ C-d', and 'C-c @ C-e.'
363 ** The grep/rgrep/lgrep functions will now ask about saving files
364 before running. This is controlled by the 'grep-save-buffers'
368 ** The variable 'text-quoting-style' no longer affects the treatment
369 of curved quotes in format arguments to functions like 'message' and
370 'format-message'. In particular, when this variable's value is
371 'grave', all quotes in formats are output as-is.
374 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.2
376 ** New var syntax-ppss-table to control the syntax-table used in syntax-ppss.
379 ** 'define-derived-mode' can now specify an :after-hook form, which
380 gets evaluated after the new mode's hook has run. This can be used to
381 incorporate configuration changes made in the mode hook into the
384 ** Autoload files can be generated without timestamps,
385 by setting 'autoload-timestamps' to nil.
386 FIXME As an experiment, nil is the current default.
387 If no insurmountable problems before next release, it can stay that way.
389 ** 'ert-with-function-mocked' of 'ert-x package allows mocking of functions
393 ** 'gnutls-boot' now takes a parameter :complete-negotiation that says
394 that negotiation should complete even on non-blocking sockets.
397 ** New functions 'window-pixel-width-before-size-change' and
398 'window-pixel-height-before-size-change' support detecting which
399 window changed size when 'window-size-change-functions' are run.
402 ** New function 'display-buffer-reuse-mode-window' is an action function
403 suitable for use in 'display-buffer-alist'. For example, to avoid creating
404 a new window when opening man pages when there's already one, use
405 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
406 '("\\`\\*Man .*\\*\\'" .
407 (display-buffer-reuse-mode-window
408 (inhibit-same-window . nil)
412 ** There is now a new variable 'flyspell-sort-corrections-function'
413 that allows changing the way corrections are sorted.
416 ** The new command 'fortune-message' has been added, which displays
417 fortunes in the echo area.
420 ** New function 'func-arity' returns information about the argument list
421 of an arbitrary function. This generalizes 'subr-arity' for functions
422 that are not built-in primitives. We recommend using this new
423 function instead of 'subr-arity'.
426 ** 'parse-partial-sexp' state has a new element. Element 10 is
427 non-nil when the last character scanned might be the first character
428 of a two character construct, i.e., a comment delimiter or escaped
429 character. Its value is the syntax of that last character.
432 ** 'parse-partial-sexp''s state, element 9, has now been confirmed as
433 permanent and documented, and may be used by Lisp programs. Its value
434 is a list of currently open parenthesis positions, starting with the
435 outermost parenthesis.
438 ** 'read-color' will now display the color names using the color itself
439 as the background color.
441 ** The function 'redirect-debugging-output' now works on platforms
442 other than GNU/Linux.
445 ** The new function 'string-version-lessp' compares strings by
446 interpreting consecutive runs of numerical characters as numbers, and
447 compares their numerical values. According to this predicate,
448 "foo2.png" is smaller than "foo12.png".
451 ** The new function 'char-from-name' converts a Unicode name string
452 to the corresponding character code.
455 ** New functions 'sxhash-eq' and 'sxhash-eql' return hash codes of a
456 Lisp object suitable for use with 'eq' and 'eql' correspondingly. If
457 two objects are 'eq' ('eql'), then the result of 'sxhash-eq'
458 ('sxhash-eql') on them will be the same.
461 ** Function 'sxhash' has been renamed to 'sxhash-equal' for
462 consistency with the new functions. For compatibility, 'sxhash'
463 remains as an alias to 'sxhash-equal'.
466 ** Time conversion functions that accept a time zone rule argument now
467 allow it to be OFFSET or a list (OFFSET ABBR), where the integer
468 OFFSET is a count of seconds east of Universal Time, and the string
469 ABBR is a time zone abbreviation. The affected functions are
470 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone', 'decode-time',
471 'format-time-string', and 'set-time-zone-rule'.
474 * Changes in Emacs 25.2 on Non-Free Operating Systems
476 ** Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.
477 The new keyboard hooking code properly grabs system hotkeys such as
478 Win-* and Alt-TAB, in a way that Emacs can get at them before the
479 system. This makes the 'w32-register-hot-key' functionality work
480 again on all versions of MS-Windows starting with Windows 7. On
481 Windows NT and later you can now register any hotkey combination. (On
482 Windows 9X, the previous limitations, spelled out in the Emacs manual,
485 ** 'convert-standard-filename' no longer mirrors slashes on MS-Windows.
486 Previously, on MS-Windows this function converted slash characters in
487 file names into backslashes. It no longer does that.
490 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
493 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
496 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
499 ** New configure option --with-cairo.
500 This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing. As a side effect, it provides
501 support for built-in printing, when Emacs was built with GTK+.
502 Cairo drawing is an experimental feature in Emacs, and subject to
503 change in future releases.
506 ** New configure option --with-modules.
507 This enables support for loading dynamic modules; see below.
510 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
511 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
512 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
513 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
514 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
515 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
518 ** The Emacs garbage collector assumes GC_MARK_STACK == GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS.
519 The GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS stack-marking variant has been the default
520 since Emacs 24.4, and the other variants were undocumented and were
521 obstacles to maintenance and development. GC_MARK_STACK and its
522 related symbols have been removed from the C internals.
525 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
526 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
529 ** 'configure' now prefers inotify to gfile for file notification,
530 unless gfile is explicitly requested via --with-file-notification='gfile'.
533 ** 'configure' detects the kqueue file notification library on *BSD
534 and Mac OS X machines.
537 ** The configure option '--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
538 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
541 ** The configure option '--with-mmdf' has been removed.
542 It was no longer useful, as it relied on libraries that are no longer
543 supported, and its presence led to confusion during configuration.
544 This affects only the 'movemail' utility; Emacs itself can still
545 process MMDF-format files as before.
548 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
549 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
550 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
551 build with 'make V=1'.
554 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows you to specify a
555 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
556 This will cause the game score files in "${localstatedir}/games/emacs"
557 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
558 be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
561 ** The 'grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
562 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
563 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
566 ** Emacs 25 comes with a new set of icons.
567 Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
568 The old Emacs logo icons are available as 'emacs23.png' in the same location.
571 ** New make target 'check-expensive' to run additional tests.
572 This includes all tests which run via "make check", plus additional
573 tests which take more time to perform.
576 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
579 ** When Emacs is given a file as a command line argument and
580 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, display both the file and
581 'initial-buffer-choice'. When Emacs is given more than one file and
582 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, show 'initial-buffer-choice'
583 and '*Buffer List*'. This makes Emacs convenient to use from the
584 command line when 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil.
587 ** The value of 'initial-scratch-message' is now treated as a doc string
588 and can contain escape sequences for command keys, quotes, and the like.
591 ** The default height of GUI frames was enlarged.
592 This is so there's enough space in the initial window to display the
593 optional text about recovering crashes sessions, without losing the
594 splash image display.
597 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
600 ** Xwidgets: a new feature for embedding native widgets inside Emacs buffers.
601 If you have gtk3 and webkitgtk3 installed, and Emacs was built with
602 xwidget support, you can access the embedded webkit browser with 'M-x
603 xwidget-webkit-browse-url'. This opens a new buffer with the embedded
604 browser. The buffer will have a new mode, 'xwidget-webkit-mode'
605 (similar to 'image-mode'), which supports the webkit widget.
608 *** New functions for xwidget-webkit mode 'xwidget-webkit-insert-string',
609 'xwidget-webkit-adjust-size-dispatch', 'xwidget-webkit-back',
610 'xwidget-webkit-browse-url', 'xwidget-webkit-reload',
611 'xwidget-webkit-current-url', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-backward',
612 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-forward', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-down',
613 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-up'.
616 ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules).
617 A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional
618 functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package
619 written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions 'load', 'require',
620 'load-file', etc. were extended to load such modules, as they do with
621 Emacs Lisp packages. The new variable 'module-file-suffix' holds the
622 system-dependent value of the file-name extension ('.so' on Posix
623 hosts) of the module files.
625 A module should export a C-callable function named
626 'emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to
627 'load' or 'require' which loads the module. It should also export a
628 symbol named 'plugin_is_GPL_compatible' to indicate that its code is
629 released under the GPL or compatible license; Emacs will refuse to
630 load modules that don't export such a symbol.
632 If a module needs to call Emacs functions, it should do so through the
633 API defined and documented in the header file 'emacs-module.h'. Note
634 that any module that provides Lisp-callable functions will have to use
635 Emacs functions such as 'fset' and 'funcall', in order to register its
636 functions with the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
638 Modules can create 'user-ptr' Lisp objects that embed pointers to C
639 structs defined by the module. This is useful for keeping around
640 complex data structures created by a module, to be passed back to the
641 module's functions. User-ptr objects can also have associated
642 "finalizers" -- functions to be run when the object is GC'ed; this is
643 useful for freeing any resources allocated for the underlying data
644 structure, such as memory, open file descriptors, etc. A new
645 predicate 'user-ptrp' returns non-nil if its argument is a 'user-ptr'
648 Loadable modules in Emacs are an experimental feature, and subject to
649 change in future releases. For that reason, their support is disabled
650 by default, and must be enabled by using the '--with-modules' option
654 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
655 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
656 the 'network-security-level' variable.
659 ** 'C-h l' now also lists the commands that were run.
662 ** 'x-select-enable-clipboard' is renamed 'select-enable-clipboard'
663 and 'x-select-enable-primary' is renamed 'select-enable-primary'.
664 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
665 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
666 'select-enable-primary' is ineffective since the system doesn't
667 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
670 ** New option 'switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' allows you to
671 customize how 'switch-to-buffer' proceeds interactively when the
672 selected window is strongly dedicated to its buffer.
675 ** The option 'even-window-heights' has been renamed to
676 'even-window-sizes' and now handles window widths as well.
679 ** 'terpri' gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
682 ** 'insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
683 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
686 ** The new variable 'term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
687 The function 'tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
688 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
691 ** New variable 'system-configuration-features', listing some of the
692 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
693 for use in Emacs bug reports.
696 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
697 hiding character but the default '.' can be used by let-binding the
698 variable 'read-hide-char'.
701 ** The Emacs pseudo-random number generator can be securely seeded.
702 On systems where Emacs can access the system entropy or some other
703 cryptographically secure random stream, it now uses that when 'random'
704 is called with its argument t. This allows cryptographically strong
705 random values; in particular, the Emacs server now uses this facility
706 to produce its authentication key.
709 ** New input methods: 'tamil-dvorak' and 'programmer-dvorak'.
712 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
715 ** 'M-x' suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
720 *** Successive single-char deletions are collapsed in the undo-log just like
721 successive char insertions. Which commands invoke this behavior is
722 controlled by the new 'undo-auto-amalgamate' function. See the node
723 "Undo" in the ELisp manual for more details.
726 *** The heuristic used to insert 'undo-boundary' after each command
727 has changed, so that if a command causes changes in more than just the
728 current buffer, Emacs now calls 'undo-boundary' in every buffer
729 affected by the command.
732 ** New command 'comment-line' bound to 'C-x C-;'.
734 ** New and improved facilities for inserting Unicode characters
737 *** Unicode names entered via 'C-x 8 RET' now use substring completion
741 *** 'C-x 8' now has shorthands for several chars, such as U+2010
742 (HYPHEN), U+2011 (NON-BREAKING HYPHEN), and U+2012 (FIGURE DASH). As
743 before, you can type 'C-x 8 C-h' to list shorthands.
746 *** New minor mode 'electric-quote-mode' for using curved quotes as you
747 type. See also the new variable 'text-quoting-style'.
750 ** New minor mode 'global-eldoc-mode' is enabled by default.
753 ** Emacs now uses "bracketed paste mode" on text terminals that support it.
754 Bracketed paste mode causes text terminals to wrap pasted text in special
755 escape sequences that allow Emacs to tell the difference between text
756 you type and text you paste from other applications. Emacs then
757 avoids interpreting each character in the pasted text as it does with
758 keyboard input, which results in a paste experience similar to that
759 under a window system, and significant performance improvements when
760 pasting large amounts of text.
762 Bracketed paste mode is disabled by default, so Emacs automatically
763 enables it at startup if the terminal supports it.
766 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
767 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
768 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
769 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3, 7.0, and the latest Unicode 8.0.
770 This includes full support for directional isolates and the
771 Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these Unicode
775 ** You can access 'mouse-buffer-menu' ('C-down-mouse-1') using 'C-f10'.
778 ** New buffer-local 'electric-pair-local-mode'.
781 ** New variable 'fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
782 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
783 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of 'C-v', 'M-v' at the cost of
784 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
787 ** New documentation command 'describe-symbol'.
788 Works for functions, variables, faces, etc. It is bound to 'C-h o' by
792 ** New function 'custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
793 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found). It
794 is intended for adding to 'kill-emacs-query-functions'.
797 ** The old 'C-x w' bindings in 'hi-lock-mode' are officially deprecated
798 in favor of the global 'M-s h' bindings introduced in Emacs 23.1.
799 They'll disappear soon.
802 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
807 *** New command 'checkdoc-package-keywords' checks if the
808 current package keywords are recognized. Set the new option
809 'checkdoc-package-keywords-flag' to non-nil to make
810 'checkdoc-current-buffer' call this function automatically.
813 *** New function 'checkdoc-file' checks for style errors.
814 It's meant for use together with 'compile':
815 emacs -batch --eval "(checkdoc-file \"subr.el\")"
820 *** The desktop format version has been upgraded from 206 to 208.
821 Although Emacs 25.1 can read a version 206 desktop, earlier Emacsen
822 cannot read a version 208 desktop. To upgrade your desktop file, you
823 must explicitly request the upgrade, by 'C-u M-x desktop-save'. You are
824 recommended to do this as soon as you have firmly upgraded to Emacs
825 25.1 (or later). Should you ever need to downgrade your desktop file
826 to version 206, you can do this with 'C-u C-u M-x desktop-save'.
829 ** New function 'bookmark-set-no-overwrite' bound to 'C-x r M'.
830 It raises an error if a bookmark of that name already exists,
831 unlike 'bookmark-set' which silently updates an existing bookmark.
836 *** New user options 'mm-html-inhibit-images' and 'mm-html-blocked-images'
837 now control how mm-* functions fetch and display images in an HTML
838 message. Gnus still uses 'gnus-inhibit-images' and 'gnus-blocked-images'
839 for that purpose, i.e., binds mm-html- variables with those gnus-
840 variables, but other packages do not have to bind gnus- variables now.
843 *** 'mm-inline-text-html-with-images' has been removed.
844 Use 'mm-html-inhibit-images' instead. Note that the value is opposite
850 *** 'imap-ssl-program' has been removed, and imap.el uses the internal
851 GnuTLS encryption functions if possible.
856 *** 'json-pretty-print' and 'json-pretty-print-buffer' now maintain
857 the ordering of object keys by default.
860 *** New commands 'json-pretty-print-ordered' and
861 'json-pretty-print-buffer-ordered' pretty prints JSON objects with
862 object keys sorted alphabetically.
864 ** Prettify Symbols mode
867 *** Prettify Symbols mode supports custom composition predicates. By
868 overriding the default 'prettify-symbols-compose-predicate', modes can
869 specify in which contexts a symbol may be displayed as some Unicode
870 character. 'prettify-symbols-default-compose-p' is the default which
871 is suitable for most programming languages such as C or Lisp (but not
875 *** Symbols can be unprettified while point is inside them.
876 New variable 'prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point' configures this.
878 ** Enhanced xterm support
881 *** The new variable 'xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' for configuring xterm.
882 This variable tells Emacs which advanced capabilities are available in
883 the xterm terminal emulator used to display Emacs text-mode frames.
884 The default is to check each capability, and use it if available.
885 (This variable was introduced in Emacs 24.1, but was not announced in
889 *** Killing text now also sets the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection
890 in the surrounding GUI (using the OSC-52 escape sequence). This only works
891 if your xterm supports it and enables the 'allowWindowOps' options (disabled
892 by default at least in Debian, for security reasons).
894 Similarly, you can yank the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection (using the OSC-52
895 escape sequence) if your xterm has the feature enabled but for that you
896 additionally need to add 'getSelection' to 'xterm-extra-capabilities'.
899 *** 'xterm-mouse-mode' now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it).
902 ** The way to turn on and off 'save-place' mode has changed.
903 It is no longer sufficient to load the saveplace library and set
904 'save-place' non-nil. Instead, use the two new minor modes:
905 'save-place-mode' turns on saving last place in every file, and
906 'save-place-local-mode' does that only for the file in whose buffer it
907 is invoked. The 'save-place' variable is now an obsolete alias for
908 'save-place-mode', which replaces it, and 'toggle-save-place' is an
909 obsolete alias for the new 'save-place-local-mode' command.
914 *** ERC can now hide message types by network or channel.
915 'erc-hide-list' will hide all messages of the specified type, while
916 'erc-network-hide-list' and 'erc-channel-hide-list' will only hide the
917 specified message types for the respective specified targets.
920 *** Reconnection is now asynchronous.
923 *** Nick completion is now case-insensitive again after inadvertently
924 being made case-sensitive in Emacs 24.2.
929 *** New commands, key binds, and menu items.
931 **** '<' and '>' for navigating previous and next tracks in playlist
933 **** New play/pause command 'mpc-toggle-play' bound to 's'
935 **** 'g' bound to new command 'mpc-seek-current' will navigate current
938 **** New commands 'mpc-toggle-{consume,repeat,single,shuffle}' for
939 toggling playback modes.
942 *** Now supports connecting to a UNIX domain socket.
945 *** Looks at more image file names to use as album art.
946 Case-insensitively tries for .folder.png (freedesktop) and folder.jpg
947 (XP) in addition to cover.jpg.
950 *** Searches in more locations for MPD configuration files.
951 MPD supports the XDG base directory specification since version 0.17.6.
956 *** 'midnight-mode' is now a proper minor mode.
959 *** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions.
964 *** New "external" package status.
965 An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and
966 not from 'package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in
967 'package-directory-list'. They are treated much like built-in
968 packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and
969 are not considered for upgrades.
971 The effect is that a user can manually place a specific version of a
972 package inside 'package-directory-list' and the package menu will
976 *** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher
977 priority (as per 'package-archive-priorities') only that one is
978 listed. This can be configured with 'package-menu-hide-low-priority'.
981 *** 'package-menu-toggle-hiding' now toggles the hiding of packages.
982 This includes the above-mentioned low-priority packages, as well as
983 available packages whose version is lower than the currently installed
984 version (which were previously impossible to display).
985 This allows users to downgrade a package if a lower version is
989 *** When filtering the package menu, keywords starting with "arc:" or
990 "status:" represent package archive or status, respectively, instead
994 *** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an
995 ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s)
999 *** New variable 'package-menu-async' controls whether the
1000 package-menu uses asynchronous downloads.
1003 *** 'package-install-from-buffer' and 'package-install-file' work on directories.
1004 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
1005 -pkg file is optional.
1008 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
1009 The FORCE argument to 'package-delete' overrides this.
1012 *** New custom variable 'package-selected-packages' tracks packages
1013 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
1014 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
1017 *** New command 'package-install-selected-packages' installs all
1018 packages from 'package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
1021 *** 'package-install' function now takes a DONT-SELECT argument. If
1022 this function is called interactively or if DONT-SELECT is nil, add the
1023 package being installed to 'package-selected-packages'.
1026 *** New command 'package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
1027 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
1032 When you invoke 'shell' interactively, the '*shell*' buffer will now
1033 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
1034 the 'display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
1035 the old behavior -- '*shell*' buffer displays in current window -- use
1036 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
1037 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
1041 *** The ':protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
1043 *** The 'newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
1044 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from 'eieio-named'.
1046 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
1048 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
1050 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
1052 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
1053 Use the equivalent facilities from cl-generic.el instead.
1055 *** 'constructor' is now an obsolete alias for 'make-instance'.
1057 *** 'pcase' accepts a new UPattern 'eieio'.
1062 *** New command 'ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to 'C-S-b'.
1063 Bury the buffer at the head of 'ido-matches', analogous to how 'C-k'
1064 kills the buffer at head.
1067 *** A prefix argument to 'ido-restrict-to-matches' will reverse its
1068 meaning, and the list is restricted to those elements that do not
1069 match the current input.
1074 *** You can use <UP> and <DOWN> arrow keys to move through history by lines.
1075 The new commands 'next-line-or-history-element' and
1076 'previous-line-or-history-element', bound to <UP> and <DOWN> in the
1077 minibuffer, allow by-line movement through minibuffer history,
1078 similarly to an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
1079 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
1080 element. 'M-p' and 'M-n' still move directly to previous/next history
1083 ** Search and Replace
1086 *** 'isearch' and 'query-replace' can now perform character folding in matches.
1087 This is analogous to case folding, but instead of disregarding case
1088 variants, it disregards wider classes of distinctions between similar
1089 characters. (Case folding is a special case of character folding.)
1090 This means many characters in the search string will match entire
1091 groups of characters instead of just themselves.
1093 For instance, the ASCII double quote character " will match all
1094 variants of double quotes, and the letter 'a' will match all of its
1095 accented cousins, even those composed of multiple characters, as well
1096 as many other symbols like U+249C (PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER
1099 Character folding is enabled by customizing 'search-default-mode' to
1100 the value 'character-fold-to-regexp'. You can also toggle character
1101 folding in the middle of a search by typing 'M-s ''.
1103 'query-replace' honors character folding if the new variable
1104 'replace-character-fold' is customized to a non-nil value.
1107 *** New user option 'search-default-mode'.
1108 This option specifies the default mode for Isearch. The default
1109 value, nil specifies that Isearch does literal searches (however,
1110 'case-fold-search' and 'isearch-lax-whitespace' may still be applied,
1111 as in previous Emacs versions).
1114 *** New function 'character-fold-to-regexp' can be used
1115 by searching commands to produce a regexp matching anything that
1116 character-folds into STRING.
1119 *** The new 'M-s M-w' key binding uses eww to search the web for the
1120 text in the region. The search engine to use for this is specified by
1121 the customizable variable 'eww-search-prefix'.
1124 *** 'query-replace' history is enhanced.
1125 When 'query-replace' reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
1126 'M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
1127 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
1128 string defined by the new variable 'query-replace-from-to-separator'.
1129 To select a prior replacement, type 'M-p' until the desired
1130 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
1135 *** If 'quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
1136 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
1139 ** In Edebug, you can now set the initial mode with 'C-x C-a C-m'.
1140 With this you can tell Edebug not to stop at the start of the first
1141 instrumented function.
1146 *** New minor mode 'global-eldoc-mode'.
1147 It is turned on by default, and affects '*scratch*' and other buffers
1148 whose major mode supports Emacs Lisp.
1151 *** 'eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to 'ignore'.
1154 *** 'describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
1155 and can be used as a default value of 'eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
1156 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces - e.g.,
1157 U+00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACE), U+2002 (EN SPACE), and U+2009 (THIN SPACE) - while
1158 using mono-spaced font.
1163 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
1166 *** A new command 'F' ('eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
1167 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
1168 customize the 'shr-use-fonts' variable.
1171 *** A new command 'R' ('eww-readable') will try do identify the main
1172 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
1173 the like off the page.
1176 *** A new command 'D' ('eww-toggle-paragraph-direction') allows you to
1177 toggle the paragraph direction between left-to-right and right-to-left.
1180 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
1181 buffers you want to keep separate.
1184 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
1185 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
1188 *** 'eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
1189 the data in the buffer.
1192 *** The 'eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
1193 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
1196 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
1197 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
1198 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
1202 *** 'mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
1205 *** The new 'S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
1209 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
1210 invalid certificates are marked in red.
1215 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
1216 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
1219 ** In Show Paren Mode, a parenthesis can be highlighted when point
1220 stands inside it, and certain parens can be highlighted when point is
1221 at BOL or EOL, or in whitespace there. To enable these, customize,
1222 respectively, 'show-paren-when-point-inside-paren' or
1223 'show-paren-when-point-in-periphery'.
1226 ** If gpg2 exists on the system, it is now used as the default value
1227 of 'epg-gpg-program' (instead of gpg).
1232 *** Strings after ':documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
1233 This enhances Lisp mode fontification to handle documentation of the
1234 form '(:documentation "the doc string")' used in Common Lisp code for
1235 CLOS class and slot documentation.
1237 ** Rectangle editing
1240 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
1243 *** 'C-x C-x' in 'rectangle-mark-mode' now cycles through the four corners.
1244 *** 'string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
1247 ** New font-lock functions 'font-lock-ensure' and 'font-lock-flush'.
1248 These should be used in preference to 'font-lock-fontify-buffer' when
1252 ** Macro 'minibuffer-with-setup-hook' can optionally append a function
1253 to 'minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1255 If the first argument of the macro is of the form '(:append FUN)',
1256 then FUN will be appended to 'minibuffer-setup-hook', instead of
1261 *** New functions 'cl-fresh-line', 'cl-digit-char-p', and 'cl-parse-integer'.
1264 *** 'pcase' accepts the new UPattern 'cl-struct'.
1266 ** Calendar and diary
1269 *** The default 'diary-file' is now located in "~/.emacs.d".
1272 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
1273 'diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' 'diary-chinese-insert-entry'
1274 'diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', 'diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
1277 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
1278 See 'diary-chinese-list-entries' and 'diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
1281 *** The option 'calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
1282 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
1285 *** New option 'calendar-weekend-days'.
1286 The option customizes which day headers receive the
1287 'calendar-weekend-header' face.
1290 *** New optional args N and STRING for 'holiday-greek-orthodox-easter'.
1293 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
1294 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
1297 **** Functions 'calendar-one-frame-setup', 'calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
1298 'calendar-two-frame-setup', 'european-calendar', 'american-calendar'.
1300 **** Hooks 'cal-menu-load-hook', 'cal-x-load-hook'.
1302 **** Macro 'calendar-for-loop'.
1304 **** Variables 'european-calendar-style', 'diary-face', 'hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
1306 **** The nil and list forms of 'diary-display-function'.
1309 ** New ERT function 'ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
1310 If the output of ERT tests in batch mode execution can be saved to a
1311 log file, then it can be passed as an argument to the above function
1312 to produce a neat summary.
1315 ** New js.el option 'js-indent-first-init'.
1320 ** Info mode now displays symbol names in fixed-pitch font.
1321 If you want to get the old behavior back, customize the 'Info-quoted'
1322 face to use the same definitions as the default face.
1325 *** 'Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
1328 *** 'info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
1329 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
1330 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
1333 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
1338 *** The Rmail commands 'd', 'C-d' and 'u' take optional repeat counts
1339 to delete or undelete multiple messages.
1342 *** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
1343 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
1344 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
1345 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
1346 'rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to nil if you don't want that.
1349 *** In the commands that make summaries by subject, recipients, or senders,
1350 you can no longer use commas to separate regular expressions.
1353 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see 'ses-define-local-printer'.
1355 ** Shell-script Mode
1357 *** In sh-mode you can now use 'sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
1358 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
1361 *** New value 'always' for 'sh-indent-after-continuation'.
1362 This provides old-style ("dumb") indentation of continued lines.
1363 See the doc string of 'sh-indent-after-continuation' for details.
1367 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
1370 *** If Emacs isn't built with TLS support, an external TLS-capable
1371 program is used instead. This program used to be run in --insecure
1372 mode by default, but has now changed to be secure instead, and will
1373 fail if you try to connect to non-verifiable hosts. This is
1374 controlled by the 'tls-program' variable.
1379 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
1380 When 'url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
1381 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
1384 *** The URL package allows customizing the 'url-user-agent' string.
1385 The new 'url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
1389 *** The new interface variable 'url-request-noninteractive' can be used
1390 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
1391 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
1394 *** 'url-mime-accept-string' can now be used as in "interface"
1395 variable, meaning you can bind it around an 'url-retrieve' call.
1398 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
1399 PLIST will contain a :peer element that has the output of
1400 'gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
1405 *** New connection method "afp", which allows you to access Mac OS X
1406 volumes via the Apple Filing Protocol.
1409 *** New connection method "nc", which allows you to access dumb
1413 *** Method-specific parameters can be overwritten now with variable
1414 'tramp-connection-properties'.
1417 *** Handler for 'file-notify-valid-p' for remote machines that support
1418 filesystem notifications.
1423 *** New user variable 'sql-default-directory' enables remote
1424 connections using Tramp.
1427 *** New command 'sql-send-line-and-next'.
1428 This command, bound to 'C-c C-n' by default, sends the current line to
1429 the SQL process and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace and
1433 *** Added support for Vertica SQL.
1435 ** VC and related modes
1438 *** Basic push support, via 'vc-push', bound to 'C-x v P'.
1439 Implemented for Bzr, Git, Hg. As part of this change, the pre-existing
1440 (undocumented) command 'vc-hg-push' now behaves slightly differently.
1443 *** The new command 'vc-region-history' shows the log+diff of the active region.
1446 *** You can refresh the VC state of a file buffer with 'M-x vc-refresh-state'.
1447 This command is useful when you perform version control commands
1448 outside Emacs (e.g., from the shell prompt), or if you switch the VC
1449 back-end for the buffer's file, or remove it from version control.
1452 *** New option 'vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
1453 the color range from 'vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
1454 background or to the foreground.
1457 *** New options for customizing encoding of Git commit log messages.
1458 The new user options 'vc-git-commits-coding-system' and
1459 'vc-git-log-output-coding-system' specify the encoding of log messages
1460 sent to Git when committing, and the decoding of log messages read
1461 from Git history commands. These options default to UTF-8; if
1462 customized, they should be consistent with the Git config variables
1463 i18n.commitEncoding and i18n.logOutputEncoding.
1464 ('vc-git-commits-coding-system' existed previously, but was a
1465 variable, not a user option.)
1468 *** 'compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently selected window
1469 instead of the next window. If you want the previous behavior of
1470 comparing with the next window, customize the new option
1471 'compare-windows-get-window-function' to the value
1472 'compare-windows-get-next-window'.
1475 *** Two new faces 'compare-windows-removed' and 'compare-windows-added'
1476 replace the face 'compare-windows', which is now an obsolete alias for
1477 'compare-windows-added'.
1480 *** The VC state indicator in the mode line now has different faces
1481 corresponding to each of the possible states. See the 'vc-faces'
1482 customization group.
1485 *** 'log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to
1486 "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". Set 'log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change'
1487 nil to disable this.
1490 *** vc-mcvs.el has been removed.
1493 ** VHDL mode now supports VHDL'08.
1498 *** Decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
1499 fitting for use in money calculations
1502 *** Factorial works with non-integer inputs.
1507 *** Hide-IfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions in macros,
1508 macro argument expansion, interactive macro evaluation and automatic
1509 scanning of #define'd symbols.
1512 *** New command 'hif-evaluate-macro', bound to 'C-c @ e', displays the
1513 result of evaluating a macro.
1516 *** New command 'hif-clear-all-ifdef-define', bound to 'C-c @ C', clears
1517 all defined symbols in 'hide-ifdef-env'.
1520 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header
1521 file name patterns. Defaults to files whose extension is one of '.h',
1522 '.hh', '.hpp', '.hxx', or '.h++', matched case-insensitively.
1525 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
1526 reinclusion protected (a.k.a. "idempotent") header files from being hidden.
1527 (This could happen when an idempotent header file is visited again,
1528 when its guard symbol is already defined.) Defaults to t.
1531 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
1532 name patterns (e.g. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be ignored when
1533 looking for macro definitions. By default, no symbols are ignored.
1538 *** New custom variable 'tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
1539 use PDF instead of DVI.
1542 *** TeX mode now supports Prettify Symbols mode. When enabling
1543 'prettify-symbols-mode' in a tex-mode buffer, \alpha ... \omega, and
1544 many other math macros are displayed using unicode characters.
1547 ** New 'big-indent' style in 'whitespace-mode' highlights deep indentation.
1548 By default, 32 consecutive spaces or four consecutive TABs are
1549 considered to be too deep, but the new variable
1550 'whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be customized to change that.
1553 ** New options in 'tildify-mode'.
1554 New options 'tildify-space-string', 'tildify-pattern', and
1555 'tildify-foreach-region-function' variables make
1556 'tildify-string-alist', 'tildify-pattern-alist', and
1557 'tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
1558 helper functions) obsolete.
1561 ** New package Xref replaces Etags's front-end and UI.
1563 The new package Xref provides a generic framework and new commands to
1564 find and move to definitions of functions, macros, data structures
1565 etc., as well as go back to the location where you were before moving
1566 to a definition. It supersedes and obsoletes many Etags commands,
1567 while still using the etags.el code that reads the TAGS tables as one
1570 The command 'xref-find-definitions' replaces 'find-tag' and provides
1571 an interface to pick one definition among several.
1572 'tags-loop-continue' is now unbound. 'xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces
1573 'pop-tag-mark', but has a keybinding ('M-,') different from the one
1574 'pop-tag-mark' used.
1576 'xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces 'find-tag-other-window'.
1577 'xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces 'find-tag-other-frame'.
1578 'xref-find-apropos' replaces 'find-tag-regexp'.
1580 As a result of this, the following commands are now obsolete:
1581 'find-tag-other-window', 'find-tag-other-frame', 'find-tag-regexp',
1584 'tags-loop-continue' is not obsolete because it's still useful in
1585 'tags-search' and 'tags-query-replace', for which there are no direct
1589 *** Variants of 'tags-search' and 'tags-query-replace' in Dired were also
1590 replaced by xref-style commands, see the "Dired" section below.
1595 'find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
1596 'xref-marker-ring-length'. 'find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
1597 alias for a private variable. 'xref-push-marker-stack' and
1598 'xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used instead to manipulate the stack
1599 of searches for definitions.
1602 *** 'xref-find-definitions' and 'describe-function' now display
1603 information about mode local overrides (defined by cedet/mode-local.el
1604 'define-overloadable-function' 'define-mode-local-overrides').
1606 The framework's Lisp API is still experimental and can change in major,
1607 backward-incompatible ways.
1610 ** New package Project
1612 The new package Project provides generic infrastructure for dealing
1613 with projects. The main commands included in it are
1614 'project-find-file' and 'project-find-regexp'.
1616 The Lisp API of this package is still experimental.
1619 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
1622 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
1625 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
1626 subprocess instead of on the command line.
1629 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
1630 need to configure this manually anymore.
1633 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
1636 There have also been customization changes.
1639 *** New custom variable 'eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
1640 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
1643 *** Custom variable 'eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
1644 on email and firstname instead of surname.
1647 *** Custom variable 'eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
1648 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
1651 *** Custom variable 'eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
1652 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
1655 *** Custom variable 'eudc-options-file' defaults to
1656 "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options".
1659 *** New custom variable 'ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
1660 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
1661 command line's password prompt.
1664 EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3.
1667 EUDC's PH backend (eudcb-ph.el) is obsolete.
1672 *** The new built-in command 'clear' can scroll window contents out of sight.
1673 If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents
1677 *** New buffer syntax '#<buffer-name>', which is equivalent to
1678 '#<buffer buffer-name>'. This shorthand makes interacting with
1679 buffers from eshell more convenient. Custom variable
1680 'eshell-buffer-shorthand', which has been broken for a while, has been
1684 *** By default, eshell "visual" program buffers (created by
1685 'eshell-visual-commands' and similar custom vars) are no longer killed
1686 when their processes die. This fixes issues with short-lived commands
1687 and makes visual programs more useful in general. For example, if
1688 "git log" is a visual command, it will always show the visual command
1689 buffer, even if the "git log" process dies. For the old behavior,
1690 make the new option 'eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil.
1695 *** Support for the Google Chrome web browser.
1698 *** Support for the Conkeror web browser.
1701 *** Support for several ancient browsers is now officially obsolete.
1704 ** 'tar-mode': new 'tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
1705 be added to the archive.
1710 *** Dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file notifications, if
1711 Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
1714 *** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set to nil in 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
1715 See <http://debbugs.gnu.org/22814>.
1717 ** File Notifications
1720 *** The kqueue library is integrated for *BSD and Mac OS X machines.
1723 *** The new event 'stopped' signals, that a file notification watch is
1724 not active any longer.
1727 *** The new function 'file-notify-valid-p' checks, whether a file
1728 notification descriptor still corresponds to an activate watch.
1733 *** The command 'dired-do-compress', bound to 'Z', now can compress
1734 directories and decompress zip files.
1737 *** New command 'dired-do-compress-to', bound to 'c', can be used to
1738 compress many marked files into a single named archive. The
1739 compression command is determined from the new
1740 'dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
1743 *** New user interface for the 'A' and 'Q' commands.
1744 These keys, now bound to 'dired-do-find-regexp' and
1745 'dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace', work similarly to 'xref-find-apropos'
1746 and 'xref-query-replace-in-results': they present the matches
1747 in the '*xref*' buffer and let you move through the matches. No need
1748 to use 'tags-loop-continue' to resume the search or replace loop. The
1749 previous commands, 'dired-do-search' and
1750 'dired-do-query-replace-regexp', are still available, but not bound to
1751 keys; rebind 'A' and 'Q' to invoke them if you want the old behavior
1752 back. We intend to obsolete the old commands in a future release.
1754 ** Tabulated List Mode
1757 *** It is now safe for a mode that derives 'tabulated-list-mode' to not
1758 call 'tabulated-list-init-header', in which case it will have no
1762 *** 'tabulated-list-print' takes a second optional argument, UPDATE,
1763 which specifies an alternative printing method which is faster when
1764 few or no entries have changed.
1766 ** Obsolete packages
1772 *** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
1775 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
1778 ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
1779 minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg
1780 command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable
1781 is set). This feature requires newer versions of GnuPG (2.1.5 or
1782 later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later). To use this feature, add
1783 "allow-emacs-pinentry" to "~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf" and reload the
1784 configuration with "gpgconf --reload gpg-agent".
1787 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
1788 The main entry points are 'cl-defgeneric' and 'cl-defmethod'. See the
1789 node "Generic Functions" in the Emacs Lisp manual for more details.
1792 ** 'scss-mode' (a minor variant of 'css-mode') is a major mode for editing
1793 SCSS (Sassy CSS) files.
1796 ** 'let-alist' is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
1797 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
1800 ** 'tildify-mode' allows automatic insertion of hard spaces as one
1801 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
1802 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
1803 other languages), so 'auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
1804 a typographically-correct documents.
1807 ** The 'seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros
1808 that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions
1809 are prefixed with 'seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
1810 'pcase' accepts a new Upattern 'seq'.
1813 ** The 'map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on
1814 alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with
1815 'map-'. 'pcase' accepts a new UPattern 'map'.
1818 ** The 'thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the
1819 evaluation of forms.
1822 ** 'js-jsx-mode' (a minor variant of 'js-mode') provides indentation
1823 support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
1826 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1829 ** 'setq' and 'setf' must now be called with an even number of
1830 arguments. The earlier behavior of silently supplying a nil to the
1831 last variable when there was an odd number of arguments has been
1835 ** 'syntax-begin-function' is declared obsolete.
1836 Removed 'font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function' and the SYNTAX-BEGIN
1837 slot in 'font-lock-defaults'.
1840 ** The new implementation of Subword mode affects word movement everywhere.
1841 When Subword mode is turned on, 'forward-word', 'backward-word', and
1842 everything that uses them will move by sub-words, effectively
1843 overriding the buffer's syntax table. Lisp programs that shouldn't be
1844 affected by Subword mode should call the new functions
1845 'forward-word-strictly' and 'backward-word-strictly' instead.
1848 ** 'package-initialize' now sets 'package-enable-at-startup' to nil if
1849 called during startup. Users who call this function in their init
1850 file and still expect it to be run after startup should set
1851 'package-enable-at-startup' to t after the call to
1852 'package-initialize'.
1855 ** ':global' minor mode use 'setq-default' rather than 'setq'.
1856 This means that you can't use 'make-local-variable' and expect them to
1857 "magically" become buffer-local.
1860 ** 'track-mouse' no longer freezes the shape of the mouse pointer.
1861 The 'track-mouse' form no longer refrains from changing the shape of
1862 the mouse pointer for the entire time the body of that form is
1863 executed. Lisp programs that use 'track-mouse' for dragging across
1864 large portions of the Emacs display, and want to avoid changes in the
1865 pointer shape during dragging, should bind the variable 'track-mouse'
1866 to the special value 'dragging' in the body of the form.
1869 ** The optional PREDICATE argument of 'lisp-complete-symbol' no longer
1870 has any effect. (This change was made in Emacs 24.4 but was not
1871 advertised at the time.)
1874 ** 'indirect-function' does not signal 'void-function' any more.
1875 This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when
1876 'symbol-function' was changed not to signal 'void-function' any more.
1879 *** As a consequence, the second arg of 'indirect-function' is now obsolete.
1882 ** 'M-x shell' and 'M-x compile' no longer set the EMACS environment variable.
1883 This avoids clashing when other programs use the variable for other purposes.
1884 Although 'M-x term' still sets EMACS for compatibility with Bash 4.3
1885 and earlier, this is deprecated and will be phased out when Bash 4.4
1886 or later takes over. Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
1889 ** 'save-excursion' does not save&restore the mark any more.
1890 Use 'save-mark-and-excursion' if you want the old behavior.
1893 ** 'read-buffer' and 'read-buffer-function' can now be called with a 4th
1894 argument (PREDICATE).
1897 ** 'completion-table-dynamic' by default stays in the minibuffer.
1898 The minibuffer will be the current buffer when the function is called.
1899 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
1900 from which the minibuffer was entered, use the new argument
1901 SWITCH-BUFFER to 'completion-table-dynamic'.
1904 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers' marks.
1907 ** 'inhibit-modification-hooks' now also inhibits lock-file checks, as
1908 well as active region handling.
1911 ** 'deactivate-mark' is now buffer-local.
1914 ** 'cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
1917 ** 'process-running-child-p' may now return a numeric process
1918 group ID instead of t.
1921 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
1922 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
1923 position list returned for such events is now nil.
1926 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
1927 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
1931 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
1932 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
1933 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
1934 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
1937 ** New variable 'text-quoting-style' to control how Emacs translates quotes.
1938 Set it to 'curve' for curved single quotes, to 'straight' for straight
1939 apostrophes, and to 'grave' for grave accent and apostrophe. The
1940 default value nil acts like 'curve' if curved single quotes are
1941 displayable, and like 'grave' otherwise. The new variable affects
1942 display of diagnostics and help, but not of info. As the variable is
1943 not intended for casual use, it is not a user option.
1946 ** Message-issuing functions like 'message' and 'error' now translate
1947 various sorts of single quotes in their format strings according to
1948 the value of 'text-quoting-style' (see above). This translation
1949 cannot be disabled. To get the old behavior, use 'format', which is
1950 not affected by 'text-quoting-style', e.g., (message "%s" (format
1954 ** 'substitute-command-keys' now replaces quotes.
1955 That is, it converts documentation strings' quoting style as per the
1956 value of 'text-quoting-style'. Doc strings in source code can use
1957 either curved single quotes or grave accents and apostrophes. As
1958 before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
1961 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
1962 now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
1963 If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
1964 word syntax, use '\sw' instead.
1967 ** The character classes [:graph:] and [:print:] in regular expressions
1968 no longer match every multibyte character. Instead, Emacs now
1969 consults the Unicode character properties to determine which
1970 characters are graphic or printable. In particular, surrogates and
1971 unassigned codepoints are now rejected. If you want the old behavior,
1972 use [:multibyte:] instead.
1975 ** The 'diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old
1976 behavior, set 'diff-switches' to '-c'.
1979 ** 'grep-template' and 'grep-find-template' values don't include the
1980 --color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position
1981 dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should
1982 be updated accordingly.
1985 ** '(/ N)' is now equivalent to '(/ 1 N)' rather than to '(/ N 1)'.
1986 The new behavior is compatible with Common Lisp and with XEmacs.
1987 This change does not affect Lisp code intended to be portable to
1988 Emacs 24.2 and earlier, which did not support unary '/'.
1991 ** The 'default-directory' value doesn't have to end slash. To make
1992 that happen, 'unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
1993 'file-name-as-directory'.
1996 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
2000 *** New UPatterns 'quote', 'app'.
2002 *** New UPatterns can be defined with 'pcase-defmacro'.
2004 *** New vector QPattern.
2007 ** 'syntax-propertize' is now automatically called on-demand during forward
2008 parsing functions like 'forward-sexp'.
2011 ** New hooks 'prefix-command-echo-keystrokes-functions' and
2012 'prefix-command-preserve-state-hook' allow the definition of prefix
2013 commands other than the predefined 'C-u'.
2016 ** New functions 'filepos-to-bufferpos' and 'bufferpos-to-filepos'.
2017 These allow conversion between buffer positions and the corresponding
2018 file byte offsets, given the file's encoding.
2021 ** The default value of 'load-read-function' is now 'read'.
2022 Previously, the default value of nil implied using 'read'.
2025 ** New hook 'pre-redisplay-functions'.
2026 It is a bit easier to use than 'pre-redisplay-function'.
2029 ** The second arg of 'looking-back' should always be provided explicitly.
2030 Previously, it was an optional argument, now it's mandatory.
2033 ** Text properties 'intangible', 'point-entered', and 'point-left' are obsolete.
2034 Replaced by properties 'cursor-intangible' and 'cursor-sensor-functions',
2035 implemented by the new 'cursor-intangible-mode' and
2036 'cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes.
2039 ** 'inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to t and is obsolete.
2040 Use the new minor modes 'cursor-intangible-mode' and
2041 'cursor-sensor-mode' instead.
2044 ** New process type 'pipe', which can be used in combination with the
2045 ':stderr' keyword of 'make-process' to handle standard error output
2049 ** New function 'make-process' provides an alternative interface to
2050 'start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as
2051 process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to
2052 'make-network-process').
2055 ** Subprocesses are automatically told about changes in window dimensions.
2056 The new option 'window-adjust-process-window-size-function' controls
2057 how subprocesses are told to adapt their logical window sizes to
2058 changes in the Emacs window configuration. Its default value calls
2059 'set-process-window-size' with the smallest dimensions of all the
2060 windows that display the subprocess's buffer.
2063 ** A new function 'directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
2064 files (recursively) under a directory.
2067 ** New variable 'inhibit-message', when bound to non-nil, inhibits
2068 'message' and related functions from displaying messages in the echo
2069 area. The output is still logged to the '*Messages*' buffer.
2072 ** A new text property 'inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
2073 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
2076 ** A new variable 'comment-end-can-be-escaped' is useful in languages
2077 such as C and C++ where line comments with escaped newlines are
2078 continued to the next line.
2081 ** New macro 'define-advice'.
2084 ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
2085 See the "Generators" section of the ELisp manual for the details.
2088 ** New finalizer facility for running code when objects become unreachable.
2089 See the "Finalizer Type" subsection in the ELisp manual for the
2093 ** Lexical closures can use '(:documentation FORM)' to build their docstring.
2094 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and FORM is then
2095 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
2098 ** 'define-inline' provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
2101 ** New function 'macroexpand-1' to perform a single step of macro expansion.
2104 ** Some "x-*" functions were obsoleted and/or renamed:
2105 *** 'x-select-text' is renamed 'gui-select-text'.
2106 *** 'x-selection-value' is renamed 'gui-selection-value'.
2107 *** 'x-get-selection' is renamed 'gui-get-selection'.
2108 *** 'x-get-clipboard' and 'x-clipboard-yank' are marked obsolete.
2109 *** 'x-get-selection-value' is renamed to 'gui-get-primary-selection'.
2110 *** 'x-set-selection' is renamed to 'gui-set-selection'.
2113 ** New function 'string-greaterp', which return the opposite result of
2117 ** The new functions 'string-collate-lessp' and 'string-collate-equalp'
2118 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
2119 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
2120 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
2121 counterparts 'string-lessp' and 'string-equal'.
2124 *** The ls-lisp package uses 'string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
2125 The effect is that, on systems that use ls-lisp for Dired, the default
2126 sort order of the files in Dired is now different from what it was in
2127 previous versions of Emacs. In particular, the file names are sorted
2128 disregarding punctuation, accents, and diacritics, and letter case is
2129 ignored. For example, files whose name begin with a period will no
2130 longer appear near the beginning of the directory listing. If you
2131 want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new option
2132 'ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to the nil value.
2135 *** The MS-Windows specific variable 'w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
2136 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
2137 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
2138 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
2139 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
2140 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
2143 ** New function 'alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
2146 ** New function 'funcall-interactively', which works like 'funcall'
2147 but makes 'called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
2148 called interactively.
2151 ** New function 'function-put' to use instead of 'put' for function properties.
2154 ** The new function 'bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows you to
2155 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
2156 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
2157 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
2158 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
2161 ** The new function 'buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows you to
2162 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
2163 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
2164 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
2165 text and directional control characters.
2168 ** New properties that can be specified with 'declare':
2169 *** '(interactive-only INSTEAD)', says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
2170 *** '(pure VAL)', if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
2171 *** '(side-effect-free VAL)', if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
2175 ** New macro 'with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
2176 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
2179 ** You can access the slots of structures using 'cl-struct-slot-value'.
2182 ** Function 'sort' can deal with vectors.
2185 ** Function 'system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
2186 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems.
2187 To avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the name
2188 (in some cases this may affect generated message-id headers - customize
2189 'message-user-fqdn' if this bothers you). The variable 'system-name'
2193 ** Function 'write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
2196 ** If 'pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
2200 ** New functions return extended information about fonts and faces.
2203 *** The function 'font-info' now returns more details about a font.
2204 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
2205 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
2208 *** A new function 'default-font-width' returns the average width of a
2209 character in the current buffer's default font. If the default face
2210 is remapped (see 'face-remapping-alist'), the value for the remapped
2211 face is returned. This function complements the existing function
2212 'default-font-height'.
2215 *** New functions 'window-font-height' and 'window-font-width' return
2216 the height and average width of characters in a specified face and
2217 window. If FACE is remapped (see 'face-remapping-alist'), the
2218 function returns the information for the remapped face.
2221 *** A new function 'window-max-chars-per-line' returns the maximal
2222 number of characters that can be displayed on one line. If a face
2223 and/or window are provided, these values are used for the
2224 calculation. This function is different from 'window-body-width' in
2225 that it accounts for (i) continuation glyphs, (ii) the size of the
2226 font, and (iii) the specified window.
2229 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
2231 *** New macros 'if-let' and 'when-let' allow defining bindings and to
2232 execute code depending whether all values are true.
2234 *** New macros 'thread-first' and 'thread-last' allow threading a form
2235 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
2238 ** Documentation strings now support quoting with curved single quotes
2239 in addition to the old style with grave accent and apostrophe. The
2240 new style looks better on today's displays. In the new Electric Quote
2241 mode, you can enter curved single quotes into documentation by typing
2242 grave accent and apostrophe. Outside Electric Quote mode, you can
2243 enter them by typing 'C-x 8 [' and 'C-x 8 ]', or (if your Alt key
2244 works) by typing 'A-[' and 'A-]'. As described above under
2245 'text-quoting-style', the user can specify how to display doc string
2249 ** New function 'format-message' is like 'format' and also converts
2250 curved single quotes, grave accents and apostrophes as per
2251 'text-quoting-style'.
2254 ** 'show-help-function's arg is converted via 'substitute-command-keys'
2255 before being passed to the function. Help strings, help-echo
2256 properties, etc. can therefore contain command key escapes and
2260 ** Time-related changes:
2262 *** Time conversion functions now accept an optional ZONE argument
2263 that specifies the time zone rules for conversion. ZONE is omitted or
2264 nil for Emacs local time, t for Universal Time, 'wall' for system wall
2265 clock time, or a string as in the TZ environment variable. The
2266 affected functions are 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone',
2267 'decode-time', and 'format-time-string'. The function 'encode-time',
2268 which already accepted a simple time zone rule argument, has been
2269 extended to accept all the new forms.
2271 *** Incompatible change in the third argument of 'format-time-string'.
2272 Previously, any non-nil argument was interpreted as specifying Universal Time.
2273 This is no longer true; packages that want Universal Time should pass t
2274 as the third argument.
2276 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
2277 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
2278 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
2279 Affected functions include 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone',
2280 'decode-time', 'float-time', 'format-time-string', 'seconds-to-time',
2281 'time-add', 'time-less-p', 'time-subtract', 'time-to-day-in-year',
2282 'time-to-days', and 'time-to-seconds'.
2284 *** The 'encode-time-value' and 'with-decoded-time-value' macros have
2287 *** 'calendar-next-time-zone-transition', 'time-add', and
2288 'time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
2289 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
2293 ** New function 'set-binary-mode' allows switching a standard stream
2294 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
2297 ** The new function 'directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
2298 name (as returned from, for instance, 'file-name-all-completions') is
2299 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
2300 the name is a directory separator character (forward slash on GNU and
2301 Unix systems, forward- or backslash on MS-Windows and MS-DOS).
2304 ** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in 'standard-display-table'
2305 if the terminal cannot display curved quotes.
2308 ** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
2309 'standard-display-table', and encode output using 'locale-coding-system'.
2310 To force a specific encoding, bind 'coding-system-for-write' to the
2311 coding-system of your choice when invoking functions like 'prin1' and
2315 ** New var 'truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
2318 ** New possible value for 'system-type': 'nacl'.
2319 This is used by Google's Native Client (NaCl).
2321 ** Miscellaneous name change
2324 For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable
2325 'hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to 'hfy-optimizations'.
2326 The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
2328 ** Changes in Frame- and Window- Handling
2331 *** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
2332 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
2333 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
2335 **** New function 'horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
2336 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
2338 **** New mode 'horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
2339 bars on all existing and future frames.
2341 **** New function 'toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
2342 scroll bars on the selected frame.
2344 **** New frame parameters 'horizontal-scroll-bars' and
2345 'scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
2346 for individual frames and in 'default-frame-alist'.
2348 **** New functions 'frame-scroll-bar-height' and
2349 'window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
2350 bars on a specific frame or window.
2352 **** 'set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
2353 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
2355 **** 'window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
2358 **** New buffer-local variables 'horizontal-scroll-bar' and
2359 'scroll-bar-height'.
2362 *** New functions 'frame-geometry' and 'frame-edges' give access to a
2366 *** New functions 'mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and
2367 'set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' get/set screen coordinates of the
2371 *** The function 'window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to
2372 retrieve body, absolute and pixel edges of the window.
2375 *** The functions 'window-inside-edges', 'window-inside-pixel-edges' and
2376 'window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges' have been renamed to respectively
2377 'window-body-edges', 'window-body-pixel-edges' and
2378 'window-absolute-body-pixel-edges'. The old names are kept as aliases.
2381 *** New function 'window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen
2382 coordinates of a visible buffer position.
2385 *** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
2386 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
2387 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
2388 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
2389 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
2393 *** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
2394 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
2395 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
2396 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
2397 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
2399 **** New option 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
2400 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
2401 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
2402 number of columns or lines it displays.
2405 *** New function 'window-preserve-size' allows you to preserve the size of
2406 a window without "fixing" it. It's supported by 'fit-window-to-buffer',
2407 'temp-buffer-resize-mode' and 'display-buffer'.
2410 *** New 'display-buffer' action function 'display-buffer-use-some-frame'.
2411 This displays the buffer in an existing frame other than the current
2412 frame, and allows the caller to specify a frame predicate to exclude
2416 *** New minor mode 'window-divider-mode' and options
2417 'window-divider-default-places', 'window-divider-default-bottom-width'
2418 and 'window-divider-default-right-width'.
2421 *** The window displaying the '*Completions*' buffer with minibuffer
2422 completion candidates is now shown at the bottom of the selected
2423 frame. The size of that window is always as large as required to
2424 display all the candidates, except when limited by the minimum size
2425 of the other windows on that frame; those other windows are resized
2426 to provide space for the '*Completions*' display. The Emacs manual
2427 describes how to customize 'display-buffer-alist' to get back the old
2428 behavior, see the node "Temporary Displays" there.
2431 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ have been removed.
2432 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
2437 *** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
2439 By default, 'etags' will not qualify class members for Perl and C-like
2440 object-oriented languages with their class names and namespaces, and
2441 will remove qualifications used explicitly in the code from the tag
2442 names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
2443 'xref-find-definitions' is more accurate and produces less false
2446 Use --class-qualify (-Q) if you want the old default behavior of
2447 qualifying class members in C++, Java, Objective C, and Perl. Note
2448 that using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to 'M-.'
2449 ('xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use 'C-u M-.' to specify the
2450 qualified names by hand.
2453 *** New language Ruby
2455 Names of modules, classes, methods, functions, and constants are
2456 tagged. Overloaded operators are also tagged.
2460 Names of packages, functions, and types are tagged.
2463 *** Improved support for Lua
2465 Etags now tags functions even if the "function" keyword follows some
2466 whitespace at line beginning.
2469 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
2472 ** MS-Windows specific Emacs build scripts are no longer in the distribution.
2473 This includes the makefile.w32-in files in various subdirectories, and
2474 the support files. The file nt/configure.bat now just tells the user
2475 to use the procedure described in nt/INSTALL, by running the Posix
2476 'configure' script in the top-level directory.
2479 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
2480 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
2481 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
2484 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
2487 ** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
2488 MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
2491 ** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default.
2492 Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default.
2495 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
2498 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
2501 ** New variable 'ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
2502 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
2503 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
2506 ** On the OS X Cocoa ("Nextstep") port, multicolor font (such as color
2507 emoji) display is disabled. This feature was accidentally added when
2508 Emacs 24.4 included the new Core Text based font backend code that was
2509 originally implemented for a non-mainline port. This will be enabled
2510 again once it is also implemented in Emacs on free operating systems.
2511 If some symbols, such as emoji, do not display, we suggest to install
2512 an appropriate font, such as Symbola; then they will be displayed,
2513 albeit without the color effects.
2516 ** The new function 'w32-application-type' returns the type of an
2517 MS-Windows application given the name of its executable program file.
2519 ** New variable 'w32-pipe-buffer-size'.
2520 It can be used to tune the size of the buffer of pipes created for
2521 communicating with subprocesses, when the program run by a subprocess
2522 exhibits unusual buffering behavior. Default is zero, which lets the
2523 OS use its default size.
2526 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2527 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
2529 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2530 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
2531 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2532 (at your option) any later version.
2534 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2535 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2536 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2537 GNU General Public License for more details.
2539 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
2540 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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