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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2
3 Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5
6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 24.
10
11 See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
13
14 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
16
17 Temporary note:
18 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
19 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
20 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
21 so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
22
23 \f
24 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.4
25
26 ** Emacs can be compiled with POSIX ACL support.
27 This happens by default if a suitable support library is found at
28 build time, like libacl on GNU/Linux. To prevent this, use the
29 configure option `--without-acl'.
30
31 ** The configure option --with-crt-dir has been removed.
32 It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked specially.
33
34 \f
35 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
36
37 \f
38 * Changes in Emacs 24.4
39
40 +++
41 ** `apropos-variable' is now `apropos-user-option'
42 `apropos-user-option' shows all user options while `apropos-variable'
43 shows all variables. When called with a universal prefix argument,
44 the two commands swap their behaviors. When `apropos-do-all' is
45 non-nil, they output the same results.
46
47 +++
48 ** `eval-defun' on an already defined defcustom calls the :set function,
49 if there is one.
50
51 ** If the new variable `enable-dir-local-variables' is nil,
52 directory local variables are ignored. May be useful for some modes
53 that want to ignore directory-locals while still respecting file-locals.
54
55 ** The option `set-mark-default-inactive' has been deleted.
56 This unfinished feature was introduced by accident in Emacs 23.1;
57 simply disabling Transient Mark mode does the same thing.
58
59 ** `initial-buffer-choice' can now specify a function to set up the
60 initial buffer.
61
62 ** ACL support has been added.
63 +++
64 *** Emacs preserves the ACL entries of files when backing up.
65 +++
66 *** New functions `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' get and set the ACL
67 entries of a file. On GNU/Linux, the POSIX ACL interface is used via
68 libacl. On MS-Windows, the NT Security APIs are used to emulate the
69 POSIX ACL interfaces.
70
71 ** New option `scroll-bar-adjust-thumb-portion'.
72 Available only on X, this option allows to control over-scrolling
73 using the scroll bar (i.e. dragging the thumb down even when the end
74 of the buffer is visible).
75
76 \f
77 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
78
79 ** New commands `toggle-frame-fullscreen' and `toggle-frame-maximized',
80 bound to <f11> and M-<f10>, respectively.
81
82 ** In keymaps where SPC scrolls, S-SPC now scrolls in the reverse direction.
83 Eg View mode, etc.
84
85 \f
86 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
87
88 ** Delphi mode is now called OPascal mode.
89 *** All delphi-* variables and functions have been renamed to opascal-*.
90 *** `delphi-newline-always-indents' is not supported any more
91 use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
92 *** `delphi-tab' is gone, replaced by `indent-for-tab-command'.
93
94 ** jit-lock-debug-mode lets you use the debuggers on code run via jit-lock.
95
96 ** completing-read-multiple's separator can now be a regexp.
97 The default separator is changed to allow surrounding spaces around the comma.
98
99 ** Battery
100
101 *** Battery information via the BSD `apm' utility is now supported.
102
103 ** cl-lib
104
105 *** New macro cl-tagbody.
106
107 +++
108 *** letf is now just an alias for cl-letf.
109
110 ** Calc
111
112 *** Calc by default now uses the Gregorian calendar for all dates, and
113 uses January 1, 1 AD as its day number 1. Previously Calc used the
114 Julian calendar for dates before September 14, 1752, and it used
115 December 31, 1 BC as its day number 1; the new scheme is more
116 consistent with Calendar's calendrical system and day numbering.
117
118 *** The new variable `calc-gregorian-switch' lets you configure the
119 date when Calc switches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
120 Nil, the default value, means to always use the Gregorian calendar.
121 The value (YEAR MONTH DAY) means to start using the Gregorian calendar
122 on the given date.
123
124 *** Support for ISO 8601 dates.
125
126 ** Dired
127
128 *** New minor mode `dired-hide-details-mode' hides details.
129
130 ** ERC
131
132 *** New option `erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds'.
133 If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally paste large
134 amounts of data into the ERC input.
135
136 ** Icomplete is a bit more like IDO.
137 *** key bindings to navigate through and select the completions.
138 *** The icomplete-separator is customizable, and its default has changed.
139 *** Removed icomplete-show-key-bindings.
140
141 ** Image mode
142
143 *** New commands `n' (`image-next-file') and `p' (`image-previous-file')
144 visit the next image file and the previous image file in the same
145 directory, respectively.
146
147 *** New commands to show specific frames of multi-frame images.
148 `f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the
149 next or previous frame. `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame.
150
151 ---
152 *** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows.
153 When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration.
154 It also has an optional frame argument, which can be used by Lisp
155 callers to fit the image to a frame other than the selected frame.
156
157 ** Isearch
158
159 *** `C-x 8 RET' in Isearch mode reads a character by its Unicode name
160 and adds it to the search string.
161
162 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.4.
163 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
164
165 ---
166 ** The unrmail command converts from BABYL to mboxrd rather than mboxo.
167 Customize `unrmail-mbox-format' to change this.
168
169 ---
170 ** Similarly, customize `rmail-mbox-format' to influence some minor aspects
171 of how Rmail displays non-MIME messages.
172
173 +++
174 ** New function `ses-rename-cell' to give SES cells arbitrary names.
175
176 ** trace-function was largely rewritten.
177 New features include:
178 - no prompting for the destination buffer, unless a prefix-arg was used.
179 - additionally to prompting for a destination buffer, when a prefix-arg is
180 used, the user can enter a "context", i.e. Lisp expression whose value at the
181 time the function is entered/exited will be printed along with the function
182 name and arguments. Useful to trace the value of (current-buffer) or
183 (point) when the function is invoked.
184
185 ** New command `delete-duplicate-lines' has two types of operation:
186 when its arg ADJACENT is non-nil (when called interactively with C-u C-u)
187 it works like the utility `uniq'. Otherwise by default it deletes
188 duplicate lines everywhere in the region without regard to adjacency.
189
190 ** New `cycle-spacing' command allows cycling between having just one
191 space, no spaces, or reverting to the original spacing. Like
192 `just-one-space' command it can handle or ignore newlines and
193 leave different number of spaces.
194
195 ** Tramp
196
197 +++
198 *** New connection method "adb", which allows to access Android
199 devices by the Android Debug Bridge. The variable `tramp-adb-program'
200 can be used to adapt the path of the "adb" program, if needed.
201
202 *** The connection methods "plink1", "ssh1", "ssh2", "scp1", "scp2",
203 "scpc" and "rsyncc" are discontinued. The ssh option
204 "ControlMaster=auto" is set automatically in all ssh-based methods,
205 when possible.
206
207 +++
208 *** Handlers for `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' for remote machines
209 which support POSIX ACLs.
210
211 ** Woman
212
213 *** The commands `woman-default-faces' and `woman-monochrome-faces'
214 are obsolete. Customize the `woman-* faces instead.
215
216 ** Obsolete packages:
217
218 *** longlines.el is obsolete; use visual-line-mode instead.
219
220 *** terminal.el is obsolete; use term.el instead.
221
222 +++
223 *** yow.el is obsolete; use fortune.el or cookie1.el instead.
224
225 ---
226 *** The Info-edit command is obsolete. Editing Info nodes by hand
227 has not been relevant for some time.
228
229 \f
230 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
231 ** New nadvice.el package offering lighter-weight advice facilities.
232 It is layered as:
233 - add-function/remove-function which can be used to add/remove code on any
234 function-carrying place, such as process-filters or `<foo>-function' hooks.
235 - advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named function,
236 much like `defadvice' does.
237
238 \f
239 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
240
241 ** Removed inhibit-local-menu-bar-menus.
242
243 ** frame-local variables that affect redisplay do not work any more.
244 More specifically, the redisplay does not bother to check for a frame-local
245 value when looking up variables.
246
247 ** nil and "unbound" are indistinguishable in symbol-function.
248 `symbol-function' never signals `void-function' any more.
249 `fboundp' returns non-nil if the symbol was `fset' to nil.
250
251 ** `defadvice' does not honor the `freeze' flag and cannot advise
252 special-forms any more.
253
254 ** `dolist' in lexical-binding mode does not bind VAR in RESULT any more.
255 VAR was bound to nil which was not tremendously useful and just lead to
256 spurious warnings about an unused var.
257
258 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
259 The second argument is no longer an SELinux context, instead it is an
260 alist of extended attributes as returned by the new function
261 `file-extended-attributes'. The attributes can be applied to another
262 file using `set-file-extended-attributes'.
263
264 \f
265 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
266
267 ** Support for filesystem notifications.
268 Emacs now supports notifications of filesystem changes, such as
269 creation, modification, and deletion of files. This requires the
270 'inotify' API on GNU/Linux systems. On MS-Windows systems, this is
271 supported for Windows XP and newer versions.
272
273 ** Changes in autorevert.el
274
275 ---
276 *** If Emacs is compiled with file notification support, notifications
277 are used instead of checking the time stamp of the files. You can
278 disable this by setting the user option `auto-revert-use-notify' to
279 nil. Alternatively, a regular expression of directories to be
280 excluded from file notifications can be specified by
281 `auto-revert-notify-exclude-dir-regexp'.
282
283 ---
284 *** The new user option `auto-revert-remote-files' enables reversion
285 of remote files when set to non-nil.
286
287 ** Face changes
288
289 *** The `face-spec-set' is now analogous to `setq' for face specs.
290 Its third arg now accepts values specifying exactly which face spec to
291 set (defface, custom, or user spec), and it directly sets the relevant
292 property using the supplied face spec.
293
294 *** Face specs set via Custom themes now replace the `defface' spec
295 rather than inheriting from it (as do face specs set via Customize).
296
297 *** New face characteristic (supports :underline (:style wave))
298 specifies whether or not the terminal can display a wavy line.
299
300 ** Image API
301
302 +++
303 *** `image-animated-p' is now `image-multi-frame-p'.
304 It returns non-nil for any image that contains multiple frames,
305 whether or not it specifies a frame delay.
306
307 +++
308 *** When animating images that do not specify a frame delay,
309 Emacs uses `image-default-frame-delay'.
310
311 +++
312 *** New functions `image-current-frame' and `image-show-frame' for getting
313 and setting the current frame of a multi-frame image.
314
315 ** time-to-seconds is not obsolete any more.
316 ** New function special-form-p.
317 ** Docstrings can be made dynamic by adding a `dynamic-docstring-function'
318 text-property on the first char.
319
320 ** The `defalias-fset-function' property lets you catch calls to defalias
321 and redirect them to your own function instead of `fset'.
322
323 ** The lock for 'DIR/FILE' is now 'DIR/.#FILE' or 'DIR/.#-FILE'.
324 When you edit DIR/FILE, Emacs normally creates a symbolic link
325 DIR/.#FILE as a lock that warns other instances of Emacs that DIR/FILE
326 is being edited. Formerly, if there was already a non-symlink file
327 named DIR/.#FILE, Emacs fell back on the lock names DIR/.#FILE.0
328 through DIR/.#FILE.9. These fallbacks have been removed, so that
329 Emacs now no longer locks DIR/FILE in that case.
330
331 On MS-Windows the lock is a regular file DIR/.#-FILE, not a symlink.
332 MS-Windows and non-MS-Windows implementations of Emacs ignore each
333 other's locks.
334
335 ** The 9th element returned by `file-attributes' is now unspecified.
336 Formerly, it was t if the file's gid would change if file were deleted
337 and recreated. This value has been inaccurate for years on many
338 platforms, and nobody seems to have noticed or cared.
339
340 ** The function `file-ownership-preserved-p' now has an optional
341 argument GROUP which causes it check for file group too. This can be
342 used in place of the 9th element of `file-attributes'.
343
344 ** New functions `group-gid' and `group-real-gid'.
345
346 ** The 6th argument to `copy-file' has been renamed to
347 `preserve-extended-attributes' as it now handles both SELinux context
348 and ACL entries.
349
350 \f
351 * Changes in Emacs 24.4 on Non-Free Operating Systems
352
353 +++
354 ** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS Windows.
355 The backtrace is written to the 'emacs_backtrace.txt' file in the
356 directory where Emacs was running.
357
358 +++
359 ** The variable `buffer-file-type' is no longer supported.
360 Setting it has no effect, and %t in the mode-line format is ignored.
361 Likewise, `file-name-buffer-file-type-alist' is now obsolete, and
362 modifying it has no effect.
363
364 ---
365 ** Lock files now work on MS-Windows.
366 This allows to avoid losing your edits if the same file is being
367 edited in another Emacs session or by another user. See the node
368 "Interlocking" in the Emacs User Manual for the details. To disable
369 file locking, customize `create-lockfiles' to nil.
370
371 ** Improved fullscreen support on Mac OS X.
372 Both native (>= OSX 10.7) and "old style" fullscreen are supported.
373 Customize `ns-use-native-fullscreen' to change style. For >= 10.7
374 native is the default.
375
376 \f
377 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
378
379 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+ version 3.
380 If you don't pass `--with-x-toolkit' to configure, or if you use
381 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' or `--with-x-toolkit=yes', configure will try
382 to build with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2.
383 You can explicitly require a specific version by passing
384 `--with-x-toolkit=gtk2' or `--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' to configure.
385
386 ** New configure option `--enable-link-time-optimization', to utilize
387 an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
388
389 ** New configure option `--without-all' to disable most of the optional
390 features (image support, etc.) that are normally enabled by default.
391
392 ** New configure option `--enable-gcc-warnings' (for developing/debugging
393 Emacs). If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that
394 warn/give errors about possibly-questionable C code. On a recent GNU
395 system there should be no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems
396 the results may be useful to developers.
397
398 ** The configure option `--enable-use-lisp-union-type' has been
399 renamed to `--enable-check-lisp-object-type', as the resulting
400 Lisp_Object type no longer uses a union to implement the compile time
401 check that this option enables.
402
403 ** The configure option `--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
404 as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
405
406 ** The configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix', and
407 `--program-transform-name' apply to more than just the installed
408 binaries. Now they also affect the man pages, icons, and the
409 etc/emacs.desktop file; but not the info pages, since this would break
410 links between the various manuals.
411
412 ** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
413 overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
414 to "emacs-VERSION".
415
416 ** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
417
418 ** On FreeBSD and NetBSD, configure no longer adds /usr/local/lib and
419 /usr/pkg/lib to the linker search path. You must add them yourself if
420 you want them.
421
422 ** The standalone scripts `rcs-checkin' and `vcdiff' have been removed
423 (from the bin and libexec directories, respectively). The former is
424 no longer relevant, the latter is replaced by lisp (in vc-sccs.el).
425
426 \f
427 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
428
429 ** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
430 lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
431 been adding them there, put them somewhere else; e.g., site-lisp.
432
433 ** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
434
435 \f
436 * Changes in Emacs 24.3
437
438 ** Help
439
440 *** `C-h f' (`describe-function') can now perform autoloading.
441 When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
442 contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
443 automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
444 correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
445
446 *** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
447 even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
448 autoloads have been redefined as functions).
449
450 ** ImageMagick
451
452 *** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
453 :background image specification property.
454
455 *** When available, ImageMagick support is automatically enabled.
456 It is no longer necessary to call `imagemagick-register-types'
457 explicitly to install ImageMagick image types; that function is called
458 automatically at startup, or when customizing an imagemagick- option.
459
460 *** Setting `imagemagick-types-inhibit' to t now disables the use of
461 ImageMagick to view images. (You must call `imagemagick-register-types'
462 afterwards if you do not use customize to change this.)
463
464 *** The new variable `imagemagick-enabled-types' also affects which
465 ImageMagick types are treated as images. The function
466 `imagemagick-filter-types' returns the list of types that will be
467 treated as images.
468
469 ** Minibuffer
470
471 *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the
472 next and previous path separator, respectively.
473
474 *** `minibuffer-electric-default-mode' can shorten "(default ...)" to "[...]"
475 in minibuffer prompts. Just set `minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default'
476 non-nil before enabling the mode.
477
478 ** Mode line
479
480 *** New option `mode-line-default-help-echo' specifies the help text
481 (shown in a tooltip or in the echo area) for any part of the mode line
482 that does not have its own specialized help text.
483
484 *** You can now click mouse-3 in the coding system indicator to invoke
485 `set-buffer-file-coding-system'.
486
487 ** Server and client
488
489 *** emacsclient now obeys string values for `initial-buffer-choice',
490 if it is told to open a new frame without specifying any file to visit
491 or expression to evaluate.
492
493 *** New option `server-auth-key' specifies a shared server key.
494
495 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
496 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
497 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc
498 that support backtraces.
499
500 ** `C-x C-q' is now bound to the new minor mode `read-only-mode'.
501 This minor mode replaces `toggle-read-only', which is now obsolete.
502
503 ** Most `y-or-n' prompts now allow you to scroll the selected window.
504 Typing `C-v' or `M-v' at a y-or-n prompt scrolls forward or backward
505 respectively, without exiting from the prompt.
506
507 ** In the Package Menu, newly-available packages are listed as "new",
508 and sorted above the other "available" packages by default.
509
510 ** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
511 `emacs-bzr-version' contains information about the bzr revision used.
512
513 ** New option `create-lockfiles' specifies usage of lockfiles.
514 It defaults to t. Changing it to nil inhibits the creation of lock
515 files (use this with caution).
516
517 ** New option `enable-remote-dir-locals', if non-nil, allows directory-local
518 variables on remote hosts.
519
520 ** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
521 The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
522
523 ** Using "unibyte: t" in Lisp source files is obsolete.
524 Use "coding: raw-text" instead.
525
526 ** In the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug', the `C-c m' binding
527 has been changed to `C-c M-i' (`report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer').
528 The previous binding, introduced in Emacs 24.1, was a mistake, because
529 `C-c LETTER' bindings are reserved for user customizations.
530
531 ** Internationalization
532
533 *** New language environment: Persian.
534
535 *** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
536
537 ** Nextstep (GNUstep / Mac OS X) port
538
539 *** Support for fullscreen and the frame parameter fullscreen.
540
541 *** A file dialog is used for open/save operations initiated from the
542 menu/toolbar.
543
544 \f
545 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
546
547 ** Search and Replace
548
549 *** Non-regexp Isearch now performs "lax" space matching.
550 Each sequence of spaces in the supplied search string may match any
551 sequence of one or more whitespace characters, as specified by the
552 variable `search-whitespace-regexp'. (This variable is also used by a
553 similar existing feature for regexp Isearch.)
554
555 *** New Isearch command `M-s SPC' toggles lax space matching.
556 This applies to both ordinary and regexp Isearch.
557
558 *** New option `replace-lax-whitespace'.
559 If non-nil, `query-replace' uses flexible whitespace matching too.
560 The default is nil.
561
562 *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
563 and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
564 `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
565
566 ** Navigation commands
567
568 *** New binding `M-g c' for `goto-char'.
569
570 *** New binding `M-g TAB' for `move-to-column'.
571
572 *** `M-g TAB' (`move-to-column') prompts for a column number if called
573 interactively with no prefix arg. Previously, it moved to column 1.
574
575 ** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
576 properties on yanked text, in ways that are more general than just
577 removing them (as is done by `yank-excluded-properties').
578
579 ** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether
580 M-x delete-trailing-whitespace should delete trailing lines at the end
581 of the buffer. It defaults to t.
582
583 ** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
584
585 ** `C-x 8 RET' is now bound to `insert-char', which is now a command.
586 `ucs-insert' is now an obsolete alias for `insert-char'.
587
588 ** The `z' key no longer has a binding in most special modes.
589 It used to be bound to `kill-this-buffer', but `z' is too easy to
590 accidentally type.
591
592 ** New command `C-x r M-w' (`copy-rectangle-as-kill').
593 It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
594
595 ** Registers
596
597 *** `C-x r +' is now overloaded to invoke `append-to-register'.
598
599 *** New option `register-separator' specifies the register containing
600 the text to put between collected texts for use with
601 M-x append-to-register and M-x prepend-to-register.
602
603 \f
604 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
605
606 ** Common Lisp emulation (CL)
607
608 *** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
609 `cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly;
610 i.e., all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions
611 use the "cl--" prefix).
612
613 If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib'
614 provides it under the name `cl-foo' instead; with the exceptions of the
615 few `cl' definitions that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with
616 pre-existing Elisp entities. These have been renamed to `cl-foo'
617 rather than `cl-foo*'.
618
619 The old `cl' is now deprecated and is mainly just a bunch of aliases that
620 provide the old, non-prefixed names. Some exceptions are listed below:
621
622 *** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
623 Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
624 In particular, in cl-flet function definitions are lexically scoped,
625 whereas in flet the scoping is dynamic.
626
627 *** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
628 The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery
629 (as opposed to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture
630 definitions in closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding'
631 is in use.
632
633 *** `cl-letf' is not exactly like `letf'.
634 The only difference is in details that relate to some deprecated usage
635 of `symbol-function' in place forms.
636
637 *** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
638 A side effect is that variables without corresponding values are bound
639 to nil rather than being made unbound.
640
641 *** The following methods of extending `setf' are obsolete
642 (use features from gv.el instead):
643 `define-modify-macro' (use `gv-letplace')
644 `defsetf' (use `gv-define-simple-setter' or `gv-define-setter')
645 `define-setf-expander' (use `gv-define-setter' or `gv-define-expander')
646 `get-setf-method' no longer exists (see "Incompatible Lisp Changes")
647
648 ** Diff mode
649
650 *** Changes are now highlighted using the same color scheme as in
651 modern VCSes. Deletions are displayed in red (new faces
652 `diff-refine-removed' and `smerge-refined-removed', and new definition
653 of `diff-removed'), insertions in green (new faces `diff-refine-added'
654 and `smerge-refined-added', and new definition of `diff-added').
655
656 *** The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use the
657 face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added' to highlight
658 changes in context diffs.
659
660 *** The new command `diff-delete-trailing-whitespace' removes trailing
661 whitespace introduced by a diff.
662
663 ** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode.
664
665 ** Python mode
666
667 A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
668 per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
669 shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
670 text based shell).
671
672 *** Some user options have been replaced/renamed, including (old -> new):
673 **** python-indent -> python-indent-offset
674 **** python-guess-indent -> python-indent-guess-indent-offset
675 **** python-pdbtrack-do-tracking-p -> python-pdbtrack-activate
676 **** python-use-skeletons -> python-skeleton-autoinsert
677
678 *** Some user options have been removed, including:
679
680 **** `python-indent-string-contents': Strings are never indented.
681
682 **** `python-honour-comment-indentation':
683 Comments are always considered as indentation markers.
684
685 **** `python-continuation-offset': Indentation is automatically
686 calculated in a pep8 compliant way depending on the context.
687
688 **** `python-shell-prompt-alist', `python-shell-continuation-prompt-alist':
689 Have no direct mapping as the shell interaction is completely different.
690
691 **** `python-python-command', `python-jython-command':
692 Replaced by `python-shell-interpreter'.
693
694 **** `inferior-python-filter-regexp', `python-remove-cwd-from-path',
695 `python-pdbtrack-minor-mode-string', `python-source-modes':
696 No longer relevant.
697
698 *** Some commands have been replaced (old -> new):
699 **** python-insert-class -> python-skeleton-class
700 **** python-insert-def -> python-skeleton-def
701 **** python-insert-for -> python-skeleton-for
702 **** python-insert-if -> python-skeleton-if
703 **** python-insert-try/except -> python-skeleton-try
704 **** python-insert-try/finally -> python-skeleton-try
705 **** python-insert-while -> python-skeleton-while
706 **** python-find-function -> python-nav-jump-to-defun
707 **** python-next-statement -> python-nav-forward-sentence
708 **** python-previous-statement -> python-nav-backward-sentence
709 **** python-beginning-of-defun-function -> python-nav-beginning-of-defun
710 **** python-end-of-defun-function -> python-nav-end-of-defun
711 **** python-send-buffer -> python-shell-send-buffer
712 **** python-send-defun -> python-shell-send-defun
713 **** python-send-region -> python-shell-send-region
714 **** python-send-region-and-go -> emulate with python-shell-send-region
715 and python-shell-switch-to-shell
716 **** python-send-string -> python-shell-send-string
717 **** python-switch-to-python -> python-shell-switch-to-shell
718 **** python-describe-symbol -> python-eldoc-at-point
719
720 ** D-Bus
721
722 *** New variables `dbus-compiled-version' and `dbus-runtime-version'.
723
724 *** The D-Bus object manager interface is implemented.
725
726 *** Variables of type :(u)int32 and :(u)int64 accept floating points,
727 if their value does not fit into Emacs's integer range.
728
729 *** The function `dbus-call-method' is now non-blocking.
730 It can be interrupted by `C-g'. `dbus-call-method-non-blocking' is obsolete.
731
732 *** Signals can also be sent as unicast messages.
733
734 *** The argument list of `dbus-register-signal' has been extended,
735 according to the new match rule types of D-Bus.
736
737 *** `dbus-init-bus' supports private connections.
738
739 *** There is a new function `dbus-setenv'.
740
741 ** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory.
742 Desktop files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
743
744 ** Dired
745
746 *** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
747 if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
748 Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
749
750 *** Typing `M-n' in the minibuffer of `dired-do-chmod', `dired-do-chgrp',
751 `dired-do-chown', and `dired-do-touch' yanks the attributes of the
752 file at point.
753
754 *** When the region is active, `m' (`dired-mark'), `u' (`dired-unmark'),
755 `DEL' (`dired-unmark-backward'), and `d' (`dired-flag-file-deletion')
756 mark/unmark/flag all files in the active region.
757
758 *** The minibuffer default for `=' (`dired-diff) has changed.
759 It is now the backup file for the file at point, if one exists.
760 In Transient Mark mode the default is the file at the active mark.
761
762 *** `M-=' is no longer bound to `dired-backup-diff' in Dired buffers.
763 The global binding for `M-=', `count-words-region' is in effect.
764
765 ** ERC
766
767 *** New module "notifications", which can send a notification when you
768 receive a private message or your nickname is mentioned.
769
770 *** ERC will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use any
771 channel keys found.
772
773 *** New option `erc-lurker-hide-list', similar to `erc-hide-list', but
774 only applies to messages sent by lurkers.
775
776 ** reStructuredText mode
777
778 *** Keybindings (see `C-c C-h'), TAB indentation, filling and auto-filling,
779 fontification, comment handling, and customization have all been revised
780 and improved.
781
782 *** Support for `imenu' and `which-function-mode'.
783
784 *** The reStructuredText syntax is more closely covered.
785 Sphinx support has been improved.
786
787 *** `rst-insert-list' inserts new list or continues existing lists.
788
789 *** A negative prefix argument always works for `rst-adjust'.
790
791 *** The window configuration is reset after displaying a TOC.
792
793 *** The constant `rst-version' describes the rst.el package version.
794
795 ** Ruby mode
796
797 *** Support for percent literals and recognition of regular expressions
798 in method calls without parentheses with more methods, including Cucumber
799 steps definitions.
800
801 *** Improved syntax highlighting and indentation.
802
803 *** New command `ruby-toggle-block', bound to `C-c {'.
804
805 *** Some non-standard keybindings/commands have been removed:
806
807 **** `ruby-electric-brace'; use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
808
809 **** `ruby-mark-defun'; use `mark-defun'.
810
811 **** `ruby-beginning-of-defun' and `ruby-end-of-defun' are replaced by
812 appropriate settings for the variables `beginning-of-defun-function'
813 and `end-of-defun-function'.
814
815 **** Non-standard keybindings for `backward-kill-word', `comment-region',
816 `reindent-then-newline-and-indent' and `newline' have been removed.
817
818 ** Shell Script mode
819
820 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses `electric-pair-mode' instead of skeleton-pair.
821
822 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
823
824 *** `sh-use-smie' lets you choose a new indentation and navigation code.
825
826 ** VHDL mode
827
828 *** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
829
830 *** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
831
832 *** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
833
834 *** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
835
836 ** Apropos
837
838 *** The faces used by Apropos are now directly customizable.
839 These faces are named `apropos-symbol', `apropos-keybinding', and so on;
840 see the `apropos' Custom group for details.
841
842 *** The old options whose values specified faces to use have been removed
843 (i.e. `apropos-symbol-face', `apropos-keybinding-face', etc.).
844
845 ** Buffer Menu
846
847 *** This package has been rewritten to use Tabulated List mode.
848
849 *** Option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' is now obsolete.
850 Use `Buffer-menu-name-width' and `Buffer-menu-size-width' instead.
851
852 ** Calc
853
854 *** Algebraic simplification mode is now the default.
855 To restrict to the limited simplifications given by the former
856 default simplification mode, use `m I'.
857
858 ** Calendar
859
860 *** You can customize the header text that appears above each calendar month.
861 See the variable `calendar-month-header'.
862
863 *** New LaTeX calendar style, produced by `cal-tex-cursor-week2-summary'.
864
865 *** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
866 Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this.
867
868 ** CEDET
869
870 *** The major modes from the parser generators "Bovine" and "Wisent"
871 are now properly integrated in Emacs. The file suffixes ".by" and ".wy"
872 are in `auto-mode-alist', and the corresponding manuals are included.
873
874 *** EDE
875
876 **** Menu support for the "Configuration" feature. This allows users to
877 choose the active configuration (such as debug or install) from the menu.
878
879 **** New command `ede-set' to interactively set project-local variables.
880
881 **** Support for compiling, debugging, and running in "generic" projects.
882
883 **** Autoconf editing support for M4 macros with complex arguments.
884
885 **** Compilation support for the "linux" project type.
886
887 **** "simple" projects have been removed; use "generic" projects instead.
888
889 *** Semantic
890
891 **** Support for parsing #include statements inside a namespace in C/C++.
892
893 **** Improved support for 'extern "C"' declarations in C/C++.
894
895 **** The ability to ignore more common special C/C++ preprocessor symbols,
896 such as '__nonnull' and '__asm'. Add '__cplusplus' macro when parsing C++.
897 If available, include cdefs.h as an additional source of preprocessor symbols.
898
899 **** Improved C/C++ function pointer parsing.
900
901 **** In Python, support for converting imports to include file names.
902
903 **** Ability to dynamically determine the Python load path.
904
905 **** Support for the Python 'WITH' and 'AT' keywords.
906
907 **** Improved tooltip completion.
908
909 *** SRecode
910
911 **** The SRecode manual is now included.
912
913 **** Tag generation supports constructor/destructor settings and system
914 include differentiation.
915
916 **** Addition of 'Framework' support: Frameworks are specified when a
917 particular kind of library (such as Android) is needed in a common language
918 mode (like Java).
919
920 **** Support for nested templates and let variables override based on priority.
921
922 **** Support for merging tables from multiple related modes, such as
923 default -> c++ -> arduino.
924
925 ** Compile has a new option `compilation-always-kill'.
926
927 ** Customize
928
929 *** `custom-reset-button-menu' now defaults to t.
930
931 *** Non-option variables are never matched in `customize-apropos' and
932 `customize-apropos-options' (i.e., the prefix argument does nothing for
933 these commands now).
934
935 ** Term
936
937 *** The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color'
938 are now deprecated in favor of the customizable face `term'.
939
940 *** You can customize how to display ANSI terminal colors and styles
941 by customizing the corresponding `term-color-<COLOR>',
942 `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold' faces.
943
944 ** Tramp
945
946 *** The syntax has been extended in order to allow ad-hoc proxy definitions.
947
948 *** Remote processes are now also supported on remote MS-Windows hosts.
949
950 ** URL
951
952 *** Structs made by `url-generic-parse-url' have nil `attributes' slot.
953 Previously, this slot stored semicolon-separated attribute-value pairs
954 appended to some imap URLs, but this is not compatible with RFC 3986.
955 So now the `filename' slot stores the entire path and query components,
956 and the `attributes' slot is always nil.
957
958 *** New function `url-encode-url' for encoding a URI string.
959 The `url-retrieve' function now uses this to encode its URL argument,
960 in case that is not properly encoded.
961
962 ** notifications.el supports now version 1.2 of the Notifications API.
963 The function `notifications-get-capabilities' returns the supported
964 server properties.
965
966 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
967 See `flymake-fringe-indicator-position', `flymake-error-bitmap' and
968 `flymake-warning-bitmap'.
969
970 ** The FFAP option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
971 specifying URL types that should be converted to remote file names at
972 the FFAP prompt. The default is now '("ftp").
973
974 ** New Ibuffer `derived-mode' filter, bound to `/ M'.
975 The old binding for `/ M' (filter by used-mode) is now bound to `/ m'.
976
977 ** New option `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' specifies where the
978 `banish' mouse avoidance setting moves the mouse.
979
980 ** In Perl mode, new option `perl-indent-parens-as-block' causes non-block
981 closing brackets to be aligned with the line of the opening bracket.
982
983 ** In Proced mode, new command `proced-renice' renices marked processes.
984
985 ** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies the buffer to use
986 for a new asynchronous `shell-command' when the default output buffer
987 `*Async Shell Command*' is already in use.
988
989 ** SQL mode has a new option `sql-db2-escape-newlines'.
990 If non-nil, newlines sent to the command interpreter will be escaped
991 by a backslash. The default does not escape the newlines and assumes
992 that the sql statement will be terminated by a semicolon.
993
994 ** New command `tabulated-list-sort', bound to `S' in Tabulated List mode
995 (and modes that derive from it), sorts the column at point, or the Nth
996 column if a numeric prefix argument is given.
997
998 ** `which-func-modes' now defaults to t, so Which Function mode, when
999 enabled, applies to all applicable major modes.
1000
1001 ** `winner-mode-hook' now runs when the mode is disabled, as well as when
1002 it is enabled.
1003
1004 ** Follow mode no longer works by using advice.
1005 The option `follow-intercept-processes' has been removed.
1006
1007 ** `javascript-generic-mode' is now an obsolete alias for `js-mode'.
1008
1009 ** Hooks renamed to avoid obsolete "-hooks" suffix:
1010 *** semantic-lex-reset-hooks -> semantic-lex-reset-functions
1011 *** semantic-change-hooks -> semantic-change-functions
1012 *** semantic-edits-new-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-new-change-functions
1013 *** semantic-edits-delete-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-delete-change-functions
1014 *** semantic-edits-reparse-change-hooks -> semantic-edits-reparse-change-functions
1015 *** semanticdb-save-database-hooks -> semanticdb-save-database-functions
1016 *** c-prepare-bug-report-hooks -> c-prepare-bug-report-hook
1017 *** rcirc-sentinel-hooks -> rcirc-sentinel-functions
1018 *** rcirc-receive-message-hooks -> rcirc-receive-message-functions
1019 *** rcirc-activity-hooks -> rcirc-activity-functions
1020 *** rcirc-print-hooks -> rcirc-print-functions
1021 *** dbus-event-error-hooks -> dbus-event-error-functions
1022 *** eieio-pre-method-execution-hooks -> eieio-pre-method-execution-functions
1023 *** checkdoc-style-hooks -> checkdoc-style-functions
1024 *** checkdoc-comment-style-hooks -> checkdoc-comment-style-functions
1025 *** archive-extract-hooks -> archive-extract-hook
1026 *** filesets-cache-fill-content-hooks -> filesets-cache-fill-content-hook
1027 *** hfy-post-html-hooks -> hfy-post-html-hook
1028 *** nndiary-request-create-group-hooks -> nndiary-request-create-group-functions
1029 *** nndiary-request-update-info-hooks -> nndiary-request-update-info-functions
1030 *** nndiary-request-accept-article-hooks -> nndiary-request-accept-article-functions
1031 *** gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-hooks -> gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-functions
1032
1033 ** Obsolete packages
1034
1035 *** assoc.el
1036 In most cases, assoc+member+push+delq work just as well.
1037 And in any case it's just a terrible package: ugly semantics, terrible
1038 inefficiency, and not namespace-clean.
1039 *** bruce.el
1040 *** cust-print.el
1041 *** ledit.el
1042 *** mailpost.el
1043 *** mouse-sel.el
1044 *** patcomp.el
1045
1046 \f
1047 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
1048
1049 ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
1050 Only variables defined using `defcustom' are considered user options.
1051 The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
1052 `custom-variable-p'.
1053
1054 ** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
1055 and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, `defun' and
1056 `defmacro' currently return the name of the newly defined
1057 function/macro, but this should not be relied upon.
1058
1059 ** `random' by default now returns a different random sequence in
1060 every Emacs run. Use `(random S)', where S is a string, to set the
1061 random seed to a value based on S, in order to get a repeatable
1062 sequence in later calls.
1063
1064 ** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
1065 that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
1066 non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
1067
1068 ** `select-window' now always makes the window's buffer current.
1069 It does so even if the window was selected before.
1070
1071 ** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
1072 font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
1073 depends on the graphical library.
1074
1075 ** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
1076 third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
1077
1078 ** `set-buffer-multibyte' now signals an error in narrowed buffers.
1079
1080 ** The CL package's `get-setf-method' function no longer exists.
1081 Generalized variables are now part of core Emacs Lisp, and implemented
1082 differently to the way cl.el used to do it. It is not possible to
1083 define a compatible replacement for `get-setf-method'. See the file
1084 gv.el for internal details of the new implementation.
1085
1086 ** The arguments of `dbus-register-signal' are no longer just strings,
1087 but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
1088 still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
1089
1090 ** Miscellaneous name changes
1091 Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to correct their spelling,
1092 or to be more consistent with standard Emacs terminology.
1093
1094 *** Renamed functions
1095 **** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
1096 **** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
1097 **** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
1098 **** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
1099 **** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
1100 **** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
1101 viper-deactivate-input-method-action
1102 **** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
1103
1104 *** Renamed hooks
1105 The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
1106 are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
1107 **** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
1108 **** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
1109 **** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
1110
1111 *** Renamed variables
1112 **** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
1113 **** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
1114 deactivate-current-input-method-function
1115
1116 ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed:
1117 *** `last-input-char', `last-command-char', `unread-command-char'
1118 *** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
1119 *** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
1120 *** `iswitchb-read-buffer'
1121 *** `sc-version', `sc-submit-bug-report'
1122 *** `set-char-table-default'
1123 *** `string-to-sequence' (use `string-to-list' or `string-to-vector')
1124 *** `compile-internal'
1125 *** `modeline'
1126 *** `mode-line-inverse-video'
1127 *** `follow-mode-off-hook'
1128 *** `cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline'
1129 (use `log-edit-require-final-newline' instead)
1130 *** `cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs'
1131 (use `log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs' instead)
1132 *** `cvs-diff-ignore-marks', `cvs-diff-buffer-name'
1133 *** `vc-ignore-vc-files' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
1134 *** `vc-master-templates' (use `vc-handled-backends' instead)
1135 *** `vc-checkout-carefully'
1136
1137 \f
1138 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
1139
1140 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
1141 `setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
1142 You can define your own generalized variables using `gv-define-simple-setter',
1143 `gv-define-setter', etc.
1144
1145 ** Emacs tries to macroexpand interpreted (non-compiled) files during load.
1146 This can significantly speed up execution of non-byte-compiled code,
1147 but can also bump into previously unnoticed cyclic dependencies.
1148 These are generally harmless: they will simply cause the macro calls
1149 to be left for later expansion (as before), but will result in a
1150 warning ("Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle") describing the cycle.
1151 You may wish to restructure your code so this does not happen.
1152
1153 ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
1154 Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report.
1155 When finished, use M-x profiler-stop. The sampling rate can be based on
1156 CPU time or memory allocations.
1157
1158 ** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
1159 The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
1160
1161 ** New macros `setq-local' and `defvar-local'.
1162
1163 ** Face underlining can now use a wave.
1164
1165 ** `read-regexp' has a new argument HISTORY; the first argument PROMPT
1166 of `read-regexp' accepts a string ending with a colon and space, and its
1167 second argument DEFAULTS can be a list of strings accessible via `M-n'
1168 in the minibuffer ahead of other hard-coded useful regexp-related values.
1169 More commands use `read-regexp' now to read their regexp arguments.
1170
1171 ** Completion
1172
1173 *** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
1174 in the presence of quoting, such as file completion in shell buffers.
1175
1176 *** New function `completion-table-subvert' to use an existing completion
1177 table, but with a different prefix.
1178
1179 ** Debugger
1180
1181 *** New error type and new function `user-error'.
1182 These do not trigger the debugger.
1183
1184 *** New option `debugger-bury-or-kill', saying what to do with the
1185 debugger buffer when exiting debug.
1186
1187 *** Set `debug-on-message' to enter the debugger when a certain
1188 message is displayed in the echo area. This can be useful when trying
1189 to work out which code is doing something.
1190
1191 *** New var `inhibit-debugger', automatically set to prevent accidental
1192 recursive invocations.
1193
1194 ** Window handling
1195
1196 *** New command `fit-frame-to-buffer' adjusts the frame height to
1197 fit the contents.
1198
1199 *** The command `fit-window-to-buffer' can adjust the frame height
1200 if the new option `fit-frame-to-buffer' is non-nil.
1201
1202 *** New macro `with-temp-buffer-window', similar to
1203 `with-output-to-temp-buffer'.
1204
1205 *** `temp-buffer-resize-mode' no longer resizes windows that have been
1206 reused.
1207
1208 *** New option `switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' to restore a
1209 window's point when switching buffers.
1210
1211 *** New display action alist entries `window-height' and `window-width'
1212 specify the size of new windows created by `display-buffer'.
1213
1214 *** New display action alist entry `pop-up-frame-parameters', if
1215 non-nil, specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
1216
1217 *** New display action alist entry `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil,
1218 tells display action functions to avoid changing which frame is
1219 selected.
1220
1221 *** New display action alist entry `previous-window', if non-nil,
1222 specifies window to reuse in `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
1223
1224 *** New display action functions `display-buffer-below-selected',
1225 and `display-buffer-in-previous-window'.
1226
1227 *** The functions `get-lru-window', `get-mru-window' and `get-largest-window'
1228 now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
1229
1230 *** Additional values recognized for option `window-combination-limit'.
1231
1232 *** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
1233 appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
1234 in Emacs 24.1:
1235 **** `dired-shrink-to-fit'
1236 **** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
1237 **** `display-buffer-function'
1238 **** `special-display-buffer-names'
1239 **** `special-display-frame-alist'
1240 **** `special-display-function'
1241 **** `special-display-regexps'
1242
1243 ** Time
1244
1245 *** `current-time-string' no longer requires that its argument's year
1246 must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
1247 by the underlying C implementation.
1248
1249 *** `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
1250 (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC), where the new PSEC slot specifies picoseconds.
1251 PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current machines. Other
1252 functions that use this format, such as `file-attributes' and
1253 `format-time-string', have been changed accordingly. Old-format time
1254 stamps are still accepted.
1255
1256 *** The format of timers in `timer-list' and `timer-idle-list' is now
1257 [TRIGGERED-P HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY PSECS].
1258 The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution. It can be
1259 accessed via the new `timer--psecs' accessor.
1260
1261 *** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form
1262 (t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS).
1263
1264 ** EIEIO
1265
1266 *** Improved security when handling persistent objects:
1267
1268 **** `eieio-persistent-read' now features optional arguments for specifying
1269 the class to load, as well as a flag stating whether subclasses are allowed;
1270 if provided, other classes will be rejected by the reader. For
1271 compatibility with existing code, if the class is omitted only a
1272 warning is issued.
1273
1274 **** New specialized reader for pulling in classes and signaling errors
1275 without evaluation of suspicious code.
1276
1277 **** All slots that contain objects must have a :type. Slots with lists
1278 of objects must use a new type predicate for a list of an object type.
1279
1280 *** Support for `find-function' and similar utilities, through the addition
1281 of filename support to generated symbols.
1282
1283 ** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN,
1284 instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args; e.g., (log -1.0).
1285 Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
1286 on others. The affected functions are acos, asin, tan, exp, expt,
1287 log, log10, sqrt, and mod.
1288
1289 ** New fringe bitmap `exclamation-mark'.
1290
1291 ** Miscellaneous changes to special forms and macros
1292
1293 *** `defun' and `defmacro' are now macros rather than special forms.
1294
1295 *** `kbd' is now a function rather than a macro.
1296
1297 ** Miscellaneous new functions
1298
1299 *** `set-temporary-overlay-map' sets up a temporary keymap that
1300 takes precedence over most other maps for a short while (normally one key).
1301
1302 *** `autoloadp' tests if its argument is an autoloaded object.
1303
1304 *** `autoload-do-load' performs the autoloading operation.
1305
1306 *** `buffer-narrowed-p' tests if the buffer is narrowed.
1307
1308 *** `file-name-base' returns a file name sans directory and extension.
1309
1310 *** `function-get' fetches a function property, following aliases.
1311
1312 *** `posnp' tests if an object is a `posn'.
1313
1314 *** `system-users' returns the user names on the system.
1315
1316 *** `system-groups' returns the group names on the system.
1317
1318 *** `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
1319
1320 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
1321 *** `automount-dir-prefix' (use `directory-abbrev-alist')
1322 *** `buffer-has-markers-at'
1323 *** `macro-declaration-function' (use `macro-declarations-alist')
1324 *** `window-system-version' (provides no useful information)
1325 *** `dired-pop-to-buffer' (use `dired-mark-pop-up')
1326 *** `query-replace-interactive'
1327 *** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23)
1328
1329 \f
1330 * Changes in Emacs 24.3 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1331
1332 ** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface.
1333 Pass `--with-w32' to configure. The default remains the X11 interface.
1334
1335 ** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds:
1336 `cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows' and
1337 `cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows'. These functions allow Lisp
1338 code to access the Cygwin file-name mapping machinery to convert
1339 between Cygwin and Windows-native file and directory names.
1340
1341 ** When invoked with the -nw switch to run on the Windows text-mode terminal,
1342 Emacs now supports `mouse-highlight', help-echo (in the echo area), and
1343 `mouse-autoselect-window'.
1344
1345 ** On MS Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
1346
1347 ** On MS Windows, you can pass `--without-libxml2' to configure.bat to omit
1348 support for libxml2, even if its presence is detected.
1349
1350 ** On Mac OS X, the Nextstep port requires OS X 10.4 or later.
1351
1352 ** On Mac OS X, configure no longer automatically adds the Fink "/sw"
1353 directories to the search path. You must add them yourself if you want them.
1354
1355 \f
1356 * Changes in Emacs 24.2
1357
1358 ** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
1359
1360 \f
1361 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
1362
1363 ** Emacs can be compiled with Gtk+ 3.0 if you pass --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
1364 to configure. Note that other libraries used by Emacs, RSVG and GConf,
1365 also depend on Gtk+. You can disable them with --without-rsvg and
1366 --without-gconf.
1367
1368 ** Emacs can be compiled with GnuTLS support.
1369 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1370 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1371 `--without-gnutls'. See below for GnuTLS features.
1372
1373 ** Emacs can be compiled with SELinux support.
1374 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1375 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1376 `--without-selinux'. See below for SELinux features.
1377
1378 ** Emacs can be compiled with ImageMagick support.
1379 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1380 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1381 `--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
1382 This feature is not available for the Nextstep or MS ports.
1383
1384 ** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
1385 This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
1386 found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
1387 `--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
1388
1389 ** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
1390 You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
1391
1392 ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
1393 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
1394 On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
1395 to about 2 GiB.
1396
1397 ** New configure options: --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
1398 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
1399 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
1400
1401 ** New configure option --enable-use-lisp-union-type.
1402 This is only useful for Emacs developers to debug certain types of bugs.
1403 This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
1404
1405 ** The standalone programs digest-doc and sorted-doc are removed.
1406 Emacs now uses Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
1407
1408 ** The standalone program `fakemail' is removed.
1409 If you need it, feedmail.el provides a superset of the functionality.
1410
1411 \f
1412 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
1413
1414 ** The --unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte
1415 command line arguments, and the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, no
1416 longer have any effect. (They were declared obsolete in Emacs 23.)
1417
1418 ** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
1419 from load-path. -Q now implies this. This option does not affect the
1420 EMACSLOADPATH environment variable (and hence has no effect for
1421 Nextstep builds).
1422
1423 \f
1424 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
1425
1426 ** Completion
1427
1428 *** Many packages now use the `completion-at-point' command,
1429 rather than implementing separate completion commands.
1430
1431 *** `completion-at-point' now handles tags and semantic completion.
1432
1433 *** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
1434 and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
1435
1436 *** New option `completion-cycle-threshold' allows completion cycling.
1437
1438 *** New option `completion-category-overrides' for overriding the
1439 default completion style in certain circumstances.
1440
1441 *** New completion style `substring'.
1442
1443 *** Completion of buffer names uses `substring' completion by default.
1444
1445 *** The option `widget-complete-field' has been removed.
1446
1447 ** Mail changes
1448
1449 *** The first time you try sending mail, Emacs asks for a mail method.
1450 This is implemented by a new default for `send-mail-function', which
1451 is `sendmail-query-once'. This offers to use the smtpmail package, or
1452 to use the old defaults relying on external mail facilities
1453 (`sendmail-send-it' on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems, and
1454 `mailclient-send-it' on Windows).
1455
1456 *** Typing `C-c m' in the buffer made by `M-x report-emacs-bug'
1457 transfers the report to your desktop's preferred mail client, if there
1458 is one. This uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or Mac OS's "open"
1459 command.
1460
1461 *** See Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages for SMTPmail changes
1462 and Mail mode changes
1463
1464 ** Emacs server and client changes
1465
1466 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port for TCP Emacs servers.
1467
1468 *** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
1469
1470 *** New emacsclient argument --frame-parameters specifies the frame
1471 parameters of any newly-created graphical frame.
1472
1473 *** If emacsclient shuts down due to Emacs signaling an error,
1474 its exit status is 1.
1475
1476 *** New emacsclient argument --parent-id ID.
1477 This opens a client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed, similar
1478 to the --parent-id argument to Emacs.
1479
1480 ** Internationalization changes
1481
1482 *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
1483 Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
1484 displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
1485 scripts. The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
1486 implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers
1487 with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
1488
1489 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-display-reordering'.
1490 To disable display reordering in a buffer, change this to nil.
1491
1492 **** New buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction'.
1493 If nil (the default), Emacs determines the base direction of each
1494 paragraph from its text, as specified by the UBA. Setting the value
1495 to `right-to-left' or `left-to-right' forces a base direction on each
1496 paragraph.
1497
1498 Paragraphs with right-to-left base direction are displayed starting at
1499 the right window edge.
1500
1501 *** Enhanced support for characters with no glyphs in available fonts,
1502 or, on text terminals, characters that cannot be encoded by the
1503 terminal coding system. The new option `glyphless-char-display-control'
1504 specifies how to display them: as a hexadecimal code in a box, a thin
1505 1-pixel space, an empty box, etc.
1506
1507 *** New input methods for Farsi and Bulgarian
1508 (farsi-isiri-9147, farsi-transliterate-banan, bulgarian-alt-phonetic).
1509
1510 *** `nobreak-char-display' now also highlights Unicode hyphen chars
1511 (U+2010 and U+2011).
1512
1513 *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
1514 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
1515 automatically select it.
1516
1517 ** An Emacs Lisp package manager is now included.
1518 This is a convenient way to download and install additional packages,
1519 from a package repository at http://elpa.gnu.org.
1520
1521 *** M-x list-packages shows a list of packages, which can be
1522 selected for installation.
1523
1524 *** New command `describe-package', bound to `C-h P'.
1525
1526 *** By default, all installed packages are loaded automatically when
1527 Emacs starts up. To disable this, set `package-enable-at-startup' to
1528 nil. To specify the packages to load, customize `package-load-list'.
1529
1530 ** Custom theme changes
1531
1532 *** New command `M-x customize-themes', which provides a convenient
1533 interface for enabling and disabling Custom themes.
1534
1535 *** New option `custom-theme-load-path' is the load path for themes.
1536 Emacs no longer looks for Custom themes in `load-path'. The default
1537 value of `custom-theme-load-path' says to look for themes in
1538 `custom-theme-directory', followed by a subdirectory of
1539 `data-directory' named "themes/", which contains a small selection of
1540 built-in Custom themes.
1541
1542 *** New option `custom-safe-themes' records known-safe theme files.
1543 If a theme is not in this list, Emacs queries before loading it, and
1544 offers to save the theme to `custom-safe-themes' automatically. By
1545 default, all themes included in Emacs are treated as safe.
1546
1547 ** Improved GTK integration
1548
1549 *** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
1550 The function `set-scroll-bar-mode' can change this.
1551
1552 *** GTK tool bars can have just text, just images or images and text.
1553 Customize `tool-bar-style' to choose the style. On a Gnome desktop,
1554 the default is taken from desktop settings.
1555
1556 *** GTK tool bars can be placed on any edge of the frame.
1557 The frame-parameter tool-bar-position controls this. It takes the
1558 values top, left, right or bottom. The Options => Show/Hide menu has
1559 entries for this.
1560
1561 *** The default colors for selected text (the `region' face) are taken
1562 from the GTK theme when Emacs is built with GTK.
1563
1564 *** Emacs uses GTK tooltips by default if built with GTK.
1565 You can disable this by changing `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to nil.
1566
1567 ** Graphical interface changes
1568
1569 *** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
1570 Also, the first dash (which does not indicate anything) is just
1571 displayed as a space.
1572
1573 *** `menu-bar-select-buffer-function' lets you choose another operation
1574 instead of `switch-to-buffer' when selecting an item in the Buffers menu.
1575
1576 *** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is
1577 built with Xft. These fonts can be set via X resources, for example:
1578 Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
1579
1580 ** Exiting changes
1581
1582 *** Emacs now calls `kill-emacs' if it receives SIGTERM or SIGHUP,
1583 or if it receives a SIGINT signal in batch mode.
1584
1585 *** `kill-emacs-hook' is now also run in batch mode.
1586 Third-party code which adds to `kill-emacs-hook' should check if they
1587 do the right thing in batch mode.
1588
1589 ** Scrolling changes
1590
1591 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
1592 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
1593 of buffer at first key-press (instead they move to top/bottom of buffer)
1594 when `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
1595
1596 *** New option `scroll-error-top-bottom' (see above).
1597
1598 *** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
1599 scroll a line instead of full screen.
1600
1601 *** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
1602 define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
1603
1604 *** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
1605 Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
1606 cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
1607 Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
1608 `scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
1609
1610 *** "Aggressive" scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
1611 If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
1612 `scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
1613 scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
1614 margin.
1615
1616 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
1617 This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
1618
1619 *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up.
1620 Also, the function `copy-file' has an extra optional argument for
1621 preserving SELinux context, and the return value of `backup-buffer'
1622 now includes the SELinux context.
1623
1624 *** New functions `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
1625 get and set the SELinux context of a file.
1626
1627 ** Trash changes
1628
1629 *** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
1630 trashing. This avoids inadvertently trashing temporary files.
1631
1632 *** Calling `delete-file' or `delete-directory' with a prefix argument
1633 now forces true deletion, regardless of `delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
1634
1635 ** File- and directory-local variable changes
1636
1637 *** You can stop directory local vars from applying to subdirectories.
1638 Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
1639 settings to indicate that the section should not apply to
1640 subdirectories.
1641
1642 *** Directory local variables can apply to some file-less buffers.
1643 Affected modes include dired, vc-dir, and log-edit. For example,
1644 adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to .dir-locals.el will
1645 turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should call
1646 `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
1647
1648 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
1649 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
1650
1651 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
1652 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'. As the name suggests, it now
1653 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- lines. The
1654 associated `inhibit-first-line-modes-suffixes' has been renamed in the
1655 corresponding way.
1656
1657 ** Window changes
1658
1659 *** The `quit-window' command now restores the last buffer displayed
1660 in the quitted window.
1661
1662 *** Resizing an Emacs frame now preserves proportional window sizes,
1663 modulo restrictions like window minimum sizes and fixed-size windows.
1664
1665 *** The behavior of `display-buffer' is now customizable in detail.
1666
1667 **** New option `display-buffer-base-action' specifies a list of
1668 user-determined display "actions" (functions and optional arguments
1669 for choosing the displaying window).
1670
1671 This takes precedence over the default display action, which is
1672 specified by `display-buffer-fallback-action'.
1673
1674 **** New option `display-buffer-alist' maps buffer name regexps to
1675 display actions, taking precedence over `display-buffer-base-action'.
1676
1677 *** New option `window-combination-limit'.
1678 The new option `window-combination-limit' allows to return the space
1679 obtained for resizing or creating a window more reliably to the window
1680 from which such space was obtained.
1681
1682 *** New option `window-combination-resize'.
1683 The new option `window-combination-resize' allows to split a window that
1684 otherwise cannot be split because it's too small by stealing space from
1685 other windows in the same combination. Subsequent resizing or deletion
1686 of the window will resize all windows in the same combination as well.
1687
1688 *** New option `frame-auto-hide-function' lets you choose between
1689 iconifying or deleting a frame when burying a buffer in a dedicated
1690 frame, or quitting a window showing a buffer in a frame of its own.
1691
1692 *** New commands `maximize-window' and `minimize-window'.
1693 These maximize and minimize the size of a window within its frame.
1694
1695 *** New commands `switch-to-prev-buffer' and `switch-to-next-buffer'.
1696 These functions allow to navigate through the live buffers that have
1697 been shown in a specific window.
1698
1699 ** Minibuffer changes
1700
1701 *** The inactive minibuffer has its own major mode `minibuffer-inactive-mode'.
1702 This is handy for minibuffer-only frames, and is also used for the feature
1703 where mouse-1 pops up *Messages*"', which can now easily be changed.
1704
1705 *** Minibuffers set `truncate-lines' to nil.
1706 If you want to change the value to something else, you could use
1707 for example `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1708
1709 ** `auto-mode-case-fold' is now enabled by default.
1710
1711 ** `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' now defaults to t.
1712
1713 ** New basic faces `error', `warning', `success'.
1714 These are used to highlight text indicating failure, caution or
1715 successful operation.
1716
1717 ** New option `list-colors-sort' defines the color sort order
1718 for `list-colors-display'.
1719
1720 ** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
1721
1722 \f
1723 * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
1724
1725 ** Search changes
1726
1727 *** C-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-kill', instead of
1728 `isearch-yank-line'.
1729
1730 *** M-y in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-pop', instead of
1731 `isearch-yank-kill'.
1732
1733 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to `isearch-yank-line'.
1734
1735 ** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
1736
1737 *** M-= is bound to `count-words-region', not `count-lines-region'.
1738 The `count-words-region' command, when called interactively, reports
1739 the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a
1740 superset of the old `count-lines-region', which is now an obsolete
1741 alias for it.
1742
1743 ** The command `just-one-space' (M-SPC), if given a negative argument,
1744 also deletes newlines around point.
1745
1746 ** Deletion changes
1747
1748 *** New option `delete-active-region'.
1749 If non-nil, [delete] and DEL delete the region if it is active and no
1750 prefix argument is given. If set to `kill', those commands kill
1751 instead.
1752
1753 *** New command `delete-forward-char', bound to [delete].
1754 This is meant for interactive use, and obeys `delete-active-region'.
1755 The command `delete-char' does not obey `delete-active-region'.
1756
1757 *** `delete-backward-char' is now a Lisp function.
1758 Apart from obeying `delete-active-region', its behavior is unchanged.
1759 However, the byte compiler now warns if it is called from Lisp; Lisp
1760 callers should use delete-char with a negative argument instead.
1761
1762 *** The option `mouse-region-delete-keys' has been deleted.
1763
1764 ** Selection changes.
1765
1766 The default handling of clipboard and primary selections has been
1767 changed to conform with modern X applications. In short, most
1768 commands for killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while
1769 mouse commands use the primary selection.
1770
1771 In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
1772 list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.
1773
1774 *** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
1775 Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
1776 the kill ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
1777 the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).
1778
1779 **** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
1780 This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
1781 regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
1782 "ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
1783 point motion, do not alter the primary selection.
1784
1785 **** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
1786
1787 *** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
1788 This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
1789 Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.
1790
1791 *** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
1792
1793 *** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
1794 Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
1795 M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.
1796
1797 **** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
1798 exactly equivalent to M-w, C-w, and C-y respectively.
1799
1800 **** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
1801 non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
1802 between applications.
1803
1804 *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
1805
1806 **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
1807 **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
1808 **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
1809 **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
1810 **** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.
1811
1812 *** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.
1813
1814 *** X clipboard managers are now supported.
1815 To inhibit this, change `x-select-enable-clipboard-manager' to nil.
1816
1817 ** New command `C-x r N' (`rectangle-number-lines') numbers the lines
1818 in the current rectangle. With a prefix argument, this prompts for a
1819 number to count from and for a format string.
1820
1821 ** `redisplay-dont-pause' now defaults to t.
1822 This makes Emacs feel more responsive to editing commands that arrive
1823 at high rate, e.g. if you lean on some key, because stopping redisplay
1824 in the middle (when this variable is nil) forces more expensive
1825 updates later on, and Emacs appears to be unable to keep up.
1826
1827 ** The behavior of <TAB> for active regions in Text mode has changed.
1828 In Text and related modes, typing <TAB> (`indent-for-tab-command')
1829 when the region is active causes Emacs to indent all the lines in the
1830 region, aligning them with the line previous to the first line in the
1831 region (or with the left margin if there is no previous line).
1832
1833 ** When `occur' is called with a prefix argument, matching strings are
1834 collected into the `*Occur*' buffer without line numbers. If there
1835 are parenthesized subexpressions in the specified regexp, `occur'
1836 reads replacement text that may contain \\& and \\N whose convention
1837 follows `replace-match'.
1838
1839 \f
1840 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
1841
1842 ** Archive Mode has basic support for browsing and updating 7z archives.
1843
1844 ** BibTeX mode
1845
1846 *** BibTeX mode now supports biblatex.
1847 Use the variable `bibtex-dialect' to select different BibTeX dialects.
1848 `bibtex-entry-field-alist' is now an obsolete alias for
1849 `bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist'.
1850
1851 *** New command `bibtex-search-entries', bound to C-c C-a.
1852
1853 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `sort-fields', disabled by default.
1854
1855 *** New variable `bibtex-search-entry-globally'.
1856
1857 ** Browse-url
1858
1859 *** New option `browse-url-mailto-function' specifies how to handle "mailto:"s.
1860
1861 *** The default browser used by the package is now the "xdg-open" program,
1862 on platforms that support it. This calls your desktop's preferred browser.
1863
1864 ** Calc
1865
1866 *** Support for musical notes.
1867
1868 *** Support for logarithmic units.
1869
1870 *** No longer uses the tex prefix for TeX specific unit names when
1871 using TeX or LaTeX mode.
1872
1873 *** New option to highlight selections using faces.
1874
1875 *** `calc-histogram' has the option of using a vector to determine the bins.
1876
1877 *** New "O" option prefix.
1878
1879 *** Use the "O" prefix to "d r" (`calc-radix') to turn on twos-complement mode.
1880
1881 ** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
1882
1883 *** Diary entries can contain non-printing "comments".
1884 See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
1885
1886 *** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
1887 See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
1888
1889 *** The function specified by `appt-disp-window-function' may be passed
1890 lists of arguments if multiple appointments are due at similar times.
1891 If you are using a custom function for this, you should update it.
1892
1893 *** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
1894
1895 *** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
1896 may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
1897
1898 *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
1899 package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
1900 Use `appt-activate' instead.
1901
1902 *** Some appt variables (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1903 appt-issue-message (use the function appt-activate)
1904 appt-visible/appt-msg-window (use the variable appt-display-format)
1905
1906 *** Some diary function aliases (obsolete since Emacs 22.1) have been removed:
1907 view-diary-entries, list-diary-entries, show-all-diary-entries
1908
1909 ** CC Mode
1910
1911 *** New feature to "guess" the style in an existing buffer.
1912 The main entry point is M-x c-guess.
1913
1914 *** Java Mode now supports Java 5.0 (Tiger) and 6 (Mustang).
1915
1916 *** `c-beginning-of-defun' and `c-end-of-defun' now respect nested scopes.
1917 Thus C-M-a will, by default, go to the beginning of the immediate function,
1918 not the top level.
1919
1920 *** "Macros with semicolons" can be registered for correct indentation.
1921 Where such a macro ends a line (no semicolon) the next statement is no longer
1922 parsed as a statement continuation.
1923
1924 ** Comint and modes derived from it use the standard completion code.
1925
1926 ** Compilation mode
1927
1928 *** Compilation mode can be used without Font Lock mode.
1929 `compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
1930
1931 *** New variable `compilation-filter-start', which is bound while
1932 `compilation-filter-hook' runs. It records the start position of the
1933 text inserted by `compilation-filter'.
1934
1935 *** `compilation-error-screen-columns' and `compilation-first-column'
1936 are obeyed in the editing buffer. So programming language modes can
1937 set them, whereas previously only the value in the *Compilation*
1938 buffer was used.
1939
1940 ** Customize
1941
1942 *** Customize buffers now contain a search field.
1943 The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
1944 To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
1945
1946 *** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
1947 Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
1948
1949 *** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.
1950
1951 *** The color widget now has a "Choose" button, which allows you to
1952 choose a color via `list-colors-display'.
1953
1954 ** D-Bus
1955
1956 *** It is now possible to access buses other than the default system
1957 or session bus.
1958
1959 *** The `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' functions
1960 optionally do not register names.
1961
1962 *** The new function `dbus-register-service' registers a known service
1963 name on a D-Bus without also registering a property or a method.
1964
1965 ** Dired-x
1966
1967 *** C-x C-j (`dired-jump') and C-x 4 C-j (`dired-jump-other-window'),
1968 if called with a prefix argument, read a file name from the minibuffer
1969 instead of using the current buffer.
1970
1971 *** The "dired local variables" feature of Dired-x is obsolete.
1972 The standard directory local variables feature replaces it.
1973
1974 ** ERC changes
1975
1976 *** New options `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay',
1977 controlling attempts to autojoin a channel.
1978
1979 *** New variable `erc-coding-system-precedence': If we use `undecided'
1980 as the server coding system, this variable will then be consulted.
1981 The default is to decode strings that can be decoded as utf-8 as
1982 utf-8, and do the normal `undecided' decoding for the rest.
1983
1984 ** Eshell changes
1985
1986 *** The default value of `eshell-directory-name' has changed
1987 to be an "eshell" directory in `user-emacs-directory'.
1988 The old "~/.eshell/" directory is still used if it exists, though.
1989
1990 ** gdb-mi
1991
1992 *** The M-x gdb command now uses the GDB Machine Interface protocol.
1993 It now supports multithread non-stop debugging and simultaneous
1994 debugging of several threads.
1995
1996 ** Image mode
1997
1998 *** RET (`image-toggle-animation') toggles animation, if applicable.
1999 Animation plays once, unless the option `image-animate-loop' is non-nil.
2000
2001 ** Info
2002
2003 *** New command M-x info-display-manual displays a named Info manual.
2004 If that manual is already visited in some Info buffer, it displays
2005 that buffer. (This is handy if you have many manuals in many *info*
2006 buffers, and don't remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual
2007 you want to consult.) Otherwise, it loads and displays the manual.
2008
2009 *** `e' is now bound to `end-of-buffer' rather than to `Info-edit'.
2010 This is for compatibility with the stand-alone Info reader program,
2011 and also because `Info-edit' is a rarely used command that is disabled
2012 by default.
2013
2014 ** Mail mode changes (not Message mode)
2015
2016 *** New command M-x mail-add-attachment for adding MIME attachments
2017
2018 *** The command M-x mail-attach-file was renamed to M-x mail-insert-file.
2019 (Its name is misleading, since it has nothing to do with MIME
2020 attachments.) The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
2021
2022 ** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.3.1.
2023 See MH-E-NEWS for details.
2024
2025 ** Modula-2 mode provides auto-indentation.
2026
2027 ** mpc.el: Can use pseudo tags of the form tag1|tag2 as a union of two tags.
2028
2029 ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
2030 Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
2031 or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
2032 default), this performs tag completion.
2033
2034 ** Org mode has been updated to version 7.8.09.
2035 See ORG-NEWS for details.
2036
2037 ** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
2038 functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity,
2039 support for more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
2040
2041 ** Rmail
2042
2043 *** The command `rmail-epa-decrypt' decrypts OpenPGP data
2044 in the Rmail incoming message.
2045
2046 *** The variable `rmail-message-filter' no longer has any effect.
2047 This change was made in Emacs 23.1 but was not advertised at the time.
2048 Try using `rmail-show-message-hook' instead.
2049
2050 ** Shell mode
2051
2052 *** M-x shell prompts for the shell path name if the default directory
2053 is a remote file name and neither the environment variable $ESHELL nor
2054 the variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
2055
2056 *** TAB is now bound to the standard `completion-at-point' command,
2057 which now implements the pcomplete rules for shell command completion.
2058
2059 ** SMTPmail
2060
2061 *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
2062 if the mail server supports them. This uses either built-in GnuTLS
2063 support, or the starttls.el library. Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
2064 to change this.
2065
2066 *** The variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' has been removed.
2067 By default, the information is now stored in the file ~/.authinfo.
2068 This was the default value of smtpmail-auth-credentials. If you had
2069 customized smtpmail-auth-credentials to a list of user names and
2070 passwords, those settings are not used. During your first connection
2071 to the smtp server, Emacs will prompt for the user name and password,
2072 and offer to save them to ~/.authinfo. Or you can manually copy the
2073 credentials to ~/.authinfo. For example, if you had
2074
2075 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
2076 '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret")))
2077
2078 then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be
2079
2080 machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret
2081
2082 See the auth-source manual for more information, e.g. on encrypting
2083 the credentials file.
2084
2085 *** The variable `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' has been removed.
2086 If you had that set, you need to put
2087
2088 machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
2089
2090 in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
2091
2092 *** SMTPmail defaults to using the address in the From: header as the
2093 SMTP MAIL FROM envelope. To override this, set `mail-envelope-from'
2094 to the address you wish to use instead.
2095
2096 ** SQL mode
2097
2098 *** New options `sql-port', `sql-connection-alist', `sql-send-terminator',
2099 and `sql-oracle-scan-on'.
2100
2101 *** New options controlling prompting for login parameters.
2102 Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params',
2103 which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
2104 connection is established.
2105
2106 *** The command `sql-product-interactive' now takes a prefix argument,
2107 which causes it to prompt for an SQL product.
2108
2109 *** Product-specific SQL interactive commands now take prefix arguments.
2110 These commands (`sql-sqlite', `sql-postgres', `sql-mysql', etc.),
2111 given a prefix argument, prompt for a name for the SQL interactive
2112 buffer. This reduces the need for calling `sql-rename-buffer'.
2113
2114 *** SQL interactive modes suppress command continuation prompts, and
2115 replace tabs with spaces. The first change impacts multiple line SQL
2116 statements entered with C-j between each line, statements yanked into
2117 the buffer and statements sent with `sql-send-*' functions. The
2118 second prevents the MySQL and Postgres interpreters from listing
2119 object name completions when sent text via `sql-send-*' functions.
2120
2121 *** New command `sql-connect' starts a predefined SQLi session,
2122 using the login parameters from `sql-connection-alist'.
2123
2124 *** New "Save Connection" menu item in SQLi buffers.
2125 This gathers the login params specified for the SQLi session, if it
2126 was not started by a connection, and saves them as a new connection.
2127
2128 *** New commands for listing database objects and details:
2129 sql-list-all and sql-list-table.
2130
2131 *** An API for manipulating SQL product definitions has been added.
2132
2133 ** TeX modes
2134
2135 *** latex-electric-env-pair-mode keeps \begin..\end matched on the fly.
2136
2137 ** Tramp
2138
2139 *** New inline access method "ksu" (kerberized su).
2140
2141 *** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
2142 "ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
2143
2144 *** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
2145 remote file attributes are cached for better performance.
2146
2147 *** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
2148 default value to "".
2149
2150 *** Handlers for `file-selinux-context' and `set-file-selinux-context'
2151 for remote machines which support SELinux.
2152
2153 ** New function `url-queue-retrieve', which behaves like url-retrieve,
2154 but with limits (`url-queue-parallel-processes', `url-queue-timeout') on
2155 the degree of parallelism.
2156
2157 ** VC and related modes
2158
2159 *** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
2160 The command C-x v + (`vc-pull') runs a "pull" operation, if it is
2161 supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to update the
2162 current branch and working tree. A prefix argument means to prompt
2163 the user for specifics, e.g. a pull location.
2164
2165 *** `vc-update' is now an alias for `vc-pull'.
2166
2167 *** Support for merging on distributed version control systems.
2168 The command C-x v m (`vc-merge') now runs a "merge" operation, if it
2169 is supported (currently with Bzr, Git, and Mercurial), to merge
2170 changes from another branch into the current one. It prompts for
2171 specifics, e.g. a merge source.
2172
2173 *** New option `vc-revert-show-diff' controls whether `vc-revert'
2174 shows a diff while querying the user. It defaults to t.
2175
2176 *** Log entries in some Log View buffers can be toggled to display a
2177 longer description by typing RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display).
2178 This is currently supported for Bzr, Git, and Mercurial (to support
2179 another backend, define a `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function').
2180 In the Log View buffers made by C-x v L (`vc-print-root-log'), you can
2181 use this to display the full log entry for the revision at point.
2182
2183 *** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
2184 of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
2185
2186 *** The option `vc-initial-comment' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but
2187 this was not advertised at the time.
2188
2189 *** `vc-toggle-read-only' is an obsolete alias for `toggle-read-only'.
2190 Since Emacs 23, it has done the same thing as `toggle-read-only', but
2191 this was not advertised at the time.
2192
2193 ** Obsolete modes
2194
2195 *** abbrevlist.el
2196
2197 *** erc-hecomplete.el (use erc-pcomplete.el instead)
2198
2199 *** partial-completion-mode (complete.el) is obsolete.
2200 You can get a comparable behavior with:
2201 (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion initials))
2202 (setq completion-pcm-complete-word-inserts-delimiters t)
2203
2204 *** pc-mode.el is obsolete (CUA mode is much more comprehensive).
2205
2206 *** pgg is obsolete (use EasyPG instead).
2207
2208 *** sregex.el is obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
2209
2210 *** s-region.el and pc-select.el are obsolete.
2211 They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
2212
2213 *** vc-mcvs.el is obsolete (for lack of a maintainer).
2214
2215 ** Miscellaneous
2216
2217 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
2218 Its functions and variables have been similarly renamed.
2219
2220 *** In `ido-file-completion-map', C-v is no longer bound to `ido-toggle-vc'.
2221 (This interfered with cua-mode.)
2222
2223 *** f90.el has some support for Fortran 2008 syntax.
2224
2225 *** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
2226
2227 *** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
2228
2229 \f
2230 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
2231
2232 ** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
2233 original buffers. It is bound to "e" in Occur mode.
2234
2235 ** New global minor mode electric-pair-mode.
2236 When enabled, typing an open parenthesis automatically inserts the
2237 matching closing one.
2238
2239 ** New global minor mode electric-indent-mode.
2240 When enabled, typing certain characters triggers reindentation.
2241 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-indent-chars or
2242 electric-indent-functions.
2243
2244 ** New global minor mode electric-layout-mode.
2245 When enabled, typing certain characters automatically inserts newlines.
2246 Major modes wishing to use this can set electric-layout-rules.
2247
2248 ** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
2249 from which other modes can be derived.
2250
2251 ** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
2252
2253 ** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
2254 interface to password managers like GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet. The
2255 Secret Service API requires D-Bus for communication. The command
2256 `secrets-show-secrets' offers a buffer with a visualization of the
2257 secrets.
2258
2259 ** notifications.el provides an implementation of the Desktop
2260 Notifications API. It requires D-Bus for communication.
2261
2262 ** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
2263 soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
2264
2265 ** New generic mode, xmodmap-generic-mode, for xmodmap files.
2266
2267 ** New emacs-lock.el package.
2268 The previous version has been moved to obsolete/old-emacs-lock.el.
2269 Now, there is a proper minor mode `emacs-lock-mode'. Protection
2270 against exiting Emacs and killing the buffer can be set separately.
2271 The mechanism for automatically turning off protection for buffers
2272 with dead inferior processes has been generalized.
2273
2274 \f
2275 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
2276
2277 ** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
2278 the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.
2279
2280 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'foo-mode)
2281
2282 to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
2283 `turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
2284 defined by `define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
2285 command still toggles the minor mode.
2286
2287 ** The return value of `backup-buffer' has changed.
2288 It is now a list of three elements, where the second element is a list
2289 describing the original file's SELinux context. If Emacs or the
2290 system lacks SELinux support, the context list is (nil nil nil nil).
2291 See "Basic SELinux support" above, under "Changes in Emacs 24.1".
2292
2293 ** `char-direction-table' and the `char-direction' function were deleted.
2294 They were buggy and inferior to the new support of bidirectional
2295 editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the bidirectional
2296 properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property' with the last
2297 argument `bidi-class'.
2298
2299 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
2300 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
2301 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
2302 the contents directly into a pre-existing target directory.
2303
2304 ** For mouse click input events in the text area, the Y pixel
2305 coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text
2306 area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top
2307 of the header line.
2308
2309 ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, obsolete for 10+ years, has
2310 been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is
2311 always treated as a "new-style" backquote. Please remove all
2312 "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code uses backquotes
2313 as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then
2314 you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the
2315 appropriate conventions may fail to compile.
2316
2317 The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote
2318 followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation
2319 for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')],
2320 you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in
2321 older Emacsen too.
2322
2323 ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this
2324 was not advertised at the time. The function `custom-initialize-delay'
2325 replaced all known uses.
2326
2327 ** `view-buffer' now treats special mode-class in the same way that
2328 `view-file' has since Emacs 22 (i.e. it won't enable View mode if the
2329 major mode is special).
2330
2331 ** Menu and tool bar changes
2332
2333 *** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
2334 and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
2335 With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
2336 variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
2337 a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
2338 they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
2339
2340 *** The menu bar bindings's caches are not used any more.
2341 Use (where-is-internal <def> nil t) instead.
2342
2343 ** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
2344 similar to those created by shift-selection (see Selection changes
2345 above). In previous Emacs versions, these regions were delineated by
2346 `mouse-drag-overlay'; that variable has been removed.
2347
2348 ** The fourth argument of `filter-buffer-substring' has been removed.
2349 If you want to remove text properties from the final result, simply
2350 pass the result through substring-no-properties.
2351
2352 ** cl.el no longer provides `cl-19'.
2353
2354 ** The following obsolete functions and aliases have been removed
2355 (the appropriate new function is given in parentheses; "not needed"
2356 means you can just remove all calls to the function in question):
2357
2358 *** `comint-kill-output' (`comint-delete-output')
2359 *** `decompose-composite-char' (`char-to-string')
2360 *** `outline-visible' (`outline-invisible-p')
2361 *** `internal-find-face' (`facep')
2362 *** `internal-get-face' (`facep and check-face')
2363 *** `frame-update-faces' (not needed)
2364 *** `frame-update-face-colors' (`frame-set-background-mode')
2365 *** `x-frob-font-weight' and `x-frob-font-slant' (`make-face-*' functions)
2366 *** `x-make-font-bold and x-make-font-demibold (`make-face-bold')
2367 *** `x-make-font-italic' and `x-make-font-oblique' (`make-face-italic')
2368 *** `x-make-font-bold-italic' (`make-face-bold-italic')
2369 *** `x-make-font-unbold' (`make-face-unbold')
2370 *** `x-make-font-unitalic' (`make-face-unitalic')
2371 *** `mldrag-drag-mode-line' (`mouse-drag-mode-line')
2372 *** `mldrag-drag-vertical-line' (`mouse-drag-vertical-line')
2373 *** `iswitchb-default-keybindings' (`iswitchb-mode')
2374 *** `char-bytes' (== 1)
2375 *** `isearch-return-char' (`isearch-printing-char')
2376 *** `make-local-hook' (not needed)
2377 *** `set-screen-height' (`set-frame-height')
2378 *** `set-screen-width' (`set-frame-width')
2379
2380 ** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed
2381 (the appropriate new variable is given in parentheses):
2382
2383 *** `checkdoc-minor-keymap' (`checkdoc-minor-mode-map')
2384 *** `vc-header-alist' (`vc-BACKEND-header')
2385 *** `directory-sep-char' (== ?/)
2386 *** `font-lock-defaults-alist' (`font-lock-defaults')
2387 *** `e' (`float-e').
2388
2389 ** The following obsolete files were removed:
2390 sc.el, x-menu.el, rnews.el, rnewspost.el
2391
2392 ** The format of the finder-inf.el file has changed, since the Finder
2393 mechanism is now based on the package system. The variable
2394 `finder-package-info' is replaced by `package--builtins' and
2395 `finder-keywords-hash'.
2396
2397 ** When generating autoloads, `update-directory-autoloads' no longer
2398 assumes every inspected file is in your `load-path'. It instead
2399 generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
2400
2401 \f
2402 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
2403
2404 ** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
2405 The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
2406 variables. It is typically set via a file-local variable in the first
2407 line of the file, in which case it applies to all the code in that
2408 file.
2409
2410 *** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
2411 binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
2412
2413 *** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
2414 of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
2415
2416 *** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
2417
2418 *** `defvar' and `defconst' now mark the variable as special (dynamic).
2419 So do `defcustom' and other forms that call `defvar' as a subroutine.
2420
2421 *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
2422 declared as dynamically bound.
2423
2424 *** The form ((lambda ...) ...) is deprecated.
2425
2426 ** An Emacs Lisp testing tool is now included.
2427 Emacs Lisp developers can use this tool to write automated tests for
2428 their code. See the ERT info manual for details.
2429
2430 ** Changes for bidirectional display and editing
2431
2432 *** New function `current-bidi-paragraph-direction'.
2433 This returns the base direction of the paragraph at point.
2434
2435 *** New function `bidi-string-mark-left-to-right'.
2436 Given a string containing characters from right-to-left scripts, this
2437 function returns another string which can be safely inserted into a
2438 buffer, such that any following text will be always displayed to the
2439 right of that string. (This works by appending an invisible Unicode
2440 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character if the argument string might need it.)
2441
2442 This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right paragraph
2443 direction and you need to insert a string whose contents are not known
2444 in advance, without disrupting the layout of the line.
2445
2446 ** Window changes
2447
2448 *** Window tree functions are accessible in Elisp.
2449 Functions are provided to return the parent, siblings or child windows
2450 of any window including internal windows (windows not associated with a
2451 buffer) in the window tree.
2452
2453 **** New function `window-valid-p' gives non-nil for live and internal
2454 windows.
2455
2456 **** Window manipulation can deal with internal windows.
2457 Many window handling functions like `split-window', `delete-window', or
2458 `delete-other-windows' as well as the window resizing functions can now
2459 act on any window including internal ones.
2460
2461 *** window-total-height/-width vs window-body-height/-width.
2462 The function `window-height' has been renamed to `window-total-height'
2463 and `window-width' has been renamed to `window-body-width'. The old
2464 names are provided as aliases. Two new functions `window-total-width'
2465 and `window-body-height' are provided.
2466
2467 *** Window parameters specific to window handling functions.
2468 For each window you can specify a parameter to override the default
2469 behavior of a number of functions like `split-window', `delete-window'
2470 and `delete-other-windows'. The variable `ignore-window-parameters'
2471 allows to ignore processing such parameters.
2472
2473 *** New semantics of third argument of `split-window'.
2474 The third argument of `split-window' has been renamed to SIDE and can be
2475 set to any of the values 'below, 'right, 'above, or 'left to make the
2476 new window appear on the corresponding side of the window that shall be
2477 split. Any other value of SIDE will cause `split-window' to split the
2478 window into two side-by-side windows as before.
2479
2480 *** Window resizing functions.
2481 A new standard function for resizing windows called `window-resize' has
2482 been introduced. This and all other functions for resizing windows no
2483 longer delete any windows when they become too small.
2484
2485 *** Deleting the selected window now selects the most recently selected
2486 live window on that frame instead.
2487
2488 *** `adjust-window-trailing-edge' adjustments.
2489 `adjust-window-trailing-edge' can now deal with fixed-size windows and
2490 is able to resize other windows if a window adjacent to the trailing
2491 edge cannot be shrunk any more. This makes its behavior more similar to
2492 that of Emacs 21 without compromising, however, its inability to delete
2493 windows which was introduced in Emacs 22.
2494
2495 *** Window-local buffer lists.
2496 Windows now have local buffer lists. This means that removing a buffer
2497 from display in a window will preferably show the buffer previously
2498 shown in that window with its previous window-start and window-point
2499 positions. This also means that the same buffer may be automatically
2500 shown twice even if it already appears in another window.
2501
2502 *** `switch-to-buffer' has a new optional argument FORCE-SAME-WINDOW,
2503 which if non-nil requires the buffer to be displayed in the currently
2504 selected window, signaling an error otherwise. If nil, another window
2505 can be used, e.g. if the selected one is strongly dedicated.
2506
2507 *** `split-window-vertically' and `split-window-horizontally' renamed
2508 to `split-window-below' and `split-window-right' respectively.
2509 The old names are kept as aliases.
2510
2511 *** Display actions
2512
2513 **** The second arg to `display-buffer' and `pop-to-buffer' is now
2514 named ACTION, and takes a display action of the same form as
2515 `display-buffer-base-action' (see Changes, above). A non-nil,
2516 non-list value is treated specially, as the old meaning.
2517
2518 **** New variable `display-buffer-overriding-action'.
2519
2520 **** The procedure of `display-buffer' etc. to choose a window is
2521 determined by combining `display-buffer-overriding-action',
2522 `display-buffer-alist', the ACTION arg, `display-buffer-base-action',
2523 and `display-buffer-fallback-action'. The second and fourth of these
2524 are user-customizable variables.
2525
2526 See the docstring of `display-buffer' for details.
2527
2528 *** New functions `window-state-get' and `window-state-put'.
2529 These functions allow to save and restore the state of an arbitrary
2530 frame or window as an Elisp object.
2531
2532 ** Completion
2533
2534 *** New variable `completion-extra-properties' used to specify extra
2535 properties of the current completion:
2536 - :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
2537 - :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
2538
2539 *** Functions on `completion-at-point-functions' can return any of the
2540 properties valid for `completion-extra-properties'.
2541
2542 *** `completion-annotate-function' is obsolete.
2543
2544 *** New `metadata' method for completion tables. The metadata thus returned
2545 can specify various details of the data returned by `all-completions':
2546 - `category' is the kind of objects returned (e.g., `buffer', `file', ...),
2547 used to select a style in completion-category-overrides.
2548 - `annotation-function' to add annotations in *Completions*.
2549 - `display-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries in *Completions*.
2550 - `cycle-sort-function' to specify how to sort entries when cycling.
2551
2552 *** `minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map' is not used any more.
2553 Instead, the bindings in `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'
2554 are combined with `minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
2555
2556 *** New variable `completing-read-function' allows overriding the
2557 behavior of `completing-read'.
2558
2559 ** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
2560 text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
2561
2562 ** `pre-command-hook'/`post-command-hook' are not reset to nil on error.
2563 Instead, the offending function is removed.
2564
2565 ** New hook types
2566
2567 *** New function `run-hook-wrapped' for running an abnormal hook by
2568 passing the hook functions as arguments to a "wrapping" function.
2569 Like `run-hook-with-args-until-success', it stops at the first
2570 non-nil return value.
2571
2572 *** New macro `with-wrapper-hook' for running an abnormal hook as a
2573 set of "wrapping" filters, similar to around advice.
2574 (A version of this macro was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not
2575 advertised at the time.)
2576
2577 ** Debugger changes
2578
2579 *** New macro `condition-case-unless-debug' (this was actually added in
2580 Emacs 23.1 as condition-case-no-debug, but not advertised)
2581
2582 *** The macro `with-demoted-errors' was added in Emacs 23.1, but not advertised.
2583
2584 *** Variable `stack-trace-on-error' removed.
2585
2586 *** The debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will
2587 jump to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked
2588 instead of jumping all the way to the top-level.
2589
2590 *** Set `debug-on-event' to enter the debugger on events like SIGUSR1.
2591 This can be useful when `inhibit-quit' is set.
2592
2593 ** The new function `server-eval-at' allows evaluation of Lisp forms on
2594 named Emacs server instances.
2595
2596 ** `call-process' and `call-process-region' allow a `(:file "file")' spec
2597 to redirect STDOUT to a file.
2598
2599 ** The function `format-time-string' now supports the %N directive,
2600 for higher-resolution time stamps.
2601
2602 ** New input reading functions
2603
2604 *** New function `read-char-choice' reads a restricted set of
2605 characters, discarding any inputs not inside the set.
2606
2607 *** The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name
2608 or RGB triplet, instead of signaling an error if the user provides
2609 invalid input.
2610
2611 **** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
2612
2613 ** `image-library-alist' is renamed to `dynamic-library-alist'.
2614 The variable is now used to load all kind of supported dynamic libraries,
2615 not just image libraries. The previous name is still available as an
2616 obsolete alias.
2617
2618 ** Syntax parsing changes
2619
2620 *** New variable `syntax-propertize-function'.
2621 This replaces `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' which is now obsolete.
2622 This allows syntax-table properties to be set independently from font-lock:
2623 just call syntax-propertize to make sure the text is propertized.
2624 Together with this new variable come a new hook
2625 syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions, as well as two helper functions:
2626 syntax-propertize-via-font-lock to reuse old font-lock-syntactic-keywords
2627 as-is; and syntax-propertize-rules which provides a new way to specify
2628 syntactic rules.
2629
2630 *** Syntax tables support a new "comment style c" additionally to style b.
2631
2632 ** New hook `post-self-insert-hook', run after `self-insert-command'.
2633
2634 ** frame-local variables cannot be let-bound any more.
2635
2636 ** Major and minor mode changes
2637
2638 *** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
2639 as well as those in the -*- line.
2640
2641 *** `prog-mode' is a new major mode from which programming modes
2642 should be derived.
2643
2644 **** `prog-mode-hook' can be used to enable features for programming
2645 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
2646 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
2647
2648 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
2649 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.
2650
2651 *** Enabled globalized minor modes can be disabled in specific major modes.
2652 If the global mode is global-FOO-mode, then run (FOO-mode -1) in the
2653 major mode's hook, where FOO-mode toggles the mode on a per-buffer basis.
2654
2655 *** `define-minor-mode' accepts new keywords :variable, :after-hook.
2656
2657 ** File-handling changes
2658
2659 *** `delete-file' and `delete-directory' now accept optional arg TRASH.
2660 Trashing is performed if TRASH and `delete-by-moving-to-trash' are
2661 both non-nil. Interactively, TRASH defaults to t, unless a prefix
2662 argument is supplied (see Trash changes, above).
2663
2664 *** New file predicates: `file-equal-p', `file-in-directory-p'.
2665
2666 ** Tool-bars can display separators.
2667 Tool-bar separators are handled like menu separators in menu-bar maps,
2668 i.e. via menu entries of the form `(menu-item "--")'.
2669
2670 ** Image API
2671
2672 *** Animated images support (currently animated gifs only).
2673
2674 **** `image-animated-p' returns non-nil if an image can be animated.
2675
2676 **** `image-animate' animates a supplied image spec.
2677
2678 **** `image-animate-timer' returns the timer object for an image that
2679 is being animated.
2680
2681 *** `image-extension-data' has been renamed to `image-metadata'.
2682 The old name is an obsolete alias to the new one.
2683
2684 *** Image mode can view any image type that ImageMagick supports.
2685 This requires Emacs to be built with ImageMagick support.
2686
2687 **** New function `imagemagick-types', defined if ImageMagick support
2688 is enabled, returns a list of image file extensions that your
2689 ImageMagick installation supports.
2690
2691 **** New function `imagemagick-register-types' enables ImageMagick
2692 image types in Image mode and in `create-image' and other helper
2693 functions.
2694
2695 **** New option `imagemagick-types-inhibit' excludes certain
2696 ImageMagick image types from `imagemagick-register-types'.
2697
2698 **** With ImageMagick support, there are extra Image mode commands to
2699 resize and rotate images: `image-transform-fit-to-height',
2700 `image-transform-fit-to-width', `image-transform-set-rotation', and
2701 `image-transform-set-scale'.
2702
2703 ** `compose-mail' now accepts an optional 8th arg, RETURN-ACTION, and
2704 passes it to the mail user agent function. This argument specifies an
2705 action for returning to the caller after finishing with the mail. For
2706 example, this is used by Rmail to optionally delete a mail window.
2707
2708 ** XML and HTML parsing
2709 If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new
2710 functions: `libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML)
2711 and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
2712 Emacs Lisp parse tree.
2713
2714 ** Networking and encryption changes
2715
2716 *** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
2717 It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
2718 connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
2719 parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
2720 must also be supplied.
2721
2722 *** New library gnutls.el.
2723 The new function `gnutls-available-p' returns non-nil if Emacs is
2724 built with GnuTLS support. The main entry points are
2725 `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'. It's easiest to use
2726 these functions through `open-network-stream', because that can
2727 upgrade connections through STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain
2728 SSL, depending on your needs. For debugging, set `gnutls-log-level'
2729 greater than 0.
2730
2731 *** New primitive `secure-hash' that supports many secure hash algorithms:
2732 md5, sha1, sha2, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The lisp library
2733 sha1.el has been removed. The `sha1' feature is provided by default.
2734
2735 ** Isearch
2736
2737 *** New hook `isearch-update-post-hook' that runs in `isearch-update'.
2738
2739 ** Progress reporters can now "spin".
2740 The MIN-VALUE and MAX-VALUE arguments of `make-progress-reporter' can
2741 now be nil, or omitted. This makes a "non-numeric" reporter. Each
2742 time you call `progress-reporter-update' on that progress reporter,
2743 with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
2744 displayed with a "spinning bar".
2745
2746 ** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
2747 being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
2748
2749 ** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook'.
2750 If delayed-warnings-list is non-nil, the command loop calls
2751 `delayed-warnings-hook' after `post-command-hook'. At present, this
2752 is only used by Emacs on some platforms to display warnings during
2753 startup, which might otherwise not be noticed. This uses the
2754 functions `display-delayed-warnings' and `collapse-delayed-warnings'.
2755
2756 ** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
2757
2758 ** New function `make-composed-keymap' that constructs a new keymap
2759 from multiple input maps. You can use this to make a keymap that
2760 inherits from multiple maps, eg:
2761 (set-keymap-parent newmap (make-composed-keymap othermap parent))
2762
2763 ** New function `string-prefix-p'.
2764 (This was actually added in Emacs 23.2 but was not advertised at the time.)
2765
2766 ** New reader macro ## that stands for the empty symbol.
2767 This means that the empty symbol can now be read back. Also, #: by itself
2768 (when not immediately followed by a possible symbol character) stands for
2769 an empty uninterned symbol.
2770
2771 ** New math functions `isnan', `copysign', `frexp', `ldexp'.
2772
2773 ** The following functions and variables are obsolete:
2774
2775 *** `tooltip-use-echo-area' is obsolete.
2776 Rather than setting this to t, disable Tooltip mode instead.
2777
2778 *** buffer-substring-filters is obsolete.
2779 Use `filter-buffer-substring-functions' instead.
2780
2781 *** `byte-compile-disable-print-circle' is obsolete.
2782
2783 *** `deferred-action-list' and `deferred-action-function' are obsolete.
2784 Use `post-command-hook' instead.
2785
2786 *** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
2787
2788 \f
2789 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
2790
2791 ** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
2792 and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
2793
2794 ** New configure.bat options
2795
2796 *** --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra runtime checks.
2797
2798 *** --distfiles specifies files to be included in binary distribution.
2799
2800 *** --without-gnutls disables automatic GnuTLS detection.
2801
2802 *** --lib for general library linkage, works with the USER_LIBS build variable.
2803
2804 ** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
2805
2806 ** The Lisp function `w32-default-color-map' is now obsolete.
2807 (It is only used internally in the Emacs C code.)
2808
2809 ** Customize ns-auto-hide-menu-bar to have the menu-bar hidden, but
2810 reappear on mouse-over. (Requires OS X 10.6 or later.)
2811
2812 ** On Mac OS X, dragging a file into Emacs visits the file, like on
2813 other platforms, rather than inserting its contents into the buffer.
2814
2815 \f
2816 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2817 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
2818
2819 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2820 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
2821 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2822 (at your option) any later version.
2823
2824 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2825 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2826 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2827 GNU General Public License for more details.
2828
2829 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
2830 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
2831
2832 \f
2833 Local variables:
2834 mode: outline
2835 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
2836 end: