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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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7 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
8 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
9
10 This file is about changes in Emacs version 22.
11
12 See files NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes
13 in older Emacs versions.
14
15 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
16 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
17 \f
18 * About external Lisp packages
19
20 When you upgrade to Emacs 22 from a previous version, some older
21 versions of external Lisp packages are known to behave badly.
22 So in general, it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest
23 versions of any external Lisp packages that you are using.
24
25 You should also be aware that many Lisp packages have been included
26 with Emacs 22 (see the extensive list below), and you should remove
27 any older versions of these packages to ensure that the Emacs 22
28 version is used. You can use M-x list-load-path-shadows to find such
29 older packages.
30
31 Some specific packages that are known to cause problems are:
32
33 ** Semantic (used by CEDET, ECB, JDEE): upgrade to latest version.
34 ** cua.el, cua-mode.el: remove old versions.
35
36 \f
37 * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1
38
39 ** Emacs comes with a new set of icons.
40 These icons are displayed on the taskbar and/or titlebar when Emacs
41 runs in a graphical environment. Source files for these icons can be
42 found in etc/images/icons. (You can't change the icons displayed by
43 Emacs by changing these files directly. On X, the icon is compiled
44 into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS
45 Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.)
46
47 ** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix',
48 `--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of
49 installed programs.
50
51 ** Emacs can now be built without sound support.
52
53 ** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
54 when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.4 or newer. This port
55 provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).
56
57 ** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code.
58
59 ** The `yow' program has been removed.
60 Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead.
61
62 ** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game
63 scores. The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal
64 place for game scores to be stored. You can control this with the
65 configure option `--with-game-dir'. The specific user that Emacs uses
66 to own the game scores is controlled by `--with-game-user'. If access
67 to a game user is not available, then scores will be stored separately
68 in each user's home directory.
69
70 ** Leim is now part of the Emacs distribution.
71 You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build
72 Emacs with Leim.
73
74 ** The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is now part of the distribution.
75
76 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in Info format is built as part of the
77 Emacs build procedure and installed together with the Emacs User
78 Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar to make it easily
79 accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference).
80
81 ** The Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp manual is now part of
82 the distribution.
83
84 This manual is now part of the standard distribution and is installed,
85 together with the Emacs User Manual, into the Info directory. A menu
86 item was added to the menu bar to make it easily accessible
87 (Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp).
88
89 ** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the
90 following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
91 with simplified and traditional characters), French, Russian, and
92 Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language
93 setup doesn't automatically select the right one.
94
95 ** New translations of the Emacs reference card are available in the
96 Brasilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files
97 are also included.
98
99 ** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
100
101 ** Emacs now includes support for loading image libraries on demand.
102 (Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure
103 the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
104 setting the variable `image-library-alist'.
105
106 ** Support for a Cygwin build of Emacs was added.
107
108 ** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added.
109
110 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added.
111
112 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on Tensilica Xtensa machines was added.
113
114 ** Support for MacOS X was added.
115 See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
116
117 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.
118
119 ** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also
120 create a non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See
121 the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
122
123 ** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union
124 types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.
125
126 ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
127 much pure storage it will approximately need.
128
129 ** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
130 contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
131 Emacs crash.
132
133 ** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
134 The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
135 terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.
136
137 ** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available.
138
139 ** All images used in Emacs have been consolidated in etc/images and subdirs.
140 See also the changes to `find-image', documented below.
141
142 \f
143 * Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1
144
145 ** New command line option -Q or --quick.
146 This is like using -q --no-site-file, but in addition it also disables
147 the fancy startup screen.
148
149 ** New command line option -D or --basic-display.
150 Disables the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, and
151 the blinking cursor.
152
153 ** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables
154 the blinking cursor on graphical terminals.
155
156 ** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE.
157 It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they
158 can start with this line:
159
160 #!/usr/bin/emacs --script
161
162 ** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately.
163 Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they
164 appear on the command line. For example, with this command line:
165
166 emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)"
167
168 Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then
169 in the other directories in `load-path'. (-L is short for --directory.)
170
171 ** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
172 --no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated.
173
174 ** If the environment variable DISPLAY specifies an unreachable X display,
175 Emacs will now startup as if invoked with the --no-window-system option.
176
177 ** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function,
178 now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
179 an interactively callable function.
180
181 ** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to
182 all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only
183 affects the initial frame.
184
185 ** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does,
186 with respect to its frame position: if you don't specify a position
187 (in your .emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry
188 command-line option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows'
189 window manager.
190
191 ** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display.
192 When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options
193 `--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame
194 whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire
195 screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.)
196
197 ** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
198 arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash
199 disables the splash screen; see also the variable
200 `inhibit-splash-screen' (which is also aliased as
201 `inhibit-startup-message').
202
203 ** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon, so the command-line options
204 --icon-type, -i have been replaced with options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn
205 the bitmap icon off.
206
207 ** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
208 When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
209 displays a buffer menu. This option turns the buffer menu off.
210
211 ** Init file changes
212 If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
213 ~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. Likewise, if the shell init file
214 ~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh.
215
216 ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
217 automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save
218 modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It
219 can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,
220 according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
221
222 ** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value
223 to compute the default value of `user-mail-address', in preference to
224 concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine.
225
226 \f
227 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
228
229 ** M-g is now a prefix key.
230 M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line.
231 M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `).
232 M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error.
233
234 ** C-u M-g M-g switches to the most recent previous buffer,
235 and goes to the specified line in that buffer.
236
237 When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at
238 point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer.
239
240 ** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
241 since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
242 the operating system or your X server.
243
244 ** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
245
246 ** When the undo information of the current command gets really large
247 (beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns
248 you about it.
249
250 ** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
251 in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.
252
253 ** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
254 previous mark if you set `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' to t. I.e. C-u
255 C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC
256 to set the mark immediately after a jump.
257
258 ** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
259 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
260
261 ** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special.
262
263 See below under "incremental search changes".
264
265 ** C-x C-f RET (find-file), typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer
266 a special case.
267
268 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
269 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
270 directory with Dired.
271
272 You can get the old behavior by typing C-x C-f M-n RET, which fetches
273 the actual file name into the minibuffer.
274
275 ** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
276 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
277 it remains unchanged.
278
279 ** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name.
280 This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the
281 need to quote the space with a C-q. The underlying changes in the
282 keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under
283 "New keymaps for typing file names".
284
285 ** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
286 M-o M-o requests refontification.
287
288 ** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
289
290 See below for more details.
291
292 ** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
293 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
294 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
295 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
296 doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
297 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
298
299 ** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
300 It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.
301
302 ** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19)
303 have been removed:
304 C-x / point-to-register (Use: C-x r SPC)
305 C-x j jump-to-register (Use: C-x r j)
306 C-x x copy-to-register (Use: C-x r s)
307 C-x g insert-register (Use: C-x r i)
308
309 \f
310 * Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
311
312 ** !MEM FULL! at the start of the mode line indicates that Emacs
313 cannot get any more memory for Lisp data. This often means it could
314 crash soon if you do things that use more memory. On most systems,
315 killing buffers will get out of this state. If killing buffers does
316 not make !MEM FULL! disappear, you should save your work and start
317 a new Emacs.
318
319 ** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled.
320 On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455).
321
322 ** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left
323 (previous-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and
324 C-x right can be used as well. The functions keep a different buffer
325 cycle for each frame, using the frame-local buffer list.
326
327 ** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.
328
329 ** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N
330 converts whitespace around point to N spaces.
331
332 ** C-x 5 C-o displays a specified buffer in another frame
333 but does not switch to that frame. It's the multi-frame
334 analogue of C-x 4 C-o.
335
336 ** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
337 `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
338
339 ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
340 By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
341
342 ** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can
343 be inconvenient when you did not expect them. The variable
344 `yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion
345 of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.
346
347 ** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
348 been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
349 in Indented-Text mode.
350
351 ** M-x setenv now expands environment variable references.
352
353 Substrings of the form `$foo' and `${foo}' in the specified new value
354 now refer to the value of environment variable foo. To include a `$'
355 in the value, use `$$'.
356
357 ** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now
358 understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and
359 `same-window'.
360
361 ** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken
362 from the locale.
363
364 ** Mark command changes:
365
366 *** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
367 previous mark, i.e. C-u C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the
368 mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC to set the mark immediately after a jump.
369
370 *** Marking commands extend the region when invoked multiple times.
371
372 If you type C-M-SPC (mark-sexp), M-@ (mark-word), M-h
373 (mark-paragraph), or C-M-h (mark-defun) repeatedly, the marked region
374 extends each time, so you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC
375 M-C-SPC, for example. This feature also works for
376 mark-end-of-sentence, if you bind that to a key. It also extends the
377 region when the mark is active in Transient Mark mode, regardless of
378 the last command. To start a new region with one of marking commands
379 in Transient Mark mode, you can deactivate the active region with C-g,
380 or set the new mark with C-SPC.
381
382 *** M-h (mark-paragraph) now accepts a prefix arg.
383
384 With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following paragraphs;
385 if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding
386 paragraphs.
387
388 *** Some commands do something special in Transient Mark mode when the
389 mark is active--for instance, they limit their operation to the
390 region. Even if you don't normally use Transient Mark mode, you might
391 want to get this behavior from a particular command. There are two
392 ways you can enable Transient Mark mode and activate the mark, for one
393 command only.
394
395 One method is to type C-SPC C-SPC; this enables Transient Mark mode
396 and sets the mark at point. The other method is to type C-u C-x C-x.
397 This enables Transient Mark mode temporarily but does not alter the
398 mark or the region.
399
400 After these commands, Transient Mark mode remains enabled until you
401 deactivate the mark. That typically happens when you type a command
402 that alters the buffer, but you can also deactivate the mark by typing
403 C-g.
404
405 *** Movement commands `beginning-of-buffer', `end-of-buffer',
406 `beginning-of-defun', `end-of-defun' do not set the mark if the mark
407 is already active in Transient Mark mode.
408
409 ** Help command changes:
410
411 *** Changes in C-h bindings:
412
413 C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer.
414
415 C-h d runs apropos-documentation.
416
417 C-h r visits the Emacs Manual in Info.
418
419 C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files
420 that do not change:
421
422 C-h C-f displays the FAQ.
423 C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file.
424
425 The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
426 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
427
428 C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands.
429 - C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping)
430 run by the key sequence.
431 - C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the
432 command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run
433 that command.
434
435 For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped
436 to new-kill-line, these commands now report:
437 - C-h c and C-h k C-k reports:
438 C-k runs the command new-kill-line
439 - C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports:
440 kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline>
441 - C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports:
442 new-kill-line is on C-k
443
444 *** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
445 arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the
446 default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
447 `help-default-arg-highlight'.
448
449 *** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for
450 variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available).
451
452 *** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is
453 preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes
454 hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless
455 preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'. It now makes
456 hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is
457 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info
458 anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). In
459 addition, it now makes hyperlinks to URLs as well if the URL is
460 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `URL'.
461
462 *** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
463 description various information about a character, including its
464 encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and
465 widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by
466 clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
467
468 *** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because
469 C-u C-x = gives the same information and more.
470
471 *** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
472 in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the
473 same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
474 `help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
475 keyboard oriented alternative.
476
477 *** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to
478 automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
479 point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is
480 determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
481 to one second. This feature is turned off by default.
482
483 *** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match.
484 When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must
485 be present for an item to match. Regular expression matching is still
486 available.
487
488 *** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
489 to be sorted according to their score. The score for an item is a
490 number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
491 regular expression that you entered to the apropos command. The best
492 match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each
493 matching item.
494
495 ** Incremental Search changes:
496
497 *** Vertical scrolling is now possible within incremental search.
498 To enable this feature, customize the new user option
499 `isearch-allow-scroll'. User written commands which satisfy stringent
500 constraints can be marked as "scrolling commands". See the Emacs manual
501 for details.
502
503 *** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word,
504 making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the
505 command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior,
506 bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'.
507
508 *** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already
509 at the end of a line.
510
511 *** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode.
512 Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e'
513 and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer.
514
515 *** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or
516 `query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current
517 search string used as the string to replace.
518
519 *** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command
520 history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new
521 user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'.
522
523 ** Replace command changes:
524
525 *** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
526 `query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
527 a match if part of it has a read-only property.
528
529 *** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and
530 `replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string,
531 where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement
532 time. `\#' in a replacement string now refers to the count of
533 replacements already made by the replacement command. All regular
534 expression replacement commands now allow `\?' in the replacement
535 string to specify a position where the replacement string can be
536 edited for each replacement. `query-replace-regexp-eval' is now
537 deprecated since it offers no additional functionality.
538
539 *** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option
540 `query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil.
541
542 *** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face
543 `query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face.
544
545 ** Local variables lists:
546
547 *** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and
548 suffix from every line before processing all the lines.
549
550 *** Text properties in local variables.
551
552 A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text
553 properties--any specified text properties are discarded.
554
555 *** If the local variables list contains any variable-value pairs that
556 are not known to be safe, Emacs shows a prompt asking whether to apply
557 the local variables list as a whole. In earlier versions, a prompt
558 was only issued for variables explicitly marked as risky (for the
559 definition of risky variables, see `risky-local-variable-p').
560
561 At the prompt, you can choose to save the contents of this local
562 variables list to `safe-local-variable-values'. This new customizable
563 option is a list of variable-value pairs that are known to be safe.
564 Variables can also be marked as safe with the existing
565 `safe-local-variable' property (see `safe-local-variable-p').
566 However, risky variables will not be added to
567 `safe-local-variable-values' in this way.
568
569 *** The variable `enable-local-variables' controls how local variable
570 lists are handled. t, the default, specifies the standard querying
571 behavior. :safe means use only safe values, and ignore the rest.
572 :all means set all variables, whether or not they are safe.
573 nil means ignore them all. Anything else means always query.
574
575 *** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that
576 are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables
577 specification. Normally Emacs asks for confirmation before evaluating
578 such a form, but if the form appears in this list, no confirmation is
579 needed.
580
581 *** If a function has a non-nil `safe-local-eval-function' property,
582 that means it is ok to evaluate some calls to that function when it
583 appears in an `eval' local variables specification. If the property
584 is t, then any form calling that function with constant arguments is
585 ok. If the property is a function or list of functions, they are called
586 with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.
587
588 If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
589 confirmation as before.
590
591 ** File operation changes:
592
593 *** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
594 the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
595 Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
596 is only rarely needed.
597
598 *** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode,
599 when the file name contains wildcard characters.
600
601 *** find-alternate-file replaces the current file with multiple files,
602 when the file name contains wildcard characters. It now asks if you
603 wish save your changes and not just offer to kill the buffer.
604
605 *** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default.
606
607 *** C-x C-f RET, typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case.
608
609 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
610 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
611 directory with Dired.
612
613 *** When you are root, and you visit a file whose modes specify
614 read-only, the Emacs buffer is now read-only too. Type C-x C-q if you
615 want to make the buffer writable. (As root, you can in fact alter the
616 file.)
617
618 *** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer
619 against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving.
620
621 *** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
622 add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
623 convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of
624 the existing file's name. (This is the same convention that shell
625 commands cp, mv, and ln follow.) Thus, M-x copy-file RET ~/foo RET
626 /tmp RET copies ~/foo to /tmp/foo.
627
628 *** When used interactively, `format-write-file' now asks for confirmation
629 before overwriting an existing file, unless a prefix argument is
630 supplied. This behavior is analogous to `write-file'.
631
632 *** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that
633 controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will
634 attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files).
635
636 *** The new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync
637 in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up
638 the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result
639 in data loss, use with care.
640
641 *** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',
642 Emacs asks for confirmation.
643
644 *** require-final-newline now has two new possible values:
645
646 `visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed
647 when visiting the file.
648
649 `visit-save' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's
650 needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed
651 when saving the file.
652
653 *** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain
654 major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's
655 designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline
656 sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline.
657 So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these
658 modes do.
659
660 ** Minibuffer changes:
661
662 *** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when
663 entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed.
664
665 *** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
666 Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the
667 variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the
668 prompt string.
669
670 *** Enhanced visual feedback in `*Completions*' buffer.
671
672 Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions
673 have in common and where they begin to differ.
674
675 The common prefix shared by all possible completions uses the face
676 `completions-common-part', while the first character that isn't the
677 same uses the face `completions-first-difference'. By default,
678 `completions-common-part' inherits from `default', and
679 `completions-first-difference' inherits from `bold'. The idea of
680 `completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common
681 parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing
682 parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted.
683
684 Above fontification is always done when listing completions is
685 triggered at minibuffer. If you want to fontify completions whose
686 listing is triggered at the other normal buffer, you have to pass
687 the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as
688 its second argument.
689
690 *** File-name completion can now ignore specified directories.
691 If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a
692 slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when
693 completing file names. Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions'
694 which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion
695 candidate is a directory.
696
697 *** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
698 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
699 it remains unchanged.
700
701 *** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'.
702 If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
703 elements are deleted from the history list.
704
705 ** Redisplay changes:
706
707 *** Preemptive redisplay now adapts to current load and bandwidth.
708
709 To avoid preempting redisplay on fast computers, networks, and displays,
710 the arrival of new input is now performed at regular intervals during
711 redisplay. The new variable `redisplay-preemption-period' specifies
712 the period; the default is to check for input every 0.1 seconds.
713
714 *** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
715 When the file is maintained under version control, that information
716 appears between the position information and the major mode.
717
718 *** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs.
719
720 *** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now displayed with a special
721 face, either nobreak-space or escape-glyph. You can turn this off or
722 specify a different mode by setting the variable `nobreak-char-display'.
723
724 *** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized.
725 The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from
726 the window edge point is allowed to get before automatic hscrolling
727 will horizontally scroll the window. The default value is 5.
728
729 The variable `hscroll-step' determines how many columns automatic
730 hscrolling scrolls the window when point gets too close to the
731 window edge. If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the
732 window so as to center point. If its value is an integer, it says how
733 many columns to scroll. If the value is a floating-point number, it
734 gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.
735
736 The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to
737 `auto-hscroll-mode'. The old name is still available as an alias.
738
739 *** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than
740 the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
741 vscroll property.
742
743 *** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
744 overline and text.
745
746 *** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
747 position of the underline. When set, it overrides the
748 `x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.
749
750 *** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line
751 of non-selected windows. The `mode-line' face is now used to display
752 the mode line of the currently selected window.
753
754 The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
755 the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.
756
757 *** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this
758 for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the
759 top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To
760 control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x
761 set-fringe-style.
762
763 *** Angle icons in the fringes can indicate the buffer boundaries. In
764 addition, up and down arrow bitmaps in the fringe indicate which ways
765 the window can be scrolled.
766
767 This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable
768 `indicate-buffer-boundaries' to a non-nil value. The default value of
769 this variable is found in `default-indicate-buffer-boundaries'.
770
771 If value is `left' or `right', both angle and arrow bitmaps are
772 displayed in the left or right fringe, resp.
773
774 The value can also be an alist which specifies the presence and
775 position of each bitmap individually.
776
777 For example, ((top . left) (t . right)) places the top angle bitmap
778 in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both
779 arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the
780 left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).
781
782 *** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window
783 (not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into
784 two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line).
785 Instead, the newline now "overflows" into the right fringe, and the
786 cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline.
787
788 The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' can be set to nil to
789 revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines.
790
791 *** When a window has display margin areas, the fringes are now
792 displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than
793 outside those margins.
794
795 *** A window can now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings,
796 in addition to the individual display margin settings.
797
798 Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
799 horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
800 or when the frame is resized.
801
802 *** The %c and %l constructs are now ignored in frame-title-format.
803 Due to technical limitations in how Emacs interacts with windowing
804 systems, these constructs often failed to render properly, and could
805 even cause Emacs to crash.
806
807 *** If value of `auto-resize-tool-bars' is `grow-only', the tool bar
808 will expand as needed, but not contract automatically. To contract
809 the tool bar, you must type C-l.
810
811 ** Cursor display changes:
812
813 *** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is
814 now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'.
815
816 *** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking.
817
818 *** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor.
819 The underscore cursor is set by putting `(cursor-type . hbar)' in
820 default-frame-alist. It supports variable heights, like the `bar'
821 cursor does.
822
823 *** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any)
824 of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor
825 appears in.
826
827 *** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any
828 of the recognized cursor types.
829
830 *** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs
831 uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor.
832
833 ** New faces:
834
835 *** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive
836 elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
837 areas.
838
839 *** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
840 parts of the mode line.
841
842 *** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.
843 the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text.
844 This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either
845 black or white default foreground color. This generic shadow face
846 allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place,
847 so package-specific faces can inherit from it.
848
849 *** `vertical-border' face is used for the vertical divider between windows.
850
851 ** ebnf2ps changes:
852
853 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-extra-width' which specify extra width for arrow
854 shape drawing.
855 The extra width is used to avoid that the arrowhead and the terminal border
856 overlap. It depends on `ebnf-arrow-shape' and `ebnf-line-width'.
857
858 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-scale' which specify the arrow scale.
859 Values lower than 1.0, shrink the arrow.
860 Values greater than 1.0, expand the arrow.
861
862 ** Font-Lock changes:
863
864 *** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
865 M-o M-o requests refontification.
866
867 *** All modes now support using M-x font-lock-mode to toggle
868 fontification, even those such as Occur, Info, and comint-derived
869 modes that do their own fontification in a special way.
870
871 The variable `Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable
872 fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from
873 `Info-mode-hook'.
874
875 *** Font-Lock mode: in major modes such as Lisp mode, where some Emacs
876 features assume that an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of
877 any string or comment, Font-Lock now highlights any such open-paren in
878 bold-red if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it
879 can cause trouble. You should rewrite the string or comment so that
880 the open-paren is not in column 0.
881
882 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.
883
884 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
885
886 *** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked.
887 You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of
888 the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode,
889 cperl-mode and make-mode support this.
890
891 *** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed.
892 The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now nil
893 instead of 3. This setting of jit-lock-stealth-time disables stealth
894 fontification: on today's machines, it may be a bug in font lock
895 patterns if fontification otherwise noticeably degrades interactivity.
896 If you find movement in infrequently visited buffers sluggish (and the
897 major mode maintainer has no better idea), customizing
898 jit-lock-stealth-time to a non-nil value will let Emacs fontify
899 buffers in the background when it considers the system to be idle.
900 jit-lock-stealth-nice is now 0.5 instead of 0.125 which is supposed to
901 cause less load than the old defaults.
902
903 *** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'.
904
905 If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs
906 idle time in seconds to wait before starting fontification. For
907 example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will
908 only happen after 0.25s of idle time.
909
910 *** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification.
911
912 jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and
913 jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual
914 refontification takes place.
915
916 *** lazy-lock is considered obsolete.
917
918 The `lazy-lock' package is superseded by `jit-lock' and is considered
919 obsolete. `jit-lock' is activated by default; if you wish to continue
920 using `lazy-lock', activate it in your ~/.emacs like this:
921
922 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
923
924 If you invoke `lazy-lock-mode' directly rather than through
925 `font-lock-support-mode', it now issues a warning:
926
927 "Use font-lock-support-mode rather than calling lazy-lock-mode"
928
929
930 ** Menu support:
931
932 *** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
933 This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such
934 as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself).
935 You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn
936 it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of
937 current date and time, current line and column number in the mode-line.
938
939 *** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".
940
941 *** You can exit dialog windows and menus by typing C-g.
942
943 *** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..."
944 and "Open File...". "Open File..." now opens only existing files. This is
945 to support existing GUI file selection dialogs better.
946
947 *** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/LessTif can be
948 disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'.
949
950 *** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can
951 be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32).
952
953 *** The menu bar for Motif/LessTif/Lucid/Gtk+ can be navigated with keys.
954 Pressing F10 shows the first menu in the menu bar. Navigation is done with
955 the arrow keys, select with the return key and cancel with the escape keys.
956
957 *** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have
958 to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example
959 `-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'.
960
961 *** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and LessTif/Motif now pop down on pressing
962 ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32.
963
964 *** For the Gtk+ version, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog
965 by setting the variable `x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use
966 the new dialog.
967
968 ** Mouse changes:
969
970 *** If you set the new variable `mouse-autoselect-window' to a non-nil
971 value, windows are automatically selected as you move the mouse from
972 one Emacs window to another, even within a frame. A minibuffer window
973 can be selected only when it is active.
974
975 *** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
976 select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
977 normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set
978 the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected
979 window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame
980 to give it focus.
981
982 *** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
983
984 Traditionally, Emacs uses a Mouse-1 click to set point and a Mouse-2
985 click to follow a link, whereas most other applications use a Mouse-1
986 click for both purposes, depending on whether you click outside or
987 inside a link. Now the behavior of a Mouse-1 click has been changed
988 to match this context-sensitive dual behavior. (If you prefer the old
989 behavior, set the user option `mouse-1-click-follows-link' to nil.)
990
991 Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs can do much
992 more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
993 activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
994 (see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details). The Lisp
995 packages that are included in release 22.1 have been adapted to do
996 this, but external packages may not yet support this. However, there
997 is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
998 happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
999 on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.
1000
1001 If you want to get the original Mouse-1 action also inside a link, you
1002 just need to press the Mouse-1 button a little longer than a normal
1003 click (i.e. press and hold the Mouse-1 button for half a second before
1004 you release it).
1005
1006 Dragging the Mouse-1 inside a link still performs the original
1007 drag-mouse-1 action, typically copy the text.
1008
1009 You can customize the new Mouse-1 behavior via the new user options
1010 `mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'.
1011
1012 *** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse
1013 is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
1014 can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
1015 mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can
1016 also disable mouse highlighting.
1017
1018 *** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
1019 shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
1020 variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.
1021
1022 *** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
1023 (rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.
1024
1025 *** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved.
1026
1027 People tend to push the mouse wheel (which counts as a mouse-2 click)
1028 unintentionally while turning the wheel, so these clicks are now
1029 ignored. You can customize this with the mouse-wheel-click-event and
1030 mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.
1031
1032 *** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.
1033
1034 ** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:
1035
1036 *** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
1037 construct. Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
1038 -*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
1039 various global and per-coding-system translation tables. You can also
1040 specify it in a local variable list at the end of the file. For
1041 shortcut, instead of using this long variable name, you can append the
1042 character "!" at the end of coding-system name specified in -*-
1043 construct or in a local variable list. For example, if a file has the
1044 following header, it is decoded by the coding system `iso-latin-1'
1045 without any character translation:
1046 ;; -*- coding: iso-latin-1!; -*-
1047
1048 *** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup
1049 more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale
1050 name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
1051 This change can result in using the different coding systems as
1052 default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN).
1053
1054 *** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your
1055 current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This
1056 can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
1057 characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
1058 emulator) works. Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
1059 keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
1060 or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
1061 by the keyboard. See Info node `Unibyte Mode'.
1062
1063 *** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
1064 revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.
1065
1066 *** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
1067 coding system.
1068
1069 *** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
1070 of a file.
1071
1072 *** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
1073 unicode.
1074
1075 *** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
1076 coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item
1077 (Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
1078 command.
1079
1080 *** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type
1081 in the current input method to input a character at point.
1082
1083 *** Limited support for character `unification' has been added.
1084 Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of
1085 the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard
1086 Unicode mappings. This applies mainly to characters in the ISO 8859
1087 sets plus some other 8-bit sets, but can be extended. For instance,
1088 translation works amongst the Emacs ...-iso8859-... charsets and the
1089 mule-unicode-... ones.
1090
1091 By default this translation happens automatically on encoding.
1092 Self-inserting characters are translated to make the input conformant
1093 with the encoding of the buffer in which it's being used, where
1094 possible.
1095
1096 You can force a more complete unification with the user option
1097 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode. That maps all the Latin-N character sets
1098 into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and
1099 mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode
1100 will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding.
1101
1102 *** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
1103 either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
1104 when possible. The latter are more space-efficient. This is
1105 controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.
1106
1107 *** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Tajik,
1108 Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6,
1109 Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian,
1110 Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW,
1111 Esperanto. (Set up automatically according to the locale.)
1112
1113 *** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
1114 ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer,
1115 vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard,
1116 latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml,
1117 bulgarian-phonetic, dutch, slovenian, croatian, malayalam-inscript,
1118 tamil-inscript.
1119
1120 *** New input method chinese-sisheng for inputting Chinese Pinyin
1121 characters.
1122
1123 *** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is
1124 automatically activated if you select Thai as a language
1125 environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to
1126 versions which recognize Thai words. Affected commands are
1127 M-f (forward-word)
1128 M-b (backward-word)
1129 M-d (kill-word)
1130 M-DEL (backward-kill-word)
1131 M-t (transpose-words)
1132 M-q (fill-paragraph)
1133
1134 *** Indian support has been updated.
1135 The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are
1136 assumed. There is a framework for supporting various
1137 Indian scripts, but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are
1138 supported.
1139
1140 *** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.
1141
1142 *** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
1143 By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into
1144 single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is
1145 turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character
1146 sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS
1147 system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not
1148 interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil.
1149 You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
1150 `ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8
1151 coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's
1152 one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones.
1153 The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly.
1154
1155 *** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
1156 in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
1157 Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
1158
1159 *** Many new coding systems are available in the `code-pages' library.
1160 These include complete versions of most of those in codepage.el, based
1161 on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now obsolete and is used
1162 only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. All coding systems defined in
1163 `code-pages' are auto-loaded.
1164
1165 *** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which
1166 Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'.
1167
1168 *** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of
1169 characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the
1170 fontset appropriately.
1171
1172 ** Customize changes:
1173
1174 *** Custom themes are collections of customize options. Create a
1175 custom theme with M-x customize-create-theme. Use M-x load-theme to
1176 load and enable a theme, and M-x disable-theme to disable it. Use M-x
1177 enable-theme to enable a disabled theme.
1178
1179 *** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
1180 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are
1181 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
1182 faces.
1183
1184 *** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing.
1185 In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding
1186 check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection
1187 for that attribute; the values you can choose are only those which make
1188 sense for the attribute. When an attribute is de-selected by unchecking
1189 its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in
1190 case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden.
1191
1192 *** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer,
1193 the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable.
1194 You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value"
1195 under the "[State]" button.
1196
1197 ** Buffer Menu changes:
1198
1199 *** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file
1200 buffers only in the Buffer Menu. It is bound to T in Buffer Menu
1201 mode.
1202
1203 *** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
1204 with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers
1205 whose names begin with space are omitted.
1206
1207 *** The new options `buffers-menu-show-directories' and
1208 `buffers-menu-show-status' let you control how buffers are displayed
1209 in the menu dropped down when you click "Buffers" from the menu bar.
1210
1211 `buffers-menu-show-directories' controls whether the menu displays
1212 leading directories as part of the file name visited by the buffer.
1213 If its value is `unless-uniquify', the default, directories are
1214 shown unless uniquify-buffer-name-style' is non-nil. The value of nil
1215 and t turn the display of directories off and on, respectively.
1216
1217 `buffers-menu-show-status' controls whether the Buffers menu includes
1218 the modified and read-only status of the buffers. By default it is
1219 t, and the status is shown.
1220
1221 Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time
1222 the Buffers menu is regenerated.
1223
1224 ** Dired mode:
1225
1226 *** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
1227 dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
1228 introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
1229
1230 *** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
1231 with different file attributes in two dired buffers.
1232
1233 *** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
1234 of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.
1235
1236 *** The Dired command `dired-goto-file' is now bound to j, not M-g.
1237 This is to avoid hiding the global key binding of M-g.
1238
1239 *** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
1240 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
1241 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
1242 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
1243 double quotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
1244 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
1245
1246 *** In Dired, the w command now stores the current line's file name
1247 into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, it stores the absolute file name.
1248
1249 *** In Dired-x, Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode.
1250
1251 The mode toggling command is bound to M-o. A new command
1252 dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, marks omitted files. The variable
1253 dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the mode toggling function
1254 instead.
1255
1256 *** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args
1257 have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and
1258 directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a
1259 directory listing into a buffer.
1260
1261 ** Comint changes:
1262
1263 *** The comint prompt can now be made read-only, using the new user
1264 option `comint-prompt-read-only'. This is not enabled by default,
1265 except in IELM buffers. The read-only status of IELM prompts can be
1266 controlled with the new user option `ielm-prompt-read-only', which
1267 overrides `comint-prompt-read-only'.
1268
1269 The new commands `comint-kill-whole-line' and `comint-kill-region'
1270 support editing comint buffers with read-only prompts.
1271
1272 `comint-kill-whole-line' is like `kill-whole-line', but ignores both
1273 read-only and field properties. Hence, it always kill entire
1274 lines, including any prompts.
1275
1276 `comint-kill-region' is like `kill-region', except that it ignores
1277 read-only properties, if it is safe to do so. This means that if any
1278 part of a prompt is deleted, then the entire prompt must be deleted
1279 and that all prompts must stay at the beginning of a line. If this is
1280 not the case, then `comint-kill-region' behaves just like
1281 `kill-region' if read-only properties are involved: it copies the text
1282 to the kill-ring, but does not delete it.
1283
1284 *** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived
1285 modes (shell-mode, etc.) inserts arguments from previous command lines,
1286 like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but
1287 otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.
1288
1289 *** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed
1290 `comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias,
1291 but declared obsolete.
1292
1293 *** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in
1294 subshells running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment
1295 variable, which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs
1296 that need to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check
1297 INSIDE_EMACS instead of EMACS.
1298
1299 ** M-x Compile changes:
1300
1301 *** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable
1302
1303 Quite a few more kinds of messages are recognized. Messages that are
1304 recognized as warnings or informational come in orange or green, instead of
1305 red. Informational messages are by default skipped with `next-error'
1306 (controlled by `compilation-skip-threshold').
1307
1308 Location data is collected on the fly as the *compilation* buffer changes.
1309 This means you could modify messages to make them point to different files.
1310 This also means you can not go to locations of messages you may have deleted.
1311
1312 The variable `compilation-error-regexp-alist' has now become customizable. If
1313 you had added your own regexps to this, you'll probably need to include a
1314 leading `^', otherwise they'll match anywhere on a line. There is now also a
1315 `compilation-mode-font-lock-keywords' and it nicely handles all the checks
1316 that configure outputs and -o options so you see at a glance where you are.
1317
1318 The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message.
1319
1320 *** New user option `compilation-environment'.
1321 This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
1322 compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
1323 subprocesses inherit.
1324
1325 *** New user option `compilation-disable-input'.
1326 If this is non-nil, send end-of-file as compilation process input.
1327
1328 *** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'
1329 specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line
1330 in new face `next-error'.
1331
1332 *** A new minor mode `next-error-follow-minor-mode' can be used in
1333 compilation-mode, grep-mode, occur-mode, and diff-mode (i.e. all the
1334 modes that can use `next-error'). In this mode, cursor motion in the
1335 buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
1336 matches, compilation errors, etc. This minor mode can be toggled with
1337 C-c C-f.
1338
1339 *** When the left fringe is displayed, an arrow points to current message in
1340 the compilation buffer.
1341
1342 *** The new variable `compilation-context-lines' controls lines of leading
1343 context before the current message. If nil and the left fringe is displayed,
1344 it doesn't scroll the compilation output window. If there is no left fringe,
1345 no arrow is displayed and a value of nil means display the message at the top
1346 of the window.
1347
1348 *** The EMACS environment variable now defaults to Emacs's absolute
1349 file name, instead of to "t".
1350
1351 ** Occur mode changes:
1352
1353 *** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
1354 C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without
1355 switching to it.
1356
1357 *** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
1358 the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.
1359
1360 *** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
1361 search multiple buffers. There is also a new command
1362 `multi-occur-in-matching-buffers' which allows you to specify the
1363 buffers to search by their filenames or buffer names. Internally,
1364 Occur mode has been rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other
1365 changes.
1366
1367 ** Grep changes:
1368
1369 *** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.
1370
1371 There's a new separate package grep.el, with its own submenu and
1372 customization group.
1373
1374 *** `grep-find' is now also available under the name `find-grep' where
1375 people knowing `find-grep-dired' would probably expect it.
1376
1377 *** New commands `lgrep' (local grep) and `rgrep' (recursive grep) are
1378 more user-friendly versions of `grep' and `grep-find', which prompt
1379 separately for the regular expression to match, the files to search,
1380 and the base directory for the search. Case sensitivity of the
1381 search is controlled by the current value of `case-fold-search'.
1382
1383 These commands build the shell commands based on the new variables
1384 `grep-template' (lgrep) and `grep-find-template' (rgrep).
1385
1386 The files to search can use aliases defined in `grep-files-aliases'.
1387
1388 Subdirectories listed in `grep-find-ignored-directories' such as those
1389 typically used by various version control systems, like CVS and arch,
1390 are automatically skipped by `rgrep'.
1391
1392 *** The grep commands provide highlighting support.
1393
1394 Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange. Grep buffers
1395 can be saved and automatically revisited.
1396
1397 *** The new variables `grep-window-height' and `grep-scroll-output' override
1398 the corresponding compilation mode settings, for grep commands only.
1399
1400 *** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlights matches in *grep*
1401 buffer. It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept
1402 --color option to output markers around matches. When going to the next
1403 match with `next-error' the exact match is highlighted in the source
1404 buffer. Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole
1405 source line is highlighted.
1406
1407 *** New key bindings in grep output window:
1408 SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down. C-n and C-p moves to next and
1409 previous match in the grep window. RET jumps to the source line of
1410 the current match. `n' and `p' shows next and previous match in
1411 other window, but does not switch buffer. `{' and `}' jumps to the
1412 previous or next file in the grep output. TAB also jumps to the next
1413 file.
1414
1415 *** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
1416 by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically
1417 detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
1418 When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed
1419 unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated
1420 command lines to be used than was possible before.
1421
1422 ** X Windows Support:
1423
1424 *** Emacs now supports drag and drop for X. Dropping a file on a window
1425 opens it, dropping text inserts the text. Dropping a file on a dired
1426 buffer copies or moves the file to that directory.
1427
1428 *** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper).
1429 The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym',
1430 and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should
1431 use for the modifiers. For example, the following two lines swap
1432 Meta and Alt:
1433 (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)
1434 (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt)
1435
1436 *** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which can
1437 speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.
1438
1439 If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of
1440 XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on.
1441
1442 *** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
1443 requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that
1444 Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
1445 and use the more appropriately result.
1446
1447 *** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
1448 On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
1449 amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).
1450
1451 ** Xterm support:
1452
1453 *** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
1454 on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.
1455
1456 *** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
1457 When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
1458 The following should work:
1459 {C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
1460 These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8 (and later versions),
1461 they might not work on some older versions of xterm, or on some
1462 proprietary versions.
1463 The various keys generated by xterm when the "modifyOtherKeys"
1464 resource is set are also supported.
1465
1466 ** Character terminal color support changes:
1467
1468 *** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard
1469 mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character
1470 terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal
1471 database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't
1472 set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable
1473 terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls'
1474 when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors
1475 in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the
1476 user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter.
1477
1478 *** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more
1479 than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and
1480 256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup
1481 the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for
1482 all of these colors.
1483
1484 *** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default
1485 faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and
1486 256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an
1487 88-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face
1488 colors as on X.
1489
1490 *** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.
1491 \f
1492 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1
1493
1494 ** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1495
1496 ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
1497
1498 To see what modules are available, type
1499 M-x customize-option erc-modules RET.
1500
1501 To start an IRC session with ERC, type M-x erc, and follow the prompts
1502 for server, port, and nick.
1503
1504 ** Rcirc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1505
1506 Rcirc is an Internet relay chat (IRC) client. It supports
1507 simultaneous connections to multiple IRC servers. Each discussion
1508 takes place in its own buffer. For each connection you can join
1509 several channels (many-to-many) and participate in private
1510 (one-to-one) chats. Both channel and private chats are contained in
1511 separate buffers.
1512
1513 To start an IRC session using the default parameters, type M-x irc.
1514 If you type C-u M-x irc, it prompts you for the server, nick, port and
1515 startup channel parameters before connecting.
1516
1517 ** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1518
1519 Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news
1520 sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the
1521 corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a
1522 separate manual.
1523
1524 ** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions.
1525 To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file.
1526
1527 ** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in
1528 various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
1529 program files that include other program files.
1530
1531 Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on
1532 all the files in it, such as visiting them or searching and replacing
1533 in them.
1534
1535 ** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1536
1537 Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in
1538 Emacs Lisp. The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc
1539 can be started with `C-x * *'. The Calc manual is separate from the
1540 Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the
1541 manual. A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and
1542 `etc/calccard.ps'.
1543
1544 ** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
1545 customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
1546
1547 ** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1548
1549 The ido (interactively do) package is an extension of the iswitchb
1550 package to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition
1551 to interactive buffer switching. Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with
1552 a few exceptions), so don't enable both packages.
1553
1554 ** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle
1555 between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c.
1556
1557 ** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1558
1559 The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
1560 cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
1561 With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
1562 keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
1563 region (like delete-selection-mode). Do not enable these modes with
1564 cua-mode. Customize the variable `cua-mode' to enable cua.
1565
1566 The cua-selection-mode enables the CUA keybindings for the region but
1567 does not change the bindings for C-z/C-x/C-c/C-v. It can be used as a
1568 replacement for pc-selection-mode.
1569
1570 In addition, cua provides unified rectangle support with visible
1571 rectangle highlighting: Use C-return to start a rectangle, extend it
1572 using the movement commands (or mouse-3), and cut or copy it using C-x
1573 or C-c (using C-w and M-w also works).
1574
1575 Use M-o and M-c to `open' or `close' the rectangle, use M-b or M-f, to
1576 fill it with blanks or another character, use M-u or M-l to upcase or
1577 downcase the rectangle, use M-i to increment the numbers in the
1578 rectangle, use M-n to fill the rectangle with a numeric sequence (such
1579 as 10 20 30...), use M-r to replace a regexp in the rectangle, and use
1580 M-' or M-/ to restrict command on the rectangle to a subset of the
1581 rows. See the commentary in cua-base.el for more rectangle commands.
1582
1583 Cua also provides unified support for registers: Use a numeric
1584 prefix argument between 0 and 9, i.e. M-0 .. M-9, for C-x, C-c, and
1585 C-v to cut or copy into register 0-9, or paste from register 0-9.
1586
1587 The last text deleted (not killed) is automatically stored in
1588 register 0. This includes text deleted by typing text.
1589
1590 Finally, cua provides a global mark which is set using S-C-space.
1591 When the global mark is active, any text which is cut or copied is
1592 automatically inserted at the global mark position. See the
1593 commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.
1594
1595 The features of cua also works with the standard Emacs bindings for
1596 kill, copy, yank, and undo. If you want to use cua mode, but don't
1597 want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
1598 `cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.
1599
1600 Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older
1601 versions of cua.el and cua-mode.el. To ensure proper operation, you
1602 must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
1603 loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.
1604
1605 ** Org mode is now part of the Emacs distribution
1606
1607 Org mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and
1608 doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
1609 It also contains a plain-text table editor with spreadsheet-like
1610 capabilities.
1611
1612 The Org mode table editor can be integrated into any major mode by
1613 activating the minor Orgtbl-mode.
1614
1615 The documentation for org-mode is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
1616 type "C-h i m org RET" to read that manual. A reference card is
1617 available in `etc/orgcard.tex' and `etc/orgcard.ps'.
1618
1619 ** The new package dns-mode.el adds syntax highlighting of DNS master files.
1620 It is a modern replacement for zone-mode.el, which is now obsolete.
1621
1622 ** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
1623 filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
1624 that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
1625 Emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim,
1626 invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable. The display method can
1627 be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.
1628
1629 ** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
1630 source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.
1631
1632 ** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
1633 the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards. The numeric
1634 keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
1635 +, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key. The keypad
1636 package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys.
1637
1638 By customizing the variables `keypad-setup', `keypad-shifted-setup',
1639 `keypad-numlock-setup', and `keypad-numlock-shifted-setup', or by
1640 using the function `keypad-setup', you can rebind all digit keys and
1641 the decimal key of the keypad in one step for each of the four
1642 possible combinations of the Shift key state (not pressed/pressed) and
1643 the NumLock toggle state (off/on).
1644
1645 The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are:
1646 `Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits,
1647 `Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
1648 decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
1649 `Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
1650 for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
1651 where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
1652 `Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
1653 are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
1654 or local keymaps.
1655
1656 ** Emacs' keyboard macro facilities have been enhanced by the new
1657 kmacro package.
1658
1659 Keyboard macros are now defined and executed via the F3 and F4 keys:
1660 F3 starts a macro, F4 ends the macro, and pressing F4 again executes
1661 the last macro. While defining the macro, F3 inserts a counter value
1662 which automatically increments every time the macro is executed.
1663
1664 There is now a keyboard macro ring which stores the most recently
1665 defined macros.
1666
1667 The C-x C-k sequence is now a prefix for the kmacro keymap which
1668 defines bindings for moving through the keyboard macro ring,
1669 C-x C-k C-p and C-x C-k C-n, editing the last macro C-x C-k C-e,
1670 manipulating the macro counter and format via C-x C-k C-c,
1671 C-x C-k C-a, and C-x C-k C-f. See the commentary in kmacro.el
1672 for more commands.
1673
1674 The original macro bindings C-x (, C-x ), and C-x e are still
1675 available, but they now interface to the keyboard macro ring too.
1676
1677 The C-x e command now automatically terminates the current macro
1678 before calling it, if used while defining a macro.
1679
1680 In addition, when ending or calling a macro with C-x e, the macro can
1681 be repeated immediately by typing just the `e'. You can customize
1682 this behavior via the variables kmacro-call-repeat-key and
1683 kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg.
1684
1685 Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
1686 C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence
1687 at a time, prompting for the actions to take.
1688
1689 ** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
1690 When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible. When disabled, it
1691 restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
1692
1693 ** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
1694 buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...
1695
1696 ** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
1697 files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
1698 mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
1699 which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or
1700 copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc. By default, Longlines
1701 mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior
1702 referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors. This is
1703 similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap
1704 feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil.
1705
1706 ** The printing package is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1707
1708 If you enable the printing package by including (require 'printing) in
1709 the .emacs file, the normal Print item on the File menu is replaced
1710 with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through
1711 ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript
1712 printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by
1713 `ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information.
1714
1715 ** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you
1716 move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer.
1717 It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts
1718 of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ...
1719
1720 There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers.
1721
1722 ** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an
1723 "active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually
1724 change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list'
1725 settings.
1726
1727 ** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing
1728 spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command
1729 letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers
1730 viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values.
1731
1732 ** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
1733 shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.
1734
1735 ** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
1736 `text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting
1737 these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG
1738 table editing available in modern word processors. The package also
1739 can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such
1740 as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.
1741
1742 ** The image-dired.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in
1743 other ways manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as
1744 the main interface. Image-Dired provides functionality to generate
1745 simple image galleries.
1746
1747 ** Tramp is now part of the distribution.
1748
1749 This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote
1750 files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host,
1751 Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used
1752 for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for
1753 the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called
1754 `inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell
1755 connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods
1756 (which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or
1757 `rsync' to do the copying).
1758
1759 Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also
1760 `su' and `sudo'. Ange-FTP is still supported via the `ftp' method.
1761
1762 If you want to disable Tramp you should set
1763
1764 (setq tramp-default-method "ftp")
1765
1766 Removing Tramp, and re-enabling Ange-FTP, can be achieved by M-x
1767 tramp-unload-tramp.
1768
1769 ** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
1770
1771 ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
1772 configuration files.
1773
1774 ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
1775 varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
1776 var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
1777 section { }). Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
1778 .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
1779 recognized.
1780
1781 ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
1782
1783 ** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
1784
1785 ** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
1786 This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
1787
1788 ** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
1789 for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or
1790 paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
1791 instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
1792 boundaries during scrolling.
1793
1794 ** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
1795 events from the console. It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
1796 for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.
1797 \f
1798 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:
1799
1800 ** Changes in Shell Mode
1801
1802 *** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
1803 bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text. (This
1804 is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)
1805
1806 ** Changes in Dired
1807
1808 *** Bindings for Image-Dired added
1809 Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been
1810 added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Image-Dired. As a
1811 starting point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d
1812 to display thumbnails of them in a separate buffer.
1813
1814 ** Changes in Hi Lock
1815
1816 *** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function
1817 `global-hi-lock-mode' enables Hi Lock in all buffers. By default, if
1818 hi-lock-mode is used in what appears to be the initialization file, a
1819 warning message suggests to use global-hi-lock-mode instead. However,
1820 if the new variable `hi-lock-archaic-interface-deduce' is non-nil,
1821 using hi-lock-mode in an initialization file will turn on Hi Lock in all
1822 buffers and no warning will be issued (for compatibility with the
1823 behavior in older versions of Emacs).
1824
1825 ** Changes in Allout
1826
1827 *** Some previously rough topic-header format edge cases are reconciled.
1828 Level 1 topics use the mode's comment format, and lines starting with the
1829 asterisk - for instance, the comment close of some languages (eg, c's "*/"
1830 or mathematica's "*)") - at the beginning of line are no longer are
1831 interpreted as level 1 topics in those modes.
1832
1833 *** Many or most commonly occurring "accidental" topics are disqualified.
1834 Text in item bodies that looks like a low-depth topic is no longer mistaken
1835 for one unless its first offspring (or that of its next sibling with
1836 offspring) is only one level deeper.
1837
1838 For example, pasting some text with a bunch of leading asterisks into a
1839 topic that's followed by a level 3 or deeper topic will not cause the
1840 pasted text to be mistaken for outline structure.
1841
1842 The same constraint is applied to any level 2 or 3 topics.
1843
1844 This settles an old issue where typed or pasted text needed to be carefully
1845 reviewed, and sometimes doctored, to avoid accidentally disrupting the
1846 outline structure. Now that should be generally unnecessary, as the most
1847 prone-to-occur accidents are disqualified.
1848
1849 *** Allout now refuses to create "containment discontinuities", where a
1850 topic is shifted deeper than the offspring-depth of its container. On the
1851 other hand, allout now operates gracefully with existing containment
1852 discontinuities, revealing excessively contained topics rather than either
1853 leaving them hidden or raising an error.
1854
1855 *** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and
1856 decryption. Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and
1857 clear-text within a single file to your heart's content, using symmetric
1858 and/or public key modes. Time-limited key caching, user-provided
1859 symmetric key hinting and consistency verification, auto-encryption of
1860 pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in
1861 powerful ways. Encryption behavior customization is collected in the
1862 allout-encryption customization group.
1863
1864 *** Navigation within an item is easier. Repeated beginning-of-line and
1865 end-of-line key commands (usually, ^A and ^E) cycle through the
1866 beginning/end-of-line and then beginning/end of topic, etc. See new
1867 customization vars `allout-beginning-of-line-cycles' and
1868 `allout-end-of-line-cycles'.
1869
1870 *** New or revised allout-mode activity hooks enable creation of
1871 cooperative enhancements to allout mode without changes to the mode,
1872 itself.
1873
1874 See `allout-exposure-change-hook', `allout-structure-added-hook',
1875 `allout-structure-deleted-hook', and `allout-structure-shifted-hook'.
1876
1877 `allout-exposure-change-hook' replaces the existing
1878 `allout-view-change-hook', which is being deprecated. Both are still
1879 invoked, but `allout-view-change-hook' will eventually be ignored.
1880 `allout-exposure-change-hook' is called with explicit arguments detailing
1881 the specifics of each change (as are the other new hooks), making it easier
1882 to use than the old version.
1883
1884 There is a new mode deactivation hook, `allout-mode-deactivate-hook', for
1885 coordinating with deactivation of allout-mode. Both that and the mode
1886 activation hook, `allout-mode-hook' are now run after the `allout-mode'
1887 variable is changed, rather than before.
1888
1889 *** Default command prefix was changed to "\C-c " (control-c space), to
1890 avoid intruding on user's keybinding space. Customize the
1891 `allout-command-prefix' variable to your preference.
1892
1893 *** Allout now uses text overlay's `invisible' property for concealed text,
1894 instead of selective-display. This simplifies the code, in particular
1895 avoiding the need for kludges for isearch dynamic-display, discretionary
1896 handling of edits of concealed text, undo concerns, etc.
1897
1898 *** There are many other fixes and refinements, including:
1899
1900 - repaired inhibition of inadvertent edits to concealed text, without
1901 inhibiting undo; we now reveal undo changes within concealed text.
1902 - auto-fill-mode is now left inactive when allout-mode starts, if it
1903 already was inactive. also, `allout-inhibit-auto-fill' custom
1904 configuration variable makes it easy to disable auto fill in allout
1905 outlines in general or on a per-buffer basis.
1906 - allout now tolerates fielded text in outlines without disruption.
1907 - hot-spot navigation now is modularized with a new function,
1908 `allout-hotspot-key-handler', enabling easier use and enhancement of
1909 the functionality in allout addons.
1910 - repaired retention of topic body hanging indent upon topic depth shifts
1911 - bulleting variation is simpler and more accommodating, both in the
1912 default behavior and in ability to vary when creating new topics
1913 - mode deactivation now does cleans up effectively, more properly
1914 restoring affected variables and hooks to former state, removing
1915 overlays, etc. see `allout-add-resumptions' and
1916 `allout-do-resumptions', which replace the old `allout-resumptions'.
1917 - included a few unit-tests for interior functionality. developers can
1918 have them automatically run at the end of module load by customizing
1919 the option `allout-run-unit-tests-on-load'.
1920 - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
1921 - version number incremented to 2.2
1922
1923 ** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' is renamed
1924 to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
1925 variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
1926 automatically, without asking for a confirmation. Otherwise, the word
1927 at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt.
1928
1929 ** Changes to cmuscheme
1930
1931 *** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to
1932 evaluate a Scheme expression but no Scheme subprocess is running.
1933
1934 *** If the file ~/.emacs_NAME or ~/.emacs.d/init_NAME.scm (where NAME
1935 is the name of the Scheme interpreter) exists, its contents are sent
1936 to the Scheme subprocess upon startup.
1937
1938 *** There are new commands to instruct the Scheme interpreter to trace
1939 procedure calls (`scheme-trace-procedure') and to expand syntactic forms
1940 (`scheme-expand-current-form'). The commands actually sent to the Scheme
1941 subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command',
1942 `scheme-untrace-command' and `scheme-expand-current-form'.
1943
1944 ** Changes in Makefile mode
1945
1946 *** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp, BSD make and imake.
1947
1948 The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter three
1949 are new. Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable
1950 faces.
1951
1952 *** The variable `makefile-query-one-target-method' has been renamed
1953 to `makefile-query-one-target-method-function'. The old name is still
1954 available as alias.
1955
1956 ** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top
1957 of the file that precede the first header line.
1958
1959 ** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.
1960
1961 ** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can
1962 run most curses applications now.
1963
1964 ** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode.
1965
1966 ** Diff mode key bindings changed.
1967
1968 These are the new bindings:
1969
1970 C-c C-e diff-ediff-patch (old M-A)
1971 C-c C-n diff-restrict-view (old M-r)
1972 C-c C-r diff-reverse-direction (old M-R)
1973 C-c C-u diff-context->unified (old M-U)
1974 C-c C-w diff-refine-hunk (old C-c C-r)
1975
1976 To convert unified to context format, use C-u C-c C-u.
1977 In addition, C-c C-u now operates on the region
1978 in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active.
1979
1980 ** You can now customize `fill-nobreak-predicate' to control where
1981 filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of
1982 functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.
1983
1984 Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and
1985 `fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of
1986 `fill-nobreak-predicate'.
1987
1988 ** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
1989 with special modes such as Tar mode.
1990
1991 ** Commands `winner-redo' and `winner-undo', from winner.el, are now
1992 bound to C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively. This is an
1993 incompatible change.
1994
1995 ** `global-whitespace-mode' is a new alias for `whitespace-global-mode'.
1996
1997 ** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
1998 resync points in both windows.
1999
2000 ** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
2001
2002 When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
2003 starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.
2004
2005 ** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers
2006 when Emacs visits them.
2007
2008 ** Info mode changes:
2009
2010 *** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
2011 with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").
2012
2013 *** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.
2014
2015 Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error
2016 message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through
2017 other nodes. When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps
2018 around the whole manual to the top/final node. The user option
2019 `Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch,
2020 or the default isearch search function that wraps around the current
2021 Info node.
2022
2023 *** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
2024 `Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
2025 search without prompting for a new search string.
2026
2027 *** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon)
2028 moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using
2029 `Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last').
2030
2031 *** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.
2032
2033 *** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
2034 from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.
2035
2036 *** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
2037 Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
2038 possible matches.
2039
2040 *** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
2041 the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix
2042 arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
2043
2044 *** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
2045 and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
2046
2047 *** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
2048 references and following them calls `browse-url'.
2049
2050 *** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
2051
2052 If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
2053 `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
2054
2055 *** Images in Info pages are supported.
2056
2057 Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
2058 Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
2059 version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.
2060
2061 *** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil.
2062
2063 *** `Info-index' offers completion.
2064
2065 ** Lisp mode changes:
2066
2067 *** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings.
2068
2069 *** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list after point.
2070
2071 *** New features in evaluation commands
2072
2073 **** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
2074 the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
2075
2076 **** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
2077 in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified
2078 by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'. The same
2079 function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
2080 `eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.
2081
2082 ** CC mode changes.
2083
2084 *** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised.
2085 The information about using CC Mode has been separated from the larger
2086 and more difficult chapters about configuration.
2087
2088 *** Changes in Key Sequences
2089 **** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t.
2090
2091 **** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d.
2092 This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards.
2093
2094 **** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline.
2095 c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias.
2096
2097 **** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards
2098 have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and
2099 C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively. These
2100 commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single
2101 key-sequence. [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.]
2102
2103 **** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l.
2104
2105 **** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w.
2106
2107 *** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor
2108 position(s).
2109
2110 *** New Minor Modes
2111 **** Electric Minor Mode toggles the electric action of non-alphabetic keys.
2112 The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. Turning the
2113 mode off can be helpful for editing chaotically indented code and for
2114 users new to CC Mode, who sometimes find electric indentation
2115 disconcerting. Its current state is displayed in the mode line with an
2116 'l', e.g. "C/al".
2117
2118 **** Subword Minor Mode makes Emacs recognize word boundaries at upper case
2119 letters in StudlyCapsIdentifiers. You enable this feature by C-c C-w. It can
2120 also be used in non-CC Mode buffers. :-) Contributed by Masatake YAMATO.
2121
2122 *** New clean-ups
2123
2124 **** `comment-close-slash'.
2125 With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by
2126 typing a slash at the start of a line.
2127
2128 **** `c-one-liner-defun'
2129 This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK
2130 pattern/action pair) onto a single line. "Short enough" is configurable.
2131
2132 *** Font lock support.
2133 CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages. This
2134 supersedes the font lock patterns that have been in the core font lock
2135 package for C, C++, Java and Objective-C. Like indentation, font
2136 locking is done in a uniform way across all languages (except the new
2137 AWK mode - see below). That means that the new font locking will be
2138 different from the old patterns in various details for most languages.
2139
2140 The main goal of the font locking in CC Mode is accuracy, to provide a
2141 dependable aid in recognizing the various constructs. Some, like
2142 strings and comments, are easy to recognize while others like
2143 declarations and types can be very tricky. CC Mode can go to great
2144 lengths to recognize declarations and casts correctly, especially when
2145 the types aren't recognized by standard patterns. This is a fairly
2146 demanding analysis which can be slow on older hardware, and it can
2147 therefore be disabled by choosing a lower decoration level with the
2148 variable font-lock-maximum-decoration.
2149
2150 Note that the most demanding font lock level has been tuned with lazy
2151 fontification in mind; Just-In-Time-Lock mode should be enabled for
2152 the highest font lock level (by default, it is). Fontifying a file
2153 with several thousand lines in one go can take the better part of a
2154 minute.
2155
2156 **** The (c|c++|objc|java|idl|pike)-font-lock-extra-types variables
2157 are now used by CC Mode to recognize identifiers that are certain to
2158 be types. (They are also used in cases that aren't related to font
2159 locking.) At the maximum decoration level, types are often recognized
2160 properly anyway, so these variables should be fairly restrictive and
2161 not contain patterns for uncertain types.
2162
2163 **** Support for documentation comments.
2164 There is a "plugin" system to fontify documentation comments like
2165 Javadoc and the markup within them. It's independent of the host
2166 language, so it's possible to e.g. turn on Javadoc font locking in C
2167 buffers. See the variable c-doc-comment-style for details.
2168
2169 Currently three kinds of doc comment styles are recognized: Sun's
2170 Javadoc, Autodoc (which is used in Pike) and GtkDoc (used in C). (The
2171 last was contributed by Masatake YAMATO). This is by no means a
2172 complete list of the most common tools; if your doc comment extractor
2173 of choice is missing then please drop a note to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2174
2175 **** Better handling of C++ templates.
2176 As a side effect of the more accurate font locking, C++ templates are
2177 now handled much better. The angle brackets that delimit them are
2178 given parenthesis syntax so that they can be navigated like other
2179 parens.
2180
2181 This also improves indentation of templates, although there still is
2182 work to be done in that area. E.g. it's required that multiline
2183 template clauses are written in full and then refontified to be
2184 recognized, and the indentation of nested templates is a bit odd and
2185 not as configurable as it ought to be.
2186
2187 **** Improved handling of Objective-C and CORBA IDL.
2188 Especially the support for Objective-C and IDL has gotten an overhaul.
2189 The special "@" declarations in Objective-C are handled correctly.
2190 All the keywords used in CORBA IDL, PSDL, and CIDL are recognized and
2191 handled correctly, also wrt indentation.
2192
2193 *** Support for the AWK language.
2194 Support for the AWK language has been introduced. The implementation is
2195 based around GNU AWK version 3.1, but it should work pretty well with
2196 any AWK. As yet, not all features of CC Mode have been adapted for AWK.
2197 Here is a summary:
2198
2199 **** Indentation Engine
2200 The CC Mode indentation engine fully supports AWK mode.
2201
2202 AWK mode handles code formatted in the conventional AWK fashion: `{'s
2203 which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are
2204 placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s
2205 are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function
2206 definition, or structured statement.
2207
2208 The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK
2209 mode, though some of them may work serendipitously. There shouldn't
2210 be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode.
2211
2212 **** Font Locking
2213 There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the
2214 three distinct levels the other modes have. There are several
2215 idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of
2216 the AWK language itself.
2217
2218 **** Comment and Movement Commands
2219 These commands all work for AWK buffers. The notion of "defun" has
2220 been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard
2221 "defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this
2222 extended definition.
2223
2224 **** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups
2225 A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default
2226 style for AWK code. With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up
2227 c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful.
2228
2229 *** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode.
2230 The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are
2231 now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
2232 module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
2233 composition-close, and incomposition.
2234
2235 *** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
2236 The new functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward'
2237 provide hungry deletion without having to toggle a mode. They are
2238 bound to C-c C-DEL and C-c C-d (and several variants, for the benefit
2239 of different keyboard setups. See "Changes in key sequences" above).
2240
2241 *** Better control over `require-final-newline'.
2242
2243 The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
2244 implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines. Its value is a
2245 list of modes, and only those modes should do it. By default the list
2246 includes C, C++ and Objective-C modes.
2247
2248 Whichever modes are in this list will set `require-final-newline'
2249 based on `mode-require-final-newline'.
2250
2251 *** Format change for syntactic context elements.
2252
2253 The elements in the syntactic context returned by `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2254 and stored in `c-syntactic-context' has been changed somewhat to allow
2255 attaching more information. They are now lists instead of single cons
2256 cells. E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis
2257
2258 ((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13))
2259
2260 is now analyzed as
2261
2262 ((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))
2263
2264 In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
2265 symbol.
2266
2267 This change might affect code that calls `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2268 directly, and custom lineup functions if they use
2269 `c-syntactic-context'. However, the argument given to lineup
2270 functions is still a single cons cell with nil or an integer in the
2271 cdr.
2272
2273 *** API changes for derived modes.
2274
2275 There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
2276 derived mode writers. Some of these changes are likely to cause
2277 incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
2278 care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
2279 Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.
2280
2281 **** New language variable system.
2282 These are variables whose values vary between CC Mode's different
2283 languages. See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.
2284
2285 **** New initialization functions.
2286 The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
2287 give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
2288 `c-init-language-vars'.
2289
2290 *** Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.
2291 The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where
2292 several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line. They are
2293 now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.
2294
2295 This means that CC Mode now indents some cases differently, and
2296 although it's more consistent there might be cases where the old way
2297 gave results that's more to one's liking. So if you find a situation
2298 where you think that the indentation has become worse, please report
2299 it to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2300
2301 **** New syntactic symbol substatement-label.
2302 This symbol is used when a label is inserted between a statement and
2303 its substatement. E.g:
2304
2305 if (x)
2306 x_is_true:
2307 do_stuff();
2308
2309 *** Better handling of multiline macros.
2310
2311 **** Syntactic indentation inside macros.
2312 The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented
2313 syntactically just like other code. This can be disabled by the new
2314 variable `c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros'. A new syntactic symbol
2315 `cpp-define-intro' has been added to control the initial indentation
2316 inside `#define's.
2317
2318 **** New lineup function `c-lineup-cpp-define'.
2319
2320 Now used by default to line up macro continuation lines. The behavior
2321 of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro
2322 is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily
2323 removed. If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works
2324 much line `c-lineup-dont-change', which was used earlier, but handles
2325 empty lines within the macro better.
2326
2327 **** Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one.
2328 This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
2329 `c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.
2330
2331 **** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2332 `c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes. New
2333 variable `c-backslash-max-column' puts a limit on how far out
2334 backslashes can be moved.
2335
2336 **** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2337 This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'. It
2338 affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
2339 inserted in Auto-Newline mode.
2340
2341 **** Line indentation works better inside macros.
2342 Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
2343 inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
2344 line continuation backslashes. This is most noticeable when syntactic
2345 indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
2346 backslash) in the macro.
2347
2348 *** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
2349 The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
2350 the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'. The indentation behavior is
2351 based on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after
2352 #else and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other
2353 cases (something which was hardcoded earlier).
2354
2355 *** New function `c-context-open-line'.
2356 It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.
2357
2358 *** New lineup functions
2359
2360 **** `c-lineup-string-cont'
2361 This lineup function lines up a continued string under the one it
2362 continues. E.g:
2363
2364 result = prefix + "A message "
2365 "string."; <- c-lineup-string-cont
2366
2367 **** `c-lineup-cascaded-calls'
2368 Lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".
2369
2370 **** `c-lineup-knr-region-comment'
2371 Gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in
2372 the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.
2373
2374 **** `c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg'
2375 Provides better indentation inside asm blocks.
2376
2377 **** `c-lineup-argcont'
2378 Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma.
2379
2380 *** Better caching of the syntactic context.
2381 CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind)
2382 of the lists surrounding the point. Those positions are used in many
2383 places as anchor points for various searches. The cache is now
2384 improved so that it can be reused to a large extent when the point is
2385 moved. The less it moves, the less needs to be recalculated.
2386
2387 The effect is that CC Mode should be fast most of the time even when
2388 opening parens are hung (i.e. aren't in column zero). It's typically
2389 only the first time after the point is moved far down in a complex
2390 file that it'll take noticeable time to find out the syntactic
2391 context.
2392
2393 *** Statements are recognized in a more robust way.
2394 Statements are recognized most of the time even when they occur in an
2395 "invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument. In practice that can
2396 happen when macros are involved.
2397
2398 *** Improved the way `c-indent-exp' chooses the block to indent.
2399 It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point
2400 whose closing paren ends on a different line. This means that the
2401 point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent.
2402 Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current
2403 line is left untouched.
2404
2405 *** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
2406 The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
2407 syntactic indentation.
2408
2409 ** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
2410 preceded by a SPC or a TAB.
2411
2412 ** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
2413
2414 ** The old Octave mode bindings C-c f and C-c i have been changed
2415 to C-c C-f and C-c C-i. The C-c C-i subcommands now have duplicate
2416 bindings on control characters--thus, C-c C-i C-b is the same as
2417 C-c C-i b, and so on.
2418
2419 ** Fortran mode changes:
2420
2421 *** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
2422 highlighting for the old default.
2423
2424 *** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
2425 Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
2426 Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.
2427
2428 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
2429 `f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
2430 `f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
2431 `fortran-beginning-of-block'.
2432
2433 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
2434 It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
2435 majority.
2436
2437 *** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change
2438 the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers.
2439
2440 ** Reftex mode changes
2441
2442 *** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents
2443
2444 The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the
2445 section at point or all sections in the current region, with full
2446 support for multifile documents.
2447
2448 The new command `reftex-toc-recenter' (`C-c -') shows the current
2449 section in the TOC buffer without selecting the TOC window.
2450 Recentering can happen automatically in idle time when the option
2451 `reftex-auto-recenter-toc' is turned on. The highlight in the TOC
2452 buffer stays when the focus moves to a different window. A dedicated
2453 frame can show the TOC with the current section always automatically
2454 highlighted. The frame is created and deleted from the toc buffer
2455 with the `d' key.
2456
2457 The toc window can be split off horizontally instead of vertically.
2458 See new option `reftex-toc-split-windows-horizontally'.
2459
2460 Labels can be renamed globally from the table of contents using the
2461 key `M-%'.
2462
2463 The new command `reftex-goto-label' jumps directly to a label
2464 location.
2465
2466 *** Changes related to citations and BibTeX database files
2467
2468 Commands that insert a citation now prompt for optional arguments when
2469 called with a prefix argument. Related new options are
2470 `reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' and `reftex-cite-cleanup-optional-args'.
2471
2472 The new command `reftex-create-bibtex-file' creates a BibTeX database
2473 with all entries referenced in the current document. The keys "e" and
2474 "E" allow to produce a BibTeX database file from entries marked in a
2475 citation selection buffer.
2476
2477 The command `reftex-citation' uses the word in the buffer before the
2478 cursor as a default search string.
2479
2480 The support for chapterbib has been improved. Different chapters can
2481 now use BibTeX or an explicit `thebibliography' environment.
2482
2483 The macros which specify the bibliography file (like \bibliography)
2484 can be configured with the new option `reftex-bibliography-commands'.
2485
2486 Support for jurabib has been added.
2487
2488 *** Global index matched may be verified with a user function
2489
2490 During global indexing, a user function can verify an index match.
2491 See new option `reftex-index-verify-function'.
2492
2493 *** Parsing documents with many labels can be sped up.
2494
2495 Operating in a document with thousands of labels can be sped up
2496 considerably by allowing RefTeX to derive the type of a label directly
2497 from the label prefix like `eq:' or `fig:'. The option
2498 `reftex-trust-label-prefix' needs to be configured in order to enable
2499 this feature. While the speed-up is significant, this may reduce the
2500 quality of the context offered by RefTeX to describe a label.
2501
2502 *** Miscellaneous changes
2503
2504 The macros which input a file in LaTeX (like \input, \include) can be
2505 configured in the new option `reftex-include-file-commands'.
2506
2507 RefTeX supports global incremental search.
2508
2509 ** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords'
2510 to support use of font-lock.
2511
2512 ** HTML/SGML changes:
2513
2514 *** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files
2515 automatically.
2516
2517 *** SGML mode has indentation and supports XML syntax.
2518 The new variable `sgml-xml-mode' tells SGML mode to use XML syntax.
2519 When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
2520 i.e., there is always a closing tag.
2521 By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
2522 from the file name or buffer contents.
2523
2524 *** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
2525 `sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as
2526 alias.
2527
2528 *** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support.
2529
2530 ** TeX modes:
2531
2532 *** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default.
2533
2534 *** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
2535 by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
2536 command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
2537 TeX commands to use at startup.
2538
2539 *** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
2540 and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.
2541
2542 *** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.
2543
2544 ** BibTeX mode:
2545
2546 *** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
2547 point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).
2548
2549 *** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
2550 an existing BibTeX entry by inserting fields that may occur but are not
2551 present.
2552
2553 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.
2554
2555 *** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
2556 `crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used
2557 for BibTeX entries. `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting
2558 scheme `entry-class'. TAB completion for reference keys and
2559 automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that
2560 `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' is non-nil.
2561
2562 *** If the new variable `bibtex-parse-keys-fast' is non-nil,
2563 use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys.
2564
2565 *** If the new variable `bibtex-autoadd-commas' is non-nil,
2566 automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields.
2567
2568 *** The new variable `bibtex-autofill-types' contains a list of entry
2569 types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible).
2570
2571 *** The new command `bibtex-complete' completes word fragment before
2572 point according to context (bound to M-tab).
2573
2574 *** The new commands `bibtex-find-entry' and `bibtex-find-crossref'
2575 locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x).
2576 Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET).
2577
2578 *** In BibTeX mode the command `fill-paragraph' (M-q) fills
2579 individual fields of a BibTeX entry.
2580
2581 *** The new variables `bibtex-files' and `bibtex-file-path' define a set
2582 of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys.
2583
2584 *** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
2585 in multiple BibTeX files.
2586
2587 *** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
2588 of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).
2589
2590 *** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and
2591 bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when
2592 extracting the content of a BibTeX field.
2593
2594 *** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and
2595 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
2596 `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
2597 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are
2598 still available as aliases.
2599
2600 ** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
2601 renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still
2602 available as alias.
2603
2604 ** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
2605 by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'
2606 and `C-c C-r'.
2607
2608 ** GUD changes:
2609
2610 *** In GUD mode, when talking to GDB, C-x C-a C-j "jumps" the program
2611 counter to the specified source line (the one where point is).
2612
2613 *** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
2614 and other common debugger commands.
2615
2616 *** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
2617 GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
2618 there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
2619 state of your program. It can separate the input/output of your program from
2620 that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of
2621 Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
2622 breakpoints.
2623
2624 To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the
2625 old behaviour.
2626
2627 *** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be
2628 toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
2629 `gud-tooltip-mode'.
2630
2631 *** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to
2632 display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is
2633 not executing.
2634
2635 ** GUD mode improvements for jdb:
2636
2637 *** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class information.
2638 Fast startup since there is no need to scan all source files up front.
2639 There is also no need to create and maintain lists of source
2640 directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' and
2641 `gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation.
2642
2643 *** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear)
2644 set/clear operations from Java source files under the classpath, stack
2645 traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish
2646 (gud-finish).
2647
2648 *** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
2649 (Java 1.1 jdb).
2650
2651 *** The previous method of searching for source files has been
2652 preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
2653 Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.
2654
2655 *** Added Customization Variables
2656
2657 **** `gud-jdb-command-name'. What command line to use to invoke jdb.
2658
2659 **** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'. Allows selection of java source file searching
2660 method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
2661 java sources (previous method).
2662
2663 **** `gud-jdb-directories'. List of directories to scan and search for Java
2664 classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
2665 is nil).
2666
2667 *** Minor Improvements
2668
2669 **** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
2670 instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool. For backwards
2671 compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
2672 `starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
2673 `starttls' tool).
2674
2675 **** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
2676
2677 ** Auto-Revert changes:
2678
2679 *** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
2680
2681 If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert
2682 mode keeps it at the end after reverting. Similarly if point is
2683 displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at
2684 the end of the buffer in that window. This allows to tail a file:
2685 just put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there. This
2686 rule applies to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the behavior can
2687 be mode dependent.
2688
2689 If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end,
2690 then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor
2691 mode Auto Revert Tail mode. The function `auto-revert-tail-mode'
2692 toggles this mode.
2693
2694 *** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
2695 other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
2696 revert. This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
2697 and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil. Auto Revert
2698 mode only reverts a non-file buffer if the buffer has a non-nil
2699 `revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which
2700 decides whether the buffer should be reverted. Currently, this means
2701 that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
2702 work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.
2703
2704 *** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
2705 Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
2706 control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
2707 which it is active. If the option is nil, the default, then this info
2708 only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.
2709
2710 ** recentf changes.
2711
2712 The recent file list is now automatically cleaned up when recentf mode is
2713 enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do
2714 automatic cleanup.
2715
2716 The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut
2717 keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via
2718 the `recentf-open-files', or `recentf-open-more-files' commands.
2719
2720 The `recentf-keep' option replaces `recentf-keep-non-readable-files-p'
2721 and provides a more general mechanism to customize which file names to
2722 keep in the recent list.
2723
2724 With the more advanced option `recentf-filename-handlers', you can
2725 specify functions that successively transform recent file names. For
2726 example, if set to `file-truename' plus `abbreviate-file-name', the
2727 same file will not be in the recent list with different symbolic
2728 links, and the file name will be abbreviated.
2729
2730 To follow naming convention, `recentf-menu-append-commands-flag'
2731 replaces the misnamed option `recentf-menu-append-commands-p'. The
2732 old name remains available as alias, but has been marked obsolete.
2733
2734 ** Desktop package
2735
2736 *** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, `desktop-save-mode'.
2737
2738 *** The variable `desktop-enable' is obsolete.
2739
2740 Customize `desktop-save-mode' to enable desktop saving.
2741
2742 *** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
2743 buffer list.
2744
2745 *** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers
2746 immediately, remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is
2747 idle).
2748
2749 *** New commands:
2750 - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
2751 - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
2752 - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
2753 it was loaded.
2754 - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
2755 - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.
2756
2757 *** New customizable variables:
2758 - desktop-save. Determines whether the desktop should be saved when it is
2759 killed.
2760 - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
2761 - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
2762 - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save.
2763 - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear.
2764 - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear'
2765 should not delete.
2766 - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are
2767 restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
2768 - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers.
2769 - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.
2770
2771 *** New command line option --no-desktop
2772
2773 *** New hooks:
2774 - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
2775 - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
2776
2777 ** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
2778
2779 When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
2780 include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist.
2781 Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
2782 to get the old behavior. The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
2783 and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
2784 feature.
2785
2786 ** EDiff changes.
2787
2788 *** When comparing directories.
2789 Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of
2790 directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files
2791 from one directory to another.
2792
2793 *** When comparing files or buffers.
2794 Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the
2795 currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n'
2796 then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
2797 comparison.
2798
2799 *** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
2800 backup using `ediff'. If you specify the name of a backup file,
2801 `ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.
2802
2803 ** Etags changes.
2804
2805 *** New regular expressions features
2806
2807 **** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.
2808
2809 The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained
2810 only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is
2811 --regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS,
2812 where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or
2813 more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'
2814 (single-line). The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular
2815 expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
2816 (which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines. The ability to
2817 span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
2818 and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.
2819
2820 **** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.
2821
2822 The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
2823 respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
2824 CR, TAB, VT.
2825
2826 **** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.
2827
2828 The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
2829 only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is
2830 particularly useful when storing regexps in a file.
2831
2832 **** Regular expressions can be read from a file.
2833
2834 The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one
2835 per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.
2836
2837 *** New language parsing features
2838
2839 **** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.
2840
2841 Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.
2842
2843 **** The GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognized and ignored.
2844
2845 **** New language HTML.
2846
2847 Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'. Also,
2848 when `name=' is used inside an anchor and whenever `id=' is used.
2849
2850 **** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
2851
2852 If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
2853 size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.
2854
2855 **** New language Lua.
2856
2857 All functions are tagged.
2858
2859 **** In Perl, packages are tags.
2860
2861 Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags
2862 as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
2863 package::sub.
2864
2865 **** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.
2866
2867 **** New language PHP.
2868
2869 Functions, classes and defines are tags. If the --members option is
2870 specified to etags, variables are tags also.
2871
2872 **** New default keywords for TeX.
2873
2874 The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
2875 renewenvironment.
2876
2877 **** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for #undef
2878
2879 *** Honor #line directives.
2880
2881 When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
2882 directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
2883 specified in those directives. This is useful when dealing with code
2884 created from Cweb source files. When Etags tags the generated file, it
2885 writes tags pointing to the source file.
2886
2887 *** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.
2888
2889 This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs. It can
2890 be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line. Etags
2891 reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
2892 the file FILE.
2893
2894 *** The --members option is now the default.
2895
2896 Use --no-members if you want the old default behaviour of not tagging
2897 struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP.
2898
2899 ** Ctags changes.
2900
2901 *** Ctags now allows duplicate tags
2902
2903 ** VC Changes
2904
2905 *** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
2906 (toggle-read-only). It no longer checks files in or out.
2907
2908 We made this change because we held a poll and found that many users
2909 were unhappy with the previous behavior. If you do prefer this
2910 behavior, you can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your
2911 `.emacs' file:
2912
2913 (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only)
2914
2915 The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist.
2916
2917 *** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies switches that
2918 are passed to any CVS command invoked by VC.
2919
2920 These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which means they
2921 are inserted before the command name. For example, this allows you to
2922 specify a compression level using the `-z#' option for CVS.
2923
2924 *** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.
2925
2926 *** VC-Annotate mode enhancements
2927
2928 In VC-Annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for
2929 enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or
2930 to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode:
2931
2932 P: annotates the previous revision
2933 N: annotates the next revision
2934 J: annotates the revision at line
2935 A: annotates the revision previous to line
2936 D: shows the diff of the revision at line with its previous revision
2937 L: shows the log of the revision at line
2938 W: annotates the workfile (most up to date) version
2939
2940 ** pcl-cvs changes:
2941
2942 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d y' command to view the diffs
2943 between the local version of the file and yesterday's head revision
2944 in the repository.
2945
2946 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
2947 anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
2948 `checkout', `update' or `commit'. That means using cvs diff options
2949 -rBASE -rHEAD.
2950
2951 ** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies
2952 `default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for
2953 auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to "~/".
2954
2955 ** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file.
2956
2957 See the documentation of the user option
2958 `display-time-mail-directory'.
2959
2960 ** Rmail changes:
2961
2962 *** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.
2963
2964 *** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
2965 by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
2966 Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.
2967
2968 *** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
2969
2970 This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of
2971 mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
2972 without TLS encryption. If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
2973 and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
2974 used instead of the native one.
2975
2976 ** Gnus package
2977
2978 *** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
2979
2980 Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts. PGG is a library to handle
2981 PGP/MIME.
2982
2983 *** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
2984
2985 See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
2986
2987 ** MH-E changes.
2988
2989 Upgraded to MH-E version 8.0.3. There have been major changes since
2990 version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.
2991
2992 ** Calendar changes:
2993
2994 *** The meanings of C-x < and C-x > have been interchanged.
2995 < means to scroll backward in time, and > means to scroll forward.
2996
2997 *** You can now use < and >, instead of C-x < and C-x >, to scroll
2998 the calendar left or right.
2999
3000 *** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to
3001 convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format.
3002
3003 *** The new package cal-html.el writes HTML files with calendar and
3004 diary entries.
3005
3006 *** Diary sexp entries can have custom marking in the calendar.
3007 Diary sexp functions which only apply to certain days (such as
3008 `diary-block' or `diary-cyclic') now take an optional parameter MARK,
3009 which is the name of a face or a single-character string indicating
3010 how to highlight the day in the calendar display. Specifying a
3011 single-character string as @var{mark} places the character next to the
3012 day in the calendar. Specifying a face highlights the day with that
3013 face. This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations,
3014 appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp.
3015
3016 *** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a
3017 year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers
3018 count backward from the end of the year.
3019
3020 *** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
3021 prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
3022 day of that ISO week.
3023
3024 *** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
3025 window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
3026
3027 *** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
3028 optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
3029 rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
3030 `christian-holidays' simpler.
3031
3032 *** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
3033 This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
3034 and `diary-header-line-format'.
3035
3036 *** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed:
3037 use the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable
3038 `appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing
3039 `appt-issue-message', `appt-visible', and `appt-msg-window'.
3040
3041 *** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
3042 and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
3043 from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages. The variable
3044 `diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional
3045 formats.
3046
3047 ** Speedbar changes:
3048
3049 *** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on
3050 the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism.
3051
3052 *** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar
3053 keymap.
3054
3055 *** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC,
3056 contracts or expands the line under the cursor.
3057
3058 *** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'.
3059
3060 *** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
3061 `speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
3062 respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
3063 its descendents.
3064
3065 *** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls
3066 how querying is performed for file operations. A value of 'always
3067 means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means
3068 to not query before any file operations, except before a file
3069 deletion.
3070
3071 *** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how
3072 to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar. A
3073 value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that
3074 speedbar was started from.) A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass
3075 that number to `other-frame'.
3076
3077 *** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
3078 means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.
3079
3080 *** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new
3081 `dframe' library. Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar
3082 should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of
3083 `speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer',
3084 `dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and
3085 `dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of
3086 `speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'. The variables
3087 `speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also
3088 obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead.
3089
3090 ** sql changes.
3091
3092 *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlighting of different
3093 SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a
3094 buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current
3095 session using the new SQL->Product submenu. (This menu replaces the
3096 SQL->Highlighting submenu.)
3097
3098 The following values are supported:
3099
3100 ansi ANSI Standard (default)
3101 db2 DB2
3102 informix Informix
3103 ingres Ingres
3104 interbase Interbase
3105 linter Linter
3106 ms Microsoft
3107 mysql MySQL
3108 oracle Oracle
3109 postgres Postgres
3110 solid Solid
3111 sqlite SQLite
3112 sybase Sybase
3113
3114 The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the
3115 SQL mode indicator.
3116
3117 The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in
3118 your `.emacs' will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use
3119 `sql-product' to accomplish this.
3120
3121 ANSI keywords are always highlighted.
3122
3123 *** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add
3124 font-lock rules to the product specific rules. For example, to have
3125 all identifiers ending in `_t' under MS SQLServer treated as a type,
3126 you would use the following line in your .emacs file:
3127
3128 (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
3129 '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face)))
3130
3131 *** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i.
3132
3133 Most SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented. SQL*Plus commands are
3134 highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'.
3135
3136 *** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved.
3137
3138 Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented.
3139 sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because
3140 osql flushes its error stream more frequently. Thus error messages
3141 are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is
3142 terminated.
3143
3144 If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is
3145 called with the `-E' command line argument to use the operating system
3146 credentials to authenticate the user.
3147
3148 *** Postgres support is enhanced.
3149 Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented. Prompting for
3150 the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added.
3151
3152 *** MySQL support is enhanced.
3153 Keyword highlighting of MySql 4.0 is implemented.
3154
3155 *** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes,
3156 packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and
3157 defaults.
3158
3159 *** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
3160 appropriate `sql-interactive-mode' wrapper for the current setting of
3161 `sql-product'.
3162
3163 *** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'.
3164
3165 ** FFAP changes:
3166
3167 *** New ffap commands and keybindings:
3168
3169 C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'),
3170 C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'),
3171 C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'),
3172 C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame').
3173
3174 *** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default.
3175
3176 C-x C-f passes the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS
3177 argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.
3178
3179 ** Changes in Skeleton
3180
3181 *** In skeleton.el, `-' marks the `skeleton-point' without interregion interaction.
3182
3183 `@' has reverted to only setting `skeleton-positions' and no longer
3184 sets `skeleton-point'. Skeletons which used @ to mark
3185 `skeleton-point' independent of `_' should now use `-' instead. The
3186 updated `skeleton-insert' docstring explains these new features along
3187 with other details of skeleton construction.
3188
3189 *** The variables `skeleton-transformation', `skeleton-filter', and
3190 `skeleton-pair-filter' have been renamed to
3191 `skeleton-transformation-function', `skeleton-filter-function', and
3192 `skeleton-pair-filter-function'. The old names are still available
3193 as aliases.
3194
3195 ** Hideshow mode changes
3196
3197 *** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
3198 used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch
3199 handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
3200 temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
3201
3202 *** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does
3203 not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent
3204 block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil.
3205
3206 ** `hide-ifdef-mode' now uses overlays rather than selective-display
3207 to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly
3208 changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p.
3209
3210 ** `partial-completion-mode' now handles partial completion on directory names.
3211
3212 ** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
3213 and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if
3214 you don't want the `.type-break' file in your home directory or are
3215 annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.
3216
3217 ** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.
3218
3219 Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with
3220 `ps-print', provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF
3221 fonts. See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts.
3222
3223 ** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
3224 This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
3225 the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for
3226 using strokes as an input method.
3227
3228 ** Emacs server changes:
3229
3230 *** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.
3231
3232 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
3233 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start &
3234 % emacsclient -s foo file1
3235 % emacsclient -s bar file2
3236
3237 *** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
3238 `--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given Lisp
3239 expression and to use the given display when visiting files.
3240
3241 *** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.
3242
3243 ** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2.
3244
3245 ** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it.
3246
3247 M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no
3248 argument it toggles the mode. Turning off PC-Selection mode restores
3249 the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode.
3250
3251 ** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
3252 `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.
3253
3254 ** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
3255
3256 Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to
3257 use standout mode, but they can no longer display mode-lines in
3258 inverse-video.
3259
3260 ** The game `mpuz' is enhanced.
3261
3262 `mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits. By
3263 default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
3264 automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
3265
3266 ** battery.el changes:
3267
3268 *** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery.
3269
3270 *** battery.el now works on recent versions of OS X.
3271
3272 ** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode.
3273
3274 To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil. In this mode a
3275 separator character is used every few digits, making it easier to see
3276 byte boundaries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the
3277 variable `calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.
3278
3279 ** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead.
3280
3281 ** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead.
3282
3283 ** zone-mode.el is now obsolete. Use dns-mode.el instead.
3284
3285 ** cplus-md.el has been deleted.
3286
3287 ** Ewoc changes
3288
3289 *** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.
3290
3291 *** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of
3292 a newline after each pretty-printed entry and after the header and footer.
3293 This allows you to create multiple-entry ewocs on a single line and to
3294 effect "invisible" nodes by arranging for the pretty-printer to not print
3295 anything for those nodes.
3296
3297 For example, these two sequences of expressions behave identically:
3298
3299 ;; NOSEP nil
3300 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S" data)))
3301 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n")
3302
3303 ;; NOSEP t
3304 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S\n" data)))
3305 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n\n" "\n" t)
3306
3307 ** Locate changes
3308
3309 *** By default, reverting the *Locate* buffer now just runs the last
3310 `locate' command back over again without offering to update the locate
3311 database (which normally only works if you have root privileges). If
3312 you prefer the old behavior, set the new customizable option
3313 `locate-update-when-revert' to t.
3314
3315 \f
3316 * Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems
3317
3318 ** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile.
3319
3320 If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME
3321 environment variable and a `.emacs' was saved, then Emacs will continue
3322 using C:/ as the default HOME. But if you are installing Emacs afresh,
3323 the default location will be the "Application Data" (or similar
3324 localized name) subdirectory of your user profile. A typical location
3325 of this directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data",
3326 where USERNAME is your user name.
3327
3328 This change means that users can now have their own `.emacs' files on
3329 shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be
3330 read-only on computers that are administered by someone else.
3331
3332 ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
3333
3334 You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
3335 existing values. For example:
3336
3337 emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"
3338
3339 will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
3340 irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
3341
3342 ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
3343
3344 This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the
3345 cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
3346 When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible
3347 instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by
3348 some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows
3349 the caret visibility to be manually toggled.
3350
3351 ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
3352
3353 See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.
3354
3355 ** Images are now supported on MS Windows.
3356
3357 PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
3358 depend on external libraries. All of these libraries have been ported
3359 to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
3360 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. Note that libpng also depends on
3361 zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
3362 against. For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.
3363
3364 ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
3365
3366 WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
3367 as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of
3368 Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
3369 sound support for those formats.
3370
3371 ** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows.
3372
3373 The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer.
3374
3375 ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
3376
3377 The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
3378 whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
3379 pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.
3380
3381 ** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.
3382
3383 The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much
3384 the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X. Emacs now adds these
3385 colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu for the
3386 default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground), and uses
3387 some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
3388 `list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
3389 you wish to use them in other faces.
3390
3391 ** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.
3392
3393 Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
3394 multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
3395 MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
3396 the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
3397 any customizations.
3398
3399 ** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size.
3400
3401 Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs
3402 through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in
3403 a local console window with a scrollback buffer. The default value of
3404 w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favors local console
3405 windows. Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this
3406 setting. If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects
3407 that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and
3408 defaults to 80x25. If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size
3409 other than 80x25, you can still manually set
3410 w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.
3411
3412 ** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.
3413
3414 ** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
3415 `kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
3416 `kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.
3417
3418 ** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete. Use
3419 `mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.
3420 \f
3421 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3422
3423 ** The `read-file-name' function now returns a null string if the
3424 user just types RET.
3425
3426 ** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons
3427 (FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument
3428 OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in
3429 `file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument.
3430
3431 ** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have
3432 been removed. Use run-with-idle-timer instead.
3433
3434 ** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
3435 the command `undefined'. (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
3436 `substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to
3437 `undefined'.)
3438
3439 ** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
3440 :propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
3441 `risky-local-variable' property is nil.
3442
3443 The function `comint-send-input' now accepts 3 optional arguments:
3444
3445 (comint-send-input &optional no-newline artificial)
3446
3447 Callers sending input not from the user should use bind the 3rd
3448 argument `artificial' to a non-nil value, to prevent Emacs from
3449 deleting the part of subprocess output that matches the input.
3450
3451 ** Support for Mocklisp has been removed.
3452
3453 ** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
3454 there is no longer a shortage of memory.
3455
3456 ** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates
3457 input events: sigusr1 or sigusr2. Use special-event-map to
3458 handle these events.
3459
3460 ** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to
3461 be multibyte or unibyte, respectively.
3462
3463 ** The explicit method of creating a display table element by
3464 combining a face number and a character code into a numeric
3465 glyph code is deprecated.
3466
3467 Instead, the new functions `make-glyph-code', `glyph-char', and
3468 `glyph-face' must be used to create and decode glyph codes in
3469 display tables.
3470
3471 \f
3472 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3473
3474 ** General Lisp changes:
3475
3476 *** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
3477 The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
3478 negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
3479
3480 *** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.
3481
3482 *** The new function `memql' is like `memq', but uses `eql' for comparison,
3483 that is, floats are compared by value and other elements with `eq'.
3484
3485 *** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead.
3486
3487 *** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND.
3488
3489 If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the
3490 list instead of at the beginning. This change actually occurred in
3491 Emacs 21.1, but was not documented then.
3492
3493 *** New function `add-to-ordered-list' is like `add-to-list' but
3494 associates a numeric ordering of each element added to the list.
3495
3496 *** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree.
3497
3498 It recursively copies through both CARs and CDRs.
3499
3500 *** New function `delete-dups' deletes `equal' duplicate elements from a list.
3501
3502 It modifies the list destructively, like `delete'. Of several `equal'
3503 occurrences of an element in the list, the one that's kept is the
3504 first one.
3505
3506 *** New function `add-to-history' adds an element to a history list.
3507
3508 Lisp packages should use this function to add elements to their
3509 history lists.
3510
3511 If `history-delete-duplicates' is non-nil, it removes duplicates of
3512 the new element from the history list it updates.
3513
3514 *** New function `rassq-delete-all'.
3515
3516 (rassq-delete-all VALUE ALIST) deletes, from ALIST, each element whose
3517 CDR is `eq' to the specified value.
3518
3519 *** The function `number-sequence' makes a list of equally-separated numbers.
3520
3521 For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). By
3522 default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different
3523 separation as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns
3524 (1.5 3.5 5.5).
3525
3526 *** New variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'.
3527
3528 They hold the largest and smallest possible integer values.
3529
3530 *** Minor change in the function `format'.
3531
3532 Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no
3533 longer accepted.
3534
3535 *** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists.
3536
3537 They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is
3538 cyclic.
3539
3540 *** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.
3541
3542 They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare
3543 the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.
3544
3545 *** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'.
3546
3547 When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single
3548 numbering scheme for circular structure references. This is only
3549 relevant when `print-circle' is non-nil.
3550
3551 When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
3552 also bind `print-number-table' to nil.
3553
3554 *** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
3555
3556 It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
3557 One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
3558 if no expansion is done, which can be tested using `eq'.
3559
3560 *** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument.
3561
3562 When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
3563 angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis. (This is
3564 equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)
3565
3566 *** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern.
3567
3568 You put this info in the doc string's last line. It should be
3569 formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'". If you don't
3570 specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument
3571 names. Usually that default is right, but not always.
3572
3573 *** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting.
3574
3575 A quit inside the body of `with-local-quit' is caught by the
3576 `with-local-quit' form itself, but another quit will happen later once
3577 the code that has inhibited quitting exits.
3578
3579 This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code
3580 inside timer functions and `post-command-hook' functions.
3581
3582 *** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.
3583
3584 This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.
3585
3586 *** New macro `with-case-table'
3587
3588 This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given
3589 case table.
3590
3591 *** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.
3592
3593 It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
3594 dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
3595 (calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.).
3596
3597 *** New macro `eval-at-startup' specifies expressions to
3598 evaluate when Emacs starts up. If this is done after startup,
3599 it evaluates those expressions immediately.
3600
3601 This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.
3602
3603 *** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.
3604
3605 If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.
3606
3607 *** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.
3608
3609 `string-or-null-p' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a string or nil.
3610 `booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is t or nil.
3611
3612 *** New hook `command-error-function'.
3613
3614 By setting this variable to a function, you can control
3615 how the editor command loop shows the user an error message.
3616
3617 *** `debug-on-entry' accepts primitive functions that are not special forms
3618 now.
3619
3620 ** Lisp code indentation features:
3621
3622 *** The `defmacro' form can contain indentation and edebug declarations.
3623
3624 These declarations specify how to indent the macro calls in Lisp mode
3625 and how to debug them with Edebug. You write them like this:
3626
3627 (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...)
3628
3629 DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'. The
3630 possible declaration specifiers are:
3631
3632 (indent INDENT)
3633 Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT.
3634
3635 (edebug DEBUG)
3636 Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG. (This is
3637 equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro,
3638 but this is cleaner.)
3639
3640 *** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms.
3641
3642 See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.
3643
3644 *** cl-indent now handles indentation of simple and extended `loop' forms.
3645
3646 The new user options `lisp-loop-keyword-indentation',
3647 `lisp-loop-forms-indentation', and `lisp-simple-loop-indentation' can
3648 be used to customize the indentation of keywords and forms in loop
3649 forms.
3650
3651 ** Variable aliases:
3652
3653 *** New function: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING]
3654
3655 This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for
3656 symbol BASE-VAR. This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR
3657 returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR
3658 changes the value of BASE-VAR.
3659
3660 DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has
3661 the same documentation as BASE-VAR.
3662
3663 *** New function: indirect-variable VARIABLE
3664
3665 This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases
3666 of VARIABLE. If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not
3667 defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE.
3668
3669 It might be noteworthy that variables aliases work for all kinds of
3670 variables, including buffer-local and frame-local variables.
3671
3672 *** The macro `define-obsolete-variable-alias' combines `defvaralias' and
3673 `make-obsolete-variable'.
3674
3675 ** defcustom changes:
3676
3677 *** The package-version keyword has been added to provide
3678 `customize-changed-options' functionality to packages in the future.
3679 Developers who make use of this keyword must also update the new
3680 variable `customize-package-emacs-version-alist'.
3681
3682 *** The new customization type `float' requires a floating point number.
3683
3684 ** String changes:
3685
3686 *** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character.
3687
3688 Exception: In a character constant, if it is followed by a `-' in a
3689 character constant (e.g. ?\s-A), it is still interpreted as the super
3690 modifier. In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space.
3691
3692 *** A hex escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte.
3693
3694 *** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte.
3695
3696 *** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if
3697 the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for
3698 SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is
3699 nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all
3700 empty matches are omitted from the returned list.
3701
3702 *** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
3703 multibyte string with the same individual character codes.
3704
3705 *** New function `substring-no-properties' returns a substring without
3706 text properties.
3707
3708 *** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and
3709 `assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have
3710 been declared obsolete.
3711
3712 *** New syntax: \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX specify Unicode code points in hex.
3713 Use "\u0428" to specify a string consisting of CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA,
3714 or "\U0001D6E2" to specify one consisting of MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL
3715 ALPHA (the latter is greater than #xFFFF and thus needs the longer
3716 syntax). Also available for characters.
3717
3718 ** Displaying warnings to the user.
3719
3720 See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual.
3721 If you want to be sure the warning will not be overlooked, this
3722 facility is much better than using `message', since it displays
3723 warnings in a separate window.
3724
3725 ** Progress reporters.
3726
3727 These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present
3728 progress messages for the user.
3729
3730 See the new functions `make-progress-reporter',
3731 `progress-reporter-update', `progress-reporter-force-update',
3732 `progress-reporter-done', and `dotimes-with-progress-reporter'.
3733
3734 ** Buffer positions:
3735
3736 *** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
3737 width if the WIDTH argument is nil. If the TOPOS argument is nil,
3738 the usable window height and width is used.
3739
3740 *** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now
3741 modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
3742 taller that the height of the window, for example in the presence of
3743 large images. To disable this feature, bind the new variable
3744 `auto-window-vscroll' to nil.
3745
3746 *** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word' is optional.
3747
3748 It defaults to 1.
3749
3750 *** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.
3751
3752 It defaults to 1.
3753
3754 *** New function `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link.
3755
3756 This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
3757 functionality.
3758
3759 *** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position.
3760
3761 It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point.
3762
3763 *** `field-beginning' and `field-end' take new optional argument, LIMIT.
3764
3765 This argument tells them not to search beyond LIMIT. Instead they
3766 give up and return LIMIT.
3767
3768 *** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates
3769 and partial visibility state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
3770 arg is non-nil.
3771
3772 *** New function `window-line-height' is an efficient way to get
3773 information about a specific text line in a window provided that the
3774 window's display is up-to-date.
3775
3776 *** New functions `posn-at-point' and `posn-at-x-y' return
3777 click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
3778 position or for a given window pixel coordinate.
3779
3780 ** Text modification:
3781
3782 *** The new function `buffer-chars-modified-tick' returns a buffer's
3783 tick counter for changes to characters. Each time text in that buffer
3784 is inserted or deleted, the character-change counter is updated to the
3785 tick counter (`buffer-modified-tick'). Text property changes leave it
3786 unchanged.
3787
3788 *** The new function `insert-for-yank' normally works like `insert', but
3789 removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list
3790 and handles the `yank-handler' text property.
3791
3792 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' is like
3793 `insert-for-yank' except that it gets the text from another buffer as
3794 in `insert-buffer-substring'.
3795
3796 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like
3797 `insert-buffer-substring', but removes all text properties from the
3798 inserted substring.
3799
3800 *** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
3801 substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
3802 the filtered substring. Use it instead of `buffer-substring' or
3803 `delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
3804 data structure, such as the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.
3805
3806 The list of filter function is specified by the new variable
3807 `buffer-substring-filters'. For example, Longlines mode adds to
3808 `buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
3809 text.
3810
3811 *** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
3812 argument.
3813
3814 *** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
3815 is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to
3816 be inserted is translated through it.
3817
3818 *** Text clones.
3819
3820 The new function `text-clone-create'. Text clones are chunks of text
3821 that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one
3822 clone to the other.
3823
3824 *** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete.
3825
3826 ** Filling changes.
3827
3828 *** In determining an adaptive fill prefix, Emacs now tries the function in
3829 `adaptive-fill-function' _before_ matching the buffer line against
3830 `adaptive-fill-regexp' rather than _after_ it.
3831
3832 ** Atomic change groups.
3833
3834 To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
3835 they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
3836 around the code that makes changes. For instance:
3837
3838 (atomic-change-group
3839 (insert foo)
3840 (delete-region x y))
3841
3842 If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of
3843 `atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that
3844 were during the execution of the body. The change group has no effect
3845 on any other buffers--any such changes remain.
3846
3847 If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the
3848 lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses. Here is how.
3849
3850 To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'.
3851 Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer.
3852 This function returns a "handle" for the change group. You must save
3853 the handle to activate the change group and then finish it.
3854
3855 Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change
3856 group. Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to
3857 do this.
3858
3859 After you make the changes, you must finish the change group. You can
3860 either accept the changes or cancel them all. Call
3861 `accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final;
3862 call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all.
3863
3864 You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always
3865 finished. The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the
3866 `unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs.
3867 (This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and
3868 `activate-change-group' are separate functions.) Once you finish the
3869 group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group
3870 twice.
3871
3872 To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once
3873 for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the
3874 returned values, like this:
3875
3876 (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1)
3877 (prepare-change-group buffer-2))
3878
3879 You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call
3880 to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to
3881 `accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'.
3882
3883 Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you
3884 would expect. Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer
3885 will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first
3886 change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one
3887 finished.
3888
3889 ** Buffer-related changes:
3890
3891 *** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST.
3892
3893 If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list.
3894
3895 *** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local.
3896
3897 *** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
3898 binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER. If VARIABLE does not
3899 have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
3900 value of VARIABLE instead.
3901
3902 *** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
3903 various status records in parallel.
3904
3905 It takes a variable (a symbol) as argument. If the variable is non-nil,
3906 then its value should be a vector installed previously by
3907 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p'. If the frame names, buffer names, buffer
3908 order, or their read-only or modified flags have changed, since the
3909 time the vector's contents were recorded by a previous call to
3910 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', then the function returns t. Otherwise
3911 it returns nil.
3912
3913 On the first call to `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', the variable's
3914 value should be nil. `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' stores a suitable
3915 vector into the variable and returns t.
3916
3917 If the variable is itself nil, then `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' uses,
3918 for compatibility, an internal variable which exists only for this
3919 purpose.
3920
3921 *** The function `read-buffer' follows the convention for reading from
3922 the minibuffer with a default value: if DEF is non-nil, the minibuffer
3923 prompt provided in PROMPT is edited to show the default value provided
3924 in DEF before the terminal colon and space.
3925
3926 ** Searching and matching changes:
3927
3928 *** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
3929 the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
3930 back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.
3931
3932 *** The new variable `search-spaces-regexp' controls how to search
3933 for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a
3934 regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular
3935 expression. If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves.
3936
3937 Spaces inside of constructs such as `[..]' and inside loops such as
3938 `*', `+', and `?' are never replaced with `search-spaces-regexp'.
3939
3940 *** New regular expression operators, `\_<' and `\_>'.
3941
3942 These match the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a
3943 non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
3944 specified by the syntax table.
3945
3946 *** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements.
3947
3948 *** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
3949 character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
3950 characters and ranges.
3951
3952 *** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits
3953 properties from surrounding text.
3954
3955 *** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final
3956 element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data'
3957 accepts such a list for restoring the match state.
3958
3959 *** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional
3960 argument `reseat'. When non-nil, all markers in the match data list
3961 passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere.
3962
3963 *** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
3964 variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
3965 that end a sentence without following spaces.
3966
3967 The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the
3968 variable `sentence-end'. If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then
3969 this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables
3970 `sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and
3971 `sentence-end-without-space'.
3972
3973 ** Undo changes:
3974
3975 *** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements.
3976
3977 These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
3978 a symbol other than t or nil. That stands for a high-level change
3979 that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).
3980
3981 These entries can also have the form (apply DELTA BEG END FUNNAME . ARGS)
3982 which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the
3983 range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA.
3984
3985 *** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than
3986 `undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent
3987 it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.
3988
3989 ** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how
3990 previously killed text on the kill ring is reinserted.
3991
3992 The value of the `yank-handler' property must be a list with one to four
3993 elements with the following format:
3994 (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).
3995
3996 The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
3997 the first character on its string argument (typically the first
3998 element on the kill-ring). If a `yank-handler' property is found,
3999 the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:
4000
4001 When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
4002 to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
4003 If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object
4004 passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is
4005 `yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a
4006 rectangle.
4007 If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the
4008 `yank-excluded-properties' is not performed; instead FUNCTION is
4009 responsible for removing those properties. This may be necessary
4010 if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object.
4011 If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
4012 by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object. It is
4013 called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
4014 FUNCTION can set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.
4015
4016 *** The functions `kill-new', `kill-append', and `kill-region' now have an
4017 optional argument to specify the `yank-handler' text property to put on
4018 the killed text.
4019
4020 *** The function `yank-pop' will now use a non-nil value of the variable
4021 `yank-undo-function' (instead of `delete-region') to undo the previous
4022 `yank' or `yank-pop' command (or a call to `insert-for-yank'). The function
4023 `insert-for-yank' automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
4024 element of the string argument's `yank-handler' text property if present.
4025
4026 *** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
4027 `yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
4028 string. The old behavior is available if you call
4029 `insert-for-yank-1' instead.
4030
4031 ** Syntax table changes:
4032
4033 *** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table.
4034
4035 *** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code
4036 of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account
4037 of text properties as well as the character code.
4038
4039 *** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned
4040 by `syntax-after').
4041
4042 *** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the
4043 current syntactic context at point.
4044
4045 ** File operation changes:
4046
4047 *** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
4048 searching for an executable or an Emacs Lisp file.
4049
4050 *** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and
4051 modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this
4052 operation.
4053
4054 *** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns
4055 non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using
4056 its own special methods and not directly through the file system).
4057 The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system.
4058
4059 *** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was
4060 formerly called `auto-save-file-format'. It is now a permanent local.
4061
4062 *** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now
4063 ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as
4064 `.emacs' are treated as extensionless.
4065
4066 *** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
4067 a list of two integers, instead of a cons.
4068
4069 *** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which
4070 specifies the maximum number of links to chase through. If after that
4071 many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link,
4072 `file-chase-links' returns it anyway.
4073
4074 *** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
4075 before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final
4076 tasks. For example, it can be used by the copyright package to make
4077 sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.
4078
4079 *** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
4080 `save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if
4081 it's modified).
4082
4083 *** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories.
4084 `locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two
4085 lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to
4086 try; typical usage might use `exec-path' and `load-path' for the list
4087 of directories, and `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' for the list
4088 of suffixes. The function also accepts a predicate argument to
4089 further filter candidate files.
4090
4091 One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
4092 `exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
4093 executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.
4094
4095 *** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.
4096
4097 Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,
4098 `find-file-name-handler' now gives precedence to a file name handler
4099 that matches nearest the end of the file name. More precisely, the
4100 handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. In case
4101 of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies.
4102
4103 *** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles.
4104
4105 You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name
4106 symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that
4107 the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other
4108 operations.
4109
4110 This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being
4111 autoloaded when not really necessary.
4112
4113 *** The function `make-auto-save-file-name' is now handled by file
4114 name handlers. This will be exploited for remote files mainly.
4115
4116 *** The function `file-name-completion' accepts an optional argument
4117 PREDICATE, and rejects completion candidates that don't satisfy PREDICATE.
4118
4119 ** Input changes:
4120
4121 *** The functions `read-event', `read-char', and `read-char-exclusive'
4122 have a new optional argument SECONDS. If non-nil, this specifies a
4123 maximum time to wait for input, in seconds. If no input arrives after
4124 this time elapses, the functions stop waiting and return nil.
4125
4126 *** An interactive specification can now use the code letter `U' to get
4127 the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
4128 previous `k' or `K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.
4129
4130 *** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
4131 much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
4132 it returns just the directory name.
4133
4134 *** Functions `y-or-n-p', `read-char', `read-key-sequence' and the like, that
4135 display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
4136 using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
4137
4138 *** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input
4139 arrives. If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a
4140 quit had occurred. `while-no-input' returns the value of BODY, if BODY
4141 finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted by a quit, and t if
4142 BODY was aborted by arrival of input.
4143
4144 *** `recent-keys' now returns the last 300 keys.
4145
4146 ** Minibuffer changes:
4147
4148 *** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional
4149 buffer argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted, it
4150 defaults to the current buffer.
4151
4152 *** New function `minibuffer-selected-window' returns the window which
4153 was selected when entering the minibuffer.
4154
4155 *** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
4156 specifies a predicate which the file name read must satisfy. The
4157 new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
4158 while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
4159 variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.
4160
4161 *** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by Lisp code
4162 to override the built-in `read-file-name' function.
4163
4164 *** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
4165 whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
4166 `read-file-name' function.
4167
4168 *** The new function `read-directory-name' is for reading a directory name.
4169
4170 It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
4171 for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.
4172
4173 *** The new variable `history-add-new-input' specifies whether to add new
4174 elements in history. If set to nil, minibuffer reading functions don't
4175 add new elements to the history list, so it is possible to do this
4176 afterwards by calling `add-to-history' explicitly.
4177
4178 ** Completion changes:
4179
4180 *** The new function `minibuffer-completion-contents' returns the contents
4181 of the minibuffer just before point. That is what completion commands
4182 operate on.
4183
4184 *** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
4185 of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
4186 and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
4187 exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables can be either
4188 strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.
4189
4190 *** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions
4191 as a dynamic completion table.
4192
4193 (dynamic-completion-table FUN)
4194
4195 FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required,
4196 and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible
4197 completions. This alist can be a full list of possible completions so that FUN
4198 can ignore the value of its argument. If completion is performed in the
4199 minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was
4200 entered. `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion.
4201
4202 *** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
4203 as a lazy completion table.
4204
4205 (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN)
4206
4207 If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
4208 as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with no
4209 arguments. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR.
4210 If completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
4211 from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
4212 `lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.
4213
4214 ** Enhancements to keymaps.
4215
4216 *** New keymaps for typing file names
4217
4218 Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' and
4219 `minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
4220 Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer. These key maps override
4221 the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
4222 names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
4223 the spaces).
4224
4225 *** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.
4226
4227 You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
4228 same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'. For
4229 example,
4230
4231 (kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"
4232
4233 Actually, this format has existed since Emacs 20.1.
4234
4235 *** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.
4236
4237 This is an alternative to using `defadvice' or `substitute-key-definition'
4238 to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
4239 binding and lookup functionality.
4240
4241 When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is
4242 remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the
4243 original command.
4244
4245 Example:
4246 Suppose that minor mode `my-mode' has defined the commands
4247 `my-kill-line' and `my-kill-word', and it wants C-k (and any other key
4248 bound to `kill-line') to run the command `my-kill-line' instead of
4249 `kill-line', and likewise it wants to run `my-kill-word' instead of
4250 `kill-word'.
4251
4252 Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map,
4253 command remapping allows you to directly map `kill-line' into
4254 `my-kill-line' and `kill-word' into `my-kill-word' using `define-key':
4255
4256 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line)
4257 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word)
4258
4259 When `my-mode' is enabled, its minor mode keymap is enabled too. So
4260 when the user types C-k, that runs the command `my-kill-line'.
4261
4262 Only one level of remapping is supported. In the above example, this
4263 means that if `my-kill-line' is remapped to `other-kill', then C-k still
4264 runs `my-kill-line'.
4265
4266 The following changes have been made to provide command remapping:
4267
4268 - Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
4269 `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD
4270 to definition DEF in keymap MAP. The definition is not limited to
4271 another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding.
4272
4273 - The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a
4274 remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped.
4275
4276 - `key-binding' now remaps interactive commands unless the optional
4277 third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil.
4278
4279 - `where-is-internal' now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g.
4280 `kill-line', when `my-mode' is enabled), and the actual key binding for
4281 the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line).
4282 It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits
4283 remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns "C-k" for `kill-line', and
4284 "<kill-line>" for `my-kill-line').
4285
4286 - The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
4287 command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the
4288 command was not remapped.
4289
4290 *** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
4291 over minor mode keymaps.
4292
4293 *** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and
4294 text properties, according to their stickiness. This also means that it
4295 works with empty overlays. The same hold for the `local-map' property.
4296
4297 *** `key-binding' will now look up mouse-specific bindings. The
4298 keymaps consulted by `key-binding' will get adapted if the key
4299 sequence is started with a mouse event. Instead of letting the click
4300 position be determined from the key sequence itself, it is also
4301 possible to specify it with an optional argument explicitly.
4302
4303 *** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly.
4304
4305 Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key
4306 bindings of the parent keymap.
4307
4308 *** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1.
4309
4310 *** New function `current-active-maps' returns a list of currently
4311 active keymaps.
4312
4313 *** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all
4314 defined keys and their definitions.
4315
4316 *** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt string of a keymap.
4317
4318 *** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
4319 in the keymap.
4320
4321 *** New variable `emulation-mode-map-alists'.
4322
4323 Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
4324 keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their
4325 keymap alist to this list.
4326
4327 *** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style
4328 key-sequences, such as [(control a)].
4329
4330 ** Abbrev changes:
4331
4332 *** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table.
4333
4334 It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table.
4335
4336 *** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG.
4337
4338 If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means
4339 that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the
4340 abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always
4341 specify this flag.
4342
4343 ** Enhancements to process support
4344
4345 *** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
4346 it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set.
4347
4348 *** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'.
4349
4350 These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'. That
4351 function is still supported, but new code should use the new
4352 functions.
4353
4354 *** Function `signal-process' now accepts a process object or process
4355 name in addition to a process id to identify the signaled process.
4356
4357 *** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can
4358 maintain process state and other per-process related information.
4359
4360 Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add,
4361 and modify elements on this property list. Use the new functions
4362 `process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the
4363 entire property list of a process.
4364
4365 *** Function `accept-process-output' has a new optional fourth arg
4366 JUST-THIS-ONE. If non-nil, only output from the specified process
4367 is handled, suspending output from other processes. If value is an
4368 integer, also inhibit running timers. This feature is generally not
4369 recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
4370 speech synthesis.
4371
4372 *** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.
4373
4374 On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
4375 output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
4376 very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent
4377 by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
4378 non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
4379 from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before
4380 Emacs tries to read it.
4381
4382 *** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.
4383
4384 This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.
4385
4386 *** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but
4387 obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
4388 `default-directory'.
4389
4390 *** A process filter function gets the output as multibyte string
4391 if the process specifies t for its filter's multibyteness.
4392
4393 That multibyteness is decided by the value of
4394 `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is created, and
4395 you can change it later with `set-process-filter-multibyte'.
4396
4397 *** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the
4398 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4399
4400 *** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns the
4401 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4402
4403 *** If a process's coding system is `raw-text' or `no-conversion' and its
4404 buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted
4405 to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer.
4406 Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte',
4407 which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.
4408
4409 ** Enhanced networking support.
4410
4411 *** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
4412 It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
4413 create a stream or datagram server inside Emacs.
4414
4415 - A server is started using :server t arg.
4416 - Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
4417 - A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
4418 - Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.
4419 - IPv6 is supported (when available). You may explicitly select IPv6
4420 using :family 'ipv6 arg.
4421 - Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg.
4422 - The process' property list can be initialized using :plist PLIST arg;
4423 a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited
4424 by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.
4425
4426 To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
4427 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))
4428 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:family ipv6))
4429
4430 *** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.
4431
4432 *** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.
4433
4434 These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get
4435 and set the current address of the remote partner.
4436
4437 *** New function `format-network-address'.
4438
4439 This function reformats the Lisp representation of a network address
4440 to a printable string. For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port
4441 number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the
4442 printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc
4443 string for other formatting options.
4444
4445 *** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument.
4446
4447 Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network
4448 process properties or a specific property. Using :local or :remote as
4449 the KEY, you get the address of the local or remote end-point.
4450
4451 An Inet address is represented as a 5 element vector, where the first
4452 4 elements contain the IP address and the fifth is the port number.
4453
4454 *** New functions `stop-process' and `continue-process'.
4455
4456 These functions stop and restart communication through a network
4457 connection. For a server process, no connections are accepted in the
4458 stopped state. For a client process, no input is received in the
4459 stopped state.
4460
4461 *** New function `network-interface-list'.
4462
4463 This function returns a list of network interface names and their
4464 current network addresses.
4465
4466 *** New function `network-interface-info'.
4467
4468 This function returns the network address, hardware address, current
4469 status, and other information about a specific network interface.
4470
4471 *** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel.
4472
4473 The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network
4474 process is "deleted". The message passed to the sentinel when the
4475 connection is closed by the remote peer has been changed to
4476 "connection broken by remote peer".
4477
4478 ** Using window objects:
4479
4480 *** New function `window-body-height'.
4481
4482 This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the
4483 header line.
4484
4485 *** You can now make a window as short as one line.
4486
4487 A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode
4488 line or a header line, even if the variables `mode-line-format' and
4489 `header-line-format' call for them. A window that is two lines tall
4490 cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the
4491 variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears.
4492
4493 *** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
4494 actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
4495 divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
4496 the mode line.
4497
4498 *** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges'
4499 return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines.
4500
4501 *** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the
4502 selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'.
4503 It saves and restores the current buffer, too.
4504
4505 *** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD.
4506
4507 This is like `switch-to-buffer'.
4508
4509 *** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
4510 of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed
4511 by calling `select-window'. It also saves and restores the current
4512 buffer.
4513
4514 *** `set-window-buffer' has an optional argument KEEP-MARGINS.
4515
4516 If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
4517 and scroll-bar settings.
4518
4519 *** The new function `window-tree' returns a frame's window tree.
4520
4521 *** The functions `get-lru-window' and `get-largest-window' take an optional
4522 argument `dedicated'. If non-nil, those functions do not ignore
4523 dedicated windows.
4524
4525 *** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right
4526 or bottom edge of a window. It does not move other window edges.
4527
4528 ** Customizable fringe bitmaps
4529
4530 *** New buffer-local variables `fringe-indicator-alist' and
4531 `fringe-cursor-alist' maps between logical (internal) fringe indicator
4532 and cursor symbols and the actual fringe bitmaps to be displayed.
4533 This decouples the logical meaning of the fringe indicators from the
4534 physical appearance, as well as allowing different fringe bitmaps to
4535 be used in different windows showing different buffers.
4536
4537 *** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new
4538 fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps.
4539
4540 *** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
4541 or restores a built-in one to its default value.
4542
4543 *** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be
4544 used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is automatically merged
4545 with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face should only specify the
4546 foreground color of the bitmap.
4547
4548 *** There are new display properties, `left-fringe' and `right-fringe',
4549 that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe
4550 bitmap of the display line.
4551
4552 Format is `display (left-fringe BITMAP [FACE])', where BITMAP is a
4553 symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with
4554 `define-fringe-bitmap', and FACE is an optional face name to be used
4555 for displaying the bitmap instead of the default `fringe' face.
4556 When specified, FACE is automatically merged with the `fringe' face.
4557
4558 *** New function `fringe-bitmaps-at-pos' returns the current fringe
4559 bitmaps in the display line at a given buffer position.
4560
4561 ** Other window fringe features:
4562
4563 *** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths.
4564
4565 The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame
4566 can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe'
4567 frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels.
4568 Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe.
4569
4570 The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the
4571 specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an
4572 integral number of columns. The extra width is distributed evenly
4573 between the left and right fringe. To force a specific fringe width,
4574 specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative,
4575 only the left fringe gets the specified width).
4576
4577 Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe
4578 width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any
4579 of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in
4580 fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels.
4581
4582 *** Per-window fringe and scrollbar settings
4583
4584 **** Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and
4585 position settings.
4586
4587 To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local
4588 variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call
4589 `set-window-fringes'.
4590
4591 To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes
4592 are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area,
4593 or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable
4594 `fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'.
4595
4596 The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current
4597 settings. To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
4598 `fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
4599 displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
4600 an update of the display margins.
4601
4602 **** Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
4603 controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.
4604
4605 To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local
4606 variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call
4607 `set-window-scroll-bars'. The function `window-scroll-bars' can be
4608 used to obtain the current settings. To make `scroll-bar-mode' and
4609 `scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
4610 the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
4611 of the display margins.
4612
4613 ** Redisplay features:
4614
4615 *** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP).
4616
4617 *** Iconifying or deiconifying a frame no longer makes sit-for return.
4618
4619 *** New function `redisplay' causes an immediate redisplay if no input is
4620 available, equivalent to (sit-for 0). The call (redisplay t) forces
4621 an immediate redisplay even if input is pending.
4622
4623 *** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of
4624 one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window
4625 contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit
4626 changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
4627 forcing an explicit window update.
4628
4629 *** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able
4630 to display CHAR. More precisely, if the selected frame's fontset has
4631 a font to display the character set that CHAR belongs to.
4632
4633 Fontsets can specify a font on a per-character basis; when the fontset
4634 does that, this value cannot be accurate.
4635
4636 *** You can define multiple overlay arrows via the new
4637 variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'.
4638
4639 It contains a list of variables which contain overlay arrow position
4640 markers, including the original `overlay-arrow-position' variable.
4641
4642 Each variable on this list can have individual `overlay-arrow-string'
4643 and `overlay-arrow-bitmap' properties that specify an overlay arrow
4644 string (for non-window terminals) or fringe bitmap (for window
4645 systems) to display at the corresponding overlay arrow position.
4646 If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or
4647 'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used.
4648
4649 *** New `line-height' and `line-spacing' properties for newline characters
4650
4651 A newline can now have `line-height' and `line-spacing' text or overlay
4652 properties that control the height of the corresponding display row.
4653
4654 If the `line-height' property value is t, the newline does not
4655 contribute to the height of the display row; instead the height of the
4656 newline glyph is reduced. Also, a `line-spacing' property on this
4657 newline is ignored. This can be used to tile small images or image
4658 slices without adding blank areas between the images.
4659
4660 If the `line-height' property value is a positive integer, the value
4661 specifies the minimum line height in pixels. If necessary, the line
4662 height it increased by increasing the line's ascent.
4663
4664 If the `line-height' property value is a float, the minimum line
4665 height is calculated by multiplying the default frame line height by
4666 the given value.
4667
4668 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (FACE . RATIO), the
4669 minimum line height is calculated as RATIO * height of named FACE.
4670 RATIO is int or float. If FACE is t, it specifies the current face.
4671
4672 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (nil . RATIO), the line
4673 height is calculated as RATIO * actual height of the line's contents.
4674
4675 If the `line-height' value is a cons (HEIGHT . TOTAL), HEIGHT specifies
4676 the line height as described above, while TOTAL is any of the forms
4677 described above and specifies the total height of the line, causing a
4678 varying number of pixels to be inserted after the line to make it line
4679 exactly that many pixels high.
4680
4681 If the `line-spacing' property value is an positive integer, the value
4682 is used as additional pixels to insert after the display line; this
4683 overrides the default frame `line-spacing' and any buffer local value of
4684 the `line-spacing' variable.
4685
4686 If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing
4687 is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property.
4688
4689 *** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value,
4690 which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.
4691
4692 *** Enhancements to stretch display properties
4693
4694 The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where
4695 PROPS is a property list, now allows pixel based width and height
4696 specifications, as well as enhanced horizontal text alignment.
4697
4698 The value of these properties can now be a (primitive) expression
4699 which is evaluated during redisplay. The following expressions
4700 are supported:
4701
4702 EXPR ::= NUM | (NUM) | UNIT | ELEM | POS | IMAGE | FORM
4703 NUM ::= INTEGER | FLOAT | SYMBOL
4704 UNIT ::= in | mm | cm | width | height
4705 ELEM ::= left-fringe | right-fringe | left-margin | right-margin
4706 | scroll-bar | text
4707 POS ::= left | center | right
4708 FORM ::= (NUM . EXPR) | (OP EXPR ...)
4709 OP ::= + | -
4710
4711 The form `NUM' specifies a fractional width or height of the default
4712 frame font size. The form `(NUM)' specifies an absolute number of
4713 pixels. If a symbol is specified, its buffer-local variable binding
4714 is used. The `in', `mm', and `cm' units specifies the number of
4715 pixels per inch, milli-meter, and centi-meter, resp. The `width' and
4716 `height' units correspond to the width and height of the current face
4717 font. An image specification corresponds to the width or height of
4718 the image.
4719
4720 The `left-fringe', `right-fringe', `left-margin', `right-margin',
4721 `scroll-bar', and `text' elements specify to the width of the
4722 corresponding area of the window.
4723
4724 The `left', `center', and `right' positions can be used with :align-to
4725 to specify a position relative to the left edge, center, or right edge
4726 of the text area. One of the above window elements (except `text')
4727 can also be used with :align-to to specify that the position is
4728 relative to the left edge of the given area. Once the base offset for
4729 a relative position has been set (by the first occurrence of one of
4730 these symbols), further occurrences of these symbols are interpreted as
4731 the width of the area.
4732
4733 For example, to align to the center of the left-margin, use
4734 :align-to (+ left-margin (0.5 . left-margin))
4735
4736 If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative
4737 to the left edge of the text area. For example, :align-to 0 in a
4738 header line aligns with the first text column in the text area.
4739
4740 The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by
4741 the value of the expression EXPR. For example, (2 . in) specifies a
4742 width of 2 inches, while (0.5 . IMAGE) specifies half the width (or
4743 height) of the specified image.
4744
4745 The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions.
4746 The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions.
4747
4748 *** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and
4749 text property string that may be present at the current window
4750 position. The cursor can now be placed on any character of such
4751 strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property.
4752
4753 *** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now
4754 supported on text terminals.
4755
4756 *** Support for displaying image slices
4757
4758 **** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with
4759 an image property to display only a specific slice of the image.
4760
4761 **** Function `insert-image' has new optional fourth arg to
4762 specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT).
4763
4764 **** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a
4765 specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns).
4766
4767 *** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property.
4768
4769 An image map is an alist where each element has the format (AREA ID PLIST).
4770 An AREA is specified as either a rectangle, a circle, or a polygon:
4771 A rectangle is a cons (rect . ((X0 . Y0) . (X1 . Y1))) specifying the
4772 pixel coordinates of the upper left and bottom right corners.
4773 A circle is a cons (circle . ((X0 . Y0) . R)) specifying the center
4774 and the radius of the circle; R can be a float or integer.
4775 A polygon is a cons (poly . [X0 Y0 X1 Y1 ...]) where each pair in the
4776 vector describes one corner in the polygon.
4777
4778 When the mouse pointer is above a hot-spot area of an image, the
4779 PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo'
4780 property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains
4781 a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when
4782 it is over the hot-spot. See the variable `void-area-text-pointer'
4783 for possible pointer shapes.
4784
4785 When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
4786 an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
4787 mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.
4788
4789 *** The function `find-image' now searches in etc/images/ and etc/.
4790 The new variable `image-load-path' is a list of locations in which to
4791 search for image files. The default is to search in etc/images, then
4792 in etc/, and finally in the directories specified by `load-path'.
4793 Subdirectories of etc/ and etc/images are not recursively searched; if
4794 you put an image file in a subdirectory, you have to specify it
4795 explicitly; for example, if an image is put in etc/images/foo/bar.xpm:
4796
4797 (defimage foo-image '((:type xpm :file "foo/bar.xpm")))
4798
4799 Note that all images formerly located in the lisp directory have been
4800 moved to etc/images.
4801
4802 *** New function `image-load-path-for-library' returns a suitable
4803 search path for images relative to library. This function is useful in
4804 external packages to save users from having to update
4805 `image-load-path'.
4806
4807 *** The new variable `max-image-size' defines the maximum size of
4808 images that Emacs will load and display.
4809
4810 *** The new variable `display-mm-dimensions-alist' can be used to
4811 override incorrect graphical display dimensions returned by functions
4812 `display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'.
4813
4814 ** Mouse pointer features:
4815
4816 *** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a
4817 line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now
4818 controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default
4819 is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text'
4820 (or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'.
4821
4822 *** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the
4823 :pointer image property.
4824
4825 *** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images can now be
4826 controlled/overridden via the `pointer' text property.
4827
4828 ** Mouse event enhancements:
4829
4830 *** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe'
4831 or `right-fringe' as the area.
4832
4833 *** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where
4834 you clicked. For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is
4835 a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text.
4836
4837 *** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events.
4838
4839 *** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area.
4840
4841 *** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means
4842 text area).
4843
4844 *** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types
4845 and all areas.
4846
4847 *** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates
4848 of the mouse event position.
4849
4850 *** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on.
4851
4852 *** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to
4853 the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on.
4854
4855 *** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object
4856 (image or character) clicked on.
4857
4858 *** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'.
4859
4860 These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y
4861 pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of that object, and
4862 the total width and height of that object.
4863
4864 ** Text property and overlay changes:
4865
4866 *** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can
4867 remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays).
4868
4869 *** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
4870
4871 This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
4872 properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
4873 although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced
4874 to implement the `font-lock-face' property.
4875
4876 *** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
4877 arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
4878 return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
4879 whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
4880 it was found as a text property or not found at all.
4881
4882 *** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'.
4883
4884 It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of
4885 property names as argument rather than a property list.
4886
4887 ** Face changes
4888
4889 *** The variable `facemenu-unlisted-faces' has been removed.
4890 Emacs has a lot more faces than in the past, and nearly all of them
4891 needed to be excluded. The new variable `facemenu-listed-faces' lists
4892 the faces to include in the face menu.
4893
4894 *** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor
4895 the face color to the number of colors supported by a display, and
4896 define the foreground and background colors accordingly so that they
4897 look best on a terminal that supports at least this many colors. This
4898 is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that
4899 makes a good use of the capabilities of the display.
4900
4901 *** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test
4902 whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.
4903
4904 A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
4905 specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
4906 defined with `defface'.
4907
4908 *** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR'
4909 or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the
4910 `defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use
4911 the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background
4912 directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face.
4913
4914 *** The first face specification element in a defface can specify
4915 `default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as
4916 defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and can be overridden
4917 by them).
4918
4919 *** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger
4920 (or smaller) font we should use. For instance, if the value is
4921 '((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10
4922 point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches
4923 SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN.
4924
4925 *** The function `face-differs-from-default-p' now truly checks
4926 whether the given face displays differently from the default face or
4927 not (previously it did only a very cursory check).
4928
4929 *** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'.
4930
4931 These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how
4932 face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face
4933 attribute.
4934
4935 *** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute'
4936 help with handling relative face attributes.
4937
4938 *** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face list is reversed.
4939
4940 If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
4941 faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous
4942 releases of Emacs, the order was the opposite. This change was made
4943 so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text
4944 `face' properties.
4945
4946 *** On terminals, faces with the :inverse-video attribute are displayed
4947 with swapped foreground and background colors even when one of them is
4948 not specified. In previous releases of Emacs, if either foreground
4949 or background color was unspecified, colors were not swapped. This
4950 was inconsistent with the face behavior under X.
4951
4952 *** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
4953 the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..
4954
4955 ** Font-Lock changes:
4956
4957 *** New special text property `font-lock-face'.
4958
4959 This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by
4960 M-x font-lock-mode. It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text
4961 property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the
4962 new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
4963
4964 *** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.
4965
4966 **** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the
4967 form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other
4968 properties than `face'.
4969
4970 **** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those
4971 extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.
4972
4973 *** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'.
4974
4975 If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified
4976 (see `jit-lock-defer-contextually'), then all of that text will
4977 be refontified. This is useful when the syntax of a textual element
4978 depends on text several lines further down (and when `font-lock-multiline'
4979 is not appropriate to solve that problem). For example in Perl:
4980
4981 s{
4982 foo
4983 }{
4984 bar
4985 }e
4986
4987 Adding/removing the last `e' changes the `bar' from being a piece of
4988 text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a `jit-lock-defer-multiline'
4989 property over the second half of the command to force (deferred)
4990 refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed.
4991
4992 *** `font-lock-extend-region-functions' makes it possible to alter the way
4993 the fontification region is chosen. This can be used to prevent rounding
4994 up to whole lines, or to extend the region to include all related lines
4995 of multiline constructs so that such constructs get properly recognized.
4996
4997 ** Major mode mechanism changes:
4998
4999 *** If new variable `auto-mode-case-fold' is set to a non-nil value,
5000 Emacs will perform a second case-insensitive search through
5001 `auto-mode-alist' if the first case-sensitive search fails.
5002 This means that a file FILE.TXT is opened in text-mode, and a file PROG.PY
5003 is opened in python-mode. Note however, that independent of this
5004 setting, *.C files are usually recognized as C++ files.
5005 It also has no effect on systems with case-insensitive file names.
5006
5007 *** New variable `magic-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5008 looking at the file contents. It takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist'.
5009
5010 *** An interpreter magic line (if present) takes precedence over the
5011 file name when setting the major mode.
5012
5013 *** XML or SGML major mode is selected when file starts with an `<?xml'
5014 or `<!DOCTYPE' declaration.
5015
5016 *** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.
5017
5018 *** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook
5019 `after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode
5020 hooks. `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically.
5021
5022 *** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect'
5023 property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use
5024 it in that buffer.
5025
5026 *** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function'
5027 locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to
5028 the language.
5029
5030 *** `define-derived-mode' by default creates a new empty abbrev table.
5031 It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table.
5032
5033 *** The new function `run-mode-hooks' and the new macro `delay-mode-hooks'
5034 are used by `define-derived-mode' to make sure the mode hook for the
5035 parent mode is run at the end of the child mode.
5036
5037 ** Minor mode changes:
5038
5039 *** `define-minor-mode' now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments
5040 and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable.
5041
5042 *** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.
5043
5044 *** `define-globalized-minor-mode'.
5045
5046 This is a new name for what was formerly called
5047 `easy-mmode-define-global-mode'. The old name remains as an alias.
5048
5049 ** Command loop changes:
5050
5051 *** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people
5052 have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the
5053 calling function was called through `call-interactively'.
5054
5055 Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new
5056 INTERACTIVE argument to the command.
5057
5058 *** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument.
5059
5060 If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks for a function that could be
5061 called with `call-interactively', and does not return t for keyboard
5062 macros.
5063
5064 *** When a command returns, the command loop moves point out from
5065 within invisible text, in the same way it moves out from within text
5066 covered by an image or composition property.
5067
5068 This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible.
5069 This is particularly good because the intangible property often has
5070 unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything
5071 (including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after
5072 `post-command-hook' and thus does not care about intermediate states.
5073
5074 *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to `only', that
5075 enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
5076 During that following command, the value of `transient-mark-mode'
5077 is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command,
5078 the next return to the command loop changes to nil.
5079
5080 *** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
5081 been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable
5082 `disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.
5083
5084 *** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook'
5085 when it receives a request from emacsclient.
5086
5087 *** `current-idle-time' reports how long Emacs has been idle.
5088
5089 ** Lisp file loading changes:
5090
5091 *** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
5092 which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the
5093 current file redefined it).
5094
5095 *** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is
5096 defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name.
5097
5098 *** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function,
5099 variable or face definitions.
5100
5101 *** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
5102 to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
5103 and runs any code associated with the provided feature.
5104
5105 *** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted.
5106 Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more
5107 than 3 levels of nesting.
5108
5109 ** Byte compiler changes:
5110
5111 *** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character
5112 position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form of its
5113 warning and error messages have been brought into line with GNU standards
5114 for these. As a result, you can use next-error and friends on the
5115 compilation output buffer.
5116
5117 *** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
5118 inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.
5119
5120 *** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a
5121 simple convention that the compiler understands. (This is mostly
5122 useful in code meant to be portable to different Emacs versions.)
5123 Write forms like the following, or code that macroexpands into such
5124 forms:
5125
5126 (if (fboundp 'foo) <then> <else>)
5127 (if (boundp 'foo) <then> <else)
5128
5129 In the first case, using `foo' as a function inside the <then> form
5130 won't produce a warning if it's not defined as a function, and in the
5131 second case, using `foo' as a variable won't produce a warning if it's
5132 unbound. The test must be in exactly one of the above forms (after
5133 macro expansion), but such tests can be nested. Note that `when' and
5134 `unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't.
5135
5136 *** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil. This
5137 helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both
5138 Emacs and XEmacs and can sometimes make the result significantly more
5139 efficient. Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't
5140 generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
5141 you anything.
5142
5143 *** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in Lisp files is now obeyed.
5144
5145 *** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file
5146 now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs
5147 (require 'cl) when loaded.
5148
5149 ** Frame operations:
5150
5151 *** New functions `frame-current-scroll-bars' and `window-current-scroll-bars'.
5152
5153 These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
5154 horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window.
5155
5156 *** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
5157 for all (existing and future) frames.
5158
5159 *** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use
5160 for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a
5161 number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp
5162 Reference manual for more detailed documentation.
5163
5164 *** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width,
5165 the `scroll-bar-width' frame parameter value is nil.
5166
5167 ** Mule changes:
5168
5169 *** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
5170
5171 Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
5172 from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte
5173 buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them
5174 now:
5175
5176 1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time.
5177
5178 2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid
5179 the time it takes to convert the format.
5180
5181 3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
5182 wasteful.
5183
5184 *** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument,
5185 NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified.
5186
5187 *** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
5188 to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
5189 for it. (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
5190 file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)
5191
5192 *** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the
5193 ascii character set. Language environments (such as Turkish) may
5194 alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters. This variable
5195 saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes.
5196
5197 *** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
5198 of one coding system from another coding system.
5199
5200 *** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that
5201 the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text
5202 parts, e.g. utf-16.
5203
5204 *** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if
5205 it is read from a file without decoding.
5206
5207 *** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
5208 hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.
5209
5210 *** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the
5211 current input method to input a character.
5212
5213 ** Mode line changes:
5214
5215 *** New function `format-mode-line'.
5216
5217 This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a
5218 specified) window as a string with or without text properties.
5219
5220 *** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
5221 used to add text properties to mode-line elements.
5222
5223 *** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used
5224 to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode
5225 line.
5226
5227 *** Mouse-face on mode-line (and header-line) is now supported.
5228
5229 ** Menu manipulation changes:
5230
5231 *** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the
5232 proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify
5233 "files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File"
5234 several versions ago.
5235
5236 *** The dummy function keys made by easy-menu are now always lower case.
5237 If you specify the menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'
5238 as the "key" bound by that key binding.
5239
5240 This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for the bindings that were
5241 made with easy-menu.
5242
5243 *** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name
5244 if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu
5245 into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't
5246 need to have a name.
5247
5248 ** Operating system access:
5249
5250 *** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor
5251 run time used by Emacs since start-up.
5252
5253 *** Functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid' now return floats if the
5254 user UID doesn't fit in a Lisp integer. Function `user-full-name'
5255 accepts a float as UID parameter.
5256
5257 *** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information.
5258
5259 *** On MS Windows, locale-coding-system is used to interact with the OS.
5260 The Windows specific variable w32-system-coding-system, which was
5261 formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system.
5262
5263 *** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
5264 debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.
5265
5266 ** Miscellaneous:
5267
5268 *** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions:
5269
5270 `find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook',
5271 `find-file-not-found-hooks' to `find-file-not-found-functions',
5272 `write-file-hooks' to `write-file-functions',
5273 `write-contents-hooks' to `write-contents-functions',
5274 `x-lost-selection-hooks' to `x-lost-selection-functions',
5275 `x-sent-selection-hooks' to `x-sent-selection-functions',
5276 `delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.
5277
5278 In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.
5279
5280 *** Variable `local-write-file-hooks' is marked obsolete.
5281
5282 Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.
5283
5284 *** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
5285 running under X.
5286
5287 ** GC changes:
5288
5289 *** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold
5290 as the heap size increases.
5291
5292 *** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
5293 on garbage collection.
5294
5295 *** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection.
5296
5297 The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care.
5298 \f
5299 * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1
5300
5301 ** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
5302 buttons' in Emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
5303 `widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
5304 doesn't require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for
5305 such things as help and apropos buffers.
5306
5307 ** The new library tree-widget.el provides a widget to display a set
5308 of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is
5309 well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.
5310
5311 ** The new library bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
5312 binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
5313 data structures.
5314
5315 ** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
5316 buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.
5317
5318 It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
5319 and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi
5320 buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the
5321 commands.
5322
5323 This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable
5324 sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the
5325 SQL buffer.
5326
5327 (add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
5328 (function (lambda ()
5329 (master-mode t)
5330 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5331 (add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
5332 (function (lambda ()
5333 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5334
5335 ** The new library benchmark.el does timing measurements on Lisp code.
5336
5337 This includes measuring garbage collection time.
5338
5339 ** The new library testcover.el does test coverage checking.
5340
5341 This is so you can tell whether you've tested all paths in your Lisp
5342 code. It works with edebug.
5343
5344 The function `testcover-start' instruments all functions in a given
5345 file. Then test your code. The function `testcover-mark-all' adds
5346 overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to show where coverage
5347 is lacking. The command `testcover-next-mark' (bind it to a key!)
5348 will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch.
5349
5350 Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely
5351 evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same
5352 value. The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly
5353 complete their evaluation, such as `error'. The brown splotches are
5354 skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same
5355 value, such as (setq x 14).
5356
5357 For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to
5358 help out the test coverage tool. The macro `noreturn' suppresses a
5359 red splotch. It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does
5360 return. The macro `1value' suppresses a brown splotch for its argument.
5361 This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals
5362 an error if the argument actually returns differing values.
5363
5364
5365 \f
5366 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
5367 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
5368
5369 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5370 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
5371 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
5372 any later version.
5373
5374 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
5375 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
5376 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
5377 GNU General Public License for more details.
5378
5379 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
5380 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
5381 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
5382 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
5383
5384 \f
5385 Local variables:
5386 mode: outline
5387 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
5388 end:
5389
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