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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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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
18 Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
20 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
21 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
22 so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
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24 \f
25 * About external Lisp packages
26
27 When you upgrade to Emacs 22 from a previous version, some older
28 versions of external Lisp packages are known to behave badly.
29 So in general, it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest
30 versions of any external Lisp packages that you are using.
31
32 You should also be aware that many Lisp packages have been included
33 with Emacs 22 (see the extensive list below), and you should remove
34 any older versions of these packages to ensure that the Emacs 22
35 version is used. You can use M-x list-load-path-shadows to find such
36 older packages.
37
38 Some specific packages that are known to cause problems are:
39
40 ** Semantic (used by CEDET, ECB, JDEE): upgrade to latest version.
41 ** cua.el, cua-mode.el: remove old versions.
42
43 \f
44 * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1
45
46 ---
47 ** Emacs comes with a new set of icons.
48 These icons are displayed on the taskbar and/or titlebar when Emacs
49 runs in a graphical environment. Source files for these icons can be
50 found in etc/images/icons. (You can't change the icons displayed by
51 Emacs by changing these files directly. On X, the icon is compiled
52 into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS
53 Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.)
54
55 ---
56 ** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix',
57 `--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of
58 installed programs.
59
60 ---
61 ** Emacs can now be built without sound support.
62
63 ---
64 ** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
65 when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.4 or newer. This port
66 provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).
67
68 ---
69 ** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code.
70
71 ---
72 ** The `yow' program has been removed.
73 Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead.
74
75 ---
76 ** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game
77 scores. The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal
78 place for game scores to be stored. You can control this with the
79 configure option `--with-game-dir'. The specific user that Emacs uses
80 to own the game scores is controlled by `--with-game-user'. If access
81 to a game user is not available, then scores will be stored separately
82 in each user's home directory.
83
84 ---
85 ** Leim is now part of the Emacs distribution.
86 You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build
87 Emacs with Leim.
88
89 +++
90 ** The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is now part of the distribution.
91
92 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in Info format is built as part of the
93 Emacs build procedure and installed together with the Emacs User
94 Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar to make it easily
95 accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference).
96
97 ---
98 ** The Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp manual is now part of
99 the distribution.
100
101 This manual is now part of the standard distribution and is installed,
102 together with the Emacs User Manual, into the Info directory. A menu
103 item was added to the menu bar to make it easily accessible
104 (Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp).
105
106 ---
107 ** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the
108 following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
109 with simplified and traditional characters), French, and Italian.
110 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language setup
111 doesn't automatically select the right one.
112
113 ---
114 ** A Portuguese translation of Emacs' reference card has been added.
115 Its name is `pt-br-refcard.tex'. The corresponding PostScript file is
116 also included.
117
118 ---
119 ** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
120
121 ---
122 ** Emacs now includes support for loading image libraries on demand.
123 (Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure
124 the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
125 setting the variable `image-library-alist'.
126
127 ---
128 ** Support for a Cygwin build of Emacs was added.
129
130 ---
131 ** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added.
132
133 ---
134 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added.
135
136 ---
137 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on Tensilica Xtensa machines was added.
138
139 ---
140 ** Support for MacOS X was added.
141 See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
142
143 ---
144 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.
145
146 ---
147 ** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also
148 create a non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See
149 the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
150
151 ---
152 ** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union
153 types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.
154
155 ---
156 ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
157 much pure storage it will approximately need.
158
159 ---
160 ** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
161 contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
162 Emacs crash.
163
164 ---
165 ** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
166 The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
167 terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.
168
169 ---
170 ** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available.
171
172 ---
173 ** All images used in Emacs have been consolidated in etc/images and subdirs.
174 See also the changes to `find-image', documented below.
175
176 \f
177 * Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1
178
179 +++
180 ** New command line option -Q or --quick.
181 This is like using -q --no-site-file, but in addition it also disables
182 the fancy startup screen.
183
184 +++
185 ** New command line option -D or --basic-display.
186 Disables the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, and
187 the blinking cursor.
188
189 +++
190 ** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables
191 the blinking cursor on graphical terminals.
192
193 +++
194 ** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE.
195 It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they
196 can start with this line:
197
198 #!/usr/bin/emacs --script
199
200 +++
201 ** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately.
202 Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they
203 appear on the command line. For example, with this command line:
204
205 emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)"
206
207 Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then
208 in the other directories in `load-path'. (-L is short for --directory.)
209
210 +++
211 ** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
212 --no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated.
213
214 ---
215 ** If the environment variable DISPLAY specifies an unreachable X display,
216 Emacs will now startup as if invoked with the --no-window-system option.
217
218 +++
219 ** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function,
220 now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
221 an interactively callable function.
222
223 +++
224 ** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to
225 all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only
226 affects the initial frame.
227
228 ---
229 ** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does,
230 with respect to its frame position: if you don't specify a position
231 (in your .emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry
232 command-line option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows'
233 window manager.
234
235 +++
236 ** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display.
237 When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options
238 `--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame
239 whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire
240 screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.)
241
242 +++
243 ** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
244 arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash
245 disables the splash screen; see also the variable
246 `inhibit-splash-screen' (which is also aliased as
247 `inhibit-startup-message').
248
249 +++
250 ** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon, so the command-line options
251 --icon-type, -i have been replaced with options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn
252 the bitmap icon off.
253
254 +++
255 ** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
256 When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
257 displays a buffer menu. This option turns the buffer menu off.
258
259 +++
260 ** Init file changes
261 If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
262 ~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. Likewise, if the shell init file
263 ~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh.
264
265 +++
266 ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
267 automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save
268 modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It
269 can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,
270 according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
271
272 +++
273 ** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value
274 to compute the default value of `user-mail-address', in preference to
275 concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine.
276
277 \f
278 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
279
280 +++
281 ** M-g is now a prefix key.
282 M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line.
283 M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `).
284 M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error.
285
286 +++
287 ** C-u M-g M-g switches to the most recent previous buffer,
288 and goes to the specified line in that buffer.
289
290 When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at
291 point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer.
292
293 +++
294 ** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
295 since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
296 the operating system or your X server.
297
298 +++
299 ** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
300
301 +++
302 ** When the undo information of the current command gets really large
303 (beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns
304 you about it.
305
306 +++
307 ** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
308 in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.
309
310 +++
311 ** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
312 previous mark if you set `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' to t. I.e. C-u
313 C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC
314 to set the mark immediately after a jump.
315
316 +++
317 ** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
318 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
319
320 +++
321 ** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special.
322
323 See below under "incremental search changes".
324
325 ---
326 ** C-x C-f RET (find-file), typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer
327 a special case.
328
329 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
330 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
331 directory with Dired.
332
333 You can get the old behavior by typing C-x C-f M-n RET, which fetches
334 the actual file name into the minibuffer.
335
336 +++
337 ** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
338 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
339 it remains unchanged.
340
341 +++
342 ** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name.
343 This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the
344 need to quote the space with a C-q. The underlying changes in the
345 keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under
346 "New keymaps for typing file names".
347
348 +++
349 ** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
350 M-o M-o requests refontification.
351
352 +++
353 ** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
354
355 See below for more details.
356
357 +++
358 ** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
359 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
360 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
361 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
362 doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
363 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
364
365 ---
366 ** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
367 It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.
368
369 ---
370 ** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19)
371 have been removed:
372 C-x / point-to-register (Use: C-x r SPC)
373 C-x j jump-to-register (Use: C-x r j)
374 C-x x copy-to-register (Use: C-x r s)
375 C-x g insert-register (Use: C-x r i)
376
377 \f
378 * Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
379
380 +++
381 ** !MEM FULL! at the start of the mode line indicates that Emacs
382 cannot get any more memory for Lisp data. This often means it could
383 crash soon if you do things that use more memory. On most systems,
384 killing buffers will get out of this state. If killing buffers does
385 not make !MEM FULL! disappear, you should save your work and start
386 a new Emacs.
387
388 +++
389 ** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled.
390 On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455).
391
392 +++
393 ** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left
394 (previous-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and
395 C-x right can be used as well. The functions keep a different buffer
396 cycle for each frame, using the frame-local buffer list.
397
398 +++
399 ** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.
400
401 +++
402 ** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N
403 converts whitespace around point to N spaces.
404
405 ---
406 ** C-x 5 C-o displays a specified buffer in another frame
407 but does not switch to that frame. It's the multi-frame
408 analogue of C-x 4 C-o.
409
410 ---
411 ** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
412 `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
413
414 +++
415 ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
416 By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
417
418 +++
419 ** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can
420 be inconvenient when you did not expect them. The variable
421 `yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion
422 of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.
423
424 +++
425 ** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
426 been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
427 in Indented-Text mode.
428
429 +++
430 ** M-x setenv now expands environment variable references.
431
432 Substrings of the form `$foo' and `${foo}' in the specified new value
433 now refer to the value of environment variable foo. To include a `$'
434 in the value, use `$$'.
435
436 +++
437 ** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now
438 understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and
439 `same-window'.
440
441 +++
442 ** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken
443 from the locale.
444
445 ** Mark command changes:
446
447 +++
448 *** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
449 previous mark, i.e. C-u C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the
450 mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC to set the mark immediately after a jump.
451
452 +++
453 *** Marking commands extend the region when invoked multiple times.
454
455 If you type C-M-SPC (mark-sexp), M-@ (mark-word), M-h
456 (mark-paragraph), or C-M-h (mark-defun) repeatedly, the marked region
457 extends each time, so you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC
458 M-C-SPC, for example. This feature also works for
459 mark-end-of-sentence, if you bind that to a key. It also extends the
460 region when the mark is active in Transient Mark mode, regardless of
461 the last command. To start a new region with one of marking commands
462 in Transient Mark mode, you can deactivate the active region with C-g,
463 or set the new mark with C-SPC.
464
465 +++
466 *** M-h (mark-paragraph) now accepts a prefix arg.
467
468 With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following paragraphs;
469 if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding
470 paragraphs.
471
472 +++
473 *** Some commands do something special in Transient Mark mode when the
474 mark is active--for instance, they limit their operation to the
475 region. Even if you don't normally use Transient Mark mode, you might
476 want to get this behavior from a particular command. There are two
477 ways you can enable Transient Mark mode and activate the mark, for one
478 command only.
479
480 One method is to type C-SPC C-SPC; this enables Transient Mark mode
481 and sets the mark at point. The other method is to type C-u C-x C-x.
482 This enables Transient Mark mode temporarily but does not alter the
483 mark or the region.
484
485 After these commands, Transient Mark mode remains enabled until you
486 deactivate the mark. That typically happens when you type a command
487 that alters the buffer, but you can also deactivate the mark by typing
488 C-g.
489
490 +++
491 *** Movement commands `beginning-of-buffer', `end-of-buffer',
492 `beginning-of-defun', `end-of-defun' do not set the mark if the mark
493 is already active in Transient Mark mode.
494
495 ** Help command changes:
496
497 +++
498 *** Changes in C-h bindings:
499
500 C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer.
501
502 C-h d runs apropos-documentation.
503
504 C-h r visits the Emacs Manual in Info.
505
506 C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files
507 that do not change:
508
509 C-h C-f displays the FAQ.
510 C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file.
511
512 The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
513 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
514
515 C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands.
516 - C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping)
517 run by the key sequence.
518 - C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the
519 command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run
520 that command.
521
522 For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped
523 to new-kill-line, these commands now report:
524 - C-h c and C-h k C-k reports:
525 C-k runs the command new-kill-line
526 - C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports:
527 kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline>
528 - C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports:
529 new-kill-line is on C-k
530
531 ---
532 *** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
533 arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the
534 default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
535 `help-default-arg-highlight'.
536
537 +++
538 *** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for
539 variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available).
540
541 +++
542 *** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is
543 preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes
544 hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless
545 preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'. It now makes
546 hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is
547 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info
548 anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). In
549 addition, it now makes hyperlinks to URLs as well if the URL is
550 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `URL'.
551
552 +++
553 *** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
554 description various information about a character, including its
555 encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and
556 widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by
557 clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
558
559 +++
560 *** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because
561 C-u C-x = gives the same information and more.
562
563 +++
564 *** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
565 in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the
566 same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
567 `help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
568 keyboard oriented alternative.
569
570 +++
571 *** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to
572 automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
573 point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is
574 determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
575 to one second. This feature is turned off by default.
576
577 +++
578 *** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match.
579 When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must
580 be present for an item to match. Regular expression matching is still
581 available.
582
583 +++
584 *** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
585 to be sorted according to their score. The score for an item is a
586 number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
587 regular expression that you entered to the apropos command. The best
588 match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each
589 matching item.
590
591 ** Incremental Search changes:
592
593 +++
594 *** Vertical scrolling is now possible within incremental search.
595 To enable this feature, customize the new user option
596 `isearch-allow-scroll'. User written commands which satisfy stringent
597 constraints can be marked as "scrolling commands". See the Emacs manual
598 for details.
599
600 +++
601 *** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word,
602 making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the
603 command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior,
604 bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'.
605
606 +++
607 *** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already
608 at the end of a line.
609
610 +++
611 *** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode.
612 Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e'
613 and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer.
614
615 +++
616 *** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or
617 `query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current
618 search string used as the string to replace.
619
620 +++
621 *** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command
622 history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new
623 user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'.
624
625 ** Replace command changes:
626
627 ---
628 *** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
629 `query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
630 a match if part of it has a read-only property.
631
632 +++
633 *** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and
634 `replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string,
635 where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement
636 time. In many cases, this will be more convenient than using
637 `query-replace-regexp-eval'. `\#' in a replacement string now refers
638 to the count of replacements already made by the replacement command.
639 All regular expression replacement commands now allow `\?' in the
640 replacement string to specify a position where the replacement string
641 can be edited for each replacement.
642
643 +++
644 *** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option
645 `query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil.
646
647 ---
648 *** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face
649 `query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face.
650
651 ** Local variables lists:
652
653 +++
654 *** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and
655 suffix from every line before processing all the lines.
656
657 +++
658 *** Text properties in local variables.
659
660 A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text
661 properties--any specified text properties are discarded.
662
663 +++
664 *** If the local variables list contains any variable-value pairs that
665 are not known to be safe, Emacs shows a prompt asking whether to apply
666 the local variables list as a whole. In earlier versions, a prompt
667 was only issued for variables explicitly marked as risky (for the
668 definition of risky variables, see `risky-local-variable-p').
669
670 At the prompt, you can choose to save the contents of this local
671 variables list to `safe-local-variable-values'. This new customizable
672 option is a list of variable-value pairs that are known to be safe.
673 Variables can also be marked as safe with the existing
674 `safe-local-variable' property (see `safe-local-variable-p').
675 However, risky variables will not be added to
676 `safe-local-variable-values' in this way.
677
678 +++
679 *** The variable `enable-local-variables' controls how local variable
680 lists are handled. t, the default, specifies the standard querying
681 behavior. :safe means use only safe values, and ignore the rest.
682 :all means set all variables, whether or not they are safe.
683 nil means ignore them all. Anything else means always query.
684
685 +++
686 *** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that
687 are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables
688 specification. Normally Emacs asks for confirmation before evaluating
689 such a form, but if the form appears in this list, no confirmation is
690 needed.
691
692 +++
693 *** If a function has a non-nil `safe-local-eval-function' property,
694 that means it is ok to evaluate some calls to that function when it
695 appears in an `eval' local variables specification. If the property
696 is t, then any form calling that function with constant arguments is
697 ok. If the property is a function or list of functions, they are called
698 with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.
699
700 If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
701 confirmation as before.
702
703 ** File operation changes:
704
705 +++
706 *** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
707 the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
708 Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
709 is only rarely needed.
710
711 +++
712 *** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode,
713 when the file name contains wildcard characters.
714
715 +++
716 *** find-alternate-file replaces the current file with multiple files,
717 when the file name contains wildcard characters. It now asks if you
718 wish save your changes and not just offer to kill the buffer.
719
720 +++
721 *** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default.
722
723 ---
724 *** C-x C-f RET, typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case.
725
726 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
727 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
728 directory with Dired.
729
730 +++
731 *** When you are root, and you visit a file whose modes specify
732 read-only, the Emacs buffer is now read-only too. Type C-x C-q if you
733 want to make the buffer writable. (As root, you can in fact alter the
734 file.)
735
736 +++
737 *** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer
738 against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving.
739
740 +++
741 *** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
742 add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
743 convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of
744 the existing file's name. (This is the same convention that shell
745 commands cp, mv, and ln follow.) Thus, M-x copy-file RET ~/foo RET
746 /tmp RET copies ~/foo to /tmp/foo.
747
748 ---
749 *** When used interactively, `format-write-file' now asks for confirmation
750 before overwriting an existing file, unless a prefix argument is
751 supplied. This behavior is analogous to `write-file'.
752
753 ---
754 *** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that
755 controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will
756 attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files).
757
758 +++
759 *** The new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync
760 in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up
761 the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result
762 in data loss, use with care.
763
764 +++
765 *** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',
766 Emacs asks for confirmation.
767
768 +++
769 *** require-final-newline now has two new possible values:
770
771 `visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed
772 when visiting the file.
773
774 `visit-save' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's
775 needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed
776 when saving the file.
777
778 +++
779 *** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain
780 major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's
781 designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline
782 sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline.
783 So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these
784 modes do.
785
786 ** Minibuffer changes:
787
788 +++
789 *** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when
790 entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed.
791
792 +++
793 *** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
794 Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the
795 variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the
796 prompt string.
797
798 ---
799 *** Enhanced visual feedback in `*Completions*' buffer.
800
801 Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions
802 have in common and where they begin to differ.
803
804 The common prefix shared by all possible completions uses the face
805 `completions-common-part', while the first character that isn't the
806 same uses the face `completions-first-difference'. By default,
807 `completions-common-part' inherits from `default', and
808 `completions-first-difference' inherits from `bold'. The idea of
809 `completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common
810 parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing
811 parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted.
812
813 Above fontification is always done when listing completions is
814 triggered at minibuffer. If you want to fontify completions whose
815 listing is triggered at the other normal buffer, you have to pass
816 the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as
817 its second argument.
818
819 +++
820 *** File-name completion can now ignore specified directories.
821 If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a
822 slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when
823 completing file names. Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions'
824 which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion
825 candidate is a directory.
826
827 +++
828 *** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
829 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
830 it remains unchanged.
831
832 +++
833 *** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'.
834 If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
835 elements are deleted from the history list.
836
837 ** Redisplay changes:
838
839 +++
840 *** Preemptive redisplay now adapts to current load and bandwidth.
841
842 To avoid preempting redisplay on fast computers, networks, and displays,
843 the arrival of new input is now performed at regular intervals during
844 redisplay. The new variable `redisplay-preemption-period' specifies
845 the period; the default is to check for input every 0.1 seconds.
846
847 +++
848 *** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
849 When the file is maintained under version control, that information
850 appears between the position information and the major mode.
851
852 +++
853 *** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs.
854
855 +++
856 *** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now displayed with a special
857 face, either nobreak-space or escape-glyph. You can turn this off or
858 specify a different mode by setting the variable `nobreak-char-display'.
859
860 +++
861 *** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized.
862 The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from
863 the window edge point is allowed to get before automatic hscrolling
864 will horizontally scroll the window. The default value is 5.
865
866 The variable `hscroll-step' determines how many columns automatic
867 hscrolling scrolls the window when point gets too close to the
868 window edge. If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the
869 window so as to center point. If its value is an integer, it says how
870 many columns to scroll. If the value is a floating-point number, it
871 gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.
872
873 The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to
874 `auto-hscroll-mode'. The old name is still available as an alias.
875
876 ---
877 *** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than
878 the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
879 vscroll property.
880
881 +++
882 *** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
883 overline and text.
884
885 +++
886 *** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
887 position of the underline. When set, it overrides the
888 `x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.
889
890 +++
891 *** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line
892 of non-selected windows. The `mode-line' face is now used to display
893 the mode line of the currently selected window.
894
895 The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
896 the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.
897
898 +++
899 *** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this
900 for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the
901 top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To
902 control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x
903 set-fringe-style.
904
905 +++
906 *** Angle icons in the fringes can indicate the buffer boundaries. In
907 addition, up and down arrow bitmaps in the fringe indicate which ways
908 the window can be scrolled.
909
910 This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable
911 `indicate-buffer-boundaries' to a non-nil value. The default value of
912 this variable is found in `default-indicate-buffer-boundaries'.
913
914 If value is `left' or `right', both angle and arrow bitmaps are
915 displayed in the left or right fringe, resp.
916
917 The value can also be an alist which specifies the presence and
918 position of each bitmap individually.
919
920 For example, ((top . left) (t . right)) places the top angle bitmap
921 in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both
922 arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the
923 left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).
924
925 +++
926 *** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window
927 (not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into
928 two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line).
929 Instead, the newline now "overflows" into the right fringe, and the
930 cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline.
931
932 The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' can be set to nil to
933 revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines.
934
935 +++
936 *** When a window has display margin areas, the fringes are now
937 displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than
938 outside those margins.
939
940 +++
941 *** A window can now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings,
942 in addition to the individual display margin settings.
943
944 Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
945 horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
946 or when the frame is resized.
947
948 +++
949 *** The %c and %l constructs are now ignored in frame-title-format.
950 Due to technical limitations in how Emacs interacts with windowing
951 systems, these constructs often failed to render properly, and could
952 even cause Emacs to crash.
953
954 +++
955 *** If value of `auto-resize-tool-bars' is `grow-only', the tool bar
956 will expand as needed, but not contract automatically. To contract
957 the tool bar, you must type C-l.
958
959 ** Cursor display changes:
960
961 +++
962 *** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is
963 now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'.
964
965 +++
966 *** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking.
967
968 +++
969 *** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor.
970 The underscore cursor is set by putting `(cursor-type . hbar)' in
971 default-frame-alist. It supports variable heights, like the `bar'
972 cursor does.
973
974 +++
975 *** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any)
976 of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor
977 appears in.
978
979 +++
980 *** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any
981 of the recognized cursor types.
982
983 +++
984 *** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs
985 uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor.
986
987 ** New faces:
988
989 +++
990 *** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive
991 elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
992 areas.
993
994 +++
995 *** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
996 parts of the mode line.
997
998 +++
999 *** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.
1000 the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text.
1001 This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either
1002 black or white default foreground color. This generic shadow face
1003 allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place,
1004 so package-specific faces can inherit from it.
1005
1006 +++
1007 *** `vertical-border' face is used for the vertical divider between windows.
1008
1009 ** ebnf2ps changes:
1010
1011 +++
1012 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-extra-width' which specify extra width for arrow
1013 shape drawing.
1014 The extra width is used to avoid that the arrowhead and the terminal border
1015 overlap. It depends on `ebnf-arrow-shape' and `ebnf-line-width'.
1016
1017 +++
1018 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-scale' which specify the arrow scale.
1019 Values lower than 1.0, shrink the arrow.
1020 Values greater than 1.0, expand the arrow.
1021
1022 ** Font-Lock changes:
1023
1024 +++
1025 *** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
1026 M-o M-o requests refontification.
1027
1028 +++
1029 *** All modes now support using M-x font-lock-mode to toggle
1030 fontification, even those such as Occur, Info, and comint-derived
1031 modes that do their own fontification in a special way.
1032
1033 The variable `Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable
1034 fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from
1035 `Info-mode-hook'.
1036
1037 +++
1038 *** Font-Lock mode: in major modes such as Lisp mode, where some Emacs
1039 features assume that an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of
1040 any string or comment, Font-Lock now highlights any such open-paren in
1041 bold-red if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it
1042 can cause trouble. You should rewrite the string or comment so that
1043 the open-paren is not in column 0.
1044
1045 +++
1046 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.
1047
1048 +++
1049 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
1050
1051 +++
1052 *** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked.
1053 You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of
1054 the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode,
1055 cperl-mode and make-mode support this.
1056
1057 ---
1058 *** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed.
1059 The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now nil
1060 instead of 3. This setting of jit-lock-stealth-time disables stealth
1061 fontification: on today's machines, it may be a bug in font lock
1062 patterns if fontification otherwise noticeably degrades interactivity.
1063 If you find movement in infrequently visited buffers sluggish (and the
1064 major mode maintainer has no better idea), customizing
1065 jit-lock-stealth-time to a non-nil value will let Emacs fontify
1066 buffers in the background when it considers the system to be idle.
1067 jit-lock-stealth-nice is now 0.5 instead of 0.125 which is supposed to
1068 cause less load than the old defaults.
1069
1070 ---
1071 *** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'.
1072
1073 If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs
1074 idle time in seconds to wait before starting fontification. For
1075 example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will
1076 only happen after 0.25s of idle time.
1077
1078 ---
1079 *** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification.
1080
1081 jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and
1082 jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual
1083 refontification takes place.
1084
1085 ---
1086 *** lazy-lock is considered obsolete.
1087
1088 The `lazy-lock' package is superseded by `jit-lock' and is considered
1089 obsolete. `jit-lock' is activated by default; if you wish to continue
1090 using `lazy-lock', activate it in your ~/.emacs like this:
1091
1092 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
1093
1094 If you invoke `lazy-lock-mode' directly rather than through
1095 `font-lock-support-mode', it now issues a warning:
1096
1097 "Use font-lock-support-mode rather than calling lazy-lock-mode"
1098
1099
1100 ** Menu support:
1101
1102 ---
1103 *** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
1104 This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such
1105 as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself).
1106 You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn
1107 it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of
1108 current date and time, current line and column number in the mode-line.
1109
1110 ---
1111 *** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".
1112
1113 ---
1114 *** You can exit dialog windows and menus by typing C-g.
1115
1116 ---
1117 *** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..."
1118 and "Open File...". "Open File..." now opens only existing files. This is
1119 to support existing GUI file selection dialogs better.
1120
1121 +++
1122 *** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/LessTif can be
1123 disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'.
1124
1125 ---
1126 *** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can
1127 be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32).
1128
1129 +++
1130 *** The menu bar for Motif/LessTif/Lucid/Gtk+ can be navigated with keys.
1131 Pressing F10 shows the first menu in the menu bar. Navigation is done with
1132 the arrow keys, select with the return key and cancel with the escape keys.
1133
1134 +++
1135 *** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have
1136 to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example
1137 `-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'.
1138
1139 ---
1140 *** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and LessTif/Motif now pop down on pressing
1141 ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32.
1142
1143 +++
1144 *** For the Gtk+ version, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog
1145 by setting the variable `x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use
1146 the new dialog.
1147
1148 ** Mouse changes:
1149
1150 +++
1151 *** If you set the new variable `mouse-autoselect-window' to a non-nil
1152 value, windows are automatically selected as you move the mouse from
1153 one Emacs window to another, even within a frame. A minibuffer window
1154 can be selected only when it is active.
1155
1156 +++
1157 *** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
1158 select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
1159 normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set
1160 the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected
1161 window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame
1162 to give it focus.
1163
1164 +++
1165 *** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
1166
1167 Traditionally, Emacs uses a Mouse-1 click to set point and a Mouse-2
1168 click to follow a link, whereas most other applications use a Mouse-1
1169 click for both purposes, depending on whether you click outside or
1170 inside a link. Now the behavior of a Mouse-1 click has been changed
1171 to match this context-sensitive dual behavior. (If you prefer the old
1172 behavior, set the user option `mouse-1-click-follows-link' to nil.)
1173
1174 Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs can do much
1175 more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
1176 activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
1177 (see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details). The Lisp
1178 packages that are included in release 22.1 have been adapted to do
1179 this, but external packages may not yet support this. However, there
1180 is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
1181 happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
1182 on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.
1183
1184 If you want to get the original Mouse-1 action also inside a link, you
1185 just need to press the Mouse-1 button a little longer than a normal
1186 click (i.e. press and hold the Mouse-1 button for half a second before
1187 you release it).
1188
1189 Dragging the Mouse-1 inside a link still performs the original
1190 drag-mouse-1 action, typically copy the text.
1191
1192 You can customize the new Mouse-1 behavior via the new user options
1193 `mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'.
1194
1195 +++
1196 *** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse
1197 is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
1198 can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
1199 mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can
1200 also disable mouse highlighting.
1201
1202 +++
1203 *** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
1204 shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
1205 variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.
1206
1207 ---
1208 *** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
1209 (rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.
1210
1211 ---
1212 *** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved.
1213
1214 People tend to push the mouse wheel (which counts as a mouse-2 click)
1215 unintentionally while turning the wheel, so these clicks are now
1216 ignored. You can customize this with the mouse-wheel-click-event and
1217 mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.
1218
1219 +++
1220 *** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.
1221
1222 ** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:
1223
1224 +++
1225 *** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
1226 construct. Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
1227 -*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
1228 various global and per-coding-system translation tables. You can also
1229 specify it in a local variable list at the end of the file. For
1230 shortcut, instead of using this long variable name, you can append the
1231 character "!" at the end of coding-system name specified in -*-
1232 construct or in a local variable list. For example, if a file has the
1233 following header, it is decoded by the coding system `iso-latin-1'
1234 without any character translation:
1235 ;; -*- coding: iso-latin-1!; -*-
1236
1237 ---
1238 *** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup
1239 more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale
1240 name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
1241 This change can result in using the different coding systems as
1242 default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN).
1243
1244 +++
1245 *** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your
1246 current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This
1247 can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
1248 characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
1249 emulator) works. Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
1250 keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
1251 or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
1252 by the keyboard. See Info node `Unibyte Mode'.
1253
1254 +++
1255 *** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
1256 revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.
1257
1258 +++
1259 *** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
1260 coding system.
1261
1262 +++
1263 *** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
1264 of a file.
1265
1266 ---
1267 *** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
1268 unicode.
1269
1270 +++
1271 *** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
1272 coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item
1273 (Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
1274 command.
1275
1276 +++
1277 *** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type
1278 in the current input method to input a character at point.
1279
1280 +++
1281 *** Limited support for character `unification' has been added.
1282 Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of
1283 the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard
1284 Unicode mappings. This applies mainly to characters in the ISO 8859
1285 sets plus some other 8-bit sets, but can be extended. For instance,
1286 translation works amongst the Emacs ...-iso8859-... charsets and the
1287 mule-unicode-... ones.
1288
1289 By default this translation happens automatically on encoding.
1290 Self-inserting characters are translated to make the input conformant
1291 with the encoding of the buffer in which it's being used, where
1292 possible.
1293
1294 You can force a more complete unification with the user option
1295 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode. That maps all the Latin-N character sets
1296 into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and
1297 mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode
1298 will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding.
1299
1300 ---
1301 *** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
1302 either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
1303 when possible. The latter are more space-efficient. This is
1304 controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.
1305
1306 ---
1307 *** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Tajik,
1308 Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6,
1309 Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian,
1310 Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW,
1311 Esperanto. (Set up automatically according to the locale.)
1312
1313 ---
1314 *** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
1315 ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer,
1316 vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard,
1317 latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml,
1318 bulgarian-phonetic, dutch, slovenian, croatian, malayalam-inscript,
1319 tamil-inscript.
1320
1321 ---
1322 *** New input method chinese-sisheng for inputting Chinese Pinyin
1323 characters.
1324
1325 ---
1326 *** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is
1327 automatically activated if you select Thai as a language
1328 environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to
1329 versions which recognize Thai words. Affected commands are
1330 M-f (forward-word)
1331 M-b (backward-word)
1332 M-d (kill-word)
1333 M-DEL (backward-kill-word)
1334 M-t (transpose-words)
1335 M-q (fill-paragraph)
1336
1337 ---
1338 *** Indian support has been updated.
1339 The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are
1340 assumed. There is a framework for supporting various
1341 Indian scripts, but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are
1342 supported.
1343
1344 ---
1345 *** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.
1346
1347 ---
1348 *** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
1349 By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into
1350 single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is
1351 turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character
1352 sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS
1353 system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not
1354 interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil.
1355 You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
1356 `ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8
1357 coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's
1358 one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones.
1359 The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly.
1360
1361 ---
1362 *** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
1363 in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
1364 Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
1365
1366 ---
1367 *** Many new coding systems are available in the `code-pages' library.
1368 These include complete versions of most of those in codepage.el, based
1369 on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now obsolete and is used
1370 only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. All coding systems defined in
1371 `code-pages' are auto-loaded.
1372
1373 ---
1374 *** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which
1375 Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'.
1376
1377 ---
1378 *** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of
1379 characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the
1380 fontset appropriately.
1381
1382 ** Customize changes:
1383
1384 +++
1385 *** Custom themes are collections of customize options. Create a
1386 custom theme with M-x customize-create-theme. Use M-x load-theme to
1387 load and enable a theme, and M-x disable-theme to disable it. Use M-x
1388 enable-theme to enable a disabled theme.
1389
1390 +++
1391 *** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
1392 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are
1393 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
1394 faces.
1395
1396 ---
1397 *** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing.
1398 In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding
1399 check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection
1400 for that attribute; the values you can choose are only those which make
1401 sense for the attribute. When an attribute is de-selected by unchecking
1402 its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in
1403 case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden.
1404
1405 +++
1406 *** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer,
1407 the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable.
1408 You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value"
1409 under the "[State]" button.
1410
1411 ** Buffer Menu changes:
1412
1413 +++
1414 *** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file
1415 buffers only in the Buffer Menu. It is bound to T in Buffer Menu
1416 mode.
1417
1418 +++
1419 *** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
1420 with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers
1421 whose names begin with space are omitted.
1422
1423 ---
1424 *** The new options `buffers-menu-show-directories' and
1425 `buffers-menu-show-status' let you control how buffers are displayed
1426 in the menu dropped down when you click "Buffers" from the menu bar.
1427
1428 `buffers-menu-show-directories' controls whether the menu displays
1429 leading directories as part of the file name visited by the buffer.
1430 If its value is `unless-uniquify', the default, directories are
1431 shown unless uniquify-buffer-name-style' is non-nil. The value of nil
1432 and t turn the display of directories off and on, respectively.
1433
1434 `buffers-menu-show-status' controls whether the Buffers menu includes
1435 the modified and read-only status of the buffers. By default it is
1436 t, and the status is shown.
1437
1438 Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time
1439 the Buffers menu is regenerated.
1440
1441 ** Dired mode:
1442
1443 ---
1444 *** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
1445 dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
1446 introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
1447
1448 +++
1449 *** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
1450 with different file attributes in two dired buffers.
1451
1452 +++
1453 *** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
1454 of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.
1455
1456 +++
1457 *** The Dired command `dired-goto-file' is now bound to j, not M-g.
1458 This is to avoid hiding the global key binding of M-g.
1459
1460 +++
1461 *** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
1462 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
1463 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
1464 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
1465 double quotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
1466 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
1467
1468 +++
1469 *** In Dired, the w command now stores the current line's file name
1470 into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, it stores the absolute file name.
1471
1472 +++
1473 *** In Dired-x, Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode.
1474
1475 The mode toggling command is bound to M-o. A new command
1476 dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, marks omitted files. The variable
1477 dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the mode toggling function
1478 instead.
1479
1480 +++
1481 *** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args
1482 have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and
1483 directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a
1484 directory listing into a buffer.
1485
1486 ** Comint changes:
1487
1488 ---
1489 *** The comint prompt can now be made read-only, using the new user
1490 option `comint-prompt-read-only'. This is not enabled by default,
1491 except in IELM buffers. The read-only status of IELM prompts can be
1492 controlled with the new user option `ielm-prompt-read-only', which
1493 overrides `comint-prompt-read-only'.
1494
1495 The new commands `comint-kill-whole-line' and `comint-kill-region'
1496 support editing comint buffers with read-only prompts.
1497
1498 `comint-kill-whole-line' is like `kill-whole-line', but ignores both
1499 read-only and field properties. Hence, it always kill entire
1500 lines, including any prompts.
1501
1502 `comint-kill-region' is like `kill-region', except that it ignores
1503 read-only properties, if it is safe to do so. This means that if any
1504 part of a prompt is deleted, then the entire prompt must be deleted
1505 and that all prompts must stay at the beginning of a line. If this is
1506 not the case, then `comint-kill-region' behaves just like
1507 `kill-region' if read-only properties are involved: it copies the text
1508 to the kill-ring, but does not delete it.
1509
1510 +++
1511 *** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived
1512 modes (shell-mode, etc.) inserts arguments from previous command lines,
1513 like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but
1514 otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.
1515
1516 +++
1517 *** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed
1518 `comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias,
1519 but declared obsolete.
1520
1521 +++
1522 *** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in
1523 subshells running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment
1524 variable, which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs
1525 that need to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check
1526 INSIDE_EMACS instead of EMACS.
1527
1528 ** M-x Compile changes:
1529
1530 ---
1531 *** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable
1532
1533 Quite a few more kinds of messages are recognized. Messages that are
1534 recognized as warnings or informational come in orange or green, instead of
1535 red. Informational messages are by default skipped with `next-error'
1536 (controlled by `compilation-skip-threshold').
1537
1538 Location data is collected on the fly as the *compilation* buffer changes.
1539 This means you could modify messages to make them point to different files.
1540 This also means you can not go to locations of messages you may have deleted.
1541
1542 The variable `compilation-error-regexp-alist' has now become customizable. If
1543 you had added your own regexps to this, you'll probably need to include a
1544 leading `^', otherwise they'll match anywhere on a line. There is now also a
1545 `compilation-mode-font-lock-keywords' and it nicely handles all the checks
1546 that configure outputs and -o options so you see at a glance where you are.
1547
1548 The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message.
1549
1550 +++
1551 *** New user option `compilation-environment'.
1552 This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
1553 compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
1554 subprocesses inherit.
1555
1556 +++
1557 *** New user option `compilation-disable-input'.
1558 If this is non-nil, send end-of-file as compilation process input.
1559
1560 +++
1561 *** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'
1562 specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line
1563 in new face `next-error'.
1564
1565 +++
1566 *** A new minor mode `next-error-follow-minor-mode' can be used in
1567 compilation-mode, grep-mode, occur-mode, and diff-mode (i.e. all the
1568 modes that can use `next-error'). In this mode, cursor motion in the
1569 buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
1570 matches, compilation errors, etc. This minor mode can be toggled with
1571 C-c C-f.
1572
1573 +++
1574 *** When the left fringe is displayed, an arrow points to current message in
1575 the compilation buffer.
1576
1577 +++
1578 *** The new variable `compilation-context-lines' controls lines of leading
1579 context before the current message. If nil and the left fringe is displayed,
1580 it doesn't scroll the compilation output window. If there is no left fringe,
1581 no arrow is displayed and a value of nil means display the message at the top
1582 of the window.
1583
1584 +++
1585 *** The EMACS environment variable now defaults to Emacs's absolute
1586 file name, instead of to "t".
1587
1588 ** Occur mode changes:
1589
1590 +++
1591 *** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
1592 C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without
1593 switching to it.
1594
1595 +++
1596 *** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
1597 the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.
1598
1599 +++
1600 *** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
1601 search multiple buffers. There is also a new command
1602 `multi-occur-in-matching-buffers' which allows you to specify the
1603 buffers to search by their filenames or buffer names. Internally,
1604 Occur mode has been rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other
1605 changes.
1606
1607 ** Grep changes:
1608
1609 +++
1610 *** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.
1611
1612 There's a new separate package grep.el, with its own submenu and
1613 customization group.
1614
1615 +++
1616 *** `grep-find' is now also available under the name `find-grep' where
1617 people knowing `find-grep-dired' would probably expect it.
1618
1619 +++
1620 *** New commands `lgrep' (local grep) and `rgrep' (recursive grep) are
1621 more user-friendly versions of `grep' and `grep-find', which prompt
1622 separately for the regular expression to match, the files to search,
1623 and the base directory for the search. Case sensitivity of the
1624 search is controlled by the current value of `case-fold-search'.
1625
1626 These commands build the shell commands based on the new variables
1627 `grep-template' (lgrep) and `grep-find-template' (rgrep).
1628
1629 The files to search can use aliases defined in `grep-files-aliases'.
1630
1631 Subdirectories listed in `grep-find-ignored-directories' such as those
1632 typically used by various version control systems, like CVS and arch,
1633 are automatically skipped by `rgrep'.
1634
1635 ---
1636 *** The grep commands provide highlighting support.
1637
1638 Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange. Grep buffers
1639 can be saved and automatically revisited.
1640
1641 ---
1642 *** The new variables `grep-window-height' and `grep-scroll-output' override
1643 the corresponding compilation mode settings, for grep commands only.
1644
1645 +++
1646 *** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlights matches in *grep*
1647 buffer. It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept
1648 --color option to output markers around matches. When going to the next
1649 match with `next-error' the exact match is highlighted in the source
1650 buffer. Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole
1651 source line is highlighted.
1652
1653 +++
1654 *** New key bindings in grep output window:
1655 SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down. C-n and C-p moves to next and
1656 previous match in the grep window. RET jumps to the source line of
1657 the current match. `n' and `p' shows next and previous match in
1658 other window, but does not switch buffer. `{' and `}' jumps to the
1659 previous or next file in the grep output. TAB also jumps to the next
1660 file.
1661
1662 +++
1663 *** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
1664 by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically
1665 detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
1666 When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed
1667 unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated
1668 command lines to be used than was possible before.
1669
1670 ** X Windows Support:
1671
1672 +++
1673 *** Emacs now supports drag and drop for X. Dropping a file on a window
1674 opens it, dropping text inserts the text. Dropping a file on a dired
1675 buffer copies or moves the file to that directory.
1676
1677 +++
1678 *** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper).
1679 The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym',
1680 and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should
1681 use for the modifiers. For example, the following two lines swap
1682 Meta and Alt:
1683 (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)
1684 (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt)
1685
1686 +++
1687 *** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which can
1688 speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.
1689
1690 If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of
1691 XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on.
1692
1693 ---
1694 *** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
1695 requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that
1696 Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
1697 and use the more appropriately result.
1698
1699 ---
1700 *** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
1701 On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
1702 amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).
1703
1704 ** Xterm support:
1705
1706 ---
1707 *** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
1708 on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.
1709
1710 ---
1711 *** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
1712 When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
1713 The following should work:
1714 {C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
1715 These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8 (and later versions),
1716 they might not work on some older versions of xterm, or on some
1717 proprietary versions.
1718 The various keys generated by xterm when the "modifyOtherKeys"
1719 resource is set are also supported.
1720
1721 ** Character terminal color support changes:
1722
1723 +++
1724 *** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard
1725 mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character
1726 terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal
1727 database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't
1728 set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable
1729 terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls'
1730 when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors
1731 in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the
1732 user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter.
1733
1734 ---
1735 *** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more
1736 than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and
1737 256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup
1738 the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for
1739 all of these colors.
1740
1741 +++
1742 *** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default
1743 faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and
1744 256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an
1745 88-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face
1746 colors as on X.
1747
1748 ---
1749 *** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.
1750 \f
1751 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1
1752
1753 ---
1754 ** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1755
1756 ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
1757
1758 To see what modules are available, type
1759 M-x customize-option erc-modules RET.
1760
1761 To start an IRC session with ERC, type M-x erc, and follow the prompts
1762 for server, port, and nick.
1763
1764 ---
1765 ** Rcirc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1766
1767 Rcirc is an Internet relay chat (IRC) client. It supports
1768 simultaneous connections to multiple IRC servers. Each discussion
1769 takes place in its own buffer. For each connection you can join
1770 several channels (many-to-many) and participate in private
1771 (one-to-one) chats. Both channel and private chats are contained in
1772 separate buffers.
1773
1774 To start an IRC session using the default parameters, type M-x irc.
1775 If you type C-u M-x irc, it prompts you for the server, nick, port and
1776 startup channel parameters before connecting.
1777
1778 ---
1779 ** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1780
1781 Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news
1782 sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the
1783 corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a
1784 separate manual.
1785
1786 +++
1787 ** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions.
1788 To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file.
1789
1790 +++
1791 ** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in
1792 various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
1793 program files that include other program files.
1794
1795 Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on
1796 all the files in it, such as visiting them or searching and replacing
1797 in them.
1798
1799 +++
1800 ** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1801
1802 Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in
1803 Emacs Lisp. The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc
1804 can be started with `C-x * *'. The Calc manual is separate from the
1805 Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the
1806 manual. A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and
1807 `etc/calccard.ps'.
1808
1809 ---
1810 ** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
1811 customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
1812
1813 ---
1814 ** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1815
1816 The ido (interactively do) package is an extension of the iswitchb
1817 package to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition
1818 to interactive buffer switching. Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with
1819 a few exceptions), so don't enable both packages.
1820
1821 +++
1822 ** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle
1823 between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c.
1824
1825 ---
1826 ** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1827
1828 The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
1829 cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
1830 With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
1831 keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
1832 region (like delete-selection-mode). Do not enable these modes with
1833 cua-mode. Customize the variable `cua-mode' to enable cua.
1834
1835 The cua-selection-mode enables the CUA keybindings for the region but
1836 does not change the bindings for C-z/C-x/C-c/C-v. It can be used as a
1837 replacement for pc-selection-mode.
1838
1839 In addition, cua provides unified rectangle support with visible
1840 rectangle highlighting: Use C-return to start a rectangle, extend it
1841 using the movement commands (or mouse-3), and cut or copy it using C-x
1842 or C-c (using C-w and M-w also works).
1843
1844 Use M-o and M-c to `open' or `close' the rectangle, use M-b or M-f, to
1845 fill it with blanks or another character, use M-u or M-l to upcase or
1846 downcase the rectangle, use M-i to increment the numbers in the
1847 rectangle, use M-n to fill the rectangle with a numeric sequence (such
1848 as 10 20 30...), use M-r to replace a regexp in the rectangle, and use
1849 M-' or M-/ to restrict command on the rectangle to a subset of the
1850 rows. See the commentary in cua-base.el for more rectangle commands.
1851
1852 Cua also provides unified support for registers: Use a numeric
1853 prefix argument between 0 and 9, i.e. M-0 .. M-9, for C-x, C-c, and
1854 C-v to cut or copy into register 0-9, or paste from register 0-9.
1855
1856 The last text deleted (not killed) is automatically stored in
1857 register 0. This includes text deleted by typing text.
1858
1859 Finally, cua provides a global mark which is set using S-C-space.
1860 When the global mark is active, any text which is cut or copied is
1861 automatically inserted at the global mark position. See the
1862 commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.
1863
1864 The features of cua also works with the standard Emacs bindings for
1865 kill, copy, yank, and undo. If you want to use cua mode, but don't
1866 want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
1867 `cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.
1868
1869 Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older
1870 versions of cua.el and cua-mode.el. To ensure proper operation, you
1871 must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
1872 loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.
1873
1874 +++
1875 ** Org mode is now part of the Emacs distribution
1876
1877 Org mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and
1878 doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
1879 It also contains a plain-text table editor with spreadsheet-like
1880 capabilities.
1881
1882 The Org mode table editor can be integrated into any major mode by
1883 activating the minor Orgtbl-mode.
1884
1885 The documentation for org-mode is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
1886 type "C-h i m org RET" to read that manual. A reference card is
1887 available in `etc/orgcard.tex' and `etc/orgcard.ps'.
1888
1889 +++
1890 ** The new package dns-mode.el adds syntax highlighting of DNS master files.
1891 It is a modern replacement for zone-mode.el, which is now obsolete.
1892
1893 ---
1894 ** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
1895 filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
1896 that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
1897 Emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim,
1898 invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable. The display method can
1899 be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.
1900
1901 +++
1902 ** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
1903 source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.
1904
1905 +++
1906 ** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
1907 the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards. The numeric
1908 keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
1909 +, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key. The keypad
1910 package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys.
1911
1912 By customizing the variables `keypad-setup', `keypad-shifted-setup',
1913 `keypad-numlock-setup', and `keypad-numlock-shifted-setup', or by
1914 using the function `keypad-setup', you can rebind all digit keys and
1915 the decimal key of the keypad in one step for each of the four
1916 possible combinations of the Shift key state (not pressed/pressed) and
1917 the NumLock toggle state (off/on).
1918
1919 The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are:
1920 `Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits,
1921 `Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
1922 decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
1923 `Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
1924 for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
1925 where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
1926 `Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
1927 are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
1928 or local keymaps.
1929
1930 +++
1931 ** Emacs' keyboard macro facilities have been enhanced by the new
1932 kmacro package.
1933
1934 Keyboard macros are now defined and executed via the F3 and F4 keys:
1935 F3 starts a macro, F4 ends the macro, and pressing F4 again executes
1936 the last macro. While defining the macro, F3 inserts a counter value
1937 which automatically increments every time the macro is executed.
1938
1939 There is now a keyboard macro ring which stores the most recently
1940 defined macros.
1941
1942 The C-x C-k sequence is now a prefix for the kmacro keymap which
1943 defines bindings for moving through the keyboard macro ring,
1944 C-x C-k C-p and C-x C-k C-n, editing the last macro C-x C-k C-e,
1945 manipulating the macro counter and format via C-x C-k C-c,
1946 C-x C-k C-a, and C-x C-k C-f. See the commentary in kmacro.el
1947 for more commands.
1948
1949 The original macro bindings C-x (, C-x ), and C-x e are still
1950 available, but they now interface to the keyboard macro ring too.
1951
1952 The C-x e command now automatically terminates the current macro
1953 before calling it, if used while defining a macro.
1954
1955 In addition, when ending or calling a macro with C-x e, the macro can
1956 be repeated immediately by typing just the `e'. You can customize
1957 this behavior via the variables kmacro-call-repeat-key and
1958 kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg.
1959
1960 Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
1961 C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence
1962 at a time, prompting for the actions to take.
1963
1964 ---
1965 ** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
1966 When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible. When disabled, it
1967 restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
1968
1969 +++
1970 ** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
1971 buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...
1972
1973 +++
1974 ** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
1975 files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
1976 mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
1977 which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or
1978 copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc. By default, Longlines
1979 mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior
1980 referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors. This is
1981 similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap
1982 feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil.
1983
1984 +++
1985 ** The printing package is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1986
1987 If you enable the printing package by including (require 'printing) in
1988 the .emacs file, the normal Print item on the File menu is replaced
1989 with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through
1990 ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript
1991 printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by
1992 `ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information.
1993
1994 ---
1995 ** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you
1996 move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer.
1997 It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts
1998 of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ...
1999
2000 There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers.
2001
2002 ---
2003 ** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an
2004 "active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually
2005 change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list'
2006 settings.
2007
2008 +++
2009 ** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing
2010 spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command
2011 letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers
2012 viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values.
2013
2014 +++
2015 ** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
2016 shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.
2017
2018 +++
2019 ** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
2020 `text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting
2021 these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG
2022 table editing available in modern word processors. The package also
2023 can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such
2024 as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.
2025
2026 +++
2027 ** The tumme.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in other ways
2028 manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as the main interface.
2029 Tumme provides functionality to generate simple image galleries.
2030
2031 +++
2032 ** Tramp is now part of the distribution.
2033
2034 This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote
2035 files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host,
2036 Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used
2037 for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for
2038 the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called
2039 `inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell
2040 connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods
2041 (which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or
2042 `rsync' to do the copying).
2043
2044 Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also
2045 `su' and `sudo'. Ange-FTP is still supported via the `ftp' method.
2046
2047 If you want to disable Tramp you should set
2048
2049 (setq tramp-default-method "ftp")
2050
2051 Removing Tramp, and re-enabling Ange-FTP, can be achieved by M-x
2052 tramp-unload-tramp.
2053
2054 ---
2055 ** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
2056
2057 ---
2058 ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
2059 configuration files.
2060
2061 +++
2062 ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
2063 varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
2064 var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
2065 section { }). Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
2066 .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
2067 recognized.
2068
2069 ---
2070 ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
2071
2072 +++
2073 ** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
2074
2075 ---
2076 ** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
2077 This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
2078
2079 ---
2080 ** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
2081 for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or
2082 paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
2083 instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
2084 boundaries during scrolling.
2085
2086 +++
2087 ** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
2088 events from the console. It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
2089 for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.
2090 \f
2091 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:
2092
2093 ** Changes in Shell Mode
2094
2095 ---
2096 *** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
2097 bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text. (This
2098 is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)
2099
2100 ** Changes in Dired
2101
2102 +++
2103 *** Bindings for Tumme added
2104 Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been
2105 added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Tumme. As a starting
2106 point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d to display
2107 thumbnails of them in a separate buffer.
2108
2109 ** Changes in Hi Lock
2110
2111 +++
2112 *** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function
2113 `global-hi-lock-mode' enables Hi Lock in all buffers. By default, if
2114 hi-lock-mode is used in what appears to be the initialization file, a
2115 warning message suggests to use global-hi-lock-mode instead. However,
2116 if the new variable `hi-lock-archaic-interface-deduce' is non-nil,
2117 using hi-lock-mode in an initialization file will turn on Hi Lock in all
2118 buffers and no warning will be issued (for compatibility with the
2119 behavior in older versions of Emacs).
2120
2121 ---
2122 ** Changes in Allout
2123
2124 *** Some previously rough topic-header format edge cases are reconciled.
2125 Level 1 topics use the mode's comment format, and lines starting with the
2126 asterisk - for instance, the comment close of some languages (eg, c's "*/"
2127 or mathematica's "*)") - at the beginning of line are no longer are
2128 interpreted as level 1 topics in those modes.
2129
2130 *** Many or most commonly occurring "accidental" topics are disqualified.
2131 Text in item bodies that looks like a low-depth topic is no longer mistaken
2132 for one unless its first offspring (or that of its next sibling with
2133 offspring) is only one level deeper.
2134
2135 For example, pasting some text with a bunch of leading asterisks into a
2136 topic that's followed by a level 3 or deeper topic will not cause the
2137 pasted text to be mistaken for outline structure.
2138
2139 The same constraint is applied to any level 2 or 3 topics.
2140
2141 This settles an old issue where typed or pasted text needed to be carefully
2142 reviewed, and sometimes doctored, to avoid accidentally disrupting the
2143 outline structure. Now that should be generally unnecessary, as the most
2144 prone-to-occur accidents are disqualified.
2145
2146 *** Allout now refuses to create "containment discontinuities", where a
2147 topic is shifted deeper than the offspring-depth of its container. On the
2148 other hand, allout now operates gracefully with existing containment
2149 discontinuities, revealing excessively contained topics rather than either
2150 leaving them hidden or raising an error.
2151
2152 *** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and
2153 decryption. Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and
2154 clear-text within a single file to your heart's content, using symmetric
2155 and/or public key modes. Time-limited key caching, user-provided
2156 symmetric key hinting and consistency verification, auto-encryption of
2157 pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in
2158 powerful ways. Encryption behavior customization is collected in the
2159 allout-encryption customization group.
2160
2161 *** Navigation within an item is easier. Repeated beginning-of-line and
2162 end-of-line key commands (usually, ^A and ^E) cycle through the
2163 beginning/end-of-line and then beginning/end of topic, etc. See new
2164 customization vars `allout-beginning-of-line-cycles' and
2165 `allout-end-of-line-cycles'.
2166
2167 *** New or revised allout-mode activity hooks enable creation of
2168 cooperative enhancements to allout mode without changes to the mode,
2169 itself.
2170
2171 See `allout-exposure-change-hook', `allout-structure-added-hook',
2172 `allout-structure-deleted-hook', and `allout-structure-shifted-hook'.
2173
2174 `allout-exposure-change-hook' replaces the existing
2175 `allout-view-change-hook', which is being deprecated. Both are still
2176 invoked, but `allout-view-change-hook' will eventually be ignored.
2177 `allout-exposure-change-hook' is called with explicit arguments detailing
2178 the specifics of each change (as are the other new hooks), making it easier
2179 to use than the old version.
2180
2181 There is a new mode deactivation hook, `allout-mode-deactivate-hook', for
2182 coordinating with deactivation of allout-mode. Both that and the mode
2183 activation hook, `allout-mode-hook' are now run after the `allout-mode'
2184 variable is changed, rather than before.
2185
2186 *** Default command prefix was changed to "\C-c " (control-c space), to
2187 avoid intruding on user's keybinding space. Customize the
2188 `allout-command-prefix' variable to your preference.
2189
2190 *** Allout now uses text overlay's `invisible' property for concealed text,
2191 instead of selective-display. This simplifies the code, in particular
2192 avoiding the need for kludges for isearch dynamic-display, discretionary
2193 handling of edits of concealed text, undo concerns, etc.
2194
2195 *** There are many other fixes and refinements, including:
2196
2197 - repaired inhibition of inadvertent edits to concealed text, without
2198 inhibiting undo; we now reveal undo changes within concealed text.
2199 - auto-fill-mode is now left inactive when allout-mode starts, if it
2200 already was inactive. also, `allout-inhibit-auto-fill' custom
2201 configuration variable makes it easy to disable auto fill in allout
2202 outlines in general or on a per-buffer basis.
2203 - allout now tolerates fielded text in outlines without disruption.
2204 - hot-spot navigation now is modularized with a new function,
2205 `allout-hotspot-key-handler', enabling easier use and enhancement of
2206 the functionality in allout addons.
2207 - repaired retention of topic body hanging indent upon topic depth shifts
2208 - bulleting variation is simpler and more accommodating, both in the
2209 default behavior and in ability to vary when creating new topics
2210 - mode deactivation now does cleans up effectively, more properly
2211 restoring affected variables and hooks to former state, removing
2212 overlays, etc. see `allout-add-resumptions' and
2213 `allout-do-resumptions', which replace the old `allout-resumptions'.
2214 - included a few unit-tests for interior functionality. developers can
2215 have them automatically run at the end of module load by customizing
2216 the option `allout-run-unit-tests-on-load'.
2217 - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
2218 - version number incremented to 2.2
2219
2220 +++
2221 ** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' was renamed
2222 to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
2223 variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
2224 automatically, without asking for a confirmation. Otherwise, the word
2225 at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt.
2226
2227 ---
2228 ** Changes to cmuscheme
2229
2230 *** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to
2231 evaluate a Scheme expression but no Scheme subprocess is running.
2232
2233 *** If the file ~/.emacs_NAME or ~/.emacs.d/init_NAME.scm (where NAME
2234 is the name of the Scheme interpreter) exists, its contents are sent
2235 to the Scheme subprocess upon startup.
2236
2237 *** There are new commands to instruct the Scheme interpreter to trace
2238 procedure calls (`scheme-trace-procedure') and to expand syntactic forms
2239 (`scheme-expand-current-form'). The commands actually sent to the Scheme
2240 subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command',
2241 `scheme-untrace-command' and `scheme-expand-current-form'.
2242
2243 ---
2244 ** Changes in Makefile mode
2245
2246 *** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp, BSD make and imake.
2247
2248 The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter three
2249 are new. Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable
2250 faces.
2251
2252 *** The variable `makefile-query-one-target-method' has been renamed
2253 to `makefile-query-one-target-method-function'. The old name is still
2254 available as alias.
2255
2256 +++
2257 ** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top
2258 of the file that precede the first header line.
2259
2260 +++
2261 ** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.
2262
2263 ---
2264 ** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can
2265 run most curses applications now.
2266
2267 +++
2268 ** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode.
2269
2270 +++
2271 ** Diff mode key bindings changed.
2272
2273 These are the new bindings:
2274
2275 C-c C-e diff-ediff-patch (old M-A)
2276 C-c C-n diff-restrict-view (old M-r)
2277 C-c C-r diff-reverse-direction (old M-R)
2278 C-c C-u diff-context->unified (old M-U)
2279 C-c C-w diff-refine-hunk (old C-c C-r)
2280
2281 To convert unified to context format, use C-u C-c C-u.
2282 In addition, C-c C-u now operates on the region
2283 in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active.
2284
2285 +++
2286 ** You can now customize `fill-nobreak-predicate' to control where
2287 filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of
2288 functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.
2289
2290 Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and
2291 `fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of
2292 `fill-nobreak-predicate'.
2293
2294 ---
2295 ** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
2296 with special modes such as Tar mode.
2297
2298 ---
2299 ** Commands `winner-redo' and `winner-undo', from winner.el, are now
2300 bound to C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively. This is an
2301 incompatible change.
2302
2303 ---
2304 ** `global-whitespace-mode' is a new alias for `whitespace-global-mode'.
2305
2306 +++
2307 ** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
2308 resync points in both windows.
2309
2310 +++
2311 ** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
2312
2313 When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
2314 starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.
2315
2316 ---
2317 ** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers
2318 when Emacs visits them.
2319
2320 ** Info mode changes:
2321
2322 +++
2323 *** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
2324 with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").
2325
2326 +++
2327 *** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.
2328
2329 Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error
2330 message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through
2331 other nodes. When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps
2332 around the whole manual to the top/final node. The user option
2333 `Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch,
2334 or the default isearch search function that wraps around the current
2335 Info node.
2336
2337 ---
2338 *** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
2339 `Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
2340 search without prompting for a new search string.
2341
2342 +++
2343 *** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon)
2344 moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using
2345 `Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last').
2346
2347 ---
2348 *** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.
2349
2350 ---
2351 *** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
2352 from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.
2353
2354 +++
2355 *** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
2356 Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
2357 possible matches.
2358
2359 ---
2360 *** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
2361 the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix
2362 arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
2363
2364 +++
2365 *** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
2366 and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
2367
2368 ---
2369 *** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
2370 references and following them calls `browse-url'.
2371
2372 +++
2373 *** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
2374
2375 If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
2376 `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
2377
2378 ---
2379 *** Images in Info pages are supported.
2380
2381 Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
2382 Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
2383 version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.
2384
2385 +++
2386 *** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil.
2387
2388 ---
2389 *** `Info-index' offers completion.
2390
2391 ** Lisp mode changes:
2392
2393 ---
2394 *** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings.
2395
2396 +++
2397 *** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list after point.
2398
2399 *** New features in evaluation commands
2400
2401 +++
2402 **** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
2403 the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
2404
2405 +++
2406 **** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
2407 in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified
2408 by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'. The same
2409 function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
2410 `eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.
2411
2412 +++
2413 ** CC mode changes.
2414
2415 *** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised.
2416 The information about using CC Mode has been separated from the larger
2417 and more difficult chapters about configuration.
2418
2419 *** Changes in Key Sequences
2420 **** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t.
2421
2422 **** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d.
2423 This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards.
2424
2425 **** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline.
2426 c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias.
2427
2428 **** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards
2429 have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and
2430 C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively. These
2431 commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single
2432 key-sequence. [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.]
2433
2434 **** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l.
2435
2436 **** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w.
2437
2438 *** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor
2439 position(s).
2440
2441 *** New Minor Modes
2442 **** Electric Minor Mode toggles the electric action of non-alphabetic keys.
2443 The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. Turning the
2444 mode off can be helpful for editing chaotically indented code and for
2445 users new to CC Mode, who sometimes find electric indentation
2446 disconcerting. Its current state is displayed in the mode line with an
2447 'l', e.g. "C/al".
2448
2449 **** Subword Minor Mode makes Emacs recognize word boundaries at upper case
2450 letters in StudlyCapsIdentifiers. You enable this feature by C-c C-w. It can
2451 also be used in non-CC Mode buffers. :-) Contributed by Masatake YAMATO.
2452
2453 *** New clean-ups
2454
2455 **** `comment-close-slash'.
2456 With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by
2457 typing a slash at the start of a line.
2458
2459 **** `c-one-liner-defun'
2460 This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK
2461 pattern/action pair) onto a single line. "Short enough" is configurable.
2462
2463 *** Font lock support.
2464 CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages. This
2465 supersedes the font lock patterns that have been in the core font lock
2466 package for C, C++, Java and Objective-C. Like indentation, font
2467 locking is done in a uniform way across all languages (except the new
2468 AWK mode - see below). That means that the new font locking will be
2469 different from the old patterns in various details for most languages.
2470
2471 The main goal of the font locking in CC Mode is accuracy, to provide a
2472 dependable aid in recognizing the various constructs. Some, like
2473 strings and comments, are easy to recognize while others like
2474 declarations and types can be very tricky. CC Mode can go to great
2475 lengths to recognize declarations and casts correctly, especially when
2476 the types aren't recognized by standard patterns. This is a fairly
2477 demanding analysis which can be slow on older hardware, and it can
2478 therefore be disabled by choosing a lower decoration level with the
2479 variable font-lock-maximum-decoration.
2480
2481 Note that the most demanding font lock level has been tuned with lazy
2482 fontification in mind; Just-In-Time-Lock mode should be enabled for
2483 the highest font lock level (by default, it is). Fontifying a file
2484 with several thousand lines in one go can take the better part of a
2485 minute.
2486
2487 **** The (c|c++|objc|java|idl|pike)-font-lock-extra-types variables
2488 are now used by CC Mode to recognize identifiers that are certain to
2489 be types. (They are also used in cases that aren't related to font
2490 locking.) At the maximum decoration level, types are often recognized
2491 properly anyway, so these variables should be fairly restrictive and
2492 not contain patterns for uncertain types.
2493
2494 **** Support for documentation comments.
2495 There is a "plugin" system to fontify documentation comments like
2496 Javadoc and the markup within them. It's independent of the host
2497 language, so it's possible to e.g. turn on Javadoc font locking in C
2498 buffers. See the variable c-doc-comment-style for details.
2499
2500 Currently three kinds of doc comment styles are recognized: Sun's
2501 Javadoc, Autodoc (which is used in Pike) and GtkDoc (used in C). (The
2502 last was contributed by Masatake YAMATO). This is by no means a
2503 complete list of the most common tools; if your doc comment extractor
2504 of choice is missing then please drop a note to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2505
2506 **** Better handling of C++ templates.
2507 As a side effect of the more accurate font locking, C++ templates are
2508 now handled much better. The angle brackets that delimit them are
2509 given parenthesis syntax so that they can be navigated like other
2510 parens.
2511
2512 This also improves indentation of templates, although there still is
2513 work to be done in that area. E.g. it's required that multiline
2514 template clauses are written in full and then refontified to be
2515 recognized, and the indentation of nested templates is a bit odd and
2516 not as configurable as it ought to be.
2517
2518 **** Improved handling of Objective-C and CORBA IDL.
2519 Especially the support for Objective-C and IDL has gotten an overhaul.
2520 The special "@" declarations in Objective-C are handled correctly.
2521 All the keywords used in CORBA IDL, PSDL, and CIDL are recognized and
2522 handled correctly, also wrt indentation.
2523
2524 *** Support for the AWK language.
2525 Support for the AWK language has been introduced. The implementation is
2526 based around GNU AWK version 3.1, but it should work pretty well with
2527 any AWK. As yet, not all features of CC Mode have been adapted for AWK.
2528 Here is a summary:
2529
2530 **** Indentation Engine
2531 The CC Mode indentation engine fully supports AWK mode.
2532
2533 AWK mode handles code formatted in the conventional AWK fashion: `{'s
2534 which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are
2535 placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s
2536 are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function
2537 definition, or structured statement.
2538
2539 The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK
2540 mode, though some of them may work serendipitously. There shouldn't
2541 be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode.
2542
2543 **** Font Locking
2544 There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the
2545 three distinct levels the other modes have. There are several
2546 idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of
2547 the AWK language itself.
2548
2549 **** Comment and Movement Commands
2550 These commands all work for AWK buffers. The notion of "defun" has
2551 been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard
2552 "defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this
2553 extended definition.
2554
2555 **** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups
2556 A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default
2557 style for AWK code. With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up
2558 c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful.
2559
2560 *** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode.
2561 The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are
2562 now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
2563 module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
2564 composition-close, and incomposition.
2565
2566 *** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
2567 The new functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward'
2568 provide hungry deletion without having to toggle a mode. They are
2569 bound to C-c C-DEL and C-c C-d (and several variants, for the benefit
2570 of different keyboard setups. See "Changes in key sequences" above).
2571
2572 *** Better control over `require-final-newline'.
2573
2574 The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
2575 implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines. Its value is a
2576 list of modes, and only those modes should do it. By default the list
2577 includes C, C++ and Objective-C modes.
2578
2579 Whichever modes are in this list will set `require-final-newline'
2580 based on `mode-require-final-newline'.
2581
2582 *** Format change for syntactic context elements.
2583
2584 The elements in the syntactic context returned by `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2585 and stored in `c-syntactic-context' has been changed somewhat to allow
2586 attaching more information. They are now lists instead of single cons
2587 cells. E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis
2588
2589 ((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13))
2590
2591 is now analyzed as
2592
2593 ((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))
2594
2595 In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
2596 symbol.
2597
2598 This change might affect code that calls `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2599 directly, and custom lineup functions if they use
2600 `c-syntactic-context'. However, the argument given to lineup
2601 functions is still a single cons cell with nil or an integer in the
2602 cdr.
2603
2604 *** API changes for derived modes.
2605
2606 There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
2607 derived mode writers. Some of these changes are likely to cause
2608 incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
2609 care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
2610 Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.
2611
2612 **** New language variable system.
2613 These are variables whose values vary between CC Mode's different
2614 languages. See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.
2615
2616 **** New initialization functions.
2617 The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
2618 give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
2619 `c-init-language-vars'.
2620
2621 *** Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.
2622 The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where
2623 several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line. They are
2624 now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.
2625
2626 This means that CC Mode now indents some cases differently, and
2627 although it's more consistent there might be cases where the old way
2628 gave results that's more to one's liking. So if you find a situation
2629 where you think that the indentation has become worse, please report
2630 it to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2631
2632 **** New syntactic symbol substatement-label.
2633 This symbol is used when a label is inserted between a statement and
2634 its substatement. E.g:
2635
2636 if (x)
2637 x_is_true:
2638 do_stuff();
2639
2640 *** Better handling of multiline macros.
2641
2642 **** Syntactic indentation inside macros.
2643 The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented
2644 syntactically just like other code. This can be disabled by the new
2645 variable `c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros'. A new syntactic symbol
2646 `cpp-define-intro' has been added to control the initial indentation
2647 inside `#define's.
2648
2649 **** New lineup function `c-lineup-cpp-define'.
2650
2651 Now used by default to line up macro continuation lines. The behavior
2652 of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro
2653 is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily
2654 removed. If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works
2655 much line `c-lineup-dont-change', which was used earlier, but handles
2656 empty lines within the macro better.
2657
2658 **** Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one.
2659 This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
2660 `c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.
2661
2662 **** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2663 `c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes. New
2664 variable `c-backslash-max-column' puts a limit on how far out
2665 backslashes can be moved.
2666
2667 **** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2668 This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'. It
2669 affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
2670 inserted in Auto-Newline mode.
2671
2672 **** Line indentation works better inside macros.
2673 Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
2674 inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
2675 line continuation backslashes. This is most noticeable when syntactic
2676 indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
2677 backslash) in the macro.
2678
2679 *** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
2680 The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
2681 the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'. The indentation behavior is
2682 based on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after
2683 #else and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other
2684 cases (something which was hardcoded earlier).
2685
2686 *** New function `c-context-open-line'.
2687 It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.
2688
2689 *** New lineup functions
2690
2691 **** `c-lineup-string-cont'
2692 This lineup function lines up a continued string under the one it
2693 continues. E.g:
2694
2695 result = prefix + "A message "
2696 "string."; <- c-lineup-string-cont
2697
2698 **** `c-lineup-cascaded-calls'
2699 Lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".
2700
2701 **** `c-lineup-knr-region-comment'
2702 Gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in
2703 the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.
2704
2705 **** `c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg'
2706 Provides better indentation inside asm blocks.
2707
2708 **** `c-lineup-argcont'
2709 Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma.
2710
2711 *** Better caching of the syntactic context.
2712 CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind)
2713 of the lists surrounding the point. Those positions are used in many
2714 places as anchor points for various searches. The cache is now
2715 improved so that it can be reused to a large extent when the point is
2716 moved. The less it moves, the less needs to be recalculated.
2717
2718 The effect is that CC Mode should be fast most of the time even when
2719 opening parens are hung (i.e. aren't in column zero). It's typically
2720 only the first time after the point is moved far down in a complex
2721 file that it'll take noticeable time to find out the syntactic
2722 context.
2723
2724 *** Statements are recognized in a more robust way.
2725 Statements are recognized most of the time even when they occur in an
2726 "invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument. In practice that can
2727 happen when macros are involved.
2728
2729 *** Improved the way `c-indent-exp' chooses the block to indent.
2730 It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point
2731 whose closing paren ends on a different line. This means that the
2732 point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent.
2733 Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current
2734 line is left untouched.
2735
2736 *** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
2737 The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
2738 syntactic indentation.
2739
2740 ---
2741 ** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
2742 preceded by a SPC or a TAB.
2743
2744 ---
2745 ** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
2746
2747 ---
2748 ** The old Octave mode bindings C-c f and C-c i have been changed
2749 to C-c C-f and C-c C-i. The C-c C-i subcommands now have duplicate
2750 bindings on control characters--thus, C-c C-i C-b is the same as
2751 C-c C-i b, and so on.
2752
2753 ** Fortran mode changes:
2754
2755 ---
2756 *** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
2757 highlighting for the old default.
2758
2759 +++
2760 *** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
2761 Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
2762 Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.
2763
2764 +++
2765 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
2766 `f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
2767 `f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
2768 `fortran-beginning-of-block'.
2769
2770 ---
2771 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
2772 It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
2773 majority.
2774
2775 ---
2776 *** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change
2777 the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers.
2778
2779 ---
2780 ** Reftex mode changes
2781
2782 +++
2783 *** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents
2784
2785 The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the
2786 section at point or all sections in the current region, with full
2787 support for multifile documents.
2788
2789 The new command `reftex-toc-recenter' (`C-c -') shows the current
2790 section in the TOC buffer without selecting the TOC window.
2791 Recentering can happen automatically in idle time when the option
2792 `reftex-auto-recenter-toc' is turned on. The highlight in the TOC
2793 buffer stays when the focus moves to a different window. A dedicated
2794 frame can show the TOC with the current section always automatically
2795 highlighted. The frame is created and deleted from the toc buffer
2796 with the `d' key.
2797
2798 The toc window can be split off horizontally instead of vertically.
2799 See new option `reftex-toc-split-windows-horizontally'.
2800
2801 Labels can be renamed globally from the table of contents using the
2802 key `M-%'.
2803
2804 The new command `reftex-goto-label' jumps directly to a label
2805 location.
2806
2807 +++
2808 *** Changes related to citations and BibTeX database files
2809
2810 Commands that insert a citation now prompt for optional arguments when
2811 called with a prefix argument. Related new options are
2812 `reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' and `reftex-cite-cleanup-optional-args'.
2813
2814 The new command `reftex-create-bibtex-file' creates a BibTeX database
2815 with all entries referenced in the current document. The keys "e" and
2816 "E" allow to produce a BibTeX database file from entries marked in a
2817 citation selection buffer.
2818
2819 The command `reftex-citation' uses the word in the buffer before the
2820 cursor as a default search string.
2821
2822 The support for chapterbib has been improved. Different chapters can
2823 now use BibTeX or an explicit `thebibliography' environment.
2824
2825 The macros which specify the bibliography file (like \bibliography)
2826 can be configured with the new option `reftex-bibliography-commands'.
2827
2828 Support for jurabib has been added.
2829
2830 +++
2831 *** Global index matched may be verified with a user function
2832
2833 During global indexing, a user function can verify an index match.
2834 See new option `reftex-index-verify-function'.
2835
2836 +++
2837 *** Parsing documents with many labels can be sped up.
2838
2839 Operating in a document with thousands of labels can be sped up
2840 considerably by allowing RefTeX to derive the type of a label directly
2841 from the label prefix like `eq:' or `fig:'. The option
2842 `reftex-trust-label-prefix' needs to be configured in order to enable
2843 this feature. While the speed-up is significant, this may reduce the
2844 quality of the context offered by RefTeX to describe a label.
2845
2846 +++
2847 *** Miscellaneous changes
2848
2849 The macros which input a file in LaTeX (like \input, \include) can be
2850 configured in the new option `reftex-include-file-commands'.
2851
2852 RefTeX supports global incremental search.
2853
2854 +++
2855 ** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords'
2856 to support use of font-lock.
2857
2858 ** HTML/SGML changes:
2859
2860 ---
2861 *** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files
2862 automatically.
2863
2864 +++
2865 *** SGML mode has indentation and supports XML syntax.
2866 The new variable `sgml-xml-mode' tells SGML mode to use XML syntax.
2867 When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
2868 i.e., there is always a closing tag.
2869 By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
2870 from the file name or buffer contents.
2871
2872 ---
2873 *** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
2874 `sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as
2875 alias.
2876
2877 +++
2878 *** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support.
2879
2880 ** TeX modes:
2881
2882 +++
2883 *** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default.
2884
2885 +++
2886 *** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
2887 by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
2888 command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
2889 TeX commands to use at startup.
2890
2891 ---
2892 *** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
2893 and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.
2894
2895 +++
2896 *** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.
2897
2898 ---
2899 ** BibTeX mode:
2900
2901 *** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
2902 point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).
2903
2904 *** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
2905 an existing BibTeX entry by inserting fields that may occur but are not
2906 present.
2907
2908 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.
2909
2910 *** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
2911 `crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used
2912 for BibTeX entries. `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting
2913 scheme `entry-class'. TAB completion for reference keys and
2914 automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that
2915 `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' is non-nil.
2916
2917 *** If the new variable `bibtex-parse-keys-fast' is non-nil,
2918 use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys.
2919
2920 *** If the new variable `bibtex-autoadd-commas' is non-nil,
2921 automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields.
2922
2923 *** The new variable `bibtex-autofill-types' contains a list of entry
2924 types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible).
2925
2926 *** The new command `bibtex-complete' completes word fragment before
2927 point according to context (bound to M-tab).
2928
2929 *** The new commands `bibtex-find-entry' and `bibtex-find-crossref'
2930 locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x).
2931 Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET).
2932
2933 *** In BibTeX mode the command `fill-paragraph' (M-q) fills
2934 individual fields of a BibTeX entry.
2935
2936 *** The new variables `bibtex-files' and `bibtex-file-path' define a set
2937 of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys.
2938
2939 *** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
2940 in multiple BibTeX files.
2941
2942 *** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
2943 of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).
2944
2945 *** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and
2946 bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when
2947 extracting the content of a BibTeX field.
2948
2949 *** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and
2950 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
2951 `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
2952 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are
2953 still available as aliases.
2954
2955 +++
2956 ** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
2957 renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still
2958 available as alias.
2959
2960 +++
2961 ** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
2962 by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'
2963 and `C-c C-r'.
2964
2965 ** GUD changes:
2966
2967 +++
2968 *** In GUD mode, when talking to GDB, C-x C-a C-j "jumps" the program
2969 counter to the specified source line (the one where point is).
2970
2971 ---
2972 *** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
2973 and other common debugger commands.
2974
2975 +++
2976 *** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
2977 GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
2978 there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
2979 state of your program. It can separate the input/output of your program from
2980 that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of
2981 Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
2982 breakpoints.
2983
2984 To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the
2985 old behaviour.
2986
2987 ---
2988 *** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be
2989 toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
2990 `gud-tooltip-mode'.
2991
2992 +++
2993 *** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to
2994 display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is
2995 not executing.
2996
2997 ---
2998 ** GUD mode improvements for jdb:
2999
3000 *** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class information.
3001 Fast startup since there is no need to scan all source files up front.
3002 There is also no need to create and maintain lists of source
3003 directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' and
3004 `gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation.
3005
3006 *** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear)
3007 set/clear operations from Java source files under the classpath, stack
3008 traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish
3009 (gud-finish).
3010
3011 *** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
3012 (Java 1.1 jdb).
3013
3014 *** The previous method of searching for source files has been
3015 preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
3016 Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.
3017
3018 *** Added Customization Variables
3019
3020 **** `gud-jdb-command-name'. What command line to use to invoke jdb.
3021
3022 **** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'. Allows selection of java source file searching
3023 method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
3024 java sources (previous method).
3025
3026 **** `gud-jdb-directories'. List of directories to scan and search for Java
3027 classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
3028 is nil).
3029
3030 *** Minor Improvements
3031
3032 **** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
3033 instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool. For backwards
3034 compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
3035 `starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
3036 `starttls' tool).
3037
3038 **** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
3039
3040 ** Auto-Revert changes:
3041
3042 +++
3043 *** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
3044
3045 If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert
3046 mode keeps it at the end after reverting. Similarly if point is
3047 displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at
3048 the end of the buffer in that window. This allows to tail a file:
3049 just put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there. This
3050 rule applies to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the behavior can
3051 be mode dependent.
3052
3053 If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end,
3054 then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor
3055 mode Auto Revert Tail mode. The function `auto-revert-tail-mode'
3056 toggles this mode.
3057
3058 +++
3059 *** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
3060 other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
3061 revert. This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
3062 and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil. Auto Revert
3063 mode only reverts a non-file buffer if the buffer has a non-nil
3064 `revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which
3065 decides whether the buffer should be reverted. Currently, this means
3066 that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
3067 work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.
3068
3069 +++
3070 *** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
3071 Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
3072 control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
3073 which it is active. If the option is nil, the default, then this info
3074 only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.
3075
3076 ---
3077 ** recentf changes.
3078
3079 The recent file list is now automatically cleaned up when recentf mode is
3080 enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do
3081 automatic cleanup.
3082
3083 The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut
3084 keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via
3085 the `recentf-open-files', or `recentf-open-more-files' commands.
3086
3087 The `recentf-keep' option replaces `recentf-keep-non-readable-files-p'
3088 and provides a more general mechanism to customize which file names to
3089 keep in the recent list.
3090
3091 With the more advanced option `recentf-filename-handlers', you can
3092 specify functions that successively transform recent file names. For
3093 example, if set to `file-truename' plus `abbreviate-file-name', the
3094 same file will not be in the recent list with different symbolic
3095 links, and the file name will be abbreviated.
3096
3097 To follow naming convention, `recentf-menu-append-commands-flag'
3098 replaces the misnamed option `recentf-menu-append-commands-p'. The
3099 old name remains available as alias, but has been marked obsolete.
3100
3101 +++
3102 ** Desktop package
3103
3104 +++
3105 *** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, `desktop-save-mode'.
3106
3107 +++
3108 *** The variable `desktop-enable' is obsolete.
3109
3110 Customize `desktop-save-mode' to enable desktop saving.
3111
3112 ---
3113 *** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
3114 buffer list.
3115
3116 +++
3117 *** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers
3118 immediately, remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is
3119 idle).
3120
3121 +++
3122 *** New commands:
3123 - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
3124 - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
3125 - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
3126 it was loaded.
3127 - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
3128 - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.
3129
3130 ---
3131 *** New customizable variables:
3132 - desktop-save. Determines whether the desktop should be saved when it is
3133 killed.
3134 - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
3135 - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
3136 - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save.
3137 - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear.
3138 - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear'
3139 should not delete.
3140 - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are
3141 restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
3142 - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers.
3143 - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.
3144
3145 +++
3146 *** New command line option --no-desktop
3147
3148 ---
3149 *** New hooks:
3150 - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
3151 - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
3152
3153 ---
3154 ** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
3155
3156 When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
3157 include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist.
3158 Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
3159 to get the old behavior. The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
3160 and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
3161 feature.
3162
3163 ** EDiff changes.
3164
3165 +++
3166 *** When comparing directories.
3167 Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of
3168 directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files
3169 from one directory to another.
3170
3171 +++
3172 *** When comparing files or buffers.
3173 Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the
3174 currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n'
3175 then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
3176 comparison.
3177
3178 +++
3179 *** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
3180 backup using `ediff'. If you specify the name of a backup file,
3181 `ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.
3182
3183 +++
3184 ** Etags changes.
3185
3186 *** New regular expressions features
3187
3188 **** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.
3189
3190 The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained
3191 only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is
3192 --regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS,
3193 where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or
3194 more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'
3195 (single-line). The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular
3196 expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
3197 (which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines. The ability to
3198 span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
3199 and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.
3200
3201 **** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.
3202
3203 The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
3204 respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
3205 CR, TAB, VT.
3206
3207 **** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.
3208
3209 The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
3210 only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is
3211 particularly useful when storing regexps in a file.
3212
3213 **** Regular expressions can be read from a file.
3214
3215 The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one
3216 per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.
3217
3218 *** New language parsing features
3219
3220 **** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.
3221
3222 Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.
3223
3224 **** The GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognized and ignored.
3225
3226 **** New language HTML.
3227
3228 Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'. Also,
3229 when `name=' is used inside an anchor and whenever `id=' is used.
3230
3231 **** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
3232
3233 If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
3234 size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.
3235
3236 **** New language Lua.
3237
3238 All functions are tagged.
3239
3240 **** In Perl, packages are tags.
3241
3242 Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags
3243 as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
3244 package::sub.
3245
3246 **** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.
3247
3248 **** New language PHP.
3249
3250 Functions, classes and defines are tags. If the --members option is
3251 specified to etags, variables are tags also.
3252
3253 **** New default keywords for TeX.
3254
3255 The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
3256 renewenvironment.
3257
3258 **** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for #undef
3259
3260 *** Honor #line directives.
3261
3262 When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
3263 directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
3264 specified in those directives. This is useful when dealing with code
3265 created from Cweb source files. When Etags tags the generated file, it
3266 writes tags pointing to the source file.
3267
3268 *** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.
3269
3270 This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs. It can
3271 be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line. Etags
3272 reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
3273 the file FILE.
3274
3275 *** The --members option is now the default.
3276
3277 Use --no-members if you want the old default behaviour of not tagging
3278 struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP.
3279
3280 ** Ctags changes.
3281
3282 *** Ctags now allows duplicate tags
3283
3284 ** VC Changes
3285
3286 +++
3287 *** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
3288 (toggle-read-only). It no longer checks files in or out.
3289
3290 We made this change because we held a poll and found that many users
3291 were unhappy with the previous behavior. If you do prefer this
3292 behavior, you can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your
3293 `.emacs' file:
3294
3295 (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only)
3296
3297 The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist.
3298
3299 +++
3300 *** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies switches that
3301 are passed to any CVS command invoked by VC.
3302
3303 These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which means they
3304 are inserted before the command name. For example, this allows you to
3305 specify a compression level using the `-z#' option for CVS.
3306
3307 +++
3308 *** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.
3309
3310 +++
3311 *** VC-Annotate mode enhancements
3312
3313 In VC-Annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for
3314 enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or
3315 to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode:
3316
3317 P: annotates the previous revision
3318 N: annotates the next revision
3319 J: annotates the revision at line
3320 A: annotates the revision previous to line
3321 D: shows the diff of the revision at line with its previous revision
3322 L: shows the log of the revision at line
3323 W: annotates the workfile (most up to date) version
3324
3325 ** pcl-cvs changes:
3326
3327 +++
3328 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d y' command to view the diffs
3329 between the local version of the file and yesterday's head revision
3330 in the repository.
3331
3332 +++
3333 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
3334 anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
3335 `checkout', `update' or `commit'. That means using cvs diff options
3336 -rBASE -rHEAD.
3337
3338 +++
3339 ** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies
3340 `default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for
3341 auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to "~/".
3342
3343 +++
3344 ** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file.
3345
3346 See the documentation of the user option
3347 `display-time-mail-directory'.
3348
3349 ** Rmail changes:
3350
3351 ---
3352 *** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.
3353
3354 +++
3355 *** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
3356 by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
3357 Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.
3358
3359 +++
3360 *** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
3361
3362 This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of
3363 mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
3364 without TLS encryption. If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
3365 and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
3366 used instead of the native one.
3367
3368 ** Gnus package
3369
3370 ---
3371 *** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
3372
3373 Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts. PGG is a library to handle
3374 PGP/MIME.
3375
3376 ---
3377 *** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
3378
3379 See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
3380
3381 ---
3382 ** MH-E changes.
3383
3384 Upgraded to MH-E version 8.0.3. There have been major changes since
3385 version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.
3386
3387 ** Calendar changes:
3388
3389 +++
3390 *** The meanings of C-x < and C-x > have been interchanged.
3391 < means to scroll backward in time, and > means to scroll forward.
3392
3393 +++
3394 *** You can now use < and >, instead of C-x < and C-x >, to scroll
3395 the calendar left or right.
3396
3397 +++
3398 *** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to
3399 convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format.
3400
3401 +++
3402 *** The new package cal-html.el writes HTML files with calendar and
3403 diary entries.
3404
3405 +++
3406 *** Diary sexp entries can have custom marking in the calendar.
3407 Diary sexp functions which only apply to certain days (such as
3408 `diary-block' or `diary-cyclic') now take an optional parameter MARK,
3409 which is the name of a face or a single-character string indicating
3410 how to highlight the day in the calendar display. Specifying a
3411 single-character string as @var{mark} places the character next to the
3412 day in the calendar. Specifying a face highlights the day with that
3413 face. This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations,
3414 appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp.
3415
3416 +++
3417 *** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a
3418 year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers
3419 count backward from the end of the year.
3420
3421 +++
3422 *** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
3423 prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
3424 day of that ISO week.
3425
3426 ---
3427 *** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
3428 window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
3429
3430 ---
3431 *** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
3432 optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
3433 rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
3434 `christian-holidays' simpler.
3435
3436 ---
3437 *** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
3438 This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
3439 and `diary-header-line-format'.
3440
3441 +++
3442 *** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed:
3443 use the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable
3444 `appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing
3445 `appt-issue-message', `appt-visible', and `appt-msg-window'.
3446
3447 +++
3448 *** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
3449 and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
3450 from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages. The variable
3451 `diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional
3452 formats.
3453
3454 +++
3455 ** Speedbar changes:
3456
3457 *** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on
3458 the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism.
3459
3460 *** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar
3461 keymap.
3462
3463 *** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC,
3464 contracts or expands the line under the cursor.
3465
3466 *** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'.
3467
3468 *** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
3469 `speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
3470 respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
3471 its descendents.
3472
3473 *** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls
3474 how querying is performed for file operations. A value of 'always
3475 means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means
3476 to not query before any file operations, except before a file
3477 deletion.
3478
3479 *** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how
3480 to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar. A
3481 value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that
3482 speedbar was started from.) A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass
3483 that number to `other-frame'.
3484
3485 *** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
3486 means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.
3487
3488 *** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new
3489 `dframe' library. Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar
3490 should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of
3491 `speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer',
3492 `dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and
3493 `dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of
3494 `speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'. The variables
3495 `speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also
3496 obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead.
3497
3498 ---
3499 ** sql changes.
3500
3501 *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlighting of different
3502 SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a
3503 buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current
3504 session using the new SQL->Product submenu. (This menu replaces the
3505 SQL->Highlighting submenu.)
3506
3507 The following values are supported:
3508
3509 ansi ANSI Standard (default)
3510 db2 DB2
3511 informix Informix
3512 ingres Ingres
3513 interbase Interbase
3514 linter Linter
3515 ms Microsoft
3516 mysql MySQL
3517 oracle Oracle
3518 postgres Postgres
3519 solid Solid
3520 sqlite SQLite
3521 sybase Sybase
3522
3523 The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the
3524 SQL mode indicator.
3525
3526 The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in
3527 your `.emacs' will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use
3528 `sql-product' to accomplish this.
3529
3530 ANSI keywords are always highlighted.
3531
3532 *** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add
3533 font-lock rules to the product specific rules. For example, to have
3534 all identifiers ending in `_t' under MS SQLServer treated as a type,
3535 you would use the following line in your .emacs file:
3536
3537 (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
3538 '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face)))
3539
3540 *** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i.
3541
3542 Most SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented. SQL*Plus commands are
3543 highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'.
3544
3545 *** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved.
3546
3547 Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented.
3548 sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because
3549 osql flushes its error stream more frequently. Thus error messages
3550 are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is
3551 terminated.
3552
3553 If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is
3554 called with the `-E' command line argument to use the operating system
3555 credentials to authenticate the user.
3556
3557 *** Postgres support is enhanced.
3558 Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented. Prompting for
3559 the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added.
3560
3561 *** MySQL support is enhanced.
3562 Keyword highlighting of MySql 4.0 is implemented.
3563
3564 *** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes,
3565 packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and
3566 defaults.
3567
3568 *** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
3569 appropriate `sql-interactive-mode' wrapper for the current setting of
3570 `sql-product'.
3571
3572 ---
3573 *** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'.
3574
3575 ** FFAP changes:
3576
3577 +++
3578 *** New ffap commands and keybindings:
3579
3580 C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'),
3581 C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'),
3582 C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'),
3583 C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame').
3584
3585 ---
3586 *** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default.
3587
3588 C-x C-f passes the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS
3589 argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.
3590
3591 ---
3592 ** Changes in Skeleton
3593
3594 *** In skeleton.el, `-' marks the `skeleton-point' without interregion interaction.
3595
3596 `@' has reverted to only setting `skeleton-positions' and no longer
3597 sets `skeleton-point'. Skeletons which used @ to mark
3598 `skeleton-point' independent of `_' should now use `-' instead. The
3599 updated `skeleton-insert' docstring explains these new features along
3600 with other details of skeleton construction.
3601
3602 *** The variables `skeleton-transformation', `skeleton-filter', and
3603 `skeleton-pair-filter' have been renamed to
3604 `skeleton-transformation-function', `skeleton-filter-function', and
3605 `skeleton-pair-filter-function'. The old names are still available
3606 as aliases.
3607
3608 ---
3609 ** Hideshow mode changes
3610
3611 *** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
3612 used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch
3613 handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
3614 temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
3615
3616 *** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does
3617 not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent
3618 block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil.
3619
3620 +++
3621 ** `hide-ifdef-mode' now uses overlays rather than selective-display
3622 to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly
3623 changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p.
3624
3625 ---
3626 ** `partial-completion-mode' now handles partial completion on directory names.
3627
3628 ---
3629 ** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
3630 and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if
3631 you don't want the `.type-break' file in your home directory or are
3632 annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.
3633
3634 ---
3635 ** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.
3636
3637 Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with
3638 `ps-print', provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF
3639 fonts. See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts.
3640
3641 ---
3642 ** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
3643 This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
3644 the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for
3645 using strokes as an input method.
3646
3647 ** Emacs server changes:
3648
3649 +++
3650 *** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.
3651
3652 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
3653 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start &
3654 % emacsclient -s foo file1
3655 % emacsclient -s bar file2
3656
3657 +++
3658 *** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
3659 `--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given Lisp
3660 expression and to use the given display when visiting files.
3661
3662 +++
3663 *** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.
3664
3665 ---
3666 ** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2.
3667
3668 +++
3669 ** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it.
3670
3671 M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no
3672 argument it toggles the mode. Turning off PC-Selection mode restores
3673 the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode.
3674
3675 ---
3676 ** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
3677 `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.
3678
3679 ---
3680 ** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
3681
3682 Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to
3683 use standout mode, but they can no longer display mode-lines in
3684 inverse-video.
3685
3686 ---
3687 ** The game `mpuz' is enhanced.
3688
3689 `mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits. By
3690 default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
3691 automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
3692
3693 ** battery.el changes:
3694
3695 ---
3696 *** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery.
3697
3698 ---
3699 *** battery.el now works on recent versions of OS X.
3700
3701 ---
3702 ** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode.
3703
3704 To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil. In this mode a
3705 separator character is used every few digits, making it easier to see
3706 byte boundaries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the
3707 variable `calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.
3708
3709 ---
3710 ** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead.
3711
3712 ---
3713 ** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead.
3714
3715 ---
3716 ** zone-mode.el is now obsolete. Use dns-mode.el instead.
3717
3718 ---
3719 ** cplus-md.el has been deleted.
3720
3721 ---
3722 ** Ewoc changes
3723
3724 *** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.
3725
3726 *** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of
3727 a newline after each pretty-printed entry and after the header and footer.
3728 This allows you to create multiple-entry ewocs on a single line and to
3729 effect "invisible" nodes by arranging for the pretty-printer to not print
3730 anything for those nodes.
3731
3732 For example, these two sequences of expressions behave identically:
3733
3734 ;; NOSEP nil
3735 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S" data)))
3736 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n")
3737
3738 ;; NOSEP t
3739 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S\n" data)))
3740 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n\n" "\n" t)
3741
3742 ** Locate changes
3743
3744 ---
3745 *** By default, reverting the *Locate* buffer now just runs the last
3746 `locate' command back over again without offering to update the locate
3747 database (which normally only works if you have root privileges). If
3748 you prefer the old behavior, set the new customizable option
3749 `locate-update-when-revert' to t.
3750
3751 \f
3752 * Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems
3753
3754 +++
3755 ** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile.
3756
3757 If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME
3758 environment variable and a `.emacs' was saved, then Emacs will continue
3759 using C:/ as the default HOME. But if you are installing Emacs afresh,
3760 the default location will be the "Application Data" (or similar
3761 localized name) subdirectory of your user profile. A typical location
3762 of this directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data",
3763 where USERNAME is your user name.
3764
3765 This change means that users can now have their own `.emacs' files on
3766 shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be
3767 read-only on computers that are administered by someone else.
3768
3769 +++
3770 ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
3771
3772 You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
3773 existing values. For example:
3774
3775 emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"
3776
3777 will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
3778 irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
3779
3780 ---
3781 ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
3782
3783 This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the
3784 cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
3785 When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible
3786 instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by
3787 some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows
3788 the caret visibility to be manually toggled.
3789
3790 ---
3791 ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
3792
3793 See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.
3794
3795 ---
3796 ** Images are now supported on MS Windows.
3797
3798 PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
3799 depend on external libraries. All of these libraries have been ported
3800 to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
3801 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. Note that libpng also depends on
3802 zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
3803 against. For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.
3804
3805 ---
3806 ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
3807
3808 WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
3809 as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of
3810 Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
3811 sound support for those formats.
3812
3813 ---
3814 ** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows.
3815
3816 The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer.
3817
3818 ---
3819 ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
3820
3821 The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
3822 whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
3823 pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.
3824
3825 ---
3826 ** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.
3827
3828 The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much
3829 the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X. Emacs now adds these
3830 colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu for the
3831 default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground), and uses
3832 some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
3833 `list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
3834 you wish to use them in other faces.
3835
3836 ---
3837 ** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.
3838
3839 Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
3840 multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
3841 MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
3842 the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
3843 any customizations.
3844
3845 ---
3846 ** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size.
3847
3848 Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs
3849 through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in
3850 a local console window with a scrollback buffer. The default value of
3851 w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favors local console
3852 windows. Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this
3853 setting. If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects
3854 that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and
3855 defaults to 80x25. If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size
3856 other than 80x25, you can still manually set
3857 w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.
3858
3859 ---
3860 ** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.
3861
3862 ---
3863 ** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
3864 `kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
3865 `kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.
3866
3867 +++
3868 ** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete. Use
3869 `mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.
3870 \f
3871 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3872
3873 +++
3874 ** The `read-file-name' function now returns a null string if the
3875 user just types RET.
3876
3877 +++
3878 ** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons
3879 (FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument
3880 OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in
3881 `file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument.
3882
3883 ---
3884 ** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have
3885 been removed. Use run-with-idle-timer instead.
3886
3887 +++
3888 ** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
3889 the command `undefined'. (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
3890 `substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to
3891 `undefined'.)
3892
3893 +++
3894 ** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
3895 :propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
3896 `risky-local-variable' property is nil.
3897
3898 ---
3899 The function `comint-send-input' now accepts 3 optional arguments:
3900
3901 (comint-send-input &optional no-newline artificial)
3902
3903 Callers sending input not from the user should use bind the 3rd
3904 argument `artificial' to a non-nil value, to prevent Emacs from
3905 deleting the part of subprocess output that matches the input.
3906
3907 ---
3908 ** Support for Mocklisp has been removed.
3909
3910 +++
3911 ** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
3912 there is no longer a shortage of memory.
3913
3914 +++
3915 ** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates
3916 input events: sigusr1 or sigusr2. Use special-event-map to
3917 handle these events.
3918
3919 +++
3920 ** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to
3921 be multibyte or unibyte, respectively.
3922
3923 +++
3924 ** The explicit method of creating a display table element by
3925 combining a face number and a character code into a numeric
3926 glyph code is deprecated.
3927
3928 Instead, the new functions `make-glyph-code', `glyph-char', and
3929 `glyph-face' must be used to create and decode glyph codes in
3930 display tables.
3931
3932 \f
3933 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3934
3935 ** General Lisp changes:
3936
3937 +++
3938 *** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
3939 The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
3940 negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
3941
3942 +++
3943 *** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.
3944
3945 +++
3946 *** The new function `memql' is like `memq', but uses `eql' for comparison,
3947 that is, floats are compared by value and other elements with `eq'.
3948
3949 +++
3950 *** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead.
3951
3952 +++
3953 *** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND.
3954
3955 If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the
3956 list instead of at the beginning. This change actually occurred in
3957 Emacs 21.1, but was not documented then.
3958
3959 +++
3960 *** New function `add-to-ordered-list' is like `add-to-list' but
3961 associates a numeric ordering of each element added to the list.
3962
3963 +++
3964 *** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree.
3965
3966 It recursively copies through both CARs and CDRs.
3967
3968 +++
3969 *** New function `delete-dups' deletes `equal' duplicate elements from a list.
3970
3971 It modifies the list destructively, like `delete'. Of several `equal'
3972 occurrences of an element in the list, the one that's kept is the
3973 first one.
3974
3975 +++
3976 *** New function `add-to-history' adds an element to a history list.
3977
3978 Lisp packages should use this function to add elements to their
3979 history lists.
3980
3981 If `history-delete-duplicates' is non-nil, it removes duplicates of
3982 the new element from the history list it updates.
3983
3984 +++
3985 *** New function `rassq-delete-all'.
3986
3987 (rassq-delete-all VALUE ALIST) deletes, from ALIST, each element whose
3988 CDR is `eq' to the specified value.
3989
3990 +++
3991 *** The function `number-sequence' makes a list of equally-separated numbers.
3992
3993 For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). By
3994 default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different
3995 separation as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns
3996 (1.5 3.5 5.5).
3997
3998 +++
3999 *** New variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'.
4000
4001 They hold the largest and smallest possible integer values.
4002
4003 +++
4004 *** Minor change in the function `format'.
4005
4006 Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no
4007 longer accepted.
4008
4009 +++
4010 *** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists.
4011
4012 They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is
4013 cyclic.
4014
4015 +++
4016 *** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.
4017
4018 They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare
4019 the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.
4020
4021 +++
4022 *** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'.
4023
4024 When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single
4025 numbering scheme for circular structure references. This is only
4026 relevant when `print-circle' is non-nil.
4027
4028 When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
4029 also bind `print-number-table' to nil.
4030
4031 +++
4032 *** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
4033
4034 It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
4035 One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
4036 if no expansion is done, which can be tested using `eq'.
4037
4038 +++
4039 *** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument.
4040
4041 When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
4042 angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis. (This is
4043 equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)
4044
4045 +++
4046 *** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern.
4047
4048 You put this info in the doc string's last line. It should be
4049 formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'". If you don't
4050 specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument
4051 names. Usually that default is right, but not always.
4052
4053 +++
4054 *** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting.
4055
4056 A quit inside the body of `with-local-quit' is caught by the
4057 `with-local-quit' form itself, but another quit will happen later once
4058 the code that has inhibited quitting exits.
4059
4060 This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code
4061 inside timer functions and `post-command-hook' functions.
4062
4063 +++
4064 *** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.
4065
4066 This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.
4067
4068 +++
4069 *** New macro `with-case-table'
4070
4071 This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given
4072 case table.
4073
4074 +++
4075 *** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.
4076
4077 It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
4078 dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
4079 (calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.).
4080
4081 +++
4082 *** New macro `eval-at-startup' specifies expressions to
4083 evaluate when Emacs starts up. If this is done after startup,
4084 it evaluates those expressions immediately.
4085
4086 This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.
4087
4088 +++
4089 *** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.
4090
4091 If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.
4092
4093 +++
4094 *** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.
4095
4096 `string-or-null-p' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a string or nil.
4097 `booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is t or nil.
4098
4099 +++
4100 *** New hook `command-error-function'.
4101
4102 By setting this variable to a function, you can control
4103 how the editor command loop shows the user an error message.
4104
4105 +++
4106 *** `debug-on-entry' accepts primitive functions that are not special forms
4107 now.
4108
4109 ** Lisp code indentation features:
4110
4111 +++
4112 *** The `defmacro' form can contain indentation and edebug declarations.
4113
4114 These declarations specify how to indent the macro calls in Lisp mode
4115 and how to debug them with Edebug. You write them like this:
4116
4117 (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...)
4118
4119 DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'. The
4120 possible declaration specifiers are:
4121
4122 (indent INDENT)
4123 Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT.
4124
4125 (edebug DEBUG)
4126 Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG. (This is
4127 equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro,
4128 but this is cleaner.)
4129
4130 ---
4131 *** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms.
4132
4133 See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.
4134
4135 ---
4136 *** cl-indent now handles indentation of simple and extended `loop' forms.
4137
4138 The new user options `lisp-loop-keyword-indentation',
4139 `lisp-loop-forms-indentation', and `lisp-simple-loop-indentation' can
4140 be used to customize the indentation of keywords and forms in loop
4141 forms.
4142
4143 +++
4144 ** Variable aliases:
4145
4146 *** New function: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING]
4147
4148 This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for
4149 symbol BASE-VAR. This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR
4150 returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR
4151 changes the value of BASE-VAR.
4152
4153 DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has
4154 the same documentation as BASE-VAR.
4155
4156 *** New function: indirect-variable VARIABLE
4157
4158 This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases
4159 of VARIABLE. If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not
4160 defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE.
4161
4162 It might be noteworthy that variables aliases work for all kinds of
4163 variables, including buffer-local and frame-local variables.
4164
4165 +++
4166 *** The macro `define-obsolete-variable-alias' combines `defvaralias' and
4167 `make-obsolete-variable'.
4168
4169 ** defcustom changes:
4170
4171 +++
4172 *** The package-version keyword has been added to provide
4173 `customize-changed-options' functionality to packages in the future.
4174 Developers who make use of this keyword must also update the new
4175 variable `customize-package-emacs-version-alist'.
4176
4177 +++
4178 *** The new customization type `float' requires a floating point number.
4179
4180 ** String changes:
4181
4182 +++
4183 *** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character.
4184
4185 Exception: In a character constant, if it is followed by a `-' in a
4186 character constant (e.g. ?\s-A), it is still interpreted as the super
4187 modifier. In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space.
4188
4189 +++
4190 *** A hex escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte.
4191
4192 +++
4193 *** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte.
4194
4195 +++
4196 *** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if
4197 the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for
4198 SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is
4199 nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all
4200 empty matches are omitted from the returned list.
4201
4202 +++
4203 *** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
4204 multibyte string with the same individual character codes.
4205
4206 +++
4207 *** New function `substring-no-properties' returns a substring without
4208 text properties.
4209
4210 +++
4211 *** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and
4212 `assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have
4213 been declared obsolete.
4214
4215 +++
4216 *** New syntax: \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX specify Unicode code points in hex.
4217 Use "\u0428" to specify a string consisting of CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA,
4218 or "\U0001D6E2" to specify one consisting of MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL
4219 ALPHA (the latter is greater than #xFFFF and thus needs the longer
4220 syntax). Also available for characters.
4221
4222 +++
4223 ** Displaying warnings to the user.
4224
4225 See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual.
4226 If you want to be sure the warning will not be overlooked, this
4227 facility is much better than using `message', since it displays
4228 warnings in a separate window.
4229
4230 +++
4231 ** Progress reporters.
4232
4233 These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present
4234 progress messages for the user.
4235
4236 See the new functions `make-progress-reporter',
4237 `progress-reporter-update', `progress-reporter-force-update',
4238 `progress-reporter-done', and `dotimes-with-progress-reporter'.
4239
4240 ** Buffer positions:
4241
4242 +++
4243 *** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
4244 width if the WIDTH argument is nil. If the TOPOS argument is nil,
4245 the usable window height and width is used.
4246
4247 +++
4248 *** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now
4249 modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
4250 taller that the height of the window, for example in the presence of
4251 large images. To disable this feature, bind the new variable
4252 `auto-window-vscroll' to nil.
4253
4254 +++
4255 *** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word' is optional.
4256
4257 It defaults to 1.
4258
4259 +++
4260 *** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.
4261
4262 It defaults to 1.
4263
4264 +++
4265 *** New function `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link.
4266
4267 This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
4268 functionality.
4269
4270 +++
4271 *** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position.
4272
4273 It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point.
4274
4275 +++
4276 *** `field-beginning' and `field-end' take new optional argument, LIMIT.
4277
4278 This argument tells them not to search beyond LIMIT. Instead they
4279 give up and return LIMIT.
4280
4281 +++
4282 *** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates
4283 and partial visibility state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
4284 arg is non-nil.
4285
4286 +++
4287 *** New function `window-line-height' is an efficient way to get
4288 information about a specific text line in a window provided that the
4289 window's display is up-to-date.
4290
4291 +++
4292 *** New functions `posn-at-point' and `posn-at-x-y' return
4293 click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
4294 position or for a given window pixel coordinate.
4295
4296 ** Text modification:
4297
4298 +++
4299 *** The new function `buffer-chars-modified-tick' returns a buffer's
4300 tick counter for changes to characters. Each time text in that buffer
4301 is inserted or deleted, the character-change counter is updated to the
4302 tick counter (`buffer-modified-tick'). Text property changes leave it
4303 unchanged.
4304
4305 +++
4306 *** The new function `insert-for-yank' normally works like `insert', but
4307 removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list
4308 and handles the `yank-handler' text property.
4309
4310 +++
4311 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' is like
4312 `insert-for-yank' except that it gets the text from another buffer as
4313 in `insert-buffer-substring'.
4314
4315 +++
4316 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like
4317 `insert-buffer-substring', but removes all text properties from the
4318 inserted substring.
4319
4320 +++
4321 *** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
4322 substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
4323 the filtered substring. Use it instead of `buffer-substring' or
4324 `delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
4325 data structure, such as the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.
4326
4327 The list of filter function is specified by the new variable
4328 `buffer-substring-filters'. For example, Longlines mode adds to
4329 `buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
4330 text.
4331
4332 +++
4333 *** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
4334 argument.
4335
4336 +++
4337 *** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
4338 is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to
4339 be inserted is translated through it.
4340
4341 ---
4342 *** Text clones.
4343
4344 The new function `text-clone-create'. Text clones are chunks of text
4345 that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one
4346 clone to the other.
4347
4348 ---
4349 *** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete.
4350
4351 ** Filling changes.
4352
4353 +++
4354 *** In determining an adaptive fill prefix, Emacs now tries the function in
4355 `adaptive-fill-function' _before_ matching the buffer line against
4356 `adaptive-fill-regexp' rather than _after_ it.
4357
4358 +++
4359 ** Atomic change groups.
4360
4361 To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
4362 they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
4363 around the code that makes changes. For instance:
4364
4365 (atomic-change-group
4366 (insert foo)
4367 (delete-region x y))
4368
4369 If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of
4370 `atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that
4371 were during the execution of the body. The change group has no effect
4372 on any other buffers--any such changes remain.
4373
4374 If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the
4375 lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses. Here is how.
4376
4377 To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'.
4378 Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer.
4379 This function returns a "handle" for the change group. You must save
4380 the handle to activate the change group and then finish it.
4381
4382 Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change
4383 group. Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to
4384 do this.
4385
4386 After you make the changes, you must finish the change group. You can
4387 either accept the changes or cancel them all. Call
4388 `accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final;
4389 call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all.
4390
4391 You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always
4392 finished. The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the
4393 `unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs.
4394 (This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and
4395 `activate-change-group' are separate functions.) Once you finish the
4396 group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group
4397 twice.
4398
4399 To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once
4400 for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the
4401 returned values, like this:
4402
4403 (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1)
4404 (prepare-change-group buffer-2))
4405
4406 You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call
4407 to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to
4408 `accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'.
4409
4410 Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you
4411 would expect. Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer
4412 will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first
4413 change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one
4414 finished.
4415
4416 ** Buffer-related changes:
4417
4418 ---
4419 *** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST.
4420
4421 If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list.
4422
4423 +++
4424 *** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local.
4425
4426 +++
4427 *** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
4428 binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER. If VARIABLE does not
4429 have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
4430 value of VARIABLE instead.
4431
4432 ---
4433 *** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
4434 various status records in parallel.
4435
4436 It takes a variable (a symbol) as argument. If the variable is non-nil,
4437 then its value should be a vector installed previously by
4438 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p'. If the frame names, buffer names, buffer
4439 order, or their read-only or modified flags have changed, since the
4440 time the vector's contents were recorded by a previous call to
4441 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', then the function returns t. Otherwise
4442 it returns nil.
4443
4444 On the first call to `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', the variable's
4445 value should be nil. `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' stores a suitable
4446 vector into the variable and returns t.
4447
4448 If the variable is itself nil, then `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' uses,
4449 for compatibility, an internal variable which exists only for this
4450 purpose.
4451
4452 +++
4453 *** The function `read-buffer' follows the convention for reading from
4454 the minibuffer with a default value: if DEF is non-nil, the minibuffer
4455 prompt provided in PROMPT is edited to show the default value provided
4456 in DEF before the terminal colon and space.
4457
4458 ** Searching and matching changes:
4459
4460 +++
4461 *** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
4462 the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
4463 back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.
4464
4465 +++
4466 *** The new variable `search-spaces-regexp' controls how to search
4467 for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a
4468 regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular
4469 expression. If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves.
4470
4471 Spaces inside of constructs such as `[..]' and inside loops such as
4472 `*', `+', and `?' are never replaced with `search-spaces-regexp'.
4473
4474 +++
4475 *** New regular expression operators, `\_<' and `\_>'.
4476
4477 These match the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a
4478 non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
4479 specified by the syntax table.
4480
4481 ---
4482 *** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements.
4483
4484 +++
4485 *** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
4486 character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
4487 characters and ranges.
4488
4489 ---
4490 *** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits
4491 properties from surrounding text.
4492
4493 +++
4494 *** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final
4495 element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data'
4496 accepts such a list for restoring the match state.
4497
4498 +++
4499 *** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional
4500 argument `reseat'. When non-nil, all markers in the match data list
4501 passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere.
4502
4503 +++
4504 *** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
4505 variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
4506 that end a sentence without following spaces.
4507
4508 The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the
4509 variable `sentence-end'. If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then
4510 this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables
4511 `sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and
4512 `sentence-end-without-space'.
4513
4514 ** Undo changes:
4515
4516 +++
4517 *** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements.
4518
4519 These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
4520 a symbol other than t or nil. That stands for a high-level change
4521 that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).
4522
4523 These entries can also have the form (apply DELTA BEG END FUNNAME . ARGS)
4524 which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the
4525 range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA.
4526
4527 +++
4528 *** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than
4529 `undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent
4530 it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.
4531
4532 +++
4533 ** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how
4534 previously killed text on the kill ring is reinserted.
4535
4536 The value of the `yank-handler' property must be a list with one to four
4537 elements with the following format:
4538 (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).
4539
4540 The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
4541 the first character on its string argument (typically the first
4542 element on the kill-ring). If a `yank-handler' property is found,
4543 the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:
4544
4545 When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
4546 to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
4547 If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object
4548 passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is
4549 `yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a
4550 rectangle.
4551 If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the
4552 `yank-excluded-properties' is not performed; instead FUNCTION is
4553 responsible for removing those properties. This may be necessary
4554 if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object.
4555 If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
4556 by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object. It is
4557 called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
4558 FUNCTION can set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.
4559
4560 *** The functions `kill-new', `kill-append', and `kill-region' now have an
4561 optional argument to specify the `yank-handler' text property to put on
4562 the killed text.
4563
4564 *** The function `yank-pop' will now use a non-nil value of the variable
4565 `yank-undo-function' (instead of `delete-region') to undo the previous
4566 `yank' or `yank-pop' command (or a call to `insert-for-yank'). The function
4567 `insert-for-yank' automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
4568 element of the string argument's `yank-handler' text property if present.
4569
4570 *** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
4571 `yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
4572 string. The old behavior is available if you call
4573 `insert-for-yank-1' instead.
4574
4575 ** Syntax table changes:
4576
4577 +++
4578 *** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table.
4579
4580 +++
4581 *** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code
4582 of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account
4583 of text properties as well as the character code.
4584
4585 +++
4586 *** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned
4587 by `syntax-after').
4588
4589 +++
4590 *** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the
4591 current syntactic context at point.
4592
4593 ** File operation changes:
4594
4595 +++
4596 *** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
4597 searching for an executable or an Emacs Lisp file.
4598
4599 +++
4600 *** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and
4601 modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this
4602 operation.
4603
4604 +++
4605 *** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns
4606 non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using
4607 its own special methods and not directly through the file system).
4608 The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system.
4609
4610 +++
4611 *** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was
4612 formerly called `auto-save-file-format'. It is now a permanent local.
4613
4614 +++
4615 *** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now
4616 ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as
4617 `.emacs' are treated as extensionless.
4618
4619 +++
4620 *** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
4621 a list of two integers, instead of a cons.
4622
4623 +++
4624 *** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which
4625 specifies the maximum number of links to chase through. If after that
4626 many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link,
4627 `file-chase-links' returns it anyway.
4628
4629 +++
4630 *** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
4631 before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final
4632 tasks. For example, it can be used by the copyright package to make
4633 sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.
4634
4635 +++
4636 *** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
4637 `save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if
4638 it's modified).
4639
4640 +++
4641 *** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories.
4642 `locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two
4643 lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to
4644 try; typical usage might use `exec-path' and `load-path' for the list
4645 of directories, and `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' for the list
4646 of suffixes. The function also accepts a predicate argument to
4647 further filter candidate files.
4648
4649 One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
4650 `exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
4651 executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.
4652
4653 ---
4654 *** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.
4655
4656 Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,
4657 `find-file-name-handler' now gives precedence to a file name handler
4658 that matches nearest the end of the file name. More precisely, the
4659 handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. In case
4660 of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies.
4661
4662 +++
4663 *** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles.
4664
4665 You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name
4666 symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that
4667 the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other
4668 operations.
4669
4670 This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being
4671 autoloaded when not really necessary.
4672
4673 +++
4674 *** The function `make-auto-save-file-name' is now handled by file
4675 name handlers. This will be exploited for remote files mainly.
4676
4677 +++
4678 *** The function `file-name-completion' accepts an optional argument
4679 PREDICATE, and rejects completion candidates that don't satisfy PREDICATE.
4680
4681 ** Input changes:
4682
4683 +++
4684 *** The functions `read-event', `read-char', and `read-char-exclusive'
4685 have a new optional argument SECONDS. If non-nil, this specifies a
4686 maximum time to wait for input, in seconds. If no input arrives after
4687 this time elapses, the functions stop waiting and return nil.
4688
4689 +++
4690 *** An interactive specification can now use the code letter `U' to get
4691 the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
4692 previous `k' or `K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.
4693
4694 +++
4695 *** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
4696 much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
4697 it returns just the directory name.
4698
4699 ---
4700 *** Functions `y-or-n-p', `read-char', `read-key-sequence' and the like, that
4701 display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
4702 using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
4703
4704 +++
4705 *** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input
4706 arrives. If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a
4707 quit had occurred. `while-no-input' returns the value of BODY, if BODY
4708 finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted by a quit, and t if
4709 BODY was aborted by arrival of input.
4710
4711 +++
4712 *** `recent-keys' now returns the last 300 keys.
4713
4714 ** Minibuffer changes:
4715
4716 +++
4717 *** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional
4718 buffer argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted, it
4719 defaults to the current buffer.
4720
4721 +++
4722 *** New function `minibuffer-selected-window' returns the window which
4723 was selected when entering the minibuffer.
4724
4725 +++
4726 *** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
4727 specifies a predicate which the file name read must satisfy. The
4728 new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
4729 while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
4730 variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.
4731
4732 ---
4733 *** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by Lisp code
4734 to override the built-in `read-file-name' function.
4735
4736 +++
4737 *** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
4738 whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
4739 `read-file-name' function.
4740
4741 +++
4742 *** The new function `read-directory-name' is for reading a directory name.
4743
4744 It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
4745 for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.
4746
4747 +++
4748 *** The new variable `history-add-new-input' specifies whether to add new
4749 elements in history. If set to nil, minibuffer reading functions don't
4750 add new elements to the history list, so it is possible to do this
4751 afterwards by calling `add-to-history' explicitly.
4752
4753 ** Completion changes:
4754
4755 +++
4756 *** The new function `minibuffer-completion-contents' returns the contents
4757 of the minibuffer just before point. That is what completion commands
4758 operate on.
4759
4760 +++
4761 *** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
4762 of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
4763 and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
4764 exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables can be either
4765 strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.
4766
4767 +++
4768 *** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions
4769 as a dynamic completion table.
4770
4771 (dynamic-completion-table FUN)
4772
4773 FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required,
4774 and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible
4775 completions. This alist can be a full list of possible completions so that FUN
4776 can ignore the value of its argument. If completion is performed in the
4777 minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was
4778 entered. `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion.
4779
4780 +++
4781 *** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
4782 as a lazy completion table.
4783
4784 (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN)
4785
4786 If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
4787 as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with no
4788 arguments. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR.
4789 If completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
4790 from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
4791 `lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.
4792
4793 +++
4794 ** Enhancements to keymaps.
4795
4796 *** New keymaps for typing file names
4797
4798 Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' and
4799 `minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
4800 Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer. These key maps override
4801 the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
4802 names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
4803 the spaces).
4804
4805 *** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.
4806
4807 You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
4808 same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'. For
4809 example,
4810
4811 (kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"
4812
4813 Actually, this format has existed since Emacs 20.1.
4814
4815 *** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.
4816
4817 This is an alternative to using `defadvice' or `substitute-key-definition'
4818 to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
4819 binding and lookup functionality.
4820
4821 When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is
4822 remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the
4823 original command.
4824
4825 Example:
4826 Suppose that minor mode `my-mode' has defined the commands
4827 `my-kill-line' and `my-kill-word', and it wants C-k (and any other key
4828 bound to `kill-line') to run the command `my-kill-line' instead of
4829 `kill-line', and likewise it wants to run `my-kill-word' instead of
4830 `kill-word'.
4831
4832 Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map,
4833 command remapping allows you to directly map `kill-line' into
4834 `my-kill-line' and `kill-word' into `my-kill-word' using `define-key':
4835
4836 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line)
4837 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word)
4838
4839 When `my-mode' is enabled, its minor mode keymap is enabled too. So
4840 when the user types C-k, that runs the command `my-kill-line'.
4841
4842 Only one level of remapping is supported. In the above example, this
4843 means that if `my-kill-line' is remapped to `other-kill', then C-k still
4844 runs `my-kill-line'.
4845
4846 The following changes have been made to provide command remapping:
4847
4848 - Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
4849 `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD
4850 to definition DEF in keymap MAP. The definition is not limited to
4851 another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding.
4852
4853 - The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a
4854 remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped.
4855
4856 - `key-binding' now remaps interactive commands unless the optional
4857 third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil.
4858
4859 - `where-is-internal' now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g.
4860 `kill-line', when `my-mode' is enabled), and the actual key binding for
4861 the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line).
4862 It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits
4863 remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns "C-k" for `kill-line', and
4864 "<kill-line>" for `my-kill-line').
4865
4866 - The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
4867 command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the
4868 command was not remapped.
4869
4870 *** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
4871 over minor mode keymaps.
4872
4873 *** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and
4874 text properties, according to their stickiness. This also means that it
4875 works with empty overlays. The same hold for the `local-map' property.
4876
4877 *** `key-binding' will now look up mouse-specific bindings. The
4878 keymaps consulted by `key-binding' will get adapted if the key
4879 sequence is started with a mouse event. Instead of letting the click
4880 position be determined from the key sequence itself, it is also
4881 possible to specify it with an optional argument explicitly.
4882
4883 *** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly.
4884
4885 Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key
4886 bindings of the parent keymap.
4887
4888 *** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1.
4889
4890 *** New function `current-active-maps' returns a list of currently
4891 active keymaps.
4892
4893 *** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all
4894 defined keys and their definitions.
4895
4896 *** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt string of a keymap.
4897
4898 *** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
4899 in the keymap.
4900
4901 *** New variable `emulation-mode-map-alists'.
4902
4903 Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
4904 keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their
4905 keymap alist to this list.
4906
4907 *** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style
4908 key-sequences, such as [(control a)].
4909
4910 ** Abbrev changes:
4911
4912 +++
4913 *** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table.
4914
4915 It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table.
4916
4917 +++
4918 *** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG.
4919
4920 If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means
4921 that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the
4922 abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always
4923 specify this flag.
4924
4925 +++
4926 ** Enhancements to process support
4927
4928 *** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
4929 it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set.
4930
4931 *** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'.
4932
4933 These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'. That
4934 function is still supported, but new code should use the new
4935 functions.
4936
4937 *** Function `signal-process' now accepts a process object or process
4938 name in addition to a process id to identify the signaled process.
4939
4940 *** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can
4941 maintain process state and other per-process related information.
4942
4943 Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add,
4944 and modify elements on this property list. Use the new functions
4945 `process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the
4946 entire property list of a process.
4947
4948 *** Function `accept-process-output' has a new optional fourth arg
4949 JUST-THIS-ONE. If non-nil, only output from the specified process
4950 is handled, suspending output from other processes. If value is an
4951 integer, also inhibit running timers. This feature is generally not
4952 recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
4953 speech synthesis.
4954
4955 *** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.
4956
4957 On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
4958 output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
4959 very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent
4960 by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
4961 non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
4962 from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before
4963 Emacs tries to read it.
4964
4965 *** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.
4966
4967 This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.
4968
4969 *** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but
4970 obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
4971 `default-directory'.
4972
4973 *** A process filter function gets the output as multibyte string
4974 if the process specifies t for its filter's multibyteness.
4975
4976 That multibyteness is decided by the value of
4977 `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is created, and
4978 you can change it later with `set-process-filter-multibyte'.
4979
4980 *** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the
4981 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4982
4983 *** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns the
4984 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4985
4986 *** If a process's coding system is `raw-text' or `no-conversion' and its
4987 buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted
4988 to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer.
4989 Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte',
4990 which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.
4991
4992 +++
4993 ** Enhanced networking support.
4994
4995 *** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
4996 It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
4997 create a stream or datagram server inside Emacs.
4998
4999 - A server is started using :server t arg.
5000 - Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
5001 - A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
5002 - Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.
5003 - IPv6 is supported (when available). You may explicitly select IPv6
5004 using :family 'ipv6 arg.
5005 - Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg.
5006 - The process' property list can be initialized using :plist PLIST arg;
5007 a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited
5008 by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.
5009
5010 To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
5011 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))
5012 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:family ipv6))
5013
5014 *** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.
5015
5016 *** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.
5017
5018 These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get
5019 and set the current address of the remote partner.
5020
5021 *** New function `format-network-address'.
5022
5023 This function reformats the Lisp representation of a network address
5024 to a printable string. For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port
5025 number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the
5026 printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc
5027 string for other formatting options.
5028
5029 *** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument.
5030
5031 Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network
5032 process properties or a specific property. Using :local or :remote as
5033 the KEY, you get the address of the local or remote end-point.
5034
5035 An Inet address is represented as a 5 element vector, where the first
5036 4 elements contain the IP address and the fifth is the port number.
5037
5038 *** New functions `stop-process' and `continue-process'.
5039
5040 These functions stop and restart communication through a network
5041 connection. For a server process, no connections are accepted in the
5042 stopped state. For a client process, no input is received in the
5043 stopped state.
5044
5045 *** New function `network-interface-list'.
5046
5047 This function returns a list of network interface names and their
5048 current network addresses.
5049
5050 *** New function `network-interface-info'.
5051
5052 This function returns the network address, hardware address, current
5053 status, and other information about a specific network interface.
5054
5055 *** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel.
5056
5057 The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network
5058 process is "deleted". The message passed to the sentinel when the
5059 connection is closed by the remote peer has been changed to
5060 "connection broken by remote peer".
5061
5062 ** Using window objects:
5063
5064 +++
5065 *** New function `window-body-height'.
5066
5067 This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the
5068 header line.
5069
5070 +++
5071 *** You can now make a window as short as one line.
5072
5073 A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode
5074 line or a header line, even if the variables `mode-line-format' and
5075 `header-line-format' call for them. A window that is two lines tall
5076 cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the
5077 variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears.
5078
5079 +++
5080 *** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
5081 actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
5082 divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
5083 the mode line.
5084
5085 +++
5086 *** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges'
5087 return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines.
5088
5089 +++
5090 *** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the
5091 selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'.
5092 It saves and restores the current buffer, too.
5093
5094 +++
5095 *** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD.
5096
5097 This is like `switch-to-buffer'.
5098
5099 +++
5100 *** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
5101 of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed
5102 by calling `select-window'. It also saves and restores the current
5103 buffer.
5104
5105 +++
5106 *** `set-window-buffer' has an optional argument KEEP-MARGINS.
5107
5108 If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
5109 and scroll-bar settings.
5110
5111 +++
5112 *** The new function `window-tree' returns a frame's window tree.
5113
5114 +++
5115 *** The functions `get-lru-window' and `get-largest-window' take an optional
5116 argument `dedicated'. If non-nil, those functions do not ignore
5117 dedicated windows.
5118
5119 +++
5120 *** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right
5121 or bottom edge of a window. It does not move other window edges.
5122
5123 +++
5124 ** Customizable fringe bitmaps
5125
5126 *** New buffer-local variables `fringe-indicator-alist' and
5127 `fringe-cursor-alist' maps between logical (internal) fringe indicator
5128 and cursor symbols and the actual fringe bitmaps to be displayed.
5129 This decouples the logical meaning of the fringe indicators from the
5130 physical appearance, as well as allowing different fringe bitmaps to
5131 be used in different windows showing different buffers.
5132
5133 *** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new
5134 fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps.
5135
5136 *** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
5137 or restores a built-in one to its default value.
5138
5139 *** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be
5140 used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is automatically merged
5141 with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face should only specify the
5142 foreground color of the bitmap.
5143
5144 *** There are new display properties, `left-fringe' and `right-fringe',
5145 that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe
5146 bitmap of the display line.
5147
5148 Format is `display (left-fringe BITMAP [FACE])', where BITMAP is a
5149 symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with
5150 `define-fringe-bitmap', and FACE is an optional face name to be used
5151 for displaying the bitmap instead of the default `fringe' face.
5152 When specified, FACE is automatically merged with the `fringe' face.
5153
5154 *** New function `fringe-bitmaps-at-pos' returns the current fringe
5155 bitmaps in the display line at a given buffer position.
5156
5157 ** Other window fringe features:
5158
5159 +++
5160 *** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths.
5161
5162 The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame
5163 can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe'
5164 frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels.
5165 Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe.
5166
5167 The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the
5168 specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an
5169 integral number of columns. The extra width is distributed evenly
5170 between the left and right fringe. To force a specific fringe width,
5171 specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative,
5172 only the left fringe gets the specified width).
5173
5174 Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe
5175 width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any
5176 of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in
5177 fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels.
5178
5179 +++
5180 *** Per-window fringe and scrollbar settings
5181
5182 **** Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and
5183 position settings.
5184
5185 To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local
5186 variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call
5187 `set-window-fringes'.
5188
5189 To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes
5190 are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area,
5191 or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable
5192 `fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'.
5193
5194 The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current
5195 settings. To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
5196 `fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
5197 displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
5198 an update of the display margins.
5199
5200 **** Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
5201 controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.
5202
5203 To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local
5204 variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call
5205 `set-window-scroll-bars'. The function `window-scroll-bars' can be
5206 used to obtain the current settings. To make `scroll-bar-mode' and
5207 `scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
5208 the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
5209 of the display margins.
5210
5211 ** Redisplay features:
5212
5213 +++
5214 *** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP).
5215
5216 +++
5217 *** Iconifying or deiconifying a frame no longer makes sit-for return.
5218
5219 +++
5220 *** New function `redisplay' causes an immediate redisplay if no input is
5221 available, equivalent to (sit-for 0). The call (redisplay t) forces
5222 an immediate redisplay even if input is pending.
5223
5224 +++
5225 *** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of
5226 one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window
5227 contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit
5228 changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
5229 forcing an explicit window update.
5230
5231 +++
5232 *** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able
5233 to display CHAR. More precisely, if the selected frame's fontset has
5234 a font to display the character set that CHAR belongs to.
5235
5236 Fontsets can specify a font on a per-character basis; when the fontset
5237 does that, this value cannot be accurate.
5238
5239 +++
5240 *** You can define multiple overlay arrows via the new
5241 variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'.
5242
5243 It contains a list of variables which contain overlay arrow position
5244 markers, including the original `overlay-arrow-position' variable.
5245
5246 Each variable on this list can have individual `overlay-arrow-string'
5247 and `overlay-arrow-bitmap' properties that specify an overlay arrow
5248 string (for non-window terminals) or fringe bitmap (for window
5249 systems) to display at the corresponding overlay arrow position.
5250 If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or
5251 'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used.
5252
5253 +++
5254 *** New `line-height' and `line-spacing' properties for newline characters
5255
5256 A newline can now have `line-height' and `line-spacing' text or overlay
5257 properties that control the height of the corresponding display row.
5258
5259 If the `line-height' property value is t, the newline does not
5260 contribute to the height of the display row; instead the height of the
5261 newline glyph is reduced. Also, a `line-spacing' property on this
5262 newline is ignored. This can be used to tile small images or image
5263 slices without adding blank areas between the images.
5264
5265 If the `line-height' property value is a positive integer, the value
5266 specifies the minimum line height in pixels. If necessary, the line
5267 height it increased by increasing the line's ascent.
5268
5269 If the `line-height' property value is a float, the minimum line
5270 height is calculated by multiplying the default frame line height by
5271 the given value.
5272
5273 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (FACE . RATIO), the
5274 minimum line height is calculated as RATIO * height of named FACE.
5275 RATIO is int or float. If FACE is t, it specifies the current face.
5276
5277 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (nil . RATIO), the line
5278 height is calculated as RATIO * actual height of the line's contents.
5279
5280 If the `line-height' value is a cons (HEIGHT . TOTAL), HEIGHT specifies
5281 the line height as described above, while TOTAL is any of the forms
5282 described above and specifies the total height of the line, causing a
5283 varying number of pixels to be inserted after the line to make it line
5284 exactly that many pixels high.
5285
5286 If the `line-spacing' property value is an positive integer, the value
5287 is used as additional pixels to insert after the display line; this
5288 overrides the default frame `line-spacing' and any buffer local value of
5289 the `line-spacing' variable.
5290
5291 If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing
5292 is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property.
5293
5294 +++
5295 *** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value,
5296 which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.
5297
5298 +++
5299 *** Enhancements to stretch display properties
5300
5301 The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where
5302 PROPS is a property list, now allows pixel based width and height
5303 specifications, as well as enhanced horizontal text alignment.
5304
5305 The value of these properties can now be a (primitive) expression
5306 which is evaluated during redisplay. The following expressions
5307 are supported:
5308
5309 EXPR ::= NUM | (NUM) | UNIT | ELEM | POS | IMAGE | FORM
5310 NUM ::= INTEGER | FLOAT | SYMBOL
5311 UNIT ::= in | mm | cm | width | height
5312 ELEM ::= left-fringe | right-fringe | left-margin | right-margin
5313 | scroll-bar | text
5314 POS ::= left | center | right
5315 FORM ::= (NUM . EXPR) | (OP EXPR ...)
5316 OP ::= + | -
5317
5318 The form `NUM' specifies a fractional width or height of the default
5319 frame font size. The form `(NUM)' specifies an absolute number of
5320 pixels. If a symbol is specified, its buffer-local variable binding
5321 is used. The `in', `mm', and `cm' units specifies the number of
5322 pixels per inch, milli-meter, and centi-meter, resp. The `width' and
5323 `height' units correspond to the width and height of the current face
5324 font. An image specification corresponds to the width or height of
5325 the image.
5326
5327 The `left-fringe', `right-fringe', `left-margin', `right-margin',
5328 `scroll-bar', and `text' elements specify to the width of the
5329 corresponding area of the window.
5330
5331 The `left', `center', and `right' positions can be used with :align-to
5332 to specify a position relative to the left edge, center, or right edge
5333 of the text area. One of the above window elements (except `text')
5334 can also be used with :align-to to specify that the position is
5335 relative to the left edge of the given area. Once the base offset for
5336 a relative position has been set (by the first occurrence of one of
5337 these symbols), further occurrences of these symbols are interpreted as
5338 the width of the area.
5339
5340 For example, to align to the center of the left-margin, use
5341 :align-to (+ left-margin (0.5 . left-margin))
5342
5343 If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative
5344 to the left edge of the text area. For example, :align-to 0 in a
5345 header line aligns with the first text column in the text area.
5346
5347 The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by
5348 the value of the expression EXPR. For example, (2 . in) specifies a
5349 width of 2 inches, while (0.5 . IMAGE) specifies half the width (or
5350 height) of the specified image.
5351
5352 The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions.
5353 The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions.
5354
5355 +++
5356 *** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and
5357 text property string that may be present at the current window
5358 position. The cursor can now be placed on any character of such
5359 strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property.
5360
5361 +++
5362 *** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now
5363 supported on text terminals.
5364
5365 +++
5366 *** Support for displaying image slices
5367
5368 **** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with
5369 an image property to display only a specific slice of the image.
5370
5371 **** Function `insert-image' has new optional fourth arg to
5372 specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT).
5373
5374 **** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a
5375 specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns).
5376
5377 +++
5378 *** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property.
5379
5380 An image map is an alist where each element has the format (AREA ID PLIST).
5381 An AREA is specified as either a rectangle, a circle, or a polygon:
5382 A rectangle is a cons (rect . ((X0 . Y0) . (X1 . Y1))) specifying the
5383 pixel coordinates of the upper left and bottom right corners.
5384 A circle is a cons (circle . ((X0 . Y0) . R)) specifying the center
5385 and the radius of the circle; R can be a float or integer.
5386 A polygon is a cons (poly . [X0 Y0 X1 Y1 ...]) where each pair in the
5387 vector describes one corner in the polygon.
5388
5389 When the mouse pointer is above a hot-spot area of an image, the
5390 PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo'
5391 property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains
5392 a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when
5393 it is over the hot-spot. See the variable `void-area-text-pointer'
5394 for possible pointer shapes.
5395
5396 When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
5397 an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
5398 mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.
5399
5400 +++
5401 *** The function `find-image' now searches in etc/images/ and etc/.
5402 The new variable `image-load-path' is a list of locations in which to
5403 search for image files. The default is to search in etc/images, then
5404 in etc/, and finally in the directories specified by `load-path'.
5405 Subdirectories of etc/ and etc/images are not recursively searched; if
5406 you put an image file in a subdirectory, you have to specify it
5407 explicitly; for example, if an image is put in etc/images/foo/bar.xpm:
5408
5409 (defimage foo-image '((:type xpm :file "foo/bar.xpm")))
5410
5411 Note that all images formerly located in the lisp directory have been
5412 moved to etc/images.
5413
5414 +++
5415 *** New function `image-load-path-for-library' returns a suitable
5416 search path for images relative to library. This function is useful in
5417 external packages to save users from having to update
5418 `image-load-path'.
5419
5420 +++
5421 *** The new variable `max-image-size' defines the maximum size of
5422 images that Emacs will load and display.
5423
5424 +++
5425 *** The new variable `display-mm-dimensions-alist' can be used to
5426 override incorrect graphical display dimensions returned by functions
5427 `display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'.
5428
5429 ** Mouse pointer features:
5430
5431 +++ (lispref)
5432 --- (man)
5433 *** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a
5434 line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now
5435 controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default
5436 is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text'
5437 (or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'.
5438
5439 +++
5440 *** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the
5441 :pointer image property.
5442
5443 +++
5444 *** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images can now be
5445 controlled/overridden via the `pointer' text property.
5446
5447 ** Mouse event enhancements:
5448
5449 +++
5450 *** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe'
5451 or `right-fringe' as the area.
5452
5453 +++
5454 *** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where
5455 you clicked. For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is
5456 a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text.
5457
5458 +++
5459 *** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events.
5460
5461 +++
5462 *** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area.
5463
5464 +++
5465 *** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means
5466 text area).
5467
5468 +++
5469 *** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types
5470 and all areas.
5471
5472 +++
5473 *** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates
5474 of the mouse event position.
5475
5476 +++
5477 *** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on.
5478
5479 +++
5480 *** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to
5481 the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on.
5482
5483 +++
5484 *** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object
5485 (image or character) clicked on.
5486
5487 +++
5488 *** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'.
5489
5490 These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y
5491 pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of that object, and
5492 the total width and height of that object.
5493
5494 ** Text property and overlay changes:
5495
5496 +++
5497 *** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can
5498 remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays).
5499
5500 +++
5501 *** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
5502
5503 This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
5504 properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
5505 although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced
5506 to implement the `font-lock-face' property.
5507
5508 +++
5509 *** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
5510 arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
5511 return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
5512 whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
5513 it was found as a text property or not found at all.
5514
5515 +++
5516 *** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'.
5517
5518 It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of
5519 property names as argument rather than a property list.
5520
5521 ** Face changes
5522
5523 +++
5524 *** The variable `facemenu-unlisted-faces' has been removed.
5525 Emacs has a lot more faces than in the past, and nearly all of them
5526 needed to be excluded. The new variable `facemenu-listed-faces' lists
5527 the faces to include in the face menu.
5528
5529 +++
5530 *** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor
5531 the face color to the number of colors supported by a display, and
5532 define the foreground and background colors accordingly so that they
5533 look best on a terminal that supports at least this many colors. This
5534 is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that
5535 makes a good use of the capabilities of the display.
5536
5537 +++
5538 *** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test
5539 whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.
5540
5541 A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
5542 specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
5543 defined with `defface'.
5544
5545 ---
5546 *** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR'
5547 or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the
5548 `defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use
5549 the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background
5550 directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face.
5551
5552 +++
5553 *** The first face specification element in a defface can specify
5554 `default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as
5555 defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and can be overridden
5556 by them).
5557
5558 +++
5559 *** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger
5560 (or smaller) font we should use. For instance, if the value is
5561 '((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10
5562 point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches
5563 SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN.
5564
5565 ---
5566 *** The function `face-differs-from-default-p' now truly checks
5567 whether the given face displays differently from the default face or
5568 not (previously it did only a very cursory check).
5569
5570 +++
5571 *** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'.
5572
5573 These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how
5574 face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face
5575 attribute.
5576
5577 +++
5578 *** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute'
5579 help with handling relative face attributes.
5580
5581 +++
5582 *** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face list is reversed.
5583
5584 If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
5585 faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous
5586 releases of Emacs, the order was the opposite. This change was made
5587 so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text
5588 `face' properties.
5589
5590 ---
5591 *** On terminals, faces with the :inverse-video attribute are displayed
5592 with swapped foreground and background colors even when one of them is
5593 not specified. In previous releases of Emacs, if either foreground
5594 or background color was unspecified, colors were not swapped. This
5595 was inconsistent with the face behavior under X.
5596
5597 ---
5598 *** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
5599 the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..
5600
5601 ** Font-Lock changes:
5602
5603 +++
5604 *** New special text property `font-lock-face'.
5605
5606 This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by
5607 M-x font-lock-mode. It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text
5608 property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the
5609 new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
5610
5611 +++
5612 *** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.
5613
5614 **** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the
5615 form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other
5616 properties than `face'.
5617
5618 **** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those
5619 extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.
5620
5621 ---
5622 *** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'.
5623
5624 If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified
5625 (see `jit-lock-defer-contextually'), then all of that text will
5626 be refontified. This is useful when the syntax of a textual element
5627 depends on text several lines further down (and when `font-lock-multiline'
5628 is not appropriate to solve that problem). For example in Perl:
5629
5630 s{
5631 foo
5632 }{
5633 bar
5634 }e
5635
5636 Adding/removing the last `e' changes the `bar' from being a piece of
5637 text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a `jit-lock-defer-multiline'
5638 property over the second half of the command to force (deferred)
5639 refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed.
5640
5641 *** `font-lock-extend-region-functions' makes it possible to alter the way
5642 the fontification region is chosen. This can be used to prevent rounding
5643 up to whole lines, or to extend the region to include all related lines
5644 of multiline constructs so that such constructs get properly recognized.
5645
5646 ** Major mode mechanism changes:
5647
5648 +++
5649 *** If new variable `auto-mode-case-fold' is set to a non-nil value,
5650 Emacs will perform a second case-insensitive search through
5651 `auto-mode-alist' if the first case-sensitive search fails.
5652 This means that a file FILE.TXT is opened in text-mode, and a file PROG.PY
5653 is opened in python-mode. Note however, that independent of this
5654 setting, *.C files are usually recognized as C++ files.
5655 It also has no effect on systems with case-insensitive file names.
5656
5657 +++
5658 *** New variable `magic-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5659 looking at the file contents. It takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist'.
5660
5661 +++
5662 *** An interpreter magic line (if present) takes precedence over the
5663 file name when setting the major mode.
5664
5665 +++
5666 *** XML or SGML major mode is selected when file starts with an `<?xml'
5667 or `<!DOCTYPE' declaration.
5668
5669 +++
5670 *** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.
5671
5672 +++
5673 *** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook
5674 `after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode
5675 hooks. `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically.
5676
5677 ---
5678 *** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect'
5679 property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use
5680 it in that buffer.
5681
5682 +++
5683 *** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function'
5684 locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to
5685 the language.
5686
5687 +++
5688 *** `define-derived-mode' by default creates a new empty abbrev table.
5689 It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table.
5690
5691 +++
5692 *** The new function `run-mode-hooks' and the new macro `delay-mode-hooks'
5693 are used by `define-derived-mode' to make sure the mode hook for the
5694 parent mode is run at the end of the child mode.
5695
5696 ** Minor mode changes:
5697
5698 +++
5699 *** `define-minor-mode' now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments
5700 and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable.
5701
5702 +++
5703 *** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.
5704
5705 +++
5706 *** `define-global-minor-mode'.
5707
5708 This is a new name for what was formerly called
5709 `easy-mmode-define-global-mode'. The old name remains as an alias.
5710
5711 ** Command loop changes:
5712
5713 +++
5714 *** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people
5715 have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the
5716 calling function was called through `call-interactively'.
5717
5718 Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new
5719 INTERACTIVE argument to the command.
5720
5721 +++
5722 *** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument.
5723
5724 If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks for a function that could be
5725 called with `call-interactively', and does not return t for keyboard
5726 macros.
5727
5728 +++
5729 *** When a command returns, the command loop moves point out from
5730 within invisible text, in the same way it moves out from within text
5731 covered by an image or composition property.
5732
5733 This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible.
5734 This is particularly good because the intangible property often has
5735 unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything
5736 (including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after
5737 `post-command-hook' and thus does not care about intermediate states.
5738
5739 +++
5740 *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to `only', that
5741 enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
5742 During that following command, the value of `transient-mark-mode'
5743 is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command,
5744 the next return to the command loop changes to nil.
5745
5746 +++
5747 *** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
5748 been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable
5749 `disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.
5750
5751 +++
5752 *** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook'
5753 when it receives a request from emacsclient.
5754
5755 +++
5756 *** `current-idle-time' reports how long Emacs has been idle.
5757
5758 ** Lisp file loading changes:
5759
5760 +++
5761 *** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
5762 which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the
5763 current file redefined it).
5764
5765 +++
5766 *** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is
5767 defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name.
5768
5769 +++
5770 *** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function,
5771 variable or face definitions.
5772
5773 +++
5774 *** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
5775 to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
5776 and runs any code associated with the provided feature.
5777
5778 ---
5779 *** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted.
5780 Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more
5781 than 3 levels of nesting.
5782
5783 +++
5784 ** Byte compiler changes:
5785
5786 *** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character
5787 position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form of its
5788 warning and error messages have been brought into line with GNU standards
5789 for these. As a result, you can use next-error and friends on the
5790 compilation output buffer.
5791
5792 *** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
5793 inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.
5794
5795 *** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a
5796 simple convention that the compiler understands. (This is mostly
5797 useful in code meant to be portable to different Emacs versions.)
5798 Write forms like the following, or code that macroexpands into such
5799 forms:
5800
5801 (if (fboundp 'foo) <then> <else>)
5802 (if (boundp 'foo) <then> <else)
5803
5804 In the first case, using `foo' as a function inside the <then> form
5805 won't produce a warning if it's not defined as a function, and in the
5806 second case, using `foo' as a variable won't produce a warning if it's
5807 unbound. The test must be in exactly one of the above forms (after
5808 macro expansion), but such tests can be nested. Note that `when' and
5809 `unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't.
5810
5811 *** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil. This
5812 helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both
5813 Emacs and XEmacs and can sometimes make the result significantly more
5814 efficient. Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't
5815 generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
5816 you anything.
5817
5818 *** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in Lisp files is now obeyed.
5819
5820 ---
5821 *** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file
5822 now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs
5823 (require 'cl) when loaded.
5824
5825 ** Frame operations:
5826
5827 +++
5828 *** New functions `frame-current-scroll-bars' and `window-current-scroll-bars'.
5829
5830 These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
5831 horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window.
5832
5833 +++
5834 *** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
5835 for all (existing and future) frames.
5836
5837 +++
5838 *** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use
5839 for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a
5840 number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp
5841 Reference manual for more detailed documentation.
5842
5843 +++
5844 *** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width,
5845 the `scroll-bar-width' frame parameter value is nil.
5846
5847 ** Mule changes:
5848
5849 +++
5850 *** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
5851
5852 Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
5853 from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte
5854 buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them
5855 now:
5856
5857 1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time.
5858
5859 2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid
5860 the time it takes to convert the format.
5861
5862 3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
5863 wasteful.
5864
5865 ---
5866 *** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument,
5867 NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified.
5868
5869 +++
5870 *** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
5871 to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
5872 for it. (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
5873 file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)
5874
5875 +++
5876 *** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the
5877 ascii character set. Language environments (such as Turkish) may
5878 alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters. This variable
5879 saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes.
5880
5881 ---
5882 *** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
5883 of one coding system from another coding system.
5884
5885 ---
5886 *** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that
5887 the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text
5888 parts, e.g. utf-16.
5889
5890 +++
5891 *** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if
5892 it is read from a file without decoding.
5893
5894 ---
5895 *** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
5896 hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.
5897
5898 ---
5899 *** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the
5900 current input method to input a character.
5901
5902 ** Mode line changes:
5903
5904 +++
5905 *** New function `format-mode-line'.
5906
5907 This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a
5908 specified) window as a string with or without text properties.
5909
5910 +++
5911 *** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
5912 used to add text properties to mode-line elements.
5913
5914 +++
5915 *** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used
5916 to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode
5917 line.
5918
5919 +++
5920 *** Mouse-face on mode-line (and header-line) is now supported.
5921
5922 ** Menu manipulation changes:
5923
5924 ---
5925 *** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the
5926 proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify
5927 "files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File"
5928 several versions ago.
5929
5930 ---
5931 *** The dummy function keys made by easy-menu are now always lower case.
5932 If you specify the menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'
5933 as the "key" bound by that key binding.
5934
5935 This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for the bindings that were
5936 made with easy-menu.
5937
5938 ---
5939 *** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name
5940 if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu
5941 into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't
5942 need to have a name.
5943
5944 ** Operating system access:
5945
5946 +++
5947 *** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor
5948 run time used by Emacs since start-up.
5949
5950 +++
5951 *** Functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid' now return floats if the
5952 user UID doesn't fit in a Lisp integer. Function `user-full-name'
5953 accepts a float as UID parameter.
5954
5955 +++
5956 *** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information.
5957
5958 ---
5959 *** On MS Windows, locale-coding-system is used to interact with the OS.
5960 The Windows specific variable w32-system-coding-system, which was
5961 formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system.
5962
5963 ---
5964 *** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
5965 debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.
5966
5967 ** Miscellaneous:
5968
5969 +++
5970 *** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions:
5971
5972 `find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook',
5973 `find-file-not-found-hooks' to `find-file-not-found-functions',
5974 `write-file-hooks' to `write-file-functions',
5975 `write-contents-hooks' to `write-contents-functions',
5976 `x-lost-selection-hooks' to `x-lost-selection-functions',
5977 `x-sent-selection-hooks' to `x-sent-selection-functions',
5978 `delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.
5979
5980 In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.
5981
5982 +++
5983 *** Variable `local-write-file-hooks' is marked obsolete.
5984
5985 Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.
5986
5987 ---
5988 *** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
5989 running under X.
5990
5991 ** GC changes:
5992
5993 +++
5994 *** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold
5995 as the heap size increases.
5996
5997 +++
5998 *** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
5999 on garbage collection.
6000
6001 +++
6002 *** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection.
6003
6004 The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care.
6005 \f
6006 * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1
6007
6008 +++
6009 ** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
6010 buttons' in Emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
6011 `widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
6012 doesn't require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for
6013 such things as help and apropos buffers.
6014
6015 ---
6016 ** The new library tree-widget.el provides a widget to display a set
6017 of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is
6018 well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.
6019
6020 +++
6021 ** The new library bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
6022 binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
6023 data structures.
6024
6025 ---
6026 ** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
6027 buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.
6028
6029 It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
6030 and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi
6031 buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the
6032 commands.
6033
6034 This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable
6035 sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the
6036 SQL buffer.
6037
6038 (add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
6039 (function (lambda ()
6040 (master-mode t)
6041 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
6042 (add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
6043 (function (lambda ()
6044 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
6045
6046 +++
6047 ** The new library benchmark.el does timing measurements on Lisp code.
6048
6049 This includes measuring garbage collection time.
6050
6051 +++
6052 ** The new library testcover.el does test coverage checking.
6053
6054 This is so you can tell whether you've tested all paths in your Lisp
6055 code. It works with edebug.
6056
6057 The function `testcover-start' instruments all functions in a given
6058 file. Then test your code. The function `testcover-mark-all' adds
6059 overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to show where coverage
6060 is lacking. The command `testcover-next-mark' (bind it to a key!)
6061 will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch.
6062
6063 Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely
6064 evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same
6065 value. The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly
6066 complete their evaluation, such as `error'. The brown splotches are
6067 skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same
6068 value, such as (setq x 14).
6069
6070 For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to
6071 help out the test coverage tool. The macro `noreturn' suppresses a
6072 red splotch. It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does
6073 return. The macro `1value' suppresses a brown splotch for its argument.
6074 This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals
6075 an error if the argument actually returns differing values.
6076
6077
6078 \f
6079 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
6080 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
6081
6082 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6083 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6084 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
6085 any later version.
6086
6087 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
6088 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
6089 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
6090 GNU General Public License for more details.
6091
6092 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
6093 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
6094 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
6095 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
6096
6097 \f
6098 Local variables:
6099 mode: outline
6100 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
6101 end:
6102
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