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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2
3 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
5
6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
10
11 See file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates.
12 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
13 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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 all necessary documentation updates are complete.
20 (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
21 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
22 When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
23 otherwise leave it unmarked.
24
25 \f
26 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
27
28 +++
29 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
30
31 +++
32 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
33
34 +++
35 ** New configure option --with-cairo.
36 This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing. As a side effect, it provides
37 support for built-in printing, when Emacs was built with GTK+.
38
39 ** New configure option --with-modules.
40 This enables support for loading dynamic modules; see below.
41
42 ---
43 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
44 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
45 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
46 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
47 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
48 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
49
50 ---
51 ** The Emacs garbage collector assumes GC_MARK_STACK == GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS.
52 The GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS stack-marking variant has been the default
53 since Emacs 24.4, and the other variants were undocumented and were
54 obstacles to maintenance and development. GC_MARK_STACK and its
55 related symbols have been removed from the C internals.
56
57 ---
58 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
59 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
60
61 ---
62 ** 'configure' now prefers inotify to gfile for file notification,
63 unless gfile is explicitly requested via --with-file-notification='gfile'.
64
65 ---
66 ** The configure option '--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
67 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
68
69 ---
70 ** The configure option '--with-mmdf' has been removed.
71 It was no longer useful, as it relied on libraries that are no longer
72 supported, and its presence led to confusion during configuration.
73 This affects only the 'movemail' utility; Emacs itself can still
74 process MMDF-format files as before.
75
76 +++
77 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
78 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
79 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
80 build with 'make V=1'.
81
82 ---
83 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows to specify a
84 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
85 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
86 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
87 be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
88
89 ---
90 ** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
91 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
92 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
93
94 ---
95 ** Emacs 25 comes with a new set of icons.
96 Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
97 The old Emacs logo icons are available as `emacs23.png' in the same location.
98
99 \f
100 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
101
102 +++
103 ** When Emacs is given a file as a command line argument and
104 `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, display both the file and
105 `initial-buffer-choice'. When Emacs is given more than one file and
106 `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, show `initial-buffer-choice'
107 and *Buffer List*. This makes Emacs convenient to use from the
108 command line when `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil.
109
110 +++
111 ** The value of ‘initial-scratch-message’ is now treated as a doc string
112 and can contain escape sequences for command keys, quotes, and the like.
113
114 \f
115 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
116
117 ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules).
118 A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional
119 functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package
120 written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions `load', `require',
121 `load-file', etc. were extended to load such modules, as they do with
122 Emacs Lisp packages. The new variable `module-file-suffix' holds the
123 system-dependent value of the file-name extension (`.so' on Posix
124 hosts) of the module files.
125
126 A module should export a C-callable function named
127 `emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to
128 `load' or `require' which loads the module. It should also export a
129 symbol named `plugin_is_GPL_compatible' to indicate that its code is
130 released under the GPL or compatible license; Emacs will refuse to
131 load modules that don't export such a symbol.
132
133 If a module needs to call Emacs functions, it should do so through the
134 API defined and documented in the header file `emacs-module.h'. Note
135 that any module that provides Lisp-callable functions will have to use
136 Emacs functions such as `fset' and `funcall', in order to register its
137 functions with the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
138
139 Modules can create `user-ptr' Lisp objects that embed pointers to C
140 struct's defined by the module. This is useful for keeping around
141 complex data structures created by a module, to be passed back to the
142 module's functions. User-ptr objects can also have associated
143 "finalizers" -- functions to be run when the object is GC'ed; this is
144 useful for freeing any resources allocated for the underlying data
145 structure, such as memory, open file descriptors, etc. A new
146 predicate `user-ptrp' returns non-nil if its argument is a `user-ptr'
147 object.
148
149 Loadable modules in Emacs are an experimental feature, and subject to
150 change in future releases. For that reason, their support is disabled
151 by default, and must be enabled by using the `--with-modules' option
152 at configure time.
153
154 +++
155 ** Any file of the form .dir-locals*.el is now considered a dir-local
156 file, and multiple such files can be used in the same directory. See
157 the variable `dir-locals-file' for more information.
158
159 +++
160 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
161 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
162 the `network-security-level' variable.
163
164 ** If Emacs isn't built with TLS support, an external TLS-capable
165 program is used instead. This program used to be run in --insecure
166 mode by default, but has now changed to be secure instead, and will
167 fail if you try to connect to non-verifiable hosts. This is
168 controlled by the `tls-program' variable.
169
170 +++
171 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
172
173 +++
174 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard
175 and x-select-enable-primary is renamed select-enable-primary.
176 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
177 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
178 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
179 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
180
181 +++
182 ** New option `switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' allows to customize
183 how `switch-to-buffer' proceeds interactively when the selected window
184 is strongly dedicated to its buffer.
185
186 +++
187 ** The option `even-window-heights' has been renamed to
188 `even-window-sizes' and now handles window widths as well.
189
190 +++
191 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
192
193 +++
194 ** `insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
195 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
196
197 +++
198 ** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
199 The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
200 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
201
202 ---
203 ** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the
204 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
205 for use in Emacs bug reports.
206
207 +++
208 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
209 hiding character but the default `.' can be used by let-binding the
210 variable `read-hide-char'.
211
212 ---
213 ** New input method: `tamil-dvorak'.
214
215 \f
216 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
217
218 +++
219 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
220
221 ** Changes in undo
222
223 +++
224 *** Successive single-char deletions are collapsed in the undo-log just like
225 successive char insertions. Which commands invoke this behavior is
226 controlled by the new `undo-auto-amalgamate' function. See the node
227 "Undo" in the ELisp manual for more details.
228
229 +++
230 *** The heuristic used to insert `undo-boundary' after each command
231 has changed, so that if a command causes changes in more than just the
232 current buffer, Emacs now calls `undo-boundary' in every buffer
233 affected by the command.
234
235 +++
236 ** New command `comment-line' bound to `C-x C-;'.
237
238 ** New and improved facilities for inserting Unicode characters
239
240 ---
241 *** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
242
243 +++
244 *** C-x 8 now has shorthands for these chars: ‐ ‑ ‒ – — ― ‘ ’ “ ” † ‡ • ′ ″
245 € № ← → ↔ − ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥. As before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
246
247 +++
248 *** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for quoting ‘like this’ and “like this”
249 as you type. See also the new variable ‘text-quoting-style’.
250
251 ---
252 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
253
254 ---
255 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
256 that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
257 chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
258 character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
259 paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
260 performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
261
262 +++
263 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
264 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
265 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
266 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3, 7.0, and the latest Unicode 8.0.
267 This includes full support for directional isolates and the
268 Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these Unicode
269 standards.
270
271 +++
272 ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
273
274 +++
275 ** New buffer-local `electric-pair-local-mode'.
276
277 +++
278 ** New variable `fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
279 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
280 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
281 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
282
283 +++
284 ** New documentation command `describe-symbol'.
285 Works for functions, variables, faces, etc. It is bound to `C-h o' by
286 default.
287
288 +++
289 ** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
290 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found). It
291 is intended for adding to 'kill-emacs-query-functions'.
292
293 \f
294 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
295
296 ** Checkdoc
297
298 +++
299 *** New command `checkdoc-package-keywords' checks if the
300 current package keywords are recognized. Set the new option
301 `checkdoc-package-keywords-flag' to non-nil to make
302 `checkdoc-current-buffer' call this function automatically.
303
304 +++
305 *** New function `checkdoc-file' checks for style errors.
306 It's meant for use together with `compile':
307 emacs -batch --eval "(checkdoc-file \"subr.el\")"
308
309 +++
310 ** New function `bookmark-set-no-overwrite' bound to C-x r M.
311 It raises an error if a bookmark of that name already exists,
312 unlike `bookmark-set' which silently updates an existing bookmark.
313
314 ** IMAP
315
316 ---
317 *** `imap-ssl-program' has been removed, and imap.el uses the internal
318 GnuTLS encryption functions if possible.
319
320 ** JSON
321
322 ---
323 *** `json-pretty-print' and `json-pretty-print-buffer' now maintain
324 the ordering of object keys by default.
325
326 ---
327 *** New commands `json-pretty-print-ordered' and
328 `json-pretty-print-buffer-ordered' pretty prints JSON objects with
329 object keys sorted alphabetically.
330
331 +++
332 ** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
333 This allows better indentation support in modes that support multiple
334 programming languages in the same buffer, like literate programming
335 environments or ANTLR programs with embedded Python code.
336
337 A major mode can provide indentation context for a sub-mode through
338 the `prog-indentation-context' variable. To support this, modes that
339 provide indentation should use `prog-widen' instead of `widen' and
340 `prog-first-column' instead of a literal zero. See the node
341 "Mode-Specific Indent" in the ELisp manual for more details.
342
343 ** Prettify Symbols mode
344
345 +++
346 *** Prettify Symbols mode supports custom composition predicates. By
347 overriding the default `prettify-symbols-compose-predicate', modes can
348 specify in which contexts a symbol may be displayed as some Unicode
349 character. `prettify-symbols-default-compose-p' is the default which
350 is suitable for most programming languages such as C or Lisp (but not
351 (La)TeX).
352
353 +++
354 *** Symbols can be unprettified while point is inside them.
355 New variable `prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point' configures this.
356
357 ** Enhanced xterm support
358
359 ---
360 *** The new variable `xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' for configuring xterm.
361 This variable tells Emacs which advanced capabilities are available in
362 the xterm terminal emulator used to display Emacs text-mode frames.
363 The default is to check each capability, and use it if available.
364 (This variable was introduced in Emacs 24.1, but was not announced in
365 its NEWS.)
366
367 ---
368 *** Killing text now also sets the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection
369 in the surrounding GUI (using the OSC-52 escape sequence). This only works
370 if your xterm supports it and enables the `allowWindowOps' options (disabled
371 by default at least in Debian, for security reasons).
372
373 Similarly, you can yank the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection (using the OSC-52
374 escape sequence) if your xterm has the feature enabled but for that you
375 additionally need to add `getSelection' to `xterm-extra-capabilities'.
376
377 +++
378 *** `xterm-mouse-mode' now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it).
379
380 ---
381 ** The `save-place' variable is replaced by `save-place-mode'.
382
383 ** ERC
384
385 +++
386 *** ERC can now hide message types by network or channel.
387 `erc-hide-list' will hide all messages of the specified type, while
388 `erc-network-hide-list' and `erc-channel-hide-list' will only hide the
389 specified message types for the respective specified targets.
390
391 ** Midnight-mode
392
393 ---
394 *** `midnight-mode' is now a proper minor mode.
395
396 ---
397 *** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions.
398
399 ** package.el
400
401 +++
402 *** New "external" package status.
403 An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and
404 not from `package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in
405 `package-directory-list'. They are treated much like built-in
406 packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and
407 are not considered for upgrades.
408
409 The effect is that a user can manually place a specific version of a
410 package inside `package-directory-list' and the package menu will
411 always respect that.
412
413 +++
414 *** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher
415 priority (as per `package-archive-priorities') only that one is
416 listed. This can be configured with `package-menu-hide-low-priority'.
417
418 +++
419 *** `package-menu-toggle-hiding' now toggles the hiding of packages.
420 This includes the above-mentioned low-priority packages, as well as
421 available packages whose version is lower than the currently installed
422 version (which were previously impossible to display).
423 This allows users to downgrade a package if a lower version is
424 available.
425
426 ---
427 *** When filtering the package menu, keywords starting with "arc:" or
428 "status:" represent package archive or status, respectively, instead
429 of actual keywords.
430
431 ---
432 *** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an
433 ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s)
434 asynchronously.
435
436 ---
437 *** New variable `package-menu-async' controls whether the
438 package-menu uses asynchronous downloads.
439
440 ---
441 *** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
442 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
443 -pkg file is optional.
444
445 ---
446 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
447 The FORCE argument to `package-delete' overrides this.
448
449 ---
450 *** New custom variable `package-selected-packages' tracks packages
451 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
452 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
453
454 ---
455 *** New command `package-install-user-selected-packages' installs all
456 packages from `package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
457
458 ---
459 *** New command `package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
460 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
461
462 +++
463 ** Shell
464
465 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
466 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
467 the `display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
468 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
469 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
470 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
471
472 ** EIEIO
473 +++
474 *** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
475 +++
476 *** The `newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
477 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
478 +++
479 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
480 +++
481 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
482 +++
483 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
484 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
485 +++
486 *** `constructor' is now an obsolete alias for `make-instance'.
487
488 ** ido
489
490 +++
491 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
492 Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
493 kills the buffer at head.
494
495 ---
496 *** A prefix argument to `ido-restrict-to-matches' will reverse its
497 meaning, and the list is restricted to those elements that do not
498 match the current input.
499
500 ** Minibuffer
501
502 +++
503 *** You can use <UP> and <DOWN> arrow keys to move through history by lines.
504 The new commands `next-line-or-history-element' and
505 `previous-line-or-history-element', bound to <UP> and <DOWN> in the
506 minibuffer, allow by-line movement through minibuffer history,
507 similarly to an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
508 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
509 element. `M-p' and `M-n' still move directly to previous/next history
510 item as before.
511
512 ** Search and Replace
513
514 +++
515 *** New user option `search-default-regexp-mode'
516 specifies the default mode for I-search.
517
518 +++
519 *** `isearch' and `query-replace' can now perform character folding in matches.
520 Isearch does that by default, while `query-replace' will do that if
521 the new variable `replace-character-fold' is customized to a non-nil
522 value. This is analogous to case folding, but instead of disregarding
523 case variants, it disregards wider classes of distinctions between
524 similar characters. (Case folding is a special case of character
525 folding.) This means many characters in the search string will match
526 entire groups of characters instead of just themselves.
527
528 For instance, the " will match all variants of double quotes (like “
529 and ”), and the letter a will match all of its accented cousins, even
530 those composed of multiple characters, as well as many other symbols
531 like ℀, ℁, ⒜, and ⓐ.
532
533 +++
534 *** New function `character-fold-to-regexp' can be used
535 by searching commands to produce a regexp matching anything that
536 character-folds into STRING.
537
538 +++
539 *** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
540 text in the region. The search engine to use for this is specified by
541 the customizable variable `eww-search-prefix'.
542
543 +++
544 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
545 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
546 `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
547 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
548 string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'.
549 To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired
550 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
551 typing RET.
552
553 ** Calc
554 +++
555 *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
556 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
557
558 +++
559 ** In Edebug, you can now set the initial mode with C-x C-a C-m. With
560 this you can tell Edebug not to stop at the start of the first
561 instrumented function.
562
563 ** ElDoc
564
565 +++
566 *** New minor mode `global-eldoc-mode'
567 It is turned on by default, and affects `*scratch*' and other buffers
568 whose major mode supports Emacs Lisp.
569
570 ---
571 *** `eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to `ignore'
572
573 ---
574 *** `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
575 and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
576 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
577 ] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.
578
579 ** eww
580
581 ---
582 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
583
584 +++
585 *** A new command `F' (`eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
586 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
587 customize the `shr-use-fonts' variable.
588
589 +++
590 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
591 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
592 the like off the page.
593
594 ---
595 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
596 buffers you want to keep separate.
597
598 +++
599 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
600 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
601
602 +++
603 *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
604 the data in the buffer.
605
606 ---
607 *** The `eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
608 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
609
610 +++
611 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
612 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
613 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
614 details.
615
616 +++
617 *** `mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
618
619 +++
620 *** The new `S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
621 them.
622
623 ---
624 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
625 invalid certificates are marked in red.
626
627 ** Message mode
628
629 ---
630 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
631 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
632
633 +++
634 ** In Show Paren Mode, a parenthesis can be highlighted when point
635 stands inside it, and certain parens can be highlighted when point is
636 at BOL or EOL, or in whitespace there. To enable these, customize,
637 respectively, `show-paren-when-point-inside-paren' or
638 `show-paren-when-point-in-periphery'.
639
640 ** Lisp mode
641 *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
642
643 ** Rectangle editing
644
645 +++
646 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
647
648 +++
649 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
650 *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
651
652 +++
653 ** New font-lock functions `font-lock-ensure' and `font-lock-flush'.
654 These should be used in preference to `font-lock-fontify-buffer' when
655 called from Lisp.
656
657 ---
658 ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' can optionally append a function
659 to `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
660
661 If the first argument of the macro is of the form `(:append FUN)',
662 then FUN will be appended to `minibuffer-setup-hook', instead of
663 prepending it.
664
665 ** cl-lib
666 +++
667 *** New functions `cl-fresh-line', `cl-digit-char-p', and `cl-parse-integer'.
668
669 ** Calendar and diary
670
671 +++
672 *** The default `diary-file' is now located in .emacs.d.
673
674 +++
675 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
676 `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
677 `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
678
679 +++
680 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
681 See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
682
683 ---
684 *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
685 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
686
687 +++
688 *** New option `calendar-weekend-days'.
689 The option customizes which day headers receive the
690 `calendar-weekend-header' face.
691
692 ---
693 *** New optional args N and STRING for ‘holiday-greek-orthodox-easter’.
694
695 ---
696 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
697 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
698 The remainder were:
699
700 **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
701 `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'.
702
703 **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'.
704
705 **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'.
706
707 **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
708
709 **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'.
710
711 +++
712 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
713 If the output of ERT tests in batch mode execution can be saved to a
714 log file, then it can be passed as an argument to the above function
715 to produce a neat summary.
716
717 ** New js.el option `js-indent-first-init'.
718
719 ** Info
720
721 ---
722 ** Info mode now displays symbol names in fixed-pitch font.
723 If you want to get the old behavior back, customize the `Info-quoted'
724 face to use the same definitions as the default face.
725
726 ---
727 *** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
728
729 +++
730 *** `info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
731 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
732 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
733
734 ---
735 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
736
737 ** Rmail
738
739 +++
740 *** The Rmail commands `d', `C-d' and `u' take optional repeat counts
741 to delete or undelete multiple messages.
742
743 +++
744 *** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
745 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
746 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
747 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
748 `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that.
749
750 +++
751 *** In the commands that make summaries by subject, recipients, or senders,
752 you can no longer use commas to separate regular expressions.
753
754 +++
755 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
756
757 ** Shell-script Mode
758 ---
759 *** In sh-mode you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
760 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
761
762 ---
763 *** New value `always' for `sh-indent-after-continuation'.
764 This provides old-style ("dumb") indentation of continued lines.
765 See the doc string of `sh-indent-after-continuation' for details.
766
767 ** TLS
768 ---
769 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
770
771 ** URL
772
773 +++
774 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
775 When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
776 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
777
778 +++
779 *** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string.
780 The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
781 a function.
782
783 ---
784 *** The new interface variable `url-request-noninteractive' can be used
785 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
786 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
787
788 ---
789 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
790 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
791 `gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
792
793 ** Tramp
794
795 +++
796 *** New connection method "afp", which allows to access Mac OS X
797 volumes via the Apple Filing Protocol.
798
799 +++
800 *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
801
802 +++
803 *** Method-specific parameters can be overwritten now with variable
804 `tramp-connection-properties'.
805
806 ---
807 *** Handler for `file-notify-valid-p' for remote machines that support
808 filesystem notifications.
809
810 ** SQL mode
811
812 ---
813 *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote
814 connections using Tramp.
815
816 ---
817 *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next'.
818 This command, bound to `C-c C-n' by default, sends the current line to
819 the SQL process and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace and
820 comments.
821
822 ---
823 *** Added support for Vertica SQL.
824
825 ** VC and related modes
826
827 +++
828 *** Basic push support, via `vc-push', bound to `C-x v P'.
829 Implemented for Bzr, Git, Hg. As part of this change, the pre-existing
830 (undocumented) command vc-hg-push now behaves slightly differently.
831
832 +++
833 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
834
835 +++
836 *** You can refresh the VC state of a file buffer with `M-x vc-refresh-state'.
837 This command is useful when you perform version control commands
838 outside Emacs (e.g., from the shell prompt), or if you switch the VC
839 back-end for the buffer's file, or remove it from version control.
840
841 +++
842 *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
843 the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
844 background or to the foreground.
845
846 +++
847 *** `compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently selected window
848 instead of the next window. If you want the previous behavior of
849 comparing with the next window, customize the new option
850 `compare-windows-get-window-function' to the value
851 `compare-windows-get-next-window'.
852
853 ---
854 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
855 replace the face `compare-windows', which is now an obsolete alias for
856 `compare-windows-added'.
857
858 ---
859 *** `log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to
860 "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". Set `log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change'
861 nil to disable this.
862
863 ---
864 ** VHDL mode now supports VHDL'08.
865
866 ** Calculator
867
868 ---
869 *** Decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
870 fitting for use in money calculations
871
872 ---
873 *** Factorial works with non-integer inputs.
874
875 ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro
876 expansions, interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of
877 #defined symbols.
878
879 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file
880 name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp, .hxx, and .h++.
881 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
882 reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden.
883 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
884 name patterns (e.g. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded.
885
886 ** TeX mode
887
888 *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
889 use PDF instead of DVI.
890
891 *** TeX mode now supports Prettify Symbols mode. When enabling
892 `prettify-symbols-mode' in a tex-mode buffer, \alpha ... \omega, and
893 many other math macros are displayed using unicode characters.
894
895 ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation.
896 By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but
897 `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that.
898
899 ** tildify: `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
900 `tildify-foreach-region-function' variables added making
901 `tildify-string-alist', `tildify-pattern-alist', and
902 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
903 helper functions) obsolete.
904
905 ** xref
906 The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
907 and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
908
909 *** New key bindings
910 `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
911 to pick one destination among several. Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
912 unbound. `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
913 easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
914 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
915 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
916 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
917
918 *** New variables
919 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
920 `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
921 alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and
922 `xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead.
923
924 ---
925 *** `xref-find-definitions' and `describe-function' now display
926 information about mode local overrides (defined by cedet/mode-local.el
927 `define-overloadable-function' `define-mode-local-overrides').
928
929 ** etags
930 As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
931 `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
932 `tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
933
934 ** EUDC
935 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
936
937 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
938
939 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
940 subprocess instead of on the command line.
941
942 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
943 need to configure this manually anymore.
944
945 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
946 rewritten.
947
948 There have also been customization changes.
949
950 *** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
951 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
952
953 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
954 on email and firstname instead of surname.
955
956 *** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
957 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
958
959 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
960 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
961
962 *** Custom variable `eudc-options-file' defaults to
963 "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options".
964
965 *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
966 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
967 command line's password prompt.
968
969 EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3.
970
971 EUDC's PH backend (eudcb-ph.el) is obsolete.
972
973 ** Eshell
974
975 +++
976 *** The new built-in command `clear' can scroll window contents out of sight.
977 If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents will be cleared.
978
979 *** New buffer syntax '#<buffer-name>', which is equivalent to
980 '#<buffer buffer-name>'. This shorthand makes interacting with
981 buffers from eshell more convenient. Custom variable
982 `eshell-buffer-shorthand', which has been broken for a while, has been
983 removed.
984
985 *** By default, eshell "visual" program buffers (created by
986 `eshell-visual-commands' and similar custom vars) are no longer killed
987 when their processes die. This fixes issues with short-lived commands
988 and makes visual programs more useful in general. For example, if
989 "git log" is a visual command, it will always show the visual command
990 buffer, even if the "git log" process dies. For the old behavior,
991 make the new option `eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil.
992
993 ** Browse-url
994
995 *** Support for the Conkeror web browser.
996
997 ---
998 *** Support for several ancient browsers is now officially obsolete.
999
1000 +++
1001 ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
1002 be added to the archive.
1003
1004 ---
1005 ** Autorevert: dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file
1006 notifications, if Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
1007
1008 ** File Notifications
1009
1010 +++
1011 *** The new event `stopped' signals, that a file notification watch is
1012 not active any longer.
1013
1014 +++
1015 *** The new function `file-notify-valid-p' checks, whether a file
1016 notification descriptor still corresponds to an activate watch.
1017
1018 ** Dired
1019
1020 +++
1021 *** The command `dired-do-compress' bound to `Z' now can compress
1022 directories and decompress zip files.
1023
1024 +++
1025 *** New command `dired-do-compress-to' bound to `c' can be used to
1026 compress many marked files into a single named archive. The
1027 compression command is determined from the new
1028 `dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
1029
1030 ** Tabulated List Mode
1031
1032 +++
1033 *** It is now safe for a mode that derives `tabulated-list-mode' to not
1034 call `tabulated-list-init-header', in which case it will have no
1035 header.
1036
1037 +++
1038 *** `tabulated-list-print' takes a second optional argument, update,
1039 which specifies an alternative printing method which is faster when
1040 few or no entries have changed.
1041
1042 ** Obsolete packages
1043
1044 ---
1045 *** gulp.el
1046
1047 *** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
1048
1049 \f
1050 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
1051
1052 ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
1053 minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg
1054 command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable
1055 is set). This feature requires newer versions of GnuPG (2.1.5 or
1056 later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later).
1057
1058 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
1059
1060 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
1061
1062 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
1063 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
1064
1065 ** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
1066 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
1067 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
1068 other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
1069 a typographically-correct documents.
1070
1071 ** The `seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros
1072 that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions
1073 are prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
1074
1075 ** The `map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on
1076 alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with
1077 `map-'.
1078
1079 ** The `thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the
1080 evaluation of forms.
1081
1082 ** js-jsx-mode (a minor variant of js-mode) provides indentation
1083 support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
1084
1085 \f
1086 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1087
1088 ---
1089 ** `setq' and `setf' must now be called with an even number of
1090 arguments. The earlier behavior of silently supplying a nil to the
1091 last variable when there was an odd number of arguments has been
1092 eliminated.
1093
1094 ** `syntax-begin-function' is declared obsolete.
1095 Removed font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function and the SYNTAX-BEGIN
1096 slot in font-lock-defaults.
1097
1098 +++
1099 ** `package-initialize' now sets `package-enable-at-startup' to nil if
1100 called during startup. Users who call this function in their init
1101 file and still expect it to be run after startup should set
1102 `package-enable-at-startup' to t after the call to
1103 `package-initialize'.
1104
1105 ** `:global' minor mode use `setq-default' rather than `setq'.
1106 This means that you can't use `make-local-variable' and expect them to
1107 "magically" become buffer-local.
1108
1109 ** `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to t and is obsolete.
1110
1111 +++
1112 ** `track-mouse' no longer freezes the shape of the mouse pointer.
1113 The `track-mouse' form no longer refrains from changing the shape of
1114 the mouse pointer for the entire time the body of that form is
1115 executed. Lisp programs that use `track-mouse' for dragging across
1116 large portions of the Emacs display, and want to avoid changes in the
1117 pointer shape during dragging, should bind the variable `track-mouse'
1118 to the special value `dragging' in the body of the form.
1119
1120 ---
1121 ** The optional `predicate' argument of `lisp-complete-symbol' no longer
1122 has any effect. (This change was made in Emacs 24.4 but was not
1123 advertised at the time.)
1124
1125 ** `indirect-function' does not signal `void-function' any more.
1126 This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when
1127 symbol-function was changed not to signal `void-function' any more.
1128
1129 *** As a consequence, the second arg of `indirect-function' is now obsolete.
1130
1131 ** Comint, term, and compile do not set the EMACS env var any more.
1132 Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
1133
1134 ** `save-excursion' does not save&restore the mark any more.
1135
1136 ** read-buffer-function can now be called with a 4th argument (`predicate').
1137
1138 ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer.
1139 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
1140 from which the minibuffer was entered, call it with the new argument
1141 `switch-buffer'.
1142
1143 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers' marks.
1144
1145 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
1146 active region handling.
1147
1148 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
1149
1150 ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
1151
1152 ** `process-running-child-p` may now return a numeric process
1153 group ID instead of `t'.
1154
1155 +++
1156 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
1157 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
1158 position list returned for such events is now nil.
1159
1160 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
1161 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
1162 Emacs-21.
1163
1164 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
1165 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
1166 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
1167 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
1168
1169 +++
1170 ** New variable ‘text-quoting-style’ to control how Emacs translates quotes.
1171 Set it to ‘curve’ for curved single quotes ‘like this’, to ‘straight’
1172 for straight apostrophes 'like this', and to ‘grave’ for grave accent
1173 and apostrophe `like this'. The default value nil acts like ‘curve’
1174 if curved single quotes are displayable, and like ‘grave’ otherwise.
1175 The new variable affects display of diagnostics and help, but not of info.
1176
1177 +++
1178 ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
1179 That is, it converts documentation strings’ quoting style as per the
1180 value of ‘text-quoting-style’. Doc strings in source code can use
1181 either curved single quotes or grave accents and apostrophes. As
1182 before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
1183
1184 +++
1185 ** Message-issuing functions ‘error’, ‘message’, etc. now convert quotes.
1186 They use the new ‘format-message’ function instead of plain ‘format’,
1187 so that they now follow user preference as per ‘text-quoting-style’
1188 when processing curved single quotes, grave accents, and apostrophes
1189 in their format argument.
1190
1191 +++
1192 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
1193 now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
1194 If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
1195 word syntax, use `\sw' instead.
1196
1197 +++
1198 ** The character classes [:graph:] and [:print:] in regular expressions
1199 no longer match every multibyte character. Instead, Emacs now
1200 consults the Unicode character properties to determine which
1201 characters are graphic or printable. In particular, surrogates and
1202 unassigned codepoints are now rejected. If you want the old behavior,
1203 use [:multibyte:] instead.
1204
1205 +++
1206 ** The `diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old
1207 behavior, set `diff-switches' to `-c'.
1208
1209 ** `grep-template' and `grep-find-template' values don't include the
1210 --color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position
1211 dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should
1212 be updated accordingly.
1213
1214 +++
1215 ** ‘(/ N)’ is now equivalent to ‘(/ 1 N)’ rather than to ‘(/ N 1)’.
1216 The new behavior is compatible with Common Lisp and with XEmacs.
1217 This change does not affect Lisp code intended to be portable to
1218 Emacs 24.2 and earlier, which did not support unary ‘/’.
1219
1220 +++
1221 ** The `default-directory' value doesn't have to end slash. To make
1222 that happen, `unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
1223 `file-name-as-directory'.
1224
1225 \f
1226 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1227
1228 ** pcase
1229 *** New UPatterns `quote', `app', `cl-struct', `eieio', `seq', and `map'.
1230 *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'.
1231 +++
1232 *** New vector QPattern.
1233
1234 ** syntax-propertize is now automatically called on-demand during forward
1235 parsing functions like `forward-sexp'.
1236
1237 ** New hooks prefix-command-echo-keystrokes-functions and
1238 prefix-command-preserve-state-hook, to allow the definition of prefix
1239 commands other than the predefined C-u.
1240
1241 ** New functions `filepos-to-bufferpos' and `bufferpos-to-filepos'.
1242
1243 ** The default value of `load-read-function' is now `read'.
1244
1245 ** New hook `pre-redisplay-functions', a bit easier to use than pre-redisplay-function.
1246
1247 ** The second arg of `looking-back' should always be provided explicitly.
1248
1249 ** Obsolete text properties `intangible', `point-entered', and `point-left'.
1250 Replaced by properties `cursor-intangible' and `cursor-sensor-functions',
1251 implemented by the new `cursor-intangible-mode' and
1252 `cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes.
1253
1254 ** New process type `pipe', which can be used in combination with the
1255 `:stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output
1256 of subprocess.
1257
1258 ** New function `make-process' provides an alternative interface to
1259 `start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as
1260 process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to
1261 `make-network-process').
1262
1263 +++
1264 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
1265 files (recursively) under a directory.
1266
1267 +++
1268 ** New variable `inhibit-message', when bound to non-nil, inhibits
1269 `message' and related functions from displaying messages the Echo
1270 Area. The output is still logged to the *Messages* buffer.
1271
1272 +++
1273 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
1274 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
1275
1276 +++
1277 ** A new variable `comment-end-can-be-escaped' is useful in languages
1278 such as C and C++ where line comments with escaped newlines are
1279 continued to the next line.
1280
1281 +++
1282 ** New macro `define-advice'.
1283
1284 ** `read-buffer' takes a new `predicate' argument.
1285
1286 ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
1287
1288 ** New finalizer facility for running code when objects
1289 become unreachable.
1290
1291 ** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring.
1292 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then
1293 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
1294
1295 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
1296
1297 ** New function `macroexpand-1' to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
1298
1299 ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
1300 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
1301 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
1302 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
1303 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
1304 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
1305 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
1306
1307 ** New function `string-greaterp', which return the opposite result of
1308 `string-lessp'.
1309
1310 +++
1311 ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp'
1312 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
1313 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
1314 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
1315 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
1316
1317 ---
1318 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
1319 If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
1320 option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
1321
1322 +++
1323 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
1324 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
1325 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
1326 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
1327 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
1328 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
1329
1330 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
1331
1332 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
1333 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
1334 called interactively.
1335
1336 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
1337
1338 +++
1339 ** The new function `bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows to
1340 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
1341 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
1342 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
1343 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
1344
1345 +++
1346 ** The new function `buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows to
1347 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
1348 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
1349 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
1350 text and directional control characters.
1351
1352 +++
1353 ** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
1354 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
1355 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
1356 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
1357 have side effects.
1358
1359 +++
1360 ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
1361 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
1362
1363 ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
1364
1365 ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
1366
1367 ** Function `system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
1368 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
1369 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
1370 name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
1371
1372 +++
1373 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
1374
1375 ** If `pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
1376 directory at point.
1377
1378 +++
1379 ** New functions return extended information about fonts and faces.
1380
1381 +++
1382 *** The function `font-info' now returns more details about a font.
1383 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
1384 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
1385
1386 +++
1387 *** A new function `default-font-width' returns the average width of a
1388 character in the current buffer's default font. If the default face
1389 is remapped (see `face-remapping-alist'), the value for the remapped
1390 face is returned. This function complements the existing function
1391 `default-font-height'.
1392
1393 +++
1394 *** New functions `window-font-height' and `window-font-width' return
1395 the height and average width of characters in a specified face and
1396 window. If FACE is remapped (see `face-remapping-alist'), the
1397 function returns the information for the remapped face.
1398
1399 +++
1400 *** A new function `window-max-chars-per-line' returns the maximal
1401 number of characters that can be displayed on one line. If a face
1402 and/or window are provided, these values are used for the
1403 calculation. This function is different from `window-body-width' in
1404 that it accounts for (i) continuation glyphs, (ii) the size of the
1405 font, and (iii) the specified window.
1406
1407 ---
1408 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
1409 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to
1410 execute code depending whether all values are true.
1411 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
1412 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
1413
1414 +++
1415 ** Documentation strings now support quoting with curved single quotes
1416 ‘like-this’ in addition to the old style with grave accent and
1417 apostrophe `like-this'. The new style looks better on today's displays.
1418 In the new Electric Quote mode, you can enter curved single quotes
1419 into documentation by typing ` and '. Outside Electric Quote mode,
1420 you can enter them by typing ‘C-x 8 [’ and ‘C-x 8 ]’, or (if your Alt
1421 key works) by typing ‘A-[’ and ‘A-]’. As described above under
1422 ‘text-quoting-style’, the user can specify how to display doc string
1423 quotes.
1424
1425 +++
1426 ** New function ‘format-message’ is like ‘format’ and also converts
1427 curved single quotes, grave accents and apostrophes as per
1428 ‘text-quoting-style’.
1429
1430 +++
1431 ** show-help-function's arg is converted via substitute-command-keys
1432 before being passed to the function. Help strings, help-echo
1433 properties, etc. can therefore contain command key escapes and
1434 quotation marks.
1435
1436 +++
1437 ** Time-related changes:
1438
1439 *** Time conversion functions now accept an optional ZONE argument
1440 that specifies the time zone rules for conversion. ZONE is omitted or
1441 nil for Emacs local time, t for Universal Time, ‘wall’ for system wall
1442 clock time, or a string as in ‘set-time-zone-rule’ for a time zone
1443 rule. The affected functions are ‘current-time-string’,
1444 ‘current-time-zone’, ‘decode-time’, and ‘format-time-string’. The
1445 function ‘encode-time’, which already accepted a simple time zone rule
1446 argument, has been extended to accept all the new forms.
1447
1448 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
1449 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
1450 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
1451 Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone',
1452 `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time',
1453 `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year',
1454 `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'.
1455
1456 *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have
1457 been obsoleted.
1458
1459 *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and
1460 `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
1461 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
1462 integers.
1463
1464 +++
1465 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
1466 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
1467
1468 +++
1469 ** The new function `directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
1470 name (as returned from, for instance, `file-name-all-completions') is
1471 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
1472 the name is a directory separator character (forward slash on GNU and
1473 Unix systems, forward- or backslash on MS-Windows and MS-DOS).
1474
1475 ** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in standard-display-table
1476 if the terminal cannot display curved quotes.
1477
1478 ** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
1479 standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system.
1480
1481 +++
1482 ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
1483
1484 +++
1485 ** New possible value for `system-type': `nacl'.
1486 This is used by Google's Native Client (NaCl).
1487
1488 ** Miscellaneous name change
1489
1490 For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable
1491 `hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to `hfy-optimizations'.
1492 The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
1493
1494 \f
1495 * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1
1496
1497 +++
1498 ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
1499 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
1500 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
1501 *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
1502 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
1503 *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
1504 bars on all existing and future frames.
1505 *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
1506 scroll bars on the selected frame.
1507 *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
1508 `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
1509 for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
1510 *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
1511 `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
1512 bars on a specific frame or window.
1513 *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
1514 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
1515 *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
1516 bars too.
1517 *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
1518 `scroll-bar-height'.
1519
1520 +++
1521 ** New functions `frame-geometry' and `frame-edges' give access to a
1522 frame's geometry.
1523
1524 +++
1525 ** New functions `mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and
1526 `set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' get/set screen coordinates of the
1527 mouse cursor.
1528
1529 +++
1530 ** The function `window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to
1531 retrieve body, absolute and pixel edges of the window.
1532
1533 +++
1534 ** The functions `window-inside-edges', `window-inside-pixel-edges' and
1535 `window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges' have been renamed to respectively
1536 `window-body-edges', `window-body-pixel-edges' and
1537 `window-absolute-body-pixel-edges'. The old names are kept as aliases.
1538
1539 +++
1540 ** New function `window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen
1541 coordinates of a visible buffer position.
1542
1543 +++
1544 ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
1545 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
1546 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
1547 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
1548 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
1549 builds.
1550
1551 +++
1552 ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
1553 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
1554 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
1555 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
1556 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
1557 *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
1558 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
1559 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
1560 number of columns or lines it displays.
1561
1562 +++
1563 ** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of
1564 windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer',
1565 `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'.
1566
1567 +++
1568 ** New `display-buffer' action function `display-buffer-use-some-frame'.
1569 This displays the buffer in an existing frame other than the current
1570 frame, and allows the caller to specify a frame predicate to exclude
1571 frames.
1572
1573 +++
1574 ** New minor mode `window-divider-mode' and options
1575 `window-divider-default-places', `window-divider-default-bottom-width'
1576 and `window-divider-default-right-width'.
1577
1578 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed.
1579 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
1580
1581 ** Etags
1582
1583 *** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
1584
1585 By default, `etags' will not qualify class members for C-like
1586 object-oriented languages with their class names and namespaces, and
1587 will remove qualifications used explicitly in the code from the tag
1588 names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
1589 `xref-find-definitions' is more accurate and produces less false
1590 positives.
1591
1592 Use --class-qualify (-Q) if you want the old default behavior of
1593 qualifying class members in C++, Java, and Objective C. Note that
1594 using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to `M-.'
1595 (`xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use `C-u M-.' to specify the
1596 qualified names by hand.
1597
1598 *** New language Ruby
1599
1600 Names of modules, classes, methods, and functions are tagged.
1601 Overloaded operators are also tagged.
1602
1603 *** Improved support for Lua
1604
1605 Etags now tags functions even if the "function" keyword follows some
1606 whitespace at line beginning.
1607
1608 \f
1609 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1610
1611 ---
1612 ** MS-Windows specific Emacs build scripts are no longer in the distribution
1613 This includes the makefile.w32-in files in various subdirectories, and
1614 the support files. The file nt/configure.bat now just tells the user
1615 to use the procedure described in nt/INSTALL, by running the Posix
1616 `configure' script in the top-level directory.
1617
1618 ---
1619 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
1620 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
1621 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
1622
1623 +++
1624 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
1625
1626 ** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
1627 MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
1628
1629 ---
1630 ** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default.
1631 Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default.
1632
1633 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
1634
1635 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
1636
1637 ---
1638 ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
1639 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
1640 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
1641 this has no effect.
1642
1643 ---
1644 ** The new function 'w32-application-type' returns the type of an
1645 MS-Windows application given the name of its executable program file.
1646
1647 \f
1648 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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1650
1651 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
1652 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
1653 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1654 (at your option) any later version.
1655
1656 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1657 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1658 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1659 GNU General Public License for more details.
1660
1661 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
1662 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
1663
1664 \f
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