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