This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
---
-** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available
+** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available.
Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
automatically select it.
** New command line option `--no-site-lisp' removes site-lisp directories
from load-path. -Q now implies this.
-** On Windows, Emacs now warns when the obsolete _emacs init file is used.
+** On Windows, Emacs now warns when the obsolete _emacs init file is used,
+and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
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* Changes in Emacs 24.1
** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold.
** `completing-read' can be customized using the new variable
-`completing-read-function'
+`completing-read-function'.
** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default.
+** Internationalization changes
+
+++
-** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
+*** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some
initial documentation.
`display' text properties, do not yet work correctly when
bidirectional text is reordered for display.
++++
+*** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts.
+If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs by
+default will display it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a
+thin 1-pixel space. In addition to these two methods, Emacs can
+display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display
+them at all. To change how these characters are displayed, customize
+the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'.
+
+On character terminals these methods are used for characters that
+cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'.
+
+*** There are two new input methods for Persian/Farsi: farsi and farsi-translit.
+
** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.
libraries if they are present at build time. This needs ImageMagick
6.2.8 or newer (versions newer than 6.0.7 _may_ work but have not been
tested). To disable ImageMagick support, use the configure option
-`--without-imagemagick'.
+`--without-imagemagick'.
The new function `imagemagick-types' returns a list of image file
extensions that your installation of ImageMagick supports. The
with Xft. To change font, use the X resource font, for example:
Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12
-+++
-** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts
-If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs by
-default will display it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a
-thin 1-pixel space. In addition to these two methods, Emacs can
-display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display
-them at all. To change how these characters are displayed, customize
-the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'.
-
-On character terminals these methods are used for characters that
-cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'.
-
** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
** On Nextstep/OSX, the menu bar can be hidden by customizing
- ns-auto-hide-menu-bar.
+ns-auto-hide-menu-bar.
** Basic SELinux support has been added.
This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
** The user option `remote-file-name-inhibit-cache' controls whether
the remote file-name cache is used for read access.
++++
+** The use of a "mode: minor" specification in a file local variables section
+to enable a minor-mode is deprecated. Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode)".
+
** The standalone programs lib-src/digest-doc and sorted-doc have been
replaced with Lisp commands `doc-file-to-man' and `doc-file-to-info'.
+---
+** The standalone program `fakemail' has been removed.
+If you need it, feedmail.el ought to provide a superset of the functionality.
+
** The variable `focus-follows-mouse' now always defaults to nil.
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*** C-y in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-kill, instead of
isearch-yank-line.
+---
+*** M-y in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-pop, instead of
+isearch-yank-kill.
+
+++
*** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-line.
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* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
-** The compile.el mode can be used without font-lock-mode.
+** comint and modes derived from it use the generic completion code.
+
+** Compilation mode
+
+*** Compilation mode can be used without font-lock-mode.
`compilation-parse-errors-function' is now obsolete.
+*** `compilation-filter-start' is let-bound to the start of the text
+inserted by the compilation filter function, when calling
+compilation-filter-hook.
+
** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
** Prolog mode has been completely revamped, with lots of additional
** browse-url has gotten a new variable that is used for mailto: URLs,
`browse-url-mailto-function', which defaults to `browse-url-mail'.
+** `url-queue-retrieve' downloads web pages asynchronously, but allow
+controlling the degree of parallelism.
+
** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers, in certain modes
(eg dired, vc-dir, log-edit). For example, adding
"(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your .dir-locals.el file,
** Calendar, Diary, and Appt
++++
+*** Diary entries can contain non-printing `comments'.
+See the variable `diary-comment-start'.
+
++++
+*** Appointments can specify their individual warning times.
+See the variable `appt-warning-time-regexp'.
+
++++
*** New function `diary-hebrew-birthday'.
+---
+*** Elements of `calendar-day-abbrev-array' and `calendar-month-abbrev-array'
+may no longer be nil, but must all be strings.
+
---
*** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt package
by adding appt-make-list to diary-hook has been removed. Use appt-activate.
*** The following access methods are discontinued: "ssh1_old",
"ssh2_old", "scp1_old", "scp2_old", "imap", "imaps" and "fish".
+*** The option `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' has changed its
+default value to "".
+
** VC and related modes
*** Support for pulling on distributed version control systems.
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* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
+---
+** `char-direction-table' and the associated function `char-direction'
+were deleted. They were buggy and inferior to the new support of
+bidirectional editing introduced in Emacs 24. If you need the
+bidirectional properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property'
+with the last argument `bidi-class'.
+
** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory. The
new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy
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* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
-** `glyphless-char-table' can now distinguish between graphical and
+** `glyphless-char-display' can now distinguish between graphical and
text terminal display, via a char-table entry that is a cons cell.
** `open-network-stream' can now be used to open an encrypted stream.
** New low-level function run-hook-wrapped.
+** `server-eval-at' is provided to allow evaluating forms on different
+Emacs server instances.
+
+** `call-process' allows a `(:file "file")' spec to redirect STDOUT to
+a file.
+
** byte-compile-disable-print-circle is obsolete.
** deferred-action-list and deferred-action-function are obsolete.
** Removed the stack-trace-on-error variable.
FIXME: These should be front-ended by xml.el.
-** FIXME GnuTLS
+** GnuTLS
+
+*** Emacs can be compiled with libgnutls support
+This is the default. You will then be able to use the functionality
+in gnutls.el, namely the `open-gnutls-stream' and `gnutls-negotiate'
+functions. It's easiest to use these functions through
+`open-network-stream' because it can upgrade connections through
+STARTTLS opportunistically or use plain SSL, depending on your needs.
+
+Only versions 2.8.x and higher or GnuTLS have been tested.
+
+*** gnutls-log-level
+Set `gnutls-log-level' higher than 0 to get debug output. 1 is for
+important messages, 2 is for debug data, and higher numbers are as per
+the GnuTLS logging conventions. The output is in *Messages*.
** Isearch
** New variable `revert-buffer-in-progress-p' is true while a buffer is
being reverted, even if the buffer has a local `revert-buffer-function'.
+** New variables `delayed-warnings-list' and `delayed-warnings-hook' allow
+deferring warnings until the main command loop is executed.
+
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* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
** New configure.bat option --distfiles to specify files to be
included in binary distribution.
+** New configure.bat option --without-gnutls to disable automatic
+GnuTLS detection.
+
+** New configure.bat option --lib for general library linkage, works
+with the USER_LIBS build variable.
+
** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
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