build time, like libacl on GNU/Linux. To prevent this, use the
configure option `--without-acl'.
+** The configure option --with-crt-dir has been removed.
+It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked specially.
+
\f
* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
** New commands `toggle-frame-fullscreen' and `toggle-frame-maximized',
bound to <f11> and M-<f10>, respectively.
+** In keymaps where SPC scrolls, S-SPC now scrolls in the reverse direction.
+Eg View mode, etc.
+
\f
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
+** More packages look for ~/.emacs.d/<foo> additionally to ~/.<foo>.
+Affected files:
+~/.emacs.d/timelog replaces ~/.timelog
+~/.emacs.d/todo-do replaces ~/.todo-do
+~/.emacs.d/todo-done replaces ~/.todo-done
+~/.emacs.d/todo-top replaces ~/.todo-top
+~/.emacs.d/vip replaces ~/.vip
+~/.emacs.d/viper replaces ~/.viper
+~/.emacs.d/ido.last replaces ~/.ido.last
+~/.emacs.d/kkcrc replaces ~/.kkcrc
+~/.emacs.d/quickurls replaces ~/.quickurls
+~/.emacs.d/idlwave replaces ~/.idlwave
+~/.emacs.d/bdfcache.el replaces ~/.bdfcache.el
+~/.emacs.d/places replaces ~/.emacs-places
+~/.emacs.d/shadows replaces ~/.shadows
+~/.emacs.d/shadow_todo replaces ~/.shadow_todo
+~/.emacs.d/strokes replaces ~/.strokes
+~/.emacs.d/notes replaces ~/.notes
+~/.emacs.d/type-break replaces ~/.type-break
+
** Delphi mode is now called OPascal mode.
*** All delphi-* variables and functions have been renamed to opascal-*.
*** `delphi-newline-always-indents' is not supported any more
*** Support for ISO 8601 dates.
+** Dired
+
+*** New minor mode `dired-hide-details-mode' hides details.
+
** ERC
*** New option `erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds'.
visit the next image file and the previous image file in the same
directory, respectively.
+*** New commands to show specific frames of multi-frame images.
+`f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the
+next or previous frame. `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame.
+
---
*** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows.
When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration.
*** `C-x 8 RET' in Isearch mode reads a character by its Unicode name
and adds it to the search string.
-** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.4.
+** MH-E has been updated to MH-E version 8.5.
See MH-E-NEWS for details.
---
leave different number of spaces.
** Tramp
+
+++
*** New connection method "adb", which allows to access Android
-devices by the Android Debug Bridge. The variable `tramp-adb-sdk-dir'
-must be set to the Android SDK installation directory.
+devices by the Android Debug Bridge. The variable `tramp-adb-program'
+can be used to adapt the path of the "adb" program, if needed.
+
+*** The connection methods "plink1", "ssh1", "ssh2", "scp1", "scp2",
+"scpc" and "rsyncc" are discontinued. The ssh option
+"ControlMaster=auto" is set automatically in all ssh-based methods,
+when possible.
+
+++
*** Handlers for `file-acl' and `set-file-acl' for remote machines
which support POSIX ACLs.
*** terminal.el is obsolete; use term.el instead.
++++
+*** yow.el is obsolete; use fortune.el or cookie1.el instead.
+
+---
+*** The Info-edit command is obsolete. Editing Info nodes by hand
+has not been relevant for some time.
+
\f
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.4
** New nadvice.el package offering lighter-weight advice facilities.
\f
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
+** `read-event' does not return decoded chars in ttys any more.
+Just as was the case in Emacs-22 and before, decoding of tty input according to
+keyboard-coding-system is not performed in read-event any more. But contrary
+to that past, it is still done before input-decode-map/function-key-map/...
+
+** Removed inhibit-local-menu-bar-menus.
+
** frame-local variables that affect redisplay do not work any more.
More specifically, the redisplay does not bother to check for a frame-local
value when looking up variables.
\f
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
+** `dont-compile' is declared obsolete.
+
** Support for filesystem notifications.
Emacs now supports notifications of filesystem changes, such as
creation, modification, and deletion of files. This requires the
'inotify' API on GNU/Linux systems. On MS-Windows systems, this is
supported for Windows XP and newer versions.
+** Changes in autorevert.el
+
+---
+*** If Emacs is compiled with file notification support, notifications
+are used instead of checking the time stamp of the files. You can
+disable this by setting the user option `auto-revert-use-notify' to
+nil. Alternatively, a regular expression of directories to be
+excluded from file notifications can be specified by
+`auto-revert-notify-exclude-dir-regexp'.
+
+---
+*** The new user option `auto-revert-remote-files' enables reversion
+of remote files when set to non-nil.
+
** Face changes
*** The `face-spec-set' is now analogous to `setq' for face specs.
*** New face characteristic (supports :underline (:style wave))
specifies whether or not the terminal can display a wavy line.
+** Image API
+
++++
+*** `image-animated-p' is now `image-multi-frame-p'.
+It returns non-nil for any image that contains multiple frames,
+whether or not it specifies a frame delay.
+
++++
+*** When animating images that do not specify a frame delay,
+Emacs uses `image-default-frame-delay'.
+
++++
+*** New functions `image-current-frame' and `image-show-frame' for getting
+and setting the current frame of a multi-frame image.
+
** time-to-seconds is not obsolete any more.
** New function special-form-p.
** Docstrings can be made dynamic by adding a `dynamic-docstring-function'
** The `defalias-fset-function' property lets you catch calls to defalias
and redirect them to your own function instead of `fset'.
+** The lock for 'DIR/FILE' is now 'DIR/.#FILE' and may be a regular file.
+When you edit DIR/FILE, Emacs normally creates a symbolic link
+DIR/.#FILE as a lock that warns other instances of Emacs that DIR/FILE
+is being edited. Formerly, if there was already a non-symlink file
+named DIR/.#FILE, Emacs fell back on the lock names DIR/.#FILE.0
+through DIR/.#FILE.9. These fallbacks have been removed, so that
+Emacs now no longer locks DIR/FILE in that case.
+
+On file systems that do not support symbolic links, the lock is now a
+regular file with contents being what would have been in the symlink.
+
** The 9th element returned by `file-attributes' is now unspecified.
Formerly, it was t if the file's gid would change if file were deleted
and recreated. This value has been inaccurate for years on many
Likewise, `file-name-buffer-file-type-alist' is now obsolete, and
modifying it has no effect.
+---
+** Lock files now work on MS-Windows.
+This allows to avoid losing your edits if the same file is being
+edited in another Emacs session or by another user. See the node
+"Interlocking" in the Emacs User Manual for the details. To disable
+file locking, customize `create-lockfiles' to nil.
+
** Improved fullscreen support on Mac OS X.
Both native (>= OSX 10.7) and "old style" fullscreen are supported.
Customize `ns-use-native-fullscreen' to change style. For >= 10.7
*** The constant `rst-version' describes the rst.el package version.
+** Ruby mode
+
+*** Support for percent literals and recognition of regular expressions
+in method calls without parentheses with more methods, including Cucumber
+steps definitions.
+
+*** Improved syntax highlighting and indentation.
+
+*** New command `ruby-toggle-block', bound to `C-c {'.
+
+*** Some non-standard keybindings/commands have been removed:
+
+**** `ruby-electric-brace'; use `electric-indent-mode' instead.
+
+**** `ruby-mark-defun'; use `mark-defun'.
+
+**** `ruby-beginning-of-defun' and `ruby-end-of-defun' are replaced by
+appropriate settings for the variables `beginning-of-defun-function'
+and `end-of-defun-function'.
+
+**** Non-standard keybindings for `backward-kill-word', `comment-region',
+`reindent-then-newline-and-indent' and `newline' have been removed.
+
** Shell Script mode
*** Pairing of parens/quotes uses `electric-pair-mode' instead of skeleton-pair.
*** The calendars produced by cal-html include holidays.
Customize `cal-html-holidays' to change this.
+** CEDET
+
+*** The major modes from the parser generators "Bovine" and "Wisent"
+are now properly integrated in Emacs. The file suffixes ".by" and ".wy"
+are in `auto-mode-alist', and the corresponding manuals are included.
+
+*** EDE
+
+**** Menu support for the "Configuration" feature. This allows users to
+choose the active configuration (such as debug or install) from the menu.
+
+**** New command `ede-set' to interactively set project-local variables.
+
+**** Support for compiling, debugging, and running in "generic" projects.
+
+**** Autoconf editing support for M4 macros with complex arguments.
+
+**** Compilation support for the "linux" project type.
+
+**** "simple" projects have been removed; use "generic" projects instead.
+
+*** Semantic
+
+**** Support for parsing #include statements inside a namespace in C/C++.
+
+**** Improved support for 'extern "C"' declarations in C/C++.
+
+**** The ability to ignore more common special C/C++ preprocessor symbols,
+such as '__nonnull' and '__asm'. Add '__cplusplus' macro when parsing C++.
+If available, include cdefs.h as an additional source of preprocessor symbols.
+
+**** Improved C/C++ function pointer parsing.
+
+**** In Python, support for converting imports to include file names.
+
+**** Ability to dynamically determine the Python load path.
+
+**** Support for the Python 'WITH' and 'AT' keywords.
+
+**** Improved tooltip completion.
+
+*** SRecode
+
+**** The SRecode manual is now included.
+
+**** Tag generation supports constructor/destructor settings and system
+include differentiation.
+
+**** Addition of 'Framework' support: Frameworks are specified when a
+particular kind of library (such as Android) is needed in a common language
+mode (like Java).
+
+**** Support for nested templates and let variables override based on priority.
+
+**** Support for merging tables from multiple related modes, such as
+default -> c++ -> arduino.
+
** Compile has a new option `compilation-always-kill'.
** Customize
*** `vc-checkout-carefully'
\f
-* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3
+* Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
`setf' is autoloaded; `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
*** Last-modified time stamps in undo lists now are of the form
(t HI-SECS LO-SECS USECS PSECS) instead of (t HI-SECS . LO-SECS).
+** EIEIO
+
+*** Improved security when handling persistent objects:
+
+**** `eieio-persistent-read' now features optional arguments for specifying
+the class to load, as well as a flag stating whether subclasses are allowed;
+if provided, other classes will be rejected by the reader. For
+compatibility with existing code, if the class is omitted only a
+warning is issued.
+
+**** New specialized reader for pulling in classes and signaling errors
+without evaluation of suspicious code.
+
+**** All slots that contain objects must have a :type. Slots with lists
+of objects must use a new type predicate for a list of an object type.
+
+*** Support for `find-function' and similar utilities, through the addition
+of filename support to generated symbols.
+
** Floating point functions now always return special values like NaN,
instead of signaling errors, if given invalid args; e.g., (log -1.0).
Previously, they returned NaNs on some platforms but signaled errors
*** `font-list-limit' (has had no effect since Emacs < 23)
\f
-* Changes in Emacs 24.3 on non-free operating systems
+* Changes in Emacs 24.3 on Non-Free Operating Systems
** Cygwin builds can use the native MS Windows user interface.
Pass `--with-w32' to configure. The default remains the X11 interface.
generates relative names according to the current `load-path'.
\f
-* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
+* Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
The `lexical-binding' variable enables lexical scoping for local
*** `font-lock-maximum-size' is obsolete.
\f
-* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
+* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
** On MS Windows, Emacs warns when using the obsolete init file _emacs,
and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.