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,
+and also when HOME is set to C:\ by default.
+
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* Changes in Emacs 24.1
client frame in parent X window ID, via XEmbed. This works like the
--parent-id argument to Emacs.
++++
+*** New emacsclient argument -q/--quiet suppresses some status messages.
+
*** If emacsclient shuts down as a result of Emacs signalling an
error, its exit status is 1.
-** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold.
+** Completion
+*** Many packages have been changed to use completion-at-point rather than
+their own completion code.
+
+*** Completion in a non-minibuffer now tries to detect the end of completion
+and pops down the *Completions* buffer accordingly.
+
+*** Completion can cycle, depending on completion-cycle-threshold.
+
+*** New completion style `substring'.
+
+*** `completing-read' can be customized using the new variable
+`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.
** ImageMagick support.
It is now possible to use the ImageMagick library to load many new
image formats in Emacs. By default, Emacs links with the ImageMagick
-libraries if they are present at build time. To disable this, use
-the configure option `--without-imagemagick'.
+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'.
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.
+
** Basic SELinux support has been added.
This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
and SIGHUP, and upon SIGINT in batch mode.
** kill-emacs-hook is now also run in batch mode.
+If you have code that adds something to kill-emacs-hook, you should
+consider if it is still appropriate to add it in the noninteractive case.
** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
-(bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) does not signal errors at top/bottom
-of buffer at first key-press (instead moves to top/bottom of buffer)
+(bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) do not signal errors at top/bottom
+of buffer at first key-press (instead move to top/bottom of buffer)
when a new variable `scroll-error-top-bottom' is non-nil.
** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-line' and `scroll-down-line'
** New property `scroll-command' should be set on a command's symbol to
define it as a scroll command affected by `scroll-preserve-screen-position'.
++++
+** If you customize `scroll-conservatively' to a value greater than 100,
+Emacs will never recenter point in the window when it scrolls due to
+cursor motion commands or commands that move point (e.f., `M-g M-g').
+Previously, you needed to use `most-positive-fixnum' as the value of
+`scroll-conservatively' to achieve the same effect.
+
+---
+** ``Aggressive'' scrolling now honors the scroll margins.
+If you customize `scroll-up-aggressively' or
+`scroll-down-aggressively' and move point off the window, Emacs now
+scrolls the window so as to avoid positioning point inside the scroll
+margin.
+
** Trash changes
*** `delete-by-moving-to-trash' now only affects commands that specify
** 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.
+** Function `sha1' is now implemented in C for speed.
+The elisp implementation sha1.el is removed. Feature sha1 is provided
+by default.
+
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* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1
+** Search changes
+
++++
+*** 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.
+
+++
** There is a new command `count-words-region', which does what you expect.
*** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
+**** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
**** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
**** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
**** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
the lines in the current rectangle. With an prefix argument, this
prompts for a number to count from and for a format string.
+** The command shell prompts for the shell path name, when the default
+directory is a remote file name and neither environment variable
+$ESHELL nor variable `explicit-shell-file-name' is set.
+
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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
-functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricty, support for
+functionality such as more intelligent indentation, electricity, support for
more variants, including Mercury, and a lot more.
** shell-mode can track your cwd by reading it from your prompt.
** Archive Mode has basic support to browse 7z archives.
** browse-url has gotten a new variable that is used for mailto: URLs,
- `browse-url-mailto-function', which defaults to `browse-url-mail'.
+`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
will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. Modes should
call `hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer' to support this.
++++
+** You can prevent directory local variables from applying to subdirectories.
+Add an element (subdirs . nil) to the alist portion of any variables
+settings to indicate said section should not be applied to subdirectories.
+
** ERC changes
*** New vars `erc-autojoin-timing' and `erc-autojoin-delay'.
** 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.
**** List all objects.
Using `M-x sql-list-all', `C-c C-l a' or selecting "SQL->List all
objects" will list all the objects in the database. At a minimum it
-lists the tables and views in the database. Preceeding the command by
+lists the tables and views in the database. Preceding the command by
universal argument may provide additional details or extend the
listing to include other schemas objects. The list will appear in a
separate window in view-mode.
**** List Table details.
Using `M-x sql-list-table', `C-c C-l t' or selecting "SQL->List Table
details" will ask for the name of a database table or view and display
-the list of columns in the relation. Preceeding the comand with the
+the list of columns in the relation. Preceding the command with the
universal argument may provide additional details about each column.
The list will appear in a separate window in view-mode.
SQL interactive mode and this option used in its place.
*** SQL interactive mode will replace tabs with spaces.
-This prevents the comand interpretter for MySQL and Postgres from
+This prevents the command interpreter for MySQL and Postgres from
listing object name completions when being sent text via
`sql-send-*' functions.
** sregex.el is now obsolete, since rx.el is a strict superset.
** s-region.el and pc-select are now declared obsolete,
-superceded by shift-select-mode enabled by default in 23.1.
+superseded by shift-select-mode enabled by default in 23.1.
** pc-mode.el is also declared obsolete.
** gdb-mi
*** 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.
**** Packages using Log View mode can enable this functionality by
binding `log-view-expanded-log-entry-function' to a suitable function.
+*** New command `vc-ediff' allows visual comparison of two revisions
+of a file similar to `vc-diff', but using ediff backend.
+
** Miscellaneous
---
*** `copyright-fix-years' can optionally convert consecutive years to ranges.
+*** New command `nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet.
+
+*** The new command `info-display-manual' will display an Info manual
+specified by its name. If that manual is already visited in some Info
+buffer within the current session, the command will display that
+buffer. Otherwise, it will load the manual and display it. This is
+handy if you have many manuals in many Info buffers, and don't
+remember the name of the buffer visiting the manual you want to
+consult.
+
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* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1
+** Occur Edit mode applies edits made in *Occur* buffers to the
+original buffers. It is bound to C-x C-q in Occur mode.
+
** New global minor modes electric-pair-mode, electric-indent-mode,
and electric-layout-mode.
+** tabulated-list.el provides a generic major mode for tabulated data,
+from which other modes can be derived.
+
** pcase.el provides the ML-style pattern matching macro `pcase'.
** secrets.el is an implementation of the Secret Service API, an
** soap-client.el supports access to SOAP web services from Emacs.
soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
+** xmodmap-generic-mode for xmodmap files.
+
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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
programmer-visible consequences.
** Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function now turns the mode
- ON unconditionally.
+ON unconditionally.
** During startup, Emacs no longer adds entries for `menu-bar-lines'
-and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and
-`initial-frame-alist'. With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame'
-checks the value of the variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to
-determine whether to create a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively.
-If the alist entries are added, they override the value of
-`menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
+and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and `initial-frame-alist'.
+With these alist entries omitted, `make-frame' checks the value of the
+variable `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode' to determine whether to create
+a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively. If the alist entries are added,
+they override the value of `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
similar to the ones created by shift-selection. In previous Emacs
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* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1
+** Completion
+*** New variable completion-extra-properties used to specify extra properties
+of the current completion:
+- :annotate-function, same as the old completion-annotate-function.
+- :exit-function, function to call after completion took place.
+
+*** Functions on completion-at-point-functions can return any of the properties
+valid for completion-extra-properties.
+
+*** completion-annotate-function is obsolete.
+
+** `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.
+It now accepts an optional `:type' parameter for initiating a TLS
+connection, directly or via STARTTLS. To do STARTTLS, additional
+parameters (`:end-of-command', `:success', `:capabilities-command')
+must also be supplied.
+
+** Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping.
+The `lexical-binding' variable lets code use lexical scoping for local
+variables. It is typically set via file-local variables, in which case it
+applies to all the code in that file.
+
+*** `eval' takes a new optional argument `lexical' to choose the new lexical
+binding instead of the old dynamic binding mode.
+
+*** Lexically scoped interpreted functions are represented with a new form
+of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY).
+
+*** New macro `letrec' to define recursive local functions.
+
+*** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is
+declared as dynamically bound.
+
+** pre/post-command-hook are not reset to nil upon error.
+Instead, the offending function is removed.
+
+** 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.
Also the debugger can now "continue" from an error, which means it will jump
to the error handler as if the debugger had not been invoked instead of
** buffer-substring-filters is obsoleted by filter-buffer-substring-functions.
-** New completion style `substring'.
-
** `facemenu-read-color' is now an alias for `read-color'.
The command `read-color' now requires a match for a color name or RGB
triplet, instead of signalling an error if the user provides a invalid
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
with a nil or omitted VALUE argument, the reporter message is
displayed with a "spinning bar".
+** 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.
+
++++
+** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
+as well as those in the -*- line.
+
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* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
-** New configure.bat option --enable-checking builds emacs with extra
+** New configure.bat option --enable-checking builds Emacs with extra
runtime checks.
** New configure.bat option --distfiles to specify files to be
- included in binary distribution
+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 disttribution for Windows
- platform
+** New make target `dist' to create binary distribution for MS Windows.
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