so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
\f
-* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.2
+* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3
+
+** New configure option '--without-all' to disable additonal features.
+This disables most of the features that are normally enabled by default.
+
+** New configure option '--enable-link-time-optimization' to utilize
+an appropriate feature provided by GCC since version 4.5.0.
** New configure option '--enable-gcc-warnings', intended for developers.
If building with GCC, this enables compile-time checks that warn about
** The configure option '--disable-maintainer-mode' has been removed,
as it was confusingly-named and rarely useful.
+---
+** You can use `NO_BIN_LINK=t make install' to prevent the installation
+overwriting "emacs" in the installation bin/ directory with a link
+to emacs-VERSION.
+
---
** Emacs uses libtinfo in preference to libncurses, if available.
check that this option enables.
\f
-* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.2
+* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3
** Emacs no longer searches for `leim-list.el' files beneath the standard
lisp/ directory. There should not be any there anyway. If you have
been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
+---
+** The `--no-site-lisp' command line option now works for Nextstep builds.
+
\f
-* Changes in Emacs 24.2
+* Changes in Emacs 24.3
+
+** Help changes
+
+*** `C-h f' (describe-function) can now perform autoloading.
+When this command is called for an autoloaded function whose docstring
+contains a key substitution construct, that function's library is
+automatically loaded, so that the documentation can be shown
+correctly. To disable this, set `help-enable-auto-load' to nil.
+
+*** `C-h f' now reports previously-autoloaded functions as "autoloaded",
+even after their associated libraries have been loaded (and the
+autoloads have been redefined as functions).
+
+** The function `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
+(HIGH LOW USEC PSEC) that use picosecond resolution; the PSEC
+component is new. PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current
+machines. Other functions that use this format, such as
+file-attributes and format-time-string, have been changed accordingly.
+Old-format time stamps are still accepted.
** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user
name, group names known to the system (where possible).
*** Images displayed via ImageMagick now support transparency and the
:background image spec property.
+** Internationalization changes
+
+*** New language environment: Persian.
+
** Face underlining can now use a wave.
See the "Face Attributes" section of the Elisp manual.
+** New fringe bitmap exclamation-mark.
+
** String values for `initial-buffer-choice' also apply to emacsclient
frames, if emacsclient is only told to open a new frame without
specifying any file to visit or expression to evaluate.
** Setting `enable-remote-dir-locals' to non-nil allows directory
local variables on remote hosts.
++++
+** `insert-char' is now a command, and `ucs-insert' an obsolete alias
+for it.
+
+** The entry for PCL-CVS has been removed from the Tools menu.
+The PCL-CVS commands are still available via the keyboard.
+
\f
-* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.2
+* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
+
+** New option `yank-handled-properties' allows processing of text
+properties on yanked text, in more ways that are more general than
+just removing them, as done by `yank-excluded-properties'.
+
+** New option `delete-trailing-lines' specifies whether the M-x
+delete-trailing-whitespace command should delete trailing lines at the
+end of the buffer. It defaults to t.
** Search changes
** `mouse-avoidance-banish-position' can now be used to customize
`mouse-avoidance-mode' further.
+** `C-u M-=' now counts lines/words/characters in the entire buffer.
+
** `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' will now move to the path name separator
character when doing minibuffer filename prompts.
** `goto-char' is now bound to `M-g c'.
+** New command `C-x r M-w' (copy-rectangle-as-kill).
+It copies the region-rectangle as the last rectangle kill.
+
** New input method `vietnamese-vni'.
\f
-* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
+* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
+
+** Term changes
+
+The variables `term-default-fg-color' and `term-default-bg-color' are
+now deprecated in favor of the `term-face' face, that you can
+customize. Also, it is now possible to customize how are displayed the
+ANSI terminal colors and styles by customizing the corresponding
+`term-color-<COLOR>', `term-color-underline' and `term-color-bold'
+faces.
-** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
+** CL
+*** CL's main entry is now (require 'cl-lib).
`cl-lib' is like the old `cl' except that it uses the namespace cleanly,
-i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix.
+i.e. all its definitions have the "cl-" prefix (and internal definitions use
+the "cl--" prefix).
If `cl' provided a feature under the name `foo', then `cl-lib' provides it
under the name `cl-foo' instead, with the exceptions of the few definitions
that had to use `foo*' to avoid conflicts with pre-existing Elisp entities,
which have not been renamed to `cl-foo*' but just `cl-foo'.
-The old `cl' is now deprecated and is nothing more than a bunch of aliases that
+The old `cl' is now deprecated and is just a bunch of aliases that
provide the old non-prefixed names.
+*** `cl-flet' is not like `flet' (which is deprecated).
+Instead it obeys the behavior of Common-Lisp's `flet'.
+
+*** `cl-labels' is slightly different from `labels'.
+The difference is that it relies on the `lexical-binding' machinery (as opposed
+to the `lexical-let' machinery used previously) to capture definitions in
+closures, so such closures will only work if `lexical-binding' is in use.
+
+*** `progv' was rewritten to use the `let' machinery.
+A side effect is that vars without corresponding value are bound to nil
+rather than making them unbound.
+
** Desktop
*** `desktop-path' no longer includes the "." directory. Desktop
files are now located in ~/.emacs.d by default.
-** A new mode for Python.
-This provides several new features, including:
+** Python mode
+
+A new version of python.el, which provides several new features, including:
per-buffer shells, better indentation, Python 3 support, and improved
shell-interaction compatible with iPython (and virtually any other
text based shell).
python-switch-to-python | python-shell-switch-to-shell
python-describe-symbol | python-eldoc-at-point
-** VHDL-mode
-- Support for ghdl (free vhdl compiler). Now default.
-- Add/update support for VHDL-AMS packages.
-- Update to VHDL'02 standard.
-- Accept \r and \f as whitespace.
+** VHDL mode
+
+*** The free software compiler GHDL is supported (and now the default).
+
+*** Support for the VHDL-AMS packages has been added/updated.
+
+*** Updated to the 2002 revision of the VHDL standard.
+
+*** Accepts \r and \f as whitespace.
** Diff mode
** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode
on high color displays.
+** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
+See flymake-fringe-indicator-position, flymake-error-bitmap and
+flymake-warning-bitmap.
+
** `sh-script'
*** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair.
*** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the
channel keys found, if any.
+** Dired
+
+*** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
+if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
+Otherwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
+
+** Shell
+
+*** New option `async-shell-command-buffer' specifies what buffer to use
+for a new asynchronous shell command when the default output buffer
+`*Async Shell Command*' is already taken by another running command.
+
** FFAP
*** The option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,
*** cust-print.el
\f
-* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.2
+* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.3
\f
-* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.2
+* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
+
+** The function `x-select-font' can return a font spec, instead of a
+font name as a string. Whether it returns a font spec or a font name
+depends on the graphical library.
+
+** If the NEWTEXT arg to `replace-match' contains a substring "\?",
+that substring is inserted literally even if the LITERAL arg is
+non-nil, instead of causing an error to be signaled.
+++
** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options.
The function `user-variable-p' is now an obsolete alias for
`custom-variable-p'.
++++
+** The return values of `defalias', `defun' and `defmacro' have changed,
+and are now undefined. For backwards compatibility, defun and
+defmacro currently return the name of the newly defined function/macro
+but this should not be relied upon.
+
** `face-spec-set' no longer sets frame-specific attributes when the
third argument is a frame (that usage was obsolete since Emacs 22.2).
but keywords or keyword-string pairs. The old argument list will
still be supported for Emacs 24.x.
+** Spelling changes.
+Some Lisp symbols have been renamed to avoid problems with spelling
+that is incorrect or inconsistent with how Emacs normally spells a word.
+
+*** Renamed functions
+
+**** hangul-input-method-inactivate -> hangul-input-method-deactivate
+**** inactivate-input-method -> deactivate-input-method
+**** quail-inactivate -> quail-deactivate
+**** robin-inactivate -> robin-deactivate
+**** viper-inactivate-input-method -> viper-deactivate-input-method
+**** viper-inactivate-input-method-action ->
+ viper-deactivate-input-method-action
+**** ucs-input-inactivate -> ucs-input-deactivate
+
+*** Renamed hooks
+The old hooks are still supported for backward compatibility, but they
+are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
+
+**** input-method-inactivate-hook -> input-method-deactivate-hook
+**** robin-inactivate-hook -> robin-deactivate-hook
+**** quail-inactivate-hook -> quail-deactivate-hook
+
+*** Renamed Lisp variables
+
+**** follow-deactive-menu -> follow-inactive-menu
+**** inactivate-current-input-method-function ->
+ deactivate-current-input-method-function
+
** The following obsolete variables and varaliases have been removed:
*** `facemenu-unlisted-faces'
*** `rmail-decode-mime-charset'
+*** `last-input-char' and `last-command-char'
\f
-* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.2
+* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3
+
+** New functions `autoloadp' and `autoload-do-load'.
+
+** New function `posnp' to test if an object is a `posn'.
+
+** `function-get' fetches the property of a function, following aliases.
-** The return value of `defalias' has changed and is now undefined.
+** `toggle-read-only' accepts a second argument specifying whether to
+print a message, if called from Lisp.
+
+** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.
+`setf' is autoloaded and `push' and `pop' accept generalized variables.
** `defun' also accepts a (declare DECLS) form, like `defmacro'.
The interpretation of the DECLS is determined by `defun-declarations-alist'.
** New error type and new function `user-error'. Doesn't trigger the debugger.
-** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
+** Window changes
+
+*** The functions get-lru-window, get-mru-window and get-largest-window
now accept a third argument to avoid choosing the selected window.
+*** New display action alist `inhibit-switch-frame', if non-nil, tells
+display action functions to avoid changing which frame is selected.
+
** Completion
*** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
must be in the range 1000..9999. It now works with any year supported
by the underlying C implementation.
+** New function file-name-base.
+
+** New function `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
+
** `automount-dir-prefix' is obsolete.
** `buffer-has-markers-at' is obsolete.
\f
-* Changes in Emacs 24.2 on non-free operating systems
+* Changes in Emacs 24.3 on non-free operating systems
** New configure.bat options on MS-Windows:
Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and
mouse-autoselect-window.
-** New function `tty-top-frame' returns the topmost frame of a text terminal.
+** On MS-Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links.
+\f
+* Changes in Emacs 24.2
+
+** This is mainly a bug-fix release.
\f
* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
The search is performed using `customize-apropos'.
To turn off the search field, set `custom-search-field' to nil.
-*** Custom options now start out hidden if at their default values.
+*** Options in customize group buffers start out hidden if not customized.
Use the arrow to the left of the option name to toggle visibility.
*** custom-buffer-sort-alphabetically now defaults to t.