undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
+** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
+If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
+
---
** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
build with 'make V=1'.
+---
+** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows to specify a
+group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
+This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
+to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
+be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
+
---
** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
\f
* Changes in Emacs 25.1
+** New command `comment-line' bound to `C-x C-;'.
+
** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found).
\f
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
+** package.el
+*** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
+This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
+-pkg file is optional.
+
+*** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
+The FORCE argument to `package-delete' overrides this.
+
+*** New custom variable `package-selected-packages' tracks packages
+which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
+dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
+
+*** New command `package-install-user-selected-packages' installs all
+packages from `package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
+
+*** New command `package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
+installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
+
** Shell
When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
** EIEIO
+*** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
+*** The `newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
+If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
*** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
*** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
*** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
+*** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
+*** `constructor' is now an obsolete alias for `make-instance'.
+
** ido
*** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
result of the calculation into the current buffer.
** ElDoc
-*** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode
-*** eldoc-documentation-function now defaults to nil
+*** New minor mode `global-eldoc-mode'
+*** `eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to `ignore'
+*** `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
+and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
+useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
+] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.
** eww
+---
+*** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
+
++++
+*** A new command `F' (`eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
+whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
+customize the `shr-use-fonts' variable.
+
+++
*** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
*** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
+** VHDL mode supports VHDL'08.
+
** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
non-integer inputs.
`find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
`tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
+** EUDC
+EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
+
+*** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
+
+*** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
+subprocess instead of on the command line.
+
+*** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
+need to configure this manually anymore.
+
+*** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
+rewritten.
+
+There have also been customization changes.
+
+*** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
+multiple EUDC servers in init file.
+
+*** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
+on email and firstname instead of surname.
+
+*** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
+to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
+
+*** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
+"Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
+
+*** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
+allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
+command line's password prompt.
+
++++
+** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
+be added to the archive.
+
+** Autorevert: dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file
+notifications, if Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
+
** Obsolete packages
---
\f
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
+** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
+
** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
let-bind the values stored in an alist.
+** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
+types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
+forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
+other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
+a typographically-correct documents.
\f
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
Emacs-21.
+** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
+when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
+denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
+in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
+
\f
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
+** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring.
+It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then
+evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
+
** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
** New function macroexpand-1 to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
integers.
++++
+** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
+of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
+
\f
* Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1