X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/7f55d4251806e4712762bef0a3ed41a53f850a58..91739fe21cd0c17472110b1af07df529d95a8f3b:/etc/NEWS diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 3b848dc653..844181c334 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -40,9 +40,16 @@ or by sticking with Emacs 24.4. If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used. --- -** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed. +** The configure option '--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed. Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to. +--- +** The configure option '--with-mmdf' has been removed. +It was no longer useful, as it relied on libraries that are no longer +supported, and its presence led to confusion during configuration. +This affects only the 'movemail' utility; Emacs itself can still +process MMDF-format files as before. + ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default, and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or @@ -191,9 +198,19 @@ calculation. This function is different from `window-body-width' in that it accounts for (i) continuation glyphs, (ii) the size of the font, and (iii) the specified window. +** New possible value for `system-type': nacl. + ++++ +** New variable `inhibit-message', when bound to non-nil, inhibits + `message' and related functions from displaying messages the Echo + Area. The output is still logged to the *Messages* buffer. + * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1 +** Successive single-char deletions are collapsed in the undo-log just like +successive char insertions. + ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default. ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default. @@ -215,9 +232,62 @@ Unicode standards. ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10. ++++ +** New buffer-local `electric-pair-local-mode'. + * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1 + +** New `xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' config. + +** The `save-place' variable is replaced by a `save-place-mode'. + +** Midnight-mode +*** `midnight-mode' is a proper minor mode. +*** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions. + +** In xterms, killing text now also sets the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection +in the surrounding GUI (using the OSC-52 escape sequence). This only works +if your xterm supports it and enables the `allowWindowOps' options (disabled +by default at least in Debian, for security reasons). + +** xterm-mouse-mode now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it). + ** package.el + +*** New "external" package status. +An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and +not from `package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in +`package-directory-list'. They are treated much like built-in +packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and +are not considered for upgrades. + +The effect, is that a user can manually place a specific version of a +package inside `package-directory-list' and the package menu will +always respect that. + +*** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher +priority (as per `package-archive-priorities') only that one is +listed. This can be configured with `package-menu-hide-low-priority'. + +*** `package-menu-hide-obsolete' now toggles the hiding of packages. +This includes the above-mentioned low-priority packages, as well as +available packages whose version is lower than the currently installed +version (which were previously impossible to display). +This allows users to downgrade a package if a lower version is +available. + +*** When filtering the package menu, keywords starting with "arc:" or +"status:" represent package archive or status, respectively, instead +of actual keywords. + +*** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an +ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s) +asynchronously. + +*** New variable `package-menu-async' controls whether the +package-menu uses asynchronous downloads. + *** `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. @@ -246,13 +316,19 @@ the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use ** 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 -list-p and -child-p functions are declared obsolete. ++++ *** The variables are declared obsolete. ++++ *** The variables are declared obsolete. *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete. ++++ *** `constructor' is now an obsolete alias for `make-instance'. ** ido @@ -346,7 +422,7 @@ invalid certificates are marked in red. transformed into multipart/related messages before sending. ** pcase -*** New UPatterns `quote' and `app'. +*** New UPatterns `quote', `app', `cl-struct', and `eieio'. *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'. +++ *** New vector QPattern. @@ -487,6 +563,11 @@ allows to customize this. *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added' replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'. +--- +*** `log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to +"Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". Set `log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change' +nil to disable this. + ** VHDL mode supports VHDL'08. ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more @@ -570,17 +651,25 @@ to avoid interfering with the kill ring. *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to "Firstname Surname ". +*** Custom variable `eudc-options-file' defaults to +"~/.emacs.d/eudc-options". + *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch command line's password prompt. ** Eshell ++++ *** The new built-in command `clear' can scroll window contents out of sight. +If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents will be cleared. ** Browse-url -*** browse-url now supports the Conkeror Web Browser. +*** Support for the Conkeror web browser. + +--- +*** Support for several ancient browsers is now officially obsolete. +++ ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to @@ -594,6 +683,14 @@ notifications, if Emacs is compiled with file notification support. --- *** gulp.el ++++ +** The character classes [:graph:] and [:print:] in regular expressions +no longer match every multibyte character. Instead, Emacs now +consults the Unicode character properties to determine which +characters are graphic or printable. In particular, surrogates and +unassigned codepoints are now rejected. If you want the old behavior, +use [:multibyte:] instead. + * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1 @@ -612,6 +709,16 @@ a typographically-correct documents. * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1 +** `indirect-function' does not signal `void-function' any more. +This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when +symbol-function was changed not to signal `void-function' any more. +*** As a consequence, the second arg of `indirect-function' is now obsolete. + +** Comint, term, and compile do not set the EMACS env var any more. +Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead. + +** `save-excursion' does not save&restore the mark any more. + ** read-buffer-function can now be called with a 4th argument (`predicate'). ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer. @@ -628,6 +735,9 @@ active region handling. ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type. +** `process-running-child-p` may now return a numeric process +group ID instead of `t'. + +++ ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse @@ -648,9 +758,28 @@ now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties. If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with word syntax, use `\sw' instead. ++++ +** The `diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old +behavior, set `diff-switches' to `-c'. + * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1 +** The default value of `load-read-function' is now `read'. + +** New hook `pre-redisplay-functions', a bit easier to use than pre-redisplay-function. + +** The second arg of `looking-back' should always be provided explicitly. + +** Obsolete text properties `intangible', `point-entered', and `point-left'. +Replaced by properties `cursor-intangible' and `cursor-sensor-functions', +implemented by the new `cursor-intangible-mode' and +`cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes. + +** New process type `pipe', which can be used in combination with the +`:stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output +of subprocess. + ** New function `make-process' provides an alternative interface to `start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to @@ -713,6 +842,9 @@ name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete. +++ ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode. +** If `pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default +directory at point. + --- ** New utilities in subr-x.el: *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to @@ -743,6 +875,12 @@ integers. ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode. +** Miscellaneous name change + +For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable +`hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to `hfy-optimizations'. +The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias. + * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1