X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/8bcced1f1217adc8058bc5ff6b00c640b668d94d..c635a4f3d114db265e574f106710f497b2a450b6:/etc/NEWS diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 6c0c81dc0a..8bf72ddfed 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ specially. ** Directories passed to configure option `--enable-locallisppath' are no longer created during installation. +** Emacs can be compiled with zlib support. If this library is present +(which it normally is on most systems), the function +`zlib-decompress-region' becomes available, which can decompress gzip- +and zlib-format compressed data. + --- ** Emacs for NS (OSX, GNUStep) can be built with ImageMagick support. pkg-config is required to find ImageMagick libraries. @@ -131,6 +136,11 @@ You can change the default by customizing the variable blink-cursor-blinks. Also timers for blinking are stopped when no blinking is done, so Emacs does not consume CPU cycles. +** New command `frameset-to-register' is now bound to `C-x r f', replacing +`frame-configuration-to-register'. It offers similar functionality, plus +some enhancements, like the ability to restore deleted frames. Command +`frame-configuration-to-register' is still available, but unbound. + * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4 @@ -233,6 +243,13 @@ The default separator is changed to allow surrounding spaces around the comma. ** Calendar and Diary +*** New faces: `calendar-weekday-header', `calendar-weekend-header', +`calendar-month-header'. + +*** New option `calendar-day-header-array'. + +*** The variable `calendar-font-lock-keywords' is obsolete. + +++ *** New variable `diary-from-outlook-function', used by the command `diary-from-outlook'. @@ -277,9 +294,9 @@ on the given date. auto-saves of the desktop. *** `desktop-restore-frames', enabled by default, allows saving and -restoring the window/frame configuration. Additional options +restoring the frame/window configuration (frameset). Additional options `desktop-restore-in-current-display', `desktop-restore-reuses-frames' -and `desktop-restore-forces-onscreen' allow further customization. +and `desktop-restore-forces-onscreen' offer further customization. ** Dired @@ -330,6 +347,8 @@ directory, respectively. `f' (`image-next-frame') and `b' (`image-previous-frame') visit the next or previous frame. `F' (`image-goto-frame') shows a specific frame. +*** New commands to speed up, slow down, or reverse animation. + --- *** The command `image-mode-fit-frame' deletes other windows. When toggling, it restores the frame's previous window configuration. @@ -587,6 +606,9 @@ in the presence of files with negative time stamps. * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4 ++++ +** New function `define-error'. + ** New hook `tty-setup-hook'. +++ @@ -663,6 +685,8 @@ 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. +*** You can change the speed of animated images. + ** Changes in encoding and decoding of text --- @@ -876,6 +900,10 @@ treated as images. *** ImageMagick images now support the :max-width and :max-height keywords. +*** Some data types aren't auto-detected by ImageMagick. Adding +:format to `create-image' may help if the content type is in the +new variable `image-format-suffixes'. + ** Minibuffer *** In minibuffer filename prompts, `C-M-f' and `C-M-b' now move to the