X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/c530e1c2a3a036d71942c354ba11b30a06341fd7..beb6d07d1005f6dd8a17ba6f3e8406aaf47d5130:/etc/NEWS.23?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/etc/NEWS.23 b/etc/NEWS.23 index 6b6cbe4832..eaef3220d4 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS.23 +++ b/etc/NEWS.23 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. @@ -14,6 +14,34 @@ for changes in older Emacs versions. You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. + +* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.4 + +** The MS-Windows build prefers libpng version 1.14 or later. +Versions of libpng before 1.14 had security issues, so we now +recommend to use version 1.14 or later. Precompiled Windows binaries +require version 1.14 or later. See README.W32 and nt/INSTALL for +details and pointers to URLs where the latest libpng can be +downloaded. + +* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.4 + +** EDE + +*** New variable `ede-project-directories'. +EDE now refuses to automatically load a project file (Project.ede) +unless the file is in one of the directories specified by this +variable. This reduces the risk of inadvertently loading malicious +project files. The commands `M-x ede-new' and `M-x ede' now offer to +save directories to `ede-project-directories'. + +* Changes in Emacs 23.4 on non-free operating systems + +** The MS-Windows port can now use more than 500MB of heap. +Depending on the available virtual memory, Emacs on Windows can now +have up to 2GB of heap space. This allows, e.g., visiting several +large (> 256MB) files in the same session. + * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.3 @@ -129,7 +157,7 @@ starting from the first line of text below the header line. * Changes in Emacs 23.3 on non-free operating systems -** The nextstep port can have different modifiers for the left and right +** The NeXTstep port can have different modifiers for the left and right alt/option key by customizing the value for ns-right-alternate-modifier. @@ -697,7 +725,7 @@ a GIF library. *** Emacs now supports multi-page TIFF images. -** New NeXTSTEP-based port. +** New NeXTstep-based port. This provides support for GNUstep (via the GNUstep libraries) and Mac OS X (via the Cocoa libraries). @@ -707,7 +735,7 @@ other emacsen (e.g. X11 build) use --disable-ns-self-contained. See nextstep/README and nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory. ** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon. -Use the NeXTSTEP port, described above. +Use the NeXTstep port, described above. ** The new configuration option "--with-dbus" enables D-Bus language bindings for Emacs. @@ -775,7 +803,7 @@ starts the server. Clients can connect and create graphical or terminal frames using emacsclient. **** emacsclient starts emacs in daemon mode and connects to it when ---alternate-editor="" is used (or when the evironment variable +--alternate-editor="" is used (or when the environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set to "") and emacsclient cannot connect to an emacs server. @@ -825,7 +853,7 @@ shared with older Emacsen. *** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets. See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently -as tables of unicodes. +as tables of Unicode code points. *** There are new language environments for Chinese-GBK, Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, @@ -885,7 +913,7 @@ mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish). *** The mode-line tooltips have been improved to provide more details. -*** The VC, line/colum number and minor mode indicators on the mode +*** The VC, line/column number and minor mode indicators on the mode line are now interactive: mouse-1 can be used on them to pop up a menu. ** File deletion can make use of the Recycle Bin or system Trash folder. @@ -1009,8 +1037,8 @@ motion keys (e.g. S-left and S-down) activate and extend a temporary region, similar to mouse-selection. *** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or -mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command. -They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not +mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated after the next command. +They are deactivated only after point motion commands that are not shift-translated, or after commands that would ordinarily deactivate the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the buffer). @@ -1164,7 +1192,7 @@ run processes remotely. matches a regexp. *** The value of comment-style now defaults to `indent'. -Thefore, comment-start markers are inserted at the current indentation +Therefore, comment-start markers are inserted at the current indentation of the region to comment, rather than the leftmost column. *** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and @@ -1217,8 +1245,8 @@ details, see the commentary in doc-view.el. PDF and DVI files are now opened in Doc View mode by default. -In Postcript mode, C-c C-c launches Doc View minor mode for viewing -the postscript file. +In PostScript mode, C-c C-c launches Doc View minor mode for viewing +the PostScript file. ** EasyPG provides an interface to the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It includes a GnuPG keyring browser, cryptographic operations on @@ -1659,7 +1687,7 @@ Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote file copy is checked via the file's checksum. -*** Passwords can be read from an authentification file. +*** Passwords can be read from an authentication file. Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if necessary. @@ -1746,7 +1774,7 @@ directories in which `ffap-rfc' will first search for RFCs. *** hide-ifdef-mode allows shadowing ifdef-blocks instead of hiding them. See option `hide-ifdef-shadow' and function `hide-ifdef-toggle-shadowing'. -*** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supercedes `icomplete-prospects-length'. +*** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supersedes `icomplete-prospects-length'. *** Info displays breadcrumbs in the header of the page. See Info-breadcrumbs-depth to control it. @@ -1819,7 +1847,7 @@ for the list of extra keys that are available. ** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows. The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus -on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode +on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full Unicode support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts. A rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time and developers. If demand still exists for such a backend even with @@ -2084,7 +2112,7 @@ function to use for searching in `query-replace-regexp', *** New keymap `search-map' bound to `M-s' provides global bindings for search related commands. -*** New keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additonal keys bound +*** New keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additional keys bound to `automatic-all' and `exit-current' for multi-buffer interactive replacement. *** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents @@ -2511,4 +2539,3 @@ Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: -