X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/e896f03ce08aef5fbd6b4d8de84f79a157f1422f..921c067f4309c3eab0aa536723683bada6802545:/etc/NEWS.23 diff --git a/etc/NEWS.23 b/etc/NEWS.23 index 458e2bb3d3..77ba82c15a 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) 2007-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. @@ -15,11 +15,7 @@ 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 23.3 - -** New configure option --with-crt-dir specifies the location of your -crt*.o files, if they are in a non-standard location. This is only -used on x86-64 and s390x GNU/Linux architectures. +* 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 @@ -28,6 +24,31 @@ 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 + +** New configure option --with-crt-dir specifies the location of your +crt*.o files, if they are in a non-standard location. This is only +used on x86-64 and s390x GNU/Linux architectures. + * Changes in Emacs 23.3 ** The last-resort backup file `%backup%~' is now written to @@ -782,7 +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. @@ -832,7 +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, @@ -892,7 +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. @@ -1016,8 +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). @@ -1171,7 +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 @@ -1224,8 +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 @@ -1666,7 +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. @@ -1826,7 +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 @@ -2091,7 +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 @@ -2518,4 +2539,3 @@ Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: -