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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 5 Jan 2000
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2 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 See the end for copying conditions.
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5 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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6 For older news, see the file ONEWS.
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9 * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.1
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10
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11 ** `movemail' defaults to supporting POP. You can turn this off using
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12 the --without-pop configure option, should that be necessary.
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14 ** There are new configure options associated with the support for
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15 images and toolkit scrollbars. Use the --help option to list them.
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17 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
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19 ** The variable `echo-keystrokes' may now have a floating point value.
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21 ** C-x 5 1 runs the new command delete-other-frames which deletes
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22 all frames except the selected one.
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24 ** If your init file is compiled (.emacs.elc), `user-init-file' is set
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25 to the source name (.emacs.el), if that exists, after loading it.
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27 ** The help string specified for a menu-item whose definition contains
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28 the property `:help HELP' is now displayed under X either in the echo
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29 area or with tooltips.
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31 ** New user option `read-mail-command' specifies a command to use to
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32 read mail from the menu etc.
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34 ** Changes in Outline mode.
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35
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36 There is now support for Imenu to index headings. A new command
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37 `outline-headers-as-kill' copies the visible headings in the region to
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38 the kill ring, e.g. to produce a table of contents.
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40 ** New command M-x check-parens can be used to find unbalanced paren
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41 groups and strings in buffers in Lisp mode (or other modes).
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43 ** You can now easily create new *Info* buffers using either M-x clone-buffer
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44 or C-u m <entry> RET. M-x clone-buffer can also be used on *Help* and
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45 several other special buffers.
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47 ** Emacs can now support 'wheeled' mice (such as the MS IntelliMouse)
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48 under XFree86. To enable this, simply put (mwheel-install) in your
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49 .emacs file.
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51 The variables `mwheel-follow-mouse' and `mwheel-scroll-amount'
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52 determine where and by how much buffers are scrolled.
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54 ** Listing buffers with M-x list-buffers (C-x C-b) now shows
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55 abbreviated file names. Abbreviations can be customized by changing
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56 `directory-abbrev-alist'.
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58 ** Reading from the mini-buffer now reads from standard input if Emacs
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59 is running in batch mode. For example,
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61 (message "%s" (read t))
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63 will read a Lisp expression from standard input and print the result
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64 to standard output.
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66 ** Faces and frame parameters.
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68 There are four new faces `scroll-bar', `border', `cursor' and `mouse'.
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69 Setting the frame parameters `scroll-bar-foreground' and
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70 `scroll-bar-background' sets foreground and background color of face
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71 `scroll-bar' and vice versa. Setting frame parameter `border-color'
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72 sets the background color of face `border' and vice versa. Likewise
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73 for frame parameters `cursor-color' and face `cursor', and frame
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74 parameter `mouse-color' and face `mouse'.
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76 Changing frame parameter `font' sets font-related attributes of the
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77 `default' face and vice versa. Setting frame parameters
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78 `foreground-color' or `background-color' sets the colors of the
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79 `default' face and vice versa.
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81 ** New face `menu'.
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83 The face `menu' can be used to change colors and font of Emacs' menus.
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84 Setting the font of LessTif/Motif menus is currently not supported;
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85 attempts to set the font are ignored in this case.
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87 ** New frame parameter `screen-gamma' for gamma correction.
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89 The new frame parameter `screen-gamma' specifies gamma-correction for
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90 colors. Its value may be nil, the default, in which case no gamma
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91 correction occurs, or a number > 0, usually a float, that specifies
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92 the screen gamma of a frame's display.
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93
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94 PC monitors usually have a screen gamma of 2.2. smaller values result
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95 in darker colors. You might want to try a screen gamma of 1.5 for LCD
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96 color displays. The viewing gamma Emacs uses is 0.4545. (1/2.2).
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97
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98 The X resource name of this parameter is `screenGamma', class
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99 `ScreenGamma'.
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100
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101 ** Emacs has a new redisplay engine.
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103 The new redisplay handles characters of variable width and height.
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104 Italic text can be used without redisplay problems. Fonts containing
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105 oversized characters, i.e. characters larger than the logical height
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106 of a font can be used. Images of various formats can be displayed in
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107 the text.
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108
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109 ** Emacs has a new face implementation.
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111 The new faces no longer fundamentally use X font names to specify the
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112 font. Instead, each face has several independent attributes--family,
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113 height, width, weight and slant--that it may or may not specify.
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114 These attributes can be merged from various faces, and then together
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115 specify a font.
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116
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117 Faces are supported on terminals that can display color or fonts.
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118 These terminal capabilities are auto-detected. Details can be found
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119 under Lisp changes, below.
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120
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121 ** New default font is Courier 12pt.
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122
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123 ** When using a windowing terminal, Emacs window now has a cursor of
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124 its own. When the window is selected, the cursor is solid; otherwise,
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125 it is hollow.
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126
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127 ** Bitmap areas to the left and right of windows are used to display
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128 truncation marks, continuation marks, overlay arrows and alike. The
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129 foreground, background, and stipple of these areas can be changed by
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130 customizing face `fringe'.
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131
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132 ** The mode line under X is now drawn with shadows by default. You
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133 can change its appearance by modifying the face `modeline'.
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134
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135 ** LessTif support.
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137 Emacs now runs with LessTif (see <http://www.lesstif.org>). You will
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138 need a version 0.88.1 or later.
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139
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140 ** Toolkit scroll bars.
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141
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142 Emacs now uses toolkit scrollbars if available. When configured for
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143 LessTif/Motif, it will use that toolkit's scrollbar. Otherwise, when
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144 configured for Lucid and Athena widgets, it will use the Xaw3d scroll
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145 bar if Xaw3d is available. You can turn off the use of toolkit scroll
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146 bars by specifying `--with-toolkit-scroll-bars=no' when configuring
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147 Emacs.
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149 When you encounter problems with the Xaw3d scroll bar, watch out how
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150 Xaw3d is compiled on your system. If the Makefile generated from
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151 Xaw3d's Imakefile contains a `-DNARROWPROTO' compiler option, and your
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152 Emacs system configuration file `s/your-system.h' does not contain a
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153 define for NARROWPROTO, you might consider adding it. Take
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154 `s/freebsd.h' as an example.
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155
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156 Alternatively, if you don't have access to the Xaw3d source code, take
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157 a look at your system's imake configuration file, for example in the
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158 directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config' (paths are different on
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159 different systems). You will find files `*.cf' there. If your
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160 system's cf-file contains a line like `#define NeedWidePrototypes NO',
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161 add a `#define NARROWPROTO' to your Emacs system configuration file.
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162
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163 The reason for this is that one Xaw3d function uses `double' or
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164 `float' function parameters depending on the setting of NARROWPROTO.
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165 This is not a problem when Imakefiles are used because each system's
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166 image configuration file contains the necessary information. Since
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167 Emacs doesn't use imake, this has do be done manually.
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168
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169 ** Toggle buttons and radio buttons in menus.
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171 When compiled with LessTif (or Motif) support, Emacs uses toolkit
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172 widgets for radio and toggle buttons in menus. When configured for
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173 Lucid, Emacs draws radio buttons and toggle buttons similar to Motif.
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174
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175 ** Highlighting of trailing whitespace.
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176
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177 When `show-trailing-whitespace' is non-nil, Emacs displays trailing
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178 whitespace in the face `trailing-whitespace'. Trailing whitespace is
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179 defined as spaces or tabs at the end of a line. To avoid busy
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180 highlighting when entering new text, trailing whitespace is not
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181 displayed if point is at the end of the line containing the
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182 whitespace.
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183
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184 ** Busy-cursor.
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185
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186 Emacs can optionally display a busy-cursor under X. You can turn the
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187 display on or off by customizing group `cursor'.
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188
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189 ** Blinking cursor
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190
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191 M-x blink-cursor-mode toggles a blinking cursor under X and on
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192 terminals having terminal capabilities `vi', `vs', and `ve'. Blinking
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193 and related parameters like frequency and delay can be customized in
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194 the group `cursor'.
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195
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196 ** New font-lock support mode `jit-lock-mode'.
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197
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198 This support mode is roughly equivalent to `lazy-lock' but is
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200 See the documentation of the function `jit-lock-mode' for more
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201 details.
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202
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203 Font-lock uses jit-lock-mode as default support mode, so you don't
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204 have to do anything to activate it.
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205
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206 ** Tabs and variable-width text.
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207
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208 Tabs are now displayed with stretch properties; the width of a tab is
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209 defined as a multiple of the normal character width of a frame, and is
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210 independent of the fonts used in the text where the tab appears.
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211 Thus, tabs can be used to line up text in different fonts.
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212
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213 ** Enhancements of the Lucid menu bar
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214
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215 *** The Lucid menu bar now supports the resource "margin".
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216
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217 emacs.pane.menubar.margin: 5
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218
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219 The default margin is 4 which makes the menu bar appear like the Motif
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220 one.
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221
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222 *** Arrows that indicate sub-menus are now drawn with shadows, like in
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223 Motif.
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224
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225 ** Hscrolling in C code.
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226
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227 Horizontal scrolling now happens automatically.
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228
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229 ** Tool bar support.
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230
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231 Emacs supports a tool bar at the top of a frame under X. For details
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232 how to define a tool bar, see the page describing Lisp-level changes.
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233
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234 ** Mouse-sensitive mode line.
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235
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236 Different parts of the mode line under X have been made
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237 mouse-sensitive. Moving the mouse to a mouse-sensitive part in the mode
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238 line changes the appearance of the mouse pointer to an arrow, and help
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239 about available mouse actions is displayed either in the echo area, or
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240 in the tooltip window if you have enabled one.
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241
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242 Currently, the following actions have been defined:
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243
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244 - Mouse-1 on the buffer name in the mode line switches between two
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245 buffers.
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246
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247 - Mouse-2 on the buffer-name switches to the next buffer, and
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248 M-mouse-2 switches to the previous buffer in the buffer list.
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249
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250 - Mouse-3 on the buffer-name displays a buffer menu.
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251
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252 - Mouse-2 on the read-only status in the mode line (`%' or `*')
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253 toggles the read-only status.
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254
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255 - Mouse-3 on the mode name display a minor-mode menu.
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256
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257 ** LessTif/Motif file selection dialog.
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258
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259 When Emacs is configured to use LessTif or Motif, reading a file name
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260 from a menu will pop up a file selection dialog if `use-dialog-box' is
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261 non-nil.
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262
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263 ** Emacs can display faces on TTY frames.
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264
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265 Emacs automatically detects terminals that are able to display colors.
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266 Faces with a weight greater than normal are displayed extra-bright, if
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267 the terminal supports it. Faces with a weight less than normal and
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268 italic faces are displayed dimmed, if the terminal supports it.
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269 Underlined faces are displayed underlined if possible. Other face
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270 attributes like overlines, strike-throught, box are ignored.
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271
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272 ** Sound support
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273
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274 Emacs supports playing sound files on GNU/Linux and the free BSDs
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275 (Voxware driver and native BSD driver, aka as Luigi's driver).
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276 Currently supported file formats are RIFF-WAVE (*.wav) and Sun Audio
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277 (*.au). You must configure Emacs with the option `--with-sound=yes'
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278 to enable sound support.
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279
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280 ** A new variable, backup-by-copying-when-privileged-mismatch, gives
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281 the highest file uid for which backup-by-copying-when-mismatch will be
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282 forced on. The assumption is that uids less than or equal to this
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283 value are special uids (root, bin, daemon, etc.--not real system
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284 users) and that files owned by these users should not change ownership,
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285 even if your system policy allows users other than root to edit them.
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286
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287 The default is 200; set the variable to nil to disable the feature.
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288
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289 ** A block cursor can be drawn as wide as the glyph under it under X.
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290
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291 As an example: if a block cursor is over a tab character, it will be
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292 drawn as wide as that tab on the display. To do this, set
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293 `x-stretch-cursor' to a non-nil value.
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294
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295 ** Empty display lines at the end of a buffer may be marked with a
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296 bitmap (this is similar to the tilde displayed by vi).
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297
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298 This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable
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299 `indicate-empty-lines' to a non-nil value. The default value of this
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300 variable is found in `default-indicate-empty-lines'.
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301
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302 ** There is a new "aggressive" scrolling method.
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303
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304 When scrolling up because point is above the window start, if the
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305 value of the buffer-local variable `scroll-up-aggessively' is a
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306 number, Emacs chooses a new window start so that point ends up that
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307 fraction of the window's height from the bottom of the window.
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308
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309 When scrolling down because point is below the window end, if the
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310 value of the buffer-local variable `scroll-down-aggessively' is a
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311 number, Emacs chooses a new window start so that point ends up that
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312 fraction of the window's height from the top of the window.
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313
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314 ** The rectangle commands now avoid inserting undesirable spaces,
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315 notably at the end of lines.
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316
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317 All these functions have been rewritten to avoid inserting unwanted
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318 spaces, and an optional prefix now allows them to behave the old way.
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319
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320 ** The new command M-x query-replace-regexp-eval acts like
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321 query-replace-regexp, but takes a Lisp expression which is evaluated
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322 after each match to get the replacement text.
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323
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324 ** Emacs now resizes mini-windows if appropriate.
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325
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326 If a message is longer than one line, or mini-buffer contents are
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327 longer than one line, Emacs now resizes the mini-window unless it is
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328 on a frame of its own. You can control the maximum mini-window size
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329 by setting the following variable:
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330
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331 - User option: max-mini-window-height
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332
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333 Maximum height for resizing mini-windows. If a float, it specifies a
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334 fraction of the mini-window frame's height. If an integer, it
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335 specifies a number of lines. If nil, don't resize.
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336
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337 Default is 0.25.
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338
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339 ** Changes to hideshow.el
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340
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341 Hideshow is now at version 5.x. It uses a new algorithms for block
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342 selection and traversal and includes more isearch support.
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343
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344 *** Generalized block selection and traversal
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345
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346 A block is now recognized by three things: its start and end regexps
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347 (both strings), and a match-data selector (an integer) specifying
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348 which sub-expression in the start regexp serves as the place where a
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349 `forward-sexp'-like function can operate. Hideshow always adjusts
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350 point to this sub-expression before calling `hs-forward-sexp-func'
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351 (which for most modes evaluates to `forward-sexp').
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352
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353 If the match-data selector is not specified, it defaults to zero,
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354 i.e., the entire start regexp is valid, w/ no prefix. This is
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355 backwards compatible with previous versions of hideshow. Please see
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356 the docstring for variable `hs-special-modes-alist' for details.
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357
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358 *** Isearch support for updating mode line
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359
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360 During incremental search, if Hideshow minor mode is active, hidden
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361 blocks are temporarily shown. The variable `hs-headline' records the
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362 line at the beginning of the opened block (preceding the hidden
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363 portion of the buffer), and the mode line is refreshed. When a block
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364 is re-hidden, the variable is set to nil.
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365
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366 To show `hs-headline' in the mode line, you may wish to include
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367 something like this in your .emacs.
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368
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369 (add-hook 'hs-minor-mode-hook
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370 (lambda ()
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371 (add-to-list 'mode-line-format 'hs-headline)))
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372
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373 ** Changes to Change Log mode and Add-Log functions
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374
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375 If you invoke `add-change-log-entry' from a backup file, it makes an
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376 entry appropriate for the file's parent. This is useful for making
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377 log entries by comparing a version with deleted functions.
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378
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379 New command M-x change-log-merge merges another log into the current
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380 buffer, fixing old-style date formats if necessary.
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381
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382 Change Log mode now adds a file's version number to change log entries
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383 if user-option `change-log-version-info-enabled' is non-nil.
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384
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385 The search for a file's version number is performed based on regular
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386 expressions from `change-log-version-number-regexp-list' which can be
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387 cutomized. Version numbers are only found in the first 10 percent of
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388 a file.
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389
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390 ** Changes in Font Lock
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391
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392 *** The new function `font-lock-remove-keywords' can be used to remove
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393 font-lock keywords from the current buffer or from a specific major
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394 mode.
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395
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396 ** Comint (subshell) changes
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397
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398 Comint now includes new features to send commands to running processes
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399 and redirect the output to a designated buffer or buffers.
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400
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401 The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command reads a command and
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402 buffer name from the mini-buffer. The command is sent to the current
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403 buffer's process, and its output is inserted into the specified buffer.
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404
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405 The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command-to-process acts like
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406 M-x comint-redirect-send-command but additionally reads the name of
12a1dfb72160 *** empty log message ***
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407 the buffer whose process should be used from the mini-buffer.
12a1dfb72160 *** empty log message ***
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408
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409 ** Changes to Rmail mode
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410
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411 *** RET is now bound in the Rmail summary to rmail-summary-goto-msg,
c050e4500d16 *** empty log message ***
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412 like `j'.
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413
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414 *** There is a new user option `rmail-digest-end-regexps' that
622e861dce48 *** empty log message ***
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415 specifies the regular expressions to detect the line that ends a
27378
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416 digest message.
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417
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418 ** Changes to TeX mode
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419
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420 The default mode has been changed from `plain-tex-mode' to
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421 `latex-mode'.
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422
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423 ** Changes to RefTeX mode
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424
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425 *** RefTeX has new support for index generation. Index entries can be
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426 created with `C-c <', with completion available on index keys.
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427 Pressing `C-c /' indexes the word at the cursor with a default
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428 macro. `C-c >' compiles all index entries into an alphabetically
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429 sorted *Index* buffer which looks like the final index. Entries
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430 can be edited from that buffer.
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431
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432 *** Label and citation key selection now allow to select several
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433 items and reference them together (use `m' to mark items, `a' or
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434 `A' to use all marked entries).
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435
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436 *** reftex.el has been split into a number of smaller files to reduce
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437 memory use when only a part of RefTeX is being used.
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438
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439 *** a new command `reftex-view-crossref-from-bibtex' (bound to `C-c &'
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440 in BibTeX-mode) can be called in a BibTeX database buffer in order
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441 to show locations in LaTeX documents where a particular entry has
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442 been cited.
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443
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444 ** Emacs Lisp mode now allows multiple levels of outline headings.
5ffc1f61b1d4 Add description of changed outline-regexp/new outline-level for
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445 The level of a heading is determined from the number of leading
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446 semicolons in a heading line. Toplevel forms starting with a `('
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447 in column 1 are always made leaves.
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448
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449 ** The M-x time-stamp command (most commonly used on write-file-hooks)
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450 has the following new features:
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451
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452 *** The patterns for finding the time stamp and for updating a pattern
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453 may match text spanning multiple lines. For example, some people like
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454 to have the filename and date on separate lines. The new variable
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455 time-stamp-inserts-lines controls the matching for multi-line patterns.
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456
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457 *** More than one time stamp can be updated in the same file. This
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458 feature is useful if you need separate time stamps in a program source
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459 file to both include in formatted documentation and insert in the
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460 compiled binary. The same time-stamp will be written at each matching
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461 pattern. The variable time-stamp-count enables this new feature; it
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462 defaults to 1.
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463
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464 ** Tooltips.
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465
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466 Tooltips are small X windows displaying a help string at the current
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467 mouse position. To use them, use the Lisp package `tooltip' which you
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468 can access via the user option `tooltip-mode'.
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469
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470 Tooltips also provides support for GUD debugging. If activated,
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471 variable values can be displayed in tooltips by pointing at them with
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472 the mouse in source buffers. You can customize various aspects of the
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473 tooltip display in the group `tooltip'.
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474
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475 ** Customize changes
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476
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diff changeset
477 *** Customize now supports comments about customized items. Use the
26096
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parents: 26062
diff changeset
478 `State' menu to add comments. Note that customization comments will
466a2fb0133c Note about custom comments.
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parents: 26062
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479 cause the customizations to fail in earlier versions of Emacs.
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480
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481 *** The new option `custom-buffer-done-function' says whether to kill
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482 Custom buffers when you've done with them or just bury them (the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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483 default).
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diff changeset
484
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782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
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diff changeset
485 *** The keyword :set-after in defcustom allows to specify dependencies
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
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parents: 26820
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486 between custom options. Example:
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
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487
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
488 (defcustom default-input-method nil
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
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489 "*Default input method for multilingual text (a string).
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
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490 This is the input method activated automatically by the command
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26820
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491 `toggle-input-method' (\\[toggle-input-method])."
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26820
diff changeset
492 :group 'mule
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
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493 :type '(choice (const nil) string)
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
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494 :set-after '(current-language-environment))
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26820
diff changeset
495
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26820
diff changeset
496 This specifies that default-input-method should be set after
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26820
diff changeset
497 current-language-environment even if default-input-method appears
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26820
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498 first in a custom-set-variables statement.
782476a34d9d Custom option keyword :set-after.
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parents: 26820
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499
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500 ** New features in evaluation commands
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diff changeset
501
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diff changeset
502 The commands to evaluate Lisp expressions, such as C-M-x in Lisp
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parents:
diff changeset
503 modes, C-j in Lisp Interaction mode, and M-:, now bind the variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
504 print-level, print-length, and debug-on-error based on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
505 customizable variables eval-expression-print-level,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
506 eval-expression-print-length, and eval-expression-debug-on-error.
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diff changeset
507
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parents:
diff changeset
508 ** Dired changes
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parents:
diff changeset
509
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
510 *** New variable `dired-recursive-deletes' determines if the delete
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
511 command will delete non-empty directories recursively. The default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
512 is, delete only empty directories.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
513
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
514 *** New variable `dired-recursive-copies' determines if the copy
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
515 command will copy directories recursively. The default is, do not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
516 copy directories recursively.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
517
26728
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
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518 *** In command `dired-do-shell-command' (usually bound to `!') a `?'
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
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519 in the shell command has a special meaning similar to `*', but with
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
520 the difference that the command will be run on each file individually.
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
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parents: 26718
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521
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522 ** The variable mail-specify-envelope-from controls whether to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
523 use the -f option when sending mail.
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parents:
diff changeset
524
26820
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diff changeset
525 ** CC mode changes.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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526
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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diff changeset
527 Note: This release contains changes that might not be compatible with
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
528 current user setups (although it's believed that these
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
529 incompatibilities will only show in very uncommon circumstances).
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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530 However, since the impact is uncertain, these changes may be rolled
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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diff changeset
531 back depending on user feedback. Therefore there's no forward
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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532 compatibility guarantee wrt the new features introduced in this
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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533 release.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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534
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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diff changeset
535 *** New initialization procedure for the style system.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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diff changeset
536 When the initial style for a buffer is determined by CC Mode (from the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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diff changeset
537 variable c-default-style), the global values of style variables now
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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diff changeset
538 take precedence over the values specified by the chosen style. This
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
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539 is different than the old behavior: previously, the style-specific
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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540 settings would override the global settings. This change makes it
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
541 possible to do simple configuration in the intuitive way with
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
542 Customize or with setq lines in one's .emacs file.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
543
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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diff changeset
544 By default, the global value of every style variable is the new
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
545 special symbol set-from-style, which causes the value to be taken from
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
546 the style system. This means that in effect, only an explicit setting
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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547 of a style variable will cause the "overriding" behavior described
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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548 above.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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549
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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550 Also note that global settings override style-specific settings *only*
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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551 when the initial style of a buffer is chosen by a CC Mode major mode
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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552 function. When a style is chosen in other ways --- for example, by a
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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553 call like (c-set-style "gnu") in a hook, or via M-x c-set-style ---
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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554 then the style-specific values take precedence over any global style
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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555 values. In Lisp terms, global values override style-specific values
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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556 only when the new second argument to c-set-style is non-nil; see the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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557 function documentation for more info.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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558
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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559 The purpose of these changes is to make it easier for users,
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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560 especially novice users, to do simple customizations with Customize or
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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561 with setq in their .emacs files. On the other hand, the new system is
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
562 intended to be compatible with advanced users' customizations as well,
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
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563 such as those that choose styles in hooks or whatnot. This new system
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
564 is believed to be almost entirely compatible with current
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
565 configurations, in spite of the changed precedence between style and
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
566 global variable settings when a buffer's default style is set.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
567
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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568 (Thanks to Eric Eide for clarifying this explanation a bit.)
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
569
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
570 **** c-offsets-alist is now a customizable variable.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
571 This became possible as a result of the new initialization behavior.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
572
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
573 This variable is treated slightly differently from the other style
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
574 variables; instead of using the symbol set-from-style, it will be
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
575 completed with the syntactic symbols it doesn't already contain when
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
576 the style is first initialized. This means it now defaults to the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
577 empty list to make all syntactic elements get their values from the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
578 style system.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
579
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
580 **** Compatibility variable to restore the old behavior.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
581 In case your configuration doesn't work with this change, you can set
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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582 c-old-style-variable-behavior to non-nil to get the old behavior back
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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583 as far as possible.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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584
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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585 *** Improvements to line breaking and text filling.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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586 CC Mode now handles this more intelligently and seamlessly wrt the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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587 surrounding code, especially inside comments. For details see the new
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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588 chapter about this in the manual.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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589
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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590 **** New variable to recognize comment line prefix decorations.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
591 The variable c-comment-prefix-regexp has been added to properly
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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592 recognize the line prefix in both block and line comments. It's
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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593 primarily used to initialize the various paragraph recognition and
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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594 adaptive filling variables that the text handling functions uses.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
595
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
596 **** New variable c-block-comment-prefix.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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597 This is a generalization of the now obsolete variable
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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598 c-comment-continuation-stars to handle arbitrary strings.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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599
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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600 **** CC Mode now uses adaptive fill mode.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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601 This to make it adapt better to the paragraph style inside comments.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
602
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
603 It's also possible to use other adaptive filling packages inside CC
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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604 Mode, notably Kyle E. Jones' Filladapt mode (http://wonderworks.com/).
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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605 A new convenience function c-setup-filladapt sets up Filladapt for use
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
606 inside CC Mode.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
607
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
608 Note though that the 2.12 version of Filladapt lacks a feature that
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
609 causes it to work suboptimally when c-comment-prefix-regexp can match
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
610 the empty string (which it commonly does). A patch for that is
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
611 available from the CC Mode web site (http://www.python.org/emacs/
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
612 cc-mode/).
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
613
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
614 **** It's now possible to selectively turn off auto filling.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
615 The variable c-ignore-auto-fill is used to ignore auto fill mode in
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
616 specific contexts, e.g. in preprocessor directives and in string
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
617 literals.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
618
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
619 **** New context sensitive line break function c-context-line-break.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
620 It works like newline-and-indent in normal code, and adapts the line
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
621 prefix according to the comment style when used inside comments. If
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
622 you're normally using newline-and-indent, you might want to switch to
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
623 this function.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
624
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
625 *** Fixes to IDL mode.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
626 It now does a better job in recognizing only the constructs relevant
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
627 to IDL. E.g. it no longer matches "class" as the beginning of a
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
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628 struct block, but it does match the CORBA 2.3 "valuetype" keyword.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
diff changeset
629 Thanks to Eric Eide.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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630
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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631 *** Improvements to the Whitesmith style.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
632 It now keeps the style consistently on all levels and both when
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
633 opening braces hangs and when they don't.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
634
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
635 **** New lineup function c-lineup-whitesmith-in-block.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
636
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
637 *** New lineup functions c-lineup-template-args and c-indent-multi-line-block.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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638 See their docstrings for details. c-lineup-template-args does a
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
639 better job of tracking the brackets used as parens in C++ templates,
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
640 and is used by default to line up continued template arguments.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
641
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
642 *** c-lineup-comment now preserves alignment with a comment on the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
643 previous line. It used to instead preserve comments that started in
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
644 the column specified by comment-column.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
645
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
646 *** c-lineup-C-comments handles "free form" text comments.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
647 In comments with a long delimiter line at the start, the indentation
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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648 is kept unchanged for lines that start with an empty comment line
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
649 prefix. This is intended for the type of large block comments that
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
650 contain documentation with its own formatting. In these you normally
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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651 don't want CC Mode to change the indentation.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
652
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
653 *** The `c' syntactic symbol is now relative to the comment start
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
654 instead of the previous line, to make integers usable as lineup
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
655 arguments.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
656
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
657 *** All lineup functions have gotten docstrings.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
658
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
659 *** More preprocessor directive movement functions.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
660 c-down-conditional does the reverse of c-up-conditional.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
661 c-up-conditional-with-else and c-down-conditional-with-else are
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
662 variants of these that also stops at "#else" lines (suggested by Don
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
663 Provan).
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
664
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
665 *** Minor improvements to many movement functions in tricky situations.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
666
26407
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
667 ** Isearch changes
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
668
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
669 *** In Isearch mode, mouse-2 in the echo area now yanks the current
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
670 selection into the search string rather than giving an error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
671
26407
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
672 *** There is a new lazy highlighting feature in incremental search.
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
673
26417
5678b244c3ac Changes in `list-buffers'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26407
diff changeset
674 Lazy highlighting is switched on/off by customizing variable
26407
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
675 `isearch-lazy-highlight'. When active, all matches for the current
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
676 search string are highlighted. The current match is highlighted as
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
677 before using face `isearch' or `region'. All other matches are
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
678 highlighted using face `isearch-lazy-highlight-face' which defaults to
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
679 `secondary-selection'.
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
680
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
681 The extra highlighting makes it easier to anticipate where the cursor
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
682 will end up each time you press C-s or C-r to repeat a pending search.
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
683 Highlighting of these additional matches happens in a deferred fashion
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
684 using "idle timers," so the cycles needed do not rob isearch of its
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
685 usual snappy response.
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
686
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
687 If `isearch-lazy-highlight-cleanup' is set to t, highlights for
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
688 matches are automatically cleared when you end the search. If it is
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
689 set to nil, you can remove the highlights manually with `M-x
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
690 isearch-lazy-highlight-cleanup'.
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
691
27470
483c021bf376 Change in sort-numeric-fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27387
diff changeset
692 ** Changes in sort.el
483c021bf376 Change in sort-numeric-fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27387
diff changeset
693
483c021bf376 Change in sort-numeric-fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27387
diff changeset
694 The function sort-numeric-fields interprets numbers starting with `0'
27533
6dfbe5197843 A typo ("ocatal" instead of "octal").
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27498
diff changeset
695 as octal and numbers starting with `0x' or `0X' as hexadecimal. The
27470
483c021bf376 Change in sort-numeric-fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27387
diff changeset
696 new user-option sort-numberic-base can be used to specify a default
483c021bf376 Change in sort-numeric-fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27387
diff changeset
697 numeric base.
26407
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
698
25929
a955ea8f6b15 ange-ftp item.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25910
diff changeset
699 ** Ange-ftp allows you to specify of a port number in remote file
a955ea8f6b15 ange-ftp item.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25910
diff changeset
700 names cleanly. It is appended to the host name, separated by a hash
a955ea8f6b15 ange-ftp item.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25910
diff changeset
701 sign, e.g. `/foo@bar.org#666:mumble'. (This syntax comes from EFS.)
a955ea8f6b15 ange-ftp item.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25910
diff changeset
702
25984
eea178de35f5 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25951
diff changeset
703 ** Shell script mode changes.
eea178de35f5 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25951
diff changeset
704
eea178de35f5 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25951
diff changeset
705 Shell script mode (sh-script) can now indent scripts for shells
eea178de35f5 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25951
diff changeset
706 derived from sh and rc. The indentation style is customizeable, and
eea178de35f5 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25951
diff changeset
707 sh-script can attempt to "learn" the current buffer's style.
eea178de35f5 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25951
diff changeset
708
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
709 ** Etags changes.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
710
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
711 *** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
712
26289
6651db4a4b1f Document regexp changes in etags.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26277
diff changeset
713 *** New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex. It is now
26292
81cd0c225dd9 Last changes for etags (I hope).
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26289
diff changeset
714 possible to bind a regexp to a language, by prepending the regexp with
81cd0c225dd9 Last changes for etags (I hope).
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26289
diff changeset
715 {lang}, where lang is one of the languages that `etags --help' prints out.
81cd0c225dd9 Last changes for etags (I hope).
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26289
diff changeset
716 This feature is useful especially for regex files, where each line contains
81cd0c225dd9 Last changes for etags (I hope).
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26289
diff changeset
717 a regular expression. The manual contains details.
26289
6651db4a4b1f Document regexp changes in etags.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26277
diff changeset
718
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
719 *** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for function
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
720 declarations when given the --declarations option.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
721
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
722 *** In C++, tags are created for "operator". The tags have the form
26289
6651db4a4b1f Document regexp changes in etags.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26277
diff changeset
723 "operator+", without spaces between the keyword and the operator.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
724
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
725 *** New language Ada: tags are functions, procedures, packages, tasks, and
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
726 types.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
727
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
728 *** In Fortran, procedure is no more tagged.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
729
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
730 *** In Java, tags are created for "interface".
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
731
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
732 *** In Lisp, "(defstruct (foo", "(defun (operator" and similar constructs
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
733 are now tagged.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
734
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
735 *** In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables. my and local
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
736 variables are tagged.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
737
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
738 *** New language Python: def and class at the beginning of a line are tags.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
739
26292
81cd0c225dd9 Last changes for etags (I hope).
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26289
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740 *** .ss files are Scheme files, .pdb is Postscript with C syntax, .psw is
81cd0c225dd9 Last changes for etags (I hope).
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26289
diff changeset
741 for PSWrap.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
742
26728
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
743 ** Changes in etags.el
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
744
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
745 *** You can display additional output with M-x tags-apropos by setting
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
746 the new variable tags-apropos-additional-actions.
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
747
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
748 If non-nil, the variable's value should be a list of triples (TITLE
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
749 FUNCTION TO-SEARCH). For each triple, M-x tags-apropos processes
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
750 TO-SEARCH and lists tags from it. TO-SEARCH should be an alist,
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
751 obarray, or symbol. If it is a symbol, the symbol's value is used.
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
752
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
753 TITLE is a string to use to label the list of tags from TO-SEARCH.
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
754
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
755 FUNCTION is a function to call when an entry is selected in the Tags
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
756 List buffer. It is called with one argument, the selected symbol.
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
757
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
758 A useful example value for this variable might be something like:
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
759
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
760 '(("Emacs Lisp" Info-goto-emacs-command-node obarray)
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
761 ("Common Lisp" common-lisp-hyperspec common-lisp-hyperspec-obarray)
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
762 ("SCWM" scwm-documentation scwm-obarray))
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
763
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
764 *** The face tags-tag-face can be used to customize the appearance
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
765 of tags in the output of M-x tags-apropos.
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
766
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
767 *** Setting tags-apropos-verbose to a non-nil value displays the
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
768 names of tags files in the *Tags List* buffer.
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
769
26140
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
770 ** Emacs now attempts to determine the initial language environment
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
771 and preferred and locale coding systems systematically from the
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
772 LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables during startup.
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
773
26016
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
diff changeset
774 ** New language environments `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
diff changeset
775 These correspond respectively to the ISO character sets 8859-14
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
diff changeset
776 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign). There is
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
diff changeset
777 currently no specific input method support for them.
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
diff changeset
778
26652
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26623
diff changeset
779 ** Fortran mode has a new command `fortran-strip-sqeuence-nos' to
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26623
diff changeset
780 remove text past column 72. The syntax class of `\' in Fortran is now
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26623
diff changeset
781 appropriate for C-style escape sequences in strings.
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26623
diff changeset
782
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26623
diff changeset
783 ** SGML mode's default `sgml-validate-command' is now `nsgmls'.
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26623
diff changeset
784
26768
02eb997314dc view-emacs-problems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26737
diff changeset
785 ** A new command `view-emacs-problems' (C-h P) displays the PROBLEMS file.
02eb997314dc view-emacs-problems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26737
diff changeset
786
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
787 ** New modes and packages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
788
27644
1ac28043dbd6 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27573
diff changeset
789 *** glasses-mode is a minor mode that makes
1ac28043dbd6 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27573
diff changeset
790 unreadableIdentifiersLikeThis readable. It works as glasses, without
1ac28043dbd6 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27573
diff changeset
791 actually modifying content of a buffer.
1ac28043dbd6 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27573
diff changeset
792
27498
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
793 *** The package ebnf2ps translates an EBNF to a syntactic chart in
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
794 PostScript.
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
795
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
796 Currently accepts ad-hoc EBNF, ISO EBNF and Bison/Yacc.
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
797
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
798 The ad-hoc default EBNF syntax has the following elements:
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
799
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
800 ; comment (until end of line)
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
801 A non-terminal
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
802 "C" terminal
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
803 ?C? special
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
804 $A default non-terminal
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
805 $"C" default terminal
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
806 $?C? default special
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
807 A = B. production (A is the header and B the body)
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
808 C D sequence (C occurs before D)
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
809 C | D alternative (C or D occurs)
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
810 A - B exception (A excluding B, B without any non-terminal)
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
811 n * A repetition (A repeats n (integer) times)
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
812 (C) group (expression C is grouped together)
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
813 [C] optional (C may or not occurs)
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
814 C+ one or more occurrences of C
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
815 {C}+ one or more occurrences of C
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
816 {C}* zero or more occurrences of C
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
817 {C} zero or more occurrences of C
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
818 C / D equivalent to: C {D C}*
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
819 {C || D}+ equivalent to: C {D C}*
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
820 {C || D}* equivalent to: [C {D C}*]
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
821 {C || D} equivalent to: [C {D C}*]
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
822
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
823 Please, see ebnf2ps documentation for EBNF syntax and how to use it.
960ea40c1a7e *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27475
diff changeset
824
27328
7748234c70d7 align.el
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27307
diff changeset
825 *** The package align.el will align columns within a region, using M-x
7748234c70d7 align.el
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27307
diff changeset
826 align. Its mode-specific rules, based on regular expressions,
7748234c70d7 align.el
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27307
diff changeset
827 determine where the columns should be split. In C and C++, for
7748234c70d7 align.el
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27307
diff changeset
828 example, it will align variable names in declaration lists, or the
7748234c70d7 align.el
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27307
diff changeset
829 equal signs of assignments.
7748234c70d7 align.el
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27307
diff changeset
830
27266
8ce11c7a7fcb read-mail-command, outline mode changes, change-log-merge,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27200
diff changeset
831 *** `paragraph-indent-minor-mode' is a new minor mode supporting
8ce11c7a7fcb read-mail-command, outline mode changes, change-log-merge,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27200
diff changeset
832 paragraphs in the same style as `paragraph-indent-text-mode'.
8ce11c7a7fcb read-mail-command, outline mode changes, change-log-merge,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27200
diff changeset
833
27016
62cd5f1749cc *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27005
diff changeset
834 *** bs.el is a new package for buffer selection similar to
62cd5f1749cc *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27005
diff changeset
835 list-buffers or electric-buffer-list. Use M-x bs-show to display a
62cd5f1749cc *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27005
diff changeset
836 buffer menu with this package. You can use M-x bs-customize to
62cd5f1749cc *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27005
diff changeset
837 customize the package.
62cd5f1749cc *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27005
diff changeset
838
27733
d6a89b95b32d *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27714
diff changeset
839 *** calculator.el is a small calculator package that is intended to
d6a89b95b32d *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27714
diff changeset
840 replace desktop calculators such as xcalc and calc.exe. Actually, it
d6a89b95b32d *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27714
diff changeset
841 is not too small - it has more features than most desktop calculators,
d6a89b95b32d *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27714
diff changeset
842 and can be customized easily to get many more functions. It should
d6a89b95b32d *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27714
diff changeset
843 not be confused with "calc" which is a much bigger mathematical tool
d6a89b95b32d *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27714
diff changeset
844 which answers different needs.
d6a89b95b32d *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27714
diff changeset
845
26964
2939daf50656 Font-lock changes by Anders Lindgren.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26933
diff changeset
846 *** The minor modes cwarn-mode and global-cwarn-mode highlights
2939daf50656 Font-lock changes by Anders Lindgren.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26933
diff changeset
847 suspicious C and C++ constructions. Currently, assignments inside
2939daf50656 Font-lock changes by Anders Lindgren.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26933
diff changeset
848 expressions, semicolon following `if', `for' and `while' (except, of
2939daf50656 Font-lock changes by Anders Lindgren.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26933
diff changeset
849 course, after a `do .. while' statement), and C++ functions with
2939daf50656 Font-lock changes by Anders Lindgren.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26933
diff changeset
850 reference parameters are recognized. The modes require font-lock mode
2939daf50656 Font-lock changes by Anders Lindgren.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26933
diff changeset
851 to be enabled.
2939daf50656 Font-lock changes by Anders Lindgren.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26933
diff changeset
852
27094
6500fd0a7d8e *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 27092
diff changeset
853 *** smerge-mode.el provides `smerge-mode', a simple minor-mode for files
6500fd0a7d8e *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 27092
diff changeset
854 containing diff3-style conflict markers, such as generated by RCS.
6500fd0a7d8e *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 27092
diff changeset
855
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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856 *** 5x5.el is a simple puzzle game.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
857
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
858 *** hl-line.el provides a minor mode to highlight the current line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
859
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
860 *** ansi-color.el translates ANSI terminal escapes into text-properties.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
861
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
862 *** delphi.el provides a major mode for editing the Delphi (Object
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
863 Pascal) language.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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864
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
865 *** quickurl.el provides a simple method of inserting a URL based on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
866 the text at point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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867
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
868 *** sql.el provides an interface to SQL data bases.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
869
25862
62b8ede0e424 Mention fortune.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
870 *** fortune.el uses the fortune program to create mail/news signatures.
62b8ede0e424 Mention fortune.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
871
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
872 *** whitespace.el ???
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
873
25992
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
874 *** PostScript mode (ps-mode) is a new major mode for editing PostScript
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
875 files. It offers: interaction with a PostScript interpreter, including
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
876 (very basic) error handling; fontification, easily customizable for
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
877 interpreter messages; auto-indentation; insertion of EPSF templates and
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
878 often used code snippets; viewing of BoundingBox; commenting out /
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
879 uncommenting regions; conversion of 8bit characters to PostScript octal
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
880 codes. All functionality is accessible through a menu.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
881
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
882 *** delim-col helps to prettify columns in a text region or rectangle.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
883
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
884 Here is an example of columns:
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
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885
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
886 horse apple bus
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
887 dog pineapple car EXTRA
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
888 porcupine strawberry airplane
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
889
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
890 Doing the following settings:
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
891
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
892 (setq delimit-columns-str-before "[ ")
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
893 (setq delimit-columns-str-after " ]")
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
894 (setq delimit-columns-str-separator ", ")
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
895 (setq delimit-columns-separator "\t")
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
896
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
897
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
898 Selecting the lines above and typing:
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
899
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
900 M-x delimit-columns-region
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
901
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
902 It results:
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
903
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
904 [ horse , apple , bus , ]
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
905 [ dog , pineapple , car , EXTRA ]
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
906 [ porcupine, strawberry, airplane, ]
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
907
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
908 delim-col has the following options:
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
909
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
910 delimit-columns-str-before Specify a string to be inserted
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
911 before all columns.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
912
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
913 delimit-columns-str-separator Specify a string to be inserted
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
914 between each column.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
915
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
916 delimit-columns-str-after Specify a string to be inserted
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
917 after all columns.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
918
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
919 delimit-columns-separator Specify a regexp which separates
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
920 each column.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
921
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
922 delim-col has the following commands:
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
923
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
924 delimit-columns-region Prettify all columns in a text region.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
925 delimit-columns-rectangle Prettify all columns in a text rectangle.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
926
26030
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
927 *** The package recentf.el maintains a menu for visiting files that
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
928 were operated on recently. When enabled, a new "Open Recent" submenu
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
929 is displayed in the "Files" menu.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
930
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
931 The recent files list is automatically saved across Emacs sessions.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
932
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
933 To enable/disable recentf use M-x recentf-mode.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
934
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
935 To enable recentf at Emacs startup use
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
936 M-x customize-variable RET recentf-mode RET.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
937
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
938 To change the number of recent files displayed and others options use
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
939 M-x customize-group RET recentf RET.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
940
26149
0a342d5afcc2 elide-head.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26144
diff changeset
941 *** elide-head.el provides a mechanism for eliding boilerplate header
0a342d5afcc2 elide-head.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26144
diff changeset
942 text.
0a342d5afcc2 elide-head.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26144
diff changeset
943
26924
5348841810f6 Add diff-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26835
diff changeset
944 *** footnote.el provides `footnote-mode', a minor mode supporting use
26786
d30b640777b8 footnote.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26768
diff changeset
945 of footnotes. It is intended for use with Message mode, but isn't
d30b640777b8 footnote.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26768
diff changeset
946 specific to Message mode.
d30b640777b8 footnote.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26768
diff changeset
947
26924
5348841810f6 Add diff-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26835
diff changeset
948 *** diff-mode.el provides `diff-mode', a major mode for
5348841810f6 Add diff-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26835
diff changeset
949 viewing/editing context diffs (patches). It is selected for files
5348841810f6 Add diff-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26835
diff changeset
950 with extension `.diff', `.diffs', `.patch' and `.rej'.
5348841810f6 Add diff-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26835
diff changeset
951
27714
22a581e00fe4 Mention some new packages, extra configure options.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27693
diff changeset
952 *** EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, provides a common user
22a581e00fe4 Mention some new packages, extra configure options.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27693
diff changeset
953 interface to access directory servers using different directory
22a581e00fe4 Mention some new packages, extra configure options.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27693
diff changeset
954 protocols. It has a separate manual.
22a581e00fe4 Mention some new packages, extra configure options.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27693
diff changeset
955
22a581e00fe4 Mention some new packages, extra configure options.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27693
diff changeset
956 *** glasses.el
22a581e00fe4 Mention some new packages, extra configure options.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27693
diff changeset
957
22a581e00fe4 Mention some new packages, extra configure options.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27693
diff changeset
958 *** windmove.el
22a581e00fe4 Mention some new packages, extra configure options.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27693
diff changeset
959
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
960 ** Withdrawn packages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
961
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
962 *** mldrag.el has been removed. mouse.el provides the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
963 functionality with aliases for the mldrag functions.
26133
5eb182b0c724 eval-reg removed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26107
diff changeset
964
27369
b7162d2b3d0b ph.el, user-init-file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27361
diff changeset
965 *** eval-reg.el has been obsoleted by changes to edebug.el and removed.
b7162d2b3d0b ph.el, user-init-file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27361
diff changeset
966
b7162d2b3d0b ph.el, user-init-file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27361
diff changeset
967 *** ph.el has been obsoleted by EUDC and removed.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
968
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
969 * Lisp changes in Emacs 21.1 (see following page for display-related features)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
970
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
971 Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
972 --- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
973 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
974 so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
975
27827
25e4e0c9c19a *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27820
diff changeset
976 ** The function string-to-number now returns a float for numbers
25e4e0c9c19a *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27820
diff changeset
977 that don't fit into a Lisp integer.
25e4e0c9c19a *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27820
diff changeset
978
27820
2d9b98395c82 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27770
diff changeset
979 ** The variable keyword-symbols-constants-flag has been removed.
2d9b98395c82 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27770
diff changeset
980 Keywords are now always considered constants.
2d9b98395c82 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27770
diff changeset
981
27770
38f6e392c0aa *** empty log message ***
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27733
diff changeset
982 +++
38f6e392c0aa *** empty log message ***
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27733
diff changeset
983 ** The new function `delete-and-extract-region' deletes text and
38f6e392c0aa *** empty log message ***
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27733
diff changeset
984 returns it.
38f6e392c0aa *** empty log message ***
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 27733
diff changeset
985
27276
61772f3ab92f *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27266
diff changeset
986 ** The function `clear-this-command-keys' now also clears the vector
61772f3ab92f *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27266
diff changeset
987 returned by function `recent-keys'.
61772f3ab92f *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27266
diff changeset
988
27385
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
989 +++
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
990 ** Variables `beginning-of-defun-function' and `end-of-defun-function'
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
991 can be used to define handlers for the functions that find defuns.
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
992 Major modes can define these locally instead of rebinding M-C-a
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
993 etc. if the normal conventions for defuns are not appropriate for the
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
994 mode.
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
995
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
996 +++
27094
6500fd0a7d8e *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 27092
diff changeset
997 ** easy-mmode-define-minor-mode now takes an additional BODY argument
6500fd0a7d8e *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 27092
diff changeset
998 and is renamed `define-minor-mode'.
6500fd0a7d8e *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 27092
diff changeset
999
27385
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1000 +++
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1001 ** If an abbrev has a hook function which is a symbol, and that symbol
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1002 has a non-nil `no-self-insert' property, the return value of the hook
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1003 function specifies whether an expansion has been done or not. If it
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1004 returns nil, abbrev-expand also returns nil, meaning "no expansion has
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1005 been performed."
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1006
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1007 When abbrev expansion is done by typing a self-inserting character,
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1008 and the abbrev has a hook with the `no-self-insert' property, and the
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1009 hook function returns non-nil meaning expansion has been done,
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1010 then the self-inserting character is not inserted.
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1011
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1012 +++
26737
0aad3e0b47d2 Change of intern-soft.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26728
diff changeset
1013 ** The function `intern-soft' now accepts a symbol as first argument.
0aad3e0b47d2 Change of intern-soft.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26728
diff changeset
1014 In this case, that exact symbol is looked up in the specified obarray,
0aad3e0b47d2 Change of intern-soft.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26728
diff changeset
1015 and the function's value is nil if it is not found.
0aad3e0b47d2 Change of intern-soft.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26728
diff changeset
1016
27385
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1017 +++
26467
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
1018 ** The new macro `with-syntax-table' can be used to evaluate forms
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
1019 with the syntax table of the current buffer temporarily set to a
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
1020 specified table.
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
1021
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
1022 (with-syntax-table TABLE &rest BODY)
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
1023
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
1024 Evaluate BODY with syntax table of current buffer set to a copy of
26541
ce6bf7b42bc7 --with-syntax-table changed.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26525
diff changeset
1025 TABLE. The current syntax table is saved, BODY is evaluated, and the
ce6bf7b42bc7 --with-syntax-table changed.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26525
diff changeset
1026 saved table is restored, even in case of an abnormal exit. Value is
ce6bf7b42bc7 --with-syntax-table changed.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26525
diff changeset
1027 what BODY returns.
26467
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
1028
27385
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1029 +++
27693
d8bedafef8d5 *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 27644
diff changeset
1030 ** Regular expressions now support intervals \{n,m\} as well as
d8bedafef8d5 *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 27644
diff changeset
1031 Perl's non-greedy *? +? and ?? operators.
27094
6500fd0a7d8e *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 27092
diff changeset
1032
27385
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1033 +++
26397
17d6fe2e2d0f Removal of buffer argument of file-local-copy.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26360
diff changeset
1034 ** The optional argument BUFFER of function file-local-copy has been
17d6fe2e2d0f Removal of buffer argument of file-local-copy.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26360
diff changeset
1035 removed since it wasn't used by anything.
17d6fe2e2d0f Removal of buffer argument of file-local-copy.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26360
diff changeset
1036
27385
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1037 +++
26360
5370b1c171ef Change in file-locked-p argument.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26359
diff changeset
1038 ** The file name argument of function `file-locked-p' is now required
5370b1c171ef Change in file-locked-p argument.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26359
diff changeset
1039 instead of being optional.
5370b1c171ef Change in file-locked-p argument.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26359
diff changeset
1040
27385
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1041 +++
26277
32e16b70ae15 New built-in error `text-read-only'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26271
diff changeset
1042 ** The new built-in error `text-read-only' is signaled when trying to
32e16b70ae15 New built-in error `text-read-only'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26271
diff changeset
1043 modify read-only text.
32e16b70ae15 New built-in error `text-read-only'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26271
diff changeset
1044
27385
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 27381
diff changeset
1045 +++
26140
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
1046 ** New functions and variables for locales.
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
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1047
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
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parents: 26133
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1048 The new variable `locale-coding-system' specifies how to encode and
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
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parents: 26133
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1049 decode strings passed to low-level message functions like strerror and
26525
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parents: 26467
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1050 time functions like strftime. The new variables
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1051 `system-messages-locale' and `system-time-locale' give the system
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
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1052 locales to be used when invoking these two types of functions.
26140
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1053
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parents: 26133
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1054 The new function `set-locale-environment' sets the language
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parents: 26133
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1055 environment, preferred coding system, and locale coding system from
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
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1056 the system locale as specified by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG
26525
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parents: 26467
diff changeset
1057 environment variables. Normally, it is invoked during startup and need
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
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parents: 26467
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1058 not be invoked thereafter. It uses the new variables
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
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parents: 26467
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1059 `locale-language-names', `locale-charset-language-names', and
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
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1060 `locale-preferred-coding-systems' to make its decisions.
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1061
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1062 +++
26107
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parents: 26096
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1063 ** syntax tables now understand nested comments.
5bdae485eb03 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 26096
diff changeset
1064 To declare a comment syntax as allowing nesting, just add an `n'
5bdae485eb03 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 26096
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1065 modifier to either of the characters of the comment end and the comment
5bdae485eb03 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 26096
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1066 start sequences.
5bdae485eb03 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 26096
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1067
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f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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1068 +++
25910
918acea58309 Add section for change of pixmap-spec-p to bitmap-spec-p.
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parents: 25862
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1069 ** The function `pixmap-spec-p' has been renamed `bitmap-spec-p'
918acea58309 Add section for change of pixmap-spec-p to bitmap-spec-p.
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parents: 25862
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1070 because `bitmap' is more in line with the usual X terminology.
918acea58309 Add section for change of pixmap-spec-p to bitmap-spec-p.
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parents: 25862
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1071
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f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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1072 +++
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1073 ** New function `propertize'
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1074
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1075 The new function `propertize' can be used to conveniently construct
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1076 strings with text properties.
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1077
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1078 - Function: propertize STRING &rest PROPERTIES
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1079
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1080 Value is a copy of STRING with text properties assigned as specified
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1081 by PROPERTIES. PROPERTIES is a sequence of pairs PROPERTY VALUE, with
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1082 PROPERTY being the name of a text property and VALUE being the
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1083 specified value of that property. Example:
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1084
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1085 (propertize "foo" 'face 'bold 'read-only t)
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1086
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1087 +++
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1088 ** push and pop macros.
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1089
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f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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diff changeset
1090 Simple versions of the push and pop macros of Common Lisp
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 27381
diff changeset
1091 are now defined in Emacs Lisp. These macros allow only symbols
25853
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1092 as the place that holds the list to be changed.
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1093
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1094 (push NEWELT LISTNAME) add NEWELT to the front of LISTNAME's value.
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1095 (pop LISTNAME) return first elt of LISTNAME, and remove it
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1096 (thus altering the value of LISTNAME).
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1097
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1098 ** New dolist and dotimes macros.
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1099
27387
d0a7127b33e5 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 27385
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1100 Simple versions of the dolist and dotimes macros of Common Lisp
d0a7127b33e5 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 27385
diff changeset
1101 are now defined in Emacs Lisp.
27385
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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1102
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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1103 (dolist (VAR LIST [RESULT]) BODY...)
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1104 Execute body once for each element of LIST,
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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diff changeset
1105 using the variable VAR to hold the current element.
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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1106 Then return the value of RESULT, or nil if RESULT is omitted.
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1107
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 27381
diff changeset
1108 (dotimes (VAR COUNT [RESULT]) BODY...)
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parents: 27381
diff changeset
1109 Execute BODY with VAR bound to successive integers running from 0,
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 27381
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1110 inclusive, to COUNT, exclusive.
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 27381
diff changeset
1111 Then return the value of RESULT, or nil if RESULT is omitted.
f7b7fdb0f3f4 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 27381
diff changeset
1112
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1113 +++
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1114 ** Regular expressions now support Posix character classes such
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parents:
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1115 as [:alpha:], [:space:] and so on.
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1116
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1117 [:digit:] matches 0 through 9
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parents:
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1118 [:cntrl:] matches ASCII control characters
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parents:
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1119 [:xdigit:] matches 0 through 9, a through f and A through F.
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parents:
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1120 [:blank:] matches space and tab only
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parents:
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1121 [:graph:] matches graphic characters--everything except ASCII control chars,
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parents:
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1122 space, and DEL.
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parents:
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1123 [:print:] matches printing characters--everything except ASCII control chars
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parents:
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1124 and DEL.
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parents:
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1125 [:alnum:] matches letters and digits.
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parents:
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1126 (But at present, for multibyte characters,
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parents:
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1127 it matches anything that has word syntax.)
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parents:
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1128 [:alpha:] matches letters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1129 (But at present, for multibyte characters,
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parents:
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1130 it matches anything that has word syntax.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1131 [:ascii:] matches ASCII (unibyte) characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1132 [:nonascii:] matches non-ASCII (multibyte) characters.
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parents:
diff changeset
1133 [:lower:] matches anything lower-case.
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parents:
diff changeset
1134 [:punct:] matches punctuation.
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parents:
diff changeset
1135 (But at present, for multibyte characters,
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parents:
diff changeset
1136 it matches anything that has non-word syntax.)
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parents:
diff changeset
1137 [:space:] matches anything that has whitespace syntax.
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parents:
diff changeset
1138 [:upper:] matches anything upper-case.
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parents:
diff changeset
1139 [:word:] matches anything that has word syntax.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1140
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1141 +++
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parents:
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1142 ** Emacs now has built-in hash tables.
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parents:
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1143
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1144 The following functions are defined for hash tables:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1146 - Function: make-hash-table ARGS
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1147
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1148 The argument list ARGS consists of keyword/argument pairs. All arguments
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parents:
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1149 are optional. The following arguments are defined:
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1150
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1151 :test TEST
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parents:
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1152
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1153 TEST must be a symbol specifying how to compare keys. Default is `eql'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1154 Predefined are `eq', `eql' and `equal'. If TEST is not predefined,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1155 it must have been defined with `define-hash-table-test'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1156
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1157 :size SIZE
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parents:
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1158
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1159 SIZE must be an integer > 0 giving a hint to the implementation how
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parents:
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1160 many elements will be put in the hash table. Default size is 65.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1161
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1162 :rehash-size REHASH-SIZE
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parents:
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1163
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1164 REHASH-SIZE specifies by how much to grow a hash table once it becomes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1165 full. If REHASH-SIZE is an integer, add that to the hash table's old
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1166 size to get the new size. Otherwise, REHASH-SIZE must be a float >
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1167 1.0, and the new size is computed by multiplying REHASH-SIZE with the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1168 old size. Default rehash size is 1.5.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1169
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1170 :rehash-threshold THRESHOLD
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parents:
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1171
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parents:
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1172 THRESHOLD must be a float > 0 and <= 1.0 specifying when to resize the
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parents:
diff changeset
1173 hash table. It is resized when the ratio of (number of entries) /
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parents:
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1174 (size of hash table) is >= THRESHOLD. Default threshold is 0.8.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1175
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parents:
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1176 :weakness WEAK
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1177
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1178 WEAK must be either nil, one of the symbols `key, `value', or t.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1179 Entries are removed from weak tables during garbage collection if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1180 their key and/or value are not referenced elsewhere outside of the
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parents:
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1181 hash table. Default are non-weak hash tables.
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parents:
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1182
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parents:
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1183 - Function: makehash &optional TEST
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parents:
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1184
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1185 Similar to make-hash-table, but only TEST can be specified.
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1186
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1187 - Function: hash-table-p TABLE
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parents:
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1188
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1189 Returns non-nil if TABLE is a hash table object.
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parents:
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1190
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1191 - Function: copy-hash-table TABLE
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1192
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1193 Returns a copy of TABLE. Only the table itself is copied, keys and
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1194 values are shared.
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1195
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1196 - Function: hash-table-count TABLE
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1197
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1198 Returns the number of entries in TABLE.
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1199
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1200 - Function: hash-table-rehash-size TABLE
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parents:
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1201
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parents:
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1202 Returns the rehash size of TABLE.
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1203
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parents:
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1204 - Function: hash-table-rehash-threshold TABLE
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parents:
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1205
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parents:
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1206 Returns the rehash threshold of TABLE.
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parents:
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1207
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parents:
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1208 - Function: hash-table-rehash-size TABLE
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parents:
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1209
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parents:
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1210 Returns the size of TABLE.
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parents:
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1211
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1212 - Function: hash-table-rehash-test TABLE
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parents:
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1213
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1214 Returns the test TABLE uses to compare keys.
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parents:
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1215
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1216 - Function: hash-table-weakness TABLE
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parents:
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1217
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1218 Returns the weakness specified for TABLE.
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parents:
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1219
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parents:
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1220 - Function: clrhash TABLE
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parents:
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1221
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parents:
diff changeset
1222 Clear TABLE.
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parents:
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1223
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parents:
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1224 - Function: gethash KEY TABLE &optional DEFAULT
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parents:
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1225
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parents:
diff changeset
1226 Look up KEY in TABLE and return its associated VALUE or DEFAULT if
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parents:
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1227 not found.
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parents:
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1228
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1229 - Function: puthash KEY VALUE TABLE
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1230
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1231 Associate KEY with VALUE in TABLE. If KEY is already associated with
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parents:
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1232 another value, replace the old value with VALUE.
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parents:
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1233
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parents:
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1234 - Function: remhash KEY TABLE
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parents:
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1235
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parents:
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1236 Remove KEY from TABLE if it is there.
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parents:
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1237
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parents:
diff changeset
1238 - Function: maphash FUNCTION TABLE
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parents:
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1239
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parents:
diff changeset
1240 Call FUNCTION for all elements in TABLE. FUNCTION must take two
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parents:
diff changeset
1241 arguments KEY and VALUE.
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parents:
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1242
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parents:
diff changeset
1243 - Function: sxhash OBJ
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parents:
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1244
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parents:
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1245 Return a hash code for Lisp object OBJ.
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parents:
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1246
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parents:
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1247 - Function: define-hash-table-test NAME TEST-FN HASH-FN
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parents:
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1248
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parents:
diff changeset
1249 Define a new hash table test named NAME. If NAME is specified as
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parents:
diff changeset
1250 a test in `make-hash-table', the table created will use TEST-FN for
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
1251 comparing keys, and HASH-FN to compute hash codes for keys. Test
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
1252 and hash function are stored as symbol property `hash-table-test'
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parents:
diff changeset
1253 of NAME with a value of (TEST-FN HASH-FN).
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parents:
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1254
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1255 TEST-FN must take two arguments and return non-nil if they are the same.
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parents:
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1256
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diff changeset
1257 HASH-FN must take one argument and return an integer that is the hash
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parents:
diff changeset
1258 code of the argument. The function should use the whole range of
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parents:
diff changeset
1259 integer values for hash code computation, including negative integers.
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parents:
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1260
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parents:
diff changeset
1261 Example: The following creates a hash table whose keys are supposed to
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parents:
diff changeset
1262 be strings that are compared case-insensitively.
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parents:
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1263
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parents:
diff changeset
1264 (defun case-fold-string= (a b)
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parents:
diff changeset
1265 (compare-strings a nil nil b nil nil t))
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parents:
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1266
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parents:
diff changeset
1267 (defun case-fold-string-hash (a)
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parents:
diff changeset
1268 (sxhash (upcase a)))
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parents:
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1269
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1270 (define-hash-table-test 'case-fold 'case-fold-string=
25853
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1271 'case-fold-string-hash))
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parents:
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1272
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parents:
diff changeset
1273 (make-hash-table :test 'case-fold)
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parents:
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1274
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parents:
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1275 +++
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parents:
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1276 ** The Lisp reader handles circular structure.
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1277
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1278 It now works to use the #N= and #N# constructs to represent
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parents:
diff changeset
1279 circular structures. For example, #1=(a . #1#) represents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1280 a cons cell which is its own cdr.
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parents:
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1281
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1282 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1283 ** The Lisp printer handles circular structure.
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parents:
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1284
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1285 If you bind print-circle to a non-nil value, the Lisp printer outputs
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parents:
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1286 #N= and #N# constructs to represent circular and shared structure.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1287
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parents:
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1288 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1289 ** If the second argument to `move-to-column' is anything but nil or
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parents:
diff changeset
1290 t, that means replace a tab with spaces if necessary to reach the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1291 specified column, but do not add spaces at the end of the line if it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1292 is too short to reach that column.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1293
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parents:
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1294 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1295 ** perform-replace has a new feature: the REPLACEMENTS argument may
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1296 now be a cons cell (FUNCTION . DATA). This means to call FUNCTION
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1297 after each match to get the replacement text. FUNCTION is called with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1298 two arguments: DATA, and the number of replacements already made.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1299
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1300 If the FROM-STRING contains any upper-case letters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1301 perform-replace also turns off `case-fold-search' temporarily
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1302 and inserts the replacement text without altering case in it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1303
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1304 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1305 ** The function buffer-size now accepts an optional argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1306 to specify which buffer to return the size of.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1307
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1308 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1309 ** The calendar motion commands now run the normal hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1310 calendar-move-hook after moving point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1311
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parents:
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1312 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1313 ** The new variable small-temporary-file-directory specifies a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1314 directory to use for creating temporary files that are likely to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1315 small. (Certain Emacs features use this directory.) If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1316 small-temporary-file-directory is nil, they use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1317 temporary-file-directory instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1318
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1319 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1320 ** The variable `inhibit-modification-hooks', if non-nil, inhibits all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1321 the hooks that track changes in the buffer. This affects
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1322 `before-change-functions' and `after-change-functions', as well as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1323 hooks attached to text properties and overlay properties.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1324
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parents:
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1325 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1326 ** assoc-delete-all is a new function that deletes all the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1327 elements of an alist which have a particular value as the car.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1328
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1329 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1330 ** make-temp-file provides a more reliable way to create a temporary file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1331
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1332 make-temp-file is used like make-temp-name, except that it actually
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1333 creates the file before it returns. This prevents a timing error,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1334 ensuring that no other job can use the same name for a temporary file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1335
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1336 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1337 ** New exclusive-open feature in `write-region'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1338
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parents:
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1339 The optional seventh arg is now called MUSTBENEW. If non-nil, it insists
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parents:
diff changeset
1340 on a check for an existing file with the same name. If MUSTBENEW
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1341 is `excl', that means to get an error if the file already exists;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1342 never overwrite. If MUSTBENEW is neither nil nor `excl', that means
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1343 ask for confirmation before overwriting, but do go ahead and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1344 overwrite the file if the user gives confirmation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1345
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parents:
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1346 If the MUSTBENEW argument in `write-region' is `excl',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1347 that means to use a special feature in the `open' system call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1348 to get an error if the file exists at that time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1349 The error reported is `file-already-exists'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1350
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1351 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1352 ** Function `format' now handles text properties.
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parents:
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1353
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1354 Text properties of the format string are applied to the result string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1355 If the result string is longer than the format string, text properties
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1356 ending at the end of the format string are extended to the end of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1357 result string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1358
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1359 Text properties from string arguments are applied to the result
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1360 string where arguments appear in the result string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1361
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1362 Example:
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parents:
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1363
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1364 (let ((s1 "hello, %s")
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parents:
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1365 (s2 "world"))
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parents:
diff changeset
1366 (put-text-property 0 (length s1) 'face 'bold s1)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1367 (put-text-property 0 (length s2) 'face 'italic s2)
26034
e7b463705814 Some typos fixed.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26030
diff changeset
1368 (format s1 s2))
25853
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parents:
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1369
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1370 results in a bold-face string with an italic `world' at the end.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1371
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1372 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1373 ** Messages can now be displayed with text properties.
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parents:
diff changeset
1374
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1375 Text properties are handled as described above for function `format'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1376 The following example displays a bold-face message with an italic
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parents:
diff changeset
1377 argument in it.
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parents:
diff changeset
1378
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parents:
diff changeset
1379 (let ((msg "hello, %s!")
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parents:
diff changeset
1380 (arg "world"))
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parents:
diff changeset
1381 (put-text-property 0 (length msg) 'face 'bold msg)
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parents:
diff changeset
1382 (put-text-property 0 (length arg) 'face 'italic arg)
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parents:
diff changeset
1383 (message msg arg))
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parents:
diff changeset
1384
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parents:
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1385 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1386 ** Sound support
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parents:
diff changeset
1387
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1388 Emacs supports playing sound files on GNU/Linux and the free BSDs
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parents:
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1389 (Voxware driver and native BSD driver, aka as Luigi's driver).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1390
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parents:
diff changeset
1391 Currently supported file formats are RIFF-WAVE (*.wav) and Sun Audio
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parents:
diff changeset
1392 (*.au). You must configure Emacs with the option `--with-sound=yes'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1393 to enable sound support.
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parents:
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1394
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parents:
diff changeset
1395 Sound files can be played by calling (play-sound SOUND). SOUND is a
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parents:
diff changeset
1396 list of the form `(sound PROPERTY...)'. The function is only defined
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parents:
diff changeset
1397 when sound support is present for the system on which Emacs runs. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1398 functions runs `play-sound-functions' with one argument which is the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1399 sound to play, before playing the sound.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1400
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parents:
diff changeset
1401 The following sound properties are supported:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1402
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parents:
diff changeset
1403 - `:file FILE'
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parents:
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1404
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parents:
diff changeset
1405 FILE is a file name. If FILE isn't an absolute name, it will be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1406 searched relative to `data-directory'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1407
27148
929f111a6823 Sound with :data.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27145
diff changeset
1408 - `:data DATA'
929f111a6823 Sound with :data.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27145
diff changeset
1409
929f111a6823 Sound with :data.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27145
diff changeset
1410 DATA is a string containing sound data. Either :file or :data
929f111a6823 Sound with :data.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27145
diff changeset
1411 may be present, but not both.
929f111a6823 Sound with :data.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27145
diff changeset
1412
25853
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parents:
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1413 - `:volume VOLUME'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1414
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parents:
diff changeset
1415 VOLUME must be an integer in the range 0..100 or a float in the range
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parents:
diff changeset
1416 0..1. This property is optional.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1417
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parents:
diff changeset
1418 Other properties are ignored.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1419
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parents:
diff changeset
1420 ** `multimedia' is a new Finder keyword and Custom group.
26933
73340d009a9f keywordp.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26924
diff changeset
1421
73340d009a9f keywordp.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26924
diff changeset
1422 ** keywordp is a new predicate to test efficiently for an object being
73340d009a9f keywordp.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26924
diff changeset
1423 a keyword symbol.
27145
01abacc81cce Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27144
diff changeset
1424
01abacc81cce Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27144
diff changeset
1425 ** Changes to garbage collection
01abacc81cce Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27144
diff changeset
1426
01abacc81cce Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27144
diff changeset
1427 *** The function garbage-collect now additionally returns the number
01abacc81cce Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27144
diff changeset
1428 of live and free strings.
01abacc81cce Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27144
diff changeset
1429
01abacc81cce Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27144
diff changeset
1430 *** There is a new variable `strings-consed' holding the number of
01abacc81cce Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27144
diff changeset
1431 strings that have been consed so far.
01abacc81cce Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27144
diff changeset
1432
25853
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diff changeset
1433
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parents:
diff changeset
1434 * New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1
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parents:
diff changeset
1435
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1436 Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1437 --- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1438 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1439 so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1440
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parents:
diff changeset
1441 ** New face implementation.
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parents:
diff changeset
1442
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1443 Emacs faces have been reimplemented from scratch. They don't use XLFD
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1444 font names anymore and face merging now works as expected.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1445
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1446 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1447 *** New faces.
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parents:
diff changeset
1448
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parents:
diff changeset
1449 Each face can specify the following display attributes:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1450
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1451 1. Font family or fontset alias name.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
1452
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parents:
diff changeset
1453 2. Relative proportionate width, aka character set width or set
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parents:
diff changeset
1454 width (swidth), e.g. `semi-compressed'.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
1455
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parents:
diff changeset
1456 3. Font height in 1/10pt
26264
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parents: 26171
diff changeset
1457
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parents:
diff changeset
1458 4. Font weight, e.g. `bold'.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
1459
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
1460 5. Font slant, e.g. `italic'.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
1461
25853
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diff changeset
1462 6. Foreground color.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
1463
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diff changeset
1464 7. Background color.
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parents:
diff changeset
1465
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parents:
diff changeset
1466 8. Whether or not characters should be underlined, and in what color.
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parents:
diff changeset
1467
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parents:
diff changeset
1468 9. Whether or not characters should be displayed in inverse video.
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parents:
diff changeset
1469
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parents:
diff changeset
1470 10. A background stipple, a bitmap.
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parents:
diff changeset
1471
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parents:
diff changeset
1472 11. Whether or not characters should be overlined, and in what color.
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parents:
diff changeset
1473
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parents:
diff changeset
1474 12. Whether or not characters should be strike-through, and in what
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1475 color.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1476
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parents:
diff changeset
1477 13. Whether or not a box should be drawn around characters, its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1478 color, the width of the box lines, and 3D appearance.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1479
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parents:
diff changeset
1480 Faces are frame-local by nature because Emacs allows to define the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1481 same named face (face names are symbols) differently for different
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parents:
diff changeset
1482 frames. Each frame has an alist of face definitions for all named
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parents:
diff changeset
1483 faces. The value of a named face in such an alist is a Lisp vector
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parents:
diff changeset
1484 with the symbol `face' in slot 0, and a slot for each each of the face
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parents:
diff changeset
1485 attributes mentioned above.
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parents:
diff changeset
1486
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parents:
diff changeset
1487 There is also a global face alist `face-new-frame-defaults'. Face
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parents:
diff changeset
1488 definitions from this list are used to initialize faces of newly
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parents:
diff changeset
1489 created frames.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
1490
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
1491 A face doesn't have to specify all attributes. Those not specified
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parents:
diff changeset
1492 have a nil value. Faces specifying all attributes are called
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parents:
diff changeset
1493 `fully-specified'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1494
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parents:
diff changeset
1495 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1496 *** Face merging.
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parents:
diff changeset
1497
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1498 The display style of a given character in the text is determined by
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parents:
diff changeset
1499 combining several faces. This process is called `face merging'. Any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1500 aspect of the display style that isn't specified by overlays or text
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1501 properties is taken from the `default' face. Since it is made sure
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parents:
diff changeset
1502 that the default face is always fully-specified, face merging always
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parents:
diff changeset
1503 results in a fully-specified face.
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parents:
diff changeset
1504
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parents:
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1505 +++
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1506 *** Face realization.
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1507
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1508 After all face attributes for a character have been determined by
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1509 merging faces of that character, that face is `realized'. The
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parents:
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1510 realization process maps face attributes to what is physically
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1511 available on the system where Emacs runs. The result is a `realized
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1512 face' in form of an internal structure which is stored in the face
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1513 cache of the frame on which it was realized.
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1514
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1515 Face realization is done in the context of the charset of the
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parents:
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1516 character to display because different fonts and encodings are used
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parents:
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1517 for different charsets. In other words, for characters of different
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parents:
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1518 charsets, different realized faces are needed to display them.
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parents:
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1519
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1520 Except for composite characters, faces are always realized for a
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1521 specific character set and contain a specific font, even if the face
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1522 being realized specifies a fontset. The reason is that the result of
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parents:
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1523 the new font selection stage is better than what can be done with
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1524 statically defined font name patterns in fontsets.
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parents:
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1525
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1526 In unibyte text, Emacs' charsets aren't applicable; function
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parents:
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1527 `char-charset' reports ASCII for all characters, including those >
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parents:
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1528 0x7f. The X registry and encoding of fonts to use is determined from
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parents:
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1529 the variable `face-default-registry' in this case. The variable is
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parents:
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1530 initialized at Emacs startup time from the font the user specified for
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parents:
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1531 Emacs.
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parents:
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1532
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1533 Currently all unibyte text, i.e. all buffers with
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parents:
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1534 `enable-multibyte-characters' nil are displayed with fonts of the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1535 registry and encoding `face-default-registry'. This is consistent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1536 with the fact that languages can also be set globally, only.
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parents:
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1537
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parents:
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1538 ++++
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parents:
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1539 **** Clearing face caches.
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parents:
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1540
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parents:
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1541 The Lisp function `clear-face-cache' can be called to clear face caches
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parents:
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1542 on all frames. If called with a non-nil argument, it will also unload
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1543 unused fonts.
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parents:
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1544
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parents:
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1545 +++
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parents:
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1546 *** Font selection.
26264
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parents: 26171
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1547
25853
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1548 Font selection tries to find the best available matching font for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1549 given (charset, face) combination. This is done slightly differently
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parents:
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1550 for faces specifying a fontset, or a font family name.
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1551
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1552 If the face specifies a fontset name, that fontset determines a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1553 pattern for fonts of the given charset. If the face specifies a font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1554 family, a font pattern is constructed. Charset symbols have a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1555 property `x-charset-registry' for that purpose that maps a charset to
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parents:
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1556 an XLFD registry and encoding in the font pattern constructed.
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parents:
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1557
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1558 Available fonts on the system on which Emacs runs are then matched
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parents:
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1559 against the font pattern. The result of font selection is the best
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parents:
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1560 match for the given face attributes in this font list.
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1561
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1562 Font selection can be influenced by the user.
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1563
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parents:
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1564 The user can specify the relative importance he gives the face
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parents:
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1565 attributes width, height, weight, and slant by setting
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1566 face-font-selection-order (faces.el) to a list of face attribute
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parents:
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1567 names. The default is (:width :height :weight :slant), and means
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1568 that font selection first tries to find a good match for the font
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parents:
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1569 width specified by a face, then---within fonts with that width---tries
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1570 to find a best match for the specified font height, etc.
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1571
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1572 Setting `face-alternative-font-family-alist' allows the user to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1573 specify alternative font families to try if a family specified by a
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parents:
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1574 face doesn't exist.
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parents:
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1575
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1576 +++
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parents:
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1577 **** Scalable fonts
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parents:
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1578
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parents:
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1579 Emacs can make use of scalable fonts but doesn't do so by default,
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parents:
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1580 since the use of too many or too big scalable fonts may crash XFree86
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1581 servers.
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parents:
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1582
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1583 To enable scalable font use, set the variable
26034
e7b463705814 Some typos fixed.
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parents: 26030
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1584 `scalable-fonts-allowed'. A value of nil, the default, means never use
25853
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1585 scalable fonts. A value of t means any scalable font may be used.
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parents:
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1586 Otherwise, the value must be a list of regular expressions. A
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parents:
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1587 scalable font may then be used if it matches a regular expression from
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parents:
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1588 that list. Example:
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parents:
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1589
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parents:
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1590 (setq scalable-fonts-allowed '("muleindian-2$"))
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1591
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1592 allows the use of scalable fonts with registry `muleindian-2'.
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1593
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parents:
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1594 +++
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1595 *** Functions and variables related to font selection.
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1596
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1597 - Function: x-family-fonts &optional FAMILY FRAME
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1598
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1599 Return a list of available fonts of family FAMILY on FRAME. If FAMILY
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1600 is omitted or nil, list all families. Otherwise, FAMILY must be a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1601 string, possibly containing wildcards `?' and `*'.
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parents:
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1602
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1603 If FRAME is omitted or nil, use the selected frame. Each element of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1604 the result is a vector [FAMILY WIDTH POINT-SIZE WEIGHT SLANT FIXED-P
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1605 FULL REGISTRY-AND-ENCODING]. FAMILY is the font family name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1606 POINT-SIZE is the size of the font in 1/10 pt. WIDTH, WEIGHT, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1607 SLANT are symbols describing the width, weight and slant of the font.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1608 These symbols are the same as for face attributes. FIXED-P is non-nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1609 if the font is fixed-pitch. FULL is the full name of the font, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1610 REGISTRY-AND-ENCODING is a string giving the registry and encoding of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1611 the font. The result list is sorted according to the current setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1612 of the face font sort order.
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parents:
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1613
26264
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1614 - Function: x-font-family-list
25853
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1615
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1616 Return a list of available font families on FRAME. If FRAME is
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parents:
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1617 omitted or nil, use the selected frame. Value is a list of conses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1618 (FAMILY . FIXED-P) where FAMILY is a font family, and FIXED-P is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1619 non-nil if fonts of that family are fixed-pitch.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1620
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1621 - Variable: font-list-limit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1622
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1623 Limit for font matching. If an integer > 0, font matching functions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1624 won't load more than that number of fonts when searching for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1625 matching font. The default is currently 100.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1626
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parents:
diff changeset
1627 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1628 *** Setting face attributes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1629
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1630 For the most part, the new face implementation is interface-compatible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1631 with the old one. Old face attribute related functions are now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1632 implemented in terms of the new functions `set-face-attribute' and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1633 `face-attribute'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1634
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parents:
diff changeset
1635 Face attributes are identified by their names which are keyword
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1636 symbols. All attributes can be set to `unspecified'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1637
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parents:
diff changeset
1638 The following attributes are recognized:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1639
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parents:
diff changeset
1640 `:family'
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parents:
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1641
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parents:
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1642 VALUE must be a string specifying the font family, e.g. ``courier'',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1643 or a fontset alias name. If a font family is specified, wild-cards `*'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1644 and `?' are allowed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1645
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1646 `:width'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1647
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parents:
diff changeset
1648 VALUE specifies the relative proportionate width of the font to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1649 It must be one of the symbols `ultra-condensed', `extra-condensed',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1650 `condensed', `semi-condensed', `normal', `semi-expanded', `expanded',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1651 `extra-expanded', or `ultra-expanded'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1652
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1653 `:height'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1654
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1655 VALUE must be an integer specifying the height of the font to use in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1656 1/10 pt.
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parents:
diff changeset
1657
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1658 `:weight'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1659
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1660 VALUE specifies the weight of the font to use. It must be one of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1661 symbols `ultra-bold', `extra-bold', `bold', `semi-bold', `normal',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1662 `semi-light', `light', `extra-light', `ultra-light'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1663
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1664 `:slant'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1665
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1666 VALUE specifies the slant of the font to use. It must be one of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1667 symbols `italic', `oblique', `normal', `reverse-italic', or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1668 `reverse-oblique'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1669
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1670 `:foreground', `:background'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1671
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1672 VALUE must be a color name, a string.
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parents:
diff changeset
1673
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1674 `:underline'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1675
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1676 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should be underlined. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1677 VALUE is t, underline with foreground color of the face. If VALUE is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1678 a string, underline with that color. If VALUE is nil, explicitly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1679 don't underline.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1680
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1681 `:overline'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1682
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1683 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should be overlined. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1684 VALUE is t, overline with foreground color of the face. If VALUE is a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1685 string, overline with that color. If VALUE is nil, explicitly don't
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1686 overline.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1687
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1688 `:strike-through'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1689
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1690 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should be drawn with a line
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1691 striking through them. If VALUE is t, use the foreground color of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1692 face. If VALUE is a string, strike-through with that color. If VALUE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1693 is nil, explicitly don't strike through.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1694
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1695 `:box'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1696
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1697 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should have a box drawn
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1698 around them. If VALUE is nil, explicitly don't draw boxes. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1699 VALUE is t, draw a box with lines of width 1 in the foreground color
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1700 of the face. If VALUE is a string, the string must be a color name,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1701 and the box is drawn in that color with a line width of 1. Otherwise,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1702 VALUE must be a property list of the form `(:line-width WIDTH
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1703 :color COLOR :style STYLE)'. If a keyword/value pair is missing from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1704 the property list, a default value will be used for the value, as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1705 specified below. WIDTH specifies the width of the lines to draw; it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1706 defaults to 1. COLOR is the name of the color to draw in, default is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1707 the foreground color of the face for simple boxes, and the background
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1708 color of the face for 3D boxes. STYLE specifies whether a 3D box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1709 should be draw. If STYLE is `released-button', draw a box looking
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1710 like a released 3D button. If STYLE is `pressed-button' draw a box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1711 that appears like a pressed button. If STYLE is nil, the default if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1712 the property list doesn't contain a style specification, draw a 2D
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1713 box.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1714
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1715 `:inverse-video'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1716
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parents:
diff changeset
1717 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should be displayed in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1718 inverse video. VALUE must be one of t or nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1719
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1720 `:stipple'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1722 If VALUE is a string, it must be the name of a file of pixmap data.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1723 The directories listed in the `x-bitmap-file-path' variable are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1724 searched. Alternatively, VALUE may be a list of the form (WIDTH
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1725 HEIGHT DATA) where WIDTH and HEIGHT are the size in pixels, and DATA
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1726 is a string containing the raw bits of the bitmap. VALUE nil means
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1727 explicitly don't use a stipple pattern.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1728
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1729 For convenience, attributes `:family', `:width', `:height', `:weight',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1730 and `:slant' may also be set in one step from an X font name:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1731
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1732 `:font'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1733
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1734 Set font-related face attributes from VALUE. VALUE must be a valid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1735 XLFD font name. If it is a font name pattern, the first matching font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1736 is used--this is for compatibility with the behavior of previous
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1737 versions of Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1738
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parents:
diff changeset
1739 For compatibility with Emacs 20, keywords `:bold' and `:italic' can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1740 be used to specify that a bold or italic font should be used. VALUE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1741 must be t or nil in that case. A value of `unspecified' is not allowed."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1742
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parents:
diff changeset
1743 Please see also the documentation of `set-face-attribute' and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1744 `defface'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1745
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1746 *** Face attributes and X resources
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1747
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parents:
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1748 The following X resource names can be used to set face attributes
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1749 from X resources:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1750
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1751 Face attribute X resource class
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parents:
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1752 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1753 :family attributeFamily . Face.AttributeFamily
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parents:
diff changeset
1754 :width attributeWidth Face.AttributeWidth
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parents:
diff changeset
1755 :height attributeHeight Face.AttributeHeight
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1756 :weight attributeWeight Face.AttributeWeight
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1757 :slant attributeSlant Face.AttributeSlant
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1758 foreground attributeForeground Face.AttributeForeground
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parents:
diff changeset
1759 :background attributeBackground . Face.AttributeBackground
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1760 :overline attributeOverline Face.AttributeOverline
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1761 :strike-through attributeStrikeThrough Face.AttributeStrikeThrough
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1762 :box attributeBox Face.AttributeBox
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1763 :underline attributeUnderline Face.AttributeUnderline
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1764 :inverse-video attributeInverse Face.AttributeInverse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1765 :stipple attributeStipple Face.AttributeStipple
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Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
1766 or attributeBackgroundPixmap
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parents:
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1767 Face.AttributeBackgroundPixmap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1768 :font attributeFont Face.AttributeFont
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1769 :bold attributeBold Face.AttributeBold
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1770 :italic attributeItalic . Face.AttributeItalic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1771 :font attributeFont Face.AttributeFont
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1772
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1773 +++
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parents:
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1774 *** Text property `face'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1775
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1776 The value of the `face' text property can now be a single face
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1777 specification or a list of such specifications. Each face
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1778 specification can be
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parents:
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1779
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1780 1. A symbol or string naming a Lisp face.
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parents:
diff changeset
1781
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parents:
diff changeset
1782 2. A property list of the form (KEYWORD VALUE ...) where each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1783 KEYWORD is a face attribute name, and VALUE is an appropriate value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1784 for that attribute. Please see the doc string of `set-face-attribute'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1785 for face attribute names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1786
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1787 3. Conses of the form (FOREGROUND-COLOR . COLOR) or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1788 (BACKGROUND-COLOR . COLOR) where COLOR is a color name. This is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1789 for compatibility with previous Emacs versions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1790
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1791 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1792 ** Support functions for colors on text-only terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1793
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parents: 27076
diff changeset
1794 The function `tty-color-define' can be used to define colors for use
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1795 on TTY and MSDOS frames. It maps a color name to a color number on
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1796 the terminal. Emacs defines a couple of common color mappings by
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1797 default. You can get defined colors with a call to
27092
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1798 `defined-colors'. The function `tty-color-clear' can be
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1799 used to clear the mapping table.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1800
27092
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parents: 27076
diff changeset
1801 ** Unified support for colors independent of frame type.
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
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parents: 27076
diff changeset
1802
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1803 The new functions `defined-colors', `color-defined-p', `color-values',
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1804 and `display-color-p' work for any type of frame. On frames whose
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1805 type is neither x nor w32, these functions transparently map X-style
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1806 color specifications to the closest colors supported by the frame
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1807 display. Lisp programs should use these new functions instead of the
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1808 old `x-defined-colors', `x-color-defined-p', `x-color-values', and
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1809 `x-display-color-p'. (The old function names are still available for
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1810 compatibility; they are now aliases of the new names.) Lisp programs
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1811 should no more look at the value of the variable window-system to
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1812 modify their color-related behavior.
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1813
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1814 The primitives `color-gray-p' and `color-supported-p' also work for
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1815 any frame type.
60f5b0f50db9 Document the unified frame-independent support for colors and faces.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27076
diff changeset
1816
27573
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1817 ** Platform-independent functions to describe display capabilities.
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1818
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1819 The new functions `display-mouse-p', `display-popup-menus-p',
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1820 `display-graphic-p', `display-selections-p', `display-screens',
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1821 `display-pixel-width', `display-pixel-height', `display-mm-width',
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1822 `display-mm-height', `display-backing-store', `display-save-under',
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1823 `display-planes', `display-color-cells', `display-visual-class', and
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1824 `display-grayscale-p' describe the basic capabilities of a particular
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1825 display. Lisp programs should call these functions instead of testing
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1826 the value of the variables `window-system' or `system-type', or calling
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1827 platform-specific functions such as `x-display-pixel-width'.
32f4457e5501 Document functions which return display capabilities.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27533
diff changeset
1828
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parents:
diff changeset
1829 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1830 ** The minibuffer prompt is now actually inserted in the minibuffer.
26062
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1831
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1832 This makes it possible to scroll through the prompt, if you want to.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1833
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1834 The function minubuffer-prompt-end returns the current position of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1835 end of the minibuffer prompt, if the minibuffer is current.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1836 Otherwise, it returns zero.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1837
26062
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1838 ** New `field' abstraction in buffers.
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1839
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1840 There is now code to support an abstraction called `fields' in emacs
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1841 buffers. A field is a contiguous region of text with the same `field'
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1842 text-property.
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1843
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1844 Many emacs functions, such as forward-word, forward-sentence,
26062
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1845 forward-paragraph, beginning-of-line, etc., stop moving when they come
26300
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1846 to the boundary between fields; beginning-of-line and end-of-line will
26062
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1847 not let the point move past the field boundary, but other movement
27144
46becbc67703 inhibit-field-text-motion
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27136
diff changeset
1848 commands continue into the next field if repeated. Stopping at field
46becbc67703 inhibit-field-text-motion
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27136
diff changeset
1849 boundaries can be suppressed programmatically by binding
46becbc67703 inhibit-field-text-motion
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27136
diff changeset
1850 `inhibit-field-text-motion' to a non-nil value around calls to these
46becbc67703 inhibit-field-text-motion
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27136
diff changeset
1851 functions.
26062
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1852
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1853 Now that the minibuffer prompt is inserted into the minibuffer, it is in
26300
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1854 a separate field from the user-input part of the buffer, so that common
26062
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1855 editing commands treat the user's text separately from the prompt.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1856
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1857 The following functions are defined for operating on fields:
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1858
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1859 - Function: constrain-to-field NEW-POS OLD-POS &optional ESCAPE-FROM-EDGE ONLY-IN-LINE
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1860
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1861 Return the position closest to NEW-POS that is in the same field as OLD-POS.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1862 A field is a region of text with the same `field' property.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1863 If NEW-POS is nil, then the current point is used instead, and set to the
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1864 constrained position if that is is different.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1865
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1866 If OLD-POS is at the boundary of two fields, then the allowable
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1867 positions for NEW-POS depends on the value of the optional argument
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1868 ESCAPE-FROM-EDGE: If ESCAPE-FROM-EDGE is nil, then NEW-POS is
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1869 constrained to the field that has the same `field' text-property
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1870 as any new characters inserted at OLD-POS, whereas if ESCAPE-FROM-EDGE
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1871 is non-nil, NEW-POS is constrained to the union of the two adjacent
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1872 fields.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1873
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1874 If the optional argument ONLY-IN-LINE is non-nil and constraining
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1875 NEW-POS would move it to a different line, NEW-POS is returned
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1876 unconstrained. This useful for commands that move by line, like
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1877 C-n or C-a, which should generally respect field boundaries
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1878 only in the case where they can still move to the right line.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1879
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1880 - Function: erase-field &optional POS
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1881
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1882 Erases the field surrounding POS.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1883 A field is a region of text with the same `field' property.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1884 If POS is nil, the position of the current buffer's point is used.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1885
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1886 - Function: field-beginning &optional POS ESCAPE-FROM-EDGE
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1887
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1888 Return the beginning of the field surrounding POS.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1889 A field is a region of text with the same `field' property.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1890 If POS is nil, the position of the current buffer's point is used.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1891 If ESCAPE-FROM-EDGE is non-nil and POS is already at beginning of an
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1892 field, then the beginning of the *previous* field is returned.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1893
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1894 - Function: field-end &optional POS ESCAPE-FROM-EDGE
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1895
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1896 Return the end of the field surrounding POS.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1897 A field is a region of text with the same `field' property.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1898 If POS is nil, the position of the current buffer's point is used.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1899 If ESCAPE-FROM-EDGE is non-nil and POS is already at end of a field,
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1900 then the end of the *following* field is returned.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1901
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1902 - Function: field-string &optional POS
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1903
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1904 Return the contents of the field surrounding POS as a string.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
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1905 A field is a region of text with the same `field' property.
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1906 If POS is nil, the position of the current buffer's point is used.
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1907
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1908 - Function: field-string-no-properties &optional POS
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1909
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1910 Return the contents of the field around POS, without text-properties.
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1911 A field is a region of text with the same `field' property.
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1912 If POS is nil, the position of the current buffer's point is used.
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1913
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1914 +++
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1915 ** Image support.
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1916
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1917 Emacs can now display images. Images are inserted into text by giving
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1918 strings or buffer text a `display' text property containing one of
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1919 (AREA IMAGE) or IMAGE. The display of the `display' property value
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1920 replaces the display of the characters having that property.
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1921
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1922 If the property value has the form (AREA IMAGE), AREA must be one of
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1923 `(margin left-margin)', `(margin right-margin)' or `(margin nil)'. If
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1924 AREA is `(margin nil)', IMAGE will be displayed in the text area of a
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1925 window, otherwise it will be displayed in the left or right marginal
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1926 area.
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1927
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1928 IMAGE is an image specification.
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1929
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1930 *** Image specifications
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1931
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1932 Image specifications are lists of the form `(image PROPS)' where PROPS
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1933 is a property list whose keys are keyword symbols. Each
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1934 specifications must contain a property `:type TYPE' with TYPE being a
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1935 symbol specifying the image type, e.g. `xbm'. Properties not
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1936 described below are ignored.
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1937
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1938 The following is a list of properties all image types share.
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1939
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1940 `:ascent ASCENT'
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1941
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1942 ASCENT must be a number in the range 0..100, and specifies the percentage
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1943 of the image's height to use for its ascent. Default is 50.
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1944
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1945 `:margin MARGIN'
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1946
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1947 MARGIN must be a number >= 0 specifying how many pixels to put as
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1948 margin around the image. Default is 0.
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1949
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1950 `:relief RELIEF'
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1951
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1952 RELIEF is analogous to the `:relief' attribute of faces. Puts a relief
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1953 around an image.
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1954
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1955 `:algorithm ALGO'
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1956
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1957 Apply an image algorithm to the image before displaying it. ALGO must
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1958 be a symbol specifying the algorithm. Currently only `laplace' is
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1959 supported which applies a Laplace edge detection algorithm to an image
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1960 which is intended to display images "disabled."
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1961
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1962 `:heuristic-mask BG'
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1963
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1964 If BG is not nil, build a clipping mask for the image, so that the
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1965 background of a frame is visible behind the image. If BG is t,
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1966 determine the background color of the image by looking at the 4
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1967 corners of the image, assuming the most frequently occuring color from
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1968 the corners is the background color of the image. Otherwise, BG must
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1969 be a list `(RED GREEN BLUE)' specifying the color to assume for the
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1970 background of the image.
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1971
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1972 `:file FILE'
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1973
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1974 Load image from FILE. If FILE is not absolute after expanding it,
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1975 search for the image in `data-directory'. Some image types support
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1976 building images from data. When this is done, no `:file' property
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1977 may be present in the image specification.
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1978
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1979 `:data DATA'
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1980
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1981 Get image data from DATA. (As of this writing, this is not yet
40c18bc759e9 Change description of :data for images.
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1982 supported for image type `postscript'). Either :file or :data may be
40c18bc759e9 Change description of :data for images.
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1983 present in an image specification, but not both. All image types
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1984 support strings as DATA, some types allow additional types of DATA.
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1985
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1986 *** Supported image types
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1987
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1988 **** XBM, image type `xbm'.
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1989
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1990 XBM images don't require an external library. Additional image
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1991 properties supported are
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1992
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1993 `:foreground FG'
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1994
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1995 FG must be a string specifying the image foreground color. Default
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1996 is the frame's foreground.
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1997
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1998 `:background FG'
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1999
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2000 BG must be a string specifying the image foreground color. Default is
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2001 the frame's background color.
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2002
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2003 XBM images can be constructed from data instead of file. In this
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2004 case, the image specification must contain the following properties
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2005 instead of a `:file' property.
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2006
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2007 `:width WIDTH'
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2008
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2009 WIDTH specifies the width of the image in pixels.
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2010
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2011 `:height HEIGHT'
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2012
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2013 HEIGHT specifies the height of the image in pixels.
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2014
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2015 `:data DATA'
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2016
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2017 DATA must be either
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2018
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2019 1. a string large enough to hold the bitmap data, i.e. it must
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2020 have a size >= (WIDTH + 7) / 8 * HEIGHT
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2021
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2022 2. a bool-vector of size >= WIDTH * HEIGHT
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2023
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2024 3. a vector of strings or bool-vectors, one for each line of the
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2025 bitmap.
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2026
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2027 **** XPM, image type `xpm'
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2028
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2029 XPM images require the external library `libXpm', package
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2030 `xpm-3.4k.tar.gz', version 3.4k or later. Make sure the library is
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2031 found when Emacs is configured by supplying appropriate paths via
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2032 `--x-includes' and `--x-libraries'.
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2033
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2034 Additional image properties supported are:
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2035
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2036 `:color-symbols SYMBOLS'
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2037
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2038 SYMBOLS must be a list of pairs (NAME . COLOR), with NAME being the
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2039 name of color as it appears in an XPM file, and COLOR being an X color
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2040 name.
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2041
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2042 XPM images can be built from memory instead of files. In that case,
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2043 add a `:data' property instead of a `:file' property.
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2044
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2045 The XPM library uses libz in its implementation so that it is able
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2046 to display compressed images.
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2047
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2048 **** PBM, image type `pbm'
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2049
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2050 PBM images don't require an external library. Color, gray-scale and
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2051 mono images are supported. There are no additional image properties
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2052 defined.
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2053
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2054 **** JPEG, image type `jpeg'
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2055
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2056 Support for JPEG images requires the external library `libjpeg',
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2057 package `jpegsrc.v6a.tar.gz', or later. Additional image properties
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2058 are:
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2059
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2060 **** TIFF, image type `tiff'
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2061
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2062 Support for TIFF images requires the external library `libtiff',
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2063 package `tiff-v3.4-tar.gz', or later. There are no additional image
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2064 properties defined.
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2065
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2066 **** GIF, image type `gif'
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2067
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2068 Support for GIF images requires the external library `libungif', package
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2069 `libungif-4.1.0', or later.
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2070
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2071 Additional image properties supported are:
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2072
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2073 `:index INDEX'
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2074
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2075 INDEX must be an integer >= 0. Load image number INDEX from a
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2076 multi-image GIF file. An error is signalled if INDEX is too large.
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2077
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2078 This could be used to implement limited support for animated GIFs.
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2079 For example, the following function displays a multi-image GIF file
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2080 at point-min in the current buffer, switching between sub-images
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2081 every 0.1 seconds.
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2082
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2083 (defun show-anim (file max)
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2084 "Display multi-image GIF file FILE which contains MAX subimages."
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2085 (display-anim (current-buffer) file 0 max t))
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2086
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2087 (defun display-anim (buffer file idx max first-time)
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2088 (when (= idx max)
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2089 (setq idx 0))
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2090 (let ((img (create-image file nil nil :index idx)))
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2091 (save-excursion
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2092 (set-buffer buffer)
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2093 (goto-char (point-min))
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2094 (unless first-time (delete-char 1))
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2095 (insert-image img "x"))
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2096 (run-with-timer 0.1 nil 'display-anim buffer file (1+ idx) max nil)))
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2097
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2098 **** PNG, image type `png'
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2099
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2100 Support for PNG images requires the external library `libpng',
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2101 package `libpng-1.0.2.tar.gz', or later. There are no additional image
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2102 properties defined.
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2103
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2104 **** Ghostscript, image type `postscript'.
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2105
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2106 Additional image properties supported are:
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2107
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2108 `:pt-width WIDTH'
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2109
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2110 WIDTH is width of the image in pt (1/72 inch). WIDTH must be an
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2111 integer. This is a required property.
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2112
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2113 `:pt-height HEIGHT'
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2114
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2115 HEIGHT specifies the height of the image in pt (1/72 inch). HEIGHT
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2116 must be a integer. This is an required property.
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2117
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2118 `:bounding-box BOX'
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2119
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2120 BOX must be a list or vector of 4 integers giving the bounding box of
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2121 the PS image, analogous to the `BoundingBox' comment found in PS
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2122 files. This is an required property.
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2123
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2124 Part of the Ghostscript interface is implemented in Lisp. See
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2125 lisp/gs.el.
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2126
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2127 *** Lisp interface.
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2128
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2129 The variable `image-types' contains a list of those image types
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2130 which are supported in the current configuration.
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2131
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2132 Images are stored in an image cache and removed from the cache when
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2133 they haven't been displayed for `image-cache-eviction-delay seconds.
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2134 The function `clear-image-cache' can be used to clear the image cache
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2135 manually.
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2136
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2137 *** Simplified image API, image.el
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2138
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2139 The new Lisp package image.el contains functions that simplify image
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2140 creation and putting images into text. The function `create-image'
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2141 can be used to create images. The macro `defimage' can be used to
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2142 define an image based on available image types. The functions
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2143 `put-image' and `insert-image' can be used to insert an image into a
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2144 buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2146 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2147 ** Display margins.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2148
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2149 Windows can now have margins which are used for special text
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2150 and images.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2151
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2152 To give a window margins, either set the buffer-local variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2153 `left-margin-width' and `right-margin-width', or call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2154 `set-window-margins'. The function `window-margins' can be used to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2155 obtain the current settings. To make `left-margin-width' and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2156 `right-margin-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2157 the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2158 of the display margins.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2159
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2160 You can put text in margins by giving it a `display' text property
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2161 containing a pair of the form `(LOCATION . VALUE)', where LOCATION is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2162 one of `left-margin' or `right-margin' or nil. VALUE can be either a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2163 string, an image specification or a stretch specification (see later
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2164 in this file).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2165
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2166 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2167 ** Help display
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2168
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2169 Emacs displays short help messages in the echo area, when the mouse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2170 moves over a tool-bar item or a piece of text that has a text property
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2171 `help-echo'. This feature also applies to strings in the mode line
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2172 that have a `help-echo' property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2173
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2174 The value of the `help-echo' property must be a string. For tool-bar
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2175 items, their key definition is used to determine the help to display.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2176 If their definition contains a property `:help FORM', FORM is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2177 evaluated to determine the help string. Otherwise, the caption of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2178 tool-bar item is used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2179
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2180 The hook `show-help-function' can be set to a function that displays
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2181 help differently. For example, enabling a tooltip window causes the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2182 help display to appear there instead of in the echo area.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2183
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2184 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2185 ** Vertical fractional scrolling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2186
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2187 The display of text in windows can be scrolled smoothly in pixels.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2188 This is useful, for example, for making parts of large images visible.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2189
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2190 The function `window-vscroll' returns the current value of vertical
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2191 scrolling, a non-negative fraction of the canonical character height.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2192 The function `set-window-vscroll' can be used to set the vertical
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2193 scrolling value. Here is an example of how these function might be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2194 used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2195
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2196 (global-set-key [A-down]
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2197 #'(lambda ()
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2198 (interactive)
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2199 (set-window-vscroll (selected-window)
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2200 (+ 0.5 (window-vscroll)))))
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2201 (global-set-key [A-up]
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2202 #'(lambda ()
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2203 (interactive)
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2204 (set-window-vscroll (selected-window)
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2205 (- (window-vscroll) 0.5)))))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2206
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2207 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2208 ** New hook `fontification-functions'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2209
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2210 Functions from `fontification-functions' are called from redisplay
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2211 when it encounters a region of text that is not yet fontified. This
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2212 variable automatically becomes buffer-local when set. Each function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2213 is called with one argument, POS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2214
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2215 At least one of the hook functions should fontify one or more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2216 characters starting at POS in the current buffer. It should mark them
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2217 as fontified by giving them a non-nil value of the `fontified' text
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2218 property. It may be reasonable for these functions to check for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2219 `fontified' property and not put it back on, but they do not have to.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2220
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2221 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2222 ** Tool bar support.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2223
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2224 Emacs supports a tool bar at the top of a frame under X. The frame
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2225 parameter `tool-bar-lines' (X resource "toolBar", class "ToolBar")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2226 controls how may lines to reserve for the tool bar. A zero value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2227 suppresses the tool bar. If the value is non-zero and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2228 `auto-resize-tool-bars' is non-nil the tool bar's size will be changed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2229 automatically so that all tool bar items are visible.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2230
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2231 *** Tool bar item definitions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2232
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2233 Tool bar items are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2234 `tool-bar'. For example `(define-key global-map [tool-bar item1] ITEM)'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2235 where ITEM is a list `(menu-item CAPTION BINDING PROPS...)'.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2236
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2237 CAPTION is the caption of the item, If it's not a string, it is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2238 evaluated to get a string. The caption is currently not displayed in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2239 the tool bar, but it is displayed if the item doesn't have a `:help'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2240 property (see below).
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2241
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2242 BINDING is the tool bar item's binding. Tool bar items with keymaps as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2243 binding are currently ignored.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2244
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2245 The following properties are recognized:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2246
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2247 `:enable FORM'.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2248
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2249 FORM is evaluated and specifies whether the tool bar item is enabled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2250 or disabled.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2251
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2252 `:visible FORM'
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2253
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2254 FORM is evaluated and specifies whether the tool bar item is displayed.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2255
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2256 `:filter FUNCTION'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2257
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2258 FUNCTION is called with one parameter, the same list BINDING in which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2259 FUNCTION is specified as the filter. The value FUNCTION returns is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2260 used instead of BINDING to display this item.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2261
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2262 `:button (TYPE SELECTED)'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2263
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2264 TYPE must be one of `:radio' or `:toggle'. SELECTED is evaluated
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2265 and specifies whether the button is selected (pressed) or not.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2266
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2267 `:image IMAGES'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2268
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2269 IMAGES is either a single image specification or a vector of four
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2270 image specifications. If it is a vector, this table lists the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2271 meaning of each of the four elements:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2272
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2273 Index Use when item is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2274 ----------------------------------------
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2275 0 enabled and selected
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2276 1 enabled and deselected
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2277 2 disabled and selected
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2278 3 disabled and deselected
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2279
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2280 `:help HELP-STRING'.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2281
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2282 Gives a help string to display for the tool bar item. This help
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2283 is displayed when the mouse is moved over the item.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2284
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2285 *** Tool-bar-related variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2286
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2287 If `auto-resize-tool-bar' is non-nil, the tool bar will automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2288 resize to show all defined tool bar items. It will never grow larger
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2289 than 1/4 of the frame's size.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2290
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2291 If `auto-raise-tool-bar-buttons' is non-nil, tool bar buttons will be
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2292 raised when the mouse moves over them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2293
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2294 You can add extra space between tool bar items by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2295 `tool-bar-button-margin' to a positive integer specifying a number of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2296 pixels. Default is 1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2297
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2298 You can change the shadow thickness of tool bar buttons by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2299 `tool-bar-button-relief' to an integer. Default is 3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2300
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2301 *** Tool-bar clicks with modifiers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2302
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2303 You can bind commands to clicks with control, shift, meta etc. on
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2304 a tool bar item. If
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2305
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2306 (define-key global-map [tool-bar shell]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2307 '(menu-item "Shell" shell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2308 :image (image :type xpm :file "shell.xpm")))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2309
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2310 is the original tool bar item definition, then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2311
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2312 (define-key global-map [tool-bar S-shell] 'some-command)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2313
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2314 makes a binding to run `some-command' for a shifted click on the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2315 item.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2316
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2317 ** Mode line changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2318
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2319 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2320 *** Mouse-sensitive mode line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2321
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2322 The mode line can be made mouse-sensitive by displaying strings there
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2323 that have a `local-map' text property. There are three ways to display
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2324 a string with a `local-map' property in the mode line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2325
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2326 1. The mode line spec contains a variable whose string value has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2327 a `local-map' text property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2328
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2329 2. The mode line spec contains a format specifier (e.g. `%12b'), and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2330 that format specifier has a `local-map' property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2331
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2332 3. The mode line spec contains a list containing `:eval FORM'. FORM
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2333 is evaluated. If the result is a string, and that string has a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2334 `local-map' property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2335
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2336 The same mechanism is used to determine the `face' and `help-echo'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2337 properties of strings in the mode line. See `bindings.el' for an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2338 example.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2339
26359
d2970b5d3b72 Add mode line element '(:eval FORM)'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26322
diff changeset
2340 *** If a mode line element has the form `(:eval FORM)', FORM is
d2970b5d3b72 Add mode line element '(:eval FORM)'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26322
diff changeset
2341 evaluated and the result is used as mode line element.
d2970b5d3b72 Add mode line element '(:eval FORM)'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26322
diff changeset
2342
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2343 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2344 *** You can suppress mode-line display by setting the buffer-local
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2345 variable mode-line-format to nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2346
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2347 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2348 *** A headerline can now be displayed at the top of a window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2349
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2350 This mode line's contents are controlled by the new variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2351 `header-line-format' and `default-header-line-format' which are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2352 completely analogous to `mode-line-format' and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2353 `default-mode-line-format'. A value of nil means don't display a top
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2354 line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2355
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2356 The appearance of top mode lines is controlled by the face
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2357 `header-line'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2358
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2359 The function `coordinates-in-window-p' returns `header-line' for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2360 position in the header-line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2361
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2362 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2363 ** Text property `display'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2364
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2365 The `display' text property is used to insert images into text, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2366 also control other aspects of how text displays. The value of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2367 `display' property should be a display specification, as described
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2368 below, or a list or vector containing display specifications.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2369
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2370 *** Variable width and height spaces
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2371
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2372 To display a space of fractional width or height, use a display
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2373 specification of the form `(LOCATION STRECH)'. If LOCATION is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2374 `(margin left-margin)', the space is displayed in the left marginal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2375 area, if it is `(margin right-margin)', it is displayed in the right
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2376 marginal area, and if LOCATION is `(margin nil)' the space is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2377 displayed in the text. In the latter case you can also use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2378 simpler form STRETCH as property value.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2379
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2380 The stretch specification STRETCH itself is a list of the form `(space
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2381 PROPS)', where PROPS is a property list which can contain the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2382 properties described below.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2383
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2384 The display of the fractional space replaces the display of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2385 characters having the `display' property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2386
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2387 - :width WIDTH
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2388
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2389 Specifies that the space width should be WIDTH times the normal
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2390 character width. WIDTH can be an integer or floating point number.
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2391
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2392 - :relative-width FACTOR
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2393
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2394 Specifies that the width of the stretch should be computed from the
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2395 first character in a group of consecutive characters that have the
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2396 same `display' property. The computation is done by multiplying the
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2397 width of that character by FACTOR.
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2398
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2399 - :align-to HPOS
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2400
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2401 Specifies that the space should be wide enough to reach HPOS. The
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2402 value HPOS is measured in units of the normal character width.
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2403
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2404 Exactly one of the above properties should be used.
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2405
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2406 - :height HEIGHT
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2407
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2408 Specifies the height of the space, as HEIGHT, measured in terms of the
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2409 normal line height.
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2410
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2411 - :relative-height FACTOR
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2412
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2413 The height of the space is computed as the product of the height
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2414 of the text having the `display' property and FACTOR.
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2415
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2416 - :ascent ASCENT
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2417
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2418 Specifies that ASCENT percent of the height of the stretch should be
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2419 used for the ascent of the stretch, i.e. for the part above the
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parents:
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2420 baseline. The value of ASCENT must be a non-negative number less or
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2421 equal to 100.
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parents:
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2422
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2423 You should not use both `:height' and `:relative-height' together.
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2424
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2425 *** Images
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2426
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2427 A display specification for an image has the form `(LOCATION
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parents:
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2428 . IMAGE)', where IMAGE is an image specification. The image replaces,
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parents:
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2429 in the display, the characters having this display specification in
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parents:
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2430 their `display' text property. If LOCATION is `(margin left-margin)',
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2431 the image will be displayed in the left marginal area, if it is
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2432 `(margin right-margin)' it will be displayed in the right marginal
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2433 area, and if LOCATION is `(margin nil)' the image will be displayed in
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parents:
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2434 the text. In the latter case you can also use the simpler form IMAGE
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2435 as display specification.
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2436
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2437 *** Other display properties
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2438
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2439 - :space-width FACTOR
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2440
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2441 Specifies that space characters in the text having that property
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2442 should be displayed FACTOR times as wide as normal; FACTOR must be an
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parents:
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2443 integer or float.
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2444
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2445 - :height HEIGHT
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2446
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2447 Display text having this property in a font that is smaller or larger.
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2448
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parents:
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2449 If HEIGHT is a list of the form `(+ N)', where N is an integer, that
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2450 means to use a font that is N steps larger. If HEIGHT is a list of
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parents:
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2451 the form `(- N)', that means to use a font that is N steps smaller. A
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2452 ``step'' is defined by the set of available fonts; each size for which
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2453 a font is available counts as a step.
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parents:
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2454
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2455 If HEIGHT is a number, that means to use a font that is HEIGHT times
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2456 as tall as the frame's default font.
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2457
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2458 If HEIGHT is a symbol, it is called as a function with the current
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2459 height as argument. The function should return the new height to use.
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parents:
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2460
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2461 Otherwise, HEIGHT is evaluated to get the new height, with the symbol
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2462 `height' bound to the current specified font height.
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2463
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2464 - :raise FACTOR
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2465
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2466 FACTOR must be a number, specifying a multiple of the current
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2467 font's height. If it is positive, that means to display the characters
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2468 raised. If it is negative, that means to display them lower down. The
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parents:
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2469 amount of raising or lowering is computed without taking account of the
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2470 `:height' subproperty.
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2471
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parents:
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2472 *** Conditional display properties
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2473
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parents:
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2474 All display specifications can be conditionalized. If a specification
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parents:
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2475 has the form `(:when CONDITION . SPEC)', the specification SPEC
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2476 applies only when CONDITION yields a non-nil value when evaluated.
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parents:
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2477 During evaluattion, point is temporarily set to the end position of
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parents:
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2478 the text having the `display' property.
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parents:
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2479
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parents:
diff changeset
2480 The normal specification consisting of SPEC only is equivalent to
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parents:
diff changeset
2481 `(:when t SPEC)'.
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parents:
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2482
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2483 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
2484 ** New menu separator types.
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parents:
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2485
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parents:
diff changeset
2486 Emacs now supports more than one menu separator type. Menu items with
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parents:
diff changeset
2487 item names consisting of dashes only (including zero dashes) are
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parents:
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2488 treated like before. In addition, the following item names are used
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2489 to specify other menu separator types.
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2490
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2491 - `--no-line' or `--space', or `--:space', or `--:noLine'
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parents:
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2492
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parents:
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2493 No separator lines are drawn, but a small space is inserted where the
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2494 separator occurs.
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2495
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parents:
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2496 - `--single-line' or `--:singleLine'
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2497
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parents:
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2498 A single line in the menu's foreground color.
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parents:
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2499
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parents:
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2500 - `--double-line' or `--:doubleLine'
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2501
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parents:
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2502 A double line in the menu's foreground color.
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parents:
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2503
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parents:
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2504 - `--single-dashed-line' or `--:singleDashedLine'
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2505
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parents:
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2506 A single dashed line in the menu's foreground color.
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parents:
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2507
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parents:
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2508 - `--double-dashed-line' or `--:doubleDashedLine'
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parents:
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2509
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parents:
diff changeset
2510 A double dashed line in the menu's foreground color.
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parents:
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2511
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parents:
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2512 - `--shadow-etched-in' or `--:shadowEtchedIn'
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parents:
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2513
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parents:
diff changeset
2514 A single line with 3D sunken appearance. This is the the form
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parents:
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2515 displayed for item names consisting of dashes only.
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parents:
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2516
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parents:
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2517 - `--shadow-etched-out' or `--:shadowEtchedOut'
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parents:
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2518
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parents:
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2519 A single line with 3D raised appearance.
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parents:
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2520
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parents:
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2521 - `--shadow-etched-in-dash' or `--:shadowEtchedInDash'
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parents:
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2522
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parents:
diff changeset
2523 A single dashed line with 3D sunken appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2524
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parents:
diff changeset
2525 - `--shadow-etched-out-dash' or `--:shadowEtchedOutDash'
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parents:
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2526
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parents:
diff changeset
2527 A single dashed line with 3D raise appearance.
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parents:
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2528
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parents:
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2529 - `--shadow-double-etched-in' or `--:shadowDoubleEtchedIn'
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parents:
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2530
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2531 Two lines with 3D sunken appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2532
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parents:
diff changeset
2533 - `--shadow-double-etched-out' or `--:shadowDoubleEtchedOut'
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parents:
diff changeset
2534
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2535 Two lines with 3D raised appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2536
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2537 - `--shadow-double-etched-in-dash' or `--:shadowDoubleEtchedInDash'
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parents:
diff changeset
2538
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2539 Two dashed lines with 3D sunken appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2540
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2541 - `--shadow-double-etched-out-dash' or `--:shadowDoubleEtchedOutDash'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2542
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2543 Two dashed lines with 3D raised appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2544
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2545 Under LessTif/Motif, the last four separator types are displayed like
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2546 the corresponding single-line separators.
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parents:
diff changeset
2547
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parents:
diff changeset
2548 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
2549 ** New frame parameters for scroll bar colors.
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parents:
diff changeset
2550
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2551 The new frame parameters `scroll-bar-foreground' and
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parents:
diff changeset
2552 `scroll-bar-background' can be used to change scroll bar colors.
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parents:
diff changeset
2553 Their value must be either a color name, a string, or nil to specify
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parents:
diff changeset
2554 that scroll bars should use a default color. For toolkit scroll bars,
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parents:
diff changeset
2555 default colors are toolkit specific. For non-toolkit scroll bars, the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2556 default background is the background color of the frame, and the
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parents:
diff changeset
2557 default foreground is black.
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parents:
diff changeset
2558
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parents:
diff changeset
2559 The X resource name of these parameters are `scrollBarForeground'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2560 (class ScrollBarForeground) and `scrollBarBackground' (class
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2561 `ScrollBarBackground').
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parents:
diff changeset
2562
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2563 Setting these parameters overrides toolkit specific X resource
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parents:
diff changeset
2564 settings for scroll bar colors.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2565
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2566 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
2567 ** You can set `redisplay-dont-pause' to a non-nil value to prevent
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parents:
diff changeset
2568 display updates from being interrupted when input is pending.
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parents:
diff changeset
2569
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2570 ---
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parents:
diff changeset
2571 ** Changing a window's width may now change its window start if it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2572 starts on a continuation line. The new window start is computed based
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2573 on the window's new width, starting from the start of the continued
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2574 line as the start of the screen line with the minimum distance from
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parents:
diff changeset
2575 the original window start.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2576
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2577 ---
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2578 ** The variable `hscroll-step' and the functions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2579 `hscroll-point-visible' and `hscroll-window-column' have been removed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2580 now that proper horizontal scrolling is implemented.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2581
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2582 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
2583 ** Windows can now be made fixed-width and/or fixed-height.
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parents:
diff changeset
2584
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2585 A window is fixed-size if its buffer has a buffer-local variable
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parents:
diff changeset
2586 `window-size-fixed' whose value is not nil. A value of `height' makes
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parents:
diff changeset
2587 windows fixed-height, a value of `width' makes them fixed-width, any
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parents:
diff changeset
2588 other non-nil value makes them both fixed-width and fixed-height.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2589
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parents:
diff changeset
2590 The following code makes all windows displaying the current buffer
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parents:
diff changeset
2591 fixed-width and fixed-height.
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parents:
diff changeset
2592
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2593 (set (make-local-variable 'window-size-fixed) t)
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parents:
diff changeset
2594
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parents:
diff changeset
2595 A call to enlarge-window on a window gives an error if that window is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2596 fixed-width and it is tried to change the window's width, or if the
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parents:
diff changeset
2597 window is fixed-height, and it is tried to change its height. To
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2598 change the size of a fixed-size window, bind `window-size-fixed'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2599 temporarily to nil, for example
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2600
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parents:
diff changeset
2601 (let ((window-size-fixed nil))
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parents:
diff changeset
2602 (enlarge-window 10))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2603
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2604 Likewise, an attempt to split a fixed-height window vertically,
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
2605 or a fixed-width window horizontally results in a error.
26652
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
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parents: 26623
diff changeset
2606 ^L
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
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parents: 26623
diff changeset
2607 * Emacs 20.5 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes.
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
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parents: 26623
diff changeset
2608
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
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parents: 26623
diff changeset
2609 ** Not new, but not mentioned before:
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
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parents: 26623
diff changeset
2610 M-w when Transient Mark mode is enabled disables the mark.
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
2611
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parents:
diff changeset
2612 * Changes in Emacs 20.4
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parents:
diff changeset
2613
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parents:
diff changeset
2614 ** Init file may be called .emacs.el.
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parents:
diff changeset
2615
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parents:
diff changeset
2616 You can now call the Emacs init file `.emacs.el'.
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parents:
diff changeset
2617 Formerly the name had to be `.emacs'. If you use the name
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parents:
diff changeset
2618 `.emacs.el', you can byte-compile the file in the usual way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2619
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2620 If both `.emacs' and `.emacs.el' exist, the latter file
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parents:
diff changeset
2621 is the one that is used.
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parents:
diff changeset
2622
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parents:
diff changeset
2623 ** shell-command, and shell-command-on-region, now return
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2624 the exit code of the command (unless it is asynchronous).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2625 Also, you can specify a place to put the error output,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2626 separate from the command's regular output.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2627 Interactively, the variable shell-command-default-error-buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2628 says where to put error output; set it to a buffer name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2629 In calls from Lisp, an optional argument ERROR-BUFFER specifies
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parents:
diff changeset
2630 the buffer name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2631
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2632 When you specify a non-nil error buffer (or buffer name), any error
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2633 output is inserted before point in that buffer, with \f\n to separate
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2634 it from the previous batch of error output. The error buffer is not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2635 cleared, so error output from successive commands accumulates there.
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2636
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parents:
diff changeset
2637 ** Setting the default value of enable-multibyte-characters to nil in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2638 the .emacs file, either explicitly using setq-default, or via Custom,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2639 is now essentially equivalent to using --unibyte: all buffers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2640 created during startup will be made unibyte after loading .emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2641
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parents:
diff changeset
2642 ** C-x C-f now handles the wildcards * and ? in file names. For
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2643 example, typing C-x C-f c*.c RET visits all the files whose names
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parents:
diff changeset
2644 match c*.c. To visit a file whose name contains * or ?, add the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2645 quoting sequence /: to the beginning of the file name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2646
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2647 ** The M-x commands keep-lines, flush-lines and count-matches
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2648 now have the same feature as occur and query-replace:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2649 if the pattern contains any upper case letters, then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2650 they never ignore case.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2651
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parents:
diff changeset
2652 ** The end-of-line format conversion feature previously mentioned
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2653 under `* Emacs 20.1 changes for MS-DOS and MS-Windows' actually
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2654 applies to all operating systems. Emacs recognizes from the contents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2655 of a file what convention it uses to separate lines--newline, CRLF, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2656 just CR--and automatically converts the contents to the normal Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2657 convention (using newline to separate lines) for editing. This is a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2658 part of the general feature of coding system conversion.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2659
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2660 If you subsequently save the buffer, Emacs converts the text back to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2661 the same format that was used in the file before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2662
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2663 You can turn off end-of-line conversion by setting the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2664 `inhibit-eol-conversion' to non-nil, e.g. with Custom in the MULE group.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2665
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2666 ** The character set property `prefered-coding-system' has been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2667 renamed to `preferred-coding-system', for the sake of correct spelling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2668 This is a fairly internal feature, so few programs should be affected.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2669
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2670 ** Mode-line display of end-of-line format is changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2671 The indication of the end-of-line format of the file visited by a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2672 buffer is now more explicit when that format is not the usual one for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2673 your operating system. For example, the DOS-style end-of-line format
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2674 is displayed as "(DOS)" on Unix and GNU/Linux systems. The usual
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2675 end-of-line format is still displayed as a single character (colon for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2676 Unix, backslash for DOS and Windows, and forward slash for the Mac).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2677
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2678 The values of the variables eol-mnemonic-unix, eol-mnemonic-dos,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2679 eol-mnemonic-mac, and eol-mnemonic-undecided, which are strings,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2680 control what is displayed in the mode line for each end-of-line
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2681 format. You can now customize these variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2682
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2683 ** In the previous version of Emacs, tar-mode didn't work well if a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2684 filename contained non-ASCII characters. Now this is fixed. Such a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2685 filename is decoded by file-name-coding-system if the default value of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2686 enable-multibyte-characters is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2687
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2688 ** The command temp-buffer-resize-mode toggles a minor mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2689 in which temporary buffers (such as help buffers) are given
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2690 windows just big enough to hold the whole contents.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2691
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2692 ** If you use completion.el, you must now run the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2693 dynamic-completion-mode to enable it. Just loading the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2694 doesn't have any effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2695
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2696 ** In Flyspell mode, the default is now to make just one Ispell process,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2697 not one per buffer.
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parents:
diff changeset
2698
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2699 ** If you use iswitchb but do not call (iswitchb-default-keybindings) to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2700 use the default keybindings, you will need to add the following line:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2701 (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'iswitchb-minibuffer-setup)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2702
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2703 ** Auto-show mode is no longer enabled just by loading auto-show.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2704 To control it, set `auto-show-mode' via Custom or use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2705 `auto-show-mode' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2706
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2707 ** Handling of X fonts' ascent/descent parameters has been changed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2708 avoid redisplay problems. As a consequence, compared with previous
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2709 versions the line spacing and frame size now differ with some font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2710 choices, typically increasing by a pixel per line. This change
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2711 occurred in version 20.3 but was not documented then.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2712
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2713 ** If you select the bar cursor style, it uses the frame's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2714 cursor-color, rather than the cursor foreground pixel.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2715
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2716 ** In multibyte mode, Rmail decodes incoming MIME messages using the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2717 character set specified in the message. If you want to disable this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2718 feature, set the variable rmail-decode-mime-charset to nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2719
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2720 ** Not new, but not mentioned previously in NEWS: when you use #! at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2721 the beginning of a file to make it executable and specify an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2722 interpreter program, Emacs looks on the second line for the -*- mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2723 and variable specification, as well as on the first line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2724
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2725 ** Support for IBM codepage encoding of non-ASCII characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2726
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2727 The new command M-x codepage-setup creates a special coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2728 that can be used to convert text between a specific IBM codepage and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2729 one of the character sets built into Emacs which matches that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2730 codepage. For example, codepage 850 corresponds to Latin-1 character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2731 set, codepage 855 corresponds to Cyrillic-ISO character set, etc.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2732
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2733 Windows codepages 1250, 1251 and some others, where Windows deviates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2734 from the corresponding ISO character set, are also supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2735
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2736 IBM box-drawing characters and other glyphs which don't have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2737 equivalents in the corresponding ISO character set, are converted to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2738 a character defined by dos-unsupported-char-glyph on MS-DOS, and to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2739 `?' on other systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2740
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2741 IBM codepages are widely used on MS-DOS and MS-Windows, so this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2742 feature is most useful on those platforms, but it can also be used on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2743 Unix.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2744
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2745 Emacs compiled for MS-DOS automatically loads the support for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2746 current codepage when it starts.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2747
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2748 ** Mail changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2749
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2750 *** The new variable default-sendmail-coding-system specifies the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2751 default way to encode outgoing mail. This has higher priority than
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2752 default-buffer-file-coding-system but has lower priority than
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2753 sendmail-coding-system and the local value of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2754 buffer-file-coding-system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2755
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2756 You should not set this variable manually. Instead, set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2757 sendmail-coding-system to specify a fixed encoding for all outgoing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2758 mail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2759
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2760 *** When you try to send a message that contains non-ASCII characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2761 if the coding system specified by those variables doesn't handle them,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2762 Emacs will ask you to select a suitable coding system while showing a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2763 list of possible coding systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2764
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2765 ** CC Mode changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2766
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2767 *** c-default-style can now take an association list that maps major
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2768 modes to style names. When this variable is an alist, Java mode no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2769 longer hardcodes a setting to "java" style. See the variable's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2770 docstring for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2771
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2772 *** It's now possible to put a list as the offset on a syntactic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2773 symbol. The list is evaluated recursively until a non-nil offset is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2774 found. This is useful to combine several lineup functions to act in a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2775 prioritized order on a single line. However, none of the supplied
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2776 lineup functions use this feature currently.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2777
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2778 *** New syntactic symbol catch-clause, which is used on the "catch" and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2779 "finally" lines in try-catch constructs in C++ and Java.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2780
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2781 *** New cleanup brace-catch-brace on c-cleanup-list, which does for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2782 "catch" lines what brace-elseif-brace does for "else if" lines.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2783
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2784 *** The braces of Java anonymous inner classes are treated separately
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2785 from the braces of other classes in auto-newline mode. Two new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2786 symbols inexpr-class-open and inexpr-class-close may be used on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2787 c-hanging-braces-alist to control the automatic newlines used for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2788 anonymous classes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2789
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2790 *** Support for the Pike language added, along with new Pike specific
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2791 syntactic symbols: inlambda, lambda-intro-cont
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2792
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2793 *** Support for Java anonymous classes via new syntactic symbol
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2794 inexpr-class. New syntactic symbol inexpr-statement for Pike
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2795 support and gcc-style statements inside expressions. New lineup
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2796 function c-lineup-inexpr-block.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2797
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2798 *** New syntactic symbol brace-entry-open which is used in brace lists
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2799 (i.e. static initializers) when a list entry starts with an open
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2800 brace. These used to be recognized as brace-list-entry's.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2801 c-electric-brace also recognizes brace-entry-open braces
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2802 (brace-list-entry's can no longer be electrified).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2803
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2804 *** New command c-indent-line-or-region, not bound by default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2805
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2806 *** `#' is only electric when typed in the indentation of a line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2807
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2808 *** Parentheses are now electric (via the new command c-electric-paren)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2809 for auto-reindenting lines when parens are typed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2810
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2811 *** In "gnu" style, inline-open offset is now set to zero.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2812
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2813 *** Uniform handling of the inclass syntactic symbol. The indentation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2814 associated with it is now always relative to the class opening brace.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2815 This means that the indentation behavior has changed in some
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2816 circumstances, but only if you've put anything besides 0 on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2817 class-open syntactic symbol (none of the default styles do that).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2818
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2819 ** Gnus changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2820
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2821 *** New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2822 added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2823 Gnus manual for the full story.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2824
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2825 *** The nndraft backend has returned, but works differently than
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2826 before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2827 group, which is created automatically.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2828
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2829 *** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2830 values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2831
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2832 *** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2833
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2834 *** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2835 outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2836
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2837 *** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2838 `C-u C-c C-c'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2839
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2840 *** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2841
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2842 *** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2843 re-highlighting of the article buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2844
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2845 *** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2846
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2847 *** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2848 Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2849
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2850 *** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2851 `a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2852
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2853 *** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2854 control over simplification.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2855
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2856 *** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2857
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2858 *** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2859 limit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2860
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2861 *** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2862
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2863 *** \\1-expressions are now valid in `nnmail-split-methods'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2864
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2865 *** The `custom-face-lookup' function has been removed.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2866 If you used this function in your initialization files, you must
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2867 rewrite them to use `face-spec-set' instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2868
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2869 *** Cancelling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2870 `a' forces normal posting method.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2871
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2872 *** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2873 -- `W d'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2874
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2875 *** For easier debugging of nntp, you can set `nntp-record-commands'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2876 to a non-nil value.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2877
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2878 *** nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for controlling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2879 where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2880
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2881 *** A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2882 has been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2883
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2884 *** A history of where mails have been split is available.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2885
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2886 *** A new article date command has been added -- `article-date-iso8601'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2887
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2888 *** Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2889 `gnus-score-thread-simplify'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2890
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2891 *** A new function for citing in Message has been added --
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2892 `message-cite-original-without-signature'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2893
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2894 *** `article-strip-all-blank-lines' -- new article command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2895
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2896 *** A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2897 been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2898
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2899 *** A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2900 `gnus-adaptive-word-minimum' variable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2901
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2902 *** The "lapsed date" article header can be kept continually
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2903 updated by the `gnus-start-date-timer' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2904
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2905 *** Web listserv archives can be read with the nnlistserv backend.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2906
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2907 *** Old dejanews archives can now be read by nnweb.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2908
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2909 *** `gnus-posting-styles' has been re-activated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2910
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2911 ** Changes to TeX and LaTeX mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2912
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2913 *** The new variable `tex-start-options-string' can be used to give
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2914 options for the TeX run. The default value causes TeX to run in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2915 nonstopmode. For an interactive TeX run set it to nil or "".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2916
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2917 *** The command `tex-feed-input' sends input to the Tex Shell. In a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2918 TeX buffer it is bound to the keys C-RET, C-c RET, and C-c C-m (some
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2919 of these keys may not work on all systems). For instance, if you run
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2920 TeX interactively and if the TeX run stops because of an error, you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2921 can continue it without leaving the TeX buffer by typing C-RET.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2922
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2923 *** The Tex Shell Buffer is now in `compilation-shell-minor-mode'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2924 All error-parsing commands of the Compilation major mode are available
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2925 but bound to keys that don't collide with the shell. Thus you can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2926 the Tex Shell for command line executions like a usual shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2927
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2928 *** The commands `tex-validate-region' and `tex-validate-buffer' check
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2929 the matching of braces and $'s. The errors are listed in a *Occur*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2930 buffer and you can use C-c C-c or mouse-2 to go to a particular
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2931 mismatch.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2932
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2933 ** Changes to RefTeX mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2934
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2935 *** The table of contents buffer can now also display labels and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2936 file boundaries in addition to sections. Use `l', `i', and `c' keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2937
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2938 *** Labels derived from context (the section heading) are now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2939 lowercase by default. To make the label legal in LaTeX, latin-1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2940 characters will lose their accent. All Mule characters will be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2941 removed from the label.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2942
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2943 *** The automatic display of cross reference information can also use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2944 a window instead of the echo area. See variable `reftex-auto-view-crossref'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2945
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2946 *** kpsewhich can be used by RefTeX to find TeX and BibTeX files. See the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2947 customization group `reftex-finding-files'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2948
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2949 *** The option `reftex-bibfile-ignore-list' has been renamed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2950 `reftex-bibfile-ignore-regexps' and indeed can be fed with regular
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2951 expressions.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2952
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2953 *** Multiple Selection buffers are now hidden buffers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2954
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2955 ** New/deleted modes and packages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2956
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2957 *** The package snmp-mode.el provides major modes for editing SNMP and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2958 SNMPv2 MIBs. It has entries on `auto-mode-alist'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2959
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2960 *** The package sql.el provides a major mode, M-x sql-mode, for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2961 editing SQL files, and M-x sql-interactive-mode for interacting with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2962 SQL interpreters. It has an entry on `auto-mode-alist'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2963
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2964 *** M-x highlight-changes-mode provides a minor mode displaying buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2965 changes with a special face.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2966
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2967 *** ispell4.el has been deleted. It got in the way of ispell.el and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2968 this was hard to fix reliably. It has long been obsolete -- use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2969 Ispell 3.1 and ispell.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2970
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2971 * MS-DOS changes in Emacs 20.4
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2972
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2973 ** Emacs compiled for MS-DOS now supports MULE features better.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2974 This includes support for display of all ISO 8859-N character sets,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2975 conversion to and from IBM codepage encoding of non-ASCII characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2976 and automatic setup of the MULE environment at startup. For details,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2977 check out the section `MS-DOS and MULE' in the manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2978
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2979 The MS-DOS installation procedure automatically configures and builds
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2980 Emacs with input method support if it finds an unpacked Leim
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2981 distribution when the config.bat script is run.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2982
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2983 ** Formerly, the value of lpr-command did not affect printing on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2984 MS-DOS unless print-region-function was set to nil, but now it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2985 controls whether an external program is invoked or output is written
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2986 directly to a printer port. Similarly, in the previous version of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2987 Emacs, the value of ps-lpr-command did not affect PostScript printing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2988 on MS-DOS unless ps-printer-name was set to something other than a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2989 string (eg. t or `pipe'), but now it controls whether an external
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2990 program is used. (These changes were made so that configuration of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2991 printing variables would be almost identical across all platforms.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2992
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2993 ** In the previous version of Emacs, PostScript and non-PostScript
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2994 output was piped to external programs, but because most print programs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2995 available for MS-DOS and MS-Windows cannot read data from their standard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2996 input, on those systems the data to be output is now written to a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2997 temporary file whose name is passed as the last argument to the external
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2998 program.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2999
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3000 An exception is made for `print', a standard program on Windows NT,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3001 and `nprint', a standard program on Novell Netware. For both of these
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3002 programs, the command line is constructed in the appropriate syntax
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3003 automatically, using only the value of printer-name or ps-printer-name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3004 as appropriate--the value of the relevant `-switches' variable is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3005 ignored, as both programs have no useful switches.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3006
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3007 ** The value of the variable dos-printer (cf. dos-ps-printer), if it has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3008 a value, overrides the value of printer-name (cf. ps-printer-name), on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3009 MS-DOS and MS-Windows only. This has been true since version 20.3, but
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3010 was not documented clearly before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3011
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3012 ** All the Emacs games now work on MS-DOS terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3013 This includes Tetris and Snake.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3014
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3015 * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.4
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3016
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3017 ** New functions line-beginning-position and line-end-position
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3018 return the position of the beginning or end of the current line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3019 They both accept an optional argument, which has the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3020 meaning as the argument to beginning-of-line or end-of-line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3021
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3022 ** find-file and allied functions now have an optional argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3023 WILDCARD. If this is non-nil, they do wildcard processing,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3024 and visit all files that match the wildcard pattern.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3025
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3026 ** Changes in the file-attributes function.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3027
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3028 *** The file size returned by file-attributes may be an integer or a float.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3029 It is an integer if the size fits in a Lisp integer, float otherwise.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3030
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3031 *** The inode number returned by file-attributes may be an integer (if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3032 the number fits in a Lisp integer) or a cons cell containing two
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3033 integers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3034
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3035 ** The new function directory-files-and-attributes returns a list of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3036 files in a directory and their attributes. It accepts the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3037 arguments as directory-files and has similar semantics, except that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3038 file names and attributes are returned.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3039
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3040 ** The new function file-attributes-lessp is a helper function for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3041 sorting the list generated by directory-files-and-attributes. It
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3042 accepts two arguments, each a list of a file name and its atttributes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3043 It compares the file names of each according to string-lessp and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3044 returns the result.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3045
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3046 ** The new function file-expand-wildcards expands a wildcard-pattern
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3047 to produce a list of existing files that match the pattern.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3048
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3049 ** New functions for base64 conversion:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3050
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3051 The function base64-encode-region converts a part of the buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3052 into the base64 code used in MIME. base64-decode-region
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3053 performs the opposite conversion. Line-breaking is supported
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3054 optionally.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3055
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3056 Functions base64-encode-string and base64-decode-string do a similar
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3057 job on the text in a string. They return the value as a new string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3058
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3059 **
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3060 The new function process-running-child-p
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3061 will tell you if a subprocess has given control of its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3062 terminal to its own child process.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3063
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3064 ** interrupt-process and such functions have a new feature:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3065 when the second argument is `lambda', they send a signal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3066 to the running child of the subshell, if any, but if the shell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3067 itself owns its terminal, no signal is sent.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3068
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3069 ** There are new widget types `plist' and `alist' which can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3070 be used for customizing variables whose values are plists or alists.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3071
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3072 ** easymenu.el Now understands `:key-sequence' and `:style button'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3073 :included is an alias for :visible.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3074
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3075 easy-menu-add-item now understands the values returned by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3076 easy-menu-remove-item and easy-menu-item-present-p. This can be used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3077 to move or copy menu entries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3078
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3079 ** Multibyte editing changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3080
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3081 *** The definitions of sref and char-bytes are changed. Now, sref is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3082 an alias of aref and char-bytes always returns 1. This change is to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3083 make some Emacs Lisp code which works on 20.2 and earlier also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3084 work on the latest Emacs. Such code uses a combination of sref and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3085 char-bytes in a loop typically as below:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3086 (setq char (sref str idx)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3087 idx (+ idx (char-bytes idx)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3088 The byte-compiler now warns that this is obsolete.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3089
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3090 If you want to know how many bytes a specific multibyte character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3091 (say, CH) occupies in a multibyte buffer, use this code:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3092 (charset-bytes (char-charset ch))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3093
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3094 *** In multibyte mode, when you narrow a buffer to some region, and the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3095 region is preceded or followed by non-ASCII codes, inserting or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3096 deleting at the head or the end of the region may signal this error:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3097
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3098 Byte combining across boundary of accessible buffer text inhibitted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3099
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3100 This is to avoid some bytes being combined together into a character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3101 across the boundary.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3102
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3103 *** The functions find-charset-region and find-charset-string include
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3104 `unknown' in the returned list in the following cases:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3105 o The current buffer or the target string is unibyte and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3106 contains 8-bit characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3107 o The current buffer or the target string is multibyte and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3108 contains invalid characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3109
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3110 *** The functions decode-coding-region and encode-coding-region remove
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3111 text properties of the target region. Ideally, they should correctly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3112 preserve text properties, but for the moment, it's hard. Removing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3113 text properties is better than preserving them in a less-than-correct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3114 way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3115
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parents:
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3116 *** prefer-coding-system sets EOL conversion of default coding systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3117 If the argument to prefer-coding-system specifies a certain type of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3118 end of line conversion, the default coding systems set by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3119 prefer-coding-system will specify that conversion type for end of line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3120
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3121 *** The new function thai-compose-string can be used to properly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3122 compose Thai characters in a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3123
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3124 ** The primitive `define-prefix-command' now takes an optional third
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3125 argument NAME, which should be a string. It supplies the menu name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3126 for the created keymap. Keymaps created in order to be displayed as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3127 menus should always use the third argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3128
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3129 ** The meanings of optional second arguments for read-char,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3130 read-event, and read-char-exclusive are flipped. Now the second
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3131 arguments are INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD. These functions use the current
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3132 input method (if any) if and only if INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3133
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3134 ** The new function clear-this-command-keys empties out the contents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3135 of the vector that (this-command-keys) returns. This is useful in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3136 programs that read passwords, to prevent the passwords from echoing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3137 inadvertently as part of the next command in certain cases.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3138
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3139 ** The new macro `with-temp-message' displays a temporary message in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3140 the echo area, while executing some Lisp code. Like `progn', it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3141 returns the value of the last form, but it also restores the previous
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3142 echo area contents.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3143
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3144 (with-temp-message MESSAGE &rest BODY)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3146 ** The function `require' now takes an optional third argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3147 NOERROR. If it is non-nil, then there is no error if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3148 requested feature cannot be loaded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3149
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3150 ** In the function modify-face, an argument of (nil) for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3151 foreground color, background color or stipple pattern
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3152 means to clear out that attribute.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3153
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3154 ** The `outer-window-id' frame property of an X frame
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3155 gives the window number of the outermost X window for the frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3156
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3157 ** Temporary buffers made with with-output-to-temp-buffer are now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3158 read-only by default, and normally use the major mode Help mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3159 unless you put them in some other non-Fundamental mode before the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3160 end of with-output-to-temp-buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3161
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3162 ** The new functions gap-position and gap-size return information on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3163 the gap of the current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3164
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3165 ** The new functions position-bytes and byte-to-position provide a way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3166 to convert between character positions and byte positions in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3167 current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3168
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3169 ** vc.el defines two new macros, `edit-vc-file' and `with-vc-file', to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3170 facilitate working with version-controlled files from Lisp programs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3171 These macros check out a given file automatically if needed, and check
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3172 it back in after any modifications have been made.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3173
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3174 * Installation Changes in Emacs 20.3
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3175
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3176 ** The default value of load-path now includes most subdirectories of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3177 the site-specific directories /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3178 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp, in addition to those
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3179 directories themselves. Both immediate subdirectories and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3180 subdirectories multiple levels down are added to load-path.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3181
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3182 Not all subdirectories are included, though. Subdirectories whose
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3183 names do not start with a letter or digit are excluded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3184 Subdirectories named RCS or CVS are excluded. Also, a subdirectory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3185 which contains a file named `.nosearch' is excluded. You can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3186 these methods to prevent certain subdirectories from being searched.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3187
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3188 Emacs finds these subdirectories and adds them to load-path when it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3189 starts up. While it would be cleaner to find the subdirectories each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3190 time Emacs loads a file, that would be much slower.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3191
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3192 This feature is an incompatible change. If you have stored some Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3193 Lisp files in a subdirectory of the site-lisp directory specifically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3194 to prevent them from being used, you will need to rename the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3195 subdirectory to start with a non-alphanumeric character, or create a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3196 `.nosearch' file in it, in order to continue to achieve the desired
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3197 results.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3198
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3199 ** Emacs no longer includes an old version of the C preprocessor from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3200 GCC. This was formerly used to help compile Emacs with C compilers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3201 that had limits on the significant length of an identifier, but in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3202 fact we stopped supporting such compilers some time ago.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3203
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3204 * Changes in Emacs 20.3
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3205
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3206 ** The new command C-x z (repeat) repeats the previous command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3207 including its argument. If you repeat the z afterward,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3208 it repeats the command additional times; thus, you can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3209 perform many repetitions with one keystroke per repetition.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3210
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3211 ** Emacs now supports "selective undo" which undoes only within a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3212 specified region. To do this, set point and mark around the desired
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3213 region and type C-u C-x u (or C-u C-_). You can then continue undoing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3214 further, within the same region, by repeating the ordinary undo
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3215 command C-x u or C-_. This will keep undoing changes that were made
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3216 within the region you originally specified, until either all of them
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3217 are undone, or it encounters a change which crosses the edge of that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3218 region.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3219
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3220 In Transient Mark mode, undoing when a region is active requests
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3221 selective undo.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3222
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3223 ** If you specify --unibyte when starting Emacs, then all buffers are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3224 unibyte, except when a Lisp program specifically creates a multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3225 buffer. Setting the environment variable EMACS_UNIBYTE has the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3226 effect. The --no-unibyte option overrides EMACS_UNIBYTE and directs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3227 Emacs to run normally in multibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3228
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3229 The option --unibyte does not affect the reading of Emacs Lisp files,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3230 though. If you want a Lisp file to be read in unibyte mode, use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3231 -*-unibyte: t;-*- on its first line. That will force Emacs to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3232 load that file in unibyte mode, regardless of how Emacs was started.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3233
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3234 ** toggle-enable-multibyte-characters no longer has a key binding and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3235 no longer appears in the menu bar. We've realized that changing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3236 enable-multibyte-characters variable in an existing buffer is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3237 something that most users not do.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3238
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3239 ** You can specify a coding system to use for the next cut or paste
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3240 operations through the window system with the command C-x RET X.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3241 The coding system can make a difference for communication with other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3242 applications.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3243
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3244 C-x RET x specifies a coding system for all subsequent cutting and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3245 pasting operations.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3246
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3247 ** You can specify the printer to use for commands that do printing by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3248 setting the variable `printer-name'. Just what a printer name looks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3249 like depends on your operating system. You can specify a different
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3250 printer for the Postscript printing commands by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3251 `ps-printer-name'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3252
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3253 ** Emacs now supports on-the-fly spell checking by the means of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3254 minor mode. It is called M-x flyspell-mode. You don't have to remember
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3255 any other special commands to use it, and you will hardly notice it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3256 except when you make a spelling error. Flyspell works by highlighting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3257 incorrect words as soon as they are completed or as soon as the cursor
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3258 hits a new word.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3259
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3260 Flyspell mode works with whichever dictionary you have selected for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3261 Ispell in Emacs. In TeX mode, it understands TeX syntax so as not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3262 to be confused by TeX commands.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3263
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3264 You can correct a misspelled word by editing it into something
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3265 correct. You can also correct it, or accept it as correct, by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3266 clicking on the word with Mouse-2; that gives you a pop-up menu
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3267 of various alternative replacements and actions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3268
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3269 Flyspell mode also proposes "automatic" corrections. M-TAB replaces
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3270 the current misspelled word with a possible correction. If several
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3271 corrections are made possible, M-TAB cycles through them in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3272 alphabetical order, or in order of decreasing likelihood if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3273 flyspell-sort-corrections is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3274
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3275 Flyspell mode also flags an error when a word is repeated, if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3276 flyspell-mark-duplications-flag is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3277
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3278 ** Changes in input method usage.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3279
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3280 Now you can use arrow keys (right, left, down, up) for selecting among
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3281 the alternatives just the same way as you do by C-f, C-b, C-n, and C-p
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3282 respectively.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3283
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3284 You can use the ENTER key to accept the current conversion.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3285
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3286 If you type TAB to display a list of alternatives, you can select one
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3287 of the alternatives with Mouse-2.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3288
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3289 The meaning of the variable `input-method-verbose-flag' is changed so
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3290 that you can set it to t, nil, `default', or `complex-only'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3291
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3292 If the value is nil, extra guidance is never given.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3293
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3294 If the value is t, extra guidance is always given.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3295
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3296 If the value is `complex-only', extra guidance is always given only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3297 when you are using complex input methods such as chinese-py.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3298
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3299 If the value is `default' (this is the default), extra guidance is
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3300 given in the following case:
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3301 o When you are using a complex input method.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3302 o When you are using a simple input method but not in the minibuffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3303
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3304 If you are using Emacs through a very slow line, setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3305 input-method-verbose-flag to nil or to complex-only is a good choice,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3306 and if you are using an input method you are not familiar with,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3307 setting it to t is helpful.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3308
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3309 The old command select-input-method is now called set-input-method.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3310
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3311 In the language environment "Korean", you can use the following
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3312 keys:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3313 Shift-SPC toggle-korean-input-method
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3314 C-F9 quail-hangul-switch-symbol-ksc
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3315 F9 quail-hangul-switch-hanja
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3316 These key bindings are canceled when you switch to another language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3317 environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3318
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3319 ** The minibuffer history of file names now records the specified file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3320 names, not the entire minibuffer input. For example, if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3321 minibuffer starts out with /usr/foo/, you might type in /etc/passwd to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3322 get
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3323
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3324 /usr/foo//etc/passwd
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3325
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3326 which stands for the file /etc/passwd.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3327
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3328 Formerly, this used to put /usr/foo//etc/passwd in the history list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3329 Now this puts just /etc/passwd in the history list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3330
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3331 ** If you are root, Emacs sets backup-by-copying-when-mismatch to t
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3332 at startup, so that saving a file will be sure to preserve
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3333 its owner and group.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3334
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3335 ** find-func.el can now also find the place of definition of Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3336 Lisp variables in user-loaded libraries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3337
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3338 ** C-x r t (string-rectangle) now deletes the existing rectangle
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3339 contents before inserting the specified string on each line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3340
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3341 ** There is a new command delete-whitespace-rectangle
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3342 which deletes whitespace starting from a particular column
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3343 in all the lines on a rectangle. The column is specified
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3344 by the left edge of the rectangle.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3345
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3346 ** You can now store a number into a register with C-u NUMBER C-x r n REG,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3347 increment it by INC with C-u INC C-x r + REG (to increment by one, omit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3348 C-u INC), and insert it in the buffer with C-x r g REG. This is useful
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3349 for writing keyboard macros.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3350
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3351 ** The new command M-x speedbar displays a frame in which directories,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3352 files, and tags can be displayed, manipulated, and jumped to. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3353 frame defaults to 20 characters in width, and is the same height as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3354 the frame that it was started from. Some major modes define
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3355 additional commands for the speedbar, including Rmail, GUD/GDB, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3356 info.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3357
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3358 ** query-replace-regexp is now bound to C-M-%.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3359
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3360 ** In Transient Mark mode, when the region is active, M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3361 query-replace and the other replace commands now operate on the region
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3362 contents only.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3363
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3364 ** M-x write-region, when used interactively, now asks for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3365 confirmation before overwriting an existing file. When you call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3366 the function from a Lisp program, a new optional argument CONFIRM
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3367 says whether to ask for confirmation in this case.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3368
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3369 ** If you use find-file-literally and the file is already visited
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3370 non-literally, the command asks you whether to revisit the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3371 literally. If you say no, it signals an error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3372
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3373 ** Major modes defined with the "derived mode" feature
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3374 now use the proper name for the mode hook: WHATEVER-mode-hook.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3375 Formerly they used the name WHATEVER-mode-hooks, but that is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3376 inconsistent with Emacs conventions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3377
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3378 ** shell-command-on-region (and shell-command) reports success or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3379 failure if the command produces no output.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3380
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3381 ** Set focus-follows-mouse to nil if your window system or window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3382 manager does not transfer focus to another window when you just move
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3383 the mouse.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3384
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3385 ** mouse-menu-buffer-maxlen has been renamed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3386 mouse-buffer-menu-maxlen to be consistent with the other related
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3387 function and variable names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3388
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3389 ** The new variable auto-coding-alist specifies coding systems for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3390 reading specific files. This has higher priority than
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3391 file-coding-system-alist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3392
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3393 ** If you set the variable unibyte-display-via-language-environment to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3394 t, then Emacs displays non-ASCII characters are displayed by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3395 converting them to the equivalent multibyte characters according to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3396 the current language environment. As a result, they are displayed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3397 according to the current fontset.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3398
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3399 ** C-q's handling of codes in the range 0200 through 0377 is changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3400
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3401 The codes in the range 0200 through 0237 are inserted as one byte of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3402 that code regardless of the values of nonascii-translation-table and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3403 nonascii-insert-offset.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3404
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3405 For the codes in the range 0240 through 0377, if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3406 enable-multibyte-characters is non-nil and nonascii-translation-table
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3407 nor nonascii-insert-offset can't convert them to valid multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3408 characters, they are converted to Latin-1 characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3409
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3410 ** If you try to find a file that is not read-accessible, you now get
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3411 an error, rather than an empty buffer and a warning.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3412
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3413 ** In the minibuffer history commands M-r and M-s, an upper case
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3414 letter in the regular expression forces case-sensitive search.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3415
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3416 ** In the *Help* buffer, cross-references to commands and variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3417 are inferred and hyperlinked. Use C-h m in Help mode for the relevant
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3418 command keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3419
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3420 ** M-x apropos-command, with a prefix argument, no longer looks for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3421 user option variables--instead it looks for noninteractive functions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3422
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3423 Meanwhile, the command apropos-variable normally searches for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3424 user option variables; with a prefix argument, it looks at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3425 all variables that have documentation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3426
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3427 ** When you type a long line in the minibuffer, and the minibuffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3428 shows just one line, automatically scrolling works in a special way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3429 that shows you overlap with the previous line of text. The variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3430 minibuffer-scroll-overlap controls how many characters of overlap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3431 it should show; the default is 20.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3432
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3433 Meanwhile, Resize Minibuffer mode is still available; in that mode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3434 the minibuffer grows taller (up to a point) as needed to show the whole
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3435 of your input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3436
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3437 ** The new command M-x customize-changed-options lets you customize
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3438 all the options whose meanings or default values have changed in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3439 recent Emacs versions. You specify a previous Emacs version number as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3440 argument, and the command creates a customization buffer showing all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3441 the customizable options which were changed since that version.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3442 Newly added options are included as well.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3443
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3444 If you don't specify a particular version number argument,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3445 then the customization buffer shows all the customizable options
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3446 for which Emacs versions of changes are recorded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3447
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3448 This function is also bound to the Changed Options entry in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3449 Customize menu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3450
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3451 ** When you run M-x grep with a prefix argument, it figures out
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3452 the tag around point and puts that into the default grep command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3453
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3454 ** The new command M-* (pop-tag-mark) pops back through a history of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3455 buffer positions from which M-. or other tag-finding commands were
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3456 invoked.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3457
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3458 ** The new variable comment-padding specifies the number of spaces
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3459 that `comment-region' will insert before the actual text of the comment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3460 The default is 1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3461
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3462 ** In Fortran mode the characters `.', `_' and `$' now have symbol
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3463 syntax, not word syntax. Fortran mode now supports `imenu' and has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3464 new commands fortran-join-line (M-^) and fortran-narrow-to-subprogram
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3465 (C-x n d). M-q can be used to fill a statement or comment block
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3466 sensibly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3467
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3468 ** GUD now supports jdb, the Java debugger, and pdb, the Python debugger.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3469
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3470 ** If you set the variable add-log-keep-changes-together to a non-nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3471 value, the command `C-x 4 a' will automatically notice when you make
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3472 two entries in one day for one file, and combine them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3473
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3474 ** You can use the command M-x diary-mail-entries to mail yourself a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3475 reminder about upcoming diary entries. See the documentation string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3476 for a sample shell script for calling this function automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3477 every night.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3478
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3479 ** All you need to do, to enable use of the Desktop package, is to set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3480 the variable desktop-enable to t with Custom.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3481
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3482 ** There is no need to do anything special, now, to enable Gnus to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3483 read and post multi-lingual articles.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3484
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3485 ** Outline mode has now support for showing hidden outlines when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3486 doing an isearch. In order for this to happen search-invisible should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3487 be set to open (the default). If an isearch match is inside a hidden
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3488 outline the outline is made visible. If you continue pressing C-s and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3489 the match moves outside the formerly invisible outline, the outline is
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3490 made invisible again.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3491
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3492 ** Mail reading and sending changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3493
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3494 *** The Rmail e command now switches to displaying the whole header of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3495 the message before it lets you edit the message. This is so that any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3496 changes you make in the header will not be lost if you subsequently
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3497 toggle.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3498
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3499 *** The w command in Rmail, which writes the message body into a file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3500 now works in the summary buffer as well. (The command to delete the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3501 summary buffer is now Q.) The default file name for the w command, if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3502 the message has no subject, is stored in the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3503 rmail-default-body-file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3504
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3505 *** Most of the commands and modes that operate on mail and netnews no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3506 longer depend on the value of mail-header-separator. Instead, they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3507 handle whatever separator the buffer happens to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3508
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3509 *** If you set mail-signature to a value which is not t, nil, or a string,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3510 it should be an expression. When you send a message, this expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3511 is evaluated to insert the signature.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3512
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3513 *** The new Lisp library feedmail.el (version 8) enhances processing of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3514 outbound email messages. It works in coordination with other email
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3515 handling packages (e.g., rmail, VM, gnus) and is responsible for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3516 putting final touches on messages and actually submitting them for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3517 transmission. Users of the emacs program "fakemail" might be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3518 especially interested in trying feedmail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3519
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3520 feedmail is not enabled by default. See comments at the top of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3521 feedmail.el for set-up instructions. Among the bigger features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3522 provided by feedmail are:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3523
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3524 **** you can park outgoing messages into a disk-based queue and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3525 stimulate sending some or all of them later (handy for laptop users);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3526 there is also a queue for draft messages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3527
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3528 **** you can get one last look at the prepped outbound message and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3529 be prompted for confirmation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3530
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3531 **** does smart filling of address headers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3532
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3533 **** can generate a MESSAGE-ID: line and a DATE: line; the date can be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3534 the time the message was written or the time it is being sent; this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3535 can make FCC copies more closely resemble copies that recipients get
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3536
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3537 **** you can specify an arbitrary function for actually transmitting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3538 the message; included in feedmail are interfaces for /bin/[r]mail,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3539 /usr/lib/sendmail, and elisp smtpmail; it's easy to write a new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3540 function for something else (10-20 lines of elisp)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3541
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3542 ** Dired changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3543
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3544 *** The Dired function dired-do-toggle, which toggles marked and unmarked
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3545 files, is now bound to "t" instead of "T".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3546
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3547 *** dired-at-point has been added to ffap.el. It allows one to easily
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3548 run Dired on the directory name at point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3549
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3550 *** Dired has a new command: %g. It searches the contents of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3551 files in the directory and marks each file that contains a match
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3552 for a specified regexp.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3553
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3554 ** VC Changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3555
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3556 *** New option vc-ignore-vc-files lets you turn off version control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3557 conveniently.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3558
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3559 *** VC Dired has been completely rewritten. It is now much
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3560 faster, especially for CVS, and works very similar to ordinary
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3561 Dired.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3562
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3563 VC Dired is invoked by typing C-x v d and entering the name of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3564 directory to display. By default, VC Dired gives you a recursive
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3565 listing of all files at or below the given directory which are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3566 currently locked (for CVS, all files not up-to-date are shown).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3567
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3568 You can change the listing format by setting vc-dired-recurse to nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3569 then it shows only the given directory, and you may also set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3570 vc-dired-terse-display to nil, then it shows all files under version
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3571 control plus the names of any subdirectories, so that you can type `i'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3572 on such lines to insert them manually, as in ordinary Dired.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3573
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3574 All Dired commands operate normally in VC Dired, except for `v', which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3575 is redefined as the version control prefix. That means you may type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3576 `v l', `v =' etc. to invoke `vc-print-log', `vc-diff' and the like on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3577 the file named in the current Dired buffer line. `v v' invokes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3578 `vc-next-action' on this file, or on all files currently marked.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3579
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3580 The new command `v t' (vc-dired-toggle-terse-mode) allows you to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3581 toggle between terse display (only locked files) and full display (all
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3582 VC files plus subdirectories). There is also a special command,
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3583 `* l', to mark all files currently locked.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3584
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3585 Giving a prefix argument to C-x v d now does the same thing as in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3586 ordinary Dired: it allows you to supply additional options for the ls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3587 command in the minibuffer, to fine-tune VC Dired's output.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3588
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3589 *** Under CVS, if you merge changes from the repository into a working
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3590 file, and CVS detects conflicts, VC now offers to start an ediff
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3591 session to resolve them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3592
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3593 Alternatively, you can use the new command `vc-resolve-conflicts' to
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3594 resolve conflicts in a file at any time. It works in any buffer that
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parents:
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3595 contains conflict markers as generated by rcsmerge (which is what CVS
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3596 uses as well).
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parents:
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3597
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parents:
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3598 *** You can now transfer changes between branches, using the new
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parents:
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3599 command vc-merge (C-x v m). It is implemented for RCS and CVS. When
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parents:
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3600 you invoke it in a buffer under version-control, you can specify
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parents:
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3601 either an entire branch or a pair of versions, and the changes on that
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parents:
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3602 branch or between the two versions are merged into the working file.
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parents:
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3603 If this results in any conflicts, they may be resolved interactively,
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parents:
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3604 using ediff.
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parents:
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3605
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parents:
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3606 ** Changes in Font Lock
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parents:
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3607
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parents:
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3608 *** The face and variable previously known as font-lock-reference-face
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parents:
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3609 are now called font-lock-constant-face to better reflect their typical
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parents:
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3610 use for highlighting constants and labels. (Its face properties are
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3611 unchanged.) The variable font-lock-reference-face remains for now for
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3612 compatibility reasons, but its value is font-lock-constant-face.
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parents:
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3613
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parents:
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3614 ** Frame name display changes
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parents:
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3615
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parents:
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3616 *** The command set-frame-name lets you set the name of the current
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parents:
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3617 frame. You can use the new command select-frame-by-name to select and
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parents:
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3618 raise a frame; this is mostly useful on character-only terminals, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3619 when many frames are invisible or iconified.
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parents:
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3620
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parents:
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3621 *** On character-only terminal (not a window system), changing the
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parents:
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3622 frame name is now reflected on the mode line and in the Buffers/Frames
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parents:
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3623 menu.
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parents:
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3624
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parents:
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3625 ** Comint (subshell) changes
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parents:
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3626
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parents:
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3627 *** In Comint modes, the commands to kill, stop or interrupt a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3628 subjob now also kill pending input. This is for compatibility
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parents:
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3629 with ordinary shells, where the signal characters do this.
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parents:
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3630
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parents:
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3631 *** There are new commands in Comint mode.
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parents:
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3632
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parents:
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3633 C-c C-x fetches the "next" line from the input history;
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parents:
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3634 that is, the line after the last line you got.
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parents:
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3635 You can use this command to fetch successive lines, one by one.
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parents:
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3636
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parents:
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3637 C-c SPC accumulates lines of input. More precisely, it arranges to
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parents:
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3638 send the current line together with the following line, when you send
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parents:
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3639 the following line.
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parents:
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3640
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3641 C-c C-a if repeated twice consecutively now moves to the process mark,
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parents:
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3642 which separates the pending input from the subprocess output and the
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parents:
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3643 previously sent input.
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parents:
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3644
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3645 C-c M-r now runs comint-previous-matching-input-from-input;
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parents:
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3646 it searches for a previous command, using the current pending input
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parents:
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3647 as the search string.
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parents:
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3648
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parents:
diff changeset
3649 *** New option compilation-scroll-output can be set to scroll
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parents:
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3650 automatically in compilation-mode windows.
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parents:
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3651
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parents:
diff changeset
3652 ** C mode changes
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parents:
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3653
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parents:
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3654 *** Multiline macros are now handled, both as they affect indentation,
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parents:
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3655 and as recognized syntax. New syntactic symbol cpp-macro-cont is
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parents:
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3656 assigned to second and subsequent lines of a multiline macro
26264
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3657 definition.
25853
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3658
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diff changeset
3659 *** A new style "user" which captures all non-hook-ified
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parents:
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3660 (i.e. top-level) .emacs file variable settings and customizations.
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parents:
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3661 Style "cc-mode" is an alias for "user" and is deprecated. "gnu"
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parents:
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3662 style is still the default however.
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parents:
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3663
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parents:
diff changeset
3664 *** "java" style now conforms to Sun's JDK coding style.
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parents:
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3665
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parents:
diff changeset
3666 *** There are new commands c-beginning-of-defun, c-end-of-defun which
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parents:
diff changeset
3667 are alternatives which you could bind to C-M-a and C-M-e if you prefer
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parents:
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3668 them. They do not have key bindings by default.
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parents:
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3669
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parents:
diff changeset
3670 *** New and improved implementations of M-a (c-beginning-of-statement)
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parents:
diff changeset
3671 and M-e (c-end-of-statement).
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parents:
diff changeset
3672
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parents:
diff changeset
3673 *** C++ namespace blocks are supported, with new syntactic symbols
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parents:
diff changeset
3674 namespace-open, namespace-close, and innamespace.
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parents:
diff changeset
3675
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parents:
diff changeset
3676 *** File local variable settings of c-file-style and c-file-offsets
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parents:
diff changeset
3677 makes the style variables local to that buffer only.
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parents:
diff changeset
3678
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parents:
diff changeset
3679 *** New indentation functions c-lineup-close-paren,
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parents:
diff changeset
3680 c-indent-one-line-block, c-lineup-dont-change.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3681
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parents:
diff changeset
3682 *** Improvements (hopefully!) to the way CC Mode is loaded. You
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3683 should now be able to do a (require 'cc-mode) to get the entire
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parents:
diff changeset
3684 package loaded properly for customization in your .emacs file. A new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3685 variable c-initialize-on-load controls this and is t by default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3686
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3687 ** Changes to hippie-expand.
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parents:
diff changeset
3688
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3689 *** New customization variable `hippie-expand-dabbrev-skip-space'. If
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
3690 non-nil, trailing spaces may be included in the abbreviation to search for,
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parents:
diff changeset
3691 which then gives the same behavior as the original `dabbrev-expand'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3692
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3693 *** New customization variable `hippie-expand-dabbrev-as-symbol'. If
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parents:
diff changeset
3694 non-nil, characters of syntax '_' is considered part of the word when
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parents:
diff changeset
3695 expanding dynamically.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3696
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parents:
diff changeset
3697 *** New customization variable `hippie-expand-no-restriction'. If
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parents:
diff changeset
3698 non-nil, narrowed buffers are widened before they are searched.
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parents:
diff changeset
3699
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parents:
diff changeset
3700 *** New customization variable `hippie-expand-only-buffers'. If
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parents:
diff changeset
3701 non-empty, buffers searched are restricted to the types specified in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3702 this list. Useful for example when constructing new special-purpose
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parents:
diff changeset
3703 expansion functions with `make-hippie-expand-function'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3704
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parents:
diff changeset
3705 *** Text properties of the expansion are no longer copied.
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parents:
diff changeset
3706
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parents:
diff changeset
3707 ** Changes in BibTeX mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3708
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parents:
diff changeset
3709 *** Any titleword matching a regexp in the new variable
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parents:
diff changeset
3710 bibtex-autokey-titleword-ignore (case sensitive) is ignored during
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3711 automatic key generation. This replaces variable
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parents:
diff changeset
3712 bibtex-autokey-titleword-first-ignore, which only checked for matches
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parents:
diff changeset
3713 against the first word in the title.
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parents:
diff changeset
3714
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parents:
diff changeset
3715 *** Autokey generation now uses all words from the title, not just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3716 capitalized words. To avoid conflicts with existing customizations,
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parents:
diff changeset
3717 bibtex-autokey-titleword-ignore is set up such that words starting with
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3718 lowerkey characters will still be ignored. Thus, if you want to use
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
3719 lowercase words from the title, you will have to overwrite the
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3720 bibtex-autokey-titleword-ignore standard setting.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3721
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parents:
diff changeset
3722 *** Case conversion of names and title words for automatic key
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parents:
diff changeset
3723 generation is more flexible. Variable bibtex-autokey-preserve-case is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3724 replaced by bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3725 bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3726
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3727 ** Changes in vcursor.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3728
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parents:
diff changeset
3729 *** Support for character terminals is available: there is a new keymap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3730 and the vcursor will appear as an arrow between buffer text. A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3731 variable `vcursor-interpret-input' allows input from the vcursor to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3732 entered exactly as if typed. Numerous functions, including
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3733 `vcursor-compare-windows', have been rewritten to improve consistency
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3734 in the selection of windows and corresponding keymaps.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3735
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parents:
diff changeset
3736 *** vcursor options can now be altered with M-x customize under the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3737 Editing group once the package is loaded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3738
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3739 *** Loading vcursor now does not define keys by default, as this is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3740 generally a bad side effect. Use M-x customize to set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3741 vcursor-key-bindings to t to restore the old behaviour.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3742
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3743 *** vcursor-auto-disable can be `copy', which turns off copying from the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3744 vcursor, but doesn't disable it, after any non-vcursor command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3745
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3746 ** Ispell changes.
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parents:
diff changeset
3747
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3748 *** You can now spell check comments and strings in the current
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3749 buffer with M-x ispell-comments-and-strings. Comments and strings
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
3750 are identified by syntax tables in effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3751
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3752 *** Generic region skipping implemented.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3753 A single buffer can be broken into a number of regions where text will
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3754 and will not be checked. The definitions of the regions can be user
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3755 defined. New applications and improvements made available by this
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3756 include:
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3757
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3758 o URLs are automatically skipped
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3759 o EMail message checking is vastly improved.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3760
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3761 *** Ispell can highlight the erroneous word even on non-window terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3762
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3763 ** Changes to RefTeX mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3764
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3765 RefTeX has been updated in order to make it more usable with very
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3766 large projects (like a several volume math book). The parser has been
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parents:
diff changeset
3767 re-written from scratch. To get maximum speed from RefTeX, check the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3768 section `Optimizations' in the manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3769
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3770 *** New recursive parser.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3771
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3772 The old version of RefTeX created a single large buffer containing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3773 entire multifile document in order to parse the document. The new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3774 recursive parser scans the individual files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3775
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3776 *** Parsing only part of a document.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3777
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
3778 Reparsing of changed document parts can now be made faster by enabling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3779 partial scans. To use this feature, read the documentation string of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3780 the variable `reftex-enable-partial-scans' and set the variable to t.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3781
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3782 (setq reftex-enable-partial-scans t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3783
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3784 *** Storing parsing information in a file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3785
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3786 This can improve startup times considerably. To turn it on, use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3787
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3788 (setq reftex-save-parse-info t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3789
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3790 *** Using multiple selection buffers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3791
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3792 If the creation of label selection buffers is too slow (this happens
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3793 for large documents), you can reuse these buffers by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3794
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3795 (setq reftex-use-multiple-selection-buffers t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3796
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3797 *** References to external documents.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3798
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3799 The LaTeX package `xr' allows to cross-reference labels in external
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3800 documents. RefTeX can provide information about the external
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3801 documents as well. To use this feature, set up the \externaldocument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3802 macros required by the `xr' package and rescan the document with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3803 RefTeX. The external labels can then be accessed with the `x' key in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3804 the selection buffer provided by `reftex-reference' (bound to `C-c )').
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3805 The `x' key also works in the table of contents buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3806
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3807 *** Many more labeled LaTeX environments are recognized by default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3808
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3809 The builtin command list now covers all the standard LaTeX commands,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3810 and all of the major packages included in the LaTeX distribution.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3811
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3812 Also, RefTeX now understands the \appendix macro and changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3813 the enumeration of sections in the *toc* buffer accordingly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3814
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3815 *** Mouse support for selection and *toc* buffers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3816
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3817 The mouse can now be used to select items in the selection and *toc*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3818 buffers. See also the new option `reftex-highlight-selection'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3819
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3820 *** New keymaps for selection and table of contents modes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3821
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3822 The selection processes for labels and citation keys, and the table of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3823 contents buffer now have their own keymaps: `reftex-select-label-map',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3824 `reftex-select-bib-map', `reftex-toc-map'. The selection processes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3825 have a number of new keys predefined. In particular, TAB lets you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3826 enter a label with completion. Check the on-the-fly help (press `?'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3827 at the selection prompt) or read the Info documentation to find out
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3828 more.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3829
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3830 *** Support for the varioref package
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3831
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3832 The `v' key in the label selection buffer toggles \ref versus \vref.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3833
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parents:
diff changeset
3834 *** New hooks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3835
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diff changeset
3836 Three new hooks can be used to redefine the way labels, references,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3837 and citations are created. These hooks are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3838 `reftex-format-label-function', `reftex-format-ref-function',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3839 `reftex-format-cite-function'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3840
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3841 *** Citations outside LaTeX
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3842
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3843 The command `reftex-citation' may also be used outside LaTeX (e.g. in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3844 a mail buffer). See the Info documentation for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3845
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3846 *** Short context is no longer fontified.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3847
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3848 The short context in the label menu no longer copies the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3849 fontification from the text in the buffer. If you prefer it to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3850 fontified, use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3851
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3852 (setq reftex-refontify-context t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3854 ** file-cache-minibuffer-complete now accepts a prefix argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3855 With a prefix argument, it does not try to do completion of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3856 the file name within its directory; it only checks for other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3857 directories that contain the same file name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3858
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3859 Thus, given the file name Makefile, and assuming that a file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3860 Makefile.in exists in the same directory, ordinary
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3861 file-cache-minibuffer-complete will try to complete Makefile to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3862 Makefile.in and will therefore never look for other directories that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3863 have Makefile. A prefix argument tells it not to look for longer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3864 names such as Makefile.in, so that instead it will look for other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3865 directories--just as if the name were already complete in its present
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3866 directory.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3867
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3868 ** New modes and packages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3869
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3870 *** There is a new alternative major mode for Perl, Cperl mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3871 It has many more features than Perl mode, and some people prefer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3872 it, but some do not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3873
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3874 *** There is a new major mode, M-x vhdl-mode, for editing files of VHDL
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3875 code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3876
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3877 *** M-x which-function-mode enables a minor mode that displays the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3878 current function name continuously in the mode line, as you move
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3879 around in a buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3880
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3881 Which Function mode is effective in major modes which support Imenu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3882
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3883 *** Gametree is a major mode for editing game analysis trees. The author
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3884 uses it for keeping notes about his postal Chess games, but it should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3885 be helpful for other two-player games as well, as long as they have an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3886 established system of notation similar to Chess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3887
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3888 *** The new minor mode checkdoc-minor-mode provides Emacs Lisp
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3889 documentation string checking for style and spelling. The style
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3890 guidelines are found in the Emacs Lisp programming manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3891
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3892 *** The net-utils package makes some common networking features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3893 available in Emacs. Some of these functions are wrappers around
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3894 system utilities (ping, nslookup, etc); others are implementations of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3895 simple protocols (finger, whois) in Emacs Lisp. There are also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3896 functions to make simple connections to TCP/IP ports for debugging and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3897 the like.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3898
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3899 *** highlight-changes-mode is a minor mode that uses colors to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3900 identify recently changed parts of the buffer text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3901
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3902 *** The new package `midnight' lets you specify things to be done
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3903 within Emacs at midnight--by default, kill buffers that you have not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3904 used in a considerable time. To use this feature, customize
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3905 the user option `midnight-mode' to t.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3906
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3907 *** The file generic-x.el defines a number of simple major modes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3908
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3909 apache-generic-mode: For Apache and NCSA httpd configuration files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3910 samba-generic-mode: Samba configuration files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3911 fvwm-generic-mode: For fvwm initialization files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3912 x-resource-generic-mode: For X resource files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3913 hosts-generic-mode: For hosts files (.rhosts, /etc/hosts, etc)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3914 mailagent-rules-generic-mode: For mailagent .rules files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3915 javascript-generic-mode: For JavaScript files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3916 vrml-generic-mode: For VRML files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3917 java-manifest-generic-mode: For Java MANIFEST files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3918 java-properties-generic-mode: For Java property files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3919 mailrc-generic-mode: For .mailrc files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3920
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3921 Platform-specific modes:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3922
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3923 prototype-generic-mode: For Solaris/Sys V prototype files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3924 pkginfo-generic-mode: For Solaris/Sys V pkginfo files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3925 alias-generic-mode: For C shell alias files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3926 inf-generic-mode: For MS-Windows INF files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3927 ini-generic-mode: For MS-Windows INI files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3928 reg-generic-mode: For MS-Windows Registry files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3929 bat-generic-mode: For MS-Windows BAT scripts
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3930 rc-generic-mode: For MS-Windows Resource files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3931 rul-generic-mode: For InstallShield scripts
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3932
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3933 * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 since the Emacs Lisp Manual was published
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3934
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3935 ** If you want a Lisp file to be read in unibyte mode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3936 use -*-unibyte: t;-*- on its first line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3937 That will force Emacs to read that file in unibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3938 Otherwise, the file will be loaded and byte-compiled in multibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3939
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3940 Thus, each lisp file is read in a consistent way regardless of whether
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3941 you started Emacs with --unibyte, so that a Lisp program gives
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3942 consistent results regardless of how Emacs was started.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3943
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3944 ** The new function assoc-default is useful for searching an alist,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3945 and using a default value if the key is not found there. You can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3946 specify a comparison predicate, so this function is useful for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3947 searching comparing a string against an alist of regular expressions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3948
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3949 ** The functions unibyte-char-to-multibyte and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3950 multibyte-char-to-unibyte convert between unibyte and multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3951 character codes, in a way that is appropriate for the current language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3952 environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3953
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3954 ** The functions read-event, read-char and read-char-exclusive now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3955 take two optional arguments. PROMPT, if non-nil, specifies a prompt
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3956 string. SUPPRESS-INPUT-METHOD, if non-nil, says to disable the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3957 current input method for reading this one event.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3958
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3959 ** Two new variables print-escape-nonascii and print-escape-multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3960 now control whether to output certain characters as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3961 backslash-sequences. print-escape-nonascii applies to single-byte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3962 non-ASCII characters; print-escape-multibyte applies to multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3963 characters. Both of these variables are used only when printing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3964 in readable fashion (prin1 uses them, princ does not).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3965
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3966 * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 before the Emacs Lisp Manual was published
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3967
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3968 ** Compiled Emacs Lisp files made with the modified "MBSK" version
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3969 of Emacs 20.2 do not work in Emacs 20.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3970
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3971 ** Buffer positions are now measured in characters, as they were
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3972 in Emacs 19 and before. This means that (forward-char 1)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3973 always increases point by 1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3974
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3975 The function chars-in-region now just subtracts its arguments. It is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3976 considered obsolete. The function char-boundary-p has been deleted.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3977
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3978 See below for additional changes relating to multibyte characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3979
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3980 ** defcustom, defface and defgroup now accept the keyword `:version'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3981 Use this to specify in which version of Emacs a certain variable's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3982 default value changed. For example,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3983
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3984 (defcustom foo-max 34 "*Maximum number of foo's allowed."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3985 :type 'integer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3986 :group 'foo
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3987 :version "20.3")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3988
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3989 (defgroup foo-group nil "The foo group."
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3990 :version "20.3")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3991
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3992 If an entire new group is added or the variables in it have the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3993 default values changed, then just add a `:version' to that group. It
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3994 is recommended that new packages added to the distribution contain a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3995 `:version' in the top level group.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3997 This information is used to control the customize-changed-options command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3998
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3999 ** It is now an error to change the value of a symbol whose name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4000 starts with a colon--if it is interned in the standard obarray.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4001
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4002 However, setting such a symbol to its proper value, which is that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4003 symbol itself, is not an error. This is for the sake of programs that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4004 support previous Emacs versions by explicitly setting these variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4005 to themselves.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4006
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4007 If you set the variable keyword-symbols-constant-flag to nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4008 this error is suppressed, and you can set these symbols to any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4009 values whatever.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4010
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4011 ** There is a new debugger command, R.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4012 It evaluates an expression like e, but saves the result
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4013 in the buffer *Debugger-record*.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4014
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4015 ** Frame-local variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4016
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4017 You can now make a variable local to various frames. To do this, call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4018 the function make-variable-frame-local; this enables frames to have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4019 local bindings for that variable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4020
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4021 These frame-local bindings are actually frame parameters: you create a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4022 frame-local binding in a specific frame by calling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4023 modify-frame-parameters and specifying the variable name as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4024 parameter name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4025
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4026 Buffer-local bindings take precedence over frame-local bindings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4027 Thus, if the current buffer has a buffer-local binding, that binding is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4028 active; otherwise, if the selected frame has a frame-local binding,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4029 that binding is active; otherwise, the default binding is active.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4030
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4031 It would not be hard to implement window-local bindings, but it is not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4032 clear that this would be very useful; windows tend to come and go in a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4033 very transitory fashion, so that trying to produce any specific effect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4034 through a window-local binding would not be very robust.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4035
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4036 ** `sregexq' and `sregex' are two new functions for constructing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4037 "symbolic regular expressions." These are Lisp expressions that, when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4038 evaluated, yield conventional string-based regexps. The symbolic form
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4039 makes it easier to construct, read, and maintain complex patterns.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4040 See the documentation in sregex.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4041
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4042 ** parse-partial-sexp's return value has an additional element which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4043 is used to pass information along if you pass it to another call to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4044 parse-partial-sexp, starting its scan where the first call ended.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4045 The contents of this field are not yet finalized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4046
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4047 ** eval-region now accepts a fourth optional argument READ-FUNCTION.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4048 If it is non-nil, that function is used instead of `read'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4049
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4050 ** unload-feature by default removes the feature's functions from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4051 known hooks to avoid trouble, but a package providing FEATURE can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4052 define a hook FEATURE-unload-hook to be run by unload-feature instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4053
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4054 ** read-from-minibuffer no longer returns the argument DEFAULT-VALUE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4055 when the user enters empty input. It now returns the null string, as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4056 it did in Emacs 19. The default value is made available in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4057 history via M-n, but it is not applied here as a default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4058
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4059 The other, more specialized minibuffer-reading functions continue to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4060 return the default value (not the null string) when the user enters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4061 empty input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4062
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4063 ** The new variable read-buffer-function controls which routine to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4064 for selecting buffers. For example, if you set this variable to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4065 `iswitchb-read-buffer', iswitchb will be used to read buffer names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4066 Other functions can also be used if they accept the same arguments as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4067 `read-buffer' and return the selected buffer name as a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4068
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4069 ** The new function read-passwd reads a password from the terminal,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4070 echoing a period for each character typed. It takes three arguments:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4071 a prompt string, a flag which says "read it twice to make sure", and a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4072 default password to use if the user enters nothing.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4073
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4074 ** The variable fill-nobreak-predicate gives major modes a way to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4075 specify not to break a line at certain places. Its value is a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4076 function which is called with no arguments, with point located at the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4077 place where a break is being considered. If the function returns
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4078 non-nil, then the line won't be broken there.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4079
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4080 ** window-end now takes an optional second argument, UPDATE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4081 If this is non-nil, then the function always returns an accurate
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4082 up-to-date value for the buffer position corresponding to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4083 end of the window, even if this requires computation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4084
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4085 ** other-buffer now takes an optional argument FRAME
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4086 which specifies which frame's buffer list to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4087 If it is nil, that means use the selected frame's buffer list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4088
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4089 ** The new variable buffer-display-time, always local in every buffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4090 holds the value of (current-time) as of the last time that a window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4091 was directed to display this buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4092
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4093 ** It is now meaningful to compare two window-configuration objects
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4094 with `equal'. Two window-configuration objects are equal if they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4095 describe equivalent arrangements of windows, in the same frame--in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4096 other words, if they would give the same results if passed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4097 set-window-configuration.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4098
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4099 ** compare-window-configurations is a new function that compares two
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4100 window configurations loosely. It ignores differences in saved buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4101 positions and scrolling, and considers only the structure and sizes of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4102 windows and the choice of buffers to display.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4103
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4104 ** The variable minor-mode-overriding-map-alist allows major modes to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4105 override the key bindings of a minor mode. The elements of this alist
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4106 look like the elements of minor-mode-map-alist: (VARIABLE . KEYMAP).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4107
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4108 If the VARIABLE in an element of minor-mode-overriding-map-alist has a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4109 non-nil value, the paired KEYMAP is active, and totally overrides the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4110 map (if any) specified for the same variable in minor-mode-map-alist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4111
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4112 minor-mode-overriding-map-alist is automatically local in all buffers,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4113 and it is meant to be set by major modes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4114
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4115 ** The function match-string-no-properties is like match-string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4116 except that it discards all text properties from the result.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4117
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4118 ** The function load-average now accepts an optional argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4119 USE-FLOATS. If it is non-nil, the load average values are returned as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4120 floating point numbers, rather than as integers to be divided by 100.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4121
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4122 ** The new variable temporary-file-directory specifies the directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4123 to use for creating temporary files. The default value is determined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4124 in a reasonable way for your operating system; on GNU and Unix systems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4125 it is based on the TMP and TMPDIR environment variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4126
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4127 ** Menu changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4128
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4129 *** easymenu.el now uses the new menu item format and supports the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4130 keywords :visible and :filter. The existing keyword :keys is now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4131 better supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4132
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4133 The variable `easy-menu-precalculate-equivalent-keybindings' controls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4134 a new feature which calculates keyboard equivalents for the menu when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4135 you define the menu. The default is t. If you rarely use menus, you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4136 can set the variable to nil to disable this precalculation feature;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4137 then the calculation is done only if you use the menu bar.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4138
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4139 *** A new format for menu items is supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4140
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4141 In a keymap, a key binding that has the format
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4142 (STRING . REAL-BINDING) or (STRING HELP-STRING . REAL-BINDING)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4143 defines a menu item. Now a menu item definition may also be a list that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4144 starts with the symbol `menu-item'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4146 The format is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4147 (menu-item ITEM-NAME) or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4148 (menu-item ITEM-NAME REAL-BINDING . ITEM-PROPERTY-LIST)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4149 where ITEM-NAME is an expression which evaluates to the menu item
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4150 string, and ITEM-PROPERTY-LIST has the form of a property list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4151 The supported properties include
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4152
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4153 :enable FORM Evaluate FORM to determine whether the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4154 item is enabled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4155 :visible FORM Evaluate FORM to determine whether the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4156 item should appear in the menu.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4157 :filter FILTER-FN
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4158 FILTER-FN is a function of one argument,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4159 which will be REAL-BINDING.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4160 It should return a binding to use instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4161 :keys DESCRIPTION
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4162 DESCRIPTION is a string that describes an equivalent keyboard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4163 binding for for REAL-BINDING. DESCRIPTION is expanded with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4164 `substitute-command-keys' before it is used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4165 :key-sequence KEY-SEQUENCE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4166 KEY-SEQUENCE is a key-sequence for an equivalent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4167 keyboard binding.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4168 :key-sequence nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4169 This means that the command normally has no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4170 keyboard equivalent.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4171 :help HELP HELP is the extra help string (not currently used).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4172 :button (TYPE . SELECTED)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4173 TYPE is :toggle or :radio.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4174 SELECTED is a form, to be evaluated, and its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4175 value says whether this button is currently selected.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4176
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4177 Buttons are at the moment only simulated by prefixes in the menu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4178 Eventually ordinary X-buttons may be supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4179
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4180 (menu-item ITEM-NAME) defines unselectable item.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4181
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4182 ** New event types
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4183
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4184 *** The new event type `mouse-wheel' is generated by a wheel on a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4185 mouse (such as the MS Intellimouse). The event contains a delta that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4186 corresponds to the amount and direction that the wheel is rotated,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4187 which is typically used to implement a scroll or zoom. The format is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4188
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4189 (mouse-wheel POSITION DELTA)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4190
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4191 where POSITION is a list describing the position of the event in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4192 same format as a mouse-click event, and DELTA is a signed number
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4193 indicating the number of increments by which the wheel was rotated. A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4194 negative DELTA indicates that the wheel was rotated backwards, towards
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4195 the user, and a positive DELTA indicates that the wheel was rotated
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4196 forward, away from the user.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4197
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4198 As of now, this event type is generated only on MS Windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4199
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4200 *** The new event type `drag-n-drop' is generated when a group of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4201 files is selected in an application outside of Emacs, and then dragged
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4202 and dropped onto an Emacs frame. The event contains a list of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4203 filenames that were dragged and dropped, which are then typically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4204 loaded into Emacs. The format is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4205
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4206 (drag-n-drop POSITION FILES)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4207
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4208 where POSITION is a list describing the position of the event in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4209 same format as a mouse-click event, and FILES is the list of filenames
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4210 that were dragged and dropped.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4211
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4212 As of now, this event type is generated only on MS Windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4213
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4214 ** Changes relating to multibyte characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4215
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4216 *** The variable enable-multibyte-characters is now read-only;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4217 any attempt to set it directly signals an error. The only way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4218 to change this value in an existing buffer is with set-buffer-multibyte.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4219
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4220 *** In a string constant, `\ ' now stands for "nothing at all". You
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4221 can use it to terminate a hex escape which is followed by a character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4222 that could otherwise be read as part of the hex escape.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4223
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4224 *** String indices are now measured in characters, as they were
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4225 in Emacs 19 and before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4226
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4227 The function chars-in-string has been deleted.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4228 The function concat-chars has been renamed to `string'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4229
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4230 *** The function set-buffer-multibyte sets the flag in the current
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4231 buffer that says whether the buffer uses multibyte representation or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4232 unibyte representation. If the argument is nil, it selects unibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4233 representation. Otherwise it selects multibyte representation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4234
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4235 This function does not change the contents of the buffer, viewed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4236 as a sequence of bytes. However, it does change the contents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4237 viewed as characters; a sequence of two bytes which is treated as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4238 one character when the buffer uses multibyte representation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4239 will count as two characters using unibyte representation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4240
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4241 This function sets enable-multibyte-characters to record which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4242 representation is in use. It also adjusts various data in the buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4243 (including its markers, overlays and text properties) so that they are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4244 consistent with the new representation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4245
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4246 *** string-make-multibyte takes a string and converts it to multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4247 representation. Most of the time, you don't need to care
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4248 about the representation, because Emacs converts when necessary;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4249 however, it makes a difference when you compare strings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4250
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4251 The conversion of non-ASCII characters works by adding the value of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4252 nonascii-insert-offset to each character, or by translating them
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4253 using the table nonascii-translation-table.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4254
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4255 *** string-make-unibyte takes a string and converts it to unibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4256 representation. Most of the time, you don't need to care about the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4257 representation, but it makes a difference when you compare strings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4258
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4259 The conversion from multibyte to unibyte representation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4260 loses information; the only time Emacs performs it automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4261 is when inserting a multibyte string into a unibyte buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4262
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4263 *** string-as-multibyte takes a string, and returns another string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4264 which contains the same bytes, but treats them as multibyte.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4265
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4266 *** string-as-unibyte takes a string, and returns another string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4267 which contains the same bytes, but treats them as unibyte.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4268
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4269 *** The new function compare-strings lets you compare
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4270 portions of two strings. Unibyte strings are converted to multibyte,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4271 so that a unibyte string can match a multibyte string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4272 You can specify whether to ignore case or not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4273
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4274 *** assoc-ignore-case now uses compare-strings so that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4275 it can treat unibyte and multibyte strings as equal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4276
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4277 *** Regular expression operations and buffer string searches now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4278 convert the search pattern to multibyte or unibyte to accord with the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4279 buffer or string being searched.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4280
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4281 One consequence is that you cannot always use \200-\377 inside of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4282 [...] to match all non-ASCII characters. This does still work when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4283 searching or matching a unibyte buffer or string, but not when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4284 searching or matching a multibyte string. Unfortunately, there is no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4285 obvious choice of syntax to use within [...] for that job. But, what
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4286 you want is just to match all non-ASCII characters, the regular
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4287 expression [^\0-\177] works for it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4288
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4289 *** Structure of coding system changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4290
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4291 All coding systems (including aliases and subsidiaries) are named
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4292 by symbols; the symbol's `coding-system' property is a vector
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4293 which defines the coding system. Aliases share the same vector
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4294 as the principal name, so that altering the contents of this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4295 vector affects the principal name and its aliases. You can define
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4296 your own alias name of a coding system by the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4297 define-coding-system-alias.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4298
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4299 The coding system definition includes a property list of its own. Use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4300 the new functions `coding-system-get' and `coding-system-put' to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4301 access such coding system properties as post-read-conversion,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4302 pre-write-conversion, character-translation-table-for-decode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4303 character-translation-table-for-encode, mime-charset, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4304 safe-charsets. For instance, (coding-system-get 'iso-latin-1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4305 'mime-charset) gives the corresponding MIME-charset parameter
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4306 `iso-8859-1'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4307
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4308 Among the coding system properties listed above, safe-charsets is new.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4309 The value of this property is a list of character sets which this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4310 coding system can correctly encode and decode. For instance:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4311 (coding-system-get 'iso-latin-1 'safe-charsets) => (ascii latin-iso8859-1)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4312
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4313 Here, "correctly encode" means that the encoded character sets can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4314 also be handled safely by systems other than Emacs as far as they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4315 are capable of that coding system. Though, Emacs itself can encode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4316 the other character sets and read it back correctly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4317
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4318 *** The new function select-safe-coding-system can be used to find a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4319 proper coding system for encoding the specified region or string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4320 This function requires a user interaction.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4321
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4322 *** The new functions find-coding-systems-region and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4323 find-coding-systems-string are helper functions used by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4324 select-safe-coding-system. They return a list of all proper coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4325 systems to encode a text in some region or string. If you don't want
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4326 a user interaction, use one of these functions instead of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4327 select-safe-coding-system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4328
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4329 *** The explicit encoding and decoding functions, such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4330 decode-coding-region and encode-coding-string, now set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4331 last-coding-system-used to reflect the actual way encoding or decoding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4332 was done.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4333
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4334 *** The new function detect-coding-with-language-environment can be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4335 used to detect a coding system of text according to priorities of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4336 coding systems used by some specific language environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4337
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4338 *** The functions detect-coding-region and detect-coding-string always
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4339 return a list if the arg HIGHEST is nil. Thus, if only ASCII
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4340 characters are found, they now return a list of single element
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4341 `undecided' or its subsidiaries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4342
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4343 *** The new functions coding-system-change-eol-conversion and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4344 coding-system-change-text-conversion can be used to get a different
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4345 coding system than what specified only in how end-of-line or text is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4346 converted.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4347
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4348 *** The new function set-selection-coding-system can be used to set a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4349 coding system for communicating with other X clients.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4350
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4351 *** The function `map-char-table' now passes as argument only valid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4352 character codes, plus generic characters that stand for entire
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4353 character sets or entire subrows of a character set. In other words,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4354 each time `map-char-table' calls its FUNCTION argument, the key value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4355 either will be a valid individual character code, or will stand for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4356 range of characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4357
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4358 *** The new function `char-valid-p' can be used for checking whether a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4359 Lisp object is a valid character code or not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4360
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4361 *** The new function `charset-after' returns a charset of a character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4362 in the current buffer at position POS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4363
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4364 *** Input methods are now implemented using the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4365 input-method-function. If this is non-nil, its value should be a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4366 function; then, whenever Emacs reads an input event that is a printing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4367 character with no modifier bits, it calls that function, passing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4368 event as an argument. Often this function will read more input, first
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4369 binding input-method-function to nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4370
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4371 The return value should be a list of the events resulting from input
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4372 method processing. These events will be processed sequentially as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4373 input, before resorting to unread-command-events. Events returned by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4374 the input method function are not passed to the input method function,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4375 not even if they are printing characters with no modifier bits.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4376
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4377 The input method function is not called when reading the second and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4378 subsequent events of a key sequence.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4379
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4380 *** You can customize any language environment by using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4381 set-language-environment-hook and exit-language-environment-hook.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4382
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4383 The hook `exit-language-environment-hook' should be used to undo
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4384 customizations that you made with set-language-environment-hook. For
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4385 instance, if you set up a special key binding for a specific language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4386 environment by set-language-environment-hook, you should set up
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4387 exit-language-environment-hook to restore the normal key binding.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4388
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4389 * Changes in Emacs 20.1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4390
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4391 ** Emacs has a new facility for customization of its many user
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4392 options. It is called M-x customize. With this facility you can look
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4393 at the many user options in an organized way; they are grouped into a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4394 tree structure.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4395
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4396 M-x customize also knows what sorts of values are legitimate for each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4397 user option and ensures that you don't use invalid values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4398
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4399 With M-x customize, you can set options either for the present Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4400 session or permanently. (Permanent settings are stored automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4401 in your .emacs file.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4402
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4403 ** Scroll bars are now on the left side of the window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4404 You can change this with M-x customize-option scroll-bar-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4405
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4406 ** The mode line no longer includes the string `Emacs'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4407 This makes more space in the mode line for other information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4408
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4409 ** When you select a region with the mouse, it is highlighted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4410 immediately afterward. At that time, if you type the DELETE key, it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4411 kills the region.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4412
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4413 The BACKSPACE key, and the ASCII character DEL, do not do this; they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4414 delete the character before point, as usual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4415
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4416 ** In an incremental search the whole current match is highlighted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4417 on terminals which support this. (You can disable this feature
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4418 by setting search-highlight to nil.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4419
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4420 ** In the minibuffer, in some cases, you can now use M-n to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4421 insert the default value into the minibuffer as text. In effect,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4422 the default value (if the minibuffer routines know it) is tacked
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4423 onto the history "in the future". (The more normal use of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4424 history list is to use M-p to insert minibuffer input used in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4425 past.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4426
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4427 ** In Text mode, now only blank lines separate paragraphs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4428 This makes it possible to get the full benefit of Adaptive Fill mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4429 in Text mode, and other modes derived from it (such as Mail mode).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4430 TAB in Text mode now runs the command indent-relative; this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4431 makes a practical difference only when you use indented paragraphs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4432
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4433 As a result, the old Indented Text mode is now identical to Text mode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4434 and is an alias for it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4435
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4436 If you want spaces at the beginning of a line to start a paragraph,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4437 use the new mode, Paragraph Indent Text mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4438
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4439 ** Scrolling changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4440
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4441 *** Scroll commands to scroll a whole screen now preserve the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4442 position of the cursor, if scroll-preserve-screen-position is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4443
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4444 In this mode, if you scroll several screens back and forth, finishing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4445 on the same screen where you started, the cursor goes back to the line
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4446 where it started.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4447
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4448 *** If you set scroll-conservatively to a small number, then when you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4449 move point a short distance off the screen, Emacs will scroll the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4450 screen just far enough to bring point back on screen, provided that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4451 does not exceed `scroll-conservatively' lines.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4452
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4453 *** The new variable scroll-margin says how close point can come to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4454 top or bottom of a window. It is a number of screen lines; if point
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4455 comes within that many lines of the top or bottom of the window, Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4456 recenters the window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4457
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4458 ** International character set support (MULE)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4459
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4460 Emacs now supports a wide variety of international character sets,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4461 including European variants of the Latin alphabet, as well as Chinese,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4462 Devanagari (Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopian, Greek, IPA, Japanese,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4463 Korean, Lao, Russian, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts. These
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4464 features have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4465 MULE (for "MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4466
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4467 Users of these scripts have established many more-or-less standard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4468 coding systems for storing files. Emacs uses a single multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4469 character encoding within Emacs buffers; it can translate from a wide
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4470 variety of coding systems when reading a file and can translate back
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4471 into any of these coding systems when saving a file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4472
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4473 Keyboards, even in the countries where these character sets are used,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4474 generally don't have keys for all the characters in them. So Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4475 supports various "input methods", typically one for each script or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4476 language, to make it possible to type them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4477
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4478 The Emacs internal multibyte encoding represents a non-ASCII
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4479 character as a sequence of bytes in the range 0200 through 0377.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4480
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4481 The new prefix key C-x RET is used for commands that pertain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4482 to multibyte characters, coding systems, and input methods.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4483
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4484 You can disable multibyte character support as follows:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4485
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4486 (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters nil)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4487
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4488 Calling the function standard-display-european turns off multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4489 characters, unless you specify a non-nil value for the second
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4490 argument, AUTO. This provides compatibility for people who are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4491 already using standard-display-european to continue using unibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4492 characters for their work until they want to change.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4493
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4494 *** Input methods
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4495
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4496 An input method is a kind of character conversion which is designed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4497 specifically for interactive input. In Emacs, typically each language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4498 has its own input method (though sometimes several languages which use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4499 the same characters can share one input method). Some languages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4500 support several input methods.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4501
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4502 The simplest kind of input method works by mapping ASCII letters into
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4503 another alphabet. This is how the Greek and Russian input methods
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4504 work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4505
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4506 A more powerful technique is composition: converting sequences of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4507 characters into one letter. Many European input methods use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4508 composition to produce a single non-ASCII letter from a sequence which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4509 consists of a letter followed by diacritics. For example, a' is one
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4510 sequence of two characters that might be converted into a single
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4511 letter.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4512
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4513 The input methods for syllabic scripts typically use mapping followed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4514 by conversion. The input methods for Thai and Korean work this way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4515 First, letters are mapped into symbols for particular sounds or tone
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4516 marks; then, sequences of these which make up a whole syllable are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4517 mapped into one syllable sign--most often a "composite character".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4518
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4519 None of these methods works very well for Chinese and Japanese, so
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4520 they are handled specially. First you input a whole word using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4521 phonetic spelling; then, after the word is in the buffer, Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4522 converts it into one or more characters using a large dictionary.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4523
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4524 Since there is more than one way to represent a phonetically spelled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4525 word using Chinese characters, Emacs can only guess which one to use;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4526 typically these input methods give you a way to say "guess again" if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4527 the first guess is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4528
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4529 *** The command C-x RET m (toggle-enable-multibyte-characters)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4530 turns multibyte character support on or off for the current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4531
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4532 If multibyte character support is turned off in a buffer, then each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4533 byte is a single character, even codes 0200 through 0377--exactly as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4534 they did in Emacs 19.34. This includes the features for support for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4535 the European characters, ISO Latin-1 and ISO Latin-2.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4536
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4537 However, there is no need to turn off multibyte character support to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4538 use ISO Latin-1 or ISO Latin-2; the Emacs multibyte character set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4539 includes all the characters in these character sets, and Emacs can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4540 translate automatically to and from either one.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4541
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4542 *** Visiting a file in unibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4543
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4544 Turning off multibyte character support in the buffer after visiting a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4545 file with multibyte code conversion will display the multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4546 sequences already in the buffer, byte by byte. This is probably not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4547 what you want.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4548
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4549 If you want to edit a file of unibyte characters (Latin-1, for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4550 example), you can do it by specifying `no-conversion' as the coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4551 system when reading the file. This coding system also turns off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4552 multibyte characters in that buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4553
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4554 If you turn off multibyte character support entirely, this turns off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4555 character conversion as well.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4556
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4557 *** Displaying international characters on X Windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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4558
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4559 A font for X typically displays just one alphabet or script.
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4560 Therefore, displaying the entire range of characters Emacs supports
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4561 requires using many fonts.
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4562
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4563 Therefore, Emacs now supports "fontsets". Each fontset is a
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4564 collection of fonts, each assigned to a range of character codes.
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4565
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4566 A fontset has a name, like a font. Individual fonts are defined by
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4567 the X server; fontsets are defined within Emacs itself. But once you
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4568 have defined a fontset, you can use it in a face or a frame just as
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4569 you would use a font.
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parents:
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4570
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4571 If a fontset specifies no font for a certain character, or if it
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4572 specifies a font that does not exist on your system, then it cannot
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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4573 display that character. It will display an empty box instead.
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parents:
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4574
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4575 The fontset height and width are determined by the ASCII characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4576 (that is, by the font in the fontset which is used for ASCII
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4577 characters). If another font in the fontset has a different height,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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4578 or the wrong width, then characters assigned to that font are clipped,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4579 and displayed within a box if highlight-wrong-size-font is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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4580
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parents:
diff changeset
4581 *** Defining fontsets.
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4582
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4583 Emacs does not use any fontset by default. Its default font is still
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parents:
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4584 chosen as in previous versions. You can tell Emacs to use a fontset
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4585 with the `-fn' option or the `Font' X resource.
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parents:
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4586
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4587 Emacs creates a standard fontset automatically according to the value
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parents:
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4588 of standard-fontset-spec. This fontset's short name is
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parents:
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4589 `fontset-standard'. Bold, italic, and bold-italic variants of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4590 standard fontset are created automatically.
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parents:
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4591
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4592 If you specify a default ASCII font with the `Font' resource or `-fn'
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4593 argument, a fontset is generated from it. This works by replacing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4594 FOUNDARY, FAMILY, ADD_STYLE, and AVERAGE_WIDTH fields of the font name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4595 with `*' then using this to specify a fontset. This fontset's short
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4596 name is `fontset-startup'.
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4597
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4598 Emacs checks resources of the form Fontset-N where N is 0, 1, 2...
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parents:
diff changeset
4599 The resource value should have this form:
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4600 FONTSET-NAME, [CHARSET-NAME:FONT-NAME]...
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4601 FONTSET-NAME should have the form of a standard X font name, except:
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parents:
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4602 * most fields should be just the wild card "*".
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parents:
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4603 * the CHARSET_REGISTRY field should be "fontset"
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4604 * the CHARSET_ENCODING field can be any nickname of the fontset.
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4605 The construct CHARSET-NAME:FONT-NAME can be repeated any number
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4606 of times; each time specifies the font for one character set.
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parents:
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4607 CHARSET-NAME should be the name name of a character set, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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4608 FONT-NAME should specify an actual font to use for that character set.
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4609
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4610 Each of these fontsets has an alias which is made from the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4611 last two font name fields, CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING.
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4612 You can refer to the fontset by that alias or by its full name.
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parents:
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4613
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4614 For any character sets that you don't mention, Emacs tries to choose a
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4615 font by substituting into FONTSET-NAME. For instance, with the
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parents:
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4616 following resource,
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parents:
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4617 Emacs*Fontset-0: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-24
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parents:
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4618 the font for ASCII is generated as below:
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parents:
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4619 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-ISO8859-1
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4620 Here is the substitution rule:
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parents:
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4621 Change CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING to that of the charset
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parents:
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4622 defined in the variable x-charset-registries. For instance, ASCII has
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parents:
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4623 the entry (ascii . "ISO8859-1") in this variable. Then, reduce
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4624 sequences of wild cards -*-...-*- with a single wildcard -*-.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4625 (This is to prevent use of auto-scaled fonts.)
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parents:
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4626
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parents:
diff changeset
4627 The function which processes the fontset resource value to create the
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parents:
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4628 fontset is called create-fontset-from-fontset-spec. You can also call
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parents:
diff changeset
4629 that function explicitly to create a fontset.
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parents:
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4630
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parents:
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4631 With the X resource Emacs.Font, you can specify a fontset name just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4632 like an actual font name. But be careful not to specify a fontset
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4633 name in a wildcard resource like Emacs*Font--that tries to specify the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4634 fontset for other purposes including menus, and they cannot handle
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4635 fontsets.
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parents:
diff changeset
4636
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parents:
diff changeset
4637 *** The command M-x set-language-environment sets certain global Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4638 defaults for a particular choice of language.
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parents:
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4639
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parents:
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4640 Selecting a language environment typically specifies a default input
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parents:
diff changeset
4641 method and which coding systems to recognize automatically when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4642 visiting files. However, it does not try to reread files you have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4643 already visited; the text in those buffers is not affected. The
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parents:
diff changeset
4644 language environment may also specify a default choice of coding
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parents:
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4645 system for new files that you create.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4646
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parents:
diff changeset
4647 It makes no difference which buffer is current when you use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4648 set-language-environment, because these defaults apply globally to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4649 whole Emacs session.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4650
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parents:
diff changeset
4651 For example, M-x set-language-environment RET Latin-1 RET
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4652 chooses the Latin-1 character set. In the .emacs file, you can do this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4653 with (set-language-environment "Latin-1").
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4654
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4655 *** The command C-x RET f (set-buffer-file-coding-system)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4656 specifies the file coding system for the current buffer. This
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4657 specifies what sort of character code translation to do when saving
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4658 the file. As an argument, you must specify the name of one of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4659 coding systems that Emacs supports.
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parents:
diff changeset
4660
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parents:
diff changeset
4661 *** The command C-x RET c (universal-coding-system-argument)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4662 lets you specify a coding system when you read or write a file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4663 This command uses the minibuffer to read a coding system name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4664 After you exit the minibuffer, the specified coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4665 is used for *the immediately following command*.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4666
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4667 So if the immediately following command is a command to read or
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parents:
diff changeset
4668 write a file, it uses the specified coding system for that file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4669
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4670 If the immediately following command does not use the coding system,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4671 then C-x RET c ultimately has no effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4672
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parents:
diff changeset
4673 For example, C-x RET c iso-8859-1 RET C-x C-f temp RET
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parents:
diff changeset
4674 visits the file `temp' treating it as ISO Latin-1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4675
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4676 *** You can specify the coding system for a file using the -*-
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parents:
diff changeset
4677 construct. Include `coding: CODINGSYSTEM;' inside the -*-...-*-
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4678 to specify use of coding system CODINGSYSTEM. You can also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4679 specify the coding system in a local variable list at the end
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4680 of the file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4681
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parents:
diff changeset
4682 *** The command C-x RET t (set-terminal-coding-system) specifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4683 the coding system for terminal output. If you specify a character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4684 code for terminal output, all characters output to the terminal are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4685 translated into that character code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4686
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4687 This feature is useful for certain character-only terminals built in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4688 various countries to support the languages of those countries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4689
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4690 By default, output to the terminal is not translated at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4691
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4692 *** The command C-x RET k (set-keyboard-coding-system) specifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4693 the coding system for keyboard input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4694
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4695 Character code translation of keyboard input is useful for terminals
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4696 with keys that send non-ASCII graphic characters--for example,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4697 some terminals designed for ISO Latin-1 or subsets of it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4698
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4699 By default, keyboard input is not translated at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4700
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4701 Character code translation of keyboard input is similar to using an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4702 input method, in that both define sequences of keyboard input that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4703 translate into single characters. However, input methods are designed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4704 to be convenient for interactive use, while the code translations are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4705 designed to work with terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4706
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4707 *** The command C-x RET p (set-buffer-process-coding-system)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4708 specifies the coding system for input and output to a subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4709 This command applies to the current buffer; normally, each subprocess
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4710 has its own buffer, and thus you can use this command to specify
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4711 translation to and from a particular subprocess by giving the command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4712 in the corresponding buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4713
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4714 By default, process input and output are not translated at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4715
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4716 *** The variable file-name-coding-system specifies the coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4717 to use for encoding file names before operating on them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4718 It is also used for decoding file names obtained from the system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4719
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4720 *** The command C-\ (toggle-input-method) activates or deactivates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4721 an input method. If no input method has been selected before, the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4722 command prompts for you to specify the language and input method you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4723 want to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4724
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4725 C-u C-\ (select-input-method) lets you switch to a different input
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4726 method. C-h C-\ (or C-h I) describes the current input method.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4727
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4728 *** Some input methods remap the keyboard to emulate various keyboard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4729 layouts commonly used for particular scripts. How to do this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4730 remapping properly depends on your actual keyboard layout. To specify
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4731 which layout your keyboard has, use M-x quail-set-keyboard-layout.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4732
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4733 *** The command C-h C (describe-coding-system) displays
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4734 the coding systems currently selected for various purposes, plus
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4735 related information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4736
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4737 *** The command C-h h (view-hello-file) displays a file called
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4738 HELLO, which has examples of text in many languages, using various
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4739 scripts.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4740
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4741 *** The command C-h L (describe-language-support) displays
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4742 information about the support for a particular language.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4743 You specify the language as an argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4744
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4745 *** The mode line now contains a letter or character that identifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4746 the coding system used in the visited file. It normally follows the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4747 first dash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4748
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4749 A dash indicates the default state of affairs: no code conversion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4750 (except CRLF => newline if appropriate). `=' means no conversion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4751 whatsoever. The ISO 8859 coding systems are represented by digits
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4752 1 through 9. Other coding systems are represented by letters:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4753
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4754 A alternativnyj (Russian)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4755 B big5 (Chinese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4756 C cn-gb-2312 (Chinese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4757 C iso-2022-cn (Chinese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4758 D in-is13194-devanagari (Indian languages)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4759 E euc-japan (Japanese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4760 I iso-2022-cjk or iso-2022-ss2 (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4761 J junet (iso-2022-7) or old-jis (iso-2022-jp-1978-irv) (Japanese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4762 K euc-korea (Korean)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4763 R koi8 (Russian)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4764 Q tibetan
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4765 S shift_jis (Japanese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4766 T lao
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4767 T tis620 (Thai)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4768 V viscii or vscii (Vietnamese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4769 i iso-2022-lock (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4770 k iso-2022-kr (Korean)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4771 v viqr (Vietnamese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4772 z hz (Chinese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4773
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4774 When you are using a character-only terminal (not a window system),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4775 two additional characters appear in between the dash and the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4776 coding system. These two characters describe the coding system for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4777 keyboard input, and the coding system for terminal output.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4778
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4779 *** The new variable rmail-file-coding-system specifies the code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4780 conversion to use for RMAIL files. The default value is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4781
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4782 When you read mail with Rmail, each message is decoded automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4783 into Emacs' internal format. This has nothing to do with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4784 rmail-file-coding-system. That variable controls reading and writing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4785 Rmail files themselves.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4786
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4787 *** The new variable sendmail-coding-system specifies the code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4788 conversion for outgoing mail. The default value is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4789
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4790 Actually, there are three different ways of specifying the coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4791 for sending mail:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4792
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4793 - If you use C-x RET f in the mail buffer, that takes priority.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4794 - Otherwise, if you set sendmail-coding-system non-nil, that specifies it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4795 - Otherwise, the default coding system for new files is used,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4796 if that is non-nil. That comes from your language environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4797 - Otherwise, Latin-1 is used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4798
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4799 *** The command C-h t (help-with-tutorial) accepts a prefix argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4800 to specify the language for the tutorial file. Currently, English,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4801 Japanese, Korean and Thai are supported. We welcome additional
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4802 translations.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4803
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4804 ** An easy new way to visit a file with no code or format conversion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4805 of any kind: Use M-x find-file-literally. There is also a command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4806 insert-file-literally which inserts a file into the current buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4807 without any conversion.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4808
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4809 ** C-q's handling of octal character codes is changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4810 You can now specify any number of octal digits.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4811 RET terminates the digits and is discarded;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4812 any other non-digit terminates the digits and is then used as input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4813
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4814 ** There are new commands for looking up Info documentation for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4815 functions, variables and file names used in your programs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4816
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4817 Type M-x info-lookup-symbol to look up a symbol in the buffer at point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4818 Type M-x info-lookup-file to look up a file in the buffer at point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4819
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4820 Precisely which Info files are used to look it up depends on the major
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4821 mode. For example, in C mode, the GNU libc manual is used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4822
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4823 ** M-TAB in most programming language modes now runs the command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4824 complete-symbol. This command performs completion on the symbol name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4825 in the buffer before point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4826
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4827 With a numeric argument, it performs completion based on the set of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4828 symbols documented in the Info files for the programming language that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4829 you are using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4830
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4831 With no argument, it does completion based on the current tags tables,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4832 just like the old binding of M-TAB (complete-tag).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4833
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4834 ** File locking works with NFS now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4835
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4836 The lock file for FILENAME is now a symbolic link named .#FILENAME,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4837 in the same directory as FILENAME.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4838
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4839 This means that collision detection between two different machines now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4840 works reasonably well; it also means that no file server or directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4841 can become a bottleneck.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4842
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4843 The new method does have drawbacks. It means that collision detection
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4844 does not operate when you edit a file in a directory where you cannot
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4845 create new files. Collision detection also doesn't operate when the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4846 file server does not support symbolic links. But these conditions are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4847 rare, and the ability to have collision detection while using NFS is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4848 so useful that the change is worth while.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4849
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4850 When Emacs or a system crashes, this may leave behind lock files which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4851 are stale. So you may occasionally get warnings about spurious
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4852 collisions. When you determine that the collision is spurious, just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4853 tell Emacs to go ahead anyway.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4854
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4855 ** If you wish to use Show Paren mode to display matching parentheses,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4856 it is no longer sufficient to load paren.el. Instead you must call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4857 show-paren-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4858
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4859 ** If you wish to use Delete Selection mode to replace a highlighted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4860 selection when you insert new text, it is no longer sufficient to load
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4861 delsel.el. Instead you must call the function delete-selection-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4862
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4863 ** If you wish to use Partial Completion mode to complete partial words
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4864 within symbols or filenames, it is no longer sufficient to load
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4865 complete.el. Instead you must call the function partial-completion-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4866
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4867 ** If you wish to use uniquify to rename buffers for you,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4868 it is no longer sufficient to load uniquify.el. You must also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4869 set uniquify-buffer-name-style to one of the non-nil legitimate values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4870
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4871 ** Changes in View mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4872
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4873 *** Several new commands are available in View mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4874 Do H in view mode for a list of commands.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4875
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4876 *** There are two new commands for entering View mode:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4877 view-file-other-frame and view-buffer-other-frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4878
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4879 *** Exiting View mode does a better job of restoring windows to their
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4880 previous state.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4881
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4882 *** New customization variable view-scroll-auto-exit. If non-nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4883 scrolling past end of buffer makes view mode exit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4884
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4885 *** New customization variable view-exits-all-viewing-windows. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4886 non-nil, view-mode will at exit restore all windows viewing buffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4887 not just the selected window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4888
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4889 *** New customization variable view-read-only. If non-nil, visiting a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4890 read-only file automatically enters View mode, and toggle-read-only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4891 turns View mode on or off.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4892
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4893 *** New customization variable view-remove-frame-by-deleting controls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4894 how to remove a not needed frame at view mode exit. If non-nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4895 delete the frame, if nil make an icon of it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4896
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4897 ** C-x v l, the command to print a file's version control log,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4898 now positions point at the entry for the file's current branch version.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4899
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4900 ** C-x v =, the command to compare a file with the last checked-in version,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4901 has a new feature. If the file is currently not locked, so that it is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4902 presumably identical to the last checked-in version, the command now asks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4903 which version to compare with.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4904
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4905 ** When using hideshow.el, incremental search can temporarily show hidden
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4906 blocks if a match is inside the block.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4907
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4908 The block is hidden again if the search is continued and the next match
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4909 is outside the block. By customizing the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4910 isearch-hide-immediately you can choose to hide all the temporarily
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4911 shown blocks only when exiting from incremental search.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4912
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4913 By customizing the variable hs-isearch-open you can choose what kind
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4914 of blocks to temporarily show during isearch: comment blocks, code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4915 blocks, all of them or none.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4916
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4917 ** The new command C-x 4 0 (kill-buffer-and-window) kills the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4918 current buffer and deletes the selected window. It asks for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4919 confirmation first.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4920
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4921 ** C-x C-w, which saves the buffer into a specified file name,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4922 now changes the major mode according to that file name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4923 However, the mode will not be changed if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4924 (1) a local variables list or the `-*-' line specifies a major mode, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4925 (2) the current major mode is a "special" mode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4926 not suitable for ordinary files, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4927 (3) the new file name does not particularly specify any mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4928
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4929 This applies to M-x set-visited-file-name as well.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4930
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4931 However, if you set change-major-mode-with-file-name to nil, then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4932 these commands do not change the major mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4933
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4934 ** M-x occur changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4935
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4936 *** If the argument to M-x occur contains upper case letters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4937 it performs a case-sensitive search.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4938
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4939 *** In the *Occur* buffer made by M-x occur,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4940 if you type g or M-x revert-buffer, this repeats the search
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4941 using the same regular expression and the same buffer as before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4942
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4943 ** In Transient Mark mode, the region in any one buffer is highlighted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4944 in just one window at a time. At first, it is highlighted in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4945 window where you set the mark. The buffer's highlighting remains in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4946 that window unless you select to another window which shows the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4947 buffer--then the highlighting moves to that window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4948
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4949 ** The feature to suggest key bindings when you use M-x now operates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4950 after the command finishes. The message suggesting key bindings
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4951 appears temporarily in the echo area. The previous echo area contents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4952 come back after a few seconds, in case they contain useful information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4953
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4954 ** Each frame now independently records the order for recently
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4955 selected buffers, so that the default for C-x b is now based on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4956 buffers recently selected in the selected frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4957
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4958 ** Outline mode changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4959
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4960 *** Outline mode now uses overlays (this is the former noutline.el).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4961
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4962 *** Incremental searches skip over invisible text in Outline mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4963
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4964 ** When a minibuffer window is active but not the selected window, if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4965 you try to use the minibuffer, you used to get a nested minibuffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4966 Now, this not only gives an error, it also cancels the minibuffer that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4967 was already active.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4968
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4969 The motive for this change is so that beginning users do not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4970 unknowingly move away from minibuffers, leaving them active, and then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4971 get confused by it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4972
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4973 If you want to be able to have recursive minibuffers, you must
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4974 set enable-recursive-minibuffers to non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4975
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4976 ** Changes in dynamic abbrevs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4977
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4978 *** Expanding dynamic abbrevs with M-/ is now smarter about case
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4979 conversion. If the expansion has mixed case not counting the first
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4980 character, and the abbreviation matches the beginning of the expansion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4981 including case, then the expansion is copied verbatim.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4982
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4983 The expansion is also copied verbatim if the abbreviation itself has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4984 mixed case. And using SPC M-/ to copy an additional word always
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4985 copies it verbatim except when the previous copied word is all caps.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4986
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4987 *** The values of `dabbrev-case-replace' and `dabbrev-case-fold-search'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4988 are no longer Lisp expressions. They have simply three possible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4989 values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4990
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4991 `dabbrev-case-replace' has these three values: nil (don't preserve
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4992 case), t (do), or `case-replace' (do like M-x query-replace).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4993 `dabbrev-case-fold-search' has these three values: nil (don't ignore
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4994 case), t (do), or `case-fold-search' (do like search).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4995
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4996 ** Minibuffer history lists are truncated automatically now to a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4997 certain length. The variable history-length specifies how long they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4998 can be. The default value is 30.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4999
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5000 ** Changes in Mail mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5001
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5002 *** The key C-x m no longer runs the `mail' command directly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5003 Instead, it runs the command `compose-mail', which invokes the mail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5004 composition mechanism you have selected with the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5005 `mail-user-agent'. The default choice of user agent is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5006 `sendmail-user-agent', which gives behavior compatible with the old
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5007 behavior.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5008
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5009 C-x 4 m now runs compose-mail-other-window, and C-x 5 m runs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5010 compose-mail-other-frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5011
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5012 *** While composing a reply to a mail message, from Rmail, you can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5013 the command C-c C-r to cite just the region from the message you are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5014 replying to. This copies the text which is the selected region in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5015 buffer that shows the original message.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5016
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5017 *** The command C-c C-i inserts a file at the end of the message,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5018 with separator lines around the contents.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5019
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5020 *** The command M-x expand-mail-aliases expands all mail aliases
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5021 in suitable mail headers. Emacs automatically extracts mail alias
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5022 definitions from your mail alias file (e.g., ~/.mailrc). You do not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5023 need to expand mail aliases yourself before sending mail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5024
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5025 *** New features in the mail-complete command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5026
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5027 **** The mail-complete command now inserts the user's full name,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5028 for local users or if that is known. The variable mail-complete-style
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5029 controls the style to use, and whether to do this at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5030 Its values are like those of mail-from-style.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5031
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5032 **** The variable mail-passwd-command lets you specify a shell command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5033 to run to fetch a set of password-entries that add to the ones in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5034 /etc/passwd.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5035
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5036 **** The variable mail-passwd-file now specifies a list of files to read
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5037 to get the list of user ids. By default, one file is used:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5038 /etc/passwd.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5039
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5040 ** You can "quote" a file name to inhibit special significance of
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5041 special syntax, by adding `/:' to the beginning. Thus, if you have a
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parents:
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5042 directory named `/foo:', you can prevent it from being treated as a
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5043 reference to a remote host named `foo' by writing it as `/:/foo:'.
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5044
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5045 Emacs uses this new construct automatically when necessary, such as
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parents:
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5046 when you start it with a working directory whose name might otherwise
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5047 be taken to be magic.
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5048
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parents:
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5049 ** There is a new command M-x grep-find which uses find to select
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parents:
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5050 files to search through, and grep to scan them. The output is
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parents:
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5051 available in a Compile mode buffer, as with M-x grep.
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parents:
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5052
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5053 M-x grep now uses the -e option if the grep program supports that.
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parents:
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5054 (-e prevents problems if the search pattern starts with a dash.)
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parents:
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5055
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parents:
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5056 ** In Dired, the & command now flags for deletion the files whose names
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5057 suggest they are probably not needed in the long run.
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parents:
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5058
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5059 In Dired, * is now a prefix key for mark-related commands.
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parents:
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5060
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5061 new key dired.el binding old key
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5062 ------- ---------------- -------
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parents:
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5063 * c dired-change-marks c
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parents:
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5064 * m dired-mark m
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parents:
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5065 * * dired-mark-executables * (binding deleted)
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parents:
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5066 * / dired-mark-directories / (binding deleted)
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parents:
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5067 * @ dired-mark-symlinks @ (binding deleted)
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parents:
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5068 * u dired-unmark u
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parents:
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5069 * DEL dired-unmark-backward DEL
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parents:
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5070 * ? dired-unmark-all-files M-C-?
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parents:
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5071 * ! dired-unmark-all-marks
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parents:
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5072 * % dired-mark-files-regexp % m
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parents:
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5073 * C-n dired-next-marked-file M-}
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parents:
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5074 * C-p dired-prev-marked-file M-{
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parents:
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5075
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parents:
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5076 ** Rmail changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5077
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5078 *** When Rmail cannot convert your incoming mail into Babyl format, it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5079 saves the new mail in the file RMAILOSE.n, where n is an integer
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parents:
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5080 chosen to make a unique name. This way, Rmail will not keep crashing
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5081 each time you run it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5082
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parents:
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5083 *** In Rmail, the variable rmail-summary-line-count-flag now controls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5084 whether to include the line count in the summary. Non-nil means yes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5085
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parents:
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5086 *** In Rmail summary buffers, d and C-d (the commands to delete
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5087 messages) now take repeat counts as arguments. A negative argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5088 means to move in the opposite direction.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5089
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parents:
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5090 *** In Rmail, the t command now takes an optional argument which lets
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parents:
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5091 you specify whether to show the message headers in full or pruned.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5092
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parents:
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5093 *** In Rmail, the new command w (rmail-output-body-to-file) writes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5094 just the body of the current message into a file, without the headers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5095 It takes the file name from the message subject, by default, but you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5096 can edit that file name in the minibuffer before it is actually used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5097 for output.
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parents:
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5098
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parents:
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5099 ** Gnus changes.
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parents:
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5100
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parents:
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5101 *** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
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parents:
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5102
26264
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parents: 26171
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5103 *** Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
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5104 Gnus.
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parents: 26171
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5105
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parents: 26171
diff changeset
5106 *** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
25853
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parents:
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5107 `and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
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parents:
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5108
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parents:
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5109 *** Article washing status can be displayed in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5110 article mode line.
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parents:
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5111
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parents:
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5112 *** gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
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parents:
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5113
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parents:
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5114 *** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5115
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parents:
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5116 (setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
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parents:
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5117
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parents:
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5118 *** New variables for specifying what score and adapt files
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parents:
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5119 are to be considered home score and adapt files. See
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parents:
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5120 `gnus-home-score-file' and `gnus-home-adapt-files'.
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parents:
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5121
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parents:
diff changeset
5122 *** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
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parents:
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5123
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parents:
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5124 *** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5125
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5126 *** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5127 See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5128
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5129 *** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5130 Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5131 used to pick articles.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5132
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5133 *** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5134 another have been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5135
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5136 `M-x gnus-change-server'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5137
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5138 *** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5139 generating lines in buffers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5140
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5141 *** Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5142 `M-C-_'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5143
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5144 *** Scoring can be done on words using the new score type `w'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5146 *** Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5147
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5148 (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
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parents:
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5149
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5150 *** Scores can be decayed.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5151
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parents:
diff changeset
5152 (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
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parents:
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5153
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parents:
diff changeset
5154 *** Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5155 Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5156
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parents:
diff changeset
5157 *** A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5158 the native server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5159
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5160 `M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5161
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5162 *** A new command for reading collections of documents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5163 (nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5164
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parents:
diff changeset
5165 *** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5166
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5167 *** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5168 even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5169
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5170 *** A new backend for reading searches from Web search engines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5171 (DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5172
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5173 Use the `G w' command in the group buffer to create such
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5174 a group.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5175
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5176 *** Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5177 sorting functions, and each topic can be sorted independently.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5178
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5179 See the commands under the `T S' submap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5180
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5181 *** Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5182
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5183 See the commands under the `G P' submap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5184
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5185 *** Cached articles can be pulled into the groups.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5186
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5187 Use the `Y c' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5188
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5189 *** Score files are now applied in a more reliable order.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5190
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5191 *** Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5192
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5193 `M-x nnmail-split-history'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5194
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5195 *** More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5196 from incoming mail before saving the mail.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5197
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5198 See `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5199
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5200 *** The nnml mail backend now understands compressed article files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5201
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5202 *** To enable Gnus to read/post multi-lingual articles, you must execute
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5203 the following code, for instance, in your .emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5204
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5205 (add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'gnus-mule-initialize)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5206
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5207 Then, when you start Gnus, it will decode non-ASCII text automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5208 and show appropriate characters. (Note: if you are using gnus-mime
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5209 from the SEMI package, formerly known as TM, you should NOT add this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5210 hook to gnus-startup-hook; gnus-mime has its own method of handling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5211 this issue.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5212
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5213 Since it is impossible to distinguish all coding systems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5214 automatically, you may need to specify a choice of coding system for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5215 particular news group. This can be done by:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5216
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5217 (gnus-mule-add-group NEWSGROUP 'CODING-SYSTEM)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5218
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5219 Here NEWSGROUP should be a string which names a newsgroup or a tree
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5220 of newsgroups. If NEWSGROUP is "XXX.YYY", all news groups under
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5221 "XXX.YYY" (including "XXX.YYY.ZZZ") will use the specified coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5222 system. CODING-SYSTEM specifies which coding system to use (for both
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5223 for reading and posting).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5224
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5225 CODING-SYSTEM can also be a cons cell of the form
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5226 (READ-CODING-SYSTEM . POST-CODING-SYSTEM)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5227 Then READ-CODING-SYSTEM is used when you read messages from the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5228 newsgroups, while POST-CODING-SYSTEM is used when you post messages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5229 there.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5230
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5231 Emacs knows the right coding systems for certain newsgroups by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5232 default. Here are some of these default settings:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5233
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5234 (gnus-mule-add-group "fj" 'iso-2022-7)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5235 (gnus-mule-add-group "alt.chinese.text" 'hz-gb-2312)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5236 (gnus-mule-add-group "alt.hk" 'hz-gb-2312)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5237 (gnus-mule-add-group "alt.chinese.text.big5" 'cn-big5)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5238 (gnus-mule-add-group "soc.culture.vietnamese" '(nil . viqr))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5239
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5240 When you reply by mail to an article, these settings are ignored;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5241 the mail is encoded according to sendmail-coding-system, as usual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5242
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5243 ** CC mode changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5244
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5245 *** If you edit primarily one style of C (or C++, Objective-C, Java)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5246 code, you may want to make the CC Mode style variables have global
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5247 values so that you can set them directly in your .emacs file. To do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5248 this, set c-style-variables-are-local-p to nil in your .emacs file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5249 Note that this only takes effect if you do it *before* cc-mode.el is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5250 loaded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5251
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5252 If you typically edit more than one style of C (or C++, Objective-C,
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5253 Java) code in a single Emacs session, you may want to make the CC Mode
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5254 style variables have buffer local values. By default, all buffers
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5255 share the same style variable settings; to make them buffer local, set
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5256 c-style-variables-are-local-p to t in your .emacs file. Note that you
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5257 must do this *before* CC Mode is loaded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5258
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5259 *** The new variable c-indentation-style holds the C style name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5260 of the current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5261
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5262 *** The variable c-block-comments-indent-p has been deleted, because
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5263 it is no longer necessary. C mode now handles all the supported styles
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5264 of block comments, with no need to say which one you will use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5265
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5266 *** There is a new indentation style "python", which specifies the C
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5267 style that the Python developers like.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5268
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5269 *** There is a new c-cleanup-list option: brace-elseif-brace.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5270 This says to put ...} else if (...) {... on one line,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5271 just as brace-else-brace says to put ...} else {... on one line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5272
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5273 ** VC Changes [new]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5274
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5275 ** In vc-retrieve-snapshot (C-x v r), if you don't specify a snapshot
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5276 name, it retrieves the *latest* versions of all files in the current
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5277 directory and its subdirectories (aside from files already locked).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5278
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5279 This feature is useful if your RCS directory is a link to a common
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5280 master directory, and you want to pick up changes made by other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5281 developers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5282
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5283 You can do the same thing for an individual file by typing C-u C-x C-q
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5284 RET in a buffer visiting that file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5285
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5286 *** VC can now handle files under CVS that are being "watched" by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5287 other developers. Such files are made read-only by CVS. To get a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5288 writable copy, type C-x C-q in a buffer visiting such a file. VC then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5289 calls "cvs edit", which notifies the other developers of it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5290
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5291 *** vc-version-diff (C-u C-x v =) now suggests reasonable defaults for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5292 version numbers, based on the current state of the file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5293
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5294 ** Calendar changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5295
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5296 A new function, list-holidays, allows you list holidays or subclasses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5297 of holidays for ranges of years. Related menu items allow you do this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5298 for the year of the selected date, or the following/previous years.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5299
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5300 ** ps-print changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5301
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5302 There are some new user variables for customizing the page layout.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5303
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5304 *** Paper size, paper orientation, columns
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5305
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5306 The variable `ps-paper-type' determines the size of paper ps-print
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5307 formats for; it should contain one of the symbols:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5308 `a4' `a3' `letter' `legal' `letter-small' `tabloid'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5309 `ledger' `statement' `executive' `a4small' `b4' `b5'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5310 It defaults to `letter'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5311 If you need other sizes, see the variable `ps-page-dimensions-database'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5312
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5313 The variable `ps-landscape-mode' determines the orientation
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5314 of the printing on the page. nil, the default, means "portrait" mode,
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5315 non-nil means "landscape" mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5316
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5317 The variable `ps-number-of-columns' must be a positive integer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5318 It determines the number of columns both in landscape and portrait mode.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5319 It defaults to 1.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5320
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5321 *** Horizontal layout
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5322
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5323 The horizontal layout is determined by the variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5324 `ps-left-margin', `ps-inter-column', and `ps-right-margin'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5325 All are measured in points.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5326
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5327 *** Vertical layout
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5328
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5329 The vertical layout is determined by the variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5330 `ps-bottom-margin', `ps-top-margin', and `ps-header-offset'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5331 All are measured in points.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5332
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5333 *** Headers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5334
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5335 If the variable `ps-print-header' is nil, no header is printed. Then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5336 `ps-header-offset' is not relevant and `ps-top-margin' represents the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5337 margin above the text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5338
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5339 If the variable `ps-print-header-frame' is non-nil, a gaudy
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5340 framing box is printed around the header.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5341
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5342 The contents of the header are determined by `ps-header-lines',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5343 `ps-show-n-of-n', `ps-left-header' and `ps-right-header'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5344
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5345 The height of the header is determined by `ps-header-line-pad',
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5346 `ps-header-font-family', `ps-header-title-font-size' and
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5347 `ps-header-font-size'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5348
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5349 *** Font managing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5350
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5351 The variable `ps-font-family' determines which font family is to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5352 used for ordinary text. Its value must be a key symbol in the alist
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5353 `ps-font-info-database'. You can add other font families by adding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5354 elements to this alist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5355
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5356 The variable `ps-font-size' determines the size of the font
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5357 for ordinary text. It defaults to 8.5 points.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5358
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5359 ** hideshow changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5360
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5361 *** now supports hiding of blocks of single line comments (like // for
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5362 C++, ; for lisp).
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5363
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5364 *** Support for java-mode added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5365
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5366 *** When doing `hs-hide-all' it is now possible to also hide the comments
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5367 in the file if `hs-hide-comments-when-hiding-all' is set.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5368
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5369 *** The new function `hs-hide-initial-comment' hides the the comments at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5370 the beginning of the files. Finally those huge RCS logs don't stay in your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5371 way! This is run by default when entering the `hs-minor-mode'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5372
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5373 *** Now uses overlays instead of `selective-display', so is more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5374 robust and a lot faster.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5375
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5376 *** A block beginning can span multiple lines.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5377
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5378 *** The new variable `hs-show-hidden-short-form' if t, directs hideshow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5379 to show only the beginning of a block when it is hidden. See the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5380 documentation for more details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5381
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5382 ** Changes in Enriched mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5383
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5384 *** When you visit a file in enriched-mode, Emacs will make sure it is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5385 filled to the current fill-column. This behavior is now independent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5386 of the size of the window. When you save the file, the fill-column in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5387 use is stored as well, so that the whole buffer need not be refilled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5388 the next time unless the fill-column is different.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5389
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5390 *** use-hard-newlines is now a minor mode. When it is enabled, Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5391 distinguishes between hard and soft newlines, and treats hard newlines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5392 as paragraph boundaries. Otherwise all newlines inserted are marked
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5393 as soft, and paragraph boundaries are determined solely from the text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5394
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5395 ** Font Lock mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5396
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5397 *** Custom support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5398
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5399 The variables font-lock-face-attributes, font-lock-display-type and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5400 font-lock-background-mode are now obsolete; the recommended way to specify the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5401 faces to use for Font Lock mode is with M-x customize-group on the new custom
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5402 group font-lock-highlighting-faces. If you set font-lock-face-attributes in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5403 your ~/.emacs file, Font Lock mode will respect its value. However, you should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5404 consider converting from setting that variable to using M-x customize.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5405
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5406 You can still use X resources to specify Font Lock face appearances.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5407
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5408 *** Maximum decoration
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5409
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5410 Fontification now uses the maximum level of decoration supported by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5411 default. Previously, fontification used a mode-specific default level
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5412 of decoration, which is typically the minimum level of decoration
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5413 supported. You can set font-lock-maximum-decoration to nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5414 to get the old behavior.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5415
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5416 *** New support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5417
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5418 Support is now provided for Java, Objective-C, AWK and SIMULA modes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5419
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5420 Note that Font Lock mode can be turned on without knowing exactly what modes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5421 support Font Lock mode, via the command global-font-lock-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5422
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5423 *** Configurable support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5424
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5425 Support for C, C++, Objective-C and Java can be more easily configured for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5426 additional types and classes via the new variables c-font-lock-extra-types,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5427 c++-font-lock-extra-types, objc-font-lock-extra-types and, you guessed it,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5428 java-font-lock-extra-types. These value of each of these variables should be a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5429 list of regexps matching the extra type names. For example, the default value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5430 of c-font-lock-extra-types is ("\\sw+_t") which means fontification follows the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5431 convention that C type names end in _t. This results in slower fontification.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5432
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5433 Of course, you can change the variables that specify fontification in whatever
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5434 way you wish, typically by adding regexps. However, these new variables make
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5435 it easier to make specific and common changes for the fontification of types.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5436
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5437 *** Adding highlighting patterns to existing support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5438
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5439 You can use the new function font-lock-add-keywords to add your own
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5440 highlighting patterns, such as for project-local or user-specific constructs,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5441 for any mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5442
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5443 For example, to highlight `FIXME:' words in C comments, put:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5444
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5445 (font-lock-add-keywords 'c-mode '(("\\<FIXME:" 0 font-lock-warning-face t)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5446
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5447 in your ~/.emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5448
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5449 *** New faces
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5450
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5451 Font Lock now defines two new faces, font-lock-builtin-face and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5452 font-lock-warning-face. These are intended to highlight builtin keywords,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5453 distinct from a language's normal keywords, and objects that should be brought
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5454 to user attention, respectively. Various modes now use these new faces.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5455
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5456 *** Changes to fast-lock support mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5457
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5458 The fast-lock package, one of the two Font Lock support modes, can now process
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5459 cache files silently. You can use the new variable fast-lock-verbose, in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5460 same way as font-lock-verbose, to control this feature.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5461
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5462 *** Changes to lazy-lock support mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5463
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5464 The lazy-lock package, one of the two Font Lock support modes, can now fontify
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5465 according to the true syntactic context relative to other lines. You can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5466 the new variable lazy-lock-defer-contextually to control this feature. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5467 non-nil, changes to the buffer will cause subsequent lines in the buffer to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5468 refontified after lazy-lock-defer-time seconds of idle time. If nil, then only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5469 the modified lines will be refontified; this is the same as the previous Lazy
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5470 Lock mode behaviour and the behaviour of Font Lock mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5471
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5472 This feature is useful in modes where strings or comments can span lines.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5473 For example, if a string or comment terminating character is deleted, then if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5474 this feature is enabled subsequent lines in the buffer will be correctly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5475 refontified to reflect their new syntactic context. Previously, only the line
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5476 containing the deleted character would be refontified and you would have to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5477 the command M-g M-g (font-lock-fontify-block) to refontify some lines.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5478
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5479 As a consequence of this new feature, two other variables have changed:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5480
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5481 Variable `lazy-lock-defer-driven' is renamed `lazy-lock-defer-on-scrolling'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5482 Variable `lazy-lock-defer-time' can now only be a time, i.e., a number.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5483 Buffer modes for which on-the-fly deferral applies can be specified via the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5484 new variable `lazy-lock-defer-on-the-fly'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5485
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5486 If you set these variables in your ~/.emacs, then you may have to change those
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5487 settings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5488
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5489 ** Ada mode changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5490
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5491 *** There is now better support for using find-file.el with Ada mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5492 If you switch between spec and body, the cursor stays in the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5493 procedure (modulo overloading). If a spec has no body file yet, but
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5494 you try to switch to its body file, Ada mode now generates procedure
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5495 stubs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5496
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5497 *** There are two new commands:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5498 - `ada-make-local' : invokes gnatmake on the current buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5499 - `ada-check-syntax' : check syntax of current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5500
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5501 The user options `ada-compiler-make', `ada-make-options',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5502 `ada-language-version', `ada-compiler-syntax-check', and
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5503 `ada-compile-options' are used within these commands.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5504
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5505 *** Ada mode can now work with Outline minor mode. The outline level
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5506 is calculated from the indenting, not from syntactic constructs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5507 Outlining does not work if your code is not correctly indented.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5508
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5509 *** The new function `ada-gnat-style' converts the buffer to the style of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5510 formatting used in GNAT. It places two blanks after a comment start,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5511 places one blank between a word end and an opening '(', and puts one
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5512 space between a comma and the beginning of a word.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5513
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5514 ** Scheme mode changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5515
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5516 *** Scheme mode indentation now uses many of the facilities of Lisp
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5517 mode; therefore, the variables to customize it are the variables used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5518 for Lisp mode which have names starting with `lisp-'. The variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5519 with names starting with `scheme-' which used to do this no longer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5520 have any effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5521
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5522 If you want to use different indentation for Scheme and Lisp, this is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5523 still possible, but now you must do it by adding a hook to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5524 scheme-mode-hook, which could work by setting the `lisp-' indentation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5525 variables as buffer-local variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5526
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5527 *** DSSSL mode is a variant of Scheme mode, for editing DSSSL scripts.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5528 Use M-x dsssl-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5529
27307
1d69cbf8a91e emacsclient, --alternate-editor
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27276
diff changeset
5530 ** Changes to the emacsclient program
1d69cbf8a91e emacsclient, --alternate-editor
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27276
diff changeset
5531
27475
d44d90480852 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27473
diff changeset
5532 *** If a socket can't be found, and environment variables LOGNAME or
d44d90480852 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27473
diff changeset
5533 USER are set, emacsclient now looks for a socket based on the UID
d44d90480852 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27473
diff changeset
5534 associated with the name. That is an emacsclient running as root
d44d90480852 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27473
diff changeset
5535 can connect to an Emacs server started by a non-root user.
d44d90480852 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27473
diff changeset
5536
27307
1d69cbf8a91e emacsclient, --alternate-editor
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27276
diff changeset
5537 *** The emacsclient program now accepts an option --no-wait which tells
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5538 it to return immediately without waiting for you to "finish" the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5539 buffer in Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5540
27307
1d69cbf8a91e emacsclient, --alternate-editor
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27276
diff changeset
5541 *** The new option --alternate-editor allows to specify an editor to
1d69cbf8a91e emacsclient, --alternate-editor
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27276
diff changeset
5542 use if Emacs is not running. The environment variable
1d69cbf8a91e emacsclient, --alternate-editor
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27276
diff changeset
5543 ALTERNATE_EDITOR can be used for the same effect; the command line
1d69cbf8a91e emacsclient, --alternate-editor
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27276
diff changeset
5544 option takes precedence.
1d69cbf8a91e emacsclient, --alternate-editor
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27276
diff changeset
5545
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5546 ** M-x eldoc-mode enables a minor mode in which the echo area
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5547 constantly shows the parameter list for function being called at point
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5548 (in Emacs Lisp and Lisp Interaction modes only).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5549
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5550 ** C-x n d now runs the new command narrow-to-defun,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5551 which narrows the accessible parts of the buffer to just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5552 the current defun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5553
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5554 ** Emacs now handles the `--' argument in the standard way; all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5555 following arguments are treated as ordinary file names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5556
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5557 ** On MSDOS and Windows, the bookmark file is now called _emacs.bmk,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5558 and the saved desktop file is now called _emacs.desktop (truncated if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5559 necessary).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5560
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5561 ** When you kill a buffer that visits a file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5562 if there are any registers that save positions in the file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5563 these register values no longer become completely useless.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5564 If you try to go to such a register with C-x j, then you are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5565 asked whether to visit the file again. If you say yes,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5566 it visits the file and then goes to the same position.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5567
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5568 ** When you visit a file that changes frequently outside Emacs--for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5569 example, a log of output from a process that continues to run--it may
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5570 be useful for Emacs to revert the file without querying you whenever
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5571 you visit the file afresh with C-x C-f.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5572
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5573 You can request this behavior for certain files by setting the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5574 variable revert-without-query to a list of regular expressions. If a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5575 file's name matches any of these regular expressions, find-file and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5576 revert-buffer revert the buffer without asking for permission--but
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5577 only if you have not edited the buffer text yourself.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5578
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5579 ** set-default-font has been renamed to set-frame-font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5580 since it applies only to the current frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5581
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5582 ** In TeX mode, you can use the variable tex-main-file to specify the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5583 file for tex-file to run TeX on. (By default, tex-main-file is nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5584 and tex-file runs TeX on the current visited file.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5585
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5586 This is useful when you are editing a document that consists of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5587 multiple files. In each of the included files, you can set up a local
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5588 variable list which specifies the top-level file of your document for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5589 tex-main-file. Then tex-file will run TeX on the whole document
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5590 instead of just the file you are editing.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5591
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5592 ** RefTeX mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5593
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5594 RefTeX mode is a new minor mode with special support for \label, \ref
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5595 and \cite macros in LaTeX documents. RefTeX distinguishes labels of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5596 different environments (equation, figure, ...) and has full support for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5597 multifile documents. To use it, select a buffer with a LaTeX document and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5598 turn the mode on with M-x reftex-mode. Here are the main user commands:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5599
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5600 C-c ( reftex-label
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5601 Creates a label semi-automatically. RefTeX is context sensitive and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5602 knows which kind of label is needed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5603
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5604 C-c ) reftex-reference
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5605 Offers in a menu all labels in the document, along with context of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5606 label definition. The selected label is referenced as \ref{LABEL}.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5607
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5608 C-c [ reftex-citation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5609 Prompts for a regular expression and displays a list of matching BibTeX
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5610 database entries. The selected entry is cited with a \cite{KEY} macro.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5611
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5612 C-c & reftex-view-crossref
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5613 Views the cross reference of a \ref or \cite command near point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5614
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5615 C-c = reftex-toc
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5616 Shows a table of contents of the (multifile) document. From there you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5617 can quickly jump to every section.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5618
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5619 Under X, RefTeX installs a "Ref" menu in the menu bar, with additional
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5620 commands. Press `?' to get help when a prompt mentions this feature.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5621 Full documentation and customization examples are in the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5622 reftex.el. You can use the finder to view the file documentation:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5623 C-h p --> tex --> reftex.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5624
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5625 ** Changes in BibTeX mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5626
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5627 *** Info documentation is now available.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5628
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5629 *** Don't allow parentheses in string constants anymore. This confused
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5630 both the BibTeX program and Emacs BibTeX mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5631
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5632 *** Renamed variable bibtex-mode-user-optional-fields to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5633 bibtex-user-optional-fields.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5634
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5635 *** Removed variable bibtex-include-OPTannote
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5636 (use bibtex-user-optional-fields instead).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5637
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5638 *** New interactive functions to copy and kill fields and complete
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5639 entries to the BibTeX kill ring, from where they can be yanked back by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5640 appropriate functions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5641
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5642 *** New interactive functions for repositioning and marking of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5643 entries. They are bound by default to M-C-l and M-C-h.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5644
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5645 *** New hook bibtex-clean-entry-hook. It is called after entry has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5646 been cleaned.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5647
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5648 *** New variable bibtex-field-delimiters, which replaces variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5649 bibtex-field-{left|right}-delimiter.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5650
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5651 *** New variable bibtex-entry-delimiters to determine how entries
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5652 shall be delimited.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5653
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5654 *** Allow preinitialization of fields. See documentation of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5655 bibtex-user-optional-fields, bibtex-entry-field-alist, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5656 bibtex-include-OPTkey for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5657
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5658 *** Book and InBook entries require either an author or an editor
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5659 field. This is now supported by bibtex.el. Alternative fields are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5660 prefixed with `ALT'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5661
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5662 *** New variable bibtex-entry-format, which replaces variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5663 bibtex-clean-entry-zap-empty-opts and allows specification of many
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5664 formatting options performed on cleaning an entry (see variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5665 documentation).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5666
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5667 *** Even more control on how automatic keys are generated. See
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5668 documentation of bibtex-generate-autokey for details. Transcriptions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5669 for foreign languages other than German are now handled, too.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5670
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5671 *** New boolean user option bibtex-comma-after-last-field to decide if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5672 comma should be inserted at end of last field.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5673
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5674 *** New boolean user option bibtex-align-at-equal-sign to determine if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5675 alignment should be made at left side of field contents or at equal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5676 signs. New user options to control entry layout (e.g. indentation).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5677
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5678 *** New function bibtex-fill-entry to realign entries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5679
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5680 *** New function bibtex-reformat to reformat region or buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5681
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5682 *** New function bibtex-convert-alien to convert a BibTeX database
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5683 from alien sources.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5684
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5685 *** New function bibtex-complete-key (similar to bibtex-complete-string)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5686 to complete prefix to a key defined in buffer. Mainly useful in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5687 crossref entries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5688
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5689 *** New function bibtex-count-entries to count entries in buffer or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5690 region.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5691
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5692 *** Added support for imenu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5693
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5694 *** The function `bibtex-validate' now checks current region instead
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5695 of buffer if mark is active. Now it shows all errors of buffer in a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5696 `compilation mode' buffer. You can use the normal commands (e.g.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5697 `next-error') for compilation modes to jump to errors.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5698
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5699 *** New variable `bibtex-string-file-path' to determine where the files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5700 from `bibtex-string-files' are searched.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5701
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5702 ** Iso Accents mode now supports Latin-3 as an alternative.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5703
27136
a0288373f30a Correct typos.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 27112
diff changeset
5704 ** The command next-error now opens blocks hidden by hideshow.
27112
82ad511a02f6 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 27094
diff changeset
5705
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5706 ** The function using-unix-filesystems has been replaced by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5707 functions add-untranslated-filesystem and remove-untranslated-filesystem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5708 Each of these functions takes the name of a drive letter or directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5709 as an argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5710
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5711 When a filesystem is added as untranslated, all files on it are read
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5712 and written in binary mode (no cr/lf translation is performed).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5713
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5714 ** browse-url changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5715
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5716 *** New methods for: Grail (browse-url-generic), MMM (browse-url-mmm),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5717 Lynx in a separate xterm (browse-url-lynx-xterm) or in an Emacs window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5718 (browse-url-lynx-emacs), remote W3 (browse-url-w3-gnudoit), generic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5719 non-remote-controlled browsers (browse-url-generic) and associated
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5720 customization variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5722 *** New commands `browse-url-of-region' and `browse-url'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5723
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5724 *** URLs marked up with <URL:...> (RFC1738) work if broken across
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5725 lines. Browsing methods can be associated with URL regexps
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5726 (e.g. mailto: URLs) via `browse-url-browser-function'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5727
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5728 ** Changes in Ediff
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5729
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5730 *** Clicking Mouse-2 on a brief command description in Ediff control panel
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5731 pops up the Info file for this command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5732
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5733 *** There is now a variable, ediff-autostore-merges, which controls whether
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5734 the result of a merge is saved in a file. By default, this is done only when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5735 merge is done from a session group (eg, when merging files in two different
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5736 directories).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5737
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5738 *** Since Emacs 19.31 (this hasn't been announced before), Ediff can compare
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5739 and merge groups of files residing in different directories, or revisions of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5740 files in the same directory.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5741
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5742 *** Since Emacs 19.31, Ediff can apply multi-file patches interactively.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5743 The patches must be in the context format or GNU unified format. (The bug
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5744 related to the GNU format has now been fixed.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5745
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5746 ** Changes in Viper
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5747
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5748 *** The startup file is now .viper instead of .vip
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5749 *** All variable/function names have been changed to start with viper-
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5750 instead of vip-.
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parents:
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5751 *** C-\ now simulates the meta-key in all Viper states.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
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5752 *** C-z in Insert state now escapes to Vi for the duration of the next
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5753 Viper command. In Vi and Insert states, C-z behaves as before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5754 *** C-c \ escapes to Vi for one command if Viper is in Insert or Emacs states.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5755 *** _ is no longer the meta-key in Vi state.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5756 *** The variable viper-insert-state-cursor-color can be used to change cursor
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5757 color when Viper is in insert state.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5758 *** If search lands the cursor near the top or the bottom of the window,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5759 Viper pulls the window up or down to expose more context. The variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5760 viper-adjust-window-after-search controls this behavior.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5761
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5762 ** Etags changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5763
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5764 *** In C, C++, Objective C and Java, Etags tags global variables by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5765 default. The resulting tags files are inflated by 30% on average.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5766 Use --no-globals to turn this feature off. Etags can also tag
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5767 variables which are members of structure-like constructs, but it does
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5768 not by default. Use --members to turn this feature on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5769
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5770 *** C++ member functions are now recognized as tags.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5771
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5772 *** Java is tagged like C++. In addition, "extends" and "implements"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5773 constructs are tagged. Files are recognised by the extension .java.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5774
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5775 *** Etags can now handle programs written in Postscript. Files are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5776 recognised by the extensions .ps and .pdb (Postscript with C syntax).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5777 In Postscript, tags are lines that start with a slash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5778
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5779 *** Etags now handles Objective C and Objective C++ code. The usual C and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5780 C++ tags are recognized in these languages; in addition, etags
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5781 recognizes special Objective C syntax for classes, class categories,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5782 methods and protocols.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5783
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5784 *** Etags also handles Cobol. Files are recognised by the extension
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5785 .cobol. The tagged lines are those containing a word that begins in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5786 column 8 and ends in a full stop, i.e. anything that could be a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5787 paragraph name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5788
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5789 *** Regexps in Etags now support intervals, as in ed or grep. The syntax of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5790 an interval is \{M,N\}, and it means to match the preceding expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5791 at least M times and as many as N times.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5792
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5793 ** The format for specifying a custom format for time-stamp to insert
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5794 in files has changed slightly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5795
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5796 With the new enhancements to the functionality of format-time-string,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5797 time-stamp-format will change to be eventually compatible with it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5798 This conversion is being done in two steps to maintain compatibility
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5799 with old time-stamp-format values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5800
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5801 In the new scheme, alternate case is signified by the number-sign
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5802 (`#') modifier, rather than changing the case of the format character.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5803 This feature is as yet incompletely implemented for compatibility
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5804 reasons.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5805
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5806 In the old time-stamp-format, all numeric fields defaulted to their
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5807 natural width. (With format-time-string, each format has a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5808 fixed-width default.) In this version, you can specify the colon
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5809 (`:') modifier to a numeric conversion to mean "give me the historical
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5810 time-stamp-format width default." Do not use colon if you are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5811 specifying an explicit width, as in "%02d".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5812
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5813 Numbers are no longer truncated to the requested width, except in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5814 case of "%02y", which continues to give a two-digit year. Digit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5815 truncation probably wasn't being used for anything else anyway.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5816
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5817 The new formats will work with old versions of Emacs. New formats are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5818 being recommended now to allow time-stamp-format to change in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5819 future to be compatible with format-time-string. The new forms being
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5820 recommended now will continue to work then.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5821
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5822 See the documentation string for the variable time-stamp-format for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5823 details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5824
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5825 ** There are some additional major modes:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5826
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5827 dcl-mode, for editing VMS DCL files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5828 m4-mode, for editing files of m4 input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5829 meta-mode, for editing MetaFont and MetaPost source files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5830
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5831 ** In Shell mode, the command shell-copy-environment-variable lets you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5832 copy the value of a specified environment variable from the subshell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5833 into Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5834
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5835 ** New Lisp packages include:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5836
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5837 *** battery.el displays battery status for laptops.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5838
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5839 *** M-x bruce (named after Lenny Bruce) is a program that might
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5840 be used for adding some indecent words to your email.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5841
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5842 *** M-x crisp-mode enables an emulation for the CRiSP editor.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5843
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5844 *** M-x dirtrack arranges for better tracking of directory changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5845 in shell buffers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5846
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5847 *** The new library elint.el provides for linting of Emacs Lisp code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5848 See the documentation for `elint-initialize', `elint-current-buffer'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5849 and `elint-defun'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5850
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5851 *** M-x expand-add-abbrevs defines a special kind of abbrev which is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5852 meant for programming constructs. These abbrevs expand like ordinary
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5853 ones, when you type SPC, but only at the end of a line and not within
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5854 strings or comments.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5855
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5856 These abbrevs can act as templates: you can define places within an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5857 abbrev for insertion of additional text. Once you expand the abbrev,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5858 you can then use C-x a p and C-x a n to move back and forth to these
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5859 insertion points. Thus you can conveniently insert additional text
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5860 at these points.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5861
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5862 *** filecache.el remembers the location of files so that you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5863 can visit them by short forms of their names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5864
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5865 *** find-func.el lets you find the definition of the user-loaded
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5866 Emacs Lisp function at point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5867
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5868 *** M-x handwrite converts text to a "handwritten" picture.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5869
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5870 *** M-x iswitchb-buffer is a command for switching to a buffer, much like
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5871 switch-buffer, but it reads the argument in a more helpful way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5872
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5873 *** M-x landmark implements a neural network for landmark learning.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5874
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5875 *** M-x locate provides a convenient interface to the `locate' program.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5876
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5877 *** M4 mode is a new mode for editing files of m4 input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5878
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5879 *** mantemp.el creates C++ manual template instantiations
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5880 from the GCC error messages which indicate which instantiations are needed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5881
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5882 *** mouse-copy.el provides a one-click copy and move feature.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5883 You can drag a region with M-mouse-1, and it is automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5884 inserted at point. M-Shift-mouse-1 deletes the text from its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5885 original place after inserting the copy.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5886
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5887 *** mouse-drag.el lets you do scrolling by dragging Mouse-2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5888 on the buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5889
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5890 You click the mouse and move; that distance either translates into the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5891 velocity to scroll (with mouse-drag-throw) or the distance to scroll
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5892 (with mouse-drag-drag). Horizontal scrolling is enabled when needed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5893
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5894 Enable mouse-drag with:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5895 (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-throw)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5896 -or-
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5897 (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-drag)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5898
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5899 *** mspools.el is useful for determining which mail folders have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5900 mail waiting to be read in them. It works with procmail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5901
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5902 *** Octave mode is a major mode for editing files of input for Octave.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5903 It comes with a facility for communicating with an Octave subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5904
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5905 *** ogonek
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5906
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5907 The ogonek package provides functions for changing the coding of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5908 Polish diacritic characters in buffers. Codings known from various
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5909 platforms are supported such as ISO8859-2, Mazovia, IBM Latin2, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5910 TeX. For example, you can change the coding from Mazovia to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5911 ISO8859-2. Another example is a change of coding from ISO8859-2 to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5912 prefix notation (in which `/a' stands for the aogonek character, for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5913 instance) and vice versa.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5914
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5915 To use this package load it using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5916 M-x load-library [enter] ogonek
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5917 Then, you may get an explanation by calling one of
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5918 M-x ogonek-jak -- in Polish
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5919 M-x ogonek-how -- in English
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5920 The info specifies the commands and variables provided as well as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5921 ways of customization in `.emacs'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5922
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5923 *** Interface to ph.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5924
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5925 Emacs provides a client interface to CCSO Nameservers (ph/qi)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5926
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5927 The CCSO nameserver is used in many universities to provide directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5928 services about people. ph.el provides a convenient Emacs interface to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5929 these servers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5930
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5931 *** uce.el is useful for replying to unsolicited commercial email.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5932
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5933 *** vcursor.el implements a "virtual cursor" feature.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5934 You can move the virtual cursor with special commands
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5935 while the real cursor does not move.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5936
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5937 *** webjump.el is a "hot list" package which you can set up
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5938 for visiting your favorite web sites.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5939
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5940 *** M-x winner-mode is a minor mode which saves window configurations,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5941 so you can move back to other configurations that you have recently used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5942
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5943 ** movemail change
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5944
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5945 Movemail no longer needs to be installed setuid root in order for POP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5946 mail retrieval to function properly. This is because it no longer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5947 supports the RPOP (reserved-port POP) protocol; instead, it uses the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5948 user's POP password to authenticate to the mail server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5949
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5950 This change was made earlier, but not reported in NEWS before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5951
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5952 * Emacs 20.1 changes for MS-DOS and MS-Windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5953
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5954 ** Changes in handling MS-DOS/MS-Windows text files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5955
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5956 Emacs handles three different conventions for representing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5957 end-of-line: CRLF for MSDOS, LF for Unix and GNU, and CR (used on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5958 Macintosh). Emacs determines which convention is used in a specific
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5959 file based on the contents of that file (except for certain special
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5960 file names), and when it saves the file, it uses the same convention.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5961
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5962 To save the file and change the end-of-line convention, you can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5963 C-x RET f (set-buffer-file-coding-system) to specify a different
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5964 coding system for the buffer. Then, when you save the file, the newly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5965 specified coding system will take effect. For example, to save with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5966 LF, specify undecided-unix (or some other ...-unix coding system); to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5967 save with CRLF, specify undecided-dos.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5968
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5969 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 20.1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5970
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5971 ** Byte-compiled files made with Emacs 20 will, in general, work in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5972 Emacs 19 as well, as long as the source code runs in Emacs 19. And
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5973 vice versa: byte-compiled files made with Emacs 19 should also run in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5974 Emacs 20, as long as the program itself works in Emacs 20.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5975
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5976 ** Windows-specific functions and variables have been renamed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5977 to start with w32- instead of win32-.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5978
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5979 In hacker language, calling something a "win" is a form of praise. We
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5980 don't want to praise a non-free Microsoft system, so we don't call it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5981 "win".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5982
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5983 ** Basic Lisp changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5984
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5985 *** A symbol whose name starts with a colon now automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5986 evaluates to itself. Therefore such a symbol can be used as a constant.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5987
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5988 *** The defined purpose of `defconst' has been changed. It should now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5989 be used only for values that should not be changed whether by a program
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5990 or by the user.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5991
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5992 The actual behavior of defconst has not been changed.
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5993
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5994 *** There are new macros `when' and `unless'
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5995
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parents:
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5996 (when CONDITION BODY...) is short for (if CONDITION (progn BODY...))
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diff changeset
5997 (unless CONDITION BODY...) is short for (if CONDITION nil BODY...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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5998
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5999 *** Emacs now defines functions caar, cadr, cdar and cddr with their
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parents:
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6000 usual Lisp meanings. For example, caar returns the car of the car of
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parents:
diff changeset
6001 its argument.
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parents:
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6002
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parents:
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6003 *** equal, when comparing strings, now ignores their text properties.
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parents:
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6004
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parents:
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6005 *** The new function `functionp' tests whether an object is a function.
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parents:
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6006
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parents:
diff changeset
6007 *** arrayp now returns t for char-tables and bool-vectors.
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parents:
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6008
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parents:
diff changeset
6009 *** Certain primitives which use characters (as integers) now get an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6010 error if the integer is not a valid character code. These primitives
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6011 include insert-char, char-to-string, and the %c construct in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6012 `format' function.
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parents:
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6013
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6014 *** The `require' function now insists on adding a suffix, either .el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6015 or .elc, to the file name. Thus, (require 'foo) will not use a file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6016 whose name is just foo. It insists on foo.el or foo.elc.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6017
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parents:
diff changeset
6018 *** The `autoload' function, when the file name does not contain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6019 either a directory name or the suffix .el or .elc, insists on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6020 adding one of these suffixes.
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parents:
diff changeset
6021
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parents:
diff changeset
6022 *** string-to-number now takes an optional second argument BASE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6023 which specifies the base to use when converting an integer.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6024 If BASE is omitted, base 10 is used.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
6025
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6026 We have not implemented other radices for floating point numbers,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6027 because that would be much more work and does not seem useful.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6028
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parents:
diff changeset
6029 *** substring now handles vectors as well as strings.
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parents:
diff changeset
6030
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6031 *** The Common Lisp function eql is no longer defined normally.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6032 You must load the `cl' library to define it.
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parents:
diff changeset
6033
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parents:
diff changeset
6034 *** The new macro `with-current-buffer' lets you evaluate an expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6035 conveniently with a different current buffer. It looks like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6036
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6037 (with-current-buffer BUFFER BODY-FORMS...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6038
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6039 BUFFER is the expression that says which buffer to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6040 BODY-FORMS say what to do in that buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6041
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6042 *** The new primitive `save-current-buffer' saves and restores the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6043 choice of current buffer, like `save-excursion', but without saving or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6044 restoring the value of point or the mark. `with-current-buffer'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6045 works using `save-current-buffer'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6046
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6047 *** The new macro `with-temp-file' lets you do some work in a new buffer and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6048 write the output to a specified file. Like `progn', it returns the value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6049 of the last form.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6050
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6051 *** The new macro `with-temp-buffer' lets you do some work in a new buffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6052 which is discarded after use. Like `progn', it returns the value of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6053 last form. If you wish to return the buffer contents, use (buffer-string)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6054 as the last form.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6055
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parents:
diff changeset
6056 *** The new function split-string takes a string, splits it at certain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6057 characters, and returns a list of the substrings in between the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6058 matches.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6059
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6060 For example, (split-string "foo bar lose" " +") returns ("foo" "bar" "lose").
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6061
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6062 *** The new macro with-output-to-string executes some Lisp expressions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6063 with standard-output set up so that all output feeds into a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6064 Then it returns that string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6065
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6066 For example, if the current buffer name is `foo',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6067
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6068 (with-output-to-string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6069 (princ "The buffer is ")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6070 (princ (buffer-name)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6071
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6072 returns "The buffer is foo".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6073
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6074 ** Non-ASCII characters are now supported, if enable-multibyte-characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6075 is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6076
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6077 These characters have character codes above 256. When inserted in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6078 buffer or stored in a string, they are represented as multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6079 characters that occupy several buffer positions each.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6080
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6081 *** When enable-multibyte-characters is non-nil, a single character in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6082 a buffer or string can be two or more bytes (as many as four).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6083
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6084 Buffers and strings are still made up of unibyte elements;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6085 character positions and string indices are always measured in bytes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6086 Therefore, moving forward one character can increase the buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6087 position by 2, 3 or 4. The function forward-char moves by whole
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6088 characters, and therefore is no longer equivalent to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6089 (lambda (n) (goto-char (+ (point) n))).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6090
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6091 ASCII characters (codes 0 through 127) are still single bytes, always.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6092 Sequences of byte values 128 through 255 are used to represent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6093 non-ASCII characters. These sequences are called "multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6094 characters".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6095
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6096 The first byte of a multibyte character is always in the range 128
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6097 through 159 (octal 0200 through 0237). These values are called
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6098 "leading codes". The second and subsequent bytes are always in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6099 range 160 through 255 (octal 0240 through 0377). The first byte, the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6100 leading code, determines how many bytes long the sequence is.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6101
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parents:
diff changeset
6102 *** The function forward-char moves over characters, and therefore
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6103 (forward-char 1) may increase point by more than 1 if it moves over a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6104 multibyte character. Likewise, delete-char always deletes a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6105 character, which may be more than one buffer position.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6106
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6107 This means that some Lisp programs, which assume that a character is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6108 always one buffer position, need to be changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6109
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6110 However, all ASCII characters are always one buffer position.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6111
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6112 *** The regexp [\200-\377] no longer matches all non-ASCII characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6113 because when enable-multibyte-characters is non-nil, these characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6114 have codes that are not in the range octal 200 to octal 377. However,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6115 the regexp [^\000-\177] does match all non-ASCII characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6116 guaranteed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6117
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parents:
diff changeset
6118 *** The function char-boundary-p returns non-nil if position POS is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6119 between two characters in the buffer (not in the middle of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6120 character).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6121
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6122 When the value is non-nil, it says what kind of character follows POS:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6123
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6124 0 if POS is at an ASCII character or at the end of range,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6125 1 if POS is before a 2-byte length multi-byte form,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6126 2 if POS is at a head of 3-byte length multi-byte form,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6127 3 if POS is at a head of 4-byte length multi-byte form,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6128 4 if POS is at a head of multi-byte form of a composite character.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6129
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6130 *** The function char-bytes returns how many bytes the character CHAR uses.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6131
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6132 *** Strings can contain multibyte characters. The function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6133 `length' returns the string length counting bytes, which may be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6134 more than the number of characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6135
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6136 You can include a multibyte character in a string constant by writing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6137 it literally. You can also represent it with a hex escape,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6138 \xNNNNNNN..., using as many digits as necessary. Any character which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6139 is not a valid hex digit terminates this construct. If you want to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6140 follow it with a character that is a hex digit, write backslash and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6141 newline in between; that will terminate the hex escape.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6142
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6143 *** The function concat-chars takes arguments which are characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6144 and returns a string containing those characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6146 *** The function sref access a multibyte character in a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6147 (sref STRING INDX) returns the character in STRING at INDEX. INDEX
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6148 counts from zero. If INDEX is at a position in the middle of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6149 character, sref signals an error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6150
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6151 *** The function chars-in-string returns the number of characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6152 in a string. This is less than the length of the string, if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6153 string contains multibyte characters (the length counts bytes).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6154
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6155 *** The function chars-in-region returns the number of characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6156 in a region from BEG to END. This is less than (- END BEG) if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6157 region contains multibyte characters (the length counts bytes).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6158
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6159 *** The function string-to-list converts a string to a list of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6160 the characters in it. string-to-vector converts a string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6161 to a vector of the characters in it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6162
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6163 *** The function store-substring alters part of the contents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6164 of a string. You call it as follows:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6165
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6166 (store-substring STRING IDX OBJ)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6167
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6168 This says to alter STRING, by storing OBJ starting at index IDX in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6169 STRING. OBJ may be either a character or a (smaller) string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6170 This function really does alter the contents of STRING.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6171 Since it is impossible to change the length of an existing string,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6172 it is an error if OBJ doesn't fit within STRING's actual length.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6173
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6174 *** char-width returns the width (in columns) of the character CHAR,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6175 if it were displayed in the current buffer and the selected window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6176
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6177 *** string-width returns the width (in columns) of the text in STRING,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6178 if it were displayed in the current buffer and the selected window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6179
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6180 *** truncate-string-to-width shortens a string, if necessary,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6181 to fit within a certain number of columns. (Of course, it does
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6182 not alter the string that you give it; it returns a new string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6183 which contains all or just part of the existing string.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6184
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6185 (truncate-string-to-width STR END-COLUMN &optional START-COLUMN PADDING)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6186
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6187 This returns the part of STR up to column END-COLUMN.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6188
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6189 The optional argument START-COLUMN specifies the starting column.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6190 If this is non-nil, then the first START-COLUMN columns of the string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6191 are not included in the resulting value.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6192
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6193 The optional argument PADDING, if non-nil, is a padding character to be added
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6194 at the beginning and end the resulting string, to extend it to exactly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6195 WIDTH columns. If PADDING is nil, that means do not pad; then, if STRING
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6196 is narrower than WIDTH, the value is equal to STRING.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6197
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6198 If PADDING and START-COLUMN are both non-nil, and if there is no clean
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6199 place in STRING that corresponds to START-COLUMN (because one
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6200 character extends across that column), then the padding character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6201 PADDING is added one or more times at the beginning of the result
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6202 string, so that its columns line up as if it really did start at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6203 column START-COLUMN.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6204
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6205 *** When the functions in the list after-change-functions are called,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6206 the third argument is the number of bytes in the pre-change text, not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6207 necessarily the number of characters. It is, in effect, the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6208 difference in buffer position between the beginning and the end of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6209 changed text, before the change.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6210
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6211 *** The characters Emacs uses are classified in various character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6212 sets, each of which has a name which is a symbol. In general there is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6213 one character set for each script, not for each language.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6214
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6215 **** The function charsetp tests whether an object is a character set name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6216
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6217 **** The variable charset-list holds a list of character set names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6218
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6219 **** char-charset, given a character code, returns the name of the character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6220 set that the character belongs to. (The value is a symbol.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6221
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6222 **** split-char, given a character code, returns a list containing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6223 name of the character set, followed by one or two byte-values
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6224 which identify the character within that character set.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6225
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6226 **** make-char, given a character set name and one or two subsequent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6227 byte-values, constructs a character code. This is roughly the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6228 opposite of split-char.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6229
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6230 **** find-charset-region returns a list of the character sets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6231 of all the characters between BEG and END.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6232
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6233 **** find-charset-string returns a list of the character sets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6234 of all the characters in a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6235
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6236 *** Here are the Lisp facilities for working with coding systems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6237 and specifying coding systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6238
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6239 **** The function coding-system-list returns a list of all coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6240 system names (symbols). With optional argument t, it returns a list
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6241 of all distinct base coding systems, not including variants.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6242 (Variant coding systems are those like latin-1-dos, latin-1-unix
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6243 and latin-1-mac which specify the end-of-line conversion as well
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6244 as what to do about code conversion.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6245
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6246 **** coding-system-p tests a symbol to see if it is a coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6247 name. It returns t if so, nil if not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6248
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6249 **** file-coding-system-alist specifies which coding systems to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6250 for certain file names. It works like network-coding-system-alist,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6251 except that the PATTERN is matched against the file name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6252
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6253 Each element has the format (PATTERN . VAL), where PATTERN determines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6254 which file names the element applies to. PATTERN should be a regexp
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6255 to match against a file name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6256
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6257 VAL is a coding system, a cons cell containing two coding systems, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6258 a function symbol. If VAL is a coding system, it is used for both
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6259 decoding what received from the network stream and encoding what sent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6260 to the network stream. If VAL is a cons cell containing two coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6261 systems, the car specifies the coding system for decoding, and the cdr
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6262 specifies the coding system for encoding.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6263
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6264 If VAL is a function symbol, the function must return a coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6265 or a cons cell containing two coding systems, which is used as above.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6266
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6267 **** The variable network-coding-system-alist specifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6268 the coding system to use for network sockets.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6269
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6270 Each element has the format (PATTERN . VAL), where PATTERN determines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6271 which network sockets the element applies to. PATTERN should be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6272 either a port number or a regular expression matching some network
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6273 service names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6274
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6275 VAL is a coding system, a cons cell containing two coding systems, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6276 a function symbol. If VAL is a coding system, it is used for both
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6277 decoding what received from the network stream and encoding what sent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6278 to the network stream. If VAL is a cons cell containing two coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6279 systems, the car specifies the coding system for decoding, and the cdr
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6280 specifies the coding system for encoding.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6281
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6282 If VAL is a function symbol, the function must return a coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6283 or a cons cell containing two coding systems, which is used as above.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6284
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6285 **** process-coding-system-alist specifies which coding systems to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6286 for certain subprocess. It works like network-coding-system-alist,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6287 except that the PATTERN is matched against the program name used to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6288 start the subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6289
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6290 **** The variable default-process-coding-system specifies the coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6291 systems to use for subprocess (and net connection) input and output,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6292 when nothing else specifies what to do. The value is a cons cell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6293 (OUTPUT-CODING . INPUT-CODING). OUTPUT-CODING applies to output
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6294 to the subprocess, and INPUT-CODING applies to input from it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6295
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6296 **** The variable coding-system-for-write, if non-nil, specifies the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6297 coding system to use for writing a file, or for output to a synchronous
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6298 subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6299
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6300 It also applies to any asynchronous subprocess or network connection,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6301 but in a different way: the value of coding-system-for-write when you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6302 start the subprocess or connection affects that subprocess or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6303 connection permanently or until overridden.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6304
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6305 The variable coding-system-for-write takes precedence over
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6306 file-coding-system-alist, process-coding-system-alist and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6307 network-coding-system-alist, and all other methods of specifying a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6308 coding system for output. But most of the time this variable is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6309 It exists so that Lisp programs can bind it to a specific coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6310 system for one operation at a time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6311
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6312 **** coding-system-for-read applies similarly to input from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6313 files, subprocesses or network connections.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6314
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6315 **** The function process-coding-system tells you what
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6316 coding systems(s) an existing subprocess is using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6317 The value is a cons cell,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6318 (DECODING-CODING-SYSTEM . ENCODING-CODING-SYSTEM)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6319 where DECODING-CODING-SYSTEM is used for decoding output from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6320 the subprocess, and ENCODING-CODING-SYSTEM is used for encoding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6321 input to the subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6322
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6323 **** The function set-process-coding-system can be used to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6324 change the coding systems in use for an existing subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6325
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6326 ** Emacs has a new facility to help users manage the many
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6327 customization options. To make a Lisp program work with this facility,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6328 you need to use the new macros defgroup and defcustom.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6329
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6330 You use defcustom instead of defvar, for defining a user option
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6331 variable. The difference is that you specify two additional pieces of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6332 information (usually): the "type" which says what values are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6333 legitimate, and the "group" which specifies the hierarchy for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6334 customization.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6335
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6336 Thus, instead of writing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6337
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6338 (defvar foo-blurgoze nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6339 "*Non-nil means that foo will act very blurgozely.")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6340
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6341 you would now write this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6342
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6343 (defcustom foo-blurgoze nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6344 "*Non-nil means that foo will act very blurgozely."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6345 :type 'boolean
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6346 :group foo)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6347
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6348 The type `boolean' means that this variable has only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6349 two meaningful states: nil and non-nil. Other type values
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6350 describe other possibilities; see the manual for Custom
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6351 for a description of them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6352
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6353 The "group" argument is used to specify a group which the option
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6354 should belong to. You define a new group like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6355
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6356 (defgroup ispell nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6357 "Spell checking using Ispell."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6358 :group 'processes)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6359
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6360 The "group" argument in defgroup specifies the parent group. The root
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6361 group is called `emacs'; it should not contain any variables itself,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6362 but only other groups. The immediate subgroups of `emacs' correspond
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6363 to the keywords used by C-h p. Under these subgroups come
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6364 second-level subgroups that belong to individual packages.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6365
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6366 Each Emacs package should have its own set of groups. A simple
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6367 package should have just one group; a more complex package should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6368 have a hierarchy of its own groups. The sole or root group of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6369 package should be a subgroup of one or more of the "keyword"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6370 first-level subgroups.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6371
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6372 ** New `widget' library for inserting UI components in buffers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6373
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6374 This library, used by the new custom library, is documented in a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6375 separate manual that accompanies Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6376
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6377 ** easy-mmode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6378
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6379 The easy-mmode package provides macros and functions that make
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6380 developing minor modes easier. Roughly, the programmer has to code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6381 only the functionality of the minor mode. All the rest--toggles,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6382 predicate, and documentation--can be done in one call to the macro
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6383 `easy-mmode-define-minor-mode' (see the documentation). See also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6384 `easy-mmode-define-keymap'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6385
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6386 ** Text property changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6387
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6388 *** The `intangible' property now works on overlays as well as on a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6389 text property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6390
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6391 *** The new functions next-char-property-change and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6392 previous-char-property-change scan through the buffer looking for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6393 place where either a text property or an overlay might change. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6394 functions take two arguments, POSITION and LIMIT. POSITION is the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6395 starting position for the scan. LIMIT says where to stop the scan.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6396
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6397 If no property change is found before LIMIT, the value is LIMIT. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6398 LIMIT is nil, scan goes to the beginning or end of the accessible part
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6399 of the buffer. If no property change is found, the value is the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6400 position of the beginning or end of the buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6401
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6402 *** In the `local-map' text property or overlay property, the property
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6403 value can now be a symbol whose function definition is a keymap. This
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6404 is an alternative to using the keymap itself.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6405
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6406 ** Changes in invisibility features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6407
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6408 *** Isearch can now temporarily show parts of the buffer which are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6409 hidden by an overlay with a invisible property, when the search match
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6410 is inside that portion of the buffer. To enable this the overlay
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6411 should have a isearch-open-invisible property which is a function that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6412 would be called having the overlay as an argument, the function should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6413 make the overlay visible.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6414
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6415 During incremental search the overlays are shown by modifying the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6416 invisible and intangible properties, if beside this more actions are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6417 needed the overlay should have a isearch-open-invisible-temporary
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6418 which is a function. The function is called with 2 arguments: one is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6419 the overlay and the second is nil when it should show the overlay and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6420 t when it should hide it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6421
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6422 *** add-to-invisibility-spec, remove-from-invisibility-spec
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6423
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6424 Modes that use overlays to hide portions of a buffer should set the
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6425 invisible property of the overlay to the mode's name (or another symbol)
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6426 and modify the `buffer-invisibility-spec' to include that symbol.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6427 Use `add-to-invisibility-spec' and `remove-from-invisibility-spec' to
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6428 manipulate the `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6429 Here is an example of how to do this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6430
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6431 ;; If we want to display an ellipsis:
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6432 (add-to-invisibility-spec '(my-symbol . t))
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6433 ;; If you don't want ellipsis:
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6434 (add-to-invisibility-spec 'my-symbol)
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6435
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6436 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6437 (overlay-put (make-overlay beginning end) 'invisible 'my-symbol)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6438
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6439 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6440 ;; When done with the overlays:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6441 (remove-from-invisibility-spec '(my-symbol . t))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6442 ;; Or respectively:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6443 (remove-from-invisibility-spec 'my-symbol)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6444
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6445 ** Changes in syntax parsing.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6446
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6447 *** The syntax-directed buffer-scan functions (such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6448 `parse-partial-sexp', `forward-word' and similar functions) can now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6449 obey syntax information specified by text properties, if the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6450 `parse-sexp-lookup-properties' is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6451
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6452 If the value of `parse-sexp-lookup-properties' is nil, the behavior
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6453 is as before: the syntax-table of the current buffer is always
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6454 used to determine the syntax of the character at the position.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6455
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6456 When `parse-sexp-lookup-properties' is non-nil, the syntax of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6457 character in the buffer is calculated thus:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6458
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6459 a) if the `syntax-table' text-property of that character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6460 is a cons, this cons becomes the syntax-type;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6461
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6462 Valid values of `syntax-table' text-property are: nil, a valid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6463 syntax-table, and a valid syntax-table element, i.e.,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6464 a cons cell of the form (SYNTAX-CODE . MATCHING-CHAR).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6465
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6466 b) if the character's `syntax-table' text-property
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6467 is a syntax table, this syntax table is used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6468 (instead of the syntax-table of the current buffer) to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6469 determine the syntax type of the character.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6470
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6471 c) otherwise the syntax-type is determined by the syntax-table
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6472 of the current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6473
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6474 *** The meaning of \s in regular expressions is also affected by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6475 value of `parse-sexp-lookup-properties'. The details are the same as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6476 for the syntax-directed buffer-scan functions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6477
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6478 *** There are two new syntax-codes, `!' and `|' (numeric values 14
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6479 and 15). A character with a code `!' starts a comment which is ended
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6480 only by another character with the same code (unless quoted). A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6481 character with a code `|' starts a string which is ended only by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6482 another character with the same code (unless quoted).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6483
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6484 These codes are mainly meant for use as values of the `syntax-table'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6485 text property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6486
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6487 *** The function `parse-partial-sexp' has new semantics for the sixth
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6488 arg COMMENTSTOP. If it is `syntax-table', parse stops after the start
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6489 of a comment or a string, or after end of a comment or a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6490
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6491 *** The state-list which the return value from `parse-partial-sexp'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6492 (and can also be used as an argument) now has an optional ninth
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6493 element: the character address of the start of last comment or string;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6494 nil if none. The fourth and eighth elements have special values if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6495 string/comment is started by a "!" or "|" syntax-code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6496
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6497 *** Since new features of `parse-partial-sexp' allow a complete
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6498 syntactic parsing, `font-lock' no longer supports
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6499 `font-lock-comment-start-regexp'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6500
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6501 ** Changes in face features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6502
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6503 *** The face functions are now unconditionally defined in Emacs, even
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6504 if it does not support displaying on a device that supports faces.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6505
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6506 *** The function face-documentation returns the documentation string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6507 of a face (or nil if it doesn't have one).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6508
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6509 *** The function face-bold-p returns t if a face should be bold.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6510 set-face-bold-p sets that flag.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6511
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6512 *** The function face-italic-p returns t if a face should be italic.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6513 set-face-italic-p sets that flag.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6514
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6515 *** You can now specify foreground and background colors for text
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6516 by adding elements of the form (foreground-color . COLOR-NAME)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6517 and (background-color . COLOR-NAME) to the list of faces in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6518 the `face' property (either the character's text property or an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6519 overlay property).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6520
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6521 This means that you no longer need to create named faces to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6522 arbitrary colors in a Lisp package.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6523
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6524 ** Changes in file-handling functions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6525
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6526 *** File-access primitive functions no longer discard an extra redundant
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6527 directory name from the beginning of the file name. In other words,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6528 they no longer do anything special with // or /~. That conversion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6529 is now done only in substitute-in-file-name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6530
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6531 This makes it possible for a Lisp program to open a file whose name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6532 begins with ~.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6533
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6534 *** If copy-file is unable to set the date of the output file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6535 it now signals an error with the condition file-date-error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6536
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6537 *** The inode number returned by file-attributes may be an integer (if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6538 the number fits in a Lisp integer) or a list of integers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6539
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6540 *** insert-file-contents can now read from a special file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6541 as long as the arguments VISIT and REPLACE are nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6542
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6543 *** The RAWFILE arg to find-file-noselect, if non-nil, now suppresses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6544 character code conversion as well as other things.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6545
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6546 Meanwhile, this feature does work with remote file names
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6547 (formerly it did not).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6548
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6549 *** Lisp packages which create temporary files should use the TMPDIR
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6550 environment variable to decide which directory to put them in.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6551
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6552 *** interpreter-mode-alist elements now specify regexps
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6553 instead of constant strings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6554
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6555 *** expand-file-name no longer treats `//' or `/~' specially. It used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6556 to delete all the text of a file name up through the first slash of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6557 any `//' or `/~' sequence. Now it passes them straight through.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6558
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6559 substitute-in-file-name continues to treat those sequences specially,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6560 in the same way as before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6561
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6562 *** The variable `format-alist' is more general now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6563 The FROM-FN and TO-FN in a format definition can now be strings
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6564 which specify shell commands to use as filters to perform conversion.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6565
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6566 *** The new function access-file tries to open a file, and signals an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6567 error if that fails. If the open succeeds, access-file does nothing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6568 else, and returns nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6569
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6570 *** The function insert-directory now signals an error if the specified
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6571 directory cannot be listed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6572
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6573 ** Changes in minibuffer input
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6574
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6575 *** The functions read-buffer, read-variable, read-command, read-string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6576 read-file-name, read-from-minibuffer and completing-read now take an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6577 additional argument which specifies the default value. If this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6578 argument is non-nil, it should be a string; that string is used in two
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6579 ways:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6580
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6581 It is returned if the user enters empty input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6582 It is available through the history command M-n.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6583
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6584 *** The functions read-string, read-from-minibuffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6585 read-no-blanks-input and completing-read now take an additional
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6586 argument INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD. If this is non-nil, then the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6587 minibuffer inherits the current input method and the setting of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6588 enable-multibyte-characters from the previously current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6589
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6590 In an interactive spec, you can use M instead of s to read an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6591 argument in this way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6592
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6593 *** All minibuffer input functions discard text properties
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6594 from the text you enter in the minibuffer, unless the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6595 minibuffer-allow-text-properties is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6596
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6597 ** Echo area features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6598
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6599 *** Clearing the echo area now runs the normal hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6600 echo-area-clear-hook. Note that the echo area can be used while the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6601 minibuffer is active; in that case, the minibuffer is still active
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6602 after the echo area is cleared.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6603
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6604 *** The function current-message returns the message currently displayed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6605 in the echo area, or nil if there is none.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6606
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6607 ** Keyboard input features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6608
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6609 *** tty-erase-char is a new variable that reports which character was
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6610 set up as the terminal's erase character when time Emacs was started.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6611
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6612 *** num-nonmacro-input-events is the total number of input events
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6613 received so far from the terminal. It does not count those generated
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6614 by keyboard macros.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6615
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6616 ** Frame-related changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6617
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6618 *** make-frame runs the normal hook before-make-frame-hook just before
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6619 creating a frame, and just after creating a frame it runs the abnormal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6620 hook after-make-frame-functions with the new frame as arg.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6621
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6622 *** The new hook window-configuration-change-hook is now run every time
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6623 the window configuration has changed. The frame whose configuration
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6624 has changed is the selected frame when the hook is run.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6625
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6626 *** Each frame now independently records the order for recently
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6627 selected buffers, in its buffer-list frame parameter, so that the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6628 value of other-buffer is now based on the buffers recently displayed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6629 in the selected frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6630
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6631 *** The value of the frame parameter vertical-scroll-bars
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6632 is now `left', `right' or nil. A non-nil value specifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6633 which side of the window to put the scroll bars on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6634
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6635 ** X Windows features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6636
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6637 *** You can examine X resources for other applications by binding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6638 x-resource-class around a call to x-get-resource. The usual value of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6639 x-resource-class is "Emacs", which is the correct value for Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6640
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6641 *** In menus, checkboxes and radio buttons now actually work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6642 The menu displays the current status of the box or button.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6643
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6644 *** The function x-list-fonts now takes an optional fourth argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6645 MAXIMUM which sets a limit on how many matching fonts to return.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6646 A smaller value of MAXIMUM makes the function faster.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6647
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6648 If the only question is whether *any* font matches the pattern,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6649 it is good to supply 1 for this argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6650
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6651 ** Subprocess features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6652
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6653 *** A reminder: it is no longer necessary for subprocess filter
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6654 functions and sentinels to do save-match-data, because Emacs does this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6655 automatically.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6656
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6657 *** The new function shell-command-to-string executes a shell command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6658 and returns the output from the command as a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6659
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6660 *** The new function process-contact returns t for a child process,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6661 and (HOSTNAME SERVICE) for a net connection.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6662
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6663 ** An error in running pre-command-hook or post-command-hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6664 does clear the variable to nil. The documentation was wrong before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6665
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6666 ** In define-key-after, if AFTER is t, the new binding now always goes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6667 at the end of the keymap. If the keymap is a menu, this means it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6668 goes after the other menu items.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6669
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6670 ** If you have a program that makes several changes in the same area
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6671 of the buffer, you can use the macro combine-after-change-calls
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6672 around that Lisp code to make it faster when after-change hooks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6673 are in use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6674
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6675 The macro arranges to call the after-change functions just once for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6676 series of several changes--if that seems safe.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6677
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6678 Don't alter the variables after-change-functions and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6679 after-change-function within the body of a combine-after-change-calls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6680 form.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6681
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6682 ** If you define an abbrev (with define-abbrev) whose EXPANSION
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6683 is not a string, then the abbrev does not expand in the usual sense,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6684 but its hook is still run.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6685
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6686 ** Normally, the Lisp debugger is not used (even if you have enabled it)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6687 for errors that are handled by condition-case.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6688
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6689 If you set debug-on-signal to a non-nil value, then the debugger is called
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6690 regardless of whether there is a handler for the condition. This is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6691 useful for debugging problems that happen inside of a condition-case.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6692
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6693 This mode of operation seems to be unreliable in other ways. Errors that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6694 are normal and ought to be handled, perhaps in timers or process
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6695 filters, will instead invoke the debugger. So don't say you weren't
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6696 warned.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6697
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6698 ** The new variable ring-bell-function lets you specify your own
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6699 way for Emacs to "ring the bell".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6700
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6701 ** If run-at-time's TIME argument is t, the action is repeated at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6702 integral multiples of REPEAT from the epoch; this is useful for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6703 functions like display-time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6704
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6705 ** You can use the function locate-library to find the precise file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6706 name of a Lisp library. This isn't new, but wasn't documented before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6707
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6708 ** Commands for entering view mode have new optional arguments that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6709 can be used from Lisp. Low-level entrance to and exit from view mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6710 is done by functions view-mode-enter and view-mode-exit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6711
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6712 ** batch-byte-compile-file now makes Emacs return a nonzero status code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6713 if there is an error in compilation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6714
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6715 ** pop-to-buffer, switch-to-buffer-other-window and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6716 switch-to-buffer-other-frame now accept an additional optional
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6717 argument NORECORD, much like switch-to-buffer. If it is non-nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6718 they don't put the buffer at the front of the buffer list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6719
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6720 ** If your .emacs file leaves the *scratch* buffer non-empty,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6721 Emacs does not display the startup message, so as to avoid changing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6722 the *scratch* buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6723
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6724 ** The new function regexp-opt returns an efficient regexp to match a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6725 The arguments are STRINGS and (optionally) PAREN. This function can be used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6726 where regexp matching or searching is intensively used and speed is important,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6727 e.g., in Font Lock mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6728
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6729 ** The variable buffer-display-count is local to each buffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6730 and is incremented each time the buffer is displayed in a window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6731 It starts at 0 when the buffer is created.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6732
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6733 ** The new function compose-mail starts composing a mail message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6734 using the user's chosen mail composition agent (specified with the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6735 variable mail-user-agent). It has variants compose-mail-other-window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6736 and compose-mail-other-frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6737
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6738 ** The `user-full-name' function now takes an optional parameter which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6739 can either be a number (the UID) or a string (the login name). The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6740 full name of the specified user will be returned.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6741
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6742 ** Lisp packages that load files of customizations, or any other sort
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6743 of user profile, should obey the variable init-file-user in deciding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6744 where to find it. They should load the profile of the user name found
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6745 in that variable. If init-file-user is nil, meaning that the -q
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6746 option was used, then Lisp packages should not load the customization
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6747 files at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6748
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6749 ** format-time-string now allows you to specify the field width
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6750 and type of padding. This works as in printf: you write the field
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6751 width as digits in the middle of a %-construct. If you start
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6752 the field width with 0, it means to pad with zeros.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6753
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6754 For example, %S normally specifies the number of seconds since the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6755 minute; %03S means to pad this with zeros to 3 positions, %_3S to pad
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6756 with spaces to 3 positions. Plain %3S pads with zeros, because that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6757 is how %S normally pads to two positions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6758
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6759 ** thing-at-point now supports a new kind of "thing": url.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6760
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6761 ** imenu.el changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6762
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6763 You can now specify a function to be run when selecting an
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6764 item from menu created by imenu.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6765
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6766 An example of using this feature: if we define imenu items for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6767 #include directives in a C file, we can open the included file when we
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6768 select one of those items.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6769
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6770 * Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6771
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6772 * Changes in Emacs 19.33.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6773
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6774 ** Bibtex mode no longer turns on Auto Fill automatically. (No major
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6775 mode should do that--it is the user's choice.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6776
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6777 ** The variable normal-auto-fill-function specifies the function to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6778 use for auto-fill-function, if and when Auto Fill is turned on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6779 Major modes can set this locally to alter how Auto Fill works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6780
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6781 * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.32
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6782
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6783 ** C-x f with no argument now signals an error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6784 To set the fill column at the current column, use C-u C-x f.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6785
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6786 ** Expanding dynamic abbrevs with M-/ is now smarter about case
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6787 conversion. If you type the abbreviation with mixed case, and it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6788 matches the beginning of the expansion including case, then the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6789 expansion is copied verbatim. Using SPC M-/ to copy an additional
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6790 word always copies it verbatim except when the previous copied word is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6791 all caps.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6792
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6793 ** On a non-windowing terminal, which can display only one Emacs frame
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6794 at a time, creating a new frame with C-x 5 2 also selects that frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6795
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6796 When using a display that can show multiple frames at once, C-x 5 2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6797 does make the frame visible, but does not select it. This is the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6798 as in previous Emacs versions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6799
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6800 ** You can use C-x 5 2 to create multiple frames on MSDOS, just as on a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6801 non-X terminal on Unix. Of course, only one frame is visible at any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6802 time, since your terminal doesn't have the ability to display multiple
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6803 frames.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6804
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6805 ** On Windows, set win32-pass-alt-to-system to a non-nil value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6806 if you would like tapping the Alt key to invoke the Windows menu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6807 This feature is not enabled by default; since the Alt key is also the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6808 Meta key, it is too easy and painful to activate this feature by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6809 accident.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6810
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6811 ** The command apply-macro-to-region-lines repeats the last defined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6812 keyboard macro once for each complete line within the current region.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6813 It does this line by line, by moving point to the beginning of that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6814 line and then executing the macro.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6815
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6816 This command is not new, but was never documented before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6817
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6818 ** You can now use Mouse-1 to place the region around a string constant
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6819 (something surrounded by doublequote characters or other delimiter
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6820 characters of like syntax) by double-clicking on one of the delimiting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6821 characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6822
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6823 ** Font Lock mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6824
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6825 *** Font Lock support modes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6826
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6827 Font Lock can be configured to use Fast Lock mode and Lazy Lock mode (see
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6828 below) in a flexible way. Rather than adding the appropriate function to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6829 hook font-lock-mode-hook, you can use the new variable font-lock-support-mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6830 to control which modes have Fast Lock mode or Lazy Lock mode turned on when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6831 Font Lock mode is enabled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6832
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6833 For example, to use Fast Lock mode when Font Lock mode is turned on, put:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6834
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6835 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'fast-lock-mode)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6836
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6837 in your ~/.emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6838
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6839 *** lazy-lock
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6840
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6841 The lazy-lock package speeds up Font Lock mode by making fontification occur
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6842 only when necessary, such as when a previously unfontified part of the buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6843 becomes visible in a window. When you create a buffer with Font Lock mode and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6844 Lazy Lock mode turned on, the buffer is not fontified. When certain events
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6845 occur (such as scrolling), Lazy Lock makes sure that the visible parts of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6846 buffer are fontified. Lazy Lock also defers on-the-fly fontification until
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6847 Emacs has been idle for a given amount of time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6848
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6849 To use this package, put in your ~/.emacs:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6850
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6851 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6852
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6853 To control the package behaviour, see the documentation for `lazy-lock-mode'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6854
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6855 ** Changes in BibTeX mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6856
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6857 *** For all entries allow spaces and tabs between opening brace or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6858 paren and key.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6859
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6860 *** Non-escaped double-quoted characters (as in `Sch"of') are now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6861 supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6862
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6863 ** Gnus changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6864
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6865 Gnus, the Emacs news reader, has undergone further rewriting. Many new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6866 commands and variables have been added. There should be no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6867 significant incompatibilities between this Gnus version and the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6868 previously released version, except in the message composition area.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6869
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6870 Below is a list of the more user-visible changes. Coding changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6871 between Gnus 5.1 and 5.2 are more extensive.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6872
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6873 *** A new message composition mode is used. All old customization
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6874 variables for mail-mode, rnews-reply-mode and gnus-msg are now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6875 obsolete.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6876
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6877 *** Gnus is now able to generate "sparse" threads -- threads where
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6878 missing articles are represented by empty nodes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6879
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6880 (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6881
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6882 *** Outgoing articles are stored on a special archive server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6883
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6884 To disable this: (setq gnus-message-archive-group nil)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6885
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6886 *** Partial thread regeneration now happens when articles are
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6887 referred.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6888
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6889 *** Gnus can make use of GroupLens predictions:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6890
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6891 (setq gnus-use-grouplens t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6892
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6893 *** A trn-line tree buffer can be displayed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6894
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6895 (setq gnus-use-trees t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6896
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6897 *** An nn-like pick-and-read minor mode is available for the summary
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6898 buffers.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6899
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6900 (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'gnus-pick-mode)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6901
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6902 *** In binary groups you can use a special binary minor mode:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6903
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6904 `M-x gnus-binary-mode'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6905
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6906 *** Groups can be grouped in a folding topic hierarchy.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6907
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6908 (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6909
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6910 *** Gnus can re-send and bounce mail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6911
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6912 Use the `S D r' and `S D b'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6913
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6914 *** Groups can now have a score, and bubbling based on entry frequency
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6915 is possible.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6916
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6917 (add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-summary-bubble-group)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6918
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6919 *** Groups can be process-marked, and commands can be performed on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6920 groups of groups.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6921
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6922 *** Caching is possible in virtual groups.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6923
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6924 *** nndoc now understands all kinds of digests, mail boxes, rnews news
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6925 batches, ClariNet briefs collections, and just about everything else.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6926
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6927 *** Gnus has a new backend (nnsoup) to create/read SOUP packets.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6928
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6929 *** The Gnus cache is much faster.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6930
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6931 *** Groups can be sorted according to many criteria.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6932
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6933 For instance: (setq gnus-group-sort-function 'gnus-group-sort-by-rank)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6934
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6935 *** New group parameters have been introduced to set list-address and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6936 expiration times.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6937
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6938 *** All formatting specs allow specifying faces to be used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6939
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6940 *** There are several more commands for setting/removing/acting on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6941 process marked articles on the `M P' submap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6942
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6943 *** The summary buffer can be limited to show parts of the available
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6944 articles based on a wide range of criteria. These commands have been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6945 bound to keys on the `/' submap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6946
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6947 *** Articles can be made persistent -- as an alternative to saving
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6948 articles with the `*' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6949
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6950 *** All functions for hiding article elements are now toggles.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6951
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6952 *** Article headers can be buttonized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6953
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6954 (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-add-buttons-to-head)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6955
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6956 *** All mail backends support fetching articles by Message-ID.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6957
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6958 *** Duplicate mail can now be treated properly. See the
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6959 `nnmail-treat-duplicates' variable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6960
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6961 *** All summary mode commands are available directly from the article
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6962 buffer.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6963
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6964 *** Frames can be part of `gnus-buffer-configuration'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6965
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6966 *** Mail can be re-scanned by a daemonic process.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6967
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6968 *** Gnus can make use of NoCeM files to filter spam.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6969
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6970 (setq gnus-use-nocem t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6971
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6972 *** Groups can be made permanently visible.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6973
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6974 (setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups "^nnml:")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6975
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6976 *** Many new hooks have been introduced to make customizing easier.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6977
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6978 *** Gnus respects the Mail-Copies-To header.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6979
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6980 *** Threads can be gathered by looking at the References header.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6981
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6982 (setq gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6983 'gnus-gather-threads-by-references)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6984
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6985 *** Read articles can be stored in a special backlog buffer to avoid
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6986 refetching.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6987
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6988 (setq gnus-keep-backlog 50)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6989
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6990 *** A clean copy of the current article is always stored in a separate
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6991 buffer to allow easier treatment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6992
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6993 *** Gnus can suggest where to save articles. See `gnus-split-methods'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6994
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6995 *** Gnus doesn't have to do as much prompting when saving.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6997 (setq gnus-prompt-before-saving t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6998
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6999 *** gnus-uu can view decoded files asynchronously while fetching
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
7000 articles.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7001
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7002 (setq gnus-uu-grabbed-file-functions 'gnus-uu-grab-view)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7003
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
7004 *** Filling in the article buffer now works properly on cited text.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7005
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7006 *** Hiding cited text adds buttons to toggle hiding, and how much
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7007 cited text to hide is now customizable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7008
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7009 (setq gnus-cited-lines-visible 2)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7010
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7011 *** Boring headers can be hidden.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7012
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7013 (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-hide-boring-headers)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7014
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7015 *** Default scoring values can now be set from the menu bar.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7016
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7017 *** Further syntax checking of outgoing articles have been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7018
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7019 The Gnus manual has been expanded. It explains all these new features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7020 in greater detail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7021
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7022 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 19.32
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7023
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7024 ** The function set-visited-file-name now accepts an optional
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7025 second argument NO-QUERY. If it is non-nil, then the user is not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7026 asked for confirmation in the case where the specified file already
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7027 exists.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7028
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7029 ** The variable print-length applies to printing vectors and bitvectors,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7030 as well as lists.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7031
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7032 ** The new function keymap-parent returns the parent keymap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7033 of a given keymap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7034
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7035 ** The new function set-keymap-parent specifies a new parent for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7036 given keymap. The arguments are KEYMAP and PARENT. PARENT must be a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7037 keymap or nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7038
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7039 ** Sometimes menu keymaps use a command name, a symbol, which is really
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7040 an automatically generated alias for some other command, the "real"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7041 name. In such a case, you should give that alias symbol a non-nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7042 menu-alias property. That property tells the menu system to look for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7043 equivalent keys for the real name instead of equivalent keys for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7044 alias.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7045
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7046 * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.31
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7047
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7048 ** Freedom of the press restricted in the United States.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7049
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7050 Emacs has been censored in accord with the Communications Decency Act.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7051 This includes removing some features of the doctor program. That law
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7052 was described by its supporters as a ban on pornography, but it bans
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7053 far more than that. The Emacs distribution has never contained any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7054 pornography, but parts of it were nonetheless prohibited.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7055
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7056 For information on US government censorship of the Internet, and what
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7057 you can do to bring back freedom of the press, see the web site
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7058 `http://www.vtw.org/'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7059
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7060 ** A note about C mode indentation customization.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7061
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7062 The old (Emacs 19.29) ways of specifying a C indentation style
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7063 do not normally work in the new implementation of C mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7064 It has its own methods of customizing indentation, which are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7065 much more powerful than the old C mode. See the Editing Programs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7066 chapter of the manual for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7067
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7068 However, you can load the library cc-compat to make the old
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7069 customization variables take effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7070
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7071 ** Marking with the mouse.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7072
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7073 When you mark a region with the mouse, the region now remains
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7074 highlighted until the next input event, regardless of whether you are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7075 using M-x transient-mark-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7076
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7077 ** Improved Windows NT/95 support.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7078
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7079 *** Emacs now supports scroll bars on Windows NT and Windows 95.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7080
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7081 *** Emacs now supports subprocesses on Windows 95. (Subprocesses used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7082 to work on NT only and not on 95.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7083
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7084 *** There are difficulties with subprocesses, though, due to problems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7085 in Windows, beyond the control of Emacs. They work fine as long as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7086 you run Windows applications. The problems arise when you run a DOS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7087 application in a subprocesses. Since current shells run as DOS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7088 applications, these problems are significant.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7089
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7090 If you run a DOS application in a subprocess, then the application is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7091 likely to busy-wait, which means that your machine will be 100% busy.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7092 However, if you don't mind the temporary heavy load, the subprocess
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7093 will work OK as long as you tell it to terminate before you start any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7094 other DOS application as a subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7095
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7096 Emacs is unable to terminate or interrupt a DOS subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7097 You have to do this by providing input directly to the subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7098
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7099 If you run two DOS applications at the same time in two separate
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7100 subprocesses, even if one of them is asynchronous, you will probably
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7101 have to reboot your machine--until then, it will remain 100% busy.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7102 Windows simply does not cope when one Windows process tries to run two
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7103 separate DOS subprocesses. Typing CTL-ALT-DEL and then choosing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7104 Shutdown seems to work although it may take a few minutes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7105
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7106 ** M-x resize-minibuffer-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7107
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7108 This command, not previously mentioned in NEWS, toggles a mode in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7109 which the minibuffer window expands to show as many lines as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7110 minibuffer contains.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7111
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7112 ** `title' frame parameter and resource.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7113
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7114 The `title' X resource now specifies just the frame title, nothing else.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7115 It does not affect the name used for looking up other X resources.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7116 It works by setting the new `title' frame parameter, which likewise
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7117 affects just the displayed title of the frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7118
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7119 The `name' parameter continues to do what it used to do:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7120 it specifies the frame name for looking up X resources,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7121 and also serves as the default for the displayed title
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7122 when the `title' parameter is unspecified or nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7123
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7124 ** Emacs now uses the X toolkit by default, if you have a new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7125 enough version of X installed (X11R5 or newer).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7126
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7127 ** When you compile Emacs with the Motif widget set, Motif handles the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7128 F10 key by activating the menu bar. To avoid confusion, the usual
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7129 Emacs binding of F10 is replaced with a no-op when using Motif.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7130
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7131 If you want to be able to use F10 in Emacs, you can rebind the Motif
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7132 menubar to some other key which you don't use. To do so, add
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7133 something like this to your X resources file. This example rebinds
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7134 the Motif menu bar activation key to S-F12:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7135
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7136 Emacs*defaultVirtualBindings: osfMenuBar : Shift<Key>F12
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7137
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7138 ** In overwrite mode, DEL now inserts spaces in most cases
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7139 to replace the characters it "deletes".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7140
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7141 ** The Rmail summary now shows the number of lines in each message.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7142
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7143 ** Rmail has a new command M-x unforward-rmail-message, which extracts
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7144 a forwarded message from the message that forwarded it. To use it,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7145 select a message which contains a forwarded message and then type the command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7146 It inserts the forwarded message as a separate Rmail message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7147 immediately after the selected one.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7148
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7149 This command also undoes the textual modifications that are standardly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7150 made, as part of forwarding, by Rmail and other mail reader programs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7151
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7152 ** Turning off saving of .saves-... files in your home directory.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7153
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7154 Each Emacs session writes a file named .saves-... in your home
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7155 directory to record which files M-x recover-session should recover.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7156 If you exit Emacs normally with C-x C-c, it deletes that file. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7157 Emacs or the operating system crashes, the file remains for M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7158 recover-session.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7159
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7160 You can turn off the writing of these files by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7161 auto-save-list-file-name to nil. If you do this, M-x recover-session
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7162 will not work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7163
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7164 Some previous Emacs versions failed to delete these files even on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7165 normal exit. This is fixed now. If you are thinking of turning off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7166 this feature because of past experiences with versions that had this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7167 bug, it would make sense to check whether you still want to do so
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7168 now that the bug is fixed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7169
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7170 ** Changes to Version Control (VC)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7171
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7172 There is a new variable, vc-follow-symlinks. It indicates what to do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7173 when you visit a link to a file that is under version control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7174 Editing the file through the link bypasses the version control system,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7175 which is dangerous and probably not what you want.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7176
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7177 If this variable is t, VC follows the link and visits the real file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7178 telling you about it in the echo area. If it is `ask' (the default),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7179 VC asks for confirmation whether it should follow the link. If nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7180 the link is visited and a warning displayed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7181
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7182 ** iso-acc.el now lets you specify a choice of language.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7183 Languages include "latin-1" (the default) and "latin-2" (which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7184 is designed for entering ISO Latin-2 characters).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7185
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7186 There are also choices for specific human languages such as French and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7187 Portuguese. These are subsets of Latin-1, which differ in that they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7188 enable only the accent characters needed for particular language.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7189 The other accent characters, not needed for the chosen language,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7190 remain normal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7191
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7192 ** Posting articles and sending mail now has M-TAB completion on various
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7193 header fields (Newsgroups, To, CC, ...).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7194
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7195 Completion in the Newsgroups header depends on the list of groups
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7196 known to your news reader. Completion in the Followup-To header
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7197 offers those groups which are in the Newsgroups header, since
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7198 Followup-To usually just holds one of those.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7199
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7200 Completion in fields that hold mail addresses works based on the list
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7201 of local users plus your aliases. Additionally, if your site provides
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7202 a mail directory or a specific host to use for any unrecognized user
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7203 name, you can arrange to query that host for completion also. (See the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7204 documentation of variables `mail-directory-process' and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7205 `mail-directory-stream'.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7206
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7207 ** A greatly extended sgml-mode offers new features such as (to be configured)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7208 skeletons with completing read for tags and attributes, typing named
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7209 characters including optionally all 8bit characters, making tags invisible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7210 with optional alternate display text, skipping and deleting tag(pair)s.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7211
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7212 Note: since Emacs' syntax feature cannot limit the special meaning of ', " and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7213 - to inside <>, for some texts the result, especially of font locking, may be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7214 wrong (see `sgml-specials' if you get wrong results).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7215
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7216 The derived html-mode configures this with tags and attributes more or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7217 less HTML3ish. It also offers optional quick keys like C-c 1 for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7218 headline or C-c u for unordered list (see `html-quick-keys'). Edit /
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7219 Text Properties / Face or M-g combinations create tags as applicable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7220 Outline minor mode is supported and level 1 font-locking tries to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7221 fontify tag contents (which only works when they fit on one line, due
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7222 to a limitation in font-lock).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7223
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7224 External viewing via browse-url can occur automatically upon saving.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7225
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7226 ** M-x imenu-add-to-menubar now adds to the menu bar for the current
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7227 buffer only. If you want to put an Imenu item in the menu bar for all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7228 buffers that use a particular major mode, use the mode hook, as in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7229 this example:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7230
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7231 (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7232 '(lambda () (imenu-add-to-menubar "Index")))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7233
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7234 ** Changes in BibTeX mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7235
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7236 *** Field names may now contain digits, hyphens, and underscores.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7237
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7238 *** Font Lock mode is now supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7239
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7240 *** bibtex-make-optional-field is no longer interactive.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7241
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7242 *** If bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is non-nil, inserting new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7243 entries is now done with a faster algorithm. However, inserting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7244 will fail in this case if the buffer contains invalid entries or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7245 isn't in sorted order, so you should finish each entry with C-c C-c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7246 (bibtex-close-entry) after you have inserted or modified it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7247 The default value of bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7248
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7249 *** Function `show-all' is no longer bound to a key, since C-u C-c C-q
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7250 does the same job.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7251
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7252 *** Entries with quotes inside quote-delimited fields (as `author =
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7253 "Stefan Sch{\"o}f"') are now supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7254
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7255 *** Case in field names doesn't matter anymore when searching for help
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7256 text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7257
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7258 ** Font Lock mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7259
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7260 *** Global Font Lock mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7261
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7262 Font Lock mode can be turned on globally, in buffers that support it, by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7263 new command global-font-lock-mode. You can use the new variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7264 font-lock-global-modes to control which modes have Font Lock mode automagically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7265 turned on. By default, this variable is set so that Font Lock mode is turned
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7266 on globally where the buffer mode supports it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7267
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7268 For example, to automagically turn on Font Lock mode where supported, put:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7269
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7270 (global-font-lock-mode t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7271
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7272 in your ~/.emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7273
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7274 *** Local Refontification
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7275
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7276 In Font Lock mode, editing a line automatically refontifies that line only.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7277 However, if your change alters the syntactic context for following lines,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7278 those lines remain incorrectly fontified. To refontify them, use the new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7279 command M-g M-g (font-lock-fontify-block).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7280
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7281 In certain major modes, M-g M-g refontifies the entire current function.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7282 (The variable font-lock-mark-block-function controls how to find the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7283 current function.) In other major modes, M-g M-g refontifies 16 lines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7284 above and below point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7285
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7286 With a prefix argument N, M-g M-g refontifies N lines above and below point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7287
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7288 ** Follow mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7289
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7290 Follow mode is a new minor mode combining windows showing the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7291 buffer into one tall "virtual window". The windows are typically two
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7292 side-by-side windows. Follow mode makes them scroll together as if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7293 they were a unit. To use it, go to a frame with just one window,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7294 split it into two side-by-side windows using C-x 3, and then type M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7295 follow-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7296
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7297 M-x follow-mode turns off Follow mode if it is already enabled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7298
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7299 To display two side-by-side windows and activate Follow mode, use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7300 command M-x follow-delete-other-windows-and-split.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7301
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7302 ** hide-show changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7303
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7304 The hooks hs-hide-hooks and hs-show-hooks have been renamed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7305 to hs-hide-hook and hs-show-hook, to follow the convention for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7306 normal hooks.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7307
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7308 ** Simula mode now has a menu containing the most important commands.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7309 The new command simula-indent-exp is bound to C-M-q.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7310
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7311 ** etags can now handle programs written in Erlang. Files are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7312 recognised by the extensions .erl and .hrl. The tagged lines are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7313 those that begin a function, record, or macro.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7314
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7315 ** MSDOS Changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7316
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7317 *** It is now possible to compile Emacs with the version 2 of DJGPP.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7318 Compilation with DJGPP version 1 also still works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7319
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7320 *** The documentation of DOS-specific aspects of Emacs was rewritten
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7321 and expanded; see the ``MS-DOS'' node in the on-line docs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7322
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7323 *** Emacs now uses ~ for backup file names, not .bak.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7324
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7325 *** You can simulate mouse-3 on two-button mice by simultaneously
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7326 pressing both mouse buttons.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7327
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7328 *** A number of packages and commands which previously failed or had
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7329 restricted functionality on MS-DOS, now work. The most important ones
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
7330 are:
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7331
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7332 **** Printing (both with `M-x lpr-buffer' and with `ps-print' package)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7333 now works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7334
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7335 **** `Ediff' works (in a single-frame mode).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7336
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7337 **** `M-x display-time' can be used on MS-DOS (due to the new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7338 implementation of Emacs timers, see below).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7339
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7340 **** `Dired' supports Unix-style shell wildcards.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7341
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7342 **** The `c-macro-expand' command now works as on other platforms.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7343
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7344 **** `M-x recover-session' works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7345
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7346 **** `M-x list-colors-display' displays all the available colors.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7347
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7348 **** The `TPU-EDT' package works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7349
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7350 * Lisp changes in Emacs 19.31.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7351
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7352 ** The function using-unix-filesystems on Windows NT and Windows 95
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7353 tells Emacs to read and write files assuming that they reside on a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7354 remote Unix filesystem. No CR/LF translation is done on any files in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7355 this case. Invoking using-unix-filesystems with t activates this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7356 behavior, and invoking it with any other value deactivates it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7357
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7358 ** Change in system-type and system-configuration values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7359
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7360 The value of system-type on a Linux-based GNU system is now `lignux',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7361 not `linux'. This means that some programs which use `system-type'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7362 need to be changed. The value of `system-configuration' will also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7363 be different.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7364
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7365 It is generally recommended to use `system-configuration' rather
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7366 than `system-type'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7367
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7368 See the file LINUX-GNU in this directory for more about this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7369
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7370 ** The functions shell-command and dired-call-process
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7371 now run file name handlers for default-directory, if it has them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7372
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7373 ** Undoing the deletion of text now restores the positions of markers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7374 that pointed into or next to the deleted text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7375
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7376 ** Timers created with run-at-time now work internally to Emacs, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7377 no longer use a separate process. Therefore, they now work more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7378 reliably and can be used for shorter time delays.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7379
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7380 The new function run-with-timer is a convenient way to set up a timer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7381 to run a specified amount of time after the present. A call looks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7382 like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7383
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7384 (run-with-timer SECS REPEAT FUNCTION ARGS...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7385
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7386 SECS says how many seconds should elapse before the timer happens.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7387 It may be an integer or a floating point number. When the timer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7388 becomes ripe, the action is to call FUNCTION with arguments ARGS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7389
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7390 REPEAT gives the interval for repeating the timer (measured in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7391 seconds). It may be an integer or a floating point number. nil or 0
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7392 means don't repeat at all--call FUNCTION just once.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7393
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7394 *** with-timeout provides an easy way to do something but give
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7395 up if too much time passes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7396
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7397 (with-timeout (SECONDS TIMEOUT-FORMS...) BODY...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7398
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7399 This executes BODY, but gives up after SECONDS seconds.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7400 If it gives up, it runs the TIMEOUT-FORMS and returns the value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7401 of the last one of them. Normally it returns the value of the last
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7402 form in BODY.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7403
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7404 *** You can now arrange to call a function whenever Emacs is idle for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7405 a certain length of time. To do this, call run-with-idle-timer. A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7406 call looks like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7407
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7408 (run-with-idle-timer SECS REPEAT FUNCTION ARGS...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7409
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7410 SECS says how many seconds of idleness should elapse before the timer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7411 runs. It may be an integer or a floating point number. When the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7412 timer becomes ripe, the action is to call FUNCTION with arguments
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7413 ARGS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7414
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7415 Emacs becomes idle whenever it finishes executing a keyboard or mouse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7416 command. It remains idle until it receives another keyboard or mouse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7417 command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7418
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7419 REPEAT, if non-nil, means this timer should be activated again each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7420 time Emacs becomes idle and remains idle for SECS seconds The timer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7421 does not repeat if Emacs *remains* idle; it runs at most once after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7422 each time Emacs becomes idle.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7423
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7424 If REPEAT is nil, the timer runs just once, the first time Emacs is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7425 idle for SECS seconds.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7426
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7427 *** post-command-idle-hook is now obsolete; you shouldn't use it at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7428 all, because it interferes with the idle timer mechanism. If your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7429 programs use post-command-idle-hook, convert them to use idle timers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7430 instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7431
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7432 *** y-or-n-p-with-timeout lets you ask a question but give up if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7433 there is no answer within a certain time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7434
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7435 (y-or-n-p-with-timeout PROMPT SECONDS DEFAULT-VALUE)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7436
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7437 asks the question PROMPT (just like y-or-n-p). If the user answers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7438 within SECONDS seconds, it returns the answer that the user gave.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7439 Otherwise it gives up after SECONDS seconds, and returns DEFAULT-VALUE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7440
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7441 ** Minor change to `encode-time': you can now pass more than seven
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7442 arguments. If you do that, the first six arguments have the usual
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7443 meaning, the last argument is interpreted as the time zone, and the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7444 arguments in between are ignored.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7445
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7446 This means that it works to use the list returned by `decode-time' as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7447 the list of arguments for `encode-time'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7448
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7449 ** The default value of load-path now includes the directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7450 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp In addition to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7451 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp. You can use this new directory for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7452 site-specific Lisp packages that belong with a particular Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7453 version.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7454
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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7455 It is not unusual for a Lisp package that works well in one Emacs
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7456 version to cause trouble in another. Sometimes packages need updating
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7457 for incompatible changes; sometimes they look at internal data that
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7458 has changed; sometimes the package has been installed in Emacs itself
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7459 and the installed version should be used. Whatever the reason for the
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7460 problem, this new feature makes it easier to solve.
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7461
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7462 ** When your program contains a fixed file name (like .completions or
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7463 .abbrev.defs), the file name usually needs to be different on operating
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7464 systems with limited file name syntax.
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7465
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7466 Now you can avoid ad-hoc conditionals by using the function
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7467 convert-standard-filename to convert the file name to a proper form
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7468 for each operating system. Here is an example of use, from the file
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7469 completions.el:
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7470
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7471 (defvar save-completions-file-name
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7472 (convert-standard-filename "~/.completions")
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7473 "*The filename to save completions to.")
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7474
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7475 This sets the variable save-completions-file-name to a value that
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7476 depends on the operating system, because the definition of
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7477 convert-standard-filename depends on the operating system. On
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7478 Unix-like systems, it returns the specified file name unchanged. On
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7479 MS-DOS, it adapts the name to fit the limitations of that system.
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7480
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7481 ** The interactive spec N now returns the numeric prefix argument
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7482 rather than the raw prefix argument. (It still reads a number using the
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7483 minibuffer if there is no prefix argument at all.)
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7484
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7485 ** When a process is deleted, this no longer disconnects the process
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7486 marker from its buffer position.
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7487
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7488 ** The variable garbage-collection-messages now controls whether
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7489 Emacs displays a message at the beginning and end of garbage collection.
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7490 The default is nil, meaning there are no messages.
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7491
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7492 ** The variable debug-ignored-errors specifies certain kinds of errors
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7493 that should not enter the debugger. Its value is a list of error
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7494 condition symbols and/or regular expressions. If the error has any
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7495 of the condition symbols listed, or if any of the regular expressions
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7496 matches the error message, then that error does not enter the debugger,
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7497 regardless of the value of debug-on-error.
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7498
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7499 This variable is initialized to match certain common but uninteresting
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7500 errors that happen often during editing.
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7501
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7502 ** The new function error-message-string converts an error datum
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7503 into its error message. The error datum is what condition-case
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7504 puts into the variable, to describe the error that happened.
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7505
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7506 ** Anything that changes which buffer appears in a given window
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7507 now runs the window-scroll-functions for that window.
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7508
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7509 ** The new function get-buffer-window-list returns a list of windows displaying
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7510 a buffer. The function is called with the buffer (a buffer object or a buffer
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7511 name) and two optional arguments specifying the minibuffer windows and frames
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7512 to search. Therefore this function takes optional args like next-window etc.,
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7513 and not get-buffer-window.
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7514
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7515 ** buffer-substring now runs the hook buffer-access-fontify-functions,
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7516 calling each function with two arguments--the range of the buffer
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7517 being accessed. buffer-substring-no-properties does not call them.
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7518
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7519 If you use this feature, you should set the variable
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7520 buffer-access-fontified-property to a non-nil symbol, which is a
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7521 property name. Then, if all the characters in the buffer range have a
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7522 non-nil value for that property, the buffer-access-fontify-functions
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7523 are not called. When called, these functions should put a non-nil
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7524 property on the text that they fontify, so that they won't get called
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7525 over and over for the same text.
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7526
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7527 ** Changes in lisp-mnt.el
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7528
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7529 *** The lisp-mnt package can now recognize file headers that are written
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7530 in the formats used by the `what' command and the RCS `ident' command:
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7531
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7532 ;; @(#) HEADER: text
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7533 ;; $HEADER: text $
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7534
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7535 in addition to the normal
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7536
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7537 ;; HEADER: text
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7538
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7539 *** The commands lm-verify and lm-synopsis are now interactive. lm-verify
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7540 checks that the library file has proper sections and headers, and
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7541 lm-synopsis extracts first line "synopsis'"information.
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7542
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7543 * For older news, see the file ONEWS.
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7544
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7545 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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7546 Copyright information:
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7547
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7548 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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7549
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7550 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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7551 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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7552 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
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7553 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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7554
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7555 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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7556 of this document, or of portions of it,
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7557 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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7558 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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7559
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7560 Local variables:
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7561 mode: outline
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7562 paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
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7563 end: