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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 23 Jan 1999
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2 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 See the end for copying conditions.
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4
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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 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
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16 ** Emacs can now support 'wheeled' mice (such as the MS IntelliMouse)
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17 under XFree86. To enable this, simply put (mwheel-install) in your
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18 .emacs file.
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20 The variables `mwheel-follow-mouse' and `mwheel-scroll-amount'
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21 determine where and by how much buffers are scrolled.
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23 ** Listing buffers with M-x list-buffers (C-x C-b) now shows
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24 abbreviated file names. Abbreviations can be customized by changing
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25 `directory-abbrev-alist'.
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27 ** Reading from the mini-buffer now reads from standard input if Emacs
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28 is running in batch mode. For example,
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30 (message "%s" (read t))
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31
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32 will read a Lisp expression from standard input and print the result
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33 to standard output.
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35 ** Faces and frame parameters.
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37 There are four new faces `scroll-bar', `border', `cursor' and `mouse'.
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38 Setting the frame parameters `scroll-bar-foreground' and
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39 `scroll-bar-background' sets foreground and background color of face
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40 `scroll-bar' and vice versa. Setting frame parameter `border-color'
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41 sets the background color of face `border' and vice versa. Likewise
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42 for frame parameters `cursor-color' and face `cursor', and frame
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43 parameter `mouse-color' and face `mouse'.
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44
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45 Changing frame parameter `font' sets font-related attributes of the
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46 `default' face and vice versa. Setting frame parameters
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47 `foreground-color' or `background-color' sets the colors of the
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48 `default' face and vice versa.
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50 ** New face `menu'.
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52 The face `menu' can be used to change colors and font of Emacs' menus.
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53 Setting the font of LessTif/Motif menus is currently not supported;
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54 attempts to set the font are ignored in this case.
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56 ** New frame parameter `screen-gamma' for gamma correction.
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57
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58 The new frame parameter `screen-gamma' specifies gamma-correction for
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59 colors. Its value may be nil, the default, in which case no gamma
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60 correction occurs, or a number > 0, usually a float, that specifies
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61 the screen gamma of a frame's display.
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62
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63 PC monitors usually have a screen gamma of 2.2. smaller values result
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64 in darker colors. You might want to try a screen gamma of 1.5 for LCD
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65 color displays. The viewing gamma Emacs uses is 0.4545. (1/2.2).
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66
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67 The X resource name of this parameter is `screenGamma', class
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68 `ScreenGamma'.
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69
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70 ** Emacs has a new redisplay engine.
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71
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72 The new redisplay handles characters of variable width and height.
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73 Italic text can be used without redisplay problems. Fonts containing
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74 oversized characters, i.e. characters larger than the logical height
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75 of a font can be used. Images of various formats can be displayed in
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76 the text.
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77
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78 ** Emacs has a new face implementation.
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80 The new faces no longer fundamentally use X font names to specify the
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81 font. Instead, each face has several independent attributes--family,
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82 height, width, weight and slant--that it may or may not specify.
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83 These attributes can be merged from various faces, and then together
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84 specify a font.
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85
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86 Faces are supported on terminals that can display color or fonts.
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87 These terminal capabilities are auto-detected. Details can be found
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88 under Lisp changes, below.
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89
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90 ** New default font is Courier 12pt.
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91
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92 ** When using a windowing terminal, Emacs window now has a cursor of
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93 its own. When the window is selected, the cursor is solid; otherwise,
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94 it is hollow.
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95
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96 ** Bitmap areas to the left and right of windows are used to display
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97 truncation marks, continuation marks, overlay arrows and alike. The
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98 foreground, background, and stipple of these areas can be changed by
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99 customizing face `fringe'.
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100
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101 ** The mode line under X is now drawn with shadows by default. You
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102 can change its appearance by modifying the face `modeline'.
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103
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104 ** LessTif support.
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105
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106 Emacs now runs with LessTif (see <http://www.lesstif.org>). You will
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107 need a version 0.88.1 or later.
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108
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109 ** Toolkit scroll bars.
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110
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111 Emacs now uses toolkit scrollbars if available. When configured for
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112 LessTif/Motif, it will use that toolkit's scrollbar. Otherwise, when
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113 configured for Lucid and Athena widgets, it will use the Xaw3d scroll
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114 bar if Xaw3d is available. You can turn off the use of toolkit scroll
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115 bars by specifying `--with-toolkit-scroll-bars=no' when configuring
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116 Emacs.
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117
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118 When you encounter problems with the Xaw3d scroll bar, watch out how
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119 Xaw3d is compiled on your system. If the Makefile generated from
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120 Xaw3d's Imakefile contains a `-DNARROWPROTO' compiler option, and your
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121 Emacs system configuration file `s/your-system.h' does not contain a
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122 define for NARROWPROTO, you might consider adding it. Take
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123 `s/freebsd.h' as an example.
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124
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125 Alternatively, if you don't have access to the Xaw3d source code, take
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126 a look at your system's imake configuration file, for example in the
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127 directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config' (paths are different on
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128 different systems). You will find files `*.cf' there. If your
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129 system's cf-file contains a line like `#define NeedWidePrototypes NO',
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130 add a `#define NARROWPROTO' to your Emacs system configuration file.
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131
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132 The reason for this is that one Xaw3d function uses `double' or
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133 `float' function parameters depending on the setting of NARROWPROTO.
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134 This is not a problem when Imakefiles are used because each system's
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135 image configuration file contains the necessary information. Since
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136 Emacs doesn't use imake, this has do be done manually.
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137
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138 ** Toggle buttons and radio buttons in menus.
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139
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140 When compiled with LessTif (or Motif) support, Emacs uses toolkit
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141 widgets for radio and toggle buttons in menus. When configured for
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142 Lucid, Emacs draws radio buttons and toggle buttons similar to Motif.
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143
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144 ** Highlighting of trailing whitespace.
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145
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146 When `show-trailing-whitespace' is non-nil, Emacs displays trailing
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147 whitespace in the face `trailing-whitespace'. Trailing whitespace is
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148 defined as spaces or tabs at the end of a line. To avoid busy
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149 highlighting when entering new text, trailing whitespace is not
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150 displayed if point is at the end of the line containing the
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151 whitespace.
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152
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153 ** Busy-cursor.
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154
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155 Emacs can optionally display a busy-cursor under X. You can turn the
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156 display on or off by customizing group `cursor'.
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157
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158 ** Blinking cursor
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159
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160 M-x blink-cursor-mode toggles a blinking cursor under X and on
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161 terminals having terminal capabilities `vi', `vs', and `ve'. Blinking
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162 and related parameters like frequency and delay can be customized in
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163 the group `cursor'.
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164
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165 ** New font-lock support mode `jit-lock-mode'.
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166
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167 This support mode is roughly equivalent to `lazy-lock' but is
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168 generally faster. It supports stealth and deferred fontification.
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169 See the documentation of the function `jit-lock-mode' for more
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170 details.
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171
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172 Font-lock uses jit-lock-mode as default support mode, so you don't
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173 have to do anything to activate it.
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174
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175 ** Tabs and variable-width text.
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176
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177 Tabs are now displayed with stretch properties; the width of a tab is
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178 defined as a multiple of the normal character width of a frame, and is
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179 independent of the fonts used in the text where the tab appears.
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180 Thus, tabs can be used to line up text in different fonts.
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181
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182 ** Enhancements of the Lucid menu bar
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183
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184 *** The Lucid menu bar now supports the resource "margin".
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185
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186 emacs.pane.menubar.margin: 5
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187
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188 The default margin is 4 which makes the menu bar appear like the Motif
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189 one.
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190
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191 *** Arrows that indicate sub-menus are now drawn with shadows, like in
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192 Motif.
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193
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194 ** Hscrolling in C code.
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195
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196 Horizontal scrolling now happens automatically.
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197
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198 ** Tool bar support.
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199
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200 Emacs supports a tool bar at the top of a frame under X. For details
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201 how to define a tool bar, see the page describing Lisp-level changes.
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202
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203 ** Mouse-sensitive mode line.
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204
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205 Different parts of the mode line under X have been made
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206 mouse-sensitive. Moving the mouse to a mouse-sensitive part in the mode
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207 line changes the appearance of the mouse pointer to an arrow, and help
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208 about available mouse actions is displayed either in the echo area, or
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209 in the tooltip window if you have enabled one.
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210
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211 Currently, the following actions have been defined:
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212
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213 - Mouse-1 on the buffer name in the mode line switches between two
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214 buffers.
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215
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216 - Mouse-2 on the buffer-name switches to the next buffer, and
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217 M-mouse-2 switches to the previous buffer in the buffer list.
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218
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219 - Mouse-3 on the buffer-name displays a buffer menu.
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220
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221 - Mouse-1 on the read-only status in the mode line (`%' or `*')
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222 toggles the read-only status.
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223
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224 - Mouse-3 on the mode name display a minor-mode menu.
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225
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226 ** LessTif/Motif file selection dialog.
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231
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232 ** Emacs can display faces on TTY frames.
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233
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234 Emacs automatically detects terminals that are able to display colors.
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235 Faces with a weight greater than normal are displayed extra-bright, if
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236 the terminal supports it. Faces with a weight less than normal and
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237 italic faces are displayed dimmed, if the terminal supports it.
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238 Underlined faces are displayed underlined if possible. Other face
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239 attributes like overlines, strike-throught, box are ignored.
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240
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241 ** Sound support
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242
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243 Emacs supports playing sound files on GNU/Linux and the free BSDs
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244 (Voxware driver and native BSD driver, aka as Luigi's driver).
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246 (*.au). You must configure Emacs with the option `--with-sound=yes'
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247 to enable sound support.
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248
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249 ** A new variable, backup-by-copying-when-privileged-mismatch, gives
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250 the highest file uid for which backup-by-copying-when-mismatch will be
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252 value are special uids (root, bin, daemon, etc.--not real system
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254 even if your system policy allows users other than root to edit them.
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256 The default is 200; set the variable to nil to disable the feature.
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257
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258 ** A block cursor can be drawn as wide as the glyph under it under X.
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259
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260 As an example: if a block cursor is over a tab character, it will be
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261 drawn as wide as that tab on the display. To do this, set
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262 `x-stretch-cursor' to a non-nil value.
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263
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264 ** Empty display lines at the end of a buffer may be marked with a
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265 bitmap (this is similar to the tilde displayed by vi).
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266
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267 This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable
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268 `indicate-empty-lines' to a non-nil value. The default value of this
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269 variable is found in `default-indicate-empty-lines'.
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270
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271 ** There is a new "aggressive" scrolling method.
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272
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273 When scrolling up because point is above the window start, if the
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274 value of the buffer-local variable `scroll-up-aggessively' is a
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275 number, Emacs chooses a new window start so that point ends up that
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276 fraction of the window's height from the bottom of the window.
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277
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278 When scrolling down because point is below the window end, if the
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279 value of the buffer-local variable `scroll-down-aggessively' is a
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280 number, Emacs chooses a new window start so that point ends up that
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281 fraction of the window's height from the top of the window.
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282
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283 ** The rectangle commands now avoid inserting undesirable spaces,
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284 notably at the end of lines.
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285
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286 All these functions have been rewritten to avoid inserting unwanted
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287 spaces, and an optional prefix now allows them to behave the old way.
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288
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289 ** The new command M-x query-replace-regexp-eval acts like
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290 query-replace-regexp, but takes a Lisp expression which is evaluated
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291 after each match to get the replacement text.
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292
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293 ** Emacs now resizes mini-windows if appropriate.
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294
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295 If a message is longer than one line, or mini-buffer contents are
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296 longer than one line, Emacs now resizes the mini-window unless it is
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297 on a frame of its own. You can control the maximum mini-window size
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298 by setting the following variable:
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299
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300 - User option: max-mini-window-height
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301
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302 Maximum height for resizing mini-windows. If a float, it specifies a
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303 fraction of the mini-window frame's height. If an integer, it
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304 specifies a number of lines. If nil, don't resize.
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306 Default is 0.25.
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308 ** Comint (subshell) changes
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309
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310 Comint now includes new features to send commands to running processes
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311 and redirect the output to a designated buffer or buffers.
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312
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313 The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command reads a command and
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314 buffer name from the mini-buffer. The command is sent to the current
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315 buffer's process, and its output is inserted into the specified buffer.
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316
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317 The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command-to-process acts like
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318 M-x comint-redirect-send-command but additionally reads the name of
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319 the buffer whose process should be used from the mini-buffer.
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320
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321 ** Changes to Rmail mode
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322
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323 RET is now bound in the Rmail summary to rmail-summary-goto-msg, like
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324 `j'.
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325
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326 ** Changes to TeX mode
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327
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328 The default mode has been changed from `plain-tex-mode' to
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329 `latex-mode'.
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330
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332
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333 *** RefTeX has new support for index generation. Index entries can be
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334 created with `C-c <', with completion available on index keys.
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335 Pressing `C-c /' indexes the word at the cursor with a default
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336 macro. `C-c >' compiles all index entries into an alphabetically
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337 sorted *Index* buffer which looks like the final index. Entries
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338 can be edited from that buffer.
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339
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340 *** Label and citation key selection now allow to select several
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341 items and reference them together (use `m' to mark items, `a' or
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342 `A' to use all marked entries).
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343
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344 *** reftex.el has been split into a number of smaller files to reduce
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345 memory use when only a part of RefTeX is being used.
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346
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347 *** a new command `reftex-view-crossref-from-bibtex' (bound to `C-c &'
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348 in BibTeX-mode) can be called in a BibTeX database buffer in order
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349 to show locations in LaTeX documents where a particular entry has
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350 been cited.
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351
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352 ** Emacs Lisp mode now allows multiple levels of outline headings.
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353 The level of a heading is determined from the number of leading
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354 semicolons in a heading line. Toplevel forms starting with a `('
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355 in column 1 are always made leaves.
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356
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358 has the following new features:
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359
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360 *** The patterns for finding the time stamp and for updating a pattern
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361 may match text spanning multiple lines. For example, some people like
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362 to have the filename and date on separate lines. The new variable
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363 time-stamp-inserts-lines controls the matching for multi-line patterns.
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364
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365 *** More than one time stamp can be updated in the same file. This
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366 feature is useful if you need separate time stamps in a program source
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367 file to both include in formatted documentation and insert in the
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368 compiled binary. The same time-stamp will be written at each matching
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369 pattern. The variable time-stamp-count enables this new feature; it
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370 defaults to 1.
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371
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372 ** Tooltips.
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373
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374 Tooltips are small X windows displaying a help string at the current
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375 mouse position. To use them, use the Lisp package `tooltip' which you
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376 can access via the user option `tooltip-mode'.
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377
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378 Tooltips also provides support for GUD debugging. If activated,
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379 variable values can be displayed in tooltips by pointing at them with
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380 the mouse in source buffers. You can customize various aspects of the
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381 tooltip display in the group `tooltip'.
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382
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383 ** Customize changes
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384
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385 *** Customize now supports comments about customized items. Use the
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386 `State' menu to add comments. Note that customization comments will
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387 cause the customizations to fail in earlier versions of Emacs.
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388
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389 *** The new option `custom-buffer-done-function' says whether to kill
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390 Custom buffers when you've done with them or just bury them (the
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391 default).
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393 *** The keyword :set-after in defcustom allows to specify dependencies
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394 between custom options. Example:
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395
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396 (defcustom default-input-method nil
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397 "*Default input method for multilingual text (a string).
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398 This is the input method activated automatically by the command
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399 `toggle-input-method' (\\[toggle-input-method])."
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400 :group 'mule
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401 :type '(choice (const nil) string)
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402 :set-after '(current-language-environment))
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403
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404 This specifies that default-input-method should be set after
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405 current-language-environment even if default-input-method appears
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406 first in a custom-set-variables statement.
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409
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410 The commands to evaluate Lisp expressions, such as C-M-x in Lisp
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411 modes, C-j in Lisp Interaction mode, and M-:, now bind the variables
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412 print-level, print-length, and debug-on-error based on the
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413 customizable variables eval-expression-print-level,
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414 eval-expression-print-length, and eval-expression-debug-on-error.
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415
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416 ** Dired changes
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417
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418 *** New variable `dired-recursive-deletes' determines if the delete
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419 command will delete non-empty directories recursively. The default
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420 is, delete only empty directories.
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421
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422 *** New variable `dired-recursive-copies' determines if the copy
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423 command will copy directories recursively. The default is, do not
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424 copy directories recursively.
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426 *** In command `dired-do-shell-command' (usually bound to `!') a `?'
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427 in the shell command has a special meaning similar to `*', but with
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428 the difference that the command will be run on each file individually.
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431 use the -f option when sending mail.
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433 ** CC mode changes.
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434
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435 Note: This release contains changes that might not be compatible with
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436 current user setups (although it's believed that these
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437 incompatibilities will only show in very uncommon circumstances).
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438 However, since the impact is uncertain, these changes may be rolled
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
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439 back depending on user feedback. Therefore there's no forward
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
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440 compatibility guarantee wrt the new features introduced in this
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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441 release.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
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parents: 26786
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442
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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443 *** New initialization procedure for the style system.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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444 When the initial style for a buffer is determined by CC Mode (from the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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445 variable c-default-style), the global values of style variables now
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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446 take precedence over the values specified by the chosen style. This
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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447 is different than the old behavior: previously, the style-specific
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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448 settings would override the global settings. This change makes it
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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449 possible to do simple configuration in the intuitive way with
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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450 Customize or with setq lines in one's .emacs file.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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451
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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452 By default, the global value of every style variable is the new
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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453 special symbol set-from-style, which causes the value to be taken from
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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454 the style system. This means that in effect, only an explicit setting
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
455 of a style variable will cause the "overriding" behavior described
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
456 above.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
457
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
458 Also note that global settings override style-specific settings *only*
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
459 when the initial style of a buffer is chosen by a CC Mode major mode
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
460 function. When a style is chosen in other ways --- for example, by a
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
461 call like (c-set-style "gnu") in a hook, or via M-x c-set-style ---
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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462 then the style-specific values take precedence over any global style
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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463 values. In Lisp terms, global values override style-specific values
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
464 only when the new second argument to c-set-style is non-nil; see the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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465 function documentation for more info.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
466
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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467 The purpose of these changes is to make it easier for users,
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
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468 especially novice users, to do simple customizations with Customize or
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
469 with setq in their .emacs files. On the other hand, the new system is
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
470 intended to be compatible with advanced users' customizations as well,
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
471 such as those that choose styles in hooks or whatnot. This new system
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
472 is believed to be almost entirely compatible with current
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
473 configurations, in spite of the changed precedence between style and
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
474 global variable settings when a buffer's default style is set.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
475
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
476 (Thanks to Eric Eide for clarifying this explanation a bit.)
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
477
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
478 **** c-offsets-alist is now a customizable variable.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
479 This became possible as a result of the new initialization behavior.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
480
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
481 This variable is treated slightly differently from the other style
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
482 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
483 completed with the syntactic symbols it doesn't already contain when
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
484 the style is first initialized. This means it now defaults to the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
485 empty list to make all syntactic elements get their values from the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
486 style system.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
487
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
488 **** Compatibility variable to restore the old behavior.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
489 In case your configuration doesn't work with this change, you can set
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
490 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
diff changeset
491 as far as possible.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
492
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
493 *** Improvements to line breaking and text filling.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
494 CC Mode now handles this more intelligently and seamlessly wrt the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
495 surrounding code, especially inside comments. For details see the new
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
496 chapter about this in the manual.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
497
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
498 **** New variable to recognize comment line prefix decorations.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
499 The variable c-comment-prefix-regexp has been added to properly
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
500 recognize the line prefix in both block and line comments. It's
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
501 primarily used to initialize the various paragraph recognition and
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
502 adaptive filling variables that the text handling functions uses.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
503
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
504 **** New variable c-block-comment-prefix.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
505 This is a generalization of the now obsolete variable
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
506 c-comment-continuation-stars to handle arbitrary strings.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
507
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
508 **** CC Mode now uses adaptive fill mode.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
509 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
510
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
511 It's also possible to use other adaptive filling packages inside CC
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
512 Mode, notably Kyle E. Jones' Filladapt mode (http://wonderworks.com/).
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
513 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
514 inside CC Mode.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
515
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
516 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
517 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
518 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
519 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
520 cc-mode/).
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
521
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
522 **** It's now possible to selectively turn off auto filling.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
523 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
524 specific contexts, e.g. in preprocessor directives and in string
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
525 literals.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
526
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
527 **** New context sensitive line break function c-context-line-break.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
528 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
529 prefix according to the comment style when used inside comments. If
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
530 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
531 this function.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
532
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
533 *** Fixes to IDL mode.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
534 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
535 to IDL. E.g. it no longer matches "class" as the beginning of a
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
536 struct block, but it does match the CORBA 2.3 "valuetype" keyword.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
537 Thanks to Eric Eide.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
538
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
539 *** Improvements to the Whitesmith style.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
540 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
541 opening braces hangs and when they don't.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
542
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
543 **** New lineup function c-lineup-whitesmith-in-block.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
544
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
545 *** New lineup functions c-lineup-template-args and c-indent-multi-line-block.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
546 See their docstrings for details. c-lineup-template-args does a
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
547 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
548 and is used by default to line up continued template arguments.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
549
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
550 *** c-lineup-comment now preserves alignment with a comment on the
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
551 previous line. It used to instead preserve comments that started in
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
552 the column specified by comment-column.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
553
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
554 *** c-lineup-C-comments handles "free form" text comments.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
555 In comments with a long delimiter line at the start, the indentation
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
556 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
557 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
558 contain documentation with its own formatting. In these you normally
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
559 don't want CC Mode to change the indentation.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
560
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
561 *** The `c' syntactic symbol is now relative to the comment start
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
562 instead of the previous line, to make integers usable as lineup
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
563 arguments.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
564
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
565 *** All lineup functions have gotten docstrings.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
566
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
567 *** More preprocessor directive movement functions.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
568 c-down-conditional does the reverse of c-up-conditional.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
569 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
570 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
571 Provan).
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
572
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
573 *** Minor improvements to many movement functions in tricky situations.
b7d914dd51a6 cc-mode changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26786
diff changeset
574
26407
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
575 ** Isearch changes
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
576
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
577 *** In Isearch mode, mouse-2 in the echo area now yanks the current
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
578 selection into the search string rather than giving an error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
579
26407
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
580 *** There is a new lazy highlighting feature in incremental search.
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
581
26417
5678b244c3ac Changes in `list-buffers'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26407
diff changeset
582 Lazy highlighting is switched on/off by customizing variable
26407
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
583 `isearch-lazy-highlight'. When active, all matches for the current
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
584 search string are highlighted. The current match is highlighted as
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
585 before using face `isearch' or `region'. All other matches are
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
586 highlighted using face `isearch-lazy-highlight-face' which defaults to
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26403
diff changeset
587 `secondary-selection'.
ef48fc763e7f Isearch lazy highlight
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588
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589 The extra highlighting makes it easier to anticipate where the cursor
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590 will end up each time you press C-s or C-r to repeat a pending search.
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591 Highlighting of these additional matches happens in a deferred fashion
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592 using "idle timers," so the cycles needed do not rob isearch of its
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593 usual snappy response.
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594
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595 If `isearch-lazy-highlight-cleanup' is set to t, highlights for
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596 matches are automatically cleared when you end the search. If it is
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597 set to nil, you can remove the highlights manually with `M-x
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598 isearch-lazy-highlight-cleanup'.
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599
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600
25929
a955ea8f6b15 ange-ftp item.
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601 ** Ange-ftp allows you to specify of a port number in remote file
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602 names cleanly. It is appended to the host name, separated by a hash
a955ea8f6b15 ange-ftp item.
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603 sign, e.g. `/foo@bar.org#666:mumble'. (This syntax comes from EFS.)
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604
25984
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605 ** Shell script mode changes.
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606
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607 Shell script mode (sh-script) can now indent scripts for shells
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608 derived from sh and rc. The indentation style is customizeable, and
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609 sh-script can attempt to "learn" the current buffer's style.
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610
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611 ** Etags changes.
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612
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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613 *** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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614
26289
6651db4a4b1f Document regexp changes in etags.
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615 *** New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex. It is now
26292
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616 possible to bind a regexp to a language, by prepending the regexp with
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617 {lang}, where lang is one of the languages that `etags --help' prints out.
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618 This feature is useful especially for regex files, where each line contains
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619 a regular expression. The manual contains details.
26289
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620
26264
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621 *** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for function
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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622 declarations when given the --declarations option.
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623
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624 *** In C++, tags are created for "operator". The tags have the form
26289
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625 "operator+", without spaces between the keyword and the operator.
26264
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626
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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627 *** New language Ada: tags are functions, procedures, packages, tasks, and
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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628 types.
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629
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630 *** In Fortran, procedure is no more tagged.
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parents: 26171
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631
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632 *** In Java, tags are created for "interface".
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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633
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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634 *** In Lisp, "(defstruct (foo", "(defun (operator" and similar constructs
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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635 are now tagged.
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636
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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637 *** In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables. my and local
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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638 variables are tagged.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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639
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
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640 *** New language Python: def and class at the beginning of a line are tags.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
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641
26292
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642 *** .ss files are Scheme files, .pdb is Postscript with C syntax, .psw is
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643 for PSWrap.
26264
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644
26728
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
645 ** Changes in etags.el
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diff changeset
646
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
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647 *** You can display additional output with M-x tags-apropos by setting
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
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648 the new variable tags-apropos-additional-actions.
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649
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650 If non-nil, the variable's value should be a list of triples (TITLE
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651 FUNCTION TO-SEARCH). For each triple, M-x tags-apropos processes
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652 TO-SEARCH and lists tags from it. TO-SEARCH should be an alist,
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653 obarray, or symbol. If it is a symbol, the symbol's value is used.
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654
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655 TITLE is a string to use to label the list of tags from TO-SEARCH.
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diff changeset
656
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657 FUNCTION is a function to call when an entry is selected in the Tags
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658 List buffer. It is called with one argument, the selected symbol.
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parents: 26718
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659
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diff changeset
660 A useful example value for this variable might be something like:
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parents: 26718
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661
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662 '(("Emacs Lisp" Info-goto-emacs-command-node obarray)
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
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parents: 26718
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663 ("Common Lisp" common-lisp-hyperspec common-lisp-hyperspec-obarray)
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
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parents: 26718
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664 ("SCWM" scwm-documentation scwm-obarray))
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
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665
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
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666 *** 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>
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667 of tags in the output of M-x tags-apropos.
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
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668
8a531f428463 Etags.el change moved. Add dired-aux change.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26718
diff changeset
669 *** 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>
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670 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
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671
26140
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
672 ** 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
673 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
674 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
675
26016
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
diff changeset
676 ** New language environments `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
diff changeset
677 These correspond respectively to the ISO character sets 8859-14
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
diff changeset
678 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign). There is
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
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679 currently no specific input method support for them.
e60cddba180c latin-[89]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25995
diff changeset
680
26652
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26623
diff changeset
681 ** 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
682 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
683 appropriate for C-style escape sequences in strings.
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26623
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684
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26623
diff changeset
685 ** 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
686
26768
02eb997314dc view-emacs-problems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26737
diff changeset
687 ** 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
688
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
689 ** New modes and packages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
690
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
691 *** 5x5.el is a simple puzzle game.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
692
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parents:
diff changeset
693 *** hl-line.el provides a minor mode to highlight the current line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
694
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
695 *** ansi-color.el translates ANSI terminal escapes into text-properties.
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parents:
diff changeset
696
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
697 *** delphi.el provides a major mode for editing the Delphi (Object
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
698 Pascal) language.
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parents:
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699
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
700 *** quickurl.el provides a simple method of inserting a URL based on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
701 the text at point.
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parents:
diff changeset
702
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
703 *** sql.el provides an interface to SQL data bases.
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parents:
diff changeset
704
25862
62b8ede0e424 Mention fortune.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
705 *** fortune.el uses the fortune program to create mail/news signatures.
62b8ede0e424 Mention fortune.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
706
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
707 *** whitespace.el ???
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
708
25992
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
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parents: 25984
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709 *** 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
710 files. It offers: interaction with a PostScript interpreter, including
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
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parents: 25984
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711 (very basic) error handling; fontification, easily customizable for
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
712 interpreter messages; auto-indentation; insertion of EPSF templates and
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
713 often used code snippets; viewing of BoundingBox; commenting out /
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
714 uncommenting regions; conversion of 8bit characters to PostScript octal
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
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715 codes. All functionality is accessible through a menu.
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
716
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
717 *** delim-col helps to prettify columns in a text region or rectangle.
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
718
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719 Here is an example of columns:
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
720
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
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parents: 25984
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721 horse apple bus
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
722 dog pineapple car EXTRA
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
723 porcupine strawberry airplane
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
724
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
725 Doing the following settings:
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parents: 25984
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726
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
727 (setq delimit-columns-str-before "[ ")
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parents: 25984
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728 (setq delimit-columns-str-after " ]")
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
729 (setq delimit-columns-str-separator ", ")
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
730 (setq delimit-columns-separator "\t")
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
731
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parents: 25984
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732
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
733 Selecting the lines above and typing:
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
734
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
735 M-x delimit-columns-region
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
736
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parents: 25984
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737 It results:
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parents: 25984
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738
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parents: 25984
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739 [ horse , apple , bus , ]
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740 [ dog , pineapple , car , EXTRA ]
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parents: 25984
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741 [ porcupine, strawberry, airplane, ]
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parents: 25984
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742
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parents: 25984
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743 delim-col has the following options:
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parents: 25984
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744
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
745 delimit-columns-str-before Specify a string to be inserted
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parents: 25984
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746 before all columns.
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
747
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
748 delimit-columns-str-separator Specify a string to be inserted
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
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parents: 25984
diff changeset
749 between each column.
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diff changeset
750
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
751 delimit-columns-str-after Specify a string to be inserted
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
752 after all columns.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
753
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
754 delimit-columns-separator Specify a regexp which separates
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
755 each column.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
756
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
757 delim-col has the following commands:
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
758
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
759 delimit-columns-region Prettify all columns in a text region.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
760 delimit-columns-rectangle Prettify all columns in a text rectangle.
8f40394739f2 Add sh-script changes.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25984
diff changeset
761
26030
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
762 *** 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
763 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
764 is displayed in the "Files" menu.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
765
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
766 The recent files list is automatically saved across Emacs sessions.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
767
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
768 To enable/disable recentf use M-x recentf-mode.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
769
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
770 To enable recentf at Emacs startup use
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
771 M-x customize-variable RET recentf-mode RET.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
772
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
773 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
774 M-x customize-group RET recentf RET.
c5e8559a53cb Add description of recentf.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26016
diff changeset
775
26149
0a342d5afcc2 elide-head.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26144
diff changeset
776 *** elide-head.el provides a mechanism for eliding boilerplate header
0a342d5afcc2 elide-head.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26144
diff changeset
777 text.
0a342d5afcc2 elide-head.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26144
diff changeset
778
26786
d30b640777b8 footnote.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26768
diff changeset
779 *** footnote.el provides `foornote-mode', a minor mode supporting use
d30b640777b8 footnote.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26768
diff changeset
780 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
781 specific to Message mode.
d30b640777b8 footnote.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26768
diff changeset
782
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
783 ** Withdrawn packages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
784
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
785 *** mldrag.el has been removed. mouse.el provides the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
786 functionality with aliases for the mldrag functions.
26133
5eb182b0c724 eval-reg removed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26107
diff changeset
787
5eb182b0c724 eval-reg removed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 26107
diff changeset
788 *** eval-reg.el has been obsoleted by changes to edebug.el.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
789
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
790 * Lisp changes in Emacs 21.1 (see following page for display-related features)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
791
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
792 Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
793 --- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
794 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
795 so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
796
26737
0aad3e0b47d2 Change of intern-soft.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26728
diff changeset
797 ** 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
798 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
799 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
800
26467
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
801 ** 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
802 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
803 specified table.
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
804
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
805 (with-syntax-table TABLE &rest BODY)
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
806
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
807 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
808 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
809 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
810 what BODY returns.
26467
fe1632dc5fb3 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26432
diff changeset
811
26397
17d6fe2e2d0f Removal of buffer argument of file-local-copy.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26360
diff changeset
812 ** 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
813 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
814
26360
5370b1c171ef Change in file-locked-p argument.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26359
diff changeset
815 ** 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
816 instead of being optional.
5370b1c171ef Change in file-locked-p argument.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26359
diff changeset
817
26277
32e16b70ae15 New built-in error `text-read-only'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26271
diff changeset
818 ** 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
819 modify read-only text.
32e16b70ae15 New built-in error `text-read-only'.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26271
diff changeset
820
26140
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
821 ** New functions and variables for locales.
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
822
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
823 The new variable `locale-coding-system' specifies how to encode and
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
824 decode strings passed to low-level message functions like strerror and
26525
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26467
diff changeset
825 time functions like strftime. The new variables
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26467
diff changeset
826 `system-messages-locale' and `system-time-locale' give the system
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26467
diff changeset
827 locales to be used when invoking these two types of functions.
26140
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
828
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
829 The new function `set-locale-environment' sets the language
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
830 environment, preferred coding system, and locale coding system from
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
831 the system locale as specified by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG
26525
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26467
diff changeset
832 environment variables. Normally, it is invoked during startup and need
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26467
diff changeset
833 not be invoked thereafter. It uses the new variables
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26467
diff changeset
834 `locale-language-names', `locale-charset-language-names', and
4df5920724de Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26467
diff changeset
835 `locale-preferred-coding-systems' to make its decisions.
26140
068f7ad41d40 Describe new functions and variables for locales.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 26133
diff changeset
836
26107
5bdae485eb03 *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 26096
diff changeset
837 ** syntax tables now understand nested comments.
5bdae485eb03 *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 26096
diff changeset
838 To declare a comment syntax as allowing nesting, just add an `n'
5bdae485eb03 *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 26096
diff changeset
839 modifier to either of the characters of the comment end and the comment
5bdae485eb03 *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 26096
diff changeset
840 start sequences.
5bdae485eb03 *** empty log message ***
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 26096
diff changeset
841
25910
918acea58309 Add section for change of pixmap-spec-p to bitmap-spec-p.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25862
diff changeset
842 ** The function `pixmap-spec-p' has been renamed `bitmap-spec-p'
918acea58309 Add section for change of pixmap-spec-p to bitmap-spec-p.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25862
diff changeset
843 because `bitmap' is more in line with the usual X terminology.
918acea58309 Add section for change of pixmap-spec-p to bitmap-spec-p.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 25862
diff changeset
844
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
845 ** New function `propertize'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
846
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
847 The new function `propertize' can be used to conveniently construct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
848 strings with text properties.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
849
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
850 - Function: propertize STRING &rest PROPERTIES
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
851
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
852 Value is a copy of STRING with text properties assigned as specified
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
853 by PROPERTIES. PROPERTIES is a sequence of pairs PROPERTY VALUE, with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
854 PROPERTY being the name of a text property and VALUE being the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
855 specified value of that property. Example:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
856
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
857 (propertize "foo" 'face 'bold 'read-only t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
858
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
859 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
860 ** push and pop macros.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
861
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
862 A simple version of the push and pop macros of Common Lisp
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
863 is now defined in Emacs Lisp. These macros allow only symbols
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
864 as the place that holds the list to be changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
865
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
866 (push NEWELT LISTNAME) add NEWELT to the front of LISTNAME's value.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
867 (pop LISTNAME) return first elt of LISTNAME, and remove it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
868 (thus altering the value of LISTNAME).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
869
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
870 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
871 ** Regular expressions now support Posix character classes such
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
872 as [:alpha:], [:space:] and so on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
873
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
874 [:digit:] matches 0 through 9
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
875 [:cntrl:] matches ASCII control characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
876 [:xdigit:] matches 0 through 9, a through f and A through F.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
877 [:blank:] matches space and tab only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
878 [:graph:] matches graphic characters--everything except ASCII control chars,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
879 space, and DEL.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
880 [:print:] matches printing characters--everything except ASCII control chars
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
881 and DEL.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
882 [:alnum:] matches letters and digits.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
883 (But at present, for multibyte characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
884 it matches anything that has word syntax.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
885 [:alpha:] matches letters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
886 (But at present, for multibyte characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
887 it matches anything that has word syntax.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
888 [:ascii:] matches ASCII (unibyte) characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
889 [:nonascii:] matches non-ASCII (multibyte) characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
890 [:lower:] matches anything lower-case.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
891 [:punct:] matches punctuation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
892 (But at present, for multibyte characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
893 it matches anything that has non-word syntax.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
894 [:space:] matches anything that has whitespace syntax.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
895 [:upper:] matches anything upper-case.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
896 [:word:] matches anything that has word syntax.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
897
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
898 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
899 ** Emacs now has built-in hash tables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
900
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
901 The following functions are defined for hash tables:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
902
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
903 - Function: make-hash-table ARGS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
904
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
905 The argument list ARGS consists of keyword/argument pairs. All arguments
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
906 are optional. The following arguments are defined:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
907
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
908 :test TEST
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
909
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
910 TEST must be a symbol specifying how to compare keys. Default is `eql'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
911 Predefined are `eq', `eql' and `equal'. If TEST is not predefined,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
912 it must have been defined with `define-hash-table-test'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
913
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
914 :size SIZE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
915
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
916 SIZE must be an integer > 0 giving a hint to the implementation how
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
917 many elements will be put in the hash table. Default size is 65.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
918
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
919 :rehash-size REHASH-SIZE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
920
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
921 REHASH-SIZE specifies by how much to grow a hash table once it becomes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
922 full. If REHASH-SIZE is an integer, add that to the hash table's old
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
923 size to get the new size. Otherwise, REHASH-SIZE must be a float >
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
924 1.0, and the new size is computed by multiplying REHASH-SIZE with the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
925 old size. Default rehash size is 1.5.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
926
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
927 :rehash-threshold THRESHOLD
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
928
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
929 THRESHOLD must be a float > 0 and <= 1.0 specifying when to resize the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
930 hash table. It is resized when the ratio of (number of entries) /
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
931 (size of hash table) is >= THRESHOLD. Default threshold is 0.8.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
932
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
933 :weakness WEAK
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
934
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
935 WEAK must be either nil, one of the symbols `key, `value', or t.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
936 Entries are removed from weak tables during garbage collection if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
937 their key and/or value are not referenced elsewhere outside of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
938 hash table. Default are non-weak hash tables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
939
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
940 - Function: makehash &optional TEST
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
941
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
942 Similar to make-hash-table, but only TEST can be specified.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
943
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944 - Function: hash-table-p TABLE
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945
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946 Returns non-nil if TABLE is a hash table object.
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947
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948 - Function: copy-hash-table TABLE
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949
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950 Returns a copy of TABLE. Only the table itself is copied, keys and
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951 values are shared.
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952
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953 - Function: hash-table-count TABLE
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954
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955 Returns the number of entries in TABLE.
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956
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957 - Function: hash-table-rehash-size TABLE
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958
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959 Returns the rehash size of TABLE.
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960
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961 - Function: hash-table-rehash-threshold TABLE
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962
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963 Returns the rehash threshold of TABLE.
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964
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965 - Function: hash-table-rehash-size TABLE
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966
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967 Returns the size of TABLE.
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968
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969 - Function: hash-table-rehash-test TABLE
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970
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971 Returns the test TABLE uses to compare keys.
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972
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973 - Function: hash-table-weakness TABLE
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974
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975 Returns the weakness specified for TABLE.
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976
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977 - Function: clrhash TABLE
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978
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979 Clear TABLE.
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980
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981 - Function: gethash KEY TABLE &optional DEFAULT
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982
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983 Look up KEY in TABLE and return its associated VALUE or DEFAULT if
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984 not found.
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985
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986 - Function: puthash KEY VALUE TABLE
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987
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988 Associate KEY with VALUE in TABLE. If KEY is already associated with
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989 another value, replace the old value with VALUE.
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990
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991 - Function: remhash KEY TABLE
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992
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993 Remove KEY from TABLE if it is there.
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994
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995 - Function: maphash FUNCTION TABLE
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996
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997 Call FUNCTION for all elements in TABLE. FUNCTION must take two
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998 arguments KEY and VALUE.
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999
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1000 - Function: sxhash OBJ
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1001
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1002 Return a hash code for Lisp object OBJ.
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1003
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1004 - Function: define-hash-table-test NAME TEST-FN HASH-FN
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1005
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1006 Define a new hash table test named NAME. If NAME is specified as
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1007 a test in `make-hash-table', the table created will use TEST-FN for
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1008 comparing keys, and HASH-FN to compute hash codes for keys. Test
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1009 and hash function are stored as symbol property `hash-table-test'
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1010 of NAME with a value of (TEST-FN HASH-FN).
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1011
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1012 TEST-FN must take two arguments and return non-nil if they are the same.
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1013
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1014 HASH-FN must take one argument and return an integer that is the hash
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1015 code of the argument. The function should use the whole range of
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1016 integer values for hash code computation, including negative integers.
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1017
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1018 Example: The following creates a hash table whose keys are supposed to
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1019 be strings that are compared case-insensitively.
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1020
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1021 (defun case-fold-string= (a b)
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1022 (compare-strings a nil nil b nil nil t))
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1023
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1024 (defun case-fold-string-hash (a)
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1025 (sxhash (upcase a)))
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1026
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1027 (define-hash-table-test 'case-fold 'case-fold-string=
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1028 'case-fold-string-hash))
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1029
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1030 (make-hash-table :test 'case-fold)
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1031
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1032 +++
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1033 ** The Lisp reader handles circular structure.
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1034
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1035 It now works to use the #N= and #N# constructs to represent
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1036 circular structures. For example, #1=(a . #1#) represents
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1037 a cons cell which is its own cdr.
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1038
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1039 +++
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1040 ** The Lisp printer handles circular structure.
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1041
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1042 If you bind print-circle to a non-nil value, the Lisp printer outputs
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1043 #N= and #N# constructs to represent circular and shared structure.
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1044
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1045 +++
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1046 ** If the second argument to `move-to-column' is anything but nil or
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1047 t, that means replace a tab with spaces if necessary to reach the
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1048 specified column, but do not add spaces at the end of the line if it
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1049 is too short to reach that column.
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1050
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1051 +++
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1052 ** perform-replace has a new feature: the REPLACEMENTS argument may
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1053 now be a cons cell (FUNCTION . DATA). This means to call FUNCTION
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1054 after each match to get the replacement text. FUNCTION is called with
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1055 two arguments: DATA, and the number of replacements already made.
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1056
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1057 If the FROM-STRING contains any upper-case letters,
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1058 perform-replace also turns off `case-fold-search' temporarily
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1059 and inserts the replacement text without altering case in it.
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1060
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1061 +++
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1062 ** The function buffer-size now accepts an optional argument
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parents:
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1063 to specify which buffer to return the size of.
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1064
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1065 +++
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parents:
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1066 ** The calendar motion commands now run the normal hook
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parents:
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1067 calendar-move-hook after moving point.
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1068
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1069 +++
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parents:
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1070 ** The new variable small-temporary-file-directory specifies a
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1071 directory to use for creating temporary files that are likely to be
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1072 small. (Certain Emacs features use this directory.) If
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parents:
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1073 small-temporary-file-directory is nil, they use
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parents:
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1074 temporary-file-directory instead.
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parents:
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1075
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parents:
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1076 +++
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parents:
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1077 ** The variable `inhibit-modification-hooks', if non-nil, inhibits all
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parents:
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1078 the hooks that track changes in the buffer. This affects
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parents:
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1079 `before-change-functions' and `after-change-functions', as well as
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1080 hooks attached to text properties and overlay properties.
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parents:
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1081
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1082 +++
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parents:
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1083 ** assoc-delete-all is a new function that deletes all the
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parents:
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1084 elements of an alist which have a particular value as the car.
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parents:
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1085
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parents:
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1086 +++
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parents:
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1087 ** make-temp-file provides a more reliable way to create a temporary file.
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parents:
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1088
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1089 make-temp-file is used like make-temp-name, except that it actually
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parents:
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1090 creates the file before it returns. This prevents a timing error,
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parents:
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1091 ensuring that no other job can use the same name for a temporary file.
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parents:
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1092
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parents:
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1093 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1094 ** New exclusive-open feature in `write-region'
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parents:
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1095
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1096 The optional seventh arg is now called MUSTBENEW. If non-nil, it insists
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parents:
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1097 on a check for an existing file with the same name. If MUSTBENEW
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parents:
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1098 is `excl', that means to get an error if the file already exists;
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parents:
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1099 never overwrite. If MUSTBENEW is neither nil nor `excl', that means
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parents:
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1100 ask for confirmation before overwriting, but do go ahead and
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parents:
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1101 overwrite the file if the user gives confirmation.
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parents:
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1102
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1103 If the MUSTBENEW argument in `write-region' is `excl',
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parents:
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1104 that means to use a special feature in the `open' system call
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parents:
diff changeset
1105 to get an error if the file exists at that time.
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parents:
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1106 The error reported is `file-already-exists'.
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parents:
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1107
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1108 +++
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1109 ** Function `format' now handles text properties.
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parents:
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1110
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1111 Text properties of the format string are applied to the result string.
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parents:
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1112 If the result string is longer than the format string, text properties
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parents:
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1113 ending at the end of the format string are extended to the end of the
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parents:
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1114 result string.
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parents:
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1115
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1116 Text properties from string arguments are applied to the result
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parents:
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1117 string where arguments appear in the result string.
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1118
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1119 Example:
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1120
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1121 (let ((s1 "hello, %s")
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1122 (s2 "world"))
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parents:
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1123 (put-text-property 0 (length s1) 'face 'bold s1)
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parents:
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1124 (put-text-property 0 (length s2) 'face 'italic s2)
26034
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1125 (format s1 s2))
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1126
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1127 results in a bold-face string with an italic `world' at the end.
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1128
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1129 +++
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1130 ** Messages can now be displayed with text properties.
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parents:
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1131
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1132 Text properties are handled as described above for function `format'.
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parents:
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1133 The following example displays a bold-face message with an italic
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parents:
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1134 argument in it.
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1135
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1136 (let ((msg "hello, %s!")
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1137 (arg "world"))
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parents:
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1138 (put-text-property 0 (length msg) 'face 'bold msg)
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1139 (put-text-property 0 (length arg) 'face 'italic arg)
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1140 (message msg arg))
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1141
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1142 +++
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diff changeset
1143 ** Sound support
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1144
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1145 Emacs supports playing sound files on GNU/Linux and the free BSDs
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1146 (Voxware driver and native BSD driver, aka as Luigi's driver).
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1147
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1148 Currently supported file formats are RIFF-WAVE (*.wav) and Sun Audio
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parents:
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1149 (*.au). You must configure Emacs with the option `--with-sound=yes'
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1150 to enable sound support.
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1151
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1152 Sound files can be played by calling (play-sound SOUND). SOUND is a
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1153 list of the form `(sound PROPERTY...)'. The function is only defined
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1154 when sound support is present for the system on which Emacs runs. The
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parents:
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1155 functions runs `play-sound-functions' with one argument which is the
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1156 sound to play, before playing the sound.
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1157
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1158 The following sound properties are supported:
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1159
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1160 - `:file FILE'
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1161
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1162 FILE is a file name. If FILE isn't an absolute name, it will be
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1163 searched relative to `data-directory'.
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1164
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1165 - `:volume VOLUME'
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1166
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1167 VOLUME must be an integer in the range 0..100 or a float in the range
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1168 0..1. This property is optional.
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1169
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1170 Other properties are ignored.
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1171
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1172 ** `multimedia' is a new Finder keyword and Custom group.
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1173
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1174 * New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1
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1175
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1176 Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
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1177 --- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
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1178 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
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parents:
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1179 so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.
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parents:
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1180
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1181 ** New face implementation.
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1182
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1183 Emacs faces have been reimplemented from scratch. They don't use XLFD
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1184 font names anymore and face merging now works as expected.
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parents:
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1185
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1186 +++
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1187 *** New faces.
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1188
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1189 Each face can specify the following display attributes:
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1190
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1191 1. Font family or fontset alias name.
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1192
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1193 2. Relative proportionate width, aka character set width or set
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1194 width (swidth), e.g. `semi-compressed'.
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1195
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1196 3. Font height in 1/10pt
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1197
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1198 4. Font weight, e.g. `bold'.
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1199
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1200 5. Font slant, e.g. `italic'.
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1201
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1202 6. Foreground color.
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1203
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1204 7. Background color.
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1205
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1206 8. Whether or not characters should be underlined, and in what color.
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1207
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1208 9. Whether or not characters should be displayed in inverse video.
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1209
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1210 10. A background stipple, a bitmap.
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1211
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1212 11. Whether or not characters should be overlined, and in what color.
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1213
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1214 12. Whether or not characters should be strike-through, and in what
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1215 color.
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1216
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1217 13. Whether or not a box should be drawn around characters, its
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1218 color, the width of the box lines, and 3D appearance.
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1219
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1220 Faces are frame-local by nature because Emacs allows to define the
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1221 same named face (face names are symbols) differently for different
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1222 frames. Each frame has an alist of face definitions for all named
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1223 faces. The value of a named face in such an alist is a Lisp vector
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1224 with the symbol `face' in slot 0, and a slot for each each of the face
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1225 attributes mentioned above.
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1226
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1227 There is also a global face alist `face-new-frame-defaults'. Face
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1228 definitions from this list are used to initialize faces of newly
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1229 created frames.
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1230
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1231 A face doesn't have to specify all attributes. Those not specified
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1232 have a nil value. Faces specifying all attributes are called
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1233 `fully-specified'.
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1234
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1235 +++
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1236 *** Face merging.
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1237
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1238 The display style of a given character in the text is determined by
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1239 combining several faces. This process is called `face merging'. Any
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1240 aspect of the display style that isn't specified by overlays or text
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1241 properties is taken from the `default' face. Since it is made sure
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1242 that the default face is always fully-specified, face merging always
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1243 results in a fully-specified face.
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1244
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1245 +++
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1246 *** Face realization.
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1247
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1248 After all face attributes for a character have been determined by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1249 merging faces of that character, that face is `realized'. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1250 realization process maps face attributes to what is physically
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1251 available on the system where Emacs runs. The result is a `realized
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1252 face' in form of an internal structure which is stored in the face
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1253 cache of the frame on which it was realized.
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1254
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1255 Face realization is done in the context of the charset of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1256 character to display because different fonts and encodings are used
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1257 for different charsets. In other words, for characters of different
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1258 charsets, different realized faces are needed to display them.
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1259
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1260 Except for composite characters, faces are always realized for a
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1261 specific character set and contain a specific font, even if the face
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1262 being realized specifies a fontset. The reason is that the result of
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1263 the new font selection stage is better than what can be done with
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1264 statically defined font name patterns in fontsets.
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1265
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1266 In unibyte text, Emacs' charsets aren't applicable; function
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1267 `char-charset' reports ASCII for all characters, including those >
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1268 0x7f. The X registry and encoding of fonts to use is determined from
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1269 the variable `face-default-registry' in this case. The variable is
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1270 initialized at Emacs startup time from the font the user specified for
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1271 Emacs.
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1272
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1273 Currently all unibyte text, i.e. all buffers with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1274 `enable-multibyte-characters' nil are displayed with fonts of the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1275 registry and encoding `face-default-registry'. This is consistent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1276 with the fact that languages can also be set globally, only.
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1277
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1278 ++++
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1279 **** Clearing face caches.
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1280
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1281 The Lisp function `clear-face-cache' can be called to clear face caches
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1282 on all frames. If called with a non-nil argument, it will also unload
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1283 unused fonts.
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1284
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1285 +++
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parents:
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1286 *** Font selection.
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1287
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1288 Font selection tries to find the best available matching font for a
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1289 given (charset, face) combination. This is done slightly differently
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1290 for faces specifying a fontset, or a font family name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1291
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1292 If the face specifies a fontset name, that fontset determines a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1293 pattern for fonts of the given charset. If the face specifies a font
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1294 family, a font pattern is constructed. Charset symbols have a
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1295 property `x-charset-registry' for that purpose that maps a charset to
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1296 an XLFD registry and encoding in the font pattern constructed.
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1297
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1298 Available fonts on the system on which Emacs runs are then matched
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1299 against the font pattern. The result of font selection is the best
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1300 match for the given face attributes in this font list.
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1301
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1302 Font selection can be influenced by the user.
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1303
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1304 The user can specify the relative importance he gives the face
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1305 attributes width, height, weight, and slant by setting
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1306 face-font-selection-order (faces.el) to a list of face attribute
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1307 names. The default is (:width :height :weight :slant), and means
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1308 that font selection first tries to find a good match for the font
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1309 width specified by a face, then---within fonts with that width---tries
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1310 to find a best match for the specified font height, etc.
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1311
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1312 Setting `face-alternative-font-family-alist' allows the user to
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1313 specify alternative font families to try if a family specified by a
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1314 face doesn't exist.
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1315
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1316 +++
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diff changeset
1317 **** Scalable fonts
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1318
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1319 Emacs can make use of scalable fonts but doesn't do so by default,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1320 since the use of too many or too big scalable fonts may crash XFree86
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1321 servers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1322
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1323 To enable scalable font use, set the variable
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1324 `scalable-fonts-allowed'. A value of nil, the default, means never use
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1325 scalable fonts. A value of t means any scalable font may be used.
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1326 Otherwise, the value must be a list of regular expressions. A
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1327 scalable font may then be used if it matches a regular expression from
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1328 that list. Example:
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1329
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1330 (setq scalable-fonts-allowed '("muleindian-2$"))
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1331
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1332 allows the use of scalable fonts with registry `muleindian-2'.
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1333
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1334 +++
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1335 *** Functions and variables related to font selection.
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1336
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1337 - Function: x-family-fonts &optional FAMILY FRAME
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1338
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1339 Return a list of available fonts of family FAMILY on FRAME. If FAMILY
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parents:
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1340 is omitted or nil, list all families. Otherwise, FAMILY must be a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1341 string, possibly containing wildcards `?' and `*'.
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1342
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1343 If FRAME is omitted or nil, use the selected frame. Each element of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1344 the result is a vector [FAMILY WIDTH POINT-SIZE WEIGHT SLANT FIXED-P
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1345 FULL REGISTRY-AND-ENCODING]. FAMILY is the font family name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1346 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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1347 SLANT are symbols describing the width, weight and slant of the font.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1348 These symbols are the same as for face attributes. FIXED-P is non-nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1349 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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1350 REGISTRY-AND-ENCODING is a string giving the registry and encoding of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1351 the font. The result list is sorted according to the current setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1352 of the face font sort order.
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parents:
diff changeset
1353
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1354 - Function: x-font-family-list
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1355
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1356 Return a list of available font families on FRAME. If FRAME is
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parents:
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1357 omitted or nil, use the selected frame. Value is a list of conses
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1358 (FAMILY . FIXED-P) where FAMILY is a font family, and FIXED-P is
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parents:
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1359 non-nil if fonts of that family are fixed-pitch.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1360
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1361 - Variable: font-list-limit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1362
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diff changeset
1363 Limit for font matching. If an integer > 0, font matching functions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1364 won't load more than that number of fonts when searching for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1365 matching font. The default is currently 100.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1366
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parents:
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1367 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1368 *** Setting face attributes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1369
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parents:
diff changeset
1370 For the most part, the new face implementation is interface-compatible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1371 with the old one. Old face attribute related functions are now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1372 implemented in terms of the new functions `set-face-attribute' and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1373 `face-attribute'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1374
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diff changeset
1375 Face attributes are identified by their names which are keyword
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1376 symbols. All attributes can be set to `unspecified'.
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parents:
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1377
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diff changeset
1378 The following attributes are recognized:
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1379
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1380 `:family'
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1381
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1382 VALUE must be a string specifying the font family, e.g. ``courier'',
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parents:
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1383 or a fontset alias name. If a font family is specified, wild-cards `*'
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parents:
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1384 and `?' are allowed.
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parents:
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1385
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1386 `:width'
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parents:
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1387
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parents:
diff changeset
1388 VALUE specifies the relative proportionate width of the font to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1389 It must be one of the symbols `ultra-condensed', `extra-condensed',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1390 `condensed', `semi-condensed', `normal', `semi-expanded', `expanded',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1391 `extra-expanded', or `ultra-expanded'.
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parents:
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1392
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1393 `:height'
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parents:
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1394
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parents:
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1395 VALUE must be an integer specifying the height of the font to use in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1396 1/10 pt.
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1397
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1398 `:weight'
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parents:
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1399
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parents:
diff changeset
1400 VALUE specifies the weight of the font to use. It must be one of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1401 symbols `ultra-bold', `extra-bold', `bold', `semi-bold', `normal',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1402 `semi-light', `light', `extra-light', `ultra-light'.
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parents:
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1403
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diff changeset
1404 `:slant'
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parents:
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1405
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diff changeset
1406 VALUE specifies the slant of the font to use. It must be one of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1407 symbols `italic', `oblique', `normal', `reverse-italic', or
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parents:
diff changeset
1408 `reverse-oblique'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1409
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parents:
diff changeset
1410 `:foreground', `:background'
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parents:
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1411
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parents:
diff changeset
1412 VALUE must be a color name, a string.
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parents:
diff changeset
1413
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parents:
diff changeset
1414 `:underline'
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parents:
diff changeset
1415
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parents:
diff changeset
1416 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should be underlined. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1417 VALUE is t, underline with foreground color of the face. If VALUE is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1418 a string, underline with that color. If VALUE is nil, explicitly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1419 don't underline.
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parents:
diff changeset
1420
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parents:
diff changeset
1421 `:overline'
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parents:
diff changeset
1422
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parents:
diff changeset
1423 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should be overlined. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1424 VALUE is t, overline with foreground color of the face. If VALUE is a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1425 string, overline with that color. If VALUE is nil, explicitly don't
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parents:
diff changeset
1426 overline.
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parents:
diff changeset
1427
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parents:
diff changeset
1428 `:strike-through'
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parents:
diff changeset
1429
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parents:
diff changeset
1430 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should be drawn with a line
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parents:
diff changeset
1431 striking through them. If VALUE is t, use the foreground color of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1432 face. If VALUE is a string, strike-through with that color. If VALUE
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parents:
diff changeset
1433 is nil, explicitly don't strike through.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1434
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1435 `:box'
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parents:
diff changeset
1436
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parents:
diff changeset
1437 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should have a box drawn
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1438 around them. If VALUE is nil, explicitly don't draw boxes. If
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parents:
diff changeset
1439 VALUE is t, draw a box with lines of width 1 in the foreground color
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1440 of the face. If VALUE is a string, the string must be a color name,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1441 and the box is drawn in that color with a line width of 1. Otherwise,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1442 VALUE must be a property list of the form `(:line-width WIDTH
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parents:
diff changeset
1443 :color COLOR :style STYLE)'. If a keyword/value pair is missing from
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parents:
diff changeset
1444 the property list, a default value will be used for the value, as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1445 specified below. WIDTH specifies the width of the lines to draw; it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1446 defaults to 1. COLOR is the name of the color to draw in, default is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1447 the foreground color of the face for simple boxes, and the background
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1448 color of the face for 3D boxes. STYLE specifies whether a 3D box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1449 should be draw. If STYLE is `released-button', draw a box looking
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1450 like a released 3D button. If STYLE is `pressed-button' draw a box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1451 that appears like a pressed button. If STYLE is nil, the default if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1452 the property list doesn't contain a style specification, draw a 2D
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1453 box.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1454
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1455 `:inverse-video'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1456
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1457 VALUE specifies whether characters in FACE should be displayed in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1458 inverse video. VALUE must be one of t or nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1459
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1460 `:stipple'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1461
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1462 If VALUE is a string, it must be the name of a file of pixmap data.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1463 The directories listed in the `x-bitmap-file-path' variable are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1464 searched. Alternatively, VALUE may be a list of the form (WIDTH
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1465 HEIGHT DATA) where WIDTH and HEIGHT are the size in pixels, and DATA
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1466 is a string containing the raw bits of the bitmap. VALUE nil means
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1467 explicitly don't use a stipple pattern.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1468
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1469 For convenience, attributes `:family', `:width', `:height', `:weight',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1470 and `:slant' may also be set in one step from an X font name:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1471
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1472 `:font'
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parents:
diff changeset
1473
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parents:
diff changeset
1474 Set font-related face attributes from VALUE. VALUE must be a valid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1475 XLFD font name. If it is a font name pattern, the first matching font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1476 is used--this is for compatibility with the behavior of previous
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1477 versions of Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1478
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1479 For compatibility with Emacs 20, keywords `:bold' and `:italic' can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1480 be used to specify that a bold or italic font should be used. VALUE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1481 must be t or nil in that case. A value of `unspecified' is not allowed."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1482
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1483 Please see also the documentation of `set-face-attribute' and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1484 `defface'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1485
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1486 *** Face attributes and X resources
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1487
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1488 The following X resource names can be used to set face attributes
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parents:
diff changeset
1489 from X resources:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1490
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1491 Face attribute X resource class
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1492 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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parents:
diff changeset
1493 :family attributeFamily . Face.AttributeFamily
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parents:
diff changeset
1494 :width attributeWidth Face.AttributeWidth
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parents:
diff changeset
1495 :height attributeHeight Face.AttributeHeight
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1496 :weight attributeWeight Face.AttributeWeight
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1497 :slant attributeSlant Face.AttributeSlant
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parents:
diff changeset
1498 foreground attributeForeground Face.AttributeForeground
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1499 :background attributeBackground . Face.AttributeBackground
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1500 :overline attributeOverline Face.AttributeOverline
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parents:
diff changeset
1501 :strike-through attributeStrikeThrough Face.AttributeStrikeThrough
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parents:
diff changeset
1502 :box attributeBox Face.AttributeBox
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1503 :underline attributeUnderline Face.AttributeUnderline
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1504 :inverse-video attributeInverse Face.AttributeInverse
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parents:
diff changeset
1505 :stipple attributeStipple Face.AttributeStipple
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1506 or attributeBackgroundPixmap
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1507 Face.AttributeBackgroundPixmap
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parents:
diff changeset
1508 :font attributeFont Face.AttributeFont
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parents:
diff changeset
1509 :bold attributeBold Face.AttributeBold
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parents:
diff changeset
1510 :italic attributeItalic . Face.AttributeItalic
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parents:
diff changeset
1511 :font attributeFont Face.AttributeFont
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parents:
diff changeset
1512
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parents:
diff changeset
1513 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1514 *** Text property `face'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1515
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parents:
diff changeset
1516 The value of the `face' text property can now be a single face
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1517 specification or a list of such specifications. Each face
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parents:
diff changeset
1518 specification can be
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parents:
diff changeset
1519
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parents:
diff changeset
1520 1. A symbol or string naming a Lisp face.
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parents:
diff changeset
1521
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parents:
diff changeset
1522 2. A property list of the form (KEYWORD VALUE ...) where each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1523 KEYWORD is a face attribute name, and VALUE is an appropriate value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1524 for that attribute. Please see the doc string of `set-face-attribute'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1525 for face attribute names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1526
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parents:
diff changeset
1527 3. Conses of the form (FOREGROUND-COLOR . COLOR) or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1528 (BACKGROUND-COLOR . COLOR) where COLOR is a color name. This is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1529 for compatibility with previous Emacs versions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1530
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1531 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1532 ** Support functions for colors on text-only terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1533
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1534 The function `face-register-tty-color' can be used to define colors
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1535 for use on TTY frames. It maps a color name to a color number on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1536 terminal. Emacs defines a couple of default color mappings by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1537 default. You can get defined colors with a call to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1538 `tty-defined-colors'. The function `face-clear-tty-colors' can be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1539 used to clear the mapping table.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1540
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1541 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1542 ** 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
1543
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1544 This makes it possible to scroll through the prompt, if you want to.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1545
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1546 The function minubuffer-prompt-end returns the current position of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1547 end of the minibuffer prompt, if the minibuffer is current.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1548 Otherwise, it returns zero.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1549
26062
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1550 ** New `field' abstraction in buffers.
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1551
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1552 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
1553 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
1554 text-property.
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1555
26300
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1556 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
1557 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
1558 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
1559 not let the point move past the field boundary, but other movement
26300
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1560 commands continue into the next field if repeated.
26062
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1561
fd35581d53c1 Add Miles Bader's description of fields.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26034
diff changeset
1562 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
1563 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
1564 editing commands treat the user's text separately from the prompt.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1565
26300
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Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1566 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
1567
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1568 - 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
1569
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1570 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
1571 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
1572 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
1573 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
1574
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1575 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
1576 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
1577 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
1578 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
1579 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
1580 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
1581 fields.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1582
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1583 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
1584 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
1585 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
1586 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
1587 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
1588
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1589 - Function: erase-field &optional POS
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1590
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1591 Erases the field surrounding POS.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1592 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
1593 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
1594
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1595 - 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
1596
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1597 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
1598 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
1599 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
1600 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
1601 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
1602
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1603 - 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
1604
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1605 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
1606 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
1607 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
1608 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
1609 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
1610
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1611 - Function: field-string &optional POS
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1612
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1613 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
diff changeset
1614 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
1615 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
1616
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1617 - Function: field-string-no-properties &optional POS
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1618
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1619 Return the contents of the field around POS, without text-properties.
25356c16306f Expanded description of `field' property from Miles Bader.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 26292
diff changeset
1620 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
1621 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
1622
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1623 +++
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1624 ** Image support.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1625
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1626 Emacs can now display images. Images are inserted into text by giving
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1627 strings or buffer text a `display' text property containing one of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1628 (AREA IMAGE) or IMAGE. The display of the `display' property value
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1629 replaces the display of the characters having that property.
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1630
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1631 If the property value has the form (AREA IMAGE), AREA must be one of
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1632 `(margin left-margin)', `(margin right-margin)' or `(margin nil)'. If
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1633 AREA is `(margin nil)', IMAGE will be displayed in the text area of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1634 window, otherwise it will be displayed in the left or right marginal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1635 area.
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1636
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1637 IMAGE is an image specification.
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1638
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1639 *** Image specifications
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parents:
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1640
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1641 Image specifications are lists of the form `(image PROPS)' where PROPS
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1642 is a property list whose keys are keyword symbols. Each
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parents:
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1643 specifications must contain a property `:type TYPE' with TYPE being a
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1644 symbol specifying the image type, e.g. `xbm'. Properties not
03830fdf5186 *** empty log message ***
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1645 described below are ignored.
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1646
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1647 The following is a list of properties all image types share.
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1648
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1649 `:ascent ASCENT'
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1650
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1651 ASCENT must be a number in the range 0..100, and specifies the percentage
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1652 of the image's height to use for its ascent. Default is 50.
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1653
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1654 `:margin MARGIN'
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1655
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1656 MARGIN must be a number >= 0 specifying how many pixels to put as
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1657 margin around the image. Default is 0.
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1658
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parents:
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1659 `:relief RELIEF'
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parents:
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1660
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parents:
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1661 RELIEF is analogous to the `:relief' attribute of faces. Puts a relief
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parents:
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1662 around an image.
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parents:
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1663
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1664 `:algorithm ALGO'
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parents:
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1665
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1666 Apply an image algorithm to the image before displaying it. ALGO must
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parents:
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1667 be a symbol specifying the algorithm. Currently only `laplace' is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1668 supported which applies a Laplace edge detection algorithm to an image
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parents:
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1669 which is intended to display images "disabled."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1670
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parents:
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1671 `:heuristic-mask BG'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1672
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1673 If BG is not nil, build a clipping mask for the image, so that the
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1674 background of a frame is visible behind the image. If BG is t,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1675 determine the background color of the image by looking at the 4
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parents:
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1676 corners of the image, assuming the most frequently occuring color from
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parents:
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1677 the corners is the background color of the image. Otherwise, BG must
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parents:
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1678 be a list `(RED GREEN BLUE)' specifying the color to assume for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1679 background of the image.
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parents:
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1680
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1681 `:file FILE'
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parents:
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1682
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parents:
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1683 Load image from FILE. If FILE is not absolute after expanding it,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1684 search for the image in `data-directory'. Some image types support
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parents:
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1685 building images from data. When this is done, no `:file' property
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1686 may be present in the image specification.
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parents:
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1687
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parents:
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1688 *** Supported image types
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1689
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1690 **** XBM, image type `xbm'.
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1691
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1692 XBM images don't require an external library. Additional image
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parents:
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1693 properties supported are
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parents:
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1694
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1695 `:foreground FG'
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parents:
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1696
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1697 FG must be a string specifying the image foreground color. Default
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parents:
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1698 is the frame's foreground.
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parents:
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1699
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1700 `:background FG'
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parents:
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1701
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1702 BG must be a string specifying the image foreground color. Default is
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parents:
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1703 the frame's background color.
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parents:
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1704
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parents:
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1705 XBM images can be constructed from data instead of file. In this
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parents:
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1706 case, the image specification must contain the following properties
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parents:
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1707 instead of a `:file' property.
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parents:
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1708
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1709 `:width WIDTH'
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parents:
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1710
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1711 WIDTH specifies the width of the image in pixels.
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parents:
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1712
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parents:
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1713 `:height HEIGHT'
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parents:
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1714
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parents:
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1715 HEIGHT specifies the height of the image in pixels.
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parents:
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1716
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parents:
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1717 `:data DATA'
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parents:
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1718
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parents:
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1719 DATA must be either
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parents:
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1720
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parents:
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1721 1. a string large enough to hold the bitmap data, i.e. it must
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parents:
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1722 have a size >= (WIDTH + 7) / 8 * HEIGHT
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parents:
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1723
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parents:
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1724 2. a bool-vector of size >= WIDTH * HEIGHT
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parents:
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1725
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parents:
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1726 3. a vector of strings or bool-vectors, one for each line of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1727 bitmap.
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parents:
diff changeset
1728
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1729 **** XPM, image type `xpm'
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parents:
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1730
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1731 XPM images require the external library `libXpm', package
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parents:
diff changeset
1732 `xpm-3.4k.tar.gz', version 3.4k or later. Make sure the library is
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parents:
diff changeset
1733 found when Emacs is configured by supplying appropriate paths via
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parents:
diff changeset
1734 `--x-includes' and `--x-libraries'.
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parents:
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1735
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parents:
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1736 Additional image properties supported are:
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parents:
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1737
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parents:
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1738 `:color-symbols SYMBOLS'
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parents:
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1739
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parents:
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1740 SYMBOLS must be a list of pairs (NAME . COLOR), with NAME being the
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parents:
diff changeset
1741 name of color as it appears in an XPM file, and COLOR being an X color
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parents:
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1742 name.
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parents:
diff changeset
1743
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parents:
diff changeset
1744 XPM images can be built from memory instead of files. In that case,
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parents:
diff changeset
1745 add a `:data' property instead of a `:file' property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1746
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1747 `:data DATA'
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parents:
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1748
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1749 DATA must be a string containing an XPM image. The contents of the
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
1750 string are of the same format as that of XPM files.
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parents:
diff changeset
1751
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parents:
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1752 The XPM library uses libz in its implementation so that it is able
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parents:
diff changeset
1753 to display compressed images.
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parents:
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1754
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1755 **** PBM, image type `pbm'
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parents:
diff changeset
1756
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parents:
diff changeset
1757 PBM images don't require an external library. Color, gray-scale and
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parents:
diff changeset
1758 mono images are supported. There are no additional image properties
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parents:
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1759 defined.
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parents:
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1760
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1761 **** JPEG, image type `jpeg'
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parents:
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1762
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1763 Support for JPEG images requires the external library `libjpeg',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1764 package `jpegsrc.v6a.tar.gz', or later. There are no additional image
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1765 properties defined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1766
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1767 **** TIFF, image type `tiff'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1768
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1769 Support for TIFF images requires the external library `libtiff',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1770 package `tiff-v3.4-tar.gz', or later. There are no additional image
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1771 properties defined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1772
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1773 **** GIF, image type `gif'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1774
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1775 Support for GIF images requires the external library `libungif', package
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parents:
diff changeset
1776 `libungif-4.1.0', or later.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1777
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1778 Additional image properties supported are:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1779
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1780 `:index INDEX'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1781
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parents:
diff changeset
1782 INDEX must be an integer >= 0. Load image number INDEX from a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1783 multi-image GIF file. An error is signalled if INDEX is too large.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1784
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1785 This could be used to implement limited support for animated GIFs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1786 For example, the following function displays a multi-image GIF file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1787 at point-min in the current buffer, switching between sub-images
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1788 every 0.1 seconds.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1789
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parents:
diff changeset
1790 (defun show-anim (file max)
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parents:
diff changeset
1791 "Display multi-image GIF file FILE which contains MAX subimages."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1792 (display-anim (current-buffer) file 0 max t))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1793
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parents:
diff changeset
1794 (defun display-anim (buffer file idx max first-time)
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parents:
diff changeset
1795 (when (= idx max)
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parents:
diff changeset
1796 (setq idx 0))
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parents:
diff changeset
1797 (let ((img (create-image file nil :index idx)))
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parents:
diff changeset
1798 (save-excursion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1799 (set-buffer buffer)
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parents:
diff changeset
1800 (goto-char (point-min))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1801 (unless first-time (delete-char 1))
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parents:
diff changeset
1802 (insert-image img "x"))
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parents:
diff changeset
1803 (run-with-timer 0.1 nil 'display-anim buffer file (1+ idx) max nil)))
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parents:
diff changeset
1804
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1805 **** PNG, image type `png'
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parents:
diff changeset
1806
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1807 Support for PNG images requires the external library `libpng',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1808 package `libpng-1.0.2.tar.gz', or later. There are no additional image
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1809 properties defined.
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parents:
diff changeset
1810
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parents:
diff changeset
1811 **** Ghostscript, image type `postscript'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1812
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1813 Additional image properties supported are:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1814
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parents:
diff changeset
1815 `:pt-width WIDTH'
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parents:
diff changeset
1816
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parents:
diff changeset
1817 WIDTH is width of the image in pt (1/72 inch). WIDTH must be an
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parents: 26030
diff changeset
1818 integer. This is a required property.
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parents:
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1819
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parents:
diff changeset
1820 `:pt-height HEIGHT'
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parents:
diff changeset
1821
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parents:
diff changeset
1822 HEIGHT specifies the height of the image in pt (1/72 inch). HEIGHT
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parents: 26030
diff changeset
1823 must be a integer. This is an required property.
25853
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parents:
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1824
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parents:
diff changeset
1825 `:bounding-box BOX'
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parents:
diff changeset
1826
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parents:
diff changeset
1827 BOX must be a list or vector of 4 integers giving the bounding box of
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parents:
diff changeset
1828 the PS image, analogous to the `BoundingBox' comment found in PS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1829 files. This is an required property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1830
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1831 Part of the Ghostscript interface is implemented in Lisp. See
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parents:
diff changeset
1832 lisp/gs.el.
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parents:
diff changeset
1833
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parents:
diff changeset
1834 *** Lisp interface.
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parents:
diff changeset
1835
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diff changeset
1836 The variable `image-types' contains a list of those image types
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parents: 26171
diff changeset
1837 which are supported in the current configuration.
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
1838
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parents:
diff changeset
1839 Images are stored in an image cache and removed from the cache when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1840 they haven't been displayed for `image-cache-eviction-delay seconds.
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parents:
diff changeset
1841 The function `clear-image-cache' can be used to clear the image cache
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1842 manually.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1843
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parents:
diff changeset
1844 *** Simplified image API, image.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1845
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parents:
diff changeset
1846 The new Lisp package image.el contains functions that simplify image
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1847 creation and putting images into text. The function `create-image'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1848 can be used to create images. The macro `defimage' can be used to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1849 define an image based on available image types. The functions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1850 `put-image' and `insert-image' can be used to insert an image into a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1851 buffer.
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parents:
diff changeset
1852
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parents:
diff changeset
1853 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1854 ** Display margins.
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parents:
diff changeset
1855
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parents:
diff changeset
1856 Windows can now have margins which are used for special text
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parents:
diff changeset
1857 and images.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1858
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parents:
diff changeset
1859 To give a window margins, either set the buffer-local variables
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parents:
diff changeset
1860 `left-margin-width' and `right-margin-width', or call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1861 `set-window-margins'. The function `window-margins' can be used to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1862 obtain the current settings. To make `left-margin-width' and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1863 `right-margin-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1864 the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
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parents:
diff changeset
1865 of the display margins.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1866
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parents:
diff changeset
1867 You can put text in margins by giving it a `display' text property
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1868 containing a pair of the form `(LOCATION . VALUE)', where LOCATION is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1869 one of `left-margin' or `right-margin' or nil. VALUE can be either a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1870 string, an image specification or a stretch specification (see later
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1871 in this file).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1872
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parents:
diff changeset
1873 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
1874 ** Help display
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parents:
diff changeset
1875
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parents:
diff changeset
1876 Emacs displays short help messages in the echo area, when the mouse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1877 moves over a tool-bar item or a piece of text that has a text property
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parents:
diff changeset
1878 `help-echo'. This feature also applies to strings in the mode line
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1879 that have a `help-echo' property.
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1880
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1881 The value of the `help-echo' property must be a string. For tool-bar
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1882 items, their key definition is used to determine the help to display.
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1883 If their definition contains a property `:help FORM', FORM is
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1884 evaluated to determine the help string. Otherwise, the caption of the
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1885 tool-bar item is used.
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1886
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1887 The hook `show-help-function' can be set to a function that displays
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1888 help differently. For example, enabling a tooltip window causes the
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1889 help display to appear there instead of in the echo area.
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1890
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1891 +++
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1892 ** Vertical fractional scrolling.
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1893
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1894 The display of text in windows can be scrolled smoothly in pixels.
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1895 This is useful, for example, for making parts of large images visible.
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1896
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1897 The function `window-vscroll' returns the current value of vertical
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1898 scrolling, a non-negative fraction of the canonical character height.
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1899 The function `set-window-vscroll' can be used to set the vertical
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1900 scrolling value. Here is an example of how these function might be
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1901 used.
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1902
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1903 (global-set-key [A-down]
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1904 #'(lambda ()
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1905 (interactive)
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1906 (set-window-vscroll (selected-window)
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1907 (+ 0.5 (window-vscroll)))))
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1908 (global-set-key [A-up]
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1909 #'(lambda ()
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1910 (interactive)
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1911 (set-window-vscroll (selected-window)
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1912 (- (window-vscroll) 0.5)))))
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1913
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1914 +++
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1915 ** New hook `fontification-functions'.
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1916
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1917 Functions from `fontification-functions' are called from redisplay
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1918 when it encounters a region of text that is not yet fontified. This
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1919 variable automatically becomes buffer-local when set. Each function
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1920 is called with one argument, POS.
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1921
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1922 At least one of the hook functions should fontify one or more
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1923 characters starting at POS in the current buffer. It should mark them
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1924 as fontified by giving them a non-nil value of the `fontified' text
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1925 property. It may be reasonable for these functions to check for the
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1926 `fontified' property and not put it back on, but they do not have to.
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1927
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1928 +++
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1929 ** Tool bar support.
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1930
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1931 Emacs supports a tool bar at the top of a frame under X. The frame
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1932 parameter `tool-bar-lines' (X resource "toolBar", class "ToolBar")
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1933 controls how may lines to reserve for the tool bar. A zero value
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1934 suppresses the tool bar. If the value is non-zero and
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1935 `auto-resize-tool-bars' is non-nil the tool bar's size will be changed
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1936 automatically so that all tool bar items are visible.
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1937
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1938 *** Tool bar item definitions
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1939
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1940 Tool bar items are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
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1941 `tool-bar'. For example `(define-key global-map [tool-bar item1] ITEM)'
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1942 where ITEM is a list `(menu-item CAPTION BINDING PROPS...)'.
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1943
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1944 CAPTION is the caption of the item, If it's not a string, it is
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1945 evaluated to get a string. The caption is currently not displayed in
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1946 the tool bar, but it is displayed if the item doesn't have a `:help'
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1947 property (see below).
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1948
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1949 BINDING is the tool bar item's binding. Tool bar items with keymaps as
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1950 binding are currently ignored.
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1951
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1952 The following properties are recognized:
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1953
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1954 `:enable FORM'.
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1955
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1956 FORM is evaluated and specifies whether the tool bar item is enabled
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1957 or disabled.
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1958
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1959 `:visible FORM'
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1960
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1961 FORM is evaluated and specifies whether the tool bar item is displayed.
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1962
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1963 `:filter FUNCTION'
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1964
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1965 FUNCTION is called with one parameter, the same list BINDING in which
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1966 FUNCTION is specified as the filter. The value FUNCTION returns is
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1967 used instead of BINDING to display this item.
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1968
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1969 `:button (TYPE SELECTED)'
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1970
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1971 TYPE must be one of `:radio' or `:toggle'. SELECTED is evaluated
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1972 and specifies whether the button is selected (pressed) or not.
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1973
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1974 `:image IMAGES'
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1975
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1976 IMAGES is either a single image specification or a vector of four
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1977 image specifications. If it is a vector, this table lists the
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1978 meaning of each of the four elements:
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1979
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1980 Index Use when item is
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1981 ----------------------------------------
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1982 0 enabled and selected
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1983 1 enabled and deselected
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1984 2 disabled and selected
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1985 3 disabled and deselected
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1986
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1987 `:help HELP-STRING'.
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1988
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1989 Gives a help string to display for the tool bar item. This help
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1990 is displayed when the mouse is moved over the item.
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1991
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1992 *** Tool-bar-related variables.
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1993
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1994 If `auto-resize-tool-bar' is non-nil, the tool bar will automatically
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1995 resize to show all defined tool bar items. It will never grow larger
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1996 than 1/4 of the frame's size.
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1997
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1998 If `auto-raise-tool-bar-buttons' is non-nil, tool bar buttons will be
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1999 raised when the mouse moves over them.
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2000
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2001 You can add extra space between tool bar items by setting
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2002 `tool-bar-button-margin' to a positive integer specifying a number of
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2003 pixels. Default is 1.
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2004
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2005 You can change the shadow thickness of tool bar buttons by setting
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2006 `tool-bar-button-relief' to an integer. Default is 3.
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2007
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2008 *** Tool-bar clicks with modifiers.
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2009
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2010 You can bind commands to clicks with control, shift, meta etc. on
26264
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2011 a tool bar item. If
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2012
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2013 (define-key global-map [tool-bar shell]
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2014 '(menu-item "Shell" shell
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2015 :image (image :type xpm :file "shell.xpm")))
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2016
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2017 is the original tool bar item definition, then
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2018
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2019 (define-key global-map [tool-bar S-shell] 'some-command)
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2020
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2021 makes a binding to run `some-command' for a shifted click on the same
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2022 item.
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2023
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2024 ** Mode line changes.
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2025
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2026 +++
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2027 *** Mouse-sensitive mode line.
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2028
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2029 The mode line can be made mouse-sensitive by displaying strings there
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2030 that have a `local-map' text property. There are three ways to display
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2031 a string with a `local-map' property in the mode line.
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2032
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2033 1. The mode line spec contains a variable whose string value has
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2034 a `local-map' text property.
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2035
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2036 2. The mode line spec contains a format specifier (e.g. `%12b'), and
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2037 that format specifier has a `local-map' property.
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2038
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2039 3. The mode line spec contains a list containing `:eval FORM'. FORM
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2040 is evaluated. If the result is a string, and that string has a
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2041 `local-map' property.
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2042
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2043 The same mechanism is used to determine the `face' and `help-echo'
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2044 properties of strings in the mode line. See `bindings.el' for an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2045 example.
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parents:
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2046
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d2970b5d3b72 Add mode line element '(:eval FORM)'.
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2047 *** If a mode line element has the form `(:eval FORM)', FORM is
d2970b5d3b72 Add mode line element '(:eval FORM)'.
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diff changeset
2048 evaluated and the result is used as mode line element.
d2970b5d3b72 Add mode line element '(:eval FORM)'.
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parents: 26322
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2049
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2050 +++
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2051 *** You can suppress mode-line display by setting the buffer-local
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2052 variable mode-line-format to nil.
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2053
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2054 +++
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2055 *** A headerline can now be displayed at the top of a window.
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2056
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2057 This mode line's contents are controlled by the new variable
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2058 `header-line-format' and `default-header-line-format' which are
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parents:
diff changeset
2059 completely analogous to `mode-line-format' and
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parents:
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2060 `default-mode-line-format'. A value of nil means don't display a top
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parents:
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2061 line.
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parents:
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2062
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parents:
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2063 The appearance of top mode lines is controlled by the face
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parents:
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2064 `header-line'.
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parents:
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2065
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parents:
diff changeset
2066 The function `coordinates-in-window-p' returns `header-line' for a
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parents:
diff changeset
2067 position in the header-line.
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parents:
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2068
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parents:
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2069 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
2070 ** Text property `display'
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parents:
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2071
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parents:
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2072 The `display' text property is used to insert images into text, and
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parents:
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2073 also control other aspects of how text displays. The value of the
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diff changeset
2074 `display' property should be a display specification, as described
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parents:
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2075 below, or a list or vector containing display specifications.
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parents:
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2076
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parents:
diff changeset
2077 *** Variable width and height spaces
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2078
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parents:
diff changeset
2079 To display a space of fractional width or height, use a display
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2080 specification of the form `(LOCATION STRECH)'. If LOCATION is
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2081 `(margin left-margin)', the space is displayed in the left marginal
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parents:
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2082 area, if it is `(margin right-margin)', it is displayed in the right
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parents:
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2083 marginal area, and if LOCATION is `(margin nil)' the space is
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parents:
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2084 displayed in the text. In the latter case you can also use the
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parents:
diff changeset
2085 simpler form STRETCH as property value.
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2086
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2087 The stretch specification STRETCH itself is a list of the form `(space
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parents:
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2088 PROPS)', where PROPS is a property list which can contain the
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2089 properties described below.
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2090
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2091 The display of the fractional space replaces the display of the
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2092 characters having the `display' property.
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2093
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2094 - :width WIDTH
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2095
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2096 Specifies that the space width should be WIDTH times the normal
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2097 character width. WIDTH can be an integer or floating point number.
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2098
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2099 - :relative-width FACTOR
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2100
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2101 Specifies that the width of the stretch should be computed from the
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diff changeset
2102 first character in a group of consecutive characters that have the
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diff changeset
2103 same `display' property. The computation is done by multiplying the
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diff changeset
2104 width of that character by FACTOR.
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2105
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2106 - :align-to HPOS
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2107
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2108 Specifies that the space should be wide enough to reach HPOS. The
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diff changeset
2109 value HPOS is measured in units of the normal character width.
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2110
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2111 Exactly one of the above properties should be used.
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2112
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2113 - :height HEIGHT
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2114
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2115 Specifies the height of the space, as HEIGHT, measured in terms of the
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2116 normal line height.
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2117
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2118 - :relative-height FACTOR
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2119
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2120 The height of the space is computed as the product of the height
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2121 of the text having the `display' property and FACTOR.
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2122
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2123 - :ascent ASCENT
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2124
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2125 Specifies that ASCENT percent of the height of the stretch should be
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2126 used for the ascent of the stretch, i.e. for the part above the
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2127 baseline. The value of ASCENT must be a non-negative number less or
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2128 equal to 100.
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2129
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2130 You should not use both `:height' and `:relative-height' together.
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2131
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2132 *** Images
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2133
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2134 A display specification for an image has the form `(LOCATION
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2135 . IMAGE)', where IMAGE is an image specification. The image replaces,
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2136 in the display, the characters having this display specification in
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2137 their `display' text property. If LOCATION is `(margin left-margin)',
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2138 the image will be displayed in the left marginal area, if it is
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2139 `(margin right-margin)' it will be displayed in the right marginal
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2140 area, and if LOCATION is `(margin nil)' the image will be displayed in
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2141 the text. In the latter case you can also use the simpler form IMAGE
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2142 as display specification.
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2143
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2144 *** Other display properties
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2145
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2146 - :space-width FACTOR
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2147
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2148 Specifies that space characters in the text having that property
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2149 should be displayed FACTOR times as wide as normal; FACTOR must be an
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2150 integer or float.
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2151
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2152 - :height HEIGHT
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2153
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2154 Display text having this property in a font that is smaller or larger.
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2155
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2156 If HEIGHT is a list of the form `(+ N)', where N is an integer, that
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2157 means to use a font that is N steps larger. If HEIGHT is a list of
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2158 the form `(- N)', that means to use a font that is N steps smaller. A
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2159 ``step'' is defined by the set of available fonts; each size for which
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2160 a font is available counts as a step.
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parents:
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2161
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2162 If HEIGHT is a number, that means to use a font that is HEIGHT times
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2163 as tall as the frame's default font.
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2164
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2165 If HEIGHT is a symbol, it is called as a function with the current
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2166 height as argument. The function should return the new height to use.
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2167
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2168 Otherwise, HEIGHT is evaluated to get the new height, with the symbol
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2169 `height' bound to the current specified font height.
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2170
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2171 - :raise FACTOR
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2172
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2173 FACTOR must be a number, specifying a multiple of the current
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2174 font's height. If it is positive, that means to display the characters
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2175 raised. If it is negative, that means to display them lower down. The
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parents:
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2176 amount of raising or lowering is computed without taking account of the
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2177 `:height' subproperty.
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2178
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2179 *** Conditional display properties
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2180
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2181 All display specifications can be conditionalized. If a specification
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parents:
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2182 has the form `(:when CONDITION . SPEC)', the specification SPEC
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2183 applies only when CONDITION yields a non-nil value when evaluated.
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parents:
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2184 During evaluattion, point is temporarily set to the end position of
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parents:
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2185 the text having the `display' property.
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2186
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parents:
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2187 The normal specification consisting of SPEC only is equivalent to
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2188 `(:when t SPEC)'.
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parents:
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2189
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2190 +++
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parents:
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2191 ** New menu separator types.
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parents:
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2192
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2193 Emacs now supports more than one menu separator type. Menu items with
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parents:
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2194 item names consisting of dashes only (including zero dashes) are
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parents:
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2195 treated like before. In addition, the following item names are used
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2196 to specify other menu separator types.
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parents:
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2197
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2198 - `--no-line' or `--space', or `--:space', or `--:noLine'
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parents:
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2199
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parents:
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2200 No separator lines are drawn, but a small space is inserted where the
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2201 separator occurs.
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parents:
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2202
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parents:
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2203 - `--single-line' or `--:singleLine'
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2204
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parents:
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2205 A single line in the menu's foreground color.
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2206
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2207 - `--double-line' or `--:doubleLine'
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2208
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parents:
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2209 A double line in the menu's foreground color.
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parents:
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2210
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parents:
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2211 - `--single-dashed-line' or `--:singleDashedLine'
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parents:
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2212
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parents:
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2213 A single dashed line in the menu's foreground color.
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parents:
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2214
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parents:
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2215 - `--double-dashed-line' or `--:doubleDashedLine'
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2216
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parents:
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2217 A double dashed line in the menu's foreground color.
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parents:
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2218
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parents:
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2219 - `--shadow-etched-in' or `--:shadowEtchedIn'
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parents:
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2220
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parents:
diff changeset
2221 A single line with 3D sunken appearance. This is the the form
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parents:
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2222 displayed for item names consisting of dashes only.
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parents:
diff changeset
2223
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parents:
diff changeset
2224 - `--shadow-etched-out' or `--:shadowEtchedOut'
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parents:
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2225
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parents:
diff changeset
2226 A single line with 3D raised appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2227
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parents:
diff changeset
2228 - `--shadow-etched-in-dash' or `--:shadowEtchedInDash'
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parents:
diff changeset
2229
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parents:
diff changeset
2230 A single dashed line with 3D sunken appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2231
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parents:
diff changeset
2232 - `--shadow-etched-out-dash' or `--:shadowEtchedOutDash'
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parents:
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2233
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parents:
diff changeset
2234 A single dashed line with 3D raise appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2235
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parents:
diff changeset
2236 - `--shadow-double-etched-in' or `--:shadowDoubleEtchedIn'
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parents:
diff changeset
2237
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parents:
diff changeset
2238 Two lines with 3D sunken appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2239
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parents:
diff changeset
2240 - `--shadow-double-etched-out' or `--:shadowDoubleEtchedOut'
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parents:
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2241
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parents:
diff changeset
2242 Two lines with 3D raised appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2243
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parents:
diff changeset
2244 - `--shadow-double-etched-in-dash' or `--:shadowDoubleEtchedInDash'
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parents:
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2245
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parents:
diff changeset
2246 Two dashed lines with 3D sunken appearance.
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parents:
diff changeset
2247
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parents:
diff changeset
2248 - `--shadow-double-etched-out-dash' or `--:shadowDoubleEtchedOutDash'
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parents:
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2249
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parents:
diff changeset
2250 Two dashed lines with 3D raised appearance.
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parents:
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2251
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parents:
diff changeset
2252 Under LessTif/Motif, the last four separator types are displayed like
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parents:
diff changeset
2253 the corresponding single-line separators.
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parents:
diff changeset
2254
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parents:
diff changeset
2255 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
2256 ** New frame parameters for scroll bar colors.
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parents:
diff changeset
2257
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parents:
diff changeset
2258 The new frame parameters `scroll-bar-foreground' and
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parents:
diff changeset
2259 `scroll-bar-background' can be used to change scroll bar colors.
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parents:
diff changeset
2260 Their value must be either a color name, a string, or nil to specify
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parents:
diff changeset
2261 that scroll bars should use a default color. For toolkit scroll bars,
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parents:
diff changeset
2262 default colors are toolkit specific. For non-toolkit scroll bars, the
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parents:
diff changeset
2263 default background is the background color of the frame, and the
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parents:
diff changeset
2264 default foreground is black.
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parents:
diff changeset
2265
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parents:
diff changeset
2266 The X resource name of these parameters are `scrollBarForeground'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2267 (class ScrollBarForeground) and `scrollBarBackground' (class
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parents:
diff changeset
2268 `ScrollBarBackground').
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parents:
diff changeset
2269
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parents:
diff changeset
2270 Setting these parameters overrides toolkit specific X resource
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parents:
diff changeset
2271 settings for scroll bar colors.
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parents:
diff changeset
2272
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parents:
diff changeset
2273 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
2274 ** You can set `redisplay-dont-pause' to a non-nil value to prevent
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parents:
diff changeset
2275 display updates from being interrupted when input is pending.
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parents:
diff changeset
2276
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parents:
diff changeset
2277 ---
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parents:
diff changeset
2278 ** Changing a window's width may now change its window start if it
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parents:
diff changeset
2279 starts on a continuation line. The new window start is computed based
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parents:
diff changeset
2280 on the window's new width, starting from the start of the continued
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2281 line as the start of the screen line with the minimum distance from
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parents:
diff changeset
2282 the original window start.
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parents:
diff changeset
2283
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parents:
diff changeset
2284 ---
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parents:
diff changeset
2285 ** The variable `hscroll-step' and the functions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2286 `hscroll-point-visible' and `hscroll-window-column' have been removed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2287 now that proper horizontal scrolling is implemented.
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parents:
diff changeset
2288
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parents:
diff changeset
2289 +++
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parents:
diff changeset
2290 ** Windows can now be made fixed-width and/or fixed-height.
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parents:
diff changeset
2291
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parents:
diff changeset
2292 A window is fixed-size if its buffer has a buffer-local variable
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parents:
diff changeset
2293 `window-size-fixed' whose value is not nil. A value of `height' makes
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parents:
diff changeset
2294 windows fixed-height, a value of `width' makes them fixed-width, any
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parents:
diff changeset
2295 other non-nil value makes them both fixed-width and fixed-height.
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parents:
diff changeset
2296
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parents:
diff changeset
2297 The following code makes all windows displaying the current buffer
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parents:
diff changeset
2298 fixed-width and fixed-height.
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parents:
diff changeset
2299
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parents:
diff changeset
2300 (set (make-local-variable 'window-size-fixed) t)
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parents:
diff changeset
2301
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parents:
diff changeset
2302 A call to enlarge-window on a window gives an error if that window is
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parents:
diff changeset
2303 fixed-width and it is tried to change the window's width, or if the
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parents:
diff changeset
2304 window is fixed-height, and it is tried to change its height. To
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parents:
diff changeset
2305 change the size of a fixed-size window, bind `window-size-fixed'
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parents:
diff changeset
2306 temporarily to nil, for example
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parents:
diff changeset
2307
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parents:
diff changeset
2308 (let ((window-size-fixed nil))
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parents:
diff changeset
2309 (enlarge-window 10))
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parents:
diff changeset
2310
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2311 Likewise, an attempt to split a fixed-height window vertically,
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
2312 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
2313 ^L
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
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parents: 26623
diff changeset
2314 * 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
2315
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
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parents: 26623
diff changeset
2316 ** Not new, but not mentioned before:
a556296b4c8a use-dialog-box <- use-dialogs
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parents: 26623
diff changeset
2317 M-w when Transient Mark mode is enabled disables the mark.
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
2318
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parents:
diff changeset
2319 * Changes in Emacs 20.4
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parents:
diff changeset
2320
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parents:
diff changeset
2321 ** Init file may be called .emacs.el.
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parents:
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2322
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parents:
diff changeset
2323 You can now call the Emacs init file `.emacs.el'.
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parents:
diff changeset
2324 Formerly the name had to be `.emacs'. If you use the name
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parents:
diff changeset
2325 `.emacs.el', you can byte-compile the file in the usual way.
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parents:
diff changeset
2326
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parents:
diff changeset
2327 If both `.emacs' and `.emacs.el' exist, the latter file
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parents:
diff changeset
2328 is the one that is used.
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parents:
diff changeset
2329
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parents:
diff changeset
2330 ** shell-command, and shell-command-on-region, now return
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2331 the exit code of the command (unless it is asynchronous).
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parents:
diff changeset
2332 Also, you can specify a place to put the error output,
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parents:
diff changeset
2333 separate from the command's regular output.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2334 Interactively, the variable shell-command-default-error-buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2335 says where to put error output; set it to a buffer name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2336 In calls from Lisp, an optional argument ERROR-BUFFER specifies
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parents:
diff changeset
2337 the buffer name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2338
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parents:
diff changeset
2339 When you specify a non-nil error buffer (or buffer name), any error
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2340 output is inserted before point in that buffer, with \f\n to separate
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2341 it from the previous batch of error output. The error buffer is not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2342 cleared, so error output from successive commands accumulates there.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2343
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parents:
diff changeset
2344 ** Setting the default value of enable-multibyte-characters to nil in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2345 the .emacs file, either explicitly using setq-default, or via Custom,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2346 is now essentially equivalent to using --unibyte: all buffers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2347 created during startup will be made unibyte after loading .emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2348
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2349 ** C-x C-f now handles the wildcards * and ? in file names. For
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2350 example, typing C-x C-f c*.c RET visits all the files whose names
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parents:
diff changeset
2351 match c*.c. To visit a file whose name contains * or ?, add the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2352 quoting sequence /: to the beginning of the file name.
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parents:
diff changeset
2353
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2354 ** The M-x commands keep-lines, flush-lines and count-matches
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2355 now have the same feature as occur and query-replace:
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parents:
diff changeset
2356 if the pattern contains any upper case letters, then
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parents:
diff changeset
2357 they never ignore case.
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parents:
diff changeset
2358
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parents:
diff changeset
2359 ** The end-of-line format conversion feature previously mentioned
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2360 under `* Emacs 20.1 changes for MS-DOS and MS-Windows' actually
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parents:
diff changeset
2361 applies to all operating systems. Emacs recognizes from the contents
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parents:
diff changeset
2362 of a file what convention it uses to separate lines--newline, CRLF, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2363 just CR--and automatically converts the contents to the normal Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2364 convention (using newline to separate lines) for editing. This is a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2365 part of the general feature of coding system conversion.
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parents:
diff changeset
2366
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parents:
diff changeset
2367 If you subsequently save the buffer, Emacs converts the text back to
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parents:
diff changeset
2368 the same format that was used in the file before.
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parents:
diff changeset
2369
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parents:
diff changeset
2370 You can turn off end-of-line conversion by setting the variable
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parents:
diff changeset
2371 `inhibit-eol-conversion' to non-nil, e.g. with Custom in the MULE group.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2372
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2373 ** The character set property `prefered-coding-system' has been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2374 renamed to `preferred-coding-system', for the sake of correct spelling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2375 This is a fairly internal feature, so few programs should be affected.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2376
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2377 ** Mode-line display of end-of-line format is changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2378 The indication of the end-of-line format of the file visited by a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2379 buffer is now more explicit when that format is not the usual one for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2380 your operating system. For example, the DOS-style end-of-line format
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2381 is displayed as "(DOS)" on Unix and GNU/Linux systems. The usual
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2382 end-of-line format is still displayed as a single character (colon for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2383 Unix, backslash for DOS and Windows, and forward slash for the Mac).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2384
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2385 The values of the variables eol-mnemonic-unix, eol-mnemonic-dos,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2386 eol-mnemonic-mac, and eol-mnemonic-undecided, which are strings,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2387 control what is displayed in the mode line for each end-of-line
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2388 format. You can now customize these variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2389
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2390 ** In the previous version of Emacs, tar-mode didn't work well if a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2391 filename contained non-ASCII characters. Now this is fixed. Such a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2392 filename is decoded by file-name-coding-system if the default value of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2393 enable-multibyte-characters is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2394
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2395 ** The command temp-buffer-resize-mode toggles a minor mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2396 in which temporary buffers (such as help buffers) are given
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2397 windows just big enough to hold the whole contents.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2398
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2399 ** If you use completion.el, you must now run the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2400 dynamic-completion-mode to enable it. Just loading the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2401 doesn't have any effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2402
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2403 ** In Flyspell mode, the default is now to make just one Ispell process,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2404 not one per buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2405
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2406 ** If you use iswitchb but do not call (iswitchb-default-keybindings) to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2407 use the default keybindings, you will need to add the following line:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2408 (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'iswitchb-minibuffer-setup)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2409
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2410 ** Auto-show mode is no longer enabled just by loading auto-show.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2411 To control it, set `auto-show-mode' via Custom or use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2412 `auto-show-mode' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2413
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2414 ** Handling of X fonts' ascent/descent parameters has been changed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2415 avoid redisplay problems. As a consequence, compared with previous
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2416 versions the line spacing and frame size now differ with some font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2417 choices, typically increasing by a pixel per line. This change
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2418 occurred in version 20.3 but was not documented then.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2419
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2420 ** If you select the bar cursor style, it uses the frame's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2421 cursor-color, rather than the cursor foreground pixel.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2422
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2423 ** In multibyte mode, Rmail decodes incoming MIME messages using the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2424 character set specified in the message. If you want to disable this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2425 feature, set the variable rmail-decode-mime-charset to nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2426
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2427 ** Not new, but not mentioned previously in NEWS: when you use #! at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2428 the beginning of a file to make it executable and specify an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2429 interpreter program, Emacs looks on the second line for the -*- mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2430 and variable specification, as well as on the first line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2431
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2432 ** Support for IBM codepage encoding of non-ASCII characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2433
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2434 The new command M-x codepage-setup creates a special coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2435 that can be used to convert text between a specific IBM codepage and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2436 one of the character sets built into Emacs which matches that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2437 codepage. For example, codepage 850 corresponds to Latin-1 character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2438 set, codepage 855 corresponds to Cyrillic-ISO character set, etc.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2439
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2440 Windows codepages 1250, 1251 and some others, where Windows deviates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2441 from the corresponding ISO character set, are also supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2442
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2443 IBM box-drawing characters and other glyphs which don't have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2444 equivalents in the corresponding ISO character set, are converted to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2445 a character defined by dos-unsupported-char-glyph on MS-DOS, and to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2446 `?' on other systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2447
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2448 IBM codepages are widely used on MS-DOS and MS-Windows, so this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2449 feature is most useful on those platforms, but it can also be used on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2450 Unix.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2451
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2452 Emacs compiled for MS-DOS automatically loads the support for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2453 current codepage when it starts.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2454
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2455 ** Mail changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2456
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2457 *** The new variable default-sendmail-coding-system specifies the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2458 default way to encode outgoing mail. This has higher priority than
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2459 default-buffer-file-coding-system but has lower priority than
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2460 sendmail-coding-system and the local value of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2461 buffer-file-coding-system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2462
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2463 You should not set this variable manually. Instead, set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2464 sendmail-coding-system to specify a fixed encoding for all outgoing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2465 mail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2466
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2467 *** When you try to send a message that contains non-ASCII characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2468 if the coding system specified by those variables doesn't handle them,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2469 Emacs will ask you to select a suitable coding system while showing a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2470 list of possible coding systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2471
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2472 ** CC Mode changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2473
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2474 *** c-default-style can now take an association list that maps major
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2475 modes to style names. When this variable is an alist, Java mode no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2476 longer hardcodes a setting to "java" style. See the variable's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2477 docstring for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2478
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2479 *** It's now possible to put a list as the offset on a syntactic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2480 symbol. The list is evaluated recursively until a non-nil offset is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2481 found. This is useful to combine several lineup functions to act in a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2482 prioritized order on a single line. However, none of the supplied
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2483 lineup functions use this feature currently.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2484
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2485 *** New syntactic symbol catch-clause, which is used on the "catch" and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2486 "finally" lines in try-catch constructs in C++ and Java.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2487
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2488 *** New cleanup brace-catch-brace on c-cleanup-list, which does for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2489 "catch" lines what brace-elseif-brace does for "else if" lines.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2490
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2491 *** The braces of Java anonymous inner classes are treated separately
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2492 from the braces of other classes in auto-newline mode. Two new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2493 symbols inexpr-class-open and inexpr-class-close may be used on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2494 c-hanging-braces-alist to control the automatic newlines used for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2495 anonymous classes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2496
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2497 *** Support for the Pike language added, along with new Pike specific
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2498 syntactic symbols: inlambda, lambda-intro-cont
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2499
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2500 *** Support for Java anonymous classes via new syntactic symbol
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2501 inexpr-class. New syntactic symbol inexpr-statement for Pike
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2502 support and gcc-style statements inside expressions. New lineup
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2503 function c-lineup-inexpr-block.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2504
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2505 *** New syntactic symbol brace-entry-open which is used in brace lists
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2506 (i.e. static initializers) when a list entry starts with an open
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2507 brace. These used to be recognized as brace-list-entry's.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2508 c-electric-brace also recognizes brace-entry-open braces
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2509 (brace-list-entry's can no longer be electrified).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2510
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2511 *** New command c-indent-line-or-region, not bound by default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2512
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2513 *** `#' is only electric when typed in the indentation of a line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2514
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2515 *** Parentheses are now electric (via the new command c-electric-paren)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2516 for auto-reindenting lines when parens are typed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2517
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2518 *** In "gnu" style, inline-open offset is now set to zero.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2519
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2520 *** Uniform handling of the inclass syntactic symbol. The indentation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2521 associated with it is now always relative to the class opening brace.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2522 This means that the indentation behavior has changed in some
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2523 circumstances, but only if you've put anything besides 0 on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2524 class-open syntactic symbol (none of the default styles do that).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2525
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2526 ** Gnus changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2527
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2528 *** New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2529 added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2530 Gnus manual for the full story.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2531
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2532 *** The nndraft backend has returned, but works differently than
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2533 before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2534 group, which is created automatically.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2535
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2536 *** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2537 values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2538
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2539 *** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2540
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2541 *** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2542 outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2543
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2544 *** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2545 `C-u C-c C-c'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2546
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2547 *** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2548
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2549 *** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2550 re-highlighting of the article buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2551
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2552 *** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2553
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2554 *** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2555 Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2556
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2557 *** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2558 `a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2559
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2560 *** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2561 control over simplification.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2562
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2563 *** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2564
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2565 *** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2566 limit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2567
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2568 *** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2569
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2570 *** \\1-expressions are now valid in `nnmail-split-methods'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2571
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2572 *** The `custom-face-lookup' function has been removed.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2573 If you used this function in your initialization files, you must
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2574 rewrite them to use `face-spec-set' instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2575
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2576 *** Cancelling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2577 `a' forces normal posting method.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2578
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2579 *** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2580 -- `W d'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2581
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2582 *** For easier debugging of nntp, you can set `nntp-record-commands'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2583 to a non-nil value.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2584
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2585 *** nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for controlling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2586 where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2587
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2588 *** A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2589 has been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2590
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2591 *** A history of where mails have been split is available.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2592
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2593 *** A new article date command has been added -- `article-date-iso8601'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2594
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2595 *** Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2596 `gnus-score-thread-simplify'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2597
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2598 *** A new function for citing in Message has been added --
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2599 `message-cite-original-without-signature'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2600
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2601 *** `article-strip-all-blank-lines' -- new article command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2602
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2603 *** A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2604 been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2605
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2606 *** A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2607 `gnus-adaptive-word-minimum' variable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2608
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2609 *** The "lapsed date" article header can be kept continually
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2610 updated by the `gnus-start-date-timer' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2611
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2612 *** Web listserv archives can be read with the nnlistserv backend.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2613
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2614 *** Old dejanews archives can now be read by nnweb.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2615
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2616 *** `gnus-posting-styles' has been re-activated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2617
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2618 ** Changes to TeX and LaTeX mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2619
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2620 *** The new variable `tex-start-options-string' can be used to give
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2621 options for the TeX run. The default value causes TeX to run in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2622 nonstopmode. For an interactive TeX run set it to nil or "".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2623
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2624 *** The command `tex-feed-input' sends input to the Tex Shell. In a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2625 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
2626 of these keys may not work on all systems). For instance, if you run
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2627 TeX interactively and if the TeX run stops because of an error, you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2628 can continue it without leaving the TeX buffer by typing C-RET.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2629
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2630 *** The Tex Shell Buffer is now in `compilation-shell-minor-mode'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2631 All error-parsing commands of the Compilation major mode are available
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2632 but bound to keys that don't collide with the shell. Thus you can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2633 the Tex Shell for command line executions like a usual shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2634
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2635 *** The commands `tex-validate-region' and `tex-validate-buffer' check
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2636 the matching of braces and $'s. The errors are listed in a *Occur*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2637 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
2638 mismatch.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2639
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2640 ** Changes to RefTeX mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2641
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2642 *** The table of contents buffer can now also display labels and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2643 file boundaries in addition to sections. Use `l', `i', and `c' keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2644
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2645 *** Labels derived from context (the section heading) are now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2646 lowercase by default. To make the label legal in LaTeX, latin-1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2647 characters will lose their accent. All Mule characters will be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2648 removed from the label.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2649
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2650 *** The automatic display of cross reference information can also use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2651 a window instead of the echo area. See variable `reftex-auto-view-crossref'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2652
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2653 *** kpsewhich can be used by RefTeX to find TeX and BibTeX files. See the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2654 customization group `reftex-finding-files'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2655
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2656 *** The option `reftex-bibfile-ignore-list' has been renamed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2657 `reftex-bibfile-ignore-regexps' and indeed can be fed with regular
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
2658 expressions.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2659
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2660 *** Multiple Selection buffers are now hidden buffers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2661
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2662 ** New/deleted modes and packages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2663
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2664 *** The package snmp-mode.el provides major modes for editing SNMP and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2665 SNMPv2 MIBs. It has entries on `auto-mode-alist'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2666
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2667 *** The package sql.el provides a major mode, M-x sql-mode, for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2668 editing SQL files, and M-x sql-interactive-mode for interacting with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2669 SQL interpreters. It has an entry on `auto-mode-alist'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2670
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2671 *** M-x highlight-changes-mode provides a minor mode displaying buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2672 changes with a special face.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2673
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2674 *** ispell4.el has been deleted. It got in the way of ispell.el and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2675 this was hard to fix reliably. It has long been obsolete -- use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2676 Ispell 3.1 and ispell.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2677
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2678 * MS-DOS changes in Emacs 20.4
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2679
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2680 ** Emacs compiled for MS-DOS now supports MULE features better.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2681 This includes support for display of all ISO 8859-N character sets,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2682 conversion to and from IBM codepage encoding of non-ASCII characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2683 and automatic setup of the MULE environment at startup. For details,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2684 check out the section `MS-DOS and MULE' in the manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2685
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2686 The MS-DOS installation procedure automatically configures and builds
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2687 Emacs with input method support if it finds an unpacked Leim
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2688 distribution when the config.bat script is run.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2689
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2690 ** Formerly, the value of lpr-command did not affect printing on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2691 MS-DOS unless print-region-function was set to nil, but now it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2692 controls whether an external program is invoked or output is written
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2693 directly to a printer port. Similarly, in the previous version of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2694 Emacs, the value of ps-lpr-command did not affect PostScript printing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2695 on MS-DOS unless ps-printer-name was set to something other than a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2696 string (eg. t or `pipe'), but now it controls whether an external
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2697 program is used. (These changes were made so that configuration of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2698 printing variables would be almost identical across all platforms.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2699
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2700 ** In the previous version of Emacs, PostScript and non-PostScript
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2701 output was piped to external programs, but because most print programs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2702 available for MS-DOS and MS-Windows cannot read data from their standard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2703 input, on those systems the data to be output is now written to a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2704 temporary file whose name is passed as the last argument to the external
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2705 program.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2706
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2707 An exception is made for `print', a standard program on Windows NT,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2708 and `nprint', a standard program on Novell Netware. For both of these
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2709 programs, the command line is constructed in the appropriate syntax
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2710 automatically, using only the value of printer-name or ps-printer-name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2711 as appropriate--the value of the relevant `-switches' variable is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2712 ignored, as both programs have no useful switches.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2713
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2714 ** The value of the variable dos-printer (cf. dos-ps-printer), if it has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2715 a value, overrides the value of printer-name (cf. ps-printer-name), on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2716 MS-DOS and MS-Windows only. This has been true since version 20.3, but
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2717 was not documented clearly before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2718
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2719 ** All the Emacs games now work on MS-DOS terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2720 This includes Tetris and Snake.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2722 * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.4
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2723
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2724 ** New functions line-beginning-position and line-end-position
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2725 return the position of the beginning or end of the current line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2726 They both accept an optional argument, which has the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2727 meaning as the argument to beginning-of-line or end-of-line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2728
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2729 ** find-file and allied functions now have an optional argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2730 WILDCARD. If this is non-nil, they do wildcard processing,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2731 and visit all files that match the wildcard pattern.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2732
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2733 ** Changes in the file-attributes function.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2734
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2735 *** The file size returned by file-attributes may be an integer or a float.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2736 It is an integer if the size fits in a Lisp integer, float otherwise.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2737
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2738 *** The inode number returned by file-attributes may be an integer (if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2739 the number fits in a Lisp integer) or a cons cell containing two
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2740 integers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2741
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2742 ** The new function directory-files-and-attributes returns a list of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2743 files in a directory and their attributes. It accepts the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2744 arguments as directory-files and has similar semantics, except that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2745 file names and attributes are returned.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2746
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2747 ** The new function file-attributes-lessp is a helper function for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2748 sorting the list generated by directory-files-and-attributes. It
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2749 accepts two arguments, each a list of a file name and its atttributes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2750 It compares the file names of each according to string-lessp and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2751 returns the result.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2752
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2753 ** The new function file-expand-wildcards expands a wildcard-pattern
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2754 to produce a list of existing files that match the pattern.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2755
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2756 ** New functions for base64 conversion:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2757
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2758 The function base64-encode-region converts a part of the buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2759 into the base64 code used in MIME. base64-decode-region
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2760 performs the opposite conversion. Line-breaking is supported
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2761 optionally.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2762
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2763 Functions base64-encode-string and base64-decode-string do a similar
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2764 job on the text in a string. They return the value as a new string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2765
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2766 **
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2767 The new function process-running-child-p
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2768 will tell you if a subprocess has given control of its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2769 terminal to its own child process.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2770
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2771 ** interrupt-process and such functions have a new feature:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2772 when the second argument is `lambda', they send a signal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2773 to the running child of the subshell, if any, but if the shell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2774 itself owns its terminal, no signal is sent.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2775
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2776 ** There are new widget types `plist' and `alist' which can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2777 be used for customizing variables whose values are plists or alists.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2778
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2779 ** easymenu.el Now understands `:key-sequence' and `:style button'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2780 :included is an alias for :visible.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2781
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2782 easy-menu-add-item now understands the values returned by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2783 easy-menu-remove-item and easy-menu-item-present-p. This can be used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2784 to move or copy menu entries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2785
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2786 ** Multibyte editing changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2787
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2788 *** The definitions of sref and char-bytes are changed. Now, sref is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2789 an alias of aref and char-bytes always returns 1. This change is to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2790 make some Emacs Lisp code which works on 20.2 and earlier also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2791 work on the latest Emacs. Such code uses a combination of sref and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2792 char-bytes in a loop typically as below:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2793 (setq char (sref str idx)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2794 idx (+ idx (char-bytes idx)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2795 The byte-compiler now warns that this is obsolete.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2796
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2797 If you want to know how many bytes a specific multibyte character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2798 (say, CH) occupies in a multibyte buffer, use this code:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2799 (charset-bytes (char-charset ch))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2800
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2801 *** In multibyte mode, when you narrow a buffer to some region, and the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2802 region is preceded or followed by non-ASCII codes, inserting or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2803 deleting at the head or the end of the region may signal this error:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2804
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2805 Byte combining across boundary of accessible buffer text inhibitted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2806
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2807 This is to avoid some bytes being combined together into a character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2808 across the boundary.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2809
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2810 *** The functions find-charset-region and find-charset-string include
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2811 `unknown' in the returned list in the following cases:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2812 o The current buffer or the target string is unibyte and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2813 contains 8-bit characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2814 o The current buffer or the target string is multibyte and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2815 contains invalid characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2816
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2817 *** The functions decode-coding-region and encode-coding-region remove
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2818 text properties of the target region. Ideally, they should correctly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2819 preserve text properties, but for the moment, it's hard. Removing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2820 text properties is better than preserving them in a less-than-correct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2821 way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2822
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2823 *** prefer-coding-system sets EOL conversion of default coding systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2824 If the argument to prefer-coding-system specifies a certain type of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2825 end of line conversion, the default coding systems set by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2826 prefer-coding-system will specify that conversion type for end of line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2827
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2828 *** The new function thai-compose-string can be used to properly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2829 compose Thai characters in a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2830
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2831 ** The primitive `define-prefix-command' now takes an optional third
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2832 argument NAME, which should be a string. It supplies the menu name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2833 for the created keymap. Keymaps created in order to be displayed as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2834 menus should always use the third argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2835
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2836 ** The meanings of optional second arguments for read-char,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2837 read-event, and read-char-exclusive are flipped. Now the second
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2838 arguments are INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD. These functions use the current
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2839 input method (if any) if and only if INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2840
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2841 ** The new function clear-this-command-keys empties out the contents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2842 of the vector that (this-command-keys) returns. This is useful in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2843 programs that read passwords, to prevent the passwords from echoing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2844 inadvertently as part of the next command in certain cases.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2845
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2846 ** The new macro `with-temp-message' displays a temporary message in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2847 the echo area, while executing some Lisp code. Like `progn', it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2848 returns the value of the last form, but it also restores the previous
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2849 echo area contents.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2850
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2851 (with-temp-message MESSAGE &rest BODY)
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2852
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parents:
diff changeset
2853 ** The function `require' now takes an optional third argument
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2854 NOERROR. If it is non-nil, then there is no error if the
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parents:
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2855 requested feature cannot be loaded.
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parents:
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2856
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parents:
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2857 ** In the function modify-face, an argument of (nil) for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2858 foreground color, background color or stipple pattern
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
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2859 means to clear out that attribute.
25853
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parents:
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2860
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parents:
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2861 ** The `outer-window-id' frame property of an X frame
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parents:
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2862 gives the window number of the outermost X window for the frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2863
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parents:
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2864 ** Temporary buffers made with with-output-to-temp-buffer are now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2865 read-only by default, and normally use the major mode Help mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2866 unless you put them in some other non-Fundamental mode before the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2867 end of with-output-to-temp-buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2868
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parents:
diff changeset
2869 ** The new functions gap-position and gap-size return information on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2870 the gap of the current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2871
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parents:
diff changeset
2872 ** The new functions position-bytes and byte-to-position provide a way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2873 to convert between character positions and byte positions in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2874 current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2875
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parents:
diff changeset
2876 ** vc.el defines two new macros, `edit-vc-file' and `with-vc-file', to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2877 facilitate working with version-controlled files from Lisp programs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2878 These macros check out a given file automatically if needed, and check
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2879 it back in after any modifications have been made.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2880
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parents:
diff changeset
2881 * Installation Changes in Emacs 20.3
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2882
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parents:
diff changeset
2883 ** The default value of load-path now includes most subdirectories of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2884 the site-specific directories /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2885 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp, in addition to those
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2886 directories themselves. Both immediate subdirectories and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2887 subdirectories multiple levels down are added to load-path.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2888
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parents:
diff changeset
2889 Not all subdirectories are included, though. Subdirectories whose
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2890 names do not start with a letter or digit are excluded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2891 Subdirectories named RCS or CVS are excluded. Also, a subdirectory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2892 which contains a file named `.nosearch' is excluded. You can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2893 these methods to prevent certain subdirectories from being searched.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2894
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2895 Emacs finds these subdirectories and adds them to load-path when it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2896 starts up. While it would be cleaner to find the subdirectories each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2897 time Emacs loads a file, that would be much slower.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2898
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2899 This feature is an incompatible change. If you have stored some Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2900 Lisp files in a subdirectory of the site-lisp directory specifically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2901 to prevent them from being used, you will need to rename the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2902 subdirectory to start with a non-alphanumeric character, or create a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2903 `.nosearch' file in it, in order to continue to achieve the desired
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2904 results.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2905
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2906 ** Emacs no longer includes an old version of the C preprocessor from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2907 GCC. This was formerly used to help compile Emacs with C compilers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2908 that had limits on the significant length of an identifier, but in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2909 fact we stopped supporting such compilers some time ago.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2910
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2911 * Changes in Emacs 20.3
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2912
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parents:
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2913 ** The new command C-x z (repeat) repeats the previous command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2914 including its argument. If you repeat the z afterward,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2915 it repeats the command additional times; thus, you can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2916 perform many repetitions with one keystroke per repetition.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2917
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parents:
diff changeset
2918 ** Emacs now supports "selective undo" which undoes only within a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2919 specified region. To do this, set point and mark around the desired
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2920 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
2921 further, within the same region, by repeating the ordinary undo
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2922 command C-x u or C-_. This will keep undoing changes that were made
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2923 within the region you originally specified, until either all of them
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parents:
diff changeset
2924 are undone, or it encounters a change which crosses the edge of that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2925 region.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2926
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2927 In Transient Mark mode, undoing when a region is active requests
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2928 selective undo.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2929
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2930 ** If you specify --unibyte when starting Emacs, then all buffers are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2931 unibyte, except when a Lisp program specifically creates a multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2932 buffer. Setting the environment variable EMACS_UNIBYTE has the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2933 effect. The --no-unibyte option overrides EMACS_UNIBYTE and directs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2934 Emacs to run normally in multibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2935
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2936 The option --unibyte does not affect the reading of Emacs Lisp files,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2937 though. If you want a Lisp file to be read in unibyte mode, use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2938 -*-unibyte: t;-*- on its first line. That will force Emacs to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2939 load that file in unibyte mode, regardless of how Emacs was started.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2940
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2941 ** toggle-enable-multibyte-characters no longer has a key binding and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2942 no longer appears in the menu bar. We've realized that changing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2943 enable-multibyte-characters variable in an existing buffer is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2944 something that most users not do.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2945
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2946 ** You can specify a coding system to use for the next cut or paste
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2947 operations through the window system with the command C-x RET X.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2948 The coding system can make a difference for communication with other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2949 applications.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2950
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2951 C-x RET x specifies a coding system for all subsequent cutting and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2952 pasting operations.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2953
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2954 ** You can specify the printer to use for commands that do printing by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2955 setting the variable `printer-name'. Just what a printer name looks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2956 like depends on your operating system. You can specify a different
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2957 printer for the Postscript printing commands by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2958 `ps-printer-name'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2959
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2960 ** Emacs now supports on-the-fly spell checking by the means of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2961 minor mode. It is called M-x flyspell-mode. You don't have to remember
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2962 any other special commands to use it, and you will hardly notice it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2963 except when you make a spelling error. Flyspell works by highlighting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2964 incorrect words as soon as they are completed or as soon as the cursor
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2965 hits a new word.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2966
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2967 Flyspell mode works with whichever dictionary you have selected for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2968 Ispell in Emacs. In TeX mode, it understands TeX syntax so as not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2969 to be confused by TeX commands.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2970
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2971 You can correct a misspelled word by editing it into something
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2972 correct. You can also correct it, or accept it as correct, by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2973 clicking on the word with Mouse-2; that gives you a pop-up menu
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2974 of various alternative replacements and actions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2975
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2976 Flyspell mode also proposes "automatic" corrections. M-TAB replaces
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2977 the current misspelled word with a possible correction. If several
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2978 corrections are made possible, M-TAB cycles through them in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2979 alphabetical order, or in order of decreasing likelihood if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2980 flyspell-sort-corrections is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2981
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2982 Flyspell mode also flags an error when a word is repeated, if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2983 flyspell-mark-duplications-flag is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2984
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2985 ** Changes in input method usage.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2986
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2987 Now you can use arrow keys (right, left, down, up) for selecting among
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2988 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
2989 respectively.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2990
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2991 You can use the ENTER key to accept the current conversion.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2992
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2993 If you type TAB to display a list of alternatives, you can select one
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2994 of the alternatives with Mouse-2.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2995
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2996 The meaning of the variable `input-method-verbose-flag' is changed so
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2997 that you can set it to t, nil, `default', or `complex-only'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2998
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2999 If the value is nil, extra guidance is never given.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3000
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3001 If the value is t, extra guidance is always given.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3002
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3003 If the value is `complex-only', extra guidance is always given only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3004 when you are using complex input methods such as chinese-py.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3005
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3006 If the value is `default' (this is the default), extra guidance is
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3007 given in the following case:
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3008 o When you are using a complex input method.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3009 o When you are using a simple input method but not in the minibuffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3010
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3011 If you are using Emacs through a very slow line, setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3012 input-method-verbose-flag to nil or to complex-only is a good choice,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3013 and if you are using an input method you are not familiar with,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3014 setting it to t is helpful.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3015
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3016 The old command select-input-method is now called set-input-method.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3017
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3018 In the language environment "Korean", you can use the following
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3019 keys:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3020 Shift-SPC toggle-korean-input-method
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3021 C-F9 quail-hangul-switch-symbol-ksc
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3022 F9 quail-hangul-switch-hanja
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3023 These key bindings are canceled when you switch to another language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3024 environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3025
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3026 ** The minibuffer history of file names now records the specified file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3027 names, not the entire minibuffer input. For example, if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3028 minibuffer starts out with /usr/foo/, you might type in /etc/passwd to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3029 get
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3030
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3031 /usr/foo//etc/passwd
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3032
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3033 which stands for the file /etc/passwd.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3034
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3035 Formerly, this used to put /usr/foo//etc/passwd in the history list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3036 Now this puts just /etc/passwd in the history list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3037
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3038 ** If you are root, Emacs sets backup-by-copying-when-mismatch to t
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3039 at startup, so that saving a file will be sure to preserve
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3040 its owner and group.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3041
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3042 ** find-func.el can now also find the place of definition of Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3043 Lisp variables in user-loaded libraries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3044
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3045 ** C-x r t (string-rectangle) now deletes the existing rectangle
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3046 contents before inserting the specified string on each line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3047
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3048 ** There is a new command delete-whitespace-rectangle
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3049 which deletes whitespace starting from a particular column
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3050 in all the lines on a rectangle. The column is specified
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3051 by the left edge of the rectangle.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3052
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3053 ** 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
3054 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
3055 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
3056 for writing keyboard macros.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3057
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3058 ** The new command M-x speedbar displays a frame in which directories,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3059 files, and tags can be displayed, manipulated, and jumped to. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3060 frame defaults to 20 characters in width, and is the same height as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3061 the frame that it was started from. Some major modes define
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3062 additional commands for the speedbar, including Rmail, GUD/GDB, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3063 info.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3064
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3065 ** query-replace-regexp is now bound to C-M-%.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3066
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3067 ** In Transient Mark mode, when the region is active, M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3068 query-replace and the other replace commands now operate on the region
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3069 contents only.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3070
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3071 ** M-x write-region, when used interactively, now asks for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3072 confirmation before overwriting an existing file. When you call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3073 the function from a Lisp program, a new optional argument CONFIRM
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3074 says whether to ask for confirmation in this case.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3075
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3076 ** If you use find-file-literally and the file is already visited
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3077 non-literally, the command asks you whether to revisit the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3078 literally. If you say no, it signals an error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3079
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3080 ** Major modes defined with the "derived mode" feature
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3081 now use the proper name for the mode hook: WHATEVER-mode-hook.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3082 Formerly they used the name WHATEVER-mode-hooks, but that is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3083 inconsistent with Emacs conventions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3084
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3085 ** shell-command-on-region (and shell-command) reports success or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3086 failure if the command produces no output.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3087
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3088 ** Set focus-follows-mouse to nil if your window system or window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3089 manager does not transfer focus to another window when you just move
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3090 the mouse.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3091
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3092 ** mouse-menu-buffer-maxlen has been renamed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3093 mouse-buffer-menu-maxlen to be consistent with the other related
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3094 function and variable names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3095
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3096 ** The new variable auto-coding-alist specifies coding systems for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3097 reading specific files. This has higher priority than
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3098 file-coding-system-alist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3099
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3100 ** If you set the variable unibyte-display-via-language-environment to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3101 t, then Emacs displays non-ASCII characters are displayed by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3102 converting them to the equivalent multibyte characters according to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3103 the current language environment. As a result, they are displayed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3104 according to the current fontset.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3105
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3106 ** C-q's handling of codes in the range 0200 through 0377 is changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3107
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3108 The codes in the range 0200 through 0237 are inserted as one byte of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3109 that code regardless of the values of nonascii-translation-table and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3110 nonascii-insert-offset.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3111
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3112 For the codes in the range 0240 through 0377, if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3113 enable-multibyte-characters is non-nil and nonascii-translation-table
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3114 nor nonascii-insert-offset can't convert them to valid multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3115 characters, they are converted to Latin-1 characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3116
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3117 ** If you try to find a file that is not read-accessible, you now get
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3118 an error, rather than an empty buffer and a warning.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3119
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3120 ** In the minibuffer history commands M-r and M-s, an upper case
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3121 letter in the regular expression forces case-sensitive search.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3122
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3123 ** In the *Help* buffer, cross-references to commands and variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3124 are inferred and hyperlinked. Use C-h m in Help mode for the relevant
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3125 command keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3126
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3127 ** M-x apropos-command, with a prefix argument, no longer looks for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3128 user option variables--instead it looks for noninteractive functions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3129
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3130 Meanwhile, the command apropos-variable normally searches for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3131 user option variables; with a prefix argument, it looks at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3132 all variables that have documentation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3133
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3134 ** When you type a long line in the minibuffer, and the minibuffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3135 shows just one line, automatically scrolling works in a special way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3136 that shows you overlap with the previous line of text. The variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3137 minibuffer-scroll-overlap controls how many characters of overlap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3138 it should show; the default is 20.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3139
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3140 Meanwhile, Resize Minibuffer mode is still available; in that mode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3141 the minibuffer grows taller (up to a point) as needed to show the whole
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3142 of your input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3143
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3144 ** The new command M-x customize-changed-options lets you customize
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3145 all the options whose meanings or default values have changed in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3146 recent Emacs versions. You specify a previous Emacs version number as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3147 argument, and the command creates a customization buffer showing all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3148 the customizable options which were changed since that version.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3149 Newly added options are included as well.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3150
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3151 If you don't specify a particular version number argument,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3152 then the customization buffer shows all the customizable options
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3153 for which Emacs versions of changes are recorded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3154
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3155 This function is also bound to the Changed Options entry in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3156 Customize menu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3157
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3158 ** When you run M-x grep with a prefix argument, it figures out
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3159 the tag around point and puts that into the default grep command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3160
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3161 ** The new command M-* (pop-tag-mark) pops back through a history of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3162 buffer positions from which M-. or other tag-finding commands were
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3163 invoked.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3164
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3165 ** The new variable comment-padding specifies the number of spaces
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3166 that `comment-region' will insert before the actual text of the comment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3167 The default is 1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3168
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3169 ** In Fortran mode the characters `.', `_' and `$' now have symbol
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3170 syntax, not word syntax. Fortran mode now supports `imenu' and has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3171 new commands fortran-join-line (M-^) and fortran-narrow-to-subprogram
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3172 (C-x n d). M-q can be used to fill a statement or comment block
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3173 sensibly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3174
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3175 ** GUD now supports jdb, the Java debugger, and pdb, the Python debugger.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3176
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3177 ** If you set the variable add-log-keep-changes-together to a non-nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3178 value, the command `C-x 4 a' will automatically notice when you make
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3179 two entries in one day for one file, and combine them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3180
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3181 ** You can use the command M-x diary-mail-entries to mail yourself a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3182 reminder about upcoming diary entries. See the documentation string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3183 for a sample shell script for calling this function automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3184 every night.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3185
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3186 ** All you need to do, to enable use of the Desktop package, is to set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3187 the variable desktop-enable to t with Custom.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3188
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3189 ** There is no need to do anything special, now, to enable Gnus to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3190 read and post multi-lingual articles.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3191
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3192 ** Outline mode has now support for showing hidden outlines when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3193 doing an isearch. In order for this to happen search-invisible should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3194 be set to open (the default). If an isearch match is inside a hidden
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3195 outline the outline is made visible. If you continue pressing C-s and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3196 the match moves outside the formerly invisible outline, the outline is
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3197 made invisible again.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3198
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3199 ** Mail reading and sending changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3200
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3201 *** The Rmail e command now switches to displaying the whole header of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3202 the message before it lets you edit the message. This is so that any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3203 changes you make in the header will not be lost if you subsequently
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3204 toggle.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3205
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3206 *** The w command in Rmail, which writes the message body into a file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3207 now works in the summary buffer as well. (The command to delete the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3208 summary buffer is now Q.) The default file name for the w command, if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3209 the message has no subject, is stored in the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3210 rmail-default-body-file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3211
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3212 *** Most of the commands and modes that operate on mail and netnews no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3213 longer depend on the value of mail-header-separator. Instead, they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3214 handle whatever separator the buffer happens to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3215
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3216 *** If you set mail-signature to a value which is not t, nil, or a string,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3217 it should be an expression. When you send a message, this expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3218 is evaluated to insert the signature.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3219
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3220 *** The new Lisp library feedmail.el (version 8) enhances processing of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3221 outbound email messages. It works in coordination with other email
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3222 handling packages (e.g., rmail, VM, gnus) and is responsible for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3223 putting final touches on messages and actually submitting them for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3224 transmission. Users of the emacs program "fakemail" might be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3225 especially interested in trying feedmail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3226
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3227 feedmail is not enabled by default. See comments at the top of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3228 feedmail.el for set-up instructions. Among the bigger features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3229 provided by feedmail are:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3230
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3231 **** you can park outgoing messages into a disk-based queue and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3232 stimulate sending some or all of them later (handy for laptop users);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3233 there is also a queue for draft messages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3234
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3235 **** you can get one last look at the prepped outbound message and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3236 be prompted for confirmation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3237
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3238 **** does smart filling of address headers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3239
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3240 **** can generate a MESSAGE-ID: line and a DATE: line; the date can be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3241 the time the message was written or the time it is being sent; this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3242 can make FCC copies more closely resemble copies that recipients get
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3243
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3244 **** you can specify an arbitrary function for actually transmitting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3245 the message; included in feedmail are interfaces for /bin/[r]mail,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3246 /usr/lib/sendmail, and elisp smtpmail; it's easy to write a new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3247 function for something else (10-20 lines of elisp)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3248
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3249 ** Dired changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3250
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3251 *** The Dired function dired-do-toggle, which toggles marked and unmarked
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3252 files, is now bound to "t" instead of "T".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3253
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3254 *** dired-at-point has been added to ffap.el. It allows one to easily
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3255 run Dired on the directory name at point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3256
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3257 *** Dired has a new command: %g. It searches the contents of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3258 files in the directory and marks each file that contains a match
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3259 for a specified regexp.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3260
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3261 ** VC Changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3262
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3263 *** New option vc-ignore-vc-files lets you turn off version control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3264 conveniently.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3265
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3266 *** VC Dired has been completely rewritten. It is now much
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3267 faster, especially for CVS, and works very similar to ordinary
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3268 Dired.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3269
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3270 VC Dired is invoked by typing C-x v d and entering the name of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3271 directory to display. By default, VC Dired gives you a recursive
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3272 listing of all files at or below the given directory which are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3273 currently locked (for CVS, all files not up-to-date are shown).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3274
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3275 You can change the listing format by setting vc-dired-recurse to nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3276 then it shows only the given directory, and you may also set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3277 vc-dired-terse-display to nil, then it shows all files under version
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3278 control plus the names of any subdirectories, so that you can type `i'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3279 on such lines to insert them manually, as in ordinary Dired.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3280
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3281 All Dired commands operate normally in VC Dired, except for `v', which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3282 is redefined as the version control prefix. That means you may type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3283 `v l', `v =' etc. to invoke `vc-print-log', `vc-diff' and the like on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3284 the file named in the current Dired buffer line. `v v' invokes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3285 `vc-next-action' on this file, or on all files currently marked.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3286
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3287 The new command `v t' (vc-dired-toggle-terse-mode) allows you to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3288 toggle between terse display (only locked files) and full display (all
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3289 VC files plus subdirectories). There is also a special command,
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3290 `* l', to mark all files currently locked.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3291
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3292 Giving a prefix argument to C-x v d now does the same thing as in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3293 ordinary Dired: it allows you to supply additional options for the ls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3294 command in the minibuffer, to fine-tune VC Dired's output.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3295
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3296 *** Under CVS, if you merge changes from the repository into a working
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3297 file, and CVS detects conflicts, VC now offers to start an ediff
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3298 session to resolve them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3299
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3300 Alternatively, you can use the new command `vc-resolve-conflicts' to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3301 resolve conflicts in a file at any time. It works in any buffer that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3302 contains conflict markers as generated by rcsmerge (which is what CVS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3303 uses as well).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3304
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3305 *** You can now transfer changes between branches, using the new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3306 command vc-merge (C-x v m). It is implemented for RCS and CVS. When
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3307 you invoke it in a buffer under version-control, you can specify
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3308 either an entire branch or a pair of versions, and the changes on that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3309 branch or between the two versions are merged into the working file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3310 If this results in any conflicts, they may be resolved interactively,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3311 using ediff.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3312
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3313 ** Changes in Font Lock
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3314
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3315 *** The face and variable previously known as font-lock-reference-face
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3316 are now called font-lock-constant-face to better reflect their typical
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3317 use for highlighting constants and labels. (Its face properties are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3318 unchanged.) The variable font-lock-reference-face remains for now for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3319 compatibility reasons, but its value is font-lock-constant-face.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3320
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3321 ** Frame name display changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3322
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3323 *** The command set-frame-name lets you set the name of the current
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3324 frame. You can use the new command select-frame-by-name to select and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3325 raise a frame; this is mostly useful on character-only terminals, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3326 when many frames are invisible or iconified.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3327
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3328 *** On character-only terminal (not a window system), changing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3329 frame name is now reflected on the mode line and in the Buffers/Frames
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parents:
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3330 menu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3331
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3332 ** Comint (subshell) changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3333
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3334 *** In Comint modes, the commands to kill, stop or interrupt a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3335 subjob now also kill pending input. This is for compatibility
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3336 with ordinary shells, where the signal characters do this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3337
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3338 *** There are new commands in Comint mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3339
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3340 C-c C-x fetches the "next" line from the input history;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3341 that is, the line after the last line you got.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3342 You can use this command to fetch successive lines, one by one.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3343
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3344 C-c SPC accumulates lines of input. More precisely, it arranges to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3345 send the current line together with the following line, when you send
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3346 the following line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3347
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3348 C-c C-a if repeated twice consecutively now moves to the process mark,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3349 which separates the pending input from the subprocess output and the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3350 previously sent input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3351
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3352 C-c M-r now runs comint-previous-matching-input-from-input;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3353 it searches for a previous command, using the current pending input
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3354 as the search string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3355
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3356 *** New option compilation-scroll-output can be set to scroll
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3357 automatically in compilation-mode windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3358
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3359 ** C mode changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3360
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3361 *** Multiline macros are now handled, both as they affect indentation,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3362 and as recognized syntax. New syntactic symbol cpp-macro-cont is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3363 assigned to second and subsequent lines of a multiline macro
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3364 definition.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3365
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3366 *** A new style "user" which captures all non-hook-ified
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3367 (i.e. top-level) .emacs file variable settings and customizations.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3368 Style "cc-mode" is an alias for "user" and is deprecated. "gnu"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3369 style is still the default however.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3370
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3371 *** "java" style now conforms to Sun's JDK coding style.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3372
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3373 *** There are new commands c-beginning-of-defun, c-end-of-defun which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3374 are alternatives which you could bind to C-M-a and C-M-e if you prefer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3375 them. They do not have key bindings by default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3376
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3377 *** New and improved implementations of M-a (c-beginning-of-statement)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3378 and M-e (c-end-of-statement).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3379
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3380 *** C++ namespace blocks are supported, with new syntactic symbols
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3381 namespace-open, namespace-close, and innamespace.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3382
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3383 *** File local variable settings of c-file-style and c-file-offsets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3384 makes the style variables local to that buffer only.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3385
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3386 *** New indentation functions c-lineup-close-paren,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3387 c-indent-one-line-block, c-lineup-dont-change.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3388
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3389 *** Improvements (hopefully!) to the way CC Mode is loaded. You
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3390 should now be able to do a (require 'cc-mode) to get the entire
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3391 package loaded properly for customization in your .emacs file. A new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3392 variable c-initialize-on-load controls this and is t by default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3393
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3394 ** Changes to hippie-expand.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3395
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3396 *** New customization variable `hippie-expand-dabbrev-skip-space'. If
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3397 non-nil, trailing spaces may be included in the abbreviation to search for,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3398 which then gives the same behavior as the original `dabbrev-expand'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3399
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3400 *** New customization variable `hippie-expand-dabbrev-as-symbol'. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3401 non-nil, characters of syntax '_' is considered part of the word when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3402 expanding dynamically.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3403
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3404 *** New customization variable `hippie-expand-no-restriction'. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3405 non-nil, narrowed buffers are widened before they are searched.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3406
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3407 *** New customization variable `hippie-expand-only-buffers'. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3408 non-empty, buffers searched are restricted to the types specified in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3409 this list. Useful for example when constructing new special-purpose
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3410 expansion functions with `make-hippie-expand-function'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3411
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3412 *** Text properties of the expansion are no longer copied.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3413
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3414 ** Changes in BibTeX mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3415
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3416 *** Any titleword matching a regexp in the new variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3417 bibtex-autokey-titleword-ignore (case sensitive) is ignored during
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3418 automatic key generation. This replaces variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3419 bibtex-autokey-titleword-first-ignore, which only checked for matches
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3420 against the first word in the title.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3421
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3422 *** Autokey generation now uses all words from the title, not just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3423 capitalized words. To avoid conflicts with existing customizations,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3424 bibtex-autokey-titleword-ignore is set up such that words starting with
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3425 lowerkey characters will still be ignored. Thus, if you want to use
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3426 lowercase words from the title, you will have to overwrite the
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3427 bibtex-autokey-titleword-ignore standard setting.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3428
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3429 *** Case conversion of names and title words for automatic key
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3430 generation is more flexible. Variable bibtex-autokey-preserve-case is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3431 replaced by bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3432 bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3433
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3434 ** Changes in vcursor.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3435
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3436 *** Support for character terminals is available: there is a new keymap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3437 and the vcursor will appear as an arrow between buffer text. A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3438 variable `vcursor-interpret-input' allows input from the vcursor to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3439 entered exactly as if typed. Numerous functions, including
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3440 `vcursor-compare-windows', have been rewritten to improve consistency
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3441 in the selection of windows and corresponding keymaps.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3442
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3443 *** vcursor options can now be altered with M-x customize under the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3444 Editing group once the package is loaded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3445
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3446 *** Loading vcursor now does not define keys by default, as this is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3447 generally a bad side effect. Use M-x customize to set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3448 vcursor-key-bindings to t to restore the old behaviour.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3449
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3450 *** vcursor-auto-disable can be `copy', which turns off copying from the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3451 vcursor, but doesn't disable it, after any non-vcursor command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3452
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3453 ** Ispell changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3454
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3455 *** You can now spell check comments and strings in the current
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3456 buffer with M-x ispell-comments-and-strings. Comments and strings
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3457 are identified by syntax tables in effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3458
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3459 *** Generic region skipping implemented.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3460 A single buffer can be broken into a number of regions where text will
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3461 and will not be checked. The definitions of the regions can be user
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3462 defined. New applications and improvements made available by this
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3463 include:
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3464
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3465 o URLs are automatically skipped
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3466 o EMail message checking is vastly improved.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3467
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3468 *** Ispell can highlight the erroneous word even on non-window terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3469
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3470 ** Changes to RefTeX mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3471
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3472 RefTeX has been updated in order to make it more usable with very
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3473 large projects (like a several volume math book). The parser has been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3474 re-written from scratch. To get maximum speed from RefTeX, check the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3475 section `Optimizations' in the manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3476
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3477 *** New recursive parser.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3478
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3479 The old version of RefTeX created a single large buffer containing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3480 entire multifile document in order to parse the document. The new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3481 recursive parser scans the individual files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3482
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3483 *** Parsing only part of a document.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3484
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3485 Reparsing of changed document parts can now be made faster by enabling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3486 partial scans. To use this feature, read the documentation string of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3487 the variable `reftex-enable-partial-scans' and set the variable to t.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3488
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3489 (setq reftex-enable-partial-scans t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3490
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3491 *** Storing parsing information in a file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3492
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3493 This can improve startup times considerably. To turn it on, use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3494
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3495 (setq reftex-save-parse-info t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3496
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3497 *** Using multiple selection buffers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3498
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3499 If the creation of label selection buffers is too slow (this happens
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3500 for large documents), you can reuse these buffers by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3501
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3502 (setq reftex-use-multiple-selection-buffers t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3503
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3504 *** References to external documents.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3505
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3506 The LaTeX package `xr' allows to cross-reference labels in external
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3507 documents. RefTeX can provide information about the external
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3508 documents as well. To use this feature, set up the \externaldocument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3509 macros required by the `xr' package and rescan the document with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3510 RefTeX. The external labels can then be accessed with the `x' key in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3511 the selection buffer provided by `reftex-reference' (bound to `C-c )').
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3512 The `x' key also works in the table of contents buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3513
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3514 *** Many more labeled LaTeX environments are recognized by default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3515
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3516 The builtin command list now covers all the standard LaTeX commands,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3517 and all of the major packages included in the LaTeX distribution.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3518
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3519 Also, RefTeX now understands the \appendix macro and changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3520 the enumeration of sections in the *toc* buffer accordingly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3521
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3522 *** Mouse support for selection and *toc* buffers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3523
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3524 The mouse can now be used to select items in the selection and *toc*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3525 buffers. See also the new option `reftex-highlight-selection'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3526
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3527 *** New keymaps for selection and table of contents modes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3528
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3529 The selection processes for labels and citation keys, and the table of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3530 contents buffer now have their own keymaps: `reftex-select-label-map',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3531 `reftex-select-bib-map', `reftex-toc-map'. The selection processes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3532 have a number of new keys predefined. In particular, TAB lets you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3533 enter a label with completion. Check the on-the-fly help (press `?'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3534 at the selection prompt) or read the Info documentation to find out
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3535 more.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3536
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3537 *** Support for the varioref package
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3538
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3539 The `v' key in the label selection buffer toggles \ref versus \vref.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3540
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3541 *** New hooks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3542
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3543 Three new hooks can be used to redefine the way labels, references,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3544 and citations are created. These hooks are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3545 `reftex-format-label-function', `reftex-format-ref-function',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3546 `reftex-format-cite-function'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3547
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3548 *** Citations outside LaTeX
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3549
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3550 The command `reftex-citation' may also be used outside LaTeX (e.g. in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3551 a mail buffer). See the Info documentation for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3552
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3553 *** Short context is no longer fontified.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3554
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3555 The short context in the label menu no longer copies the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3556 fontification from the text in the buffer. If you prefer it to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3557 fontified, use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3558
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3559 (setq reftex-refontify-context t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3560
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3561 ** file-cache-minibuffer-complete now accepts a prefix argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3562 With a prefix argument, it does not try to do completion of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3563 the file name within its directory; it only checks for other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3564 directories that contain the same file name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3565
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3566 Thus, given the file name Makefile, and assuming that a file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3567 Makefile.in exists in the same directory, ordinary
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3568 file-cache-minibuffer-complete will try to complete Makefile to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3569 Makefile.in and will therefore never look for other directories that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3570 have Makefile. A prefix argument tells it not to look for longer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3571 names such as Makefile.in, so that instead it will look for other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3572 directories--just as if the name were already complete in its present
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parents:
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3573 directory.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3574
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3575 ** New modes and packages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3576
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3577 *** There is a new alternative major mode for Perl, Cperl mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3578 It has many more features than Perl mode, and some people prefer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3579 it, but some do not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3580
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3581 *** There is a new major mode, M-x vhdl-mode, for editing files of VHDL
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3582 code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3583
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3584 *** M-x which-function-mode enables a minor mode that displays the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3585 current function name continuously in the mode line, as you move
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3586 around in a buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3587
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3588 Which Function mode is effective in major modes which support Imenu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3589
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3590 *** Gametree is a major mode for editing game analysis trees. The author
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3591 uses it for keeping notes about his postal Chess games, but it should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3592 be helpful for other two-player games as well, as long as they have an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3593 established system of notation similar to Chess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3594
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3595 *** The new minor mode checkdoc-minor-mode provides Emacs Lisp
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3596 documentation string checking for style and spelling. The style
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3597 guidelines are found in the Emacs Lisp programming manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3598
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3599 *** The net-utils package makes some common networking features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3600 available in Emacs. Some of these functions are wrappers around
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3601 system utilities (ping, nslookup, etc); others are implementations of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3602 simple protocols (finger, whois) in Emacs Lisp. There are also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3603 functions to make simple connections to TCP/IP ports for debugging and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3604 the like.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3605
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3606 *** highlight-changes-mode is a minor mode that uses colors to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3607 identify recently changed parts of the buffer text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3608
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3609 *** The new package `midnight' lets you specify things to be done
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3610 within Emacs at midnight--by default, kill buffers that you have not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3611 used in a considerable time. To use this feature, customize
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3612 the user option `midnight-mode' to t.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3613
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3614 *** The file generic-x.el defines a number of simple major modes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3615
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3616 apache-generic-mode: For Apache and NCSA httpd configuration files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3617 samba-generic-mode: Samba configuration files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3618 fvwm-generic-mode: For fvwm initialization files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3619 x-resource-generic-mode: For X resource files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3620 hosts-generic-mode: For hosts files (.rhosts, /etc/hosts, etc)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3621 mailagent-rules-generic-mode: For mailagent .rules files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3622 javascript-generic-mode: For JavaScript files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3623 vrml-generic-mode: For VRML files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3624 java-manifest-generic-mode: For Java MANIFEST files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3625 java-properties-generic-mode: For Java property files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3626 mailrc-generic-mode: For .mailrc files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3627
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3628 Platform-specific modes:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3629
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3630 prototype-generic-mode: For Solaris/Sys V prototype files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3631 pkginfo-generic-mode: For Solaris/Sys V pkginfo files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3632 alias-generic-mode: For C shell alias files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3633 inf-generic-mode: For MS-Windows INF files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3634 ini-generic-mode: For MS-Windows INI files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3635 reg-generic-mode: For MS-Windows Registry files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3636 bat-generic-mode: For MS-Windows BAT scripts
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3637 rc-generic-mode: For MS-Windows Resource files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3638 rul-generic-mode: For InstallShield scripts
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3639
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3640 * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 since the Emacs Lisp Manual was published
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3641
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parents:
diff changeset
3642 ** If you want a Lisp file to be read in unibyte mode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3643 use -*-unibyte: t;-*- on its first line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3644 That will force Emacs to read that file in unibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3645 Otherwise, the file will be loaded and byte-compiled in multibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3646
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3647 Thus, each lisp file is read in a consistent way regardless of whether
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3648 you started Emacs with --unibyte, so that a Lisp program gives
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3649 consistent results regardless of how Emacs was started.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3650
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3651 ** The new function assoc-default is useful for searching an alist,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3652 and using a default value if the key is not found there. You can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3653 specify a comparison predicate, so this function is useful for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3654 searching comparing a string against an alist of regular expressions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3655
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3656 ** The functions unibyte-char-to-multibyte and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3657 multibyte-char-to-unibyte convert between unibyte and multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3658 character codes, in a way that is appropriate for the current language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3659 environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3660
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3661 ** The functions read-event, read-char and read-char-exclusive now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3662 take two optional arguments. PROMPT, if non-nil, specifies a prompt
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3663 string. SUPPRESS-INPUT-METHOD, if non-nil, says to disable the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3664 current input method for reading this one event.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3665
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3666 ** Two new variables print-escape-nonascii and print-escape-multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3667 now control whether to output certain characters as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3668 backslash-sequences. print-escape-nonascii applies to single-byte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3669 non-ASCII characters; print-escape-multibyte applies to multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3670 characters. Both of these variables are used only when printing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3671 in readable fashion (prin1 uses them, princ does not).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3672
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3673 * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 before the Emacs Lisp Manual was published
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3674
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3675 ** Compiled Emacs Lisp files made with the modified "MBSK" version
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3676 of Emacs 20.2 do not work in Emacs 20.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3677
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3678 ** Buffer positions are now measured in characters, as they were
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3679 in Emacs 19 and before. This means that (forward-char 1)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3680 always increases point by 1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3681
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3682 The function chars-in-region now just subtracts its arguments. It is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3683 considered obsolete. The function char-boundary-p has been deleted.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3684
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3685 See below for additional changes relating to multibyte characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3686
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3687 ** defcustom, defface and defgroup now accept the keyword `:version'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3688 Use this to specify in which version of Emacs a certain variable's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3689 default value changed. For example,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3690
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3691 (defcustom foo-max 34 "*Maximum number of foo's allowed."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3692 :type 'integer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3693 :group 'foo
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3694 :version "20.3")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3695
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3696 (defgroup foo-group nil "The foo group."
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3697 :version "20.3")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3698
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3699 If an entire new group is added or the variables in it have the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3700 default values changed, then just add a `:version' to that group. It
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3701 is recommended that new packages added to the distribution contain a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3702 `:version' in the top level group.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3703
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3704 This information is used to control the customize-changed-options command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3705
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3706 ** It is now an error to change the value of a symbol whose name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3707 starts with a colon--if it is interned in the standard obarray.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3708
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3709 However, setting such a symbol to its proper value, which is that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3710 symbol itself, is not an error. This is for the sake of programs that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3711 support previous Emacs versions by explicitly setting these variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3712 to themselves.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3713
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3714 If you set the variable keyword-symbols-constant-flag to nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3715 this error is suppressed, and you can set these symbols to any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3716 values whatever.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3717
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3718 ** There is a new debugger command, R.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3719 It evaluates an expression like e, but saves the result
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3720 in the buffer *Debugger-record*.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3722 ** Frame-local variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3723
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3724 You can now make a variable local to various frames. To do this, call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3725 the function make-variable-frame-local; this enables frames to have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3726 local bindings for that variable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3727
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3728 These frame-local bindings are actually frame parameters: you create a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3729 frame-local binding in a specific frame by calling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3730 modify-frame-parameters and specifying the variable name as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3731 parameter name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3732
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3733 Buffer-local bindings take precedence over frame-local bindings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3734 Thus, if the current buffer has a buffer-local binding, that binding is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3735 active; otherwise, if the selected frame has a frame-local binding,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3736 that binding is active; otherwise, the default binding is active.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3737
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3738 It would not be hard to implement window-local bindings, but it is not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3739 clear that this would be very useful; windows tend to come and go in a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3740 very transitory fashion, so that trying to produce any specific effect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3741 through a window-local binding would not be very robust.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3742
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3743 ** `sregexq' and `sregex' are two new functions for constructing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3744 "symbolic regular expressions." These are Lisp expressions that, when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3745 evaluated, yield conventional string-based regexps. The symbolic form
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3746 makes it easier to construct, read, and maintain complex patterns.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3747 See the documentation in sregex.el.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3748
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3749 ** parse-partial-sexp's return value has an additional element which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3750 is used to pass information along if you pass it to another call to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3751 parse-partial-sexp, starting its scan where the first call ended.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3752 The contents of this field are not yet finalized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3753
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3754 ** eval-region now accepts a fourth optional argument READ-FUNCTION.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3755 If it is non-nil, that function is used instead of `read'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3756
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3757 ** unload-feature by default removes the feature's functions from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3758 known hooks to avoid trouble, but a package providing FEATURE can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3759 define a hook FEATURE-unload-hook to be run by unload-feature instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3760
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3761 ** read-from-minibuffer no longer returns the argument DEFAULT-VALUE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3762 when the user enters empty input. It now returns the null string, as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3763 it did in Emacs 19. The default value is made available in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3764 history via M-n, but it is not applied here as a default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3765
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3766 The other, more specialized minibuffer-reading functions continue to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3767 return the default value (not the null string) when the user enters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3768 empty input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3769
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3770 ** The new variable read-buffer-function controls which routine to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3771 for selecting buffers. For example, if you set this variable to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3772 `iswitchb-read-buffer', iswitchb will be used to read buffer names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3773 Other functions can also be used if they accept the same arguments as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3774 `read-buffer' and return the selected buffer name as a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3775
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3776 ** The new function read-passwd reads a password from the terminal,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3777 echoing a period for each character typed. It takes three arguments:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3778 a prompt string, a flag which says "read it twice to make sure", and a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3779 default password to use if the user enters nothing.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3780
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3781 ** The variable fill-nobreak-predicate gives major modes a way to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3782 specify not to break a line at certain places. Its value is a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3783 function which is called with no arguments, with point located at the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3784 place where a break is being considered. If the function returns
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3785 non-nil, then the line won't be broken there.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3786
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3787 ** window-end now takes an optional second argument, UPDATE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3788 If this is non-nil, then the function always returns an accurate
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3789 up-to-date value for the buffer position corresponding to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3790 end of the window, even if this requires computation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3791
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3792 ** other-buffer now takes an optional argument FRAME
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3793 which specifies which frame's buffer list to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3794 If it is nil, that means use the selected frame's buffer list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3795
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3796 ** The new variable buffer-display-time, always local in every buffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3797 holds the value of (current-time) as of the last time that a window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3798 was directed to display this buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3799
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3800 ** It is now meaningful to compare two window-configuration objects
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3801 with `equal'. Two window-configuration objects are equal if they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3802 describe equivalent arrangements of windows, in the same frame--in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3803 other words, if they would give the same results if passed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3804 set-window-configuration.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3805
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3806 ** compare-window-configurations is a new function that compares two
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3807 window configurations loosely. It ignores differences in saved buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3808 positions and scrolling, and considers only the structure and sizes of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3809 windows and the choice of buffers to display.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3810
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3811 ** The variable minor-mode-overriding-map-alist allows major modes to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3812 override the key bindings of a minor mode. The elements of this alist
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3813 look like the elements of minor-mode-map-alist: (VARIABLE . KEYMAP).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3814
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3815 If the VARIABLE in an element of minor-mode-overriding-map-alist has a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3816 non-nil value, the paired KEYMAP is active, and totally overrides the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3817 map (if any) specified for the same variable in minor-mode-map-alist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3818
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3819 minor-mode-overriding-map-alist is automatically local in all buffers,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3820 and it is meant to be set by major modes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3821
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3822 ** The function match-string-no-properties is like match-string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3823 except that it discards all text properties from the result.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3824
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3825 ** The function load-average now accepts an optional argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3826 USE-FLOATS. If it is non-nil, the load average values are returned as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3827 floating point numbers, rather than as integers to be divided by 100.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3828
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3829 ** The new variable temporary-file-directory specifies the directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3830 to use for creating temporary files. The default value is determined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3831 in a reasonable way for your operating system; on GNU and Unix systems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3832 it is based on the TMP and TMPDIR environment variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3833
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3834 ** Menu changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3835
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3836 *** easymenu.el now uses the new menu item format and supports the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3837 keywords :visible and :filter. The existing keyword :keys is now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3838 better supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3839
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3840 The variable `easy-menu-precalculate-equivalent-keybindings' controls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3841 a new feature which calculates keyboard equivalents for the menu when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3842 you define the menu. The default is t. If you rarely use menus, you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3843 can set the variable to nil to disable this precalculation feature;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3844 then the calculation is done only if you use the menu bar.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3845
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3846 *** A new format for menu items is supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3847
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3848 In a keymap, a key binding that has the format
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3849 (STRING . REAL-BINDING) or (STRING HELP-STRING . REAL-BINDING)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3850 defines a menu item. Now a menu item definition may also be a list that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3851 starts with the symbol `menu-item'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3852
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3853 The format is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3854 (menu-item ITEM-NAME) or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3855 (menu-item ITEM-NAME REAL-BINDING . ITEM-PROPERTY-LIST)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3856 where ITEM-NAME is an expression which evaluates to the menu item
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3857 string, and ITEM-PROPERTY-LIST has the form of a property list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3858 The supported properties include
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3859
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3860 :enable FORM Evaluate FORM to determine whether the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3861 item is enabled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3862 :visible FORM Evaluate FORM to determine whether the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3863 item should appear in the menu.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
3864 :filter FILTER-FN
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3865 FILTER-FN is a function of one argument,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3866 which will be REAL-BINDING.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3867 It should return a binding to use instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3868 :keys DESCRIPTION
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3869 DESCRIPTION is a string that describes an equivalent keyboard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3870 binding for for REAL-BINDING. DESCRIPTION is expanded with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3871 `substitute-command-keys' before it is used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3872 :key-sequence KEY-SEQUENCE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3873 KEY-SEQUENCE is a key-sequence for an equivalent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3874 keyboard binding.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3875 :key-sequence nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3876 This means that the command normally has no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3877 keyboard equivalent.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3878 :help HELP HELP is the extra help string (not currently used).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3879 :button (TYPE . SELECTED)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3880 TYPE is :toggle or :radio.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3881 SELECTED is a form, to be evaluated, and its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3882 value says whether this button is currently selected.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3883
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3884 Buttons are at the moment only simulated by prefixes in the menu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3885 Eventually ordinary X-buttons may be supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3886
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3887 (menu-item ITEM-NAME) defines unselectable item.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3888
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3889 ** New event types
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3890
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3891 *** The new event type `mouse-wheel' is generated by a wheel on a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3892 mouse (such as the MS Intellimouse). The event contains a delta that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3893 corresponds to the amount and direction that the wheel is rotated,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3894 which is typically used to implement a scroll or zoom. The format is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3895
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3896 (mouse-wheel POSITION DELTA)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3897
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3898 where POSITION is a list describing the position of the event in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3899 same format as a mouse-click event, and DELTA is a signed number
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3900 indicating the number of increments by which the wheel was rotated. A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3901 negative DELTA indicates that the wheel was rotated backwards, towards
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3902 the user, and a positive DELTA indicates that the wheel was rotated
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3903 forward, away from the user.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3904
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3905 As of now, this event type is generated only on MS Windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3906
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3907 *** The new event type `drag-n-drop' is generated when a group of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3908 files is selected in an application outside of Emacs, and then dragged
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3909 and dropped onto an Emacs frame. The event contains a list of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3910 filenames that were dragged and dropped, which are then typically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3911 loaded into Emacs. The format is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3912
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3913 (drag-n-drop POSITION FILES)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3914
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3915 where POSITION is a list describing the position of the event in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3916 same format as a mouse-click event, and FILES is the list of filenames
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3917 that were dragged and dropped.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3918
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3919 As of now, this event type is generated only on MS Windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3920
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3921 ** Changes relating to multibyte characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3922
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3923 *** The variable enable-multibyte-characters is now read-only;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3924 any attempt to set it directly signals an error. The only way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3925 to change this value in an existing buffer is with set-buffer-multibyte.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3926
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3927 *** In a string constant, `\ ' now stands for "nothing at all". You
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3928 can use it to terminate a hex escape which is followed by a character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3929 that could otherwise be read as part of the hex escape.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3930
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3931 *** String indices are now measured in characters, as they were
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3932 in Emacs 19 and before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3933
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3934 The function chars-in-string has been deleted.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3935 The function concat-chars has been renamed to `string'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3936
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3937 *** The function set-buffer-multibyte sets the flag in the current
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3938 buffer that says whether the buffer uses multibyte representation or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3939 unibyte representation. If the argument is nil, it selects unibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3940 representation. Otherwise it selects multibyte representation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3941
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3942 This function does not change the contents of the buffer, viewed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3943 as a sequence of bytes. However, it does change the contents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3944 viewed as characters; a sequence of two bytes which is treated as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3945 one character when the buffer uses multibyte representation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3946 will count as two characters using unibyte representation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3947
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3948 This function sets enable-multibyte-characters to record which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3949 representation is in use. It also adjusts various data in the buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3950 (including its markers, overlays and text properties) so that they are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3951 consistent with the new representation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3952
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3953 *** string-make-multibyte takes a string and converts it to multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3954 representation. Most of the time, you don't need to care
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3955 about the representation, because Emacs converts when necessary;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3956 however, it makes a difference when you compare strings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3957
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3958 The conversion of non-ASCII characters works by adding the value of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3959 nonascii-insert-offset to each character, or by translating them
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3960 using the table nonascii-translation-table.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3961
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3962 *** string-make-unibyte takes a string and converts it to unibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3963 representation. Most of the time, you don't need to care about the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3964 representation, but it makes a difference when you compare strings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3965
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3966 The conversion from multibyte to unibyte representation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3967 loses information; the only time Emacs performs it automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3968 is when inserting a multibyte string into a unibyte buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3969
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3970 *** string-as-multibyte takes a string, and returns another string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3971 which contains the same bytes, but treats them as multibyte.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3972
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3973 *** string-as-unibyte takes a string, and returns another string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3974 which contains the same bytes, but treats them as unibyte.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3975
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3976 *** The new function compare-strings lets you compare
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3977 portions of two strings. Unibyte strings are converted to multibyte,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3978 so that a unibyte string can match a multibyte string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3979 You can specify whether to ignore case or not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3980
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3981 *** assoc-ignore-case now uses compare-strings so that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3982 it can treat unibyte and multibyte strings as equal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3983
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3984 *** Regular expression operations and buffer string searches now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3985 convert the search pattern to multibyte or unibyte to accord with the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3986 buffer or string being searched.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3987
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3988 One consequence is that you cannot always use \200-\377 inside of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3989 [...] to match all non-ASCII characters. This does still work when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3990 searching or matching a unibyte buffer or string, but not when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3991 searching or matching a multibyte string. Unfortunately, there is no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3992 obvious choice of syntax to use within [...] for that job. But, what
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3993 you want is just to match all non-ASCII characters, the regular
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3994 expression [^\0-\177] works for it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3995
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3996 *** Structure of coding system changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3997
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3998 All coding systems (including aliases and subsidiaries) are named
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3999 by symbols; the symbol's `coding-system' property is a vector
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4000 which defines the coding system. Aliases share the same vector
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4001 as the principal name, so that altering the contents of this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4002 vector affects the principal name and its aliases. You can define
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4003 your own alias name of a coding system by the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4004 define-coding-system-alias.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4005
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4006 The coding system definition includes a property list of its own. Use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4007 the new functions `coding-system-get' and `coding-system-put' to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4008 access such coding system properties as post-read-conversion,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4009 pre-write-conversion, character-translation-table-for-decode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4010 character-translation-table-for-encode, mime-charset, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4011 safe-charsets. For instance, (coding-system-get 'iso-latin-1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4012 'mime-charset) gives the corresponding MIME-charset parameter
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4013 `iso-8859-1'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4014
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4015 Among the coding system properties listed above, safe-charsets is new.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4016 The value of this property is a list of character sets which this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4017 coding system can correctly encode and decode. For instance:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4018 (coding-system-get 'iso-latin-1 'safe-charsets) => (ascii latin-iso8859-1)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4019
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4020 Here, "correctly encode" means that the encoded character sets can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4021 also be handled safely by systems other than Emacs as far as they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4022 are capable of that coding system. Though, Emacs itself can encode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4023 the other character sets and read it back correctly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4024
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4025 *** The new function select-safe-coding-system can be used to find a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4026 proper coding system for encoding the specified region or string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4027 This function requires a user interaction.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4028
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4029 *** The new functions find-coding-systems-region and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4030 find-coding-systems-string are helper functions used by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4031 select-safe-coding-system. They return a list of all proper coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4032 systems to encode a text in some region or string. If you don't want
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4033 a user interaction, use one of these functions instead of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4034 select-safe-coding-system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4035
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4036 *** The explicit encoding and decoding functions, such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4037 decode-coding-region and encode-coding-string, now set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4038 last-coding-system-used to reflect the actual way encoding or decoding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4039 was done.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4040
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4041 *** The new function detect-coding-with-language-environment can be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4042 used to detect a coding system of text according to priorities of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4043 coding systems used by some specific language environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4044
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4045 *** The functions detect-coding-region and detect-coding-string always
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4046 return a list if the arg HIGHEST is nil. Thus, if only ASCII
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4047 characters are found, they now return a list of single element
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4048 `undecided' or its subsidiaries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4049
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4050 *** The new functions coding-system-change-eol-conversion and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4051 coding-system-change-text-conversion can be used to get a different
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4052 coding system than what specified only in how end-of-line or text is
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4053 converted.
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parents:
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4054
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4055 *** The new function set-selection-coding-system can be used to set a
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parents:
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4056 coding system for communicating with other X clients.
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parents:
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4057
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parents:
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4058 *** The function `map-char-table' now passes as argument only valid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4059 character codes, plus generic characters that stand for entire
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4060 character sets or entire subrows of a character set. In other words,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4061 each time `map-char-table' calls its FUNCTION argument, the key value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4062 either will be a valid individual character code, or will stand for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4063 range of characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4064
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parents:
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4065 *** The new function `char-valid-p' can be used for checking whether a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4066 Lisp object is a valid character code or not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4067
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parents:
diff changeset
4068 *** The new function `charset-after' returns a charset of a character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4069 in the current buffer at position POS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4070
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parents:
diff changeset
4071 *** Input methods are now implemented using the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4072 input-method-function. If this is non-nil, its value should be a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4073 function; then, whenever Emacs reads an input event that is a printing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4074 character with no modifier bits, it calls that function, passing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4075 event as an argument. Often this function will read more input, first
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4076 binding input-method-function to nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4077
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parents:
diff changeset
4078 The return value should be a list of the events resulting from input
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4079 method processing. These events will be processed sequentially as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4080 input, before resorting to unread-command-events. Events returned by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4081 the input method function are not passed to the input method function,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4082 not even if they are printing characters with no modifier bits.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4083
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4084 The input method function is not called when reading the second and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4085 subsequent events of a key sequence.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4086
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parents:
diff changeset
4087 *** You can customize any language environment by using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4088 set-language-environment-hook and exit-language-environment-hook.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4089
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4090 The hook `exit-language-environment-hook' should be used to undo
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4091 customizations that you made with set-language-environment-hook. For
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4092 instance, if you set up a special key binding for a specific language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4093 environment by set-language-environment-hook, you should set up
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4094 exit-language-environment-hook to restore the normal key binding.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4095
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4096 * Changes in Emacs 20.1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4097
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parents:
diff changeset
4098 ** Emacs has a new facility for customization of its many user
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4099 options. It is called M-x customize. With this facility you can look
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4100 at the many user options in an organized way; they are grouped into a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4101 tree structure.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4102
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4103 M-x customize also knows what sorts of values are legitimate for each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4104 user option and ensures that you don't use invalid values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4105
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parents:
diff changeset
4106 With M-x customize, you can set options either for the present Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4107 session or permanently. (Permanent settings are stored automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4108 in your .emacs file.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4109
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4110 ** Scroll bars are now on the left side of the window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4111 You can change this with M-x customize-option scroll-bar-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4112
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parents:
diff changeset
4113 ** The mode line no longer includes the string `Emacs'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4114 This makes more space in the mode line for other information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4115
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4116 ** When you select a region with the mouse, it is highlighted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4117 immediately afterward. At that time, if you type the DELETE key, it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4118 kills the region.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4119
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parents:
diff changeset
4120 The BACKSPACE key, and the ASCII character DEL, do not do this; they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4121 delete the character before point, as usual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4122
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parents:
diff changeset
4123 ** In an incremental search the whole current match is highlighted
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parents:
diff changeset
4124 on terminals which support this. (You can disable this feature
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4125 by setting search-highlight to nil.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4126
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parents:
diff changeset
4127 ** In the minibuffer, in some cases, you can now use M-n to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4128 insert the default value into the minibuffer as text. In effect,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4129 the default value (if the minibuffer routines know it) is tacked
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4130 onto the history "in the future". (The more normal use of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4131 history list is to use M-p to insert minibuffer input used in the
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parents:
diff changeset
4132 past.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4133
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4134 ** In Text mode, now only blank lines separate paragraphs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4135 This makes it possible to get the full benefit of Adaptive Fill mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4136 in Text mode, and other modes derived from it (such as Mail mode).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4137 TAB in Text mode now runs the command indent-relative; this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4138 makes a practical difference only when you use indented paragraphs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4139
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4140 As a result, the old Indented Text mode is now identical to Text mode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4141 and is an alias for it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4142
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4143 If you want spaces at the beginning of a line to start a paragraph,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4144 use the new mode, Paragraph Indent Text mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4146 ** Scrolling changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4147
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4148 *** Scroll commands to scroll a whole screen now preserve the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4149 position of the cursor, if scroll-preserve-screen-position is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4150
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parents:
diff changeset
4151 In this mode, if you scroll several screens back and forth, finishing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4152 on the same screen where you started, the cursor goes back to the line
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4153 where it started.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4154
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parents:
diff changeset
4155 *** If you set scroll-conservatively to a small number, then when you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4156 move point a short distance off the screen, Emacs will scroll the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4157 screen just far enough to bring point back on screen, provided that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4158 does not exceed `scroll-conservatively' lines.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4159
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parents:
diff changeset
4160 *** The new variable scroll-margin says how close point can come to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4161 top or bottom of a window. It is a number of screen lines; if point
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4162 comes within that many lines of the top or bottom of the window, Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4163 recenters the window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4164
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4165 ** International character set support (MULE)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4166
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parents:
diff changeset
4167 Emacs now supports a wide variety of international character sets,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4168 including European variants of the Latin alphabet, as well as Chinese,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4169 Devanagari (Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopian, Greek, IPA, Japanese,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4170 Korean, Lao, Russian, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts. These
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4171 features have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4172 MULE (for "MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4173
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4174 Users of these scripts have established many more-or-less standard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4175 coding systems for storing files. Emacs uses a single multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4176 character encoding within Emacs buffers; it can translate from a wide
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4177 variety of coding systems when reading a file and can translate back
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4178 into any of these coding systems when saving a file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4179
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4180 Keyboards, even in the countries where these character sets are used,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4181 generally don't have keys for all the characters in them. So Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4182 supports various "input methods", typically one for each script or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4183 language, to make it possible to type them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4184
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4185 The Emacs internal multibyte encoding represents a non-ASCII
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4186 character as a sequence of bytes in the range 0200 through 0377.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4187
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4188 The new prefix key C-x RET is used for commands that pertain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4189 to multibyte characters, coding systems, and input methods.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4190
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4191 You can disable multibyte character support as follows:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4192
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4193 (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters nil)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4194
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4195 Calling the function standard-display-european turns off multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4196 characters, unless you specify a non-nil value for the second
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4197 argument, AUTO. This provides compatibility for people who are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4198 already using standard-display-european to continue using unibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4199 characters for their work until they want to change.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4200
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4201 *** Input methods
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4202
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4203 An input method is a kind of character conversion which is designed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4204 specifically for interactive input. In Emacs, typically each language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4205 has its own input method (though sometimes several languages which use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4206 the same characters can share one input method). Some languages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4207 support several input methods.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4208
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4209 The simplest kind of input method works by mapping ASCII letters into
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4210 another alphabet. This is how the Greek and Russian input methods
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4211 work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4212
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4213 A more powerful technique is composition: converting sequences of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4214 characters into one letter. Many European input methods use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4215 composition to produce a single non-ASCII letter from a sequence which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4216 consists of a letter followed by diacritics. For example, a' is one
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4217 sequence of two characters that might be converted into a single
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4218 letter.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4219
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4220 The input methods for syllabic scripts typically use mapping followed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4221 by conversion. The input methods for Thai and Korean work this way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4222 First, letters are mapped into symbols for particular sounds or tone
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4223 marks; then, sequences of these which make up a whole syllable are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4224 mapped into one syllable sign--most often a "composite character".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4225
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4226 None of these methods works very well for Chinese and Japanese, so
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4227 they are handled specially. First you input a whole word using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4228 phonetic spelling; then, after the word is in the buffer, Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4229 converts it into one or more characters using a large dictionary.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4230
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4231 Since there is more than one way to represent a phonetically spelled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4232 word using Chinese characters, Emacs can only guess which one to use;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4233 typically these input methods give you a way to say "guess again" if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4234 the first guess is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4235
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4236 *** The command C-x RET m (toggle-enable-multibyte-characters)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4237 turns multibyte character support on or off for the current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4238
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4239 If multibyte character support is turned off in a buffer, then each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4240 byte is a single character, even codes 0200 through 0377--exactly as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4241 they did in Emacs 19.34. This includes the features for support for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4242 the European characters, ISO Latin-1 and ISO Latin-2.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4243
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4244 However, there is no need to turn off multibyte character support to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4245 use ISO Latin-1 or ISO Latin-2; the Emacs multibyte character set
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4246 includes all the characters in these character sets, and Emacs can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4247 translate automatically to and from either one.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4248
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4249 *** Visiting a file in unibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4250
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4251 Turning off multibyte character support in the buffer after visiting a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4252 file with multibyte code conversion will display the multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4253 sequences already in the buffer, byte by byte. This is probably not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4254 what you want.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4255
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4256 If you want to edit a file of unibyte characters (Latin-1, for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4257 example), you can do it by specifying `no-conversion' as the coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4258 system when reading the file. This coding system also turns off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4259 multibyte characters in that buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4260
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4261 If you turn off multibyte character support entirely, this turns off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4262 character conversion as well.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4263
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4264 *** Displaying international characters on X Windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4265
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4266 A font for X typically displays just one alphabet or script.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4267 Therefore, displaying the entire range of characters Emacs supports
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4268 requires using many fonts.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4269
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4270 Therefore, Emacs now supports "fontsets". Each fontset is a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4271 collection of fonts, each assigned to a range of character codes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4272
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4273 A fontset has a name, like a font. Individual fonts are defined by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4274 the X server; fontsets are defined within Emacs itself. But once you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4275 have defined a fontset, you can use it in a face or a frame just as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4276 you would use a font.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4277
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4278 If a fontset specifies no font for a certain character, or if it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4279 specifies a font that does not exist on your system, then it cannot
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4280 display that character. It will display an empty box instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4281
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4282 The fontset height and width are determined by the ASCII characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4283 (that is, by the font in the fontset which is used for ASCII
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4284 characters). If another font in the fontset has a different height,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4285 or the wrong width, then characters assigned to that font are clipped,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4286 and displayed within a box if highlight-wrong-size-font is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4287
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4288 *** Defining fontsets.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4289
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4290 Emacs does not use any fontset by default. Its default font is still
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4291 chosen as in previous versions. You can tell Emacs to use a fontset
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4292 with the `-fn' option or the `Font' X resource.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4293
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parents:
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4294 Emacs creates a standard fontset automatically according to the value
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parents:
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4295 of standard-fontset-spec. This fontset's short name is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4296 `fontset-standard'. Bold, italic, and bold-italic variants of the
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parents:
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4297 standard fontset are created automatically.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4298
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parents:
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4299 If you specify a default ASCII font with the `Font' resource or `-fn'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4300 argument, a fontset is generated from it. This works by replacing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4301 FOUNDARY, FAMILY, ADD_STYLE, and AVERAGE_WIDTH fields of the font name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4302 with `*' then using this to specify a fontset. This fontset's short
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4303 name is `fontset-startup'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4304
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parents:
diff changeset
4305 Emacs checks resources of the form Fontset-N where N is 0, 1, 2...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4306 The resource value should have this form:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4307 FONTSET-NAME, [CHARSET-NAME:FONT-NAME]...
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parents:
diff changeset
4308 FONTSET-NAME should have the form of a standard X font name, except:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4309 * most fields should be just the wild card "*".
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parents:
diff changeset
4310 * the CHARSET_REGISTRY field should be "fontset"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4311 * the CHARSET_ENCODING field can be any nickname of the fontset.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4312 The construct CHARSET-NAME:FONT-NAME can be repeated any number
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4313 of times; each time specifies the font for one character set.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4314 CHARSET-NAME should be the name name of a character set, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4315 FONT-NAME should specify an actual font to use for that character set.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4316
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parents:
diff changeset
4317 Each of these fontsets has an alias which is made from the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4318 last two font name fields, CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4319 You can refer to the fontset by that alias or by its full name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4320
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4321 For any character sets that you don't mention, Emacs tries to choose a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4322 font by substituting into FONTSET-NAME. For instance, with the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4323 following resource,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4324 Emacs*Fontset-0: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-24
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4325 the font for ASCII is generated as below:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4326 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-ISO8859-1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4327 Here is the substitution rule:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4328 Change CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING to that of the charset
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4329 defined in the variable x-charset-registries. For instance, ASCII has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4330 the entry (ascii . "ISO8859-1") in this variable. Then, reduce
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4331 sequences of wild cards -*-...-*- with a single wildcard -*-.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4332 (This is to prevent use of auto-scaled fonts.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4333
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4334 The function which processes the fontset resource value to create the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4335 fontset is called create-fontset-from-fontset-spec. You can also call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4336 that function explicitly to create a fontset.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4337
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4338 With the X resource Emacs.Font, you can specify a fontset name just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4339 like an actual font name. But be careful not to specify a fontset
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4340 name in a wildcard resource like Emacs*Font--that tries to specify the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4341 fontset for other purposes including menus, and they cannot handle
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4342 fontsets.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4343
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4344 *** The command M-x set-language-environment sets certain global Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4345 defaults for a particular choice of language.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4346
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4347 Selecting a language environment typically specifies a default input
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4348 method and which coding systems to recognize automatically when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4349 visiting files. However, it does not try to reread files you have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4350 already visited; the text in those buffers is not affected. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4351 language environment may also specify a default choice of coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4352 system for new files that you create.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4353
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4354 It makes no difference which buffer is current when you use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4355 set-language-environment, because these defaults apply globally to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4356 whole Emacs session.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4357
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4358 For example, M-x set-language-environment RET Latin-1 RET
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4359 chooses the Latin-1 character set. In the .emacs file, you can do this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4360 with (set-language-environment "Latin-1").
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4361
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4362 *** The command C-x RET f (set-buffer-file-coding-system)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4363 specifies the file coding system for the current buffer. This
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4364 specifies what sort of character code translation to do when saving
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4365 the file. As an argument, you must specify the name of one of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4366 coding systems that Emacs supports.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4367
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4368 *** The command C-x RET c (universal-coding-system-argument)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4369 lets you specify a coding system when you read or write a file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4370 This command uses the minibuffer to read a coding system name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4371 After you exit the minibuffer, the specified coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4372 is used for *the immediately following command*.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4373
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4374 So if the immediately following command is a command to read or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4375 write a file, it uses the specified coding system for that file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4376
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4377 If the immediately following command does not use the coding system,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4378 then C-x RET c ultimately has no effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4379
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4380 For example, C-x RET c iso-8859-1 RET C-x C-f temp RET
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4381 visits the file `temp' treating it as ISO Latin-1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4382
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4383 *** You can specify the coding system for a file using the -*-
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4384 construct. Include `coding: CODINGSYSTEM;' inside the -*-...-*-
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4385 to specify use of coding system CODINGSYSTEM. You can also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4386 specify the coding system in a local variable list at the end
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4387 of the file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4388
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4389 *** The command C-x RET t (set-terminal-coding-system) specifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4390 the coding system for terminal output. If you specify a character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4391 code for terminal output, all characters output to the terminal are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4392 translated into that character code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4393
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4394 This feature is useful for certain character-only terminals built in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4395 various countries to support the languages of those countries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4396
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4397 By default, output to the terminal is not translated at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4398
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4399 *** The command C-x RET k (set-keyboard-coding-system) specifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4400 the coding system for keyboard input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4401
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4402 Character code translation of keyboard input is useful for terminals
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4403 with keys that send non-ASCII graphic characters--for example,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4404 some terminals designed for ISO Latin-1 or subsets of it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4405
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4406 By default, keyboard input is not translated at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4407
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4408 Character code translation of keyboard input is similar to using an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4409 input method, in that both define sequences of keyboard input that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4410 translate into single characters. However, input methods are designed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4411 to be convenient for interactive use, while the code translations are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4412 designed to work with terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4413
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4414 *** The command C-x RET p (set-buffer-process-coding-system)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4415 specifies the coding system for input and output to a subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4416 This command applies to the current buffer; normally, each subprocess
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4417 has its own buffer, and thus you can use this command to specify
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4418 translation to and from a particular subprocess by giving the command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4419 in the corresponding buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4420
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4421 By default, process input and output are not translated at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4422
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4423 *** The variable file-name-coding-system specifies the coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4424 to use for encoding file names before operating on them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4425 It is also used for decoding file names obtained from the system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4426
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4427 *** The command C-\ (toggle-input-method) activates or deactivates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4428 an input method. If no input method has been selected before, the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4429 command prompts for you to specify the language and input method you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4430 want to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4431
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4432 C-u C-\ (select-input-method) lets you switch to a different input
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4433 method. C-h C-\ (or C-h I) describes the current input method.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4434
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4435 *** Some input methods remap the keyboard to emulate various keyboard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4436 layouts commonly used for particular scripts. How to do this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4437 remapping properly depends on your actual keyboard layout. To specify
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4438 which layout your keyboard has, use M-x quail-set-keyboard-layout.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4439
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4440 *** The command C-h C (describe-coding-system) displays
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4441 the coding systems currently selected for various purposes, plus
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4442 related information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4443
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4444 *** The command C-h h (view-hello-file) displays a file called
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4445 HELLO, which has examples of text in many languages, using various
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4446 scripts.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4447
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4448 *** The command C-h L (describe-language-support) displays
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4449 information about the support for a particular language.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4450 You specify the language as an argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4451
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4452 *** The mode line now contains a letter or character that identifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4453 the coding system used in the visited file. It normally follows the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4454 first dash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4455
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4456 A dash indicates the default state of affairs: no code conversion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4457 (except CRLF => newline if appropriate). `=' means no conversion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4458 whatsoever. The ISO 8859 coding systems are represented by digits
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4459 1 through 9. Other coding systems are represented by letters:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4460
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4461 A alternativnyj (Russian)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4462 B big5 (Chinese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4463 C cn-gb-2312 (Chinese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4464 C iso-2022-cn (Chinese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4465 D in-is13194-devanagari (Indian languages)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4466 E euc-japan (Japanese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4467 I iso-2022-cjk or iso-2022-ss2 (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4468 J junet (iso-2022-7) or old-jis (iso-2022-jp-1978-irv) (Japanese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4469 K euc-korea (Korean)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4470 R koi8 (Russian)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4471 Q tibetan
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4472 S shift_jis (Japanese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4473 T lao
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4474 T tis620 (Thai)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4475 V viscii or vscii (Vietnamese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4476 i iso-2022-lock (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4477 k iso-2022-kr (Korean)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4478 v viqr (Vietnamese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4479 z hz (Chinese)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4480
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4481 When you are using a character-only terminal (not a window system),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4482 two additional characters appear in between the dash and the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4483 coding system. These two characters describe the coding system for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4484 keyboard input, and the coding system for terminal output.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4485
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4486 *** The new variable rmail-file-coding-system specifies the code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4487 conversion to use for RMAIL files. The default value is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4488
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4489 When you read mail with Rmail, each message is decoded automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4490 into Emacs' internal format. This has nothing to do with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4491 rmail-file-coding-system. That variable controls reading and writing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4492 Rmail files themselves.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4493
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4494 *** The new variable sendmail-coding-system specifies the code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4495 conversion for outgoing mail. The default value is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4496
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4497 Actually, there are three different ways of specifying the coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4498 for sending mail:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4499
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4500 - If you use C-x RET f in the mail buffer, that takes priority.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4501 - Otherwise, if you set sendmail-coding-system non-nil, that specifies it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4502 - Otherwise, the default coding system for new files is used,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4503 if that is non-nil. That comes from your language environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4504 - Otherwise, Latin-1 is used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4505
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4506 *** The command C-h t (help-with-tutorial) accepts a prefix argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4507 to specify the language for the tutorial file. Currently, English,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4508 Japanese, Korean and Thai are supported. We welcome additional
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4509 translations.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4510
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4511 ** An easy new way to visit a file with no code or format conversion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4512 of any kind: Use M-x find-file-literally. There is also a command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4513 insert-file-literally which inserts a file into the current buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4514 without any conversion.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4515
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4516 ** C-q's handling of octal character codes is changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4517 You can now specify any number of octal digits.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4518 RET terminates the digits and is discarded;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4519 any other non-digit terminates the digits and is then used as input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4520
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4521 ** There are new commands for looking up Info documentation for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4522 functions, variables and file names used in your programs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4523
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4524 Type M-x info-lookup-symbol to look up a symbol in the buffer at point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4525 Type M-x info-lookup-file to look up a file in the buffer at point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4526
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4527 Precisely which Info files are used to look it up depends on the major
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4528 mode. For example, in C mode, the GNU libc manual is used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4529
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4530 ** M-TAB in most programming language modes now runs the command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4531 complete-symbol. This command performs completion on the symbol name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4532 in the buffer before point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4533
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4534 With a numeric argument, it performs completion based on the set of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4535 symbols documented in the Info files for the programming language that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4536 you are using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4537
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4538 With no argument, it does completion based on the current tags tables,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4539 just like the old binding of M-TAB (complete-tag).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4540
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4541 ** File locking works with NFS now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4542
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4543 The lock file for FILENAME is now a symbolic link named .#FILENAME,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4544 in the same directory as FILENAME.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4545
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4546 This means that collision detection between two different machines now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4547 works reasonably well; it also means that no file server or directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4548 can become a bottleneck.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4549
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4550 The new method does have drawbacks. It means that collision detection
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4551 does not operate when you edit a file in a directory where you cannot
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4552 create new files. Collision detection also doesn't operate when the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4553 file server does not support symbolic links. But these conditions are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4554 rare, and the ability to have collision detection while using NFS is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4555 so useful that the change is worth while.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4556
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4557 When Emacs or a system crashes, this may leave behind lock files which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4558 are stale. So you may occasionally get warnings about spurious
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4559 collisions. When you determine that the collision is spurious, just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4560 tell Emacs to go ahead anyway.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4561
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4562 ** If you wish to use Show Paren mode to display matching parentheses,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4563 it is no longer sufficient to load paren.el. Instead you must call
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4564 show-paren-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4565
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4566 ** If you wish to use Delete Selection mode to replace a highlighted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4567 selection when you insert new text, it is no longer sufficient to load
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4568 delsel.el. Instead you must call the function delete-selection-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4569
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4570 ** If you wish to use Partial Completion mode to complete partial words
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4571 within symbols or filenames, it is no longer sufficient to load
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4572 complete.el. Instead you must call the function partial-completion-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4573
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4574 ** If you wish to use uniquify to rename buffers for you,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4575 it is no longer sufficient to load uniquify.el. You must also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4576 set uniquify-buffer-name-style to one of the non-nil legitimate values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4577
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4578 ** Changes in View mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4579
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4580 *** Several new commands are available in View mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4581 Do H in view mode for a list of commands.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4582
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4583 *** There are two new commands for entering View mode:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4584 view-file-other-frame and view-buffer-other-frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4585
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4586 *** Exiting View mode does a better job of restoring windows to their
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4587 previous state.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4588
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4589 *** New customization variable view-scroll-auto-exit. If non-nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4590 scrolling past end of buffer makes view mode exit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4591
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4592 *** New customization variable view-exits-all-viewing-windows. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4593 non-nil, view-mode will at exit restore all windows viewing buffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4594 not just the selected window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4595
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4596 *** New customization variable view-read-only. If non-nil, visiting a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4597 read-only file automatically enters View mode, and toggle-read-only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4598 turns View mode on or off.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4599
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4600 *** New customization variable view-remove-frame-by-deleting controls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4601 how to remove a not needed frame at view mode exit. If non-nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4602 delete the frame, if nil make an icon of it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4603
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4604 ** C-x v l, the command to print a file's version control log,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4605 now positions point at the entry for the file's current branch version.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4606
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4607 ** C-x v =, the command to compare a file with the last checked-in version,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4608 has a new feature. If the file is currently not locked, so that it is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4609 presumably identical to the last checked-in version, the command now asks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4610 which version to compare with.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4611
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4612 ** When using hideshow.el, incremental search can temporarily show hidden
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4613 blocks if a match is inside the block.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4614
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4615 The block is hidden again if the search is continued and the next match
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4616 is outside the block. By customizing the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4617 isearch-hide-immediately you can choose to hide all the temporarily
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4618 shown blocks only when exiting from incremental search.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4619
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4620 By customizing the variable hs-isearch-open you can choose what kind
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4621 of blocks to temporarily show during isearch: comment blocks, code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4622 blocks, all of them or none.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4623
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4624 ** The new command C-x 4 0 (kill-buffer-and-window) kills the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4625 current buffer and deletes the selected window. It asks for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4626 confirmation first.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4627
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4628 ** C-x C-w, which saves the buffer into a specified file name,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4629 now changes the major mode according to that file name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4630 However, the mode will not be changed if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4631 (1) a local variables list or the `-*-' line specifies a major mode, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4632 (2) the current major mode is a "special" mode,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4633 not suitable for ordinary files, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4634 (3) the new file name does not particularly specify any mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4635
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4636 This applies to M-x set-visited-file-name as well.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4637
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4638 However, if you set change-major-mode-with-file-name to nil, then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4639 these commands do not change the major mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4640
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4641 ** M-x occur changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4642
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4643 *** If the argument to M-x occur contains upper case letters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4644 it performs a case-sensitive search.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4645
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4646 *** In the *Occur* buffer made by M-x occur,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4647 if you type g or M-x revert-buffer, this repeats the search
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4648 using the same regular expression and the same buffer as before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4649
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4650 ** In Transient Mark mode, the region in any one buffer is highlighted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4651 in just one window at a time. At first, it is highlighted in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4652 window where you set the mark. The buffer's highlighting remains in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4653 that window unless you select to another window which shows the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4654 buffer--then the highlighting moves to that window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4655
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4656 ** The feature to suggest key bindings when you use M-x now operates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4657 after the command finishes. The message suggesting key bindings
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4658 appears temporarily in the echo area. The previous echo area contents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4659 come back after a few seconds, in case they contain useful information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4660
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4661 ** Each frame now independently records the order for recently
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4662 selected buffers, so that the default for C-x b is now based on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4663 buffers recently selected in the selected frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4664
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4665 ** Outline mode changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4666
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4667 *** Outline mode now uses overlays (this is the former noutline.el).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4668
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4669 *** Incremental searches skip over invisible text in Outline mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4670
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4671 ** When a minibuffer window is active but not the selected window, if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4672 you try to use the minibuffer, you used to get a nested minibuffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4673 Now, this not only gives an error, it also cancels the minibuffer that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4674 was already active.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4675
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4676 The motive for this change is so that beginning users do not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4677 unknowingly move away from minibuffers, leaving them active, and then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4678 get confused by it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4679
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4680 If you want to be able to have recursive minibuffers, you must
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4681 set enable-recursive-minibuffers to non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4682
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4683 ** Changes in dynamic abbrevs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4684
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4685 *** Expanding dynamic abbrevs with M-/ is now smarter about case
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4686 conversion. If the expansion has mixed case not counting the first
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4687 character, and the abbreviation matches the beginning of the expansion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4688 including case, then the expansion is copied verbatim.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4689
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4690 The expansion is also copied verbatim if the abbreviation itself has
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4691 mixed case. And using SPC M-/ to copy an additional word always
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4692 copies it verbatim except when the previous copied word is all caps.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4693
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4694 *** The values of `dabbrev-case-replace' and `dabbrev-case-fold-search'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4695 are no longer Lisp expressions. They have simply three possible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4696 values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4697
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4698 `dabbrev-case-replace' has these three values: nil (don't preserve
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4699 case), t (do), or `case-replace' (do like M-x query-replace).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4700 `dabbrev-case-fold-search' has these three values: nil (don't ignore
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4701 case), t (do), or `case-fold-search' (do like search).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4702
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4703 ** Minibuffer history lists are truncated automatically now to a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4704 certain length. The variable history-length specifies how long they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4705 can be. The default value is 30.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4706
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4707 ** Changes in Mail mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4708
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4709 *** The key C-x m no longer runs the `mail' command directly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4710 Instead, it runs the command `compose-mail', which invokes the mail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4711 composition mechanism you have selected with the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4712 `mail-user-agent'. The default choice of user agent is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4713 `sendmail-user-agent', which gives behavior compatible with the old
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4714 behavior.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4715
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4716 C-x 4 m now runs compose-mail-other-window, and C-x 5 m runs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4717 compose-mail-other-frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4718
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4719 *** While composing a reply to a mail message, from Rmail, you can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4720 the command C-c C-r to cite just the region from the message you are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4721 replying to. This copies the text which is the selected region in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4722 buffer that shows the original message.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4723
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4724 *** The command C-c C-i inserts a file at the end of the message,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4725 with separator lines around the contents.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4726
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4727 *** The command M-x expand-mail-aliases expands all mail aliases
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4728 in suitable mail headers. Emacs automatically extracts mail alias
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4729 definitions from your mail alias file (e.g., ~/.mailrc). You do not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4730 need to expand mail aliases yourself before sending mail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4731
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4732 *** New features in the mail-complete command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4733
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4734 **** The mail-complete command now inserts the user's full name,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4735 for local users or if that is known. The variable mail-complete-style
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4736 controls the style to use, and whether to do this at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4737 Its values are like those of mail-from-style.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4738
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4739 **** The variable mail-passwd-command lets you specify a shell command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4740 to run to fetch a set of password-entries that add to the ones in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4741 /etc/passwd.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4742
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4743 **** The variable mail-passwd-file now specifies a list of files to read
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4744 to get the list of user ids. By default, one file is used:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4745 /etc/passwd.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4746
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4747 ** You can "quote" a file name to inhibit special significance of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4748 special syntax, by adding `/:' to the beginning. Thus, if you have a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4749 directory named `/foo:', you can prevent it from being treated as a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4750 reference to a remote host named `foo' by writing it as `/:/foo:'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4751
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4752 Emacs uses this new construct automatically when necessary, such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4753 when you start it with a working directory whose name might otherwise
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4754 be taken to be magic.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4755
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4756 ** There is a new command M-x grep-find which uses find to select
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4757 files to search through, and grep to scan them. The output is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4758 available in a Compile mode buffer, as with M-x grep.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4759
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4760 M-x grep now uses the -e option if the grep program supports that.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4761 (-e prevents problems if the search pattern starts with a dash.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4762
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4763 ** In Dired, the & command now flags for deletion the files whose names
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4764 suggest they are probably not needed in the long run.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4765
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4766 In Dired, * is now a prefix key for mark-related commands.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4767
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4768 new key dired.el binding old key
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4769 ------- ---------------- -------
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4770 * c dired-change-marks c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4771 * m dired-mark m
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4772 * * dired-mark-executables * (binding deleted)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4773 * / dired-mark-directories / (binding deleted)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4774 * @ dired-mark-symlinks @ (binding deleted)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4775 * u dired-unmark u
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4776 * DEL dired-unmark-backward DEL
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parents:
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4777 * ? dired-unmark-all-files M-C-?
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parents:
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4778 * ! dired-unmark-all-marks
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parents:
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4779 * % dired-mark-files-regexp % m
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parents:
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4780 * C-n dired-next-marked-file M-}
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parents:
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4781 * C-p dired-prev-marked-file M-{
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parents:
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4782
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parents:
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4783 ** Rmail changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4784
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4785 *** When Rmail cannot convert your incoming mail into Babyl format, it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4786 saves the new mail in the file RMAILOSE.n, where n is an integer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4787 chosen to make a unique name. This way, Rmail will not keep crashing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4788 each time you run it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4789
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4790 *** In Rmail, the variable rmail-summary-line-count-flag now controls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4791 whether to include the line count in the summary. Non-nil means yes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4792
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4793 *** In Rmail summary buffers, d and C-d (the commands to delete
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4794 messages) now take repeat counts as arguments. A negative argument
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parents:
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4795 means to move in the opposite direction.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4796
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parents:
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4797 *** In Rmail, the t command now takes an optional argument which lets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4798 you specify whether to show the message headers in full or pruned.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4799
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4800 *** In Rmail, the new command w (rmail-output-body-to-file) writes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4801 just the body of the current message into a file, without the headers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4802 It takes the file name from the message subject, by default, but you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4803 can edit that file name in the minibuffer before it is actually used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4804 for output.
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parents:
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4805
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4806 ** Gnus changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4807
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4808 *** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4809
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
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4810 *** Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
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4811 Gnus.
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parents: 26171
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4812
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4813 *** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4814 `and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4815
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parents:
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4816 *** Article washing status can be displayed in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4817 article mode line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4818
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4819 *** gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4820
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4821 *** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4822
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4823 (setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4824
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4825 *** New variables for specifying what score and adapt files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4826 are to be considered home score and adapt files. See
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4827 `gnus-home-score-file' and `gnus-home-adapt-files'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4828
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4829 *** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4830
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4831 *** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4832
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4833 *** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4834 See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4835
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4836 *** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4837 Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4838 used to pick articles.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4839
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4840 *** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4841 another have been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4842
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4843 `M-x gnus-change-server'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4844
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4845 *** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4846 generating lines in buffers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4847
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4848 *** Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4849 `M-C-_'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4850
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4851 *** Scoring can be done on words using the new score type `w'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4852
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4853 *** Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4854
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4855 (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4856
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4857 *** Scores can be decayed.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4858
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4859 (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4860
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4861 *** Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4862 Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4863
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4864 *** A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4865 the native server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4866
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4867 `M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4868
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4869 *** A new command for reading collections of documents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4870 (nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4871
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4872 *** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4873
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4874 *** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4875 even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4876
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4877 *** A new backend for reading searches from Web search engines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4878 (DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4879
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4880 Use the `G w' command in the group buffer to create such
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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4881 a group.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4882
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4883 *** Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4884 sorting functions, and each topic can be sorted independently.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4885
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4886 See the commands under the `T S' submap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4887
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4888 *** Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4889
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4890 See the commands under the `G P' submap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4891
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4892 *** Cached articles can be pulled into the groups.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4893
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4894 Use the `Y c' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4895
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4896 *** Score files are now applied in a more reliable order.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4897
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4898 *** Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4899
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4900 `M-x nnmail-split-history'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4901
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4902 *** More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4903 from incoming mail before saving the mail.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4904
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4905 See `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4906
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4907 *** The nnml mail backend now understands compressed article files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4908
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4909 *** To enable Gnus to read/post multi-lingual articles, you must execute
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4910 the following code, for instance, in your .emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4911
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4912 (add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'gnus-mule-initialize)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4913
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4914 Then, when you start Gnus, it will decode non-ASCII text automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4915 and show appropriate characters. (Note: if you are using gnus-mime
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4916 from the SEMI package, formerly known as TM, you should NOT add this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4917 hook to gnus-startup-hook; gnus-mime has its own method of handling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4918 this issue.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4919
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4920 Since it is impossible to distinguish all coding systems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4921 automatically, you may need to specify a choice of coding system for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4922 particular news group. This can be done by:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4923
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4924 (gnus-mule-add-group NEWSGROUP 'CODING-SYSTEM)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4925
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4926 Here NEWSGROUP should be a string which names a newsgroup or a tree
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4927 of newsgroups. If NEWSGROUP is "XXX.YYY", all news groups under
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4928 "XXX.YYY" (including "XXX.YYY.ZZZ") will use the specified coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4929 system. CODING-SYSTEM specifies which coding system to use (for both
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4930 for reading and posting).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4931
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4932 CODING-SYSTEM can also be a cons cell of the form
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4933 (READ-CODING-SYSTEM . POST-CODING-SYSTEM)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4934 Then READ-CODING-SYSTEM is used when you read messages from the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4935 newsgroups, while POST-CODING-SYSTEM is used when you post messages
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4936 there.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4937
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4938 Emacs knows the right coding systems for certain newsgroups by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4939 default. Here are some of these default settings:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4940
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4941 (gnus-mule-add-group "fj" 'iso-2022-7)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4942 (gnus-mule-add-group "alt.chinese.text" 'hz-gb-2312)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4943 (gnus-mule-add-group "alt.hk" 'hz-gb-2312)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4944 (gnus-mule-add-group "alt.chinese.text.big5" 'cn-big5)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4945 (gnus-mule-add-group "soc.culture.vietnamese" '(nil . viqr))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4946
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4947 When you reply by mail to an article, these settings are ignored;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4948 the mail is encoded according to sendmail-coding-system, as usual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4949
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4950 ** CC mode changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4951
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4952 *** If you edit primarily one style of C (or C++, Objective-C, Java)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4953 code, you may want to make the CC Mode style variables have global
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4954 values so that you can set them directly in your .emacs file. To do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4955 this, set c-style-variables-are-local-p to nil in your .emacs file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4956 Note that this only takes effect if you do it *before* cc-mode.el is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4957 loaded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4958
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4959 If you typically edit more than one style of C (or C++, Objective-C,
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4960 Java) code in a single Emacs session, you may want to make the CC Mode
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4961 style variables have buffer local values. By default, all buffers
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4962 share the same style variable settings; to make them buffer local, set
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
4963 c-style-variables-are-local-p to t in your .emacs file. Note that you
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4964 must do this *before* CC Mode is loaded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4965
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4966 *** The new variable c-indentation-style holds the C style name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4967 of the current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4968
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4969 *** The variable c-block-comments-indent-p has been deleted, because
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4970 it is no longer necessary. C mode now handles all the supported styles
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4971 of block comments, with no need to say which one you will use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4972
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4973 *** There is a new indentation style "python", which specifies the C
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4974 style that the Python developers like.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4975
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4976 *** There is a new c-cleanup-list option: brace-elseif-brace.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4977 This says to put ...} else if (...) {... on one line,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4978 just as brace-else-brace says to put ...} else {... on one line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4979
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4980 ** VC Changes [new]
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4981
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4982 ** In vc-retrieve-snapshot (C-x v r), if you don't specify a snapshot
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4983 name, it retrieves the *latest* versions of all files in the current
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4984 directory and its subdirectories (aside from files already locked).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4985
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4986 This feature is useful if your RCS directory is a link to a common
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4987 master directory, and you want to pick up changes made by other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4988 developers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4989
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4990 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
4991 RET in a buffer visiting that file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4992
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4993 *** VC can now handle files under CVS that are being "watched" by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4994 other developers. Such files are made read-only by CVS. To get a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4995 writable copy, type C-x C-q in a buffer visiting such a file. VC then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4996 calls "cvs edit", which notifies the other developers of it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4997
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4998 *** vc-version-diff (C-u C-x v =) now suggests reasonable defaults for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
4999 version numbers, based on the current state of the file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5000
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5001 ** Calendar changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5002
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5003 A new function, list-holidays, allows you list holidays or subclasses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5004 of holidays for ranges of years. Related menu items allow you do this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5005 for the year of the selected date, or the following/previous years.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5006
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5007 ** ps-print changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5008
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5009 There are some new user variables for customizing the page layout.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5010
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5011 *** Paper size, paper orientation, columns
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5012
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5013 The variable `ps-paper-type' determines the size of paper ps-print
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5014 formats for; it should contain one of the symbols:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5015 `a4' `a3' `letter' `legal' `letter-small' `tabloid'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5016 `ledger' `statement' `executive' `a4small' `b4' `b5'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5017 It defaults to `letter'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5018 If you need other sizes, see the variable `ps-page-dimensions-database'.
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parents:
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5019
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5020 The variable `ps-landscape-mode' determines the orientation
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
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5021 of the printing on the page. nil, the default, means "portrait" mode,
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5022 non-nil means "landscape" mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5023
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5024 The variable `ps-number-of-columns' must be a positive integer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5025 It determines the number of columns both in landscape and portrait mode.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5026 It defaults to 1.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5027
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5028 *** Horizontal layout
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5029
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5030 The horizontal layout is determined by the variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5031 `ps-left-margin', `ps-inter-column', and `ps-right-margin'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5032 All are measured in points.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5033
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5034 *** Vertical layout
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5035
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5036 The vertical layout is determined by the variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5037 `ps-bottom-margin', `ps-top-margin', and `ps-header-offset'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5038 All are measured in points.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5039
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5040 *** Headers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5041
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5042 If the variable `ps-print-header' is nil, no header is printed. Then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5043 `ps-header-offset' is not relevant and `ps-top-margin' represents the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5044 margin above the text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5045
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5046 If the variable `ps-print-header-frame' is non-nil, a gaudy
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5047 framing box is printed around the header.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5048
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5049 The contents of the header are determined by `ps-header-lines',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5050 `ps-show-n-of-n', `ps-left-header' and `ps-right-header'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5051
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5052 The height of the header is determined by `ps-header-line-pad',
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5053 `ps-header-font-family', `ps-header-title-font-size' and
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5054 `ps-header-font-size'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5055
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5056 *** Font managing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5057
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5058 The variable `ps-font-family' determines which font family is to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5059 used for ordinary text. Its value must be a key symbol in the alist
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5060 `ps-font-info-database'. You can add other font families by adding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5061 elements to this alist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5062
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5063 The variable `ps-font-size' determines the size of the font
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5064 for ordinary text. It defaults to 8.5 points.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5065
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5066 ** hideshow changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5067
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5068 *** now supports hiding of blocks of single line comments (like // for
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5069 C++, ; for lisp).
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5070
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5071 *** Support for java-mode added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5072
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5073 *** When doing `hs-hide-all' it is now possible to also hide the comments
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5074 in the file if `hs-hide-comments-when-hiding-all' is set.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5075
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5076 *** The new function `hs-hide-initial-comment' hides the the comments at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5077 the beginning of the files. Finally those huge RCS logs don't stay in your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5078 way! This is run by default when entering the `hs-minor-mode'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5079
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5080 *** Now uses overlays instead of `selective-display', so is more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5081 robust and a lot faster.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5082
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5083 *** A block beginning can span multiple lines.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5084
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5085 *** The new variable `hs-show-hidden-short-form' if t, directs hideshow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5086 to show only the beginning of a block when it is hidden. See the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5087 documentation for more details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5088
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5089 ** Changes in Enriched mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5090
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5091 *** When you visit a file in enriched-mode, Emacs will make sure it is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5092 filled to the current fill-column. This behavior is now independent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5093 of the size of the window. When you save the file, the fill-column in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5094 use is stored as well, so that the whole buffer need not be refilled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5095 the next time unless the fill-column is different.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5096
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5097 *** use-hard-newlines is now a minor mode. When it is enabled, Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5098 distinguishes between hard and soft newlines, and treats hard newlines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5099 as paragraph boundaries. Otherwise all newlines inserted are marked
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5100 as soft, and paragraph boundaries are determined solely from the text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5101
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5102 ** Font Lock mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5103
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5104 *** Custom support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5105
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5106 The variables font-lock-face-attributes, font-lock-display-type and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5107 font-lock-background-mode are now obsolete; the recommended way to specify the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5108 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
5109 group font-lock-highlighting-faces. If you set font-lock-face-attributes in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5110 your ~/.emacs file, Font Lock mode will respect its value. However, you should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5111 consider converting from setting that variable to using M-x customize.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5112
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5113 You can still use X resources to specify Font Lock face appearances.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5114
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5115 *** Maximum decoration
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5116
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5117 Fontification now uses the maximum level of decoration supported by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5118 default. Previously, fontification used a mode-specific default level
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5119 of decoration, which is typically the minimum level of decoration
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5120 supported. You can set font-lock-maximum-decoration to nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5121 to get the old behavior.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5122
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5123 *** New support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5124
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5125 Support is now provided for Java, Objective-C, AWK and SIMULA modes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5126
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5127 Note that Font Lock mode can be turned on without knowing exactly what modes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5128 support Font Lock mode, via the command global-font-lock-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5129
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5130 *** Configurable support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5131
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5132 Support for C, C++, Objective-C and Java can be more easily configured for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5133 additional types and classes via the new variables c-font-lock-extra-types,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5134 c++-font-lock-extra-types, objc-font-lock-extra-types and, you guessed it,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5135 java-font-lock-extra-types. These value of each of these variables should be a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5136 list of regexps matching the extra type names. For example, the default value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5137 of c-font-lock-extra-types is ("\\sw+_t") which means fontification follows the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5138 convention that C type names end in _t. This results in slower fontification.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5139
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5140 Of course, you can change the variables that specify fontification in whatever
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5141 way you wish, typically by adding regexps. However, these new variables make
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5142 it easier to make specific and common changes for the fontification of types.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5143
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5144 *** Adding highlighting patterns to existing support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5146 You can use the new function font-lock-add-keywords to add your own
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5147 highlighting patterns, such as for project-local or user-specific constructs,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5148 for any mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5149
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5150 For example, to highlight `FIXME:' words in C comments, put:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5151
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5152 (font-lock-add-keywords 'c-mode '(("\\<FIXME:" 0 font-lock-warning-face t)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5153
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5154 in your ~/.emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5155
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5156 *** New faces
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5157
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5158 Font Lock now defines two new faces, font-lock-builtin-face and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5159 font-lock-warning-face. These are intended to highlight builtin keywords,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5160 distinct from a language's normal keywords, and objects that should be brought
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5161 to user attention, respectively. Various modes now use these new faces.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5162
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5163 *** Changes to fast-lock support mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5164
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5165 The fast-lock package, one of the two Font Lock support modes, can now process
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5166 cache files silently. You can use the new variable fast-lock-verbose, in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5167 same way as font-lock-verbose, to control this feature.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5168
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5169 *** Changes to lazy-lock support mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5170
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5171 The lazy-lock package, one of the two Font Lock support modes, can now fontify
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5172 according to the true syntactic context relative to other lines. You can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5173 the new variable lazy-lock-defer-contextually to control this feature. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5174 non-nil, changes to the buffer will cause subsequent lines in the buffer to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5175 refontified after lazy-lock-defer-time seconds of idle time. If nil, then only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5176 the modified lines will be refontified; this is the same as the previous Lazy
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5177 Lock mode behaviour and the behaviour of Font Lock mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5178
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5179 This feature is useful in modes where strings or comments can span lines.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5180 For example, if a string or comment terminating character is deleted, then if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5181 this feature is enabled subsequent lines in the buffer will be correctly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5182 refontified to reflect their new syntactic context. Previously, only the line
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5183 containing the deleted character would be refontified and you would have to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5184 the command M-g M-g (font-lock-fontify-block) to refontify some lines.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5185
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5186 As a consequence of this new feature, two other variables have changed:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5187
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5188 Variable `lazy-lock-defer-driven' is renamed `lazy-lock-defer-on-scrolling'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5189 Variable `lazy-lock-defer-time' can now only be a time, i.e., a number.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5190 Buffer modes for which on-the-fly deferral applies can be specified via the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5191 new variable `lazy-lock-defer-on-the-fly'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5192
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5193 If you set these variables in your ~/.emacs, then you may have to change those
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5194 settings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5195
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5196 ** Ada mode changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5197
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5198 *** There is now better support for using find-file.el with Ada mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5199 If you switch between spec and body, the cursor stays in the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5200 procedure (modulo overloading). If a spec has no body file yet, but
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5201 you try to switch to its body file, Ada mode now generates procedure
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5202 stubs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5203
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5204 *** There are two new commands:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5205 - `ada-make-local' : invokes gnatmake on the current buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5206 - `ada-check-syntax' : check syntax of current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5207
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5208 The user options `ada-compiler-make', `ada-make-options',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5209 `ada-language-version', `ada-compiler-syntax-check', and
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5210 `ada-compile-options' are used within these commands.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5211
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5212 *** Ada mode can now work with Outline minor mode. The outline level
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5213 is calculated from the indenting, not from syntactic constructs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5214 Outlining does not work if your code is not correctly indented.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5215
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5216 *** The new function `ada-gnat-style' converts the buffer to the style of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5217 formatting used in GNAT. It places two blanks after a comment start,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5218 places one blank between a word end and an opening '(', and puts one
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5219 space between a comma and the beginning of a word.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5220
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5221 ** Scheme mode changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5222
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5223 *** Scheme mode indentation now uses many of the facilities of Lisp
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5224 mode; therefore, the variables to customize it are the variables used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5225 for Lisp mode which have names starting with `lisp-'. The variables
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5226 with names starting with `scheme-' which used to do this no longer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5227 have any effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5228
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5229 If you want to use different indentation for Scheme and Lisp, this is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5230 still possible, but now you must do it by adding a hook to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5231 scheme-mode-hook, which could work by setting the `lisp-' indentation
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5232 variables as buffer-local variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5233
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5234 *** DSSSL mode is a variant of Scheme mode, for editing DSSSL scripts.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5235 Use M-x dsssl-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5236
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5237 ** The emacsclient program now accepts an option --no-wait which tells
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5238 it to return immediately without waiting for you to "finish" the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5239 buffer in Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5240
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5241 ** M-x eldoc-mode enables a minor mode in which the echo area
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5242 constantly shows the parameter list for function being called at point
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5243 (in Emacs Lisp and Lisp Interaction modes only).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5244
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5245 ** C-x n d now runs the new command narrow-to-defun,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5246 which narrows the accessible parts of the buffer to just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5247 the current defun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5248
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5249 ** Emacs now handles the `--' argument in the standard way; all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5250 following arguments are treated as ordinary file names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5251
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5252 ** On MSDOS and Windows, the bookmark file is now called _emacs.bmk,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5253 and the saved desktop file is now called _emacs.desktop (truncated if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5254 necessary).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5255
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5256 ** When you kill a buffer that visits a file,
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5257 if there are any registers that save positions in the file,
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5258 these register values no longer become completely useless.
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5259 If you try to go to such a register with C-x j, then you are
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5260 asked whether to visit the file again. If you say yes,
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5261 it visits the file and then goes to the same position.
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parents:
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5262
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parents:
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5263 ** When you visit a file that changes frequently outside Emacs--for
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parents:
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5264 example, a log of output from a process that continues to run--it may
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parents:
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5265 be useful for Emacs to revert the file without querying you whenever
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parents:
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5266 you visit the file afresh with C-x C-f.
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parents:
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5267
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parents:
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5268 You can request this behavior for certain files by setting the
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parents:
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5269 variable revert-without-query to a list of regular expressions. If a
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parents:
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5270 file's name matches any of these regular expressions, find-file and
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parents:
diff changeset
5271 revert-buffer revert the buffer without asking for permission--but
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parents:
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5272 only if you have not edited the buffer text yourself.
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parents:
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5273
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parents:
diff changeset
5274 ** set-default-font has been renamed to set-frame-font
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parents:
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5275 since it applies only to the current frame.
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parents:
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5276
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parents:
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5277 ** In TeX mode, you can use the variable tex-main-file to specify the
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parents:
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5278 file for tex-file to run TeX on. (By default, tex-main-file is nil,
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parents:
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5279 and tex-file runs TeX on the current visited file.)
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parents:
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5280
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5281 This is useful when you are editing a document that consists of
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parents:
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5282 multiple files. In each of the included files, you can set up a local
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parents:
diff changeset
5283 variable list which specifies the top-level file of your document for
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parents:
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5284 tex-main-file. Then tex-file will run TeX on the whole document
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parents:
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5285 instead of just the file you are editing.
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parents:
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5286
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parents:
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5287 ** RefTeX mode
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5288
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5289 RefTeX mode is a new minor mode with special support for \label, \ref
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parents:
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5290 and \cite macros in LaTeX documents. RefTeX distinguishes labels of
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parents:
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5291 different environments (equation, figure, ...) and has full support for
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parents:
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5292 multifile documents. To use it, select a buffer with a LaTeX document and
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parents:
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5293 turn the mode on with M-x reftex-mode. Here are the main user commands:
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parents:
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5294
26264
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5295 C-c ( reftex-label
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5296 Creates a label semi-automatically. RefTeX is context sensitive and
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parents:
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5297 knows which kind of label is needed.
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5298
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parents:
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5299 C-c ) reftex-reference
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5300 Offers in a menu all labels in the document, along with context of the
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parents:
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5301 label definition. The selected label is referenced as \ref{LABEL}.
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parents:
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5302
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parents:
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5303 C-c [ reftex-citation
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parents:
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5304 Prompts for a regular expression and displays a list of matching BibTeX
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parents:
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5305 database entries. The selected entry is cited with a \cite{KEY} macro.
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parents:
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5306
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parents:
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5307 C-c & reftex-view-crossref
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parents:
diff changeset
5308 Views the cross reference of a \ref or \cite command near point.
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parents:
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5309
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parents:
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5310 C-c = reftex-toc
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5311 Shows a table of contents of the (multifile) document. From there you
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parents:
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5312 can quickly jump to every section.
26264
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parents: 26171
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5313
25853
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5314 Under X, RefTeX installs a "Ref" menu in the menu bar, with additional
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parents:
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5315 commands. Press `?' to get help when a prompt mentions this feature.
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parents:
diff changeset
5316 Full documentation and customization examples are in the file
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parents:
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5317 reftex.el. You can use the finder to view the file documentation:
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parents:
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5318 C-h p --> tex --> reftex.el
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parents:
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5319
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parents:
diff changeset
5320 ** Changes in BibTeX mode.
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parents:
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5321
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parents:
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5322 *** Info documentation is now available.
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parents:
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5323
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parents:
diff changeset
5324 *** Don't allow parentheses in string constants anymore. This confused
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parents:
diff changeset
5325 both the BibTeX program and Emacs BibTeX mode.
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parents:
diff changeset
5326
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parents:
diff changeset
5327 *** Renamed variable bibtex-mode-user-optional-fields to
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parents:
diff changeset
5328 bibtex-user-optional-fields.
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parents:
diff changeset
5329
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parents:
diff changeset
5330 *** Removed variable bibtex-include-OPTannote
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parents:
diff changeset
5331 (use bibtex-user-optional-fields instead).
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parents:
diff changeset
5332
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parents:
diff changeset
5333 *** New interactive functions to copy and kill fields and complete
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parents:
diff changeset
5334 entries to the BibTeX kill ring, from where they can be yanked back by
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parents:
diff changeset
5335 appropriate functions.
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parents:
diff changeset
5336
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parents:
diff changeset
5337 *** New interactive functions for repositioning and marking of
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parents:
diff changeset
5338 entries. They are bound by default to M-C-l and M-C-h.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5339
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parents:
diff changeset
5340 *** New hook bibtex-clean-entry-hook. It is called after entry has
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parents:
diff changeset
5341 been cleaned.
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parents:
diff changeset
5342
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parents:
diff changeset
5343 *** New variable bibtex-field-delimiters, which replaces variables
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parents:
diff changeset
5344 bibtex-field-{left|right}-delimiter.
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parents:
diff changeset
5345
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parents:
diff changeset
5346 *** New variable bibtex-entry-delimiters to determine how entries
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parents:
diff changeset
5347 shall be delimited.
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parents:
diff changeset
5348
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5349 *** Allow preinitialization of fields. See documentation of
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parents:
diff changeset
5350 bibtex-user-optional-fields, bibtex-entry-field-alist, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5351 bibtex-include-OPTkey for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5352
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5353 *** Book and InBook entries require either an author or an editor
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parents:
diff changeset
5354 field. This is now supported by bibtex.el. Alternative fields are
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parents:
diff changeset
5355 prefixed with `ALT'.
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parents:
diff changeset
5356
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parents:
diff changeset
5357 *** New variable bibtex-entry-format, which replaces variable
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parents:
diff changeset
5358 bibtex-clean-entry-zap-empty-opts and allows specification of many
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5359 formatting options performed on cleaning an entry (see variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5360 documentation).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5361
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parents:
diff changeset
5362 *** Even more control on how automatic keys are generated. See
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parents:
diff changeset
5363 documentation of bibtex-generate-autokey for details. Transcriptions
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parents:
diff changeset
5364 for foreign languages other than German are now handled, too.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5365
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parents:
diff changeset
5366 *** New boolean user option bibtex-comma-after-last-field to decide if
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parents:
diff changeset
5367 comma should be inserted at end of last field.
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parents:
diff changeset
5368
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parents:
diff changeset
5369 *** New boolean user option bibtex-align-at-equal-sign to determine if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5370 alignment should be made at left side of field contents or at equal
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parents:
diff changeset
5371 signs. New user options to control entry layout (e.g. indentation).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5372
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parents:
diff changeset
5373 *** New function bibtex-fill-entry to realign entries.
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parents:
diff changeset
5374
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5375 *** New function bibtex-reformat to reformat region or buffer.
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parents:
diff changeset
5376
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parents:
diff changeset
5377 *** New function bibtex-convert-alien to convert a BibTeX database
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parents:
diff changeset
5378 from alien sources.
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parents:
diff changeset
5379
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parents:
diff changeset
5380 *** New function bibtex-complete-key (similar to bibtex-complete-string)
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parents:
diff changeset
5381 to complete prefix to a key defined in buffer. Mainly useful in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5382 crossref entries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5383
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5384 *** New function bibtex-count-entries to count entries in buffer or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5385 region.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5386
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parents:
diff changeset
5387 *** Added support for imenu.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5388
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parents:
diff changeset
5389 *** The function `bibtex-validate' now checks current region instead
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5390 of buffer if mark is active. Now it shows all errors of buffer in a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5391 `compilation mode' buffer. You can use the normal commands (e.g.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5392 `next-error') for compilation modes to jump to errors.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5393
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5394 *** New variable `bibtex-string-file-path' to determine where the files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5395 from `bibtex-string-files' are searched.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5396
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5397 ** Iso Accents mode now supports Latin-3 as an alternative.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5398
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5399 ** The function using-unix-filesystems has been replaced by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5400 functions add-untranslated-filesystem and remove-untranslated-filesystem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5401 Each of these functions takes the name of a drive letter or directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5402 as an argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5403
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5404 When a filesystem is added as untranslated, all files on it are read
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5405 and written in binary mode (no cr/lf translation is performed).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5406
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5407 ** browse-url changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5408
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5409 *** New methods for: Grail (browse-url-generic), MMM (browse-url-mmm),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5410 Lynx in a separate xterm (browse-url-lynx-xterm) or in an Emacs window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5411 (browse-url-lynx-emacs), remote W3 (browse-url-w3-gnudoit), generic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5412 non-remote-controlled browsers (browse-url-generic) and associated
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5413 customization variables.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5414
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5415 *** New commands `browse-url-of-region' and `browse-url'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5416
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5417 *** URLs marked up with <URL:...> (RFC1738) work if broken across
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5418 lines. Browsing methods can be associated with URL regexps
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5419 (e.g. mailto: URLs) via `browse-url-browser-function'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5420
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5421 ** Changes in Ediff
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5422
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5423 *** Clicking Mouse-2 on a brief command description in Ediff control panel
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5424 pops up the Info file for this command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5425
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5426 *** There is now a variable, ediff-autostore-merges, which controls whether
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parents:
diff changeset
5427 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
5428 merge is done from a session group (eg, when merging files in two different
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5429 directories).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5430
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5431 *** Since Emacs 19.31 (this hasn't been announced before), Ediff can compare
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5432 and merge groups of files residing in different directories, or revisions of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5433 files in the same directory.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5434
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5435 *** Since Emacs 19.31, Ediff can apply multi-file patches interactively.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5436 The patches must be in the context format or GNU unified format. (The bug
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5437 related to the GNU format has now been fixed.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5438
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5439 ** Changes in Viper
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5440
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5441 *** The startup file is now .viper instead of .vip
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5442 *** All variable/function names have been changed to start with viper-
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5443 instead of vip-.
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parents:
diff changeset
5444 *** C-\ now simulates the meta-key in all Viper states.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5445 *** C-z in Insert state now escapes to Vi for the duration of the next
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5446 Viper command. In Vi and Insert states, C-z behaves as before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5447 *** C-c \ escapes to Vi for one command if Viper is in Insert or Emacs states.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5448 *** _ is no longer the meta-key in Vi state.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5449 *** The variable viper-insert-state-cursor-color can be used to change cursor
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5450 color when Viper is in insert state.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5451 *** If search lands the cursor near the top or the bottom of the window,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5452 Viper pulls the window up or down to expose more context. The variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5453 viper-adjust-window-after-search controls this behavior.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5454
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5455 ** Etags changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5456
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5457 *** In C, C++, Objective C and Java, Etags tags global variables by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5458 default. The resulting tags files are inflated by 30% on average.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5459 Use --no-globals to turn this feature off. Etags can also tag
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5460 variables which are members of structure-like constructs, but it does
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5461 not by default. Use --members to turn this feature on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5462
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5463 *** C++ member functions are now recognized as tags.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5464
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5465 *** Java is tagged like C++. In addition, "extends" and "implements"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5466 constructs are tagged. Files are recognised by the extension .java.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5467
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5468 *** Etags can now handle programs written in Postscript. Files are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5469 recognised by the extensions .ps and .pdb (Postscript with C syntax).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5470 In Postscript, tags are lines that start with a slash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5471
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5472 *** Etags now handles Objective C and Objective C++ code. The usual C and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5473 C++ tags are recognized in these languages; in addition, etags
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5474 recognizes special Objective C syntax for classes, class categories,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5475 methods and protocols.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5476
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5477 *** Etags also handles Cobol. Files are recognised by the extension
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5478 .cobol. The tagged lines are those containing a word that begins in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5479 column 8 and ends in a full stop, i.e. anything that could be a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5480 paragraph name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5481
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5482 *** Regexps in Etags now support intervals, as in ed or grep. The syntax of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5483 an interval is \{M,N\}, and it means to match the preceding expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5484 at least M times and as many as N times.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5485
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5486 ** The format for specifying a custom format for time-stamp to insert
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5487 in files has changed slightly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5488
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5489 With the new enhancements to the functionality of format-time-string,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5490 time-stamp-format will change to be eventually compatible with it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5491 This conversion is being done in two steps to maintain compatibility
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5492 with old time-stamp-format values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5493
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5494 In the new scheme, alternate case is signified by the number-sign
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5495 (`#') modifier, rather than changing the case of the format character.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5496 This feature is as yet incompletely implemented for compatibility
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5497 reasons.
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5498
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parents:
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5499 In the old time-stamp-format, all numeric fields defaulted to their
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5500 natural width. (With format-time-string, each format has a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5501 fixed-width default.) In this version, you can specify the colon
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5502 (`:') modifier to a numeric conversion to mean "give me the historical
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5503 time-stamp-format width default." Do not use colon if you are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5504 specifying an explicit width, as in "%02d".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5505
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parents:
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5506 Numbers are no longer truncated to the requested width, except in the
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parents:
diff changeset
5507 case of "%02y", which continues to give a two-digit year. Digit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5508 truncation probably wasn't being used for anything else anyway.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5509
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5510 The new formats will work with old versions of Emacs. New formats are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5511 being recommended now to allow time-stamp-format to change in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5512 future to be compatible with format-time-string. The new forms being
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5513 recommended now will continue to work then.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5514
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5515 See the documentation string for the variable time-stamp-format for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5516 details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5517
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5518 ** There are some additional major modes:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5519
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5520 dcl-mode, for editing VMS DCL files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5521 m4-mode, for editing files of m4 input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5522 meta-mode, for editing MetaFont and MetaPost source files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5523
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5524 ** In Shell mode, the command shell-copy-environment-variable lets you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5525 copy the value of a specified environment variable from the subshell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5526 into Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5527
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5528 ** New Lisp packages include:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5529
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5530 *** battery.el displays battery status for laptops.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5531
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5532 *** M-x bruce (named after Lenny Bruce) is a program that might
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5533 be used for adding some indecent words to your email.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5534
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5535 *** M-x crisp-mode enables an emulation for the CRiSP editor.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5536
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5537 *** M-x dirtrack arranges for better tracking of directory changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5538 in shell buffers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5539
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5540 *** The new library elint.el provides for linting of Emacs Lisp code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5541 See the documentation for `elint-initialize', `elint-current-buffer'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5542 and `elint-defun'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5543
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5544 *** M-x expand-add-abbrevs defines a special kind of abbrev which is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5545 meant for programming constructs. These abbrevs expand like ordinary
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5546 ones, when you type SPC, but only at the end of a line and not within
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5547 strings or comments.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5548
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5549 These abbrevs can act as templates: you can define places within an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5550 abbrev for insertion of additional text. Once you expand the abbrev,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5551 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:
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5552 insertion points. Thus you can conveniently insert additional text
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5553 at these points.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5554
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5555 *** filecache.el remembers the location of files so that you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5556 can visit them by short forms of their names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5557
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5558 *** find-func.el lets you find the definition of the user-loaded
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5559 Emacs Lisp function at point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5560
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5561 *** M-x handwrite converts text to a "handwritten" picture.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5562
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5563 *** M-x iswitchb-buffer is a command for switching to a buffer, much like
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5564 switch-buffer, but it reads the argument in a more helpful way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5565
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5566 *** M-x landmark implements a neural network for landmark learning.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5567
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5568 *** M-x locate provides a convenient interface to the `locate' program.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5569
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5570 *** M4 mode is a new mode for editing files of m4 input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5571
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5572 *** mantemp.el creates C++ manual template instantiations
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5573 from the GCC error messages which indicate which instantiations are needed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5574
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5575 *** mouse-copy.el provides a one-click copy and move feature.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5576 You can drag a region with M-mouse-1, and it is automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5577 inserted at point. M-Shift-mouse-1 deletes the text from its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5578 original place after inserting the copy.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5579
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5580 *** mouse-drag.el lets you do scrolling by dragging Mouse-2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5581 on the buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5582
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5583 You click the mouse and move; that distance either translates into the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5584 velocity to scroll (with mouse-drag-throw) or the distance to scroll
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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5585 (with mouse-drag-drag). Horizontal scrolling is enabled when needed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5586
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5587 Enable mouse-drag with:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5588 (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-throw)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5589 -or-
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5590 (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-drag)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5591
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5592 *** mspools.el is useful for determining which mail folders have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5593 mail waiting to be read in them. It works with procmail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5594
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5595 *** Octave mode is a major mode for editing files of input for Octave.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5596 It comes with a facility for communicating with an Octave subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5597
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5598 *** ogonek
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5599
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5600 The ogonek package provides functions for changing the coding of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5601 Polish diacritic characters in buffers. Codings known from various
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5602 platforms are supported such as ISO8859-2, Mazovia, IBM Latin2, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5603 TeX. For example, you can change the coding from Mazovia to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5604 ISO8859-2. Another example is a change of coding from ISO8859-2 to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5605 prefix notation (in which `/a' stands for the aogonek character, for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5606 instance) and vice versa.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5607
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5608 To use this package load it using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5609 M-x load-library [enter] ogonek
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5610 Then, you may get an explanation by calling one of
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5611 M-x ogonek-jak -- in Polish
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5612 M-x ogonek-how -- in English
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5613 The info specifies the commands and variables provided as well as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5614 ways of customization in `.emacs'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5615
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5616 *** Interface to ph.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5617
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5618 Emacs provides a client interface to CCSO Nameservers (ph/qi)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5619
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5620 The CCSO nameserver is used in many universities to provide directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5621 services about people. ph.el provides a convenient Emacs interface to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5622 these servers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5623
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5624 *** uce.el is useful for replying to unsolicited commercial email.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5625
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5626 *** vcursor.el implements a "virtual cursor" feature.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5627 You can move the virtual cursor with special commands
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5628 while the real cursor does not move.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5629
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5630 *** webjump.el is a "hot list" package which you can set up
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5631 for visiting your favorite web sites.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5632
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5633 *** M-x winner-mode is a minor mode which saves window configurations,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5634 so you can move back to other configurations that you have recently used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5635
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5636 ** movemail change
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5637
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5638 Movemail no longer needs to be installed setuid root in order for POP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5639 mail retrieval to function properly. This is because it no longer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5640 supports the RPOP (reserved-port POP) protocol; instead, it uses the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5641 user's POP password to authenticate to the mail server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5642
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5643 This change was made earlier, but not reported in NEWS before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5644
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5645 * Emacs 20.1 changes for MS-DOS and MS-Windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5646
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5647 ** Changes in handling MS-DOS/MS-Windows text files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5648
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5649 Emacs handles three different conventions for representing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5650 end-of-line: CRLF for MSDOS, LF for Unix and GNU, and CR (used on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5651 Macintosh). Emacs determines which convention is used in a specific
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5652 file based on the contents of that file (except for certain special
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5653 file names), and when it saves the file, it uses the same convention.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5654
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5655 To save the file and change the end-of-line convention, you can use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5656 C-x RET f (set-buffer-file-coding-system) to specify a different
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5657 coding system for the buffer. Then, when you save the file, the newly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5658 specified coding system will take effect. For example, to save with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5659 LF, specify undecided-unix (or some other ...-unix coding system); to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5660 save with CRLF, specify undecided-dos.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5661
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5662 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 20.1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5663
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5664 ** Byte-compiled files made with Emacs 20 will, in general, work in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5665 Emacs 19 as well, as long as the source code runs in Emacs 19. And
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5666 vice versa: byte-compiled files made with Emacs 19 should also run in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5667 Emacs 20, as long as the program itself works in Emacs 20.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5668
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5669 ** Windows-specific functions and variables have been renamed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5670 to start with w32- instead of win32-.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5671
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5672 In hacker language, calling something a "win" is a form of praise. We
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5673 don't want to praise a non-free Microsoft system, so we don't call it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5674 "win".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5675
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5676 ** Basic Lisp changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5677
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5678 *** A symbol whose name starts with a colon now automatically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5679 evaluates to itself. Therefore such a symbol can be used as a constant.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5680
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5681 *** The defined purpose of `defconst' has been changed. It should now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5682 be used only for values that should not be changed whether by a program
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5683 or by the user.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5684
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5685 The actual behavior of defconst has not been changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5686
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5687 *** There are new macros `when' and `unless'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5688
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5689 (when CONDITION BODY...) is short for (if CONDITION (progn BODY...))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5690 (unless CONDITION BODY...) is short for (if CONDITION nil BODY...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5691
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5692 *** Emacs now defines functions caar, cadr, cdar and cddr with their
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5693 usual Lisp meanings. For example, caar returns the car of the car of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5694 its argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5695
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5696 *** equal, when comparing strings, now ignores their text properties.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5697
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5698 *** The new function `functionp' tests whether an object is a function.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5699
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5700 *** arrayp now returns t for char-tables and bool-vectors.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5701
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5702 *** Certain primitives which use characters (as integers) now get an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5703 error if the integer is not a valid character code. These primitives
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5704 include insert-char, char-to-string, and the %c construct in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5705 `format' function.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5706
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5707 *** The `require' function now insists on adding a suffix, either .el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5708 or .elc, to the file name. Thus, (require 'foo) will not use a file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5709 whose name is just foo. It insists on foo.el or foo.elc.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5710
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5711 *** The `autoload' function, when the file name does not contain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5712 either a directory name or the suffix .el or .elc, insists on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5713 adding one of these suffixes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5714
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5715 *** string-to-number now takes an optional second argument BASE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5716 which specifies the base to use when converting an integer.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5717 If BASE is omitted, base 10 is used.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5718
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5719 We have not implemented other radices for floating point numbers,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5720 because that would be much more work and does not seem useful.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5722 *** substring now handles vectors as well as strings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5723
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5724 *** The Common Lisp function eql is no longer defined normally.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5725 You must load the `cl' library to define it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5726
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5727 *** The new macro `with-current-buffer' lets you evaluate an expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5728 conveniently with a different current buffer. It looks like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5729
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5730 (with-current-buffer BUFFER BODY-FORMS...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5731
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5732 BUFFER is the expression that says which buffer to use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5733 BODY-FORMS say what to do in that buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5734
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5735 *** The new primitive `save-current-buffer' saves and restores the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5736 choice of current buffer, like `save-excursion', but without saving or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5737 restoring the value of point or the mark. `with-current-buffer'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5738 works using `save-current-buffer'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5739
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5740 *** The new macro `with-temp-file' lets you do some work in a new buffer and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5741 write the output to a specified file. Like `progn', it returns the value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5742 of the last form.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5743
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5744 *** The new macro `with-temp-buffer' lets you do some work in a new buffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5745 which is discarded after use. Like `progn', it returns the value of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5746 last form. If you wish to return the buffer contents, use (buffer-string)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5747 as the last form.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5748
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5749 *** The new function split-string takes a string, splits it at certain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5750 characters, and returns a list of the substrings in between the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5751 matches.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5752
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5753 For example, (split-string "foo bar lose" " +") returns ("foo" "bar" "lose").
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5754
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5755 *** The new macro with-output-to-string executes some Lisp expressions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5756 with standard-output set up so that all output feeds into a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5757 Then it returns that string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5758
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5759 For example, if the current buffer name is `foo',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5760
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5761 (with-output-to-string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5762 (princ "The buffer is ")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5763 (princ (buffer-name)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5764
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5765 returns "The buffer is foo".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5766
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5767 ** Non-ASCII characters are now supported, if enable-multibyte-characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5768 is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5769
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5770 These characters have character codes above 256. When inserted in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5771 buffer or stored in a string, they are represented as multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5772 characters that occupy several buffer positions each.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5773
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5774 *** When enable-multibyte-characters is non-nil, a single character in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5775 a buffer or string can be two or more bytes (as many as four).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5776
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5777 Buffers and strings are still made up of unibyte elements;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5778 character positions and string indices are always measured in bytes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5779 Therefore, moving forward one character can increase the buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5780 position by 2, 3 or 4. The function forward-char moves by whole
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5781 characters, and therefore is no longer equivalent to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5782 (lambda (n) (goto-char (+ (point) n))).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5783
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5784 ASCII characters (codes 0 through 127) are still single bytes, always.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5785 Sequences of byte values 128 through 255 are used to represent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5786 non-ASCII characters. These sequences are called "multibyte
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5787 characters".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5788
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5789 The first byte of a multibyte character is always in the range 128
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5790 through 159 (octal 0200 through 0237). These values are called
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5791 "leading codes". The second and subsequent bytes are always in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5792 range 160 through 255 (octal 0240 through 0377). The first byte, the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5793 leading code, determines how many bytes long the sequence is.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5794
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5795 *** The function forward-char moves over characters, and therefore
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5796 (forward-char 1) may increase point by more than 1 if it moves over a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5797 multibyte character. Likewise, delete-char always deletes a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5798 character, which may be more than one buffer position.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5799
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5800 This means that some Lisp programs, which assume that a character is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5801 always one buffer position, need to be changed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5802
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5803 However, all ASCII characters are always one buffer position.
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
5804
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5805 *** The regexp [\200-\377] no longer matches all non-ASCII characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5806 because when enable-multibyte-characters is non-nil, these characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5807 have codes that are not in the range octal 200 to octal 377. However,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5808 the regexp [^\000-\177] does match all non-ASCII characters,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5809 guaranteed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5810
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5811 *** The function char-boundary-p returns non-nil if position POS is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5812 between two characters in the buffer (not in the middle of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5813 character).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5814
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5815 When the value is non-nil, it says what kind of character follows POS:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5816
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5817 0 if POS is at an ASCII character or at the end of range,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5818 1 if POS is before a 2-byte length multi-byte form,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5819 2 if POS is at a head of 3-byte length multi-byte form,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5820 3 if POS is at a head of 4-byte length multi-byte form,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5821 4 if POS is at a head of multi-byte form of a composite character.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5822
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5823 *** The function char-bytes returns how many bytes the character CHAR uses.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5824
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5825 *** Strings can contain multibyte characters. The function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5826 `length' returns the string length counting bytes, which may be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5827 more than the number of characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5828
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5829 You can include a multibyte character in a string constant by writing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5830 it literally. You can also represent it with a hex escape,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5831 \xNNNNNNN..., using as many digits as necessary. Any character which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5832 is not a valid hex digit terminates this construct. If you want to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5833 follow it with a character that is a hex digit, write backslash and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5834 newline in between; that will terminate the hex escape.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5835
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5836 *** The function concat-chars takes arguments which are characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5837 and returns a string containing those characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5838
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5839 *** The function sref access a multibyte character in a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5840 (sref STRING INDX) returns the character in STRING at INDEX. INDEX
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5841 counts from zero. If INDEX is at a position in the middle of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5842 character, sref signals an error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5843
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5844 *** The function chars-in-string returns the number of characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5845 in a string. This is less than the length of the string, if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5846 string contains multibyte characters (the length counts bytes).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5847
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5848 *** The function chars-in-region returns the number of characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5849 in a region from BEG to END. This is less than (- END BEG) if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5850 region contains multibyte characters (the length counts bytes).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5851
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5852 *** The function string-to-list converts a string to a list of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5853 the characters in it. string-to-vector converts a string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5854 to a vector of the characters in it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5855
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5856 *** The function store-substring alters part of the contents
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5857 of a string. You call it as follows:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5858
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5859 (store-substring STRING IDX OBJ)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5860
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5861 This says to alter STRING, by storing OBJ starting at index IDX in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5862 STRING. OBJ may be either a character or a (smaller) string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5863 This function really does alter the contents of STRING.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5864 Since it is impossible to change the length of an existing string,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5865 it is an error if OBJ doesn't fit within STRING's actual length.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5866
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5867 *** char-width returns the width (in columns) of the character CHAR,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5868 if it were displayed in the current buffer and the selected window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5869
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5870 *** string-width returns the width (in columns) of the text in STRING,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5871 if it were displayed in the current buffer and the selected window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5872
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5873 *** truncate-string-to-width shortens a string, if necessary,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5874 to fit within a certain number of columns. (Of course, it does
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5875 not alter the string that you give it; it returns a new string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5876 which contains all or just part of the existing string.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5877
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5878 (truncate-string-to-width STR END-COLUMN &optional START-COLUMN PADDING)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5879
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5880 This returns the part of STR up to column END-COLUMN.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5881
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5882 The optional argument START-COLUMN specifies the starting column.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5883 If this is non-nil, then the first START-COLUMN columns of the string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5884 are not included in the resulting value.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5885
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5886 The optional argument PADDING, if non-nil, is a padding character to be added
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5887 at the beginning and end the resulting string, to extend it to exactly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5888 WIDTH columns. If PADDING is nil, that means do not pad; then, if STRING
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5889 is narrower than WIDTH, the value is equal to STRING.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5890
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5891 If PADDING and START-COLUMN are both non-nil, and if there is no clean
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5892 place in STRING that corresponds to START-COLUMN (because one
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5893 character extends across that column), then the padding character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5894 PADDING is added one or more times at the beginning of the result
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5895 string, so that its columns line up as if it really did start at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5896 column START-COLUMN.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5897
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5898 *** When the functions in the list after-change-functions are called,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5899 the third argument is the number of bytes in the pre-change text, not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5900 necessarily the number of characters. It is, in effect, the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5901 difference in buffer position between the beginning and the end of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5902 changed text, before the change.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5903
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5904 *** The characters Emacs uses are classified in various character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5905 sets, each of which has a name which is a symbol. In general there is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5906 one character set for each script, not for each language.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5907
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5908 **** The function charsetp tests whether an object is a character set name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5909
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5910 **** The variable charset-list holds a list of character set names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5911
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5912 **** char-charset, given a character code, returns the name of the character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5913 set that the character belongs to. (The value is a symbol.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5914
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5915 **** split-char, given a character code, returns a list containing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5916 name of the character set, followed by one or two byte-values
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5917 which identify the character within that character set.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5918
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5919 **** make-char, given a character set name and one or two subsequent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5920 byte-values, constructs a character code. This is roughly the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5921 opposite of split-char.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5922
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5923 **** find-charset-region returns a list of the character sets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5924 of all the characters between BEG and END.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5925
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5926 **** find-charset-string returns a list of the character sets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5927 of all the characters in a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5928
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5929 *** Here are the Lisp facilities for working with coding systems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5930 and specifying coding systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5931
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5932 **** The function coding-system-list returns a list of all coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5933 system names (symbols). With optional argument t, it returns a list
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5934 of all distinct base coding systems, not including variants.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5935 (Variant coding systems are those like latin-1-dos, latin-1-unix
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5936 and latin-1-mac which specify the end-of-line conversion as well
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5937 as what to do about code conversion.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5938
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5939 **** coding-system-p tests a symbol to see if it is a coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5940 name. It returns t if so, nil if not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5941
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5942 **** file-coding-system-alist specifies which coding systems to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5943 for certain file names. It works like network-coding-system-alist,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5944 except that the PATTERN is matched against the file name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5945
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5946 Each element has the format (PATTERN . VAL), where PATTERN determines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5947 which file names the element applies to. PATTERN should be a regexp
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5948 to match against a file name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5949
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5950 VAL is a coding system, a cons cell containing two coding systems, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5951 a function symbol. If VAL is a coding system, it is used for both
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5952 decoding what received from the network stream and encoding what sent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5953 to the network stream. If VAL is a cons cell containing two coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5954 systems, the car specifies the coding system for decoding, and the cdr
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5955 specifies the coding system for encoding.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5956
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5957 If VAL is a function symbol, the function must return a coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5958 or a cons cell containing two coding systems, which is used as above.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5959
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5960 **** The variable network-coding-system-alist specifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5961 the coding system to use for network sockets.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5962
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5963 Each element has the format (PATTERN . VAL), where PATTERN determines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5964 which network sockets the element applies to. PATTERN should be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5965 either a port number or a regular expression matching some network
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5966 service names.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5967
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5968 VAL is a coding system, a cons cell containing two coding systems, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5969 a function symbol. If VAL is a coding system, it is used for both
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5970 decoding what received from the network stream and encoding what sent
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5971 to the network stream. If VAL is a cons cell containing two coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5972 systems, the car specifies the coding system for decoding, and the cdr
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5973 specifies the coding system for encoding.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5974
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5975 If VAL is a function symbol, the function must return a coding system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5976 or a cons cell containing two coding systems, which is used as above.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5977
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5978 **** process-coding-system-alist specifies which coding systems to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5979 for certain subprocess. It works like network-coding-system-alist,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5980 except that the PATTERN is matched against the program name used to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5981 start the subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5982
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5983 **** The variable default-process-coding-system specifies the coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5984 systems to use for subprocess (and net connection) input and output,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5985 when nothing else specifies what to do. The value is a cons cell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5986 (OUTPUT-CODING . INPUT-CODING). OUTPUT-CODING applies to output
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5987 to the subprocess, and INPUT-CODING applies to input from it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5988
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5989 **** The variable coding-system-for-write, if non-nil, specifies the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5990 coding system to use for writing a file, or for output to a synchronous
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5991 subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5992
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5993 It also applies to any asynchronous subprocess or network connection,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5994 but in a different way: the value of coding-system-for-write when you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5995 start the subprocess or connection affects that subprocess or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5996 connection permanently or until overridden.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5997
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5998 The variable coding-system-for-write takes precedence over
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
5999 file-coding-system-alist, process-coding-system-alist and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6000 network-coding-system-alist, and all other methods of specifying a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6001 coding system for output. But most of the time this variable is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6002 It exists so that Lisp programs can bind it to a specific coding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6003 system for one operation at a time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6004
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6005 **** coding-system-for-read applies similarly to input from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6006 files, subprocesses or network connections.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6007
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6008 **** The function process-coding-system tells you what
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6009 coding systems(s) an existing subprocess is using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6010 The value is a cons cell,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6011 (DECODING-CODING-SYSTEM . ENCODING-CODING-SYSTEM)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6012 where DECODING-CODING-SYSTEM is used for decoding output from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6013 the subprocess, and ENCODING-CODING-SYSTEM is used for encoding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6014 input to the subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6015
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6016 **** The function set-process-coding-system can be used to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6017 change the coding systems in use for an existing subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6018
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6019 ** Emacs has a new facility to help users manage the many
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6020 customization options. To make a Lisp program work with this facility,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6021 you need to use the new macros defgroup and defcustom.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6022
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6023 You use defcustom instead of defvar, for defining a user option
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6024 variable. The difference is that you specify two additional pieces of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6025 information (usually): the "type" which says what values are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6026 legitimate, and the "group" which specifies the hierarchy for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6027 customization.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6028
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6029 Thus, instead of writing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6030
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6031 (defvar foo-blurgoze nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6032 "*Non-nil means that foo will act very blurgozely.")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6033
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6034 you would now write this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6035
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6036 (defcustom foo-blurgoze nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6037 "*Non-nil means that foo will act very blurgozely."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6038 :type 'boolean
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6039 :group foo)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6040
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6041 The type `boolean' means that this variable has only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6042 two meaningful states: nil and non-nil. Other type values
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6043 describe other possibilities; see the manual for Custom
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6044 for a description of them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6045
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6046 The "group" argument is used to specify a group which the option
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6047 should belong to. You define a new group like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6048
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6049 (defgroup ispell nil
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6050 "Spell checking using Ispell."
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6051 :group 'processes)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6052
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6053 The "group" argument in defgroup specifies the parent group. The root
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6054 group is called `emacs'; it should not contain any variables itself,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6055 but only other groups. The immediate subgroups of `emacs' correspond
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6056 to the keywords used by C-h p. Under these subgroups come
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6057 second-level subgroups that belong to individual packages.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6058
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6059 Each Emacs package should have its own set of groups. A simple
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6060 package should have just one group; a more complex package should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6061 have a hierarchy of its own groups. The sole or root group of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6062 package should be a subgroup of one or more of the "keyword"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6063 first-level subgroups.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6064
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6065 ** New `widget' library for inserting UI components in buffers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6066
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6067 This library, used by the new custom library, is documented in a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6068 separate manual that accompanies Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6069
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6070 ** easy-mmode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6071
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6072 The easy-mmode package provides macros and functions that make
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6073 developing minor modes easier. Roughly, the programmer has to code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6074 only the functionality of the minor mode. All the rest--toggles,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6075 predicate, and documentation--can be done in one call to the macro
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6076 `easy-mmode-define-minor-mode' (see the documentation). See also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6077 `easy-mmode-define-keymap'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6078
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6079 ** Text property changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6080
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6081 *** The `intangible' property now works on overlays as well as on a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6082 text property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6083
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6084 *** The new functions next-char-property-change and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6085 previous-char-property-change scan through the buffer looking for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6086 place where either a text property or an overlay might change. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6087 functions take two arguments, POSITION and LIMIT. POSITION is the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6088 starting position for the scan. LIMIT says where to stop the scan.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6089
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6090 If no property change is found before LIMIT, the value is LIMIT. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6091 LIMIT is nil, scan goes to the beginning or end of the accessible part
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6092 of the buffer. If no property change is found, the value is the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6093 position of the beginning or end of the buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6094
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6095 *** In the `local-map' text property or overlay property, the property
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6096 value can now be a symbol whose function definition is a keymap. This
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6097 is an alternative to using the keymap itself.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6098
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6099 ** Changes in invisibility features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6100
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6101 *** Isearch can now temporarily show parts of the buffer which are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6102 hidden by an overlay with a invisible property, when the search match
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6103 is inside that portion of the buffer. To enable this the overlay
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6104 should have a isearch-open-invisible property which is a function that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6105 would be called having the overlay as an argument, the function should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6106 make the overlay visible.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6107
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6108 During incremental search the overlays are shown by modifying the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6109 invisible and intangible properties, if beside this more actions are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6110 needed the overlay should have a isearch-open-invisible-temporary
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6111 which is a function. The function is called with 2 arguments: one is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6112 the overlay and the second is nil when it should show the overlay and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6113 t when it should hide it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6114
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6115 *** add-to-invisibility-spec, remove-from-invisibility-spec
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6116
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6117 Modes that use overlays to hide portions of a buffer should set the
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6118 invisible property of the overlay to the mode's name (or another symbol)
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6119 and modify the `buffer-invisibility-spec' to include that symbol.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6120 Use `add-to-invisibility-spec' and `remove-from-invisibility-spec' to
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6121 manipulate the `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6122 Here is an example of how to do this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6123
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6124 ;; If we want to display an ellipsis:
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6125 (add-to-invisibility-spec '(my-symbol . t))
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6126 ;; If you don't want ellipsis:
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6127 (add-to-invisibility-spec 'my-symbol)
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6128
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6129 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6130 (overlay-put (make-overlay beginning end) 'invisible 'my-symbol)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6131
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6132 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6133 ;; When done with the overlays:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6134 (remove-from-invisibility-spec '(my-symbol . t))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6135 ;; Or respectively:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6136 (remove-from-invisibility-spec 'my-symbol)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6137
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6138 ** Changes in syntax parsing.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6139
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6140 *** The syntax-directed buffer-scan functions (such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6141 `parse-partial-sexp', `forward-word' and similar functions) can now
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6142 obey syntax information specified by text properties, if the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6143 `parse-sexp-lookup-properties' is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6144
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6145 If the value of `parse-sexp-lookup-properties' is nil, the behavior
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6146 is as before: the syntax-table of the current buffer is always
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6147 used to determine the syntax of the character at the position.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6148
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6149 When `parse-sexp-lookup-properties' is non-nil, the syntax of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6150 character in the buffer is calculated thus:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6151
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6152 a) if the `syntax-table' text-property of that character
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6153 is a cons, this cons becomes the syntax-type;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6154
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6155 Valid values of `syntax-table' text-property are: nil, a valid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6156 syntax-table, and a valid syntax-table element, i.e.,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6157 a cons cell of the form (SYNTAX-CODE . MATCHING-CHAR).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6158
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6159 b) if the character's `syntax-table' text-property
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6160 is a syntax table, this syntax table is used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6161 (instead of the syntax-table of the current buffer) to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6162 determine the syntax type of the character.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6163
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6164 c) otherwise the syntax-type is determined by the syntax-table
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6165 of the current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6166
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6167 *** The meaning of \s in regular expressions is also affected by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6168 value of `parse-sexp-lookup-properties'. The details are the same as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6169 for the syntax-directed buffer-scan functions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6170
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6171 *** There are two new syntax-codes, `!' and `|' (numeric values 14
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6172 and 15). A character with a code `!' starts a comment which is ended
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6173 only by another character with the same code (unless quoted). A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6174 character with a code `|' starts a string which is ended only by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6175 another character with the same code (unless quoted).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6176
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6177 These codes are mainly meant for use as values of the `syntax-table'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6178 text property.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6179
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6180 *** The function `parse-partial-sexp' has new semantics for the sixth
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6181 arg COMMENTSTOP. If it is `syntax-table', parse stops after the start
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6182 of a comment or a string, or after end of a comment or a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6183
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6184 *** The state-list which the return value from `parse-partial-sexp'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6185 (and can also be used as an argument) now has an optional ninth
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6186 element: the character address of the start of last comment or string;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6187 nil if none. The fourth and eighth elements have special values if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6188 string/comment is started by a "!" or "|" syntax-code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6189
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6190 *** Since new features of `parse-partial-sexp' allow a complete
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6191 syntactic parsing, `font-lock' no longer supports
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6192 `font-lock-comment-start-regexp'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6193
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6194 ** Changes in face features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6195
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6196 *** The face functions are now unconditionally defined in Emacs, even
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6197 if it does not support displaying on a device that supports faces.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6198
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6199 *** The function face-documentation returns the documentation string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6200 of a face (or nil if it doesn't have one).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6201
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6202 *** The function face-bold-p returns t if a face should be bold.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6203 set-face-bold-p sets that flag.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6204
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6205 *** The function face-italic-p returns t if a face should be italic.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6206 set-face-italic-p sets that flag.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6207
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6208 *** You can now specify foreground and background colors for text
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6209 by adding elements of the form (foreground-color . COLOR-NAME)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6210 and (background-color . COLOR-NAME) to the list of faces in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6211 the `face' property (either the character's text property or an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6212 overlay property).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6213
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6214 This means that you no longer need to create named faces to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6215 arbitrary colors in a Lisp package.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6216
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6217 ** Changes in file-handling functions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6218
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6219 *** File-access primitive functions no longer discard an extra redundant
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6220 directory name from the beginning of the file name. In other words,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6221 they no longer do anything special with // or /~. That conversion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6222 is now done only in substitute-in-file-name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6223
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6224 This makes it possible for a Lisp program to open a file whose name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6225 begins with ~.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6226
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6227 *** If copy-file is unable to set the date of the output file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6228 it now signals an error with the condition file-date-error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6229
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6230 *** The inode number returned by file-attributes may be an integer (if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6231 the number fits in a Lisp integer) or a list of integers.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6232
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6233 *** insert-file-contents can now read from a special file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6234 as long as the arguments VISIT and REPLACE are nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6235
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6236 *** The RAWFILE arg to find-file-noselect, if non-nil, now suppresses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6237 character code conversion as well as other things.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6238
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6239 Meanwhile, this feature does work with remote file names
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6240 (formerly it did not).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6241
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6242 *** Lisp packages which create temporary files should use the TMPDIR
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6243 environment variable to decide which directory to put them in.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6244
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6245 *** interpreter-mode-alist elements now specify regexps
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6246 instead of constant strings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6247
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6248 *** expand-file-name no longer treats `//' or `/~' specially. It used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6249 to delete all the text of a file name up through the first slash of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6250 any `//' or `/~' sequence. Now it passes them straight through.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6251
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6252 substitute-in-file-name continues to treat those sequences specially,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6253 in the same way as before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6254
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6255 *** The variable `format-alist' is more general now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6256 The FROM-FN and TO-FN in a format definition can now be strings
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6257 which specify shell commands to use as filters to perform conversion.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6258
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6259 *** The new function access-file tries to open a file, and signals an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6260 error if that fails. If the open succeeds, access-file does nothing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6261 else, and returns nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6262
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6263 *** The function insert-directory now signals an error if the specified
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6264 directory cannot be listed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6265
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6266 ** Changes in minibuffer input
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6267
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6268 *** The functions read-buffer, read-variable, read-command, read-string
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6269 read-file-name, read-from-minibuffer and completing-read now take an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6270 additional argument which specifies the default value. If this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6271 argument is non-nil, it should be a string; that string is used in two
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6272 ways:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6273
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6274 It is returned if the user enters empty input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6275 It is available through the history command M-n.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6276
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6277 *** The functions read-string, read-from-minibuffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6278 read-no-blanks-input and completing-read now take an additional
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6279 argument INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD. If this is non-nil, then the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6280 minibuffer inherits the current input method and the setting of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6281 enable-multibyte-characters from the previously current buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6282
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6283 In an interactive spec, you can use M instead of s to read an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6284 argument in this way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6285
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6286 *** All minibuffer input functions discard text properties
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6287 from the text you enter in the minibuffer, unless the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6288 minibuffer-allow-text-properties is non-nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6289
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6290 ** Echo area features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6291
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6292 *** Clearing the echo area now runs the normal hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6293 echo-area-clear-hook. Note that the echo area can be used while the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6294 minibuffer is active; in that case, the minibuffer is still active
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6295 after the echo area is cleared.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6296
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6297 *** The function current-message returns the message currently displayed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6298 in the echo area, or nil if there is none.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6299
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6300 ** Keyboard input features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6301
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6302 *** tty-erase-char is a new variable that reports which character was
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6303 set up as the terminal's erase character when time Emacs was started.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6304
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6305 *** num-nonmacro-input-events is the total number of input events
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6306 received so far from the terminal. It does not count those generated
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6307 by keyboard macros.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6308
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6309 ** Frame-related changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6310
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6311 *** make-frame runs the normal hook before-make-frame-hook just before
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6312 creating a frame, and just after creating a frame it runs the abnormal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6313 hook after-make-frame-functions with the new frame as arg.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6314
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6315 *** The new hook window-configuration-change-hook is now run every time
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6316 the window configuration has changed. The frame whose configuration
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6317 has changed is the selected frame when the hook is run.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6318
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6319 *** Each frame now independently records the order for recently
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6320 selected buffers, in its buffer-list frame parameter, so that the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6321 value of other-buffer is now based on the buffers recently displayed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6322 in the selected frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6323
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6324 *** The value of the frame parameter vertical-scroll-bars
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6325 is now `left', `right' or nil. A non-nil value specifies
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6326 which side of the window to put the scroll bars on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6327
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6328 ** X Windows features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6329
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6330 *** You can examine X resources for other applications by binding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6331 x-resource-class around a call to x-get-resource. The usual value of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6332 x-resource-class is "Emacs", which is the correct value for Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6333
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6334 *** In menus, checkboxes and radio buttons now actually work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6335 The menu displays the current status of the box or button.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6336
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6337 *** The function x-list-fonts now takes an optional fourth argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6338 MAXIMUM which sets a limit on how many matching fonts to return.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6339 A smaller value of MAXIMUM makes the function faster.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6340
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6341 If the only question is whether *any* font matches the pattern,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6342 it is good to supply 1 for this argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6343
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6344 ** Subprocess features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6345
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6346 *** A reminder: it is no longer necessary for subprocess filter
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6347 functions and sentinels to do save-match-data, because Emacs does this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6348 automatically.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6349
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6350 *** The new function shell-command-to-string executes a shell command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6351 and returns the output from the command as a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6352
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6353 *** The new function process-contact returns t for a child process,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6354 and (HOSTNAME SERVICE) for a net connection.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6355
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6356 ** An error in running pre-command-hook or post-command-hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6357 does clear the variable to nil. The documentation was wrong before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6358
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6359 ** In define-key-after, if AFTER is t, the new binding now always goes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6360 at the end of the keymap. If the keymap is a menu, this means it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6361 goes after the other menu items.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6362
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6363 ** If you have a program that makes several changes in the same area
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6364 of the buffer, you can use the macro combine-after-change-calls
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6365 around that Lisp code to make it faster when after-change hooks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6366 are in use.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6367
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6368 The macro arranges to call the after-change functions just once for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6369 series of several changes--if that seems safe.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6370
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6371 Don't alter the variables after-change-functions and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6372 after-change-function within the body of a combine-after-change-calls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6373 form.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6374
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6375 ** If you define an abbrev (with define-abbrev) whose EXPANSION
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6376 is not a string, then the abbrev does not expand in the usual sense,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6377 but its hook is still run.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6378
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6379 ** Normally, the Lisp debugger is not used (even if you have enabled it)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6380 for errors that are handled by condition-case.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6381
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6382 If you set debug-on-signal to a non-nil value, then the debugger is called
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6383 regardless of whether there is a handler for the condition. This is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6384 useful for debugging problems that happen inside of a condition-case.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6385
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6386 This mode of operation seems to be unreliable in other ways. Errors that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6387 are normal and ought to be handled, perhaps in timers or process
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6388 filters, will instead invoke the debugger. So don't say you weren't
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6389 warned.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6390
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6391 ** The new variable ring-bell-function lets you specify your own
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6392 way for Emacs to "ring the bell".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6393
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6394 ** If run-at-time's TIME argument is t, the action is repeated at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6395 integral multiples of REPEAT from the epoch; this is useful for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6396 functions like display-time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6397
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6398 ** You can use the function locate-library to find the precise file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6399 name of a Lisp library. This isn't new, but wasn't documented before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6400
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6401 ** Commands for entering view mode have new optional arguments that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6402 can be used from Lisp. Low-level entrance to and exit from view mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6403 is done by functions view-mode-enter and view-mode-exit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6404
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6405 ** batch-byte-compile-file now makes Emacs return a nonzero status code
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6406 if there is an error in compilation.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6407
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6408 ** pop-to-buffer, switch-to-buffer-other-window and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6409 switch-to-buffer-other-frame now accept an additional optional
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6410 argument NORECORD, much like switch-to-buffer. If it is non-nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6411 they don't put the buffer at the front of the buffer list.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6412
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6413 ** If your .emacs file leaves the *scratch* buffer non-empty,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6414 Emacs does not display the startup message, so as to avoid changing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6415 the *scratch* buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6416
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6417 ** The new function regexp-opt returns an efficient regexp to match a string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6418 The arguments are STRINGS and (optionally) PAREN. This function can be used
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6419 where regexp matching or searching is intensively used and speed is important,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6420 e.g., in Font Lock mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6421
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6422 ** The variable buffer-display-count is local to each buffer,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6423 and is incremented each time the buffer is displayed in a window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6424 It starts at 0 when the buffer is created.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6425
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6426 ** The new function compose-mail starts composing a mail message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6427 using the user's chosen mail composition agent (specified with the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6428 variable mail-user-agent). It has variants compose-mail-other-window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6429 and compose-mail-other-frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6430
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6431 ** The `user-full-name' function now takes an optional parameter which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6432 can either be a number (the UID) or a string (the login name). The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6433 full name of the specified user will be returned.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6434
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6435 ** Lisp packages that load files of customizations, or any other sort
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6436 of user profile, should obey the variable init-file-user in deciding
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6437 where to find it. They should load the profile of the user name found
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6438 in that variable. If init-file-user is nil, meaning that the -q
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6439 option was used, then Lisp packages should not load the customization
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6440 files at all.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6441
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6442 ** format-time-string now allows you to specify the field width
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6443 and type of padding. This works as in printf: you write the field
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6444 width as digits in the middle of a %-construct. If you start
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6445 the field width with 0, it means to pad with zeros.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6446
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6447 For example, %S normally specifies the number of seconds since the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6448 minute; %03S means to pad this with zeros to 3 positions, %_3S to pad
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6449 with spaces to 3 positions. Plain %3S pads with zeros, because that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6450 is how %S normally pads to two positions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6451
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6452 ** thing-at-point now supports a new kind of "thing": url.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6453
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6454 ** imenu.el changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6455
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6456 You can now specify a function to be run when selecting an
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6457 item from menu created by imenu.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6458
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6459 An example of using this feature: if we define imenu items for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6460 #include directives in a C file, we can open the included file when we
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6461 select one of those items.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6462
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6463 * Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6464
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6465 * Changes in Emacs 19.33.
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6466
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6467 ** Bibtex mode no longer turns on Auto Fill automatically. (No major
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6468 mode should do that--it is the user's choice.)
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6469
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6470 ** The variable normal-auto-fill-function specifies the function to
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6471 use for auto-fill-function, if and when Auto Fill is turned on.
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6472 Major modes can set this locally to alter how Auto Fill works.
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6473
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6474 * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.32
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6475
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6476 ** C-x f with no argument now signals an error.
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6477 To set the fill column at the current column, use C-u C-x f.
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6478
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6479 ** Expanding dynamic abbrevs with M-/ is now smarter about case
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6480 conversion. If you type the abbreviation with mixed case, and it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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6481 matches the beginning of the expansion including case, then the
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6482 expansion is copied verbatim. Using SPC M-/ to copy an additional
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6483 word always copies it verbatim except when the previous copied word is
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6484 all caps.
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6485
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6486 ** On a non-windowing terminal, which can display only one Emacs frame
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6487 at a time, creating a new frame with C-x 5 2 also selects that frame.
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6488
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6489 When using a display that can show multiple frames at once, C-x 5 2
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6490 does make the frame visible, but does not select it. This is the same
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6491 as in previous Emacs versions.
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6492
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6493 ** You can use C-x 5 2 to create multiple frames on MSDOS, just as on a
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6494 non-X terminal on Unix. Of course, only one frame is visible at any
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6495 time, since your terminal doesn't have the ability to display multiple
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6496 frames.
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6497
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6498 ** On Windows, set win32-pass-alt-to-system to a non-nil value
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parents:
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6499 if you would like tapping the Alt key to invoke the Windows menu.
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parents:
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6500 This feature is not enabled by default; since the Alt key is also the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6501 Meta key, it is too easy and painful to activate this feature by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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6502 accident.
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6503
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6504 ** The command apply-macro-to-region-lines repeats the last defined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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6505 keyboard macro once for each complete line within the current region.
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6506 It does this line by line, by moving point to the beginning of that
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6507 line and then executing the macro.
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6508
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6509 This command is not new, but was never documented before.
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6510
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6511 ** You can now use Mouse-1 to place the region around a string constant
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6512 (something surrounded by doublequote characters or other delimiter
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6513 characters of like syntax) by double-clicking on one of the delimiting
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6514 characters.
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6515
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6516 ** Font Lock mode
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6517
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6518 *** Font Lock support modes
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6519
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6520 Font Lock can be configured to use Fast Lock mode and Lazy Lock mode (see
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6521 below) in a flexible way. Rather than adding the appropriate function to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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6522 hook font-lock-mode-hook, you can use the new variable font-lock-support-mode
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6523 to control which modes have Fast Lock mode or Lazy Lock mode turned on when
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6524 Font Lock mode is enabled.
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6525
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6526 For example, to use Fast Lock mode when Font Lock mode is turned on, put:
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6527
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6528 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'fast-lock-mode)
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6529
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6530 in your ~/.emacs.
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6531
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6532 *** lazy-lock
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6533
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6534 The lazy-lock package speeds up Font Lock mode by making fontification occur
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6535 only when necessary, such as when a previously unfontified part of the buffer
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6536 becomes visible in a window. When you create a buffer with Font Lock mode and
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parents:
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6537 Lazy Lock mode turned on, the buffer is not fontified. When certain events
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diff changeset
6538 occur (such as scrolling), Lazy Lock makes sure that the visible parts of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6539 buffer are fontified. Lazy Lock also defers on-the-fly fontification until
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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6540 Emacs has been idle for a given amount of time.
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6541
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6542 To use this package, put in your ~/.emacs:
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6543
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6544 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
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6545
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6546 To control the package behaviour, see the documentation for `lazy-lock-mode'.
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6547
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diff changeset
6548 ** Changes in BibTeX mode.
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6549
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parents:
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6550 *** For all entries allow spaces and tabs between opening brace or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6551 paren and key.
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parents:
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6552
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parents:
diff changeset
6553 *** Non-escaped double-quoted characters (as in `Sch"of') are now
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parents:
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6554 supported.
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parents:
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6555
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6556 ** Gnus changes.
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6557
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6558 Gnus, the Emacs news reader, has undergone further rewriting. Many new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6559 commands and variables have been added. There should be no
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6560 significant incompatibilities between this Gnus version and the
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parents:
diff changeset
6561 previously released version, except in the message composition area.
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parents:
diff changeset
6562
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6563 Below is a list of the more user-visible changes. Coding changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6564 between Gnus 5.1 and 5.2 are more extensive.
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parents:
diff changeset
6565
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
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6566 *** A new message composition mode is used. All old customization
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
6567 variables for mail-mode, rnews-reply-mode and gnus-msg are now
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parents:
diff changeset
6568 obsolete.
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parents:
diff changeset
6569
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parents:
diff changeset
6570 *** Gnus is now able to generate "sparse" threads -- threads where
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6571 missing articles are represented by empty nodes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
6572
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parents:
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6573 (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some)
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6574
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parents:
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6575 *** Outgoing articles are stored on a special archive server.
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6576
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parents:
diff changeset
6577 To disable this: (setq gnus-message-archive-group nil)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6578
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6579 *** Partial thread regeneration now happens when articles are
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6580 referred.
25853
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6581
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6582 *** Gnus can make use of GroupLens predictions:
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6583
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6584 (setq gnus-use-grouplens t)
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6585
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parents:
diff changeset
6586 *** A trn-line tree buffer can be displayed.
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diff changeset
6587
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diff changeset
6588 (setq gnus-use-trees t)
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parents:
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6589
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parents:
diff changeset
6590 *** An nn-like pick-and-read minor mode is available for the summary
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6591 buffers.
25853
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parents:
diff changeset
6592
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parents:
diff changeset
6593 (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'gnus-pick-mode)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
6594
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6595 *** In binary groups you can use a special binary minor mode:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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6596
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6597 `M-x gnus-binary-mode'
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6598
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6599 *** Groups can be grouped in a folding topic hierarchy.
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parents:
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6600
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parents:
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6601 (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
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parents:
diff changeset
6602
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parents:
diff changeset
6603 *** Gnus can re-send and bounce mail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6604
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6605 Use the `S D r' and `S D b'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6606
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6607 *** Groups can now have a score, and bubbling based on entry frequency
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parents:
diff changeset
6608 is possible.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6609
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6610 (add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-summary-bubble-group)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6611
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6612 *** Groups can be process-marked, and commands can be performed on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6613 groups of groups.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6614
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6615 *** Caching is possible in virtual groups.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6616
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6617 *** nndoc now understands all kinds of digests, mail boxes, rnews news
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6618 batches, ClariNet briefs collections, and just about everything else.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6619
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6620 *** Gnus has a new backend (nnsoup) to create/read SOUP packets.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6621
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parents:
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6622 *** The Gnus cache is much faster.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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6623
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parents:
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6624 *** Groups can be sorted according to many criteria.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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6625
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parents:
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6626 For instance: (setq gnus-group-sort-function 'gnus-group-sort-by-rank)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6627
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6628 *** New group parameters have been introduced to set list-address and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6629 expiration times.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6630
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parents:
diff changeset
6631 *** All formatting specs allow specifying faces to be used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6632
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6633 *** There are several more commands for setting/removing/acting on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6634 process marked articles on the `M P' submap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6635
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6636 *** The summary buffer can be limited to show parts of the available
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6637 articles based on a wide range of criteria. These commands have been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6638 bound to keys on the `/' submap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6639
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6640 *** Articles can be made persistent -- as an alternative to saving
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6641 articles with the `*' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6642
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6643 *** All functions for hiding article elements are now toggles.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6644
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6645 *** Article headers can be buttonized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6646
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6647 (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-add-buttons-to-head)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6648
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6649 *** All mail backends support fetching articles by Message-ID.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6650
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6651 *** Duplicate mail can now be treated properly. See the
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6652 `nnmail-treat-duplicates' variable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6653
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6654 *** All summary mode commands are available directly from the article
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6655 buffer.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6656
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6657 *** Frames can be part of `gnus-buffer-configuration'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6658
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6659 *** Mail can be re-scanned by a daemonic process.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6660
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6661 *** Gnus can make use of NoCeM files to filter spam.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6662
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6663 (setq gnus-use-nocem t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6664
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6665 *** Groups can be made permanently visible.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6666
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6667 (setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups "^nnml:")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6668
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6669 *** Many new hooks have been introduced to make customizing easier.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6670
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6671 *** Gnus respects the Mail-Copies-To header.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6672
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6673 *** Threads can be gathered by looking at the References header.
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6674
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6675 (setq gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6676 'gnus-gather-threads-by-references)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6677
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6678 *** Read articles can be stored in a special backlog buffer to avoid
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6679 refetching.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6680
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6681 (setq gnus-keep-backlog 50)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6682
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6683 *** A clean copy of the current article is always stored in a separate
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6684 buffer to allow easier treatment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6685
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6686 *** Gnus can suggest where to save articles. See `gnus-split-methods'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6687
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6688 *** Gnus doesn't have to do as much prompting when saving.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6689
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6690 (setq gnus-prompt-before-saving t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6691
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6692 *** gnus-uu can view decoded files asynchronously while fetching
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6693 articles.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6694
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6695 (setq gnus-uu-grabbed-file-functions 'gnus-uu-grab-view)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6696
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
6697 *** Filling in the article buffer now works properly on cited text.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6698
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6699 *** Hiding cited text adds buttons to toggle hiding, and how much
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6700 cited text to hide is now customizable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6701
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6702 (setq gnus-cited-lines-visible 2)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6703
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6704 *** Boring headers can be hidden.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6705
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6706 (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-hide-boring-headers)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6707
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6708 *** Default scoring values can now be set from the menu bar.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6709
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6710 *** Further syntax checking of outgoing articles have been added.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6711
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6712 The Gnus manual has been expanded. It explains all these new features
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6713 in greater detail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6714
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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6715 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 19.32
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6716
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6717 ** The function set-visited-file-name now accepts an optional
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6718 second argument NO-QUERY. If it is non-nil, then the user is not
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6719 asked for confirmation in the case where the specified file already
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6720 exists.
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6721
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6722 ** The variable print-length applies to printing vectors and bitvectors,
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6723 as well as lists.
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6724
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6725 ** The new function keymap-parent returns the parent keymap
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6726 of a given keymap.
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6727
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6728 ** The new function set-keymap-parent specifies a new parent for a
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6729 given keymap. The arguments are KEYMAP and PARENT. PARENT must be a
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6730 keymap or nil.
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6731
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6732 ** Sometimes menu keymaps use a command name, a symbol, which is really
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6733 an automatically generated alias for some other command, the "real"
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6734 name. In such a case, you should give that alias symbol a non-nil
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6735 menu-alias property. That property tells the menu system to look for
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6736 equivalent keys for the real name instead of equivalent keys for the
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6737 alias.
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6738
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6739 * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.31
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6740
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6741 ** Freedom of the press restricted in the United States.
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6742
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6743 Emacs has been censored in accord with the Communications Decency Act.
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diff changeset
6744 This includes removing some features of the doctor program. That law
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parents:
diff changeset
6745 was described by its supporters as a ban on pornography, but it bans
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6746 far more than that. The Emacs distribution has never contained any
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6747 pornography, but parts of it were nonetheless prohibited.
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6748
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6749 For information on US government censorship of the Internet, and what
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6750 you can do to bring back freedom of the press, see the web site
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6751 `http://www.vtw.org/'.
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6752
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6753 ** A note about C mode indentation customization.
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6754
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6755 The old (Emacs 19.29) ways of specifying a C indentation style
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6756 do not normally work in the new implementation of C mode.
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6757 It has its own methods of customizing indentation, which are
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parents:
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6758 much more powerful than the old C mode. See the Editing Programs
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6759 chapter of the manual for details.
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6760
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6761 However, you can load the library cc-compat to make the old
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6762 customization variables take effect.
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6763
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6764 ** Marking with the mouse.
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6765
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6766 When you mark a region with the mouse, the region now remains
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6767 highlighted until the next input event, regardless of whether you are
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6768 using M-x transient-mark-mode.
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6769
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6770 ** Improved Windows NT/95 support.
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6771
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6772 *** Emacs now supports scroll bars on Windows NT and Windows 95.
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6773
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6774 *** Emacs now supports subprocesses on Windows 95. (Subprocesses used
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6775 to work on NT only and not on 95.)
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6776
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6777 *** There are difficulties with subprocesses, though, due to problems
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6778 in Windows, beyond the control of Emacs. They work fine as long as
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6779 you run Windows applications. The problems arise when you run a DOS
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6780 application in a subprocesses. Since current shells run as DOS
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6781 applications, these problems are significant.
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6782
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6783 If you run a DOS application in a subprocess, then the application is
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6784 likely to busy-wait, which means that your machine will be 100% busy.
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diff changeset
6785 However, if you don't mind the temporary heavy load, the subprocess
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6786 will work OK as long as you tell it to terminate before you start any
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6787 other DOS application as a subprocess.
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6788
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6789 Emacs is unable to terminate or interrupt a DOS subprocess.
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6790 You have to do this by providing input directly to the subprocess.
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6791
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6792 If you run two DOS applications at the same time in two separate
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6793 subprocesses, even if one of them is asynchronous, you will probably
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6794 have to reboot your machine--until then, it will remain 100% busy.
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6795 Windows simply does not cope when one Windows process tries to run two
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6796 separate DOS subprocesses. Typing CTL-ALT-DEL and then choosing
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6797 Shutdown seems to work although it may take a few minutes.
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6798
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diff changeset
6799 ** M-x resize-minibuffer-mode.
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6800
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diff changeset
6801 This command, not previously mentioned in NEWS, toggles a mode in
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parents:
diff changeset
6802 which the minibuffer window expands to show as many lines as the
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parents:
diff changeset
6803 minibuffer contains.
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parents:
diff changeset
6804
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parents:
diff changeset
6805 ** `title' frame parameter and resource.
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parents:
diff changeset
6806
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parents:
diff changeset
6807 The `title' X resource now specifies just the frame title, nothing else.
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parents:
diff changeset
6808 It does not affect the name used for looking up other X resources.
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parents:
diff changeset
6809 It works by setting the new `title' frame parameter, which likewise
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parents:
diff changeset
6810 affects just the displayed title of the frame.
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parents:
diff changeset
6811
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parents:
diff changeset
6812 The `name' parameter continues to do what it used to do:
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parents:
diff changeset
6813 it specifies the frame name for looking up X resources,
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parents:
diff changeset
6814 and also serves as the default for the displayed title
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parents:
diff changeset
6815 when the `title' parameter is unspecified or nil.
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parents:
diff changeset
6816
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diff changeset
6817 ** Emacs now uses the X toolkit by default, if you have a new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6818 enough version of X installed (X11R5 or newer).
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diff changeset
6819
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diff changeset
6820 ** When you compile Emacs with the Motif widget set, Motif handles the
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diff changeset
6821 F10 key by activating the menu bar. To avoid confusion, the usual
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parents:
diff changeset
6822 Emacs binding of F10 is replaced with a no-op when using Motif.
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6823
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diff changeset
6824 If you want to be able to use F10 in Emacs, you can rebind the Motif
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parents:
diff changeset
6825 menubar to some other key which you don't use. To do so, add
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parents:
diff changeset
6826 something like this to your X resources file. This example rebinds
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parents:
diff changeset
6827 the Motif menu bar activation key to S-F12:
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6828
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6829 Emacs*defaultVirtualBindings: osfMenuBar : Shift<Key>F12
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6830
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parents:
diff changeset
6831 ** In overwrite mode, DEL now inserts spaces in most cases
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parents:
diff changeset
6832 to replace the characters it "deletes".
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6833
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parents:
diff changeset
6834 ** The Rmail summary now shows the number of lines in each message.
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parents:
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6835
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parents:
diff changeset
6836 ** Rmail has a new command M-x unforward-rmail-message, which extracts
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parents:
diff changeset
6837 a forwarded message from the message that forwarded it. To use it,
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parents:
diff changeset
6838 select a message which contains a forwarded message and then type the command.
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parents:
diff changeset
6839 It inserts the forwarded message as a separate Rmail message
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parents:
diff changeset
6840 immediately after the selected one.
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parents:
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6841
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diff changeset
6842 This command also undoes the textual modifications that are standardly
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parents:
diff changeset
6843 made, as part of forwarding, by Rmail and other mail reader programs.
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6844
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6845 ** Turning off saving of .saves-... files in your home directory.
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parents:
diff changeset
6846
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6847 Each Emacs session writes a file named .saves-... in your home
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parents:
diff changeset
6848 directory to record which files M-x recover-session should recover.
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parents:
diff changeset
6849 If you exit Emacs normally with C-x C-c, it deletes that file. If
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parents:
diff changeset
6850 Emacs or the operating system crashes, the file remains for M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6851 recover-session.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6852
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6853 You can turn off the writing of these files by setting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6854 auto-save-list-file-name to nil. If you do this, M-x recover-session
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6855 will not work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6856
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6857 Some previous Emacs versions failed to delete these files even on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6858 normal exit. This is fixed now. If you are thinking of turning off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6859 this feature because of past experiences with versions that had this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6860 bug, it would make sense to check whether you still want to do so
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6861 now that the bug is fixed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6862
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parents:
diff changeset
6863 ** Changes to Version Control (VC)
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parents:
diff changeset
6864
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6865 There is a new variable, vc-follow-symlinks. It indicates what to do
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parents:
diff changeset
6866 when you visit a link to a file that is under version control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6867 Editing the file through the link bypasses the version control system,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6868 which is dangerous and probably not what you want.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6869
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parents:
diff changeset
6870 If this variable is t, VC follows the link and visits the real file,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6871 telling you about it in the echo area. If it is `ask' (the default),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6872 VC asks for confirmation whether it should follow the link. If nil,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6873 the link is visited and a warning displayed.
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parents:
diff changeset
6874
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parents:
diff changeset
6875 ** iso-acc.el now lets you specify a choice of language.
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parents:
diff changeset
6876 Languages include "latin-1" (the default) and "latin-2" (which
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parents:
diff changeset
6877 is designed for entering ISO Latin-2 characters).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6878
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parents:
diff changeset
6879 There are also choices for specific human languages such as French and
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parents:
diff changeset
6880 Portuguese. These are subsets of Latin-1, which differ in that they
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6881 enable only the accent characters needed for particular language.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6882 The other accent characters, not needed for the chosen language,
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parents:
diff changeset
6883 remain normal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6884
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parents:
diff changeset
6885 ** Posting articles and sending mail now has M-TAB completion on various
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6886 header fields (Newsgroups, To, CC, ...).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6887
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6888 Completion in the Newsgroups header depends on the list of groups
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6889 known to your news reader. Completion in the Followup-To header
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6890 offers those groups which are in the Newsgroups header, since
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6891 Followup-To usually just holds one of those.
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parents:
diff changeset
6892
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parents:
diff changeset
6893 Completion in fields that hold mail addresses works based on the list
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6894 of local users plus your aliases. Additionally, if your site provides
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6895 a mail directory or a specific host to use for any unrecognized user
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6896 name, you can arrange to query that host for completion also. (See the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6897 documentation of variables `mail-directory-process' and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6898 `mail-directory-stream'.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6899
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diff changeset
6900 ** A greatly extended sgml-mode offers new features such as (to be configured)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6901 skeletons with completing read for tags and attributes, typing named
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6902 characters including optionally all 8bit characters, making tags invisible
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parents:
diff changeset
6903 with optional alternate display text, skipping and deleting tag(pair)s.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6904
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parents:
diff changeset
6905 Note: since Emacs' syntax feature cannot limit the special meaning of ', " and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6906 - to inside <>, for some texts the result, especially of font locking, may be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6907 wrong (see `sgml-specials' if you get wrong results).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6908
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6909 The derived html-mode configures this with tags and attributes more or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6910 less HTML3ish. It also offers optional quick keys like C-c 1 for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6911 headline or C-c u for unordered list (see `html-quick-keys'). Edit /
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6912 Text Properties / Face or M-g combinations create tags as applicable.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6913 Outline minor mode is supported and level 1 font-locking tries to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6914 fontify tag contents (which only works when they fit on one line, due
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6915 to a limitation in font-lock).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6916
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parents:
diff changeset
6917 External viewing via browse-url can occur automatically upon saving.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6918
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parents:
diff changeset
6919 ** M-x imenu-add-to-menubar now adds to the menu bar for the current
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6920 buffer only. If you want to put an Imenu item in the menu bar for all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6921 buffers that use a particular major mode, use the mode hook, as in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6922 this example:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6923
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parents:
diff changeset
6924 (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6925 '(lambda () (imenu-add-to-menubar "Index")))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6926
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parents:
diff changeset
6927 ** Changes in BibTeX mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6928
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parents:
diff changeset
6929 *** Field names may now contain digits, hyphens, and underscores.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6930
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parents:
diff changeset
6931 *** Font Lock mode is now supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6932
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parents:
diff changeset
6933 *** bibtex-make-optional-field is no longer interactive.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6934
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6935 *** If bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is non-nil, inserting new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6936 entries is now done with a faster algorithm. However, inserting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6937 will fail in this case if the buffer contains invalid entries or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6938 isn't in sorted order, so you should finish each entry with C-c C-c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6939 (bibtex-close-entry) after you have inserted or modified it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6940 The default value of bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is nil.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6941
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6942 *** 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
6943 does the same job.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6944
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6945 *** Entries with quotes inside quote-delimited fields (as `author =
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parents:
diff changeset
6946 "Stefan Sch{\"o}f"') are now supported.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6947
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6948 *** Case in field names doesn't matter anymore when searching for help
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6949 text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6950
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6951 ** Font Lock mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6952
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6953 *** Global Font Lock mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6954
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6955 Font Lock mode can be turned on globally, in buffers that support it, by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6956 new command global-font-lock-mode. You can use the new variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6957 font-lock-global-modes to control which modes have Font Lock mode automagically
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6958 turned on. By default, this variable is set so that Font Lock mode is turned
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6959 on globally where the buffer mode supports it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6960
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6961 For example, to automagically turn on Font Lock mode where supported, put:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6962
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6963 (global-font-lock-mode t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6964
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6965 in your ~/.emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6966
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6967 *** Local Refontification
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6968
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6969 In Font Lock mode, editing a line automatically refontifies that line only.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6970 However, if your change alters the syntactic context for following lines,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6971 those lines remain incorrectly fontified. To refontify them, use the new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6972 command M-g M-g (font-lock-fontify-block).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6973
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6974 In certain major modes, M-g M-g refontifies the entire current function.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6975 (The variable font-lock-mark-block-function controls how to find the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6976 current function.) In other major modes, M-g M-g refontifies 16 lines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6977 above and below point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6978
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6979 With a prefix argument N, M-g M-g refontifies N lines above and below point.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6980
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6981 ** Follow mode
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6982
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6983 Follow mode is a new minor mode combining windows showing the same
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6984 buffer into one tall "virtual window". The windows are typically two
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6985 side-by-side windows. Follow mode makes them scroll together as if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6986 they were a unit. To use it, go to a frame with just one window,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6987 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
6988 follow-mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6989
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6990 M-x follow-mode turns off Follow mode if it is already enabled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6991
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6992 To display two side-by-side windows and activate Follow mode, use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6993 command M-x follow-delete-other-windows-and-split.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6994
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6995 ** hide-show changes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6997 The hooks hs-hide-hooks and hs-show-hooks have been renamed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6998 to hs-hide-hook and hs-show-hook, to follow the convention for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
6999 normal hooks.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7000
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7001 ** Simula mode now has a menu containing the most important commands.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7002 The new command simula-indent-exp is bound to C-M-q.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7003
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7004 ** etags can now handle programs written in Erlang. Files are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7005 recognised by the extensions .erl and .hrl. The tagged lines are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7006 those that begin a function, record, or macro.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7007
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7008 ** MSDOS Changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7009
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7010 *** It is now possible to compile Emacs with the version 2 of DJGPP.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7011 Compilation with DJGPP version 1 also still works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7012
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7013 *** The documentation of DOS-specific aspects of Emacs was rewritten
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7014 and expanded; see the ``MS-DOS'' node in the on-line docs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7015
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7016 *** Emacs now uses ~ for backup file names, not .bak.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7017
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7018 *** You can simulate mouse-3 on two-button mice by simultaneously
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7019 pressing both mouse buttons.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7020
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7021 *** A number of packages and commands which previously failed or had
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7022 restricted functionality on MS-DOS, now work. The most important ones
26264
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
parents: 26171
diff changeset
7023 are:
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7024
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7025 **** Printing (both with `M-x lpr-buffer' and with `ps-print' package)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7026 now works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7027
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7028 **** `Ediff' works (in a single-frame mode).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7029
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7030 **** `M-x display-time' can be used on MS-DOS (due to the new
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7031 implementation of Emacs timers, see below).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7032
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7033 **** `Dired' supports Unix-style shell wildcards.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7034
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7035 **** The `c-macro-expand' command now works as on other platforms.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7036
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7037 **** `M-x recover-session' works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7038
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7039 **** `M-x list-colors-display' displays all the available colors.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7040
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7041 **** The `TPU-EDT' package works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7042
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7043 * Lisp changes in Emacs 19.31.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7044
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7045 ** The function using-unix-filesystems on Windows NT and Windows 95
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7046 tells Emacs to read and write files assuming that they reside on a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7047 remote Unix filesystem. No CR/LF translation is done on any files in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7048 this case. Invoking using-unix-filesystems with t activates this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7049 behavior, and invoking it with any other value deactivates it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7050
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7051 ** Change in system-type and system-configuration values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7052
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7053 The value of system-type on a Linux-based GNU system is now `lignux',
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7054 not `linux'. This means that some programs which use `system-type'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7055 need to be changed. The value of `system-configuration' will also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7056 be different.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7057
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7058 It is generally recommended to use `system-configuration' rather
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7059 than `system-type'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7060
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7061 See the file LINUX-GNU in this directory for more about this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7062
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7063 ** The functions shell-command and dired-call-process
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7064 now run file name handlers for default-directory, if it has them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7065
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7066 ** Undoing the deletion of text now restores the positions of markers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7067 that pointed into or next to the deleted text.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7068
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7069 ** Timers created with run-at-time now work internally to Emacs, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7070 no longer use a separate process. Therefore, they now work more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7071 reliably and can be used for shorter time delays.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7072
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7073 The new function run-with-timer is a convenient way to set up a timer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7074 to run a specified amount of time after the present. A call looks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7075 like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7076
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7077 (run-with-timer SECS REPEAT FUNCTION ARGS...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7078
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7079 SECS says how many seconds should elapse before the timer happens.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7080 It may be an integer or a floating point number. When the timer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7081 becomes ripe, the action is to call FUNCTION with arguments ARGS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7082
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7083 REPEAT gives the interval for repeating the timer (measured in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7084 seconds). It may be an integer or a floating point number. nil or 0
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7085 means don't repeat at all--call FUNCTION just once.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7086
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7087 *** with-timeout provides an easy way to do something but give
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7088 up if too much time passes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7089
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7090 (with-timeout (SECONDS TIMEOUT-FORMS...) BODY...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7091
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7092 This executes BODY, but gives up after SECONDS seconds.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7093 If it gives up, it runs the TIMEOUT-FORMS and returns the value
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7094 of the last one of them. Normally it returns the value of the last
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7095 form in BODY.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7096
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7097 *** You can now arrange to call a function whenever Emacs is idle for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7098 a certain length of time. To do this, call run-with-idle-timer. A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7099 call looks like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7100
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7101 (run-with-idle-timer SECS REPEAT FUNCTION ARGS...)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7102
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7103 SECS says how many seconds of idleness should elapse before the timer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7104 runs. It may be an integer or a floating point number. When the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7105 timer becomes ripe, the action is to call FUNCTION with arguments
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7106 ARGS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7107
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7108 Emacs becomes idle whenever it finishes executing a keyboard or mouse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7109 command. It remains idle until it receives another keyboard or mouse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7110 command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7111
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7112 REPEAT, if non-nil, means this timer should be activated again each
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7113 time Emacs becomes idle and remains idle for SECS seconds The timer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7114 does not repeat if Emacs *remains* idle; it runs at most once after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7115 each time Emacs becomes idle.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7116
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7117 If REPEAT is nil, the timer runs just once, the first time Emacs is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7118 idle for SECS seconds.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7119
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7120 *** post-command-idle-hook is now obsolete; you shouldn't use it at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7121 all, because it interferes with the idle timer mechanism. If your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7122 programs use post-command-idle-hook, convert them to use idle timers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7123 instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7124
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7125 *** y-or-n-p-with-timeout lets you ask a question but give up if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7126 there is no answer within a certain time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7127
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7128 (y-or-n-p-with-timeout PROMPT SECONDS DEFAULT-VALUE)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7129
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7130 asks the question PROMPT (just like y-or-n-p). If the user answers
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7131 within SECONDS seconds, it returns the answer that the user gave.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7132 Otherwise it gives up after SECONDS seconds, and returns DEFAULT-VALUE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7133
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7134 ** Minor change to `encode-time': you can now pass more than seven
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7135 arguments. If you do that, the first six arguments have the usual
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7136 meaning, the last argument is interpreted as the time zone, and the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7137 arguments in between are ignored.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7138
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7139 This means that it works to use the list returned by `decode-time' as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7140 the list of arguments for `encode-time'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7141
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7142 ** The default value of load-path now includes the directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7143 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp In addition to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7144 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp. You can use this new directory for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7145 site-specific Lisp packages that belong with a particular Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7146 version.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7147
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7148 It is not unusual for a Lisp package that works well in one Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7149 version to cause trouble in another. Sometimes packages need updating
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7150 for incompatible changes; sometimes they look at internal data that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7151 has changed; sometimes the package has been installed in Emacs itself
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7152 and the installed version should be used. Whatever the reason for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7153 problem, this new feature makes it easier to solve.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7154
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7155 ** When your program contains a fixed file name (like .completions or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7156 .abbrev.defs), the file name usually needs to be different on operating
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7157 systems with limited file name syntax.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7158
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7159 Now you can avoid ad-hoc conditionals by using the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7160 convert-standard-filename to convert the file name to a proper form
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7161 for each operating system. Here is an example of use, from the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7162 completions.el:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7163
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7164 (defvar save-completions-file-name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7165 (convert-standard-filename "~/.completions")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7166 "*The filename to save completions to.")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7167
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7168 This sets the variable save-completions-file-name to a value that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7169 depends on the operating system, because the definition of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7170 convert-standard-filename depends on the operating system. On
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7171 Unix-like systems, it returns the specified file name unchanged. On
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7172 MS-DOS, it adapts the name to fit the limitations of that system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7173
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7174 ** The interactive spec N now returns the numeric prefix argument
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7175 rather than the raw prefix argument. (It still reads a number using the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7176 minibuffer if there is no prefix argument at all.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7177
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7178 ** When a process is deleted, this no longer disconnects the process
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7179 marker from its buffer position.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7180
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7181 ** The variable garbage-collection-messages now controls whether
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7182 Emacs displays a message at the beginning and end of garbage collection.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7183 The default is nil, meaning there are no messages.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7184
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7185 ** The variable debug-ignored-errors specifies certain kinds of errors
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7186 that should not enter the debugger. Its value is a list of error
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7187 condition symbols and/or regular expressions. If the error has any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7188 of the condition symbols listed, or if any of the regular expressions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7189 matches the error message, then that error does not enter the debugger,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7190 regardless of the value of debug-on-error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7191
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7192 This variable is initialized to match certain common but uninteresting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7193 errors that happen often during editing.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7194
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7195 ** The new function error-message-string converts an error datum
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7196 into its error message. The error datum is what condition-case
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7197 puts into the variable, to describe the error that happened.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7198
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7199 ** Anything that changes which buffer appears in a given window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7200 now runs the window-scroll-functions for that window.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
7201
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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7202 ** The new function get-buffer-window-list returns a list of windows displaying
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7203 a buffer. The function is called with the buffer (a buffer object or a buffer
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7204 name) and two optional arguments specifying the minibuffer windows and frames
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7205 to search. Therefore this function takes optional args like next-window etc.,
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7206 and not get-buffer-window.
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7207
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7208 ** buffer-substring now runs the hook buffer-access-fontify-functions,
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7209 calling each function with two arguments--the range of the buffer
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7210 being accessed. buffer-substring-no-properties does not call them.
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7211
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7212 If you use this feature, you should set the variable
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7213 buffer-access-fontified-property to a non-nil symbol, which is a
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7214 property name. Then, if all the characters in the buffer range have a
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7215 non-nil value for that property, the buffer-access-fontify-functions
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7216 are not called. When called, these functions should put a non-nil
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7217 property on the text that they fontify, so that they won't get called
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7218 over and over for the same text.
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7219
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7220 ** Changes in lisp-mnt.el
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7221
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7222 *** The lisp-mnt package can now recognize file headers that are written
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7223 in the formats used by the `what' command and the RCS `ident' command:
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7224
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7225 ;; @(#) HEADER: text
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7226 ;; $HEADER: text $
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7227
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7228 in addition to the normal
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7229
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7230 ;; HEADER: text
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7231
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7232 *** The commands lm-verify and lm-synopsis are now interactive. lm-verify
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7233 checks that the library file has proper sections and headers, and
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7234 lm-synopsis extracts first line "synopsis'"information.
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7235
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7236 * For older news, see the file ONEWS.
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7237
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7238 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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7239 Copyright information:
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7240
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7241 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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7242
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7243 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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7244 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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7245 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
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7246 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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7247
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7248 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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7249 of this document, or of portions of it,
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7250 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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7251 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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7252
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7253 Local variables:
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7254 mode: outline
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7255 paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
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7256 end: