Mercurial > emacs
annotate etc/ONEWS.1 @ 59917:81a7887c8c82
*** empty log message ***
author | Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> |
---|---|
date | Fri, 04 Feb 2005 06:38:34 +0000 |
parents | 695cf19ef79e |
children | 375f2633d815 |
rev | line source |
---|---|
33149 | 1 Old GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes thru version 15. |
2 Copyright (C) 1985 Richard M. Stallman. | |
3 See the end for copying conditions. | |
4 | |
5 Changes in Emacs 15 | |
6 | |
7 * Emacs now runs on Sun and Megatest 68000 systems; | |
8 also on at least one 16000 system running 4.2. | |
9 | |
10 * Emacs now alters the output-start and output-stop characters | |
11 to prevent C-s and C-q from being considered as flow control | |
12 by cretinous rlogin software in 4.2. | |
13 | |
14 * It is now possible convert Mocklisp code (for Gosling Emacs) to Lisp code | |
15 that can run in GNU Emacs. M-x convert-mocklisp-buffer | |
16 converts the contents of the current buffer from Mocklisp to | |
17 GNU Emacs Lisp. You should then save the converted buffer with C-x C-w | |
18 under a name ending in ".el" | |
19 | |
20 There are probably some Mocklisp constructs that are not handled. | |
21 If you encounter one, feel free to report the failure as a bug. | |
22 The construct will be handled in a future Emacs release, if that is not | |
23 not too hard to do. | |
24 | |
25 Note that lisp code converted from Mocklisp code will not necessarily | |
26 run as fast as code specifically written for GNU Emacs, nor will it use | |
27 the many features of GNU Emacs which are not present in Gosling's emacs. | |
28 (In particular, the byte-compiler (m-x byte-compile-file) knows little | |
29 about compilation of code directly converted from mocklisp.) | |
30 It is envisaged that old mocklisp code will be incrementally converted | |
31 to GNU lisp code, with M-x convert-mocklisp-buffer being the first | |
32 step in this process. | |
33 | |
34 * Control-x n (narrow-to-region) is now by default a disabled command. | |
35 | |
36 This means that, if you issue this command, it will ask whether | |
37 you really mean it. You have the opportunity to enable the | |
38 command permanently at that time, so you will not be asked again. | |
39 This will place the form "(put 'narrow-to-region 'disabled nil)" in your | |
40 .emacs file. | |
41 | |
42 * Tags now prompts for the tag table file name to use. | |
43 | |
44 All the tags commands ask for the tag table file name | |
45 if you have not yet specified one. | |
46 | |
47 Also, the command M-x visit-tag-table can now be used to | |
48 specify the tag table file name initially, or to switch | |
49 to a new tag table. | |
50 | |
51 * If truncate-partial-width-windows is non-nil (as it intially is), | |
52 all windows less than the full screen width (that is, | |
53 made by side-by-side splitting) truncate lines rather than continuing | |
54 them. | |
55 | |
56 * Emacs now checks for Lisp stack overflow to avoid fatal errors. | |
57 The depth in eval, apply and funcall may not exceed max-lisp-eval-depth. | |
58 The depth in variable bindings and unwind-protects may not exceed | |
59 max-specpdl-size. If either limit is exceeded, an error occurs. | |
60 You can set the limits to larger values if you wish, but if you make them | |
61 too large, you are vulnerable to a fatal error if you invoke | |
62 Lisp code that does infinite recursion. | |
63 | |
64 * New hooks find-file-hook and write-file-hook. | |
65 Both of these variables if non-nil should be functions of no arguments. | |
66 At the time they are called (current-buffer) will be the buffer being | |
67 read or written respectively. | |
68 | |
69 find-file-hook is called whenever a file is read into its own buffer, | |
70 such as by calling find-file, revert-buffer, etc. It is not called by | |
71 functions such as insert-file which do not read the file into a buffer of | |
72 its own. | |
73 find-file-hook is called after the file has been read in and its | |
74 local variables (if any) have been processed. | |
75 | |
76 write-file-hook is called just before writing out a file from a buffer. | |
77 | |
78 * The initial value of shell-prompt-pattern is now "^[^#$%>]*[#$%>] *" | |
79 | |
80 * If the .emacs file sets inhibit-startup-message to non-nil, | |
81 the messages normally printed by Emacs at startup time | |
82 are inhibited. | |
83 | |
84 * Facility for run-time conditionalization on the basis of emacs features. | |
85 | |
86 The new variable features is a list of symbols which represent "features" | |
87 of the executing emacs, for use in run-time conditionalization. | |
88 | |
89 The function featurep of one argument may be used to test for the | |
90 presence of a feature. It is just the same as | |
91 (not (null (memq FEATURE features))) where FEATURE is its argument. | |
92 For example, (if (featurep 'magic-window-hack) | |
93 (transmogrify-window 'vertical) | |
94 (split-window-vertically)) | |
95 | |
96 The function provide of one argument "announces" that FEATURE is present. | |
97 It is much the same as (if (not (featurep FEATURE)) | |
98 (setq features (cons FEATURE features))) | |
99 | |
100 The function require with arguments FEATURE and FILE-NAME loads FILE-NAME | |
101 (which should contain the form (provide FEATURE)) unless FEATURE is present. | |
102 It is much the same as (if (not (featurep FEATURE)) | |
103 (progn (load FILE-NAME) | |
104 (if (not featurep FEATURE) (error ...)))) | |
105 FILE-NAME is optional and defaults to FEATURE. | |
106 | |
107 * New function load-average. | |
108 | |
109 This returns a list of three integers, which are | |
110 the current 1 minute, 5 minute and 15 minute load averages, | |
111 each multiplied by a hundred (since normally they are floating | |
112 point numbers). | |
113 | |
114 * Per-terminal libraries loaded automatically. | |
115 | |
116 Emacs when starting up on terminal type T automatically loads | |
117 a library named term-T. T is the value of the TERM environment variable. | |
118 Thus, on terminal type vt100, Emacs would do (load "term-vt100" t t). | |
119 Such libraries are good places to set the character translation table. | |
120 | |
121 It is a bad idea to redefine lots of commands in a per-terminal library, | |
122 since this affects all users. Instead, define a command to do the | |
123 redefinitions and let the user's init file, which is loaded later, | |
124 call that command or not, as the user prefers. | |
125 | |
126 * Programmer's note: detecting killed buffers. | |
127 | |
128 Buffers are eliminated by explicitly killing them, using | |
129 the function kill-buffer. This does not eliminate or affect | |
130 the pointers to the buffer which may exist in list structure. | |
131 If you have a pointer to a buffer and wish to tell whether | |
132 the buffer has been killed, use the function buffer-name. | |
133 It returns nil on a killed buffer, and a string on a live buffer. | |
134 | |
135 * New ways to access the last command input character. | |
136 | |
137 The function last-key-struck, which used to return the last | |
138 input character that was read by command input, is eliminated. | |
139 Instead, you can find this information as the value of the | |
140 variable last-command-char. (This variable used to be called | |
141 last-key). | |
142 | |
143 Another new variable, last-input-char, holds the last character | |
144 read from the command input stream regardless of what it was | |
145 read for. last-input-char and last-command-char are different | |
146 only inside a command that has called read-char to read input. | |
147 | |
148 * The new switch -kill causes Emacs to exit after processing the | |
149 preceding command line arguments. Thus, | |
150 emacs -l lib data -e do-it -kill | |
151 means to load lib, find file data, call do-it on no arguments, | |
152 and then exit. | |
153 | |
154 * The config.h file has been modularized. | |
155 | |
156 Options that depend on the machine you are running on are defined | |
157 in a file whose name starts with "m-", such as m-vax.h. | |
158 Options that depend on the operating system software version you are | |
159 running on are defined in a file whose name starts with "s-", | |
160 such as s-bsd4.2.h. | |
161 | |
162 config.h includes one m- file and one s- file. It also defines a | |
163 few other options whose values do not follow from the machine type | |
164 and system type being used. Installers normally will have to | |
165 select the correct m- and s- files but will never have to change their | |
166 contents. | |
167 | |
168 * Termcap AL and DL strings are understood. | |
169 | |
170 If the termcap entry defines AL and DL strings, for insertion | |
171 and deletion of multiple lines in one blow, Emacs now uses them. | |
172 This matters most on certain bit map display terminals for which | |
173 scrolling is comparatively slow. | |
174 | |
175 * Bias against scrolling screen far on fast terminals. | |
176 | |
177 Emacs now prefers to redraw a few lines rather than | |
178 shift them a long distance on the screen, when the terminal is fast. | |
179 | |
180 * New major mode, mim-mode. | |
181 | |
182 This major mode is for editing MDL code. Perhaps a MDL | |
183 user can explain why it is not called mdl-mode. | |
184 You must load the library mim-mode explicitly to use this. | |
185 | |
186 * GNU documentation formatter `texinfo'. | |
187 | |
188 The `texinfo' library defines a format for documentation | |
189 files which can be passed through Tex to make a printed manual | |
190 or passed through texinfo to make an Info file. Texinfo is | |
191 documented fully by its own Info file; compare this file | |
192 with its source, texinfo.texinfo, for additional guidance. | |
193 | |
194 All documentation files for GNU utilities should be written | |
195 in texinfo input format. | |
196 | |
197 Tex processing of texinfo files requires the Botex macro package. | |
198 This is not ready for distribution yet, but will appear at | |
199 a later time. | |
200 | |
201 * New function read-from-string (emacs 15.29) | |
202 | |
203 read-from-string takes three arguments: a string to read from, | |
204 and optionally start and end indices which delimit a substring | |
205 from which to read. (They default to 0 and the length of the string, | |
206 respectively.) | |
207 | |
208 This function returns a cons cell whose car is the object produced | |
209 by reading from the string and whose cdr is a number giving the | |
210 index in the string of the first character not read. That index may | |
211 be passed as the second argument to a later call to read-from-string | |
212 to read the next form represented by the string. | |
213 | |
214 In addition, the function read now accepts a string as its argument. | |
215 In this case, it calls read-from-string on the whole string, and | |
216 returns the car of the result. (ie the actual object read.) | |
217 | |
218 Changes in Emacs 14 | |
219 | |
220 * Completion now prints various messages such as [Sole Completion] | |
221 or [Next Character Not Unique] to describe the results obtained. | |
222 These messages appear after the text in the minibuffer, and remain | |
223 on the screen until a few seconds go by or you type a key. | |
224 | |
225 * The buffer-read-only flag is implemented. | |
226 Setting or binding this per-buffer variable to a non-nil value | |
227 makes illegal any operation which would modify the textual content of | |
228 the buffer. (Such operations signal a buffer-read-only error) | |
229 The read-only state of a buffer may be altered using toggle-read-only | |
230 (C-x C-q) | |
231 The buffers used by Rmail, Dired, Rnews, and Info are now read-only | |
232 by default to prevent accidental damage to the information in those | |
233 buffers. | |
234 | |
235 * Functions car-safe and cdr-safe. | |
236 These functions are like car and cdr when the argument is a cons. | |
237 Given an argument not a cons, car-safe always returns nil, with | |
238 no error; the same for cdr-safe. | |
239 | |
240 * The new function user-real-login-name returns the name corresponding | |
241 to the real uid of the Emacs process. This is usually the same | |
242 as what user-login-name returns; however, when Emacs is invoked | |
243 from su, user-real-login-name returns "root" but user-login-name | |
244 returns the name of the user who invoked su. | |
245 | |
246 Changes in Emacs 13 | |
247 | |
248 * There is a new version numbering scheme. | |
249 | |
250 What used to be the first version number, which was 1, | |
251 has been discarded since it does not seem that I need three | |
252 levels of version number. | |
253 | |
254 However, a new third version number has been added to represent | |
255 changes by user sites. This number will always be zero in | |
256 Emacs when I distribute it; it will be incremented each time | |
257 Emacs is built at another site. | |
258 | |
259 * There is now a reader syntax for Meta characters: | |
260 \M-CHAR means CHAR or'ed with the Meta bit. For example: | |
261 | |
262 ?\M-x is (+ ?x 128) | |
263 ?\M-\n is (+ ?\n 128) | |
264 ?\M-\^f is (+ ?\^f 128) | |
265 | |
266 This syntax can be used in strings too. Note, however, that | |
267 Meta characters are not meaningful in key sequences being passed | |
268 to define-key or lookup-key; you must use ESC characters (\e) | |
269 in them instead. | |
270 | |
271 ?\C- can be used likewise for control characters. (13.9) | |
272 | |
273 * Installation change | |
274 The string "../lisp" now adds to the front of the load-path | |
275 used for searching for Lisp files during Emacs initialization. | |
276 It used to replace the path specified in paths.h entirely. | |
277 Now the directory ../lisp is searched first and the directoris | |
278 specified in paths.h are searched afterward. | |
279 | |
280 Changes in Emacs 1.12 | |
281 | |
282 * There is a new installation procedure. | |
283 See the file INSTALL that comes in the top level | |
284 directory in the tar file or tape. | |
285 | |
286 * The Meta key is now supported on terminals that have it. | |
287 This is a shift key which causes the high bit to be turned on | |
288 in all input characters typed while it is held down. | |
289 | |
290 read-char now returns a value in the range 128-255 if | |
291 a Meta character is typed. When interpreted as command | |
292 input, a Meta character is equivalent to a two character | |
293 sequence, the meta prefix character followed by the un-metized | |
294 character (Meta-G unmetized is G). | |
295 | |
296 The meta prefix character | |
297 is specified by the value of the variable meta-prefix-char. | |
298 If this character (normally Escape) has been redefined locally | |
299 with a non-prefix definition (such as happens in completing | |
300 minibuffers) then the local redefinition is suppressed when | |
301 the character is not the last one in a key sequence. | |
302 So the local redefinition is effective if you type the character | |
303 explicitly, but not effective if the character comes from | |
304 the use of the Meta key. | |
305 | |
306 * `-' is no longer a completion command in the minibuffer. | |
307 It is an ordinary self-inserting character. | |
308 | |
309 * The list load-path of directories load to search for Lisp files | |
310 is now controlled by the EMACSLOADPATH environment variable | |
311 [[ Note this was originally EMACS-LOAD-PATH and has been changed | |
312 again; sh does not deal properly with hyphens in env variable names]] | |
313 rather than the EPATH environment variable. This is to avoid | |
314 conflicts with other Emacses. | |
315 | |
316 While Emacs is being built initially, the load-path | |
317 is now just ("../lisp"), ignoring paths.h. It does not | |
318 ignore EMACSLOADPATH, however; you should avoid having | |
319 this variable set while building Emacs. | |
320 | |
321 * You can now specify a translation table for keyboard | |
322 input characters, as a way of exchanging or substituting | |
323 keys on the keyboard. | |
324 | |
325 If the value of keyboard-translate-table is a string, | |
326 every character received from the keyboard is used as an | |
327 index in that string, and the character at that index in | |
328 the string is used as input instead of what was actually | |
329 typed. If the actual input character is >= the length of | |
330 the string, it is used unchanged. | |
331 | |
332 One way this feature can be used is to fix bad keyboard | |
49600
23a1cea22d13
Trailing whitespace deleted.
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
parents:
33149
diff
changeset
|
333 designes. For example, on some terminals, Delete is |
33149 | 334 Shift-Underscore. Since Delete is a more useful character |
335 than Underscore, it is an improvement to make the unshifted | |
336 character Delete and the shifted one Underscore. This can | |
337 be done with | |
338 | |
339 ;; First make a translate table that does the identity translation. | |
340 (setq keyboard-translate-table (make-string 128 0)) | |
341 (let ((i 0)) | |
342 (while (< i 128) | |
343 (aset keyboard-translate-table i i) | |
344 (setq i (1+ i)))) | |
345 | |
346 ;; Now alter translations of some characters. | |
347 (aset keyboard-translate-table ?\_ ?\^?) | |
348 (aset keyboard-translate-table ?\^? ?\_) | |
349 | |
350 If your terminal has a Meta key and can therefore send | |
351 codes up to 255, Meta characters are translated through | |
352 elements 128 through 255 of the translate table, and therefore | |
353 are translated independently of the corresponding non-Meta | |
354 characters. You must therefore establish translations | |
355 independently for the Meta characters if you want them too: | |
356 | |
357 ;; First make a translate table that does the identity translation. | |
358 (setq keyboard-translate-table (make-string 256 0)) | |
359 (let ((i 0)) | |
360 (while (< i 256) | |
361 (aset keyboard-translate-table i i) | |
362 (setq i (1+ i)))) | |
363 | |
364 ;; Now alter translations of some characters. | |
365 (aset keyboard-translate-table ?\_ ?\^?) | |
366 (aset keyboard-translate-table ?\^? ?\_) | |
367 | |
368 ;; Now alter translations of some Meta characters. | |
369 (aset keyboard-translate-table (+ 128 ?\_) (+ 128 ?\^?)) | |
370 (aset keyboard-translate-table (+ 128 ?\^?) (+ 128 ?\_)) | |
371 | |
372 * (process-kill-without-query PROCESS) | |
373 | |
374 This marks the process so that, when you kill Emacs, | |
375 you will not on its account be queried about active subprocesses. | |
376 | |
377 Changes in Emacs 1.11 | |
378 | |
379 * The commands C-c and C-z have been interchanged, | |
380 for greater compatibility with normal Unix usage. | |
381 C-z now runs suspend-emacs and C-c runs exit-recursive-edit. | |
382 | |
383 * The value returned by file-name-directory now ends | |
384 with a slash. (file-name-directory "foo/bar") => "foo/". | |
385 This avoids confusing results when dealing with files | |
386 in the root directory. | |
387 | |
388 The value of the per-buffer variable default-directory | |
389 is also supposed to have a final slash now. | |
390 | |
391 * There are now variables to control the switches passed to | |
392 `ls' by the C-x C-d command (list-directory). | |
393 list-directory-brief-switches is a string, initially "-CF", | |
394 used for brief listings, and list-directory-verbose-switches | |
395 is a string, initially "-l", used for verbose ones. | |
396 | |
397 * For Ann Arbor Ambassador terminals, the termcap "ti" string | |
398 is now used to initialize the screen geometry on entry to Emacs, | |
399 and the "te" string is used to set it back on exit. | |
400 If the termcap entry does not define the "ti" or "te" string, | |
401 Emacs does what it used to do. | |
402 | |
403 Changes in Emacs 1.10 | |
404 | |
405 * GNU Emacs has been made almost 1/3 smaller. | |
406 It now dumps out as only 530kbytes on Vax 4.2bsd. | |
407 | |
408 * The term "checkpoint" has been replaced by "auto save" | |
409 throughout the function names, variable names and documentation | |
410 of GNU Emacs. | |
411 | |
412 * The function load now tries appending ".elc" and ".el" | |
413 to the specified filename BEFORE it tries the filename | |
414 without change. | |
415 | |
416 * rmail now makes the mode line display the total number | |
417 of messages and the current message number. | |
418 The "f" command now means forward a message to another user. | |
419 The command to search through all messages for a string is now "F". | |
420 The "u" command now means to move back to the previous | |
421 message and undelete it. To undelete the selected message, use Meta-u. | |
422 | |
423 * The hyphen character is now equivalent to a Space while | |
424 in completing minibuffers. Both mean to complete an additional word. | |
425 | |
426 * The Lisp function error now takes args like format | |
427 which are used to construct the error message. | |
428 | |
429 * Redisplay will refuse to start its display at the end of the buffer. | |
430 It will pick a new place to display from, rather than use that. | |
431 | |
432 * The value returned by garbage-collect has been changed. | |
433 Its first element is no longer a number but a cons, | |
434 whose car is the number of cons cells now in use, | |
435 and whose cdr is the number of cons cells that have been | |
436 made but are now free. | |
437 The second element is similar but describes symbols rather than cons cells. | |
438 The third element is similar but describes markers. | |
439 | |
440 * The variable buffer-name has been eliminated. | |
441 The function buffer-name still exists. This is to prevent | |
442 user programs from changing buffer names without going | |
443 through the rename-buffer function. | |
444 | |
445 Changes in Emacs 1.9 | |
446 | |
447 * When a fill prefix is in effect, paragraphs are started | |
448 or separated by lines that do not start with the fill prefix. | |
449 Also, a line which consists of the fill prefix followed by | |
450 white space separates paragraphs. | |
451 | |
452 * C-x C-v runs the new function find-alternate-file. | |
453 It finds the specified file, switches to that buffer, | |
454 and kills the previous current buffer. (It requires | |
455 confirmation if that buffer had changes.) This is | |
456 most useful after you find the wrong file due to a typo. | |
457 | |
458 * Exiting the minibuffer moves the cursor to column 0, | |
459 to show you that it has really been exited. | |
460 | |
461 * Meta-g (fill-region) now fills each paragraph in the | |
462 region individually. To fill the region as if it were | |
463 a single paragraph (for when the paragraph-delimiting mechanism | |
464 does the wrong thing), use fill-region-as-paragraph. | |
465 | |
466 * Tab in text mode now runs the function tab-to-tab-stop. | |
467 A new mode called indented-text-mode is like text-mode | |
468 except that in it Tab runs the function indent-relative, | |
469 which indents the line under the previous line. | |
470 If auto fill is enabled while in indented-text-mode, | |
471 the new lines that it makes are indented. | |
472 | |
473 * Functions kill-rectangle and yank-rectangle. | |
474 kill-rectangle deletes the rectangle specified by dot and mark | |
475 (or by two arguments) and saves it in the variable killed-rectangle. | |
476 yank-rectangle inserts the rectangle in that variable. | |
477 | |
478 Tab characters in a rectangle being saved are replaced | |
479 by spaces in such a way that their appearance will | |
480 not be changed if the rectangle is later reinserted | |
481 at a different column position. | |
482 | |
483 * `+' in a regular expression now means | |
484 to repeat the previous expression one or more times. | |
485 `?' means to repeat it zero or one time. | |
486 They are in all regards like `*' except for the | |
487 number of repetitions they match. | |
488 | |
489 \< in a regular expression now matches the null string | |
490 when it is at the beginning of a word; \> matches | |
491 the null string at the end of a word. | |
492 | |
493 * C-x p narrows the buffer so that only the current page | |
494 is visible. | |
495 | |
496 * C-x ) with argument repeats the kbd macro just | |
497 defined that many times, counting the definition | |
498 as one repetition. | |
499 | |
500 * C-x ( with argument begins defining a kbd macro | |
501 starting with the last one defined. It executes that | |
502 previous kbd macro initially, just as if you began | |
503 by typing it over again. | |
504 | |
505 * C-x q command queries the user during kbd macro execution. | |
506 With prefix argument, enters recursive edit, | |
507 reading keyboard commands even within a kbd macro. | |
508 You can give different commands each time the macro executes. | |
509 Without prefix argument, reads a character. Your options are: | |
510 Space -- execute the rest of the macro. | |
511 Delete -- skip the rest of the macro; start next repetition. | |
512 C-d -- skip rest of the macro and don't repeat it any more. | |
513 C-r -- enter a recursive edit, then on exit ask again for a character | |
514 C-l -- redisplay screen and ask again." | |
515 | |
516 * write-kbd-macro and append-kbd-macro are used to save | |
517 a kbd macro definition in a file (as Lisp code to | |
518 redefine the macro when the file is loaded). | |
519 These commands differ in that write-kbd-macro | |
520 discards the previous contents of the file. | |
521 If given a prefix argument, both commands | |
522 record the keys which invoke the macro as well as the | |
523 macro's definition. | |
524 | |
525 * The variable global-minor-modes is used to display | |
526 strings in the mode line of all buffers. It should be | |
527 a list of elements thaht are conses whose cdrs are strings | |
528 to be displayed. This complements the variable | |
529 minor-modes, which has the same effect but has a separate | |
530 value in each buffer. | |
531 | |
532 * C-x = describes horizontal scrolling in effect, if any. | |
533 | |
534 * Return now auto-fills the line it is ending, in auto fill mode. | |
535 Space with zero as argument auto-fills the line before it | |
536 just like Space without an argument. | |
537 | |
538 Changes in Emacs 1.8 | |
539 | |
540 This release mostly fixes bugs. There are a few new features: | |
541 | |
542 * apropos now sorts the symbols before displaying them. | |
543 Also, it returns a list of the symbols found. | |
544 | |
545 apropos now accepts a second arg PRED which should be a function | |
546 of one argument; if PRED is non-nil, each symbol is tested | |
547 with PRED and only symbols for which PRED returns non-nil | |
548 appear in the output or the returned list. | |
549 | |
550 If the third argument to apropos is non-nil, apropos does not | |
551 display anything; it merely returns the list of symbols found. | |
552 | |
553 C-h a now runs the new function command-apropos rather than | |
554 apropos, and shows only symbols with definitions as commands. | |
555 | |
49600
23a1cea22d13
Trailing whitespace deleted.
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
parents:
33149
diff
changeset
|
556 * M-x shell sends the command |
33149 | 557 if (-f ~/.emacs_NAME)source ~/.emacs_NAME |
558 invisibly to the shell when it starts. Here NAME | |
559 is replaced by the name of shell used, | |
560 as it came from your ESHELL or SHELL environment variable | |
561 but with directory name, if any, removed. | |
562 | |
563 * M-, now runs the command tags-loop-continue, which is used | |
564 to resume a terminated tags-search or tags-query-replace. | |
565 | |
566 Changes in Emacs 1.7 | |
567 | |
568 It's Beat CCA Week. | |
569 | |
570 * The initial buffer is now called "*scratch*" instead of "scratch", | |
571 so that all buffer names used automatically by Emacs now have *'s. | |
572 | |
573 * Undo information is now stored separately for each buffer. | |
574 The Undo command (C-x u) always applies to the current | |
575 buffer only. | |
576 | |
577 C-_ is now a synonym for C-x u. | |
578 | |
579 (buffer-flush-undo BUFFER) causes undo information not to | |
580 be kept for BUFFER, and frees the space that would have | |
581 been used to hold it. In any case, no undo information is | |
582 kept for buffers whose names start with spaces. (These | |
583 buffers also do not appear in the C-x C-b display.) | |
584 | |
585 * Rectangle operations are now implemented. | |
586 C-x r stores the rectangle described by dot and mark | |
587 into a register; it reads the register name from the keyboard. | |
588 C-x g, the command to insert the contents of a register, | |
589 can be used to reinsert the rectangle elsewhere. | |
590 | |
591 Other rectangle commands include | |
592 open-rectangle: | |
593 insert a blank rectangle in the position and size | |
594 described by dot and mark, at its corners; | |
595 the existing text is pushed to the right. | |
596 clear-rectangle: | |
597 replace the rectangle described by dot ane mark | |
598 with blanks. The previous text is deleted. | |
599 delete-rectangle: | |
600 delete the text of the specified rectangle, | |
601 moving the text beyond it on each line leftward. | |
602 | |
603 * Side-by-side windows are allowed. Use C-x 5 to split the | |
604 current window into two windows side by side. | |
605 C-x } makes the selected window ARG columns wider at the | |
606 expense of the windows at its sides. C-x { makes the selected | |
607 window ARG columns narrower. An argument to C-x 5 specifies | |
608 how many columns to give to the leftmost of the two windows made. | |
609 | |
610 C-x 2 now accepts a numeric argument to specify the number of | |
611 lines to give to the uppermost of the two windows it makes. | |
612 | |
613 * Horizontal scrolling of the lines in a window is now implemented. | |
614 C-x < (scroll-left) scrolls all displayed lines left, | |
615 with the numeric argument (default 1) saying how far to scroll. | |
616 When the window is scrolled left, some amount of the beginning | |
617 of each nonempty line is replaced by an "$". | |
618 C-x > scrolls right. If a window has no text hidden at the left | |
619 margin, it cannot be scrolled any farther right than that. | |
620 When nonzero leftwards scrolling is in effect in a window. | |
621 lines are automatically truncated at the window's right margin | |
622 regardless of the value of the variable truncate-lines in the | |
623 buffer being displayed. | |
624 | |
625 * C-x C-d now uses the default output format of `ls', | |
626 which gives just file names in multiple columns. | |
627 C-u C-x C-d passes the -l switch to `ls'. | |
628 | |
629 * C-t at the end of a line now exchanges the two preceding characters. | |
630 | |
631 All the transpose commands now interpret zero as an argument | |
632 to mean to transpose the textual unit after or around dot | |
633 with the one after or around the mark. | |
634 | |
635 * M-! executes a shell command in an inferior shell | |
636 and displays the output from it. With a prefix argument, | |
637 it inserts the output in the current buffer after dot | |
638 and sets the mark after the output. The shell command | |
639 gets /dev/null as its standard input. | |
640 | |
641 M-| is like M-! but passes the contents of the region | |
642 as input to the shell command. A prefix argument makes | |
643 the output from the command replace the contents of the region. | |
644 | |
645 * The mode line will now say "Def" after the major mode | |
646 while a keyboard macro is being defined. | |
647 | |
648 * The variable fill-prefix is now used by Meta-q. | |
649 Meta-q removes the fill prefix from lines that start with it | |
650 before filling, and inserts the fill prefix on each line | |
651 after filling. | |
652 | |
653 The command C-x . sets the fill prefix equal to the text | |
654 on the current line before dot. | |
655 | |
656 * The new command Meta-j (indent-new-comment-line), | |
657 is like Linefeed (indent-new-line) except when dot is inside a comment; | |
658 in that case, Meta-j inserts a comment starter on the new line, | |
659 indented under the comment starter above. It also inserts | |
660 a comment terminator at the end of the line above, | |
661 if the language being edited calls for one. | |
662 | |
663 * Rmail should work correctly now, and has some C-h m documentation. | |
664 | |
665 Changes in Emacs 1.6 | |
666 | |
667 * save-buffers-kill-emacs is now on C-x C-c | |
668 while C-x C-z does suspend-emacs. This is to make | |
669 C-x C-c like the normal Unix meaning of C-c | |
670 and C-x C-z linke the normal Unix meaning of C-z. | |
671 | |
672 * M-ESC (eval-expression) is now a disabled command by default. | |
673 This prevents users who type ESC ESC accidentally from | |
674 getting confusing results. Put | |
675 (put 'eval-expression 'disabled nil) | |
676 in your ~/.emacs file to enable the command. | |
677 | |
678 * Self-inserting text is grouped into bunches for undoing. | |
679 Each C-x u command undoes up to 20 consecutive self-inserting | |
680 characters. | |
681 | |
682 * Help f now uses as a default the function being called | |
683 in the innermost Lisp expression that dot is in. | |
684 This makes it more convenient to use while writing | |
685 Lisp code to run in Emacs. | |
686 (If the text around dot does not appear to be a call | |
687 to a Lisp function, there is no default.) | |
688 | |
689 Likewise, Help v uses the symbol around or before dot | |
690 as a default, if that is a variable name. | |
691 | |
692 * Commands that read filenames now insert the default | |
693 directory in the minibuffer, to become part of your input. | |
694 This allows you to see what the default is. | |
695 You may type a filename which goes at the end of the | |
696 default directory, or you may edit the default directory | |
697 as you like to create the input you want to give. | |
698 You may also type an absolute pathname (starting with /) | |
699 or refer to a home directory (input starting with ~) | |
700 after the default; the presence of // or /~ causes | |
701 everything up through the slash that precedes your | |
702 type-in to be ignored. | |
703 | |
704 Returning the default directory without change, | |
705 including the terminating slash, requests the use | |
706 of the default file name (usually the visited file's name). | |
707 | |
708 Set the variable insert-default-directory to nil | |
709 to turn off this feature. | |
710 | |
711 * M-x shell now uses the environment variable ESHELL, | |
712 if it exists, as the file name of the shell to run. | |
713 If there is no ESHELL variable, the SHELL variable is used. | |
714 This is because some shells do not work properly as inferiors | |
715 of Emacs (or anything like Emacs). | |
716 | |
717 * A new variable minor-modes now exists, with a separate value | |
718 in each buffer. Its value should be an alist of elements | |
719 (MODE-FUNCTION-SYMBOL . PRETTY-NAME-STRING), one for each | |
720 minor mode that is turned on in the buffer. The pretty | |
721 name strings are displayed in the mode line after the name of the | |
722 major mode (with spaces between them). The mode function | |
723 symbols should be symbols whose function definitions will | |
724 turn on the minor mode if given 1 as an argument; they are present | |
725 so that Help m can find their documentation strings. | |
726 | |
727 * The format of tag table files has been changed. | |
728 The new format enables Emacs to find tags much faster. | |
729 | |
730 A new program, etags, exists to make the kind of | |
731 tag table that Emacs wants. etags is invoked just | |
732 like ctags; in fact, if you give it any switches, | |
733 it does exactly what ctags would do. Give it the | |
734 empty switch ("-") to make it act like ctags with no switches. | |
735 | |
736 etags names the tag table file "TAGS" rather than "tags", | |
737 so that these tag tables and the standard Unix ones | |
738 can coexist. | |
739 | |
740 The tags library can no longer use standard ctags-style | |
741 tag tables files. | |
742 | |
743 * The file of Lisp code Emacs reads on startup is now | |
744 called ~/.emacs rather than ~/.emacs_pro. | |
745 | |
746 * copy-file now gives the copied file the same mode bits | |
747 as the original file. | |
748 | |
749 * Output from a process inserted into the process's buffer | |
750 no longer sets the buffer's mark. Instead it sets a | |
751 marker associated with the process to point to the end | |
752 of the inserted text. You can access this marker with | |
753 (process-mark PROCESS) | |
754 and then either examine its position with marker-position | |
755 or set its position with set-marker. | |
756 | |
757 * completing-read takes a new optional fifth argument which, | |
758 if non-nil, should be a string of text to insert into | |
759 the minibuffer before reading user commands. | |
760 | |
761 * The Lisp function elt now exists: | |
762 (elt ARRAY N) is like (aref ARRAY N), | |
763 (elt LIST N) is like (nth N LIST). | |
764 | |
765 * rplaca is now a synonym for setcar, and rplacd for setcdr. | |
766 eql is now a synonym for eq; it turns out that the Common Lisp | |
767 distinction between eq and eql is insignificant in Emacs. | |
768 numberp is a new synonym for integerp. | |
769 | |
770 * auto-save has been renamed to auto-save-mode. | |
771 | |
772 * Auto save file names for buffers are now created by the | |
773 function make-auto-save-file-name. This is so you can | |
774 redefine that function to change the way auto save file names | |
775 are chosen. | |
776 | |
777 * expand-file-name no longer discards a final slash. | |
778 (expand-file-name "foo" "/lose") => "/lose/foo" | |
779 (expand-file-name "foo/" "/lose") => "/lose/foo/" | |
780 | |
781 Also, expand-file-name no longer substitutes $ constructs. | |
782 A new function substitute-in-file-name does this. Reading | |
783 a file name with read-file-name or the `f' or`F' option | |
784 of interactive calling uses substitute-in-file-name | |
785 on the file name that was read and returns the result. | |
786 | |
787 All I/O primitives including insert-file-contents and | |
788 delete-file call expand-file-name on the file name supplied. | |
789 This change makes them considerably faster in the usual case. | |
790 | |
791 * Interactive calling spec strings allow the new code letter 'D' | |
792 which means to read a directory name. It is like 'f' except | |
793 that the default if the user makes no change in the minibuffer | |
794 is to return the current default directory rather than the | |
795 current visited file name. | |
796 | |
797 Changes in Emacs 1.5 | |
798 | |
799 * suspend-emacs now accepts an optional argument | |
800 which is a string to be stuffed as terminal input | |
801 to be read by Emacs's superior shell after Emacs exits. | |
802 | |
803 A library called ledit exists which uses this feature | |
804 to transmit text to a Lisp job running as a sibling of | |
805 Emacs. | |
806 | |
807 * If find-file is given the name of a directory, | |
808 it automatically invokes dired on that directory | |
809 rather than reading in the binary data that make up | |
810 the actual contents of the directory according to Unix. | |
811 | |
812 * Saving an Emacs buffer now preserves the file modes | |
813 of any previously existing file with the same name. | |
814 This works using new Lisp functions file-modes and | |
815 set-file-modes, which can be used to read or set the mode | |
816 bits of any file. | |
817 | |
818 * The Lisp function cond now exists, with its traditional meaning. | |
819 | |
820 * defvar and defconst now permit the documentation string | |
821 to be omitted. defvar also permits the initial value | |
822 to be omitted; then it acts only as a comment. | |
823 | |
824 Changes in Emacs 1.4 | |
825 | |
826 * Auto-filling now normally indents the new line it creates | |
827 by calling indent-according-to-mode. This function, meanwhile, | |
828 has in Fundamental and Text modes the effect of making the line | |
829 have an indentation of the value of left-margin, a per-buffer variable. | |
830 | |
831 Tab no longer precisely does indent-according-to-mode; | |
832 it does that in all modes that supply their own indentation routine, | |
833 but in Fundamental, Text and allied modes it inserts a tab character. | |
834 | |
835 * The command M-x grep now invokes grep (on arguments | |
836 supplied by the user) and reads the output from grep | |
837 asynchronously into a buffer. The command C-x ` can | |
838 be used to move to the lines that grep has found. | |
839 This is an adaptation of the mechanism used for | |
840 running compilations and finding the loci of error messages. | |
841 | |
842 You can now use C-x ` even while grep or compilation | |
843 is proceeding; as more matches or error messages arrive, | |
844 C-x ` will parse them and be able to find them. | |
845 | |
846 * M-x mail now provides a command to send the message | |
847 and "exit"--that is, return to the previously selected | |
848 buffer. It is C-z C-z. | |
849 | |
850 * Tab in C mode now tries harder to adapt to all indentation styles. | |
851 If the line being indented is a statement that is not the first | |
852 one in the containing compound-statement, it is aligned under | |
853 the beginning of the first statement. | |
854 | |
855 * The functions screen-width and screen-height return the | |
856 total width and height of the screen as it is now being used. | |
857 set-screen-width and set-screen-height tell Emacs how big | |
858 to assume the screen is; they each take one argument, | |
859 an integer. | |
860 | |
861 * The Lisp function 'function' now exists. function is the | |
862 same as quote, except that it serves as a signal to the | |
863 Lisp compiler that the argument should be compiled as | |
864 a function. Example: | |
865 (mapcar (function (lambda (x) (+ x 5))) list) | |
866 | |
867 * The function set-key has been renamed to global-set-key. | |
868 undefine-key and local-undefine-key has been renamed to | |
869 global-unset-key and local-unset-key. | |
870 | |
871 * Emacs now collects input from asynchronous subprocesses | |
872 while waiting in the functions sleep-for and sit-for. | |
873 | |
874 * Shell mode's Newline command attempts to distinguish subshell | |
875 prompts from user input when issued in the middle of the buffer. | |
876 It no longer reexecutes from dot to the end of the line; | |
877 it reeexecutes the entire line minus any prompt. | |
878 The prompt is recognized by searching for the value of | |
879 shell-prompt-pattern, starting from the beginning of the line. | |
880 Anything thus skipped is not reexecuted. | |
881 | |
882 Changes in Emacs 1.3 | |
883 | |
884 * An undo facility exists now. Type C-x u to undo a batch of | |
885 changes (usually one command's changes, but some commands | |
886 such as query-replace divide their changes into multiple | |
887 batches. You can repeat C-x u to undo further. As long | |
888 as no commands other than C-x u intervene, each one undoes | |
889 another batch. A numeric argument to C-x u acts as a repeat | |
890 count. | |
891 | |
892 If you keep on undoing, eventually you may be told that | |
893 you have used up all the recorded undo information. | |
894 Some actions, such as reading in files, discard all | |
895 undo information. | |
896 | |
897 The undo information is not currently stored separately | |
898 for each buffer, so it is mainly good if you do something | |
899 totally spastic. [This has since been fixed.] | |
900 | |
901 * A learn-by-doing tutorial introduction to Emacs now exists. | |
902 Type C-h t to enter it. | |
903 | |
904 * An Info documentation browser exists. Do M-x info to enter it. | |
905 It contains a tutorial introduction so that no more documentation | |
906 is needed here. As of now, the only documentation in it | |
907 is that of Info itself. | |
908 | |
909 * Help k and Help c are now different. Help c prints just the | |
910 name of the function which the specified key invokes. Help k | |
911 prints the documentation of the function as well. | |
912 | |
913 * A document of the differences between GNU Emacs and Twenex Emacs | |
914 now exists. It is called DIFF, in the same directory as this file. | |
915 | |
916 * C mode can now indent comments better, including multi-line ones. | |
917 Meta-Control-q now reindents comment lines within the expression | |
918 being aligned. | |
919 | |
920 * Insertion of a close-parenthesis now shows the matching open-parenthesis | |
921 even if it is off screen, by printing the text following it on its line | |
922 in the minibuffer. | |
923 | |
924 * A file can now contain a list of local variable values | |
925 to be in effect when the file is edited. See the file DIFF | |
926 in the same directory as this file for full details. | |
927 | |
928 * A function nth is defined. It means the same thing as in Common Lisp. | |
929 | |
930 * The function install-command has been renamed to set-key. | |
931 It now takes the key sequence as the first argument | |
932 and the definition for it as the second argument. | |
933 Likewise, local-install-command has been renamed to local-set-key. | |
934 | |
935 Changes in Emacs 1.2 | |
936 | |
937 * A Lisp single-stepping and debugging facility exists. | |
938 To cause the debugger to be entered when an error | |
939 occurs, set the variable debug-on-error non-nil. | |
940 | |
941 To cause the debugger to be entered whenever function foo | |
942 is called, do (debug-on-entry 'foo). To cancel this, | |
943 do (cancel-debug-on-entry 'foo). debug-on-entry does | |
944 not work for primitives (written in C), only functions | |
945 written in Lisp. Most standard Emacs commands are in Lisp. | |
946 | |
947 When the debugger is entered, the selected window shows | |
948 a buffer called " *Backtrace" which displays a series | |
949 of stack frames, most recently entered first. For each | |
950 frame, the function name called is shown, usually followed | |
951 by the argument values unless arguments are still being | |
952 calculated. At the beginning of the buffer is a description | |
953 of why the debugger was entered: function entry, function exit, | |
954 error, or simply that the user called the function `debug'. | |
955 | |
956 To exit the debugger and return to top level, type `q'. | |
957 | |
49600
23a1cea22d13
Trailing whitespace deleted.
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
parents:
33149
diff
changeset
|
958 In the debugger, you can evaluate Lisp expressions by |
33149 | 959 typing `e'. This is equivalent to `M-ESC'. |
960 | |
961 When the debugger is entered due to an error, that is | |
962 all you can do. When it is entered due to function entry | |
963 (such as, requested by debug-on-entry), you have two | |
964 options: | |
965 Continue execution and reenter debugger after the | |
966 completion of the function being entered. Type `c'. | |
967 Continue execution but enter the debugger before | |
968 the next subexpression. Type `d'. | |
969 | |
970 You will see that some stack frames are marked with *. | |
971 This means the debugger will be entered when those | |
972 frames exit. You will see the value being returned | |
973 in the first line of the backtrace buffer. Your options: | |
974 Continue execution, and return that value. Type `c'. | |
975 Continue execution, and return a specified value. Type `r'. | |
976 | |
977 You can mark a frame to enter the debugger on exit | |
978 with the `b' command, or clear such a mark with `u'. | |
979 | |
980 * Lisp macros now exist. | |
981 For example, you can write | |
982 (defmacro cadr (arg) (list 'car (list 'cdr arg))) | |
983 and then the expression | |
984 (cadr foo) | |
985 will expand into | |
986 (car (cdr foo)) | |
987 | |
988 Changes in Emacs 1.1 | |
989 | |
990 * The initial buffer is now called "scratch" and is in a | |
991 new major mode, Lisp Interaction mode. This mode is | |
992 intended for typing Lisp expressions, evaluating them, | |
993 and having the values printed into the buffer. | |
994 | |
995 Type Linefeed after a Lisp expression, to evaluate the | |
996 expression and have its value printed into the buffer, | |
997 advancing dot. | |
998 | |
999 The other commands of Lisp mode are available. | |
1000 | |
1001 * The C-x C-e command for evaluating the Lisp expression | |
1002 before dot has been changed to print the value in the | |
1003 minibuffer line rather than insert it in the buffer. | |
1004 A numeric argument causes the printed value to appear | |
1005 in the buffer instead. | |
1006 | |
1007 * In Lisp mode, the command M-C-x evaluates the defun | |
1008 containing or following dot. The value is printed in | |
1009 the minibuffer. | |
1010 | |
1011 * The value of a Lisp expression evaluated using M-ESC | |
1012 is now printed in the minibuffer. | |
1013 | |
1014 * M-q now runs fill-paragraph, independent of major mode. | |
1015 | |
1016 * C-h m now prints documentation on the current buffer's | |
1017 major mode. What it prints is the documentation of the | |
1018 major mode name as a function. All major modes have been | |
1019 equipped with documentation that describes all commands | |
1020 peculiar to the major mode, for this purpose. | |
1021 | |
1022 * You can display a Unix manual entry with | |
1023 the M-x manual-entry command. | |
1024 | |
1025 * You can run a shell, displaying its output in a buffer, | |
1026 with the M-x shell command. The Return key sends input | |
1027 to the subshell. Output is printed inserted automatically | |
1028 in the buffer. Commands C-c, C-d, C-u, C-w and C-z are redefined | |
1029 for controlling the subshell and its subjobs. | |
1030 "cd", "pushd" and "popd" commands are recognized as you | |
1031 enter them, so that the default directory of the Emacs buffer | |
1032 always remains the same as that of the subshell. | |
1033 | |
1034 * C-x $ (that's a real dollar sign) controls line-hiding based | |
1035 on indentation. With a numeric arg N > 0, it causes all lines | |
1036 indented by N or more columns to become invisible. | |
1037 They are, effectively, tacked onto the preceding line, where | |
1038 they are represented by " ..." on the screen. | |
1039 (The end of the preceding visible line corresponds to a | |
1040 screen cursor position before the "...". Anywhere in the | |
1041 invisible lines that follow appears on the screen as a cursor | |
1042 position after the "...".) | |
1043 Currently, all editing commands treat invisible lines just | |
1044 like visible ones, except for C-n and C-p, which have special | |
1045 code to count visible lines only. | |
1046 C-x $ with no argument turns off this mode, which in any case | |
1047 is remembered separately for each buffer. | |
1048 | |
1049 * Outline mode is another form of selective display. | |
1050 It is a major mode invoked with M-x outline-mode. | |
1051 It is intended for editing files that are structured as | |
1052 outlines, with heading lines (lines that begin with one | |
1053 or more asterisks) and text lines (all other lines). | |
1054 The number of asterisks in a heading line are its level; | |
1055 the subheadings of a heading line are all following heading | |
49600
23a1cea22d13
Trailing whitespace deleted.
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
parents:
33149
diff
changeset
|
1056 lines at higher levels, until but not including the next |
33149 | 1057 heading line at the same or a lower level, regardless |
1058 of intervening text lines. | |
1059 | |
1060 In outline mode, you have commands to hide (remove from display) | |
1061 or show the text or subheadings under each heading line | |
1062 independently. Hidden text or subheadings are invisibly | |
1063 attached to the end of the preceding heading line, so that | |
1064 if you kill the hading line and yank it back elsewhere | |
1065 all the invisible lines accompany it. | |
1066 | |
1067 All editing commands treat hidden outline-mode lines | |
1068 as part of the preceding visible line. | |
49600
23a1cea22d13
Trailing whitespace deleted.
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
parents:
33149
diff
changeset
|
1069 |
33149 | 1070 * C-x C-z runs save-buffers-kill-emacs |
1071 offers to save each file buffer, then exits. | |
1072 | |
1073 * C-c's function is now called suspend-emacs. | |
1074 | |
1075 * The command C-x m runs mail, which switches to a buffer *mail* | |
1076 and lets you compose a message to send. C-x 4 m runs mail in | |
1077 another window. Type C-z C-s in the mail buffer to send the | |
1078 message according to what you have entered in the buffer. | |
1079 | |
1080 You must separate the headers from the message text with | |
1081 an empty line. | |
1082 | |
1083 * You can now dired partial directories (specified with names | |
1084 containing *'s, etc, all processed by the shell). Also, you | |
1085 can dired more than one directory; dired names the buffer | |
1086 according to the filespec or directory name. Reinvoking | |
1087 dired on a directory already direded just switches back to | |
1088 the same directory used last time; do M-x revert if you want | |
1089 to read in the current contents of the directory. | |
1090 | |
1091 C-x d runs dired, and C-x 4 d runs dired in another window. | |
1092 | |
1093 C-x C-d (list-directory) also allows partial directories now. | |
1094 | |
1095 Lisp programming changes | |
1096 | |
1097 * t as an output stream now means "print to the minibuffer". | |
1098 If there is already text in the minibuffer printed via t | |
1099 as an output stream, the new text is appended to the old | |
1100 (or is truncated and lost at the margin). If the minibuffer | |
1101 contains text put there for some other reason, it is cleared | |
1102 first. | |
1103 | |
1104 t is now the top-level value of standard-output. | |
1105 | |
1106 t as an input stream now means "read via the minibuffer". | |
1107 The minibuffer is used to read a line of input, with editing, | |
1108 and this line is then parsed. Any excess not used by `read' | |
1109 is ignored; each `read' from t reads fresh input. | |
1110 t is now the top-level value of standard-input. | |
1111 | |
1112 * A marker may be used as an input stream or an output stream. | |
1113 The effect is to grab input from where the marker points, | |
1114 advancing it over the characters read, or to insert output | |
1115 at the marker and advance it. | |
1116 | |
1117 * Output from an asynchronous subprocess is now inserted at | |
1118 the end of the associated buffer, not at the buffer's dot, | |
1119 and the buffer's mark is set to the end of the inserted output | |
1120 each time output is inserted. | |
1121 | |
1122 * (pos-visible-in-window-p POS WINDOW) | |
1123 returns t if position POS in WINDOW's buffer is in the range | |
1124 that is being displayed in WINDOW; nil if it is scrolled | |
1125 vertically out of visibility. | |
1126 | |
1127 If display in WINDOW is not currently up to date, this function | |
1128 calculates carefully whether POS would appear if display were | |
1129 done immediately based on the current (window-start WINDOW). | |
1130 | |
1131 POS defaults to (dot), and WINDOW to (selected-window). | |
1132 | |
1133 * Variable buffer-alist replaced by function (buffer-list). | |
1134 The actual alist of buffers used internally by Emacs is now | |
1135 no longer accessible, to prevent the user from crashing Emacs | |
1136 by modifying it. The function buffer-list returns a list | |
1137 of all existing buffers. Modifying this list cannot hurt anything | |
1138 as a new list is constructed by each call to buffer-list. | |
1139 | |
1140 * load now takes an optional third argument NOMSG which, if non-nil, | |
1141 prevents load from printing a message when it starts and when | |
1142 it is done. | |
1143 | |
1144 * byte-recompile-directory is a new function which finds all | |
1145 the .elc files in a directory, and regenerates each one which | |
1146 is older than the corresponding .el (Lisp source) file. | |
1147 | |
1148 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
1149 Copyright information: | |
1150 | |
1151 Copyright (C) 1985 Richard M. Stallman | |
1152 | |
1153 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
1154 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the | |
1155 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, | |
1156 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. | |
1157 | |
1158 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions | |
1159 of this document, or of portions of it, | |
1160 under the above conditions, provided also that they | |
1161 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | |
1162 | |
1163 Local variables: | |
1164 mode: text | |
1165 end: | |
52401 | 1166 |
1167 arch-tag: c006f958-d769-44c7-a9f4-e2faf070624d |