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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 17-Aug-1988 |
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11 Changes in version 18.52. |
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13 * X windows version 10 is supported under system V. |
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15 * Pop-up menus are now supported with the same Lisp interface in |
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18 * C-x 4 a is a new command to edit a change-log entry in another window. |
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20 * The emacs client program now allows an option +NNN to specify the |
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21 line number to go to in the file whose name follows. Thus, |
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25 * Dired allows empty directories to be deleted like files. |
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27 * When the terminal type is used to find a terminal-specific file to |
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28 run, Emacs now tries the entire terminal type first. If that doesn't |
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29 yield a file that exists, the last hyphen and what follows it is |
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32 example, if the terminal type is `aaa-48-foo', Emacs will try first |
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35 Underscores now receive the same treatment as hyphens. |
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37 * Texinfo features: @defun, etc. texinfo-show-structure. |
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38 New template commands. texinfo-format-region. |
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40 * The special "local variable" `eval' is now ignored if you are running |
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43 * New command `c-macro-expand' shows the result of C macro expansion |
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47 * Errors in trying to auto save now flash error messages for a few seconds. |
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49 * Killing a buffer now sends SIGHUP to the buffer's process. |
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53 ** `spell-region' now allows you to filter the text before spelling-checking. |
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54 If the value of `spell-filter' is non-nil, it is called, with no arguments, |
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55 looking at a temporary buffer containing a copy of the text to be checked. |
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56 It can alter the text freely before the spell program sees it. |
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58 ** The variable `lpr-command' now specifies the command to be used when |
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59 you use the commands to print text (such as M-x print-buffer). |
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61 ** Posting netnews now calls the value of `news-inews-hook' (if not nil) |
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80 ** saveconf.el: a library which records the arrangement of windows and |
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544 Auto save file names now by default have a `#' at the end as well |
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648 C-c < (left), C-c > (right), C-c ^ (up) and C-c . (down). |
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653 such as M-; and C-x ; know how to insert, align and delete comments |
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658 LaTeX mode now exists. Use M-x latex-mode to select this mode, and |
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659 M-x plain-tex-mode to select the previously existing mode for Plain |
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674 C-c C-q show the printer queue. |
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710 messages, kill a draft message, undo changes to a mail folder, monitor |
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864 This is used by the `goto-line' and `goto-char' commands. |
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866 * Semantics of variables. |
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868 ** Built-in per-buffer variables improved. |
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870 Several built-in variables which in the past had a different value in |
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871 each buffer now behave exactly as if `make-variable-buffer-local' had |
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872 been done to them. |
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874 These variables are `tab-width', `ctl-arrow', `truncate-lines', |
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875 `fill-column', `left-margin', `mode-line-format', `abbrev-mode', |
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877 `selective-display', `selective-display-ellipses'. |
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879 To be precise, each variable has a default value which shows through |
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880 in most buffers and can be accessed with `default-value' and set with |
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881 `set-default'. Setting the variable with `setq' makes the variable |
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885 The variables `default-case-fold-search', etc., are now obsolete. |
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886 They now refer to the default value of the variable, which is not |
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887 quite the same behavior as before, but it should enable old init files |
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888 to continue to work. |
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890 ** New per-buffer variables. |
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892 The variables `fill-prefix', `comment-column' and `indent-tabs-mode' |
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893 are now per-buffer. They work just like `fill-column', etc. |
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895 ** New function `setq-default'. |
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897 `setq-default' sets the default value of a variable, and uses the |
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898 same syntax that `setq' accepts: the variable name is not evaluated |
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899 and need not be quoted. |
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901 `(setq-default case-fold-search nil)' would make searches case-sensitive |
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902 in all buffers that do not have local values for `case-fold-search'. |
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903 |
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904 ** Functions `global-set' and `global-value' deleted. |
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905 |
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906 These functions were never used except by mistake by users expecting |
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907 the functionality of `set-default' and `default-value'. |
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908 |
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909 * Changes in defaulting of major modes. |
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911 When `default-major-mode' is `nil', new buffers are supposed to |
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912 get their major mode from the buffer that is current. However, |
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913 certain major modes (such as Dired mode, Rmail mode, Rmail Summary mode, |
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914 and others) are not reasonable to use in this way. |
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915 |
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916 Now such modes' names have been given non-`nil' `mode-class' properties. |
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917 If the current buffer's mode has such a property, Fundamental mode is |
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918 used as the default for newly created buffers. |
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919 |
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920 * `where-is-internal' requires additional arguments. |
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921 |
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922 This function now accepts three arguments, two of them required: |
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923 DEFINITION, the definition to search for; LOCAL-KEYMAP, the keymap |
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924 to use as the local map when doing the searching, and FIRST-ONLY, |
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925 which is nonzero to return only the first key found. |
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926 |
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927 This function returns a list of keys (strings) whose definitions |
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928 (in the LOCAL-KEYMAP or the current global map) are DEFINITION. |
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929 |
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930 If FIRST-ONLY is non-nil, it returns a single key (string). |
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931 |
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932 This function has changed incompatibly in that now two arguments |
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933 are required when previously only one argument was allowed. To get |
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934 the old behavior of this function, write `(current-local-map)' as |
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935 the expression for the second argument. |
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936 |
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937 The incompatibility is sad, but `nil' is a legitimate value for the |
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938 second argument (it means there is no local keymap), so it cannot also |
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939 serve as a default meaning to use the current local keymap. |
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940 |
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941 * Abbrevs with hooks. |
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942 |
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943 When an abbrev defined with a hook is expanded, it now performs the |
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944 usual replacement of the abbrev with the expansion before running the |
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945 hook. Previously the abbrev itself was deleted but the expansion was |
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946 not inserted. |
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947 |
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948 * Function `scan-buffer' deleted. |
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949 |
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950 Use `search-forward' or `search-backward' in place of `scan-buffer'. |
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951 You will have to rearrange the arguments. |
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952 |
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953 * X window interface improvements. |
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954 |
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955 ** Detect release of mouse buttons. |
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956 |
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957 Button-up events can now be detected. See the file `lisp/x-mouse.el' |
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958 for details. |
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959 |
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960 ** New pop-up menu facility. |
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961 |
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962 The new function `x-popup-menu' pops up a menu (in a X window) |
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963 and returns an indication of which selection the user made. |
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964 For more information, see its self-documentation. |
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965 |
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966 * M-x disassemble. |
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967 |
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968 This command prints the disassembly of a byte-compiled Emacs Lisp function. |
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969 |
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970 Would anyone like to interface this to the debugger? |
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971 |
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972 * `insert-buffer-substring' can insert part of the current buffer. |
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973 |
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974 The old restriction that the text being inserted had to come from |
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975 a different buffer is now lifted. |
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976 |
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977 When inserting text from the current buffer, the text to be inserted |
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978 is determined from the specified bounds before any copying takes place. |
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979 |
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980 * New function `substitute-key-definition'. |
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1019 way for a Lisp program to get the documentation of variable VAR. |
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1023 If a documentation string (for a variable or function) contains text |
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1025 `\[COMMAND]' construct from that point on should be turned into keys |
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1026 using the value of the variable FOO as the local keymap. Thus, for example, |
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1028 `\<emacs-lisp-mode-map>\[eval-defun] evaluates the defun containing point.' |
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1032 "ESC C-x evaluates the defun containing point." |
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1035 run `eval-defun' in the keymap `emacs-lisp-mode-map'. The effect is |
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1036 to show the key for `eval-defun' in Emacs Lisp mode regardless of the |
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1037 current major mode. |
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1039 The `\<...>' construct applies to all `\[...]' constructs that follow it, |
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1040 up to the end of the documentation string or the next `\<...>'. |
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1042 Without `\<...>', the keys for commands specified in `\[...]' are found |
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1043 in the current buffer's local map. |
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1045 The current global keymap is always searched second, whether `\<...>' |
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1046 has been used or not. |
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1048 * Multiple hooks allowed in certain contexts. |
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1051 `write-file-hook' have been replaced. |
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1053 The replacements are `find-file-hooks', `find-file-not-found-hooks' |
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1056 order of appearance in the list. |
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1058 In the case of `find-file-hooks', all the functions are executed. |
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1060 In the case of `find-file-not-found-hooks', if any of the functions |
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1061 returns non-`nil', the rest of the functions are not called. |
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1064 non-`nil', the rest of the functions are not called, and the file is |
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1065 considered to have been written already; so actual writing in the |
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1066 usual way is not done. If `write-file-hooks' is local to a buffer, |
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1067 it is set to its global value if `set-visited-file-name' is called |
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1068 (and thus by C-x C-w as well). |
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1070 `find-file-not-found-hooks' and `write-file-hooks' can be used |
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1071 together to implement editing of files that are not stored as Unix |
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1072 files: stored in archives, or inside version control systems, or on |
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1073 other machines running other operating systems and accessible via ftp. |
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1075 * New hooks for suspending Emacs. |
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1077 Suspending Emacs runs the hook `suspend-hook' before suspending |
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1078 and the hook `suspend-resume-hook' if the suspended Emacs is resumed. |
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1079 Running a hook is done by applying the variable's value to no arguments |
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1081 non-`nil', then suspending is inhibited and so is running the |
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1082 `suspend-resume-hook'. The non-`nil' value means that the `suspend-hook' |
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1085 * Disabling commands can print a special message. |
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1088 Now, if this property is a string, it is included in the message |
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1091 * Emacs can open TCP connections. |
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1098 * Display-related changes. |
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1100 ** New mode-line control features. |
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1109 one after the other. Here are the kinds of objects that can be |
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1122 list (whose first element is a string or list or cons cell) |
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1129 element (if any) of the list is treated as a mode element. |
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1131 cons (whose car is a positive integer) |
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1133 the text it produces is padded, if necessary, to have |
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1134 at least the width specified by the integer. |
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1136 cons (whose car is a negative integer) |
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1137 the cdr of the cons is used as a mode element, but |
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1138 the text it produces is truncated, if necessary, to have |
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1139 at most the width specified by the integer. |
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1141 There is always one mode element to start with, that being the value of |
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1143 more mode elements, which can lead to more, and so on. |
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1145 There is one new %-construct for mode elements that are strings: |
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1146 `%n' displays ` Narrow' for a buffer that is narrowed. |
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1148 The default value of `mode-line-format' refers to several other variables. |
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1149 These variables are `mode-name', `mode-line-buffer-identification', |
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1150 `mode-line-process', `mode-line-modified', `global-mode-string' and |
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1151 `minor-mode-alist'. The first four are local in every buffer in which they |
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1154 mode-name Name of buffer's major mode. Local in every buffer. |
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1156 mode-line-buffer-identification |
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1157 Normally the list ("Emacs: %17b"), it is responsible |
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1158 for displaying text to indicate what buffer is being shown |
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1159 and what kind of editing it is doing. `Emacs' means |
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1160 that a file of characters is being edited. Major modes |
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1161 such as Info and Dired which edit or view other kinds |
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1162 of data often change this value. This variables becomes |
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1163 local to the current buffer if it is setq'd. |
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1165 mode-line-process |
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1166 Normally nil, this variable is responsible for displaying |
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1167 information about the process running in the current buffer. |
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1168 M-x shell-mode and M-x compile alter this variable. |
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1170 mode-line-modified |
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1171 This variable is responsible for displaying the indication |
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1172 of whether the current buffer is modified or read-only. |
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1173 By default its value is `("--%*%*-")'. |
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1175 minor-mode-alist |
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1176 This variable is responsible for displaying text for those |
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1179 where STRING is to be displayed if VARIABLE's value |
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1180 (in the buffer whose mode line is being displayed) |
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1182 buffers, but loading some libraries may add elements to it. |
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1185 This variable is used to display the time, if you ask |
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1196 ** Window configurations may be saved as Lisp objects. |
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1201 which parts of the buffers appear on the screen. |
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1206 ** New hook `temp-output-buffer-show-hook'. |
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1209 Whenever `with-output-to-temp-buffer' has executed its body and wants |
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1212 The hook function is solely responsible for displaying the buffer. |
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1213 The standard manner of display--making the buffer appear in a window--is |
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1226 non-minibuffer window. |
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1228 ** New variable `minibuffer-scroll-window'. |
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1234 ** New argument to `sit-for'. |
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1236 A non-nil second argument to `sit-for' means do not redisplay; |
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1237 just wait for the specified time or until input is available. |
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1239 ** Deleted function `set-minor-mode'; minor modes must be changed. |
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1241 The function `set-minor-mode' has been eliminated. The display |
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1242 of minor mode names in the mode line is now controlled by the |
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1243 variable `minor-mode-alist'. To specify display of a new minor |
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1244 mode, it is sufficient to add an element to this list. Once that |
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1245 is done, you can turn the mode on and off just by setting a variable, |
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1246 and the display will show its status automatically. |
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1248 ** New variable `cursor-in-echo-area'. |
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1250 If this variable is non-nil, the screen cursor appears on the |
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1251 last line of the screen, at the end of the text displayed there. |
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1252 |
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1253 Binding this variable to t is useful at times when reading single |
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1254 characters of input with `read-char'. |
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1255 |
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1256 ** New per-buffer variable `selective-display-ellipses'. |
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1257 |
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1258 If this variable is non-nil, an ellipsis (`...') appears on the screen |
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1259 at the end of each text line that is followed by invisible text. |
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1260 |
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1261 If this variable is nil, no ellipses appear. Then there is no sign |
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1262 on the screen that invisible text is present. |
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1263 |
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1264 Text is made invisible under the control of the variable |
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1265 `selective-display'; this is how Outline mode and C-x $ work. |
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1266 |
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1267 ** New variable `no-redraw-on-reenter'. |
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1268 |
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1269 If you set this variable non-nil, Emacs will not clear the screen when |
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1270 you resume it after suspending it. This is for the sake of terminals |
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1271 with multiple screens of memory, where the termcap entry has been set |
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1272 up to switch between screens when Emacs is suspended and resumed. |
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1273 |
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1274 ** New argument to `set-screen-height' or `set-screen-width'. |
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1275 |
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1276 These functions now take an optional second argument which says |
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1277 what significance the newly specified height or width has. |
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1278 |
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1279 If the argument is nil, or absent, it means that Emacs should |
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1280 believe that the terminal height or width really is as just specified. |
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1281 |
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1282 If the argument is t, it means Emacs should not believe that the |
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1283 terminal really is this high or wide, but it should use the |
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1284 specific height or width as the number of lines or columns to display. |
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1285 Thus, you could display only 24 lines on a screen known to have 48 lines. |
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1286 |
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1287 What practical difference is there between using only 24 lines for display |
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1288 and really believing that the terminal has 24 lines? |
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1289 |
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1290 1. The ``real'' height of the terminal says what the terminal command |
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1291 to move the cursor to the last line will do. |
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1292 |
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1293 2. The ``real'' height of the terminal determines how much padding is |
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1294 needed. |
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1295 |
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1296 * File-related changes. |
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1298 ** New parameter `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch'. |
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1300 If this variable is non-`nil', then when Emacs is about to save a |
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1302 changing the file's uid or gid. |
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1303 |
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1304 The default value of this variable is `nil', because usually it is |
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1305 useful to have the uid of a file change according to who edited it |
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1306 last. I recommend thet this variable be left normally `nil' and |
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1308 the uid needs to be preserved. |
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1310 ** New parameter `file-precious-flag'. |
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1313 leaving an incomplete file due to disk full or other I/O errors. |
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1314 It renames the old file before saving. If saving is successful, |
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1315 the renamed file is deleted; if saving gets an error, the renamed |
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1316 file is renamed back to the name you visited. |
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1347 This is meant for use when FILE2 depends on FILE1, to see if changes |
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1348 in FILE1 make it necessary to recompute FILE2 from it. |
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1349 |
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1350 ** Changed function `file-exists-p'. |
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1351 |
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1352 This function is no longer the same as `file-readable-p'. |
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1353 `file-exists-p' can now return t for a file that exists but which |
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1354 the fascists won't allow you to read. |
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1355 |
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1356 ** New function `file-locked-p'. |
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1357 |
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1358 This function receives a file name as argument and returns `nil' |
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1359 if the file is not locked, `t' if locked by this Emacs, or a |
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1360 string giving the name of the user who has locked it. |
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1361 |
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1362 ** New function `file-name-sans-versions'. |
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1363 |
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1364 (file-name-sans-versions NAME) returns a substring of NAME, with any |
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1365 version numbers or other backup suffixes deleted from the end. |
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1366 |
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1367 ** New functions for directory names. |
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1368 |
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1369 Although a directory is really a kind of file, specifying a directory |
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1370 uses a somewhat different syntax from specifying a file. |
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1371 In Emacs, a directory name is used as part of a file name. |
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1373 On Unix, the difference is small: a directory name ends in a slash, |
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1374 while a file name does not: thus, `/usr/rms/' to name a directory, |
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1375 while `/usr/rms' names the file which holds that directory. |
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1376 |
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1377 On VMS, the difference is considerable: `du:[rms.foo]' specifies a |
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1378 directory, but the name of the file that holds that directory is |
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1379 `du:[rms]foo.dir'. |
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1380 |
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1381 There are two new functions for converting between directory names |
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1382 and file names. `directory-file-name' takes a directory name and |
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1383 returns the name of the file in which that directory's data is stored. |
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1384 `file-name-as-directory' takes the name of a file and returns |
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1385 the corresponding directory name. These always understand Unix file name |
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1386 syntax; on VMS, they understand VMS syntax as well. |
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1387 |
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1388 For example, (file-name-as-directory "/usr/rms") returns "/usr/rms/" |
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1389 and (directory-file-name "/usr/rms/") returns "/usr/rms". |
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1390 On VMS, (file-name-as-directory "du:[rms]foo.dir") returns "du:[rms.foo]" |
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1391 and (directory-file-name "du:[rms.foo]") returns "du:[rms]foo.dir". |
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1392 |
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1393 ** Value of `file-attributes' changed. |
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1394 |
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1395 The function file-attributes returns a list containing many kinds of |
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1396 information about a file. Now the list has eleven elements. |
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1397 |
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1398 The tenth element is `t' if deleting the file and creating another |
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1399 file of the same name would result in a change in the file's group; |
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1400 `nil' if there would be no change. You can also think of this as |
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1401 comparing the file's group with the default group for files created in |
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1402 the same directory by you. |
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1403 |
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1404 The eleventh element is the inode number of the file. |
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1405 |
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1406 ** VMS-only function `file-name-all-versions'. |
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1407 |
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1408 This function returns a list of all the completions, including version |
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1409 number, of a specified version-number-less file name. This is like |
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1410 `file-name-all-completions', except that the latter returns values |
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1411 that do not include version numbers. |
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1412 |
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1413 ** VMS-only variable `vms-stmlf-recfm'. |
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1414 |
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1415 On a VMS system, if this variable is non-nil, Emacs will give newly |
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1416 created files the record format `stmlf'. This is necessary for files |
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1417 that must contain lines of arbitrary length, such as compiled Emacs |
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1418 Lisp. |
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1419 |
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1420 When writing a new version of an existing file, Emacs always keeps |
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1421 the same record format as the previous version; so this variable has |
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1422 no effect. |
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1423 |
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1424 This variable has no effect on Unix systems. |
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1425 |
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1426 ** `insert-file-contents' on an empty file. |
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1427 |
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1428 This no longer sets the buffer's "modified" flag. |
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1429 |
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1430 ** New function (VMS only) `define-logical-name': |
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1431 |
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1432 (define-logical-name LOGICAL TRANSLATION) defines a VMS logical name |
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1433 LOGICAL whose translation is TRANSLATION. The new name applies to |
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1434 the current process only. |
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1435 |
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1436 ** Deleted variable `ask-about-buffer-names'. |
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1437 |
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1438 If you want buffer names for files to be generated in a special way, |
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1439 you must redefine `create-file-buffer'. |
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1440 |
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1441 * Subprocess-related changes. |
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1442 |
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1443 ** New function `process-list'. |
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1444 |
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1445 This function takes no arguments and returns a list of all |
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1446 of Emacs's asynchronous subprocesses. |
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1447 |
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1448 ** New function `process-exit-status'. |
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1449 |
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1450 This function, given a process, process name or buffer as argument, |
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1451 returns the exit status code or signal number of the process. |
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1452 If the process has not yet exited or died, this function returns 0. |
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1453 |
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1454 ** Process output ignores `buffer-read-only'. |
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1455 |
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1456 Output from a process will go into the process's buffer even if the |
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1457 buffer is read only. |
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1458 |
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1459 ** Switching buffers in filter functions and sentinels. |
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1460 |
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1461 Emacs no longer saves and restore the current buffer around calling |
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1462 the filter and sentinel functions, so these functions can now |
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1463 permanently alter the selected buffer in a straightforward manner. |
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1464 |
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1465 ** Specifying environment variables for subprocesses. |
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1480 and one is available. |
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1484 This function, given a subprocess as argument, returns `t' if that |
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1490 The value of this variable is called, with no arguments, whenever |
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1491 Shell mode gets an error trying to keep track of directory-setting |
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1492 commands (such as `cd' and `pushd') used in the shell buffer. |
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1494 * New functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid'. |
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1496 These functions take no arguments and return, respectively, |
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1497 the effective uid and the real uid of the Emacs process. |
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1500 * New variable `print-escape-newlines' controls string printing. |
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1502 If this variable is non-`nil', then when a Lisp string is printed |
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1506 * New function `sysnetunam' on HPUX. |
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1508 This function takes two arguments, a network address PATH and a |
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1509 login string LOGIN, and executes the system call `netunam'. |
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1510 It returns `t' if the call succeeds, otherwise `nil'. |
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1512 News regarding installation: |
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1514 * Many `s-...' file names changed. |
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1516 Many `s-...' files have been renamed. All periods in such names, |
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1517 except the ones just before the final `h', have been changed to |
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1518 hyphens. Thus, `s-bsd4.2.h' has been renamed to `s-bsd4-2.h'. |
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1520 This is so a Unix distribution can be moved mechanically to VMS. |
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1522 * `DOCSTR...' file now called `DOC-...'. |
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1524 The file of on-line documentation strings, that used to be |
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1525 `DOCSTR.mm.nn.oo' in this directory, is now called `DOC-mm.nn.oo'. |
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1526 This is so that it can port to VMS using the standard conventions |
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1527 for translating filenames for VMS. |
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1528 |
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1529 This file also now contains the doc strings for variables as |
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1530 well as functions. |
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1532 * Emacs no longer uses floating point arithmetic. |
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1534 This may make it easier to port to some machines. |
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1536 * Macros `XPNTR' and `XSETPNTR'; flag `DATA_SEG_BITS'. |
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1538 These macros exclusively are used to unpack a pointer from a Lisp_Object |
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1539 and to insert a pointer into a Lisp_Object. Redefining them may help |
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1540 port Emacs to machines in which all pointers to data objects have |
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1541 certain high bits set. |
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1543 If `DATA_SEG_BITS' is defined, it should be a number which contains |
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1544 the high bits to be inclusive or'ed with pointers that are unpacked. |
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1546 * New flag `HAVE_X_MENU'. |
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1548 Define this flag in `config.h' in addition to `HAVE_X_WINDOWS' |
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1549 to enable use of the Emacs interface to X Menus. On some operating |
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1550 systems, the rest of the X interface works properly but X Menus |
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1551 do not work; hence this separate flag. See the file `src/xmenu.c' |
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1554 * Macros `ARRAY_MARK_FLAG' and `DONT_COPY_FLAG'. |
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1563 Use this only if absolutely necessary, because if it is used you do |
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1564 not get warnings when space is getting low. |
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1568 See the file `unexec.c' for a long comment on the compilation |
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1569 switches that suffice to make it work on many machines. |
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1586 LIBS_DEBUG defines the extra libraries to use when debugging. Default `-lg'. |
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1587 LIBS_SYSTEM can be defined by the s- file to specify extra libraries. |
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