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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 17-Aug-1988
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3 Copyright (C) 1988, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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7 This file is about changes in emacs version 18.
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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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28 run, Emacs now tries the entire terminal type first. If that doesn't
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31 hyphen is stripped, and so on until all hyphens are gone. For
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33 `term/aaa-48-foo.el', then `term/aaa-48.el' and finally `term/aaa.el'.
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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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41 as root.
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45 are completely accurate.
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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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51 * New hooks.
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53 ** `spell-region' now allows you to filter the text before spelling-checking.
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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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69 * New libraries.
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70 See the source code of each library for more information.
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72 ** icon.el: a major mode for editing programs written in Icon.
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74 ** life.el: a simulator for the cellular automaton "life". Load the
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80 ** saveconf.el: a library which records the arrangement of windows and
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82 setup the next time you start Emacs.
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85 when you visit them.
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87 ** c-fill.el: a mode for editing filled comments in C.
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89 ** kermit.el: an extended version of shell-mode designed for running kermit.
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91 ** spook.el: a library for adding some "distract the NSA" keywords to every
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92 message you send.
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101 * New programming features.
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103 ** The variable `window-system-version' now contains the version number
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131 facilities of Shell mode are available. In addition, each time your
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136 Special GDB-mode commands include M-s, M-n, M-i, M-u, M-d, and C-c C-f
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272 garbage collection speed.
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294 * Library loading changes.
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305 be used to search the path only for libraries to be found in the standard
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306 places. If you want to override system libraries with your own, place
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307 your own libraries in one special directory and add that directory to the
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308 front of `load-path'.
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312 `M-x load-library' is equivalent to the old meaning of `M-x load'.
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313 `M-x load-file' reads a file name with completion and defaulting
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314 and then loads exactly that file, with no searching and no suffixes.
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316 * Emulation of other editors.
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320 Do `edt-emulation-off' to return Emacs to normal.
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322 ** `vi-mode' and `vip-mode' starts emulating vi.
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324 These are two different vi emulations provided by GNU Emacs users.
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325 We are interested in feedback as to which emulation is preferable.
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327 See the documentation and source code for these functions
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330 ** `set-gosmacs-bindings' emulates Gosling Emacs.
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332 This command changes many global bindings to resemble those of
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333 Gosling Emacs. The previous bindings are saved and can be restored using
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334 `set-gnu-bindings'.
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336 * Emulation of a display terminal.
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338 Within Emacs it is now possible to run programs (such as emacs or
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339 supdup) which expect to do output to a visual display terminal.
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341 See the function `terminal-emulator' for more information.
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343 * New support for keypads and function keys.
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345 There is now a first attempt at terminal-independent support for
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346 keypad and function keys.
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348 Emacs now defines a standard set of key-names for function and keypad
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349 keys, and provides standard hooks for defining them. Most of the
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350 standard key-names have default definitions built into Emacs; you can
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351 override these in a terminal-independent manner. The default definitions
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354 These keys on the terminal normally work by sending sequences of
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355 characters starting with ESC. The exact sequences used vary from
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356 terminal to terminal. Emacs interprets them in two stages:
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357 in the first stage, terminal-dependent sequences are mapped into
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358 the standard key-names; then second stage maps the standard key-names
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361 The terminal-specific file `term/$TERM.el' now is responsible only for
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363 standard key-names. It no longer knows what Emacs commands are
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364 assigned to the standard key-names.
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367 variable contains a hyphen, only the part before the first hyphen is
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368 used in forming the name of the terminal-specific file. Thus, for
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369 terminal type `aaa-48', the file loaded is now `term/aaa.el' rather
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374 `-i FILE' or `-insert FILE' in the command line to Emacs tells Emacs to
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376 command line processing. This is like using the command M-x insert-file.
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383 the terminal emulator instead of working directly with the window system,
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388 Various M-x commands whose names start with `sort-' sort parts of
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422
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423 One way to get a list of matching lines without line numbers is to
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424 copy the text to another buffer and use the command `keep-lines'.
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425
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426 ** Incremental search changes.
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427
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428 Ordinary and regexp incremental searches now have distinct default
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429 search strings. Thus, regexp searches recall only previous regexp
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430 searches.
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431
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432 If you exit an incremental search when the search string is empty,
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433 the old default search string is kept. The default does not become
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434 empty.
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435
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436 Reversing the direction of an incremental search with C-s or C-r
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438 string. It leaves the search string empty. A second C-s or C-r
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440 incremental regexp search with C-M-s C-r.
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441
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442 If you add a `*', `?' or `\|' to an incremental search regexp,
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443 point will back up if that is appropriate. For example, if
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444 you have searched for `ab' and add a `*', point moves to the
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445 first match for `ab*', which may be before the match for `ab'
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446 that was previously found.
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447
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448 If an incremental search is failing and you ask to repeat it,
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449 it will start again from the beginning of the buffer (or the end,
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450 if it is a backward search).
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451
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452 The search-controlling parameters `isearch-slow-speed' and
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453 `isearch-slow-window-lines' have now been renamed to start with
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454 `search' instead of `isearch'. Now all the parameters' names start
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455 with `search'.
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456
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457 If `search-slow-window-lines' is negative, the slow search window
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458 is put at the top of the screen, and the absolute value or the
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459 negative number specifies the height of it.
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460
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461 ** Undo changes
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462
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463 The undo command now will mark the buffer as unmodified only when it is
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464 identical to the contents of the visited file.
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465
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466 ** C-M-v in minibuffer.
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467
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468 If while in the minibuffer you request help in a way that uses a
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469 window to display something, then until you exit the minibuffer C-M-v
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470 in the minibuffer window scrolls the window of help.
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471
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472 For example, if you request a list of possible completions, C-M-v can
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473 be used reliably to scroll the completion list.
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474
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475 ** M-TAB command.
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476
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477 Meta-TAB performs completion on the Emacs Lisp symbol names. The sexp
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478 in the buffer before point is compared against all existing nontrivial
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479 Lisp symbols and completed as far as is uniquely determined by them.
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480 Nontrivial symbols are those with either function definitions, values
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481 or properties.
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482
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483 If there are multiple possibilities for the very next character, a
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484 list of possible completions is displayed.
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485
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486 ** Dynamic abbreviation package.
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487
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488 The new command Meta-/ expands an abbreviation in the buffer before point
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489 by searching the buffer for words that start with the abbreviation.
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490
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491 ** Changes in saving kbd macros.
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492
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493 The commands `write-kbd-macro' and `append-kbd-macro' have been
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494 deleted. The way to save a keyboard macro is to use the new command
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495 `insert-kbd-macro', which inserts Lisp code to define the macro as
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496 it is currently defined into the buffer before point. Visit a Lisp
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497 file such as your Emacs init file `~/.emacs', insert the macro
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498 definition (perhaps deleting an old definition for the same macro)
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499 and then save the file.
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500
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501 ** C-x ' command.
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502
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503 The new command C-x ' (expand-abbrev) expands the word before point as
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504 an abbrev, even if abbrev-mode is not turned on.
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505
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506 ** Sending to inferior Lisp.
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507
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508 The command C-M-x in Lisp mode, which sends the current defun to
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509 an inferior Lisp process, now works by writing the text into a temporary
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510 file and actually sending only a `load'-form to load the file.
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511 As a result, it avoids the Unix bugs that used to strike when the
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512 text was above a certain length.
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513
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514 With a prefix argument, this command now makes the inferior Lisp buffer
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515 appear on the screen and scrolls it so that the bottom is showing.
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516
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517 Two variables `inferior-lisp-load-command' and `inferior-lisp-prompt',
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518 exist to customize these feature for different Lisp implementations.
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519
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520 ** C-x p now disabled.
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521
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522 The command C-x p, a nonrecomended command which narrows to the current
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523 page, is now initially disabled like C-x n.
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524
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525 * Dealing with files.
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526
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527 ** C-x C-v generalized
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528
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529 This command is now allowed even if the current buffer is not visiting
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530 a file. As usual, it kills the current buffer and replaces it with a
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531 newly found file.
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532
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533 ** M-x recover-file improved; auto save file names changed.
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534
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535 M-x recover-file now checks whether the last auto-save file is more
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536 recent than the real visited file before offering to read in the
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537 auto-save file. If the auto-save file is newer, a directory listing
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538 containing the two files is displayed while you are asked whether you
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539 want the auto save file.
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540
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541 Visiting a file also makes this check. If the auto-save file is more recent,
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542 a message is printed suggesting that you consider using M-x recover file.
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543
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544 Auto save file names now by default have a `#' at the end as well
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545 as at the beginning. This is so that `*.c' in a shell command
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546 will never match auto save files.
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547
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548 On VMS, auto save file names are made by appending `_$' at the front
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549 and `$' at the end.
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550
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551 When you change the visited file name of a buffer, the auto save file
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552 is now renamed to belong to the new visited file name.
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553
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554 You can customize the way auto save file names are made by redefining
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555 the two functions `make-auto-save-file-name' and `auto-save-file-name-p',
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556 both of which are defined in `files.el'.
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557
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558 ** Modifying a buffer whose file is changed on disk is detected instantly.
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559
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560 On systems where clash detection (locking of files being edited) is
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562 whether the file has changed on disk since it was last visited or saved.
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563 If it has, you are asked to confirm that you want to change the buffer.
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564
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565 ** Exiting Emacs offers to save `*mail*'.
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566
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567 Emacs can now know about buffers that it should offer to save on exit
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568 even though they are not visiting files. This is done for any buffer
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569 which has a non-nil local value of `buffer-offer-save'. By default,
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570 Mail mode provides such a local value.
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571
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572 ** Backup file changes.
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573
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574 If a backup file cannot be written in the directory of the visited file
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575 due to fascist file protection, a backup file is now written in your home
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576 directory as `~/%backup%~'. Only one such file is made, ever, so only
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577 the most recently made such backup is available.
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578
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579 When backup files are made by copying, the last-modification time of the
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580 original file is now preserved in the backup copy.
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581
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582 ** Visiting remote files.
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583
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584 On an internet host, you can now visit and save files on any other
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585 internet host directly from Emacs with the commands M-x ftp-find-file
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586 and M-x ftp-write-file. Specify an argument of the form HOST:FILENAME.
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587 Since standard internet FTP is used, the other host may be any kind
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588 of machine and is not required to have any special facilities.
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589
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590 The first time any one remote host is accessed, you will be asked to
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591 give the user name and password for use on that host. FTP is reinvoked
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592 each time you ask to use it, but previously specified user names and
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593 passwords are remembered automatically.
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594
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595 ** Dired `g' command.
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596
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597 `g' in Dired mode is equivalent to M-x revert-buffer; it causes the
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598 current contents of the same directory to be read in.
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599
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600 * Changes in major modes.
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601
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602 ** C mode indentation change.
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603
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604 The binding of Linefeed is no longer changed by C mode. It once again
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605 has its normal meaning, which is to insert a newline and then indent
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606 afterward.
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607
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608 The old definition did one additional thing: it reindented the line
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609 before the new newline. This has been removed because it made the
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610 command twice as slow. The only time it was really useful was after the
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611 insertion of an `else', since the fact of starting with `else' may change
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612 the way that line is indented. Now you will have to type TAB again
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613 yourself to reindent the `else' properly.
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614
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615 If the variable `c-tab-always-indent' is set to `nil', the TAB command
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616 in C mode, with no argument, will just insert a tab character if there
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617 is non-whitespace preceding point on the current line. Giving it a
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618 prefix argument will force reindentation of the line (as well as
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619 of the compound statement that begins after point, if any).
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620
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621 ** Fortran mode now exists.
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622
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623 This mode provides commands for motion and indentation of Fortran code,
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624 plus built-in abbrevs for Fortran keywords. For details, see the manual
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625 or the on-line documentation of the command `fortran-mode'.
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626
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627 ** Scribe mode now exists.
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628
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629 This mode does something useful for editing files of Scribe input.
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630 It is used automatically for files with names ending in ".mss".
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631
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632 ** Modula2 and Prolog modes now exist.
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633
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634 These modes are for editing programs in the languages of the same names.
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635 They can be selected with M-x modula-2-mode and M-x prolog-mode.
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636
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637 ** Telnet mode changes.
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638
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639 The telnet mode special commands have now been assigned to C-c keys.
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640 Most of them are the same as in Shell mode.
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641
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642 ** Picture mode changes.
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643
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644 The special picture-mode commands to specify the direction of cursor
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645 motion after insertion have been moved to C-c keys. The commands to
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646 specify diagonal motion were already C-c keys; they are unchanged.
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647 The keys to specify horizontal or vertical motion are now
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648 C-c < (left), C-c > (right), C-c ^ (up) and C-c . (down).
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649
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650 ** Nroff mode comments.
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651
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652 Comments are now supported in Nroff mode. The standard comment commands
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653 such as M-; and C-x ; know how to insert, align and delete comments
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654 that start with backslash-doublequote.
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655
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656 ** LaTeX mode.
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657
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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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660 TeX. M-x tex-mode attempts to examine the contents of the buffer and
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661 choose between latex-mode and plain-tex-mode accordingly; if the
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662 buffer is empty or it cannot tell, the variable `TeX-default-mode'
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663 controls the choice. Its value should be the symbol for the mode to
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664 be used.
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665
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666 The facilities for running TeX on all or part of the buffer
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667 work with LaTeX as well.
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668
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669 Some new commands available in both modes:
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670
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671 C-c C-l recenter the window showing the TeX output buffer
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672 so most recent line of output can be seen.
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673 C-c C-k kill the TeX subprocess.
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674 C-c C-q show the printer queue.
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675 C-c C-f close a block (appropriate for LaTeX only).
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676 If the current line contains a \begin{...},
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677 this inserts an \end{...} on the following line
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678 and puts point on a blank line between them.
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679
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680 ** Outline mode changes.
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681
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682 Invisible lines in outline mode are now indicated by `...' at the
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683 end of the previous visible line.
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684
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685 The special outline heading motion commands are now all on C-c keys.
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686 A few new ones have been added. Here is a full list:
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688 C-c C-n Move to next visible heading (formerly M-})
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689 C-c C-p Move to previous visible heading (formerly M-{)
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690 C-c C-f Move to next visible heading at the same level.
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691 Thus, if point is on a level-2 heading line,
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692 this command moves to the next visible level-2 heading.
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693 C-c C-b Move to previous visible heading at the same level.
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694 C-c C-u Move up to previous visible heading at a higher level.
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695
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696 The variable `outline-regexp' now controls recognition of heading lines.
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697 Any line whose beginning matches this regexp is a heading line.
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698 The depth in outline structure is determined by the length of
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699 the string that matches.
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700
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701 A line starting with a ^L (formfeed) is now by default considered
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702 a header line.
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703
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704 * Mail reading and sending.
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705
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706 ** MH-E changes.
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707
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708 MH-E has been extensively modified and improved since the v17 release.
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709 It contains many new features, including commands to: extracted failed
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710 messages, kill a draft message, undo changes to a mail folder, monitor
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711 delivery of a letter, print multiple messages, page digests backwards,
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712 insert signatures, and burst digests. Also, many commands have been
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713 made to able to deal with named sequences of messages, instead of
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714 single messages. MH-E also has had numerous bugs fixed and commands
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715 made to run faster. Furthermore, its keybindings have been changed to
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716 be compatible with Rmail and the rest of GNU Emacs.
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717
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718 ** Mail mode changes.
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719
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720 The C-c commands of mail mode have been rearranged:
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721
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722 C-c s, C-c c, C-c t and C-c b (move point to various header fields)
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723 have been reassigned as C-c C-f C-s, C-c C-f C-c, C-c C-f C-t and C-c
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724 C-f C-b. C-c C-f is for "field".
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725
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726 C-c y, C-c w and C-c q have been changed to C-c C-y, C-c C-w and C-c C-q.
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727
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728 Thus, C-c LETTER is always unassigned.
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729
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730 ** Rmail C-r command changed to w.
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731
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732 The Rmail command to edit the current message is now `w'. This change
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733 has been made because people frequently type C-r while in Rmail hoping
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734 to do a reverse incremental search. That now works.
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735
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736 * Rnews changes.
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737
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738 ** Caesar rotation added.
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739
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740 The function news-caesar-buffer-body performs encryption and
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741 decryption of the body of a news message. It defaults to the USENET
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742 standard of 13, and accepts any numeric arg between 1 to 25 and -25 to -1.
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743 The function is bound to C-c C-r in both news-mode and news-reply-mode.
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744
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745 ** rmail-output command added.
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746
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747 The C-o command has been bound to rmail-output in news-mode.
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748 This allows one to append an article to a file which is in either Unix
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749 mail or RMAIL format.
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750
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751 ** news-reply-mode changes.
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752
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753 The C-c commands of news reply mode have been rearranged and changed,
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754 so that C-c LETTER is always unassigned:
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755
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756 C-c y, C-c w and C-c q have been changed to C-c C-y, C-c C-w and C-c C-q.
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757
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758 C-c c, C-c t, and C-c b (move to various mail header fields) have been
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759 deleted (they make no sense for posting and replying to USENET).
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760
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761 C-c s (move to Subject: header field) has been reassigned as C-c C-f
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762 C-s. C-c C-f is for "field". Several additional move to news header
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763 field commands have been added.
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764
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765 The local news-reply-mode bindings now look like this:
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766
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767 C-c C-s news-inews (post the message) C-c C-c news-inews
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768 C-c C-f move to a header field (and create it if there isn't):
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769 C-c C-f C-n move to Newsgroups: C-c C-f C-s move to Subj:
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770 C-c C-f C-f move to Followup-To: C-c C-f C-k move to Keywords:
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771 C-c C-f C-d move to Distribution: C-c C-f C-a move to Summary:
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772 C-c C-y news-reply-yank-original (insert current message, in NEWS).
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773 C-c C-q mail-fill-yanked-message (fill what was yanked).
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774 C-c C-r caesar rotate all letters by 13 places in the article's body (rot13).
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775
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776 * Existing Emacs usable as a server.
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777
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778 Programs such as mailers that invoke "the editor" as an inferior
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779 to edit some text can now be told to use an existing Emacs process
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780 instead of creating a new editor.
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781
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782 To do this, you must have an Emacs process running and capable of
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783 doing terminal I/O at the time you want to invoke it. This means that
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784 either you are using a window system and give Emacs a separate window
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785 or you run the other programs as inferiors of Emacs (such as, using
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786 M-x shell).
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787
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788 First prepare the existing Emacs process by loading the `server'
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789 library and executing M-x server-start. (Your .emacs can do this
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790 automatically.)
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791
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792 Now tell the other programs to use, as "the editor", the Emacs client
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793 program (etc/emacsclient, located in the same directory as this file).
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794 This can be done by setting the environment variable EDITOR.
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795
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796 When another program invokes the emacsclient as "the editor", the
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797 client actually transfers the file names to be edited to the existing
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798 Emacs, which automatically visits the files.
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799
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800 When you are done editing a buffer for a client, do C-x # (server-edit).
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801 This marks that buffer as done, and selects the next buffer that the client
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802 asked for. When all the buffers requested by a client are marked in this
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803 way, Emacs tells the client program to exit, so that the program that
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804 invoked "the editor" will resume execution.
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805
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806 You can only have one server Emacs at a time, but multiple client programs
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807 can put in requests at the same time.
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808
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809 The client/server work only on Berkeley Unix, since they use the Berkeley
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810 sockets mechanism for their communication.
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811
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812
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813 Changes in Lisp programming in Emacs version 18.
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814
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815 * Init file changes.
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816
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817 ** Suffixes no longer accepted on `.emacs'.
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818
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819 Emacs will no longer load a file named `.emacs.el' or `emacs.elc'
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820 in place of `.emacs'. This is so that it will take less time to
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821 find `.emacs'. If you want to compile your init file, give it another
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822 name and make `.emacs' a link to the `.elc' file, or make it contain
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823 a call to `load' to load the `.elc' file.
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824
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825 ** `default-profile' renamed to `default', and loaded after `.emacs'.
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826
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827 It used to be the case that the file `default-profile' was loaded if
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828 and only if `.emacs' was not found.
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829
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830 Now the name `default-profile' is not used at all. Instead, a library
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831 named `default' is loaded after the `.emacs' file. `default' is loaded
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832 whether the `.emacs' file exists or not. However, loading of `default'
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833 can be prevented if the `.emacs' file sets `inhibit-default-init' to non-nil.
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834
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835 In fact, you would call the default file `default.el' and probably would
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836 byte-compile it to speed execution.
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837
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838 Note that for most purposes you are better off using a `site-init' library
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839 since that will be loaded before the runnable Emacs is dumped. By using
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840 a `site-init' library, you avoid taking up time each time Emacs is started.
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841
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842 ** inhibit-command-line has been eliminated.
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843
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844 This variable used to exist for .emacs files to set. It has been
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845 eliminated because you can get the same effect by setting
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846 command-line-args to nil and setting inhibit-startup-message to t.
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847
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848 * `apply' is more general.
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849
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850 `apply' now accepts any number of arguments. The first one is a function;
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851 the rest are individual arguments to pass to that function, except for the
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852 last, which is a list of arguments to pass.
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853
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854 Previously, `apply' required exactly two arguments. Its old behavior
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855 follows as a special case of the new definition.
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856
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857 * New code-letter for `interactive'.
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858
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859 (interactive "NFoo: ") is like (interactive "nFoo: ") in reading
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860 a number using the minibuffer to serve as the argument; however,
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861 if a prefix argument was specified, it uses the prefix argument
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862 value as the argument, and does not use the minibuffer at all.
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863
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864 This is used by the `goto-line' and `goto-char' commands.
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865
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866 * Semantics of variables.
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867
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868 ** Built-in per-buffer variables improved.
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869
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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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873
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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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876 `overwrite-mode', `case-fold-search', `auto-fill-hook',
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877 `selective-display', `selective-display-ellipses'.
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878
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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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882 local to the current buffer. Changing the default value has retroactive
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883 effect on all buffers in which the variable is not local.
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884
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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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diff changeset
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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diff changeset
889
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diff changeset
890 ** New per-buffer variables.
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891
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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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894
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895 ** New function `setq-default'.
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896
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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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diff changeset
899 and need not be quoted.
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900
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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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diff changeset
905
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906 These functions were never used except by mistake by users expecting
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diff changeset
907 the functionality of `set-default' and `default-value'.
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parents:
diff changeset
908
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diff changeset
909 * Changes in defaulting of major modes.
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diff changeset
910
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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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diff changeset
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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diff changeset
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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diff changeset
932 This function has changed incompatibly in that now two arguments
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diff changeset
933 are required when previously only one argument was allowed. To get
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diff changeset
934 the old behavior of this function, write `(current-local-map)' as
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diff changeset
935 the expression for the second argument.
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diff changeset
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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diff changeset
939 serve as a default meaning to use the current local keymap.
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diff changeset
940
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diff changeset
941 * Abbrevs with hooks.
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parents:
diff changeset
942
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943 When an abbrev defined with a hook is expanded, it now performs the
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
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parents:
diff changeset
944 usual replacement of the abbrev with the expansion before running the
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
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diff changeset
945 hook. Previously the abbrev itself was deleted but the expansion was
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parents:
diff changeset
946 not inserted.
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947
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948 * Function `scan-buffer' deleted.
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parents:
diff changeset
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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diff changeset
952
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parents:
diff changeset
953 * X window interface improvements.
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parents:
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954
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955 ** Detect release of mouse buttons.
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parents:
diff changeset
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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diff changeset
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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parents:
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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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981
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982 This is a new way to replace one command with another command as the
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983 binding of whatever keys may happen to refer to it.
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984
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985 (substitute-key-definition OLDDEF NEWDEF KEYMAP) looks through KEYMAP
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986 for keys defined to run OLDDEF, and rebinds those keys to run NEWDEF
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parents:
diff changeset
987 instead.
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parents:
diff changeset
988
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parents:
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989 * New function `insert-char'.
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990
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991 Insert a specified character, a specified number of times.
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992
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diff changeset
993 * `mark-marker' changed.
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diff changeset
994
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diff changeset
995 When there is no mark, this now returns a marker that points
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diff changeset
996 nowhere, rather than `nil'.
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diff changeset
997
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diff changeset
998 * `ding' accepts argument.
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diff changeset
999
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1000 When given an argument, the function `ding' does not terminate
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diff changeset
1001 execution of a keyboard macro. Normally, `ding' does terminate
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diff changeset
1002 all macros that are currently executing.
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1003
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parents:
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1004 * New function `minibuffer-depth'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1005
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1006 This function returns the current depth in minibuffer activations.
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1007 The value is zero when the minibuffer is not in use.
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1008 Values greater than one are possible if the user has entered the
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diff changeset
1009 minibuffer recursively.
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1010
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1011 * New function `documentation-property'.
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1012
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1013 (documentation-property SYMBOL PROPNAME) is like (get SYMBOL PROPNAME),
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parents:
diff changeset
1014 except that if the property value is a number `documentation-property'
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parents:
diff changeset
1015 will take that number (or its absolute value) as a character position
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1016 in the DOC file and return the string found there.
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parents:
diff changeset
1017
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diff changeset
1018 (documentation-property VAR 'variable-documentation) is the proper
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parents:
diff changeset
1019 way for a Lisp program to get the documentation of variable VAR.
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parents:
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1020
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parents:
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1021 * New documentation-string expansion feature.
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parents:
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1022
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parents:
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1023 If a documentation string (for a variable or function) contains text
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parents:
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1024 of the form `\<FOO>', it means that all command names specified in
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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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parents:
diff changeset
1027
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1028 `\<emacs-lisp-mode-map>\[eval-defun] evaluates the defun containing point.'
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diff changeset
1029
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parents:
diff changeset
1030 will expand into
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parents:
diff changeset
1031
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parents:
diff changeset
1032 "ESC C-x evaluates the defun containing point."
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parents:
diff changeset
1033
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parents:
diff changeset
1034 regardless of the current major mode, because ESC C-x is defined to
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1035 run `eval-defun' in the keymap `emacs-lisp-mode-map'. The effect is
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parents:
diff changeset
1036 to show the key for `eval-defun' in Emacs Lisp mode regardless of the
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parents:
diff changeset
1037 current major mode.
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parents:
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1038
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parents:
diff changeset
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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1041
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parents:
diff changeset
1042 Without `\<...>', the keys for commands specified in `\[...]' are found
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diff changeset
1043 in the current buffer's local map.
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diff changeset
1044
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parents:
diff changeset
1045 The current global keymap is always searched second, whether `\<...>'
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parents:
diff changeset
1046 has been used or not.
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parents:
diff changeset
1047
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diff changeset
1048 * Multiple hooks allowed in certain contexts.
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parents:
diff changeset
1049
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diff changeset
1050 The old hook variables `find-file-hook', `find-file-not-found-hook' and
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parents:
diff changeset
1051 `write-file-hook' have been replaced.
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parents:
diff changeset
1052
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diff changeset
1053 The replacements are `find-file-hooks', `find-file-not-found-hooks'
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parents:
diff changeset
1054 and `write-file-hooks'. Each holds a list of functions to be called;
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diff changeset
1055 by default, `nil', for no functions. The functions are called in
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parents:
diff changeset
1056 order of appearance in the list.
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parents:
diff changeset
1057
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diff changeset
1058 In the case of `find-file-hooks', all the functions are executed.
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parents:
diff changeset
1059
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diff changeset
1060 In the case of `find-file-not-found-hooks', if any of the functions
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diff changeset
1061 returns non-`nil', the rest of the functions are not called.
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diff changeset
1062
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parents:
diff changeset
1063 In the case of `write-file-hooks', if any of the functions returns
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diff changeset
1064 non-`nil', the rest of the functions are not called, and the file is
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parents:
diff changeset
1065 considered to have been written already; so actual writing in the
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diff changeset
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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parents:
diff changeset
1068 (and thus by C-x C-w as well).
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parents:
diff changeset
1069
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parents:
diff changeset
1070 `find-file-not-found-hooks' and `write-file-hooks' can be used
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1071 together to implement editing of files that are not stored as Unix
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1072 files: stored in archives, or inside version control systems, or on
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parents:
diff changeset
1073 other machines running other operating systems and accessible via ftp.
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parents:
diff changeset
1074
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parents:
diff changeset
1075 * New hooks for suspending Emacs.
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parents:
diff changeset
1076
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parents:
diff changeset
1077 Suspending Emacs runs the hook `suspend-hook' before suspending
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1078 and the hook `suspend-resume-hook' if the suspended Emacs is resumed.
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parents:
diff changeset
1079 Running a hook is done by applying the variable's value to no arguments
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parents:
diff changeset
1080 if the variable has a non-`nil' value. If `suspend-hook' returns
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parents:
diff changeset
1081 non-`nil', then suspending is inhibited and so is running the
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
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diff changeset
1082 `suspend-resume-hook'. The non-`nil' value means that the `suspend-hook'
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1083 has done whatever suspending is required.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1084
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parents:
diff changeset
1085 * Disabling commands can print a special message.
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parents:
diff changeset
1086
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parents:
diff changeset
1087 A command is disabled by giving it a non-`nil' `disabled' property.
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parents:
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1088 Now, if this property is a string, it is included in the message
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1089 printed when the user tries to run the command.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1090
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1091 * Emacs can open TCP connections.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1092
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1093 The function `open-network-stream' opens a TCP connection to
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1094 a specified host and service. Its value is a Lisp object that represents
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1095 the connection. The object is a kind of "subprocess", and I/O are
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1096 done like I/O to subprocesses.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1097
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1098 * Display-related changes.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1099
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1100 ** New mode-line control features.
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parents:
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1101
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parents:
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1102 The display of the mode line used to be controlled by a format-string
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parents:
diff changeset
1103 that was the value of the variable `mode-line-format'.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1104
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parents:
diff changeset
1105 This variable still exists, but it now allows more general values,
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1106 not just strings. Lists, cons cells and symbols are also meaningful.
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parents:
diff changeset
1107
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parents:
diff changeset
1108 The mode line contents are created by outputting various mode elements
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1109 one after the other. Here are the kinds of objects that can be
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1110 used as mode elements, and what they do in the display:
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parents:
diff changeset
1111
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parents:
diff changeset
1112 string the contents of the string are output to the mode line,
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
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1113 and %-constructs are replaced by other text.
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1114
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1115 t or nil ignored; no output results.
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1116
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1117 symbol the symbol's value is used. If the value is a string,
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1118 the string is output verbatim to the mode line
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diff changeset
1119 (so %-constructs are not interpreted). Otherwise,
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diff changeset
1120 the symbol's value is processed as a mode element.
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1121
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1122 list (whose first element is a string or list or cons cell)
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diff changeset
1123 the elements of the list are treated as as mode elements,
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1124 so that the output they generate is concatenated,
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diff changeset
1125
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1126 list (whose car is a symbol)
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1127 if the symbol's value is non-nil, the second element of the
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1128 list is treated as a mode element. Otherwise, the third
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1129 element (if any) of the list is treated as a mode element.
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1130
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1131 cons (whose car is a positive integer)
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diff changeset
1132 the cdr of the cons is used as a mode element, but
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parents:
diff changeset
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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1135
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diff changeset
1136 cons (whose car is a negative integer)
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diff changeset
1137 the cdr of the cons is used as a mode element, but
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parents:
diff changeset
1138 the text it produces is truncated, if necessary, to have
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parents:
diff changeset
1139 at most the width specified by the integer.
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1140
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1141 There is always one mode element to start with, that being the value of
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1142 `mode-line-format', but if this value is a list then it leads to several
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diff changeset
1143 more mode elements, which can lead to more, and so on.
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1144
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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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1147
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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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diff changeset
1152 are changed from the default.
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1153
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1154 mode-name Name of buffer's major mode. Local in every buffer.
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1155
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diff changeset
1156 mode-line-buffer-identification
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diff changeset
1157 Normally the list ("Emacs: %17b"), it is responsible
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parents:
diff changeset
1158 for displaying text to indicate what buffer is being shown
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parents:
diff changeset
1159 and what kind of editing it is doing. `Emacs' means
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parents:
diff changeset
1160 that a file of characters is being edited. Major modes
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parents:
diff changeset
1161 such as Info and Dired which edit or view other kinds
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parents:
diff changeset
1162 of data often change this value. This variables becomes
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parents:
diff changeset
1163 local to the current buffer if it is setq'd.
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parents:
diff changeset
1164
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diff changeset
1165 mode-line-process
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parents:
diff changeset
1166 Normally nil, this variable is responsible for displaying
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parents:
diff changeset
1167 information about the process running in the current buffer.
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parents:
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1168 M-x shell-mode and M-x compile alter this variable.
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parents:
diff changeset
1169
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parents:
diff changeset
1170 mode-line-modified
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parents:
diff changeset
1171 This variable is responsible for displaying the indication
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parents:
diff changeset
1172 of whether the current buffer is modified or read-only.
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parents:
diff changeset
1173 By default its value is `("--%*%*-")'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1174
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parents:
diff changeset
1175 minor-mode-alist
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parents:
diff changeset
1176 This variable is responsible for displaying text for those
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parents:
diff changeset
1177 minor modes that are currently enabled. Its value
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parents:
diff changeset
1178 is a list of elements of the form (VARIABLE STRING),
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parents:
diff changeset
1179 where STRING is to be displayed if VARIABLE's value
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parents:
diff changeset
1180 (in the buffer whose mode line is being displayed)
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parents:
diff changeset
1181 is non-nil. This variable is not made local to particular
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parents:
diff changeset
1182 buffers, but loading some libraries may add elements to it.
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parents:
diff changeset
1183
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parents:
diff changeset
1184 global-mode-string
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parents:
diff changeset
1185 This variable is used to display the time, if you ask
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parents:
diff changeset
1186 for that.
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parents:
diff changeset
1187
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parents:
diff changeset
1188 The idea of these variables is to eliminate the need for major modes
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parents:
diff changeset
1189 to alter mode-line-format itself.
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parents:
diff changeset
1190
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diff changeset
1191 ** `window-point' valid for selected window.
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parents:
diff changeset
1192
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diff changeset
1193 The value returned by `window-point' used to be incorrect when its
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diff changeset
1194 argument was the selected window. Now the value is correct.
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parents:
diff changeset
1195
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parents:
diff changeset
1196 ** Window configurations may be saved as Lisp objects.
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parents:
diff changeset
1197
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parents:
diff changeset
1198 The function `current-window-configuration' returns a special type of
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parents:
diff changeset
1199 Lisp object that represents the current layout of windows: the
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parents:
diff changeset
1200 sizes and positions of windows, which buffers appear in them, and
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1201 which parts of the buffers appear on the screen.
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parents:
diff changeset
1202
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parents:
diff changeset
1203 The function `set-window-configuration' takes one argument, which must
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parents:
diff changeset
1204 be a window configuration object, and restores that configuration.
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parents:
diff changeset
1205
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parents:
diff changeset
1206 ** New hook `temp-output-buffer-show-hook'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1207
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parents:
diff changeset
1208 This hook allows you to control how help buffers are displayed.
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parents:
diff changeset
1209 Whenever `with-output-to-temp-buffer' has executed its body and wants
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parents:
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1210 to display the temp buffer, if this variable is bound and non-`nil'
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parents:
diff changeset
1211 then its value is called with one argument, the temp buffer.
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parents:
diff changeset
1212 The hook function is solely responsible for displaying the buffer.
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parents:
diff changeset
1213 The standard manner of display--making the buffer appear in a window--is
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parents:
diff changeset
1214 used only if there is no hook function.
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parents:
diff changeset
1215
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parents:
diff changeset
1216 ** New function `minibuffer-window'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1217
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diff changeset
1218 This function returns the window used (sometimes) for displaying
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parents:
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1219 the minibuffer. It can be used even when the minibuffer is not active.
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parents:
diff changeset
1220
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parents:
diff changeset
1221 ** New feature to `next-window'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1222
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1223 If the optional second argument is neither `nil' nor `t', the minibuffer
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diff changeset
1224 window is omitted from consideration even when active; if the starting
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parents:
diff changeset
1225 window was the last non-minibuffer window, the value will be the first
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diff changeset
1226 non-minibuffer window.
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parents:
diff changeset
1227
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parents:
diff changeset
1228 ** New variable `minibuffer-scroll-window'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1229
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diff changeset
1230 When this variable is non-`nil', the command `scroll-other-window'
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1231 uses it as the window to be scrolled. Displays of completion-lists
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parents:
diff changeset
1232 set this variable to the window containing the display.
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parents:
diff changeset
1233
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parents:
diff changeset
1234 ** New argument to `sit-for'.
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parents:
diff changeset
1235
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diff changeset
1236 A non-nil second argument to `sit-for' means do not redisplay;
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parents:
diff changeset
1237 just wait for the specified time or until input is available.
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parents:
diff changeset
1238
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parents:
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1239 ** Deleted function `set-minor-mode'; minor modes must be changed.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1240
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parents:
diff changeset
1241 The function `set-minor-mode' has been eliminated. The display
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parents:
diff changeset
1242 of minor mode names in the mode line is now controlled by the
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parents:
diff changeset
1243 variable `minor-mode-alist'. To specify display of a new minor
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
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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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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1246 and the display will show its status automatically.
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parents:
diff changeset
1247
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1248 ** New variable `cursor-in-echo-area'.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1249
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1250 If this variable is non-nil, the screen cursor appears on the
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parents:
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1251 last line of the screen, at the end of the text displayed there.
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parents:
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1252
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1253 Binding this variable to t is useful at times when reading single
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1254 characters of input with `read-char'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1255
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1256 ** New per-buffer variable `selective-display-ellipses'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1257
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1258 If this variable is non-nil, an ellipsis (`...') appears on the screen
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1259 at the end of each text line that is followed by invisible text.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1260
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1261 If this variable is nil, no ellipses appear. Then there is no sign
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1262 on the screen that invisible text is present.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1263
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1264 Text is made invisible under the control of the variable
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1265 `selective-display'; this is how Outline mode and C-x $ work.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1266
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1267 ** New variable `no-redraw-on-reenter'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1268
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1269 If you set this variable non-nil, Emacs will not clear the screen when
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1270 you resume it after suspending it. This is for the sake of terminals
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1271 with multiple screens of memory, where the termcap entry has been set
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1272 up to switch between screens when Emacs is suspended and resumed.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1273
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1274 ** New argument to `set-screen-height' or `set-screen-width'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1275
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1276 These functions now take an optional second argument which says
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1277 what significance the newly specified height or width has.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1278
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1279 If the argument is nil, or absent, it means that Emacs should
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1280 believe that the terminal height or width really is as just specified.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1281
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1282 If the argument is t, it means Emacs should not believe that the
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1283 terminal really is this high or wide, but it should use the
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1284 specific height or width as the number of lines or columns to display.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1285 Thus, you could display only 24 lines on a screen known to have 48 lines.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1286
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1287 What practical difference is there between using only 24 lines for display
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1288 and really believing that the terminal has 24 lines?
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1289
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1290 1. The ``real'' height of the terminal says what the terminal command
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1291 to move the cursor to the last line will do.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1292
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1293 2. The ``real'' height of the terminal determines how much padding is
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1294 needed.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1295
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1296 * File-related changes.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1297
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1298 ** New parameter `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1299
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1300 If this variable is non-`nil', then when Emacs is about to save a
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1301 file, it will create the backup file by copying if that would avoid
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1302 changing the file's uid or gid.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1303
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1304 The default value of this variable is `nil', because usually it is
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1305 useful to have the uid of a file change according to who edited it
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1306 last. I recommend thet this variable be left normally `nil' and
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1307 changed with a local variables list in those particular files where
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1308 the uid needs to be preserved.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1309
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1310 ** New parameter `file-precious-flag'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1311
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1312 If this variable is non-`nil', saving the buffer tries to avoid
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1313 leaving an incomplete file due to disk full or other I/O errors.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1314 It renames the old file before saving. If saving is successful,
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1315 the renamed file is deleted; if saving gets an error, the renamed
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1316 file is renamed back to the name you visited.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1317
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1318 Backups are always made by copying for such files.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1319
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1320 ** New variable `buffer-offer-save'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1321
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1322 If the value of this variable is non-`nil' in a buffer then exiting
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1323 Emacs will offer to save the buffer (if it is modified and nonempty)
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1324 even if the buffer is not visiting a file. This variable is
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1325 automatically made local to the current buffer whenever it is set.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1326
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1327 ** `rename-file', `copy-file', `add-name-to-file' and `make-symbolic-link'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1328
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1329 The third argument to these functions used to be `t' or `nil'; `t'
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1330 meaning go ahead even if the specified new file name already has a file,
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1331 and `nil' meaning to get an error.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1332
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1333 Now if the third argument is a number it means to ask the user for
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1334 confirmation in this case.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1335
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1336 ** New optional argument to `copy-file'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1337
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1338 If `copy-file' receives a non-nil fourth argument, it attempts
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1339 to give the new copy the same time-of-last-modification that the
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1340 original file has.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1341
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1342 ** New function `file-newer-than-file-p'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1343
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1344 (file-newer-than-file-p FILE1 FILE2) returns non-nil if FILE1 has been
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1345 modified more recently than FILE2. If FILE1 does not exist, the value
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1346 is always nil; otherwise, if FILE2 does not exist, the value is t.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1347 This is meant for use when FILE2 depends on FILE1, to see if changes
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1348 in FILE1 make it necessary to recompute FILE2 from it.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1349
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1350 ** Changed function `file-exists-p'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1351
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1352 This function is no longer the same as `file-readable-p'.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1353 `file-exists-p' can now return t for a file that exists but which
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1354 the fascists won't allow you to read.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1355
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1356 ** New function `file-locked-p'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1357
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1358 This function receives a file name as argument and returns `nil'
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1359 if the file is not locked, `t' if locked by this Emacs, or a
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1360 string giving the name of the user who has locked it.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1361
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1362 ** New function `file-name-sans-versions'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1363
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1364 (file-name-sans-versions NAME) returns a substring of NAME, with any
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1365 version numbers or other backup suffixes deleted from the end.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1366
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1367 ** New functions for directory names.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1368
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1369 Although a directory is really a kind of file, specifying a directory
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1370 uses a somewhat different syntax from specifying a file.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1371 In Emacs, a directory name is used as part of a file name.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1372
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1373 On Unix, the difference is small: a directory name ends in a slash,
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1374 while a file name does not: thus, `/usr/rms/' to name a directory,
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1375 while `/usr/rms' names the file which holds that directory.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1376
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1377 On VMS, the difference is considerable: `du:[rms.foo]' specifies a
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1378 directory, but the name of the file that holds that directory is
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1379 `du:[rms]foo.dir'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1380
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1381 There are two new functions for converting between directory names
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1382 and file names. `directory-file-name' takes a directory name and
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1383 returns the name of the file in which that directory's data is stored.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1384 `file-name-as-directory' takes the name of a file and returns
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1385 the corresponding directory name. These always understand Unix file name
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1386 syntax; on VMS, they understand VMS syntax as well.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1387
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
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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".
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
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parents:
diff changeset
1390 On VMS, (file-name-as-directory "du:[rms]foo.dir") returns "du:[rms.foo]"
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
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diff changeset
1391 and (directory-file-name "du:[rms.foo]") returns "du:[rms]foo.dir".
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1392
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diff changeset
1393 ** Value of `file-attributes' changed.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1394
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1395 The function file-attributes returns a list containing many kinds of
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1396 information about a file. Now the list has eleven elements.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1397
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1398 The tenth element is `t' if deleting the file and creating another
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1399 file of the same name would result in a change in the file's group;
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
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1400 `nil' if there would be no change. You can also think of this as
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1401 comparing the file's group with the default group for files created in
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1402 the same directory by you.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1403
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1404 The eleventh element is the inode number of the file.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1405
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1406 ** VMS-only function `file-name-all-versions'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1407
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1408 This function returns a list of all the completions, including version
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1409 number, of a specified version-number-less file name. This is like
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1410 `file-name-all-completions', except that the latter returns values
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1411 that do not include version numbers.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1412
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1413 ** VMS-only variable `vms-stmlf-recfm'.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1414
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1415 On a VMS system, if this variable is non-nil, Emacs will give newly
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1416 created files the record format `stmlf'. This is necessary for files
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1417 that must contain lines of arbitrary length, such as compiled Emacs
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1418 Lisp.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1419
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1420 When writing a new version of an existing file, Emacs always keeps
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1421 the same record format as the previous version; so this variable has
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1422 no effect.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1423
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1424 This variable has no effect on Unix systems.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1425
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1426 ** `insert-file-contents' on an empty file.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1427
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1428 This no longer sets the buffer's "modified" flag.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1429
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1430 ** New function (VMS only) `define-logical-name':
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1431
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1432 (define-logical-name LOGICAL TRANSLATION) defines a VMS logical name
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1433 LOGICAL whose translation is TRANSLATION. The new name applies to
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1434 the current process only.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1435
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1436 ** Deleted variable `ask-about-buffer-names'.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1437
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1438 If you want buffer names for files to be generated in a special way,
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1439 you must redefine `create-file-buffer'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1440
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1441 * Subprocess-related changes.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1442
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1443 ** New function `process-list'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1444
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1445 This function takes no arguments and returns a list of all
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1446 of Emacs's asynchronous subprocesses.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1447
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1448 ** New function `process-exit-status'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1449
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1450 This function, given a process, process name or buffer as argument,
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1451 returns the exit status code or signal number of the process.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1452 If the process has not yet exited or died, this function returns 0.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1453
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1454 ** Process output ignores `buffer-read-only'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1455
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1456 Output from a process will go into the process's buffer even if the
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1457 buffer is read only.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1458
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1459 ** Switching buffers in filter functions and sentinels.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1460
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1461 Emacs no longer saves and restore the current buffer around calling
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1462 the filter and sentinel functions, so these functions can now
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1463 permanently alter the selected buffer in a straightforward manner.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1464
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1465 ** Specifying environment variables for subprocesses.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1466
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1467 When a subprocess is started with `start-process' or `call-process',
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1468 the value of the variable `process-environment' is taken to
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1469 specify the environment variables to give the subprocess. The
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1470 value should be a list of strings, each of the form "VAR=VALUE".
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1471
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1472 `process-environment' is initialized when Emacs starts up
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1473 based on Emacs's environment.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1474
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1475 ** New variable `process-connection-type'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1476
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1477 If this variable is `nil', when a subprocess is created, Emacs uses
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1478 a pipe rather than a pty to communicate with it. Normally this
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1479 variable is `t', telling Emacs to use a pty if ptys are supported
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1480 and one is available.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1481
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1482 ** New function `waiting-for-user-input-p'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1483
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1484 This function, given a subprocess as argument, returns `t' if that
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1485 subprocess appears to be waiting for input sent from Emacs,
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1486 or `nil' otherwise.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1487
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1488 ** New hook `shell-set-directory-error-hook'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1489
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1490 The value of this variable is called, with no arguments, whenever
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1491 Shell mode gets an error trying to keep track of directory-setting
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1492 commands (such as `cd' and `pushd') used in the shell buffer.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1493
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1494 * New functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1495
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1496 These functions take no arguments and return, respectively,
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1497 the effective uid and the real uid of the Emacs process.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1498 The value in each case is an integer.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1499
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1500 * New variable `print-escape-newlines' controls string printing.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1501
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1502 If this variable is non-`nil', then when a Lisp string is printed
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1503 by the Lisp printing function `prin1' or `print', newline characters
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1504 are printed as `\n' rather than as a literal newline.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1505
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1506 * New function `sysnetunam' on HPUX.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1507
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1508 This function takes two arguments, a network address PATH and a
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1509 login string LOGIN, and executes the system call `netunam'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1510 It returns `t' if the call succeeds, otherwise `nil'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1511
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1512 News regarding installation:
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1513
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1514 * Many `s-...' file names changed.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1515
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1516 Many `s-...' files have been renamed. All periods in such names,
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1517 except the ones just before the final `h', have been changed to
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1518 hyphens. Thus, `s-bsd4.2.h' has been renamed to `s-bsd4-2.h'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1519
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1520 This is so a Unix distribution can be moved mechanically to VMS.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1521
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1522 * `DOCSTR...' file now called `DOC-...'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1523
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1524 The file of on-line documentation strings, that used to be
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
1525 `DOCSTR.mm.nn.oo' in this directory, is now called `DOC-mm.nn.oo'.
25fa0038a52d Reorganize NEWS and ONEWS.* files into NEWS for current major version
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents:
diff changeset
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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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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1545
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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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1552 for more information.
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1554 * Macros `ARRAY_MARK_FLAG' and `DONT_COPY_FLAG'.
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1556 * `HAVE_ALLOCA' prevents assembly of `alloca.s'.
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1558 * `SYSTEM_MALLOC' prevents use of GNU `malloc.c'.
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1560 SYSTEM_MALLOC, if defined, means use the system's own `malloc' routines
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1561 rather than those that come with Emacs.
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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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1566 * New flags to control unexec.
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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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1571 * `PNTR_COMPARISON_TYPE'
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1573 Pointers that need to be compared for ordering are converted to this type
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1574 first. Normally this is `unsigned int'.
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1576 * `HAVE_VFORK', `HAVE_DUP2' and `HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY'.
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1578 These flags just say whether certain system calls are available.
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1580 * New macros control compiler switches, linker switches and libraries.
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1582 The m- and s- files can now control in a modular fashion the precise
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1583 arguments passed to `cc' and `ld'.
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1585 LIBS_STANDARD defines the standard C libraries. Default is `-lc'.
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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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1588 LIBS_MACHINE can be defined by the m- file to specify extra libraries.
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1589 LIBS_TERMCAP defines the libraries for Termcap or Terminfo.
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1593 LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM can be defined by the s- file to specify extra `ld' switches.
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1594 The default is `-X' on BSD systems except those few that use COFF object files.
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1597 C_DEBUG_SWITCH defines the switches to give `cc' when debugging. Default `-g'.
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1598 C_OPTIMIZE_SWITCH defines the switches to give `cc' to optimize. Default `-O'.
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