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Move 19.x news to ONEWS.
author | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> |
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date | Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:20:17 +0000 |
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8653 An example of using this feature: if we define imenu items for the | 8653 An example of using this feature: if we define imenu items for the |
8654 #include directives in a C file, we can open the included file when we | 8654 #include directives in a C file, we can open the included file when we |
8655 select one of those items. | 8655 select one of those items. |
8656 | 8656 |
8657 * Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes. | |
8658 | |
8659 * Changes in Emacs 19.33. | |
8660 | |
8661 ** Bibtex mode no longer turns on Auto Fill automatically. (No major | |
8662 mode should do that--it is the user's choice.) | |
8663 | |
8664 ** The variable normal-auto-fill-function specifies the function to | |
8665 use for auto-fill-function, if and when Auto Fill is turned on. | |
8666 Major modes can set this locally to alter how Auto Fill works. | |
8667 | |
8668 * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.32 | |
8669 | |
8670 ** C-x f with no argument now signals an error. | |
8671 To set the fill column at the current column, use C-u C-x f. | |
8672 | |
8673 ** Expanding dynamic abbrevs with M-/ is now smarter about case | |
8674 conversion. If you type the abbreviation with mixed case, and it | |
8675 matches the beginning of the expansion including case, then the | |
8676 expansion is copied verbatim. Using SPC M-/ to copy an additional | |
8677 word always copies it verbatim except when the previous copied word is | |
8678 all caps. | |
8679 | |
8680 ** On a non-windowing terminal, which can display only one Emacs frame | |
8681 at a time, creating a new frame with C-x 5 2 also selects that frame. | |
8682 | |
8683 When using a display that can show multiple frames at once, C-x 5 2 | |
8684 does make the frame visible, but does not select it. This is the same | |
8685 as in previous Emacs versions. | |
8686 | |
8687 ** You can use C-x 5 2 to create multiple frames on MSDOS, just as on a | |
8688 non-X terminal on Unix. Of course, only one frame is visible at any | |
8689 time, since your terminal doesn't have the ability to display multiple | |
8690 frames. | |
8691 | |
8692 ** On Windows, set win32-pass-alt-to-system to a non-nil value | |
8693 if you would like tapping the Alt key to invoke the Windows menu. | |
8694 This feature is not enabled by default; since the Alt key is also the | |
8695 Meta key, it is too easy and painful to activate this feature by | |
8696 accident. | |
8697 | |
8698 ** The command apply-macro-to-region-lines repeats the last defined | |
8699 keyboard macro once for each complete line within the current region. | |
8700 It does this line by line, by moving point to the beginning of that | |
8701 line and then executing the macro. | |
8702 | |
8703 This command is not new, but was never documented before. | |
8704 | |
8705 ** You can now use Mouse-1 to place the region around a string constant | |
8706 (something surrounded by doublequote characters or other delimiter | |
8707 characters of like syntax) by double-clicking on one of the delimiting | |
8708 characters. | |
8709 | |
8710 ** Font Lock mode | |
8711 | |
8712 *** Font Lock support modes | |
8713 | |
8714 Font Lock can be configured to use Fast Lock mode and Lazy Lock mode (see | |
8715 below) in a flexible way. Rather than adding the appropriate function to the | |
8716 hook font-lock-mode-hook, you can use the new variable font-lock-support-mode | |
8717 to control which modes have Fast Lock mode or Lazy Lock mode turned on when | |
8718 Font Lock mode is enabled. | |
8719 | |
8720 For example, to use Fast Lock mode when Font Lock mode is turned on, put: | |
8721 | |
8722 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'fast-lock-mode) | |
8723 | |
8724 in your ~/.emacs. | |
8725 | |
8726 *** lazy-lock | |
8727 | |
8728 The lazy-lock package speeds up Font Lock mode by making fontification occur | |
8729 only when necessary, such as when a previously unfontified part of the buffer | |
8730 becomes visible in a window. When you create a buffer with Font Lock mode and | |
8731 Lazy Lock mode turned on, the buffer is not fontified. When certain events | |
8732 occur (such as scrolling), Lazy Lock makes sure that the visible parts of the | |
8733 buffer are fontified. Lazy Lock also defers on-the-fly fontification until | |
8734 Emacs has been idle for a given amount of time. | |
8735 | |
8736 To use this package, put in your ~/.emacs: | |
8737 | |
8738 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode) | |
8739 | |
8740 To control the package behaviour, see the documentation for `lazy-lock-mode'. | |
8741 | |
8742 ** Changes in BibTeX mode. | |
8743 | |
8744 *** For all entries allow spaces and tabs between opening brace or | |
8745 paren and key. | |
8746 | |
8747 *** Non-escaped double-quoted characters (as in `Sch"of') are now | |
8748 supported. | |
8749 | |
8750 ** Gnus changes. | |
8751 | |
8752 Gnus, the Emacs news reader, has undergone further rewriting. Many new | |
8753 commands and variables have been added. There should be no | |
8754 significant incompatibilities between this Gnus version and the | |
8755 previously released version, except in the message composition area. | |
8756 | |
8757 Below is a list of the more user-visible changes. Coding changes | |
8758 between Gnus 5.1 and 5.2 are more extensive. | |
8759 | |
8760 *** A new message composition mode is used. All old customization | |
8761 variables for mail-mode, rnews-reply-mode and gnus-msg are now | |
8762 obsolete. | |
8763 | |
8764 *** Gnus is now able to generate "sparse" threads -- threads where | |
8765 missing articles are represented by empty nodes. | |
8766 | |
8767 (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some) | |
8768 | |
8769 *** Outgoing articles are stored on a special archive server. | |
8770 | |
8771 To disable this: (setq gnus-message-archive-group nil) | |
8772 | |
8773 *** Partial thread regeneration now happens when articles are | |
8774 referred. | |
8775 | |
8776 *** Gnus can make use of GroupLens predictions: | |
8777 | |
8778 (setq gnus-use-grouplens t) | |
8779 | |
8780 *** A trn-line tree buffer can be displayed. | |
8781 | |
8782 (setq gnus-use-trees t) | |
8783 | |
8784 *** An nn-like pick-and-read minor mode is available for the summary | |
8785 buffers. | |
8786 | |
8787 (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'gnus-pick-mode) | |
8788 | |
8789 *** In binary groups you can use a special binary minor mode: | |
8790 | |
8791 `M-x gnus-binary-mode' | |
8792 | |
8793 *** Groups can be grouped in a folding topic hierarchy. | |
8794 | |
8795 (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode) | |
8796 | |
8797 *** Gnus can re-send and bounce mail. | |
8798 | |
8799 Use the `S D r' and `S D b'. | |
8800 | |
8801 *** Groups can now have a score, and bubbling based on entry frequency | |
8802 is possible. | |
8803 | |
8804 (add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-summary-bubble-group) | |
8805 | |
8806 *** Groups can be process-marked, and commands can be performed on | |
8807 groups of groups. | |
8808 | |
8809 *** Caching is possible in virtual groups. | |
8810 | |
8811 *** nndoc now understands all kinds of digests, mail boxes, rnews news | |
8812 batches, ClariNet briefs collections, and just about everything else. | |
8813 | |
8814 *** Gnus has a new backend (nnsoup) to create/read SOUP packets. | |
8815 | |
8816 *** The Gnus cache is much faster. | |
8817 | |
8818 *** Groups can be sorted according to many criteria. | |
8819 | |
8820 For instance: (setq gnus-group-sort-function 'gnus-group-sort-by-rank) | |
8821 | |
8822 *** New group parameters have been introduced to set list-address and | |
8823 expiration times. | |
8824 | |
8825 *** All formatting specs allow specifying faces to be used. | |
8826 | |
8827 *** There are several more commands for setting/removing/acting on | |
8828 process marked articles on the `M P' submap. | |
8829 | |
8830 *** The summary buffer can be limited to show parts of the available | |
8831 articles based on a wide range of criteria. These commands have been | |
8832 bound to keys on the `/' submap. | |
8833 | |
8834 *** Articles can be made persistent -- as an alternative to saving | |
8835 articles with the `*' command. | |
8836 | |
8837 *** All functions for hiding article elements are now toggles. | |
8838 | |
8839 *** Article headers can be buttonized. | |
8840 | |
8841 (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-add-buttons-to-head) | |
8842 | |
8843 *** All mail backends support fetching articles by Message-ID. | |
8844 | |
8845 *** Duplicate mail can now be treated properly. See the | |
8846 `nnmail-treat-duplicates' variable. | |
8847 | |
8848 *** All summary mode commands are available directly from the article | |
8849 buffer. | |
8850 | |
8851 *** Frames can be part of `gnus-buffer-configuration'. | |
8852 | |
8853 *** Mail can be re-scanned by a daemonic process. | |
8854 | |
8855 *** Gnus can make use of NoCeM files to filter spam. | |
8856 | |
8857 (setq gnus-use-nocem t) | |
8858 | |
8859 *** Groups can be made permanently visible. | |
8860 | |
8861 (setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups "^nnml:") | |
8862 | |
8863 *** Many new hooks have been introduced to make customizing easier. | |
8864 | |
8865 *** Gnus respects the Mail-Copies-To header. | |
8866 | |
8867 *** Threads can be gathered by looking at the References header. | |
8868 | |
8869 (setq gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function | |
8870 'gnus-gather-threads-by-references) | |
8871 | |
8872 *** Read articles can be stored in a special backlog buffer to avoid | |
8873 refetching. | |
8874 | |
8875 (setq gnus-keep-backlog 50) | |
8876 | |
8877 *** A clean copy of the current article is always stored in a separate | |
8878 buffer to allow easier treatment. | |
8879 | |
8880 *** Gnus can suggest where to save articles. See `gnus-split-methods'. | |
8881 | |
8882 *** Gnus doesn't have to do as much prompting when saving. | |
8883 | |
8884 (setq gnus-prompt-before-saving t) | |
8885 | |
8886 *** gnus-uu can view decoded files asynchronously while fetching | |
8887 articles. | |
8888 | |
8889 (setq gnus-uu-grabbed-file-functions 'gnus-uu-grab-view) | |
8890 | |
8891 *** Filling in the article buffer now works properly on cited text. | |
8892 | |
8893 *** Hiding cited text adds buttons to toggle hiding, and how much | |
8894 cited text to hide is now customizable. | |
8895 | |
8896 (setq gnus-cited-lines-visible 2) | |
8897 | |
8898 *** Boring headers can be hidden. | |
8899 | |
8900 (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-hide-boring-headers) | |
8901 | |
8902 *** Default scoring values can now be set from the menu bar. | |
8903 | |
8904 *** Further syntax checking of outgoing articles have been added. | |
8905 | |
8906 The Gnus manual has been expanded. It explains all these new features | |
8907 in greater detail. | |
8908 | |
8909 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 19.32 | |
8910 | |
8911 ** The function set-visited-file-name now accepts an optional | |
8912 second argument NO-QUERY. If it is non-nil, then the user is not | |
8913 asked for confirmation in the case where the specified file already | |
8914 exists. | |
8915 | |
8916 ** The variable print-length applies to printing vectors and bitvectors, | |
8917 as well as lists. | |
8918 | |
8919 ** The new function keymap-parent returns the parent keymap | |
8920 of a given keymap. | |
8921 | |
8922 ** The new function set-keymap-parent specifies a new parent for a | |
8923 given keymap. The arguments are KEYMAP and PARENT. PARENT must be a | |
8924 keymap or nil. | |
8925 | |
8926 ** Sometimes menu keymaps use a command name, a symbol, which is really | |
8927 an automatically generated alias for some other command, the "real" | |
8928 name. In such a case, you should give that alias symbol a non-nil | |
8929 menu-alias property. That property tells the menu system to look for | |
8930 equivalent keys for the real name instead of equivalent keys for the | |
8931 alias. | |
8932 | |
8933 * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.31 | |
8934 | |
8935 ** Freedom of the press restricted in the United States. | |
8936 | |
8937 Emacs has been censored in accord with the Communications Decency Act. | |
8938 This includes removing some features of the doctor program. That law | |
8939 was described by its supporters as a ban on pornography, but it bans | |
8940 far more than that. The Emacs distribution has never contained any | |
8941 pornography, but parts of it were nonetheless prohibited. | |
8942 | |
8943 For information on US government censorship of the Internet, and what | |
8944 you can do to bring back freedom of the press, see the web site | |
8945 `http://www.vtw.org/'. | |
8946 | |
8947 ** A note about C mode indentation customization. | |
8948 | |
8949 The old (Emacs 19.29) ways of specifying a C indentation style | |
8950 do not normally work in the new implementation of C mode. | |
8951 It has its own methods of customizing indentation, which are | |
8952 much more powerful than the old C mode. See the Editing Programs | |
8953 chapter of the manual for details. | |
8954 | |
8955 However, you can load the library cc-compat to make the old | |
8956 customization variables take effect. | |
8957 | |
8958 ** Marking with the mouse. | |
8959 | |
8960 When you mark a region with the mouse, the region now remains | |
8961 highlighted until the next input event, regardless of whether you are | |
8962 using M-x transient-mark-mode. | |
8963 | |
8964 ** Improved Windows NT/95 support. | |
8965 | |
8966 *** Emacs now supports scroll bars on Windows NT and Windows 95. | |
8967 | |
8968 *** Emacs now supports subprocesses on Windows 95. (Subprocesses used | |
8969 to work on NT only and not on 95.) | |
8970 | |
8971 *** There are difficulties with subprocesses, though, due to problems | |
8972 in Windows, beyond the control of Emacs. They work fine as long as | |
8973 you run Windows applications. The problems arise when you run a DOS | |
8974 application in a subprocesses. Since current shells run as DOS | |
8975 applications, these problems are significant. | |
8976 | |
8977 If you run a DOS application in a subprocess, then the application is | |
8978 likely to busy-wait, which means that your machine will be 100% busy. | |
8979 However, if you don't mind the temporary heavy load, the subprocess | |
8980 will work OK as long as you tell it to terminate before you start any | |
8981 other DOS application as a subprocess. | |
8982 | |
8983 Emacs is unable to terminate or interrupt a DOS subprocess. | |
8984 You have to do this by providing input directly to the subprocess. | |
8985 | |
8986 If you run two DOS applications at the same time in two separate | |
8987 subprocesses, even if one of them is asynchronous, you will probably | |
8988 have to reboot your machine--until then, it will remain 100% busy. | |
8989 Windows simply does not cope when one Windows process tries to run two | |
8990 separate DOS subprocesses. Typing CTL-ALT-DEL and then choosing | |
8991 Shutdown seems to work although it may take a few minutes. | |
8992 | |
8993 ** M-x resize-minibuffer-mode. | |
8994 | |
8995 This command, not previously mentioned in NEWS, toggles a mode in | |
8996 which the minibuffer window expands to show as many lines as the | |
8997 minibuffer contains. | |
8998 | |
8999 ** `title' frame parameter and resource. | |
9000 | |
9001 The `title' X resource now specifies just the frame title, nothing else. | |
9002 It does not affect the name used for looking up other X resources. | |
9003 It works by setting the new `title' frame parameter, which likewise | |
9004 affects just the displayed title of the frame. | |
9005 | |
9006 The `name' parameter continues to do what it used to do: | |
9007 it specifies the frame name for looking up X resources, | |
9008 and also serves as the default for the displayed title | |
9009 when the `title' parameter is unspecified or nil. | |
9010 | |
9011 ** Emacs now uses the X toolkit by default, if you have a new | |
9012 enough version of X installed (X11R5 or newer). | |
9013 | |
9014 ** When you compile Emacs with the Motif widget set, Motif handles the | |
9015 F10 key by activating the menu bar. To avoid confusion, the usual | |
9016 Emacs binding of F10 is replaced with a no-op when using Motif. | |
9017 | |
9018 If you want to be able to use F10 in Emacs, you can rebind the Motif | |
9019 menubar to some other key which you don't use. To do so, add | |
9020 something like this to your X resources file. This example rebinds | |
9021 the Motif menu bar activation key to S-F12: | |
9022 | |
9023 Emacs*defaultVirtualBindings: osfMenuBar : Shift<Key>F12 | |
9024 | |
9025 ** In overwrite mode, DEL now inserts spaces in most cases | |
9026 to replace the characters it "deletes". | |
9027 | |
9028 ** The Rmail summary now shows the number of lines in each message. | |
9029 | |
9030 ** Rmail has a new command M-x unforward-rmail-message, which extracts | |
9031 a forwarded message from the message that forwarded it. To use it, | |
9032 select a message which contains a forwarded message and then type the command. | |
9033 It inserts the forwarded message as a separate Rmail message | |
9034 immediately after the selected one. | |
9035 | |
9036 This command also undoes the textual modifications that are standardly | |
9037 made, as part of forwarding, by Rmail and other mail reader programs. | |
9038 | |
9039 ** Turning off saving of .saves-... files in your home directory. | |
9040 | |
9041 Each Emacs session writes a file named .saves-... in your home | |
9042 directory to record which files M-x recover-session should recover. | |
9043 If you exit Emacs normally with C-x C-c, it deletes that file. If | |
9044 Emacs or the operating system crashes, the file remains for M-x | |
9045 recover-session. | |
9046 | |
9047 You can turn off the writing of these files by setting | |
9048 auto-save-list-file-name to nil. If you do this, M-x recover-session | |
9049 will not work. | |
9050 | |
9051 Some previous Emacs versions failed to delete these files even on | |
9052 normal exit. This is fixed now. If you are thinking of turning off | |
9053 this feature because of past experiences with versions that had this | |
9054 bug, it would make sense to check whether you still want to do so | |
9055 now that the bug is fixed. | |
9056 | |
9057 ** Changes to Version Control (VC) | |
9058 | |
9059 There is a new variable, vc-follow-symlinks. It indicates what to do | |
9060 when you visit a link to a file that is under version control. | |
9061 Editing the file through the link bypasses the version control system, | |
9062 which is dangerous and probably not what you want. | |
9063 | |
9064 If this variable is t, VC follows the link and visits the real file, | |
9065 telling you about it in the echo area. If it is `ask' (the default), | |
9066 VC asks for confirmation whether it should follow the link. If nil, | |
9067 the link is visited and a warning displayed. | |
9068 | |
9069 ** iso-acc.el now lets you specify a choice of language. | |
9070 Languages include "latin-1" (the default) and "latin-2" (which | |
9071 is designed for entering ISO Latin-2 characters). | |
9072 | |
9073 There are also choices for specific human languages such as French and | |
9074 Portuguese. These are subsets of Latin-1, which differ in that they | |
9075 enable only the accent characters needed for particular language. | |
9076 The other accent characters, not needed for the chosen language, | |
9077 remain normal. | |
9078 | |
9079 ** Posting articles and sending mail now has M-TAB completion on various | |
9080 header fields (Newsgroups, To, CC, ...). | |
9081 | |
9082 Completion in the Newsgroups header depends on the list of groups | |
9083 known to your news reader. Completion in the Followup-To header | |
9084 offers those groups which are in the Newsgroups header, since | |
9085 Followup-To usually just holds one of those. | |
9086 | |
9087 Completion in fields that hold mail addresses works based on the list | |
9088 of local users plus your aliases. Additionally, if your site provides | |
9089 a mail directory or a specific host to use for any unrecognized user | |
9090 name, you can arrange to query that host for completion also. (See the | |
9091 documentation of variables `mail-directory-process' and | |
9092 `mail-directory-stream'.) | |
9093 | |
9094 ** A greatly extended sgml-mode offers new features such as (to be configured) | |
9095 skeletons with completing read for tags and attributes, typing named | |
9096 characters including optionally all 8bit characters, making tags invisible | |
9097 with optional alternate display text, skipping and deleting tag(pair)s. | |
9098 | |
9099 Note: since Emacs' syntax feature cannot limit the special meaning of ', " and | |
9100 - to inside <>, for some texts the result, especially of font locking, may be | |
9101 wrong (see `sgml-specials' if you get wrong results). | |
9102 | |
9103 The derived html-mode configures this with tags and attributes more or | |
9104 less HTML3ish. It also offers optional quick keys like C-c 1 for | |
9105 headline or C-c u for unordered list (see `html-quick-keys'). Edit / | |
9106 Text Properties / Face or M-g combinations create tags as applicable. | |
9107 Outline minor mode is supported and level 1 font-locking tries to | |
9108 fontify tag contents (which only works when they fit on one line, due | |
9109 to a limitation in font-lock). | |
9110 | |
9111 External viewing via browse-url can occur automatically upon saving. | |
9112 | |
9113 ** M-x imenu-add-to-menubar now adds to the menu bar for the current | |
9114 buffer only. If you want to put an Imenu item in the menu bar for all | |
9115 buffers that use a particular major mode, use the mode hook, as in | |
9116 this example: | |
9117 | |
9118 (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook | |
9119 '(lambda () (imenu-add-to-menubar "Index"))) | |
9120 | |
9121 ** Changes in BibTeX mode. | |
9122 | |
9123 *** Field names may now contain digits, hyphens, and underscores. | |
9124 | |
9125 *** Font Lock mode is now supported. | |
9126 | |
9127 *** bibtex-make-optional-field is no longer interactive. | |
9128 | |
9129 *** If bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is non-nil, inserting new | |
9130 entries is now done with a faster algorithm. However, inserting | |
9131 will fail in this case if the buffer contains invalid entries or | |
9132 isn't in sorted order, so you should finish each entry with C-c C-c | |
9133 (bibtex-close-entry) after you have inserted or modified it. | |
9134 The default value of bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is nil. | |
9135 | |
9136 *** Function `show-all' is no longer bound to a key, since C-u C-c C-q | |
9137 does the same job. | |
9138 | |
9139 *** Entries with quotes inside quote-delimited fields (as `author = | |
9140 "Stefan Sch{\"o}f"') are now supported. | |
9141 | |
9142 *** Case in field names doesn't matter anymore when searching for help | |
9143 text. | |
9144 | |
9145 ** Font Lock mode | |
9146 | |
9147 *** Global Font Lock mode | |
9148 | |
9149 Font Lock mode can be turned on globally, in buffers that support it, by the | |
9150 new command global-font-lock-mode. You can use the new variable | |
9151 font-lock-global-modes to control which modes have Font Lock mode automagically | |
9152 turned on. By default, this variable is set so that Font Lock mode is turned | |
9153 on globally where the buffer mode supports it. | |
9154 | |
9155 For example, to automagically turn on Font Lock mode where supported, put: | |
9156 | |
9157 (global-font-lock-mode t) | |
9158 | |
9159 in your ~/.emacs. | |
9160 | |
9161 *** Local Refontification | |
9162 | |
9163 In Font Lock mode, editing a line automatically refontifies that line only. | |
9164 However, if your change alters the syntactic context for following lines, | |
9165 those lines remain incorrectly fontified. To refontify them, use the new | |
9166 command M-g M-g (font-lock-fontify-block). | |
9167 | |
9168 In certain major modes, M-g M-g refontifies the entire current function. | |
9169 (The variable font-lock-mark-block-function controls how to find the | |
9170 current function.) In other major modes, M-g M-g refontifies 16 lines | |
9171 above and below point. | |
9172 | |
9173 With a prefix argument N, M-g M-g refontifies N lines above and below point. | |
9174 | |
9175 ** Follow mode | |
9176 | |
9177 Follow mode is a new minor mode combining windows showing the same | |
9178 buffer into one tall "virtual window". The windows are typically two | |
9179 side-by-side windows. Follow mode makes them scroll together as if | |
9180 they were a unit. To use it, go to a frame with just one window, | |
9181 split it into two side-by-side windows using C-x 3, and then type M-x | |
9182 follow-mode. | |
9183 | |
9184 M-x follow-mode turns off Follow mode if it is already enabled. | |
9185 | |
9186 To display two side-by-side windows and activate Follow mode, use the | |
9187 command M-x follow-delete-other-windows-and-split. | |
9188 | |
9189 ** hide-show changes. | |
9190 | |
9191 The hooks hs-hide-hooks and hs-show-hooks have been renamed | |
9192 to hs-hide-hook and hs-show-hook, to follow the convention for | |
9193 normal hooks. | |
9194 | |
9195 ** Simula mode now has a menu containing the most important commands. | |
9196 The new command simula-indent-exp is bound to C-M-q. | |
9197 | |
9198 ** etags can now handle programs written in Erlang. Files are | |
9199 recognised by the extensions .erl and .hrl. The tagged lines are | |
9200 those that begin a function, record, or macro. | |
9201 | |
9202 ** MSDOS Changes | |
9203 | |
9204 *** It is now possible to compile Emacs with the version 2 of DJGPP. | |
9205 Compilation with DJGPP version 1 also still works. | |
9206 | |
9207 *** The documentation of DOS-specific aspects of Emacs was rewritten | |
9208 and expanded; see the ``MS-DOS'' node in the on-line docs. | |
9209 | |
9210 *** Emacs now uses ~ for backup file names, not .bak. | |
9211 | |
9212 *** You can simulate mouse-3 on two-button mice by simultaneously | |
9213 pressing both mouse buttons. | |
9214 | |
9215 *** A number of packages and commands which previously failed or had | |
9216 restricted functionality on MS-DOS, now work. The most important ones | |
9217 are: | |
9218 | |
9219 **** Printing (both with `M-x lpr-buffer' and with `ps-print' package) | |
9220 now works. | |
9221 | |
9222 **** `Ediff' works (in a single-frame mode). | |
9223 | |
9224 **** `M-x display-time' can be used on MS-DOS (due to the new | |
9225 implementation of Emacs timers, see below). | |
9226 | |
9227 **** `Dired' supports Unix-style shell wildcards. | |
9228 | |
9229 **** The `c-macro-expand' command now works as on other platforms. | |
9230 | |
9231 **** `M-x recover-session' works. | |
9232 | |
9233 **** `M-x list-colors-display' displays all the available colors. | |
9234 | |
9235 **** The `TPU-EDT' package works. | |
9236 | |
9237 * Lisp changes in Emacs 19.31. | |
9238 | |
9239 ** The function using-unix-filesystems on Windows NT and Windows 95 | |
9240 tells Emacs to read and write files assuming that they reside on a | |
9241 remote Unix filesystem. No CR/LF translation is done on any files in | |
9242 this case. Invoking using-unix-filesystems with t activates this | |
9243 behavior, and invoking it with any other value deactivates it. | |
9244 | |
9245 ** Change in system-type and system-configuration values. | |
9246 | |
9247 The value of system-type on a Linux-based GNU system is now `lignux', | |
9248 not `linux'. This means that some programs which use `system-type' | |
9249 need to be changed. The value of `system-configuration' will also | |
9250 be different. | |
9251 | |
9252 It is generally recommended to use `system-configuration' rather | |
9253 than `system-type'. | |
9254 | |
9255 See the file LINUX-GNU in this directory for more about this. | |
9256 | |
9257 ** The functions shell-command and dired-call-process | |
9258 now run file name handlers for default-directory, if it has them. | |
9259 | |
9260 ** Undoing the deletion of text now restores the positions of markers | |
9261 that pointed into or next to the deleted text. | |
9262 | |
9263 ** Timers created with run-at-time now work internally to Emacs, and | |
9264 no longer use a separate process. Therefore, they now work more | |
9265 reliably and can be used for shorter time delays. | |
9266 | |
9267 The new function run-with-timer is a convenient way to set up a timer | |
9268 to run a specified amount of time after the present. A call looks | |
9269 like this: | |
9270 | |
9271 (run-with-timer SECS REPEAT FUNCTION ARGS...) | |
9272 | |
9273 SECS says how many seconds should elapse before the timer happens. | |
9274 It may be an integer or a floating point number. When the timer | |
9275 becomes ripe, the action is to call FUNCTION with arguments ARGS. | |
9276 | |
9277 REPEAT gives the interval for repeating the timer (measured in | |
9278 seconds). It may be an integer or a floating point number. nil or 0 | |
9279 means don't repeat at all--call FUNCTION just once. | |
9280 | |
9281 *** with-timeout provides an easy way to do something but give | |
9282 up if too much time passes. | |
9283 | |
9284 (with-timeout (SECONDS TIMEOUT-FORMS...) BODY...) | |
9285 | |
9286 This executes BODY, but gives up after SECONDS seconds. | |
9287 If it gives up, it runs the TIMEOUT-FORMS and returns the value | |
9288 of the last one of them. Normally it returns the value of the last | |
9289 form in BODY. | |
9290 | |
9291 *** You can now arrange to call a function whenever Emacs is idle for | |
9292 a certain length of time. To do this, call run-with-idle-timer. A | |
9293 call looks like this: | |
9294 | |
9295 (run-with-idle-timer SECS REPEAT FUNCTION ARGS...) | |
9296 | |
9297 SECS says how many seconds of idleness should elapse before the timer | |
9298 runs. It may be an integer or a floating point number. When the | |
9299 timer becomes ripe, the action is to call FUNCTION with arguments | |
9300 ARGS. | |
9301 | |
9302 Emacs becomes idle whenever it finishes executing a keyboard or mouse | |
9303 command. It remains idle until it receives another keyboard or mouse | |
9304 command. | |
9305 | |
9306 REPEAT, if non-nil, means this timer should be activated again each | |
9307 time Emacs becomes idle and remains idle for SECS seconds The timer | |
9308 does not repeat if Emacs *remains* idle; it runs at most once after | |
9309 each time Emacs becomes idle. | |
9310 | |
9311 If REPEAT is nil, the timer runs just once, the first time Emacs is | |
9312 idle for SECS seconds. | |
9313 | |
9314 *** post-command-idle-hook is now obsolete; you shouldn't use it at | |
9315 all, because it interferes with the idle timer mechanism. If your | |
9316 programs use post-command-idle-hook, convert them to use idle timers | |
9317 instead. | |
9318 | |
9319 *** y-or-n-p-with-timeout lets you ask a question but give up if | |
9320 there is no answer within a certain time. | |
9321 | |
9322 (y-or-n-p-with-timeout PROMPT SECONDS DEFAULT-VALUE) | |
9323 | |
9324 asks the question PROMPT (just like y-or-n-p). If the user answers | |
9325 within SECONDS seconds, it returns the answer that the user gave. | |
9326 Otherwise it gives up after SECONDS seconds, and returns DEFAULT-VALUE. | |
9327 | |
9328 ** Minor change to `encode-time': you can now pass more than seven | |
9329 arguments. If you do that, the first six arguments have the usual | |
9330 meaning, the last argument is interpreted as the time zone, and the | |
9331 arguments in between are ignored. | |
9332 | |
9333 This means that it works to use the list returned by `decode-time' as | |
9334 the list of arguments for `encode-time'. | |
9335 | |
9336 ** The default value of load-path now includes the directory | |
9337 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp In addition to | |
9338 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp. You can use this new directory for | |
9339 site-specific Lisp packages that belong with a particular Emacs | |
9340 version. | |
9341 | |
9342 It is not unusual for a Lisp package that works well in one Emacs | |
9343 version to cause trouble in another. Sometimes packages need updating | |
9344 for incompatible changes; sometimes they look at internal data that | |
9345 has changed; sometimes the package has been installed in Emacs itself | |
9346 and the installed version should be used. Whatever the reason for the | |
9347 problem, this new feature makes it easier to solve. | |
9348 | |
9349 ** When your program contains a fixed file name (like .completions or | |
9350 .abbrev.defs), the file name usually needs to be different on operating | |
9351 systems with limited file name syntax. | |
9352 | |
9353 Now you can avoid ad-hoc conditionals by using the function | |
9354 convert-standard-filename to convert the file name to a proper form | |
9355 for each operating system. Here is an example of use, from the file | |
9356 completions.el: | |
9357 | |
9358 (defvar save-completions-file-name | |
9359 (convert-standard-filename "~/.completions") | |
9360 "*The filename to save completions to.") | |
9361 | |
9362 This sets the variable save-completions-file-name to a value that | |
9363 depends on the operating system, because the definition of | |
9364 convert-standard-filename depends on the operating system. On | |
9365 Unix-like systems, it returns the specified file name unchanged. On | |
9366 MS-DOS, it adapts the name to fit the limitations of that system. | |
9367 | |
9368 ** The interactive spec N now returns the numeric prefix argument | |
9369 rather than the raw prefix argument. (It still reads a number using the | |
9370 minibuffer if there is no prefix argument at all.) | |
9371 | |
9372 ** When a process is deleted, this no longer disconnects the process | |
9373 marker from its buffer position. | |
9374 | |
9375 ** The variable garbage-collection-messages now controls whether | |
9376 Emacs displays a message at the beginning and end of garbage collection. | |
9377 The default is nil, meaning there are no messages. | |
9378 | |
9379 ** The variable debug-ignored-errors specifies certain kinds of errors | |
9380 that should not enter the debugger. Its value is a list of error | |
9381 condition symbols and/or regular expressions. If the error has any | |
9382 of the condition symbols listed, or if any of the regular expressions | |
9383 matches the error message, then that error does not enter the debugger, | |
9384 regardless of the value of debug-on-error. | |
9385 | |
9386 This variable is initialized to match certain common but uninteresting | |
9387 errors that happen often during editing. | |
9388 | |
9389 ** The new function error-message-string converts an error datum | |
9390 into its error message. The error datum is what condition-case | |
9391 puts into the variable, to describe the error that happened. | |
9392 | |
9393 ** Anything that changes which buffer appears in a given window | |
9394 now runs the window-scroll-functions for that window. | |
9395 | |
9396 ** The new function get-buffer-window-list returns a list of windows displaying | |
9397 a buffer. The function is called with the buffer (a buffer object or a buffer | |
9398 name) and two optional arguments specifying the minibuffer windows and frames | |
9399 to search. Therefore this function takes optional args like next-window etc., | |
9400 and not get-buffer-window. | |
9401 | |
9402 ** buffer-substring now runs the hook buffer-access-fontify-functions, | |
9403 calling each function with two arguments--the range of the buffer | |
9404 being accessed. buffer-substring-no-properties does not call them. | |
9405 | |
9406 If you use this feature, you should set the variable | |
9407 buffer-access-fontified-property to a non-nil symbol, which is a | |
9408 property name. Then, if all the characters in the buffer range have a | |
9409 non-nil value for that property, the buffer-access-fontify-functions | |
9410 are not called. When called, these functions should put a non-nil | |
9411 property on the text that they fontify, so that they won't get called | |
9412 over and over for the same text. | |
9413 | |
9414 ** Changes in lisp-mnt.el | |
9415 | |
9416 *** The lisp-mnt package can now recognize file headers that are written | |
9417 in the formats used by the `what' command and the RCS `ident' command: | |
9418 | |
9419 ;; @(#) HEADER: text | |
9420 ;; $HEADER: text $ | |
9421 | |
9422 in addition to the normal | |
9423 | |
9424 ;; HEADER: text | |
9425 | |
9426 *** The commands lm-verify and lm-synopsis are now interactive. lm-verify | |
9427 checks that the library file has proper sections and headers, and | |
9428 lm-synopsis extracts first line "synopsis'"information. | |
9429 | |
9430 | |
9431 | |
9432 * For older news, see the file ONEWS | 8657 * For older news, see the file ONEWS |
9433 | 8658 |
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