comparison etc/NEWS.23 @ 107987:54f7ec0a9243

merge trunk

107986:8a09d4206862

so we will look at it and add it to the manual.


* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.2

** New configure options for Emacs developers
These are not new features; only the configure flags are new.
---
*** --enable-profiling builds Emacs with profiling enabled.
This might not work on all platforms.

---
** `make install' now consistently ignores umask, creating a
world-readable install.

** Emacs compiles with Gconf support, if it is detected.
Use the configure option --without-gconf to disable this.

* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.2
+++
** The command-line option -Q (--quick) also inhibits loading X resources.
However, if Emacs is compiled with the Lucid or Motif toolkit, X

+++
*** Specifying a minor mode as a local variables enables that mode,
unconditionally.  The previous behavior, toggling the mode, was
neither reliable nor generally desirable.

*** New commands for adding and removing file-local variables:
`add-file-local-variable', `delete-file-local-variable',
`add-file-local-variable-prop-line', and
`delete-file-local-variable-prop-line'.

*** New commands for adding and removing directory-local variables,
and copying them to and from file-local variable lists:
`add-dir-local-variable', `delete-dir-local-variable',
`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals',
`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals-prop-line' and
`copy-file-locals-to-dir-locals'.

user-emacs-directory; but the old location, ~/.abbrev_defs, is used if
that file exists.

* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2

** The bookmark menu has a narrowing search via bookmark-bmenu-search.

** LaTeX mode now provides completion (via completion-at-point).

---
** sym-comp.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by completion-at-point.

** lucid.el and levents.el are now declared obsolete.

** pcomplete provides a new command `pcomplete-std-completion' which
is similar to `pcomplete' but using the standard completion UI code.

** Calc
+++

*** When `doc-view-continuous' is non-nil, scrolling a line
on the page edge advances to the next/previous page.

** GDB-UI

*** Toolbar functionality for reverse debugging.  Display of STL
collections as watch expressions.  These features require GDB 7.0
or later.

** Grep
+++
*** A new command `zrgrep' searches recursively in gzipped files.

** Info

*** The new command `Info-virtual-index' bound to "I" displays a menu of
matched topics found in the index.

*** The new command `info-finder' replaces finder.el with a virtual Info
manual that generates an Info file which gives the same information
through a menu structure.

+++

*** The log command in vc-annotate can display a single log entry
instead of redisplaying the full log.  The RCS, CVS and SCCS VC
backends do not support this.
---
*** When a file is not found, VC will not try to check it out of RCS anymore.

*** Diff and log operations can be used from Dired buffers.

*** vc-git changes

**** The short log format for git makes use of the graph display, so
it's not supported on git versions earlier than 1.5.

**** Support for operating with stashes has been added to vc-dir: the stash list is
displayed in the *vc-dir* header, stashes can be created, removed, applied and
their content displayed.

**** vc-dir displays the stash status

**** vc-dir requires at least git-1.5.5.

*** vc-bzr supports operating with shelves: the shelve list is
displayed in the *vc-dir* header, shelves can be created, removed and applied.
---
*** log-edit-strip-single-file-name controls whether or not single filenames
are stripped when copying text from the ChangeLog to the *VC-Log* buffer.

+++
*** The new built-in commands `su' and `sudo' support Tramp.
That means, they change `default-directory' to the new users value,
and let commands run under that user permissions.  It works even when
`default-directory' is already remote.  Calling the external commands
is possible by `*su' or `*sudo', repectively.
---
*** When running in a new enough xterm (newer than version 242), Emacs
asks xterm what the background color is and it sets up faces
accordingly for a dark background if needed (the current default is to
consider the background light).

** CEDET (the Collection of Emacs Development Tools) is now in Emacs.
This is a collection of packages to aid with using Emacs as an IDE
(integrated development environment):

*** The Semantic package allows the use of parsers to intelligently
edit and navigate source code.  Parsers for C/C++, Java, Javascript,
and several other languages are included by default, and Semantic can
also interface with external tools such as GNU Global and GNU Idutils.

To enable Semantic, use the global minor mode `semantic-mode'.
See the Semantic manual for details.

*** EDE (Emacs Development Environment) is a package for managing code
projects, including features such as automatic Makefile generation.

To enable EDE, use the minor mode `global-ede-mode'.
See the EDE manual for details.

*** SRecode is a library for recoding Semantic tags back into source
code.  It is currently used by some parts of Semantic and EDE; in the
future, it may be used for code generation features.

*** The EIEIO library implements a subset of the Common Lisp Object
System (CLOS).  It is used by the other CEDET packages.

** mpc.el is a front end for the Music Player Daemon.  Run it with M-x mpc.

** htmlfontify.el turns a fontified Emacs buffer into an HTML page.

+++
** js.el is a new major mode for JavaScript files.

** imap-hash.el is a new library to address IMAP mailboxes as hashtables.


* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.2

---
** Support for generating Emacs 18 compatible bytecode (by setting
the variable `byte-compile-compatibility') has been removed.

** In image-mode.el `image-mode-maybe' is obsolete.  Instead, you can
either use `image-mode' that displays an image file as the actual image
inititally, or `image-mode-as-text' when you want to display an image file
as text inititally.  `image-mode-as-text' is a combination of a non-image
mode from `auto-mode-alist' (or Fundamental mode) and `image-minor-mode'.
`image-minor-mode' provides `C-c C-c' key binding to toggle image display.
`image-toggle-display-text' removes image properties.
`image-toggle-display-image' adds image properties.
`image-toggle-display' toggles between `image-mode-as-text' and
`image-mode'.


* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.2
---
** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO

107987:54f7ec0a9243

so we will look at it and add it to the manual.


* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.2

---
** New configure options for Emacs developers
These are not new features; only the configure flags are new.
---
*** --enable-profiling builds Emacs with profiling enabled.
This might not work on all platforms.

---
** `make install' now consistently ignores umask, creating a
world-readable install.

+++
** Emacs compiles with Gconf support, if it is detected.
Use the configure option --without-gconf to disable this.
This is used by the `font-use-system-font' feature (see below).

* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.2
+++
** The command-line option -Q (--quick) also inhibits loading X resources.
However, if Emacs is compiled with the Lucid or Motif toolkit, X

+++
*** Specifying a minor mode as a local variables enables that mode,
unconditionally.  The previous behavior, toggling the mode, was
neither reliable nor generally desirable.

+++
*** There are new commands for adding and removing file-local variables:
`add-file-local-variable', `delete-file-local-variable',
`add-file-local-variable-prop-line', and
`delete-file-local-variable-prop-line'.

+++
*** There are new commands for adding and removing directory-local variables,
and copying them to and from file-local variable lists:
`add-dir-local-variable', `delete-dir-local-variable',
`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals',
`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals-prop-line' and
`copy-file-locals-to-dir-locals'.

user-emacs-directory; but the old location, ~/.abbrev_defs, is used if
that file exists.

* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2

---
** The bookmark menu has a narrowing search via bookmark-bmenu-search.

** LaTeX mode now provides completion (via completion-at-point).

---
** sym-comp.el is now declared obsolete, superseded by completion-at-point.

---
** lucid.el and levents.el are now declared obsolete.

---
** pcomplete provides a new command `pcomplete-std-completion' which
is similar to `pcomplete' but using the standard completion UI code.

** Calc
+++

*** When `doc-view-continuous' is non-nil, scrolling a line
on the page edge advances to the next/previous page.

** GDB-UI

+++
*** Toolbar functionality for reverse debugging.  Display of STL
collections as watch expressions.  These features require GDB 7.0 or later.

** Grep
+++
*** A new command `zrgrep' searches recursively in gzipped files.

** Info

+++
*** The new command `Info-virtual-index' bound to "I" displays a menu of
matched topics found in the index.

+++
*** The new command `info-finder' replaces finder.el with a virtual Info
manual that generates an Info file which gives the same information
through a menu structure.

+++

*** The log command in vc-annotate can display a single log entry
instead of redisplaying the full log.  The RCS, CVS and SCCS VC
backends do not support this.
---
*** When a file is not found, VC will not try to check it out of RCS anymore.
+++
*** Diff and log operations can be used from Dired buffers.

*** vc-git changes

---
**** The short log format for git makes use of the graph display,
so it's not supported on git versions earlier than 1.5.6.

---
**** vc-dir uses the --relative option of git, and so requires at least
git version 1.5.5.

+++
**** Support for operating with stashes has been added to vc-dir:
the stash list is displayed in the *vc-dir* header, stashes can be
created, removed, applied and their content displayed.

+++
*** vc-bzr supports operating with shelves: the shelve list is
displayed in the *vc-dir* header, shelves can be created, removed and applied.
---
*** log-edit-strip-single-file-name controls whether or not single filenames
are stripped when copying text from the ChangeLog to the *VC-Log* buffer.

+++
*** The new built-in commands `su' and `sudo' support Tramp.
That means, they change `default-directory' to the new users value,
and let commands run under that user permissions.  It works even when
`default-directory' is already remote.  Calling the external commands
is possible by `*su' or `*sudo', respectively.
---
*** When running in a new enough xterm (newer than version 242), Emacs
asks xterm what the background color is and it sets up faces
accordingly for a dark background if needed (the current default is to
consider the background light).

** CEDET (the Collection of Emacs Development Tools) is now in Emacs.
This is a collection of packages to aid with using Emacs as an IDE
(integrated development environment):

+++
*** The Semantic package allows the use of parsers to intelligently
edit and navigate source code.  Parsers for C/C++, Java, Javascript,
and several other languages are included by default, and Semantic can
also interface with external tools such as GNU Global and GNU Idutils.

To enable Semantic, use the global minor mode `semantic-mode'.
See the Semantic manual for details.

+++
*** EDE (Emacs Development Environment) is a package for managing code
projects, including features such as automatic Makefile generation.

To enable EDE, use the minor mode `global-ede-mode'.
See the EDE manual for details.

*** SRecode is a library for recoding Semantic tags back into source
code.  It is currently used by some parts of Semantic and EDE; in the
future, it may be used for code generation features.

+++
*** The EIEIO library implements a subset of the Common Lisp Object
System (CLOS).  It is used by the other CEDET packages.

---
** mpc.el is a front end for the Music Player Daemon.  Run it with M-x mpc.

** htmlfontify.el turns a fontified Emacs buffer into an HTML page.

+++
** js.el is a new major mode for JavaScript files.

---
** imap-hash.el is a new library to address IMAP mailboxes as hashtables.


* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.2

---
** Support for generating Emacs 18 compatible bytecode (by setting
the variable `byte-compile-compatibility') has been removed.

---
** In image-mode.el `image-mode-maybe' is obsolete.
Instead, you can either use `image-mode' (which displays an image file
as the actual image initially), or `image-mode-as-text' (when you want
to display an image file as text initially).  `image-mode-as-text' is a
combination of a non-image mode from `auto-mode-alist' (or Fundamental
mode) and `image-minor-mode'.  `image-minor-mode' provides a `C-c C-c'
key binding to toggle image display.
`image-toggle-display-text' removes image properties.
`image-toggle-display-image' adds image properties.
`image-toggle-display' toggles between `image-mode-as-text' and `image-mode'.


* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.2
---
** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO