comparison etc/NEWS @ 91041:bdb3fe0ba9fa

Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 866-879) - Merge multi-tty branch - Update from CVS - Merge from emacs--rel--22 Revision: [e-mail]/emacs--unicode--0--patch-257

91040:14c4a6aac623

** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid.

** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for
a GIF library.


* Changes in Emacs 23.1

** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files.

** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2.

** The new variable next-error-recenter specifies how next-error should
recenter the visited source file.  Its value can be a number (for example,
0 for top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering.

** The mode-line display a `@' if the default-directory for the current buffer
is on a remote machine, or a hyphen otherwise.

** The new command balance-window-area balances windows both vertically
and horizontally.

** The new command close-display-connection can be used to close a connection
to a remote display, e.g. because the display is about to become unreachable.

** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is
called with a prefix, and the default directory is a remote file name.
This is because some file name handler (like ange-ftp) are not able to
run processes remotely.

** The new command `display-time-world' starts an updating time display
using several time zones, in a buffer.


** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display
after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a
file or directory.


* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1


* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1

** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp.

** Minibuffer changes:

history element containing the search string becomes the current.


* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

** A new game called `bubble' has been added

** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt.


* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to
the first error encountered during compilations.

** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names.

with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'.

** VC
*** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu.

*** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip.

*** VC backends can provide extra menu entries to be added to the "Version Control" menu.
This can be used to add menu entries for backend specific functions.

** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs.

** BibTeX mode:

*** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and
`string', disabled by default.

When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote
file copy is checked via the file's checksum.

** Miscellaneous programming mode changes

*** The variable `fortran-line-length' can change the fixed-form line-length.

** Miscellaneous

*** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes).

on the corresponding remote system.

*** C-x C-q in dired-mode now runs the command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode,
and C-x C-q in wdired-mode exits it with asking a question about
saving changes.


* Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems

---

** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed.


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** The function invisible-p returns non-nil if the character
   after a specified position is invisible, or if its argument
   as an `invisible' property would make a character invisible.

** Non-breaking space now acts as whitespace.

+++
** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first".

91041:bdb3fe0ba9fa

** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid.

** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for
a GIF library.

** Support for systems without alloca has been removed.

** The `emacstool' utility has been removed.


* Changes in Emacs 23.1

** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session.
You can also use any number of different ttys.

You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by
testing for the `multi-tty' feature.

** Emacs comes with a new set of icons for Mac OS X.
OS-X-style icons (an application icon and a relevant document icon)
were contributed by Kentaro Ohkouchi.
Source files for these icons can be found in Emacs.app/Contents/Resources.

** Built-in functions (subr) can now have an interactive specification
that is not a prompt string.  If the `intspec' parameter of a `DEFUN'
starts with a `(', the string is evaluated as a Lisp form.

** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in
symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions.

** split-window-preferred-function specifies whether display-buffer should
split windows vertically or horizontally.

** Emacsclient has been extended to support opening a new terminal
frame.  Its behavior has been changed to open a new Emacs frame by
default.  Use the -c option to get the old behavior of opening files in
the currently selected Emacs frame.

** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files.

** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2.

** The new variable next-error-recenter specifies how next-error should
recenter the visited source file.  Its value can be a number (for example,
0 for top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering.

** The mode-line displays a `@' if the default-directory for the current buffer
is on a remote machine, or a hyphen otherwise.

** The new command balance-windows-area balances windows both vertically
and horizontally.

** The new command close-display-connection can be used to close a connection
to a remote display, e.g. because the display is about to become unreachable.

** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is
called with a prefix, and the default directory is a remote file name.
This is because some file name handlers (like ange-ftp) are not able to
run processes remotely.

** The new command `display-time-world' starts an updating time display
using several time zones, in a buffer.


** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display
after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a
file or directory.

** New alias `argv' for `command-line-args-left'
This is a convenience alias, so that one can write `(pop argv)'
inside of --eval command line arguments in order to access
following arguments.

* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1


* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1

+++
** M-q now fills the region if the region is active and
`transient-mark-mode' is turned on.  Otherwise, it fills the current
paragraph.  The new command bound to M-q is `fill-paragraph-or-region'.

** TAB now indents the region if the region is active and
`transient-mark-mode' is turned on.

** C-z now invokes `suspend-frame', C-x C-c now invokes
`save-buffers-kill-terminal'.

** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp.

** Minibuffer changes:

history element containing the search string becomes the current.


* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

** The package doc-view.el has been added.  It supports viewing of PDF,
PostScript and DVI documents inside an Emacs buffer by converting the
document to a set of PNG images first.  One can also search for a
regular expression in the document.  The commentary of the file explains
its usage.

** A new game called `bubbles' has been added.

** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt.


* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1

** diff-fine-highlight highlights char-level details of changes in a diff hunk.
** archive-mode has basic support to browse Rar archives.
** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support.

** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to
the first error encountered during compilations.

** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names.

with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'.

** VC
*** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu.

*** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip that explains the VC file status.

*** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time.

** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs.

** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable.
See the documentation of the variables: tex-fontify-script,
tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and
tex-suscript-height-minimum.

** BibTeX mode:

*** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and
`string', disabled by default.

When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote
file copy is checked via the file's checksum.

** Miscellaneous programming mode changes

*** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning
that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el.

*** The variable `fortran-line-length' can change the fixed-form line-length.

** Miscellaneous

*** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes).

on the corresponding remote system.

*** C-x C-q in dired-mode now runs the command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode,
and C-x C-q in wdired-mode exits it with asking a question about
saving changes.

*** The new command `eshell/info' runs info in an eshell buffer.


* Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems

---

** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed.


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but
applies before function-key-map.  Also it is terminal-local contrary to
key-translation-map.  Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to
this map rather than to function-key-map now.

** Changes related to multiple tty support.

*** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses.  If you want to know the
$TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment.

*** $DISPLAY is now dynamically inherited from the frame's `display'.

*** The `window-system' variable has been made frame-local. The new
`initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value
for the first frame.

*** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal
type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'.

*** The new function `make-frame-on-tty' allows you to create a new
frame on another tty device interactively.

*** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a tty
session, and `make-frame-on-tty' works during a graphical session.

*** New functions: `delete-tty', `suspend-tty', `resume-tty'.

*** A new data type for terminals with functions: `get-device-terminal',
`terminal-parameters', `terminal-parameter', `set-terminal-parameter'.

*** New hooks: `suspend-tty-functions' and `resume-tty-functions'
are called after a tty frame has been suspended or resumed,
respectively.  The functions are called with the terminal id of the frame
being suspended/resumed as a parameter.

*** New functions: `environment', `let-environment'.

*** New variable: `local-function-key-map'.
This in addition to the global function-key-map variable that already existed.

*** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent.

*** The `keyboard-translate-table' variable and the terminal and
keyboard coding systems have been made terminal-local.

*** In addition to the global function-key-map, Emacs has terminal-local
local-function-key-map variables, and uses them instead of the
global keymaps to set up translations and function key sequences
relevant to a specific terminal device.


** You can now also pass the value of the `invisible' property to invisible-p
to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible.  Convenient when
checking invisibility of text which has no buffer position
(e.g. in before/after-strings).

** Non-breaking space now acts as whitespace.

+++
** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first".