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* doc/emacs/misc.texi (Shell): Document async-shell-command. * doc/emacs/building.texi (Grep Searching): Document zrgrep. * doc/emacs/mini.texi (Completion Options): * doc/lispref/minibuf.texi (Completion Styles): Document `initials' style.

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* 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.

*** --enable-checking[=OPTIONS] builds emacs with extra runtime checks.

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

** Emacs compiles with Gconf support by default, 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
resource settings for the graphical widgets are still applied.
On Windows, the -Q option causes Emacs to ignore Registry settings,
but environment variables set on the Registry are still honored.

*** The new variable `inhibit-x-resources' shows whether X resources
were loaded.

+++
** New command-line option -mm (--maximized) maximizes the initial frame.

* Changes in Emacs 23.2

** The maximum size of buffers (and the largest fixnum) is doubled.
On typical 32bit systems, buffers can now be up to 512MB.

** The default value of `trash-directory' is now nil.
This means that `move-file-to-trash' trashes files according to
freedesktop.org specifications, the same method used by the Gnome,
KDE, and XFCE desktops.  (This change has no effect on Windows, which
uses `system-move-file-to-trash' for trashing.)

*** On X11, Emacs reacts to Xft changes made by configuration tools,
via the XSETTINGS mechanism.  This includes antialias, hinting,
hintstyle, RGBA, DPI and lcdfilter changes.

** Killing a buffer with a running process now asks for confirmation.
To remove this query, remove `process-kill-buffer-query-function' from
`kill-buffer-query-functions', or set the appropriate process flag
with `set-process-query-on-exit-flag'.

** File-local variable changes

*** 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:

`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals',
`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals-prop-line' and
`copy-file-locals-to-dir-locals'.

** Internationalization changes

*** Unibyte sessions are now considered obsolete.
This refers to the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable as well as the
--unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte command line
arguments.  Customizing enable-multibyte-characters and setting
default-enable-multibyte-characters are also deprecated.

*** New coding system `utf-8-hfs'.
This is suitable for default-file-name-coding-system on Mac OS X; see
international/ucs-normalize.el.

** Function arguments in *Help* buffers are now shown in upper-case.
Customize `help-downcase-arguments' to t to show them in lower-case.


* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.2

+++
*** If `select-active-regions' is t, any active region automatically
becomes the primary selection (for interaction with other window
applications).  If you enable this, you might want to bind
`mouse-yank-primary' to Mouse-2.

*** When `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' is non-nil, the kill
commands save the interprogram-paste selection into the kill ring
before doing anything else.  This avoids losing the selection.

*** When `kill-do-not-save-duplicates' is non-nil, identical
subsequent kills are not duplicated in the `kill-ring'.

** Completion changes

*** The new command `completion-at-point' provides mode-sensitive completion.

*** tab-always-indent set to `complete' lets TAB do completion as well.

*** The new completion-style `initials' is available.
For instance, this can complete M-x lch to list-command-history.

*** The new variable `completions-format' determines how completions
are displayed in the *Completions* buffer.  If you set it to
`vertical', completions are sorted vertically in columns.

+++
** The default value of `blink-matching-paren-distance' is increased.

** M-n provides more default values in the minibuffer for commands
that read file names.  These include the file name at point (when ffap
is loaded without ffap-bindings), the file name on the current line
(in Dired buffers), and the directory names of adjacent Dired windows
(for Dired commands that operate on several directories, such as copy,
rename, or diff).

** M-r is bound to the new `move-to-window-line-top-bottom'.
This moves point to the window center, top and bottom on successive
invocations, in the same spirit as the C-l (recenter-top-bottom)
command.

** The new variable `recenter-positions' determines the default
cycling order of C-l (`recenter-top-bottom').


* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2

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

** 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.el and .abbrev_defs obey user-emacs-directory.

** Calc graphing commands (`g f' etc.) now work on MS-Windows,
if you have the native Windows port of Gnuplot version 3.8 or later
installed.

** Calendar and diary

+++
*** Fancy diary display is now the default.

*** 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.

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).

** make-network-socket can now also create `seqpacket' Unix sockets.

** New function `completion-in-region' to use the standard completion
facilities on a particular region of text.

** The 4th arg to all-completions (aka hide-spaces) is declared obsolete.

** read-file-name-predicate is obsolete.  It was used to pass the predicate
to read-file-name-internal because read-file-name-internal abused its `pred'
argument to pass the current directory, but this hack is not needed
any more.

** Frame parameter changes

*** You can give the `fullscreen' frame parameter the value `maximized'.
This maximizes the frame.

+++
*** The new frame parameter `sticky' makes Emacs frames sticky in
virtual desktops.

** completion-base-size is obsoleted by completion-base-position.
This change causes a few backward incompatibilities, mostly with
choose-completion-string-functions where the `mini-p' argument has
been replaced by a `base-position' argument, and where the `base-size'
argument is now always nil.

** The variable `process-file-side-effects' shall be bound to nil, if
a `process-file' call does not change a remote file.  By this, file
name handlers like Tramp can apply optimizations.

** Hash tables have a new printed representation that is readable.
The feature `hashtable-print-readable' identifies this new
functionality.

** Functions performing Unicode normalization are added.  They are:
ucs-normalize-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-NFD-string,
ucs-normalize-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-NFC-string,
ucs-normalize-NFKD-region, ucs-normalize-NFKD-string,
ucs-normalize-NFKC-region, ucs-normalize-NFKC-string,
ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-string,

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* 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.
---
*** --enable-checking[=OPTIONS] builds emacs with extra runtime checks.

---
** `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
resource settings for the graphical widgets are still applied.
On Windows, the -Q option causes Emacs to ignore Registry settings,
but environment variables set on the Registry are still honored.
+++
*** The new variable `inhibit-x-resources' shows whether X resources
were loaded.

+++
** New command-line option -mm (--maximized) maximizes the initial frame.

* Changes in Emacs 23.2

+++
** The maximum size of buffers (and the largest fixnum) is doubled.
On typical 32bit systems, buffers can now be up to 512MB.

---
** The default value of `trash-directory' is now nil.
This means that `move-file-to-trash' trashes files according to
freedesktop.org specifications, the same method used by the Gnome,
KDE, and XFCE desktops.  (This change has no effect on Windows, which
uses `system-move-file-to-trash' for trashing.)

*** On X11, Emacs reacts to Xft changes made by configuration tools,
via the XSETTINGS mechanism.  This includes antialias, hinting,
hintstyle, RGBA, DPI and lcdfilter changes.

+++
** Killing a buffer with a running process now asks for confirmation.
To remove this query, remove `process-kill-buffer-query-function' from
`kill-buffer-query-functions', or set the appropriate process flag
with `set-process-query-on-exit-flag'.

** File-local variable changes
+++
*** 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:

`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals',
`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals-prop-line' and
`copy-file-locals-to-dir-locals'.

** Internationalization changes
+++
*** Unibyte sessions are now considered obsolete.
This refers to the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable as well as the
--unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte command line
arguments.  Customizing enable-multibyte-characters and setting
default-enable-multibyte-characters are also deprecated.
---
*** New coding system `utf-8-hfs'.
This is suitable for default-file-name-coding-system on Mac OS X; see
international/ucs-normalize.el.

---
** Function arguments in *Help* buffers are now shown in upper-case.
Customize `help-downcase-arguments' to t to show them in lower-case.


* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.2

+++
*** If `select-active-regions' is t, any active region automatically
becomes the primary selection (for interaction with other window
applications).  If you enable this, you might want to bind
`mouse-yank-primary' to Mouse-2.
+++
*** When `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' is non-nil, the kill
commands save the interprogram-paste selection into the kill ring
before doing anything else.  This avoids losing the selection.
+++
*** When `kill-do-not-save-duplicates' is non-nil, identical
subsequent kills are not duplicated in the `kill-ring'.

** Completion changes

*** The new command `completion-at-point' provides mode-sensitive completion.

*** tab-always-indent set to `complete' lets TAB do completion as well.
+++
*** The new completion-style `initials' is available.
For instance, this can complete M-x lch to list-command-history.

*** The new variable `completions-format' determines how completions
are displayed in the *Completions* buffer.  If you set it to
`vertical', completions are sorted vertically in columns.

+++
** The default value of `blink-matching-paren-distance' is increased.

---
** M-n provides more default values in the minibuffer for commands
that read file names.  These include the file name at point (when ffap
is loaded without ffap-bindings), the file name on the current line
(in Dired buffers), and the directory names of adjacent Dired windows
(for Dired commands that operate on several directories, such as copy,
rename, or diff).

+++
** M-r is bound to the new `move-to-window-line-top-bottom'.
This moves point to the window center, top and bottom on successive
invocations, in the same spirit as the C-l (recenter-top-bottom)
command.

+++
** The new variable `recenter-positions' determines the default
cycling order of C-l (`recenter-top-bottom').

+++
** The abbrevs file is now a file named abbrev_defs in
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.

** 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
+++
*** The Calc settings file is now a file named calc.el in
user-emacs-directory; but the old location, ~/.calc.el, is used if
that file exists.

---
*** Graphing commands (`g f' etc.) now work on MS-Windows, if you have
the native Windows port of Gnuplot version 3.8 or later installed.

** Calendar and diary

+++
*** Fancy diary display is now the default.

*** 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.

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).

** make-network-socket can now also create `seqpacket' Unix sockets.

** New function `completion-in-region' to use the standard completion
facilities on a particular region of text.

+++
** The 4th arg to all-completions (aka hide-spaces) is declared obsolete.

---
** read-file-name-predicate is obsolete.  It was used to pass the predicate
to read-file-name-internal because read-file-name-internal abused its `pred'
argument to pass the current directory, but this hack is not needed
any more.

** Frame parameter changes

+++
*** You can give the `fullscreen' frame parameter the value `maximized'.
This maximizes the frame.

+++
*** The new frame parameter `sticky' makes Emacs frames sticky in
virtual desktops.

---
** completion-base-size is obsoleted by completion-base-position.
This change causes a few backward incompatibilities, mostly with
choose-completion-string-functions where the `mini-p' argument has
been replaced by a `base-position' argument, and where the `base-size'
argument is now always nil.

** The variable `process-file-side-effects' shall be bound to nil, if
a `process-file' call does not change a remote file.  By this, file
name handlers like Tramp can apply optimizations.

+++
** Hash tables have a new printed representation that is readable.
The feature `hashtable-print-readable' identifies this new
functionality.

** New functions performing Unicode normalization are added:
ucs-normalize-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-NFD-string,
ucs-normalize-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-NFC-string,
ucs-normalize-NFKD-region, ucs-normalize-NFKD-string,
ucs-normalize-NFKC-region, ucs-normalize-NFKC-string,
ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-string,