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diff etc/NEWS @ 62328:6cec4d45253d
Rearrangements and cleanups.
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Sat, 14 May 2005 13:58:01 +0000 |
parents | 13d3be64499c |
children | 0db5e423dce7 |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Sat May 14 13:57:33 2005 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Sat May 14 13:58:01 2005 +0000 @@ -677,14 +677,8 @@ When the file is maintained under version control, that information appears between the position information and the major mode. -*** Easy to overlook single character negation is now font-locked. -You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of -the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode, -cperl-mode and make-mode support this. - -+++ -*** Control characters and escape glyphs are now shown in the new -escape-glyph face. ++++ +*** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs. +++ *** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now prefixed with an escape @@ -820,6 +814,16 @@ if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it can cause trouble with fontification and/or indentation. ++++ +*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'. + +*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'. + +*** Easy to overlook single character negation is now font-locked. +You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of +the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode, +cperl-mode and make-mode support this. + --- *** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed. The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now 16 @@ -3921,35 +3925,38 @@ printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc string for other formatting options. -*** By default, the function process-contact still returns (HOST SERVICE) -for a network process. Using the new optional KEY arg, the complete list -of network process properties or a specific property can be selected. - -Using :local and :remote as the KEY, the address of the local or -remote end-point is returned. An Inet address is represented as a 5 -element vector, where the first 4 elements contain the IP address and -the fifth is the port number. - -*** Network processes can now be stopped and restarted with -`stop-process' and `continue-process'. For a server process, no -connections are accepted in the stopped state. For a client process, -no input is received in the stopped state. - -*** New function network-interface-list. +*** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument. + +Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network +process properties or a specific property. Using :local or :remote as +the KEY, you get the address of the local or remote end-point. + +An Inet address is represented as a 5 element vector, where the first +4 elements contain the IP address and the fifth is the port number. + +*** New functions `stop-process' and `continue-process'. + +These functions stop and restart communication through a network +connection. For a server process, no connections are accepted in the +stopped state. For a client process, no input is received in the +stopped state. + +*** New function `network-interface-list'. This function returns a list of network interface names and their current network addresses. -*** New function network-interface-info. +*** New function `network-interface-info'. This function returns the network address, hardware address, current status, and other information about a specific network interface. -*** The sentinel is now called when a network process is deleted with -delete-process. The status message passed to the sentinel for a -deleted network process is "deleted". The message passed to the -sentinel when the connection is closed by the remote peer has been -changed to "connection broken by remote peer". +*** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel. + +The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network +process is "deleted". The message passed to the sentinel when the +connection is closed by the remote peer has been changed to +"connection broken by remote peer". ** Using window objects: @@ -3962,7 +3969,7 @@ +++ *** New function `window-body-height'. -This is like window-height but does not count the mode line +This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the header line. +++ @@ -3989,7 +3996,7 @@ selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'. +++ -*** `select-window' takes an optional second argument `norecord'. +*** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD. This is like `switch-to-buffer'. @@ -4016,12 +4023,12 @@ *** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap or restores a built-in one to its default value. -*** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' can now be used to set a -specific face to be used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is -automatically merged with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face -should only specify the foreground color of the bitmap. - -*** There are new display properties, `left-fringe; and `right-fringe', +*** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be +used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is automatically merged +with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face should only specify the +foreground color of the bitmap. + +*** There are new display properties, `left-fringe' and `right-fringe', that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe bitmap of the display line. @@ -4164,7 +4171,7 @@ is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property. +++ -*** The buffer local line-spacing variable can now have a float value, +*** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value, which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height. +++ @@ -4214,7 +4221,7 @@ If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative to the left edge of the text area. For example, :align-to 0 in a -header-line aligns with the first text column in the text area. +header line aligns with the first text column in the text area. The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by the value of the expression EXPR. For example, (2 . in) specifies a @@ -4240,10 +4247,10 @@ **** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with an image property to display only a specific slice of the image. -**** Function insert-image has new optional fourth arg to +**** Function `insert-image' has new optional fourth arg to specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT). -**** New function insert-sliced-image inserts a given image as a +**** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns). +++ @@ -4262,7 +4269,7 @@ PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo' property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when -it is over the hot-spot. See the variable 'void-area-text-pointer' +it is over the hot-spot. See the variable `void-area-text-pointer' for possible pointer shapes. When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot, @@ -4290,38 +4297,37 @@ ** Mouse event enhancements: +++ -*** Mouse clicks on fringes now generates left-fringe or right-fringes -events, rather than a text area click event. - -+++ -*** Mouse clicks in the left and right marginal areas now includes a -sensible buffer position corresponding to the first character in the -corresponding text row. +*** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe' +or `right-fringe' as the area. + ++++ +*** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where +you clicked. For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is +a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text. + ++++ +*** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events. +++ *** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area. +++ -*** Mouse events now includes buffer position for all event types. - -+++ -*** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events. - -+++ *** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means text area). +++ -*** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types. - -+++ -*** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns actual glyph coordinates. - -+++ -*** Mouse events can now include image object in addition to string object. - -+++ -*** Mouse events include relative x and y pixel coordinates relative to +*** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types +and all areas. + ++++ +*** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates +of the mouse event position. + ++++ +*** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on. + ++++ +*** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on. +++ @@ -4329,19 +4335,20 @@ (image or character) clicked on. +++ -*** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', and -'posn-object-width-height' return the image or string object of a mouse -click, the x and y pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner -of that object, and the total width and height of that object. +*** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'. + +These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y +pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of that object, and +the total width and height of that object. ** Text property and overlay changes: +++ -*** Arguments for remove-overlays are now optional, so that you can -remove all overlays in the buffer by just calling (remove-overlays). - -+++ -*** New variable char-property-alias-alist. +*** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can +remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays). + ++++ +*** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'. This variable allows you to create alternative names for text properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties', @@ -4356,9 +4363,10 @@ it was found as a text property or not found at all. +++ -*** The new function remove-list-of-text-properties is almost the same -as `remove-text-properties'. The only difference is that it takes a -list of property names as argument rather than a property list. +*** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'. + +It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of +property names as argument rather than a property list. ** Face changes @@ -4371,12 +4379,12 @@ makes a good use of the capabilities of the display. +++ -*** New function display-supports-face-attributes-p can be used to test +*** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable. A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces -defined with defface. +defined with `defface'. --- *** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR' @@ -4404,10 +4412,11 @@ not (previously it did only a very cursory check). +++ -*** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', and -`face-stipple' now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which -controls how face inheritance is used when determining the value of a -face attribute. +*** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'. + +These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how +face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face +attribute. +++ *** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute' @@ -4422,9 +4431,6 @@ so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text `face' properties. -+++ -*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'. - --- *** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil.. @@ -4442,11 +4448,11 @@ +++ *** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'. -*** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the +**** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other properties than `face'. -*** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those +**** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock. --- @@ -4478,8 +4484,12 @@ var `magic-mode-alist'. +++ -*** Major mode functions now run the new normal hook -`after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode hooks. +*** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook. + ++++ +*** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook +`after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode +hooks. `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically. --- *** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect' @@ -4509,7 +4519,7 @@ +++ *** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands. ---- ++++ *** `define-global-minor-mode'. This is a new name for what was formerly called @@ -4519,9 +4529,10 @@ +++ *** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people -have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' did: it returns t if the -calling function was called through `call-interactively'. This should -only be used when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new +have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the +calling function was called through `call-interactively'. + +Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new INTERACTIVE argument to the command. +++ @@ -4570,8 +4581,8 @@ defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name. +++ -*** The function symbol-file can now search specifically for function or -variable definitions. +*** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function, +variable or face definitions. +++ *** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument @@ -4586,10 +4597,11 @@ +++ ** Byte compiler changes: -*** The byte-compiler now displays the actual line and character +*** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form of its -warning and error messages have been brought more in line with the -output of other GNU tools. +warning and error messages have been brought into line with GNU standards +for these. As a result, you can use next-error and friends on the +compilation output buffer. *** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'. @@ -4665,7 +4677,7 @@ wasteful. --- -*** set-buffer-file-coding-system now takes an additional argument, +*** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument, NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified. +++ @@ -4692,7 +4704,7 @@ hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'. --- -*** New function quail-find-key returns a list of keys to type in the +*** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the current input method to input a character. ** Mode line changes: @@ -4700,7 +4712,7 @@ +++ *** New function `format-mode-line'. -This returns the mode-line or header-line of the selected (or a +This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a specified) window as a string with or without text properties. +++ @@ -4762,13 +4774,13 @@ +++ *** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions: -find-file-hooks to find-file-hook, -find-file-not-found-hooks to find-file-not-found-functions, -write-file-hooks to write-file-functions, -write-contents-hooks to write-contents-functions, -x-lost-selection-hooks to x-lost-selection-functions, -x-sent-selection-hooks to x-sent-selection-functions, -delete-frame-hook to delete-frame-functions. +`find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook', +`find-file-not-found-hooks' to `find-file-not-found-functions', +`write-file-hooks' to `write-file-functions', +`write-contents-hooks' to `write-contents-functions', +`x-lost-selection-hooks' to `x-lost-selection-functions', +`x-sent-selection-hooks' to `x-sent-selection-functions', +`delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'. In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.