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| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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| date | Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:09:32 +0000 |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Fri Jun 19 16:21:12 2009 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Fri Jun 19 17:09:32 2009 +0000 @@ -14,12 +14,6 @@ You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. -Temporary note: - +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. - --- means no change in the manuals is called for. -When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- -so we will look at it and add it to the manual. - * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1 @@ -30,7 +24,7 @@ ** New font code. Fonts are handled by new code capable of dealing with multiple font backends. This uses the freetype and fontconfig libraries. -+++ + *** Emacs now accepts font names supplied in the fontconfig format (e.g. "monospace-12:bold") and GTK format (e.g. "Monospace Bold 12"). @@ -45,10 +39,10 @@ *** Added support for the m17n library for text shaping. ** Changes to image support ---- + *** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for a GIF library. -+++ + *** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2. *** Emacs now supports multi-page TIFF images. @@ -70,11 +64,11 @@ ** Support for many obsolete platforms has been removed. See the list at the end of etc/MACHINES for details. ---- + *** Support for systems without alloca has been removed. ---- + *** Support for Sun windows has been removed. ---- + *** The `emacstool' utility has been removed. ** The following platforms will be removed in a future Emacs version: @@ -97,18 +91,15 @@ *** Platforms not supporting shared libraries (i.e., requiring the NO_SHARED_LIBS compilation flag). ---- ** The configure options `--with-gcc', `--without-gcc' have been removed. Configure will use gcc by default. Set the CC environment variable if you need control over which C compiler is used. ** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files. ---- ** The manuals are now licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3, or any later version. ---- ** Emacs 23 comes with a new set of default icons. Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png. The Emacs 22 icon is available as `emacs22.png' in the same location. @@ -116,7 +107,7 @@ * Changes in Emacs 23.1 ** Improved X Window System support -+++ + *** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session. With an Emacs server active (M-x server-start), `emacsclient -t' creates a tty frame connected to the running emacs server. You can @@ -127,12 +118,12 @@ You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by testing for the `multi-tty' feature. -+++ -*** Emacs can now start in background, as a daemon when using the + +*** Emacs starts in the background, as a daemon, when given the --daemon command line argument. It disconnects from the terminal and starts the server. Clients can connect and create graphical or terminal frames using emacsclient. -+++ + **** emacsclient starts emacs in daemon mode and connects to it when --alternate-editor="" is used (or when the evironment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set to "") and emacsclient cannot connect to an @@ -146,7 +137,7 @@ option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html for details about XEmbed. -+++ + *** Emacs can now set the frame opacity. The opacity of a frame can be controlled by setting the `alpha' frame parameter. This only takes effect on a compositing window manager for @@ -162,23 +153,23 @@ opacity; the default is 20. ** Internationalization changes -+++ + *** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode. (It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty). The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now -Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'. This encoding is backwards -compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 encoding. The encoding -`emacs-internal' is an alias for this. The internal encoding -previously used by Emacs, `emacs-mule', is still available. +Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs' (`emacs-internal' is an alias +for this). This encoding is backward-compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 +encoding. The internal encoding previously used by Emacs, +`emacs-mule', is still available for reading and writing files. During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files. As a result, byte-compiled files containing non-ASCII characters can't be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files compiled by Emacs 20, 21, -or 22 are loaded correctly as emacs-mule (whether or not they contain -multibyte characters). This takes somewhat more time, so it may be -worth recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be shared -with older Emacsen. +or 22 are loaded correctly as `emacs-mule' (whether or not they +contain multibyte characters). This takes somewhat more time, so it +may be worth recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be +shared with older Emacsen. *** There are new coding systems/aliases; see M-x list-coding-systems. @@ -186,23 +177,17 @@ See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently as tables of unicodes. -**** The dimension of a charset is now 1, 2, 3, or 4, and the size of -each dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96. - -**** A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of -characters for display. -+++ *** There are new language environments for Chinese-GBK, Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Sinhala, and TaiViet. -+++ + *** The minor modes unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and unify-8859-on-decoding-mode are obsolete. -+++ + *** `ucs-insert' is bound to `C-x 8 RET' and in addition to hex numbers accepts numbers in hash notation (e.g. #o21430 for octal, or #10r8984 for decimal). It also accepts Unicode character names with completion. ---- + *** The `cyrillic-translit' input method supports many new characters. Common typographical characters available from Unicode were added to `cyrillic-translit': punctuation marks, accented characters, fractions, @@ -214,52 +199,50 @@ the mode-line mouse menu. ** Menu Bar changes ---- + *** In the Options menu, the "Set Default Font" item applies the selected font to the `default' face on all frames, not just the current frame. Furthermore, if Emacs is compiled with both GTK and Fontconfig support, the "Set Default Font" item uses the GTK font selection dialog instead of an Emacs pop-up menu. ---- + *** The font setting chosen by "Set Default Font" is saved if the "Save Options" item is used. *** The Tools menu contains a new Encryption/Decryption submenu. This contains commands provided by EasyPG, the newly-included interface to GnuPG (see New Modes and Packages). ---- + *** In the Options menu, the "Truncate Long Lines in the Buffer" entry has been replaced with a submenu offering three different ways to handle long lines: truncation, continuation at the window edge, and the new word wrapping behavior (see Editing Changes, below). ---- + *** Improvements to menus for major and minor modes More major and minor modes now have a mode specific menu, and existing mode menus have been improved to include more functionality. ** Mode-line changes -+++ + *** The mode-line displays a `@', instead of `-', if the default-directory for the current buffer is on a remote machine. ---- + *** The mode-line displays a mode menu when mouse-1 is clicked on a minor mode, in the same way as it already did for major modes. ---- + *** The `mode-line-emphasis' face is used to highlight certain mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish). ---- + *** The mode-line tooltips have been improved to provide more details. -+++ + *** The VC, line/colum number and minor mode indicators on the mode line are now interactive: mouse-1 can be used on them to pop up a menu. -+++ ** File deletion can make use of the Recycle Bin or system Trash folder. Set `delete-by-moving-to-trash' non-nil to use this. Deleted files and directories will then be sent to the Recycle Bin on Windows, and to `trash-directory' on other systems. -+++ ** Directory-local variables can now be defined. By default, Emacs looks in .dir-locals.el for directory-local variables. For more information, see `dir-locals-set-directory-class' @@ -275,28 +258,23 @@ * Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1 -+++ ** The option `inhibit-startup-screen' (with aliases to old names `inhibit-splash-screen' and `inhibit-startup-message') doesn't inhibit display of the initial message in the *scratch* buffer. If you don't want to display the initial message in the *scratch* buffer at startup, you can set the option `initial-scratch-message' to nil. -+++ ** 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. -+++ ** The abbrev file is no longer read at startup in batch mode. -+++ ** Emacs now supports invocation by an X session manager. It can save a session and restore it later. See the documentation of the functions `emacs-session-save' and `emacs-session-restore'. @@ -305,16 +283,13 @@ * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 -+++ ** In Dired, `dired-flag-garbage-files' is rebound from `&' to `%&' on the regexp command prefix map. -+++ ** In Dired-x, all command guesses for ! are now added to the default list accessible by M-n instead of pushing all guesses temporarily into the history list. -+++ ** In Isearch mode, a special case of typing `C-w' at the beginning of the minibuffer that toggles word search (i.e. using key sequences `C-s RET C-w' or `C-s M-e C-w') is obsolete. You can use the global key @@ -322,7 +297,6 @@ toggle word search. To start nonincremental word search you can now use `M-s w RET' and `M-s w C-r RET' instead of `C-s RET C-w' and `C-r RET C-w'. -+++ ** In Info, `Info-search' is unbound from `M-s' to allow using `M-s w' for word search as well as other search commands from the global prefix key `M-s'. `Info-search' is still bound to `s', and also incremental @@ -330,12 +304,10 @@ through multiple Info nodes, together with their nonincremental versions `C-s RET', `C-r RET', `C-M-s RET', `C-M-r RET', `M-s w RET'. ---- -** In Text mode, `center-line' and `center-paragraph' are rebound -from `M-s' and `M-S' to global keys `M-o M-s' and `M-o M-S' on the -global prefix map `M-o' intended for such formatting commands. +** In Text mode, `center-line' and `center-paragraph' are rebound from +`M-s' and `M-S' to global keys `M-o M-s' and `M-o M-S' on the global +prefix map `M-o', which is intended for such formatting commands. ---- ** The following input methods were removed in Emacs 22.2, but this was not advertised: danish-alt-postfix, esperanto-alt-postfix, finnish-alt-postfix, german-alt-postfix, icelandic-alt-postfix, @@ -343,58 +315,49 @@ and swedish-alt-postfix. Use the versions without "alt-", which are identical. -+++ -** If a function in write-region-annotate-functions returns with a -different buffer current, Emacs no longer kills that buffer -automatically. This behavior existed in previous versions of Emacs, -but was undocumented. To kill a buffer after write-region, give the -variable `write-region-post-annotation-function' a buffer-local value -of `kill-buffer'. - * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 -+++ ** The C-n and C-p line-motion commands now move by screen lines, taking continued lines and variable-width characters into account. Setting `line-move-visual' to nil reverts this to the previous -behavior (motion by logical lines based on buffer contents alone). +behavior (i.e., motion by logical lines based on buffer contents +alone). -+++ ** C-x C-c now invokes `save-buffers-kill-terminal', and C-z now -invokes `suspend-frame'. This change is for compatibility with the +invokes `suspend-frame'. These changes are for compatibility with the new multi-tty support (see `Improved X Window System support' above). ** Mark changes -+++ + *** Transient Mark mode is now on by default. -+++ + *** mark-even-if-inactive now defaults to t -+++ + *** When Transient Mark mode is on, C-SPC C-SPC pushes a mark without activating it. -+++ + *** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-q now fills the region if the region is active. Otherwise, it fills the current paragraph. -+++ + *** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-$ now checks spelling of the region if the region is active. Otherwise, it checks spelling of the word at point. -+++ + *** When Transient Mark mode is on, TAB now indents the region if the region is active. -+++ -*** `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty active region -in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on that empty -region. + +*** The variable `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty +active region in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on +that empty region. ** Temporarily active regions -+++ + *** The new variable shift-select-mode, non-nil by default, controls shift-selection. When Shift Select mode is on, shift-translated motion keys (e.g. S-left and S-down) activate and extend a temporary region, similar to mouse-selection. -+++ + *** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command. They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not @@ -403,7 +366,7 @@ buffer). ** Minibuffer and completion changes -+++ + *** Emacs may ask for confirmation before opening a non-existent file or buffer. By default, Emacs requests confirmation if you type RET immediately after TAB, and the resulting input is not an existing file @@ -416,7 +379,7 @@ Emacs asks for confirmation. The default value is `after-completion'. If you change it to t, Emacs always asks for confirmation; if you change it to nil, Emacs never asks for confirmation. -+++ + *** The rules for performing completion have been changed. When generating completion alternatives, Emacs now takes the minibuffer text after point, if any, into account: this text is @@ -429,16 +392,16 @@ The new variable `completion-styles' can be customized to choose your favorite completion style. -+++ + *** When M-n in the minibuffer reaches the end of the list of defaults, it adds the completion list to the end, so next M-n continues putting completion items to the minibuffer. The same principle applies to incremental search commands as well: C-s or C-M-s starts searching the default values and after the end of defaults they continue searching minibuffer completion items. ---- + *** Minibuffer input of shell commands now comes with completion. -+++ + *** In the `C-x d' (Dired) prompt, typing M-n gives the visited file name of the current buffer. @@ -452,13 +415,13 @@ `keep-lines', `flush-lines' and `how-many'. This list includes the active region in transient-mark-mode, the word under the cursor, the last Isearch regexp, the last Isearch string and the last replacement regexp. ---- + *** When enable-recursive-minibuffers is non-nil, operations which use switch-to-buffer (such as C-x b and C-x C-f) do not fail any more when used in a minibuffer or a dedicated window. Instead, they fallback on using pop-to-buffer, which will use some other window. This change has no effect when enable-recursive-minibuffers is nil (the default). -+++ + *** Isearch started in the minibuffer searches in the minibuffer history. Reverse Isearch commands (C-r, C-M-r) search in previous minibuffer history elements, and forward Isearch commands (C-s, C-M-s) search in @@ -466,26 +429,26 @@ element, it wraps to the last history element, and the forward search wraps to the first history element. When the search is terminated, the history element containing the search string becomes the current. -+++ + *** The variable read-file-name-completion-ignore-case overrides completion-ignore-case for file name completion. -+++ + *** The variable read-buffer-completion-ignore-case overrides completion-ignore-case for buffer name completion. ---- + *** The new command `minibuffer-force-complete' chooses one of the possible completions, rather than stopping at the common prefix. -+++ + *** If `completion-auto-help' is `lazy', Emacs shows the completions buffer only on the second attempt to complete. This was already supported in `partial-completion-mode'. ** Face changes -+++ + *** S-down-mouse-1 now pops up a menu for changing the font and text size of the default face in the current buffer. The face is changed via face remapping (see Lisp changes, below). -+++ + *** New commands to change the default face size in the current buffer. To increase it, type `C-x C-+' or `C-x C-='. To decrease it, type `C-x C--'. To restore the default (global) face size, type `C-x C-0'. @@ -501,16 +464,15 @@ under New Modes and Packages. ** Primary selection changes -+++ + *** If `select-active-regions' is t, setting the mark automatically makes the new region into the primary selection (for interaction with other window applications). If you enable this, you might want to bind `mouse-yank-primary' to Mouse-2. -+++ + *** You can disable kill ring commands from accessing the primary selection by setting `x-select-enable-primary' to nil. ---- ** Continuation lines can now be wrapped at word boundaries (word-wrapping). This is controlled by the new per-buffer variable `word-wrap'. Word wrapping does not take place if continuation lines @@ -521,29 +483,29 @@ New Modes and Packages, below. ** Window management changes -+++ + *** truncate-partial-width-windows now accepts integer values, which specify a minimum window width for partial-width windows, below which lines are truncated. The default has been changed to 50. *** The new command balance-windows-area balances windows both vertically and horizontally. ---- + *** pop-to-buffer now always sets input focus when the popped-to window is on a different frame. ** Miscellaneous changes: -+++ + *** C-l is bound to the new command recenter-top-bottom, rather than recenter. This moves the current line to window center, top and bottom on successive invocations. -+++ + *** scroll-preserve-screen-position also preserves the column position. -+++ + *** If `yank-pop-change-selection' is t, rotating the kill ring also updates the selection or clipboard to the current yank, just as M-w would do so with the text it copies to the kill ring. -+++ + *** C-M-% now shows replacement as it would look in the buffer, with `\N' and `\&' substituted according to the match. Old behavior can be restored by customizing `query-replace-show-replacement'. @@ -552,17 +514,17 @@ 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 kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp. ---- + *** The value of comment-style now defaults to `indent'. Thefore, comment-start markers are inserted at the current indentation of the region to comment, rather than the leftmost column. ---- + *** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and `pp-macroexpand-last-sexp' pretty-print macro expansions. -+++ + *** The new command `set-file-modes' allows to set file's mode bits. The mode bits can be specified in symbolic notation, like with GNU Coreutils, in addition to an octal number. `chmod' is a new @@ -571,13 +533,13 @@ *** `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. -+++ + *** When typing in a password in the echo area, C-y yanks the current kill into the password. ---- + *** Tooltip frame parameters `font' and `color' in `tooltip-frame-parameters' are ignored. Customize the `tooltip' face instead. -+++ + *** `mkdir' is a new convenience alias for `make-directory'. * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 @@ -595,7 +557,6 @@ buffer-face-mode. See "Face changes", under Editing Changes, for a description of face remapping. ---- ** butterfly flips the desired bit on the drive platter. See http://xkcd.com/378/ @@ -605,7 +566,6 @@ D-Bus is an inter-process communication mechanism for applications residing on the same host. See the manual for details. -+++ ** DocView mode allows viewing of PDF, PostScript and DVI documents. One can also search for a regular expression in the document. For details, see the commentary in doc-view.el. @@ -623,7 +583,6 @@ ** json.el is a library for parsing and generating JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), a lightweight data-interchange format. -+++ ** linum.el is a new minor mode to display line numbers for the current buffer. @@ -635,7 +594,6 @@ ** minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt. -+++ ** nXML Mode This is a new mode for editing XML documents. It allows a schema to be associated with the XML document being edited, using Relax NG as @@ -661,10 +619,8 @@ ** RST mode is a major mode for editing reStructuredText files. -+++ ** Ruby mode is a major mode for Ruby files. -+++ ** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines. It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e, and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical @@ -695,36 +651,36 @@ * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 ** Abbrev has been rewritten in Elisp and extended with more flexibility. -+++ + *** New functions: abbrev-get, abbrev-put, abbrev-table-get, abbrev-table-put, abbrev-table-p, abbrev-insert, abbrev-table-menu. -+++ + *** Special hook `abbrev-expand-functions' obsoletes `pre-abbrev-expand-hook'. -+++ + *** `make-abbrev-table', `define-abbrev', `define-abbrev-table' all take extra arguments for arbitrary properties. -+++ + *** New variable `abbrev-minor-mode-table-alist'. -+++ + *** `local-abbrev-table' can hold a list of abbrev-tables. -+++ + *** Abbrevs have now the following special properties: `:count', `:system', `:enable-function', `:case-fixed'. -+++ + *** Abbrev-tables have now the following special properties: `:parents', `:case-fixed', `:enable-function', `:regexp', `abbrev-table-modiff'. ** Apropos + *** `apropos-library' describes the elements defined in a given library. + *** Set `apropos-compact-layout' is you want a more compact (but wider) layout. -+++ ** Archive Mode has basic support to browse Rar archives. Note, however, that the free version of the unrar command only handles versions 1 and 2 of the Rar format. ---- ** BibTeX mode *** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers. @@ -739,13 +695,11 @@ ** Calendar and diary -+++ *** There is a new date style, `iso', essentially year/month/day. The variable `european-calendar-style' is obsolete - use `calendar-date-style'. Similarly, the commands `american-calendar' and `european-calendar' should be replaced by `calendar-set-date-style'. -+++ *** The calendar namespace has been rationalized. All functions and variables now begin with a `calendar-', `diary-', or `holiday-' prefix. The various calendar systems have secondary @@ -753,21 +707,17 @@ directly still exist, for the time being, as aliases, but please start using the new names. -+++ *** The whitespace in the calendar layout can be customized. See the variables: calendar-left-margin, calendar-intermonth-spacing, calendar-column-width, calendar-day-header-width, and calendar-day-digit-width. -+++ *** Text (e.g. ISO weeks) can be displayed between the calendar months. See the variables calendar-intermonth-header and calendar-intermonth-text. -+++ *** The function `holiday-chinese' computes holidays on the Chinese calendar. It has been used to add items to the list `holiday-oriental-holidays'. ---- *** `diary-remind' accepts a negative number -DAYS as a shorthand for the list (1 2 ... DAYS). @@ -780,17 +730,17 @@ source code associated with a log entry. ** Compile and grep modes ---- + *** The mode-line entry for the *compilation* and *grep* buffer is color coded. It has different colors for to show that: (a) the command is still running, (b) successful completion, (c) error. -+++ + *** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to the first error encountered during compilations. -+++ + *** compilation-scroll-output accepts a new value, `first-error', which says to stop auto scrolling at the first error that occurs. ---- + *** The `cc' alias for C++ files in `grep-file-aliases' has been improved. `hh' can be used to match C++ header files and `cchh' both C++ sources and headers. @@ -805,34 +755,34 @@ This is controlled by `copyright-at-end-flag' (used by, e.g., change-log-mode). ** Custom -+++ + *** defcustom accepts new keyword arguments, `:safe' and `:risky', which set a variable's `safe-local-variable' and `risky-local-variable' property. ** Diff mode -+++ + *** diff-refine-hunk highlights word-level details of changes in a diff hunk. It's used automatically as you move through hunks, see diff-auto-refine-mode. It is bound to `C-c C-b'. -+++ + *** diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window iterates through the diff buffer and tries to create ChangeLog entries for each change. It is bound to `C-x 4 A'. -+++ + *** Turning on `whitespace-mode' in a diff buffer will show trailing whitespace problems in the modified lines. ** Dired -+++ + *** In Dired, C-x C-q 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. -+++ + *** `&' runs the command `dired-do-async-shell-command' that executes the command asynchronously without the need to manually add ampersand to the end of the command. Its output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell Command*'. -+++ + *** `M-s f C-s' and `M-s f M-C-s' run Isearch that matches only at file names. When a new user option `dired-isearch-filenames' is t, then even ordinary Isearch started with `C-s' and `C-M-s' matches only at file names in the @@ -841,11 +791,11 @@ name initially, then Isearch matches only file names, otherwise it matches everywhere in the Dired buffer. You can toggle file names matching on or off by typing `M-s f' in Isearch mode. -+++ + *** `M-s a C-s' and `M-s a M-C-s' run multi-file Isearch on the marked files. They visit the first marked file in the sequence and display the usual Isearch prompt for a string or a regexp where all Isearch commands are available. ---- + *** `Q' in Dired provides two new keys for multi-file replacement. The upper case key `Y' replaces all remaining matches in all remaining files with no more questions. The upper case key `N' stops doing replacements @@ -855,15 +805,13 @@ `reftex-query-replace-document'. ** Fortran -+++ + *** The line length of fixed-form Fortran is not fixed at 72 any more. Customize the variable `fortran-line-length' to change it. -+++ *** In Fortran mode, M-; is now bound to the standard comment-dwim, rather than fortran-indent-comment. -+++ *** (The increasingly misnamed) F90 mode supports Fortran 2003 syntax. ** Gnus @@ -883,7 +831,7 @@ authentication respectively. ** Help mode -+++ + *** New macro `with-help-window' should set up help windows better than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'. @@ -894,7 +842,7 @@ position for point in help window (for example in `view-lossage'). ** Isearch -+++ + *** New command `isearch-forward-word' bound globally to `M-s w' starts incremental word search. New command `isearch-toggle-word' bound to the same key `M-s w' in Isearch mode toggles word searching on or off @@ -905,11 +853,11 @@ search string as its regexp argument. The same key `M-s h r' and other keys on the `M-s h' prefix are bound globally to the command `highlight-regexp' and other hi-lock commands. -+++ + *** New command `isearch-occur' bound to `M-s o' in Isearch mode runs `occur' with the current search string. The same key `M-s o' is bound globally to the command `occur'. ---- + *** Isearch can now search through multiple ChangeLog files. When running Isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails, then another C-s tries searching the previous ChangeLog, @@ -919,7 +867,7 @@ *** Two new commands to start Isearch on a list of marked buffers for buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el are bound to the keys `M-s a C-s' and `M-s a M-C-s'. -+++ + *** The part of an Isearch that failed to match is highlighted in `isearch-fail' face. @@ -928,11 +876,10 @@ documentation of the given Isearch key sequence, `C-h m' displays documentation of Isearch mode. All the rest Help commands exit Isearch mode and execute their global definitions. -+++ + *** When started in the minibuffer, Isearch searches in the minibuffer history. See `Minibuffer changes', above. -+++ ** MH-E *** Upgraded to MH-E version 8.2. See MH-E-NEWS for details. @@ -954,7 +901,6 @@ ** Rmail -+++ *** Rmail no longer converts the messages to Babyl format. Instead, it uses UNIX mbox format, both on disk and in Rmail buffers, and does conversion and decoding when a message is displayed. @@ -994,48 +940,42 @@ function (with arguments) which you specify on the full text of a given message. To further narrow to just the headers, search forward for "\n\n". -+++ *** The new command `rmail-mime' displays MIME messages. It is bound to `v' in Rmail buffers and summaries. It displays plain text and multipart messages in a temporary buffer, and offers buttons to save attachments. ---- *** The command `rmail-redecode-body' no longer accepts the optional arg RAW. Since Rmail now holds messages in their original undecoded form in a separate buffer, `rmail-redecode-body' no longer encodes the original message, and therefore there should be no need to avoid encoding it. -+++ *** The o command is now `rmail-output'. It is an all-purpose command for copying messages from Rmail and appending them to files. It handles Babyl-format files as well as mbox-format files, and it handles both kinds properly when they are visited in Emacs. It always copies the full headers of the message. -+++ *** The C-o command is now `rmail-output-as-seen'. It uses the message as displayed, appending it to an mbox file. ---- *** The modified status of the Rmail buffer is reported in the mode-line. Previously, this information was hidden. ** TeX modes ---- + *** New option latex-indent-within-escaped-parens permits to customize indentation of LaTeX environments delimited by escaped parens. ** T-mouse Mode ---- + *** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode is enabled, Emacs uses a Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server, rather than faking events using the client program mev. This C level approach provides mouse highlighting and help echoing in the minibuffer. -+++ ** Tramp *** New connection methods. @@ -1073,17 +1013,17 @@ necessary. ** VC and related modes -+++ + *** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time. This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, Git and Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems as a single changeset. -+++ + *** vc-dir is a new command that displays file names and their VC status. It allows to apply various VC operations to a file, a directory or a set of files/directories. -+++ + *** VC switches are no longer appended, rather the first non-nil value is used. (This was for the most part true in Emacs 22, but was not advertised). This is because there is an increasing variety of VC systems, and they @@ -1091,40 +1031,40 @@ command used to append the values of `vc-cvs-diff-switches', `vc-diff-switches', and `diff-switches'. Now the first non-nil value from that sequence is used. The special value `t' means "no switches". -+++ + *** 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. *** In VC Annotate mode, the key bindings have changed to use lower case keys instead of the upper case keys used in the past. -+++ + *** In VC Annotate mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file) by typing the D key. Using the "Show changeset diff of revision at line" menu entry does the same thing. -+++ + *** In VC Annotate mode, you can type v to toggle the annotation visibility. -+++ + *** In VC Annotate mode, you can type f to show the file revision on the current line. ---- + *** Asynchronous VC commands display [Waiting...] in the mode-line of the corresponding buffer as long as the asynchronous process is active. -+++ + *** Log entries can be modified using the key "e" in log-view. For now only CVS, RCS, SCCS and SVN support this functionality. This is done by the `modify-change-comment' backend function. -+++ + *** In log-view-mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file) by typing the D key or using the "Changeset Diff" menu entry. -+++ + *** In Log Edit mode, C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved. *** vc-git supports the "git grep" command. -+++ + *** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of a maintainer able to update it to the new VC. @@ -1133,14 +1073,14 @@ *** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes). If `default-directory' is a remote file name, subprocesses are started on the corresponding remote system. ---- + *** Eldoc highlights the function argument under point with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'. -+++ + *** In Etags, the --members option is now the default. Use --no-members if you want the old default behavior of not tagging struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP. -+++ + *** The `gdb' command only works with the graphical interface now. Use `gud-gdb' if you want the (old) text command mode. @@ -1151,7 +1091,7 @@ *** The new variable `ffap-rfc-directories' specifies a list of local directories in which `ffap-rfc' will first search for RFCs. -+++ + *** hide-ifdef-mode allows shadowing ifdef-blocks instead of hiding them. See option `hide-ifdef-shadow' and function `hide-ifdef-toggle-shadowing'. @@ -1184,7 +1124,7 @@ *** view-remove-frame-by-deleting is now by default t since users found iconification of view-mode frames distracting. ---- + *** WoMan tries to add locale-specific manual page directories to the search path. This can be disabled by setting `woman-locale' to nil. @@ -1197,19 +1137,16 @@ variable doesn't apply to reading a file name -- in that case Emacs heeds `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' instead. ---- ** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows. Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. In Emacs 22, IPv6 was supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock 1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library. ---- ** Busy cursor (hourglass) now displays on MS-Windows. When Emacs is busy, an hourglass mouse cursor is displayed on Windows. In Emacs 22 only X supported the busy cursor. ---- ** Battery status is available on MS-Windows Emacs can now display the battery status in the mode-line when enabled with display-battery-mode or from the Options menu. More verbose battery @@ -1242,28 +1179,24 @@ * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 -+++ ** Variables cannot be both buffer-local and frame-local any more. -+++ ** `functionp' returns nil for special forms. I.e., it only returns t for objects that can be passed to `funcall'. -+++ ** The behavior of map-char-table has changed. It may call the specified function with a cons (FROM . TO) as a key if characters in that range have the same value. ** Process changes -+++ + *** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed. -+++ + *** The multibyteness of process filters is now determined by the coding-system used for decoding. The functions `process-filter-multibyte-p' and `set-process-filter-multibyte' are obsolete. ---- ** The variable `byte-compile-warnings' can now be a list starting with `not', meaning to disable the specified warnings. The meaning of this list may therefore be the reverse of what you expect (of course, this is @@ -1272,25 +1205,23 @@ `byte-compile-warning-enabled-p', `byte-compile-disable-warning', and `byte-compile-enable-warning.' -+++ ** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string. Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value. -+++ ** The function x-font-family-list has been removed. Use the new function font-family-list (see Lisp Changes, below). ** Internationalization changes *** The value of the function `charset-id' is now always 0. -+++ + *** The functions `register-char-codings' and `coding-system-spec' have been removed. -+++ + *** The cpXXX coding systems are now supported automatically. The functions cp-...-codepage, which you had to use in Emacs 22 to enable support for these coding systems, have been deleted. ---- + *** The following features have been removed. They were used for displaying various scripts with specific fonts, and are no longer needed now that OpenType font support is available: @@ -1315,12 +1246,17 @@ Now, nil is for the fontset of the selected frame and t is for the default fontset. ---- +** If a function in write-region-annotate-functions returns with a +different buffer current, Emacs no longer kills that buffer +automatically. This behavior existed in previous versions of Emacs, +but was undocumented. To kill a buffer after write-region, give the +variable `write-region-post-annotation-function' a buffer-local value +of `kill-buffer'. + ** The variable temp-file-name-pattern has been removed. This variable was only used by call-process-region, which now uses temporary-file-directory instead. -+++ ** The COUNT and SYSTEM-FLAG arguments to define-abbrev have been removed. The function now takes extra arguments for specifying arbitrary abbrev properties. @@ -1333,7 +1269,6 @@ * Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 -+++ ** The new variable `generate-autoload-cookie' controls the magic comment string used by `update-file-autoloads' to find autoloaded forms. The variable `generated-autoload-file' similarly controls the name of the @@ -1341,41 +1276,33 @@ The default values are ";;;###autoload" and `loaddefs.el', respectively. -+++ ** New primitives `list-system-processes' and `process-attributes' let Lisp programs access the processes that are running on the local machine. See the doc strings of these functions for more details. Not all platforms support accessing this information; on those that don't, these primitives will return nil. -+++ ** New variable `user-emacs-directory'. Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d". -+++ ** If a local hook function has a non-nil `permanent-local-hook' property, `kill-all-local-variables' does not remove it from the local value of the hook variable; it remains even if you change major modes. -+++ ** `frame-inherited-parameters' lets new frames inherit parameters from the selected frame. -+++ ** 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. -+++ ** `ignore-errors' is now a standard macro (does not require the CL package). -+++ ** `interprogram-paste-function' can now return one string or a list of strings. In the latter case, Emacs puts the second and following strings on the kill ring. -+++ ** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first". You do this by writing `debug' in the list of conditions to be handled, like this: @@ -1384,44 +1311,36 @@ (foo bar) ((debug error) nil)) -+++ ** clone-indirect-buffer now runs the clone-indirect-buffer-hook. -+++ ** `beginning-of-defun-function' now takes one argument, the count given to `beginning-of-defun'. (N.B. `end-of-defun-function' doesn't take any arguments.) -+++ ** `file-remote-p' has new optional parameters IDENTIFICATION and CONNECTED. IDENTIFICATION specifies which part of the remote identifier has to be returned. With CONNECTED passed non-nil, it is checked whether a remote connection has been established already. -+++ ** The new macro `declare-function' suppresses compiler warnings about undefined functions. ** Changes to interactive function handling -+++ *** The new interactive spec code ^ says to first call handle-shift-selection if shift-select-mode is non-nil, before reading the command arguments. This is used for shift-selection (see above). -+++ *** Built-in functions 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. -+++ *** The interactive-form of a function can be added post-facto via the `interactive-form' symbol property. Mostly useful to add complex interactive forms to subroutines. ** Region changes -+++ *** Commands should use `use-region-p' to test whether there is an active region that they should operate on. @@ -1431,7 +1350,6 @@ instead of `region-active-p', because `use-region-p' obeys the new user option `use-empty-active-region' (see Editing Changes, above). -+++ *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to (only . OLDVAL), that means to activate transient-mark-mode temporarily, until the next unshifted point motion command or mark deactivation. Afterwards, @@ -1440,19 +1358,16 @@ ** Emacs session information -+++ *** The new variables `before-init-time' and `after-init-time' record the value of `current-time' before and after Emacs loads the init files. -+++ *** The new function `emacs-uptime' returns the uptime of an Emacs instance. -+++ *** The new function `emacs-init-time' returns the duration of the Emacs initialization. ** Changes affecting display-buffer -+++ + *** display-buffer tries to be smarter when splitting windows. The new option split-window-preferred-function lets you specify your own function to pop up new windows. Its default value split-window-sensibly @@ -1465,11 +1380,9 @@ in this respect. In any case, display-buffer may now split the largest window vertically even when it is not as wide as the containing frame. -+++ *** If pop-up-frames has the value `graphic-only', display-buffer only makes a separate frame on graphic displays. -+++ *** select-frame and set-frame-selected-window have a new optional argument NORECORD. If non-nil, this will avoid messing with the order of recently selected windows and the buffer list. @@ -1477,64 +1390,55 @@ ** Window parameters can now be defined. These are analogous to frame parameters, but are associated with individual windows. -+++ + *** The new functions window-parameters, window-parameter, and set-window-parameter are used to query and set window parameters. ** Minibuffer and completion changes -+++ + *** A list of default values can be specified for the DEFAULT argument of functions `read-from-minibuffer', `read-string', `read-command', `read-variable', `read-buffer', `completing-read'. Elements of this list are available for inserting into the minibuffer by typing `M-n'. For empty input these functions return the first element of this list. -+++ *** New function `read-regexp' uses the regexp history and some useful regexp defaults (string at point, last Isearch/replacement regexp/string) via M-n when reading a regexp in the minibuffer. -+++ *** minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map is now named minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map. -+++ *** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts the new values `confirm-only' and `confirm-after-completion'. ** Search and replacement changes -+++ + *** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly. -+++ + *** New function `match-substitute-replacement' returns the result of `replace-match' without actually using it in the buffer. -+++ *** The new variable `replace-search-function' determines the function to use for searching in query-replace and replace-string. The function it specifies is called by `perform-replace' when its 4th argument is nil. -+++ *** The new variable `replace-re-search-function' determines the function to use for searching in `query-replace-regexp', `replace-regexp', `query-replace-regexp-eval', and `map-query-replace-regexp'. The function it specifies is called by `perform-replace' when its 4th argument is non-nil. -+++ *** New keymap `search-map' bound to `M-s' provides global bindings for search related commands. -+++ *** New keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additonal keys bound to `automatic-all' and `exit-current' for multi-buffer interactive replacement. ---- *** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents the search and match primitives from changing the match data. -+++ *** New functions `word-search-forward-lax' and `word-search-backward-lax'. These are like `word-search-forward and `word-search-backward', except that the end of the search string need not match a word boundary, @@ -1542,15 +1446,14 @@ ** File handling changes -+++ *** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions. -+++ + *** file-local-variables-alist stores an alist of file-local variables defined in the current buffer. ** Face-remapping -+++ + *** Each face can be remapped to a different face definition using the variable `face-remapping-alist'. This is an alist that maps faces to replacement definitions (which can be face names, lists of face names, @@ -1563,64 +1466,59 @@ Editing Changes, above). *** New functions: -+++ + **** `face-remap-add-relative' adds a face remapping entry to the current buffer. -+++ + **** ``face-remap-remove-relative' removes a face remapping entry from the current buffer. -+++ + **** `face-remap-reset-base' restores a face to its global definition. -+++ + **** `face-remap-set-base' sets the base remapping of a face. ** Process changes -+++ + *** The new function `start-file-process' is similar to `start-process', but obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on `default-directory'. The functions `start-file-process-shell-command' and `process-file-shell-command' are also new; they call internally `start-file-process' and `process-file', respectively. -+++ *** The new function `process-lines' executes an external program and returns its output as a list of lines. ** Character code, representation, and charset changes. -+++ -The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF with no gap. -Characters of code 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the same code points. -Characters of code 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit bytes. - -+++ -Generic characters no longer exist. +*** In multibyte buffers and strings, characters are represented by +UTF-8 byte sequences. The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF +with no gap; code points 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the +same code points, while code points 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit +bytes. -+++ -In buffers and strings, characters are represented by UTF-8 byte -sequences in a multibyte buffer/string. +*** Generic characters no longer exist. -+++ -The concept of a charset has changed. A single character may belong -to multiple charsets (e.g. a-grave, U+00E0, belongs to charsets +*** The concept of a charset has changed. A single character may +belong to multiple charsets (e.g. a-grave, U+00E0, belongs to charsets unicode, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-3, etc). ---- +**** The dimension of a charset is now 1, 2, 3, or 4, and the size of +each dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96. + +**** A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of +characters for display. + *** The functions `split-char' and `make-char' now accept up to 4 positional codes instead of just 2. -+++ *** The functions `encode-char' and `decode-char' now accept any character sets. ---- *** The function `define-charset' now accepts a completely different form of arguments (old-style arguments still work). -+++ *** The value of the function `char-charset' depends on the current priorities of charsets. -+++ *** The function get-char-code-property now accepts many Unicode base character properties. They are `name', `general-category', `canonical-combining-class', `bidi-class', `decomposition', @@ -1628,41 +1526,31 @@ `old-name', `iso-10646-comment', `uppercase', `lowercase', and `titlecase'. -+++ *** The functions `modify-syntax-entry' and `modify-category-entry' now accept a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all entries in that range of characters. -+++ *** Use of `translation-table-for-input' for character code unification is now obsolete, since Emacs 23.1 and later uses Unicode as basis for internal representation of characters. *** New functions: -+++ **** `characterp' returns t if and only if the argument is a character. This replaces `char-valid-p', which is now obsolete. -+++ **** `max-char' returns the maximum character code (currently #x3FFFFF). ---- **** `define-charset-alias' defines an alias of a charset. -+++ **** `set-charset-priority' sets priorities of charsets. -+++ **** `charset-priority-list' returns a prioritized list of charsets. -+++ **** `unibyte-string' makes a unibyte string from bytes. ---- **** `define-char-code-property' defines a character code property. -+++ **** `char-code-property-description' returns the description string of a character code property. @@ -1671,66 +1559,51 @@ **** `find-word-boundary-function-table' is a char-table of functions to search for a word boundary. -+++ **** `char-script-table' is a char-table of script names. -+++ **** `char-width-table' is a char-table of character widths. ---- **** `print-charset-text-property' controls how to handle `charset' text property on printing a string. -+++ **** `printable-chars' is a char-table of printable characters. ** Code conversion changes ---- *** The new function `define-coding-system' should be used to define a coding system instead of `make-coding-system' (which is now obsolete). -+++ *** The functions `encode-coding-region' and `decode-coding-region' have an optional 4th argument to specify where the result of conversion should go. -+++ *** The functions `encode-coding-string' and `decode-coding-string' have an optional 4th argument specifying a buffer to store the result of conversion. -+++ *** The new variable `inhibit-null-byte-detection' controls whether to consider text with null bytes as binary data. By default, it is `nil', and Emacs uses `no-conversion' for any text containing null bytes. ---- *** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete. *** New functions: -+++ **** `with-coding-priority' executes Lisp code using the specified coding system priority order. -+++ **** `check-coding-systems-region' checks if the text in the region is encodable by the specified coding systems. -+++ **** `coding-system-aliases' returns a list of aliases of a coding system. -+++ **** `coding-system-charset-list' returns a list of charsets supported by a coding system. -+++ **** `coding-system-priority-list' returns a list of coding systems ordered by their priorities. -+++ **** `set-coding-system-priority' sets priorities of coding systems. **** `coding-system-from-name' returns a coding system matching with @@ -1751,13 +1624,12 @@ *** The new function `robin-use-package' starts using a Robin package as an input method. -+++ *** The new function `string-to-unibyte' is like `string-as-unibyte' but signals an error if STRING contains a non-ASCII, non-eight-bit character. ** Changes related to the new font backend -+++ + *** Which font backends to use can be specified by the X resource "FontBackend". For instance, to use both X core fonts and Xft fonts: @@ -1765,7 +1637,7 @@ If this resource is not set, Emacs tries to use all font backends available on your graphic device. -+++ + *** New frame parameter `font-backend' specifies a list of font-backends supported by the frame's graphic device. On X, they are currently `x' and `xft'. @@ -1775,117 +1647,102 @@ set the font. *** New functions: -+++ + **** `fontp' checks if the argument is a font-spec or font-entity. -+++ + **** `font-spec' creates a new font-spec object. -+++ + **** `font-get' returns a font property value. -+++ + **** `font-put' sets a font property value. -+++ + **** `font-face-attributes' returns a plist of face attributes set by a font. -+++ + **** `list-fonts' returns a list of font-entities matching a font spec. -+++ + **** `find-font' returns the font-entity best matching the given font spec. -+++ + **** `font-family-list' returns a list of family names of available fonts. -+++ + **** `font-xlfd-name' returns an XLFD name of a given font spec, font entity, or font object. ---- + **** `clear-font-cache' clears all font caches. ** Changes related to multiple-terminal (multi-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 is now frame-local. The new `initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value for the first frame. `window-system' is also now a function that takes a frame argument. -+++ *** The `keyboard-translate-table' variable and the terminal and keyboard coding systems are now terminal-local. ---- *** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'. ---- *** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a tty session. -+++ *** A new `terminal' data type. The functions `get-device-terminal', `terminal-parameters', `terminal-parameter', `set-terminal-parameter' use this data type. -+++ *** Function key sequences are now mapped using `local-function-key-map', a new variable. This inherits from the global variable function-key-map, which is not used directly any more. *** New hooks: -+++ **** before-hack-local-variables-hook is called after setting new variable file-local-variables-alist, and before actually applying the file-local variables. -+++ **** `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. -+++ **** The special hook `delete-terminal-functions' is called before deleting a terminal. *** New functions: -+++ **** `delete-terminal' -+++ **** `suspend-tty' -+++ **** `resume-tty'. -+++ *** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent. ** Redisplay changes -+++ + *** For underlined characters, the distance between the underline and the baseline is controlled by a new variable, `underline-minimum-offset'. -+++ + *** You can now pass the value of the `invisible' property to invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible. This is convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer position (e.g. in before/after-strings). -+++ + *** `clear-image-cache' can be told to flush only images of a specific file. -+++ + *** `vertical-motion' can now be given a goal column. It now accepts a cons cell (COLS . LINES) in its first argument, which says to stop, where possible, at a pixel x-position equal to COLS times the default column width. -+++ + *** redisplay-end-trigger-functions, set-window-redisplay-end-trigger, and window-redisplay-end-trigger are obsolete. Use `jit-lock-register' instead. -+++ + *** The new variables `wrap-prefix' and `line-prefix' specify display specs which are appended at display-time to every continuation line and non-continuation line, respectively. In addition, Emacs @@ -1897,32 +1754,25 @@ ** Miscellaneous new functions -+++ *** `apply-partially' performs a "curried" application of a function. -+++ *** `buffer-swap-text' swaps text between two buffers. This can be useful for modes such as tar-mode, archive-mode, RMAIL. -+++ *** `combine-and-quote-strings' produces a single string from a list of strings sticking a separator string in between each pair, and quoting those strings that include the separator as their substring. Useful for consing shell command lines from the individual arguments. ---- *** `custom-note-var-changed' tells Custom to treat the change in a certain variable as having been made within Custom. -+++ *** `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing all the basic attributes of a given face. -+++ *** `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a readable string of days, hours, etc. -+++ *** `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image specification. @@ -1930,47 +1780,38 @@ place to save user-specific files. It defaults to `user-emacs-directory' unless the file already exists at $HOME. -+++ *** `read-color' reads a color name using the minibuffer. -+++ *** `read-shell-command' does what its name says, with completion. It uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that. -+++ *** `split-string-and-unquote' splits a string into a list of substrings on the boundaries of a given delimiter, and unquotes the substrings that are quoted. Useful for taking apart shell commands. -+++ *** The two new functions `looking-at-p' and `string-match-p' can do the same matching as `looking-at' and `string-match' without changing the match data. -+++ *** The two new functions `make-serial-process' and `serial-process-configure' provide a Lisp interface to the new serial port support (see Emacs changes, above). ** Miscellaneous new variables -+++ *** `read-circle', if nil, disables the reading of recursive Lisp structures using the #N= and #N# syntax. -+++ *** `this-command-keys-shift-translated' is non-nil if the key sequence invoking the current command was found by shift-translation. *** `window-point-insertion-type' determines the insertion-type of the marker used for window-point. ---- *** bookmark provides `bookmark-make-record-function' so special major modes like Info can teach bookmark.el how to save and restore the relevant data. -+++ *** `fill-forward-paragraph-function' specifies which function the filling code should use to find paragraph boundaries. @@ -1979,7 +1820,6 @@ ** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure. -+++ ** The new package check-declare.el verifies the accuracy of declare-function macros (see Lisp Changes, above). @@ -1993,7 +1833,6 @@ `multi-isearch-files-regexp' accept a single argument that specifies a list of buffers/files to search for a string/regexp. -+++ ** The new major mode `special-mode' is intended as a parent for major modes such as those that set the "'mode-class 'special" property.