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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:33:21 +0000 |
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GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Emacs bug reports to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org. If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. This file is about changes in Emacs version 23. See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions. 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. * About external Lisp packages * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid. ** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for a GIF library. * Changes in Emacs 23.1 ** Support for multiple terminal devices and simultaneous graphical and tty frames has been added. You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by testing for the `multi-tty' feature. ** Emacsclient has been extended to support opening a new terminal frame. Its behavior has been changed to open a new Emacs frame by default. Use the -c option to get the old behavior of opening files in the currently selected Emacs frame. ** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files. ** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2. ** The Gtk+ build now uses stock tool bar icons, so that a theme change is visible in Emacs tool bar. ** If you set find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file to t, then C-x C-f requires confirmation before opening a non-existent file. ** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode 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. ** The new variable next-error-recenter specifies how next-error should recenter the visited source file. Its value can be a number (for example, 0 for top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering. ** The mode-line display a `@' if the default-directory for the current buffer is on a remote machine, or a hyphen otherwise. ** The new command balance-window-area balances windows both vertically and horizontally. ** The new command close-display-connection can be used to close a connection to a remote display, e.g. because the display is about to become unreachable. ** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is called with a prefix, and the default directory is a remote file name. This is because some file name handler (like ange-ftp) are not able to run processes remotely. ** The new command `display-time-world' starts an updating time display using several time zones, in a buffer. * Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1 ** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a file or directory. * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 ** C-z now invokes `suspend-frame', C-x C-c now invokes `save-buffers-kill-terminal'. ** New command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name matches a regexp. ** Minibuffer changes: *** 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 next history elements. When the reverse search reaches the first history 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. * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 ** A new game called `bubble' has been added ** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt. * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 ** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support. ** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to the first error encountered during compilations. ** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders's names. Only copyright lines with holders matching copyright-names-regexp will be considered for update. ** eldoc highlights the function argument under point with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'. ** VC *** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu. *** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip. *** VC backends can provide extra menu entries to be added to the "Version Control" menu. This can be used to add menu entries for backend specific functions. ** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs. ** BibTeX mode: *** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and `string', disabled by default. *** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to identify cited keys in BibTeX entries, used by `bibtex-find-crossref. *** Command `bibtex-url' now allows multiple URLs per entry. +++ ** Tramp *** New connection methods. The new methods "plinkx", "plink2", "psftp", "sftp" and "fish" have been introduced. There are also new so-called gateway methods "tunnel" and "socks". *** Multihop syntax has been removed. The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed. Instead of, multi hops can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'. *** More default settings. Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user', `tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-host'. *** Connection information is cached. In order to reduce connection setup, information about used connections are kept persistent in a file. The name of this file is defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'. *** Control of remote processes. Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in `tramp-remote-path' and `tramp-remote-process-environment'. *** Success of remote copy is checked. When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote file copy is checked via the file's checksum. ** Miscellaneous programming mode changes *** The variable `fortran-line-length' can change the fixed-form line-length. ** Miscellaneous *** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes). If `default-directory' is a remote file name, subprocesses are started on the corresponding remote system. *** C-x C-q in dired-mode now runs the command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode, and C-x C-q in wdired-mode exits it with asking a question about saving changes. *** The new command `eshell/info' runs info in an eshell buffer. * Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems --- ** 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. Previously 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. * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 +++ ** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed. * Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 ** Changes related to multiple tty support. *** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses. If you want to know the $TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment. *** The `window-system' variable has been made frame-local. The new `initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value for the first frame. *** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'. *** The new function `make-frame-on-tty' allows you to create a new frame on another tty device interactively. *** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a tty session, and `make-frame-on-tty' works during a graphical session. *** New functions: `delete-tty', `suspend-tty', `resume-tty'. *** New functions: `terminal-id', `terminal-parameters', `terminal-parameter', `set-terminal-parameter', `modify-terminal-parameters'. *** New functions: `environment', `let-environment'. *** New variables: `local-key-translation-map', `local-function-key-map'. These are in addition to the global key-translation-map and function-key-map variables that already existed. ??? How do the new variables relate to the old ones? *** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent. *** New frame parameter `display-environment-variable'. *** The `keyboard-translate-table' variable and the terminal and keyboard coding systems have been made terminal-local. *** In addition to the global key-translation-map and function-key-map, Emacs has terminal-local local-key-translation-map and local-function-key-map variables, and uses them instead of the global keymaps to set up translations and function key sequences relevant to a specific terminal device. ** The function invisible-p returns non-nil if the character after a specified position is invisible, or if its argument as an `invisible' property would make a character invisible. ** Non-breaking space now acts as whitespace. +++ ** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first". You do this by writing `debug' in the list of conditions to be handled, like this: (condition-case nil (foo bar) ((debug error) nil)) ** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts a new value `confirm-only'. +++ ** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly. ** New function `window-full-width-p' returns t if a window is as wide as its frame. ** The new function `split-string-and-unquote' does (what?) ** The new function `combine-and-quote-strings' does (what?) ** The new function `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image specification. +++ ** New variable `user-emacs-directory'. Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d". +++ ** 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. +++ ** `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 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 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. * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1 ** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file is part of GNU Emacs. 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