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changeset 96230:07ecdd924140
Re-order items.
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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| date | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:27:10 +0000 |
| parents | f0fef621a168 |
| children | 2b8c49fb8d24 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 471 insertions(+), 459 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Tue Jun 24 13:29:28 2008 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Tue Jun 24 17:27:10 2008 +0000 @@ -27,47 +27,134 @@ * Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1 ** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid. +The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the +default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary. -** Fonts are handled by new code capable of dealing with multiple font -backends. This requires the freetype and fontconfig libraries, and -supports local fonts (fonts installed on the machine where Emacs is -running). Additionally, the Xft library can be used for antialiasing -support, the otf library for complex text layout by OpenType fonts, -and the m17n library for text shaping. Emacs now accepts font names -supplied in the fontconfig format (e.g. "monospace-12:bold") and GTK -format (e.g. "Monospace Bold 12"). +** New font code. +Fonts are handled by new code capable of dealing with multiple font +backends. This requires 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"). + +*** Added support for local fonts (fonts installed on the machine +where Emacs is running). + +*** Added support for the Xft library for antialiasing. + +*** Added support for the otf library for complex text layout by +OpenType fonts. + +*** 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. + +** The Mac Carbon port is no longer supported. +Instead, use... [FIXME what?] ** The new configuration option "--with-dbus" enables D-Bus language bindings for Emacs. -** The Mac Carbon port is no longer supported. -Instead, use... [FIXME what?] - -** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for -a GIF library. - -** Support for systems without alloca has been removed. - -** Support for Sun windows has been removed. - ** 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 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 configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the -default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary. +** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files. + +** 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. * Changes in Emacs 23.1 -** `underline-minimum-offset' keeps the underline away from the baseline. +** 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 +use any number of different ttys. `emacsclient -c' creates a new X11 +frame on the current $DISPLAY (or a tty frame if $DISPLAY is not set). + +You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by +testing for the `multi-tty' feature. + +**** Emacsclient can now open new terminal frames. +Now, the default behavior is 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 new command close-display-connection closes a connection to a +remote display. + +*** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification. +You can embed Emacs in another application on X11. The new command line +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 +the X Window System, such as Compiz, Beryl and Compiz Fusion. + +The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and +100 (opaque), or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0. It can also be a +cons cell (ACTIVE . INACTIVE), where ACTIVE is the opacity of an +active frame and INACTIVE is the opactity of non-active frames. -** Info displays breadcrumbs in the header of the page. -See Info-breadcrumbs-depth to control it. +The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the +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 internal encoding +previously used by Emacs, `emacs-mule', is still available. + +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. + +*** There are new coding systems/aliases; see M-x list-coding-systems. + +*** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets. +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. ** Emacs now supports serial port access on GNU/Linux, Unix, and Windows. `serial-term' starts an interactive terminal, @@ -75,186 +162,34 @@ interface. The serial port can be configured at runtime with the mode-line mouse menu. -** Apropos -*** `apropos-library' describes the elements defined in a given library. -*** Set `apropos-compact-layout' is you want a more compact (but wider) layout. - -** scroll-preserve-screen-position also preserves the column position. -** Completion. -*** `completion-styles' can be customized to choose your favorite completion. -*** The default completion styles include a form of partial-completion. -*** The new command `minibuffer-force-complete chooses one of the possible -completions, rather than stopping at the common prefix. -*** `completion-auto-help' can be set to `lazy' to list the completions only -if you repeat the completion. This was already supported in -`partial-completion-mode'. - -** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session. -Start the server (M-x server-start). Then `emacsclient -t' creates a -tty frame connected to the running emacs server. You can also use any -number of different ttys. `emacsclient -c' creates a new X11 frame on -the current $DISPLAY or a tty frame if $DISPLAY is not set. - -You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by -testing for the `multi-tty' feature. - -** 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'. utf-8-emacs is backwards -compatible with the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. The `emacs-mule' -coding system can still read and write data in the old internal encoding. - -Since the internal encoding is also used by default for byte-compiled -files -- i.e. the normal coding system for byte-compiled Lisp files is -now utf-8-Emacs -- Lisp containing non-ASCII characters which is -compiled by Emacs 23 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), which makes loading -them somewhat slower than Emacs 23-compiled files. Thus it may be worth -recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be shared with older -Emacsen. - -** There are assorted new coding systems/aliases -- see M-x list-coding-systems. - -** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets. -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. +** Menu Bar changes -A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of -characters for display. - -** There are new Chinese-GBK, Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, -Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Sinhala, and TaiViet language -environments. - -** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification. -You can embed Emacs in another application on X11. The new command line 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. - -** Controlling the frame opacity -The opacity of a frame can now be controlled by setting -the `alpha' frame parameter, on a compositing window manager -(e.g. Compiz, Beryl and Compiz Fusion) for the X Window System. - -The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and -100 (opaque) or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0. Optionally, the -opacity can be set by a cons cell; the first item controls the -opacity of an active frame, and the second item controls that of -non-active frames. +*** 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. - (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha 80) - (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha 0.8) - (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha '(100 70)) ; (<active> [<inactive>]) - (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha nil) - -Note that the threshold opacity of a frame is defined by the variable -`frame-alpha-lower-limit' (default 20), so that the user may not lose -control of the frame. - -** Emacs 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. - -** Built-in functions (subr) can now have an interactive specification -that is not a prompt string. If the `intspec' parameter of a `DEFUN' -starts with a `(', the string is evaluated as a Lisp form. - -** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in -symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions. - -** Changes affecting display-buffer -*** New value nil for split-height-threshold inhibits vertical splitting -unless there's no other window. -*** New option split-width-threshold controls horizontal splitting. -*** A window can be split horizontally even when it's not full-width. -*** New option split-window-preferred-function can be set to a function -to override the default splitting mechanism of display-buffer. - -** Menu Bar changes +*** The font setting chosen by "Set Default Font" is saved if the +"Save Options" item is used. *** The Options menu contains a new entry to turn on Longlines mode. -*** 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. This font setting will be saved if the "Save Options" -item is used. 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. - -** 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. +** Mode-line changes -** 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 mode-line displays a `@', instead of `-', if the +default-directory for the current buffer is on a remote machine. -** Recentering changes - -*** 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. - -*** New command recenter-top-bottom moves the current line to window -center, top and bottom on successive invokations. - -*** C-l is bound to the new command recenter-top-bottom, rather than recenter. +*** 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 displays a `@' if the default-directory for the current buffer -is on a remote machine, or a hyphen otherwise. - -** 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 new command balance-windows-area balances windows both vertically -and horizontally. - -** The new command close-display-connection can be used to close a connection -to a remote display, e.g. because the display is about to become unreachable. - -** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is -called with a prefix, and the default directory is a remote file name. -This is because some file name handlers (like ange-ftp) are not able to -run processes remotely. - -** The new command `display-time-world' starts an updating time display -using several time zones, in a buffer. +*** The `mode-line-emphasis' face is used to highlight certain +mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish). -** Directory-local variables are now found in .dir-settings.el. See -also `set-directory-project' and `define-project-bindings'. - -** The new function `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a -readable string of days, hours, etc. - -** 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. - -** The minor modes unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, unify-8859-on-decoding-mode -are obsolete. - -** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and `pp-macroexpand-last-sexp' -pretty-print macro expansions. +** Directory-local variables can now be defined. +By default, Emacs looks in .dir-settings.el for directory-local +variables. For more information, see `set-directory-project' and +`define-project-bindings'. * Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1 @@ -293,29 +228,26 @@ * Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 +** C-x C-c now invokes `save-buffers-kill-terminal', and C-z now +invokes `suspend-frame'. This change is 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. @@ -334,35 +266,12 @@ the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the buffer). -+++ -** 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'. - -** 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. - -** You can disable kill ring commands from accessing the primary selection -by setting `x-select-enable-primary' to nil. - -** 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. - -** 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. - ** Minibuffer changes -*** Minibuffer input of shell commands now comes with completion. - -*** Operations like C-x b and C-x C-f which use switch-to-buffer 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. +*** Operations like C-x b and C-x C-f, which use switch-to-buffer, 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. *** 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 @@ -371,15 +280,16 @@ the default values and after the end of defaults they continue searching minibuffer completion items. -*** In C-x d, if you type M-n you get the visited file name of the -current buffer. +*** 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. -*** A list of default commands extracted from mailcap according to -file extensions are available in the list of default values -accessible by M-n in the minibuffer that reads a shell command -for M-! (shell-command) and fills a list of commands for the current -file, and in Dired for ! (dired-do-shell-command) that fills a list of -commands for the intersection of file types of marked Dired files. +*** In the M-! (shell-command) prompt, M-n provides some default commands. +These are guessed using the file extension of the current file, based +on the file-handlers specified in the operating system's `mailcap' +file. The ! command in Dired (dired-do-shell-command) works +similarly, using the file displayed on the current line. *** A list of regexp default values is available via M-n for `occur', `keep-lines', `flush-lines' and `how-many'. This list includes the active @@ -394,11 +304,6 @@ wraps to the first history element. When the search is terminated, the history element containing the search string becomes the current. -** New faces - -*** `mode-line-emphasis' is used to highlight certain mode-line information; -for example while waiting for a VC command to finish. - ** Face changes *** The new function `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing @@ -410,24 +315,110 @@ *** FIXME face-remap +** 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. + +** Completion changes + +*** `completion-styles' can be customized to choose your favorite +completion style. + +*** The default completion styles include a form of partial-completion. + +*** The new command `minibuffer-force-complete' chooses one of the +possible completions, rather than stopping at the common prefix. + +*** `completion-auto-help' can be set to `lazy' to list the completions only +if you repeat the completion. This was already supported in +`partial-completion-mode'. + +** 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 invokations. + +*** scroll-preserve-screen-position also preserves the column position. + +*** The new command balance-windows-area balances windows both +vertically and horizontally. + +*** 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'. + +*** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is +called with a prefix and the default directory is a remote file name. +This is because some file name handlers (like ange-ftp) are not able to +run processes remotely. + +*** The new command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name +matches a regexp. + +*** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and `pp-macroexpand-last-sexp' +pretty-print macro expansions. + * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 -** rst-mode for ReSTructured-Text files. - ** FIXME add details of new packages imported from lisp/gnus. [Maybe some information from doc/misc/gnus-coding.texi can be reused] -** The package doc-view.el has been added. It supports viewing of PDF, -PostScript and DVI documents inside an Emacs buffer by converting the -document to a set of PNG images first. One can also search for a -regular expression in the document. The commentary of the file explains -its usage. +** Auto Composition Mode is a minor mode that composes characters +automatically when they are displayed. It is globally on by default. +It uses `auto-composition-function' (default `auto-compose-chars'). + +** Bubbles, a new game, is similar to SameGame. + +** bug-reference.el provides clickable links to bug reports. + +** copyright.el adds utilities for specifying copyright holders' names. + +*** Only copyright lines with holders matching copyright-names-regexp +will be considered for update. + +*** The Copyright package looks for copyright at the end of the buffer +if `copyright-at-end-flag' is non-nil (change-log-mode sets this). + +** dbus.el provides D-Bus language bindings. +D-Bus is an inter-process communication mechanism for applications +residing on the same host, based on messages. See the manual for +details. -** The nXML package has been added. It is a new mode for editing XML -documents. nXML mode allows a schema to be associated with the XML -document being edited. nXML mode uses Relax NG as its schema -language. The schema is used to provide two key features: +** Doc View Mode supports viewing of PDF, PostScript and DVI documents +inside an Emacs buffer. It works by converting the document to a set +of PNG images first. One can also search for a regular expression in +the document. The commentary in doc-view.el explains its usage. + +** EasyPG is an all-in-one GnuPG interface. +It includes GnuPG keyring browser, cryptographic operations on regions +and files, and automatic encryption of *.gpg files. For details, see +the EasyPG Assistant User's Manual. + +** 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. + +** minibuffer-indicate-depth-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 +the schema language. The schema is used to provide two key features: *** Continuous validation. nXML validates as you type, highlighting any invalid parts of your document. @@ -436,59 +427,31 @@ attribute name or data value by using information about what is allowed by the schema in that context. -** A new game called `bubbles' has been added. This is a version of -the "Same Game" with configurable difficulty level. - -** minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt. +** proced.el provides a Dired-like interface for operating on processes. +Proced makes an Emacs buffer containing a listing of the current +processes (using ps(1)). You can use the normal Emacs commands to +move around in this buffer, and special Proced commands to operate on +the processes listed. -** Remember Mode (remember.el) is now included with Emacs. It is a -mode for quickly jotting down things to remember. Included with -remember.el is a backend that can save notes to a Diary file. Please -consult the Remember Manual for usage details. +** Remember Mode is a mode for jotting down things to remember. +Notes can be saved to a Diary file. For details, see the Remember +Manual. -** D-Bus language bindings for Elisp are provided by the package -dbus.el and by extensions to the C modules of Emacs. D-Bus is an -inter-process communication mechanism for applications residing on the -same host, based on messages. See the manual for further details. +** RST mode is a major mode for editing ReSTructured-Text files. + +** A new `whitespace' package has been installed, and the pre-existing one +renamed to `old-whitespace'. +[FIXME someone explain why this is good, if it is...] ** zeroconf.el offers service discovery and service publishing interfaces according to the zeroconf specification. It communicates with Avahi, a zeroconf implementation, via D-Bus messages on systems which have installed this software. -** EasyPG is now part of the Emacs distribution. It is an all-in-one -GnuPG interface which includes GnuPG keyring browser, cryptographic -operations on regions and files, and automatic encryption of *.gpg -files. See the EasyPG Assistant User's Manual for further details. - -** json.el is now included with Emacs. It is a library for parsing -and generating JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). JSON is a -lightweight data-interchange format. - -** Auto Composition Mode is a minor mode that composes characters -automatically when they are displayed. It is globally on by default. -It uses `auto-composition-function' (default `auto-compose-chars'). - -** The package linum.el is now included with Emacs. It it a new minor -mode to display line numbers for the current buffer. - -** proced.el has been added. It operates on processes like dired. -Proced makes an Emacs buffer containing a listing of the current processes -(using ps(1)). You can use the normal Emacs commands to move around in -this buffer, and special Proced commands to operate on the processes listed. - -** bug-reference.el provides clickable links to bug reports. - * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 -** Icomplete: `icomplete-prospects-height' supercedes `icomplete-prospects-length'. - -** A new `whitespace' package has been installed, and the pre-existing one -renamed to `old-whitespace'. -[FIXME someone explain why this is good, if it is...] - -** abbrev was rewritten in Elisp and extended with more flexibility. +** 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'. @@ -502,6 +465,90 @@ `: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. + +** BibTeX mode + +*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers. + +*** 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' allows multiple URLs per entry. + +** 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 +prefixes, eg `calendar-french-'. The old names you are likely to use +directly still exist, for the time being, as aliases, but please start +using the new names. + +*** 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). + +** 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. + +** 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. 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'. + +** Fortran +*** The variable `fortran-line-length' can change the fixed-form line-length. + +*** 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 + +*** The Gnus package has been updated +There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements; see the file +GNUS-NEWS or the node "No Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details. + +*** In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for +saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld. These file may not be read +correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to Gnus across different Emacs +versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'. + ** Help mode *** New macro `with-help-window' should set up help windows better than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'. @@ -510,10 +557,7 @@ *** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits to specify new position of point in help window (for example in `view-lossage'). -** view-remove-frame-by-deleting is now by default t -since users found iconification of view-mode frames distracting. - -** Isearch mode +** Isearch *** New command `isearch-occur' bound to `M-s o' in isearch mode runs `occur' with the current search string. @@ -534,41 +578,58 @@ documentation of isearch mode. All the rest Help commands exit isearch mode and execute their global definitions. -** archive-mode has basic support to browse Rar archives. - -** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support. - -** Compile and grep modes +*** When started in the minibuffer, Isearch searches in the minibuffer +history. See `Minibuffer changes', above. -*** 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. +** Python +*** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning +that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el. -** In the `copyright' package, you can specify your copyright holders' names. -Only copyright lines with holders matching copyright-names-regexp will be -considered for update. +*** Python mode now has `pdbtrack' functionality. When using pdb to +debug a Python program, pdbtrack notices the pdb prompt and displays +the source file and line that the program is stopped at, much the same +way as gud-mode does for debugging C programs with gdb. -** The `copyright' package looks for copyright at the end of the buffer -if `copyright-at-end-flag' is non-nil (change-log-mode sets this). +** T-mouse Mode -** eldoc highlights the function argument under point -with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'. - -** hide-ifdef-mode permits to shadow ifdef-blocks instead of hiding them. -See option `hide-ifdef-shadow' and function `hide-ifdef-toggle-shadowing'. +*** 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. +++ -** defcustom accepts new keyword arguments, `:safe' and `:risky', which -set a variable's `safe-local-variable' and `risky-local-variable' property. +** 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'. -** Etags changes -*** The --members option is now the default. +*** 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'. -Use --no-members if you want the old default behaviour of not tagging -struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP. +*** 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. + +*** Passwords can be read from an authentification file. +Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if +necessary. ** VC @@ -612,159 +673,74 @@ *** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of maintainer able to update it to the new VC. -** smerge-refine highlights word-level details of changes in conflict. -It's used automatically as you move through conflicts, see smerge-auto-refine. - -** 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. 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'. - -** log-edit now has a command bound to C-c C-d to show the diff for -the files involved. - -** In Change Log mode, the new function `change-log-find-file', bound to -C-c C-f, finds the file associated with the current log entry. - -** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs. - -** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable. -See the documentation of the variables: tex-fontify-script, -tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and -tex-suscript-height-minimum. - -** BibTeX mode - -*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers. - -*** 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' 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. - -*** Passwords can be read from an authentification file. -Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if -necessary. - -** 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 -prefixes, eg `calendar-french-'. The old names you are likely to use -directly still exist, for the time being, as aliases, but please start -using the new names. - -*** 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). - -** Miscellaneous programming mode changes - -*** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning -that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el. - -*** Python mode now has `pdbtrack' functionality. When using pdb to -debug a Python program, pdbtrack notices the pdb prompt and displays -the source file and line that the program is stopped at, much the same -way as gud-mode does for debugging C programs with gdb. - -*** The variable `fortran-line-length' can change the fixed-form line-length. - -*** 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. - -*** The function `gdb' only works with the graphical interface now. -Use `gud-gdb' if you want the (old) text command mode. - -** Gnus package - -*** The Gnus package has been updated - -*** In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for -saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld. These file may not be read -correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to Gnus across different Emacs -versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'. - -*** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements. - -See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "No Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details. - ** Miscellaneous -*** goto-address.el provides two new minor modes, goto-address-mode and -goto-address-prog-mode, which buttonize URLS and email addresses. +*** In Change Log mode, the new command C-c C-f (change-log-find-file) +finds the file associated with the current log entry. *** 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, +*** 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. -*** The new command `eshell/info' runs info in an eshell buffer. +*** 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 behaviour of not tagging +struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP. -*** The pcmpl-unix package supports hostname completion for ssh and scp. +*** The `gdb' command only works with the graphical interface now. +Use `gud-gdb' if you want the (old) text command mode. -*** WoMan tries to add locale-specific manual page directories to the -search path. This can be disabled by setting `woman-locale' to nil. +*** goto-address.el provides two new minor modes, goto-address-mode and +goto-address-prog-mode, which buttonize URLS and email addresses. + +*** The new command `eshell/info' runs info in an eshell buffer. *** 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'. + +*** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supercedes `icomplete-prospects-length'. + +*** Info displays breadcrumbs in the header of the page. +See Info-breadcrumbs-depth to control it. + +*** In Log Edit mode, C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved. + *** net-utils has an `iwconfig' command, similar to the existing `ifconfig'. It is used to configure wireless interfaces. +*** The pcmpl-unix package supports hostname completion for ssh and scp. + +*** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs. + +*** smerge-refine highlights word-level details of changes in conflict. +It's used automatically as you move through conflicts, see smerge-auto-refine. + +*** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support. + +*** A new command `display-time-world' has been added to the Time +package. It creates a buffer with an updating time display using +several time zones. + +*** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable. +See the documentation of the variables: tex-fontify-script, +tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and +tex-suscript-height-minimum. + +*** 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. + * Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems @@ -870,6 +846,41 @@ * Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 +** 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. + +** 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. + +** The new function `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a +readable string of days, hours, etc. + +** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in +symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions. + +** If you set find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file to t, then C-x C-f +requires confirmation before opening a non-existent file. + +** Built-in functions (subr) can now have an interactive specification +that is not a prompt string. If the `intspec' parameter of a `DEFUN' +starts with a `(', the string is evaluated as a Lisp form. + +** Changes affecting display-buffer +*** New value nil for split-height-threshold inhibits vertical splitting +unless there's no other window. +*** New option split-width-threshold controls horizontal splitting. +*** A window can be split horizontally even when it's not full-width. +*** New option split-window-preferred-function can be set to a function +to override the default splitting mechanism of display-buffer. + ** The variable window-point-insertion-type determines the insertion-type of the marker used for window-point. @@ -1184,6 +1195,7 @@ global keymaps to set up translations and function key sequences relevant to a specific terminal device. +*** `underline-minimum-offset' keeps the underline away from the baseline. ** You can now also pass the value of the `invisible' property to invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible. Convenient when