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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 02 May 2005 20:58:54 +0000 |
| parents | 82c6429cf333 |
| children | 68790e90773f |
| files | etc/ChangeLog etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 3224 insertions(+), 3254 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/ChangeLog Mon May 02 19:53:48 2005 +0000 +++ b/etc/ChangeLog Mon May 02 20:58:54 2005 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2005-05-02 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * NEWS: Items rearranged in logical order. + 2005-05-01 Lars Hansen <larsh@math.ku.dk> * NEWS: Correct key binding for dired-mark-omitted.
--- a/etc/NEWS Mon May 02 19:53:48 2005 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Mon May 02 20:58:54 2005 +0000 @@ -18,17 +18,12 @@ * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1 --- -** Emacs includes now support for loading image libraries on demand. -(Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure -the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by -setting the variable `image-library-alist'. - ---- -** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the following - languages: Brasilian, Bulgarian, Chinese (both with simplified and - traditional characters), French, and Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to - choose one of them in case your language setup doesn't automatically - select the right one. +** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix', +`--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of +installed programs. + +--- +** Emacs can now be built without sound support. --- ** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' @@ -36,17 +31,9 @@ provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats). --- -** Emacs can now be built without sound support. - ---- ** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with elisp code. --- -** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix', -`--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of -installed programs. - ---- ** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game scores. The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal place for game scores to be stored. This may be controlled by the @@ -78,6 +65,22 @@ (Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp). --- +** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the following + languages: Brasilian, Bulgarian, Chinese (both with simplified and + traditional characters), French, and Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to + choose one of them in case your language setup doesn't automatically + select the right one. + +--- +** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available. + +--- +** Emacs now includes support for loading image libraries on demand. +(Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure +the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by +setting the variable `image-library-alist'. + +--- ** Support for Cygwin was added. --- @@ -99,75 +102,240 @@ the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions. --- -** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available. - ---- ** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types. * Changes in Emacs 22.1 -** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller that -the window now works sensible, by automatically adjusting the window's -vscroll property. - -+++ -** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to -display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is -not executing. - -+++ -** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed -`comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias, -but declared obsolete. - -** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm. -When emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available. The -following should work: -{C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}. -These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8, they might not work on -some older versions of xterm, or on some proprietary versions. - -** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is -automatically activated if you select Thai as a language -environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to -versions which recognize Thai words. Affected commands are - M-f (forward-word) - M-b (backward-word) - M-d (kill-word) - M-DEL (backward-kill-word) - M-t (transpose-words) - M-q (fill-paragraph) +** New command line option -Q or --quick. +This is like using -q --no-site-file, but in addition it also disables +the fancy startup screen. + ++++ +** New command line option -D or --basic-display. +Disables the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, and +the blinking cursor. + ++++ +** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables +the blinking cursor on graphical terminals. + ++++ +** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to +--no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated. + ++++ +** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function, +now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is +an interactively callable function. + ++++ +** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display. +When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options +`--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame +whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire +screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.) + ++++ +** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line +arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash +disables the splash screen; see also the variable +`inhibit-startup-message' (which is also aliased as +`inhibit-splash-screen'). + ++++ +** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'. +When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally +displays a buffer menu. This option turns the buffer menu off. + ++++ +** Init file changes +You can now put the init files .emacs and .emacs_SHELL under +~/.emacs.d or directly under ~. Emacs will find them in either place. + ++++ +** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs +automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save +modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It +can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first, +according to the value of `save-abbrevs'. + ++++ +** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode. +When the file is maintained under version control, that information +appears between the position information and the major mode. + ++++ +** M-g is now a prefix key. +M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line. +M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `). +M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error. + ++++ +** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties; +M-o M-o requests refontification. + ++++ +** C-u M-x goto-line now switches to the most recent previous buffer, +and goes to the specified line in that buffer. + +When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at +point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer. + ++++ +** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left and +(prev-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and C-x right +can be used as well. + ++++ +** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file +buffers only in the Buffer Menu. It is bound to `T' in Buffer Menu +mode. + ++++ +** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin +with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers +whose names begin with space are omitted. + +--- +** The new options `buffers-menu-show-directories' and +`buffers-menu-show-status' let you control how buffers are displayed +in the menu dropped down when you click "Buffers" from the menu bar. + +`buffers-menu-show-directories' controls whether the menu displays +leading directories as part of the file name visited by the buffer. +If its value is `unless-uniquify', the default, directories are +shown unless uniquify-buffer-name-style' is non-nil. The value of nil +and t turn the display of directories off and on, respectively. + +`buffers-menu-show-status' controls whether the Buffers menu includes +the modified and read-only status of the buffers. By default it is +t, and the status is shown. + +Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time +the Buffers menu is regenerated. + ++++ +** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted, +since there are situations where one or the other will shut down +the operating system or your X server. + ++++ +** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo. + ++++ +** When the undo information of the current command gets really large +(beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns +you about it. + ++++ +** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N +converts whitespace around point to N spaces. + +--- +** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once. +By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>. + ++++ +** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can +be inconvenient when you did not expect them. The variable +`yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion +of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties. + ++++ +** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have +been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used +in Indented-Text mode. + ++++ +** Movement commands `beginning-of-buffer', `end-of-buffer', +`beginning-of-defun', `end-of-defun' do not set the mark if the mark +is already active in Transient Mark mode. + ++++ +** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized. +The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from +the window edge point is allowed to get before automatic hscrolling +will horizontally scroll the window. The default value is 5. + +The variable `hscroll-step' determines how many columns automatic +hscrolling scrolls the window when point gets too close to the +window edge. If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the +window so as to center point. If its value is an integer, it says how +many columns to scroll. If the value is a floating-point number, it +gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window. + +The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to +`auto-hscroll-mode'. The old name is still available as an alias. + ++++ +** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a +previous mark, i.e. C-u C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the +mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC to set the mark immediately after a jump. + ++++ +** Marking commands extend the region when invoked multiple times. If +you hit M-C-SPC (mark-sexp), M-@ (mark-word), M-h (mark-paragraph), or +C-M-h (mark-defun) repeatedly, the marked region extends each time, so +you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC M-C-SPC, for example. +This feature also works for mark-end-of-sentence, if you bind that to +a key. It also extends the region when the mark is active in Transient +Mark mode, regardless of the last command. To start a new region with +one of marking commands in Transient Mark mode, you can deactivate the +active region with C-g, or set the new mark with C-SPC. + ++++ +** M-h (mark-paragraph) now accepts a prefix arg. +With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following paragraphs; +if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding +paragraphs. + ++++ +** Some commands do something special in Transient Mark mode when the +mark is active--for instance, they limit their operation to the +region. Even if you don't normally use Transient Mark mode, you might +want to get this behavior from a particular command. There are two +ways you can enable Transient Mark mode and activate the mark, for one +command only. + +One method is to type C-SPC C-SPC; this enables Transient Mark mode +and sets the mark at point. The other method is to type C-u C-x C-x. +This enables Transient Mark mode temporarily but does not alter the +mark or the region. + +After these commands, Transient Mark mode remains enabled until you +deactivate the mark. That typically happens when you type a command +that alters the buffer, but you can also deactivate the mark by typing +C-g. + ++++ +** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode, +when the file name contains wildcard characters. + ++++ +** find-alternate-file replaces the current file with multiple files, +when the file name contains wildcard characters. +++ ** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default. +--- ** C-x C-f RET, typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case. Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the directory with Dired. ---- -** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead. - ---- -** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed. -The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now 16 -instead of 3, and the default value of jit-lock-stealth-nice is now -0.5 instead of 0.125. The new defaults should lower the CPU usage -when Emacs is fontifying in the background. - ---- -** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead. - ---- -** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup -more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale -name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines. -This change may result in using the different coding systems as -default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN). ++++ +** When you are root, and you visit a file whose modes specify +read-only, the Emacs buffer is now read-only too. Type C-x C-q if you +want to make the buffer writable. (As root, you can in fact alter the +file.) + ++++ +** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer +against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving. +++ ** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and @@ -177,36 +345,88 @@ commands cp, mv, and ln follow.) Thus, M-x copy-file RET ~/foo RET /tmp RET copies ~/foo to /tmp/foo. -+++ -** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties; -M-o M-o requests refontification. - -+++ -** M-g is now a prefix key. - -M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line. -M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `). -M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error. - -+++ -** font-lock-lines-before specifies a number of lines before the -current line that should be refontified when you change the buffer. -The default value is 1. - -+++ -** C-u M-x goto-line now switches to the most recent previous buffer, -and goes to the specified line in that buffer. - -When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at -point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer. - ---- -** Emacs now responds to mouse-clicks on the mode-line, header-line and -display margin, when run in an xterm. - -+++ -** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N -converts whitespace around point to N spaces. +--- +** When used interactively, `format-write-file' now asks for confirmation +before overwriting an existing file, unless a prefix argument is +supplied. This behavior is analogous to `write-file'. + +--- +** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that +controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will +attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files). + ++++ +** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled. +On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455). + ++++ +** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold', +Emacs prompts her for confirmation. + ++++ +** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'. +Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the +variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the +prompt string. + +--- +** Enhanced visual feedback in *Completions* buffer. + +Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions +have in common and where they begin to differ. + +The common prefix shared by all possible completions uses the face +`completions-common-part', while the first character that isn't the +same uses the face `completions-first-difference'. By default, +`completions-common-part' inherits from `default', and +`completions-first-difference' inherits from `bold'. The idea of +`completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common +parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing +parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted. + ++++ +** File-name completion can now ignore directories. +If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a +slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when +completing file names. Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions' +which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion +candidate is a directory. + ++++ +** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only +to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point, +it remains unchanged. + ++++ +** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'. +If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical +elements are deleted. + ++++ +** You can now customize fill-nobreak-predicate to control where +filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of +functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility. + +We provide two sample predicates, fill-single-word-nobreak-p and +fill-french-nobreak-p, for use in the value of fill-nobreak-predicate. + ++++ +** require-final-newline now has two new possible values: + +`visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed +when visiting the file. + +`visit-save' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's +needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed +when saving the file. + ++++ +** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain +major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's +designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline +sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline. +So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these +modes do. +++ ** Control characters and escape glyphs are now shown in the new @@ -217,21 +437,257 @@ character, unless the new user variable `show-nonbreak-escape' is set to nil. ---- -** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil -and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if -you don't want the .type-break file in your home directory or are -annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs. - ---- -** display-battery has been replaced by display-battery-mode. - ---- -** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode, which is available when -`calculator-output-radix' is non-nil. In this mode a separator -character is used every few digits, making it easier to see byte -boundries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the variable -`calculator-radix-grouping-mode'. ++++ +** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to +display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is +not executing. + +** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller that +the window now works sensible, by automatically adjusting the window's +vscroll property. + ++++ +** font-lock-lines-before specifies a number of lines before the +current line that should be refontified when you change the buffer. +The default value is 1. + +--- +** JIT-lock changes + +*** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed. +The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now 16 +instead of 3, and the default value of jit-lock-stealth-nice is now +0.5 instead of 0.125. The new defaults should lower the CPU usage +when Emacs is fontifying in the background. + + +*** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'. + +If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs +idle time in seconds to wait before starting fontification. For +example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will +only happen after 0.25s of idle time. + +*** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification. + +jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and +jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual +refontification takes place. + ++++ +** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t. + +--- +** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options". +This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such +as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself). +You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn +it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of +current date and time, current line and column number in the +mode-line. + +--- +** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide". + ++++ +** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is +now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'. + ++++ +** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking. + ++++ +** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor. +The underscore cursor is set by putting `(cursor-type . hbar)' in +default-frame-alist. It supports variable heights, like the `bar' +cursor does. + ++++ +** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any) +of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor +appears in. + ++++ +** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any +of the recognized cursor types. + ++++ +** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line +of non-selected windows. The `mode-line' face is now used to display +the mode line of the currently selected window. + +The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether +the `mode-line-inactive' face is used. + ++++ +** New display feature: focus follows the mouse from one Emacs window +to another, even within a frame. If you set the variable +mouse-autoselect-window to non-nil value, moving the mouse to a +different Emacs window will select that window (minibuffer window can +be selected only when it is active). The default is nil, so that this +feature is not enabled. + ++++ +** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to +select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position +normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set +the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected +window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame +to give it focus. + ++++ +** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to +all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only +affects the initial frame. + ++++ +** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this +for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the +top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To +control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x +set-fringe-style. + ++++ +** The buffer boundaries (i.e. first and last line in the buffer) may +now be marked with angle bitmaps in the fringes. In addition, up and +down arrow bitmaps may be shown at the top and bottom of the left or +right fringe if the window can be scrolled in either direction. + +This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable +`indicate-buffer-boundaries' to a non-nil value. The default value of +this variable is found in `default-indicate-buffer-boundaries'. + +If value is `left' or `right', both angle and arrow bitmaps are +displayed in the left or right fringe, resp. + +Value may also be an alist which specifies the presense and position +of each bitmap individually. + +For example, ((top . left) (t . right)) places the top angle bitmap +in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both +arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the +left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)). + ++++ +** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window +(not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into +two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line). +Instead, the newline now "overflows" into the right fringe, and the +cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline. + +The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' may be set to nil to +revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines. + ++++ +** When display margins are present in a window, the fringes are now +displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than +at the edges of the window. + ++++ +** A window may now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings, +in addition to the individual display margin settings. + +Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split +horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored, +or when the frame is resized. + ++++ +** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now +understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and +`same-window'. + ++++ +** Changes in C-h bindings: + +C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer. + +C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files + that do not change: + +C-h C-f displays the FAQ. +C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file. + +The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i +have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S. + +C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands. + +- C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping) + run by the key sequence. + +- C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the + command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run + that command. + +For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped +to new-kill-line, these commands now report: + +- C-h c and C-h k C-k reports: + C-k runs the command new-kill-line + +- C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports: + kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline> + +- C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports: + new-kill-line is on C-k + +--- +** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function +arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the +default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function +`help-default-arg-highlight'. + ++++ +** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for +variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available). + ++++ +** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is +preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes +hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless +preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'. It now makes +hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is +enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info +anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). + ++++ +** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with +description various information about a character, including its +encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and +widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by +clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET. + ++++ +** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point +in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the +same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the +`help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more +keyboard oriented alternative. + +--- +** New commands `scan-buf-next-region' and `scan-buf-previous-region' +move to the start of the next (previous, respectively) region with +non-nil help-echo property and display any help found there in the +echo area, using `display-local-help'. + ++++ +** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to +automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on +point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is +determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults +to one second. This feature is turned off by default. + +--- +** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters: +`insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'. + ++++ +** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and +suffix are from every line before processing all the lines. + ++++ +** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin +in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region. +++ ** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link. @@ -264,109 +720,328 @@ `mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'. +++ -** require-final-newline now has two new possible values: - -`visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed -when visiting the file. - -`visit-save' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's -needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed -when saving the file. - -+++ -** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain -major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's -designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline -sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline. -So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these -modes do. - -+++ -** When the undo information of the current command gets really large -(beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns -you about it. - -+++ -** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t. +** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse +is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you +can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the +mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can +also disable mouse highlighting. + ++++ +** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse +shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new +variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil. + +--- +** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window +(rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'. + +--- +** Unexpected yanking of text due to accidental clicking on the mouse +wheel button (typically mouse-2) during wheel scrolling is now avoided. +This behavior can be customized via the mouse-wheel-click-event and +mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables. + ++++ +** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default. + ++++ +** M-x setenv now expands environment variables of the form `$foo' and +`${foo}' in the specified new value of the environment variable. To +include a `$' in the value, use `$$'. + ++++ +** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when +the corresponding environment variable does not exist. +Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting +is only rarely needed. + +--- +** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup +more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale +name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines. +This change may result in using the different coding systems as +default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN). + ++++ +** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken +from the locale. + ++++ +** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your +current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This +may mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII +characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal +emulator) works. Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize +keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default) +or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated +by the keyboard. See Info node `Single-Byte Character Support'. + ++++ +** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r) +revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify. + ++++ +** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified +coding system. + ++++ +** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name +of a file. + +--- +** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its +unicode. + ++++ +** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets +coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item +(Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this +command. + ++++ +** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type +in the current input method to input a character at point. + ++++ +** Limited support for character `unification' has been added. +Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of +the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard +Unicode mappings. This applies mainly to characters in the ISO 8859 +sets plus some other 8-bit sets, but can be extended. For instance, +translation works amongst the Emacs ...-iso8859-... charsets and the +mule-unicode-... ones. + +By default this translation happens automatically on encoding. +Self-inserting characters are translated to make the input conformant +with the encoding of the buffer in which it's being used, where +possible. + +You can force a more complete unification with the user option +unify-8859-on-decoding-mode. That maps all the Latin-N character sets +into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and +mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode +will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding. + +--- +** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into +either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets, +when possible. The latter are more space-efficient. This is +controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding. + +--- +** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Tajik, +Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6, +Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian, +Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW. (Set up +automatically according to the locale.) + +--- +** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, +ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer, +vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, +latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml, +bulgarian-phonetic, dutch, slovenian, croatian, malayalam-inscript, +tamil-inscript. + +--- +** New input method chinese-sisheng for inputting Chinese Pinyin +characters. + +--- +** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is +automatically activated if you select Thai as a language +environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to +versions which recognize Thai words. Affected commands are + M-f (forward-word) + M-b (backward-word) + M-d (kill-word) + M-DEL (backward-kill-word) + M-t (transpose-words) + M-q (fill-paragraph) + +--- +** Indian support has been updated. +The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are +assumed. There is a framework for supporting various +Indian scripts, but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are +supported. + +--- +** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'. + +--- +** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced. +By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into +single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is +turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character +sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS +system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not +interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil. +You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables +`ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8 +coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's +one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones. +The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly. + +--- +** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese +in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving, +Big 5 is then converted to CNS. + +--- +** Many new coding systems are available by loading the `code-pages' +library. These include complete versions of most of those in +codepage.el, based on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now +obsolete and is used only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. windows-1252 +and windows-1251 are preloaded since the former is so common and the +latter is used by GNU locales. + +--- +** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which +Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'. + +--- +** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of +characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the +fontset appropriately. + ++++ +** Vertical scrolling is now possible within incremental search. +To enable this feature, customize the new user option +`isearch-allow-scroll'. User written commands which satisfy stringent +constraints can be marked as "scrolling commands". See the Emacs manual +for details. + ++++ +** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word, +making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the +command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior, +bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'. + ++++ +** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already +at the end of a line. + ++++ +** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode. +Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e' +and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer. + ++++ +** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or +`query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current +search string used as the string to replace. + ++++ +** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command +history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new +user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'. + +--- +** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil, +`query-replace' and related functions simply ignore +a match if part of it has a read-only property. + ++++ +** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and +`replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string, +where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement +time. In many cases, this will be more convenient than using +`query-replace-regexp-eval'. `\#' in a replacement string now refers +to the count of replacements already made by the replacement command. +All regular expression replacement commands now allow `\?' in the +replacement string to specify a position where the replacement string +can be edited for each replacement. + ++++ +** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option +`query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil. + +--- +** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face +`query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face. + ++++ +** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to +resync points in both windows. + ++++ +** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window +now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are +specified for that character, the commands by default customize those +faces. + +--- +** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing. +In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding +check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection +for that attribute; the values you can choose are only those which make +sense for the attribute. When an attribute is de-selected by unchecking +its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in +case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden. + ++++ +** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer, +the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable. +You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value" +under the "[State]" button. + +** Dired mode: + +--- +*** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged, +dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning +introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces. + ++++ +*** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files +with different file attributes in two dired buffers. + ++++ +*** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps +of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer. + ++++ +*** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now +control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded +by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards +too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the +doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent +special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'. + ++++ +*** In Dired, the w command now copies the current line's file name +into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, copies absolute file names. + ++++ +** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args +have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and +directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a +directory listing into a buffer. + ++++ +** Dired-x: + ++++ +*** Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling +command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, +marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the +mode toggling function instead. +++ ** In Outline mode, hide-body no longer hides lines at the top of the file that precede the first header line. +++ -** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now -by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l' -and `C-c C-r'. - -+++ -** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and -suffix are from every line before processing all the lines. - -+++ -** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin -in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region. - ---- -** global-whitespace-mode is a new alias for whitespace-global-mode. - -+++ -** There are now two new regular expression operators, \_< and \_>, -for matching the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a -non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as -specified by the syntax table. ---- -*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-end' and `symbol-start' elements. - -+++ -** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows. -You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any -existing values. For example: - - emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20" - -will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background, -irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry. +** Occur, Info, and comint-derived modes now support using +M-x font-lock-mode to toggle fontification. The variable +`Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable fontification, +remove `turn-on-font-lock' from `Info-mode-hook'. --- ** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved, it can run most curses applications now. -** New features in evaluation commands - -+++ -*** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes -the face to the value specified in the defface expression. - -+++ -*** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result -in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified -by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'. The same -function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:), -`eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions. - ---- -** New input method chinese-sisheng for inputting Chinese Pinyin -characters. - -+++ -** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type -in the current input method to input a character at point. - -+++ -** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left and -(prev-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and C-x right -can be used as well. - ---- -** Commands winner-redo and winner-undo, from winner.el, are now bound to -C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively. This is an incompatible change. - ---- -** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function -arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the -default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function -`help-default-arg-highlight'. - --- ** The comint prompt can now be made read-only, using the new user option `comint-prompt-read-only'. This is not enabled by default, @@ -390,75 +1065,18 @@ kill-ring, but does not delete it. +++ -** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to -the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur. +** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived +modes (shell-mode etc) inserts arguments from previous command lines, +like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but +otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version. + +** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed +`comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias, +but declared obsolete. +++ ** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet. -+++ -** New command line option -Q or --quick. - -This is like using -q --no-site-file, but in addition it also disables -the fancy startup screen. - -+++ -** New command line option -D or --basic-display. - -Disables the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, and -the blinking cursor. - -+++ -** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables -the blinking cursor on graphical terminals. - -+++ -** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for -variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available). - ---- -** When used interactively, `format-write-file' now asks for confirmation -before overwriting an existing file, unless a prefix argument is -supplied. This behavior is analogous to `write-file'. - -+++ -** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file. -If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert -mode keeps it at the end after reverting. Similarly if point is -displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at -the end of the buffer in that window. This allows to tail a file: -just put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there. This -rule applies to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the behavior may -be mode dependent. - -If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end, -then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor -mode Auto Revert Tail mode. The function `auto-revert-tail-mode' -toggles this mode. - -+++ -** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and -other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to -revert. This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled -and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil. Auto Revert -mode only reverts a non-file buffer if the buffer has a non-nil -`revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which -decides whether the buffer should be reverted. Currently, this means -that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not -work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu. - -+++ -** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto -Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version -control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in -which it is active. If the option is nil, the default, then this info -only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted. - -+++ -** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file -buffers only in the Buffer Menu. It is bound to `T' in Buffer Menu -mode. - --- ** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable @@ -529,6 +1147,14 @@ file. +++ +** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line +by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically +detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked. +When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed +unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated +command lines to be used than was possible before. + ++++ ** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select' specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line in new face `next-error'. @@ -545,235 +1171,27 @@ ** M-x diff uses diff-mode instead of compilation-mode. +++ -** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to -resync points in both windows. - ---- -** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'. -This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind -the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for -using strokes as an input method. - -** Gnus package - ---- -*** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG -Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts. PGG is a library to handle -PGP/MIME. - ---- -*** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements. -See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details. - -+++ -** Desktop package - -+++ -*** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, desktop-save-mode. Variable -desktop-enable is obsolete. Customize desktop-save-mode to enable desktop -saving. - ---- -*** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the -buffer list. - -+++ -*** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers immediately, -remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is idle). - -+++ -*** New commands: - - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop. - - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new. - - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which - it was loaded. - - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion. - - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop. - ---- -*** New customizable variables: - - desktop-save. Determins whether the desktop should be saved when it is - killed. - - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved. - - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file. - - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save. - - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear. - - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear' - should not delete. - - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are - restored lazily (when Emacs is idle). - - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers. - - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers. - -+++ -*** New command line option --no-desktop - ---- -*** New hooks: - - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded. - - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found. - ---- -** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files. -When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer -include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist. -Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil -to get the old behavior. The new options `save-place-save-skipped' -and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this -feature. - -+++ -** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine. - - % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start & - % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start & - % emacsclient -s foo file1 - % emacsclient -s bar file2 - -+++ -** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window -(not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into -two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line). -Instead, the newline now "overflows" into the right fringe, and the -cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline. - -The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' may be set to nil to -revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines. - -+++ -** The buffer boundaries (i.e. first and last line in the buffer) may -now be marked with angle bitmaps in the fringes. In addition, up and -down arrow bitmaps may be shown at the top and bottom of the left or -right fringe if the window can be scrolled in either direction. - -This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable -`indicate-buffer-boundaries' to a non-nil value. The default value of -this variable is found in `default-indicate-buffer-boundaries'. - -If value is `left' or `right', both angle and arrow bitmaps are -displayed in the left or right fringe, resp. - -Value may also be an alist which specifies the presense and position -of each bitmap individually. - -For example, ((top . left) (t . right)) places the top angle bitmap -in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both -arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the -left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)). - -+++ -** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point -in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the -same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the -`help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more -keyboard oriented alternative. - -+++ -** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to -automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on -point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is -determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults -to one second. This feature is turned off by default. - ---- -** New commands `scan-buf-next-region' and `scan-buf-previous-region' -move to the start of the next (previous, respectively) region with -non-nil help-echo property and display any help found there in the -echo area, using `display-local-help'. - -+++ -** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is -preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes -hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless -preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'. It now makes -hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is -enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info -anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). - -+++ -** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled. -On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455). - -+++ -** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function, -now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is -an interactively callable function. - ---- -** sql changes. - -*** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlightng of different -SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a -buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current -session using the new SQL->Product submenu. (This menu replaces the -SQL->Highlighting submenu.) - -The following values are supported: - - ansi ANSI Standard (default) - db2 DB2 - informix Informix - ingres Ingres - interbase Interbase - linter Linter - ms Microsoft - mysql MySQL - oracle Oracle - postgres Postgres - solid Solid - sqlite SQLite - sybase Sybase - -The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the -SQL mode indicator. - -The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in -your .emacs will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use -`sql-product' to accomplish this. - -ANSI keywords are always highlighted. - -*** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add -font-lock rules to the product specific rules. For example, to have -all identifiers ending in "_t" under MS SQLServer treated as a type, -you would use the following line in your .emacs file: - - (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms - '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face))) - -*** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i. Most -SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented. SQL*Plus commands are -highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'. - -*** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved. -Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented. -sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because -osql flushes its error stream more frequently. Thus error messages -are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is -terminated. - -If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is -called with the -E command line argument to use the operating system -credentials to authenticate the user. - -*** Postgres support is enhanced. -Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented. Prompting for -the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added. - -*** MySQL support is enhanced. -Keyword higlighting of MySql 4.0 is implemented. - -*** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes, -packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and -defaults. - -*** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the -appropriate sql-interactive-mode wrapper for the current setting of -`sql-product'. - ---- -** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering -with special modes such as Tar mode. +** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and +C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without +switching to it. + ++++ +** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to +the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur. + ++++ +** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can +search multiple buffers. There is also a new command +`multi-occur-by-filename-regexp' which allows you to specify the +buffers to search by their filename. Internally, Occur mode has been +rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other changes. + ++++ +** font-lock: in modes like C and Lisp where the fontification assumes that +an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment, +font-lock now highlights any such open-paren-in-column-zero in bold-red +if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it can cause +trouble with fontification and/or indentation. ** Enhancements to apropos commands: @@ -792,83 +1210,25 @@ matching item. +++ -** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted, -since there are situations where one or the other will shut down -the operating system or your X server. - ---- -** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer. -When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible. When disabled, it -restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'. - ---- -** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once. -By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>. - ---- -** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters: -`insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'. - -+++ -** A prefix argument of C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-printifies the -list starting after point. - -** Dired mode: - ---- -*** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged, -dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning -introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces. - -+++ -*** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files -with different file attributes in two dired buffers. - -+++ -*** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps -of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer. - -+++ -*** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now -control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded -by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards -too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the -doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent -special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'. - -+++ -*** In Dired, the w command now copies the current line's file name -into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, copies absolute file names. - -+++ -** Dired-x: - -+++ -*** Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling -command is bound to M-o. A new command dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, -marks omitted files. The variable dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the -mode toggling function instead. - -+++ -** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode, -when the file name contains wildcard characters. - -+++ -** find-alternate-file replaces the current file with multiple files, -when the file name contains wildcard characters. - -** FFAP - -+++ -*** New ffap commands and keybindings: C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'), -C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'), -C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'), -C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame'). - ---- -*** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default. C-x C-f passes -it to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS argument, which visits -multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'. +** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine. + + % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start & + % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start & + % emacsclient -s foo file1 + % emacsclient -s bar file2 + ++++ +** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and +`--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given elisp +expression and to use the given display when visiting files. + ++++ +** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process. + ++++ +** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'. +When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always +starts a new record regardless of when the last record is. ** Info mode: @@ -932,1063 +1292,24 @@ *** Info-index offers completion. --- -** Support for the SQLite interpreter has been added to sql.el by calling -'sql-sqlite'. - -** BibTeX mode: -*** The new command bibtex-url browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at -point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields). - -*** The new command bibtex-entry-update (bound to C-c C-u) updates -an existing BibTeX entry. - -*** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default. - -*** bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries can take values `plain', -`crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used -for BibTeX entries. `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting -scheme `entry-class'. TAB completion for reference keys and -automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that -bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is non-nil. - -*** If the new variable bibtex-parse-keys-fast is non-nil, -use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys. - -*** If the new variable bibtex-autoadd-commas is non-nil, -automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields. - -*** The new variable bibtex-autofill-types contains a list of entry -types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible). - -*** The new command bibtex-complete completes word fragment before -point according to context (bound to M-tab). - -*** The new commands bibtex-find-entry and bibtex-find-crossref -locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x). -Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET). - -*** In BibTeX mode the command fill-paragraph (bound to M-q) fills -individual fields of a BibTeX entry. - -*** The new variables bibtex-files and bibtex-file-path define a set -of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys. - -*** The new command bibtex-validate-globally checks for duplicate keys -in multiple BibTeX files. - -*** The new command bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill pushes summary -of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t). - -+++ -** When display margins are present in a window, the fringes are now -displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than -at the edges of the window. - -+++ -** A window may now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings, -in addition to the individual display margin settings. - -Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split -horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored, -or when the frame is resized. - -+++ -** New functions frame-current-scroll-bars and window-current-scroll-bars. - -These functions return the current locations of the vertical and -horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window. - -+++ -** Emacs now supports drag and drop for X. Dropping a file on a window - opens it, dropping text inserts the text. Dropping a file on a dired - buffer copies or moves the file to that directory. - -+++ -** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default. - -+++ -** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which may -speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server. - -If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of -XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on. - -+++ -** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking. - -+++ -** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo. - ---- -** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer -`file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'. - -+++ -** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold', -Emacs prompts her for confirmation. - ---- -** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'. - ---- -** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior -and other common debugger commands. - ---- -** recentf changes. - -The recent file list is now automatically cleanup when recentf mode is -enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do -automatic cleanup. - -The `recentf-keep' option replaces `recentf-keep-non-readable-files-p' -and provides a more general mechanism to customize which file names to -keep in the recent list. - -With the more advanced option: `recentf-filename-handler', you can -specify a function that transforms filenames handled by recentf. For -example, if set to `file-truename', the same file will not be in the -recent list with different symbolic links. - -To follow naming convention, `recentf-menu-append-commands-flag' -replaces the misnamed option `recentf-menu-append-commands-p'. The -old name remains available as alias, but has been marked obsolete. - -+++ -** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken -from the locale. - -+++ -** Init file changes - -You can now put the init files .emacs and .emacs_SHELL under -~/.emacs.d or directly under ~. Emacs will find them in either place. - ---- -** partial-completion-mode now does partial completion on directory names. - ---- -** skeleton.el now supports using - to mark the skeleton-point without - interregion interaction. @ has reverted to only setting - skeleton-positions and no longer sets skeleton-point. Skeletons - which used @ to mark skeleton-point independent of _ should now use - - instead. The updated skeleton-insert docstring explains these new - features along with other details of skeleton construction. - ---- -** MH-E changes. - -Upgraded to MH-E version 7.82. There have been major changes since -version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details. - -+++ -** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and -`--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given elisp -expression and to use the given display when visiting files. - -+++ -** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process. - -+++ -** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode. -When the file is maintained under version control, that information -appears between the position information and the major mode. - -+++ -** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer -against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving. - -+++ -** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this -for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the -top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To -control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x -set-fringe-style. - -+++ -** There is a new user option `mail-default-directory' that allows you -to specify the value of `default-directory' for mail buffers. This -directory is used for auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to -"~/". - -+++ -** When you are root, and you visit a file whose modes specify -read-only, the Emacs buffer is now read-only too. Type C-x C-q if you -want to make the buffer writable. (As root, you can in fact alter the -file.) - -+++ -** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r) -revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify. - -+++ -** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name -of a file. - ---- -** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets. - -Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with -ps-print, provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF fonts. -See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts. - ---- -** The new options `buffers-menu-show-directories' and -`buffers-menu-show-status' let you control how buffers are displayed -in the menu dropped down when you click "Buffers" from the menu bar. - -`buffers-menu-show-directories' controls whether the menu displays -leading directories as part of the file name visited by the buffer. -If its value is `unless-uniquify', the default, directories are -shown unless uniquify-buffer-name-style' is non-nil. The value of nil -and t turn the display of directories off and on, respectively. - -`buffers-menu-show-status' controls whether the Buffers menu includes -the modified and read-only status of the buffers. By default it is -t, and the status is shown. - -Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time -the Buffers menu is regenerated. - -+++ -** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window -now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are -specified for that character, the commands by default customize those -faces. - ---- -** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Tajik, -Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6, -Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian, -Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW. (Set up -automatically according to the locale.) - ---- -** Indian support has been updated. -The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are -assumed. There is a framework for supporting various -Indian scripts, but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are -supported. - ---- -** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, -ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer, -vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, -latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml, -bulgarian-phonetic, dutch, slovenian, croatian, malayalam-inscript, -tamil-inscript. - ---- -** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese -in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving, -Big 5 is then converted to CNS. - ---- -** Many new coding systems are available by loading the `code-pages' -library. These include complete versions of most of those in -codepage.el, based on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now -obsolete and is used only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. windows-1252 -and windows-1251 are preloaded since the former is so common and the -latter is used by GNU locales. - ---- -** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced. -By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into -single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is -turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character -sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS -system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not -interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil. -You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables -`ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8 -coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's -one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones. -The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly. - ---- -** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which -Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'. - ---- -** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of -characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the -fontset appropriately. - ---- -** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its -unicode. - -+++ -** Limited support for character `unification' has been added. -Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of -the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard -Unicode mappings. This applies mainly to characters in the ISO 8859 -sets plus some other 8-bit sets, but can be extended. For instance, -translation works amongst the Emacs ...-iso8859-... charsets and the -mule-unicode-... ones. - -By default this translation happens automatically on encoding. -Self-inserting characters are translated to make the input conformant -with the encoding of the buffer in which it's being used, where -possible. - -You can force a more complete unification with the user option -unify-8859-on-decoding-mode. That maps all the Latin-N character sets -into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and -mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode -will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding. - ---- -** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into -either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets, -when possible. The latter are more space-efficient. This is -controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding. - -+++ -** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets -coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item -(Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this -command. - ---- -** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling. -On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual -amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it). - ---- -** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can -be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32). - -+++ -** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have -to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example -`-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'. - ---- -** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and Lesstif/Motif now pops down when pressing -ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32. - ---- -** Dialogs and menus pop down when pressing C-g. - ---- -** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..." -and "Open File...". "Open File..." now opens only existing files. This is -to support existing GUI file selection dialogs better. - -+++ -** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/Lesstif can be -disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'. - -+++ -** For Gtk+ version 2.4, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog -by setting the variable `x-use-old-gtk-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use -the new dialog. - -+++ -** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor. -The underscore cursor is set by putting `(cursor-type . hbar)' in -default-frame-alist. It supports variable heights, like the `bar' -cursor does. - -+++ -** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is -now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'. - -+++ -** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in -various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on -program files that include other program files. - -Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on -all the files in it, such as visiting them or searching and replacing -in them. - ---- -** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers -when Emacs visits them. - ---- -** The game `mpuz' is enhanced. - -`mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits. By -default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed -automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback. - ---- -** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs -requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that -Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING, -and use the more appropriately result. - -+++ -** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized. -The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from -the window edge point is allowed to get before automatic hscrolling -will horizontally scroll the window. The default value is 5. - -The variable `hscroll-step' determines how many columns automatic -hscrolling scrolls the window when point gets too close to the -window edge. If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the -window so as to center point. If its value is an integer, it says how -many columns to scroll. If the value is a floating-point number, it -gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window. - -The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to -`auto-hscroll-mode'. The old name is still available as an alias. - -** TeX modes: - -+++ -*** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default. - -+++ -*** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced -by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold -command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold -TeX commands to use at startup. - ---- -*** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock -and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts. - -+++ -*** New major mode doctex-mode for *.dtx files. - -+++ -** New display feature: focus follows the mouse from one Emacs window -to another, even within a frame. If you set the variable -mouse-autoselect-window to non-nil value, moving the mouse to a -different Emacs window will select that window (minibuffer window can -be selected only when it is active). The default is nil, so that this -feature is not enabled. - -+++ -** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to -select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position -normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set -the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected -window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame -to give it focus. - -+++ -** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with -description various information about a character, including its -encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and -widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by -clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET. - -+++ -** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can -search multiple buffers. There is also a new command -`multi-occur-by-filename-regexp' which allows you to specify the -buffers to search by their filename. Internally, Occur mode has been -rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other changes. - -+++ -** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have -been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used -in Indented-Text mode. - ---- -** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil, -`query-replace' and related functions simply ignore -a match if part of it has a read-only property. - -+++ -** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and -`replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string, -where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement -time. In many cases, this will be more convenient than using -`query-replace-regexp-eval'. `\#' in a replacement string now refers -to the count of replacements already made by the replacement command. -All regular expression replacement commands now allow `\?' in the -replacement string to specify a position where the replacement string -can be edited for each replacement. - -+++ -** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option -`query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil. - ---- -** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face -`query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face. - -+++ -** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse -is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you -can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the -mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can -also disable mouse highlighting. - -+++ -** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse -shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new -variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil. - -+++ -** font-lock: in modes like C and Lisp where the fontification assumes that -an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment, -font-lock now highlights any such open-paren-in-column-zero in bold-red -if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it can cause -trouble with fontification and/or indentation. - -+++ -** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'. -Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the -variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the -prompt string. - -+++ -** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line -of non-selected windows. The `mode-line' face is now used to display -the mode line of the currently selected window. - -The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether -the `mode-line-inactive' face is used. - ---- -** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options". -This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such -as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself). -You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn -it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of -current date and time, current line and column number in the -mode-line. - ---- -** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide". - -+++ -** Emacs can now indicate in the mode-line the presence of new e-mail -in a directory or in a file. See the documentation of the user option -`display-time-mail-directory'. - ---- -** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2. - -+++ -** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it. -M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no -argument it toggles the mode. - -Turning off PC-Selection mode restores the global key bindings -that were replaced by turning on the mode. - -+++ -** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line -arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash -disables the splash screen; see also the variable -`inhibit-startup-message' (which is also aliased as -`inhibit-splash-screen'). - -** Changes in support of colors on character terminals - -+++ -*** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard -mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character -terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal -database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't -set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable -terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls' -when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors -in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the -user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter. - ---- -*** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more -than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and -256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup -the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for -all of these colors. - -+++ -*** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default -faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and -256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an -88-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face -colors as on X. - ---- -*** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator. - -+++ -** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display. - -When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options -`--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame -whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire -screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.) - ---- -** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files -automatically. - -+++ -** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived -modes (shell-mode etc) inserts arguments from previous command lines, -like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but -otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version. - -+++ -** Changes in C-h bindings: - -C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer. - -C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files - that do not change: - -C-h C-f displays the FAQ. -C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file. - -The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i -have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S. - -C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands. - -- C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping) - run by the key sequence. - -- C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the - command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run - that command. - -For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped -to new-kill-line, these commands now report: - -- C-h c and C-h k C-k reports: - C-k runs the command new-kill-line - -- C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports: - kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline> - -- C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports: - new-kill-line is on C-k - -+++ -** Vertical scrolling is now possible within incremental search. -To enable this feature, customize the new user option -`isearch-allow-scroll'. User written commands which satisfy stringent -constraints can be marked as "scrolling commands". See the Emacs manual -for details. - -+++ -** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word, -making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the -command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior, -bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'. - -+++ -** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already -at the end of a line. - -+++ -** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode. -Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e' -and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer. - -+++ -** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or -`query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current -search string used as the string to replace. - -+++ -** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command -history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new -user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'. - -+++ -** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'. -If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical -elements are deleted. - -+++ -** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can -be inconvenient when you did not expect them. The variable -`yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion -of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties. - -+++ -** Occur, Info, and comint-derived modes now support using -M-x font-lock-mode to toggle fontification. The variable -`Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable fontification, -remove `turn-on-font-lock' from `Info-mode-hook'. - -+++ -** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line -by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically -detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked. -When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed -unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated -command lines to be used than was possible before. - ---- -** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing. -In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding -check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection -for that attribute; the values you can choose are only those which make -sense for the attribute. When an attribute is de-selected by unchecking -its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in -case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden. - -+++ -** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer, -the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable. -You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value" -under the "[State]" button. - ---- -** The new customization type `float' specifies numbers with floating -point (no integers are allowed). - -+++ -** In GUD mode, when talking to GDB, C-x C-a C-j "jumps" the program -counter to the specified source line (the one where point is). - ---- -** GUD mode improvements for jdb: - -*** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class - information. Fast startup since there is no need to scan all - source files up front. There is also no need to create and maintain - lists of source directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' - and `gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation. - -*** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear) - set/clear operations from java source files under the classpath, stack - traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish - (gud-finish). - -*** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb - (Java 1.1 jdb). - -*** The previous method of searching for source files has been - preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it. - Set gud-jdb-use-classpath to nil. - - Added Customization Variables - -*** gud-jdb-command-name. What command line to use to invoke jdb. - -*** gud-jdb-use-classpath. Allows selection of java source file searching - method: set to t for new method, nil to scan gud-jdb-directories for - java sources (previous method). - -*** gud-jdb-directories. List of directories to scan and search for java - classes using the original gud-jdb method (if gud-jdb-use-classpath - is nil). - - Minor Improvements - -*** The STARTTLS elisp wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS -instead of the OpenSSL based "starttls" tool. For backwards -compatibility, it prefers "starttls", but you can toggle -`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the -"starttls" tool). - -*** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds. - -+++ -** hide-ifdef-mode now uses overlays rather than selective-display -to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly -changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p. - -+++ -** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when -the corresponding environment variable does not exist. -Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting -is only rarely needed. - ---- -** JIT-lock changes -*** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'. - -If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs -idle time in seconds to wait before starting fontification. For -example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will -only happen after 0.25s of idle time. - -*** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification. - -jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and -jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual -refontification takes place. - -+++ -** Marking commands extend the region when invoked multiple times. If -you hit M-C-SPC (mark-sexp), M-@ (mark-word), M-h (mark-paragraph), or -C-M-h (mark-defun) repeatedly, the marked region extends each time, so -you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC M-C-SPC, for example. -This feature also works for mark-end-of-sentence, if you bind that to -a key. It also extends the region when the mark is active in Transient -Mark mode, regardless of the last command. To start a new region with -one of marking commands in Transient Mark mode, you can deactivate the -active region with C-g, or set the new mark with C-SPC. - -+++ -** Some commands do something special in Transient Mark mode when the -mark is active--for instance, they limit their operation to the -region. Even if you don't normally use Transient Mark mode, you might -want to get this behavior from a particular command. There are two -ways you can enable Transient Mark mode and activate the mark, for one -command only. - -One method is to type C-SPC C-SPC; this enables Transient Mark mode -and sets the mark at point. The other method is to type C-u C-x C-x. -This enables Transient Mark mode temporarily but does not alter the -mark or the region. - -After these commands, Transient Mark mode remains enabled until you -deactivate the mark. That typically happens when you type a command -that alters the buffer, but you can also deactivate the mark by typing -C-g. - -+++ -** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a -previous mark, i.e. C-u C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the -mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC to set the mark immediately after a jump. - -+++ -** Movement commands `beginning-of-buffer', `end-of-buffer', -`beginning-of-defun', `end-of-defun' do not set the mark if the mark -is already active in Transient Mark mode. - -+++ -** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and -C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without -switching to it. - -+++ -** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to -all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only -affects the initial frame. - -+++ -** M-h (mark-paragraph) now accepts a prefix arg. -With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following paragraphs; -if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding -paragraphs. - -+++ -** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args -have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and -directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a -directory listing into a buffer. - ---- -** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window -(rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'. - ---- -** Unexpected yanking of text due to accidental clicking on the mouse -wheel button (typically mouse-2) during wheel scrolling is now avoided. -This behavior can be customized via the mouse-wheel-click-event and -mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables. - -+++ -** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your -current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This -may mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII -characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal -emulator) works. Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize -keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default) -or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated -by the keyboard. See Info node `Single-Byte Character Support'. - -+++ -** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs -automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save -modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It -can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first, -according to the value of `save-abbrevs'. - -+++ -** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any) -of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor -appears in. - -+++ -** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any -of the recognized cursor types. - ---- -** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that -controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will -attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files). - -+++ -** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to -convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format. - -+++ -** Diary sexp entries can have custom marking in the calendar. -Diary sexp functions which only apply to certain days (such as -`diary-block' or `diary-cyclic') now take an optional parameter MARK, -which is the name of a face or a single-character string indicating -how to highlight the day in the calendar display. Specifying a -single-character string as @var{mark} places the character next to the -day in the calendar. Specifying a face highlights the day with that -face. This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations, -appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp. - -+++ -** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a -year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers -count backward from the end of the year. - -+++ -** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w) -prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first -day of that ISO week. - ---- -** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the -window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'. - ---- -** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take -optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday -rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as -`christian-holidays' simpler. - ---- -** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line. -This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag' -and `diary-header-line-format'. - -+++ -** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed: use -the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable -`appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing -appt-issue-message, appt-visible, and appt-msg-window. - -+++ -** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus', -and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries -from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages. The variable -`diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional -formats. - - -** VC Changes - -+++ -*** The key C-x C-q no longer checks files in or out, it only changes -the read-only state of the buffer (toggle-read-only). We made this -change because we held a poll and found that many users were unhappy -with the previous behavior. If you do prefer this behavior, you -can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your .emacs: - - (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only) - -The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist. - -+++ -*** There is a new user option `vc-cvs-global-switches' that allows -you to specify switches that are passed to any CVS command invoked -by VC. These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which -means they are inserted before the command name. For example, this -allows you to specify a compression level using the "-z#" option for -CVS. - -+++ -*** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS. - -** EDiff changes. - -+++ -*** When comparing directories. -Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of -directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files -from one directory to another. - -+++ -*** When comparing files or buffers. -Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the -currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n' -then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for -comparison. - -*** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent -backup using `ediff'. If you specify the name of a backup file, -`ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup. - -+++ -** Etags changes. - -*** New regular expressions features - -**** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions. -The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained -only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is ---regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS, -where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or -more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s' -(single-line). The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular -expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s' -(which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines. The ability to -span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions -and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages. - -**** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in Gcc. -The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, -respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL, -CR, TAB, VT, - -**** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language. -The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags -only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is -particularly useful when storing regexps in a file. - -**** Regular expressions can be read from a file. -The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one -per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored. - -*** New language parsing features - -**** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file. -Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect. - -**** The gnucc __attribute__ keyword is now recognised and ignored. - -**** New language HTML. -Title and h1, h2, h3 are tagged. Also, tags are generated when name= is -used inside an anchor and whenever id= is used. - -**** In Makefiles, constants are tagged. -If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the -size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option. - -**** New language Lua. -All functions are tagged. - -**** In Perl, packages are tags. -Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags -as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for -package::sub. - -**** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates. - -**** New language PHP. -Tags are functions, classes and defines. -If the --members option is specified to etags, tags are variables also. - -**** New default keywords for TeX. -The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and -renewenvironment. - -*** Honour #line directives. -When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line -directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number -specified in those directives. This is useful when dealing with code -created from Cweb source files. When Etags tags the generated file, it -writes tags pointing to the source file. - -*** New option --parse-stdin=FILE. -This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs. It can -be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line. Etags -reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to -the file FILE. +** Lisp mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings. + ++++ +** A prefix argument of C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-printifies the +list starting after point. + +** New features in evaluation commands + ++++ +*** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes +the face to the value specified in the defface expression. + ++++ +*** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result +in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified +by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'. The same +function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:), +`eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions. +++ ** CC Mode changes. @@ -2279,46 +1600,6 @@ The function c-toggle-syntactic-indentation can be used to toggle syntactic indentation. -+++ -** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to ---no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated. - -+++ -** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because -C-u C-x = gives the same information and more. - -+++ -** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin -with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers -whose names begin with space are omitted. - -+++ -** You can now customize fill-nobreak-predicate to control where -filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of -functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility. - -We provide two sample predicates, fill-single-word-nobreak-p and -fill-french-nobreak-p, for use in the value of fill-nobreak-predicate. - -+++ -** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'. -When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always -starts a new record regardless of when the last record is. - -+++ -** SGML mode has indentation and supports XML syntax. -The new variable `sgml-xml-mode' tells SGML mode to use XML syntax. -When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style, -i.e., there is always a closing tag. -By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis -from the file name or buffer contents. - -+++ -** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support. - ---- -** Lisp mode now uses font-lock-doc-face for the docstrings. - --- ** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'. @@ -2350,48 +1631,420 @@ ** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords' to support use of font-lock. -+++ -** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now -understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and -`same-window'. - -+++ -** M-x setenv now expands environment variables of the form `$foo' and -`${foo}' in the specified new value of the environment variable. To -include a `$' in the value, use `$$'. - -+++ -** File-name completion can now ignore directories. -If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a -slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when -completing file names. Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions' -which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion -candidate is a directory. - -+++ -** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only -to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point, -it remains unchanged. - ---- -** Enhanced visual feedback in *Completions* buffer. - -Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions -have in common and where they begin to differ. - -The common prefix shared by all possible completions uses the face -`completions-common-part', while the first character that isn't the -same uses the face `completions-first-difference'. By default, -`completions-common-part' inherits from `default', and -`completions-first-difference' inherits from `bold'. The idea of -`completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common -parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing -parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted. - -+++ -** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'. -When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally -displays a buffer menu. This option turns the buffer menu off. +--- +** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files +automatically. + ++++ +** SGML mode has indentation and supports XML syntax. +The new variable `sgml-xml-mode' tells SGML mode to use XML syntax. +When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style, +i.e., there is always a closing tag. +By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis +from the file name or buffer contents. + ++++ +** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support. + +** TeX modes: + ++++ +*** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default. + ++++ +*** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced +by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold +command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold +TeX commands to use at startup. + +--- +*** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock +and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts. + ++++ +*** New major mode doctex-mode for *.dtx files. + +** BibTeX mode: +*** The new command bibtex-url browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at +point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields). + +*** The new command bibtex-entry-update (bound to C-c C-u) updates +an existing BibTeX entry. + +*** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default. + +*** bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries can take values `plain', +`crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used +for BibTeX entries. `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting +scheme `entry-class'. TAB completion for reference keys and +automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that +bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is non-nil. + +*** If the new variable bibtex-parse-keys-fast is non-nil, +use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys. + +*** If the new variable bibtex-autoadd-commas is non-nil, +automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields. + +*** The new variable bibtex-autofill-types contains a list of entry +types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible). + +*** The new command bibtex-complete completes word fragment before +point according to context (bound to M-tab). + +*** The new commands bibtex-find-entry and bibtex-find-crossref +locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x). +Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET). + +*** In BibTeX mode the command fill-paragraph (bound to M-q) fills +individual fields of a BibTeX entry. + +*** The new variables bibtex-files and bibtex-file-path define a set +of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys. + +*** The new command bibtex-validate-globally checks for duplicate keys +in multiple BibTeX files. + +*** The new command bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill pushes summary +of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t). + ++++ +** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now +by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l' +and `C-c C-r'. + ++++ +** In GUD mode, when talking to GDB, C-x C-a C-j "jumps" the program +counter to the specified source line (the one where point is). + +--- +** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior +and other common debugger commands. + +--- +** GUD mode improvements for jdb: + +*** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class + information. Fast startup since there is no need to scan all + source files up front. There is also no need to create and maintain + lists of source directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' + and `gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation. + +*** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear) + set/clear operations from java source files under the classpath, stack + traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish + (gud-finish). + +*** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb + (Java 1.1 jdb). + +*** The previous method of searching for source files has been + preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it. + Set gud-jdb-use-classpath to nil. + + Added Customization Variables + +*** gud-jdb-command-name. What command line to use to invoke jdb. + +*** gud-jdb-use-classpath. Allows selection of java source file searching + method: set to t for new method, nil to scan gud-jdb-directories for + java sources (previous method). + +*** gud-jdb-directories. List of directories to scan and search for java + classes using the original gud-jdb method (if gud-jdb-use-classpath + is nil). + + Minor Improvements + +*** The STARTTLS elisp wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS +instead of the OpenSSL based "starttls" tool. For backwards +compatibility, it prefers "starttls", but you can toggle +`starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the +"starttls" tool). + +*** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds. + ++++ +** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file. +If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert +mode keeps it at the end after reverting. Similarly if point is +displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at +the end of the buffer in that window. This allows to tail a file: +just put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there. This +rule applies to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the behavior may +be mode dependent. + +If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end, +then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor +mode Auto Revert Tail mode. The function `auto-revert-tail-mode' +toggles this mode. + ++++ +** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and +other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to +revert. This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled +and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil. Auto Revert +mode only reverts a non-file buffer if the buffer has a non-nil +`revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which +decides whether the buffer should be reverted. Currently, this means +that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not +work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu. + ++++ +** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto +Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version +control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in +which it is active. If the option is nil, the default, then this info +only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted. + +--- +** recentf changes. + +The recent file list is now automatically cleanup when recentf mode is +enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do +automatic cleanup. + +The `recentf-keep' option replaces `recentf-keep-non-readable-files-p' +and provides a more general mechanism to customize which file names to +keep in the recent list. + +With the more advanced option: `recentf-filename-handler', you can +specify a function that transforms filenames handled by recentf. For +example, if set to `file-truename', the same file will not be in the +recent list with different symbolic links. + +To follow naming convention, `recentf-menu-append-commands-flag' +replaces the misnamed option `recentf-menu-append-commands-p'. The +old name remains available as alias, but has been marked obsolete. + ++++ +** Desktop package + ++++ +*** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, desktop-save-mode. Variable +desktop-enable is obsolete. Customize desktop-save-mode to enable desktop +saving. + +--- +*** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the +buffer list. + ++++ +*** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers immediately, +remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is idle). + ++++ +*** New commands: + - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop. + - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new. + - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which + it was loaded. + - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion. + - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop. + +--- +*** New customizable variables: + - desktop-save. Determins whether the desktop should be saved when it is + killed. + - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved. + - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file. + - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save. + - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear. + - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear' + should not delete. + - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are + restored lazily (when Emacs is idle). + - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers. + - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers. + ++++ +*** New command line option --no-desktop + +--- +*** New hooks: + - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded. + - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found. + +--- +** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files. +When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer +include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist. +Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil +to get the old behavior. The new options `save-place-save-skipped' +and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this +feature. + +** EDiff changes. + ++++ +*** When comparing directories. +Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of +directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files +from one directory to another. + ++++ +*** When comparing files or buffers. +Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the +currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n' +then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for +comparison. + +*** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent +backup using `ediff'. If you specify the name of a backup file, +`ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup. + ++++ +** Etags changes. + +*** New regular expressions features + +**** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions. +The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained +only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is +--regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS, +where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or +more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s' +(single-line). The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular +expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s' +(which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines. The ability to +span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions +and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages. + +**** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in Gcc. +The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, +respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL, +CR, TAB, VT, + +**** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language. +The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags +only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is +particularly useful when storing regexps in a file. + +**** Regular expressions can be read from a file. +The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one +per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored. + +*** New language parsing features + +**** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file. +Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect. + +**** The gnucc __attribute__ keyword is now recognised and ignored. + +**** New language HTML. +Title and h1, h2, h3 are tagged. Also, tags are generated when name= is +used inside an anchor and whenever id= is used. + +**** In Makefiles, constants are tagged. +If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the +size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option. + +**** New language Lua. +All functions are tagged. + +**** In Perl, packages are tags. +Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags +as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for +package::sub. + +**** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates. + +**** New language PHP. +Tags are functions, classes and defines. +If the --members option is specified to etags, tags are variables also. + +**** New default keywords for TeX. +The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and +renewenvironment. + +*** Honour #line directives. +When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line +directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number +specified in those directives. This is useful when dealing with code +created from Cweb source files. When Etags tags the generated file, it +writes tags pointing to the source file. + +*** New option --parse-stdin=FILE. +This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs. It can +be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line. Etags +reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to +the file FILE. + +** VC Changes + ++++ +*** The key C-x C-q no longer checks files in or out, it only changes +the read-only state of the buffer (toggle-read-only). We made this +change because we held a poll and found that many users were unhappy +with the previous behavior. If you do prefer this behavior, you +can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your .emacs: + + (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only) + +The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist. + ++++ +*** There is a new user option `vc-cvs-global-switches' that allows +you to specify switches that are passed to any CVS command invoked +by VC. These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which +means they are inserted before the command name. For example, this +allows you to specify a compression level using the "-z#" option for +CVS. + ++++ +*** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS. + ++++ +** vc-annotate-mode enhancements + +In vc-annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for +enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or +to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode: + + P: annotates the previous revision + N: annotates the next revision + J: annotates the revision at line + A: annotates the revision previous to line + D: shows the diff of the revision at line with its previous revision + L: shows the log of the revision at line + W: annotates the workfile (most up to date) version + ++++ +** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d y' command to view the diffs +between the local version of the file and yesterday's head revision +in the repository. + ++++ +** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes +anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed +"checkout", "update" or "commit". That means using cvs diff options +-rBASE -rHEAD. + ++++ +** There is a new user option `mail-default-directory' that allows you +to specify the value of `default-directory' for mail buffers. This +directory is used for auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to +"~/". + ++++ +** Emacs can now indicate in the mode-line the presence of new e-mail +in a directory or in a file. See the documentation of the user option +`display-time-mail-directory'. + +--- +** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers +when Emacs visits them. + +** Gnus package + +--- +*** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG +Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts. PGG is a library to handle +PGP/MIME. + +--- +*** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements. +See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details. --- ** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer. @@ -2405,6 +2058,178 @@ used instead of the native one. --- +** MH-E changes. + +Upgraded to MH-E version 7.82. There have been major changes since +version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details. + ++++ +** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to +convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format. + ++++ +** Diary sexp entries can have custom marking in the calendar. +Diary sexp functions which only apply to certain days (such as +`diary-block' or `diary-cyclic') now take an optional parameter MARK, +which is the name of a face or a single-character string indicating +how to highlight the day in the calendar display. Specifying a +single-character string as @var{mark} places the character next to the +day in the calendar. Specifying a face highlights the day with that +face. This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations, +appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp. + ++++ +** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a +year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers +count backward from the end of the year. + ++++ +** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w) +prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first +day of that ISO week. + +--- +** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the +window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'. + +--- +** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take +optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday +rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as +`christian-holidays' simpler. + +--- +** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line. +This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag' +and `diary-header-line-format'. + ++++ +** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed: use +the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable +`appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing +appt-issue-message, appt-visible, and appt-msg-window. + ++++ +** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus', +and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries +from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages. The variable +`diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional +formats. + ++++ +** Emacs now supports drag and drop for X. Dropping a file on a window + opens it, dropping text inserts the text. Dropping a file on a dired + buffer copies or moves the file to that directory. + ++++ +** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper). +The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym', +and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should +use for the modifiers. For example, the following two lines swap +Meta and Alt: + (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta) + (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt) + ++++ +** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which may +speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server. + +If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of +XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on. + +--- +** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs +requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that +Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING, +and use the more appropriately result. + +--- +** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling. +On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual +amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it). + +--- +** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can +be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32). + ++++ +** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have +to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example +`-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'. + +--- +** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and Lesstif/Motif now pops down when pressing +ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32. + +--- +** Dialogs and menus pop down if you type C-g. + +--- +** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..." +and "Open File...". "Open File..." now opens only existing files. This is +to support existing GUI file selection dialogs better. + ++++ +** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/Lesstif can be +disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'. + ++++ +** For Gtk+ version 2.4, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog +by setting the variable `x-use-old-gtk-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use +the new dialog. + +--- +** Emacs now responds to mouse-clicks on the mode-line, header-line and +display margin, when run in an xterm. + +** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm. +When emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available. The +following should work: +{C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}. +These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8, they might not work on +some older versions of xterm, or on some proprietary versions. + +** Changes in support of colors on character terminals + ++++ +*** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard +mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character +terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal +database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't +set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable +terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls' +when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors +in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the +user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter. + +--- +*** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more +than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and +256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup +the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for +all of these colors. + ++++ +*** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default +faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and +256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an +88-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face +colors as on X. + +--- +*** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator. + ++++ +** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows. +You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any +existing values. For example: + + emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20" + +will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background, +irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry. + +--- ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor. This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs. @@ -2457,40 +2282,126 @@ the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without any customizations. -+++ -** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper). -The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym', -and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should -use for the modifiers. For example, the following two lines swap -Meta and Alt: - (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta) - (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt) - -+++ -** vc-annotate-mode enhancements - -In vc-annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for -enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or -to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode: - - P: annotates the previous revision - N: annotates the next revision - J: annotates the revision at line - A: annotates the revision previous to line - D: shows the diff of the revision at line with its previous revision - L: shows the log of the revision at line - W: annotates the workfile (most up to date) version - -+++ -** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d y' command to view the diffs -between the local version of the file and yesterday's head revision -in the repository. - -+++ -** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes -anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed -"checkout", "update" or "commit". That means using cvs diff options --rBASE -rHEAD. +--- +** On Mac OS, the value of the variable `keyboard-coding-system' is +now dynamically changed according to the current keyboard script. The +variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants +`kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and +`kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete. + +--- +** sql changes. + +*** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlightng of different +SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a +buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current +session using the new SQL->Product submenu. (This menu replaces the +SQL->Highlighting submenu.) + +The following values are supported: + + ansi ANSI Standard (default) + db2 DB2 + informix Informix + ingres Ingres + interbase Interbase + linter Linter + ms Microsoft + mysql MySQL + oracle Oracle + postgres Postgres + solid Solid + sqlite SQLite + sybase Sybase + +The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the +SQL mode indicator. + +The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in +your .emacs will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use +`sql-product' to accomplish this. + +ANSI keywords are always highlighted. + +*** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add +font-lock rules to the product specific rules. For example, to have +all identifiers ending in "_t" under MS SQLServer treated as a type, +you would use the following line in your .emacs file: + + (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms + '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face))) + +*** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i. Most +SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented. SQL*Plus commands are +highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'. + +*** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved. +Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented. +sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because +osql flushes its error stream more frequently. Thus error messages +are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is +terminated. + +If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is +called with the -E command line argument to use the operating system +credentials to authenticate the user. + +*** Postgres support is enhanced. +Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented. Prompting for +the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added. + +*** MySQL support is enhanced. +Keyword higlighting of MySql 4.0 is implemented. + +*** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes, +packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and +defaults. + +*** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the +appropriate sql-interactive-mode wrapper for the current setting of +`sql-product'. + +--- +*** Support for the SQLite interpreter has been added to sql.el by calling +'sql-sqlite'. + +--- +** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering +with special modes such as Tar mode. + ++++ +** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in +various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on +program files that include other program files. + +Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on +all the files in it, such as visiting them or searching and replacing +in them. + +--- +** Commands winner-redo and winner-undo, from winner.el, are now bound to +C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively. This is an incompatible change. + +** FFAP + ++++ +*** New ffap commands and keybindings: C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'), +C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'), +C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'), +C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame'). + +--- +*** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default. C-x C-f passes +it to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS argument, which visits +multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'. + +--- +** skeleton.el now supports using - to mark the skeleton-point without + interregion interaction. @ has reverted to only setting + skeleton-positions and no longer sets skeleton-point. Skeletons + which used @ to mark skeleton-point independent of _ should now use - + instead. The updated skeleton-insert docstring explains these new + features along with other details of skeleton construction. --- ** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay @@ -2499,28 +2410,107 @@ temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation. +++ -** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified -coding system. - ---- -** On Mac OS, the value of the variable `keyboard-coding-system' is -now dynamically changed according to the current keyboard script. The -variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants -`kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and -`kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete. +** hide-ifdef-mode now uses overlays rather than selective-display +to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly +changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p. + +--- +** partial-completion-mode now does partial completion on directory names. + +--- +** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil +and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if +you don't want the .type-break file in your home directory or are +annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs. + +--- +** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets. + +Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with +ps-print, provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF fonts. +See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts. + +--- +** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'. +This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind +the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for +using strokes as an input method. + +--- +** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2. + ++++ +** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it. +M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no +argument it toggles the mode. + +Turning off PC-Selection mode restores the global key bindings +that were replaced by turning on the mode. + +--- +** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer +`file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'. + +--- +** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-end' and `symbol-start' elements. + +--- +** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed. +Emacs will still work on terminals that require magic cookies in order +to use standout mode, however they will not be able to display +mode-lines in inverse-video. + +--- +** The game `mpuz' is enhanced. + +`mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits. By +default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed +automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback. + +--- +** display-battery has been replaced by display-battery-mode. + +--- +** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode, which is available when +`calculator-output-radix' is non-nil. In this mode a separator +character is used every few digits, making it easier to see byte +boundries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the variable +`calculator-radix-grouping-mode'. + +--- +** global-whitespace-mode is a new alias for whitespace-global-mode. + ++++ +** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because +C-u C-x = gives the same information and more. + +--- +** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead. + +--- +** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead. + +--- +** cplus-md.el has been removed to avoid problems with Custom. + * New modes and packages in Emacs 22.1 +++ -** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text -files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines' -mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines, -which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or -copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc. By default, Longlines -mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior -referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors. This is -similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap -feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil. +** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient +timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component). + ++++ +** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution. + +Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in +Emacs Lisp. Its documentation is in a separate manual; within Emacs, +type "C-h i m calc RET" to read that manual. A reference card is +available in `etc/calccard.tex' and `etc/calccard.ps'. + +--- +** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine +configuration files. +++ ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with @@ -2530,53 +2520,6 @@ .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are recognized. -+++ -** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files. -The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used -to increment the SOA serial. - -+++ -** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program -source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details. - ---- -** The library tree-widget.el provides a new widget to display a set -of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is -well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files. - -+++ -** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired -buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc... - -+++ -** The thumbs.el package allows you to preview image files as thumbnails -and can be invoked from a Dired buffer. - -+++ -** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle -between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c. - -+++ -** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs. - ---- -** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs. - -+++ -** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default) -shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line. - ---- -** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit. - ---- -** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution. - -The ido (interactively do) package is an extension of the iswitchb -package to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition -to interactive buffer switching. Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with -a few exceptions), so don't enable both packages. - --- ** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution. @@ -2623,6 +2566,55 @@ loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file. +++ +** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files. +The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used +to increment the SOA serial. + +--- +** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way +filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so +that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to +emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim, +invisible, or otherwise less visually noticable. The display method may +be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'. + ++++ +** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program +source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details. + +--- +** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes. + +--- +** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit. + ++++ +** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to +GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but +there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the +state of your program. It separates the input/output of your program from +that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of +Emacs 21 such as the display margin for breakpoints, and the toolbar. + +Use M-x gdba to start GDB-UI. + +--- +** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely +customizable replacement for buff-menu.el. + +--- +** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution. + +The ido (interactively do) package is an extension of the iswitchb +package to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition +to interactive buffer switching. Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with +a few exceptions), so don't enable both packages. + ++++ +** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle +between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c. + ++++ ** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards. The numeric keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked @@ -2681,6 +2673,17 @@ C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence at a time, prompting for the actions to take. ++++ +** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text +files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines' +mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines, +which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or +copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc. By default, Longlines +mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior +referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors. This is +similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap +feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil. + --- ** The old Octave mode bindings C-c f and C-c i have been changed to C-c C-f and C-c C-i. The C-c C-i subcommands now have duplicate @@ -2697,12 +2700,43 @@ `ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information. +++ -** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution. - -Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in -Emacs Lisp. Its documentation is in a separate manual; within Emacs, -type "C-h i m calc RET" to read that manual. A reference card is -available in `etc/calccard.tex' and `etc/calccard.ps'. +** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs. + +--- +** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you +move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer. +It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts +of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ... + +There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers. + +--- +** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an +"active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually +change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list' +settings. + ++++ +** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing +spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command +letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers +viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values. + ++++ +** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default) +shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line. + ++++ +** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded +`text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting +these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG +table editing available in modern word processors. The package also +can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such +as latex and html from the visually laid out text table. + ++++ +** The thumbs.el package allows you to preview image files as thumbnails +and can be invoked from a Dired buffer. +++ ** Tramp is now part of the distribution. @@ -2725,64 +2759,22 @@ (setq tramp-default-method "ftp") --- -** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way -filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so -that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to -emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim, -invisible, or otherwise less visually noticable. The display method may -be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'. - ---- -** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an -"active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually -change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list' -settings. - ---- -** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you -move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer. -It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts -of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ... - -There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers. - ---- -** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely -customizable replacement for buff-menu.el. - -+++ -** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded -`text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting -these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG -table editing available in modern word processors. The package also -can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such -as latex and html from the visually laid out text table. - -+++ -** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing -spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command -letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers -viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values. - ---- -** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed. -Emacs will still work on terminals that require magic cookies in order -to use standout mode, however they will not be able to display -mode-lines in inverse-video. - ---- -** cplus-md.el has been removed to avoid problems with Custom. - -+++ -** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient -timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component). - ---- -** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes. - ---- -** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine -configuration files. +** The library tree-widget.el provides a new widget to display a set +of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is +well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files. + +--- +** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs. + +--- +** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer. +When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible. When disabled, it +restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'. + ++++ +** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired +buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc... + * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1 @@ -2804,108 +2796,397 @@ * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1 -** New functions, macros, and commands - -+++ -*** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer -substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns -the filtered substring. It is used instead of `buffer-substring' or -`delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible -data structure, like the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register. The -list of filter function is specified by the new variable -`buffer-substring-filters'. For example, Longlines mode uses -`buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied -text. - -+++ -*** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input -arrives. If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a -quit had occurred. while-no-input returns the value of BODY, if BODY -finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted. - -+++ -*** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches -the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far -back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long. - -+++ -*** New functions `make-progress-reporter', `progress-reporter-update', -`progress-reporter-force-update', `progress-reporter-done', and -`dotimes-with-progress-reporter' provide a simple and efficient way for -a command to present progress messages for the user. - -+++ -*** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor -run time used by Emacs since start-up. - -+++ -*** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people -have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' did: it returns t if the -calling function was called through `call-interactively'. This should -only be used when you cannot add a new "interactive" argument to the -command. - -+++ -*** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and -`assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have -been declared obsolete. - ---- -*** New function quail-find-key returns a list of keys to type in the -current input method to input a character. - -+++ -*** New functions posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y return -click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer -position or for a given window pixel coordinate. - -+++ -*** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and -modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this -operation. - -+++ -*** The new function syntax-after returns the syntax code -of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account -of text properties as well as the character code. - -+++ -*** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned -by syntax-after). - -+++ -*** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns line number of current -line in current buffer, or if optional buffer position is given, line -number of corresponding line in current buffer. - -+++ -*** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form. -It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name. -One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument -if no expansion is done, which may be tested using `eq'. - -+++ -*** New macro with-local-quit temporarily sets inhibit-quit to nil for use -around potentially blocking or long-running code in timers -and post-command-hooks. - -+++ -*** The new function `rassq-delete-all' deletes all elements from an -alist whose cdr is `eq' to a specified value. - -+++ -*** New macros define-obsolete-variable-alias to combine defvaralias and -make-obsolete-variable and define-obsolete-function-alias to combine defalias -and make-obsolete. ++++ +** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE. +It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they +can start with this line: + + #!/usr/bin/emacs --script + ++++ +** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately. +Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they +appear on the command line. For example, with this command line: + + emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)" + +Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then +in the other directories in `load-path'. (-L is short for --directory.) + ++++ +** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new +variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters +that end a sentence without following spaces. + +The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the +variable `sentence-end'. If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then +this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables +`sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and +`sentence-end-without-space'. + ++++ +** The argument to forward-word, backward-word, forward-to-indentation +and backward-to-indentation is now optional, and defaults to 1. + ++++ +** If a command sets transient-mark-mode to `only', that +enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only. +During that following command, the value of transient-mark-mode +is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command, +it changes to nil. + ++++ +** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer' +before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final +tasks, for example; it can be used by the copyright package to make +sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers. + ++++ +** If a buffer sets buffer-save-without-query to non-nil, +save-some-buffers will always save that buffer without asking +(if it's modified). + +--- +** list-buffers-noselect now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST. +If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list. + ++++ +** The kill-buffer-hook is now permanent-local. + ++++ +** `auto-save-file-format' has been renamed to +`buffer-auto-save-file-format' and made into a permanent local. + ++++ +** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now +ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as +`.emacs' are treated as extensionless. +++ ** copy-file now takes an additional option arg MUSTBENEW. This argument works like the MUSTBENEW argument of write-file. ---- -** easy-mmode-define-global-mode has been renamed to -define-global-minor-mode. The old name remains as an alias. ++++ +** If the second argument to `copy-file' is the name of a directory, +the file is copied to that directory instead of signaling an error. + ++++ +** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return +a list of two integers, instead of a cons. + ++++ +** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which +specifies the maximum number of links to chase through. If after that +many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link, +`file-chase-links' returns it anyway. + ++++ +** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional +argument. If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks +for a function that could be called with `call-interactively', +and does not return t for keyboard macros. + ++++ +** An interactive specification may now use the code letter 'U' to get +the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a +previous 'k' or 'K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used. + +--- +** Functions y-or-n-p, read-char, read-key-sequence and the like, that +display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt +using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string. + ++++ +** read-from-minibuffer now accepts an additional argument KEEP-ALL +saying to put all inputs in the history list, even empty ones. + ++++ +** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which +specifies a predicate which the file name read must satify. The +new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument +while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this +variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list. + +--- +** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by lisp code +to override the internal read-file-name function. + ++++ +** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies +whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the +`read-file-name' function. + ++++ +** The new function `read-directory-name' can be used instead of +`read-file-name' to read a directory name; when used, completion +will only show directories. + ++++ +** The new variable search-spaces-regexp controls how to search +for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a +regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular +expression. If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves. + +Spaces inside of constructs such as [..] and *, +, ? are never +replaced with search-spaces-regexp. + ++++ +** There are now two new regular expression operators, \_< and \_>, +for matching the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a +non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as +specified by the syntax table. + ++++ +** skip-chars-forward and skip-chars-backward now handle +character classes such as [:alpha:], along with individual characters +and ranges. + +--- +** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits +properties from surrounding text. + ++++ +** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final +element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data' +accepts such a list for restoring the match state. + ++++ +** Variable aliases have been implemented: + +*** defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING] + +This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for +symbol BASE-VAR. This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR +returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR +changes the value of BASE-VAR. + +DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has +the same documentation as BASE-VAR. + +*** indirect-variable VARIABLE + +This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases +of VARIABLE. If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not +defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE. + +It might be noteworthy that variables aliases work for all kinds of +variables, including buffer-local and frame-local variables. + ++++ +*** The macro define-obsolete-variable-alias combines defvaralias and +make-obsolete-variable. The macro define-obsolete-function-alias +combines defalias and make-obsolete. + ++++ +** Enhancements to keymaps. + +*** Cleaner way to enter key sequences. + +You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the +same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'. For +example, + +(kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f" + +*** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps. + +This is an alternative to using defadvice or substitute-key-definition +to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap +binding and lookup functionality. + +When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is +remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the +original command. + +Example: +Suppose that minor mode my-mode has defined the commands +my-kill-line and my-kill-word, and it wants C-k (and any other key +bound to kill-line) to run the command my-kill-line instead of +kill-line, and likewise it wants to run my-kill-word instead of +kill-word. + +Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map, +command remapping allows you to directly map kill-line into +my-kill-line and kill-word into my-kill-word through the minor mode +map using define-key: + + (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line) + (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word) + +Now, when my-mode is enabled, and the user enters C-k or M-d, +the commands my-kill-line and my-kill-word are run. + +Notice that only one level of remapping is supported. In the above +example, this means that if my-kill-line is remapped to other-kill, +then C-k still runs my-kill-line. + +The following changes have been made to provide command remapping: + +- Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key + `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD + to definition DEF in keymap MAP. The definition is not limited to + another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding. + +- The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a + remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped. + +- key-binding now remaps interactive commands unless the optional + third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil. + +- where-is-internal now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g. + kill-line if my-mode is enabled), and the actual key binding for + the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line). + It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits + remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns C-k for kill-line and + <kill-line> for my-kill-line). + +- The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original + command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the + command was not remapped. + +*** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence +over minor mode keymaps. + +*** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and +text-properties, according to their stickiness. This also means that it +works with empty overlays. The same hold for the `local-map' property. + +*** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly. +Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key +bindings of the parent keymap. + +*** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1. + +*** New function `current-active-maps' returns a list of currently +active keymaps. + +*** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all +defined keys and their definitions. + +*** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt-string of a keymap + +*** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding +in the keymap. + +*** New variable emulation-mode-map-alists. + +Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own +keymap alist separate from minor-mode-map-alist by adding their keymap +alist to this list. + ++++ +** Atomic change groups. + +To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that +they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group' +around the code that makes changes. For instance: + + (atomic-change-group + (insert foo) + (delete-region x y)) + +If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of +`atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that +were during the execution of the body. The change group has no effect +on any other buffers--any such changes remain. + +If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the +lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses. Here is how. + +To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'. +Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer. +This function returns a "handle" for the change group. You must save +the handle to activate the change group and then finish it. + +Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change +group. Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to +do this. + +After you make the changes, you must finish the change group. You can +either accept the changes or cancel them all. Call +`accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final; +call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all. + +You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always +finished. The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the +`unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs. +(This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and +`activate-change-group' are separate functions.) Once you finish the +group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group +twice. + +To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once +for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the +returned values, like this: + + (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1) + (prepare-change-group buffer-2)) + +You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call +to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to +`accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'. + +Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you +would expect. Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer +will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first +change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one +finished. + ++++ +** Progress reporters. +The new functions `make-progress-reporter', `progress-reporter-update', +`progress-reporter-force-update', `progress-reporter-done', and +`dotimes-with-progress-reporter' provide a simple and efficient way for +a command to present progress messages for the user. + ++++ +** New `yank-handler' text property may be used to control how +previously killed text on the kill-ring is reinserted. + +The value of the yank-handler property must be a list with one to four +elements with the following format: + (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO). + +The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on +the first character on its string argument (typically the first +element on the kill-ring). If a yank-handler property is found, +the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways: + + When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert' +to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert. + If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object +passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is +`yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a +rectangle. + If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the +yank-excluded-properties is not performed; instead FUNCTION is +responsible for removing those properties. This may be necessary +if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object. + If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called +by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object. It is +called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region. +FUNCTION may set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value. + +*** The functions kill-new, kill-append, and kill-region now have an +optional argument to specify the yank-handler text property to put on +the killed text. + +*** The function yank-pop will now use a non-nil value of the variable +`yank-undo-function' (instead of delete-region) to undo the previous +yank or yank-pop command (or a call to insert-for-yank). The function +insert-for-yank automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO +element of the string argument's yank-handler text property if present. + +*** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the +`yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the +string. The old behavior is available if you call +`insert-for-yank-1' instead. + +*** The new function insert-for-yank normally works like `insert', but +removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list. +However, the insertion of the text may be modified by a `yank-handler' +text property. +++ ** An element of buffer-undo-list can now have the form (apply FUNNAME @@ -2918,6 +3199,169 @@ range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA. +++ +** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than +undo-outer-limit, garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent +it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs. + ++++ +** Enhancements to process support + +*** Function list-processes now has an optional argument; if non-nil, +only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set are listed. + +*** New set-process-query-on-exit-flag and process-query-on-exit-flag +functions. The existing process-kill-without-query function is still +supported, but new code should use the new functions. + +*** Function signal-process now accepts a process object or process +name in addition to a process id to identify the signalled process. + +*** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can +maintain process state and other per-process related information. + +The new functions process-get and process-put are used to access, add, +and modify elements on this property list. + +The new low-level functions process-plist and set-process-plist are +used to access and replace the entire property list of a process. + +*** Function accept-process-output now has an optional fourth arg +`just-this-one'. If non-nil, only output from the specified process +is handled, suspending output from other processes. If value is an +integer, also inhibit running timers. This feature is generally not +recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as +speech synthesis. + +*** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output. + +On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the +output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in +very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent +by setting the new variable process-adaptive-read-buffering to a +non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading +from such processes, to allowing them to produce more output before +emacs tries to read it. + +*** The new function `call-process-shell-command' executes a shell +command command synchronously in a separate process. + +*** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but +obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on +default-directory. + +*** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the +multibyteness of a string given to a process's filter. + +*** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns t if a +string given to a process's filter is multibyte. + +*** A filter function of a process is called with a multibyte string +if the filter's multibyteness is t. That multibyteness is decided by +the value of `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is +created and can be changed later by `set-process-filter-multibyte'. + +*** If a process's coding system is raw-text or no-conversion and its +buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted +to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer. +Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte', +which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading. + ++++ +** Enhanced networking support. + +*** There is a new `make-network-process' function which supports +opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as +create a stream or datagram server inside emacs. + +- A server is started using :server t arg. +- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg. +- A server can open on a random port using :service t arg. +- Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg. +- Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg. +- The process' property list may be initialized using :plist PLIST arg; + a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited + by new client processes created to handle incoming connections. + +To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this: + (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram)) + +*** Original open-network-stream is now emulated using make-network-process. + +*** New function open-network-stream-nowait. + +This function initiates a non-blocking connect and returns immediately +without waiting for the connection to be established. It takes the +filter and sentinel functions as arguments; when the non-blocking +connect completes, the sentinel is called with a status string +matching "open" or "failed". + +*** New function open-network-stream-server. + +This function creates a network server process for a TCP service. +When a client connects to the specified service, a new subprocess +is created to handle the new connection, and the sentinel function +is called for the new process. + +*** New functions process-datagram-address and set-process-datagram-address. + +These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get +and set the current address of the remote partner. + +*** New function format-network-address. + +This function reformats the lisp representation of a network address +to a printable string. For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port +number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the +printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc +string for other formatting options. + +*** By default, the function process-contact still returns (HOST SERVICE) +for a network process. Using the new optional KEY arg, the complete list +of network process properties or a specific property can be selected. + +Using :local and :remote as the KEY, the address of the local or +remote end-point is returned. An Inet address is represented as a 5 +element vector, where the first 4 elements contain the IP address and +the fifth is the port number. + +*** Network processes can now be stopped and restarted with +`stop-process' and `continue-process'. For a server process, no +connections are accepted in the stopped state. For a client process, +no input is received in the stopped state. + +*** New function network-interface-list. + +This function returns a list of network interface names and their +current network addresses. + +*** New function network-interface-info. + +This function returns the network address, hardware address, current +status, and other information about a specific network interface. + +*** The sentinel is now called when a network process is deleted with +delete-process. The status message passed to the sentinel for a +deleted network process is "deleted". The message passed to the +sentinel when the connection is closed by the remote peer has been +changed to "connection broken by remote peer". + ++++ +** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of +one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window +contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit +changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require +forcing an explicit window update. + ++++ +** You can now make a window as short as one line. + +A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode +line or a header line, even if the variables `mode-line-format' and +`header-line-format' call for them. A window that is two lines tall +cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the +variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears. + ++++ ** The line-move, scroll-up, and scroll-down functions will now modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are taller that the height of the window, for example in the presense of @@ -2925,139 +3369,141 @@ variable `auto-window-vscroll' to nil. +++ -** If a buffer sets buffer-save-without-query to non-nil, -save-some-buffers will always save that buffer without asking -(if it's modified). - -+++ -** The function symbol-file tells you which file defined -a certain function or variable. - -+++ -** Lisp code can now test if a given buffer position is inside a -clickable link with the new function `mouse-on-link-p'. This is the -function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link' functionality. - -+++ -** `set-auto-mode' now gives the interpreter magic line (if present) -precedence over the file name. Likewise an <?xml or <!DOCTYPE declaration -will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, based on the new var -`magic-mode-alist'. - ---- -** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the -proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify -"files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File" -several versions ago. - -+++ -** read-from-minibuffer now accepts an additional argument KEEP-ALL -saying to put all inputs in the history list, even empty ones. - -+++ -** The new variable search-spaces-regexp controls how to search -for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a -regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular -expression. If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves. - -Spaces inside of constructs such as [..] and *, +, ? are never -replaced with search-spaces-regexp. - ---- -** list-buffers-noselect now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST. -If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list. - ---- -** set-buffer-file-coding-system now takes an additional argument, -NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified. - -+++ -** An interactive specification may now use the code letter 'U' to get -the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a -previous 'k' or 'K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used. - -+++ -** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE -argument. - -+++ -** Major mode functions now run the new normal hook -`after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode hooks. - -+++ -** `auto-save-file-format' has been renamed to -`buffer-auto-save-file-format' and made into a permanent local. - -+++ -** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have -been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable -`disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias. - -+++ ** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window width if the WIDTH argument is nil. If the TOPOS argument is nil, the usable window height and width is used. +++ -** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return -a list of two integers, instead of a cons. - -+++ -** If a command sets transient-mark-mode to `only', that -enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only. -During that following command, the value of transient-mark-mode -is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command, -it changes to nil. - -+++ -** Cleaner way to enter key sequences. - -You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the -same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'. For -example, - -(kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f" - -+++ -** The sentinel is now called when a network process is deleted with -delete-process. The status message passed to the sentinel for a -deleted network process is "deleted". The message passed to the -sentinel when the connection is closed by the remote peer has been -changed to "connection broken by remote peer". - -+++ -** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than -undo-outer-limit, garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent -it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs. - -+++ -** skip-chars-forward and skip-chars-backward now handle -character classes such as [:alpha:], along with individual characters -and ranges. - -+++ ** Function pos-visible-in-window-p now returns the pixel coordinates and partial visiblity state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY arg is non-nil. +++ -** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package. - -+++ -** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now -supported on text terminals. - -+++ -** Support for displaying image slices - -*** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) may be used with -an image property to display only a specific slice of the image. - -*** Function insert-image has new optional fourth arg to -specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT). - -*** New function insert-sliced-image inserts a given image as a -specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns). +** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the +actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or +divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and +the mode line. + ++++ +** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges' +return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines. + ++++ +** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the +selected window without impacting the order of buffer-list. + ++++ +** `select-window' takes an optional second argument `norecord', like +`switch-to-buffer'. + ++++ +** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window +of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed +by calling `select-window'. + ++++ +** The function `set-window-buffer' now has an optional third argument +KEEP-MARGINS which will preserve the window's current margin, fringe, +and scroll-bar settings if non-nil. + ++++ +** Customizable fringe bitmaps + +*** New function 'define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new +fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps. + +To change a built-in bitmap, do (require 'fringe) and use the symbol +identifing the bitmap such as `left-truncation or `continued-line'. + +*** New function 'destroy-fringe-bitmap' may be used to destroy a +previously created bitmap, or restore a built-in bitmap. + +*** New function 'set-fringe-bitmap-face' can now be used to set a +specific face to be used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is +automatically merged with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face +should only specify the foreground color of the bitmap. + +*** There are new display properties, left-fringe and right-fringe, +that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe +bitmap of the display line. + +Format is 'display '(left-fringe BITMAP [FACE]), where BITMAP is a +symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with +`define-fringe-bitmap', and FACE is an optional face name to be used +for displaying the bitmap instead of the default `fringe' face. +When specified, FACE is automatically merged with the `fringe' face. + +*** New function `fringe-bitmaps-at-pos' returns the current fringe +bitmaps in the display line at a given buffer position. + ++++ +** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths. + +The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame +can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe' +frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels. +Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe. + +The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the +specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an +integral number of columns. The extra width is distributed evenly +between the left and right fringe. For force a specific fringe width, +specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative, +only the left fringe gets the specified width). + +Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe +width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any +of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in +fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels. + ++++ +** Per-window fringe and scrollbar settings + +*** Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and +position settings. + +To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local +variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call +`set-window-fringes'. + +To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes +are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area, +or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable +`fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'. + +The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current +settings. To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and +`fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before +displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force +an update of the display margins. + +*** Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings +controlling the width and position of scroll-bars. + +To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local +variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call +`set-window-scroll-bars'. The function `window-scroll-bars' can be +used to obtain the current settings. To make `scroll-bar-mode' and +`scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying +the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update +of the display margins. + ++++ +** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width, +the scroll-bar-width frame parameter value is nil. + ++++ +** Multiple overlay arrows can now be defined and managed via the new +variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'. It contains a list of +varibles which contain overlay arrow position markers, including +the original `overlay-arrow-position' variable. + +Each variable on this list may have individual `overlay-arrow-string' +and `overlay-arrow-bitmap' properties that specify an overlay arrow +string (for non-window terminals) or fringe bitmap (for window +systems) to display at the corresponding overlay arrow position. +If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or +'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used. +++ ** New line-height and line-spacing properties for newline characters @@ -3162,139 +3608,16 @@ The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions. +++ -** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and -text property string that may be present at the current window -position. The cursor may now be placed on any character of such -strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property. - -+++ -** The first face specification element in a defface can specify -`default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as -defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and may be overridden -by them). - -+++ -** New face attribute `min-colors' can be used to tailor the face color -to the number of colors supported by a display, and define the -foreground and background colors accordingly so that they look best on -a terminal that supports at least this many colors. This is now the -preferred method for defining default faces in a way that makes a good -use of the capabilities of the display. - -+++ -** Customizable fringe bitmaps - -*** New function 'define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new -fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps. - -To change a built-in bitmap, do (require 'fringe) and use the symbol -identifing the bitmap such as `left-truncation or `continued-line'. - -*** New function 'destroy-fringe-bitmap' may be used to destroy a -previously created bitmap, or restore a built-in bitmap. - -*** New function 'set-fringe-bitmap-face' can now be used to set a -specific face to be used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is -automatically merged with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face -should only specify the foreground color of the bitmap. - -*** There are new display properties, left-fringe and right-fringe, -that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe -bitmap of the display line. - -Format is 'display '(left-fringe BITMAP [FACE]), where BITMAP is a -symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with -`define-fringe-bitmap', and FACE is an optional face name to be used -for displaying the bitmap instead of the default `fringe' face. -When specified, FACE is automatically merged with the `fringe' face. - -*** New function `fringe-bitmaps-at-pos' returns the current fringe -bitmaps in the display line at a given buffer position. - -+++ -** Multiple overlay arrows can now be defined and managed via the new -variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'. It contains a list of -varibles which contain overlay arrow position markers, including -the original `overlay-arrow-position' variable. - -Each variable on this list may have individual `overlay-arrow-string' -and `overlay-arrow-bitmap' properties that specify an overlay arrow -string (for non-window terminals) or fringe bitmap (for window -systems) to display at the corresponding overlay arrow position. -If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or -'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used. - -+++ -** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new -variable `sentence-end-without-space' which contains such characters -that end a sentence without following spaces. - -+++ -** The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of -the variable `sentence-end'. If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, -then this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables -`sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and -`sentence-end-without-space'. - -+++ -** The flags, width, and precision options for %-specifications in function -`format' are now documented. Some flags that were accepted but not -implemented (such as "*") are no longer accepted. - -+++ -** New function `delete-dups' destructively removes `equal' duplicates -from a list. Of several `equal' occurrences of an element in the list, -the first one is kept. - -+++ -** `declare' is now a macro. This change was made mostly for -documentation purposes and should have no real effect on Lisp code. - -+++ -** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles. - -You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name -symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that -the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other -operations. - -This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being -autoloaded when not really necessary. - -+++ -** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer' -before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final -tasks, for example; it can be used by the copyright package to make -sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers. - -+++ -** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the -`yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the -string. The old behavior is available if you call -`insert-for-yank-1' instead. - -+++ -** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same -arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the -return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and -whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if -it was found as a text property or not found at all. - -+++ (lispref) -??? (man) -** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a -line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now -controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default -is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text' -(or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'. - -+++ -** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the -:pointer image property. - -+++ -** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images may now be -controlled/overriden via the `pointer' text property. +** Support for displaying image slices + +*** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) may be used with +an image property to display only a specific slice of the image. + +*** Function insert-image has new optional fourth arg to +specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT). + +*** New function insert-sliced-image inserts a given image as a +specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns). +++ ** Images may now have an associated image map via the :map property. @@ -3319,6 +3642,27 @@ an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'. ++++ (lispref) +??? (man) +** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a +line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now +controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default +is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text' +(or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'. + ++++ +** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the +:pointer image property. + ++++ +** Lisp code can now test if a given buffer position is inside a +clickable link with the new function `mouse-on-link-p'. This is the +function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link' functionality. + ++++ +** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images may now be +controlled/overriden via the `pointer' text property. + ** Mouse event enhancements: +++ @@ -3367,45 +3711,58 @@ of that object, and the total width and height of that object. +++ -** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of -one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window -contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit -changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require -forcing an explicit window update. - ---- -** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect -debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file. - -+++ -** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if -the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for -SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is -nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all -empty matches are omitted from the returned list. - -+++ -** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead. - -+++ -** If optional third argument APPEND to `add-to-list' is non-nil, a -new element gets added at the end of the list instead of at the -beginning. This change actually occurred in Emacs-21.1, but was not -documented. - -+++ -** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function' -locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to -the language. - ---- -** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that -the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text -parts, e.g. utf-16. - -+++ -** The argument to forward-word, backward-word, forward-to-indentation -and backward-to-indentation is now optional, and defaults to 1. +** At the end of a command, point moves out from within invisible +text, in the same way it moves out from within text covered by an +image or composition property. + +This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible. +This is particularly good because the intangible property often has +unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything +(including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after +post-command-hook and thus does not care about intermediate states. + ++++ +** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and +text property string that may be present at the current window +position. The cursor may now be placed on any character of such +strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property. + ++++ +** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now +supported on text terminals. + ++++ +** Arguments for remove-overlays are now optional, so that you can +remove all overlays in the buffer by just calling (remove-overlay). + ++++ +** New variable char-property-alias-alist. + +This variable allows you to create alternative names for text +properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties', +although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced +to implement the `font-lock-face' property. + ++++ +** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same +arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the +return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and +whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if +it was found as a text property or not found at all. + ++++ +** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use +for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a +number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp +Reference manual for more detailed documentation. + ++++ +** The new face attribute `min-colors' can be used to tailor the face +color to the number of colors supported by a display, and define the +foreground and background colors accordingly so that they look best on +a terminal that supports at least this many colors. This is now the +preferred method for defining default faces in a way that makes a good +use of the capabilities of the display. +++ ** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able @@ -3416,42 +3773,223 @@ does that, this value may not be accurate. +++ -** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the -actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or -divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and -the mode line. - -+++ -** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges' -return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines. - -+++ -** The kill-buffer-hook is now permanent-local. - -+++ -** `select-window' takes an optional second argument `norecord', like -`switch-to-buffer'. - -+++ -** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the -selected window without impacting the order of buffer-list. - -+++ -** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and -text-properties, according to their stickiness. This also means that it -works with empty overlays. The same hold for the `local-map' property. - -+++ -** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding -in the keymap. - ---- -** VC changes for backends: -*** (vc-switches BACKEND OPERATION) is a new function for use by backends. -*** The new `find-version' backend function replaces the `destfile' -parameter of the `checkout' backend function. -Old code still works thanks to a default `find-version' behavior that -uses the old `destfile' parameter. +** New function display-supports-face-attributes-p may be used to test +whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable. + +A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face +specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces +defined with defface. + +--- +** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR' +or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the +`defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use +the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background +directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face. + ++++ +** The first face specification element in a defface can specify +`default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as +defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and may be overridden +by them). + ++++ +** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger +(or smaller) font we should use. For instance, if the value is +'((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10 +point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches +SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN. + +--- +** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on +the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil.. + +--- +** The function face-differs-from-default-p now truly checks whether the +given face displays differently from the default face or not (previously +it did only a very cursory check). + ++++ +** face-attribute, face-foreground, face-background, and face-stipple now +accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how face +inheritance is used when determining the value of a face attribute. + ++++ +** New functions face-attribute-relative-p and merge-face-attribute +help with handling relative face attributes. + ++++ +** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face-list is reversed. +If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier +faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous releases +of Emacs, the order was the opposite. This change was made so that +:inherit face-lists operate identically to face-lists in text `face' +properties. + ++++ +** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'. + ++++ +** New special text property `font-lock-face'. + +This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by +M-x font-lock-mode. It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text +property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the +new variable `char-property-alias-alist'. + +--- +** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'. +If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified +(see jit-lock-defer-contextually), then all of that text will +be refontified. This is useful when the syntax of a textual element +depends on text several lines further down (and when font-lock-multiline +is not appropriate to solve that problem). For example in Perl: + + s{ + foo + }{ + bar + }e + +Adding/removing the last `e' changes the `bar' from being a piece of +text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a jit-lock-defer-multiline +property over the second half of the command to force (deferred) +refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed. + ++++ +** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'. +*** the FACENAME returned in font-lock-keywords can be a list +of the form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set +other properties than `face'. +*** font-lock-extra-managed-props can be set to make sure those extra +properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock. + +--- +** The precedence of file-name-handlers has been changed. +Instead of blindly choosing the first handler that matches, +find-file-name-handler now gives precedence to a file-name handler +that matches near the end of the file name. More specifically, the +handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. +In case of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies. + ++++ +** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles. + +You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name +symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that +the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other +operations. + +This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being +autoloaded when not really necessary. + ++++ +** `set-auto-mode' now gives the interpreter magic line (if present) +precedence over the file name. Likewise an <?xml or <!DOCTYPE declaration +will give the buffer XML or SGML mode, based on the new var +`magic-mode-alist'. + ++++ +** Major mode functions now run the new normal hook +`after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode hooks. + +--- +** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect' +property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use +it in that buffer. + ++++ +** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function' +locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to +the language. + ++++ +** define-derived-mode by default creates a new empty abbrev table. +It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table. + ++++ +** define-minor-mode now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments +and simply passes them to defcustom, if applicable. + ++++ +** The new function `run-mode-hooks' and the new macro `delay-mode-hooks' +are used by define-derived-mode to make sure the mode hook for the +parent mode is run at the end of the child mode. + ++++ +** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands. + ++++ +** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have +been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable +`disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias. + ++++ +** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package. + ++++ +** If optional third argument APPEND to `add-to-list' is non-nil, a +new element gets added at the end of the list instead of at the +beginning. This change actually occurred in Emacs-21.1, but was not +documented. + ++++ +** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character, +unless it is followed by a `-' in a character constant (e.g. ?\s-A), +in which case it is still interpreted as the super modifier. +In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space. + ++++ +** A hex escape in a string forces the string to be multibyte. +An octal escape makes it unibyte. + ++++ +** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if +the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for +SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is +nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all +empty matches are omitted from the returned list. + ++++ +** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a +multibyte string with the same individual character codes. + ++++ +** The function `number-sequence' returns a list of equally-separated +numbers. For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). +By default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different separation +as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns (1.5 3.5 5.5). + ++++ +** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP). + ++++ +** A function's docstring can now hold the function's usage info on +its last line. It should match the regexp "\n\n(fn.*)\\'". + ++++ +** The `defmacro' form may contain declarations specifying how to +indent the macro in Lisp mode and how to debug it with Edebug. The +syntax of defmacro has been extended to + + (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...) + +DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'. The +declaration specifiers supported are: + +(indent INDENT) + Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT. + +(edebug DEBUG) + Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG. (This is + equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro. + ++++ +** The functions all-completions and try-completion now accept lists +of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays +and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now +exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables may be either +strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings. +++ ** The new macro dynamic-completion-table supports using functions @@ -3480,108 +4018,43 @@ `lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR. +++ -** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands. - -+++ -** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters -for all (existing and future) frames. - -+++ -** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP). - -+++ -** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'. - -+++ -** The macro `with-syntax-table' does not copy the table any more. - -+++ -** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger -(or smaller) font we should use. For instance, if the value is -'((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10 -point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches -SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN. - -+++ -** The function `number-sequence' returns a list of equally-separated -numbers. For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). -By default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different separation -as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns (1.5 3.5 5.5). - -+++ -** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which -specifies the maximum number of links to chase through. If after that -many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link, -`file-chase-links' returns it anyway. - ---- -** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on -the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil.. - -+++ -** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character, -unless it is followed by a `-' in a character constant (e.g. ?\s-A), -in which case it is still interpreted as the super modifier. -In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space. - -+++ -** New function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the multibyteness -of a string given to a process's filter. - -+++ -** New function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns t if -a string given to a process's filter is multibyte. - -+++ -** A filter function of a process is called with a multibyte string if -the filter's multibyteness is t. That multibyteness is decided by the -value of `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is -created and can be changed later by `set-process-filter-multibyte'. - -+++ -** If a process's coding system is raw-text or no-conversion and its -buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted -to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer. -Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte', -which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading. - -+++ -** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a -multibyte string with the same individual character codes. - -+++ -** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information -on garbage collection. - -+++ -** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if -it is read from a file without decoding. - -+++ -** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information. - -+++ -** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window -of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed -by calling `select-window'. - ---- -** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name -if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu -into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't -need to have a name. - +** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME), +which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the +current file redefined it). + ++++ +** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is +defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name. + +--- +** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted. +Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more +than 3 levels of nesting. + ++++ +** The function symbol-file can now search specifically for function or +variable definitions. + ++++ +** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument +to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist' +and runs any code associated with the provided feature. + ++++ +** `declare' is now a macro. This change was made mostly for +documentation purposes and should have no real effect on Lisp code. + ++++ ** Byte compiler changes: ---- -*** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil. This -helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both -Emacs and XEmacs and may sometimes make the result significantly more -efficient. Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't -generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose -you anything. - -+++ +*** The byte-compiler now displays the actual line and character +position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form of its +warning and error messages have been brought more in line with the +output of other GNU tools. + +*** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings +inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'. + *** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a simple convention that the compiler understands. (This is mostly useful in code meant to be portable to different Emacs versions.) @@ -3598,44 +4071,19 @@ macro expansion), but such tests may be nested. Note that `when' and `unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't. -+++ -*** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings -inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'. - -+++ -** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input' -is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to -be inserted is translated through it. - -+++ -** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME), -which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the -current file redefined it). - -+++ -** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is -defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name. - -+++ -** New Lisp library testcover.el works with edebug to help you determine -whether you've tested all your Lisp code. Function testcover-start -instruments all functions in a given file. Then test your code. Function -testcover-mark-all adds overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to -show where coverage is lacking. Command testcover-next-mark (bind it to -a key!) will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch. - -*** Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely evaluated; -a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same value. The red -splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly complete their evaluation, -such as `error'. The brown splotches are skipped for forms that are expected -to always evaluate to the same value, such as (setq x 14). - -*** For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to help -out the test coverage tool. The macro `noreturn' suppresses a red splotch. -It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does return. The macro 1value -suppresses a brown splotch for its argument. This macro is a no-op except -during test-coverage -- then it signals an error if the argument actually -returns differing values. +*** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil. This +helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both +Emacs and XEmacs and may sometimes make the result significantly more +efficient. Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't +generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose +you anything. + +*** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in elisp files is now obeyed. + +--- +** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file +now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs +(require 'cl) when loaded. +++ ** New function unsafep returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly @@ -3643,66 +4091,36 @@ unsafe (calls dangerous function, alters global variable, etc). +++ -** The new variable `print-continuous-numbering', when non-nil, says -that successive calls to print functions should use the same -numberings for circular structure references. This is only relevant -when `print-circle' is non-nil. - -When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should -also bind `print-number-table' to nil. - -+++ -** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width, -the scroll-bar-width frame parameter value is nil. - -+++ -** The new function copy-abbrev-table returns a new abbrev table that -is a copy of a given abbrev table. - -+++ -** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE. -It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they -can start with this line: - - #!/usr/bin/emacs --script - -+++ -** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately. -Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they -appear on the command line. For example, with this command line: - - emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)" - -Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then -in the other directories in `load-path'. (-L is short for --directory.) - -+++ -** A function's docstring can now hold the function's usage info on -its last line. It should match the regexp "\n\n(fn.*)\\'". - ---- -** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access -hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'. - -+++ -** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional buffer -argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted it defaults to -the current buffer. - -+++ ** There is a new Warnings facility; see the functions `warn' and `display-warning'. -+++ -** The functions all-completions and try-completion now accept lists -of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays -and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now -exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables may be either -strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings. - ---- -** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how -much pure storage it will approximately need. +--- +** VC changes for backends: +*** (vc-switches BACKEND OPERATION) is a new function for use by backends. +*** The new `find-version' backend function replaces the `destfile' +parameter of the `checkout' backend function. +Old code still works thanks to a default `find-version' behavior that +uses the old `destfile' parameter. + ++++ +** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough: + +Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes +from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte +buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them +now: + +1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time. + +2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid +the time it takes to convert the format. + +3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and +wasteful. + +--- +** set-buffer-file-coding-system now takes an additional argument, +NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified. +++ ** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions @@ -3714,6 +4132,69 @@ ** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects of one coding system from another coding system. +--- +** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that +the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text +parts, e.g. utf-16. + ++++ +** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if +it is read from a file without decoding. + ++++ +** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE +argument. + ++++ +** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input' +is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to +be inserted is translated through it. + +--- +** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access +hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'. + ++++ +** The flags, width, and precision options for %-specifications in function +`format' are now documented. Some flags that were accepted but not +implemented (such as "*") are no longer accepted. + +--- +** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect +debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file. + ++++ +** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead. + ++++ +** The macro `with-syntax-table' does not copy the table any more. + ++++ +** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information +on garbage collection. + ++++ +** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information. + ++++ +** The new variable `print-continuous-numbering', when non-nil, says +that successive calls to print functions should use the same +numberings for circular structure references. This is only relevant +when `print-circle' is non-nil. + +When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should +also bind `print-number-table' to nil. + +--- +** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how +much pure storage it will approximately need. + ++++ +** File local variables. + +A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text +properties--any specified text properties are discarded. + +++ ** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables @@ -3733,66 +4214,6 @@ confirmation as before. +++ -** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths. - -The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame -can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe' -frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels. -Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe. - -The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the -specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an -integral number of columns. The extra width is distributed evenly -between the left and right fringe. For force a specific fringe width, -specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative, -only the left fringe gets the specified width). - -Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe -width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any -of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in -fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels. - -+++ -** Per-window fringes settings - -Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and position -settings. - -To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local -variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call -`set-window-fringes'. - -To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes -are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area, -or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable -`fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'. - -The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current -settings. To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and -`fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before -displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force -an update of the display margins. - -+++ -** Per-window vertical scroll-bar settings - -Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings -controlling the width and position of scroll-bars. - -To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local -variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call -`set-window-scroll-bars'. The function `window-scroll-bars' can be -used to obtain the current settings. To make `scroll-bar-mode' and -`scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying -the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update -of the display margins. - -+++ -** The function `set-window-buffer' now has an optional third argument -KEEP-MARGINS which will preserve the window's current margin, fringe, -and scroll-bar settings if non-nil. - -+++ ** Renamed hooks to better follow the naming convention: find-file-hooks to find-file-hook, find-file-not-found-hooks to find-file-not-found-functions, @@ -3808,494 +4229,16 @@ name remains available as an alias, but has been marked obsolete. +++ -** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which -specifies a predicate which the file name read must satify. The -new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument -while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this -variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list. - ---- -** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by lisp code -to override the internal read-file-name function. - -+++ -** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies -whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the -`read-file-name' function. - -+++ -** The new function `read-directory-name' can be used instead of -`read-file-name' to read a directory name; when used, completion -will only show directories. - -+++ ** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using its own special methods and not directly through the file system). The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system. ---- -** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file -now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs -(require 'cl) when loaded. - -+++ -** The `defmacro' form may contain declarations specifying how to -indent the macro in Lisp mode and how to debug it with Edebug. The -syntax of defmacro has been extended to - - (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...) - -DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'. The -declaration specifiers supported are: - -(indent INDENT) - Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT. - -(edebug DEBUG) - Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG. (This is - equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro. - -+++ -** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps. - -This is an alternative to using defadvice or substitute-key-definition -to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap -binding and lookup functionality. - -When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is -remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the -original command. - -Example: -Suppose that minor mode my-mode has defined the commands -my-kill-line and my-kill-word, and it wants C-k (and any other key -bound to kill-line) to run the command my-kill-line instead of -kill-line, and likewise it wants to run my-kill-word instead of -kill-word. - -Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map, -command remapping allows you to directly map kill-line into -my-kill-line and kill-word into my-kill-word through the minor mode -map using define-key: - - (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line) - (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word) - -Now, when my-mode is enabled, and the user enters C-k or M-d, -the commands my-kill-line and my-kill-word are run. - -Notice that only one level of remapping is supported. In the above -example, this means that if my-kill-line is remapped to other-kill, -then C-k still runs my-kill-line. - -The following changes have been made to provide command remapping: - -- Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key - `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD - to definition DEF in keymap MAP. The definition is not limited to - another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding. - -- The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a - remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped. - -- key-binding now remaps interactive commands unless the optional - third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil. - -- where-is-internal now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g. - kill-line if my-mode is enabled), and the actual key binding for - the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line). - It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits - remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns C-k for kill-line and - <kill-line> for my-kill-line). - -- The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original - command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the - command was not remapped. - -+++ -** New variable emulation-mode-map-alists. - -Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own -keymap alist separate from minor-mode-map-alist by adding their keymap -alist to this list. - -+++ -** Atomic change groups. - -To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that -they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group' -around the code that makes changes. For instance: - - (atomic-change-group - (insert foo) - (delete-region x y)) - -If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of -`atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that -were during the execution of the body. The change group has no effect -on any other buffers--any such changes remain. - -If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the -lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses. Here is how. - -To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'. -Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer. -This function returns a "handle" for the change group. You must save -the handle to activate the change group and then finish it. - -Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change -group. Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to -do this. - -After you make the changes, you must finish the change group. You can -either accept the changes or cancel them all. Call -`accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final; -call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all. - -You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always -finished. The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the -`unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs. -(This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and -`activate-change-group' are separate functions.) Once you finish the -group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group -twice. - -To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once -for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the -returned values, like this: - - (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1) - (prepare-change-group buffer-2)) - -You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call -to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to -`accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'. - -Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you -would expect. Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer -will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first -change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one -finished. - -+++ -** New variable char-property-alias-alist. - -This variable allows you to create alternative names for text -properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties', -although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced -to implement the `font-lock-face' property. - -+++ -** New special text property `font-lock-face'. - -This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by -M-x font-lock-mode. It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text -property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the -new variable `char-property-alias-alist'. - -+++ -** New function remove-list-of-text-properties. - -The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties' is almost the same -as `remove-text-properties'. The only difference is that it takes -a list of property names as argument rather than a property list. - -+++ -** New function insert-for-yank. - -This function normally works like `insert' but removes the text -properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list. However, if the -inserted text has a `yank-handler' text property on the first -character of the string, the insertion of the text may be modified in -a number of ways. See the description of `yank-handler' below. - -+++ -** New function insert-buffer-substring-as-yank. - -This function works like `insert-buffer-substring', but removes the -text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list. - -+++ -** New function insert-buffer-substring-no-properties. - -This function is like insert-buffer-substring, but removes all -text properties from the inserted substring. - -+++ -** New `yank-handler' text property may be used to control how -previously killed text on the kill-ring is reinserted. - -The value of the yank-handler property must be a list with one to four -elements with the following format: - (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO). - -The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on -the first character on its string argument (typically the first -element on the kill-ring). If a yank-handler property is found, -the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways: - - When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert' -to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert. - If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object -passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is -`yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a -rectangle. - If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the -yank-excluded-properties is not performed; instead FUNCTION is -responsible for removing those properties. This may be necessary -if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object. - If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called -by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object. It is -called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region. -FUNCTION may set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value. - -+++ -*** The functions kill-new, kill-append, and kill-region now have an -optional argument to specify the yank-handler text property to put on -the killed text. - -+++ -*** The function yank-pop will now use a non-nil value of the variable -`yank-undo-function' (instead of delete-region) to undo the previous -yank or yank-pop command (or a call to insert-for-yank). The function -insert-for-yank automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO -element of the string argument's yank-handler text property if present. - -+++ -** New function display-supports-face-attributes-p may be used to test -whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable. - -A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face -specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces -defined with defface. - ---- -** The function face-differs-from-default-p now truly checks whether the -given face displays differently from the default face or not (previously -it did only a very cursory check). - -+++ -** face-attribute, face-foreground, face-background, and face-stipple now -accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how face -inheritance is used when determining the value of a face attribute. - -+++ -** New functions face-attribute-relative-p and merge-face-attribute -help with handling relative face attributes. - -+++ -** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face-list is reversed. -If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier -faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous releases -of Emacs, the order was the opposite. This change was made so that -:inherit face-lists operate identically to face-lists in text `face' -properties. - -+++ -** Enhancements to process support - -*** Function list-processes now has an optional argument; if non-nil, -only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set are listed. - -*** New set-process-query-on-exit-flag and process-query-on-exit-flag -functions. The existing process-kill-without-query function is still -supported, but new code should use the new functions. - -*** Function signal-process now accepts a process object or process -name in addition to a process id to identify the signalled process. - -*** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can -maintain process state and other per-process related information. - -The new functions process-get and process-put are used to access, add, -and modify elements on this property list. - -The new low-level functions process-plist and set-process-plist are -used to access and replace the entire property list of a process. - -*** Function accept-process-output now has an optional fourth arg -`just-this-one'. If non-nil, only output from the specified process -is handled, suspending output from other processes. If value is an -integer, also inhibit running timers. This feature is generally not -recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as -speech synthesis. - ---- -*** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output. - -On some systems, when emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the -output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in -very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent -by setting the new variable process-adaptive-read-buffering to a -non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading -from such processes, to allowing them to produce more output before -emacs tries to read it. - -+++ -** Enhanced networking support. - -*** There is a new `make-network-process' function which supports -opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as -create a stream or datagram server inside emacs. - -- A server is started using :server t arg. -- Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg. -- A server can open on a random port using :service t arg. -- Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg. -- Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg. -- The process' property list may be initialized using :plist PLIST arg; - a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited - by new client processes created to handle incoming connections. - -To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this: - (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram)) - -*** Original open-network-stream is now emulated using make-network-process. - -*** New function open-network-stream-nowait. - -This function initiates a non-blocking connect and returns immediately -without waiting for the connection to be established. It takes the -filter and sentinel functions as arguments; when the non-blocking -connect completes, the sentinel is called with a status string -matching "open" or "failed". - -*** New function open-network-stream-server. - -This function creates a network server process for a TCP service. -When a client connects to the specified service, a new subprocess -is created to handle the new connection, and the sentinel function -is called for the new process. - -*** New functions process-datagram-address and set-process-datagram-address. - -These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get -and set the current address of the remote partner. - -*** New function format-network-address. - -This function reformats the lisp representation of a network address -to a printable string. For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port -number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the -printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc -string for other formatting options. - -*** By default, the function process-contact still returns (HOST SERVICE) -for a network process. Using the new optional KEY arg, the complete list -of network process properties or a specific property can be selected. - -Using :local and :remote as the KEY, the address of the local or -remote end-point is returned. An Inet address is represented as a 5 -element vector, where the first 4 elements contain the IP address and -the fifth is the port number. - -*** Network processes can now be stopped and restarted with -`stop-process' and `continue-process'. For a server process, no -connections are accepted in the stopped state. For a client process, -no input is received in the stopped state. - -*** New function network-interface-list. - -This function returns a list of network interface names and their -current network addresses. - -*** New function network-interface-info. - -This function returns the network address, hardware address, current -status, and other information about a specific network interface. - -+++ -** New function copy-tree. - -+++ -** New function substring-no-properties. - -+++ -** New function minibuffer-selected-window. - -+++ -** New function `call-process-shell-command'. - -+++ -** New function `process-file'. - -This is similar to `call-process', but obeys file handlers. The file -handler is chosen based on default-directory. - ---- -** The dummy function keys made by easymenu -are now always lower case. If you specify the -menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada' -as the "key" bound by that key binding. - -This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for -the bindings that were made with easymenu. - -+++ -** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional -argument. If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks -for a function that could be called with `call-interactively', -and does not return t for keyboard macros. - ---- -** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave -buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer. - -It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master -and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi -buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the -commands. - -This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable -sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the -SQL buffer. - -(add-hook 'sql-mode-hook - (function (lambda () - (master-mode t) - (master-set-slave sql-buffer)))) -(add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook - (function (lambda () - (master-set-slave sql-buffer)))) - -+++ -** File local variables. - -A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text -properties--any specified text properties are discarded. - -+++ -** New function window-body-height. - -This is like window-height but does not count the mode line -or the header line. - -+++ -** New function format-mode-line. - -This returns the mode-line or header-line of the selected (or a -specified) window as a string with or without text properties. - +++ ** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer signals an error for a malformed property list. They also detect cyclic lists. +++ -** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'. - -These functions are like `plist-get' and `plist-put' except that they -compare the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'. - -+++ -** New function `tool-bar-local-item-from-menu' - -The `tool-bar-add-item-from-menu' must not be used (as previously -recommended) for making entries in the tool bar for local keymaps. -Instead, use the function `tool-bar-local-item-from-menu', which lets -you specify the map to use as an argument. - -+++ ** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument. When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the @@ -4303,19 +4246,10 @@ equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.) +++ -** You can now make a window as short as one line. - -A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode -line or a header line, even if the variables `mode-line-format' and -`header-line-format' call for them. A window that is two lines tall -cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the -variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears. - -+++ -** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use -for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a -number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp -Reference manual for more detailed documentation. +** New function format-mode-line. + +This returns the mode-line or header-line of the selected (or a +specified) window as a string with or without text properties. +++ ** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be @@ -4338,41 +4272,6 @@ cl-indent package. See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'. +++ -** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough: - -Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes -from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte -buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them -now: - -1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time. - -2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid -the time it takes to convert the format. - -3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and -wasteful. - -+++ -** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence -over minor mode keymaps. - -+++ -** A hex escape in a string forces the string to be multibyte. -An octal escape makes it unibyte. - -+++ -** At the end of a command, point moves out from within invisible -text, in the same way it moves out from within text covered by an -image or composition property. - -This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible. -This is particularly good because the intangible property often has -unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything -(including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after -post-command-hook and thus does not care about intermediate states. - -+++ ** field-beginning and field-end now accept an additional optional argument, LIMIT. @@ -4384,44 +4283,6 @@ flag. --- -** Support for Mocklisp has been removed. - ---- -** The function insert-string is now obsolete. - ---- -** The precedence of file-name-handlers has been changed. -Instead of blindly choosing the first handler that matches, -find-file-name-handler now gives precedence to a file-name handler -that matches near the end of the file name. More specifically, the -handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. -In case of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies. - ---- -** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly. -Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key -bindings of the parent keymap. - ---- -** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'. -If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified -(see jit-lock-defer-contextually), then all of that text will -be refontified. This is useful when the syntax of a textual element -depends on text several lines further down (and when font-lock-multiline -is not appropriate to solve that problem). For example in Perl: - - s{ - foo - }{ - bar - }e - -Adding/removing the last `e' changes the `bar' from being a piece of -text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a jit-lock-defer-multiline -property over the second half of the command to force (deferred) -refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed. - ---- ** describe-vector now takes a second argument `describer' which is called to print the entries' values. It defaults to `princ'. @@ -4429,137 +4290,33 @@ ** defcustom and other custom declarations now use a default group (the last prior group defined in the same file) when no :group was given. +--- +** The new customization type `float' specifies numbers with floating +point (no integers are allowed). + +++ ** emacsserver now runs pre-command-hook and post-command-hook when it receives a request from emacsclient. --- -** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted. -Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more -than 3 levels of nesting. - ---- -** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect' -property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use -it in that buffer. - ---- -** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits -properties from surrounding text. - -+++ -** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final -element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data' -accepts such a list for restoring the match state. - -+++ -** New function `buffer-local-value'. - -This function returns the buffer-local binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) -in buffer BUFFER. If VARIABLE does not have a buffer-local binding in -buffer BUFFER, it returns the default value of VARIABLE instead. - ---- ** New function `text-clone-create'. Text clones are chunks of text that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one clone to the other. +++ -** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'. -*** the FACENAME returned in font-lock-keywords can be a list -of the form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set -other properties than `face'. -*** font-lock-extra-managed-props can be set to make sure those extra -properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock. - ---- -** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR' -or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the -`defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use -the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background -directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face. - -+++ -** The new function `run-mode-hooks' and the new macro `delay-mode-hooks' -are used by define-derived-mode to make sure the mode hook for the -parent mode is run at the end of the child mode. - -+++ -** define-minor-mode now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments -and simply passes them to defcustom, if applicable. - -+++ -** define-derived-mode by default creates a new empty abbrev table. -It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table. - -+++ -** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument -to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist' -and runs any code associated with the provided feature. - -+++ -** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now -ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as -`.emacs' are treated as extensionless. - -+++ ** Functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid' now return floats if the user UID doesn't fit in a Lisp integer. Function `user-full-name' accepts a float as UID parameter. ---- -** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1. - -+++ -** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in elisp files is now obeyed. - -+++ -** The Emacs Lisp byte-compiler now displays the actual line and -character position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form -of its warning and error messages have been brought more in line with -the output of other GNU tools. - -+++ -** New functions `keymap-prompt' and `current-active-maps'. - ---- -** New function `describe-buffer-bindings'. - +++ ** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when searching for an executable resp. an elisp file. +++ -** Variable aliases have been implemented: - -*** defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING] - -This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for -symbol BASE-VAR. This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR -returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR -changes the value of BASE-VAR. - -DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has -the same documentation as BASE-VAR. - -*** indirect-variable VARIABLE - -This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases -of VARIABLE. If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not -defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE. - -It might be noteworthy that variables aliases work for all kinds of -variables, including buffer-local and frame-local variables. - -+++ ** Functions from `post-gc-hook' are run at the end of garbage collection. The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care. +++ -** If the second argument to `copy-file' is the name of a directory, -the file is copied to that directory instead of signaling an error. - -+++ ** The variables most-positive-fixnum and most-negative-fixnum hold the largest and smallest possible integer values. @@ -4569,30 +4326,191 @@ formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system. --- -** Functions y-or-n-p, read-char, read-key-sequence and the like, that -display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt -using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string. - ---- ** New function x-send-client-message sends a client message when running under X. -+++ -** Arguments for remove-overlays are now optional, so that you can remove -all overlays in the buffer by just calling (remove-overlay). +--- +** easy-mmode-define-global-mode has been renamed to +define-global-minor-mode. The old name remains as an alias. + +--- +** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the +proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify +"files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File" +several versions ago. + +--- +** The dummy function keys made by easymenu are now always lower case. +If you specify the menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada' +as the "key" bound by that key binding. + +This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for the bindings that were +made with easymenu. + +--- +** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name +if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu +into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't +need to have a name. + +** New functions, macros, and commands: + ++++ +*** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and +`assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have +been declared obsolete. + ++++ +*** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local +binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER. If VARIABLE does not +have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default +value of VARIABLE instead. + ++++ +*** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people +have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' did: it returns t if the +calling function was called through `call-interactively'. This should +only be used when you cannot add a new "interactive" argument to the +command. + +*** The new function copy-abbrev-table returns a new abbrev table that +is a copy of a given abbrev table. + ++++ +*** New function copy-tree makes a copy of a tree, recursively copying +both cars and cdrs. + ++++ +*** New function `delete-dups' destructively removes `equal' +duplicates from a list. Of several `equal' occurrences of an element +in the list, the first one is kept. + ++++ +*** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer +substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns +the filtered substring. It is used instead of `buffer-substring' or +`delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible +data structure, like the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register. The +list of filter function is specified by the new variable +`buffer-substring-filters'. For example, Longlines mode uses +`buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied +text. + ++++ +*** New functions frame-current-scroll-bars and window-current-scroll-bars. + +These functions return the current locations of the vertical and +horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window. + ++++ +*** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor +run time used by Emacs since start-up. + ++++ +*** The new function insert-buffer-substring-as-yank works like +`insert-buffer-substring', but removes the text properties in the +`yank-excluded-properties' list. + ++++ +*** The new function insert-buffer-substring-no-properties is like +insert-buffer-substring, but removes all text properties from the +inserted substring. + ++++ +*** The new functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put' are like +`plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare the property +name using `equal' rather than `eq'. + ++++ +*** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of the +current line in the current buffer, or if optional buffer position is +given, line number of corresponding line in current buffer. + ++++ +*** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches +the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far +back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long. + ++++ +*** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form. +It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name. +One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument +if no expansion is done, which may be tested using `eq'. + +*** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional +buffer argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted, it +defaults to the current buffer. + ++++ +*** New function minibuffer-selected-window returns the window which +was selected when entering the minibuffer. + ++++ +*** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters +for all (existing and future) frames. + ++++ +*** New functions posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y return +click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer +position or for a given window pixel coordinate. + +--- +*** New function quail-find-key returns a list of keys to type in the +current input method to input a character. + ++++ +*** The new function `rassq-delete-all' deletes all elements from an +alist whose cdr is `eq' to a specified value. + ++++ +*** The new function remove-list-of-text-properties is almost the same +as `remove-text-properties'. The only difference is that it takes a +list of property names as argument rather than a property list. + ++++ +*** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and +modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this +operation. + ++++ +*** New function substring-no-properties returns a substring without +text properties. + ++++ +*** The new function syntax-after returns the syntax code +of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account +of text properties as well as the character code. + ++++ +*** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned +by syntax-after). + ++++ +*** New function `tool-bar-local-item-from-menu' + +The `tool-bar-add-item-from-menu' must not be used (as previously +recommended) for making entries in the tool bar for local keymaps. +Instead, use the function `tool-bar-local-item-from-menu', which lets +you specify the map to use as an argument. + ++++ +*** New function window-body-height. +This is like window-height but does not count the mode line +or the header line. + ++++ +*** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input +arrives. If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a +quit had occurred. while-no-input returns the value of BODY, if BODY +finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted. + ++++ +*** New macro with-local-quit temporarily sets inhibit-quit to nil for use +around potentially blocking or long-running code in timers +and post-command-hooks. ** New packages: -+++ -*** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to -GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but -there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the -state of your program. It separates the input/output of your program from -that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of -Emacs 21 such as the display margin for breakpoints, and the toolbar. - -Use M-x gdba to start GDB-UI. - *** The new package syntax.el provides an efficient way to find the current syntactic context (as returned by parse-partial-sexp). @@ -4611,6 +4529,54 @@ require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for such things as help and apropos buffers. +--- +*** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave +buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer. + +It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master +and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi +buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the +commands. + +This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable +sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the +SQL buffer. + +(add-hook 'sql-mode-hook + (function (lambda () + (master-mode t) + (master-set-slave sql-buffer)))) +(add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook + (function (lambda () + (master-set-slave sql-buffer)))) + ++++ +*** New Lisp library testcover.el works with edebug to help you determine +whether you've tested all your Lisp code. Function testcover-start +instruments all functions in a given file. Then test your code. Function +testcover-mark-all adds overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to +show where coverage is lacking. Command testcover-next-mark (bind it to +a key!) will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch. + +Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely +evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same +value. The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly +complete their evaluation, such as `error'. The brown splotches are +skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same +value, such as (setq x 14). + +For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to +help out the test coverage tool. The macro `noreturn' suppresses a +red splotch. It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does +return. The macro 1value suppresses a brown splotch for its argument. +This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals +an error if the argument actually returns differing values. + +--- +** Support for Mocklisp has been removed. + +--- +** The function insert-string is now obsolete. * Installation changes in Emacs 21.3