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changeset 77652:7359af7113b3
Try to rearrange by related topics, and some order of importance.
| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 05 May 2007 22:39:58 +0000 |
| parents | 68bbc325e84e |
| children | c4a5ad4ab8f7 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 1994 insertions(+), 1981 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Sat May 05 22:39:13 2007 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Sat May 05 22:39:58 2007 +0000 @@ -41,14 +41,6 @@ when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.4 or newer. This port provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats). -** Emacs comes with a new set of icons. -These icons are displayed on the taskbar and/or titlebar when Emacs -runs in a graphical environment. Source files for these icons can be -found in etc/images/icons. (You can't change the icons displayed by -Emacs by changing these files directly. On X, the icon is compiled -into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS -Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.) - ** The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is now part of the distribution. The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in Info format is built as part of the @@ -68,6 +60,23 @@ You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build Emacs with Leim. +** Support for MacOS X was added. +See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions. + +** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also +create a non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See +the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions. + +** Support for a Cygwin build of Emacs was added. + +** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added. + +** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added. + +** Support for GNU/Linux systems on Tensilica Xtensa machines was added. + +** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added. + ** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both with simplified and traditional characters), French, Russian, and @@ -80,33 +89,6 @@ ** 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 GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added. - -** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added. - -** Support for GNU/Linux systems on Tensilica Xtensa machines was added. - -** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added. - -** Support for a Cygwin build of Emacs was added. - -** Support for MacOS X was added. -See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions. - -** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also -create a non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See -the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions. - -** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code. - -** The `yow' program has been removed. -Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead. - ** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of installed programs. @@ -119,75 +101,52 @@ to a game user is not available, then scores will be stored separately in each user's home directory. +** 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'. + ** Emacs can now be built without sound support. +** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available. + +** All images used in Emacs have been consolidated in etc/images and subdirs. +See also the changes to `find-image', documented below. + +** Emacs comes with a new set of icons. +These icons are displayed on the taskbar and/or titlebar when Emacs +runs in a graphical environment. Source files for these icons can be +found in etc/images/icons. (You can't change the icons displayed by +Emacs by changing these files directly. On X, the icon is compiled +into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS +Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.) + +** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code. + +** The `yow' program has been removed. +Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead. + +** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name. +The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its +terminfo name, since term.el now supports color. + +** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the +contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should +Emacs crash. + ** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types. ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how much pure storage it will approximately need. -** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the -contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should -Emacs crash. - -** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name. -The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its -terminfo name, since term.el now supports color. - -** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available. - -** All images used in Emacs have been consolidated in etc/images and subdirs. -See also the changes to `find-image', documented below. - * Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1 -** 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 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 command line option --no-windows has been changed to ---no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated. - -** If the environment variable DISPLAY specifies an unreachable X display, -Emacs will now startup as if invoked with the --no-window-system option. - -** 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. - -** 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. - -** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does, -with respect to its frame position: if you don't specify a position -(in your .emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry -command-line option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows' -window manager. +** Init file changes +If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try +~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. Likewise, if the shell init file +~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh. ** 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 @@ -201,18 +160,47 @@ `inhibit-splash-screen' (which is also aliased as `inhibit-startup-message'). -** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon. -The command-line options --icon-type, -i have been replaced with -options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn the bitmap icon off. - ** 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 -If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try -~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. Likewise, if the shell init file -~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh. +** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables +the blinking cursor on graphical terminals. + +** 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 -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. + +** 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.) + +** 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. + +** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does, +with respect to its frame position: if you don't specify a position +(in your .emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry +command-line option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows' +window manager. + +** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to +--no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated. + +** If the environment variable DISPLAY specifies an unreachable X display, +Emacs will now startup as if invoked with the --no-window-system option. ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save @@ -220,6 +208,18 @@ can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first, according to the value of `save-abbrevs'. +** 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. + +** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon. +The command-line options --icon-type, -i have been replaced with +options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn the bitmap icon off. + ** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value to compute the default value of `user-mail-address', in preference to concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine. @@ -231,6 +231,24 @@ See below for more details. +** 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. + +** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name. +This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the +need to quote the space with a C-q. The underlying changes in the +keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under +"New keymaps for typing file names". + +** 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. + +** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special. + +See below under "incremental search changes". + ** 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 `). @@ -245,24 +263,6 @@ ** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties; M-o M-o requests refontification. -** 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. - -** 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. - -** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special. - -See below under "incremental search changes". - -** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name. -This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the -need to quote the space with a C-q. The underlying changes in the -keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under -"New keymaps for typing file names". - ** C-x C-f RET (find-file), typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case. @@ -273,10 +273,6 @@ You can get the old behavior by typing C-x C-f M-n RET, which fetches the actual file name into the minibuffer. -** 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. - ** 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 @@ -300,6 +296,10 @@ ** Adaptive filling misfeature removed. It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix. +** 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. + ** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19) have been removed: C-x / point-to-register (Use: C-x r SPC) @@ -310,6 +310,9 @@ * Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1 +** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled. +On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455). + ** !MEM FULL! at the start of the mode line indicates that Emacs cannot get any more memory for Lisp data. This often means it could crash soon if you do things that use more memory. On most systems, @@ -317,34 +320,31 @@ not make !MEM FULL! disappear, you should save your work and start a new Emacs. -** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled. -On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455). +** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo. + +** 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. + +** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once. +By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>. + +** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N +converts whitespace around point to N spaces. ** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left (previous-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and C-x right can be used as well. The functions keep a different buffer cycle for each frame, using the frame-local buffer list. -** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo. - -** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N -converts whitespace around point to N spaces. - ** C-x 5 C-o displays a specified buffer in another frame but does not switch to that frame. It's the multi-frame analogue of C-x 4 C-o. -** 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. +** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now +understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and +`same-window'. ** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters: `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'. @@ -355,58 +355,13 @@ now refer to the value of environment variable foo. To include a `$' in the value, use `$$'. -** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now -understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and -`same-window'. +** 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. ** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken from the locale. -** Mark command changes: - -*** 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 type C-M-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. - -*** 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. - ** Help command changes: *** Changes in C-h bindings: @@ -442,6 +397,18 @@ - C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports: new-kill-line is on C-k +*** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match. +When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must +be present for an item to match. Regular expression matching is still +available. + +*** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items +to be sorted according to their score. The score for an item is a +number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or +regular expression that you entered to the apropos command. The best +match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each +matching item. + *** 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 @@ -481,25 +448,56 @@ determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults to one second. This feature is turned off by default. -*** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match. -When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must -be present for an item to match. Regular expression matching is still -available. - -*** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items -to be sorted according to their score. The score for an item is a -number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or -regular expression that you entered to the apropos command. The best -match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each -matching item. +** Mark command changes: + +*** 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 type C-M-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. + +*** 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. + +*** 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. ** Incremental Search changes: -*** 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. +*** 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. *** 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 @@ -513,9 +511,11 @@ 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. +*** 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. *** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new @@ -523,10 +523,6 @@ ** Replace command changes: -*** 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 @@ -543,16 +539,12 @@ *** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face `query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face. +*** 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. + ** Local variables lists: -*** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and -suffix from every line before processing all the lines. - -*** Text properties in local variables. - -A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text -properties--any specified text properties are discarded. - *** If the local variables list contains any variable-value pairs that are not known to be safe, Emacs shows a prompt asking whether to apply the local variables list as a whole. In earlier versions, a prompt @@ -589,6 +581,14 @@ If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for confirmation as before. +*** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and +suffix from every line before processing all the lines. + +*** Text properties in local variables. + +A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text +properties--any specified text properties are discarded. + ** File operation changes: *** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when @@ -596,29 +596,20 @@ Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting is only rarely needed. -*** 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. It now asks if you -wish save your changes and not just offer to kill the buffer. - -*** 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. -*** 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. +*** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default. + +*** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold', +Emacs asks for confirmation. + *** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument, convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of @@ -626,22 +617,6 @@ commands cp, mv, and ln follow.) Thus, M-x copy-file RET ~/foo RET /tmp RET copies ~/foo to /tmp/foo. -*** 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 new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync -in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up -the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result -in data loss, use with care. - -*** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold', -Emacs asks for confirmation. - *** require-final-newline now has two new possible values: `visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed @@ -658,8 +633,37 @@ So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these modes do. +*** 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.) + +*** 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. It now asks if you +wish save your changes and not just offer to kill the buffer. + +*** 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 new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync +in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up +the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result +in data loss, use with care. + ** Minibuffer changes: +*** 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. + *** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed. @@ -695,59 +699,12 @@ 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 from the history list. ** Redisplay changes: -*** Preemptive redisplay now adapts to current load and bandwidth. - -To avoid preempting redisplay on fast computers, networks, and displays, -the arrival of new input is now performed at regular intervals during -redisplay. The new variable `redisplay-preemption-period' specifies -the period; the default is to check for input every 0.1 seconds. - -*** 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. - -*** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs. - -*** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now displayed with a special -face, either nobreak-space or escape-glyph. You can turn this off or -specify a different mode by setting the variable `nobreak-char-display'. - -*** 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. - -*** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than -the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's -vscroll property. - -*** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between -overline and text. - -*** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative -position of the underline. When set, it overrides the -`x-use-underline-position-properties' variables. - *** 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. @@ -755,6 +712,10 @@ The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether the `mode-line-inactive' face is used. +*** 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. + *** 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 @@ -789,10 +750,6 @@ The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' can be set to nil to revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines. -*** When a window has display margin areas, the fringes are now -displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than -outside those margins. - *** A window can now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings, in addition to the individual display margin settings. @@ -800,6 +757,42 @@ horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored, or when the frame is resized. +*** When a window has display margin areas, the fringes are now +displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than +outside those margins. + +*** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs. + +*** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now displayed with a special +face, either nobreak-space or escape-glyph. You can turn this off or +specify a different mode by setting the variable `nobreak-char-display'. + +*** 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. + +*** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than +the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's +vscroll property. + +*** Preemptive redisplay now adapts to current load and bandwidth. + +To avoid preempting redisplay on fast computers, networks, and displays, +the arrival of new input is now performed at regular intervals during +redisplay. The new variable `redisplay-preemption-period' specifies +the period; the default is to check for input every 0.1 seconds. + *** The %c and %l constructs are now ignored in frame-title-format. Due to technical limitations in how Emacs interacts with windowing systems, these constructs often failed to render properly, and could @@ -809,27 +802,12 @@ will expand as needed, but not contract automatically. To contract the tool bar, you must type C-l. -** Cursor display changes: - -*** 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. - -*** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs -uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor. +*** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between +overline and text. + +*** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative +position of the underline. When set, it overrides the +`x-use-underline-position-properties' variables. ** New faces: @@ -851,9 +829,6 @@ ** Font-Lock (syntax highlighting) changes: -*** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties; -M-o M-o requests refontification. - *** All modes now support using M-x font-lock-mode to toggle fontification, even those such as Occur, Info, and comint-derived modes that do their own fontification in a special way. @@ -862,6 +837,15 @@ fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from `Info-mode-hook'. +*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'. + +*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'. + +*** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked. +You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of +the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode, +cperl-mode and make-mode support this. + *** Font-Lock mode: in major modes such as Lisp mode, where some Emacs features assume that an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment, Font-Lock now highlights any such open-paren in @@ -869,14 +853,8 @@ can cause trouble. You should rewrite the string or comment so that the open-paren is not in column 0. -*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'. - -*** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'. - -*** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked. -You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of -the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode, -cperl-mode and make-mode support this. +*** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties; +M-o M-o requests refontification. *** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed. The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now nil @@ -925,8 +903,6 @@ *** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide". -*** You can exit dialog windows and menus by typing 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. @@ -952,6 +928,35 @@ by setting the variable `x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use the new dialog. +*** You can exit dialog windows and menus by typing C-g. + +** Buffer Menu changes: + +*** 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. + +*** 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. + ** Mouse changes: *** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link. @@ -1006,8 +1011,7 @@ 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'. +*** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default. *** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved. @@ -1016,7 +1020,8 @@ ignored. You can customize this with the mouse-wheel-click-event and mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables. -*** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default. +*** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window +(rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'. ** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes: @@ -1047,6 +1052,11 @@ or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated by the keyboard. See Info node `Unibyte Mode'. +*** 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 new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r) revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify. @@ -1059,11 +1069,6 @@ *** 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. @@ -1177,35 +1182,18 @@ You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value" under the "[State]" button. -** Buffer Menu changes: - -*** 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. - ** Dired mode: +*** 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 +double quotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent +special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'. + +*** The Dired command `dired-goto-file' is now bound to j, not M-g. +This is to avoid hiding the global key binding of M-g. + *** 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. @@ -1216,16 +1204,6 @@ *** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer. -*** The Dired command `dired-goto-file' is now bound to j, not M-g. -This is to avoid hiding the global key binding of M-g. - -*** 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 -double quotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent -special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'. - *** In Dired, the w command now stores the current line's file name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, it stores the absolute file name. @@ -1243,6 +1221,12 @@ ** Comint changes: +*** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in subshells +running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment variable, +which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs that need +to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check INSIDE_EMACS +instead of EMACS. + *** The comint prompt can now be made read-only, using the new user option `comint-prompt-read-only'. This is not enabled by default, except in IELM buffers. The read-only status of IELM prompts can be @@ -1273,12 +1257,6 @@ `comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias, but declared obsolete. -*** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in subshells -running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment variable, -which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs that need -to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check INSIDE_EMACS -instead of EMACS. - ** M-x Compile changes: *** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable @@ -1330,13 +1308,6 @@ ** Occur mode changes: -*** 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-in-matching-buffers' which allows you to specify the @@ -1344,6 +1315,13 @@ Occur mode has been rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other changes. +*** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to +the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur. + +*** 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. + ** Grep changes: *** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup. @@ -1374,9 +1352,6 @@ Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange. Grep buffers can be saved and automatically revisited. -*** The new variables `grep-window-height' and `grep-scroll-output' override -the corresponding compilation mode settings, for grep commands only. - *** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlights matches in *grep* buffer. It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept --color option to output markers around matches. When going to the next @@ -1399,11 +1374,36 @@ unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated command lines to be used than was possible before. +*** The new variables `grep-window-height' and `grep-scroll-output' override +the corresponding compilation mode settings, for grep commands only. + +** Cursor display changes: + +*** 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. + +*** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any +of the recognized cursor types. + +*** 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. + +*** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs +uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor. + +*** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking. + +*** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is +now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'. + ** X Windows Support: *** 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. +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', @@ -1482,69 +1482,6 @@ * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1 -** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution. - -ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs. - -To see what modules are available, type -M-x customize-option erc-modules RET. - -To start an IRC session with ERC, type M-x erc, and follow the prompts -for server, port, and nick. - -** Rcirc is now part of the Emacs distribution. - -Rcirc is an Internet relay chat (IRC) client. It supports -simultaneous connections to multiple IRC servers. Each discussion -takes place in its own buffer. For each connection you can join -several channels (many-to-many) and participate in private -(one-to-one) chats. Both channel and private chats are contained in -separate buffers. - -To start an IRC session using the default parameters, type M-x irc. -If you type C-u M-x irc, it prompts you for the server, nick, port and -startup channel parameters before connecting. - -** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution. - -Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news -sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the -corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a -separate manual. - -** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions. -To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file. - -** 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. - -** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution. - -Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in -Emacs Lisp. The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc -can be started with `C-x * *'. The Calc manual is separate from the -Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the -manual. A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and -`etc/calccard.ps'. - -** 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. - ** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution. The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for @@ -1593,6 +1530,49 @@ must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file. +** Tramp is now part of the distribution. + +This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote +files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host, +Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used +for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for +the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called +`inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell +connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods +(which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or +`rsync' to do the copying). + +Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also +`su' and `sudo'. Ange-FTP is still supported via the `ftp' method. + +If you want to disable Tramp you should set + + (setq tramp-default-method "ftp") + +Removing Tramp, and re-enabling Ange-FTP, can be achieved by M-x +tramp-unload-tramp. + +** The image-dired.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in +other ways manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as +the main interface. Image-Dired provides functionality to generate +simple image galleries. + +** 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. + +** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution. + +Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in +Emacs Lisp. The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc +can be started with `C-x * *'. The Calc manual is separate from the +Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the +manual. A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and +`etc/calccard.ps'. + ** Org mode is now part of the Emacs distribution Org mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and @@ -1607,8 +1587,48 @@ type "C-h i m org RET" to read that manual. A reference card is available in `etc/orgcard.tex' and `etc/orgcard.ps'. -** The new package dns-mode.el adds syntax highlighting of DNS master files. -It is a modern replacement for zone-mode.el, which is now obsolete. +** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution. + +ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs. + +To see what modules are available, type +M-x customize-option erc-modules RET. + +To start an IRC session with ERC, type M-x erc, and follow the prompts +for server, port, and nick. + +** Rcirc is now part of the Emacs distribution. + +Rcirc is an Internet relay chat (IRC) client. It supports +simultaneous connections to multiple IRC servers. Each discussion +takes place in its own buffer. For each connection you can join +several channels (many-to-many) and participate in private +(one-to-one) chats. Both channel and private chats are contained in +separate buffers. + +To start an IRC session using the default parameters, type M-x irc. +If you type C-u M-x irc, it prompts you for the server, nick, port and +startup channel parameters before connecting. + +** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely +customizable replacement for buff-menu.el. + +** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution. + +Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news +sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the +corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a +separate manual. + +** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired +buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc... + +** 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. ** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so @@ -1617,33 +1637,6 @@ invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable. The display method can 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 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 -+, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key. The keypad -package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys. - -By customizing the variables `keypad-setup', `keypad-shifted-setup', -`keypad-numlock-setup', and `keypad-numlock-shifted-setup', or by -using the function `keypad-setup', you can rebind all digit keys and -the decimal key of the keypad in one step for each of the four -possible combinations of the Shift key state (not pressed/pressed) and -the NumLock toggle state (off/on). - -The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are: -`Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits, -`Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the -decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization), -`Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args -for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys' -where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and -`Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.) -are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global -or local keymaps. - ** Emacs' keyboard macro facilities have been enhanced by the new kmacro package. @@ -1677,12 +1670,38 @@ C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence at a time, prompting for the actions to take. -** 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... +** 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 ++, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key. The keypad +package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys. + +By customizing the variables `keypad-setup', `keypad-shifted-setup', +`keypad-numlock-setup', and `keypad-numlock-shifted-setup', or by +using the function `keypad-setup', you can rebind all digit keys and +the decimal key of the keypad in one step for each of the four +possible combinations of the Shift key state (not pressed/pressed) and +the NumLock toggle state (off/on). + +The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are: +`Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits, +`Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the +decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization), +`Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args +for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys' +where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and +`Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.) +are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global +or local keymaps. + +** The printing package is now part of the Emacs distribution. + +If you enable the printing package by including (require 'printing) in +the .emacs file, the normal Print item on the File menu is replaced +with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through +ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript +printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by +`ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information. ** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines' @@ -1694,14 +1713,25 @@ similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil. -** The printing package is now part of the Emacs distribution. - -If you enable the printing package by including (require 'printing) in -the .emacs file, the normal Print item on the File menu is replaced -with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through -ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript -printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by -`ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information. +** 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 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. + +** 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. ** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer. @@ -1710,58 +1740,34 @@ There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers. +** 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 new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program +source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details. + +** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions. +To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file. + ** 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 file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse +events from the console. It still requires gpm to work but has been updated +for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive. + +** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode +for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or +paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines +instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window +boundaries during scrolling. ** 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 image-dired.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in -other ways manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as -the main interface. Image-Dired provides functionality to generate -simple image galleries. - -** Tramp is now part of the distribution. - -This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote -files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host, -Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used -for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for -the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called -`inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell -connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods -(which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or -`rsync' to do the copying). - -Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also -`su' and `sudo'. Ange-FTP is still supported via the `ftp' method. - -If you want to disable Tramp you should set - - (setq tramp-default-method "ftp") - -Removing Tramp, and re-enabling Ange-FTP, can be achieved by M-x -tramp-unload-tramp. - -** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs. - -** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine -configuration files. - ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value, var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or @@ -1771,37 +1777,211 @@ ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit. -** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs. +** The new package dns-mode.el adds syntax highlighting of DNS master files. +It is a modern replacement for zone-mode.el, which is now obsolete. + +** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine +configuration files. ** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el. This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented. - -** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode -for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or -paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines -instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window -boundaries during scrolling. - -** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse -events from the console. It still requires gpm to work but has been updated -for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive. * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1: +** Changes in Dired + +*** Bindings for Image-Dired added. +Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been +added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Image-Dired. As a +starting point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d +to display thumbnails of them in a separate buffer. + +** Info mode changes + +*** Images in Info pages are supported. + +Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support. +Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo +version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images. + +*** `Info-index' offers completion. + +*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross +references and following them calls `browse-url'. + +*** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes. + +Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error +message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through +other nodes. When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps +around the whole manual to the top/final node. The user option +`Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch, +or the default isearch search function that wraps around the current +Info node. + +*** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S), +`Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last +search without prompting for a new search string. + +*** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known +Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the +possible matches. + +*** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon) +moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using +`Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last'). + +*** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes. + +*** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents +from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file. + +*** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies +the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix +arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call. + +*** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited +and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this. + +*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer +with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>"). + +*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default. + +If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option +`Info-hide-note-references' to nil. + +*** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil. + +** Emacs server changes + +*** 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 Lisp +expression and to use the given display when visiting files. + +*** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process. + +** Locate changes + +*** By default, reverting the *Locate* buffer now just runs the last +`locate' command back over again without offering to update the locate +database (which normally only works if you have root privileges). If +you prefer the old behavior, set the new customizable option +`locate-update-when-revert' to t. + +** Desktop package + +*** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, `desktop-save-mode'. + +*** The 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 command line option --no-desktop + +*** 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. Determines 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 hooks: + - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded. + - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found. + +** Recentf changes + +The recent file list is now automatically cleaned up when recentf mode is +enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do +automatic cleanup. + +The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut +keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via +the `recentf-open-files', or `recentf-open-more-files' commands. + +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-handlers', you can +specify functions that successively transform recent file names. For +example, if set to `file-truename' plus `abbreviate-file-name', the +same file will not be in the recent list with different symbolic +links, and the file name will be abbreviated. + +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. + +** Auto-Revert changes + +*** 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 can +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. + ** Changes in Shell Mode *** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text. (This is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.) -** Changes in Dired - -*** Bindings for Image-Dired added -Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been -added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Image-Dired. As a -starting point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d -to display thumbnails of them in a separate buffer. - ** Changes in Hi Lock *** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function @@ -1815,6 +1995,19 @@ ** Changes in Allout +*** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and +decryption. Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and +clear-text within a single file to your heart's content, using symmetric +and/or public key modes. Time-limited key caching, user-provided +symmetric key hinting and consistency verification, auto-encryption of +pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in +powerful ways. Encryption behavior customization is collected in the +allout-encryption customization group. + +*** Default command prefix was changed to "\C-c " (control-c space), to +avoid intruding on user's keybinding space. Customize the +`allout-command-prefix' variable to your preference. + *** Some previously rough topic-header format edge cases are reconciled. Level 1 topics use the mode's comment format, and lines starting with the asterisk - for instance, the comment close of some languages (eg, c's "*/" @@ -1843,15 +2036,6 @@ discontinuities, revealing excessively contained topics rather than either leaving them hidden or raising an error. -*** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and -decryption. Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and -clear-text within a single file to your heart's content, using symmetric -and/or public key modes. Time-limited key caching, user-provided -symmetric key hinting and consistency verification, auto-encryption of -pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in -powerful ways. Encryption behavior customization is collected in the -allout-encryption customization group. - *** Navigation within an item is easier. Repeated beginning-of-line and end-of-line key commands (usually, ^A and ^E) cycle through the beginning/end-of-line and then beginning/end of topic, etc. See new @@ -1877,10 +2061,6 @@ activation hook, `allout-mode-hook' are now run after the `allout-mode' variable is changed, rather than before. -*** Default command prefix was changed to "\C-c " (control-c space), to -avoid intruding on user's keybinding space. Customize the -`allout-command-prefix' variable to your preference. - *** Allout now uses text overlay's `invisible' property for concealed text, instead of selective-display. This simplifies the code, in particular avoiding the need for kludges for isearch dynamic-display, discretionary @@ -1911,11 +2091,289 @@ - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements. - version number incremented to 2.2 -** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' is renamed -to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this -variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point -automatically, without asking for a confirmation. Otherwise, the word -at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt. +** Hideshow mode changes + +*** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay +used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch +handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during +temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation. + +*** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does +not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent +block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil. + +** FFAP changes + +*** 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 the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS +argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'. + +** Changes in Skeleton + +*** In skeleton.el, `-' marks 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. + +*** The variables `skeleton-transformation', `skeleton-filter', and +`skeleton-pair-filter' have been renamed to +`skeleton-transformation-function', `skeleton-filter-function', and +`skeleton-pair-filter-function'. The old names are still available +as aliases. + +** HTML/SGML changes + +*** 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. + +*** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to +`sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as +alias. + +*** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support. + +** TeX modes + +*** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files. + +*** 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. + +** RefTeX mode changes + +*** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents + +The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the +section at point or all sections in the current region, with full +support for multifile documents. + +The new command `reftex-toc-recenter' (`C-c -') shows the current +section in the TOC buffer without selecting the TOC window. +Recentering can happen automatically in idle time when the option +`reftex-auto-recenter-toc' is turned on. The highlight in the TOC +buffer stays when the focus moves to a different window. A dedicated +frame can show the TOC with the current section always automatically +highlighted. The frame is created and deleted from the toc buffer +with the `d' key. + +The toc window can be split off horizontally instead of vertically. +See new option `reftex-toc-split-windows-horizontally'. + +Labels can be renamed globally from the table of contents using the +key `M-%'. + +The new command `reftex-goto-label' jumps directly to a label +location. + +*** Changes related to citations and BibTeX database files + +Commands that insert a citation now prompt for optional arguments when +called with a prefix argument. Related new options are +`reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' and `reftex-cite-cleanup-optional-args'. + +The new command `reftex-create-bibtex-file' creates a BibTeX database +with all entries referenced in the current document. The keys "e" and +"E" allow to produce a BibTeX database file from entries marked in a +citation selection buffer. + +The command `reftex-citation' uses the word in the buffer before the +cursor as a default search string. + +The support for chapterbib has been improved. Different chapters can +now use BibTeX or an explicit `thebibliography' environment. + +The macros which specify the bibliography file (like \bibliography) +can be configured with the new option `reftex-bibliography-commands'. + +Support for jurabib has been added. + +*** Global index matched may be verified with a user function. + +During global indexing, a user function can verify an index match. +See new option `reftex-index-verify-function'. + +*** Parsing documents with many labels can be sped up. + +Operating in a document with thousands of labels can be sped up +considerably by allowing RefTeX to derive the type of a label directly +from the label prefix like `eq:' or `fig:'. The option +`reftex-trust-label-prefix' needs to be configured in order to enable +this feature. While the speed-up is significant, this may reduce the +quality of the context offered by RefTeX to describe a label. + +*** Miscellaneous changes + +The macros which input a file in LaTeX (like \input, \include) can be +configured in the new option `reftex-include-file-commands'. + +RefTeX supports global incremental search. + +** 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 by inserting fields that may occur but are not +present. + +*** 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. + +*** The new command `bibtex-complete' completes word fragment before +point according to context (bound to M-tab). + +*** In BibTeX mode the command `fill-paragraph' (M-q) fills +individual fields of a BibTeX entry. + +*** The new variable `bibtex-autofill-types' contains a list of entry +types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible). + +*** 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). + +*** 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. + +*** If the new variable `bibtex-autoadd-commas' is non-nil, +automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields. + +*** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary +of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t). + +*** If the new variable `bibtex-parse-keys-fast' is non-nil, +use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys. + +*** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and +bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when +extracting the content of a BibTeX field. + +*** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and +`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to +`bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and +`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are +still available as aliases. + +** GUD changes + +*** 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 can separate the input/output of your program from +that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of +Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate +breakpoints. + +To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the +old behaviour. + +*** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior +and other common debugger commands. + +*** 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). + +*** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be +toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode +`gud-tooltip-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. + +*** 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. + +**** 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. + +**** 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). + +*** Added jdb 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 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. + +** Lisp mode changes + +*** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings. + +*** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list 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. ** Changes to cmuscheme @@ -1932,172 +2390,32 @@ subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command', `scheme-untrace-command' and `scheme-expand-current-form'. -** Changes in Makefile mode - -*** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp, BSD make and imake. - -The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter three -are new. Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable -faces. - -*** The variable `makefile-query-one-target-method' has been renamed -to `makefile-query-one-target-method-function'. The old name is still -available as alias. - -** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top -of the file that precede the first header line. - -** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet. - -** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can -run most curses applications now. - -** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode. - -** Diff mode key bindings changed. - -These are the new bindings: - -C-c C-e diff-ediff-patch (old M-A) -C-c C-n diff-restrict-view (old M-r) -C-c C-r diff-reverse-direction (old M-R) -C-c C-u diff-context->unified (old M-U) -C-c C-w diff-refine-hunk (old C-c C-r) - -To convert unified to context format, use C-u C-c C-u. -In addition, C-c C-u now operates on the region -in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active. - -** 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. - -Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and -`fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of -`fill-nobreak-predicate'. - -** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering -with special modes such as Tar mode. - -** 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. - -** `global-whitespace-mode' is a new alias for `whitespace-global-mode'. - -** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to -resync points in both windows. - -** 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. - -** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers -when Emacs visits them. - -** Info mode changes: - -*** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer -with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>"). - -*** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes. - -Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error -message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through -other nodes. When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps -around the whole manual to the top/final node. The user option -`Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch, -or the default isearch search function that wraps around the current -Info node. - -*** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S), -`Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last -search without prompting for a new search string. - -*** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon) -moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using -`Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last'). - -*** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes. - -*** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents -from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file. - -*** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known -Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the -possible matches. - -*** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies -the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix -arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call. - -*** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited -and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this. - -*** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross -references and following them calls `browse-url'. - -*** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default. - -If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option -`Info-hide-note-references' to nil. - -*** Images in Info pages are supported. - -Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support. -Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo -version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images. - -*** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil. - -*** `Info-index' offers completion. - -** Lisp mode changes: - -*** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings. - -*** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list 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. +** Ewoc changes + +*** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes. + +*** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of +a newline after each pretty-printed entry and after the header and footer. +This allows you to create multiple-entry ewocs on a single line and to +effect "invisible" nodes by arranging for the pretty-printer to not print +anything for those nodes. + +For example, these two sequences of expressions behave identically: + +;; NOSEP nil +(defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S" data))) +(ewoc-create 'PP "start\n") + +;; NOSEP t +(defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S\n" data))) +(ewoc-create 'PP "start\n\n" "\n" t) + +** CC mode changes *** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised. The information about using CC Mode has been separated from the larger and more difficult chapters about configuration. -*** Changes in Key Sequences -**** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t. - -**** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d. -This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards. - -**** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline. -c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias. - -**** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards -have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and -C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively. These -commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single -key-sequence. [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.] - -**** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. - -**** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w. - -*** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor -position(s). - *** New Minor Modes **** Electric Minor Mode toggles the electric action of non-alphabetic keys. The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. Turning the @@ -2110,15 +2428,41 @@ letters in StudlyCapsIdentifiers. You enable this feature by C-c C-w. It can also be used in non-CC Mode buffers. :-) Contributed by Masatake YAMATO. -*** New clean-ups - -**** `comment-close-slash'. -With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by -typing a slash at the start of a line. - -**** `c-one-liner-defun' -This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK -pattern/action pair) onto a single line. "Short enough" is configurable. +*** Support for the AWK language. +Support for the AWK language has been introduced. The implementation is +based around GNU AWK version 3.1, but it should work pretty well with +any AWK. As yet, not all features of CC Mode have been adapted for AWK. +Here is a summary: + +**** Indentation Engine +The CC Mode indentation engine fully supports AWK mode. + +AWK mode handles code formatted in the conventional AWK fashion: `{'s +which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are +placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s +are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function +definition, or structured statement. + +The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK +mode, though some of them may work serendipitously. There shouldn't +be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode. + +**** Font Locking +There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the +three distinct levels the other modes have. There are several +idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of +the AWK language itself. + +**** Comment and Movement Commands +These commands all work for AWK buffers. The notion of "defun" has +been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard +"defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this +extended definition. + +**** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups +A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default +style for AWK code. With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up +c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful. *** Font lock support. CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages. This @@ -2181,41 +2525,27 @@ All the keywords used in CORBA IDL, PSDL, and CIDL are recognized and handled correctly, also wrt indentation. -*** Support for the AWK language. -Support for the AWK language has been introduced. The implementation is -based around GNU AWK version 3.1, but it should work pretty well with -any AWK. As yet, not all features of CC Mode have been adapted for AWK. -Here is a summary: - -**** Indentation Engine -The CC Mode indentation engine fully supports AWK mode. - -AWK mode handles code formatted in the conventional AWK fashion: `{'s -which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are -placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s -are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function -definition, or structured statement. - -The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK -mode, though some of them may work serendipitously. There shouldn't -be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode. - -**** Font Locking -There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the -three distinct levels the other modes have. There are several -idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of -the AWK language itself. - -**** Comment and Movement Commands -These commands all work for AWK buffers. The notion of "defun" has -been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard -"defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this -extended definition. - -**** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups -A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default -style for AWK code. With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up -c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful. +*** Changes in Key Sequences +**** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t. + +**** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d. +This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards. + +**** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline. +c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias. + +**** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards +have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and +C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively. These +commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single +key-sequence. [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.] + +**** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. + +**** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w. + +*** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor +position(s). *** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode. The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are @@ -2346,6 +2676,16 @@ *** New function `c-context-open-line'. It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'. +*** New clean-ups + +**** `comment-close-slash'. +With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by +typing a slash at the start of a line. + +**** `c-one-liner-defun' +This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK +pattern/action pair) onto a single line. "Short enough" is configurable. + *** New lineup functions **** `c-lineup-string-cont' @@ -2368,6 +2708,10 @@ **** `c-lineup-argcont' Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma. +*** Added toggle for syntactic indentation. +The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle +syntactic indentation. + *** Better caching of the syntactic context. CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind) of the lists surrounding the point. Those positions are used in many @@ -2393,692 +2737,19 @@ Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current line is left untouched. -*** Added toggle for syntactic indentation. -The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle -syntactic indentation. - -** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was -preceded by a SPC or a TAB. - -** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'. - -** 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 -bindings on control characters--thus, C-c C-i C-b is the same as -C-c C-i b, and so on. - -** Fortran mode changes: - -*** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3 -highlighting for the old default. - -*** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'. -Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use. -Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking. - -*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands -`f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block', -`f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block', -`fortran-beginning-of-block'. - -*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow). -It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable -majority. - -*** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change -the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers. - -** Reftex mode changes - -*** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents - -The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the -section at point or all sections in the current region, with full -support for multifile documents. - -The new command `reftex-toc-recenter' (`C-c -') shows the current -section in the TOC buffer without selecting the TOC window. -Recentering can happen automatically in idle time when the option -`reftex-auto-recenter-toc' is turned on. The highlight in the TOC -buffer stays when the focus moves to a different window. A dedicated -frame can show the TOC with the current section always automatically -highlighted. The frame is created and deleted from the toc buffer -with the `d' key. - -The toc window can be split off horizontally instead of vertically. -See new option `reftex-toc-split-windows-horizontally'. - -Labels can be renamed globally from the table of contents using the -key `M-%'. - -The new command `reftex-goto-label' jumps directly to a label -location. - -*** Changes related to citations and BibTeX database files - -Commands that insert a citation now prompt for optional arguments when -called with a prefix argument. Related new options are -`reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' and `reftex-cite-cleanup-optional-args'. - -The new command `reftex-create-bibtex-file' creates a BibTeX database -with all entries referenced in the current document. The keys "e" and -"E" allow to produce a BibTeX database file from entries marked in a -citation selection buffer. - -The command `reftex-citation' uses the word in the buffer before the -cursor as a default search string. - -The support for chapterbib has been improved. Different chapters can -now use BibTeX or an explicit `thebibliography' environment. - -The macros which specify the bibliography file (like \bibliography) -can be configured with the new option `reftex-bibliography-commands'. - -Support for jurabib has been added. - -*** Global index matched may be verified with a user function - -During global indexing, a user function can verify an index match. -See new option `reftex-index-verify-function'. - -*** Parsing documents with many labels can be sped up. - -Operating in a document with thousands of labels can be sped up -considerably by allowing RefTeX to derive the type of a label directly -from the label prefix like `eq:' or `fig:'. The option -`reftex-trust-label-prefix' needs to be configured in order to enable -this feature. While the speed-up is significant, this may reduce the -quality of the context offered by RefTeX to describe a label. - -*** Miscellaneous changes - -The macros which input a file in LaTeX (like \input, \include) can be -configured in the new option `reftex-include-file-commands'. - -RefTeX supports global incremental search. - -** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords' -to support use of font-lock. - -** HTML/SGML changes: - -*** 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. - -*** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to -`sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as -alias. - -*** `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 by inserting fields that may occur but are not -present. - -*** 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' (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). - -*** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and -bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when -extracting the content of a BibTeX field. - -*** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and -`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to -`bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and -`bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are -still available as aliases. - -** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been -renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still +** Changes in Makefile mode + +*** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp, BSD make and imake. + +The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter three +are new. Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable +faces. + +*** The variable `makefile-query-one-target-method' has been renamed +to `makefile-query-one-target-method-function'. The old name is still available as alias. -** 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'. - -** GUD changes: - -*** 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. - -*** 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 can separate the input/output of your program from -that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of -Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate -breakpoints. - -To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the -old behaviour. - -*** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be -toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode -`gud-tooltip-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. - -** 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 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. - -** Auto-Revert changes: - -*** 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 can -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 cleaned up when recentf mode is -enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do -automatic cleanup. - -The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut -keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via -the `recentf-open-files', or `recentf-open-more-files' commands. - -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-handlers', you can -specify functions that successively transform recent file names. For -example, if set to `file-truename' plus `abbreviate-file-name', the -same file will not be in the recent list with different symbolic -links, and the file name will be abbreviated. - -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'. - -*** The 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. Determines 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 GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognized and ignored. - -**** New language HTML. - -Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'. Also, -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. - -Functions, classes and defines are tags. If the --members option is -specified to etags, variables are tags also. - -**** New default keywords for TeX. - -The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and -renewenvironment. - -**** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for #undef - -*** Honor #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. - -*** The --members option is now the default. - -Use --no-members if you want the old default behaviour of not tagging -struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP. - -** Ctags changes. - -*** Ctags now allows duplicate tags - -** VC Changes - -*** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer -(toggle-read-only). It no longer checks files in or out. - -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' file: - - (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only) - -The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist. - -*** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies 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 - -** pcl-cvs changes: - -*** 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. - -** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies -`default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for -auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to "~/". - -** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file. - -See the documentation of the user option -`display-time-mail-directory'. - -** Rmail changes: - -*** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer. - -*** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message, -by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in -Rmail and Rmail summary buffers. - -*** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail. - -This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of -mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or -without TLS encryption. If GNU mailutils is installed on the system -and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be -used instead of the native one. - -** 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. - -** MH-E changes. - -Upgraded to MH-E version 8.0.3. There have been major changes since -version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details. - -** Calendar changes: - -*** The meanings of C-x < and C-x > have been interchanged. -< means to scroll backward in time, and > means to scroll forward. - -*** You can now use < and >, instead of C-x < and C-x >, to scroll -the calendar left or right. - -*** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to -convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format. - -*** The new package cal-html.el writes HTML files with calendar and -diary entries. - -*** 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. - -** Speedbar changes: - -*** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on -the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism. - -*** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar -keymap. - -*** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC, -contracts or expands the line under the cursor. - -*** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'. - -*** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and -`speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]' -respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of -its descendents. - -*** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls -how querying is performed for file operations. A value of 'always -means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means -to not query before any file operations, except before a file -deletion. - -*** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how -to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar. A -value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that -speedbar was started from.) A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass -that number to `other-frame'. - -*** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil, -means to display tool-tips for speedbar items. - -*** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new -`dframe' library. Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar -should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of -`speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer', -`dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and -`dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of -`speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'. The variables -`speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also -obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead. - -** sql changes. +** Sql changes *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlighting of different SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a @@ -3153,155 +2824,495 @@ *** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'. -** FFAP changes: - -*** 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 the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS -argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'. - -** Changes in Skeleton - -*** In skeleton.el, `-' marks 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. - -*** The variables `skeleton-transformation', `skeleton-filter', and -`skeleton-pair-filter' have been renamed to -`skeleton-transformation-function', `skeleton-filter-function', and -`skeleton-pair-filter-function'. The old names are still available -as aliases. - -** Hideshow mode changes - -*** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay -used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch -handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during -temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation. - -*** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does -not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent -block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil. - -** `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 handles partial completion on directory names. - -** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil +** Fortran mode changes + +*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow). +It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable +majority. + +*** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands +`f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block', +`f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block', +`fortran-beginning-of-block'. + +*** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3 +highlighting for the old default. + +*** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'. +Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use. +Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking. + +*** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change +the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers. + +** Miscellaneous programming mode changes + +*** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was +preceded by a SPC or a TAB. + +*** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'. + +*** 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 +bindings on control characters--thus, C-c C-i C-b is the same as +C-c C-i b, and so on. + +*** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords' +to support use of font-lock. + +** VC Changes + +*** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS. + +*** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies 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. + +*** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer +(toggle-read-only). It no longer checks files in or out. + +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' file: + + (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only) + +The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist. + +*** 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 + +** pcl-cvs changes + +*** 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. + +** Diff changes + +*** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode. + +*** Diff mode key bindings changed. + +These are the new bindings: + +C-c C-e diff-ediff-patch (old M-A) +C-c C-n diff-restrict-view (old M-r) +C-c C-r diff-reverse-direction (old M-R) +C-c C-u diff-context->unified (old M-U) +C-c C-w diff-refine-hunk (old C-c C-r) + +To convert unified to context format, use C-u C-c C-u. +In addition, C-c C-u now operates on the region +in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active. + +** 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 + +**** New language HTML. + +Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'. Also, +when `name=' is used inside an anchor and whenever `id=' is used. + +**** New language PHP. + +Functions, classes and defines are tags. If the --members option is +specified to etags, variables are tags also. + +**** New language Lua. + +All functions are tagged. + +**** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file. + +Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect. + +**** The GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognized and ignored. + +**** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for #undef + +**** 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. + +**** 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 default keywords for TeX. + +The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and +renewenvironment. + +*** Honor #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. + +*** The --members option is now the default. + +Use --no-members if you want the old default behaviour of not tagging +struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP. + +** Ctags changes. + +*** Ctags now allows duplicate tags + +** Rmail changes + +*** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail. + +This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of +mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or +without TLS encryption. If GNU mailutils is installed on the system +and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be +used instead of the native one. + +*** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message, +by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in +Rmail and Rmail summary buffers. + +*** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer. + +** 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. + +** MH-E changes. + +Upgraded to MH-E version 8.0.3. There have been major changes since +version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details. + +** Miscellaneous mail changes + +*** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies +`default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for +auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to "~/". + +*** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file. + +See the documentation of the user option `display-time-mail-directory'. + +** Calendar changes + +*** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to +convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format. + +*** The new package cal-html.el writes HTML files with calendar and +diary entries. + +*** 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. + +*** 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 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'. + +*** 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 meanings of C-x < and C-x > have been interchanged. +< means to scroll backward in time, and > means to scroll forward. + +*** You can now use < and >, instead of C-x < and C-x >, to scroll +the calendar left or right. + +*** 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 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 new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the +window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'. + +** Speedbar changes + +*** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on +the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism. + +*** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC, +contracts or expands the line under the cursor. + +*** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'. + +*** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and +`speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]' +respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of +its descendents. + +*** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil, +means to display tool-tips for speedbar items. + +*** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls +how querying is performed for file operations. A value of 'always +means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means +to not query before any file operations, except before a file +deletion. + +*** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how +to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar. A +value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that +speedbar was started from.) A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass +that number to `other-frame'. + +*** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar +keymap. + +*** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new +`dframe' library. Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar +should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of +`speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer', +`dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and +`dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of +`speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'. The variables +`speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also +obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead. + +** battery.el changes + +*** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery. + +*** battery.el now works on recent versions of OS X. + +** Games + +*** 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. + +** Obsolete and deleted packages + +*** 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. + +*** zone-mode.el is now obsolete. Use dns-mode.el instead. + +*** cplus-md.el has been deleted. + +** Miscellaneous + +*** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' is renamed +to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this +variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point +automatically, without asking for a confirmation. Otherwise, the word +at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt. + +*** 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. + +Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and +`fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of +`fill-nobreak-predicate'. + +*** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering +with special modes such as Tar mode. + +*** `global-whitespace-mode' is a new alias for `whitespace-global-mode'. + +*** 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. + +*** 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. + +*** 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. +*** `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'. +*** 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. -** Emacs server changes: - -*** 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 Lisp -expression and to use the given display when visiting files. - -*** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process. - -** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2. - -** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it. +*** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top +of the file that precede the first header line. + +*** `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. + +*** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been +renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still +available as alias. + +*** 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'. + +*** `partial-completion-mode' now handles partial completion on directory names. + +*** 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 +*** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'. -** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed. - -Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to -use standout mode, but they can no longer 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. - -** battery.el changes: - -*** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery. - -*** battery.el now works on recent versions of OS X. - -** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode. +*** 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. + +*** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to +resync points in both windows. + +*** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers +when Emacs visits them. + +*** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet. + +*** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode. To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil. In this mode a separator character is used every few digits, making it easier to see byte boundaries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the variable `calculator-radix-grouping-mode'. -** 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. - -** zone-mode.el is now obsolete. Use dns-mode.el instead. - -** cplus-md.el has been deleted. - -** Ewoc changes - -*** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes. - -*** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of -a newline after each pretty-printed entry and after the header and footer. -This allows you to create multiple-entry ewocs on a single line and to -effect "invisible" nodes by arranging for the pretty-printer to not print -anything for those nodes. - -For example, these two sequences of expressions behave identically: - -;; NOSEP nil -(defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S" data))) -(ewoc-create 'PP "start\n") - -;; NOSEP t -(defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S\n" data))) -(ewoc-create 'PP "start\n\n" "\n" t) - -** Locate changes - -*** By default, reverting the *Locate* buffer now just runs the last -`locate' command back over again without offering to update the locate -database (which normally only works if you have root privileges). If -you prefer the old behavior, set the new customizable option -`locate-update-when-revert' to t. +*** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2. + +*** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can +run most curses applications now. + +*** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed. + +Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to +use standout mode, but they can no longer display mode-lines in +inverse-video. * Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems @@ -3320,29 +3331,6 @@ shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be read-only on computers that are administered by someone else. -** 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. -When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible -instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by -some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows -the caret visibility to be manually toggled. - -** Tooltips now work on MS Windows. - -See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details. - ** Images are now supported on MS Windows. PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats @@ -3359,9 +3347,9 @@ Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level sound support for those formats. -** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows. - -The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer. +** Tooltips now work on MS Windows. + +See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details. ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows. @@ -3369,6 +3357,16 @@ whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions. +** 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. + ** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows. The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much @@ -3379,14 +3377,6 @@ `list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case you wish to use them in other faces. -** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations. - -Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share -multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of -MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so -the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without -any customizations. - ** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size. Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs @@ -3400,6 +3390,27 @@ other than 80x25, you can still manually set w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t. +** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows. + +The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer. + +** 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. +When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible +instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by +some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows +the caret visibility to be manually toggled. + +** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations. + +Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share +multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of +MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so +the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without +any customizations. + ** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script. ** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants @@ -3411,22 +3422,6 @@ * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1 -** The `read-file-name' function now returns a null string if the -user just types RET. - -** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons -(FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument -OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in -`file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument. - -** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have -been removed. Use run-with-idle-timer instead. - -** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to -the command `undefined'. (In earlier Emacs versions, it used -`substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to -`undefined'.) - ** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the :propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose `risky-local-variable' property is nil. @@ -3439,14 +3434,11 @@ argument `artificial' to a non-nil value, to prevent Emacs from deleting the part of subprocess output that matches the input. -** Support for Mocklisp has been removed. - -** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until -there is no longer a shortage of memory. - -** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates -input events: sigusr1 or sigusr2. Use special-event-map to -handle these events. +** The `read-file-name' function now returns a null string if the +user just types RET. + +** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have +been removed. Use run-with-idle-timer instead. ** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte or unibyte, respectively. @@ -3459,6 +3451,25 @@ `glyph-face' must be used to create and decode glyph codes in display tables. +** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to +the command `undefined'. (In earlier Emacs versions, it used +`substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to +`undefined'.) + +** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons +(FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument +OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in +`file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument. + +** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates +input events: sigusr1 or sigusr2. Use special-event-map to +handle these events. + +** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until +there is no longer a shortage of memory. + +** Support for Mocklisp has been removed. + * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1 @@ -3484,17 +3495,29 @@ This syntax works for both character constants and strings. -*** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently. -The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is -negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25. +*** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe. + +It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything +dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe +(calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.). *** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package. *** The new function `memql' is like `memq', but uses `eql' for comparison, that is, floats are compared by value and other elements with `eq'. +*** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'. + +`string-or-null-p' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a string or nil. +`booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is t or nil. + *** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead. +*** Minor change in the function `format'. + +Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no +longer accepted. + *** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND. If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the @@ -3504,6 +3527,14 @@ *** New function `add-to-ordered-list' is like `add-to-list' but associates a numeric ordering of each element added to the list. +*** New function `add-to-history' adds an element to a history list. + +Lisp packages should use this function to add elements to their +history lists. + +If `history-delete-duplicates' is non-nil, it removes duplicates of +the new element from the history list it updates. + *** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree. It recursively copies through both CARs and CDRs. @@ -3514,19 +3545,21 @@ occurrences of an element in the list, the one that's kept is the first one. -*** New function `add-to-history' adds an element to a history list. - -Lisp packages should use this function to add elements to their -history lists. - -If `history-delete-duplicates' is non-nil, it removes duplicates of -the new element from the history list it updates. - *** New function `rassq-delete-all'. (rassq-delete-all VALUE ALIST) deletes, from ALIST, each element whose CDR is `eq' to the specified value. +*** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists. + +They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is +cyclic. + +*** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'. + +They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare +the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'. + *** The function `number-sequence' makes a list of equally-separated numbers. For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). By @@ -3538,35 +3571,9 @@ They hold the largest and smallest possible integer values. -*** Minor change in the function `format'. - -Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no -longer accepted. - -*** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists. - -They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is -cyclic. - -*** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'. - -They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare -the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'. - -*** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'. - -When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single -numbering scheme 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. - -*** 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 can be tested using `eq'. +*** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently. +The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is +negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25. *** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument. @@ -3574,12 +3581,10 @@ angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis. (This is equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.) -*** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern. - -You put this info in the doc string's last line. It should be -formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'". If you don't -specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument -names. Usually that default is right, but not always. +*** New macro `with-case-table' + +This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given +case table. *** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting. @@ -3594,32 +3599,38 @@ This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'. -*** New macro `with-case-table' - -This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given -case table. - -*** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe. - -It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything -dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe -(calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.). - *** New macro `eval-at-startup' specifies expressions to evaluate when Emacs starts up. If this is done after startup, it evaluates those expressions immediately. This is useful in packages that can be preloaded. +*** 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 can be tested using `eq'. + +*** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern. + +You put this info in the doc string's last line. It should be +formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'". If you don't +specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument +names. Usually that default is right, but not always. + +*** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'. + +When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single +numbering scheme 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. + *** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP. If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp. -*** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'. - -`string-or-null-p' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a string or nil. -`booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is t or nil. - *** New hook `command-error-function'. By setting this variable to a function, you can control @@ -3670,6 +3681,9 @@ DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has the same documentation as BASE-VAR. +*** The macro `define-obsolete-variable-alias' combines `defvaralias' and +`make-obsolete-variable'. + *** New function: indirect-variable VARIABLE This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases @@ -3679,9 +3693,6 @@ 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'. - ** defcustom changes: *** The package-version keyword has been added to provide @@ -3697,22 +3708,22 @@ *** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte. +*** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a +multibyte string with the same individual character codes. + *** `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 new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and +`assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have +been declared obsolete. *** New function `substring-no-properties' returns a substring without text properties. -*** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and -`assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have -been declared obsolete. - ** Displaying warnings to the user. See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual. @@ -3749,32 +3760,32 @@ It defaults to 1. -*** New function `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link. - -This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link' -functionality. - -*** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position. - -It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point. - *** `field-beginning' and `field-end' take new optional argument, LIMIT. This argument tells them not to search beyond LIMIT. Instead they give up and return LIMIT. +*** New function `window-line-height' is an efficient way to get +information about a specific text line in a window provided that the +window's display is up-to-date. + +*** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position. + +It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point. + *** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates and partial visibility state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY arg is non-nil. -*** New function `window-line-height' is an efficient way to get -information about a specific text line in a window provided that the -window's display is up-to-date. - *** 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 `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link. + +This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link' +functionality. + ** Text modification: *** The new function `buffer-chars-modified-tick' returns a buffer's @@ -3886,17 +3897,17 @@ ** Buffer-related changes: +*** 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. + *** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST. If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list. *** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local. -*** 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 function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain various status records in parallel. @@ -3941,8 +3952,6 @@ non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as specified by the syntax table. -*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements. - *** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual characters and ranges. @@ -3958,6 +3967,8 @@ argument `reseat'. When non-nil, all markers in the match data list passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere. +*** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements. + *** 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. @@ -3984,7 +3995,9 @@ `undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs. -** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how +** Killing and yanking changes: + +*** New `yank-handler' text property can 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 @@ -4028,7 +4041,8 @@ ** Syntax table changes: -*** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table. +*** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the +current syntactic context at point. *** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account @@ -4037,47 +4051,13 @@ *** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned by `syntax-after'). -*** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the -current syntactic context at point. +*** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table. ** File operation changes: *** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when searching for an executable or an Emacs Lisp file. -*** 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 `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. - -*** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was -formerly called `auto-save-file-format'. It is now 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. - -*** `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 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 `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer, -`save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if -it's modified). - *** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories. `locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to @@ -4090,6 +4070,35 @@ `exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies. +*** 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. + +*** 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. + +*** `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. + +*** 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. + +*** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer, +`save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if +it's modified). + +*** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was +formerly called `auto-save-file-format'. It is now a permanent local. + +*** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return +a list of two integers, instead of a cons. + *** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed. Instead of choosing the first handler that matches, @@ -4114,8 +4123,16 @@ *** The function `file-name-completion' accepts an optional argument PREDICATE, and rejects completion candidates that don't satisfy PREDICATE. +*** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and +modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this +operation. + ** Input changes: +*** 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. + *** The functions `read-event', `read-char', and `read-char-exclusive' have a new optional argument SECONDS. If non-nil, this specifies a maximum time to wait for input, in seconds. If no input arrives after @@ -4129,10 +4146,6 @@ much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted), it returns just the directory name. -*** 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. - *** (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 @@ -4209,17 +4222,21 @@ from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of `lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR. +** Abbrev changes: + +*** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG. + +If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means +that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the +abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always +specify this flag. + +*** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table. + +It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table. + ** Enhancements to keymaps. -*** New keymaps for typing file names - -Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' and -`minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever -Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer. These key maps override -the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file -names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote -the spaces). - *** Cleaner way to enter key sequences. You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the @@ -4285,6 +4302,26 @@ command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the command was not remapped. +*** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style +key-sequences, such as [(control a)]. + +*** New keymaps for typing file names + +Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' and +`minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever +Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer. These key maps override +the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file +names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote +the spaces). + +*** 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. + *** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence over minor mode keymaps. @@ -4298,21 +4335,8 @@ position be determined from the key sequence itself, it is also possible to specify it with an optional argument explicitly. -*** 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. @@ -4322,51 +4346,13 @@ keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their keymap alist to this list. -*** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style -key-sequences, such as [(control a)]. - -** Abbrev changes: - -*** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table. - -It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table. - -*** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG. - -If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means -that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the -abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always -specify this flag. +*** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly. + +Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key +bindings of the parent keymap. ** Enhancements to process support -*** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil, -it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set. - -*** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'. - -These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'. That -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 signaled process. - -*** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can -maintain process state and other per-process related information. - -Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add, -and modify elements on this property list. Use the new functions -`process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the -entire property list of a process. - -*** Function `accept-process-output' has a new 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 @@ -4377,6 +4363,23 @@ from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before Emacs tries to read it. +*** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can +maintain process state and other per-process related information. + +Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add, +and modify elements on this property list. Use the new functions +`process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the +entire property list of a process. + +*** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil, +it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set. + +*** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'. + +These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'. That +function is still supported, but new code should use the new +functions. + *** The new function `call-process-shell-command'. This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process. @@ -4385,6 +4388,16 @@ obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on `default-directory'. +*** Function `signal-process' now accepts a process object or process +name in addition to a process id to identify the signaled process. + +*** Function `accept-process-output' has a new 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. + *** A process filter function gets the output as multibyte string if the process specifies t for its filter's multibyteness. @@ -4427,19 +4440,6 @@ *** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'. -*** New functions `process-datagram-address', `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. - *** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument. Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network @@ -4456,6 +4456,14 @@ stopped state. For a client process, no input is received in the stopped state. +*** 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. + *** New function `network-interface-list'. This function returns a list of network interface names and their @@ -4466,6 +4474,11 @@ This function returns the network address, hardware address, current status, and other information about a specific network interface. +*** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'. + +These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get +and set the current address of the remote partner. + *** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel. The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network @@ -4475,11 +4488,6 @@ ** Using window objects: -*** New function `window-body-height'. - -This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the -header line. - *** 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 @@ -4496,6 +4504,14 @@ *** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges' return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines. +*** New function `window-body-height'. + +This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the +header line. + +*** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right +or bottom edge of a window. It does not move other window edges. + *** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'. It saves and restores the current buffer, too. @@ -4520,11 +4536,18 @@ argument `dedicated'. If non-nil, those functions do not ignore dedicated windows. -*** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right -or bottom edge of a window. It does not move other window edges. - ** Customizable fringe bitmaps +*** 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 buffer-local variables `fringe-indicator-alist' and `fringe-cursor-alist' maps between logical (internal) fringe indicator and cursor symbols and the actual fringe bitmaps to be displayed. @@ -4543,16 +4566,6 @@ 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. @@ -4825,26 +4838,16 @@ ** Mouse event enhancements: -*** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe' -or `right-fringe' as the area. - *** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where you clicked. For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text. -*** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events. - -*** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area. - -*** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means -text area). +*** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe' +or `right-fringe' as the area. *** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types and all areas. -*** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates -of the mouse event position. - *** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on. *** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to @@ -4853,6 +4856,16 @@ *** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object (image or character) clicked on. +*** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area. + +*** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events. + +*** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means +text area). + +*** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates +of the mouse event position. + *** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'. These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y @@ -4914,12 +4927,6 @@ defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and can 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. - *** 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). @@ -4941,6 +4948,12 @@ so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text `face' properties. +*** 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. + *** On terminals, faces with the :inverse-video attribute are displayed with swapped foreground and background colors even when one of them is not specified. In previous releases of Emacs, if either foreground @@ -4994,6 +5007,15 @@ ** Major mode mechanism changes: +*** New variable `magic-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by +looking at the file contents. It takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist'. + +*** XML or SGML major mode is selected when file starts with an `<?xml' +or `<!DOCTYPE' declaration. + +*** An interpreter magic line (if present) takes precedence over the +file name when setting the major mode. + *** If new variable `auto-mode-case-fold' is set to a non-nil value, Emacs will perform a second case-insensitive search through `auto-mode-alist' if the first case-sensitive search fails. This @@ -5002,48 +5024,39 @@ this setting, *.C files are usually recognized as C++ files. It also has no effect on systems with case-insensitive file names. -*** New variable `magic-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by -looking at the file contents. It takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist'. - -*** An interpreter magic line (if present) takes precedence over the -file name when setting the major mode. - -*** XML or SGML major mode is selected when file starts with an `<?xml' -or `<!DOCTYPE' declaration. - -*** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook. - *** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook `after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode hooks. `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically. +*** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function' +locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to +the language. + +*** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook. + +*** 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-derived-mode' by default creates a new empty abbrev table. +It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table. + *** 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. - -*** 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 changes: *** `define-minor-mode' now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable. -*** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands. - *** `define-globalized-minor-mode'. This is a new name for what was formerly called `easy-mmode-define-global-mode'. The old name remains as an alias. +*** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands. + ** Command loop changes: *** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people @@ -5162,52 +5175,6 @@ *** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width, the `scroll-bar-width' frame parameter value is nil. -** Mule changes: - -*** 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 -to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system -for it. (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific -file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.) - -*** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the -ascii character set. Language environments (such as Turkish) may -alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters. This variable -saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes. - -*** 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. - -*** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access -hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'. - -*** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the -current input method to input a character. - ** Mode line changes: *** New function `format-mode-line'. @@ -5243,6 +5210,52 @@ into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't need to have a name. +** Mule changes: + +*** 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. + +*** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions +to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system +for it. (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific +file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.) + +*** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the +ascii character set. Language environments (such as Turkish) may +alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters. This variable +saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes. + +*** 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. + +*** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access +hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'. + +*** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the +current input method to input a character. + +*** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument, +NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified. + ** Operating system access: *** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor @@ -5261,6 +5274,18 @@ *** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file. +** GC changes: + +*** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold +as the heap size increases. + +*** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information +on garbage collection. + +*** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection. + +The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care. + ** Miscellaneous: *** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions: @@ -5281,18 +5306,6 @@ *** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when running under X. - -** GC changes: - -*** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold -as the heap size increases. - -*** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information -on garbage collection. - -*** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection. - -The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care. * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1