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changeset 77350:7cc0a079620f
Remove +++ and --- lines.
author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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date | Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:39:32 +0000 |
parents | ddd98fc21199 |
children | 7821e909b756 |
files | etc/NEWS |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 714 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Fri Apr 20 21:36:46 2007 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Fri Apr 20 21:39:32 2007 +0000 @@ -14,13 +14,6 @@ You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. - -Temporary note: - +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. - --- means no change in the manuals is called for. -When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- -so we will look at it and add it to the manual. - * About external Lisp packages @@ -43,7 +36,6 @@ * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1 ---- ** 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 @@ -52,27 +44,21 @@ into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.) ---- ** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix', `--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of installed programs. ---- ** Emacs can now be built without sound support. ---- ** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 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). ---- ** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code. ---- ** The `yow' program has been removed. Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead. ---- ** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game scores. The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal place for game scores to be stored. You can control this with the @@ -81,12 +67,10 @@ to a game user is not available, then scores will be stored separately in each user's home directory. ---- ** Leim is now part of the Emacs distribution. You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build Emacs with Leim. -+++ ** 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 @@ -94,7 +78,6 @@ Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar to make it easily accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference). ---- ** The Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp manual is now part of the distribution. @@ -103,101 +86,79 @@ item was added to the menu bar to make it easily accessible (Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp). ---- ** 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 Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language setup doesn't automatically select the right one. ---- ** New translations of the Emacs reference card are available in the Brasilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files are also included. ---- ** 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 a Cygwin build of Emacs was added. ---- ** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added. ---- ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added. ---- ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on Tensilica Xtensa machines was added. ---- ** Support for MacOS X was added. See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions. ---- ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added. ---- ** 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. ---- ** 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: @@ -207,69 +168,57 @@ 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. -+++ ** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display. When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options `--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.) -+++ ** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash disables the splash screen; see also the variable `inhibit-splash-screen' (which is also aliased as `inhibit-startup-message'). -+++ ** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon, so 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. -+++ ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first, according to the value of `save-abbrevs'. -+++ ** 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. @@ -277,52 +226,42 @@ * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1 -+++ ** M-g is now a prefix key. M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line. M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `). M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error. -+++ ** C-u M-g M-g switches to the most recent previous buffer, and goes to the specified line in that buffer. When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer. -+++ ** 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. -+++ ** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t. -+++ ** 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. -+++ ** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region. -+++ ** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a previous mark if you set `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' to t. 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. -+++ ** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S. -+++ ** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special. See below under "incremental search changes". ---- ** C-x C-f RET (find-file), typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case. @@ -333,28 +272,23 @@ 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. -+++ ** 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". -+++ ** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties; M-o M-o requests refontification. -+++ ** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link. See below for more details. -+++ ** 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 @@ -362,11 +296,9 @@ doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'. ---- ** Adaptive filling misfeature removed. It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix. ---- ** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19) have been removed: C-x / point-to-register (Use: C-x r SPC) @@ -377,7 +309,6 @@ * Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1 -+++ ** !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, @@ -385,71 +316,57 @@ 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). -+++ ** 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 commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters: `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'. -+++ ** 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. -+++ ** M-x setenv now expands environment variable references. Substrings of the form `$foo' and `${foo}' in the specified new value now refer to the value of environment variable foo. To include a `$' 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 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 @@ -462,14 +379,12 @@ 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 @@ -487,14 +402,12 @@ 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: C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer. @@ -528,17 +441,14 @@ - C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports: new-kill-line is on C-k ---- *** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function `help-default-arg-highlight'. -+++ *** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available). -+++ *** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless @@ -549,38 +459,32 @@ addition, it now makes hyperlinks to URLs as well if the URL is enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `URL'. -+++ *** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with description various information about a character, including its encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET. -+++ *** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because C-u C-x = gives the same information and more. -+++ *** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the `help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more keyboard oriented alternative. -+++ *** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults to one second. This feature is turned off by default. -+++ *** 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 @@ -590,46 +494,38 @@ ** 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. -+++ *** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word, making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior, bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'. -+++ *** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already at the end of a line. -+++ *** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode. Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e' and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer. -+++ *** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or `query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current search string used as the string to replace. -+++ *** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'. ** 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 @@ -640,27 +536,22 @@ edited for each replacement. `query-replace-regexp-eval' is now deprecated since it offers no additional functionality. -+++ *** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option `query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil. ---- *** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face `query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face. ** 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 @@ -675,21 +566,18 @@ However, risky variables will not be added to `safe-local-variable-values' in this way. -+++ *** The variable `enable-local-variables' controls how local variable lists are handled. t, the default, specifies the standard querying behavior. :safe means use only safe values, and ignore the rest. :all means set all variables, whether or not they are safe. nil means ignore them all. Anything else means always query. -+++ *** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables specification. Normally Emacs asks for confirmation before evaluating such a form, but if the form appears in this list, no confirmation is needed. -+++ *** If a function has a non-nil `safe-local-eval-function' property, that means it is ok to evaluate some calls to that function when it appears in an `eval' local variables specification. If the property @@ -702,42 +590,34 @@ ** File operation changes: -+++ *** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when the corresponding environment variable does not exist. Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting is only rarely needed. -+++ *** 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. -+++ *** 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 @@ -745,27 +625,22 @@ 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 @@ -775,7 +650,6 @@ needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed when saving the file. -+++ *** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline @@ -785,17 +659,14 @@ ** Minibuffer changes: -+++ *** 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. -+++ *** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'. Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the prompt string. ---- *** Enhanced visual feedback in `*Completions*' buffer. Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions @@ -816,7 +687,6 @@ the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as its second argument. -+++ *** File-name completion can now ignore specified directories. If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when @@ -824,19 +694,16 @@ 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, @@ -844,20 +711,16 @@ 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 @@ -873,21 +736,17 @@ 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. @@ -895,14 +754,12 @@ The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether the `mode-line-inactive' face is used. -+++ *** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x set-fringe-style. -+++ *** Angle icons in the fringes can indicate the buffer boundaries. In addition, up and down arrow bitmaps in the fringe indicate which ways the window can be scrolled. @@ -922,7 +779,6 @@ arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)). -+++ *** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window (not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line). @@ -932,12 +788,10 @@ 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. @@ -945,57 +799,46 @@ horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored, or when the frame is resized. -+++ *** 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 even cause Emacs to crash. -+++ *** If value of `auto-resize-tool-bars' is `grow-only', the tool bar 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 faces: -+++ *** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text areas. -+++ *** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification parts of the mode line. -+++ *** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e. the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text. This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either @@ -1003,29 +846,24 @@ allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place, so package-specific faces can inherit from it. -+++ *** `vertical-border' face is used for the vertical divider between windows. ** ebnf2ps changes: -+++ *** New option `ebnf-arrow-extra-width' which specify extra width for arrow shape drawing. The extra width is used to avoid that the arrowhead and the terminal border overlap. It depends on `ebnf-arrow-shape' and `ebnf-line-width'. -+++ *** New option `ebnf-arrow-scale' which specify the arrow scale. Values lower than 1.0, shrink the arrow. Values greater than 1.0, expand the arrow. ** Font-Lock 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. @@ -1034,7 +872,6 @@ fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from `Info-mode-hook'. -+++ *** 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 @@ -1042,19 +879,15 @@ 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. ---- *** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed. The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now nil instead of 3. This setting of jit-lock-stealth-time disables stealth @@ -1067,7 +900,6 @@ jit-lock-stealth-nice is now 0.5 instead of 0.125 which is supposed to cause less load than the old defaults. ---- *** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'. If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs @@ -1075,14 +907,12 @@ example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will only happen after 0.25s of idle time. ---- *** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification. jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual refontification takes place. ---- *** lazy-lock is considered obsolete. The `lazy-lock' package is superseded by `jit-lock' and is considered @@ -1099,7 +929,6 @@ ** Menu support: ---- *** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options". This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself). @@ -1107,53 +936,42 @@ it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of current date and time, current line and column number in the mode-line. ---- *** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide". ---- *** 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. -+++ *** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/LessTif can be disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'. ---- *** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32). -+++ *** The menu bar for Motif/LessTif/Lucid/Gtk+ can be navigated with keys. Pressing F10 shows the first menu in the menu bar. Navigation is done with the arrow keys, select with the return key and cancel with the escape keys. -+++ *** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example `-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'. ---- *** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and LessTif/Motif now pop down on pressing ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32. -+++ *** For the Gtk+ version, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog by setting the variable `x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use the new dialog. ** Mouse changes: -+++ *** If you set the new variable `mouse-autoselect-window' to a non-nil value, windows are automatically selected as you move the mouse from one Emacs window to another, even within a frame. A minibuffer window can be selected only when it is active. -+++ *** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set @@ -1161,7 +979,6 @@ window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame to give it focus. -+++ *** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link. Traditionally, Emacs uses a Mouse-1 click to set point and a Mouse-2 @@ -1192,23 +1009,19 @@ You can customize the new Mouse-1 behavior via the new user options `mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'. -+++ *** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can also disable mouse highlighting. -+++ *** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil. ---- *** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window (rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'. ---- *** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved. People tend to push the mouse wheel (which counts as a mouse-2 click) @@ -1216,12 +1029,10 @@ 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. ** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes: -+++ *** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*- construct. Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the -*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by @@ -1234,14 +1045,12 @@ without any character translation: ;; -*- coding: iso-latin-1!; -*- ---- *** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines. This change can result in using the different coding systems as default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN). -+++ *** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII @@ -1251,33 +1060,26 @@ or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated by the keyboard. See Info node `Unibyte Mode'. -+++ *** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r) revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify. -+++ *** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified coding system. -+++ *** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name of a file. ---- *** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its unicode. -+++ *** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item (Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this command. -+++ *** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type in the current input method to input a character at point. -+++ *** Limited support for character `unification' has been added. Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard @@ -1297,20 +1099,17 @@ mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding. ---- *** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets, when possible. The latter are more space-efficient. This is controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding. ---- *** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Tajik, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6, Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian, Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Esperanto. (Set up automatically according to the locale.) ---- *** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer, vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, @@ -1318,11 +1117,9 @@ bulgarian-phonetic, dutch, slovenian, croatian, malayalam-inscript, tamil-inscript. ---- *** New input method chinese-sisheng for inputting Chinese Pinyin characters. ---- *** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is automatically activated if you select Thai as a language environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to @@ -1334,17 +1131,14 @@ M-t (transpose-words) M-q (fill-paragraph) ---- *** Indian support has been updated. The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are assumed. There is a framework for supporting various Indian scripts, but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are supported. ---- *** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'. ---- *** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced. By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is @@ -1358,42 +1152,35 @@ one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones. The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly. ---- *** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving, Big 5 is then converted to CNS. ---- *** Many new coding systems are available in the `code-pages' library. These include complete versions of most of those in codepage.el, based on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now obsolete and is used only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. All coding systems defined in `code-pages' are auto-loaded. ---- *** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'. ---- *** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the fontset appropriately. ** Customize changes: -+++ *** Custom themes are collections of customize options. Create a custom theme with M-x customize-create-theme. Use M-x load-theme to load and enable a theme, and M-x disable-theme to disable it. Use M-x enable-theme to enable a disabled theme. -+++ *** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are specified for that character, the commands by default customize those faces. ---- *** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing. In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection @@ -1402,7 +1189,6 @@ its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden. -+++ *** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer, the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable. You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value" @@ -1410,17 +1196,14 @@ ** 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. @@ -1440,24 +1223,19 @@ ** Dired mode: ---- *** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged, dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces. -+++ *** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files with different file attributes in two dired buffers. -+++ *** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer. -+++ *** 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 @@ -1465,11 +1243,9 @@ 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. -+++ *** In Dired-x, Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode. The mode toggling command is bound to M-o. A new command @@ -1477,7 +1253,6 @@ dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the mode toggling function instead. -+++ *** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a @@ -1485,7 +1260,6 @@ ** Comint changes: ---- *** 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 @@ -1507,18 +1281,15 @@ `kill-region' if read-only properties are involved: it copies the text to the kill-ring, but does not delete it. -+++ *** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived modes (shell-mode, etc.) inserts arguments from previous command lines, like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version. -+++ *** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed `comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias, but declared obsolete. -+++ *** 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 @@ -1527,7 +1298,6 @@ ** M-x Compile changes: ---- *** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable Quite a few more kinds of messages are recognized. Messages that are @@ -1547,22 +1317,18 @@ The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message. -+++ *** New user option `compilation-environment'. This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior compilation processes without affecting the environment that all subprocesses inherit. -+++ *** New user option `compilation-disable-input'. If this is non-nil, send end-of-file as compilation process input. -+++ *** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select' specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line in new face `next-error'. -+++ *** A new minor mode `next-error-follow-minor-mode' can be used in compilation-mode, grep-mode, occur-mode, and diff-mode (i.e. all the modes that can use `next-error'). In this mode, cursor motion in the @@ -1570,33 +1336,27 @@ matches, compilation errors, etc. This minor mode can be toggled with C-c C-f. -+++ *** When the left fringe is displayed, an arrow points to current message in the compilation buffer. -+++ *** The new variable `compilation-context-lines' controls lines of leading context before the current message. If nil and the left fringe is displayed, it doesn't scroll the compilation output window. If there is no left fringe, no arrow is displayed and a value of nil means display the message at the top of the window. -+++ *** The EMACS environment variable now defaults to Emacs's absolute file name, instead of to "t". ** 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 @@ -1606,17 +1366,14 @@ ** Grep changes: -+++ *** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup. There's a new separate package grep.el, with its own submenu and customization group. -+++ *** `grep-find' is now also available under the name `find-grep' where people knowing `find-grep-dired' would probably expect it. -+++ *** New commands `lgrep' (local grep) and `rgrep' (recursive grep) are more user-friendly versions of `grep' and `grep-find', which prompt separately for the regular expression to match, the files to search, @@ -1632,17 +1389,14 @@ typically used by various version control systems, like CVS and arch, are automatically skipped by `rgrep'. ---- *** The grep commands provide highlighting support. 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 @@ -1650,7 +1404,6 @@ buffer. Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole source line is highlighted. -+++ *** New key bindings in grep output window: SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down. C-n and C-p moves to next and previous match in the grep window. RET jumps to the source line of @@ -1659,7 +1412,6 @@ previous or next file in the grep output. TAB also jumps to the next file. -+++ *** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked. @@ -1669,12 +1421,10 @@ ** 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. -+++ *** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper). The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym', and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should @@ -1683,31 +1433,26 @@ (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta) (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt) -+++ *** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which can speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server. If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on. ---- *** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING, and use the more appropriately result. ---- *** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling. On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it). ** Xterm support: ---- *** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm. ---- *** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm. When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available. The following should work: @@ -1720,7 +1465,6 @@ ** Character terminal color support changes: -+++ *** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal @@ -1731,26 +1475,22 @@ in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter. ---- *** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and 256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for all of these colors. -+++ *** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and 256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an 88-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face colors as on X. ---- *** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator. * 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. @@ -1761,7 +1501,6 @@ 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 @@ -1775,7 +1514,6 @@ 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 @@ -1783,11 +1521,9 @@ 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. @@ -1796,7 +1532,6 @@ 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 @@ -1806,11 +1541,9 @@ 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 @@ -1818,11 +1551,9 @@ 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 @@ -1871,7 +1602,6 @@ 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. -+++ ** Org mode is now part of the Emacs distribution Org mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and @@ -1886,11 +1616,9 @@ 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. ---- ** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to @@ -1898,11 +1626,9 @@ 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 @@ -1927,7 +1653,6 @@ 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. @@ -1961,16 +1686,13 @@ 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 package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines' mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines, @@ -1981,7 +1703,6 @@ 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 @@ -1991,7 +1712,6 @@ printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by `ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information. ---- ** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer. It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts @@ -1999,23 +1719,19 @@ There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers. ---- ** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an "active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list' settings. -+++ ** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values. -+++ ** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default) shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line. -+++ ** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded `text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG @@ -2023,12 +1739,10 @@ can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such as latex and html from the visually laid out text table. -+++ ** The tumme.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in other ways manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as the main interface. Tumme 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 @@ -2051,14 +1765,11 @@ 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 @@ -2066,24 +1777,19 @@ .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are recognized. ---- ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit. -+++ ** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs. ---- ** 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. @@ -2092,14 +1798,12 @@ ** 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 Tumme added Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Tumme. As a starting @@ -2108,7 +1812,6 @@ ** Changes in Hi Lock -+++ *** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function `global-hi-lock-mode' enables Hi Lock in all buffers. By default, if hi-lock-mode is used in what appears to be the initialization file, a @@ -2118,7 +1821,6 @@ buffers and no warning will be issued (for compatibility with the behavior in older versions of Emacs). ---- ** Changes in Allout *** Some previously rough topic-header format edge cases are reconciled. @@ -2217,14 +1919,12 @@ - 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. ---- ** Changes to cmuscheme *** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to @@ -2240,7 +1940,6 @@ 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. @@ -2253,21 +1952,16 @@ 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: @@ -2282,7 +1976,6 @@ 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. @@ -2291,39 +1984,31 @@ `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 @@ -2334,82 +2019,65 @@ 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. *** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised. @@ -2737,14 +2405,11 @@ 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 @@ -2752,34 +2417,27 @@ ** 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 @@ -2804,7 +2462,6 @@ 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 @@ -2827,13 +2484,11 @@ 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 @@ -2843,7 +2498,6 @@ 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 @@ -2851,17 +2505,14 @@ 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, @@ -2869,33 +2520,26 @@ 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 @@ -2952,27 +2596,22 @@ `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 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 @@ -2984,17 +2623,14 @@ 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. @@ -3039,7 +2675,6 @@ ** 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 @@ -3055,7 +2690,6 @@ 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 @@ -3066,14 +2700,12 @@ 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 @@ -3098,27 +2730,21 @@ 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. @@ -3127,7 +2753,6 @@ - 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. @@ -3142,15 +2767,12 @@ - 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 @@ -3162,25 +2784,21 @@ ** 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 @@ -3283,7 +2901,6 @@ ** 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. @@ -3296,7 +2913,6 @@ 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. @@ -3304,10 +2920,8 @@ 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 @@ -3324,23 +2938,19 @@ ** 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 @@ -3348,15 +2958,12 @@ ** 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 @@ -3367,18 +2974,15 @@ ** 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 @@ -3386,23 +2990,18 @@ ** 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, @@ -3413,45 +3012,37 @@ 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 @@ -3495,7 +3086,6 @@ `speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead. ---- ** sql changes. *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlighting of different @@ -3569,12 +3159,10 @@ appropriate `sql-interactive-mode' wrapper for the current setting of `sql-product'. ---- *** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'. ** FFAP changes: -+++ *** New ffap commands and keybindings: C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'), @@ -3582,13 +3170,11 @@ 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. @@ -3605,7 +3191,6 @@ `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 @@ -3617,28 +3202,23 @@ 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 and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if you don't want the `.type-break' file in your home directory or are annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs. ---- ** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets. Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with `ps-print', provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF fonts. See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts. ---- ** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'. This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for @@ -3646,7 +3226,6 @@ ** Emacs server changes: -+++ *** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine. % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start & @@ -3654,36 +3233,29 @@ % 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. M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no argument it toggles the mode. Turning off PC-Selection mode restores the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode. ---- ** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'. ---- ** 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 @@ -3692,13 +3264,10 @@ ** 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. To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil. In this mode a @@ -3706,19 +3275,14 @@ 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. @@ -3741,7 +3305,6 @@ ** 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 @@ -3751,7 +3314,6 @@ * Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems -+++ ** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile. If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME @@ -3766,7 +3328,6 @@ 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 @@ -3777,7 +3338,6 @@ 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 @@ -3787,12 +3347,10 @@ 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 @@ -3802,7 +3360,6 @@ zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled against. For additional information, see nt/INSTALL. ---- ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows. WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such @@ -3810,19 +3367,16 @@ 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. ---- ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows. The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions. ---- ** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows. The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much @@ -3833,7 +3387,6 @@ `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 @@ -3842,7 +3395,6 @@ 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 @@ -3856,46 +3408,37 @@ other than 80x25, you can still manually set w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t. ---- ** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script. ---- ** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants `kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and `kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete. -+++ ** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete. Use `mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead. * 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. ---- The function `comint-send-input' now accepts 3 optional arguments: (comint-send-input &optional no-newline artificial) @@ -3904,23 +3447,18 @@ 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. -+++ ** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte or unibyte, respectively. -+++ ** The explicit method of creating a display table element by combining a face number and a character code into a numeric glyph code is deprecated. @@ -3934,45 +3472,36 @@ ** General Lisp changes: -+++ *** 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 `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'. -+++ *** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead. -+++ *** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND. If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the list instead of at the beginning. This change actually occurred in Emacs 21.1, but was not documented then. -+++ *** 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 `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree. It recursively copies through both CARs and CDRs. -+++ *** New function `delete-dups' deletes `equal' duplicate elements from a list. It modifies the list destructively, like `delete'. Of several `equal' 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 @@ -3981,13 +3510,11 @@ 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. -+++ *** 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 @@ -3995,30 +3522,25 @@ separation as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns (1.5 3.5 5.5). -+++ *** New variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'. 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 @@ -4028,21 +3550,18 @@ 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 `atan' now accepts an optional second argument. When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the 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 @@ -4050,7 +3569,6 @@ specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument names. Usually that default is right, but not always. -+++ *** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting. A quit inside the body of `with-local-quit' is caught by the @@ -4060,55 +3578,46 @@ This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code inside timer functions and `post-command-hook' functions. -+++ *** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'. 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. -+++ *** `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 how the editor command loop shows the user an error message. -+++ *** `debug-on-entry' accepts primitive functions that are not special forms now. ** Lisp code indentation features: -+++ *** The `defmacro' form can contain indentation and edebug declarations. These declarations specify how to indent the macro calls in Lisp mode @@ -4127,12 +3636,10 @@ equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro, but this is cleaner.) ---- *** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms. See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'. ---- *** cl-indent now handles indentation of simple and extended `loop' forms. The new user options `lisp-loop-keyword-indentation', @@ -4140,7 +3647,6 @@ be used to customize the indentation of keywords and forms in loop forms. -+++ ** Variable aliases: *** New function: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING] @@ -4162,64 +3668,52 @@ 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 `customize-changed-options' functionality to packages in the future. Developers who make use of this keyword must also update the new variable `customize-package-emacs-version-alist'. -+++ *** The new customization type `float' requires a floating point number. ** String changes: -+++ *** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character. Exception: In a character constant, if it is followed by a `-' in a character constant (e.g. ?\s-A), it is still interpreted as the super modifier. In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space. -+++ *** A hex escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte. -+++ *** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte. -+++ *** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all empty matches are omitted from the returned list. -+++ *** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a multibyte string with the same individual character codes. -+++ *** 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. -+++ *** New syntax: \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX specify Unicode code points in hex. Use "\u0428" to specify a string consisting of CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA, or "\U0001D6E2" to specify one consisting of MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL ALPHA (the latter is greater than #xFFFF and thus needs the longer syntax). Also available for characters. -+++ ** Displaying warnings to the user. See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual. @@ -4227,7 +3721,6 @@ facility is much better than using `message', since it displays warnings in a separate window. -+++ ** Progress reporters. These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present @@ -4239,85 +3732,70 @@ ** Buffer positions: -+++ *** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window width if the WIDTH argument is nil. If the TOPOS argument is nil, the usable window height and width is used. -+++ *** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are taller that the height of the window, for example in the presence of large images. To disable this feature, bind the new variable `auto-window-vscroll' to nil. -+++ *** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word' is optional. It defaults to 1. -+++ *** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional. 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. -+++ *** 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. ** Text modification: -+++ *** The new function `buffer-chars-modified-tick' returns a buffer's tick counter for changes to characters. Each time text in that buffer is inserted or deleted, the character-change counter is updated to the tick counter (`buffer-modified-tick'). Text property changes leave it unchanged. -+++ *** The new function `insert-for-yank' normally works like `insert', but removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list and handles the `yank-handler' text property. -+++ *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' is like `insert-for-yank' except that it gets the text from another buffer as in `insert-buffer-substring'. -+++ *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like `insert-buffer-substring', but removes all text properties from the inserted substring. -+++ *** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns the filtered substring. Use it instead of `buffer-substring' or @@ -4329,33 +3807,27 @@ `buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied text. -+++ *** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE argument. -+++ *** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input' is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to be inserted is translated through it. ---- *** Text clones. The new function `text-clone-create'. Text clones are chunks of text that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one clone to the other. ---- *** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete. ** Filling changes. -+++ *** In determining an adaptive fill prefix, Emacs now tries the function in `adaptive-fill-function' _before_ matching the buffer line against `adaptive-fill-regexp' rather than _after_ it. -+++ ** Atomic change groups. To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that @@ -4415,21 +3887,17 @@ ** Buffer-related changes: ---- *** `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. @@ -4449,7 +3917,6 @@ for compatibility, an internal variable which exists only for this purpose. -+++ *** The function `read-buffer' follows the convention for reading from the minibuffer with a default value: if DEF is non-nil, the minibuffer prompt provided in PROMPT is edited to show the default value provided @@ -4457,12 +3924,10 @@ ** Searching and matching changes: -+++ *** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long. -+++ *** The new variable `search-spaces-regexp' controls how to search for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular @@ -4471,36 +3936,29 @@ Spaces inside of constructs such as `[..]' and inside loops such as `*', `+', and `?' are never replaced with `search-spaces-regexp'. -+++ *** New regular expression operators, `\_<' and `\_>'. These match the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as specified by the syntax table. ---- *** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-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. ---- *** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits properties from surrounding text. -+++ *** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data' accepts such a list for restoring the match state. -+++ *** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional argument `reseat'. When non-nil, all markers in the match data list passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere. -+++ *** 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. @@ -4513,7 +3971,6 @@ ** Undo changes: -+++ *** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements. These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is @@ -4524,12 +3981,10 @@ which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA. -+++ *** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than `undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs. -+++ ** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how previously killed text on the kill ring is reinserted. @@ -4574,70 +4029,56 @@ ** Syntax table changes: -+++ *** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table. -+++ *** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account of text properties as well as the character code. -+++ *** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned by `syntax-after'). -+++ *** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the current syntactic context at point. ** 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 @@ -4650,7 +4091,6 @@ `exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies. ---- *** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed. Instead of choosing the first handler that matches, @@ -4659,7 +4099,6 @@ handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. In case of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies. -+++ *** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles. You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name @@ -4670,81 +4109,66 @@ This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being autoloaded when not really necessary. -+++ *** The function `make-auto-save-file-name' is now handled by file name handlers. This will be exploited for remote files mainly. -+++ *** The function `file-name-completion' accepts an optional argument PREDICATE, and rejects completion candidates that don't satisfy PREDICATE. ** Input changes: -+++ *** 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 this time elapses, the functions stop waiting and return nil. -+++ *** An interactive specification can now use the code letter `U' to get the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a previous `k' or `K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used. -+++ *** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name 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 finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted by a quit, and t if BODY was aborted by arrival of input. -+++ *** `recent-keys' now returns the last 300 keys. ** Minibuffer changes: -+++ *** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional buffer argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted, it defaults to the current buffer. -+++ *** New function `minibuffer-selected-window' returns the window which was selected when entering the minibuffer. -+++ *** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which specifies a predicate which the file name read must satisfy. The new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list. ---- *** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by Lisp code to override the built-in `read-file-name' function. -+++ *** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the `read-file-name' function. -+++ *** The new function `read-directory-name' is for reading a directory name. It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories. -+++ *** The new variable `history-add-new-input' specifies whether to add new elements in history. If set to nil, minibuffer reading functions don't add new elements to the history list, so it is possible to do this @@ -4752,19 +4176,16 @@ ** Completion changes: -+++ *** The new function `minibuffer-completion-contents' returns the contents of the minibuffer just before point. That is what completion commands operate on. -+++ *** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables can be either strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings. -+++ *** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions as a dynamic completion table. @@ -4777,7 +4198,6 @@ minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was entered. `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion. -+++ *** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable as a lazy completion table. @@ -4790,7 +4210,6 @@ from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of `lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR. -+++ ** Enhancements to keymaps. *** New keymaps for typing file names @@ -4909,12 +4328,10 @@ ** 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 @@ -4922,7 +4339,6 @@ abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always specify this flag. -+++ ** Enhancements to process support *** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil, @@ -4989,7 +4405,6 @@ Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte', which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading. -+++ ** Enhanced networking support. *** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections. @@ -5061,13 +4476,11 @@ ** 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 @@ -5076,51 +4489,41 @@ cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears. -+++ *** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and the mode line. -+++ *** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges' return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines. -+++ *** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'. It saves and restores the current buffer, too. -+++ *** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD. This is like `switch-to-buffer'. -+++ *** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed by calling `select-window'. It also saves and restores the current buffer. -+++ *** `set-window-buffer' has an optional argument KEEP-MARGINS. If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe, and scroll-bar settings. -+++ *** The new function `window-tree' returns a frame's window tree. -+++ *** The functions `get-lru-window' and `get-largest-window' take an optional 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 *** New buffer-local variables `fringe-indicator-alist' and @@ -5156,7 +4559,6 @@ ** Other window fringe features: -+++ *** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths. The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame @@ -5176,7 +4578,6 @@ of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels. -+++ *** Per-window fringe and scrollbar settings **** Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and @@ -5210,25 +4611,20 @@ ** Redisplay features: -+++ *** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP). -+++ *** Iconifying or deiconifying a frame no longer makes sit-for return. -+++ *** New function `redisplay' causes an immediate redisplay if no input is available, equivalent to (sit-for 0). The call (redisplay t) forces an immediate redisplay even if input is pending. -+++ *** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require forcing an explicit window update. -+++ *** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able to display CHAR. More precisely, if the selected frame's fontset has a font to display the character set that CHAR belongs to. @@ -5236,7 +4632,6 @@ Fontsets can specify a font on a per-character basis; when the fontset does that, this value cannot be accurate. -+++ *** You can define multiple overlay arrows via the new variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'. @@ -5250,7 +4645,6 @@ If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or 'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used. -+++ *** New `line-height' and `line-spacing' properties for newline characters A newline can now have `line-height' and `line-spacing' text or overlay @@ -5291,11 +4685,9 @@ If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property. -+++ *** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value, which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height. -+++ *** Enhancements to stretch display properties The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where @@ -5352,17 +4744,14 @@ The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions. The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions. -+++ *** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and text property string that may be present at the current window position. The cursor can now be placed on any character of such strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property. -+++ *** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now supported on text terminals. -+++ *** Support for displaying image slices **** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with @@ -5374,7 +4763,6 @@ **** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns). -+++ *** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property. An image map is an alist where each element has the format (AREA ID PLIST). @@ -5397,7 +4785,6 @@ an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'. -+++ *** The function `find-image' now searches in etc/images/ and etc/. The new variable `image-load-path' is a list of locations in which to search for image files. The default is to search in etc/images, then @@ -5411,80 +4798,62 @@ Note that all images formerly located in the lisp directory have been moved to etc/images. -+++ *** New function `image-load-path-for-library' returns a suitable search path for images relative to library. This function is useful in external packages to save users from having to update `image-load-path'. -+++ *** The new variable `max-image-size' defines the maximum size of images that Emacs will load and display. -+++ *** The new variable `display-mm-dimensions-alist' can be used to override incorrect graphical display dimensions returned by functions `display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'. ** Mouse pointer features: -+++ (lispref) ---- (man) *** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text' (or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'. -+++ *** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the :pointer image property. -+++ *** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images can now be controlled/overridden via the `pointer' text property. ** 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 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 the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on. -+++ *** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object (image or character) clicked on. -+++ *** 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 @@ -5493,11 +4862,9 @@ ** Text property and overlay changes: -+++ *** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays). -+++ *** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'. This variable allows you to create alternative names for text @@ -5505,14 +4872,12 @@ although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced to implement the `font-lock-face' property. -+++ *** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if it was found as a text property or not found at all. -+++ *** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'. It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of @@ -5520,13 +4885,11 @@ ** Face changes -+++ *** The variable `facemenu-unlisted-faces' has been removed. Emacs has a lot more faces than in the past, and nearly all of them needed to be excluded. The new variable `facemenu-listed-faces' lists the faces to include in the face menu. -+++ *** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor the face color to the number of colors supported by a display, and define the foreground and background colors accordingly so that they @@ -5534,7 +4897,6 @@ is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that makes a good use of the capabilities of the display. -+++ *** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable. @@ -5542,43 +4904,36 @@ specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces defined with `defface'. ---- *** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR' or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the `defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face. -+++ *** The first face specification element in a defface can specify `default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and 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). -+++ *** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'. These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face attribute. -+++ *** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute' help with handling relative face attributes. -+++ *** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face list is reversed. If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier @@ -5587,20 +4942,17 @@ so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text `face' properties. ---- *** 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 or background color was unspecified, colors were not swapped. This was inconsistent with the face behavior under X. ---- *** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil.. ** Font-Lock changes: -+++ *** New special text property `font-lock-face'. This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by @@ -5608,7 +4960,6 @@ property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the new variable `char-property-alias-alist'. -+++ *** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'. **** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the @@ -5618,7 +4969,6 @@ **** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock. ---- *** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'. If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified @@ -5645,7 +4995,6 @@ ** Major mode mechanism changes: -+++ *** 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. @@ -5654,55 +5003,43 @@ 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. ---- *** 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 @@ -5710,7 +5047,6 @@ ** Command loop changes: -+++ *** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the calling function was called through `call-interactively'. @@ -5718,14 +5054,12 @@ Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new INTERACTIVE argument to the command. -+++ *** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument. If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks for a function that could be called with `call-interactively', and does not return t for keyboard macros. -+++ *** When a command returns, the command loop moves point out from within invisible text, in the same way it moves out from within text covered by an image or composition property. @@ -5736,51 +5070,41 @@ (including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after `post-command-hook' and thus does not care about intermediate states. -+++ *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to `only', that enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only. During that following command, the value of `transient-mark-mode' is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command, the next return to the command loop changes to nil. -+++ *** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable `disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias. -+++ *** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook' when it receives a request from emacsclient. -+++ *** `current-idle-time' reports how long Emacs has been idle. ** Lisp file loading changes: -+++ *** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME), which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the current file redefined it). -+++ *** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name. -+++ *** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function, variable or face definitions. -+++ *** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist' and runs any code associated with the provided feature. ---- *** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted. Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more than 3 levels of nesting. -+++ ** Byte compiler changes: *** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character @@ -5817,36 +5141,30 @@ *** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in Lisp files is now obeyed. ---- *** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs (require 'cl) when loaded. ** Frame operations: -+++ *** New functions `frame-current-scroll-bars' and `window-current-scroll-bars'. These functions return the current locations of the vertical and horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window. -+++ *** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters for all (existing and future) frames. -+++ *** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp Reference manual for more detailed documentation. -+++ *** 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 @@ -5862,72 +5180,58 @@ 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'. This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a specified) window as a string with or without text properties. -+++ *** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be used to add text properties to mode-line elements. -+++ *** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode line. -+++ *** Mouse-face on mode-line (and header-line) is now supported. ** Menu manipulation changes: ---- *** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify "files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File" several versions ago. ---- *** The dummy function keys made by easy-menu are now always lower case. If you specify the menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada' as the "key" bound by that key binding. @@ -5935,7 +5239,6 @@ This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for the bindings that were made with easy-menu. ---- *** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't @@ -5943,30 +5246,24 @@ ** Operating system access: -+++ *** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor run time used by Emacs since start-up. -+++ *** Functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid' now return floats if the user UID doesn't fit in a Lisp integer. Function `user-full-name' accepts a float as UID parameter. -+++ *** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information. ---- *** On MS Windows, locale-coding-system is used to interact with the OS. The Windows specific variable w32-system-coding-system, which was formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system. ---- *** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file. ** Miscellaneous: -+++ *** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions: `find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook', @@ -5979,50 +5276,41 @@ In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment. -+++ *** Variable `local-write-file-hooks' is marked obsolete. Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'. ---- *** 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 -+++ ** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable buttons' in Emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the `widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that doesn't require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for such things as help and apropos buffers. ---- ** The new library tree-widget.el provides a widget to display a set of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files. -+++ ** The new library bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp data structures. ---- ** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer. @@ -6043,12 +5331,10 @@ (function (lambda () (master-set-slave sql-buffer)))) -+++ ** The new library benchmark.el does timing measurements on Lisp code. This includes measuring garbage collection time. -+++ ** The new library testcover.el does test coverage checking. This is so you can tell whether you've tested all paths in your Lisp