Mercurial > emacs
changeset 107420:961da90b22a3
Merge from trunk
| author | Jan D. <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> |
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| date | Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:05:39 +0100 |
| parents | fec42ef390ce (current diff) 934bc4b20344 (diff) |
| children | eab59b26377e |
| files | etc/NEWS.23 |
| diffstat | 54 files changed, 2814 insertions(+), 2451 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-01-31 Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> * .bzrignore: Add TAGS-LISP.
--- a/README Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/README Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. -This directory tree holds version 23.1.93 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, +This directory tree holds version 24.0.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
--- a/admin/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/admin/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + +2010-03-10 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> + + * quick-install-emacs: Use more portable shell syntax. + + * quick-install-emacs: (AVOID): Be more picky about files we avoid + installing. + 2010-02-14 Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> * quick-install-emacs (PRUNED): Fix typo in message.
--- a/admin/quick-install-emacs Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/admin/quick-install-emacs Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ PUBLIC_LIBSRC_BINARIES='b2m emacsclient etags ctags ebrowse' PUBLIC_LIBSRC_SCRIPTS='grep-changelog rcs-checkin' -AVOID="CVS -DIC README COPYING ChangeLog ~ [.]orig$ [.]rej$ Makefile makefile stamp-subdir [.]cvsignore [.]arch-ids [{]arch[}] [.][cho]$ make-docfile testfile test-distrib" +AVOID="CVS -DIC README COPYING ChangeLog ~ [.]orig$ [.]rej$ Makefile$ Makefile.in$ Makefile.c$ makefile$ makefile.w32-in$ stamp-subdir [.]cvsignore [.]arch-ids [{]arch[}] [.][cho]$ make-docfile testfile test-distrib" # Prune old binaries lying around in the source tree PRUNE=no @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ EOF exit 0 ;; - -[^-]?*) + -[!-]?*) # split concatenated single-letter options apart FIRST="$1"; shift set -- `echo $FIRST | sed 's/-\(.\)\(.*\)/-\1 -\2/'` "$@"
--- a/configure.in Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/configure.in Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ dnl along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. AC_PREREQ(2.62) -AC_INIT(emacs, 23.1.93) +AC_INIT(emacs, 24.0.50) AC_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config.h:src/config.in) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/lisp.h)
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-03-06 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> * custom.texi (Init Examples): Add xref to Locals.
--- a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ @c The edition number appears in several places in this file @set EDITION Sixteenth -@set EMACSVER 23.1.93 +@set EMACSVER 24.0.50 @copying This is the @value{EDITION} edition of the @cite{GNU Emacs Manual},@*
--- a/doc/lispintro/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/lispintro/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-02-16 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> * emacs-lisp-intro.texi: Fix typo in name of `find-tag' command.
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-03-06 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> * objects.texi (Integer Type): Take note of the read syntax
--- a/doc/lispref/book-spine.texinfo Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/lispref/book-spine.texinfo Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ @center @titlefont{GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual} @sp 5 @center GNU -@center Emacs Version 23.1.93 +@center Emacs Version 24.0.50 @center for Unix Users @sp 5
--- a/doc/lispref/elisp.texi Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/lispref/elisp.texi Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ @c Please remember to update the edition number in README as well. @c And also the copies in vol1.texi and vol2.texi. @set VERSION 3.0 -@set EMACSVER 23.1.93 +@set EMACSVER 24.0.50 @set DATE July 2009 @c in general, keep the following line commented out, unless doing a
--- a/doc/lispref/vol1.texi Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/lispref/vol1.texi Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ @c Version of the manual and of Emacs. @c Please remember to update the edition number in README as well. @set VERSION 3.0 -@set EMACSVER 23.1.93 +@set EMACSVER 24.0.50 @set DATE July 2009 @dircategory Emacs
--- a/doc/lispref/vol2.texi Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/lispref/vol2.texi Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ @c Version of the manual and of Emacs. @c Please remember to update the edition number in README as well. @set VERSION 3.0 -@set EMACSVER 23.1.93 +@set EMACSVER 24.0.50 @set DATE July 2009 @dircategory Emacs
--- a/doc/man/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/man/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-01-09 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> * emacs.1: Copyedits. Update options -Q, -mm and --daemon. Remove
--- a/doc/man/emacs.1 Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/man/emacs.1 Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" See section COPYING for copyright and redistribution information. -.TH EMACS 1 "2007 April 13" "GNU Emacs 23.1.93" +.TH EMACS 1 "2007 April 13" "GNU Emacs 24.0.50" . . .SH NAME
--- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-03-03 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> * faq.texi (Escape sequences in shell output): Note that ansi-color is
--- a/doc/misc/faq.texi Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/misc/faq.texi Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ @c %**end of header @c This is used in many places -@set VER 23.1.93 +@set VER 24.0.50 @c This file is maintained by Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@gnu.org>. @c Feel free to install changes without prior permission (but I'd
--- a/etc/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/etc/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-03-06 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> * srecode/default.srt (COPYRIGHT): Update template copyright to GPLv3+.
--- a/etc/NEWS Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/etc/NEWS Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. -This file is about changes in Emacs version 23. +This file is about changes in Emacs version 24. -See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 -for changes in older Emacs versions. +See files NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, +and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions. You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. @@ -22,2376 +22,33 @@ so we will look at it and add it to the manual. -* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.2 - -** New configure options for Emacs developers -These are not new features; only the configure flags are new. ---- -*** --enable-profiling builds Emacs with profiling enabled. -This might not work on all platforms. ---- -*** --enable-checking[=OPTIONS] builds emacs with extra runtime checks. - ---- -** `make install' now consistently ignores umask, creating a -world-readable install. - -** Emacs compiles with Gconf support, if it is detected. -Use the configure option --without-gconf to disable this. - -* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.2 -+++ -** The command-line option -Q (--quick) also inhibits loading X resources. -However, if Emacs is compiled with the Lucid or Motif toolkit, X -resource settings for the graphical widgets are still applied. -On Windows, the -Q option causes Emacs to ignore Registry settings, -but environment variables set on the Registry are still honored. -+++ -*** The new variable `inhibit-x-resources' shows whether X resources -were loaded. - -+++ -** New command-line option -mm (--maximized) maximizes the initial frame. - -* Changes in Emacs 23.2 - -+++ -** The maximum size of buffers (and the largest fixnum) is doubled. -On typical 32bit systems, buffers can now be up to 512MB. - ---- -** The default value of `trash-directory' is now nil. -This means that `move-file-to-trash' trashes files according to -freedesktop.org specifications, the same method used by the Gnome, -KDE, and XFCE desktops. (This change has no effect on Windows, which -uses `system-move-file-to-trash' for trashing.) - -+++ -** The pointer now becomes invisible when typing. -Customize `make-pointer-invisible' to disable this feature. - -** Font changes - -*** Emacs can use the system default monospaced font in Gnome. -To enable this feature, set `font-use-system-font' to non-nil (it is -nil by default). If the system default changes, Emacs changes also. -This feature requires Gconf support, which is automatically included -at compile-time if configure detects the gconf libraries (you can -disable this with the configure option --without-gconf). - -*** On X11, Emacs reacts to Xft changes made by configuration tools, -via the XSETTINGS mechanism. This includes antialias, hinting, -hintstyle, RGBA, DPI and lcdfilter changes. - -+++ -** Killing a buffer with a running process now asks for confirmation. -To remove this query, remove `process-kill-buffer-query-function' from -`kill-buffer-query-functions', or set the appropriate process flag -with `set-process-query-on-exit-flag'. - -** File-local variable changes -+++ -*** Specifying a minor mode as a local variables enables that mode, -unconditionally. The previous behavior, toggling the mode, was -neither reliable nor generally desirable. - -*** New commands for adding and removing file-local variables: -`add-file-local-variable', `delete-file-local-variable', -`add-file-local-variable-prop-line', and -`delete-file-local-variable-prop-line'. - -*** New commands for adding and removing directory-local variables, -and copying them to and from file-local variable lists: -`add-dir-local-variable', `delete-dir-local-variable', -`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals', -`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals-prop-line' and -`copy-file-locals-to-dir-locals'. - -** Internationalization changes -+++ -*** Unibyte sessions are now considered obsolete. -This refers to the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable as well as the ---unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte command line -arguments. Customizing enable-multibyte-characters and setting -default-enable-multibyte-characters are also deprecated. ---- -*** New coding system `utf-8-hfs'. -This is suitable for default-file-name-coding-system on Mac OS X; see -international/ucs-normalize.el. - ---- -** Function arguments in *Help* buffers are now shown in upper-case. -Customize `help-downcase-arguments' to t to show them in lower-case. - - -* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.2 - -** Kill-ring and selection changes -+++ -*** If `select-active-regions' is t, any active region automatically -becomes the primary selection (for interaction with other window -applications). If you enable this, you might want to bind -`mouse-yank-primary' to Mouse-2. -+++ -*** When `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' is non-nil, the kill -commands save the interprogram-paste selection into the kill ring -before doing anything else. This avoids losing the selection. -+++ -*** When `kill-do-not-save-duplicates' is non-nil, identical -subsequent kills are not duplicated in the `kill-ring'. - -** Completion changes - -*** The new command `completion-at-point' provides mode-sensitive completion. - -*** tab-always-indent set to `complete' lets TAB do completion as well. -+++ -*** The new completion-style `initials' is available. -For instance, this can complete M-x lch to list-command-history. - -*** The new variable `completions-format' determines how completions -are displayed in the *Completions* buffer. If you set it to -`vertical', completions are sorted vertically in columns. - -+++ -** The default value of `blink-matching-paren-distance' is increased. - ---- -** M-n provides more default values in the minibuffer for commands -that read file names. These include the file name at point (when ffap -is loaded without ffap-bindings), the file name on the current line -(in Dired buffers), and the directory names of adjacent Dired windows -(for Dired commands that operate on several directories, such as copy, -rename, or diff). - -+++ -** M-r is bound to the new `move-to-window-line-top-bottom'. -This moves point to the window center, top and bottom on successive -invocations, in the same spirit as the C-l (recenter-top-bottom) -command. - -+++ -** The new variable `recenter-positions' determines the default -cycling order of C-l (`recenter-top-bottom'). - -+++ -** The abbrevs file is now a file named abbrev_defs in -user-emacs-directory; but the old location, ~/.abbrev_defs, is used if -that file exists. - -* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2 - -** The bookmark menu has a narrowing search via bookmark-bmenu-search. - -** LaTeX mode now provides completion (via completion-at-point). - -** sym-comp.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by completion-at-point. - -** lucid.el and levents.el are now declared obsolete. - -** pcomplete provides a new command `pcomplete-std-completion' which -is similar to `pcomplete' but using the standard completion UI code. - -** Calc -+++ -*** The Calc settings file is now a file named calc.el in -user-emacs-directory; but the old location, ~/.calc.el, is used if -that file exists. - ---- -*** Graphing commands (`g f' etc.) now work on MS-Windows, if you have -the native Windows port of Gnuplot version 3.8 or later installed. - -** Calendar and diary - -+++ -*** Fancy diary display is now the default. -If you prefer the simple display, customize `diary-display-function'. - -+++ -*** The diary's fancy display now enables view-mode. - ---- -*** The command `calendar-current-date' accepts an optional argument -giving an offset from today. - -** Desktop ---- -*** The default value for `desktop-buffers-not-to-save' is nil. -This means Desktop will try restoring all buffers, when you restart -your Emacs session. Also, `desktop-buffers-not-to-save' is only -effective for buffers that have no associated file. If you want to -exempt buffers that do correspond to files, customize the value of -`desktop-files-not-to-save' instead. - -** Dired - -*** The new variable `dired-auto-revert-buffer' allows to revert -dired buffers automatically on revisiting. - -** DocView - -*** When `doc-view-continuous' is non-nil, scrolling a line -on the page edge advances to the next/previous page. - -** GDB-UI - -*** Toolbar functionality for reverse debugging. Display of STL -collections as watch expressions. These features require GDB 7.0 -or later. - -** Grep -+++ -*** A new command `zrgrep' searches recursively in gzipped files. - -** Info - -*** The new command `Info-virtual-index' bound to "I" displays a menu of -matched topics found in the index. - -*** The new command `info-finder' replaces finder.el with a virtual Info -manual that generates an Info file which gives the same information -through a menu structure. - -** Message mode is now the default mode for composing mail. - -The default for `mail-user-agent' is now message-user-agent, so the -C-x m (`compose-mail') command uses Message mode instead of Mail mode. - -Message mode has been included in Emacs, as part of the Gnus package, -for several years. It provides several features that are absent in -Mail mode, such as MIME handling. - -*** If the user has not customized mail-user-agent, `compose-mail' -checks for Mail mode customizations, and issues a warning if these -customizations are found. This alerts users who may otherwise be -unaware that their mail configuration has changed. - -To disable this check, set compose-mail-user-agent-warnings to nil. - -** The default value of mail-interactive is t, since Emacs 23.1. -(This was not announced at the time.) It means that when sending mail, -Emacs will wait for the process sending mail to return. If you -experience delays when sending mail, you may wish to set this to nil. - -** nXML mode is now the default for editing XML files. - -** Shell -+++ -*** ansi-color is now enabled by default. -To disable it, set ansi-color-for-comint-mode to nil. - -+++ -** Tramp - -*** New connection methods "rsyncc", "imap" and "imaps". -On systems which support GVFS-Fuse, Tramp offers also the new -connection methods "dav", "davs", "obex" and "synce". - -** VC and related modes - -*** When using C-x v v or C-x v i on a unregistered file that is in a -directory not controlled by any VCS, ask the user what VC backend to -use to create a repository, create a new repository and register the -file. - -*** FIXME: add info about the new VC functions: vc-root-diff and -vc-root-print-log once they stabilize. - -*** The log functions (C-x v l and C-x v L) do not show the full log -by default anymore. The number of entries shown can be chosen -interactively with a prefix argument, by customizing -vc-log-show-limit. The log buffer display buttons that can be used -to change the number of entries shown. -RCS, SCCS, CVS do not support this feature. - -*** vc-annotate supports annotations through file copies and renames, -it displays the old names for the files and it can show logs/diffs for -the corresponding lines. Currently only Git and Mercurial take -advantage of this feature. - -*** The log command in vc-annotate can display a single log entry -instead of redisplaying the full log. The RCS, CVS and SCCS VC -backends do not support this. - -*** When a file is not found, VC will not try to check it out of RCS anymore. - -*** Diff and log operations can be used from dired buffers. - -*** vc-git changes - -**** The short log format for git makes use of the graph display, so -it's not supported on git versions earlier than 1.5. - -**** Support for operating with stashes has been added to vc-dir: the stash list is -displayed in the *vc-dir* header, stashes can be created, removed, applied and -their content displayed. - -**** vc-dir displays the stash status - -**** vc-dir requires at least git-1.5.5. - -*** vc-bzr supports operating with shelves: the shelve list is -displayed in the *vc-dir* header, shelves can be created, removed and applied. - -*** log-edit-strip-single-file-name controls whether or not single filenames -are stripped when copying text from the ChangeLog to the *VC-Log* buffer. - -** Elint - ---- -*** Elint now uses compilation-mode. - ---- -*** Elint can now scan individual files and whole directories, -and can be run in batch mode. - ---- -*** Elint does a more thorough initialization, and recognizes more built-in -functions and variables. Customize `elint-scan-preloaded' if you want -to sacrifice some accuracy for a faster startup. - ---- -*** Elint attempts some basic understanding of featurep and (f)boundp tests. - ---- -*** Customize `elint-ignored-warnings' to suppress some warnings. - -** Miscellaneous -+++ -*** The new command `async-shell-command' bound globally to `M-&' executes -the command asynchronously without the need to manually add ampersand to -the end of the command. Its output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell -Command*'. - -*** Isearch searches in the comint/shell input history when the new variable -`comint-history-isearch' is non-nil. New commands `comint-history-isearch-backward' -and `comint-history-isearch-backward-regexp' (bound to M-r) start Isearch -in the input history regardless of the value of `comint-history-isearch'. - -*** Interactively `multi-isearch-buffers' and `multi-isearch-buffers-regexp' -read buffer names to search, one by one, ended with RET. With a prefix -argument, they ask for a regexp, and search in buffers whose names match -the specified regexp. Interactively `multi-isearch-files' and -`multi-isearch-files-regexp' read file names to search, one by one, -ended with RET. With a prefix argument, they ask for a wildcard, and -search in file buffers whose file names match the specified wildcard. - -+++ -*** Autorevert Tail mode now works also for remote files. - -+++ -*** The new built-in commands `su' and `sudo' support Tramp. -That means, they change `default-directory' to the new users value, -and let commands run under that user permissions. It works even when -`default-directory' is already remote. Calling the external commands -is possible by `*su' or `*sudo', repectively. - ---- -*** When running in a new enough xterm (newer than version 242), emacs -asks xterm what the background color is and it sets up faces -accordingly for a dark background if needed (the current default is to -consider the background light). - - -* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2 - -** CEDET (the Collection of Emacs Development Tools) is now in Emacs. -This is a collection of packages to aid with using Emacs as an IDE -(integrated development environment): - -*** The Semantic package allows the use of parsers to intelligently -edit and navigate source code. Parsers for C/C++, Java, Javascript, -and several other languages are included by default, and Semantic can -also interface with external tools such as GNU Global and GNU Idutils. - -To enable Semantic, use the global minor mode `semantic-mode'. -See the Semantic manual for details. - -*** EDE (Emacs Development Environment) is a package for managing code -projects, including features such as automatic Makefile generation. - -To enable EDE, use the minor mode `global-ede-mode'. -See the EDE manual for details. - -*** SRecode is a library for recoding Semantic tags back into source -code. It is currently used by some parts of Semantic and EDE; in the -future, it may be used for code generation features. - -*** The EIEIO library implements a subset of the Common Lisp Object -System (CLOS). It is used by the other CEDET packages. - -** mpc.el is a front end for the Music Player Daemon. Run it with M-x mpc. - -** htmlfontify.el turns a fontified Emacs buffer into an HTML page. - -** js.el is a new major mode for JavaScript files. - -** imap-hash.el is a new library to address IMAP mailboxes as hashtables. - - -* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.2 - -+++ -** The Lisp reader turns integers that are too large/small into floats. -For instance, on machines where `536870911' is the largest integer, -reading `536870912' gives the floating-point object `536870912.0'. - -This change only concerns the Lisp reader; it does not affect how -actual integer objects overflow. - ---- -** Several obsolete functions removed. -The functions have been obsolete since Emacs 19, and are unlikely to -be in use: - - time-stamp-month-dd-yyyy, time-stamp-dd/mm/yyyy, time-stamp-mon-dd-yyyy - time-stamp-dd-mon-yy, time-stamp-yy/mm/dd, time-stamp-yyyy/mm/dd, - time-stamp-yyyy-mm-dd, time-stamp-yymmdd, time-stamp-hh:mm:ss, - time-stamp-hhmm, baud-rate - ---- -** Support for generating Emacs 18 compatible bytecode (by setting -the variable `byte-compile-compatibility') has been removed. - -** In image-mode.el `image-mode-maybe' is obsolete. Instead, you can -either use `image-mode' that displays an image file as the actual image -inititally, or `image-mode-as-text' when you want to display an image file -as text inititally. `image-mode-as-text' is a combination of a non-image -mode from `auto-mode-alist' (or Fundamental mode) and `image-minor-mode'. -`image-minor-mode' provides `C-c C-c' key binding to toggle image display. -`image-toggle-display-text' removes image properties. -`image-toggle-display-image' adds image properties. -`image-toggle-display' toggles between `image-mode-as-text' and -`image-mode'. - - -* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.2 - -** make-network-socket can now also create `seqpacket' Unix sockets. - -** New function `completion-in-region' to use the standard completion -facilities on a particular region of text. - -+++ -** The 4th arg to all-completions (aka hide-spaces) is declared obsolete. - ---- -** read-file-name-predicate is obsolete. It was used to pass the predicate -to read-file-name-internal because read-file-name-internal abused its `pred' -argument to pass the current directory, but this hack is not needed -any more. - -** Frame parameter changes - -+++ -*** You can give the `fullscreen' frame parameter the value `maximized'. -This maximizes the frame. - -+++ -*** The new frame parameter `sticky' makes Emacs frames sticky in -virtual desktops. - ---- -** completion-base-size is obsoleted by completion-base-position. -This change causes a few backward incompatibilities, mostly with -choose-completion-string-functions where the `mini-p' argument has -been replaced by a `base-position' argument, and where the `base-size' -argument is now always nil. - -** called-interactively-p now takes one argument and replaces interactive-p -which is now marked obsolete. -** New function set-advertised-calling-convention makes it possible -to obsolete arguments as well as make some arguments mandatory. -** eval-next-after-load is obsolete. -** New hook `after-load-functions' run after loading an Elisp file. - -** You can control which binding is preferentially shown in menus and -docstrings by adding a `:advertised-binding' property to the corresponding -command's symbol. That property can hold a single binding or a list -of bindings. - -** New macro with-silent-modifications to tweak text properties without -affecting the buffer's modification state. -** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO -variable, are now declared obsolete. - -** read-key is a function halfway between read-event and read-key-sequence. -It reads a single key, but obeys input and escape sequence decoding. - -** start-process-shell-command and start-file-process-shell-command -now only take a single `command' argument. - -** The variable `process-file-side-effects' shall be bound to nil, if -a `process-file' call does not change a remote file. By this, file -name handlers like Tramp can apply optimizations. - -+++ -** Hash tables have a new printed representation that is readable. -The feature `hashtable-print-readable' identifies this new -functionality. - -** New functions performing Unicode normalization are added: -ucs-normalize-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-NFD-string, -ucs-normalize-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-NFC-string, -ucs-normalize-NFKD-region, ucs-normalize-NFKD-string, -ucs-normalize-NFKC-region, ucs-normalize-NFKC-string, -ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-string, -ucs-normalize-HFS-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFC-string. - -** completion-annotate-function specifies how to compute annotations -for completions displayed in *Completions*. - -+++ -** Face aliases can now be marked as obsolete, using the macro -`define-obsolete-face-alias'. - ---- -** Changing the file-names generated by byte-compilation by redefining -the function `byte-compile-dest-file' before loading bytecomp.el is obsolete. -Instead, customize byte-compile-dest-file-function. - ---- -** `byte-compile-warnings' has new members, `constants' and `suspicious'. - -** `delete-directory' has an optional parameter RECURSIVE. - -** New function `copy-directory', which copies a directory recursively. - -+++ -** New function `window-full-height-p', analogous to the full-width version. - - -* Changes in Emacs 23.2 on non-free operating systems - ---- -** On MS-Windows, `display-time' now displays the system load average -as well as the time, as it does on GNU and Unix. +* Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1 -* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1 - -** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid. -The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the -default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary. - -** New font code. -Fonts are handled by new code capable of dealing with multiple font -backends. This uses the freetype and fontconfig libraries. - -*** Emacs now accepts font names supplied in the fontconfig format -(e.g. "monospace-12:bold") and GTK format (e.g. "Monospace Bold 12"). - -*** Added support for local fonts (fonts installed on the machine -where Emacs is running). - -*** Added support for the Xft library for antialiasing. - -*** Added support for the otf library for complex text layout by -OpenType fonts. - -*** Added support for the m17n library for text shaping. - -** Changes to image support - -*** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for -a GIF library. - -*** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2. - -*** Emacs now supports multi-page TIFF images. - -** New NeXTSTEP-based port. -This provides support for GNUstep (via the GNUstep libraries) and Mac -OS X (via the Cocoa libraries). - -Specify --with-ns to configure for this. By default, a self-contained -app will be built (containing all lisp). To install/share lisp with -other emacsen (e.g. X11 build) use --disable-ns-self-contained. See -nextstep/README and nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory. - -** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon. -Use the NeXTSTEP port, described above. - -** The new configuration option "--with-dbus" enables D-Bus language -bindings for Emacs. - -** Support for many obsolete platforms has been removed. -See the list at the end of etc/MACHINES for details. - -*** Support for systems without alloca has been removed. - -*** Support for Sun windows has been removed. - -*** The `emacstool' utility has been removed. - -** The following platforms will be removed in a future Emacs version: -If you are still using Emacs on one of these platforms, please email -emacs-devel@gnu.org to inform the Emacs developers. - -*** Old GNU/Linux systems based on libc version 5. - -*** Old FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD systems based on the COFF -executable format. - -*** Solaris versions 2.6 and below. - -*** Solaris on IBM RS6000 machines. - -*** UNIX System V (the original SysV, not later platforms based on it). - -*** Unixware on non-x86 machines. - -*** Platforms not supporting shared libraries (i.e., requiring the -NO_SHARED_LIBS compilation flag). - -** The configure options `--with-gcc', `--without-gcc' have been removed. -Configure will use gcc by default. Set the CC environment variable if -you need control over which C compiler is used. - -** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files. - -** The manuals are now licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3, -or any later version. - -** Emacs 23 comes with a new set of default icons. -Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png. -The Emacs 22 icon is available as `emacs22.png' in the same location. - -* Changes in Emacs 23.1 - -** Improved X Window System support - -*** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session. -With an Emacs server active (M-x server-start), `emacsclient -t' -creates a tty frame connected to the running emacs server. You can -use any number of different ttys. `emacsclient -c' creates a new X11 -frame on the current $DISPLAY (or a tty frame if $DISPLAY is not set). -There may be problems if a display exits unexpectedly and Emacs is compiled -with Gtk+, see etc/PROBLEMS. - -You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by -testing for the `multi-tty' feature. - -*** Emacs starts in the background, as a daemon, when given the ---daemon command line argument. It disconnects from the terminal and -starts the server. Clients can connect and create graphical or -terminal frames using emacsclient. - -**** emacsclient starts emacs in daemon mode and connects to it when ---alternate-editor="" is used (or when the evironment variable -ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set to "") and emacsclient cannot connect to an -emacs server. - -*** The new command close-display-connection closes a connection to a -remote display. There are some bugs for Gtk+. See etc/PROBLEMS. - -*** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification. -You can embed Emacs in another application on X11. The new command line -option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs. See -http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html -for details about XEmbed. - -*** Emacs can now set the frame opacity. -The opacity of a frame can be controlled by setting the `alpha' frame -parameter. This only takes effect on a compositing window manager for -the X Window System, such as Compiz, Beryl and Compiz Fusion, on Mac -OS X, or on Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows. - -The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and -100 (opaque), or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0. It can also be a -cons cell (ACTIVE . INACTIVE), where ACTIVE is the opacity of an -active frame and INACTIVE is the opacity of non-active frames. - -The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the -opacity; the default is 20. - -** Internationalization changes - -*** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode. -(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty). - -The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now -Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs' (`emacs-internal' is an alias -for this). This encoding is backward-compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 -encoding. The internal encoding previously used by Emacs, -`emacs-mule', is still available for reading and writing files. - -During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files. -As a result, byte-compiled files containing non-ASCII characters can't -be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files compiled by Emacs 20, 21, -or 22 are loaded correctly as `emacs-mule' (whether or not they -contain multibyte characters). This takes somewhat more time, so it -may be worth recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be -shared with older Emacsen. - -*** There are new coding systems/aliases; see M-x list-coding-systems. - -*** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets. -See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently -as tables of unicodes. - -*** There are new language environments for Chinese-GBK, -Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, -Sinhala, and TaiViet. - -*** The minor modes unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and -unify-8859-on-decoding-mode are obsolete. - -*** `ucs-insert' is bound to `C-x 8 RET' and in addition to hex numbers -accepts numbers in hash notation (e.g. #o21430 for octal, or #10r8984 for -decimal). It also accepts Unicode character names with completion. - -*** The `cyrillic-translit' input method supports many new characters. -Common typographical characters available from Unicode were added to -`cyrillic-translit': punctuation marks, accented characters, fractions, -and others. - -** Emacs now supports serial port access on GNU/Linux, Unix, and -Windows. The new command `serial-term' starts an interactive terminal -on a serial port. The serial port can be configured at runtime with -the mode-line mouse menu. - -** Menu Bar changes - -*** In the Options menu, the "Set Default Font" item applies the -selected font to the `default' face on all frames, not just the -current frame. Furthermore, if Emacs is compiled with both GTK and -Fontconfig support, the "Set Default Font" item uses the GTK font -selection dialog instead of an Emacs pop-up menu. - -*** The font setting chosen by "Set Default Font" is saved if the -"Save Options" item is used. - -*** The Tools menu contains a new Encryption/Decryption submenu. -This contains commands provided by EasyPG, the newly-included -interface to GnuPG (see New Modes and Packages). - -*** In the Options menu, the "Truncate Long Lines in the Buffer" entry -has been replaced with a submenu offering three different ways to -handle long lines: truncation, continuation at the window edge, and -the new word wrapping behavior (see Editing Changes, below). - -*** Improvements to menus for major and minor modes -More major and minor modes now have a mode specific menu, and existing -mode menus have been improved to include more functionality. - -** Mode-line changes - -*** The mode-line displays a `@', instead of `-', if the -default-directory for the current buffer is on a remote machine. - -*** The mode-line displays a mode menu when mouse-1 is clicked on a -minor mode, in the same way as it already did for major modes. - -*** The `mode-line-emphasis' face is used to highlight certain -mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish). - -*** The mode-line tooltips have been improved to provide more details. - -*** The VC, line/colum number and minor mode indicators on the mode -line are now interactive: mouse-1 can be used on them to pop up a menu. - -** File deletion can make use of the Recycle Bin or system Trash folder. -Set `delete-by-moving-to-trash' non-nil to use this. Deleted files -and directories will then be sent to the Recycle Bin on Windows, and -to `trash-directory' on other systems. - -** Directory-local variables can now be defined. -By default, Emacs looks in .dir-locals.el for directory-local -variables. For more information, see `dir-locals-set-directory-class' -and `dir-locals-set-class-variables'. - -** Emacs can now use `auth-source' for authentication. -`smtpmail' and `url' (Tramp and Gnus also) use `auth-source' to obtain -login names and passwords. The match, if found, is reported -in *Messages* with the password blanked out. - -** `where-is-preferred-modifier' can specify your favorite modifier. - - -* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1 - -** The option `inhibit-startup-screen' (with aliases to old names -`inhibit-splash-screen' and `inhibit-startup-message') doesn't inhibit -display of the initial message in the *scratch* buffer. If you don't -want to display the initial message in the *scratch* buffer at startup, -you can set the option `initial-scratch-message' to nil. - -** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display -after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a -file or directory. - -** New alias `argv' for `command-line-args-left' -This is a convenience alias, so that one can write `(pop argv)' -inside of --eval command line arguments in order to access -following arguments. - -** The abbrev file is no longer read at startup in batch mode. - -** Emacs now supports invocation by an X session manager. -It can save a session and restore it later. See the documentation of -the functions `emacs-session-save' and `emacs-session-restore'. -(Actually, this feature was introduced with Emacs 22, but it was not -documented.) - -* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 - -** In Dired, `dired-flag-garbage-files' is rebound from `&' to `%&' -on the regexp command prefix map. - -** In Dired-x, all command guesses for ! are now added to the default -list accessible by M-n instead of pushing all guesses temporarily into -the history list. - -** In Isearch mode, a special case of typing `C-w' at the beginning of -the minibuffer that toggles word search (i.e. using key sequences -`C-s RET C-w' or `C-s M-e C-w') is obsolete. You can use the global key -`M-s w' to start word search, or type `M-s w' in Isearch mode to -toggle word search. To start nonincremental word search you can now use -`M-s w RET' and `M-s w C-r RET' instead of `C-s RET C-w' and `C-r RET C-w'. - -** In Info, `Info-search' is unbound from `M-s' to allow using `M-s w' -for word search as well as other search commands from the global prefix -key `M-s'. `Info-search' is still bound to `s', and also incremental -search commands `C-s', `C-M-s', `C-r', `C-M-r' are available for searching -through multiple Info nodes, together with their nonincremental versions -`C-s RET', `C-r RET', `C-M-s RET', `C-M-r RET', `M-s w RET'. - -** In Text mode, `center-line' and `center-paragraph' are rebound from -`M-s' and `M-S' to global keys `M-o M-s' and `M-o M-S' on the global -prefix map `M-o', which is intended for such formatting commands. - -** The following input methods were removed in Emacs 22.2, but this was -not advertised: danish-alt-postfix, esperanto-alt-postfix, -finnish-alt-postfix, german-alt-postfix, icelandic-alt-postfix, -norwegian-alt-postfix, scandinavian-alt-postfix, spanish-alt-postfix, -and swedish-alt-postfix. Use the versions without "alt-", which are -identical. +* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1 -* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 - -** The C-n and C-p line-motion commands now move by screen lines, -taking continued lines and variable-width characters into account. -Setting `line-move-visual' to nil reverts this to the previous -behavior (i.e., motion by logical lines based on buffer contents -alone). - -** C-x C-c now invokes `save-buffers-kill-terminal', and C-z now -invokes `suspend-frame'. These changes are for compatibility with the -new multi-tty support (see `Improved X Window System support' above). - -** Mark changes - -*** Transient Mark mode is now on by default. - -*** mark-even-if-inactive now defaults to t - -*** When Transient Mark mode is on, C-SPC C-SPC pushes a mark without -activating it. - -*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-q now fills the region if the -region is active. Otherwise, it fills the current paragraph. - -*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-$ now checks spelling of the -region if the region is active. Otherwise, it checks spelling of the -word at point. - -*** When Transient Mark mode is on, TAB now indents the region if the -region is active. - -*** The variable `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty -active region in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on -that empty region. - -** Temporarily active regions - -*** The new variable shift-select-mode, non-nil by default, controls -shift-selection. When Shift Select mode is on, shift-translated -motion keys (e.g. S-left and S-down) activate and extend a temporary -region, similar to mouse-selection. - -*** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or -mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command. -They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not -shift-translated, or after commands that would ordinarily deactivate -the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the -buffer). - -** Minibuffer and completion changes - -*** Emacs may ask for confirmation before opening a non-existent file -or buffer. By default, Emacs requests confirmation if you type RET -immediately after TAB, and the resulting input is not an existing file -or buffer; this usually happens when the minibuffer input did not -complete far enough and you entered RET by mistake. In that case, -Emacs puts the message "[Confirm]" in the minibuffer; type RET again -to create the file or buffer. - -The new variable confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer determines whether -Emacs asks for confirmation. The default value is `after-completion'. -If you change it to t, Emacs always asks for confirmation; if you -change it to nil, Emacs never asks for confirmation. - -*** The rules for performing completion have been changed. -When generating completion alternatives, Emacs now takes the -minibuffer text after point, if any, into account: this text is -treated as a substring of the remaining part of the completion -alternative (i.e., the part not matched by the minibuffer text before -point). If no completion alternatives are found this way, Emacs -attempts to perform partial-completion. If still no completion -alternatives are found, we fall back on the Emacs 22 rules for -performing completion. - -The new variable `completion-styles' can be customized to choose your -favorite completion style. - -*** When M-n in the minibuffer reaches the end of the list of defaults, -it adds the completion list to the end, so next M-n continues putting -completion items to the minibuffer. The same principle applies to -incremental search commands as well: C-s or C-M-s starts searching -the default values and after the end of defaults they continue -searching minibuffer completion items. - -*** Minibuffer input of shell commands now comes with completion. - -*** In the `C-x d' (Dired) prompt, typing M-n gives the visited file -name of the current buffer. - -*** In the M-! (shell-command) prompt, M-n provides some default commands. -These are guessed using the file extension of the current file, based -on the file-handlers specified in the operating system's `mailcap' -file. The ! command in Dired (dired-do-shell-command) works -similarly, using the file displayed on the current line. - -*** A list of regexp default values is available via M-n for `occur', -`keep-lines', `flush-lines' and `how-many'. This list includes the active -region in transient-mark-mode, the word under the cursor, the last Isearch -regexp, the last Isearch string and the last replacement regexp. - -*** When enable-recursive-minibuffers is non-nil, operations which use -switch-to-buffer (such as C-x b and C-x C-f) do not fail any more when -used in a minibuffer or a dedicated window. Instead, they fallback on -using pop-to-buffer, which will use some other window. This change -has no effect when enable-recursive-minibuffers is nil (the default). - -*** Isearch started in the minibuffer searches in the minibuffer history. -Reverse Isearch commands (C-r, C-M-r) search in previous minibuffer -history elements, and forward Isearch commands (C-s, C-M-s) search in -next history elements. When the reverse search reaches the first history -element, it wraps to the last history element, and the forward search -wraps to the first history element. When the search is terminated, the -history element containing the search string becomes the current. - -*** The variable read-file-name-completion-ignore-case overrides -completion-ignore-case for file name completion. - -*** The variable read-buffer-completion-ignore-case overrides -completion-ignore-case for buffer name completion. - -*** The new command `minibuffer-force-complete' chooses one of the -possible completions, rather than stopping at the common prefix. - -*** If `completion-auto-help' is `lazy', Emacs shows the completions -buffer only on the second attempt to complete. This was already -supported in `partial-completion-mode'. - -** Face changes - -*** S-down-mouse-1 now pops up a menu for changing the font and text -size of the default face in the current buffer. The face is changed -via face remapping (see Lisp changes, below). - -*** New commands to change the default face size in the current buffer. -To increase it, type `C-x C-+' or `C-x C-='. To decrease it, type -`C-x C--'. To restore the default (global) face size, type `C-x C-0'. -These work via Text Scale mode, a new minor mode. - -The final key in the above commands may be repeated without the -leading `C-x', e.g. `C-x C-= C-= C-=' increases the face height by -three steps. Each step scales the height of the default face by the -value of the variable `text-scale-mode-step'. - -*** The commands buffer-face-mode and buffer-face-set can be used to -remap the default face in the current buffer. See "Buffer Face mode", -under New Modes and Packages. - -** Primary selection changes - -*** You can disable kill ring commands from accessing the primary -selection by setting `x-select-enable-primary' to nil. - -** Continuation lines can now be wrapped at word boundaries -(word-wrapping). This is controlled by the new per-buffer variable -`word-wrap'. Word wrapping does not take place if continuation lines -are not shown, e.g. if truncate-lines is non-nil. The most convenient -way to enable word-wrapping is using the new minor mode Visual Line -mode; in addition to setting `word-wrap' to t, this rebinds some -editing commands to work on screen lines rather than text lines. See -New Modes and Packages, below. - -** Window management changes +* Changes in Emacs 24.1 -*** truncate-partial-width-windows now accepts integer values, which -specify a minimum window width for partial-width windows, below which -lines are truncated. The default has been changed to 50. - -*** The new command balance-windows-area balances windows both -vertically and horizontally. - -*** pop-to-buffer now always sets input focus when the popped-to window -is on a different frame. - -** Miscellaneous changes: - -*** C-l is bound to the new command recenter-top-bottom, rather than recenter. -This moves the current line to window center, top and bottom on -successive invocations. - -*** scroll-preserve-screen-position also preserves the column position. - -*** If `yank-pop-change-selection' is t, rotating the kill ring also -updates the selection or clipboard to the current yank, just as M-w -would do so with the text it copies to the kill ring. - -*** C-M-% now shows replacement as it would look in the buffer, with -`\N' and `\&' substituted according to the match. Old behavior can be -restored by customizing `query-replace-show-replacement'. - -*** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is -called with a prefix and the default directory is a remote file name. -This is because some file name handlers (like ange-ftp) are not able to -run processes remotely. - -*** The new command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name -matches a regexp. - -*** The value of comment-style now defaults to `indent'. -Thefore, comment-start markers are inserted at the current indentation -of the region to comment, rather than the leftmost column. - -*** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and -`pp-macroexpand-last-sexp' pretty-print macro expansions. - -*** The new command `set-file-modes' allows to set file's mode bits. -The mode bits can be specified in symbolic notation, like with GNU -Coreutils, in addition to an octal number. `chmod' is a new -convenience alias for this function. - -*** `next-error-recenter' specifies how next-error should recenter the -visited source file. Its value can be a number (for example, 0 for -top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering. - -*** When typing in a password in the echo area, C-y yanks the current -kill into the password. - -*** Tooltip frame parameters `font' and `color' in `tooltip-frame-parameters' -are ignored. Customize the `tooltip' face instead. - -*** `mkdir' is a new convenience alias for `make-directory'. -* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 - -** Auto Composition Mode is a minor mode that composes characters -automatically when they are displayed. It is globally on by default. -It uses `auto-composition-function' (default `auto-compose-chars'). - -** Bubbles, a new game, is similar to SameGame. - -** Buffer Face mode is a minor mode for remapping the default face in -the current buffer. The variable `buffer-face-mode-face' specifies -the face to remap to. The command `buffer-face-set' prompts for a -face name, sets `buffer-face-mode-face' to it, and enables -buffer-face-mode. See "Face changes", under Editing Changes, for a -description of face remapping. - -** butterfly flips the desired bit on the drive platter. -See http://xkcd.com/378/ - -** bug-reference.el provides clickable links to bug reports. - -** dbus.el provides D-Bus language bindings. -D-Bus is an inter-process communication mechanism for applications -residing on the same host. See the manual for details. - -** DocView mode allows viewing of PDF, PostScript and DVI documents. -One can also search for a regular expression in the document. For -details, see the commentary in doc-view.el. - -PDF and DVI files are now opened in Doc View mode by default. - -In Postcript mode, C-c C-c launches Doc View minor mode for viewing -the postscript file. - -** EasyPG provides an interface to the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). -It includes a GnuPG keyring browser, cryptographic operations on -regions and files, and automatic encryption of *.gpg files. For -details, see the EasyPG Assistant User's Manual. - -** json.el is a library for parsing and generating JSON -(JavaScript Object Notation), a lightweight data-interchange format. - -** linum.el is a new minor mode to display line numbers for the -current buffer. - -** mairix.el is an interface to mairix, a free tool for indexing and -searching locally stored mail. It allows you to query mairix and -display the search results with Rmail, Gnus and VM. Note that there -is an existing Gnus back end, nnmairix.el, which should be used with -Maildir/MH setups. - -** minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt. - -** nXML Mode -This is a new mode for editing XML documents. It allows a schema to -be associated with the XML document being edited, using Relax NG as -the schema language. The schema is used to provide two key features: - -*** Continuous validation. nXML validates as you type, highlighting -any invalid parts of your document. - -*** Completion. nXML can assist you in entering an element name, -attribute name or data value by using information about what is -allowed by the schema in that context. - -** proced.el provides a Dired-like interface for operating on -processes. Proced makes an Emacs buffer containing a listing of the -current processes. You can use the normal Emacs commands to move -around in this buffer, and special Proced commands to operate on the -processes listed. It is currently only functional on GNU/Linux, -MS-Windows and Solaris. - -** Remember Mode is a mode for jotting down things to remember. -Notes can be saved to a Diary file. For details, see the Remember -Manual. - -** RST mode is a major mode for editing reStructuredText files. - -** Ruby mode is a major mode for Ruby files. - -** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines. -It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e, -and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical -lines. This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode. -This can also be turned on using the menu bar, via -Options -> Line Wrapping in this Buffer -> Word Wrap - -** xesam.el is an implementation of Xesam, an interface to (desktop) -search engines like Beagle, Strigi, and Tracker. The Xesam API -requires D-Bus for communication. - -** zeroconf.el offers service discovery and service publishing -interfaces according to the zeroconf specification. It communicates -with Avahi, a zeroconf implementation, via D-Bus messages on systems -which have installed this software. - -** There is a new `whitespace' package. -(The pre-existing one has been renamed to `old-whitespace'.) -Now, besides reporting bogus blanks, the whitespace package has a -minor mode and a global minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD) -SPACE and NEWLINE). The visualization is made via faces and/or display -table. It can also indicate lines that extend beyond a given column, -trailing blanks, and empty lines at the start or end of a buffer. -See `whitespace-style' for more details. The `whitespace-action' option -specifies what to do when a buffer is visited, killed, or written. +* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.1 -* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 - -** Abbrev has been rewritten in Elisp and extended with more flexibility. - -*** New functions: abbrev-get, abbrev-put, abbrev-table-get, abbrev-table-put, -abbrev-table-p, abbrev-insert, abbrev-table-menu. - -*** Special hook `abbrev-expand-functions' obsoletes `pre-abbrev-expand-hook'. - -*** `make-abbrev-table', `define-abbrev', `define-abbrev-table' all take -extra arguments for arbitrary properties. - -*** New variable `abbrev-minor-mode-table-alist'. - -*** `local-abbrev-table' can hold a list of abbrev-tables. - -*** Abbrevs have now the following special properties: -`:count', `:system', `:enable-function', `:case-fixed'. - -*** Abbrev-tables have now the following special properties: -`:parents', `:case-fixed', `:enable-function', `:regexp', -`abbrev-table-modiff'. - -** Apropos - -*** `apropos-library' describes the elements defined in a given library. - -*** Set `apropos-compact-layout' is you want a more compact (but wider) layout. - -** Archive Mode has basic support to browse Rar archives. -Note, however, that the free version of the unrar command only handles -versions 1 and 2 of the Rar format. - -** BibTeX mode - -*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers. - -*** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and -`string', disabled by default. - -*** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to -identify cited keys in BibTeX entries, used by `bibtex-find-crossref'. - -*** Command `bibtex-url' allows multiple URLs per entry. - -** Bookmarks - -*** bookmark.el saves bookmarks in a pre-Emacs-23-incompatible file format -bookmark.el can read a .emacs.bmk file saved by an older Emacs, but an -older Emacs cannot read one saved by Emacs 23. - -** Calendar and diary - -*** There is a new date style, `iso', essentially year/month/day. -The variable `european-calendar-style' is obsolete - use `calendar-date-style'. -Similarly, the commands `american-calendar' and `european-calendar' -should be replaced by `calendar-set-date-style'. - -*** The calendar namespace has been rationalized. -All functions and variables now begin with a `calendar-', `diary-', or -`holiday-' prefix. The various calendar systems have secondary -prefixes, eg `calendar-french-'. The old names you are likely to use -directly still exist, for the time being, as aliases, but please start -using the new names. - -*** The whitespace in the calendar layout can be customized. -See the variables: -calendar-left-margin, calendar-intermonth-spacing, calendar-column-width, -calendar-day-header-width, and calendar-day-digit-width. - -*** Text (e.g. ISO weeks) can be displayed between the calendar months. -See the variables calendar-intermonth-header and calendar-intermonth-text. - -*** The function `holiday-chinese' computes holidays on the Chinese calendar. -It has been used to add items to the list `holiday-oriental-holidays'. - -*** `diary-remind' accepts a negative number -DAYS as a shorthand for -the list (1 2 ... DAYS). - -** Change Log mode - -*** The new command C-c C-f (change-log-find-file) finds the file -associated with the current log entry. - -*** The new command C-c C-c (change-log-goto-source) goes to the -source code associated with a log entry. - -** Compile and grep modes - -*** The mode-line entry for the *compilation* and *grep* buffer is color coded. -It has different colors for to show that: (a) the command is still -running, (b) successful completion, (c) error. - -*** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to -the first error encountered during compilations. - -*** compilation-scroll-output accepts a new value, `first-error', which -says to stop auto scrolling at the first error that occurs. - -*** The `cc' alias for C++ files in `grep-file-aliases' has been -improved. `hh' can be used to match C++ header files and `cchh' both -C++ sources and headers. - -** Copyright - -*** You can specify your copyright holders' names. -Only copyright lines with holders matching `copyright-names-regexp' are -considered for update. - -*** Copyrights can be at the end of the buffer. -This is controlled by `copyright-at-end-flag' (used by, e.g., change-log-mode). - -** Custom - -*** defcustom accepts new keyword arguments, `:safe' and `:risky', which -set a variable's `safe-local-variable' and `risky-local-variable' property. - -** Diff mode - -*** diff-refine-hunk highlights word-level details of changes in a diff hunk. -It's used automatically as you move through hunks, see -diff-auto-refine-mode. It is bound to `C-c C-b'. - -*** diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window iterates through the diff -buffer and tries to create ChangeLog entries for each change. -It is bound to `C-x 4 A'. - -*** Turning on `whitespace-mode' in a diff buffer will show trailing -whitespace problems in the modified lines. - -** Dired - -*** In Dired, C-x C-q now runs the command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode, -and C-x C-q in wdired-mode exits it with asking a question about -saving changes. - -*** `&' runs the command `dired-do-async-shell-command' that executes -the command asynchronously without the need to manually add ampersand -to the end of the command. Its output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell -Command*'. - -*** `M-s f C-s' and `M-s f M-C-s' run Isearch that matches only at file names. -When a new user option `dired-isearch-filenames' is t, then even ordinary -Isearch started with `C-s' and `C-M-s' matches only at file names in the -Dired buffer. When `dired-isearch-filenames' is `dwim' then activation of -file name Isearch depends on the position of point - if point is on a file -name initially, then Isearch matches only file names, otherwise it matches -everywhere in the Dired buffer. You can toggle file names matching on or -off by typing `M-s f' in Isearch mode. - -*** `M-s a C-s' and `M-s a M-C-s' run multi-file Isearch on the marked files. -They visit the first marked file in the sequence and display the usual Isearch -prompt for a string or a regexp where all Isearch commands are available. - -*** `Q' in Dired provides two new keys for multi-file replacement. -The upper case key `Y' replaces all remaining matches in all remaining files -with no more questions. The upper case key `N' stops doing replacements -in the current file and skips to the next file. These multi-file keys -are available for all commands that use `tags-query-replace' -including `dired-do-query-replace-regexp', `vc-dir-query-replace-regexp', -`reftex-query-replace-document'. - -** Fortran - -*** The line length of fixed-form Fortran is not fixed at 72 any more. -Customize the variable `fortran-line-length' to change it. - -*** In Fortran mode, M-; is now bound to the standard comment-dwim, -rather than fortran-indent-comment. - -*** (The increasingly misnamed) F90 mode supports Fortran 2003 syntax. - -** Gnus - -*** The Gnus package has been updated -There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements; see the file -GNUS-NEWS or the node "No Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details. - -*** In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for -saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld. These file may not be read -correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to Gnus across different Emacs -versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'. - -*** Passwords are consistently loaded through `auth-source' -Gnus can use `auth-source' for POP and IMAP passwords. Also see that -`smtpmail' and `url' support `auth-source' for SMTP and HTTP/HTTPS/RSS -authentication respectively. - -** Help mode - -*** New macro `with-help-window' should set up help windows better -than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'. - -*** New option `help-window-select' permits to customize whether help -window shall be automatically selected when invoking help. - -*** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits one to specify a new -position for point in help window (for example in `view-lossage'). - -** Isearch - -*** New command `isearch-forward-word' bound globally to `M-s w' starts -incremental word search. New command `isearch-toggle-word' bound to the -same key `M-s w' in Isearch mode toggles word searching on or off -while Isearch is active. - -*** New command `isearch-highlight-regexp' bound to `M-s h r' in Isearch -mode runs `highlight-regexp' (`hi-lock-face-buffer') with the current -search string as its regexp argument. The same key `M-s h r' and -other keys on the `M-s h' prefix are bound globally to the command -`highlight-regexp' and other hi-lock commands. - -*** New command `isearch-occur' bound to `M-s o' in Isearch mode -runs `occur' with the current search string. The same key `M-s o' -is bound globally to the command `occur'. - -*** Isearch can now search through multiple ChangeLog files. -When running Isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails, -then another C-s tries searching the previous ChangeLog, -if there is one (e.g. going from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12). -This is enabled if multi-isearch-search is non-nil. - -*** Two new commands to start Isearch on a list of marked buffers -for buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el are bound to the keys `M-s a C-s' and -`M-s a M-C-s'. - -*** The part of an Isearch that failed to match is highlighted in -`isearch-fail' face. - -*** `C-h C-h' in Isearch mode displays isearch-specific Help screen, -`C-h b' displays all Isearch key bindings, `C-h k' displays the full -documentation of the given Isearch key sequence, `C-h m' displays -documentation of Isearch mode. All the rest Help commands exit Isearch mode -and execute their global definitions. - -*** When started in the minibuffer, Isearch searches in the minibuffer -history. See `Minibuffer changes', above. - -** MH-E - -*** Upgraded to MH-E version 8.2. See MH-E-NEWS for details. +* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 -** Python -*** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning -that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el. - -*** Python mode now has `pdbtrack' functionality. When using pdb to -debug a Python program, pdbtrack notices the pdb prompt and displays -the source file and line that the program is stopped at, much the same -way as gud-mode does for debugging C programs with gdb. - -** Recentf - -*** The default value of `recentf-keep' prevents from checking of -remote files, if there is no established connection to the -corresponding remote host. - -** Rmail - -*** Rmail no longer converts the messages to Babyl format. -Instead, it uses UNIX mbox format, both on disk and in Rmail buffers, -and does conversion and decoding when a message is displayed. - -The first time you visit an Rmail file in Babyl format, Rmail -automatically converts it to mbox format. This is a one-time -conversion, but it can take a few minutes, depending on how fast is -your machine and on the size of the file. You should find the rest of -Rmail usage unaltered. - -However, M-x set-rmail-inbox-list now lasts only for one session -because there is no way to save the list of inbox files in an -mbox-format file. - -Also, whereas with Babyl format M-x find-file would switch to Rmail -mode, with mbox format this is no longer the case (there being no way -to add an "-*- rmail-*-" cookie to an mbox file). Use C-u M-x rmail -instead. - -If you have written any extensions to Rmail, they are likely to need -updating. Conceptually, the Rmail buffer that you see is no longer -just a narrowed portion of the whole. So you cannot access the whole -of a message (or message collection) by a simple save-restriction and -widen. Instead, there are two buffers: the rmail-buffer, and the -rmail-view-buffer. The former is the buffer that you see, the latter -is invisible. Most of the time, the invisible `view' buffer contains -the full contents of the Rmail file, and the Rmail buffer contains a -decoded copy of the current message (with only a subset of the -headers). In this state, Rmail is said to be `swapped'. - -You may find the following functions useful: - -`rmail-get-header' and `rmail-set-header' get or set the value of a -message header, whether or not it is currently visible. - -`rmail-apply-in-message' is a general purpose function that calls a -function (with arguments) which you specify on the full text of a given -message. To further narrow to just the headers, search forward for "\n\n". - -*** The new command `rmail-mime' displays MIME messages. -It is bound to `v' in Rmail buffers and summaries. It displays plain -text and multipart messages in a temporary buffer, and offers buttons -to save attachments. - -*** The command `rmail-redecode-body' no longer accepts the optional arg RAW. -Since Rmail now holds messages in their original undecoded form in a -separate buffer, `rmail-redecode-body' no longer encodes the original -message, and therefore there should be no need to avoid encoding it. - -*** The o command is now `rmail-output'. It is an all-purpose command -for copying messages from Rmail and appending them to files. It -handles Babyl-format files as well as mbox-format files, and it -handles both kinds properly when they are visited in Emacs. It always -copies the full headers of the message. - -*** The C-o command is now `rmail-output-as-seen'. It uses -the message as displayed, appending it to an mbox file. - -*** The modified status of the Rmail buffer is reported in the mode-line. -Previously, this information was hidden. - -** TeX modes - -*** New option latex-indent-within-escaped-parens -permits to customize indentation of LaTeX environments delimited -by escaped parens. - -** T-mouse Mode - -*** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode is enabled, -Emacs uses a Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server, -rather than faking events using the client program mev. This C level -approach provides mouse highlighting and help echoing in the -minibuffer. - -** Tramp - -*** New connection methods. -The new methods "plinkx", "plink2", "psftp", "sftp" and "fish" have -been introduced. There are also new so-called gateway methods -"tunnel" and "socks". - -*** IPv6 addresses. -IPv6 addresses are supported now as host names. They must be embedded -in square brackets, like in "/ssh:[::1]:". - -*** Multihop syntax has been removed. -The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed. Instead, multi hops -can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'. - -*** More default settings. -Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user', -`tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-host'. - -*** Connection information is cached. -In order to reduce connection setup, information about used -connections is kept persistently in a file. The name of this file is -defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'. - -*** Control of remote processes. -Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in -`tramp-remote-path' and `tramp-remote-process-environment'. - -*** Success of remote copy is checked. -When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote -file copy is checked via the file's checksum. - -*** Passwords can be read from an authentification file. -Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if -necessary. - -** VC and related modes - -*** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time. -This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented -version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, Git -and Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems as -a single changeset. - -*** vc-dir is a new command that displays file names and their VC -status. It allows to apply various VC operations to a file, a -directory or a set of files/directories. - -*** VC switches are no longer appended, rather the first non-nil value is used. -(This was for the most part true in Emacs 22, but was not advertised). -This is because there is an increasing variety of VC systems, and they -do not all accept the same "common" options. For example, a CVS diff -command used to append the values of `vc-cvs-diff-switches', -`vc-diff-switches', and `diff-switches'. Now the first non-nil value -from that sequence is used. The special value `t' means "no switches". - -*** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu. - -*** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip that explains the VC file status. - -*** In VC Annotate mode, the key bindings have changed to use lower -case keys instead of the upper case keys used in the past. - -*** In VC Annotate mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can -see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file) -by typing the D key. Using the "Show changeset diff of revision at -line" menu entry does the same thing. - -*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type v to toggle the annotation visibility. - -*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type f to show the file revision on -the current line. - -*** Asynchronous VC commands display [Waiting...] in the mode-line -of the corresponding buffer as long as the asynchronous process is -active. - -*** Log entries can be modified using the key "e" in log-view. -For now only CVS, RCS, SCCS and SVN support this functionality. -This is done by the `modify-change-comment' backend function. - -*** In log-view-mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can -see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file) -by typing the D key or using the "Changeset Diff" menu entry. - -*** In Log Edit mode, C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved. - -*** vc-git supports the "git grep" command. - -*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of a maintainer able -to update it to the new VC. - -** Miscellaneous - -*** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes). -If `default-directory' is a remote file name, subprocesses are started -on the corresponding remote system. - -*** Eldoc highlights the function argument under point -with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'. - -*** In Etags, the --members option is now the default. -Use --no-members if you want the old default behavior of not tagging -struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP. - -*** The `gdb' command only works with the graphical interface now. -Use `gud-gdb' if you want the (old) text command mode. - -*** goto-address.el provides two new minor modes, goto-address-mode and -goto-address-prog-mode, which buttonize URLS and email addresses. - -*** The new command `eshell/info' runs info in an eshell buffer. - -*** The new variable `ffap-rfc-directories' specifies a list of local -directories in which `ffap-rfc' will first search for RFCs. - -*** hide-ifdef-mode allows shadowing ifdef-blocks instead of hiding them. -See option `hide-ifdef-shadow' and function `hide-ifdef-toggle-shadowing'. - -*** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supercedes `icomplete-prospects-length'. - -*** Info displays breadcrumbs in the header of the page. -See Info-breadcrumbs-depth to control it. - -*** net-utils has an `iwconfig' command, similar to the existing `ifconfig'. -It is used to configure wireless interfaces. - -*** The pcmpl-unix package supports hostname completion for ssh and scp. - -*** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs. - -*** smerge-refine highlights word-level details of changes in conflict. -It's used automatically as you move through conflicts, see -smerge-auto-refine-mode. - -*** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support. - -*** A new command `display-time-world' has been added to the Time -package. It creates a buffer with an updating time display using -several time zones. - -*** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable. -See the documentation of the variables: tex-fontify-script, -tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and -tex-suscript-height-minimum. - -*** view-remove-frame-by-deleting is now by default t -since users found iconification of view-mode frames distracting. - -*** WoMan tries to add locale-specific manual page directories to the -search path. This can be disabled by setting `woman-locale' to nil. +** FIXME animated image API -* Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems - -** Case is now considered significant in completion on MS-Windows. -The default value of `completion-ignore-case' is now nil on -MS-Windows, the same as it is for other operating systems. The -variable doesn't apply to reading a file name -- in that case Emacs -heeds `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' instead. - -** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows. -Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions -of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. In Emacs 22, IPv6 was -supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock -1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library. - -** Busy cursor (hourglass) now displays on MS-Windows. -When Emacs is busy, an hourglass mouse cursor is displayed on Windows. -In Emacs 22 only X supported the busy cursor. - -** Battery status is available on MS-Windows -Emacs can now display the battery status in the mode-line when enabled with -display-battery-mode or from the Options menu. More verbose battery -information is also available with the command `battery'. In Emacs 22 -battery status was supported only on GNU/Linux and Mac. - -** More keys available on MS-Windows. -Keys normally associated with IMEs, and some exotic keys not normally found -on standard keyboards have been given names so they can be bound to functions -inside Emacs. If there are keys on your keyboard that have not been exposed -to Emacs in the past, try C-h k to see if they are available now. - -Emacs can now bind functions to the extra buttons for media player and -browser control present on some keyboards. These buttons are disabled -by default, since enabling them prevents their system-wide use when -Emacs has focus. To enable them, set the variable -w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable -for the list of extra keys that are available. - -** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows. -The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus -on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode -support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts. A -rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time -and developers. If demand still exists for such a backend even with -the improved language support for native Windows fonts, future -development in this direction will most likely be based on the -freetype library, giving access to a wider range of font formats. +* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 24.1 -* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 - -** Variables cannot be both buffer-local and frame-local any more. - -** `functionp' returns nil for special forms. -I.e., it only returns t for objects that can be passed to `funcall'. - -** The behavior of map-char-table has changed. It may call the -specified function with a cons (FROM . TO) as a key if characters in -that range have the same value. - -** Process changes - -*** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed. - -*** The multibyteness of process filters is now determined by the -coding-system used for decoding. The functions -`process-filter-multibyte-p' and `set-process-filter-multibyte' are -obsolete. - -** The variable `byte-compile-warnings' can now be a list starting with `not', -meaning to disable the specified warnings. The meaning of this list -may therefore be the reverse of what you expect (of course, this is -only an issue if you make use of the new `not' syntax). Rather than -checking/manipulating elements directly, use the new functions -`byte-compile-warning-enabled-p', `byte-compile-disable-warning', and -`byte-compile-enable-warning.' - -** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string. -Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value. - -** The function x-font-family-list has been removed. -Use the new function font-family-list (see Lisp Changes, below). - -** Internationalization changes - -*** The value of the function `charset-id' is now always 0. - -*** The functions `register-char-codings' and `coding-system-spec' -have been removed. - -*** The cpXXX coding systems are now supported automatically. -The functions cp-...-codepage, which you had to use in Emacs 22 to -enable support for these coding systems, have been deleted. - -*** The following features have been removed. They were used for -displaying various scripts with specific fonts, and are no longer -needed now that OpenType font support is available: - -**** `devanagari' and `devan-util', and all associated devanagari-* and -dev-* functions and variables (formerly used for Devanagari script). - -**** `kannada' and `knd-util', and all associated kannada-* and knd-* -functions and variables (formerly used for Kannada script). - -**** `malayalam' and `mlm-util', and all associated malayalam-* and -mlm-* functions and variables (formerly used for Malayalam script). - -**** `tamil' and `tml-util, and all associated tamil-* and tml-* -functions and variables (formerly used for Tamil script). - -*** The meaning of NAME argument of `set-fontset-font' is changed. -Previously nil is accepted as the default fontset. Now, nil is for -the fontset of the selected frame and t is for the default fontset. - -*** The meaning of FONTSET argument of `print-fontset' is changed. -Now, nil is for the fontset of the selected frame and t is for the -default fontset. - -** If a function in write-region-annotate-functions returns with a -different buffer current, Emacs no longer kills that buffer -automatically. This behavior existed in previous versions of Emacs, -but was undocumented. To kill a buffer after write-region, give the -variable `write-region-post-annotation-function' a buffer-local value -of `kill-buffer'. - -** The variable temp-file-name-pattern has been removed. -This variable was only used by call-process-region, which now uses -temporary-file-directory instead. - -** The COUNT and SYSTEM-FLAG arguments to define-abbrev have been -removed. The function now takes extra arguments for specifying -arbitrary abbrev properties. - -** end-of-defun-function is now guaranteed to work only when called -from the start of a defun. It must now leave point exactly at the end -of defun, since `end-of-defun' now itself moves forward over -whitespace after calling it. +* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1 -* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 - -** The new variable `generate-autoload-cookie' controls the magic comment -string used by `update-file-autoloads' to find autoloaded forms. The -variable `generated-autoload-file' similarly controls the name of the -file where `update-file-autoloads' writes the calls to `autoload'. -The default values are ";;;###autoload" and `loaddefs.el', -respectively. - -** New primitives `list-system-processes' and `process-attributes' -let Lisp programs access the processes that are running on the local -machine. See the doc strings of these functions for more details. -Not all platforms support accessing this information; on those that -don't, these primitives will return nil. - -** New variable `user-emacs-directory'. -Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d". - -** If a local hook function has a non-nil `permanent-local-hook' -property, `kill-all-local-variables' does not remove it from the local -value of the hook variable; it remains even if you change major modes. - -** `frame-inherited-parameters' lets new frames inherit parameters from -the selected frame. - -** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but -applies before function-key-map. Also it is terminal-local contrary to -key-translation-map. Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to -this map rather than to function-key-map now. - -** `ignore-errors' is now a standard macro (does not require the CL package). - -** `interprogram-paste-function' can now return one string or a list -of strings. In the latter case, Emacs puts the second and following -strings on the kill ring. - -** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first". -You do this by writing `debug' in the list of conditions to be handled, -like this: - - (condition-case nil - (foo bar) - ((debug error) nil)) - -** clone-indirect-buffer now runs the clone-indirect-buffer-hook. - -** `beginning-of-defun-function' now takes one argument, the count given to -`beginning-of-defun'. (N.B. `end-of-defun-function' doesn't take any -arguments.) - -** `file-remote-p' has new optional parameters IDENTIFICATION and CONNECTED. -IDENTIFICATION specifies which part of the remote identifier has to be -returned. With CONNECTED passed non-nil, it is checked whether a -remote connection has been established already. - -** The new macro `declare-function' suppresses compiler warnings about -undefined functions. - -** Changes to interactive function handling - -*** The new interactive spec code ^ says to first call -handle-shift-selection if shift-select-mode is non-nil, before reading -the command arguments. This is used for shift-selection (see above). - -*** Built-in functions can now have an interactive specification that -is not a prompt string. If the `intspec' parameter of a `DEFUN' -starts with a `(', the string is evaluated as a Lisp form. - -*** The interactive-form of a function can be added post-facto via the -`interactive-form' symbol property. Mostly useful to add complex -interactive forms to subroutines. - -** Region changes - -*** Commands should use `use-region-p' to test whether there is -an active region that they should operate on. - -*** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode is -enabled and the mark is active. Most commands that act specially on -the active region in Transient Mark mode should use `use-region-p' -instead of `region-active-p', because `use-region-p' obeys the new -user option `use-empty-active-region' (see Editing Changes, above). - -*** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to (only . OLDVAL), that -means to activate transient-mark-mode temporarily, until the next -unshifted point motion command or mark deactivation. Afterwards, -reset transient-mark-mode to the value OLDVAL. The values `only' and -`identity', introduced in Emacs 22, are now deprecated. - -** Emacs session information - -*** The new variables `before-init-time' and `after-init-time' record the -value of `current-time' before and after Emacs loads the init files. - -*** The new function `emacs-uptime' returns the uptime of an Emacs instance. - -*** The new function `emacs-init-time' returns the duration of the -Emacs initialization. - -** Changes affecting display-buffer - -*** display-buffer tries to be smarter when splitting windows. -The new option split-window-preferred-function lets you specify your own -function to pop up new windows. Its default value split-window-sensibly -can split a window either vertically or horizontally, whichever seems -more suitable in the current configuration. You can tune the behavior -of split-window-sensibly by customizing split-height-threshold and the -new option split-width-threshold. Both options now take the value nil -to inhibit splitting in one direction. Setting split-width-threshold to -nil inhibits horizontal splitting and gets you the behavior of Emacs 22 -in this respect. In any case, display-buffer may now split the largest -window vertically even when it is not as wide as the containing frame. - -*** If pop-up-frames has the value `graphic-only', display-buffer only -makes a separate frame on graphic displays. - -*** select-frame and set-frame-selected-window have a new optional -argument NORECORD. If non-nil, this will avoid messing with the order -of recently selected windows and the buffer list. - -** Window parameters can now be defined. -These are analogous to frame parameters, but are associated with -individual windows. - -*** The new functions window-parameters, window-parameter, and -set-window-parameter are used to query and set window parameters. - -** Minibuffer and completion changes - -*** A list of default values can be specified for the DEFAULT argument of -functions `read-from-minibuffer', `read-string', `read-command', -`read-variable', `read-buffer', `completing-read'. Elements of this list -are available for inserting into the minibuffer by typing `M-n'. -For empty input these functions return the first element of this list. - -*** New function `read-regexp' uses the regexp history and some useful -regexp defaults (string at point, last Isearch/replacement regexp/string) -via M-n when reading a regexp in the minibuffer. - -*** minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map is now named -minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map. - -*** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts the new -values `confirm-only' and `confirm-after-completion'. - -** Search and replacement changes - -*** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly. - -*** New function `match-substitute-replacement' returns the result of -`replace-match' without actually using it in the buffer. - -*** The new variable `replace-search-function' determines the function -to use for searching in query-replace and replace-string. The -function it specifies is called by `perform-replace' when its 4th -argument is nil. - -*** The new variable `replace-re-search-function' determines the -function to use for searching in `query-replace-regexp', -`replace-regexp', `query-replace-regexp-eval', and -`map-query-replace-regexp'. The function it specifies is called by -`perform-replace' when its 4th argument is non-nil. - -*** New keymap `search-map' bound to `M-s' provides global bindings -for search related commands. - -*** New keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additonal keys bound -to `automatic-all' and `exit-current' for multi-buffer interactive replacement. - -*** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents -the search and match primitives from changing the match data. - -*** New functions `word-search-forward-lax' and `word-search-backward-lax'. -These are like `word-search-forward and `word-search-backward', except -that the end of the search string need not match a word boundary, -unless it ends in whitespace. - -** File handling changes - -*** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in -symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions. - -*** file-local-variables-alist stores an alist of file-local -variables defined in the current buffer. - -** Face-remapping - -*** Each face can be remapped to a different face definition using the -variable `face-remapping-alist'. This is an alist that maps faces to -replacement definitions (which can be face names, lists of face names, -or attribute/value plists. If this variable is buffer-local, the -remapping occurs only in that buffer. - -*** text-scale-mode remaps the default face to a larger or smaller -size in the current buffer. This feature is used by the Buffer Face -menu and the new `C-x C-+', `C-x C--', and `C-x C-0' commands (see -Editing Changes, above). - -*** New functions: - -**** `face-remap-add-relative' adds a face remapping entry to the -current buffer. - -**** ``face-remap-remove-relative' removes a face remapping entry from -the current buffer. - -**** `face-remap-reset-base' restores a face to its global definition. - -**** `face-remap-set-base' sets the base remapping of a face. - -** Process changes - -*** The new function `start-file-process' is similar to `start-process', -but obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on -`default-directory'. The functions `start-file-process-shell-command' -and `process-file-shell-command' are also new; they call internally -`start-file-process' and `process-file', respectively. - -*** The new function `process-lines' executes an external program and -returns its output as a list of lines. - -** Character code, representation, and charset changes. - -*** In multibyte buffers and strings, characters are represented by -UTF-8 byte sequences. The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF -with no gap; code points 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the -same code points, while code points 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit -bytes. - -*** Generic characters no longer exist. - -*** The concept of a charset has changed. A single character may -belong to multiple charsets (e.g. a-grave, U+00E0, belongs to charsets -unicode, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-3, etc). - -**** The dimension of a charset is now 1, 2, 3, or 4, and the size of -each dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96. - -**** A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of -characters for display. - -*** The functions `split-char' and `make-char' now accept up to 4 -positional codes instead of just 2. - -*** The functions `encode-char' and `decode-char' now accept any character sets. - -*** The function `define-charset' now accepts a completely different -form of arguments (old-style arguments still work). - -*** The value of the function `char-charset' depends on the current -priorities of charsets. - -*** The function get-char-code-property now accepts many Unicode base -character properties. They are `name', `general-category', -`canonical-combining-class', `bidi-class', `decomposition', -`decimal-digit-value', `digit-value', `numeric-value', `mirrored', -`old-name', `iso-10646-comment', `uppercase', `lowercase', and -`titlecase'. - -*** The functions `modify-syntax-entry' and `modify-category-entry' now -accept a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all -entries in that range of characters. - -*** Use of `translation-table-for-input' for character code unification -is now obsolete, since Emacs 23.1 and later uses Unicode as basis for -internal representation of characters. - -*** New functions: - -**** `characterp' returns t if and only if the argument is a character. -This replaces `char-valid-p', which is now obsolete. - -**** `max-char' returns the maximum character code (currently #x3FFFFF). - -**** `define-charset-alias' defines an alias of a charset. - -**** `set-charset-priority' sets priorities of charsets. - -**** `charset-priority-list' returns a prioritized list of charsets. - -**** `unibyte-string' makes a unibyte string from bytes. - -**** `define-char-code-property' defines a character code property. - -**** `char-code-property-description' returns the description string of -a character code property. - -*** New variables: - -**** `find-word-boundary-function-table' is a char-table of functions to -search for a word boundary. - -**** `char-script-table' is a char-table of script names. - -**** `char-width-table' is a char-table of character widths. - -**** `print-charset-text-property' controls how to handle `charset' text -property on printing a string. - -**** `printable-chars' is a char-table of printable characters. - -** Code conversion changes - -*** The new function `define-coding-system' should be used to define a -coding system instead of `make-coding-system' (which is now obsolete). - -*** The functions `encode-coding-region' and `decode-coding-region' -have an optional 4th argument to specify where the result of -conversion should go. - -*** The functions `encode-coding-string' and `decode-coding-string' -have an optional 4th argument specifying a buffer to store the result -of conversion. - -*** The new variable `inhibit-null-byte-detection' controls whether to -consider text with null bytes as binary data. By default, it is -`nil', and Emacs uses `no-conversion' for any text containing null -bytes. - -*** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete. - -*** New functions: - -**** `with-coding-priority' executes Lisp code using the specified -coding system priority order. - -**** `check-coding-systems-region' checks if the text in the region is -encodable by the specified coding systems. - -**** `coding-system-aliases' returns a list of aliases of a coding system. - -**** `coding-system-charset-list' returns a list of charsets supported -by a coding system. - -**** `coding-system-priority-list' returns a list of coding systems -ordered by their priorities. - -**** `set-coding-system-priority' sets priorities of coding systems. - -**** `coding-system-from-name' returns a coding system matching with -the argument name. - -** There is a new input method, Robin, different from Quail. -It has three functionalities: - i) a simple input method (converts an ASCII sequence into a string). -ii) converts an existing buffer substring into another string -iii) reverse conversion (each character produced by a -robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a char-code-property) - -*** The new function `robin-define-package' defines a Robin package. - -*** The new function `robin-modify-package' modifies an existing Robin package. - -*** The new function `robin-use-package' starts using a Robin package -as an input method. - -*** The new function `string-to-unibyte' is like `string-as-unibyte' -but signals an error if STRING contains a non-ASCII, non-eight-bit -character. - -** Changes related to the new font backend - -*** Which font backends to use can be specified by the X resource -"FontBackend". For instance, to use both X core fonts and Xft fonts: - -Emacs.FontBackend: x,xft - -If this resource is not set, Emacs tries to use all font backends -available on your graphic device. - -*** New frame parameter `font-backend' specifies a list of -font-backends supported by the frame's graphic device. On X, they are -currently `x' and `xft'. - -*** The function `set-fontset-font' now accepts a script name as the -second argument, and has an optional 5th argument to control how to -set the font. - -*** New functions: - -**** `fontp' checks if the argument is a font-spec or font-entity. - -**** `font-spec' creates a new font-spec object. - -**** `font-get' returns a font property value. - -**** `font-put' sets a font property value. - -**** `font-face-attributes' returns a plist of face attributes set by a font. - -**** `list-fonts' returns a list of font-entities matching a font spec. - -**** `find-font' returns the font-entity best matching the given font spec. - -**** `font-family-list' returns a list of family names of available fonts. - -**** `font-xlfd-name' returns an XLFD name of a given font spec, font -entity, or font object. - -**** `clear-font-cache' clears all font caches. - -** Changes related to multiple-terminal (multi-tty) support - -*** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses. If you want to know the -$TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment. - -*** $DISPLAY is now dynamically inherited from the frame's `display'. - -*** The `window-system' variable is now frame-local. The new -`initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value -for the first frame. `window-system' is also now a function that -takes a frame argument. - -*** The `keyboard-translate-table' variable and the terminal and -keyboard coding systems are now terminal-local. - -*** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal -type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'. - -*** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a tty -session. - -*** A new `terminal' data type. -The functions `get-device-terminal', `terminal-parameters', -`terminal-parameter', `set-terminal-parameter' use this data type. - -*** Function key sequences are now mapped using `local-function-key-map', -a new variable. This inherits from the global variable function-key-map, -which is not used directly any more. - -*** New hooks: - -**** before-hack-local-variables-hook is called after setting new -variable file-local-variables-alist, and before actually applying the -file-local variables. - -**** `suspend-tty-functions' and `resume-tty-functions' are called -after a tty frame has been suspended or resumed, respectively. The -functions are called with the terminal id of the frame being -suspended/resumed as a parameter. - -**** The special hook `delete-terminal-functions' is called before -deleting a terminal. - -*** New functions: - -**** `delete-terminal' - -**** `suspend-tty' - -**** `resume-tty'. - -*** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent. - -** Redisplay changes - -*** For underlined characters, the distance between the underline and -the baseline is controlled by a new variable, `underline-minimum-offset'. - -*** You can now pass the value of the `invisible' property to -invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible. -This is convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer -position (e.g. in before/after-strings). - -*** `clear-image-cache' can be told to flush only images of a specific file. - -*** `vertical-motion' can now be given a goal column. -It now accepts a cons cell (COLS . LINES) in its first argument, which -says to stop, where possible, at a pixel x-position equal to COLS -times the default column width. - -*** redisplay-end-trigger-functions, set-window-redisplay-end-trigger, -and window-redisplay-end-trigger are obsolete. Use `jit-lock-register' -instead. - -*** The new variables `wrap-prefix' and `line-prefix' specify display -specs which are appended at display-time to every continuation line -and non-continuation line, respectively. In addition, Emacs -recognizes the `wrap-prefix' and `line-prefix' text or overlay -properties; these have the same effects as the variables of the same -name, but take precedence. - -** The Lisp interpreter now treats non-breaking space as whitespace. - -** Miscellaneous new functions - -*** `apply-partially' performs a "curried" application of a function. - -*** `buffer-swap-text' swaps text between two buffers. This can be -useful for modes such as tar-mode, archive-mode, RMAIL. - -*** `combine-and-quote-strings' produces a single string from a list of strings -sticking a separator string in between each pair, and quoting those -strings that include the separator as their substring. Useful for -consing shell command lines from the individual arguments. - -*** `custom-note-var-changed' tells Custom to treat the change in a -certain variable as having been made within Custom. - -*** `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing all the basic -attributes of a given face. - -*** `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a readable -string of days, hours, etc. - -*** `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image -specification. - -*** `locate-user-emacs-file' helps packages to select the appropriate -place to save user-specific files. It defaults to `user-emacs-directory' -unless the file already exists at $HOME. - -*** `read-color' reads a color name using the minibuffer. - -*** `read-shell-command' does what its name says, with completion. It -uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that. - -*** `split-string-and-unquote' splits a string into a list of substrings -on the boundaries of a given delimiter, and unquotes the substrings that -are quoted. Useful for taking apart shell commands. - -*** The two new functions `looking-at-p' and `string-match-p' can do -the same matching as `looking-at' and `string-match' without changing -the match data. - -*** The two new functions `make-serial-process' and -`serial-process-configure' provide a Lisp interface to the new serial -port support (see Emacs changes, above). - -** Miscellaneous new variables - -*** `auto-save-include-big-deletions', if non-nil, means auto-save is -not turned off automatically after a big deletion. - -*** `read-circle', if nil, disables the reading of recursive Lisp -structures using the #N= and #N# syntax. - -*** `this-command-keys-shift-translated' is non-nil if the key -sequence invoking the current command was found by shift-translation. - -*** `window-point-insertion-type' determines the insertion-type of the -marker used for window-point. - -*** bookmark provides `bookmark-make-record-function' so special major -modes like Info can teach bookmark.el how to save and restore the -relevant data. - -*** `fill-forward-paragraph-function' specifies which function the -filling code should use to find paragraph boundaries. +* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1 -* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1 - -** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure. - -** The new package check-declare.el verifies the accuracy of -declare-function macros (see Lisp Changes, above). - -** find-cmd.el can build `find' commands using lisp syntax. - -** The package misearch.el has been added. It allows Isearch to search -through multiple buffers. A variable `multi-isearch-next-buffer-function' -defines the function to call to get the next buffer to search in the series -of multiple buffers. Top-level functions `multi-isearch-buffers', -`multi-isearch-buffers-regexp', `multi-isearch-files' and -`multi-isearch-files-regexp' accept a single argument that specifies -a list of buffers/files to search for a string/regexp. - -** The new major mode `special-mode' is intended as a parent for -major modes such as those that set the "'mode-class 'special" property. +* Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -2415,5 +72,3 @@ mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: - -arch-tag: e759449d-88b3-4de4-9900-3a6c3dfa23e2
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS.23 Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,2419 @@ +GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. + +Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end of the file for license conditions. + +Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. +If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. + +This file is about changes in Emacs version 23. + +See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 +for changes in older Emacs versions. + +You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' +with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. + + +Temporary note: + +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. + --- means no change in the manuals is called for. +When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- +so we will look at it and add it to the manual. + + +* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.2 + +** New configure options for Emacs developers +These are not new features; only the configure flags are new. +--- +*** --enable-profiling builds Emacs with profiling enabled. +This might not work on all platforms. +--- +*** --enable-checking[=OPTIONS] builds emacs with extra runtime checks. + +--- +** `make install' now consistently ignores umask, creating a +world-readable install. + +** Emacs compiles with Gconf support, if it is detected. +Use the configure option --without-gconf to disable this. + +* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.2 ++++ +** The command-line option -Q (--quick) also inhibits loading X resources. +However, if Emacs is compiled with the Lucid or Motif toolkit, X +resource settings for the graphical widgets are still applied. +On Windows, the -Q option causes Emacs to ignore Registry settings, +but environment variables set on the Registry are still honored. ++++ +*** The new variable `inhibit-x-resources' shows whether X resources +were loaded. + ++++ +** New command-line option -mm (--maximized) maximizes the initial frame. + +* Changes in Emacs 23.2 + ++++ +** The maximum size of buffers (and the largest fixnum) is doubled. +On typical 32bit systems, buffers can now be up to 512MB. + +--- +** The default value of `trash-directory' is now nil. +This means that `move-file-to-trash' trashes files according to +freedesktop.org specifications, the same method used by the Gnome, +KDE, and XFCE desktops. (This change has no effect on Windows, which +uses `system-move-file-to-trash' for trashing.) + ++++ +** The pointer now becomes invisible when typing. +Customize `make-pointer-invisible' to disable this feature. + +** Font changes + +*** Emacs can use the system default monospaced font in Gnome. +To enable this feature, set `font-use-system-font' to non-nil (it is +nil by default). If the system default changes, Emacs changes also. +This feature requires Gconf support, which is automatically included +at compile-time if configure detects the gconf libraries (you can +disable this with the configure option --without-gconf). + +*** On X11, Emacs reacts to Xft changes made by configuration tools, +via the XSETTINGS mechanism. This includes antialias, hinting, +hintstyle, RGBA, DPI and lcdfilter changes. + ++++ +** Killing a buffer with a running process now asks for confirmation. +To remove this query, remove `process-kill-buffer-query-function' from +`kill-buffer-query-functions', or set the appropriate process flag +with `set-process-query-on-exit-flag'. + +** File-local variable changes ++++ +*** Specifying a minor mode as a local variables enables that mode, +unconditionally. The previous behavior, toggling the mode, was +neither reliable nor generally desirable. + +*** New commands for adding and removing file-local variables: +`add-file-local-variable', `delete-file-local-variable', +`add-file-local-variable-prop-line', and +`delete-file-local-variable-prop-line'. + +*** New commands for adding and removing directory-local variables, +and copying them to and from file-local variable lists: +`add-dir-local-variable', `delete-dir-local-variable', +`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals', +`copy-dir-locals-to-file-locals-prop-line' and +`copy-file-locals-to-dir-locals'. + +** Internationalization changes ++++ +*** Unibyte sessions are now considered obsolete. +This refers to the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable as well as the +--unibyte, --multibyte, --no-multibyte, and --no-unibyte command line +arguments. Customizing enable-multibyte-characters and setting +default-enable-multibyte-characters are also deprecated. +--- +*** New coding system `utf-8-hfs'. +This is suitable for default-file-name-coding-system on Mac OS X; see +international/ucs-normalize.el. + +--- +** Function arguments in *Help* buffers are now shown in upper-case. +Customize `help-downcase-arguments' to t to show them in lower-case. + + +* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.2 + +** Kill-ring and selection changes ++++ +*** If `select-active-regions' is t, any active region automatically +becomes the primary selection (for interaction with other window +applications). If you enable this, you might want to bind +`mouse-yank-primary' to Mouse-2. ++++ +*** When `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' is non-nil, the kill +commands save the interprogram-paste selection into the kill ring +before doing anything else. This avoids losing the selection. ++++ +*** When `kill-do-not-save-duplicates' is non-nil, identical +subsequent kills are not duplicated in the `kill-ring'. + +** Completion changes + +*** The new command `completion-at-point' provides mode-sensitive completion. + +*** tab-always-indent set to `complete' lets TAB do completion as well. ++++ +*** The new completion-style `initials' is available. +For instance, this can complete M-x lch to list-command-history. + +*** The new variable `completions-format' determines how completions +are displayed in the *Completions* buffer. If you set it to +`vertical', completions are sorted vertically in columns. + ++++ +** The default value of `blink-matching-paren-distance' is increased. + +--- +** M-n provides more default values in the minibuffer for commands +that read file names. These include the file name at point (when ffap +is loaded without ffap-bindings), the file name on the current line +(in Dired buffers), and the directory names of adjacent Dired windows +(for Dired commands that operate on several directories, such as copy, +rename, or diff). + ++++ +** M-r is bound to the new `move-to-window-line-top-bottom'. +This moves point to the window center, top and bottom on successive +invocations, in the same spirit as the C-l (recenter-top-bottom) +command. + ++++ +** The new variable `recenter-positions' determines the default +cycling order of C-l (`recenter-top-bottom'). + ++++ +** The abbrevs file is now a file named abbrev_defs in +user-emacs-directory; but the old location, ~/.abbrev_defs, is used if +that file exists. + +* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2 + +** The bookmark menu has a narrowing search via bookmark-bmenu-search. + +** LaTeX mode now provides completion (via completion-at-point). + +** sym-comp.el is now declared obsolete, superceded by completion-at-point. + +** lucid.el and levents.el are now declared obsolete. + +** pcomplete provides a new command `pcomplete-std-completion' which +is similar to `pcomplete' but using the standard completion UI code. + +** Calc ++++ +*** The Calc settings file is now a file named calc.el in +user-emacs-directory; but the old location, ~/.calc.el, is used if +that file exists. + +--- +*** Graphing commands (`g f' etc.) now work on MS-Windows, if you have +the native Windows port of Gnuplot version 3.8 or later installed. + +** Calendar and diary + ++++ +*** Fancy diary display is now the default. +If you prefer the simple display, customize `diary-display-function'. + ++++ +*** The diary's fancy display now enables view-mode. + +--- +*** The command `calendar-current-date' accepts an optional argument +giving an offset from today. + +** Desktop +--- +*** The default value for `desktop-buffers-not-to-save' is nil. +This means Desktop will try restoring all buffers, when you restart +your Emacs session. Also, `desktop-buffers-not-to-save' is only +effective for buffers that have no associated file. If you want to +exempt buffers that do correspond to files, customize the value of +`desktop-files-not-to-save' instead. + +** Dired + +*** The new variable `dired-auto-revert-buffer' allows to revert +dired buffers automatically on revisiting. + +** DocView + +*** When `doc-view-continuous' is non-nil, scrolling a line +on the page edge advances to the next/previous page. + +** GDB-UI + +*** Toolbar functionality for reverse debugging. Display of STL +collections as watch expressions. These features require GDB 7.0 +or later. + +** Grep ++++ +*** A new command `zrgrep' searches recursively in gzipped files. + +** Info + +*** The new command `Info-virtual-index' bound to "I" displays a menu of +matched topics found in the index. + +*** The new command `info-finder' replaces finder.el with a virtual Info +manual that generates an Info file which gives the same information +through a menu structure. + +** Message mode is now the default mode for composing mail. + +The default for `mail-user-agent' is now message-user-agent, so the +C-x m (`compose-mail') command uses Message mode instead of Mail mode. + +Message mode has been included in Emacs, as part of the Gnus package, +for several years. It provides several features that are absent in +Mail mode, such as MIME handling. + +*** If the user has not customized mail-user-agent, `compose-mail' +checks for Mail mode customizations, and issues a warning if these +customizations are found. This alerts users who may otherwise be +unaware that their mail configuration has changed. + +To disable this check, set compose-mail-user-agent-warnings to nil. + +** The default value of mail-interactive is t, since Emacs 23.1. +(This was not announced at the time.) It means that when sending mail, +Emacs will wait for the process sending mail to return. If you +experience delays when sending mail, you may wish to set this to nil. + +** nXML mode is now the default for editing XML files. + +** Shell ++++ +*** ansi-color is now enabled by default. +To disable it, set ansi-color-for-comint-mode to nil. + ++++ +** Tramp + +*** New connection methods "rsyncc", "imap" and "imaps". +On systems which support GVFS-Fuse, Tramp offers also the new +connection methods "dav", "davs", "obex" and "synce". + +** VC and related modes + +*** When using C-x v v or C-x v i on a unregistered file that is in a +directory not controlled by any VCS, ask the user what VC backend to +use to create a repository, create a new repository and register the +file. + +*** FIXME: add info about the new VC functions: vc-root-diff and +vc-root-print-log once they stabilize. + +*** The log functions (C-x v l and C-x v L) do not show the full log +by default anymore. The number of entries shown can be chosen +interactively with a prefix argument, by customizing +vc-log-show-limit. The log buffer display buttons that can be used +to change the number of entries shown. +RCS, SCCS, CVS do not support this feature. + +*** vc-annotate supports annotations through file copies and renames, +it displays the old names for the files and it can show logs/diffs for +the corresponding lines. Currently only Git and Mercurial take +advantage of this feature. + +*** The log command in vc-annotate can display a single log entry +instead of redisplaying the full log. The RCS, CVS and SCCS VC +backends do not support this. + +*** When a file is not found, VC will not try to check it out of RCS anymore. + +*** Diff and log operations can be used from dired buffers. + +*** vc-git changes + +**** The short log format for git makes use of the graph display, so +it's not supported on git versions earlier than 1.5. + +**** Support for operating with stashes has been added to vc-dir: the stash list is +displayed in the *vc-dir* header, stashes can be created, removed, applied and +their content displayed. + +**** vc-dir displays the stash status + +**** vc-dir requires at least git-1.5.5. + +*** vc-bzr supports operating with shelves: the shelve list is +displayed in the *vc-dir* header, shelves can be created, removed and applied. + +*** log-edit-strip-single-file-name controls whether or not single filenames +are stripped when copying text from the ChangeLog to the *VC-Log* buffer. + +** Elint + +--- +*** Elint now uses compilation-mode. + +--- +*** Elint can now scan individual files and whole directories, +and can be run in batch mode. + +--- +*** Elint does a more thorough initialization, and recognizes more built-in +functions and variables. Customize `elint-scan-preloaded' if you want +to sacrifice some accuracy for a faster startup. + +--- +*** Elint attempts some basic understanding of featurep and (f)boundp tests. + +--- +*** Customize `elint-ignored-warnings' to suppress some warnings. + +** Miscellaneous ++++ +*** The new command `async-shell-command' bound globally to `M-&' executes +the command asynchronously without the need to manually add ampersand to +the end of the command. Its output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell +Command*'. + +*** Isearch searches in the comint/shell input history when the new variable +`comint-history-isearch' is non-nil. New commands `comint-history-isearch-backward' +and `comint-history-isearch-backward-regexp' (bound to M-r) start Isearch +in the input history regardless of the value of `comint-history-isearch'. + +*** Interactively `multi-isearch-buffers' and `multi-isearch-buffers-regexp' +read buffer names to search, one by one, ended with RET. With a prefix +argument, they ask for a regexp, and search in buffers whose names match +the specified regexp. Interactively `multi-isearch-files' and +`multi-isearch-files-regexp' read file names to search, one by one, +ended with RET. With a prefix argument, they ask for a wildcard, and +search in file buffers whose file names match the specified wildcard. + ++++ +*** Autorevert Tail mode now works also for remote files. + ++++ +*** The new built-in commands `su' and `sudo' support Tramp. +That means, they change `default-directory' to the new users value, +and let commands run under that user permissions. It works even when +`default-directory' is already remote. Calling the external commands +is possible by `*su' or `*sudo', repectively. + +--- +*** When running in a new enough xterm (newer than version 242), emacs +asks xterm what the background color is and it sets up faces +accordingly for a dark background if needed (the current default is to +consider the background light). + + +* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2 + +** CEDET (the Collection of Emacs Development Tools) is now in Emacs. +This is a collection of packages to aid with using Emacs as an IDE +(integrated development environment): + +*** The Semantic package allows the use of parsers to intelligently +edit and navigate source code. Parsers for C/C++, Java, Javascript, +and several other languages are included by default, and Semantic can +also interface with external tools such as GNU Global and GNU Idutils. + +To enable Semantic, use the global minor mode `semantic-mode'. +See the Semantic manual for details. + +*** EDE (Emacs Development Environment) is a package for managing code +projects, including features such as automatic Makefile generation. + +To enable EDE, use the minor mode `global-ede-mode'. +See the EDE manual for details. + +*** SRecode is a library for recoding Semantic tags back into source +code. It is currently used by some parts of Semantic and EDE; in the +future, it may be used for code generation features. + +*** The EIEIO library implements a subset of the Common Lisp Object +System (CLOS). It is used by the other CEDET packages. + +** mpc.el is a front end for the Music Player Daemon. Run it with M-x mpc. + +** htmlfontify.el turns a fontified Emacs buffer into an HTML page. + +** js.el is a new major mode for JavaScript files. + +** imap-hash.el is a new library to address IMAP mailboxes as hashtables. + + +* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.2 + ++++ +** The Lisp reader turns integers that are too large/small into floats. +For instance, on machines where `536870911' is the largest integer, +reading `536870912' gives the floating-point object `536870912.0'. + +This change only concerns the Lisp reader; it does not affect how +actual integer objects overflow. + +--- +** Several obsolete functions removed. +The functions have been obsolete since Emacs 19, and are unlikely to +be in use: + + time-stamp-month-dd-yyyy, time-stamp-dd/mm/yyyy, time-stamp-mon-dd-yyyy + time-stamp-dd-mon-yy, time-stamp-yy/mm/dd, time-stamp-yyyy/mm/dd, + time-stamp-yyyy-mm-dd, time-stamp-yymmdd, time-stamp-hh:mm:ss, + time-stamp-hhmm, baud-rate + +--- +** Support for generating Emacs 18 compatible bytecode (by setting +the variable `byte-compile-compatibility') has been removed. + +** In image-mode.el `image-mode-maybe' is obsolete. Instead, you can +either use `image-mode' that displays an image file as the actual image +inititally, or `image-mode-as-text' when you want to display an image file +as text inititally. `image-mode-as-text' is a combination of a non-image +mode from `auto-mode-alist' (or Fundamental mode) and `image-minor-mode'. +`image-minor-mode' provides `C-c C-c' key binding to toggle image display. +`image-toggle-display-text' removes image properties. +`image-toggle-display-image' adds image properties. +`image-toggle-display' toggles between `image-mode-as-text' and +`image-mode'. + + +* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.2 + +** make-network-socket can now also create `seqpacket' Unix sockets. + +** New function `completion-in-region' to use the standard completion +facilities on a particular region of text. + ++++ +** The 4th arg to all-completions (aka hide-spaces) is declared obsolete. + +--- +** read-file-name-predicate is obsolete. It was used to pass the predicate +to read-file-name-internal because read-file-name-internal abused its `pred' +argument to pass the current directory, but this hack is not needed +any more. + +** Frame parameter changes + ++++ +*** You can give the `fullscreen' frame parameter the value `maximized'. +This maximizes the frame. + ++++ +*** The new frame parameter `sticky' makes Emacs frames sticky in +virtual desktops. + +--- +** completion-base-size is obsoleted by completion-base-position. +This change causes a few backward incompatibilities, mostly with +choose-completion-string-functions where the `mini-p' argument has +been replaced by a `base-position' argument, and where the `base-size' +argument is now always nil. + +** called-interactively-p now takes one argument and replaces interactive-p +which is now marked obsolete. +** New function set-advertised-calling-convention makes it possible +to obsolete arguments as well as make some arguments mandatory. +** eval-next-after-load is obsolete. +** New hook `after-load-functions' run after loading an Elisp file. + +** You can control which binding is preferentially shown in menus and +docstrings by adding a `:advertised-binding' property to the corresponding +command's symbol. That property can hold a single binding or a list +of bindings. + +** New macro with-silent-modifications to tweak text properties without +affecting the buffer's modification state. +** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO +variable, are now declared obsolete. + +** read-key is a function halfway between read-event and read-key-sequence. +It reads a single key, but obeys input and escape sequence decoding. + +** start-process-shell-command and start-file-process-shell-command +now only take a single `command' argument. + +** The variable `process-file-side-effects' shall be bound to nil, if +a `process-file' call does not change a remote file. By this, file +name handlers like Tramp can apply optimizations. + ++++ +** Hash tables have a new printed representation that is readable. +The feature `hashtable-print-readable' identifies this new +functionality. + +** New functions performing Unicode normalization are added: +ucs-normalize-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-NFD-string, +ucs-normalize-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-NFC-string, +ucs-normalize-NFKD-region, ucs-normalize-NFKD-string, +ucs-normalize-NFKC-region, ucs-normalize-NFKC-string, +ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-string, +ucs-normalize-HFS-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFC-string. + +** completion-annotate-function specifies how to compute annotations +for completions displayed in *Completions*. + ++++ +** Face aliases can now be marked as obsolete, using the macro +`define-obsolete-face-alias'. + +--- +** Changing the file-names generated by byte-compilation by redefining +the function `byte-compile-dest-file' before loading bytecomp.el is obsolete. +Instead, customize byte-compile-dest-file-function. + +--- +** `byte-compile-warnings' has new members, `constants' and `suspicious'. + +** `delete-directory' has an optional parameter RECURSIVE. + +** New function `copy-directory', which copies a directory recursively. + ++++ +** New function `window-full-height-p', analogous to the full-width version. + + +* Changes in Emacs 23.2 on non-free operating systems + +--- +** On MS-Windows, `display-time' now displays the system load average +as well as the time, as it does on GNU and Unix. + + +* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1 + +** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid. +The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the +default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary. + +** New font code. +Fonts are handled by new code capable of dealing with multiple font +backends. This uses the freetype and fontconfig libraries. + +*** Emacs now accepts font names supplied in the fontconfig format +(e.g. "monospace-12:bold") and GTK format (e.g. "Monospace Bold 12"). + +*** Added support for local fonts (fonts installed on the machine +where Emacs is running). + +*** Added support for the Xft library for antialiasing. + +*** Added support for the otf library for complex text layout by +OpenType fonts. + +*** Added support for the m17n library for text shaping. + +** Changes to image support + +*** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for +a GIF library. + +*** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2. + +*** Emacs now supports multi-page TIFF images. + +** New NeXTSTEP-based port. +This provides support for GNUstep (via the GNUstep libraries) and Mac +OS X (via the Cocoa libraries). + +Specify --with-ns to configure for this. By default, a self-contained +app will be built (containing all lisp). To install/share lisp with +other emacsen (e.g. X11 build) use --disable-ns-self-contained. See +nextstep/README and nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory. + +** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon. +Use the NeXTSTEP port, described above. + +** The new configuration option "--with-dbus" enables D-Bus language +bindings for Emacs. + +** Support for many obsolete platforms has been removed. +See the list at the end of etc/MACHINES for details. + +*** Support for systems without alloca has been removed. + +*** Support for Sun windows has been removed. + +*** The `emacstool' utility has been removed. + +** The following platforms will be removed in a future Emacs version: +If you are still using Emacs on one of these platforms, please email +emacs-devel@gnu.org to inform the Emacs developers. + +*** Old GNU/Linux systems based on libc version 5. + +*** Old FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD systems based on the COFF +executable format. + +*** Solaris versions 2.6 and below. + +*** Solaris on IBM RS6000 machines. + +*** UNIX System V (the original SysV, not later platforms based on it). + +*** Unixware on non-x86 machines. + +*** Platforms not supporting shared libraries (i.e., requiring the +NO_SHARED_LIBS compilation flag). + +** The configure options `--with-gcc', `--without-gcc' have been removed. +Configure will use gcc by default. Set the CC environment variable if +you need control over which C compiler is used. + +** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files. + +** The manuals are now licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3, +or any later version. + +** Emacs 23 comes with a new set of default icons. +Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png. +The Emacs 22 icon is available as `emacs22.png' in the same location. + +* Changes in Emacs 23.1 + +** Improved X Window System support + +*** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session. +With an Emacs server active (M-x server-start), `emacsclient -t' +creates a tty frame connected to the running emacs server. You can +use any number of different ttys. `emacsclient -c' creates a new X11 +frame on the current $DISPLAY (or a tty frame if $DISPLAY is not set). +There may be problems if a display exits unexpectedly and Emacs is compiled +with Gtk+, see etc/PROBLEMS. + +You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by +testing for the `multi-tty' feature. + +*** Emacs starts in the background, as a daemon, when given the +--daemon command line argument. It disconnects from the terminal and +starts the server. Clients can connect and create graphical or +terminal frames using emacsclient. + +**** emacsclient starts emacs in daemon mode and connects to it when +--alternate-editor="" is used (or when the evironment variable +ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set to "") and emacsclient cannot connect to an +emacs server. + +*** The new command close-display-connection closes a connection to a +remote display. There are some bugs for Gtk+. See etc/PROBLEMS. + +*** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification. +You can embed Emacs in another application on X11. The new command line +option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs. See +http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html +for details about XEmbed. + +*** Emacs can now set the frame opacity. +The opacity of a frame can be controlled by setting the `alpha' frame +parameter. This only takes effect on a compositing window manager for +the X Window System, such as Compiz, Beryl and Compiz Fusion, on Mac +OS X, or on Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows. + +The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and +100 (opaque), or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0. It can also be a +cons cell (ACTIVE . INACTIVE), where ACTIVE is the opacity of an +active frame and INACTIVE is the opacity of non-active frames. + +The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the +opacity; the default is 20. + +** Internationalization changes + +*** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode. +(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty). + +The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now +Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs' (`emacs-internal' is an alias +for this). This encoding is backward-compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 +encoding. The internal encoding previously used by Emacs, +`emacs-mule', is still available for reading and writing files. + +During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files. +As a result, byte-compiled files containing non-ASCII characters can't +be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files compiled by Emacs 20, 21, +or 22 are loaded correctly as `emacs-mule' (whether or not they +contain multibyte characters). This takes somewhat more time, so it +may be worth recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be +shared with older Emacsen. + +*** There are new coding systems/aliases; see M-x list-coding-systems. + +*** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets. +See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently +as tables of unicodes. + +*** There are new language environments for Chinese-GBK, +Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, +Sinhala, and TaiViet. + +*** The minor modes unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and +unify-8859-on-decoding-mode are obsolete. + +*** `ucs-insert' is bound to `C-x 8 RET' and in addition to hex numbers +accepts numbers in hash notation (e.g. #o21430 for octal, or #10r8984 for +decimal). It also accepts Unicode character names with completion. + +*** The `cyrillic-translit' input method supports many new characters. +Common typographical characters available from Unicode were added to +`cyrillic-translit': punctuation marks, accented characters, fractions, +and others. + +** Emacs now supports serial port access on GNU/Linux, Unix, and +Windows. The new command `serial-term' starts an interactive terminal +on a serial port. The serial port can be configured at runtime with +the mode-line mouse menu. + +** Menu Bar changes + +*** In the Options menu, the "Set Default Font" item applies the +selected font to the `default' face on all frames, not just the +current frame. Furthermore, if Emacs is compiled with both GTK and +Fontconfig support, the "Set Default Font" item uses the GTK font +selection dialog instead of an Emacs pop-up menu. + +*** The font setting chosen by "Set Default Font" is saved if the +"Save Options" item is used. + +*** The Tools menu contains a new Encryption/Decryption submenu. +This contains commands provided by EasyPG, the newly-included +interface to GnuPG (see New Modes and Packages). + +*** In the Options menu, the "Truncate Long Lines in the Buffer" entry +has been replaced with a submenu offering three different ways to +handle long lines: truncation, continuation at the window edge, and +the new word wrapping behavior (see Editing Changes, below). + +*** Improvements to menus for major and minor modes +More major and minor modes now have a mode specific menu, and existing +mode menus have been improved to include more functionality. + +** Mode-line changes + +*** The mode-line displays a `@', instead of `-', if the +default-directory for the current buffer is on a remote machine. + +*** The mode-line displays a mode menu when mouse-1 is clicked on a +minor mode, in the same way as it already did for major modes. + +*** The `mode-line-emphasis' face is used to highlight certain +mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish). + +*** The mode-line tooltips have been improved to provide more details. + +*** The VC, line/colum number and minor mode indicators on the mode +line are now interactive: mouse-1 can be used on them to pop up a menu. + +** File deletion can make use of the Recycle Bin or system Trash folder. +Set `delete-by-moving-to-trash' non-nil to use this. Deleted files +and directories will then be sent to the Recycle Bin on Windows, and +to `trash-directory' on other systems. + +** Directory-local variables can now be defined. +By default, Emacs looks in .dir-locals.el for directory-local +variables. For more information, see `dir-locals-set-directory-class' +and `dir-locals-set-class-variables'. + +** Emacs can now use `auth-source' for authentication. +`smtpmail' and `url' (Tramp and Gnus also) use `auth-source' to obtain +login names and passwords. The match, if found, is reported +in *Messages* with the password blanked out. + +** `where-is-preferred-modifier' can specify your favorite modifier. + + +* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1 + +** The option `inhibit-startup-screen' (with aliases to old names +`inhibit-splash-screen' and `inhibit-startup-message') doesn't inhibit +display of the initial message in the *scratch* buffer. If you don't +want to display the initial message in the *scratch* buffer at startup, +you can set the option `initial-scratch-message' to nil. + +** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display +after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a +file or directory. + +** New alias `argv' for `command-line-args-left' +This is a convenience alias, so that one can write `(pop argv)' +inside of --eval command line arguments in order to access +following arguments. + +** The abbrev file is no longer read at startup in batch mode. + +** Emacs now supports invocation by an X session manager. +It can save a session and restore it later. See the documentation of +the functions `emacs-session-save' and `emacs-session-restore'. +(Actually, this feature was introduced with Emacs 22, but it was not +documented.) + +* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 + +** In Dired, `dired-flag-garbage-files' is rebound from `&' to `%&' +on the regexp command prefix map. + +** In Dired-x, all command guesses for ! are now added to the default +list accessible by M-n instead of pushing all guesses temporarily into +the history list. + +** In Isearch mode, a special case of typing `C-w' at the beginning of +the minibuffer that toggles word search (i.e. using key sequences +`C-s RET C-w' or `C-s M-e C-w') is obsolete. You can use the global key +`M-s w' to start word search, or type `M-s w' in Isearch mode to +toggle word search. To start nonincremental word search you can now use +`M-s w RET' and `M-s w C-r RET' instead of `C-s RET C-w' and `C-r RET C-w'. + +** In Info, `Info-search' is unbound from `M-s' to allow using `M-s w' +for word search as well as other search commands from the global prefix +key `M-s'. `Info-search' is still bound to `s', and also incremental +search commands `C-s', `C-M-s', `C-r', `C-M-r' are available for searching +through multiple Info nodes, together with their nonincremental versions +`C-s RET', `C-r RET', `C-M-s RET', `C-M-r RET', `M-s w RET'. + +** In Text mode, `center-line' and `center-paragraph' are rebound from +`M-s' and `M-S' to global keys `M-o M-s' and `M-o M-S' on the global +prefix map `M-o', which is intended for such formatting commands. + +** The following input methods were removed in Emacs 22.2, but this was +not advertised: danish-alt-postfix, esperanto-alt-postfix, +finnish-alt-postfix, german-alt-postfix, icelandic-alt-postfix, +norwegian-alt-postfix, scandinavian-alt-postfix, spanish-alt-postfix, +and swedish-alt-postfix. Use the versions without "alt-", which are +identical. + + +* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1 + +** The C-n and C-p line-motion commands now move by screen lines, +taking continued lines and variable-width characters into account. +Setting `line-move-visual' to nil reverts this to the previous +behavior (i.e., motion by logical lines based on buffer contents +alone). + +** C-x C-c now invokes `save-buffers-kill-terminal', and C-z now +invokes `suspend-frame'. These changes are for compatibility with the +new multi-tty support (see `Improved X Window System support' above). + +** Mark changes + +*** Transient Mark mode is now on by default. + +*** mark-even-if-inactive now defaults to t + +*** When Transient Mark mode is on, C-SPC C-SPC pushes a mark without +activating it. + +*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-q now fills the region if the +region is active. Otherwise, it fills the current paragraph. + +*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-$ now checks spelling of the +region if the region is active. Otherwise, it checks spelling of the +word at point. + +*** When Transient Mark mode is on, TAB now indents the region if the +region is active. + +*** The variable `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty +active region in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on +that empty region. + +** Temporarily active regions + +*** The new variable shift-select-mode, non-nil by default, controls +shift-selection. When Shift Select mode is on, shift-translated +motion keys (e.g. S-left and S-down) activate and extend a temporary +region, similar to mouse-selection. + +*** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or +mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command. +They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not +shift-translated, or after commands that would ordinarily deactivate +the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the +buffer). + +** Minibuffer and completion changes + +*** Emacs may ask for confirmation before opening a non-existent file +or buffer. By default, Emacs requests confirmation if you type RET +immediately after TAB, and the resulting input is not an existing file +or buffer; this usually happens when the minibuffer input did not +complete far enough and you entered RET by mistake. In that case, +Emacs puts the message "[Confirm]" in the minibuffer; type RET again +to create the file or buffer. + +The new variable confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer determines whether +Emacs asks for confirmation. The default value is `after-completion'. +If you change it to t, Emacs always asks for confirmation; if you +change it to nil, Emacs never asks for confirmation. + +*** The rules for performing completion have been changed. +When generating completion alternatives, Emacs now takes the +minibuffer text after point, if any, into account: this text is +treated as a substring of the remaining part of the completion +alternative (i.e., the part not matched by the minibuffer text before +point). If no completion alternatives are found this way, Emacs +attempts to perform partial-completion. If still no completion +alternatives are found, we fall back on the Emacs 22 rules for +performing completion. + +The new variable `completion-styles' can be customized to choose your +favorite completion style. + +*** When M-n in the minibuffer reaches the end of the list of defaults, +it adds the completion list to the end, so next M-n continues putting +completion items to the minibuffer. The same principle applies to +incremental search commands as well: C-s or C-M-s starts searching +the default values and after the end of defaults they continue +searching minibuffer completion items. + +*** Minibuffer input of shell commands now comes with completion. + +*** In the `C-x d' (Dired) prompt, typing M-n gives the visited file +name of the current buffer. + +*** In the M-! (shell-command) prompt, M-n provides some default commands. +These are guessed using the file extension of the current file, based +on the file-handlers specified in the operating system's `mailcap' +file. The ! command in Dired (dired-do-shell-command) works +similarly, using the file displayed on the current line. + +*** A list of regexp default values is available via M-n for `occur', +`keep-lines', `flush-lines' and `how-many'. This list includes the active +region in transient-mark-mode, the word under the cursor, the last Isearch +regexp, the last Isearch string and the last replacement regexp. + +*** When enable-recursive-minibuffers is non-nil, operations which use +switch-to-buffer (such as C-x b and C-x C-f) do not fail any more when +used in a minibuffer or a dedicated window. Instead, they fallback on +using pop-to-buffer, which will use some other window. This change +has no effect when enable-recursive-minibuffers is nil (the default). + +*** Isearch started in the minibuffer searches in the minibuffer history. +Reverse Isearch commands (C-r, C-M-r) search in previous minibuffer +history elements, and forward Isearch commands (C-s, C-M-s) search in +next history elements. When the reverse search reaches the first history +element, it wraps to the last history element, and the forward search +wraps to the first history element. When the search is terminated, the +history element containing the search string becomes the current. + +*** The variable read-file-name-completion-ignore-case overrides +completion-ignore-case for file name completion. + +*** The variable read-buffer-completion-ignore-case overrides +completion-ignore-case for buffer name completion. + +*** The new command `minibuffer-force-complete' chooses one of the +possible completions, rather than stopping at the common prefix. + +*** If `completion-auto-help' is `lazy', Emacs shows the completions +buffer only on the second attempt to complete. This was already +supported in `partial-completion-mode'. + +** Face changes + +*** S-down-mouse-1 now pops up a menu for changing the font and text +size of the default face in the current buffer. The face is changed +via face remapping (see Lisp changes, below). + +*** New commands to change the default face size in the current buffer. +To increase it, type `C-x C-+' or `C-x C-='. To decrease it, type +`C-x C--'. To restore the default (global) face size, type `C-x C-0'. +These work via Text Scale mode, a new minor mode. + +The final key in the above commands may be repeated without the +leading `C-x', e.g. `C-x C-= C-= C-=' increases the face height by +three steps. Each step scales the height of the default face by the +value of the variable `text-scale-mode-step'. + +*** The commands buffer-face-mode and buffer-face-set can be used to +remap the default face in the current buffer. See "Buffer Face mode", +under New Modes and Packages. + +** Primary selection changes + +*** You can disable kill ring commands from accessing the primary +selection by setting `x-select-enable-primary' to nil. + +** Continuation lines can now be wrapped at word boundaries +(word-wrapping). This is controlled by the new per-buffer variable +`word-wrap'. Word wrapping does not take place if continuation lines +are not shown, e.g. if truncate-lines is non-nil. The most convenient +way to enable word-wrapping is using the new minor mode Visual Line +mode; in addition to setting `word-wrap' to t, this rebinds some +editing commands to work on screen lines rather than text lines. See +New Modes and Packages, below. + +** Window management changes + +*** truncate-partial-width-windows now accepts integer values, which +specify a minimum window width for partial-width windows, below which +lines are truncated. The default has been changed to 50. + +*** The new command balance-windows-area balances windows both +vertically and horizontally. + +*** pop-to-buffer now always sets input focus when the popped-to window +is on a different frame. + +** Miscellaneous changes: + +*** C-l is bound to the new command recenter-top-bottom, rather than recenter. +This moves the current line to window center, top and bottom on +successive invocations. + +*** scroll-preserve-screen-position also preserves the column position. + +*** If `yank-pop-change-selection' is t, rotating the kill ring also +updates the selection or clipboard to the current yank, just as M-w +would do so with the text it copies to the kill ring. + +*** C-M-% now shows replacement as it would look in the buffer, with +`\N' and `\&' substituted according to the match. Old behavior can be +restored by customizing `query-replace-show-replacement'. + +*** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is +called with a prefix and the default directory is a remote file name. +This is because some file name handlers (like ange-ftp) are not able to +run processes remotely. + +*** The new command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name +matches a regexp. + +*** The value of comment-style now defaults to `indent'. +Thefore, comment-start markers are inserted at the current indentation +of the region to comment, rather than the leftmost column. + +*** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and +`pp-macroexpand-last-sexp' pretty-print macro expansions. + +*** The new command `set-file-modes' allows to set file's mode bits. +The mode bits can be specified in symbolic notation, like with GNU +Coreutils, in addition to an octal number. `chmod' is a new +convenience alias for this function. + +*** `next-error-recenter' specifies how next-error should recenter the +visited source file. Its value can be a number (for example, 0 for +top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering. + +*** When typing in a password in the echo area, C-y yanks the current +kill into the password. + +*** Tooltip frame parameters `font' and `color' in `tooltip-frame-parameters' +are ignored. Customize the `tooltip' face instead. + +*** `mkdir' is a new convenience alias for `make-directory'. + +* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 + +** Auto Composition Mode is a minor mode that composes characters +automatically when they are displayed. It is globally on by default. +It uses `auto-composition-function' (default `auto-compose-chars'). + +** Bubbles, a new game, is similar to SameGame. + +** Buffer Face mode is a minor mode for remapping the default face in +the current buffer. The variable `buffer-face-mode-face' specifies +the face to remap to. The command `buffer-face-set' prompts for a +face name, sets `buffer-face-mode-face' to it, and enables +buffer-face-mode. See "Face changes", under Editing Changes, for a +description of face remapping. + +** butterfly flips the desired bit on the drive platter. +See http://xkcd.com/378/ + +** bug-reference.el provides clickable links to bug reports. + +** dbus.el provides D-Bus language bindings. +D-Bus is an inter-process communication mechanism for applications +residing on the same host. See the manual for details. + +** DocView mode allows viewing of PDF, PostScript and DVI documents. +One can also search for a regular expression in the document. For +details, see the commentary in doc-view.el. + +PDF and DVI files are now opened in Doc View mode by default. + +In Postcript mode, C-c C-c launches Doc View minor mode for viewing +the postscript file. + +** EasyPG provides an interface to the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). +It includes a GnuPG keyring browser, cryptographic operations on +regions and files, and automatic encryption of *.gpg files. For +details, see the EasyPG Assistant User's Manual. + +** json.el is a library for parsing and generating JSON +(JavaScript Object Notation), a lightweight data-interchange format. + +** linum.el is a new minor mode to display line numbers for the +current buffer. + +** mairix.el is an interface to mairix, a free tool for indexing and +searching locally stored mail. It allows you to query mairix and +display the search results with Rmail, Gnus and VM. Note that there +is an existing Gnus back end, nnmairix.el, which should be used with +Maildir/MH setups. + +** minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt. + +** nXML Mode +This is a new mode for editing XML documents. It allows a schema to +be associated with the XML document being edited, using Relax NG as +the schema language. The schema is used to provide two key features: + +*** Continuous validation. nXML validates as you type, highlighting +any invalid parts of your document. + +*** Completion. nXML can assist you in entering an element name, +attribute name or data value by using information about what is +allowed by the schema in that context. + +** proced.el provides a Dired-like interface for operating on +processes. Proced makes an Emacs buffer containing a listing of the +current processes. You can use the normal Emacs commands to move +around in this buffer, and special Proced commands to operate on the +processes listed. It is currently only functional on GNU/Linux, +MS-Windows and Solaris. + +** Remember Mode is a mode for jotting down things to remember. +Notes can be saved to a Diary file. For details, see the Remember +Manual. + +** RST mode is a major mode for editing reStructuredText files. + +** Ruby mode is a major mode for Ruby files. + +** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines. +It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e, +and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical +lines. This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode. +This can also be turned on using the menu bar, via +Options -> Line Wrapping in this Buffer -> Word Wrap + +** xesam.el is an implementation of Xesam, an interface to (desktop) +search engines like Beagle, Strigi, and Tracker. The Xesam API +requires D-Bus for communication. + +** zeroconf.el offers service discovery and service publishing +interfaces according to the zeroconf specification. It communicates +with Avahi, a zeroconf implementation, via D-Bus messages on systems +which have installed this software. + +** There is a new `whitespace' package. +(The pre-existing one has been renamed to `old-whitespace'.) +Now, besides reporting bogus blanks, the whitespace package has a +minor mode and a global minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD) +SPACE and NEWLINE). The visualization is made via faces and/or display +table. It can also indicate lines that extend beyond a given column, +trailing blanks, and empty lines at the start or end of a buffer. +See `whitespace-style' for more details. The `whitespace-action' option +specifies what to do when a buffer is visited, killed, or written. + + +* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1 + +** Abbrev has been rewritten in Elisp and extended with more flexibility. + +*** New functions: abbrev-get, abbrev-put, abbrev-table-get, abbrev-table-put, +abbrev-table-p, abbrev-insert, abbrev-table-menu. + +*** Special hook `abbrev-expand-functions' obsoletes `pre-abbrev-expand-hook'. + +*** `make-abbrev-table', `define-abbrev', `define-abbrev-table' all take +extra arguments for arbitrary properties. + +*** New variable `abbrev-minor-mode-table-alist'. + +*** `local-abbrev-table' can hold a list of abbrev-tables. + +*** Abbrevs have now the following special properties: +`:count', `:system', `:enable-function', `:case-fixed'. + +*** Abbrev-tables have now the following special properties: +`:parents', `:case-fixed', `:enable-function', `:regexp', +`abbrev-table-modiff'. + +** Apropos + +*** `apropos-library' describes the elements defined in a given library. + +*** Set `apropos-compact-layout' is you want a more compact (but wider) layout. + +** Archive Mode has basic support to browse Rar archives. +Note, however, that the free version of the unrar command only handles +versions 1 and 2 of the Rar format. + +** BibTeX mode + +*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers. + +*** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and +`string', disabled by default. + +*** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to +identify cited keys in BibTeX entries, used by `bibtex-find-crossref'. + +*** Command `bibtex-url' allows multiple URLs per entry. + +** Bookmarks + +*** bookmark.el saves bookmarks in a pre-Emacs-23-incompatible file format +bookmark.el can read a .emacs.bmk file saved by an older Emacs, but an +older Emacs cannot read one saved by Emacs 23. + +** Calendar and diary + +*** There is a new date style, `iso', essentially year/month/day. +The variable `european-calendar-style' is obsolete - use `calendar-date-style'. +Similarly, the commands `american-calendar' and `european-calendar' +should be replaced by `calendar-set-date-style'. + +*** The calendar namespace has been rationalized. +All functions and variables now begin with a `calendar-', `diary-', or +`holiday-' prefix. The various calendar systems have secondary +prefixes, eg `calendar-french-'. The old names you are likely to use +directly still exist, for the time being, as aliases, but please start +using the new names. + +*** The whitespace in the calendar layout can be customized. +See the variables: +calendar-left-margin, calendar-intermonth-spacing, calendar-column-width, +calendar-day-header-width, and calendar-day-digit-width. + +*** Text (e.g. ISO weeks) can be displayed between the calendar months. +See the variables calendar-intermonth-header and calendar-intermonth-text. + +*** The function `holiday-chinese' computes holidays on the Chinese calendar. +It has been used to add items to the list `holiday-oriental-holidays'. + +*** `diary-remind' accepts a negative number -DAYS as a shorthand for +the list (1 2 ... DAYS). + +** Change Log mode + +*** The new command C-c C-f (change-log-find-file) finds the file +associated with the current log entry. + +*** The new command C-c C-c (change-log-goto-source) goes to the +source code associated with a log entry. + +** Compile and grep modes + +*** The mode-line entry for the *compilation* and *grep* buffer is color coded. +It has different colors for to show that: (a) the command is still +running, (b) successful completion, (c) error. + +*** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to +the first error encountered during compilations. + +*** compilation-scroll-output accepts a new value, `first-error', which +says to stop auto scrolling at the first error that occurs. + +*** The `cc' alias for C++ files in `grep-file-aliases' has been +improved. `hh' can be used to match C++ header files and `cchh' both +C++ sources and headers. + +** Copyright + +*** You can specify your copyright holders' names. +Only copyright lines with holders matching `copyright-names-regexp' are +considered for update. + +*** Copyrights can be at the end of the buffer. +This is controlled by `copyright-at-end-flag' (used by, e.g., change-log-mode). + +** Custom + +*** defcustom accepts new keyword arguments, `:safe' and `:risky', which +set a variable's `safe-local-variable' and `risky-local-variable' property. + +** Diff mode + +*** diff-refine-hunk highlights word-level details of changes in a diff hunk. +It's used automatically as you move through hunks, see +diff-auto-refine-mode. It is bound to `C-c C-b'. + +*** diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window iterates through the diff +buffer and tries to create ChangeLog entries for each change. +It is bound to `C-x 4 A'. + +*** Turning on `whitespace-mode' in a diff buffer will show trailing +whitespace problems in the modified lines. + +** Dired + +*** In Dired, C-x C-q now runs the command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode, +and C-x C-q in wdired-mode exits it with asking a question about +saving changes. + +*** `&' runs the command `dired-do-async-shell-command' that executes +the command asynchronously without the need to manually add ampersand +to the end of the command. Its output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell +Command*'. + +*** `M-s f C-s' and `M-s f M-C-s' run Isearch that matches only at file names. +When a new user option `dired-isearch-filenames' is t, then even ordinary +Isearch started with `C-s' and `C-M-s' matches only at file names in the +Dired buffer. When `dired-isearch-filenames' is `dwim' then activation of +file name Isearch depends on the position of point - if point is on a file +name initially, then Isearch matches only file names, otherwise it matches +everywhere in the Dired buffer. You can toggle file names matching on or +off by typing `M-s f' in Isearch mode. + +*** `M-s a C-s' and `M-s a M-C-s' run multi-file Isearch on the marked files. +They visit the first marked file in the sequence and display the usual Isearch +prompt for a string or a regexp where all Isearch commands are available. + +*** `Q' in Dired provides two new keys for multi-file replacement. +The upper case key `Y' replaces all remaining matches in all remaining files +with no more questions. The upper case key `N' stops doing replacements +in the current file and skips to the next file. These multi-file keys +are available for all commands that use `tags-query-replace' +including `dired-do-query-replace-regexp', `vc-dir-query-replace-regexp', +`reftex-query-replace-document'. + +** Fortran + +*** The line length of fixed-form Fortran is not fixed at 72 any more. +Customize the variable `fortran-line-length' to change it. + +*** In Fortran mode, M-; is now bound to the standard comment-dwim, +rather than fortran-indent-comment. + +*** (The increasingly misnamed) F90 mode supports Fortran 2003 syntax. + +** Gnus + +*** The Gnus package has been updated +There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements; see the file +GNUS-NEWS or the node "No Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details. + +*** In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for +saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld. These file may not be read +correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to Gnus across different Emacs +versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'. + +*** Passwords are consistently loaded through `auth-source' +Gnus can use `auth-source' for POP and IMAP passwords. Also see that +`smtpmail' and `url' support `auth-source' for SMTP and HTTP/HTTPS/RSS +authentication respectively. + +** Help mode + +*** New macro `with-help-window' should set up help windows better +than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'. + +*** New option `help-window-select' permits to customize whether help +window shall be automatically selected when invoking help. + +*** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits one to specify a new +position for point in help window (for example in `view-lossage'). + +** Isearch + +*** New command `isearch-forward-word' bound globally to `M-s w' starts +incremental word search. New command `isearch-toggle-word' bound to the +same key `M-s w' in Isearch mode toggles word searching on or off +while Isearch is active. + +*** New command `isearch-highlight-regexp' bound to `M-s h r' in Isearch +mode runs `highlight-regexp' (`hi-lock-face-buffer') with the current +search string as its regexp argument. The same key `M-s h r' and +other keys on the `M-s h' prefix are bound globally to the command +`highlight-regexp' and other hi-lock commands. + +*** New command `isearch-occur' bound to `M-s o' in Isearch mode +runs `occur' with the current search string. The same key `M-s o' +is bound globally to the command `occur'. + +*** Isearch can now search through multiple ChangeLog files. +When running Isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails, +then another C-s tries searching the previous ChangeLog, +if there is one (e.g. going from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12). +This is enabled if multi-isearch-search is non-nil. + +*** Two new commands to start Isearch on a list of marked buffers +for buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el are bound to the keys `M-s a C-s' and +`M-s a M-C-s'. + +*** The part of an Isearch that failed to match is highlighted in +`isearch-fail' face. + +*** `C-h C-h' in Isearch mode displays isearch-specific Help screen, +`C-h b' displays all Isearch key bindings, `C-h k' displays the full +documentation of the given Isearch key sequence, `C-h m' displays +documentation of Isearch mode. All the rest Help commands exit Isearch mode +and execute their global definitions. + +*** When started in the minibuffer, Isearch searches in the minibuffer +history. See `Minibuffer changes', above. + +** MH-E + +*** Upgraded to MH-E version 8.2. See MH-E-NEWS for details. + +** Python +*** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning +that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el. + +*** Python mode now has `pdbtrack' functionality. When using pdb to +debug a Python program, pdbtrack notices the pdb prompt and displays +the source file and line that the program is stopped at, much the same +way as gud-mode does for debugging C programs with gdb. + +** Recentf + +*** The default value of `recentf-keep' prevents from checking of +remote files, if there is no established connection to the +corresponding remote host. + +** Rmail + +*** Rmail no longer converts the messages to Babyl format. +Instead, it uses UNIX mbox format, both on disk and in Rmail buffers, +and does conversion and decoding when a message is displayed. + +The first time you visit an Rmail file in Babyl format, Rmail +automatically converts it to mbox format. This is a one-time +conversion, but it can take a few minutes, depending on how fast is +your machine and on the size of the file. You should find the rest of +Rmail usage unaltered. + +However, M-x set-rmail-inbox-list now lasts only for one session +because there is no way to save the list of inbox files in an +mbox-format file. + +Also, whereas with Babyl format M-x find-file would switch to Rmail +mode, with mbox format this is no longer the case (there being no way +to add an "-*- rmail-*-" cookie to an mbox file). Use C-u M-x rmail +instead. + +If you have written any extensions to Rmail, they are likely to need +updating. Conceptually, the Rmail buffer that you see is no longer +just a narrowed portion of the whole. So you cannot access the whole +of a message (or message collection) by a simple save-restriction and +widen. Instead, there are two buffers: the rmail-buffer, and the +rmail-view-buffer. The former is the buffer that you see, the latter +is invisible. Most of the time, the invisible `view' buffer contains +the full contents of the Rmail file, and the Rmail buffer contains a +decoded copy of the current message (with only a subset of the +headers). In this state, Rmail is said to be `swapped'. + +You may find the following functions useful: + +`rmail-get-header' and `rmail-set-header' get or set the value of a +message header, whether or not it is currently visible. + +`rmail-apply-in-message' is a general purpose function that calls a +function (with arguments) which you specify on the full text of a given +message. To further narrow to just the headers, search forward for "\n\n". + +*** The new command `rmail-mime' displays MIME messages. +It is bound to `v' in Rmail buffers and summaries. It displays plain +text and multipart messages in a temporary buffer, and offers buttons +to save attachments. + +*** The command `rmail-redecode-body' no longer accepts the optional arg RAW. +Since Rmail now holds messages in their original undecoded form in a +separate buffer, `rmail-redecode-body' no longer encodes the original +message, and therefore there should be no need to avoid encoding it. + +*** The o command is now `rmail-output'. It is an all-purpose command +for copying messages from Rmail and appending them to files. It +handles Babyl-format files as well as mbox-format files, and it +handles both kinds properly when they are visited in Emacs. It always +copies the full headers of the message. + +*** The C-o command is now `rmail-output-as-seen'. It uses +the message as displayed, appending it to an mbox file. + +*** The modified status of the Rmail buffer is reported in the mode-line. +Previously, this information was hidden. + +** TeX modes + +*** New option latex-indent-within-escaped-parens +permits to customize indentation of LaTeX environments delimited +by escaped parens. + +** T-mouse Mode + +*** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode is enabled, +Emacs uses a Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server, +rather than faking events using the client program mev. This C level +approach provides mouse highlighting and help echoing in the +minibuffer. + +** Tramp + +*** New connection methods. +The new methods "plinkx", "plink2", "psftp", "sftp" and "fish" have +been introduced. There are also new so-called gateway methods +"tunnel" and "socks". + +*** IPv6 addresses. +IPv6 addresses are supported now as host names. They must be embedded +in square brackets, like in "/ssh:[::1]:". + +*** Multihop syntax has been removed. +The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed. Instead, multi hops +can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'. + +*** More default settings. +Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user', +`tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-host'. + +*** Connection information is cached. +In order to reduce connection setup, information about used +connections is kept persistently in a file. The name of this file is +defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'. + +*** Control of remote processes. +Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in +`tramp-remote-path' and `tramp-remote-process-environment'. + +*** Success of remote copy is checked. +When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote +file copy is checked via the file's checksum. + +*** Passwords can be read from an authentification file. +Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if +necessary. + +** VC and related modes + +*** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time. +This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented +version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, Git +and Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems as +a single changeset. + +*** vc-dir is a new command that displays file names and their VC +status. It allows to apply various VC operations to a file, a +directory or a set of files/directories. + +*** VC switches are no longer appended, rather the first non-nil value is used. +(This was for the most part true in Emacs 22, but was not advertised). +This is because there is an increasing variety of VC systems, and they +do not all accept the same "common" options. For example, a CVS diff +command used to append the values of `vc-cvs-diff-switches', +`vc-diff-switches', and `diff-switches'. Now the first non-nil value +from that sequence is used. The special value `t' means "no switches". + +*** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu. + +*** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip that explains the VC file status. + +*** In VC Annotate mode, the key bindings have changed to use lower +case keys instead of the upper case keys used in the past. + +*** In VC Annotate mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can +see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file) +by typing the D key. Using the "Show changeset diff of revision at +line" menu entry does the same thing. + +*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type v to toggle the annotation visibility. + +*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type f to show the file revision on +the current line. + +*** Asynchronous VC commands display [Waiting...] in the mode-line +of the corresponding buffer as long as the asynchronous process is +active. + +*** Log entries can be modified using the key "e" in log-view. +For now only CVS, RCS, SCCS and SVN support this functionality. +This is done by the `modify-change-comment' backend function. + +*** In log-view-mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can +see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file) +by typing the D key or using the "Changeset Diff" menu entry. + +*** In Log Edit mode, C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved. + +*** vc-git supports the "git grep" command. + +*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of a maintainer able +to update it to the new VC. + +** Miscellaneous + +*** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes). +If `default-directory' is a remote file name, subprocesses are started +on the corresponding remote system. + +*** Eldoc highlights the function argument under point +with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'. + +*** In Etags, the --members option is now the default. +Use --no-members if you want the old default behavior of not tagging +struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP. + +*** The `gdb' command only works with the graphical interface now. +Use `gud-gdb' if you want the (old) text command mode. + +*** goto-address.el provides two new minor modes, goto-address-mode and +goto-address-prog-mode, which buttonize URLS and email addresses. + +*** The new command `eshell/info' runs info in an eshell buffer. + +*** The new variable `ffap-rfc-directories' specifies a list of local +directories in which `ffap-rfc' will first search for RFCs. + +*** hide-ifdef-mode allows shadowing ifdef-blocks instead of hiding them. +See option `hide-ifdef-shadow' and function `hide-ifdef-toggle-shadowing'. + +*** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supercedes `icomplete-prospects-length'. + +*** Info displays breadcrumbs in the header of the page. +See Info-breadcrumbs-depth to control it. + +*** net-utils has an `iwconfig' command, similar to the existing `ifconfig'. +It is used to configure wireless interfaces. + +*** The pcmpl-unix package supports hostname completion for ssh and scp. + +*** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs. + +*** smerge-refine highlights word-level details of changes in conflict. +It's used automatically as you move through conflicts, see +smerge-auto-refine-mode. + +*** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support. + +*** A new command `display-time-world' has been added to the Time +package. It creates a buffer with an updating time display using +several time zones. + +*** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable. +See the documentation of the variables: tex-fontify-script, +tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and +tex-suscript-height-minimum. + +*** view-remove-frame-by-deleting is now by default t +since users found iconification of view-mode frames distracting. + +*** WoMan tries to add locale-specific manual page directories to the +search path. This can be disabled by setting `woman-locale' to nil. + + +* Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems + +** Case is now considered significant in completion on MS-Windows. +The default value of `completion-ignore-case' is now nil on +MS-Windows, the same as it is for other operating systems. The +variable doesn't apply to reading a file name -- in that case Emacs +heeds `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' instead. + +** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows. +Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions +of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. In Emacs 22, IPv6 was +supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock +1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library. + +** Busy cursor (hourglass) now displays on MS-Windows. +When Emacs is busy, an hourglass mouse cursor is displayed on Windows. +In Emacs 22 only X supported the busy cursor. + +** Battery status is available on MS-Windows +Emacs can now display the battery status in the mode-line when enabled with +display-battery-mode or from the Options menu. More verbose battery +information is also available with the command `battery'. In Emacs 22 +battery status was supported only on GNU/Linux and Mac. + +** More keys available on MS-Windows. +Keys normally associated with IMEs, and some exotic keys not normally found +on standard keyboards have been given names so they can be bound to functions +inside Emacs. If there are keys on your keyboard that have not been exposed +to Emacs in the past, try C-h k to see if they are available now. + +Emacs can now bind functions to the extra buttons for media player and +browser control present on some keyboards. These buttons are disabled +by default, since enabling them prevents their system-wide use when +Emacs has focus. To enable them, set the variable +w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable +for the list of extra keys that are available. + +** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows. +The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus +on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode +support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts. A +rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time +and developers. If demand still exists for such a backend even with +the improved language support for native Windows fonts, future +development in this direction will most likely be based on the +freetype library, giving access to a wider range of font formats. + + +* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 + +** Variables cannot be both buffer-local and frame-local any more. + +** `functionp' returns nil for special forms. +I.e., it only returns t for objects that can be passed to `funcall'. + +** The behavior of map-char-table has changed. It may call the +specified function with a cons (FROM . TO) as a key if characters in +that range have the same value. + +** Process changes + +*** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed. + +*** The multibyteness of process filters is now determined by the +coding-system used for decoding. The functions +`process-filter-multibyte-p' and `set-process-filter-multibyte' are +obsolete. + +** The variable `byte-compile-warnings' can now be a list starting with `not', +meaning to disable the specified warnings. The meaning of this list +may therefore be the reverse of what you expect (of course, this is +only an issue if you make use of the new `not' syntax). Rather than +checking/manipulating elements directly, use the new functions +`byte-compile-warning-enabled-p', `byte-compile-disable-warning', and +`byte-compile-enable-warning.' + +** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string. +Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value. + +** The function x-font-family-list has been removed. +Use the new function font-family-list (see Lisp Changes, below). + +** Internationalization changes + +*** The value of the function `charset-id' is now always 0. + +*** The functions `register-char-codings' and `coding-system-spec' +have been removed. + +*** The cpXXX coding systems are now supported automatically. +The functions cp-...-codepage, which you had to use in Emacs 22 to +enable support for these coding systems, have been deleted. + +*** The following features have been removed. They were used for +displaying various scripts with specific fonts, and are no longer +needed now that OpenType font support is available: + +**** `devanagari' and `devan-util', and all associated devanagari-* and +dev-* functions and variables (formerly used for Devanagari script). + +**** `kannada' and `knd-util', and all associated kannada-* and knd-* +functions and variables (formerly used for Kannada script). + +**** `malayalam' and `mlm-util', and all associated malayalam-* and +mlm-* functions and variables (formerly used for Malayalam script). + +**** `tamil' and `tml-util, and all associated tamil-* and tml-* +functions and variables (formerly used for Tamil script). + +*** The meaning of NAME argument of `set-fontset-font' is changed. +Previously nil is accepted as the default fontset. Now, nil is for +the fontset of the selected frame and t is for the default fontset. + +*** The meaning of FONTSET argument of `print-fontset' is changed. +Now, nil is for the fontset of the selected frame and t is for the +default fontset. + +** If a function in write-region-annotate-functions returns with a +different buffer current, Emacs no longer kills that buffer +automatically. This behavior existed in previous versions of Emacs, +but was undocumented. To kill a buffer after write-region, give the +variable `write-region-post-annotation-function' a buffer-local value +of `kill-buffer'. + +** The variable temp-file-name-pattern has been removed. +This variable was only used by call-process-region, which now uses +temporary-file-directory instead. + +** The COUNT and SYSTEM-FLAG arguments to define-abbrev have been +removed. The function now takes extra arguments for specifying +arbitrary abbrev properties. + +** end-of-defun-function is now guaranteed to work only when called +from the start of a defun. It must now leave point exactly at the end +of defun, since `end-of-defun' now itself moves forward over +whitespace after calling it. + + +* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1 + +** The new variable `generate-autoload-cookie' controls the magic comment +string used by `update-file-autoloads' to find autoloaded forms. The +variable `generated-autoload-file' similarly controls the name of the +file where `update-file-autoloads' writes the calls to `autoload'. +The default values are ";;;###autoload" and `loaddefs.el', +respectively. + +** New primitives `list-system-processes' and `process-attributes' +let Lisp programs access the processes that are running on the local +machine. See the doc strings of these functions for more details. +Not all platforms support accessing this information; on those that +don't, these primitives will return nil. + +** New variable `user-emacs-directory'. +Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d". + +** If a local hook function has a non-nil `permanent-local-hook' +property, `kill-all-local-variables' does not remove it from the local +value of the hook variable; it remains even if you change major modes. + +** `frame-inherited-parameters' lets new frames inherit parameters from +the selected frame. + +** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but +applies before function-key-map. Also it is terminal-local contrary to +key-translation-map. Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to +this map rather than to function-key-map now. + +** `ignore-errors' is now a standard macro (does not require the CL package). + +** `interprogram-paste-function' can now return one string or a list +of strings. In the latter case, Emacs puts the second and following +strings on the kill ring. + +** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first". +You do this by writing `debug' in the list of conditions to be handled, +like this: + + (condition-case nil + (foo bar) + ((debug error) nil)) + +** clone-indirect-buffer now runs the clone-indirect-buffer-hook. + +** `beginning-of-defun-function' now takes one argument, the count given to +`beginning-of-defun'. (N.B. `end-of-defun-function' doesn't take any +arguments.) + +** `file-remote-p' has new optional parameters IDENTIFICATION and CONNECTED. +IDENTIFICATION specifies which part of the remote identifier has to be +returned. With CONNECTED passed non-nil, it is checked whether a +remote connection has been established already. + +** The new macro `declare-function' suppresses compiler warnings about +undefined functions. + +** Changes to interactive function handling + +*** The new interactive spec code ^ says to first call +handle-shift-selection if shift-select-mode is non-nil, before reading +the command arguments. This is used for shift-selection (see above). + +*** Built-in functions can now have an interactive specification that +is not a prompt string. If the `intspec' parameter of a `DEFUN' +starts with a `(', the string is evaluated as a Lisp form. + +*** The interactive-form of a function can be added post-facto via the +`interactive-form' symbol property. Mostly useful to add complex +interactive forms to subroutines. + +** Region changes + +*** Commands should use `use-region-p' to test whether there is +an active region that they should operate on. + +*** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode is +enabled and the mark is active. Most commands that act specially on +the active region in Transient Mark mode should use `use-region-p' +instead of `region-active-p', because `use-region-p' obeys the new +user option `use-empty-active-region' (see Editing Changes, above). + +*** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to (only . OLDVAL), that +means to activate transient-mark-mode temporarily, until the next +unshifted point motion command or mark deactivation. Afterwards, +reset transient-mark-mode to the value OLDVAL. The values `only' and +`identity', introduced in Emacs 22, are now deprecated. + +** Emacs session information + +*** The new variables `before-init-time' and `after-init-time' record the +value of `current-time' before and after Emacs loads the init files. + +*** The new function `emacs-uptime' returns the uptime of an Emacs instance. + +*** The new function `emacs-init-time' returns the duration of the +Emacs initialization. + +** Changes affecting display-buffer + +*** display-buffer tries to be smarter when splitting windows. +The new option split-window-preferred-function lets you specify your own +function to pop up new windows. Its default value split-window-sensibly +can split a window either vertically or horizontally, whichever seems +more suitable in the current configuration. You can tune the behavior +of split-window-sensibly by customizing split-height-threshold and the +new option split-width-threshold. Both options now take the value nil +to inhibit splitting in one direction. Setting split-width-threshold to +nil inhibits horizontal splitting and gets you the behavior of Emacs 22 +in this respect. In any case, display-buffer may now split the largest +window vertically even when it is not as wide as the containing frame. + +*** If pop-up-frames has the value `graphic-only', display-buffer only +makes a separate frame on graphic displays. + +*** select-frame and set-frame-selected-window have a new optional +argument NORECORD. If non-nil, this will avoid messing with the order +of recently selected windows and the buffer list. + +** Window parameters can now be defined. +These are analogous to frame parameters, but are associated with +individual windows. + +*** The new functions window-parameters, window-parameter, and +set-window-parameter are used to query and set window parameters. + +** Minibuffer and completion changes + +*** A list of default values can be specified for the DEFAULT argument of +functions `read-from-minibuffer', `read-string', `read-command', +`read-variable', `read-buffer', `completing-read'. Elements of this list +are available for inserting into the minibuffer by typing `M-n'. +For empty input these functions return the first element of this list. + +*** New function `read-regexp' uses the regexp history and some useful +regexp defaults (string at point, last Isearch/replacement regexp/string) +via M-n when reading a regexp in the minibuffer. + +*** minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map is now named +minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map. + +*** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts the new +values `confirm-only' and `confirm-after-completion'. + +** Search and replacement changes + +*** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly. + +*** New function `match-substitute-replacement' returns the result of +`replace-match' without actually using it in the buffer. + +*** The new variable `replace-search-function' determines the function +to use for searching in query-replace and replace-string. The +function it specifies is called by `perform-replace' when its 4th +argument is nil. + +*** The new variable `replace-re-search-function' determines the +function to use for searching in `query-replace-regexp', +`replace-regexp', `query-replace-regexp-eval', and +`map-query-replace-regexp'. The function it specifies is called by +`perform-replace' when its 4th argument is non-nil. + +*** New keymap `search-map' bound to `M-s' provides global bindings +for search related commands. + +*** New keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additonal keys bound +to `automatic-all' and `exit-current' for multi-buffer interactive replacement. + +*** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents +the search and match primitives from changing the match data. + +*** New functions `word-search-forward-lax' and `word-search-backward-lax'. +These are like `word-search-forward and `word-search-backward', except +that the end of the search string need not match a word boundary, +unless it ends in whitespace. + +** File handling changes + +*** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in +symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions. + +*** file-local-variables-alist stores an alist of file-local +variables defined in the current buffer. + +** Face-remapping + +*** Each face can be remapped to a different face definition using the +variable `face-remapping-alist'. This is an alist that maps faces to +replacement definitions (which can be face names, lists of face names, +or attribute/value plists. If this variable is buffer-local, the +remapping occurs only in that buffer. + +*** text-scale-mode remaps the default face to a larger or smaller +size in the current buffer. This feature is used by the Buffer Face +menu and the new `C-x C-+', `C-x C--', and `C-x C-0' commands (see +Editing Changes, above). + +*** New functions: + +**** `face-remap-add-relative' adds a face remapping entry to the +current buffer. + +**** ``face-remap-remove-relative' removes a face remapping entry from +the current buffer. + +**** `face-remap-reset-base' restores a face to its global definition. + +**** `face-remap-set-base' sets the base remapping of a face. + +** Process changes + +*** The new function `start-file-process' is similar to `start-process', +but obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on +`default-directory'. The functions `start-file-process-shell-command' +and `process-file-shell-command' are also new; they call internally +`start-file-process' and `process-file', respectively. + +*** The new function `process-lines' executes an external program and +returns its output as a list of lines. + +** Character code, representation, and charset changes. + +*** In multibyte buffers and strings, characters are represented by +UTF-8 byte sequences. The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF +with no gap; code points 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the +same code points, while code points 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit +bytes. + +*** Generic characters no longer exist. + +*** The concept of a charset has changed. A single character may +belong to multiple charsets (e.g. a-grave, U+00E0, belongs to charsets +unicode, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-3, etc). + +**** The dimension of a charset is now 1, 2, 3, or 4, and the size of +each dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96. + +**** A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of +characters for display. + +*** The functions `split-char' and `make-char' now accept up to 4 +positional codes instead of just 2. + +*** The functions `encode-char' and `decode-char' now accept any character sets. + +*** The function `define-charset' now accepts a completely different +form of arguments (old-style arguments still work). + +*** The value of the function `char-charset' depends on the current +priorities of charsets. + +*** The function get-char-code-property now accepts many Unicode base +character properties. They are `name', `general-category', +`canonical-combining-class', `bidi-class', `decomposition', +`decimal-digit-value', `digit-value', `numeric-value', `mirrored', +`old-name', `iso-10646-comment', `uppercase', `lowercase', and +`titlecase'. + +*** The functions `modify-syntax-entry' and `modify-category-entry' now +accept a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all +entries in that range of characters. + +*** Use of `translation-table-for-input' for character code unification +is now obsolete, since Emacs 23.1 and later uses Unicode as basis for +internal representation of characters. + +*** New functions: + +**** `characterp' returns t if and only if the argument is a character. +This replaces `char-valid-p', which is now obsolete. + +**** `max-char' returns the maximum character code (currently #x3FFFFF). + +**** `define-charset-alias' defines an alias of a charset. + +**** `set-charset-priority' sets priorities of charsets. + +**** `charset-priority-list' returns a prioritized list of charsets. + +**** `unibyte-string' makes a unibyte string from bytes. + +**** `define-char-code-property' defines a character code property. + +**** `char-code-property-description' returns the description string of +a character code property. + +*** New variables: + +**** `find-word-boundary-function-table' is a char-table of functions to +search for a word boundary. + +**** `char-script-table' is a char-table of script names. + +**** `char-width-table' is a char-table of character widths. + +**** `print-charset-text-property' controls how to handle `charset' text +property on printing a string. + +**** `printable-chars' is a char-table of printable characters. + +** Code conversion changes + +*** The new function `define-coding-system' should be used to define a +coding system instead of `make-coding-system' (which is now obsolete). + +*** The functions `encode-coding-region' and `decode-coding-region' +have an optional 4th argument to specify where the result of +conversion should go. + +*** The functions `encode-coding-string' and `decode-coding-string' +have an optional 4th argument specifying a buffer to store the result +of conversion. + +*** The new variable `inhibit-null-byte-detection' controls whether to +consider text with null bytes as binary data. By default, it is +`nil', and Emacs uses `no-conversion' for any text containing null +bytes. + +*** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete. + +*** New functions: + +**** `with-coding-priority' executes Lisp code using the specified +coding system priority order. + +**** `check-coding-systems-region' checks if the text in the region is +encodable by the specified coding systems. + +**** `coding-system-aliases' returns a list of aliases of a coding system. + +**** `coding-system-charset-list' returns a list of charsets supported +by a coding system. + +**** `coding-system-priority-list' returns a list of coding systems +ordered by their priorities. + +**** `set-coding-system-priority' sets priorities of coding systems. + +**** `coding-system-from-name' returns a coding system matching with +the argument name. + +** There is a new input method, Robin, different from Quail. +It has three functionalities: + i) a simple input method (converts an ASCII sequence into a string). +ii) converts an existing buffer substring into another string +iii) reverse conversion (each character produced by a +robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a char-code-property) + +*** The new function `robin-define-package' defines a Robin package. + +*** The new function `robin-modify-package' modifies an existing Robin package. + +*** The new function `robin-use-package' starts using a Robin package +as an input method. + +*** The new function `string-to-unibyte' is like `string-as-unibyte' +but signals an error if STRING contains a non-ASCII, non-eight-bit +character. + +** Changes related to the new font backend + +*** Which font backends to use can be specified by the X resource +"FontBackend". For instance, to use both X core fonts and Xft fonts: + +Emacs.FontBackend: x,xft + +If this resource is not set, Emacs tries to use all font backends +available on your graphic device. + +*** New frame parameter `font-backend' specifies a list of +font-backends supported by the frame's graphic device. On X, they are +currently `x' and `xft'. + +*** The function `set-fontset-font' now accepts a script name as the +second argument, and has an optional 5th argument to control how to +set the font. + +*** New functions: + +**** `fontp' checks if the argument is a font-spec or font-entity. + +**** `font-spec' creates a new font-spec object. + +**** `font-get' returns a font property value. + +**** `font-put' sets a font property value. + +**** `font-face-attributes' returns a plist of face attributes set by a font. + +**** `list-fonts' returns a list of font-entities matching a font spec. + +**** `find-font' returns the font-entity best matching the given font spec. + +**** `font-family-list' returns a list of family names of available fonts. + +**** `font-xlfd-name' returns an XLFD name of a given font spec, font +entity, or font object. + +**** `clear-font-cache' clears all font caches. + +** Changes related to multiple-terminal (multi-tty) support + +*** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses. If you want to know the +$TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment. + +*** $DISPLAY is now dynamically inherited from the frame's `display'. + +*** The `window-system' variable is now frame-local. The new +`initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value +for the first frame. `window-system' is also now a function that +takes a frame argument. + +*** The `keyboard-translate-table' variable and the terminal and +keyboard coding systems are now terminal-local. + +*** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal +type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'. + +*** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a tty +session. + +*** A new `terminal' data type. +The functions `get-device-terminal', `terminal-parameters', +`terminal-parameter', `set-terminal-parameter' use this data type. + +*** Function key sequences are now mapped using `local-function-key-map', +a new variable. This inherits from the global variable function-key-map, +which is not used directly any more. + +*** New hooks: + +**** before-hack-local-variables-hook is called after setting new +variable file-local-variables-alist, and before actually applying the +file-local variables. + +**** `suspend-tty-functions' and `resume-tty-functions' are called +after a tty frame has been suspended or resumed, respectively. The +functions are called with the terminal id of the frame being +suspended/resumed as a parameter. + +**** The special hook `delete-terminal-functions' is called before +deleting a terminal. + +*** New functions: + +**** `delete-terminal' + +**** `suspend-tty' + +**** `resume-tty'. + +*** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent. + +** Redisplay changes + +*** For underlined characters, the distance between the underline and +the baseline is controlled by a new variable, `underline-minimum-offset'. + +*** You can now pass the value of the `invisible' property to +invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible. +This is convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer +position (e.g. in before/after-strings). + +*** `clear-image-cache' can be told to flush only images of a specific file. + +*** `vertical-motion' can now be given a goal column. +It now accepts a cons cell (COLS . LINES) in its first argument, which +says to stop, where possible, at a pixel x-position equal to COLS +times the default column width. + +*** redisplay-end-trigger-functions, set-window-redisplay-end-trigger, +and window-redisplay-end-trigger are obsolete. Use `jit-lock-register' +instead. + +*** The new variables `wrap-prefix' and `line-prefix' specify display +specs which are appended at display-time to every continuation line +and non-continuation line, respectively. In addition, Emacs +recognizes the `wrap-prefix' and `line-prefix' text or overlay +properties; these have the same effects as the variables of the same +name, but take precedence. + +** The Lisp interpreter now treats non-breaking space as whitespace. + +** Miscellaneous new functions + +*** `apply-partially' performs a "curried" application of a function. + +*** `buffer-swap-text' swaps text between two buffers. This can be +useful for modes such as tar-mode, archive-mode, RMAIL. + +*** `combine-and-quote-strings' produces a single string from a list of strings +sticking a separator string in between each pair, and quoting those +strings that include the separator as their substring. Useful for +consing shell command lines from the individual arguments. + +*** `custom-note-var-changed' tells Custom to treat the change in a +certain variable as having been made within Custom. + +*** `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing all the basic +attributes of a given face. + +*** `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a readable +string of days, hours, etc. + +*** `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image +specification. + +*** `locate-user-emacs-file' helps packages to select the appropriate +place to save user-specific files. It defaults to `user-emacs-directory' +unless the file already exists at $HOME. + +*** `read-color' reads a color name using the minibuffer. + +*** `read-shell-command' does what its name says, with completion. It +uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that. + +*** `split-string-and-unquote' splits a string into a list of substrings +on the boundaries of a given delimiter, and unquotes the substrings that +are quoted. Useful for taking apart shell commands. + +*** The two new functions `looking-at-p' and `string-match-p' can do +the same matching as `looking-at' and `string-match' without changing +the match data. + +*** The two new functions `make-serial-process' and +`serial-process-configure' provide a Lisp interface to the new serial +port support (see Emacs changes, above). + +** Miscellaneous new variables + +*** `auto-save-include-big-deletions', if non-nil, means auto-save is +not turned off automatically after a big deletion. + +*** `read-circle', if nil, disables the reading of recursive Lisp +structures using the #N= and #N# syntax. + +*** `this-command-keys-shift-translated' is non-nil if the key +sequence invoking the current command was found by shift-translation. + +*** `window-point-insertion-type' determines the insertion-type of the +marker used for window-point. + +*** bookmark provides `bookmark-make-record-function' so special major +modes like Info can teach bookmark.el how to save and restore the +relevant data. + +*** `fill-forward-paragraph-function' specifies which function the +filling code should use to find paragraph boundaries. + + +* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1 + +** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure. + +** The new package check-declare.el verifies the accuracy of +declare-function macros (see Lisp Changes, above). + +** find-cmd.el can build `find' commands using lisp syntax. + +** The package misearch.el has been added. It allows Isearch to search +through multiple buffers. A variable `multi-isearch-next-buffer-function' +defines the function to call to get the next buffer to search in the series +of multiple buffers. Top-level functions `multi-isearch-buffers', +`multi-isearch-buffers-regexp', `multi-isearch-files' and +`multi-isearch-files-regexp' accept a single argument that specifies +a list of buffers/files to search for a string/regexp. + +** The new major mode `special-mode' is intended as a parent for +major modes such as those that set the "'mode-class 'special" property. + + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +This file is part of GNU Emacs. + +GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. + +GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + + +Local variables: +mode: outline +paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" +end: + +arch-tag: e759449d-88b3-4de4-9900-3a6c3dfa23e2
--- a/etc/TODO Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/etc/TODO Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -12,7 +12,46 @@ prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work to the FSF. -* Simple tasks. These don't require much emacs knowledge, they are +* Tentative plan for Emacs-24 + +** Bidi +** lexbind: I haven't checked the status of the code recently, so + I don't know how realistic it is to include it. But it's been around + for a long time, and I trust Miles, so I have hope. +** concurrency: including it as an "experimental" compile-time option + sounds good. Of course there might still be big questions around + "which form of concurrency" we'll want. +** Overhaul of customize: sounds wonderful. +** some kind of color-theme: agreed. +** better support for dynamic embedded graphics: I like this idea (my + mpc.el code could use it for the volume widget), tho I wonder if the + resulting efficiency will be sufficient. +** Spread Semantic. +** Improve the "code snippets" support: consolidate skeleton.el, tempo.el, + and expand.el (any other?) and then advertise/use/improve it. +** Improve VC: yes, there's a lot of work to be done there :-( + And most of it could/should make it into Emacs-23.3. +** package manager. + +** Random things that cross my mind right now that I'd like to see (some of +them from my local hacks), but it's not obvious at all whether they'll +make it. +*** multiple inheritance for keymaps (to get rid of the + fix_submap_inheritance hack and to more cleanly express the + relationship between minibuffer-local-*-map): I've had this locally + for a long time, but the details of the semantics is somewhat ... delicate. +*** prog-mode (a parent-mode, like text-mode). Could/should provide + a better fill-paragraph default that uses syntax-tables to recognize + string/comment boundaries. +*** provide more completion-at-point-functions. Make existing + in-buffer completion use completion-at-point. +*** "functional" function-key-map that would make it easy to add (and + remove) mappings like "FOO-mouse-4 -> FOO-scroll-down", + "FOO-tab -> ?\FOO-\t", "uppercase -> lowercase", "[fringe KEY...] -> + [KEY]", "H-FOO -> M-FOO", "C-x C-y FOO -> H-FOO", ... + + +* Simple tasks. These don't require much Emacs knowledge, they are suitable for anyone from beginners to experts. ** Convert modes that use view-mode to be derived from special-mode instead.
--- a/leim/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/leim/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-02-16 Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> * SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L: Updated to the latest version.
--- a/lib-src/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lib-src/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-02-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> * etags.c (Scheme_functions): Don't loop past a null character @@ -21,7 +25,7 @@ 2009-11-23 Tobias Ringström <tobias@ringis.se> (tiny change) - * etags.c (absolute_filename): Use memove if we have it for + * etags.c (absolute_filename): Use memmove if we have it for overlapping copy. 2009-11-04 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
--- a/lib-src/makefile.w32-in Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lib-src/makefile.w32-in Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .PHONY: $(ALL) -VERSION = 23.1.93 +VERSION = 24.0.50 LOCAL_FLAGS = -DWINDOWSNT -DDOS_NT -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DNO_LDAV=1 \ -DNO_ARCHIVES=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H=1 -I../nt/inc \
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,44 @@ +2010-03-11 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> + + * cus-edit.el (customize-changed-options-previous-release): + Bump to 23.1. + + * image.el (image-animate-max-time): Fix :version tag. + +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + +2010-03-10 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> + + * vc-git.el (vc-git-revision-table): Include remote branches. + +2010-03-10 Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> + + Animated image API. + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00211.html + + * image.el (image-animate-max-time): New defcustom. + (image-animated-types): New defconst. + (create-animated-image, image-animate-timer) + (image-animate-start, image-animate-stop, image-animate-timeout) + (image-animated-p): New functions. + + * image-mode.el (image-toggle-display-image): + Replace `create-image' with `create-animated-image'. + +2010-03-09 Miles Bader <Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>> + + * vc-git.el (vc-git-print-log): Use "tformat:" for shortlog, + instead of "format:"; this ensures that the output is + newline-terminated. + +2010-03-08 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * mail/rfc822.el (rfc822-addresses): Use nested catches to ensure + that all errors are caught, and that the return value is always a + list (Bug#5692). + 2010-03-08 Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> * language/misc-lang.el (windows-1256): New coding system. @@ -11,7 +52,7 @@ 2010-03-07 Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> (tiny change) * vc-git.el (vc-git-annotate-extract-revision-at-line): Use - vc-git-root as default direcotry for revision path (Bug#5657). + vc-git-root as default directory for revision path (Bug#5657). 2010-03-06 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> @@ -81,7 +122,7 @@ 2010-03-01 Alan Mackenzie <bug-cc-mode@gnu.org> * cc-engine.el (c-remove-stale-state-cache): Take account of when - `good-pos' is in the same macro as `here'. Fixes bug 5649. + `good-pos' is in the same macro as `here'. Fixes bug#5649. 2010-02-28 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> @@ -190,8 +231,8 @@ 2010-02-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> - * progmodes/compile.el (compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist): In - `watcom' anchor regexp to start of line, to avoid slowness + * progmodes/compile.el (compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist): + In `watcom' anchor regexp to start of line, to avoid slowness (Bug#5599). 2010-02-20 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> @@ -256,9 +297,9 @@ 2010-02-17 Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org> - * vc-bzr.el: fix typo in Known Bugs section. - - * isearch.el (isearch-update-post-hook): New hook + * vc-bzr.el: Fix typo in Known Bugs section. + + * isearch.el (isearch-update-post-hook): New hook. (isearch-update): Use the new hook. 2010-02-16 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
--- a/lisp/cus-edit.el Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/cus-edit.el Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ (unless (eq symbol basevar) (message "`%s' is an alias for `%s'" symbol basevar)))) -(defvar customize-changed-options-previous-release "22.1" +(defvar customize-changed-options-previous-release "23.1" "Version for `customize-changed-options' to refer back to by default.") ;; Packages will update this variable, so make it available.
--- a/lisp/erc/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/erc/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-02-07 Vivek Dasmohapatra <vivek@etla.org> * erc-services.el (erc-nickserv-alist): Fix defcustom type (Bug#5520).
--- a/lisp/image-mode.el Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/image-mode.el Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max))) filename)) (type (image-type file-or-data nil data-p)) - (image (create-image file-or-data type data-p)) + (image (create-animated-image file-or-data type data-p)) (props `(display ,image intangible ,image
--- a/lisp/image.el Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/image.el Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ;;; image.el --- image API -;; Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, -;; 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +;; Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, +;; 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Keywords: multimedia @@ -584,7 +584,111 @@ (declare (doc-string 3)) `(defvar ,symbol (find-image ',specs) ,doc)) + +;;; Animated image API +(defcustom image-animate-max-time 30 + "Time in seconds to animate images." + :type 'integer + :version "24.1" + :group 'image) + +(defconst image-animated-types '(gif) + "List of supported animated image types.") + +;;;###autoload +(defun create-animated-image (file-or-data &optional type data-p &rest props) + "Create an animated image. +FILE-OR-DATA is an image file name or image data. +Optional TYPE is a symbol describing the image type. If TYPE is omitted +or nil, try to determine the image type from its first few bytes +of image data. If that doesn't work, and FILE-OR-DATA is a file name, +use its file extension as image type. +Optional DATA-P non-nil means FILE-OR-DATA is a string containing image data. +Optional PROPS are additional image attributes to assign to the image, +like, e.g. `:mask MASK'. +Value is the image created, or nil if images of type TYPE are not supported. + +Images should not be larger than specified by `max-image-size'." + (setq type (image-type file-or-data type data-p)) + (when (image-type-available-p type) + (let* ((animate (memq type image-animated-types)) + (image + (append (list 'image :type type (if data-p :data :file) file-or-data) + (if animate '(:index 0 :mask heuristic)) + props))) + (if animate + (image-animate-start image)) + image))) + +(defun image-animate-timer (image) + "Return the animation timer for image IMAGE." + ;; See cancel-function-timers + (let ((tail timer-list) timer) + (while tail + (setq timer (car tail) + tail (cdr tail)) + (if (and (eq (aref timer 5) #'image-animate-timeout) + (consp (aref timer 6)) + (eq (car (aref timer 6)) image)) + (setq tail nil) + (setq timer nil))) + timer)) + +(defun image-animate-start (image &optional max-time) + "Start animation of image IMAGE. +Optional second arg MAX-TIME is number of seconds to animate image, +or t to animate infinitely." + (let ((anim (image-animated-p image)) + timer tmo) + (when anim + (if (setq timer (image-animate-timer image)) + (setcar (nthcdr 3 (aref timer 6)) max-time) + (setq tmo (* (cdr anim) 0.01)) + (setq max-time (or max-time image-animate-max-time)) + (run-with-timer tmo nil #'image-animate-timeout + image 1 (car anim) + (if (numberp max-time) + (- max-time tmo) + max-time)))))) + +(defun image-animate-stop (image) + "Stop animation of image." + (let ((timer (image-animate-timer image))) + (when timer + (cancel-timer timer)))) + +(defun image-animate-timeout (image ino count time-left) + (if (>= ino count) + (setq ino 0)) + (plist-put (cdr image) :index ino) + (force-window-update) + (let ((anim (image-animated-p image)) tmo) + (when anim + (setq tmo (* (cdr anim) 0.01)) + (unless (and (= ino 0) (numberp time-left) (< time-left tmo)) + (run-with-timer tmo nil #'image-animate-timeout + image (1+ ino) count + (if (numberp time-left) + (- time-left tmo) + time-left)))))) + +(defun image-animated-p (image) + "Return non-nil if image is animated. +Actually, return value is a cons (IMAGES . DELAY) where IMAGES +is the number of sub-images in the animated image, and DELAY +is the delay in 100ths of a second until the next sub-image +shall be displayed." + (cond + ((eq (plist-get (cdr image) :type) 'gif) + (let* ((extdata (image-extension-data image)) + (images (plist-get extdata 'count)) + (anim (plist-get extdata #xF9))) + (and (integerp images) (> images 1) + (stringp anim) (>= (length anim) 4) + (cons images (+ (aref anim 1) (* (aref anim 2) 256)))))))) + + (provide 'image) ;; arch-tag: 8e76a07b-eb48-4f3e-a7a0-1a7ba9f096b3
--- a/lisp/mail/rfc822.el Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/mail/rfc822.el Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -290,32 +290,36 @@ (replace-match "\\1 " t)) (goto-char (point-min)) - (let ((list ()) - tem - ;; This is for rfc822-bad-address. Give it a non-nil - ;; initial value to prevent rfc822-bad-address from - ;; raising a wrong-type-argument error - (rfc822-address-start (point))) - (rfc822-nuke-whitespace) - (while (not (eobp)) - (setq rfc822-address-start (point)) - (setq tem - (cond ((rfc822-looking-at ?\,) - nil) - ((looking-at "[][\000-\037@;:\\.>)]") - (forward-char) - (catch 'address ; this is for rfc822-bad-address - (rfc822-bad-address - (format "Strange character \\%c found" - (preceding-char))))) - (t - (rfc822-addresses-1 t)))) - (cond ((null tem)) - ((stringp tem) - (setq list (cons tem list))) - (t - (setq list (nconc (nreverse tem) list))))) - (nreverse list))) + ;; Give `rfc822-address-start' a non-nil initial value to + ;; prevent `rfc822-bad-address' from raising a + ;; `wrong-type-argument' error. + (let* ((rfc822-address-start (point)) + list tem + (err + (catch 'address + ;; Note that `rfc822-nuke-whitespace' and + ;; `rfc822-looking-at' can throw. + (rfc822-nuke-whitespace) + (while (not (eobp)) + (setq rfc822-address-start (point)) + (setq tem + (cond ((rfc822-looking-at ?\,) + nil) + ((looking-at "[][\000-\037@;:\\.>)]") + (forward-char) + (catch 'address ; For rfc822-bad-address + (rfc822-bad-address + (format "Strange character \\%c found" + (preceding-char))))) + (t + (rfc822-addresses-1 t)))) + (cond ((null tem)) + ((stringp tem) + (setq list (cons tem list))) + (t + (setq list (nconc (nreverse tem) list))))) + nil))) + (nreverse (append (if err (list err)) list)))) (and buf (kill-buffer buf)))))) (provide 'rfc822)
--- a/lisp/mh-e/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/mh-e/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2009-12-01 Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> * mh-search.el (mh-mairix-execute-search): Use mh vfolder_format.
--- a/lisp/net/hmac-def.el Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/net/hmac-def.el Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ;; Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Shuhei KOBAYASHI <shuhei@aqua.ocn.ne.jp> -;; Keywords: HMAC, RFC 2104 +;; Keywords: HMAC, RFC-2104 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
--- a/lisp/net/hmac-md5.el Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/net/hmac-md5.el Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ;; Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Shuhei KOBAYASHI <shuhei@aqua.ocn.ne.jp> -;; Keywords: HMAC, RFC 2104, HMAC-MD5, MD5, KEYED-MD5, CRAM-MD5 +;; Keywords: HMAC, RFC-2104, HMAC-MD5, MD5, KEYED-MD5, CRAM-MD5 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
--- a/lisp/org/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/org/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-02-15 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> * org-freemind.el (org-freemind-from-org-mode-node)
--- a/lisp/url/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/url/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-01-23 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> * url-util.el: Require url-vars (Bug#5459).
--- a/lisp/vc-git.el Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/vc-git.el Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ '("log" "--no-color") (when shortlog '("--graph" "--decorate" "--date=short" - "--pretty=format:%d%h %ad %s" "--abbrev-commit")) + "--pretty=tformat:%d%h %ad %s" "--abbrev-commit")) (when limit (list "-n" (format "%s" limit))) (when start-revision (list start-revision)) '("--"))))))) @@ -673,7 +673,8 @@ (with-temp-buffer (vc-git-command t nil nil "for-each-ref" "--format=%(refname)") (goto-char (point-min)) - (while (re-search-forward "^refs/\\(heads\\|tags\\)/\\(.*\\)$" nil t) + (while (re-search-forward "^refs/\\(heads\\|tags\\|remotes\\)/\\(.*\\)$" + nil t) (push (match-string 2) table))) table))
--- a/lisp/version.el Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lisp/version.el Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ (defconst emacs-copyright "Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc." "\ Short copyright string for this version of Emacs.") -(defconst emacs-version "23.1.93" "\ +(defconst emacs-version "24.0.50" "\ Version numbers of this version of Emacs.") (defconst emacs-major-version (progn (string-match "^[0-9]+" emacs-version) (string-to-number (match-string 0 emacs-version))) "\
--- a/lwlib/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/lwlib/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2009-10-19 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> * xlwmenu.c:
--- a/msdos/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/msdos/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-02-19 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> * INSTALL: Remove a CVS-specific note. Update for latest versions
--- a/nextstep/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/nextstep/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-01-11 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> * Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Info.plist:
--- a/nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Info.plist Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Info.plist Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ <key>CFBundleExecutable</key> <string>Emacs</string> <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key> - <string>Emacs 23.1.93 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</string> + <string>Emacs 24.0.50 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</string> <key>CFBundleIconFile</key> <string>Emacs.icns</string> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ <string>APPL</string> <!-- This should be the emacs version number. --> <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key> - <string>23.1.93</string> + <string>24.0.50</string> <key>CFBundleSignature</key> <string>EMAx</string> <!-- This SHOULD be a build number. -->
--- a/nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* Localized versions of Info.plist keys */ CFBundleName = "Emacs"; -CFBundleShortVersionString = "Version 23.1.93"; -CFBundleGetInfoString = "Emacs version 23.1.93, NS Windowing"; +CFBundleShortVersionString = "Version 24.0.50"; +CFBundleGetInfoString = "Emacs version 24.0.50, NS Windowing"; NSHumanReadableCopyright = "Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.";
--- a/nextstep/GNUstep/Emacs.base/Resources/Emacs.desktop Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/nextstep/GNUstep/Emacs.base/Resources/Emacs.desktop Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application -Version=23.1.93 +Version=24.0.50 Categories=GNUstep Name=Emacs Comment=GNU Emacs for NeXT/Open/GNUstep and OS X
--- a/nextstep/GNUstep/Emacs.base/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/nextstep/GNUstep/Emacs.base/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ApplicationDescription = "GNU Emacs for GNUstep / OS X"; ApplicationIcon = emacs.tiff; ApplicationName = Emacs; - ApplicationRelease = "23.1.93"; + ApplicationRelease = "24.0.50"; Authors = ( "Adrian Robert (GNUstep)", "Christophe de Dinechin (MacOS X)", @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ); Copyright = "Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."; CopyrightDescription = "Released under the GNU General Public License Version 3 or later"; - FullVersionID = "Emacs 23.1.93, NS Windowing"; + FullVersionID = "Emacs 24.0.50, NS Windowing"; NSExecutable = Emacs; NSIcon = emacs.tiff; NSPrincipalClass = NSApplication;
--- a/nt/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/nt/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2010-01-13 Martin Rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> * emacsclient.rc: Fix format of "LegalCopyright" value.
--- a/nt/emacs.rc Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/nt/emacs.rc Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ #endif VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO - FILEVERSION 23,1,93,0 - PRODUCTVERSION 23,1,93,0 + FILEVERSION 24,0,50,0 + PRODUCTVERSION 24,0,50,0 FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3FL #ifdef EMACSDEBUG FILEFLAGS 0x1L @@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ BEGIN VALUE "CompanyName", "Free Software Foundation\0" VALUE "FileDescription", "GNU Emacs: The extensible self-documenting text editor\0" - VALUE "FileVersion", "23, 1, 93, 0\0" + VALUE "FileVersion", "24, 0, 50, 0\0" VALUE "InternalName", "Emacs\0" VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010\0" VALUE "OriginalFilename", "emacs.exe" VALUE "ProductName", "Emacs\0" - VALUE "ProductVersion", "23, 1, 93, 0\0" + VALUE "ProductVersion", "24, 0, 50, 0\0" VALUE "OLESelfRegister", "\0" END END
--- a/nt/emacsclient.rc Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/nt/emacsclient.rc Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ #endif VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO - FILEVERSION 23,1,93,0 - PRODUCTVERSION 23,1,93,0 + FILEVERSION 24,0,50,0 + PRODUCTVERSION 24,0,50,0 FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3FL #ifdef EMACSDEBUG FILEFLAGS 0x1L @@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ BEGIN VALUE "CompanyName", "Free Software Foundation\0" VALUE "FileDescription", "GNU EmacsClient: Client for the extensible self-documenting text editor\0" - VALUE "FileVersion", "23, 1, 93, 0\0" + VALUE "FileVersion", "24, 0, 50, 0\0" VALUE "InternalName", "EmacsClient\0" VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010\0" VALUE "OriginalFilename", "emacsclientw.exe" VALUE "ProductName", "EmacsClient\0" - VALUE "ProductVersion", "23, 1, 93, 0\0" + VALUE "ProductVersion", "24, 0, 50, 0\0" VALUE "OLESelfRegister", "\0" END END
--- a/oldXMenu/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/oldXMenu/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + 2009-06-21 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> * Branch for 23.1.
--- a/src/ChangeLog Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/src/ChangeLog Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +2010-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * Branch for 23.2. + +2010-03-10 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> + + Cleanup setup of gl_state in various parts of the code. + * syntax.h (SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE): New macro. + (SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE, SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE_FOR_OBJECT): + * syntax.c (find_defun_start, Fchar_syntax, Fmatching_paren) + (skip_chars): + * regex.c (regex_compile): Use it. + (re_compile_pattern): Don't set gl_state.current_syntax_table since + it's now set in regex_compile when/if we need it. + 2010-03-05 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> Make it possible to C-g in a tight bytecode loop again (bug#5680).
--- a/src/keyboard.c Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/src/keyboard.c Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -11235,6 +11235,7 @@ GCPRO4 (saved.object, saved.global_code, saved.current_syntax_table, saved.old_prop); Fsignal (Qquit, Qnil); + /* FIXME: AFAIK, `quit' can never return, so this code is dead! */ gl_state = saved; UNGCPRO; }
--- a/src/regex.c Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/src/regex.c Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -3070,7 +3070,7 @@ syntax-table for ASCII chars, while the other chars will obey syntax-table properties. It's not ideal, but it's the way it's been done until now. */ - SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE (BEGV, 0); + SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE (); for (ch = 0; ch < 256; ++ch) { @@ -4496,7 +4496,7 @@ anchored_start = (bufp->buffer[0] == begline); #ifdef emacs - gl_state.object = re_match_object; + gl_state.object = re_match_object; /* Used by SYNTAX_TABLE_BYTE_TO_CHAR. */ { int charpos = SYNTAX_TABLE_BYTE_TO_CHAR (POS_AS_IN_BUFFER (startpos)); @@ -5099,7 +5099,7 @@ #ifdef emacs int charpos; - gl_state.object = re_match_object; + gl_state.object = re_match_object; /* Used by SYNTAX_TABLE_BYTE_TO_CHAR. */ charpos = SYNTAX_TABLE_BYTE_TO_CHAR (POS_AS_IN_BUFFER (pos)); SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE_FOR_OBJECT (re_match_object, charpos, 1); #endif @@ -6504,10 +6504,6 @@ { reg_errcode_t ret; -#ifdef emacs - gl_state.current_syntax_table = current_buffer->syntax_table; -#endif - /* GNU code is written to assume at least RE_NREGS registers will be set (and at least one extra will be -1). */ bufp->regs_allocated = REGS_UNALLOCATED;
--- a/src/syntax.c Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/src/syntax.c Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -385,8 +385,7 @@ /* We optimize syntax-table lookup for rare updates. Thus we accept only those `^\s(' which are good in global _and_ text-property syntax-tables. */ - gl_state.current_syntax_table = current_buffer->syntax_table; - gl_state.use_global = 0; + SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE (); while (PT > BEGV) { int c; @@ -401,8 +400,7 @@ if (SYNTAX (c) == Sopen) break; /* Now fallback to the default value. */ - gl_state.current_syntax_table = current_buffer->syntax_table; - gl_state.use_global = 0; + SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE (); } /* Move to beg of previous line. */ scan_newline (PT, PT_BYTE, BEGV, BEGV_BYTE, -2, 1); @@ -860,11 +858,9 @@ Lisp_Object character; { int char_int; - gl_state.current_syntax_table = current_buffer->syntax_table; - - gl_state.use_global = 0; CHECK_NUMBER (character); char_int = XINT (character); + SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE (); return make_number (syntax_code_spec[(int) SYNTAX (char_int)]); } @@ -874,10 +870,9 @@ Lisp_Object character; { int char_int, code; - gl_state.current_syntax_table = current_buffer->syntax_table; - gl_state.use_global = 0; CHECK_NUMBER (character); char_int = XINT (character); + SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE (); code = SYNTAX (char_int); if (code == Sopen || code == Sclose) return SYNTAX_MATCH (char_int); @@ -1752,7 +1747,7 @@ let's initialize it manually. We ignore syntax-table text-properties for now, since that's what we've done in the past. */ - SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE (BEGV, 0); + SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE (); if (forwardp) { if (multibyte)
--- a/src/syntax.h Mon Mar 08 13:05:51 2010 +0100 +++ b/src/syntax.h Thu Mar 11 11:05:39 2010 +0100 @@ -245,6 +245,14 @@ 1) \ : 0)) +/* This macro sets up the buffer-global syntax table. */ +#define SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE() \ +do \ + { \ + gl_state.use_global = 0; \ + gl_state.current_syntax_table = current_buffer->syntax_table; \ + } while (0) + /* This macro should be called with FROM at the start of forward search, or after the last position of the backward search. It makes sure that the first char is picked up with correct table, so @@ -256,12 +264,11 @@ #define SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE(FROM, COUNT) \ do \ { \ + SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE (); \ gl_state.b_property = BEGV; \ gl_state.e_property = ZV + 1; \ gl_state.object = Qnil; \ - gl_state.use_global = 0; \ gl_state.offset = 0; \ - gl_state.current_syntax_table = current_buffer->syntax_table; \ if (parse_sexp_lookup_properties) \ if ((COUNT) > 0 || (FROM) > BEGV) \ update_syntax_table ((COUNT) > 0 ? (FROM) : (FROM) - 1, (COUNT),\ @@ -279,6 +286,7 @@ #define SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE_FOR_OBJECT(OBJECT, FROM, COUNT) \ do \ { \ + SETUP_BUFFER_SYNTAX_TABLE (); \ gl_state.object = (OBJECT); \ if (BUFFERP (gl_state.object)) \ { \ @@ -305,8 +313,6 @@ gl_state.e_property = 1 + SCHARS (gl_state.object); \ gl_state.offset = 0; \ } \ - gl_state.use_global = 0; \ - gl_state.current_syntax_table = current_buffer->syntax_table; \ if (parse_sexp_lookup_properties) \ update_syntax_table (((FROM) + gl_state.offset \ + (COUNT > 0 ? 0 : -1)), \