Mercurial > emacs
changeset 38900:a3e94a8271e0
Reshuffle user-level changes to bring more important ones closer to the
beginning.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 22 Aug 2001 07:11:33 +0000 |
| parents | 8e03c8311b6e |
| children | f90da7c4551c |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 778 insertions(+), 764 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Tue Aug 21 18:31:50 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Wed Aug 22 07:11:33 2001 +0000 @@ -16,27 +16,24 @@ ** Support for LynxOS has been added. -** `movemail' defaults to supporting POP. You can turn this off using -the --without-pop configure option, should that be necessary. - ** There are new configure options associated with the support for images and toolkit scrollbars. Use the --help option in `configure' to list them. -** There is a new configure option `--without-xim' that instructs -Emacs to not use X Input Methods (XIM), if these are available. - -** There is a new configure option `--disable-largefile' to omit -Unix-98-style support for large files if that is available. - ** You can build a 64-bit Emacs for SPARC/Solaris systems which support 64-bit executables and also on Irix 6.5. This increases the maximum buffer size. See etc/MACHINES for instructions. Changes to build on other 64-bit systems should be straightforward modulo any necessary changes to unexec. -** Note that the MS-Windows port does not yet implement various of the -new display features described below. +** There is a new configure option `--disable-largefile' to omit +Unix-98-style support for large files if that is available. + +** There is a new configure option `--without-xim' that instructs +Emacs to not use X Input Methods (XIM), if these are available. + +** `movemail' defaults to supporting POP. You can turn this off using +the --without-pop configure option, should that be necessary. ** This version can be built for the Macintosh, but does not implement all of the new display features described below. The port currently @@ -44,6 +41,9 @@ "Emacs and the Mac OS" appendix in the Emacs manual, for the description of aspects specific to the Mac. +** Note that the MS-Windows port does not yet implement various of the +new display features described below. + * Changes in Emacs 21.1 @@ -80,8 +80,19 @@ The command-line options `-fg COLOR', `-bg COLOR', and `-rv' are now supported on character terminals. +Emacs automatically remaps all X-style color specifications to one of +the colors supported by the terminal. This means you could have the +same color customizations that work both on a windowed display and on +a TTY or when Emacs is invoked with the -nw option. + ** New default font is Courier 12pt under X. +** Sound support + +Emacs supports playing sound files on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD (Voxware +driver and native BSD driver, a.k.a. Luigi's driver). Currently +supported file formats are RIFF-WAVE (*.wav) and Sun Audio (*.au). + +++ ** Emacs now resizes mini-windows if appropriate. @@ -148,19 +159,6 @@ Emacs doesn't use imake, this has do be done manually. +++ -** Automatic Hscrolling - -Horizontal scrolling now happens automatically if -`automatic-hscrolling' is set (the default). This setting can be -customized. - -If a window is scrolled horizontally with set-window-hscroll, or -scroll-left/scroll-right (C-x <, C-x >), this serves as a lower bound -for automatic horizontal scrolling. Automatic scrolling will scroll -the text more to the left if necessary, but won't scroll the text more -to the right than the column set with set-window-hscroll etc. - -+++ ** Tool bar support. Emacs supports a tool bar at the top of a frame under X. For details @@ -187,6 +185,19 @@ tooltip display in the group `tooltip'. +++ +** Automatic Hscrolling + +Horizontal scrolling now happens automatically if +`automatic-hscrolling' is set (the default). This setting can be +customized. + +If a window is scrolled horizontally with set-window-hscroll, or +scroll-left/scroll-right (C-x <, C-x >), this serves as a lower bound +for automatic horizontal scrolling. Automatic scrolling will scroll +the text more to the left if necessary, but won't scroll the text more +to the right than the column set with set-window-hscroll etc. + ++++ ** When using a windowing terminal, each Emacs window now has a cursor of its own. By default, when a window is selected, the cursor is solid; otherwise, it is hollow. The user-option @@ -261,6 +272,30 @@ Font-lock uses jit-lock-mode as default support mode, so you don't have to do anything to activate it. +** The default binding of the Delete key has changed. + +The new user-option `normal-erase-is-backspace' can be set to +determine the effect of the Delete and Backspace function keys. + +On window systems, the default value of this option is chosen +according to the keyboard used. If the keyboard has both a Backspace +key and a Delete key, and both are mapped to their usual meanings, the +option's default value is set to t, so that Backspace can be used to +delete backward, and Delete can be used to delete forward. On +keyboards which either have only one key (usually labeled DEL), or two +keys DEL and BS which produce the same effect, the option's value is +set to nil, and these keys delete backward. + +If not running under a window system, setting this option accomplishes +a similar effect by mapping C-h, which is usually generated by the +Backspace key, to DEL, and by mapping DEL to C-d via +`keyboard-translate'. The former functionality of C-h is available on +the F1 key. You should probably not use this setting on a text-only +terminal if you don't have both Backspace, Delete and F1 keys. + +Programmatically, you can call function normal-erase-is-backspace-mode +to toggle the behavior of the Delete and Backspace keys. + +++ ** The default for user-option `next-line-add-newlines' has been changed to nil, i.e. C-n will no longer add newlines at the end of a @@ -282,7 +317,7 @@ compiled with Emacs. Set `load-dangerous-libraries' to t to change this behavior. -The reason for this change is an incompatible change in XEmacs' byte +The reason for this change is an incompatible change in XEmacs's byte compiler. Files compiled with XEmacs can contain byte codes that let Emacs dump core. @@ -316,25 +351,12 @@ ** The new user-option `confirm-kill-emacs' can be customized to let Emacs ask for confirmation before exiting. -+++ -** Highlighting of mouse-sensitive regions is now supported in the -MS-DOS version of Emacs. - ** The header line in an Info buffer is now displayed as an emacs header-line (which is like a mode-line, but at the top of the window), so that it remains visible even when the buffer has been scrolled. This behavior may be disabled by customizing the option `Info-use-header-line'. -+++ -** The recommended way of using Iswitchb is via the new global minor -mode `iswitchb-mode'. - -+++ -** Just loading the msb package doesn't switch on Msb mode anymore. -If you have `(require 'msb)' in your .emacs, please replace it with -`(msb-mode 1)'. - ** Polish, Czech, German, and French translations of Emacs' reference card have been added. They are named `pl-refcard.tex', `cs-refcard.tex', `de-refcard.tex' and `fr-refcard.tex'. Postscript files are included. @@ -351,35 +373,13 @@ menu bar. If the menu bar is displayed, it pops up the major mode menu or the Edit menu if there is no major mode menu. -** Variable `load-path' is no longer customizable throuh Customize. +** Variable `load-path' is no longer customizable through Customize. You can no longer use `M-x customize-variable' to customize `load-path' because it now contains a version-dependent component. You can still use `add-to-list' and `setq' to customize this variable in your `~/.emacs' init file or to modify it from any Lisp program in general. -** The new user-option `normal-erase-is-backspace' can be set to -determine the effect of the Delete and Backspace function keys. - -On window systems, the default value of this option is chosen -according to the keyboard used. If the keyboard has both a Backspace -key and a Delete key, and both are mapped to their usual meanings, the -option's default value is set to t, so that Backspace can be used to -delete backward, and Delete can be used to delete forward. On -keyboards which either have only one key (usually labeled DEL), or two -keys DEL and BS which produce the same effect, the option's value is -set to nil, and these keys delete backward. - -If not running under a window system, setting this option accomplishes -a similar effect by mapping C-h, which is usually generated by the -Backspace key, to DEL, and by mapping DEL to C-d via -`keyboard-translate'. The former functionality of C-h is available on -the F1 key. You should probably not use this setting on a text-only -terminal if you don't have both Backspace, Delete and F1 keys. - -Programmatically, you can call function normal-erase-is-backspace-mode -to toggle the behavior of the Delete and Backspace keys. - +++ ** C-u C-x = provides detailed information about the character at point in a pop-up window. @@ -401,54 +401,10 @@ +++ ** The function `getenv' is now callable interactively. -** The many obsolete language `setup-...-environment' commands have -been removed -- use `set-language-environment'. - -+++ -** The environment variable `EMACSLOCKDIR' is no longer used on MS-Windows. -This environment variable was used when creating lock files. Emacs on -MS-Windows does not use this variable anymore. This change was made -before Emacs 21.1, but wasn't documented until now. - -** Flyspell mode has various new options. See the `flyspell' Custom -group. - -** The user option `backward-delete-char-untabify-method' controls the -behavior of `backward-delete-char-untabify'. The following values -are recognized: - -`untabify' -- turn a tab to many spaces, then delete one space; -`hungry' -- delete all whitespace, both tabs and spaces; -`all' -- delete all whitespace, including tabs, spaces and newlines; -nil -- just delete one character. - -Default value is `untabify'. - -[This change was made in Emacs 20.3 but not mentioned then.] - -** In Cperl mode `cperl-invalid-face' should now be a normal face -symbol, not double-quoted. - -** Some packages are declared obsolete, to be removed in a future -version. They are: auto-show, c-mode, hilit19, hscroll, ooutline, -rnews, rnewspost. Their implementations have been moved to -lisp/obsolete. - -+++ -** The new Custom option `keyboard-coding-system' specifies a coding -system for keyboard input. - +++ ** The new user-option `even-window-heights' can be set to nil to prevent `display-buffer' from evening out window heights. -+++ -** The new command `msdos-set-mouse-buttons' forces Emacs to behave -as if the mouse had a specified number of buttons. This comes handy -with mice that don't report their number of buttons correctly. One -example is the wheeled mice, which report 3 buttons, but clicks on the -middle button are not passed to the MS-DOS version of Emacs. - ** The new command M-x delete-trailing-whitespace RET will delete the trailing whitespace within the current restriction. You can also add this function to `write-file-hooks' or `local-write-file-hooks'. @@ -457,93 +413,6 @@ be added to the end of the buffer even if `require-final-newline' is non-nil. -** auto-compression mode is no longer enabled just by loading jka-compr.el. -To control it, set `auto-compression-mode' via Custom or use the -`auto-compression-mode' command. - -** `browse-url-gnome-moz' is a new option for -`browse-url-browser-function', invoking Mozilla in GNOME, and -`browse-url-kde' can be chosen for invoking the KDE browser. - -** The user-option `browse-url-new-window-p' has been renamed to -`browse-url-new-window-flag'. - -+++ -** The functions `keep-lines', `flush-lines' and `how-many' now -operate on the active region in Transient Mark mode. - -+++ -** `gnus-user-agent' is a new possibility for `mail-user-agent'. It -is like `message-user-agent', but with all the Gnus paraphernalia. - -+++ -** Gnus changes. - -The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in -four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment, -internationalization and mail-fetching. - -*** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the -many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone. - -If you used procmail like in - -(setq nnmail-use-procmail t) -(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail) -(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/") -(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in") - -this now has changed to - -(setq mail-sources - '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/" - :suffix ".in"))) - -More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods -> -Getting Mail -> Mail Sources - -*** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of -Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details. -Separate MIME packages like RMIME, mime-compose etc., will probably no -longer work; remove them and use the native facilities. - -The FLIM/SEMI package still works with Emacs 21, but if you want to -use the native facilities, you must remove any mailcap.el[c] that was -installed by FLIM/SEMI version 1.13 or earlier. - -*** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too many -parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables. There -are built-in facilities equivalent to those of gnus-mule.el, which is -now just a compatibility layer. - -*** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be -called to position point. - -*** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in -summary buffers and NOV files. - -*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number -of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added. - -*** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now work in a -subtly different manner. - -*** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive -and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with -ever-changing layouts. - -*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap. - -*** There is image support of various kinds and some sound support. - -+++ -** When your terminal can't display characters from some of the ISO -8859 character sets but can display Latin-1, you can display -more-or-less mnemonic sequences of ASCII/Latin-1 characters instead of -empty boxes (under a window system) or question marks (not under a -window system). Customize the option `latin1-display' to turn this -on. - ** The new user-option `find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings' can be set to suppress warnings ``X and Y are the same file'' when visiting a file that is already visited under a different name. @@ -551,13 +420,6 @@ ** The new user-option `electric-help-shrink-window' can be set to nil to prevent adjusting the help window size to the buffer size. -** The Strokes package has been updated. If your Emacs has XPM -support, you can use it for pictographic editing. In Strokes mode, -use C-mouse-2 to compose a complex stoke and insert it into the -buffer. You can encode or decode a strokes buffer with new commands -M-x strokes-encode-buffer and M-x strokes-decode-buffer. There is a -new command M-x strokes-list-strokes. - +++ ** New command M-x describe-character-set reads a character set name and displays information about that. @@ -584,6 +446,13 @@ the file will be saved silently with the appropriate coding. Previously you would be prompted for a safe coding system. +** The many obsolete language `setup-...-environment' commands have +been removed -- use `set-language-environment'. + ++++ +** The new Custom option `keyboard-coding-system' specifies a coding +system for keyboard input. + +++ ** New variable `inhibit-iso-escape-detection' determines if Emacs' coding system detection algorithm should pay attention to ISO2022's @@ -606,6 +475,60 @@ coding systems such as cpXXX and cyrillic-koi8. +++ +** Emacs now attempts to determine the initial language environment +and preferred and locale coding systems systematically from the +LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables during startup. + ++++ +** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'. +Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets +8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign). +GNU Intlfonts doesn't support these yet but recent X releases have +8859-15. See etc/INSTALL for information on obtaining extra fonts. +There are new Leim input methods for Latin-8 and Latin-9 prefix (only) +and Polish `slash'. + ++++ +** New language environments `Dutch' and `Spanish'. +These new environments mainly select appropriate translations +of the tutorial. + +** In Ethiopic language environment, special key bindings for +function keys are changed as follows. This is to conform to "Emacs +Lisp Coding Convention". + + new command old-binding + --- ------- ----------- + f3 ethio-fidel-to-sera-buffer f5 + S-f3 ethio-fidel-to-sera-region f5 + C-f3 ethio-fidel-to-sera-mail-or-marker f5 + + f4 ethio-sera-to-fidel-buffer unchanged + S-f4 ethio-sera-to-fidel-region unchanged + C-f4 ethio-sera-to-fidel-mail-or-marker unchanged + + S-f5 ethio-toggle-punctuation f3 + S-f6 ethio-modify-vowel f6 + S-f7 ethio-replace-space f7 + S-f8 ethio-input-special-character f8 + S-f9 ethio-replace-space unchanged + C-f9 ethio-toggle-space f2 + +** The rule of input method "slovak" is slightly changed. Now the +rules for translating "q" and "Q" to "`" (backquote) are deleted, thus +typing them inserts "q" and "Q" respectively. Rules for translating +"=q", "+q", "=Q", and "+Q" to "`" are also deleted. Now, to input +"`", you must type "=q". + ++++ +** When your terminal can't display characters from some of the ISO +8859 character sets but can display Latin-1, you can display +more-or-less mnemonic sequences of ASCII/Latin-1 characters instead of +empty boxes (under a window system) or question marks (not under a +window system). Customize the option `latin1-display' to turn this +on. + ++++ ** M-; now calls comment-dwim which tries to do something clever based on the context. M-x kill-comment is now an alias to comment-kill, defined in newcomment.el. You can choose different styles of region @@ -695,83 +618,6 @@ emacs.privateColormap: true -+++ -** The variable `echo-keystrokes' may now have a floating point value. - -** If your init file is compiled (.emacs.elc), `user-init-file' is set -to the source name (.emacs.el), if that exists, after loading it. - -** The help string specified for a menu-item whose definition contains -the property `:help HELP' is now displayed under X, on MS-Windows, and -MS-DOS, either in the echo area or with tooltips. Many standard menus -displayed by Emacs now have help strings. - -** New user option `read-mail-command' specifies a command to use to -read mail from the menu etc. - -+++ -** Hexl contains a new command `hexl-insert-hex-string' which inserts -a string of hexadecimal numbers read from the mini-buffer. - -** Changes in Texinfo mode. - -*** A couple of new key bindings have been added for inserting Texinfo -macros - - Key binding Macro - ------------------------- - C-c C-c C-s @strong - C-c C-c C-e @emph - C-c C-c u @uref - C-c C-c q @quotation - C-c C-c m @email - C-c C-o @<block> ... @end <block> - M-RET @item - -*** The " key now inserts either " or `` or '' depending on context. - -** Changes in Outline mode. - -There is now support for Imenu to index headings. A new command -`outline-headers-as-kill' copies the visible headings in the region to -the kill ring, e.g. to produce a table of contents. - -** Changes to Emacs Server - -+++ -*** The new option `server-kill-new-buffers' specifies what to do -with buffers when done with them. If non-nil, the default, buffers -are killed, unless they were already present before visiting them with -Emacs Server. If nil, `server-temp-file-regexp' specifies which -buffers to kill, as before. - -Please note that only buffers are killed that still have a client, -i.e. buffers visited with `emacsclient --no-wait' are never killed in -this way. - -** Both emacsclient and Emacs itself now accept command line options -of the form +LINE:COLUMN in addition to +LINE. - -** Changes to Show Paren mode. - -*** Overlays used by Show Paren mode now use a priority property. -The new user option show-paren-priority specifies the priority to -use. Default is 1000. - -+++ -** New command M-x check-parens can be used to find unbalanced paren -groups and strings in buffers in Lisp mode (or other modes). - -+++ -** You can now easily create new *Info* buffers using either -M-x clone-buffer, C-u m <entry> RET or C-u g <entry> RET. -M-x clone-buffer can also be used on *Help* and several other special -buffers. - -** Listing buffers with M-x list-buffers (C-x C-b) now shows -abbreviated file names. Abbreviations can be customized by changing -`directory-abbrev-alist'. - ** Faces and frame parameters. There are four new faces `scroll-bar', `border', `cursor' and `mouse'. @@ -827,22 +673,6 @@ *** Arrows that indicate sub-menus are now drawn with shadows, as in LessTif and Motif. -** Sound support - -Emacs supports playing sound files on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD (Voxware -driver and native BSD driver, a.k.a. Luigi's driver). Currently -supported file formats are RIFF-WAVE (*.wav) and Sun Audio (*.au). - -+++ -** A new variable, backup-by-copying-when-privileged-mismatch, gives -the highest file uid for which backup-by-copying-when-mismatch will be -forced on. The assumption is that uids less than or equal to this -value are special uids (root, bin, daemon, etc.--not real system -users) and that files owned by these users should not change ownership, -even if your system policy allows users other than root to edit them. - -The default is 200; set the variable to nil to disable the feature. - +++ ** A block cursor can be drawn as wide as the glyph under it under X. @@ -852,7 +682,7 @@ +++ ** Empty display lines at the end of a buffer may be marked with a -bitmap (this is similar to the tilde displayed by vi). +bitmap (this is similar to the tilde displayed by vi and Less). This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable `indicate-empty-lines' to a non-nil value. The default value of this @@ -871,6 +701,28 @@ number, Emacs chooses a new window start so that point ends up that fraction of the window's height from the bottom of the window. ++++ +** You can now easily create new *Info* buffers using either +M-x clone-buffer, C-u m <entry> RET or C-u g <entry> RET. +M-x clone-buffer can also be used on *Help* and several other special +buffers. + +** The command `Info-search' now uses a search history. + +** Listing buffers with M-x list-buffers (C-x C-b) now shows +abbreviated file names. Abbreviations can be customized by changing +`directory-abbrev-alist'. + ++++ +** A new variable, backup-by-copying-when-privileged-mismatch, gives +the highest file uid for which backup-by-copying-when-mismatch will be +forced on. The assumption is that uids less than or equal to this +value are special uids (root, bin, daemon, etc.--not real system +users) and that files owned by these users should not change ownership, +even if your system policy allows users other than root to edit them. + +The default is 200; set the variable to nil to disable the feature. + ** The rectangle commands now avoid inserting undesirable spaces, notably at the end of lines. @@ -895,228 +747,37 @@ you complete mail aliases in the text, analogous to lisp-complete-symbol. -** The command `Info-search' now uses a search history. - -** Changes to hideshow.el - -*** Generalized block selection and traversal - -A block is now recognized by its start and end regexps (both strings), -and an integer specifying which sub-expression in the start regexp -serves as the place where a `forward-sexp'-like function can operate. -See the documentation of variable `hs-special-modes-alist'. - -*** During incremental search, if Hideshow minor mode is active, -hidden blocks are temporarily shown. The variable `hs-headline' can -be used in the mode line format to show the line at the beginning of -the open block. - -*** User option `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function' specifies a -function to be called at each top-level block beginning, instead of -the normal block-hiding function. - -*** The command `hs-show-region' has been removed. - -*** The key bindings have changed to fit the Emacs conventions, -roughly imitating those of Outline minor mode. Notably, the prefix -for all bindings is now `C-c @'. For details, see the documentation -for `hs-minor-mode'. - -*** The variable `hs-show-hidden-short-form' has been removed, and -hideshow.el now always behaves as if this variable were set to t. - -** Changes to Change Log mode and Add-Log functions - -+++ -*** If you invoke `add-change-log-entry' from a backup file, it makes -an entry appropriate for the file's parent. This is useful for making -log entries by comparing a version with deleted functions. - -+++ -**** New command M-x change-log-merge merges another log into the -current buffer. - -+++ -*** New command M-x change-log-redate fixes any old-style date entries -in a log file. - -+++ -*** Change Log mode now adds a file's version number to change log -entries if user-option `change-log-version-info-enabled' is non-nil. -Unless the file is under version control the search for a file's -version number is performed based on regular expressions from -`change-log-version-number-regexp-list' which can be customized. -Version numbers are only found in the first 10 percent of a file. - -*** Change Log mode now defines its own faces for font-lock highlighting. - -** Changes to cmuscheme - -*** The user-option `scheme-program-name' has been renamed -`cmuscheme-program-name' due to conflicts with xscheme.el. - -** Changes in Font Lock - -*** The new function `font-lock-remove-keywords' can be used to remove -font-lock keywords from the current buffer or from a specific major mode. - -*** Multi-line patterns are now supported. Modes using this, should -set font-lock-multiline to t in their font-lock-defaults. - -*** `font-lock-syntactic-face-function' allows major-modes to choose -the face used for each string/comment. - -*** A new standard face `font-lock-doc-face'. -Meant for Lisp docstrings, Javadoc comments and other "documentation in code". - -** Changes to Shell mode - -*** The `shell' command now accepts an optional argument to specify the buffer -to use, which defaults to "*shell*". When used interactively, a -non-default buffer may be specified by giving the `shell' command a -prefix argument (causing it to prompt for the buffer name). - -** Comint (subshell) changes - -These changes generally affect all modes derived from comint mode, which -include shell-mode, gdb-mode, scheme-interaction-mode, etc. - -*** Comint now by default interprets some carriage-control characters. -Comint now removes CRs from CR LF sequences, and treats single CRs and -BSs in the output in a way similar to a terminal (by deleting to the -beginning of the line, or deleting the previous character, -respectively). This is achieved by adding `comint-carriage-motion' to -the `comint-output-filter-functions' hook by default. - -*** By default, comint no longer uses the variable `comint-prompt-regexp' -to distinguish prompts from user-input. Instead, it notices which -parts of the text were output by the process, and which entered by the -user, and attaches `field' properties to allow emacs commands to use -this information. Common movement commands, notably beginning-of-line, -respect field boundaries in a fairly natural manner. To disable this -feature, and use the old behavior, customize the user option -`comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields'. - -*** Comint now includes new features to send commands to running processes -and redirect the output to a designated buffer or buffers. - -*** The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command reads a command and -buffer name from the mini-buffer. The command is sent to the current -buffer's process, and its output is inserted into the specified buffer. - -The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command-to-process acts like -M-x comint-redirect-send-command but additionally reads the name of -the buffer whose process should be used from the mini-buffer. - -*** Packages based on comint now highlight user input and program prompts, -and support choosing previous input with mouse-2. To control these features, -see the user-options `comint-highlight-input' and `comint-highlight-prompt'. - -*** The new command `comint-write-output' (usually bound to `C-c C-s') -saves the output from the most recent command to a file. With a prefix -argument, it appends to the file. - -*** The command `comint-kill-output' has been renamed `comint-delete-output' -(usually bound to `C-c C-o'); the old name is aliased to it for -compatibility. - -*** The new function `comint-add-to-input-history' adds commands to the input -ring (history). - -*** The new variable `comint-input-history-ignore' is a regexp for -identifying history lines that should be ignored, like tcsh time-stamp -strings, starting with a `#'. The default value of this variable is "^#". - -** Changes to Rmail mode - -*** The new user-option rmail-user-mail-address-regexp can be -set to fine tune the identification of the correspondent when -receiving new mail. If it matches the address of the sender, the -recipient is taken as correspondent of a mail. If nil, the default, -`user-login-name' and `user-mail-address' are used to exclude yourself -as correspondent. - -Usually you don't have to set this variable, except if you collect -mails sent by you under different user names. Then it should be a -regexp matching your mail addresses. - -*** The new user-option rmail-confirm-expunge controls whether and how -to ask for confirmation before expunging deleted messages from an -Rmail file. You can choose between no confirmation, confirmation -with y-or-n-p, or confirmation with yes-or-no-p. Default is to ask -for confirmation with yes-or-no-p. - -*** RET is now bound in the Rmail summary to rmail-summary-goto-msg, -like `j'. - -*** There is a new user option `rmail-digest-end-regexps' that -specifies the regular expressions to detect the line that ends a -digest message. - -*** The new user option `rmail-automatic-folder-directives' specifies -in which folder to put messages automatically. - -*** The new function `rmail-redecode-body' allows to fix a message -with non-ASCII characters if Emacs happens to decode it incorrectly -due to missing or malformed "charset=" header. - -** The new user-option `mail-envelope-from' can be used to specify -an envelope-from address different from user-mail-address. - -** Changes to TeX mode - -*** The default mode has been changed from `plain-tex-mode' to -`latex-mode'. - -*** latex-mode now has a simple indentation algorithm. - -*** M-f and M-p jump around \begin...\end pairs. - -*** Added support for outline-minor-mode. - -** Changes to RefTeX mode - -*** RefTeX has new support for index generation. Index entries can be - created with `C-c <', with completion available on index keys. - Pressing `C-c /' indexes the word at the cursor with a default - macro. `C-c >' compiles all index entries into an alphabetically - sorted *Index* buffer which looks like the final index. Entries - can be edited from that buffer. - -*** Label and citation key selection now allow to select several - items and reference them together (use `m' to mark items, `a' or - `A' to use all marked entries). - -*** reftex.el has been split into a number of smaller files to reduce - memory use when only a part of RefTeX is being used. - -*** a new command `reftex-view-crossref-from-bibtex' (bound to `C-c &' - in BibTeX-mode) can be called in a BibTeX database buffer in order - to show locations in LaTeX documents where a particular entry has - been cited. - -** Emacs Lisp mode now allows multiple levels of outline headings. -The level of a heading is determined from the number of leading -semicolons in a heading line. Toplevel forms starting with a `(' -in column 1 are always made leaves. - -** The M-x time-stamp command (most commonly used on write-file-hooks) -has the following new features: - -*** The patterns for finding the time stamp and for updating a pattern -may match text spanning multiple lines. For example, some people like -to have the filename and date on separate lines. The new variable -time-stamp-inserts-lines controls the matching for multi-line patterns. - -*** More than one time stamp can be updated in the same file. This -feature is useful if you need separate time stamps in a program source -file to both include in formatted documentation and insert in the -compiled binary. The same time-stamp will be written at each matching -pattern. The variable time-stamp-count enables this new feature; it -defaults to 1. - -** Partial Completion mode now completes environment variables in -file names. ++++ +** The variable `echo-keystrokes' may now have a floating point value. + +** If your init file is compiled (.emacs.elc), `user-init-file' is set +to the source name (.emacs.el), if that exists, after loading it. + +** The help string specified for a menu-item whose definition contains +the property `:help HELP' is now displayed under X, on MS-Windows, and +MS-DOS, either in the echo area or with tooltips. Many standard menus +displayed by Emacs now have help strings. + +** New user option `read-mail-command' specifies a command to use to +read mail from the menu etc. + ++++ +** The environment variable `EMACSLOCKDIR' is no longer used on MS-Windows. +This environment variable was used when creating lock files. Emacs on +MS-Windows does not use this variable anymore. This change was made +before Emacs 21.1, but wasn't documented until now. + ++++ +** Highlighting of mouse-sensitive regions is now supported in the +MS-DOS version of Emacs. + ++++ +** The new command `msdos-set-mouse-buttons' forces the MS-DOS version +of Emacs to behave as if the mouse had a specified number of buttons. +This comes handy with mice that don't report their number of buttons +correctly. One example is the wheeled mice, which report 3 buttons, +but clicks on the middle button are not passed to the MS-DOS version +of Emacs. +++ ** Customize changes @@ -1160,66 +821,6 @@ *** The function `eval-defun' (M-C-x) now loads Edebug and instruments code when called with a prefix argument. -** Ispell changes - -+++ -*** The command `ispell' now spell-checks a region if -transient-mark-mode is on, and the mark is active. Otherwise it -spell-checks the current buffer. - -+++ -*** Support for synchronous subprocesses - DOS/Windoze - has been -added. - -*** An "alignment error" bug was fixed when a manual spelling -correction is made and re-checked. - -*** An Italian, Portuguese, and Slovak dictionary definition has been added. - -*** Region skipping performance has been vastly improved in some -cases. - -*** Spell checking HTML buffers has been improved and isn't so strict -on syntax errors. - -*** The buffer-local words are now always placed on a new line at the -end of the buffer. - -** Dired changes - -*** New variable `dired-recursive-deletes' determines if the delete -command will delete non-empty directories recursively. The default -is, delete only empty directories. - -*** New variable `dired-recursive-copies' determines if the copy -command will copy directories recursively. The default is, do not -copy directories recursively. - -*** In command `dired-do-shell-command' (usually bound to `!') a `?' -in the shell command has a special meaning similar to `*', but with -the difference that the command will be run on each file individually. - -*** The new command `dired-find-alternate-file' (usually bound to `a') -replaces the Dired buffer with the buffer for an alternate file or -directory. - -*** The new command `dired-show-file-type' (usually bound to `w') shows -a message in the echo area describing what type of file the point is on. -This command invokes the external program `file' do its work, and so -will only work on systems with that program, and will be only as -accurate or inaccurate as it is. - -*** Dired now properly handles undo changes of adding/removing `-R' -from ls switches. - -*** Dired commands that prompt for a destination file now allow the use -of the `M-n' command in the minibuffer to insert the source filename, -which the user can then edit. This only works if there is a single -source file, not when operating on multiple marked files. - -** The variable mail-specify-envelope-from controls whether to -use the -f option when sending mail. - ** CC mode changes. Note: This release contains changes that might not be compatible with @@ -1467,6 +1068,398 @@ *** Minor improvements to many movement functions in tricky situations. +** Dired changes + +*** New variable `dired-recursive-deletes' determines if the delete +command will delete non-empty directories recursively. The default +is, delete only empty directories. + +*** New variable `dired-recursive-copies' determines if the copy +command will copy directories recursively. The default is, do not +copy directories recursively. + +*** In command `dired-do-shell-command' (usually bound to `!') a `?' +in the shell command has a special meaning similar to `*', but with +the difference that the command will be run on each file individually. + +*** The new command `dired-find-alternate-file' (usually bound to `a') +replaces the Dired buffer with the buffer for an alternate file or +directory. + +*** The new command `dired-show-file-type' (usually bound to `w') shows +a message in the echo area describing what type of file the point is on. +This command invokes the external program `file' do its work, and so +will only work on systems with that program, and will be only as +accurate or inaccurate as it is. + +*** Dired now properly handles undo changes of adding/removing `-R' +from ls switches. + +*** Dired commands that prompt for a destination file now allow the use +of the `M-n' command in the minibuffer to insert the source filename, +which the user can then edit. This only works if there is a single +source file, not when operating on multiple marked files. + ++++ +** Gnus changes. + +The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in +four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment, +internationalization and mail-fetching. + +*** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the +many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone. + +If you used procmail like in + +(setq nnmail-use-procmail t) +(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail) +(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/") +(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in") + +this now has changed to + +(setq mail-sources + '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/" + :suffix ".in"))) + +More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods -> +Getting Mail -> Mail Sources + +*** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of +Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details. +Separate MIME packages like RMIME, mime-compose etc., will probably no +longer work; remove them and use the native facilities. + +The FLIM/SEMI package still works with Emacs 21, but if you want to +use the native facilities, you must remove any mailcap.el[c] that was +installed by FLIM/SEMI version 1.13 or earlier. + +*** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too many +parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables. There +are built-in facilities equivalent to those of gnus-mule.el, which is +now just a compatibility layer. + +*** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be +called to position point. + +*** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in +summary buffers and NOV files. + +*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number +of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added. + +*** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now work in a +subtly different manner. + +*** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive +and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with +ever-changing layouts. + +*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap. + +*** There is image support of various kinds and some sound support. + +** Changes in Texinfo mode. + +*** A couple of new key bindings have been added for inserting Texinfo +macros + + Key binding Macro + ------------------------- + C-c C-c C-s @strong + C-c C-c C-e @emph + C-c C-c u @uref + C-c C-c q @quotation + C-c C-c m @email + C-c C-o @<block> ... @end <block> + M-RET @item + +*** The " key now inserts either " or `` or '' depending on context. + +** Changes in Outline mode. + +There is now support for Imenu to index headings. A new command +`outline-headers-as-kill' copies the visible headings in the region to +the kill ring, e.g. to produce a table of contents. + +** Changes to Emacs Server + ++++ +*** The new option `server-kill-new-buffers' specifies what to do +with buffers when done with them. If non-nil, the default, buffers +are killed, unless they were already present before visiting them with +Emacs Server. If nil, `server-temp-file-regexp' specifies which +buffers to kill, as before. + +Please note that only buffers are killed that still have a client, +i.e. buffers visited with `emacsclient --no-wait' are never killed in +this way. + +** Both emacsclient and Emacs itself now accept command line options +of the form +LINE:COLUMN in addition to +LINE. + +** Changes to Show Paren mode. + +*** Overlays used by Show Paren mode now use a priority property. +The new user option show-paren-priority specifies the priority to +use. Default is 1000. + ++++ +** New command M-x check-parens can be used to find unbalanced paren +groups and strings in buffers in Lisp mode (or other modes). + +** Changes to hideshow.el + +*** Generalized block selection and traversal + +A block is now recognized by its start and end regexps (both strings), +and an integer specifying which sub-expression in the start regexp +serves as the place where a `forward-sexp'-like function can operate. +See the documentation of variable `hs-special-modes-alist'. + +*** During incremental search, if Hideshow minor mode is active, +hidden blocks are temporarily shown. The variable `hs-headline' can +be used in the mode line format to show the line at the beginning of +the open block. + +*** User option `hs-hide-all-non-comment-function' specifies a +function to be called at each top-level block beginning, instead of +the normal block-hiding function. + +*** The command `hs-show-region' has been removed. + +*** The key bindings have changed to fit the Emacs conventions, +roughly imitating those of Outline minor mode. Notably, the prefix +for all bindings is now `C-c @'. For details, see the documentation +for `hs-minor-mode'. + +*** The variable `hs-show-hidden-short-form' has been removed, and +hideshow.el now always behaves as if this variable were set to t. + +** Changes to Change Log mode and Add-Log functions + ++++ +*** If you invoke `add-change-log-entry' from a backup file, it makes +an entry appropriate for the file's parent. This is useful for making +log entries by comparing a version with deleted functions. + ++++ +**** New command M-x change-log-merge merges another log into the +current buffer. + ++++ +*** New command M-x change-log-redate fixes any old-style date entries +in a log file. + ++++ +*** Change Log mode now adds a file's version number to change log +entries if user-option `change-log-version-info-enabled' is non-nil. +Unless the file is under version control the search for a file's +version number is performed based on regular expressions from +`change-log-version-number-regexp-list' which can be customized. +Version numbers are only found in the first 10 percent of a file. + +*** Change Log mode now defines its own faces for font-lock highlighting. + +** Changes to cmuscheme + +*** The user-option `scheme-program-name' has been renamed +`cmuscheme-program-name' due to conflicts with xscheme.el. + +** Changes in Font Lock + +*** The new function `font-lock-remove-keywords' can be used to remove +font-lock keywords from the current buffer or from a specific major mode. + +*** Multi-line patterns are now supported. Modes using this, should +set font-lock-multiline to t in their font-lock-defaults. + +*** `font-lock-syntactic-face-function' allows major-modes to choose +the face used for each string/comment. + +*** A new standard face `font-lock-doc-face'. +Meant for Lisp docstrings, Javadoc comments and other "documentation in code". + +** Changes to Shell mode + +*** The `shell' command now accepts an optional argument to specify the buffer +to use, which defaults to "*shell*". When used interactively, a +non-default buffer may be specified by giving the `shell' command a +prefix argument (causing it to prompt for the buffer name). + +** Comint (subshell) changes + +These changes generally affect all modes derived from comint mode, which +include shell-mode, gdb-mode, scheme-interaction-mode, etc. + +*** Comint now by default interprets some carriage-control characters. +Comint now removes CRs from CR LF sequences, and treats single CRs and +BSs in the output in a way similar to a terminal (by deleting to the +beginning of the line, or deleting the previous character, +respectively). This is achieved by adding `comint-carriage-motion' to +the `comint-output-filter-functions' hook by default. + +*** By default, comint no longer uses the variable `comint-prompt-regexp' +to distinguish prompts from user-input. Instead, it notices which +parts of the text were output by the process, and which entered by the +user, and attaches `field' properties to allow emacs commands to use +this information. Common movement commands, notably beginning-of-line, +respect field boundaries in a fairly natural manner. To disable this +feature, and use the old behavior, customize the user option +`comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields'. + +*** Comint now includes new features to send commands to running processes +and redirect the output to a designated buffer or buffers. + +*** The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command reads a command and +buffer name from the mini-buffer. The command is sent to the current +buffer's process, and its output is inserted into the specified buffer. + +The command M-x comint-redirect-send-command-to-process acts like +M-x comint-redirect-send-command but additionally reads the name of +the buffer whose process should be used from the mini-buffer. + +*** Packages based on comint now highlight user input and program prompts, +and support choosing previous input with mouse-2. To control these features, +see the user-options `comint-highlight-input' and `comint-highlight-prompt'. + +*** The new command `comint-write-output' (usually bound to `C-c C-s') +saves the output from the most recent command to a file. With a prefix +argument, it appends to the file. + +*** The command `comint-kill-output' has been renamed `comint-delete-output' +(usually bound to `C-c C-o'); the old name is aliased to it for +compatibility. + +*** The new function `comint-add-to-input-history' adds commands to the input +ring (history). + +*** The new variable `comint-input-history-ignore' is a regexp for +identifying history lines that should be ignored, like tcsh time-stamp +strings, starting with a `#'. The default value of this variable is "^#". + +** Changes to Rmail mode + +*** The new user-option rmail-user-mail-address-regexp can be +set to fine tune the identification of the correspondent when +receiving new mail. If it matches the address of the sender, the +recipient is taken as correspondent of a mail. If nil, the default, +`user-login-name' and `user-mail-address' are used to exclude yourself +as correspondent. + +Usually you don't have to set this variable, except if you collect +mails sent by you under different user names. Then it should be a +regexp matching your mail addresses. + +*** The new user-option rmail-confirm-expunge controls whether and how +to ask for confirmation before expunging deleted messages from an +Rmail file. You can choose between no confirmation, confirmation +with y-or-n-p, or confirmation with yes-or-no-p. Default is to ask +for confirmation with yes-or-no-p. + +*** RET is now bound in the Rmail summary to rmail-summary-goto-msg, +like `j'. + +*** There is a new user option `rmail-digest-end-regexps' that +specifies the regular expressions to detect the line that ends a +digest message. + +*** The new user option `rmail-automatic-folder-directives' specifies +in which folder to put messages automatically. + +*** The new function `rmail-redecode-body' allows to fix a message +with non-ASCII characters if Emacs happens to decode it incorrectly +due to missing or malformed "charset=" header. + +** The new user-option `mail-envelope-from' can be used to specify +an envelope-from address different from user-mail-address. + +** Changes to TeX mode + +*** The default mode has been changed from `plain-tex-mode' to +`latex-mode'. + +*** latex-mode now has a simple indentation algorithm. + +*** M-f and M-p jump around \begin...\end pairs. + +*** Added support for outline-minor-mode. + +** Changes to RefTeX mode + +*** RefTeX has new support for index generation. Index entries can be + created with `C-c <', with completion available on index keys. + Pressing `C-c /' indexes the word at the cursor with a default + macro. `C-c >' compiles all index entries into an alphabetically + sorted *Index* buffer which looks like the final index. Entries + can be edited from that buffer. + +*** Label and citation key selection now allow to select several + items and reference them together (use `m' to mark items, `a' or + `A' to use all marked entries). + +*** reftex.el has been split into a number of smaller files to reduce + memory use when only a part of RefTeX is being used. + +*** a new command `reftex-view-crossref-from-bibtex' (bound to `C-c &' + in BibTeX-mode) can be called in a BibTeX database buffer in order + to show locations in LaTeX documents where a particular entry has + been cited. + +** Emacs Lisp mode now allows multiple levels of outline headings. +The level of a heading is determined from the number of leading +semicolons in a heading line. Toplevel forms starting with a `(' +in column 1 are always made leaves. + +** The M-x time-stamp command (most commonly used on write-file-hooks) +has the following new features: + +*** The patterns for finding the time stamp and for updating a pattern +may match text spanning multiple lines. For example, some people like +to have the filename and date on separate lines. The new variable +time-stamp-inserts-lines controls the matching for multi-line patterns. + +*** More than one time stamp can be updated in the same file. This +feature is useful if you need separate time stamps in a program source +file to both include in formatted documentation and insert in the +compiled binary. The same time-stamp will be written at each matching +pattern. The variable time-stamp-count enables this new feature; it +defaults to 1. + +** Partial Completion mode now completes environment variables in +file names. + +** Ispell changes + ++++ +*** The command `ispell' now spell-checks a region if +transient-mark-mode is on, and the mark is active. Otherwise it +spell-checks the current buffer. + ++++ +*** Support for synchronous subprocesses - DOS/Windoze - has been +added. + +*** An "alignment error" bug was fixed when a manual spelling +correction is made and re-checked. + +*** An Italian, Portuguese, and Slovak dictionary definition has been added. + +*** Region skipping performance has been vastly improved in some +cases. + +*** Spell checking HTML buffers has been improved and isn't so strict +on syntax errors. + +*** The buffer-local words are now always placed on a new line at the +end of the buffer. + +*** Spell checking now works in the MS-DOS version of Emacs. + +** The variable mail-specify-envelope-from controls whether to +use the -f option when sending mail. + ** Makefile mode changes *** The mode now uses the abbrev table `makefile-mode-abbrev-table'. @@ -1507,194 +1500,6 @@ set to nil, you can remove the highlights manually with `M-x isearch-lazy-highlight-cleanup'. -+++ -** Changes in sort.el - -The function sort-numeric-fields interprets numbers starting with `0' -as octal and numbers starting with `0x' or `0X' as hexadecimal. The -new user-option sort-numeric-base can be used to specify a default -numeric base. - -** Changes to Ange-ftp - -+++ -*** Ange-ftp allows you to specify of a port number in remote file -names cleanly. It is appended to the host name, separated by a hash -sign, e.g. `/foo@bar.org#666:mumble'. (This syntax comes from EFS.) - -*** If the new user-option `ange-ftp-try-passive-mode' is set, passive -ftp mode will be used if the ftp client supports that. - -*** Ange-ftp handles the output of the w32-style clients which -output ^M at the end of lines. - -** Shell script mode changes. - -Shell script mode (sh-script) can now indent scripts for shells -derived from sh and rc. The indentation style is customizable, and -sh-script can attempt to "learn" the current buffer's style. - -** Etags changes. - -*** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c. - -*** New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex. It is now -possible to bind a regexp to a language, by prepending the regexp with -{lang}, where lang is one of the languages that `etags --help' prints out. -This feature is useful especially for regex files, where each line contains -a regular expression. The manual contains details. - -*** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for function -declarations when given the --declarations option. - -*** In C++, tags are created for "operator". The tags have the form -"operator+", without spaces between the keyword and the operator. - -*** You shouldn't generally need any more the -C or -c++ option: etags -automatically switches to C++ parsing when it meets the `class' or -`template' keywords. - -*** Etags now is able to delve at arbitrary deeps into nested structures in -C-like languages. Previously, it was limited to one or two brace levels. - -*** New language Ada: tags are functions, procedures, packages, tasks, and -types. - -*** In Fortran, `procedure' is not tagged. - -*** In Java, tags are created for "interface". - -*** In Lisp, "(defstruct (foo", "(defun (operator" and similar constructs -are now tagged. - -*** In makefiles, tags the targets. - -*** In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables. my and local -variables are tagged. - -*** New language Python: def and class at the beginning of a line are tags. - -*** .ss files are Scheme files, .pdb is Postscript with C syntax, .psw is -for PSWrap. - -+++ -** Changes in etags.el - -*** The new user-option tags-case-fold-search can be used to make -tags operations case-sensitive or case-insensitive. The default -is to use the same setting as case-fold-search. - -*** You can display additional output with M-x tags-apropos by setting -the new variable tags-apropos-additional-actions. - -If non-nil, the variable's value should be a list of triples (TITLE -FUNCTION TO-SEARCH). For each triple, M-x tags-apropos processes -TO-SEARCH and lists tags from it. TO-SEARCH should be an alist, -obarray, or symbol. If it is a symbol, the symbol's value is used. - -TITLE is a string to use to label the list of tags from TO-SEARCH. - -FUNCTION is a function to call when an entry is selected in the Tags -List buffer. It is called with one argument, the selected symbol. - -A useful example value for this variable might be something like: - - '(("Emacs Lisp" Info-goto-emacs-command-node obarray) - ("Common Lisp" common-lisp-hyperspec common-lisp-hyperspec-obarray) - ("SCWM" scwm-documentation scwm-obarray)) - -*** The face tags-tag-face can be used to customize the appearance -of tags in the output of M-x tags-apropos. - -*** Setting tags-apropos-verbose to a non-nil value displays the -names of tags files in the *Tags List* buffer. - -*** You can now search for tags that are part of the filename itself. -If you have tagged the files topfile.c subdir/subfile.c -/tmp/tempfile.c, you can now search for tags "topfile.c", "subfile.c", -"dir/sub", "tempfile", "tempfile.c". If the tag matches the file name, -point will go to the beginning of the file. - -*** Compressed files are now transparently supported if -auto-compression-mode is active. You can tag (with Etags) and search -(with find-tag) both compressed and uncompressed files. - -*** Tags commands like M-x tags-search no longer change point -in buffers where no match is found. In buffers where a match is -found, the original value of point is pushed on the marker ring. - -+++ -** Emacs now attempts to determine the initial language environment -and preferred and locale coding systems systematically from the -LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables during startup. - -+++ -** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'. -Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets -8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign). -GNU Intlfonts doesn't support these yet but recent X releases have -8859-15. See etc/INSTALL for information on obtaining extra fonts. -There are new Leim input methods for Latin-8 and Latin-9 prefix (only) -and Polish `slash'. - -+++ -** New language environments `Dutch' and `Spanish'. -These new environments mainly select appropriate translations -of the tutorial. - -** In Ethiopic language environment, special key bindings for -function keys are changed as follows. This is to conform to "Emacs -Lisp Coding Convention". - - new command old-binding - --- ------- ----------- - f3 ethio-fidel-to-sera-buffer f5 - S-f3 ethio-fidel-to-sera-region f5 - C-f3 ethio-fidel-to-sera-mail-or-marker f5 - - f4 ethio-sera-to-fidel-buffer unchanged - S-f4 ethio-sera-to-fidel-region unchanged - C-f4 ethio-sera-to-fidel-mail-or-marker unchanged - - S-f5 ethio-toggle-punctuation f3 - S-f6 ethio-modify-vowel f6 - S-f7 ethio-replace-space f7 - S-f8 ethio-input-special-character f8 - S-f9 ethio-replace-space unchanged - C-f9 ethio-toggle-space f2 - -** The rule of input method "slovak" is slightly changed. Now the -rules for translating "q" and "Q" to "`" (backquote) are deleted, thus -typing them inserts "q" and "Q" respectively. Rules for translating -"=q", "+q", "=Q", and "+Q" to "`" are also deleted. Now, to input -"`", you must type "=q". - -+++ -** Fortran mode has a new command `fortran-strip-sequence-nos' to -remove text past column 72. The syntax class of `\' in Fortran is now -appropriate for C-style escape sequences in strings. - -** SGML mode's default `sgml-validate-command' is now `nsgmls'. - -+++ -** A new command `view-emacs-problems' (C-h P) displays the PROBLEMS file. - -+++ -** The Dabbrev package has a new user-option `dabbrev-ignored-regexps' -containing a list of regular expressions. Buffers matching a regular -expression from that list, are not checked. - -** Emacs can now figure out modification times of remote files. -When you do C-x C-f /user@host:/path/file RET and edit the file, -and someone else modifies the file, you will be prompted to revert -the buffer, just like for the local files. - -** The buffer menu (C-x C-b) no longer lists the *Buffer List* buffer. - -+++ -** When invoked with a prefix argument, the command `list-abbrevs' now -displays local abbrevs, only. - ** VC Changes VC has been overhauled internally. It is now modular, making it @@ -2206,6 +2011,216 @@ `.g'. +++ +** Changes in sort.el + +The function sort-numeric-fields interprets numbers starting with `0' +as octal and numbers starting with `0x' or `0X' as hexadecimal. The +new user-option sort-numeric-base can be used to specify a default +numeric base. + +** Changes to Ange-ftp + ++++ +*** Ange-ftp allows you to specify of a port number in remote file +names cleanly. It is appended to the host name, separated by a hash +sign, e.g. `/foo@bar.org#666:mumble'. (This syntax comes from EFS.) + +*** If the new user-option `ange-ftp-try-passive-mode' is set, passive +ftp mode will be used if the ftp client supports that. + +*** Ange-ftp handles the output of the w32-style clients which +output ^M at the end of lines. + ++++ +** The recommended way of using Iswitchb is via the new global minor +mode `iswitchb-mode'. + ++++ +** Just loading the msb package doesn't switch on Msb mode anymore. +If you have `(require 'msb)' in your .emacs, please replace it with +`(msb-mode 1)'. + +** Flyspell mode has various new options. See the `flyspell' Custom +group. + +** The user option `backward-delete-char-untabify-method' controls the +behavior of `backward-delete-char-untabify'. The following values +are recognized: + +`untabify' -- turn a tab to many spaces, then delete one space; +`hungry' -- delete all whitespace, both tabs and spaces; +`all' -- delete all whitespace, including tabs, spaces and newlines; +nil -- just delete one character. + +Default value is `untabify'. + +[This change was made in Emacs 20.3 but not mentioned then.] + +** In Cperl mode `cperl-invalid-face' should now be a normal face +symbol, not double-quoted. + +** Some packages are declared obsolete, to be removed in a future +version. They are: auto-show, c-mode, hilit19, hscroll, ooutline, +profile, rnews, rnewspost, and sc. Their implementations have been +moved to lisp/obsolete. + +** auto-compression mode is no longer enabled just by loading jka-compr.el. +To control it, set `auto-compression-mode' via Custom or use the +`auto-compression-mode' command. + +** `browse-url-gnome-moz' is a new option for +`browse-url-browser-function', invoking Mozilla in GNOME, and +`browse-url-kde' can be chosen for invoking the KDE browser. + +** The user-option `browse-url-new-window-p' has been renamed to +`browse-url-new-window-flag'. + ++++ +** The functions `keep-lines', `flush-lines' and `how-many' now +operate on the active region in Transient Mark mode. + ++++ +** `gnus-user-agent' is a new possibility for `mail-user-agent'. It +is like `message-user-agent', but with all the Gnus paraphernalia. + +** The Strokes package has been updated. If your Emacs has XPM +support, you can use it for pictographic editing. In Strokes mode, +use C-mouse-2 to compose a complex stoke and insert it into the +buffer. You can encode or decode a strokes buffer with new commands +M-x strokes-encode-buffer and M-x strokes-decode-buffer. There is a +new command M-x strokes-list-strokes. + ++++ +** Hexl contains a new command `hexl-insert-hex-string' which inserts +a string of hexadecimal numbers read from the mini-buffer. + +** Hexl mode allows to insert non-ASCII characters. + +The non-ASCII characters are encoded using the same encoding as the +file you are visiting in Hexl mode. + +** Shell script mode changes. + +Shell script mode (sh-script) can now indent scripts for shells +derived from sh and rc. The indentation style is customizable, and +sh-script can attempt to "learn" the current buffer's style. + +** Etags changes. + +*** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c. + +*** New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex. It is now +possible to bind a regexp to a language, by prepending the regexp with +{lang}, where lang is one of the languages that `etags --help' prints out. +This feature is useful especially for regex files, where each line contains +a regular expression. The manual contains details. + +*** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for function +declarations when given the --declarations option. + +*** In C++, tags are created for "operator". The tags have the form +"operator+", without spaces between the keyword and the operator. + +*** You shouldn't generally need any more the -C or -c++ option: etags +automatically switches to C++ parsing when it meets the `class' or +`template' keywords. + +*** Etags now is able to delve at arbitrary deeps into nested structures in +C-like languages. Previously, it was limited to one or two brace levels. + +*** New language Ada: tags are functions, procedures, packages, tasks, and +types. + +*** In Fortran, `procedure' is not tagged. + +*** In Java, tags are created for "interface". + +*** In Lisp, "(defstruct (foo", "(defun (operator" and similar constructs +are now tagged. + +*** In makefiles, tags the targets. + +*** In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables. my and local +variables are tagged. + +*** New language Python: def and class at the beginning of a line are tags. + +*** .ss files are Scheme files, .pdb is Postscript with C syntax, .psw is +for PSWrap. + ++++ +** Changes in etags.el + +*** The new user-option tags-case-fold-search can be used to make +tags operations case-sensitive or case-insensitive. The default +is to use the same setting as case-fold-search. + +*** You can display additional output with M-x tags-apropos by setting +the new variable tags-apropos-additional-actions. + +If non-nil, the variable's value should be a list of triples (TITLE +FUNCTION TO-SEARCH). For each triple, M-x tags-apropos processes +TO-SEARCH and lists tags from it. TO-SEARCH should be an alist, +obarray, or symbol. If it is a symbol, the symbol's value is used. + +TITLE is a string to use to label the list of tags from TO-SEARCH. + +FUNCTION is a function to call when an entry is selected in the Tags +List buffer. It is called with one argument, the selected symbol. + +A useful example value for this variable might be something like: + + '(("Emacs Lisp" Info-goto-emacs-command-node obarray) + ("Common Lisp" common-lisp-hyperspec common-lisp-hyperspec-obarray) + ("SCWM" scwm-documentation scwm-obarray)) + +*** The face tags-tag-face can be used to customize the appearance +of tags in the output of M-x tags-apropos. + +*** Setting tags-apropos-verbose to a non-nil value displays the +names of tags files in the *Tags List* buffer. + +*** You can now search for tags that are part of the filename itself. +If you have tagged the files topfile.c subdir/subfile.c +/tmp/tempfile.c, you can now search for tags "topfile.c", "subfile.c", +"dir/sub", "tempfile", "tempfile.c". If the tag matches the file name, +point will go to the beginning of the file. + +*** Compressed files are now transparently supported if +auto-compression-mode is active. You can tag (with Etags) and search +(with find-tag) both compressed and uncompressed files. + +*** Tags commands like M-x tags-search no longer change point +in buffers where no match is found. In buffers where a match is +found, the original value of point is pushed on the marker ring. + ++++ +** Fortran mode has a new command `fortran-strip-sequence-nos' to +remove text past column 72. The syntax class of `\' in Fortran is now +appropriate for C-style escape sequences in strings. + +** SGML mode's default `sgml-validate-command' is now `nsgmls'. + ++++ +** A new command `view-emacs-problems' (C-h P) displays the PROBLEMS file. + ++++ +** The Dabbrev package has a new user-option `dabbrev-ignored-regexps' +containing a list of regular expressions. Buffers matching a regular +expression from that list, are not checked. + +** Emacs can now figure out modification times of remote files. +When you do C-x C-f /user@host:/path/file RET and edit the file, +and someone else modifies the file, you will be prompted to revert +the buffer, just like for the local files. + +** The buffer menu (C-x C-b) no longer lists the *Buffer List* buffer. + ++++ +** When invoked with a prefix argument, the command `list-abbrevs' now +displays local abbrevs, only. + ++++ ** Refill minor mode provides preliminary support for keeping paragraphs filled as you modify them. @@ -4649,7 +4664,6 @@ support a vertical-bar cursor). - * Emacs 20.7 is a bug-fix release with few user-visible changes