Mercurial > emacs
changeset 108357:fb410336248f
Remove --- and +++ lines from NEWS file.
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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| date | Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:09:52 -0400 |
| parents | 0553910f52e2 |
| children | 12652a85296d |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Sun Apr 25 17:50:34 2010 -0400 +++ b/etc/NEWS Sun Apr 25 18:09:52 2010 -0400 @@ -14,97 +14,80 @@ 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 +** 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. This is used by the `font-use-system-font' feature (see below). * 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. -+++ *** There are 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'. -+++ *** There are 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', @@ -113,55 +96,63 @@ `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. +** New command `async-shell-command', bound globally to `M-&'. +This executes the command asynchronously, similar to calling `M-!' and +manually adding an ampersand to the end of the command. With `M-&', +you don't need the ampersand. The output appears in the buffer +`*Async Shell Command*'. + +** 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). + * 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 @@ -169,59 +160,44 @@ (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, superseded 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 @@ -230,37 +206,50 @@ `desktop-files-not-to-save' instead. ** Dired -+++ + *** The new variable `dired-auto-revert-buffer', if non-nil, causes Dired buffers to be reverted automatically on revisiting them. ** DocView -+++ + *** When `doc-view-continuous' is non-nil, scrolling a line on the page edge advances to the next/previous page. +** 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. + ** 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. -+++ +** LaTeX mode now provides completion (via completion-at-point). + ** Message mode is now the default mode for composing mail. The default for `mail-user-agent' is now message-user-agent, so the @@ -270,7 +259,6 @@ 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 @@ -278,110 +266,87 @@ 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. +** pcomplete provides a new command `pcomplete-std-completion' which +is similar to `pcomplete' but using the standard completion UI code. + ** Shell (and other comint modes) -+++ + *** M-s is no longer bound to `comint-next-matching-input'. -+++ + *** M-r is now bound to `comint-history-isearch-backward-regexp'. This starts an incremental search of the comint/shell input history. -+++ + *** ansi-color is now enabled by default in Shell mode. 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. -+++ + *** New command `vc-root-print-log', bound to `C-x v L'. This displays a `*vc-change-log*' buffer showing the history of the version-controlled directory tree as a whole. -+++ + *** New command `vc-root-diff', bound to `C-x v D'. This is similar to `vc-diff', but compares the entire directory tree of the current VC directory with its working revision. -+++ + *** `C-x v l' and `C-x v L' do not show the full log by default. The number of entries shown can be chosen interactively with a prefix argument, or by customizing vc-log-show-limit. The `*vc-change-log*' buffer now contains buttons at the end of the buffer, which can be used to increase the number of entries shown. RCS, SCCS, and 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 1.5.6. ---- **** vc-dir uses the --relative option of git, and so requires at least git version 1.5.5. -+++ **** 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-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*'. -+++ + *** 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 @@ -389,19 +354,20 @@ `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 eshell 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 +Thus, they change `default-directory' to reflect the new user id, and +let commands run under that user's permissions. This works even when `default-directory' is already remote. Calling the external commands -is possible by `*su' or `*sudo', respectively. ---- -*** 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). +is possible via `*su' or `*sudo', respectively. + +** Obsolete packages + +*** sym-comp.el is now obsolete, superseded by completion-at-point. + +*** lucid.el and levents.el are now obsolete. * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2 @@ -410,7 +376,6 @@ 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 @@ -419,7 +384,6 @@ 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. @@ -430,26 +394,20 @@ 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'. @@ -457,7 +415,6 @@ 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: @@ -467,11 +424,9 @@ 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' (which displays an image file as the actual image initially), or `image-mode-as-text' (when you want @@ -485,56 +440,53 @@ * Lisp changes in Emacs 23.2 ---- + ** 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. ** 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 changes ---- + *** 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. -+++ + *** 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. -+++ + *** completion-annotate-function specifies how to compute annotations for completions displayed in *Completions*. ** Minibuffer changes ---- + *** 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. ** Changes to file-manipulation functions -+++ + *** `delete-directory' has an optional parameter RECURSIVE. -+++ + *** New function `copy-directory', which copies a directory recursively. -+++ ** 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. @@ -544,34 +496,33 @@ of bindings. ** Network and process changes -+++ + *** start-process-shell-command and start-file-process-shell-command now only take a single `command' argument. -+++ + *** The new variable `process-file-side-effects' should be set to nil if a `process-file' call does not change a remote file. This allows file name handlers such as Tramp to optimizations. -+++ + *** make-network-process can now also create `seqpacket' Unix sockets. ** Loading changes ---- + *** eval-next-after-load is obsolete. -+++ + *** New hook `after-load-functions' run after loading an Elisp file. ** Byte compilation changes ---- + *** 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'. ** New macro with-silent-modifications to tweak text properties without affecting the buffer's modification state. -+++ ** Hash tables have a new printed representation that is readable. The feature `hashtable-print-readable' identifies this new functionality. @@ -584,17 +535,14 @@ ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFD-string, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-HFS-NFC-string. -+++ ** Face aliases can now be marked as obsolete, using the macro `define-obsolete-face-alias'. -+++ ** 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.