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@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ make the new option `eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil.
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** Browse-url
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*** Support for the Conkeror web browser.
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@ -1114,11 +1115,13 @@ few or no entries have changed.
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*** gulp.el
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*** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
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* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
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** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
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minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg
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command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable
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@ -1127,28 +1130,35 @@ later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later).
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** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
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---
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** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
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---
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** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
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let-bind the values stored in an alist.
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** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
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types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
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forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
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other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
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a typographically-correct documents.
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---
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** The `seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros
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that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions
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are prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
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---
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** The `map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on
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alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with
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`map-'.
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---
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** The `thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the
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evaluation of forms.
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---
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** js-jsx-mode (a minor variant of js-mode) provides indentation
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support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
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@ -1227,10 +1237,12 @@ group ID instead of `t'.
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any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
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position list returned for such events is now nil.
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** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
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These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
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Emacs-21.
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** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
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when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
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denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
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@ -1276,6 +1288,7 @@ use [:multibyte:] instead.
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** The `diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old
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behavior, set `diff-switches' to `-c'.
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** `grep-template' and `grep-find-template' values don't include the
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--color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position
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dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should
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@ -1301,6 +1314,7 @@ that happen, `unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
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*** New vector QPattern.
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** syntax-propertize is now automatically called on-demand during forward
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parsing functions like `forward-sexp'.
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@ -1321,10 +1335,12 @@ Replaced by properties `cursor-intangible' and `cursor-sensor-functions',
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implemented by the new `cursor-intangible-mode' and
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`cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes.
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** New process type `pipe', which can be used in combination with the
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`:stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output
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of subprocess.
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+++
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** New function `make-process' provides an alternative interface to
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`start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as
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process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to
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@ -1353,13 +1369,17 @@ buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
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** `read-buffer' takes a new `predicate' argument.
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** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
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See the "Generators" section of the ELisp manual for the details.
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** New finalizer facility for running code when objects
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become unreachable.
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+++
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** New finalizer facility for running code when objects become unreachable.
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See the "Finalizer Type" subsection in the ELisp manual for the
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details.
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** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring.
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It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then
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** lexical closures can use (:documentation FORM) to build their docstring.
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It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and FORM is then
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evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
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** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
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@ -1430,6 +1450,7 @@ have side effects.
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** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
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permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
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** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
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** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
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@ -1442,6 +1463,7 @@ name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
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** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
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** If `pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
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directory at point.
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@ -1542,11 +1564,16 @@ a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
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the name is a directory separator character (forward slash on GNU and
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Unix systems, forward- or backslash on MS-Windows and MS-DOS).
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** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in standard-display-table
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if the terminal cannot display curved quotes.
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** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
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standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system.
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To force a specific encoding, bind `coding-system-for-write' to the
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coding-system of your choice when invoking functions like `prin1' and
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`message'.
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** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
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@ -1557,6 +1584,7 @@ This is used by Google's Native Client (NaCl).
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** Miscellaneous name change
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For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable
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`hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to `hfy-optimizations'.
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The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
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@ -1567,22 +1595,30 @@ The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
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*** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
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provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
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Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
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**** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
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horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
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**** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
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bars on all existing and future frames.
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**** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
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scroll bars on the selected frame.
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**** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
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`scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
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for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
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**** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
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`window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
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bars on a specific frame or window.
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**** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
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two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
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**** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
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bars too.
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**** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
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`scroll-bar-height'.
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@ -1649,6 +1685,7 @@ Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
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** Etags
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*** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
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By default, `etags' will not qualify class members for C-like
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@ -1664,11 +1701,13 @@ using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to `M-.'
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(`xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use `C-u M-.' to specify the
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qualified names by hand.
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*** New language Ruby
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Names of modules, classes, methods, and functions are tagged.
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Overloaded operators are also tagged.
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*** Improved support for Lua
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Etags now tags functions even if the "function" keyword follows some
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@ -1692,6 +1731,7 @@ of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
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** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
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** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
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MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
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@ -1699,8 +1739,10 @@ MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
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** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default.
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Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default.
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** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
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** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
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