GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. This file is about changes in Emacs version 25. See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions. You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. Temporary note: +++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates are complete. (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.) --- means no change in the manuals is needed. When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies, otherwise leave it unmarked. * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1 +++ ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later. ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later. ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int, or by sticking with Emacs 24.4. --- ** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed. Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to. ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' and the command 'make V=0' now do a better job of suppressing chatter. * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run. ** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the text in the region. ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion. ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard. x-select-enable-primary and renamed select-enable-primary. Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows) select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't have the equivalent of a primary selection. +++ ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline. ** `insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior. ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation. +++ ** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term. The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run. --- ** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended for use in Emacs bug reports. +++ ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another hiding character but the default `.' can be used by let-binding the variable `read-hide-char'. ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp' preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1) environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'. *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names. If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value. *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation', if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales. ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen this has no effect. *** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable. * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default. ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text. ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA. The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA) was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced in Unicode Standard versions 6.3 and 7.0, and a few changes suggested for Unicode 8.0. This includes full support for directional isolates and the Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these Unicode standards. * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1 ** Search and Replace *** Query-replace history is enhanced. When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'. To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by typing RET. ** Calc +++ *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the result of the calculation into the current buffer. ** ElDoc *** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode *** eldoc-documentation-function now defaults to nil ** eww *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and the like off the page. *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww buffers you want to keep separate. *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered the data in the buffer. ** Message mode *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be transformed into multipart/related messages before sending. ** pcase *** New UPatterns `quote' and `app'. *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'. +++ *** New vector QPattern. ** Lisp mode *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings. ** Rectangle editing *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB. *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners. *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result. ** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp. ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' takes (:append FUN) to mean appending FUN to `minibuffer-setup-hook'. ** cl-lib *** New functions cl-fresh-line, cl-digit-char-p and cl-parse-integer. ** Calendar and diary +++ *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates: `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'. +++ *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates. See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'. --- *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil, which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars. --- *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed. The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here. The remainder were: **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup', `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'. **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'. **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'. **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'. **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'. ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'. --- ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit. --- ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2. --- ** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u now handle repeat counts to delete or undelete multiple messages. ** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that. ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'. ** In sh-mode, you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc). ** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync". When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp. ** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string. The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or a function. ** Tramp *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes. ** SQL mode *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote connections using Tramp. *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next' sends the current line to the interactive buffer and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace and comments. *** Add support for Vertica SQL. ** VC and related modes *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region. *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the background or to the foreground. ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with non-integer inputs. ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro expansions , interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of #defined symbols. *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp and .hxx. *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden. *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol name patterns (e.x. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded. ** TeX mode *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who use PDF instead of DVI. ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation. By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that. ** tildify: `tildify-space-string' variable has been added making `tildify-string-alist' obsolete. ** Obsolete packages --- *** gulp.el * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode) * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers's marks. ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as active region handling. ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local. ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type. +++ ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse position list returned for such events is now nil. ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more. These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since Emacs-21. * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1 ** New function macroexpand-1 to perform a single step of macroexpansion. ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted: *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text. *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value. *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection. *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete. *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection. *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue). ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall' but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it) called interactively. ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties. +++ ** New properties that can be specified with `declare': *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use. *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure. *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not have side effects. +++ ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files). ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'. ** Functions `rmail-delete-forward' and `rmail-delete-backward' take an optional repeat-count argument. ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors. --- ** New utilities in subr-x.el: *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to execute code depending whether all values are true. *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form as the first or last argument of subsequent forms. +++ ** Time-related changes: *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation. Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone', `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time', `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year', `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'. *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have been obsoleted. *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two integers. * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1 +++ ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows. Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default. *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system. *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll bars on all existing and future frames. *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal scroll bars on the selected frame. *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'. *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll bars on a specific frame or window. *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar. *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll bars too. *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and `scroll-bar-height'. +++ ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no more counted in the frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all builds. +++ ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used. *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the number of columns or lines it displays. ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed. Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time. * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems --- ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions of Windows starting with Windows 9X. ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported. ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file is part of GNU Emacs. GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 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