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GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end of the file for license conditions.
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Please send Emacs bug reports to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.
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If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
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This file is about changes in Emacs version 23.
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See files NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17
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for changes in older Emacs versions.
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You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
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with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
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Temporary note:
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+++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
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--- means no change in the manuals is called for.
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When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
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so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
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* About external Lisp packages
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* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.1
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** The default X toolkit is now Gtk+, rather than Lucid.
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The configure option `--with-gtk' has been removed. Gtk is now the
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default toolkit, but you can use --with-x-toolkit=gtk if necessary.
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** New font code.
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Fonts are handled by new code capable of dealing with multiple font
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backends. This uses the freetype and fontconfig libraries.
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*** Emacs now accepts font names supplied in the fontconfig format
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(e.g. "monospace-12:bold") and GTK format (e.g. "Monospace Bold 12").
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*** Added support for local fonts (fonts installed on the machine
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where Emacs is running).
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*** Added support for the Xft library for antialiasing.
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*** Added support for the otf library for complex text layout by
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OpenType fonts.
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*** Added support for the m17n library for text shaping.
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** Changes to image support
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---
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*** configure now checks for libgif before libungif when searching for
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a GIF library.
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+++
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*** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2.
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*** Emacs now supports multi-page TIFF images.
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** New NeXTSTEP-based port
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This provides support for GNUstep (via the GNUstep libraries) and Mac
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OS X (via the Cocoa libraries).
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Specify --with-ns to configure for this. By default, a self-contained
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app will be built (containing all lisp). To install/share lisp with
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other emacsen (e.g. X11 build) use --disable-ns-self-contained. See
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nextstep/README and nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory.
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** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon.
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Use the NeXTSTEP port, described above.
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** The new configuration option "--with-dbus" enables D-Bus language
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bindings for Emacs.
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** Support for many obsolete platforms has been removed.
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See the list at the end of etc/MACHINES for details.
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---
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*** Support for systems without alloca has been removed.
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---
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*** Support for Sun windows has been removed.
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---
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*** The `emacstool' utility has been removed.
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** The following platforms will be removed in a future Emacs version:
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If you are still using Emacs on one of these platforms, please email
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emacs-devel@gnu.org to inform the Emacs developers.
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*** Old GNU/Linux systems based on libc version 5.
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*** Old FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD systems based on the COFF
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executable format.
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*** Solaris versions 2.6 and below.
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*** Solaris on IBM RS6000 machines.
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*** UNIX System V (the original SysV, not later platforms based on it).
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*** Unixware on non-x86 machines.
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*** Platforms not supporting shared libraries (i.e., requiring the
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NO_SHARED_LIBS compilation flag).
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---
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** The configure options `--with-gcc', `--without-gcc' have been removed.
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Configure will use gcc by default. Set the CC environment variable if
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you need control over which C compiler is used.
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** The refcards are now shipped as PDF files.
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---
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** Emacs 23 comes with a new set of default icons.
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Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
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The Emacs 22 icon is available as `emacs22.png' in the same location.
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* Changes in Emacs 23.1
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** Improved X Window System support
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*** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session.
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With an Emacs server active (M-x server-start), `emacsclient -t'
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creates a tty frame connected to the running emacs server. You can
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use any number of different ttys. `emacsclient -c' creates a new X11
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frame on the current $DISPLAY (or a tty frame if $DISPLAY is not set).
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You can test for the presence of this feature in your Lisp code by
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testing for the `multi-tty' feature.
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**** Emacsclient can now open new terminal frames.
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Now, the default behavior is to open a new Emacs frame by default.
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Use the -c option to get the old behavior of opening files in the
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currently selected Emacs frame.
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+++
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*** Emacs can now start in background, as a daemon when using the
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--daemon command line argument. It disconnects from the terminal and
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starts the server. Clients can connect and create graphical or
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terminal frames using emacsclient.
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*** The new command close-display-connection closes a connection to a
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remote display.
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*** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification.
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You can embed Emacs in another application on X11. The new command line
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option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs. See
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http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html
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for details about XEmbed.
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*** Emacs can now set the frame opacity.
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The opacity of a frame can be controlled by setting the `alpha' frame
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parameter. This only takes effect on a compositing window manager for
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the X Window System, such as Compiz, Beryl and Compiz Fusion, or on
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Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows.
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The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and
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100 (opaque), or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0. It can also be a
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cons cell (ACTIVE . INACTIVE), where ACTIVE is the opacity of an
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active frame and INACTIVE is the opactity of non-active frames.
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The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the
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opacity; the default is 20.
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** Internationalization changes
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*** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.
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(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).
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The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now
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Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'. This encoding is backwards
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compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 encoding. The internal encoding
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previously used by Emacs, `emacs-mule', is still available.
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During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files.
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As a result, byte-compiled files containing non-ASCII characters can't
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be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files compiled by Emacs 20, 21,
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or 22 are loaded correctly as emacs-mule (whether or not they contain
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multibyte characters). This takes somewhat more time, so it may be
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worth recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be shared
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with older Emacsen.
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*** There are new coding systems/aliases; see M-x list-coding-systems.
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*** There is a new charset implementation with many new charsets.
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See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently
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as tables of unicodes.
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**** The dimension of a charset is now 1, 2, 3, or 4, and the size of
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each dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96.
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**** A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of
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characters for display.
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*** There are new language environments for Chinese-GBK,
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Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu,
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Sinhala, and TaiViet.
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*** The minor modes unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and
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unify-8859-on-decoding-mode are obsolete.
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*** `ucs-insert' is bound to `C-x 8 RET' and in addition to hex numbers
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accepts numbers in hash notation (e.g. #o21430 for octal, or #10r8984 for
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decimal). It also accepts Unicode character names with completion.
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*** The `cyrillic-translit' input method supports many new characters.
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Common typographical characters available from Unicode were added to
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`cyrillic-translit': punctuation marks, accented characters, fractions,
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and others.
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** Emacs now supports serial port access on GNU/Linux, Unix, and
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Windows. The new command `serial-term' starts an interactive terminal
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on a serial port. The serial port can be configured at runtime with
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the mode-line mouse menu.
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** Menu Bar changes
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---
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*** In the Options menu, the "Set Default Font" item applies the
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selected font to the `default' face on all frames, not just the
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current frame. Furthermore, if Emacs is compiled with both GTK and
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Fontconfig support, the "Set Default Font" item uses the GTK font
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selection dialog instead of an Emacs pop-up menu.
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---
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*** The font setting chosen by "Set Default Font" is saved if the
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"Save Options" item is used.
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*** The Tools menu contains a new Encryption/Decryption submenu.
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This contains commands provided by EasyPG, the newly-included
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interface to GnuPG (see New Modes and Packages).
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---
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*** In the Options menu, the "Truncate Long Lines in the Buffer" entry
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has been replaced with a submenu offering three different ways to
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handle long lines: truncation, continuation at the window edge, and
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the new word wrapping behavior (see Editing Changes, below).
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*** Improvements to menus for major and minor modes
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More major and minor modes now have a mode specific menu, and existing
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mode menus have been improved to include more functionality.
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** Mode-line changes
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*** The mode-line displays a `@', instead of `-', if the
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default-directory for the current buffer is on a remote machine.
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---
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*** The mode-line displays a mode menu when mouse-1 is clicked on a
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minor mode, in the same way as it already did for major modes.
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*** The `mode-line-emphasis' face is used to highlight certain
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mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish).
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---
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*** The mode-line tooltips have been improved to provide more details.
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*** The VC, line/colum number and minor mode indicators on the mode
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line are now interactive: mouse-1 can be used on them to pop up a menu.
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** File deletion can make use of the Recycle Bin or system Trash folder.
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Set `delete-by-moving-to-trash' non-nil to use this. Deleted files
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and directories will then be sent to the Recyle Bin on Windows, and
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to `trash-directory' on other systems.
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** Directory-local variables can now be defined.
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By default, Emacs looks in .dir-settings.el for directory-local
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variables. For more information, see `set-directory-project' and
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`define-project-bindings'.
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** Emacs can now use `auth-source' for authentication.
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`smtpmail' and `url' (Tramp and Gnus also) use `auth-source' to obtain
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login names and passwords. The match, if found, is reported
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in *Messages* with the password blanked out.
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** `where-is-preferred-modifier' can specify your favorite modifier.
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* Startup Changes in Emacs 23.1
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** The option `inhibit-startup-screen' (with aliases to old names
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`inhibit-splash-screen' and `inhibit-startup-message') doesn't inhibit
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display of the initial message in the *scratch* buffer. If you don't
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want to display the initial message in the *scratch* buffer at startup,
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you can set the option `initial-scratch-message' to nil.
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** New user option `initial-buffer-choice' specifies what to display
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after starting Emacs: startup screen, *scratch* buffer, visiting a
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file or directory.
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** New alias `argv' for `command-line-args-left'
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This is a convenience alias, so that one can write `(pop argv)'
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inside of --eval command line arguments in order to access
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following arguments.
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** The abbrev file is no longer read at startup in batch mode.
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** Emacs now supports invocation by an X session manager.
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It can save a session and restore it later. See the documentation of
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the functions `emacs-session-save' and `emacs-session-restore'.
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(Actually, this feature was introduced with Emacs 22, but it was not
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documented.)
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* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
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+++
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** In Dired, `dired-flag-garbage-files' is rebound from `&' to `%&'
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on the regexp command prefix map.
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+++
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** In Dired-x, all command guesses for ! are now added to the default
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list accessible by M-n instead of pushing all guesses temporarily into
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the history list.
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+++
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** In Isearch mode, a special case of typing `C-w' at the beginning of
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the minibuffer that toggles word search (i.e. using key sequences
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`C-s RET C-w' or `C-s M-e C-w') is obsolete. You can use the global key
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`M-s w' to start word search, or type `M-s w' in Isearch mode to
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toggle word search.
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** In Text mode, `center-line' and `center-paragraph' are rebound
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from `M-s' and `M-S' to global keys `M-o M-s' and `M-o M-S' on the
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global prefix map `M-o' intended for such formatting commands.
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---
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** The following input methods were removed in Emacs 22.2, but this was
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not advertised: danish-alt-postfix, esperanto-alt-postfix,
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finnish-alt-postfix, german-alt-postfix, icelandic-alt-postfix,
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norwegian-alt-postfix, scandinavian-alt-postfix, spanish-alt-postfix,
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and swedish-alt-postfix. Use the versions without "alt-", which are
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identical.
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* Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
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** The C-n and C-p line-motion commands now move by screen lines,
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taking continued lines and variable-width characters into account.
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Setting `line-move-visual' to nil reverts this to the previous
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behavior (motion by logical lines based on buffer contents alone).
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+++
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** C-x C-c now invokes `save-buffers-kill-terminal', and C-z now
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invokes `suspend-frame'. This change is for compatibility with the
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new multi-tty support (see `Improved X Window System support' above).
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** Mark changes
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*** Transient Mark mode is now on by default.
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*** mark-even-if-inactive now defaults to t
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+++
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*** When Transient Mark mode is on, C-SPC C-SPC pushes a mark without
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activating it.
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+++
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*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-q now fills the region if the
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region is active. Otherwise, it fills the current paragraph.
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+++
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*** When Transient Mark mode is on, M-$ now checks spelling of the
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region if the region is active. Otherwise, it checks spelling of the
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word at point.
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+++
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*** When Transient Mark mode is on, TAB now indents the region if the
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region is active.
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+++
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*** `use-empty-active-region' controls whether an empty active region
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in Transient Mark mode should make commands operate on that empty
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region.
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** Temporarily active regions
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*** The new variable shift-select-mode, non-nil by default, controls
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shift-selection. When Shift Select mode is on, shift-translated
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motion keys (e.g. S-left and S-down) activate and extend a temporary
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region, similar to mouse-selection.
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+++
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*** Temporarily active regions, created using shift-selection or
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mouse-selection, are not necessarily deactivated in the next command.
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They are only deactivated after point motion commands that are not
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shift-translated, or after commands that would ordinarily deactivate
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the mark in Transient Mark mode (e.g., any command that modifies the
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buffer).
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** Minibuffer and completion changes
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*** When M-n in the minibuffer reaches the end of the list of defaults,
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it adds the completion list to the end, so next M-n continues putting
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completion items to the minibuffer. The same principle applies to
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incremental search commands as well: C-s or C-M-s starts searching
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the default values and after the end of defaults they continue
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searching minibuffer completion items.
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---
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*** Minibuffer input of shell commands now comes with completion.
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+++
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*** In the `C-x d' (Dired) prompt, typing M-n gives the visited file
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name of the current buffer.
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*** In the M-! (shell-command) prompt, M-n provides some default commands.
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These are guessed using the file extension of the current file, based
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on the file-handlers specified in the operating system's `mailcap'
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file. The ! command in Dired (dired-do-shell-command) works
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similarly, using the file displayed on the current line.
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*** A list of regexp default values is available via M-n for `occur',
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`keep-lines', `flush-lines' and `how-many'. This list includes the active
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region in transient-mark-mode, the word under the cursor, the last Isearch
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regexp, the last Isearch string and the last replacement regexp.
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---
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*** When enable-recursive-minibuffers is non-nil, operations which use
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switch-to-buffer (such as C-x b and C-x C-f) do not fail any more when
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used in a minibuffer or a dedicated window. Instead, they fallback on
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using pop-to-buffer, which will use some other window. This change
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has no effect when enable-recursive-minibuffers is nil (the default).
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+++
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*** Isearch started in the minibuffer searches in the minibuffer history.
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Reverse Isearch commands (C-r, C-M-r) search in previous minibuffer
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history elements, and forward Isearch commands (C-s, C-M-s) search in
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next history elements. When the reverse search reaches the first history
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element, it wraps to the last history element, and the forward search
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wraps to the first history element. When the search is terminated, the
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history element containing the search string becomes the current.
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*** The variable read-file-name-completion-ignore-case overrides
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completion-ignore-case for file name completion.
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*** The variable read-buffer-completion-ignore-case overrides
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completion-ignore-case for buffer name completion.
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---
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*** `completion-styles' can be customized to choose your favorite
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completion style.
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---
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*** The default completion styles include a form of partial-completion.
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---
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*** The new command `minibuffer-force-complete' chooses one of the
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possible completions, rather than stopping at the common prefix.
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+++
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*** If `completion-auto-help' is `lazy', Emacs shows the completions
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buffer only on the second attempt to complete. This was already
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supported in `partial-completion-mode'.
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** Face changes
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+++
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*** S-down-mouse-1 now pops up a menu for changing the font and text
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size of the default face in the current buffer. The face is changed
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via face remapping (see below).
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*** FIXME face-remap
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** Primary selection changes
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+++
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*** If `select-active-regions' is t, setting the mark automatically
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makes the new region into the primary selection (for interaction with
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other window applications). If you enable this, you might want to
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bind `mouse-yank-primary' to Mouse-2.
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+++
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*** You can disable kill ring commands from accessing the primary
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selection by setting `x-select-enable-primary' to nil.
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** Continuation lines can now be wrapped at word boundaries
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(word-wrapping). This is controlled by the new per-buffer variable
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`word-wrap'. Word wrapping does not take place if continuation lines
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are not shown, e.g. if truncate-lines is non-nil. The most convenient
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way to enable word-wrapping is using the new minor mode Visual Line
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mode; in addition to setting `word-wrap' to t, this rebinds some
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editing commands to work on screen lines rather than text lines. See
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New Modes and Packages, below.
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** Window management changes
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*** truncate-partial-width-windows now accepts integer values, which
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specify a minimum window width for partial-width windows, below which
|
||
lines are truncated. The default has been changed to 50.
|
||
|
||
*** The new command balance-windows-area balances windows both
|
||
vertically and horizontally.
|
||
|
||
*** pop-to-buffer now always sets input focus when the popped-to window
|
||
is on a different frame.
|
||
|
||
** Miscellaneous changes:
|
||
+++
|
||
*** C-l is bound to the new command recenter-top-bottom, rather than recenter.
|
||
This moves the current line to window center, top and bottom on
|
||
successive invokations.
|
||
|
||
*** scroll-preserve-screen-position also preserves the column position.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** If `yank-pop-change-selection' is t, rotating the kill ring also
|
||
updates the selection or clipboard to the current yank, just as M-w
|
||
would do so with the text it copies to the kill ring.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** C-M-% now shows replacement as it would look in the buffer, with
|
||
`\N' and `\&' substituted according to the match. Old behavior can be
|
||
restored by customizing `query-replace-show-replacement'.
|
||
|
||
*** The command shell prompts for the default directory, when it is
|
||
called with a prefix and the default directory is a remote file name.
|
||
This is because some file name handlers (like ange-ftp) are not able to
|
||
run processes remotely.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new command kill-matching-buffers kills buffers whose name
|
||
matches a regexp.
|
||
|
||
*** The new commands `pp-macroexpand-expression' and
|
||
`pp-macroexpand-last-sexp' pretty-print macro expansions.
|
||
|
||
*** The new command `set-file-modes' allows to set file's mode bits.
|
||
The mode bits can be specified in symbolic notation, like with GNU
|
||
Coreutils, in addition to an octal number.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** If you set find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file to t, then C-x C-f
|
||
requires confirmation before opening a non-existent file.
|
||
|
||
*** `next-error-recenter' specifies how next-error should recenter the
|
||
visited source file. Its value can be a number (for example, 0 for
|
||
top line, -1 for bottom line), or nil for no recentering.
|
||
|
||
|
||
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
|
||
|
||
** FIXME add details of new packages imported from lisp/gnus.
|
||
[Maybe some information from doc/misc/gnus-coding.texi can be reused]
|
||
|
||
** Auto Composition Mode is a minor mode that composes characters
|
||
automatically when they are displayed. It is globally on by default.
|
||
It uses `auto-composition-function' (default `auto-compose-chars').
|
||
|
||
** Bubbles, a new game, is similar to SameGame.
|
||
|
||
** bug-reference.el provides clickable links to bug reports.
|
||
|
||
** dbus.el provides D-Bus language bindings.
|
||
D-Bus is an inter-process communication mechanism for applications
|
||
residing on the same host. See the manual for details.
|
||
|
||
** Doc View mode allows viewing of PDF, PostScript and DVI documents.
|
||
One can also search for a regular expression in the document. For
|
||
details, see the commentary in doc-view.el.
|
||
|
||
PDF and DVI files are now opened in Doc View mode by default.
|
||
|
||
In Postcript mode, C-c C-c launches Doc View minor mode for viewing
|
||
the postscript file.
|
||
|
||
** EasyPG provides an interface to the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG).
|
||
It includes a GnuPG keyring browser, cryptographic operations on
|
||
regions and files, and automatic encryption of *.gpg files. For
|
||
details, see the EasyPG Assistant User's Manual.
|
||
|
||
** json.el is a library for parsing and generating JSON
|
||
(JavaScript Object Notation), a lightweight data-interchange format.
|
||
|
||
** linum.el is a new minor mode to display line numbers for the
|
||
current buffer.
|
||
|
||
** mairix.el is an interface to mairix, a free tool for indexing and
|
||
searching locally stored mail. It allows you to query mairix and
|
||
display the search results with Rmail, Gnus and VM. Note that there
|
||
is an existing Gnus back end, nnmairix.el, which should be used with
|
||
Maildir/MH setups.
|
||
|
||
** minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode shows the minibuffer depth in the prompt.
|
||
|
||
** nXML Mode
|
||
This is a new mode for editing XML documents. It allows a schema to
|
||
be associated with the XML document being edited, using Relax NG as
|
||
the schema language. The schema is used to provide two key features:
|
||
|
||
*** Continuous validation. nXML validates as you type, highlighting
|
||
any invalid parts of your document.
|
||
|
||
*** Completion. nXML can assist you in entering an element name,
|
||
attribute name or data value by using information about what is
|
||
allowed by the schema in that context.
|
||
|
||
** proced.el provides a Dired-like interface for operating on processes.
|
||
Proced makes an Emacs buffer containing a listing of the current
|
||
processes (using ps(1)). You can use the normal Emacs commands to
|
||
move around in this buffer, and special Proced commands to operate on
|
||
the processes listed.
|
||
|
||
** Remember Mode is a mode for jotting down things to remember.
|
||
Notes can be saved to a Diary file. For details, see the Remember
|
||
Manual.
|
||
|
||
** RST mode is a major mode for editing ReSTructured-Text files.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines.
|
||
It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e,
|
||
and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical
|
||
lines. This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode.
|
||
This can also be turned on using the menu bar, via
|
||
Options -> Line Wrapping in this Buffer -> Word Wrap
|
||
|
||
** xesam.el is an implementation of Xesam, an interface to (desktop)
|
||
search engines like Beagle, Strigi, and Tracker. The Xesam API
|
||
requires D-Bus for communication.
|
||
|
||
** zeroconf.el offers service discovery and service publishing
|
||
interfaces according to the zeroconf specification. It communicates
|
||
with Avahi, a zeroconf implementation, via D-Bus messages on systems
|
||
which have installed this software.
|
||
|
||
** There is a new `whitespace' package.
|
||
(The pre-existing one has been renamed to `old-whitespace'.)
|
||
Now, besides reporting bogus blanks, the whitespace package has a
|
||
minor mode and a global minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD)
|
||
SPACE and NEWLINE). The visualization is made via faces and/or display
|
||
table. It can also indicate lines that extend beyond a given column,
|
||
trailing blanks, and empty lines at the start or end of a buffer.
|
||
See `whitespace-style' for more details. The `whitespace-action' option
|
||
specifies what to do when a buffer is visited, killed, or written.
|
||
|
||
|
||
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.1
|
||
|
||
** Abbrev has been rewritten in Elisp and extended with more flexibility.
|
||
*** New functions: abbrev-get, abbrev-put, abbrev-table-get, abbrev-table-put,
|
||
abbrev-table-p, abbrev-insert, abbrev-table-menu.
|
||
*** Special hook `abbrev-expand-functions' obsoletes `pre-abbrev-expand-hook'.
|
||
*** `make-abbrev-table', `define-abbrev', `define-abbrev-table' all take
|
||
extra arguments for arbitrary properties.
|
||
*** New variable `abbrev-minor-mode-table-alist'.
|
||
*** `local-abbrev-table' can hold a list of abbrev-tables.
|
||
*** Abbrevs have now the following special properties:
|
||
`:count', `:system', `:enable-function', `:case-fixed'.
|
||
*** Abbrev-tables have now the following special properties:
|
||
`:parents', `:case-fixed', `:enable-function', `:regexp',
|
||
`abbrev-table-modiff'.
|
||
|
||
** Apropos
|
||
*** `apropos-library' describes the elements defined in a given library.
|
||
*** Set `apropos-compact-layout' is you want a more compact (but wider) layout.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** Archive Mode has basic support to browse Rar archives.
|
||
Note, however, that the free version of the unrar command only handles
|
||
versions 1 and 2 of the Rar format.
|
||
|
||
** BibTeX mode
|
||
|
||
*** New command `bibtex-initialize' (re)initializes BibTeX buffers.
|
||
|
||
*** New `bibtex-entry-format' options `whitespace', `braces', and
|
||
`string', disabled by default.
|
||
|
||
*** New variable `bibtex-cite-matcher-alist' contains rules to
|
||
identify cited keys in BibTeX entries, used by `bibtex-find-crossref'.
|
||
|
||
*** Command `bibtex-url' allows multiple URLs per entry.
|
||
|
||
** Calendar and diary
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** There is a new date style, `iso', essentially year/month/day.
|
||
The variable `european-calendar-style' is obsolete - use `calendar-date-style'.
|
||
Similarly, the commands `american-calendar' and `european-calendar'
|
||
should be replaced by `calendar-set-date-style'.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The calendar namespace has been rationalized.
|
||
All functions and variables now begin with a `calendar-', `diary-', or
|
||
`holiday-' prefix. The various calendar systems have secondary
|
||
prefixes, eg `calendar-french-'. The old names you are likely to use
|
||
directly still exist, for the time being, as aliases, but please start
|
||
using the new names.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The whitespace in the calendar layout can be customized.
|
||
See the variables:
|
||
calendar-left-margin, calendar-intermonth-spacing, calendar-column-width,
|
||
calendar-day-header-width, and calendar-day-digit-width.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** Text (e.g. ISO weeks) can be displayed between the calendar months.
|
||
See the variables calendar-intermonth-header and calendar-intermonth-text.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The function `holiday-chinese' computes holidays on the Chinese calendar.
|
||
It has been used to add items to the list `holiday-oriental-holidays'.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
*** `diary-remind' accepts a negative number -DAYS as a shorthand for
|
||
the list (1 2 ... DAYS).
|
||
|
||
** Change Log mode
|
||
|
||
*** The new command C-c C-f (change-log-find-file) finds the file
|
||
associated with the current log entry.
|
||
|
||
*** The new command C-c C-c (change-log-goto-source) goes to the
|
||
source code associated with a log entry.
|
||
|
||
** Compile and grep modes
|
||
---
|
||
*** The mode-line entry for the *compilation* and *grep* buffer is color coded.
|
||
It has different colors for to show that: (a) the command is still
|
||
running, (b) successful completion, (c) error.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error tells `compile' to jump to
|
||
the first error encountered during compilations.
|
||
---
|
||
*** The `cc' alias for C++ files in `grep-file-aliases' has been
|
||
improved. `hh' can be used to match C++ header files and `cchh' both
|
||
C++ sources and headers.
|
||
|
||
** Copyright
|
||
|
||
*** You can specify your copyright holders' names.
|
||
Only copyright lines with holders matching `copyright-names-regexp' are
|
||
considered for update.
|
||
|
||
*** Copyrights can be at the end of the buffer.
|
||
This is controlled by `copyright-at-end-flag' (used by, e.g., change-log-mode).
|
||
|
||
** Custom
|
||
+++
|
||
*** defcustom accepts new keyword arguments, `:safe' and `:risky', which
|
||
set a variable's `safe-local-variable' and `risky-local-variable' property.
|
||
|
||
** Diff mode
|
||
+++
|
||
*** diff-refine-hunk highlights word-level details of changes in a diff hunk.
|
||
It's used automatically as you move through hunks, see
|
||
diff-auto-refine-mode. It is bound to `C-c C-b'.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window iterates through the diff
|
||
buffer and tries to create ChangeLog entries for each change.
|
||
It is bound to `C-x 4 A'.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new function `diff-show-trailing-whitespaces' shows
|
||
trailing whitespace problems in the modified lines of a diff buffer.
|
||
|
||
** Dired
|
||
+++
|
||
*** In Dired, C-x C-q now runs the command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode,
|
||
and C-x C-q in wdired-mode exits it with asking a question about
|
||
saving changes.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `&' runs the command `dired-do-async-shell-command' that executes
|
||
the command asynchronously without the need to manually add ampersand
|
||
to the end of the command. Its output appears in the buffer `*Async Shell
|
||
Command*'.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `M-s f C-s' and `M-s f M-C-s' run Isearch that matches only at file names.
|
||
When a new user option `dired-isearch-filenames' is non-nil, then even
|
||
ordinary Isearch started with `C-s' and `C-M-s' matches only at file names
|
||
in the Dired buffer. You can toggle file names matching on or off
|
||
by typing `M-s f' in Isearch mode.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `M-s a C-s' and `M-s a M-C-s' run multi-file Isearch on the marked files.
|
||
They visit the first marked file in the sequence and display the usual Isearch
|
||
prompt for a string or a regexp where all Isearch commands are available.
|
||
---
|
||
*** `Q' in Dired provides two new keys for multi-file replacement.
|
||
The upper case key `Y' replaces all remaining matches in all remaining files
|
||
with no more questions. The upper case key `N' stops doing replacements
|
||
in the current file and skips to the next file. These multi-file keys
|
||
are available for all commands that use `tags-query-replace'
|
||
including `dired-do-query-replace-regexp', `vc-dir-query-replace-regexp',
|
||
`reftex-query-replace-document'.
|
||
|
||
** Fortran
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The line length of fixed-form Fortran is not fixed at 72 any more.
|
||
Customize the variable `fortran-line-length' to change it.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** In Fortran mode, M-; is now bound to the standard comment-dwim,
|
||
rather than fortran-indent-comment.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** (The increasingly misnamed) F90 mode supports Fortran 2003 syntax.
|
||
|
||
** Gnus
|
||
|
||
*** The Gnus package has been updated
|
||
There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements; see the file
|
||
GNUS-NEWS or the node "No Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
|
||
|
||
*** In Emacs 23, Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for
|
||
saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld. These file may not be read
|
||
correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to Gnus across different Emacs
|
||
versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'.
|
||
|
||
*** Password are consistently loaded through `auth-source'
|
||
Gnus can use `auth-source' for POP and IMAP passwords. Also see that
|
||
`smtpmail' and `url' support `auth-source' for SMTP and HTTP/HTTPS/RSS
|
||
authentication respectively.
|
||
|
||
** Help mode
|
||
*** New macro `with-help-window' should set up help windows better
|
||
than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'.
|
||
|
||
*** New option `help-window-select' permits to customize whether help
|
||
window shall be automatically selected when invoking help.
|
||
|
||
*** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits to specify new
|
||
position of point in help window (for example in `view-lossage').
|
||
|
||
** Isearch
|
||
+++
|
||
*** New command `isearch-forward-word' bound globally to `M-s w' starts
|
||
incremental word search. New command `isearch-toggle-word' bound to the
|
||
same key `M-s w' in Isearch mode toggles word searching on or off
|
||
while Isearch is active.
|
||
|
||
*** New command `isearch-highlight-regexp' bound to `M-s h r' in Isearch
|
||
mode runs `highlight-regexp' (`hi-lock-face-buffer') with the current
|
||
search string as its regexp argument. The same key `M-s h r' and
|
||
other keys on the `M-s h' prefix are bound globally to the command
|
||
`highlight-regexp' and other hi-lock commands.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** New command `isearch-occur' bound to `M-s o' in Isearch mode
|
||
runs `occur' with the current search string. The same key `M-s o'
|
||
is bound globally to the command `occur'.
|
||
---
|
||
*** Isearch can now search through multiple ChangeLog files.
|
||
When running Isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails,
|
||
then another C-s tries searching the previous ChangeLog,
|
||
if there is one (e.g. go from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12).
|
||
This is enabled if multi-isearch-search is non-nil.
|
||
|
||
*** Two new commands to start Isearch on a list of marked buffers
|
||
for buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el are bound to the keys `M-s a C-s' and
|
||
`M-s a M-C-s'.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The part of an Isearch that failed to match is highlighted in
|
||
`isearch-fail' face.
|
||
|
||
*** `C-h C-h' in Isearch mode displays isearch-specific Help screen,
|
||
`C-h b' displays all Isearch key bindings, `C-h k' displays the full
|
||
documentation of the given Isearch key sequence, `C-h m' displays
|
||
documentation of Isearch mode. All the rest Help commands exit Isearch mode
|
||
and execute their global definitions.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** When started in the minibuffer, Isearch searches in the minibuffer
|
||
history. See `Minibuffer changes', above.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** MH-E
|
||
|
||
*** Upgraded to MH-E version 8.1. See MH-E-NEWS for details.
|
||
|
||
** Python
|
||
*** The file etc/emacs.py now supports both Python 2 and 3, meaning
|
||
that either version can be used as inferior Python by python.el.
|
||
|
||
*** Python mode now has `pdbtrack' functionality. When using pdb to
|
||
debug a Python program, pdbtrack notices the pdb prompt and displays
|
||
the source file and line that the program is stopped at, much the same
|
||
way as gud-mode does for debugging C programs with gdb.
|
||
|
||
** Recentf
|
||
|
||
*** The default value of `recentf-keep' prevents from checking of
|
||
remote files, if there is no established connection to the
|
||
corresponding remote host.
|
||
|
||
** TeX modes
|
||
|
||
*** New option latex-indent-within-escaped-parens
|
||
permits to customize indentation of LaTeX environments delimited
|
||
by escaped parens.
|
||
|
||
** T-mouse Mode
|
||
---
|
||
*** If the gpm mouse server is running and t-mouse-mode is enabled,
|
||
Emacs uses a Unix socket in a GNU/Linux console to talk to server,
|
||
rather than faking events using the client program mev. This C level
|
||
approach provides mouse highlighting and help echoing in the
|
||
minibuffer.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** Tramp
|
||
|
||
*** New connection methods.
|
||
The new methods "plinkx", "plink2", "psftp", "sftp" and "fish" have
|
||
been introduced. There are also new so-called gateway methods
|
||
"tunnel" and "socks".
|
||
|
||
*** Multihop syntax has been removed.
|
||
The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed. Instead of, multi hops
|
||
can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'.
|
||
|
||
*** More default settings.
|
||
Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user',
|
||
`tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-host'.
|
||
|
||
*** Connection information is cached.
|
||
In order to reduce connection setup, information about used
|
||
connections are kept persistent in a file. The name of this file is
|
||
defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'.
|
||
|
||
*** Control of remote processes.
|
||
Running processes on a remote host can be controlled by settings in
|
||
`tramp-remote-path' and `tramp-remote-process-environment'.
|
||
|
||
*** Success of remote copy is checked.
|
||
When the variable `file-precious-flag' is set, the success of a remote
|
||
file copy is checked via the file's checksum.
|
||
|
||
*** Passwords can be read from an authentification file.
|
||
Tramp uses the package `auth-source' to read passwords from a file, if
|
||
necessary.
|
||
|
||
** VC and related modes
|
||
+++
|
||
*** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time.
|
||
This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented
|
||
version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, Git
|
||
and Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems as
|
||
a single changeset.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** vc-dir is a new command that displays file names and their VC
|
||
status. It allows to apply various VC operations to a file, a
|
||
directory or a set of files/directories.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip that explains the VC file status.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** In VC Annotate mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can
|
||
see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file)
|
||
by typing the D key. Using the "Show changeset diff of revision at
|
||
line" menu entry does the same thing.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type v to toggle the annotation visibility.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type f to show the file revision on
|
||
the current line.
|
||
---
|
||
*** Asynchronous VC commands display [Waiting...] in the mode-line
|
||
of the corresponding buffer as long as the asynchronous process is
|
||
active.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** Log entries can be modified using the key "e" in log-view.
|
||
For now only CVS, RCS, SCCS and SVN support this functionality.
|
||
This is done by the `modify-change-comment' backend function.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** In log-view-mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can
|
||
see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file)
|
||
by typing the D key or using the "Changeset Diff" menu entry.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** In Log Edit mode, C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved.
|
||
|
||
*** vc-git supports the "git grep" command.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of maintainer able
|
||
to update it to the new VC.
|
||
|
||
** Miscellaneous
|
||
|
||
*** comint-mode uses `start-file-process' now (see Lisp Changes).
|
||
If `default-directory' is a remote file name, subprocesses are started
|
||
on the corresponding remote system.
|
||
|
||
*** Eldoc highlights the function argument under point
|
||
with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** In Etags, the --members option is now the default.
|
||
Use --no-members if you want the old default behavior of not tagging
|
||
struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The `gdb' command only works with the graphical interface now.
|
||
Use `gud-gdb' if you want the (old) text command mode.
|
||
|
||
*** goto-address.el provides two new minor modes, goto-address-mode and
|
||
goto-address-prog-mode, which buttonize URLS and email addresses.
|
||
|
||
*** The new command `eshell/info' runs info in an eshell buffer.
|
||
|
||
*** The new variable `ffap-rfc-directories' specifies a list of local
|
||
directories in which `ffap-rfc' will first search for RFCs.
|
||
|
||
*** hide-ifdef-mode allows shadowing ifdef-blocks instead of hiding them.
|
||
See option `hide-ifdef-shadow' and function `hide-ifdef-toggle-shadowing'.
|
||
|
||
*** `icomplete-prospects-height' now supercedes `icomplete-prospects-length'.
|
||
|
||
*** Info displays breadcrumbs in the header of the page.
|
||
See Info-breadcrumbs-depth to control it.
|
||
|
||
*** net-utils has an `iwconfig' command, similar to the existing `ifconfig'.
|
||
It is used to configure wireless interfaces.
|
||
|
||
*** The pcmpl-unix package supports hostname completion for ssh and scp.
|
||
|
||
*** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs.
|
||
|
||
*** smerge-refine highlights word-level details of changes in conflict.
|
||
It's used automatically as you move through conflicts, see
|
||
smerge-auto-refine-mode.
|
||
|
||
*** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support.
|
||
|
||
*** A new command `display-time-world' has been added to the Time
|
||
package. It creates a buffer with an updating time display using
|
||
several time zones.
|
||
|
||
*** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable.
|
||
See the documentation of the variables: tex-fontify-script,
|
||
tex-font-script-display, tex-suscript-height-ratio, and
|
||
tex-suscript-height-minimum.
|
||
|
||
*** view-remove-frame-by-deleting is now by default t
|
||
since users found iconification of view-mode frames distracting.
|
||
|
||
*** WoMan tries to add locale-specific manual page directories to the
|
||
search path. This can be disabled by setting `woman-locale' to nil.
|
||
|
||
|
||
* Changes in Emacs 23.1 on non-free operating systems
|
||
|
||
** Case is now considered significant in completion on MS-Windows.
|
||
The default value of `completion-ignore-case' is now nil on
|
||
MS-Windows, the same as it is for other operating systems. The
|
||
variable doesn't apply to reading a file name -- in that case Emacs
|
||
heeds `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' instead.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
** IPv6 is supported on MS-Windows.
|
||
Emacs now supports IPv6 on Windows XP and later, and earlier versions
|
||
of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. In Emacs 22, IPv6 was
|
||
supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock
|
||
1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
** Busy cursor (hourglass) now displays on MS-Windows.
|
||
When Emacs is busy, an hourglass mouse cursor is displayed on Windows.
|
||
In Emacs 22 only X supported the busy cursor.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
** Battery status is available on MS-Windows
|
||
Emacs can now display the battery status in the mode-line when enabled with
|
||
display-battery-mode or from the Options menu. More verbose battery
|
||
information is also available with the command `battery'. In Emacs 22
|
||
battery status was supported only on GNU/Linux and Mac.
|
||
|
||
** More keys available on MS-Windows.
|
||
Keys normally associated with IMEs, and some exotic keys not normally found
|
||
on standard keyboards have been given names so they can be bound to functions
|
||
inside Emacs. If there are keys on your keyboard that have not been exposed
|
||
to Emacs in the past, try C-h k to see if they are available now.
|
||
|
||
Emacs can now bind functions to the extra buttons for media player and
|
||
browser control present on some keyboards. These buttons are disabled
|
||
by default, since enabling them prevents their system-wide use when
|
||
Emacs has focus. To enable them, set the variable
|
||
w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable
|
||
for the list of extra keys that are available.
|
||
|
||
** BDF fonts no longer supported on MS-Windows.
|
||
The font backend was completely rewritten for this release. The focus
|
||
on Windows has been getting acceptable performance and full unicode
|
||
support, including complex script shaping for native Windows fonts. A
|
||
rewrite of the BDF font support has not happened due to lack of time
|
||
and developers. If demand still exists for such a backend even with
|
||
the improved language support for native Windows fonts, future
|
||
development in this direction will most likely be based on the
|
||
freetype library, giving access to a wider range of font formats.
|
||
|
||
|
||
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** Variables cannot be both buffer-local and frame-local any more.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** `functionp' returns nil for special forms.
|
||
I.e., it only returns t for objects that can be passed to `funcall'.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** The behavior of map-char-table has changed. It may call the
|
||
specified function with a cons (FROM . TO) as a key if characters in
|
||
that range have the same value.
|
||
|
||
** Process changes
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The function `dired-call-process' has been removed.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The multibyteness of process filters is now determined by the
|
||
coding-system used for decoding. The functions
|
||
`process-filter-multibyte-p' and `set-process-filter-multibyte' are
|
||
obsolete.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
** The variable `byte-compile-warnings' can now be a list starting with `not',
|
||
meaning to disable the specified warnings. The meaning of this list
|
||
may therefore be the reverse of what you expect (of course, this is
|
||
only an issue if you make use of the new `not' syntax). Rather than
|
||
checking/manipulating elements directly, use the new functions
|
||
`byte-compile-warning-enabled-p', `byte-compile-disable-warning', and
|
||
`byte-compile-enable-warning.'
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string.
|
||
Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value.
|
||
|
||
** Internationalization changes
|
||
|
||
*** The value of the function `charset-id' is now always 0.
|
||
|
||
*** The functions `register-char-codings' and `coding-system-spec'
|
||
have been removed.
|
||
|
||
*** The cpXXX coding systems are now supported automatically.
|
||
The functions cp-...-codepage, which you had to use in Emacs 22 to
|
||
enable support for these coding systems, have been deleted.
|
||
|
||
*** The following features have been removed. They were used for
|
||
displaying various scripts with specific fonts, and are no longer
|
||
needed now that OpenType font support is available:
|
||
|
||
**** `devanagari' and `devan-util', and all associated devanagari-* and
|
||
dev-* functions and variables (formerly used for Devanagari script).
|
||
|
||
**** `kannada' and `knd-util', and all associated kannada-* and knd-*
|
||
functions and variables (formerly used for Kannada script).
|
||
|
||
**** `malayalam' and `mlm-util', and all associated malayalam-* and
|
||
mlm-* functions and variables (formerly used for Malayalam script).
|
||
|
||
**** `tamil' and `tml-util, and all associated tamil-* and tml-*
|
||
functions and variables (formerly used for Tamil script).
|
||
|
||
|
||
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
|
||
|
||
** New coding system alias `emacs-internal'.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** New primitives `list-system-processes' and `system-process-attributes'
|
||
let Lisp programs access the processes that are running on the local
|
||
machine. See the doc strings of these functions for more details.
|
||
Not all platforms support accessing this information; on those that
|
||
don't, these primitives will return nil.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** New variable `user-emacs-directory'.
|
||
Use this instead of "~/.emacs.d".
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** If a local hook function has a non-nil `permanent-local-hook'
|
||
property, `kill-all-local-variables' does not remove it from the local
|
||
value of the hook variable; it remains even if you change major modes.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** `frame-inherited-parameters' lets new frames inherit parameters from
|
||
the selected frame.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but
|
||
applies before function-key-map. Also it is terminal-local contrary to
|
||
key-translation-map. Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to
|
||
this map rather than to function-key-map now.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** `ignore-errors' is now a standard macro (does not require the CL package).
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** `interprogram-paste-function' can now return one string or a list
|
||
of strings. In the latter case, Emacs puts the second and following
|
||
strings on the kill ring.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** In `condition-case', a handler can specify "let the debugger run first".
|
||
You do this by writing `debug' in the list of conditions to be handled,
|
||
like this:
|
||
|
||
(condition-case nil
|
||
(foo bar)
|
||
((debug error) nil))
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** clone-indirect-buffer now runs the clone-indirect-buffer-hook.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** `beginning-of-defun-function' now takes one argument, the count
|
||
given to `beginning-of-defun'.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** `file-remote-p' has new optional parameters IDENTIFICATION and CONNECTED.
|
||
IDENTIFICATION specifies which part of the remote identifier has to be
|
||
returned. With CONNECTED passed non-nil, it is checked whether a
|
||
remote connection has been established already.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** The new macro `declare-function' suppresses compiler warnings about
|
||
undefined functions.
|
||
|
||
** Changes to interactive function handling
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new interactive spec code ^ says to first call
|
||
handle-shift-selection if shift-select-mode is non-nil, before reading
|
||
the command arguments. This is used for shift-selection (see above).
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** Built-in functions can now have an interactive specification that
|
||
is not a prompt string. If the `intspec' parameter of a `DEFUN'
|
||
starts with a `(', the string is evaluated as a Lisp form.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The interactive-form of a function can be added post-facto via the
|
||
`interactive-form' symbol property. Mostly useful to add complex
|
||
interactive forms to subroutines.
|
||
|
||
** Region changes
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** Commands should use `use-region-p' to test whether there is
|
||
an active region that they should operate on.
|
||
|
||
*** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode is
|
||
enabled and there is an active region. This is NOT the best function
|
||
to use to test whether a command should operate on the region instead
|
||
of the usual behavior -- for that, use `use-region-p'.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to (only . OLDVAL), that
|
||
means to activate transient-mark-mode temporarily, until the next
|
||
unshifted point motion command or mark deactivation. Afterwards,
|
||
reset transient-mark-mode to the value OLDVAL. The values `only' and
|
||
`identity', introduced in Emacs 22, are now deprecated.
|
||
|
||
** Emacs session information
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new variables `before-init-time' and `after-init-time' record the
|
||
value of `current-time' before and after Emacs loads the init files.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new function `emacs-uptime' returns the uptime of an Emacs instance.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new function `emacs-init-time' returns the duration of the
|
||
Emacs initialization.
|
||
|
||
** Changes affecting display-buffer
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** New value nil for split-height-threshold inhibits vertical splitting
|
||
unless there's no other window.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** New option split-width-threshold controls horizontal splitting.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** A window can be split horizontally even when it's not full-width.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** New option split-window-preferred-function can be set to a function
|
||
to override the default splitting mechanism of display-buffer.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** If pop-up-frames has the value `graphic-only', display-buffer only
|
||
makes a separate frame on graphic displays.
|
||
|
||
*** select-frame and set-frame-selected-window have new optional
|
||
argument NORECORD. If non-nil, this will avoid messing with the order
|
||
of recently selected windows and the buffer list.
|
||
|
||
** Window parameters can now be defined.
|
||
These are analogous to frame parameters, but are associated with
|
||
individual windows.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new functions window-parameters, window-parameter, and
|
||
set-window-parameter are used to query and set window parameters.
|
||
|
||
** Minibuffer and completion changes
|
||
+++
|
||
*** A list of default values can be specified for the DEFAULT argument of
|
||
functions `read-from-minibuffer', `read-string', `read-command',
|
||
`read-variable', `read-buffer', `completing-read'. Elements of this list
|
||
are available for inserting into the minibuffer by typing `M-n'.
|
||
For empty input these functions return the first element of this list.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** New function `read-regexp' uses the regexp history and some useful
|
||
regexp defaults (string at point, last Isearch/replacement regexp/string)
|
||
via M-n when reading a regexp in the minibuffer.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map is now named
|
||
minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
*** `all-completions' may now return the base size in the last cdr.
|
||
Since this means the returned list is not properly nil-terminated, this
|
||
is an incompatible change and is thus enabled by the new variable
|
||
completion-all-completions-with-base-size.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts a new value
|
||
`confirm-only'.
|
||
|
||
** Search and replacement changes
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The regexp form \(?<num>:<regexp>\) specifies the group number explicitly.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** New function `match-substitute-replacement' returns the result of
|
||
`replace-match' without actually using it in the buffer.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new variable `replace-search-function' determines the function
|
||
to use for searching in query-replace and replace-string. The
|
||
function it specifies is called by `perform-replace' when its 4th
|
||
argument is nil.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new variable `replace-re-search-function' determines the
|
||
function to use for searching in `query-replace-regexp',
|
||
`replace-regexp', `query-replace-regexp-eval', and
|
||
`map-query-replace-regexp'. The function it specifies is called by
|
||
`perform-replace' when its 4th argument is non-nil.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** New keymap `search-map' bound to `M-s' provides global bindings
|
||
for search related commands.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** New keymap `multi-query-replace-map' contains additonal keys bound
|
||
to `automatic-all' and `exit-current' for multi-buffer interactive replacement.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
*** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents
|
||
the search and match primitives from changing the match data.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
*** New functions `word-search-forward-lax' and `word-search-backward-lax'.
|
||
These are like `word-search-forward and `word-search-backward', except
|
||
that the end of the search string need not match a word boundary,
|
||
unless it ends in whitespace.
|
||
|
||
** File handling changes
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in
|
||
symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions.
|
||
+++
|
||
*** file-local-variables-alist stores an alist of file-local
|
||
variables defined in the current buffer.
|
||
|
||
** Process changes
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new function `start-file-process' is similar to `start-process',
|
||
but obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
|
||
`default-directory'. The functions `start-file-process-shell-command'
|
||
and `process-file-shell-command' are also new; they call internally
|
||
`start-file-process' and `process-file', respectively.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The new function `process-lines' executes an external program and
|
||
returns its output as a list of lines.
|
||
|
||
** Character code, representation, and charset changes.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF with no gap.
|
||
Characters of code 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the same code points.
|
||
Characters of code 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit bytes.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
Generic characters no longer exist.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
In buffers and strings, characters are represented by UTF-8 byte
|
||
sequences in a multibyte buffer/string.
|
||
|
||
The concept of a charset has changed. A single character may belong
|
||
to multiple charsets (e.g. a-grave, U+00E0, belongs to charsets
|
||
unicode, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-3, etc).
|
||
|
||
*** The functions `split-char' and `make-char' now accept up to 4
|
||
positional codes instead of just 2.
|
||
|
||
*** The functions `encode-char' and `decode-char' now accept any character sets.
|
||
|
||
*** The function `define-charset' now accepts a completely different
|
||
form of arguments (old-style arguments still work).
|
||
|
||
*** The value of the function `char-charset' depends on the current
|
||
priorities of charsets.
|
||
|
||
*** The function get-char-code-property now accepts many Unicode base
|
||
character properties. They are `name', `general-category',
|
||
`canonical-combining-class', `bidi-class', `decomposition',
|
||
`decimal-digit-value', `digit-value', `numeric-value', `mirrored',
|
||
`old-name', `iso-10646-comment', `uppercase', `lowercase', and
|
||
`titlecase'.
|
||
|
||
*** The functions `modify-syntax-entry' and `modify-category-entry' now
|
||
accept a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all
|
||
entries in that range of characters.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `translation-table-for-input' is now obsolete.
|
||
|
||
*** New functions:
|
||
|
||
**** `characterp' returns t if and only if the argument is a character.
|
||
This replaces `char-valid-p', which is now obsolete.
|
||
|
||
**** `max-char' returns the maximum character code (currently #x3FFFFF).
|
||
|
||
**** `define-charset-alias' defines an alias of a charset.
|
||
|
||
**** `set-charset-priority' sets priorities of charsets.
|
||
|
||
**** `charset-priority-list' returns a prioritized list of charsets.
|
||
|
||
**** `unibyte-string' makes a unibyte string from bytes.
|
||
|
||
**** `define-char-code-property' defines a character code property.
|
||
|
||
**** `char-code-property-description' returns the description string of
|
||
a character code property.
|
||
|
||
*** New variables:
|
||
|
||
**** `find-word-boundary-function-table' is a char-table of functions to
|
||
search for a word boundary.
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||
|
||
**** `char-script-table' is a char-table of script names.
|
||
|
||
**** `char-width-table' is a char-table of character widths.
|
||
|
||
**** `print-charset-text-property' controls how to handle `charset' text
|
||
property on printing a string.
|
||
|
||
**** `printable-chars' is a char-table of printable characters.
|
||
|
||
** Code conversion changes
|
||
|
||
*** The new function `define-coding-system' should be used to define a
|
||
coding system instead of `make-coding-system' (which is now obsolete).
|
||
|
||
*** The functions `encode-coding-region' and `decode-coding-region'
|
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have an optional 4th argument to specify where the result of
|
||
conversion should go.
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||
|
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*** The functions `encode-coding-string' and `decode-coding-string'
|
||
have an optional 4th argument specifying a buffer to store the result
|
||
of conversion.
|
||
|
||
*** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete.
|
||
|
||
*** New functions:
|
||
|
||
**** `with-coding-priority' executes Lisp code using the specified
|
||
coding system priority order.
|
||
|
||
**** `check-coding-systems-region' checks if the text in the region is
|
||
encodable by the specified coding systems.
|
||
|
||
**** `coding-system-aliases' returns a list of aliases of a coding system.
|
||
|
||
**** `coding-system-charset-list' returns a list of charsets supported
|
||
by a coding system.
|
||
|
||
**** `coding-system-priority-list' returns a list of coding systems
|
||
ordered by their priorities.
|
||
|
||
**** `set-coding-system-priority' sets priorities of coding systems.
|
||
|
||
** There is a new input method, Robin, different from Quail.
|
||
It has three functionalities:
|
||
i) a simple input method (converts an ASCII sequence into a string).
|
||
ii) converts an existing buffer substring into another string
|
||
iii) reverse conversion (each character produced by a
|
||
robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a char-code-property)
|
||
|
||
*** The new function `robin-define-package' defines a Robin package.
|
||
|
||
*** The new function `robin-modify-package' modifies an existing Robin package.
|
||
|
||
*** The new function `robin-use-package' starts using a Robin package
|
||
as an input method.
|
||
|
||
*** The new function `string-to-unibyte' is like `string-as-unibyte'
|
||
but signals an error if STRING contains a non-ASCII, non-eight-bit
|
||
character.
|
||
|
||
** Changes related to the new font backend
|
||
|
||
Which font backends to use can be specified by the X resource "FontBackend".
|
||
For instance, to use both X core fonts and Xft fonts:
|
||
|
||
Emacs.FontBackend: x,xft
|
||
|
||
If this resource is not set, Emacs tries to use all font backends
|
||
available on your graphic device.
|
||
|
||
*** New frame parameter `font-backend' specifies a list of
|
||
font-backends supported by the frame's graphic device. On X, they are
|
||
currently `x' and `xft'.
|
||
|
||
*** The function `set-fontset-font' now accepts a script name as the
|
||
second argument, and has an optional 5th argument to control how to
|
||
set the font.
|
||
|
||
*** New functions:
|
||
|
||
**** `fontp' checks if the argument is a font-spec or font-entity.
|
||
|
||
**** `font-spec' creates a new font-spec object.
|
||
|
||
**** `font-get' returns a font property value.
|
||
|
||
**** `font-put' sets a font property value.
|
||
|
||
**** `font-face-attributes' returns a plist of face attributes set by a font.
|
||
|
||
**** `list-fonts' returns a list of font-entities matching a font spec.
|
||
|
||
**** `font-font' returns the font-entity best matching the given font spec.
|
||
|
||
**** `list-families' returns a list of family names of available fonts.
|
||
|
||
**** `font-xlfd-name' returns an XLFD name of a given font spec, font
|
||
entity, or font object.
|
||
|
||
**** `clear-font-cache' clears all font caches.
|
||
|
||
** Changes related to multiple-terminal (multi-tty) support
|
||
|
||
*** $TERM is now set to `dumb' for subprocesses. If you want to know the
|
||
$TERM inherited by Emacs you will have to look inside initial-environment.
|
||
|
||
*** $DISPLAY is now dynamically inherited from the frame's `display'.
|
||
|
||
*** The `window-system' variable is now frame-local. The new
|
||
`initial-window-system' variable contains the `window-system' value
|
||
for the first frame. `window-system' is also now a function that
|
||
takes a frame argument.
|
||
|
||
*** The `keyboard-translate-table' variable and the terminal and
|
||
keyboard coding systems are now terminal-local.
|
||
|
||
*** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal
|
||
type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'.
|
||
|
||
*** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a tty
|
||
session, and `make-frame-on-tty' works during a graphical session.
|
||
|
||
*** A new data type for terminals with functions: `get-device-terminal',
|
||
`terminal-parameters', `terminal-parameter', `set-terminal-parameter'.
|
||
|
||
*** Function key sequences are now mapped using `local-function-key-map',
|
||
a new variable. This inherits from the global variable function-key-map,
|
||
which is not used directly any more.
|
||
|
||
*** New hooks:
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
**** before-hack-local-variables-hook is called after setting new
|
||
variable file-local-variables-alist, and before actually applying the
|
||
file-local variables.
|
||
|
||
**** `suspend-tty-functions' and `resume-tty-functions' are called
|
||
after a tty frame has been suspended or resumed, respectively. The
|
||
functions are called with the terminal id of the frame being
|
||
suspended/resumed as a parameter.
|
||
|
||
**** The special hook `delete-terminal-functions' is called before
|
||
deleting a terminal.
|
||
|
||
*** New functions:
|
||
|
||
**** `environment'
|
||
|
||
**** `make-frame-on-tty' creates a new frame on another tty device.
|
||
|
||
**** `delete-tty'
|
||
|
||
**** `suspend-tty'
|
||
|
||
**** `resume-tty'.
|
||
|
||
*** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent.
|
||
|
||
** Redisplay changes
|
||
|
||
*** For underlined characters, the distance between the underline and
|
||
the baseline is controlled by a new variable, `underline-minimum-offset'.
|
||
|
||
*** You can now pass the value of the `invisible' property to
|
||
invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible.
|
||
Convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer position
|
||
(e.g. in before/after-strings).
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `clear-image-cache' can be told to flush only images of a specific file.
|
||
|
||
*** `vertical-motion' can now be given a goal column.
|
||
It now accepts a cons cell (COLS . LINES) in its first argument, which
|
||
says to stop, where possible, at a pixel x-position equal to COLS
|
||
times the default column width.
|
||
|
||
*** redisplay-end-trigger-functions, set-window-redisplay-end-trigger,
|
||
and window-redisplay-end-trigger are obsolete. Use `jit-lock-register'
|
||
instead.
|
||
|
||
** The Lisp interpreter now treats non-breaking space as whitespace.
|
||
|
||
** Miscellaneous new functions
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a readable
|
||
string of days, hours, etc.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `apply-partially' performs a "curried" application of a function.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `read-shell-command' does what its name says, with completion. It
|
||
uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `buffer-swap-text' swaps text between two buffers. This can be
|
||
useful for modes such as tar-mode, archive-mode, RMAIL.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `read-color' reads a color name using the minibuffer.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing all the basic
|
||
attributes of a given face.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `split-string-and-unquote' splits a string into a list of substrings
|
||
on the boundaries of a given delimiter, and unquotes the substrings that
|
||
are quoted. Useful for taking apart shell commands.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `combine-and-quote-strings' produces a single string from a list of strings
|
||
sticking a separator string in between each pair, and quoting those
|
||
strings that include the separator as their substring. Useful for
|
||
consing shell command lines from the individual arguments.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image
|
||
specification.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The two new functions `looking-at-p' and `string-match-p' can do
|
||
the same matching as `looking-at' and `string-match' without changing
|
||
the match data.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** The two new functions `make-serial-process' and
|
||
`serial-process-configure' provide a Lisp interface to the new serial
|
||
port support (see Emacs changes, above).
|
||
|
||
*** `locate-user-emacs-file' helps packages to select the appropriate
|
||
place to save user-specific files. It defaults to `user-emacs-directory'
|
||
unless the file already exists at $HOME.
|
||
|
||
** Miscellaneous new variables
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
*** `this-command-keys-shift-translated' is non-nil if the key
|
||
sequence invoking the current command was found by shift-translation.
|
||
|
||
*** `window-point-insertion-type' determines the insertion-type of the
|
||
marker used for window-point.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
*** bookmark provides `bookmark-make-record-function' so special major
|
||
modes like Info can teach bookmark.el how to save and restore the
|
||
relevant data.
|
||
|
||
*** `fill-forward-paragraph-function' specifies which function the
|
||
filling code should use to find paragraph boundaries.
|
||
|
||
*** `custom-note-var-changed' tells Custom to treat the change in a
|
||
certain variable as having been made within Custom.
|
||
|
||
|
||
* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1
|
||
|
||
** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure.
|
||
|
||
+++
|
||
** The new package check-declare.el verifies the accuracy of
|
||
declare-function macros (see Lisp Changes, above).
|
||
|
||
** find-cmd.el can build `find' commands using lisp syntax.
|
||
|
||
** The package misearch.el has been added. It allows Isearch to search
|
||
through multiple buffers. A variable `multi-isearch-next-buffer-function'
|
||
defines the function to call to get the next buffer to search in the series
|
||
of multiple buffers. Top-level commands `multi-isearch-buffers',
|
||
`multi-isearch-buffers-regexp', `multi-isearch-files' and
|
||
`multi-isearch-files-regexp' accept a single argument that specifies
|
||
a list of buffers/files to search for a string/regexp.
|
||
|
||
** The new major mode `special-mode' is intended as a parent for
|
||
major modes such as those that set the "'mode-class 'special" property.
|
||
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
This file is part of GNU Emacs.
|
||
|
||
GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
|
||
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
|
||
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
|
||
(at your option) any later version.
|
||
|
||
GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
|
||
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
|
||
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
|
||
GNU General Public License for more details.
|
||
|
||
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
|
||
along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Local variables:
|
||
mode: outline
|
||
paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
|
||
end:
|
||
|
||
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