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3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
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5 See the end of the file for license conditions.
6
7 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
8 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
9
10 This file is about changes in Emacs version 22.
11
12 See files NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes
13 in older Emacs versions.
14
15 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
16 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
17 \f
18 * About external Lisp packages
19
20 When you upgrade to Emacs 22 from a previous version, some older
21 versions of external Lisp packages are known to behave badly.
22 So in general, it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest
23 versions of any external Lisp packages that you are using.
24
25 You should also be aware that many Lisp packages have been included
26 with Emacs 22 (see the extensive list below), and you should remove
27 any older versions of these packages to ensure that the Emacs 22
28 version is used. You can use M-x list-load-path-shadows to find such
29 older packages.
30
31 Some specific packages that are known to cause problems are given
32 below. Emacs tries to warn you about these through `bad-packages-alist'.
33
34 ** Semantic (used by CEDET, ECB, JDEE): upgrade to latest version.
35
36 ** cua.el, cua-mode.el: remove old versions.
37
38 \f
39 * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.2
40
41 ** Emacs is now licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 (or later).
42
43 ** Support for GNU/kFreeBSD (GNU userland and FreeBSD kernel) was added.
44
45 * Changes in Emacs 22.2
46
47 ** `find-name-dired' now uses -iname rather than -name
48 for case-insensitive filesystems. The default behavior is determined
49 by the value of `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case'; if you don't
50 like that, customize the value of the new option `find-name-arg'.
51
52 ** In Image mode, whenever the displayed image is wider and/or higher
53 than the window, the usual keys for moving the cursor cause the image
54 to be scrolled horizontally or vertically instead.
55
56 ** Scrollbars follow the system theme on Windows XP and later.
57 Windows XP introduced themed scrollbars, but applications have to take
58 special steps to use them. Emacs now has the appropriate resources linked
59 in to make it use the scrollbars from the system theme.
60
61 ** focus-follows-mouse defaults to nil on MS Windows.
62 Previously this variable was incorrectly documented as having no effect
63 on MS Windows, and the default was inappropriate for the majority of
64 Windows installations. Users of software which modifies the behaviour of
65 Windows to cause focus to follow the mouse will now need to explicitly set
66 this variable.
67
68 ** `bad-packages-alist' will warn about external packages that are known
69 to cause problems in this version of Emacs.
70
71 ** The values of `dired-recursive-deletes' and `dired-recursive-copies'
72 have been changed to `top'. This means that the user is asked once,
73 before deleting/copying the indicated directory recursively.
74
75 ** `browse-url-emacs' loads a URL into an Emacs buffer. Handy for *.el URLs.
76
77 ** The command gdba has been removed as gdb works now for those cases where it
78 was needed. In text command mode, if you have problems before execution has
79 started, use M-x gud-gdb.
80
81 ** desktop.el now detects conflicting uses of the desktop file.
82 When loading the desktop, desktop.el can now detect that the file is already
83 in use. The default behavior is to ask the user what to do, but you can
84 customize it with the new option `desktop-load-locked-desktop'. When saving,
85 desktop.el warns about attempts to overwrite a desktop file if it determines
86 that the desktop being saved is not an update of the one on disk.
87
88 ** Compilation mode now correctly respects the value of
89 `compilation-scroll-output' between invocations. Previously, output
90 was mistakenly scrolled on compiles after the first. Customize
91 `compilation-scroll-output' if you want to retain the scrolling.
92
93 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.2
94
95 ** bibtex-style-mode helps you write BibTeX's *.bst files.
96
97 ** The new package css-mode.el provides a major mode for editing CSS files.
98
99 ** The new package vera-mode.el provides a major mode for editing Vera files.
100
101 ** The new package verilog-mode.el provides a major mode for editing Verilog files.
102
103 ** The new package socks.el implements the SOCKS v5 protocol.
104
105 ** VC
106
107 *** VC backends can provide completion of revision names.
108
109 *** VC backends can provide extra menu entries to be added to the "Version Control" menu.
110 This can be used to add menu entries for backend specific functions.
111
112 *** VC has some support for Mercurial (Hg).
113
114 *** VC has some support for Monotone (Mtn).
115
116 *** VC has some support for Bazaar (Bzr).
117
118 *** VC has some support for Git.
119
120 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.2
121
122 ** shell.el no longer defines the aliases `dirtrack-toggle' and
123 `dirtrack-mode' for `shell-dirtrack-mode'. These names were removed
124 because they clash with commands provided by dirtrack.el. Use
125 `shell-dirtrack-mode' instead.
126
127 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.2.
128
129 ** Frame-local variables are deprecated and are slated for removal.
130 Use frame parameters instead.
131
132 ** The function invisible-p returns non-nil if the character
133 after a specified position is invisible.
134
135 +++
136 ** inhibit-modification-hooks is bound to t while running modification hooks.
137 As a happy consequence, after-change-functions and before-change-functions
138 are not bound to nil any more while running an (after|before)-change-function.
139
140 ** New function `window-full-width-p' returns t if a window is as wide
141 as its frame.
142
143 ** The new function `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated
144 with a given image specification.
145
146 ** The new function `combine-and-quote-strings' concatenates a list of strings
147 using a specified separator. If a string contains double quotes, they
148 are escaped in the output.
149
150 ** The new function `split-string-and-unquote' performs the inverse operation to
151 `combine-and-quote-strings', i.e. splits a single string into a list
152 of strings, undoing any quoting added by `combine-and-quote-strings'.
153 (For some separator/string combinations, the original strings cannot
154 be recovered.)
155
156 \f
157 * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1
158
159 ** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
160 when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.4 or newer. This port
161 provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).
162
163 ** The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is now part of the distribution.
164
165 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in Info format is built as part of the
166 Emacs build procedure and installed together with the Emacs User
167 Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar to make it easily
168 accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference).
169
170 ** The Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp manual is now part of
171 the distribution.
172
173 This manual is now part of the standard distribution and is installed,
174 together with the Emacs User Manual, into the Info directory. A menu
175 item was added to the menu bar to make it easily accessible
176 (Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp).
177
178 ** Leim is now part of the Emacs distribution.
179 You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build
180 Emacs with Leim.
181
182 ** Support for MacOS X was added.
183 See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
184
185 ** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also
186 create a non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See
187 the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
188
189 ** Support for a Cygwin build of Emacs was added.
190
191 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.
192
193 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added.
194
195 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on Tensilica Xtensa machines was added.
196
197 ** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added.
198
199 ** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the
200 following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
201 with simplified and traditional characters), French, Russian, and
202 Italian. Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language
203 setup doesn't automatically select the right one.
204
205 ** New translations of the Emacs reference card are available in the
206 Brasilian Portuguese and Russian. The corresponding PostScript files
207 are also included.
208
209 ** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
210
211 ** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix',
212 `--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of
213 installed programs.
214
215 ** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game
216 scores. The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal
217 place for game scores to be stored. You can control this with the
218 configure option `--with-game-dir'. The specific user that Emacs uses
219 to own the game scores is controlled by `--with-game-user'. If access
220 to a game user is not available, then scores will be stored separately
221 in each user's home directory.
222
223 ** Emacs now includes support for loading image libraries on demand.
224 (Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure
225 the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
226 setting the variable `image-library-alist'.
227
228 ** Emacs can now be built without sound support.
229
230 ** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available.
231
232 ** All images used in Emacs have been consolidated in etc/images and subdirs.
233 See also the changes to `find-image', documented below.
234
235 ** Emacs comes with a new set of icons.
236 These icons are displayed on the taskbar and/or titlebar when Emacs
237 runs in a graphical environment. Source files for these icons can be
238 found in etc/images/icons. (You can't change the icons displayed by
239 Emacs by changing these files directly. On X, the icon is compiled
240 into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS
241 Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.)
242
243 ** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code.
244
245 ** The `yow' program has been removed.
246 Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead.
247
248 ** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
249 The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
250 terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.
251
252 ** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
253 contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
254 Emacs crash.
255
256 ** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union
257 types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.
258
259 ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
260 much pure storage it will approximately need.
261
262 \f
263 * Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1
264
265 ** Init file changes
266 If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
267 ~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. Likewise, if the shell init file
268 ~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh.
269
270 ** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display.
271 When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options
272 `--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame
273 whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire
274 screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.)
275
276 ** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
277 arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash
278 disables the splash screen; see also the variable
279 `inhibit-splash-screen' (which is also aliased as
280 `inhibit-startup-message').
281
282 ** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
283 When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
284 displays a buffer menu. This option turns the buffer menu off.
285
286 ** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables
287 the blinking cursor on graphical terminals.
288
289 ** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE.
290 It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they
291 can start with this line:
292
293 #!/usr/bin/emacs --script
294
295 ** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function,
296 now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
297 an interactively callable function.
298
299 ** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately.
300 Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they
301 appear on the command line. For example, with this command line:
302
303 emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)"
304
305 Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then
306 in the other directories in `load-path'. (-L is short for --directory.)
307
308 ** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to
309 all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only
310 affects the initial frame.
311
312 ** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does,
313 with respect to its frame position: if you don't specify a position
314 (in your .emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry
315 command-line option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows'
316 window manager.
317
318 ** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
319 --no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated.
320
321 ** If the environment variable DISPLAY specifies an unreachable X display,
322 Emacs will now startup as if invoked with the --no-window-system option.
323
324 ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
325 automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save
326 modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It
327 can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,
328 according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
329
330 ** New command line option -Q or --quick.
331 This is like using -q --no-site-file, but in addition it also disables
332 the fancy startup screen.
333
334 ** New command line option -D or --basic-display.
335 Disables the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, and
336 the blinking cursor.
337
338 ** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon.
339 The command-line options --icon-type, -i have been replaced with
340 options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn the bitmap icon off.
341
342 ** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value
343 to compute the default value of `user-mail-address', in preference to
344 concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine.
345
346 \f
347 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
348
349 ** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
350
351 See below for more details.
352
353 ** When the undo information of the current command gets really large
354 (beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns
355 you about it.
356
357 ** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name.
358 This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the
359 need to quote the space with a C-q. The underlying changes in the
360 keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under
361 "New keymaps for typing file names".
362
363 If you want the old behavior back, add these two key bindings to your
364 ~/.emacs init file:
365
366 (define-key minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map
367 " " 'minibuffer-complete-word)
368 (define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map
369 " " 'minibuffer-complete-word)
370
371 ** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
372 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
373 it remains unchanged.
374
375 ** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special.
376
377 See below under "incremental search changes".
378
379 ** M-g is now a prefix key.
380 M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line.
381 M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `).
382 M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error.
383
384 ** C-u M-g M-g switches to the most recent previous buffer,
385 and goes to the specified line in that buffer.
386
387 When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at
388 point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer.
389
390 ** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
391 M-o M-o requests refontification.
392
393 ** C-x C-f RET (find-file), typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer
394 a special case.
395
396 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
397 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
398 directory with Dired.
399
400 You can get the old behavior by typing C-x C-f M-n RET, which fetches
401 the actual file name into the minibuffer.
402
403 ** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
404 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
405 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
406 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
407 doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
408 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
409
410 ** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
411 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
412
413 ** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
414 in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.
415
416 ** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
417
418 ** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
419 It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.
420
421 ** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
422 since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
423 the operating system or your X server.
424
425 ** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19)
426 have been removed:
427 C-x / point-to-register (Use: C-x r SPC)
428 C-x j jump-to-register (Use: C-x r j)
429 C-x x copy-to-register (Use: C-x r s)
430 C-x g insert-register (Use: C-x r i)
431
432 \f
433 * Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
434
435 ** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled.
436 On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455).
437
438 ** !MEM FULL! at the start of the mode line indicates that Emacs
439 cannot get any more memory for Lisp data. This often means it could
440 crash soon if you do things that use more memory. On most systems,
441 killing buffers will get out of this state. If killing buffers does
442 not make !MEM FULL! disappear, you should save your work and start
443 a new Emacs.
444
445 ** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.
446
447 ** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can
448 be inconvenient when you did not expect them. The variable
449 `yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion
450 of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.
451
452 ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
453 By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
454
455 ** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N
456 converts whitespace around point to N spaces.
457
458 ** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left
459 (previous-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and
460 C-x right can be used as well. The functions keep a different buffer
461 cycle for each frame, using the frame-local buffer list.
462
463 ** C-x 5 C-o displays a specified buffer in another frame
464 but does not switch to that frame. It's the multi-frame
465 analogue of C-x 4 C-o.
466
467 ** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now
468 understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and
469 `same-window'.
470
471 ** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
472 `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
473
474 ** M-x setenv now expands environment variable references.
475
476 Substrings of the form `$foo' and `${foo}' in the specified new value
477 now refer to the value of environment variable foo. To include a `$'
478 in the value, use `$$'.
479
480 ** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
481 been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
482 in Paragraph-Indent Text mode.
483
484 ** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken
485 from the locale.
486
487 ** Help command changes:
488
489 *** Changes in C-h bindings:
490
491 C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer.
492
493 C-h d runs apropos-documentation.
494
495 C-h r visits the Emacs Manual in Info.
496
497 C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files
498 that do not change:
499
500 C-h C-f displays the FAQ.
501 C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file.
502
503 The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
504 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
505
506 C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands.
507 - C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping)
508 run by the key sequence.
509 - C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the
510 command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run
511 that command.
512
513 For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped
514 to new-kill-line, these commands now report:
515 - C-h c and C-h k C-k reports:
516 C-k runs the command new-kill-line
517 - C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports:
518 kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline>
519 - C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports:
520 new-kill-line is on C-k
521
522 *** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match.
523 When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must
524 be present for an item to match. Regular expression matching is still
525 available.
526
527 *** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
528 to be sorted according to their score. The score for an item is a
529 number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
530 regular expression that you entered to the apropos command. The best
531 match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each
532 matching item.
533
534 *** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
535 arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the
536 default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
537 `help-default-arg-highlight'.
538
539 *** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for
540 variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available).
541
542 *** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is
543 preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes
544 hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless
545 preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'. It now makes
546 hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is
547 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info
548 anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). In
549 addition, it now makes hyperlinks to URLs as well if the URL is
550 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `URL'.
551
552 *** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
553 description various information about a character, including its
554 encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and
555 widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by
556 clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
557
558 *** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because
559 C-u C-x = gives the same information and more.
560
561 *** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
562 in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the
563 same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
564 `help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
565 keyboard oriented alternative.
566
567 *** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows you to
568 automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
569 point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is
570 determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
571 to one second. This feature is turned off by default.
572
573 ** Mark command changes:
574
575 *** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
576 previous mark if you set `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' to t. I.e. C-u
577 C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC
578 to set the mark immediately after a jump.
579
580 *** Marking commands extend the region when invoked multiple times.
581
582 If you type C-M-SPC (mark-sexp), M-@ (mark-word), M-h
583 (mark-paragraph), or C-M-h (mark-defun) repeatedly, the marked region
584 extends each time, so you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC
585 M-C-SPC, for example. This feature also works for
586 mark-end-of-sentence, if you bind that to a key. It also extends the
587 region when the mark is active in Transient Mark mode, regardless of
588 the last command. To start a new region with one of marking commands
589 in Transient Mark mode, you can deactivate the active region with C-g,
590 or set the new mark with C-SPC.
591
592 *** Some commands do something special in Transient Mark mode when the
593 mark is active--for instance, they limit their operation to the
594 region. Even if you don't normally use Transient Mark mode, you might
595 want to get this behavior from a particular command. There are two
596 ways you can enable Transient Mark mode and activate the mark, for one
597 command only.
598
599 One method is to type C-SPC C-SPC; this enables Transient Mark mode
600 and sets the mark at point. The other method is to type C-u C-x C-x.
601 This enables Transient Mark mode temporarily but does not alter the
602 mark or the region.
603
604 After these commands, Transient Mark mode remains enabled until you
605 deactivate the mark. That typically happens when you type a command
606 that alters the buffer, but you can also deactivate the mark by typing
607 C-g.
608
609 *** Movement commands `beginning-of-buffer', `end-of-buffer',
610 `beginning-of-defun', `end-of-defun' do not set the mark if the mark
611 is already active in Transient Mark mode.
612
613 *** M-h (mark-paragraph) now accepts a prefix arg.
614
615 With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following paragraphs;
616 if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding
617 paragraphs.
618
619 ** Incremental Search changes:
620
621 *** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or
622 `query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current
623 search string used as the string to replace.
624
625 *** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word,
626 making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the
627 command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior,
628 bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'.
629
630 *** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already
631 at the end of a line.
632
633 *** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode.
634 Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e'
635 and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer.
636
637 *** Vertical scrolling is now possible within incremental search.
638 To enable this feature, customize the new user option
639 `isearch-allow-scroll'. User written commands which satisfy stringent
640 constraints can be marked as "scrolling commands". See the Emacs manual
641 for details.
642
643 *** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command
644 history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new
645 user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'.
646
647 ** Replace command changes:
648
649 *** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and
650 `replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string,
651 where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement
652 time. `\#' in a replacement string now refers to the count of
653 replacements already made by the replacement command. All regular
654 expression replacement commands now allow `\?' in the replacement
655 string to specify a position where the replacement string can be
656 edited for each replacement. `query-replace-regexp-eval' is now
657 deprecated since it offers no additional functionality.
658
659 *** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option
660 `query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil.
661
662 *** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face
663 `query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face.
664
665 *** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
666 `query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
667 a match if part of it has a read-only property.
668
669 ** Local variables lists:
670
671 *** If the local variables list contains any variable-value pairs that
672 are not known to be safe, Emacs shows a prompt asking whether to apply
673 the local variables list as a whole. In earlier versions, a prompt
674 was only issued for variables explicitly marked as risky (for the
675 definition of risky variables, see `risky-local-variable-p').
676
677 At the prompt, you can choose to save the contents of this local
678 variables list to `safe-local-variable-values'. This new customizable
679 option is a list of variable-value pairs that are known to be safe.
680 Variables can also be marked as safe with the existing
681 `safe-local-variable' property (see `safe-local-variable-p').
682 However, risky variables will not be added to
683 `safe-local-variable-values' in this way.
684
685 *** The variable `enable-local-variables' controls how local variable
686 lists are handled. t, the default, specifies the standard querying
687 behavior. :safe means use only safe values, and ignore the rest.
688 :all means set all variables, whether or not they are safe.
689 nil means ignore them all. Anything else means always query.
690
691 *** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that
692 are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables
693 specification. Normally Emacs asks for confirmation before evaluating
694 such a form, but if the form appears in this list, no confirmation is
695 needed.
696
697 *** If a function has a non-nil `safe-local-eval-function' property,
698 that means it is ok to evaluate some calls to that function when it
699 appears in an `eval' local variables specification. If the property
700 is t, then any form calling that function with constant arguments is
701 ok. If the property is a function or list of functions, they are called
702 with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.
703
704 If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
705 confirmation as before.
706
707 *** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and
708 suffix from every line before processing all the lines.
709
710 *** Text properties in local variables.
711
712 A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text
713 properties--any specified text properties are discarded.
714
715 ** File operation changes:
716
717 *** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
718 the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
719 Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
720 is only rarely needed.
721
722 *** C-x C-f RET, typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case.
723
724 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
725 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
726 directory with Dired.
727
728 *** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer
729 against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving.
730
731 *** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default.
732
733 *** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',
734 Emacs asks for confirmation.
735
736 *** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
737 add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
738 convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of
739 the existing file's name. (This is the same convention that shell
740 commands cp, mv, and ln follow.) Thus, M-x copy-file RET ~/foo RET
741 /tmp RET copies ~/foo to /tmp/foo.
742
743 *** require-final-newline now has two new possible values:
744
745 `visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed
746 when visiting the file.
747
748 `visit-save' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's
749 needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed
750 when saving the file.
751
752 *** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain
753 major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's
754 designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline
755 sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline.
756 So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these
757 modes do.
758
759 *** When you are root, and you visit a file whose modes specify
760 read-only, the Emacs buffer is now read-only too. Type C-x C-q if you
761 want to make the buffer writable. (As root, you can in fact alter the
762 file.)
763
764 *** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode,
765 when the file name contains wildcard characters.
766
767 *** find-alternate-file replaces the current file with multiple files,
768 when the file name contains wildcard characters. It now asks if you
769 wish save your changes and not just offer to kill the buffer.
770
771 *** When used interactively, `format-write-file' now asks for confirmation
772 before overwriting an existing file, unless a prefix argument is
773 supplied. This behavior is analogous to `write-file'.
774
775 *** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that
776 controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will
777 attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files).
778
779 *** The new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync
780 in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up
781 the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result
782 in data loss, use with care.
783
784 ** Minibuffer changes:
785
786 *** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
787 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
788 it remains unchanged.
789
790 *** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when
791 entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed.
792
793 *** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
794 Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the
795 variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the
796 prompt string.
797
798 *** Enhanced visual feedback in `*Completions*' buffer.
799
800 Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions
801 have in common and where they begin to differ.
802
803 The common prefix shared by all possible completions uses the face
804 `completions-common-part', while the first character that isn't the
805 same uses the face `completions-first-difference'. By default,
806 `completions-common-part' inherits from `default', and
807 `completions-first-difference' inherits from `bold'. The idea of
808 `completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common
809 parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing
810 parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted.
811
812 Above fontification is always done when listing completions is
813 triggered at minibuffer. If you want to fontify completions whose
814 listing is triggered at the other normal buffer, you have to pass
815 the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as
816 its second argument.
817
818 *** File-name completion can now ignore specified directories.
819 If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a
820 slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when
821 completing file names. Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions'
822 which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion
823 candidate is a directory.
824
825 *** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'.
826 If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
827 elements are deleted from the history list.
828
829 ** Redisplay changes:
830
831 *** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line
832 of non-selected windows. The `mode-line' face is now used to display
833 the mode line of the currently selected window.
834
835 The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
836 the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.
837
838 *** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
839 When the file is maintained under version control, that information
840 appears between the position information and the major mode.
841
842 *** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this
843 for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the
844 top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To
845 control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x
846 set-fringe-style.
847
848 *** Angle icons in the fringes can indicate the buffer boundaries. In
849 addition, up and down arrow bitmaps in the fringe indicate which ways
850 the window can be scrolled.
851
852 This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable
853 `indicate-buffer-boundaries' to a non-nil value. The default value of
854 this variable is found in `default-indicate-buffer-boundaries'.
855
856 If value is `left' or `right', both angle and arrow bitmaps are
857 displayed in the left or right fringe, resp.
858
859 The value can also be an alist which specifies the presence and
860 position of each bitmap individually.
861
862 For example, ((top . left) (t . right)) places the top angle bitmap
863 in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both
864 arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the
865 left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).
866
867 *** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window
868 (not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into
869 two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line).
870 Instead, the newline now "overflows" into the right fringe, and the
871 cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline.
872
873 The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' can be set to nil to
874 revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines.
875
876 *** A window can now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings,
877 in addition to the individual display margin settings.
878
879 Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
880 horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
881 or when the frame is resized.
882
883 *** When a window has display margin areas, the fringes are now
884 displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than
885 outside those margins.
886
887 *** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs.
888
889 *** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now displayed with a special
890 face, either nobreak-space or escape-glyph. You can turn this off or
891 specify a different mode by setting the variable `nobreak-char-display'.
892
893 *** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized.
894 The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from
895 the window edge point is allowed to get before automatic hscrolling
896 will horizontally scroll the window. The default value is 5.
897
898 The variable `hscroll-step' determines how many columns automatic
899 hscrolling scrolls the window when point gets too close to the
900 window edge. If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the
901 window so as to center point. If its value is an integer, it says how
902 many columns to scroll. If the value is a floating-point number, it
903 gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.
904
905 The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to
906 `auto-hscroll-mode'. The old name is still available as an alias.
907
908 *** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than
909 the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
910 vscroll property.
911
912 *** Preemptive redisplay now adapts to current load and bandwidth.
913
914 To avoid preempting redisplay on fast computers, networks, and displays,
915 the arrival of new input is now performed at regular intervals during
916 redisplay. The new variable `redisplay-preemption-period' specifies
917 the period; the default is to check for input every 0.1 seconds.
918
919 *** The %c and %l constructs are now ignored in frame-title-format.
920 Due to technical limitations in how Emacs interacts with windowing
921 systems, these constructs often failed to render properly, and could
922 even cause Emacs to crash.
923
924 *** If value of `auto-resize-tool-bars' is `grow-only', the tool bar
925 will expand as needed, but not contract automatically. To contract
926 the tool bar, you must type C-l.
927
928 *** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
929 overline and text.
930
931 *** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
932 position of the underline. When set, it overrides the
933 `x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.
934
935 ** New faces:
936
937 *** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive
938 elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
939 areas.
940
941 *** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
942 parts of the mode line.
943
944 *** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.
945 the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text.
946 This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either
947 black or white default foreground color. This generic shadow face
948 allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place,
949 so package-specific faces can inherit from it.
950
951 *** `vertical-border' face is used for the vertical divider between windows.
952
953 ** Font-Lock (syntax highlighting) changes:
954
955 *** All modes now support using M-x font-lock-mode to toggle
956 fontification, even those such as Occur, Info, and comint-derived
957 modes that do their own fontification in a special way.
958
959 The variable `Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable
960 fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from
961 `Info-mode-hook'.
962
963 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
964
965 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.
966
967 *** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked.
968 You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of
969 the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode,
970 cperl-mode and make-mode support this.
971
972 *** Font-Lock mode: in major modes such as Lisp mode, where some Emacs
973 features assume that an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of
974 any string or comment, Font-Lock now highlights any such open-paren in
975 bold-red if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it
976 can cause trouble. You should rewrite the string or comment so that
977 the open-paren is not in column 0.
978
979 *** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
980 M-o M-o requests refontification.
981
982 *** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed.
983 The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now nil
984 instead of 3. This setting of jit-lock-stealth-time disables stealth
985 fontification: on today's machines, it may be a bug in font lock
986 patterns if fontification otherwise noticeably degrades interactivity.
987 If you find movement in infrequently visited buffers sluggish (and the
988 major mode maintainer has no better idea), customizing
989 jit-lock-stealth-time to a non-nil value will let Emacs fontify
990 buffers in the background when it considers the system to be idle.
991 jit-lock-stealth-nice is now 0.5 instead of 0.125 which is supposed to
992 cause less load than the old defaults.
993
994 *** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'.
995
996 If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs
997 idle time in seconds to wait before starting fontification. For
998 example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will
999 only happen after 0.25s of idle time.
1000
1001 *** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification.
1002
1003 jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and
1004 jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual
1005 refontification takes place.
1006
1007 *** lazy-lock is considered obsolete.
1008
1009 The `lazy-lock' package is superseded by `jit-lock' and is considered
1010 obsolete. `jit-lock' is activated by default; if you wish to continue
1011 using `lazy-lock', activate it in your ~/.emacs like this:
1012 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
1013
1014 If you invoke `lazy-lock-mode' directly rather than through
1015 `font-lock-support-mode', it now issues a warning:
1016 "Use font-lock-support-mode rather than calling lazy-lock-mode"
1017
1018 ** Menu support:
1019
1020 *** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
1021 This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such
1022 as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself).
1023 You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn
1024 it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of
1025 current date and time, current line and column number in the mode-line.
1026
1027 *** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".
1028
1029 *** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..."
1030 and "Open File...". "Open File..." now opens only existing files. This is
1031 to support existing GUI file selection dialogs better.
1032
1033 *** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/LessTif can be
1034 disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'.
1035
1036 *** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can
1037 be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32).
1038
1039 *** The menu bar for Motif/LessTif/Lucid/Gtk+ can be navigated with keys.
1040 Pressing F10 shows the first menu in the menu bar. Navigation is done with
1041 the arrow keys, select with the return key and cancel with the escape keys.
1042
1043 *** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have
1044 to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example
1045 `-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'.
1046
1047 *** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and LessTif/Motif now pop down on pressing
1048 ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32.
1049
1050 *** For the Gtk+ version, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog
1051 by setting the variable `x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use
1052 the new dialog.
1053
1054 *** You can exit dialog windows and menus by typing C-g.
1055
1056 ** Buffer Menu changes:
1057
1058 *** The new options `buffers-menu-show-directories' and
1059 `buffers-menu-show-status' let you control how buffers are displayed
1060 in the menu dropped down when you click "Buffers" from the menu bar.
1061
1062 `buffers-menu-show-directories' controls whether the menu displays
1063 leading directories as part of the file name visited by the buffer.
1064 If its value is `unless-uniquify', the default, directories are
1065 shown unless uniquify-buffer-name-style' is non-nil. The value of nil
1066 and t turn the display of directories off and on, respectively.
1067
1068 `buffers-menu-show-status' controls whether the Buffers menu includes
1069 the modified and read-only status of the buffers. By default it is
1070 t, and the status is shown.
1071
1072 Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time
1073 the Buffers menu is regenerated.
1074
1075 *** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file
1076 buffers only in the Buffer Menu. It is bound to T in Buffer Menu
1077 mode.
1078
1079 *** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
1080 with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers
1081 whose names begin with space are omitted.
1082
1083 ** Mouse changes:
1084
1085 *** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
1086
1087 Traditionally, Emacs uses a Mouse-1 click to set point and a Mouse-2
1088 click to follow a link, whereas most other applications use a Mouse-1
1089 click for both purposes, depending on whether you click outside or
1090 inside a link. Now the behavior of a Mouse-1 click has been changed
1091 to match this context-sensitive dual behavior. (If you prefer the old
1092 behavior, set the user option `mouse-1-click-follows-link' to nil.)
1093
1094 Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs can do much
1095 more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
1096 activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
1097 (see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details). The Lisp
1098 packages that are included in release 22.1 have been adapted to do
1099 this, but external packages may not yet support this. However, there
1100 is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
1101 happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
1102 on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.
1103
1104 If you want to get the original Mouse-1 action also inside a link, you
1105 just need to press the Mouse-1 button a little longer than a normal
1106 click (i.e. press and hold the Mouse-1 button for half a second before
1107 you release it).
1108
1109 Dragging the Mouse-1 inside a link still performs the original
1110 drag-mouse-1 action, typically copy the text.
1111
1112 You can customize the new Mouse-1 behavior via the new user options
1113 `mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'.
1114
1115 *** If you set the new variable `mouse-autoselect-window' to a non-nil
1116 value, windows are automatically selected as you move the mouse from
1117 one Emacs window to another, even within a frame. A minibuffer window
1118 can be selected only when it is active.
1119
1120 *** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
1121 select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
1122 normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set
1123 the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected
1124 window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame
1125 to give it focus.
1126
1127 *** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse
1128 is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
1129 can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
1130 mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can
1131 also disable mouse highlighting.
1132
1133 *** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
1134 shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
1135 variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.
1136
1137 *** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.
1138
1139 *** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved.
1140
1141 People tend to push the mouse wheel (which counts as a mouse-2 click)
1142 unintentionally while turning the wheel, so these clicks are now
1143 ignored. You can customize this with the mouse-wheel-click-event and
1144 mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.
1145
1146 *** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
1147 (rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.
1148
1149 ** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:
1150
1151 *** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
1152 construct. Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
1153 -*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
1154 various global and per-coding-system translation tables. You can also
1155 specify it in a local variable list at the end of the file. For
1156 shortcut, instead of using this long variable name, you can append the
1157 character "!" at the end of coding-system name specified in -*-
1158 construct or in a local variable list. For example, if a file has the
1159 following header, it is decoded by the coding system `iso-latin-1'
1160 without any character translation:
1161 ;; -*- coding: iso-latin-1!; -*-
1162
1163 *** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup
1164 more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale
1165 name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
1166 This change can result in using the different coding systems as
1167 default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN).
1168
1169 *** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your
1170 current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This
1171 can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
1172 characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
1173 emulator) works. Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
1174 keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
1175 or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
1176 by the keyboard. See Info node `Unibyte Mode'.
1177
1178 *** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
1179 coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item
1180 (Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
1181 command.
1182
1183 *** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
1184 revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.
1185
1186 *** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
1187 coding system.
1188
1189 *** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
1190 of a file.
1191
1192 *** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
1193 unicode.
1194
1195 *** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type
1196 in the current input method to input a character at point.
1197
1198 *** Limited support for character `unification' has been added.
1199 Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of
1200 the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard
1201 Unicode mappings. This applies mainly to characters in the ISO 8859
1202 sets plus some other 8-bit sets, but can be extended. For instance,
1203 translation works amongst the Emacs ...-iso8859-... charsets and the
1204 mule-unicode-... ones.
1205
1206 By default this translation happens automatically on encoding.
1207 Self-inserting characters are translated to make the input conformant
1208 with the encoding of the buffer in which it's being used, where
1209 possible.
1210
1211 You can force a more complete unification with the user option
1212 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode. That maps all the Latin-N character sets
1213 into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and
1214 mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode
1215 will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding.
1216
1217 *** New language environments (set up automatically according to the
1218 locale): Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, Esperanto,
1219 French, Georgian, Italian, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam,
1220 Russian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8,Ukrainian,
1221 Welsh,Latin-6, Windows-1255.
1222
1223 *** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
1224 belarusian, bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng (for
1225 Chinese Pinyin characters), croatian, dutch, georgian, latvian-keyboard,
1226 lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, malayalam-inscript, rfc1345,
1227 russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, tamil-inscript, ukrainian-computer,
1228 ucs, vietnamese-telex, welsh.
1229
1230 *** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
1231 either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
1232 when possible. The latter are more space-efficient.
1233 This is controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.
1234
1235 *** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is
1236 automatically activated if you select Thai as a language
1237 environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to
1238 versions which recognize Thai words. Affected commands are
1239 M-f (forward-word)
1240 M-b (backward-word)
1241 M-d (kill-word)
1242 M-DEL (backward-kill-word)
1243 M-t (transpose-words)
1244 M-q (fill-paragraph)
1245
1246 *** Indian support has been updated.
1247 The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are
1248 assumed. There is a framework for supporting various Indian scripts,
1249 but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are supported.
1250
1251 *** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
1252 By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into
1253 single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is
1254 turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character
1255 sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS
1256 system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not
1257 interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil.
1258 You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
1259 `ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8
1260 coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's
1261 one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones.
1262 The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly.
1263
1264 *** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.
1265
1266 *** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
1267 in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
1268 Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
1269
1270 *** Many new coding systems are available in the `code-pages' library.
1271 These include complete versions of most of those in codepage.el, based
1272 on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now obsolete and is used
1273 only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. All coding systems defined in
1274 `code-pages' are auto-loaded.
1275
1276 *** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which
1277 Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'.
1278
1279 *** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of
1280 characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the
1281 fontset appropriately.
1282
1283 ** Customize changes:
1284
1285 *** Custom themes are collections of customize options. Create a
1286 custom theme with M-x customize-create-theme. Use M-x load-theme to
1287 load and enable a theme, and M-x disable-theme to disable it. Use M-x
1288 enable-theme to enable a disabled theme.
1289
1290 *** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
1291 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are
1292 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
1293 faces.
1294
1295 *** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing.
1296 In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding
1297 check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection
1298 for that attribute; the values you can choose are only those which make
1299 sense for the attribute. When an attribute is de-selected by unchecking
1300 its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in
1301 case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden.
1302
1303 *** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer,
1304 the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable.
1305 You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value"
1306 under the "[State]" button.
1307
1308 ** Dired mode:
1309
1310 *** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
1311 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
1312 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
1313 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
1314 double quotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
1315 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
1316
1317 *** The Dired command `dired-goto-file' is now bound to j, not M-g.
1318 This is to avoid hiding the global key binding of M-g.
1319
1320 *** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
1321 dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
1322 introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
1323
1324 *** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
1325 with different file attributes in two dired buffers.
1326
1327 *** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
1328 of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.
1329
1330 *** In Dired, the w command now stores the current line's file name
1331 into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, it stores the absolute file name.
1332
1333 *** In Dired-x, Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode.
1334
1335 The mode toggling command is bound to M-o. A new command
1336 dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, marks omitted files. The variable
1337 dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the mode toggling function
1338 instead.
1339
1340 *** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args
1341 have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and
1342 directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a
1343 directory listing into a buffer.
1344
1345 ** Comint changes:
1346
1347 *** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in subshells
1348 running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment variable,
1349 which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs that need
1350 to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check INSIDE_EMACS
1351 instead of EMACS.
1352
1353 *** The comint prompt can now be made read-only, using the new user
1354 option `comint-prompt-read-only'. This is not enabled by default,
1355 except in IELM buffers. The read-only status of IELM prompts can be
1356 controlled with the new user option `ielm-prompt-read-only', which
1357 overrides `comint-prompt-read-only'.
1358
1359 The new commands `comint-kill-whole-line' and `comint-kill-region'
1360 support editing comint buffers with read-only prompts.
1361
1362 `comint-kill-whole-line' is like `kill-whole-line', but ignores both
1363 read-only and field properties. Hence, it always kill entire
1364 lines, including any prompts.
1365
1366 `comint-kill-region' is like `kill-region', except that it ignores
1367 read-only properties, if it is safe to do so. This means that if any
1368 part of a prompt is deleted, then the entire prompt must be deleted
1369 and that all prompts must stay at the beginning of a line. If this is
1370 not the case, then `comint-kill-region' behaves just like
1371 `kill-region' if read-only properties are involved: it copies the text
1372 to the kill-ring, but does not delete it.
1373
1374 *** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived
1375 modes (shell-mode, etc.) inserts arguments from previous command lines,
1376 like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but
1377 otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.
1378
1379 *** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed
1380 `comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias,
1381 but declared obsolete.
1382
1383 ** M-x Compile changes:
1384
1385 *** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable
1386
1387 Quite a few more kinds of messages are recognized. Messages that are
1388 recognized as warnings or informational come in orange or green, instead of
1389 red. Informational messages are by default skipped with `next-error'
1390 (controlled by `compilation-skip-threshold').
1391
1392 Location data is collected on the fly as the *compilation* buffer changes.
1393 This means you could modify messages to make them point to different files.
1394 This also means you can not go to locations of messages you may have deleted.
1395
1396 The variable `compilation-error-regexp-alist' has now become customizable. If
1397 you had added your own regexps to this, you'll probably need to include a
1398 leading `^', otherwise they'll match anywhere on a line. There is now also a
1399 `compilation-mode-font-lock-keywords' and it nicely handles all the checks
1400 that configure outputs and -o options so you see at a glance where you are.
1401
1402 The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message.
1403
1404 *** New user option `compilation-environment'.
1405 This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
1406 compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
1407 subprocesses inherit.
1408
1409 *** New user option `compilation-disable-input'.
1410 If this is non-nil, send end-of-file as compilation process input.
1411
1412 *** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'
1413 specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line
1414 in new face `next-error'.
1415
1416 *** A new minor mode `next-error-follow-minor-mode' can be used in
1417 compilation-mode, grep-mode, occur-mode, and diff-mode (i.e. all the
1418 modes that can use `next-error'). In this mode, cursor motion in the
1419 buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
1420 matches, compilation errors, etc. This minor mode can be toggled with
1421 C-c C-f.
1422
1423 *** When the left fringe is displayed, an arrow points to current message in
1424 the compilation buffer.
1425
1426 *** The new variable `compilation-context-lines' controls lines of leading
1427 context before the current message. If nil and the left fringe is displayed,
1428 it doesn't scroll the compilation output window. If there is no left fringe,
1429 no arrow is displayed and a value of nil means display the message at the top
1430 of the window.
1431
1432 ** Occur mode changes:
1433
1434 *** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
1435 search multiple buffers. There is also a new command
1436 `multi-occur-in-matching-buffers' which allows you to specify the
1437 buffers to search by their filenames or buffer names. Internally,
1438 Occur mode has been rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other
1439 changes.
1440
1441 *** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
1442 the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.
1443
1444 *** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
1445 C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without
1446 switching to it.
1447
1448 ** Grep changes:
1449
1450 *** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.
1451
1452 There's a new separate package grep.el, with its own submenu and
1453 customization group.
1454
1455 *** `grep-find' is now also available under the name `find-grep' where
1456 people knowing `find-grep-dired' would probably expect it.
1457
1458 *** New commands `lgrep' (local grep) and `rgrep' (recursive grep) are
1459 more user-friendly versions of `grep' and `grep-find', which prompt
1460 separately for the regular expression to match, the files to search,
1461 and the base directory for the search. Case sensitivity of the
1462 search is controlled by the current value of `case-fold-search'.
1463
1464 These commands build the shell commands based on the new variables
1465 `grep-template' (lgrep) and `grep-find-template' (rgrep).
1466
1467 The files to search can use aliases defined in `grep-files-aliases'.
1468
1469 Subdirectories listed in `grep-find-ignored-directories' such as those
1470 typically used by various version control systems, like CVS and arch,
1471 are automatically skipped by `rgrep'.
1472
1473 *** The grep commands provide highlighting support.
1474
1475 Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange. Grep buffers
1476 can be saved and automatically revisited.
1477
1478 *** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlights matches in *grep*
1479 buffer. It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept
1480 --color option to output markers around matches. When going to the next
1481 match with `next-error' the exact match is highlighted in the source
1482 buffer. Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole
1483 source line is highlighted.
1484
1485 *** New key bindings in grep output window:
1486 SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down. C-n and C-p moves to next and
1487 previous match in the grep window. RET jumps to the source line of
1488 the current match. `n' and `p' shows next and previous match in
1489 other window, but does not switch buffer. `{' and `}' jumps to the
1490 previous or next file in the grep output. TAB also jumps to the next
1491 file.
1492
1493 *** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
1494 by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically
1495 detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
1496 When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed
1497 unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated
1498 command lines to be used than was possible before.
1499
1500 *** The new variables `grep-window-height' and `grep-scroll-output' override
1501 the corresponding compilation mode settings, for grep commands only.
1502
1503 ** Cursor display changes:
1504
1505 *** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor.
1506 The underscore cursor is set by putting `(cursor-type . hbar)' in
1507 default-frame-alist. It supports variable heights, like the `bar'
1508 cursor does.
1509
1510 *** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any
1511 of the recognized cursor types.
1512
1513 *** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any)
1514 of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor
1515 appears in.
1516
1517 *** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs
1518 uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor.
1519
1520 *** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking.
1521
1522 *** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is
1523 now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'.
1524
1525 ** X Windows Support:
1526
1527 *** Emacs now supports drag and drop for X. Dropping a file on a window
1528 opens it, dropping text inserts the text. Dropping a file on a dired
1529 buffer copies or moves the file to that directory.
1530
1531 *** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper).
1532 The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym',
1533 and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should
1534 use for the modifiers. For example, the following two lines swap
1535 Meta and Alt:
1536 (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)
1537 (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt)
1538
1539 *** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which can
1540 speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.
1541
1542 If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of
1543 XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on.
1544
1545 *** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
1546 requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that
1547 Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
1548 and use the more appropriately result.
1549
1550 *** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
1551 On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
1552 amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).
1553
1554 ** Xterm support:
1555
1556 *** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
1557 on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.
1558
1559 *** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
1560 When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
1561 The following should work:
1562 {C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
1563 These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8 (and later versions),
1564 they might not work on some older versions of xterm, or on some
1565 proprietary versions.
1566 The various keys generated by xterm when the "modifyOtherKeys"
1567 resource is set are also supported.
1568
1569 ** Character terminal color support changes:
1570
1571 *** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard
1572 mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character
1573 terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal
1574 database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't
1575 set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable
1576 terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls'
1577 when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors
1578 in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the
1579 user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter.
1580
1581 *** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more
1582 than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and
1583 256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup
1584 the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for
1585 all of these colors.
1586
1587 *** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default
1588 faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and
1589 256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an
1590 88-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face
1591 colors as on X.
1592
1593 *** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.
1594
1595 ** ebnf2ps changes:
1596
1597 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-extra-width' which specify extra width for arrow
1598 shape drawing.
1599 The extra width is used to avoid that the arrowhead and the terminal border
1600 overlap. It depends on `ebnf-arrow-shape' and `ebnf-line-width'.
1601
1602 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-scale' which specify the arrow scale.
1603 Values lower than 1.0, shrink the arrow.
1604 Values greater than 1.0, expand the arrow.
1605 \f
1606 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1
1607
1608 ** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1609
1610 The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
1611 cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
1612 With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
1613 keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
1614 region (like delete-selection-mode). Do not enable these modes with
1615 cua-mode. Customize the variable `cua-mode' to enable cua.
1616
1617 The cua-selection-mode enables the CUA keybindings for the region but
1618 does not change the bindings for C-z/C-x/C-c/C-v. It can be used as a
1619 replacement for pc-selection-mode.
1620
1621 In addition, cua provides unified rectangle support with visible
1622 rectangle highlighting: Use C-return to start a rectangle, extend it
1623 using the movement commands (or mouse-3), and cut or copy it using C-x
1624 or C-c (using C-w and M-w also works).
1625
1626 Use M-o and M-c to `open' or `close' the rectangle, use M-b or M-f, to
1627 fill it with blanks or another character, use M-u or M-l to upcase or
1628 downcase the rectangle, use M-i to increment the numbers in the
1629 rectangle, use M-n to fill the rectangle with a numeric sequence (such
1630 as 10 20 30...), use M-r to replace a regexp in the rectangle, and use
1631 M-' or M-/ to restrict command on the rectangle to a subset of the
1632 rows. See the commentary in cua-base.el for more rectangle commands.
1633
1634 Cua also provides unified support for registers: Use a numeric
1635 prefix argument between 0 and 9, i.e. M-0 .. M-9, for C-x, C-c, and
1636 C-v to cut or copy into register 0-9, or paste from register 0-9.
1637
1638 The last text deleted (not killed) is automatically stored in
1639 register 0. This includes text deleted by typing text.
1640
1641 Finally, cua provides a global mark which is set using S-C-space.
1642 When the global mark is active, any text which is cut or copied is
1643 automatically inserted at the global mark position. See the
1644 commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.
1645
1646 The features of cua also works with the standard Emacs bindings for
1647 kill, copy, yank, and undo. If you want to use cua mode, but don't
1648 want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
1649 `cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.
1650
1651 Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older
1652 versions of cua.el and cua-mode.el. To ensure proper operation, you
1653 must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
1654 loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.
1655
1656 ** Tramp is now part of the distribution.
1657
1658 This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote
1659 files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host,
1660 Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used
1661 for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for
1662 the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called
1663 `inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell
1664 connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods
1665 (which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or
1666 `rsync' to do the copying).
1667
1668 Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also
1669 `su' and `sudo'. Ange-FTP is still supported via the `ftp' method.
1670
1671 If you want to disable Tramp you should set
1672
1673 (setq tramp-default-method "ftp")
1674
1675 Removing Tramp, and re-enabling Ange-FTP, can be achieved by M-x
1676 tramp-unload-tramp.
1677
1678 ** The image-dired.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in
1679 other ways manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as
1680 the main interface. Image-Dired provides functionality to generate
1681 simple image galleries.
1682
1683 ** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle
1684 between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c.
1685
1686 ** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
1687
1688 ** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
1689
1690 ** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1691
1692 Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in
1693 Emacs Lisp. The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc
1694 can be started with `C-x * *'. The Calc manual is separate from the
1695 Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the
1696 manual. A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and
1697 `etc/calccard.ps'.
1698
1699 ** Org mode is now part of the Emacs distribution
1700
1701 Org mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and
1702 doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
1703 It also contains a plain-text table editor with spreadsheet-like
1704 capabilities.
1705
1706 The Org mode table editor can be integrated into any major mode by
1707 activating the minor mode, Orgtbl mode.
1708
1709 The documentation for org-mode is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
1710 type "C-h i m org RET" to read that manual. A reference card is
1711 available in `etc/orgcard.tex' and `etc/orgcard.ps'.
1712
1713 ** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1714
1715 ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
1716
1717 To see what modules are available, type
1718 M-x customize-option erc-modules RET.
1719
1720 To start an IRC session with ERC, type M-x erc, and follow the prompts
1721 for server, port, and nick.
1722
1723 ** Rcirc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1724
1725 Rcirc is an Internet relay chat (IRC) client. It supports
1726 simultaneous connections to multiple IRC servers. Each discussion
1727 takes place in its own buffer. For each connection you can join
1728 several channels (many-to-many) and participate in private
1729 (one-to-one) chats. Both channel and private chats are contained in
1730 separate buffers.
1731
1732 To start an IRC session using the default parameters, type M-x irc.
1733 If you type C-u M-x irc, it prompts you for the server, nick, port and
1734 startup channel parameters before connecting.
1735
1736 ** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
1737 customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
1738
1739 ** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1740
1741 Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news
1742 sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the
1743 corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a
1744 separate manual.
1745
1746 ** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
1747 buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...
1748
1749 ** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1750
1751 The ido (interactively do) package is an extension of the iswitchb
1752 package to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition
1753 to interactive buffer switching. Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with
1754 a few exceptions), so don't enable both packages.
1755
1756 ** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
1757 filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
1758 that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
1759 Emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim,
1760 invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable. The display method can
1761 be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.
1762
1763 ** Emacs' keyboard macro facilities have been enhanced by the new
1764 kmacro package.
1765
1766 Keyboard macros are now defined and executed via the F3 and F4 keys:
1767 F3 starts a macro, F4 ends the macro, and pressing F4 again executes
1768 the last macro. While defining the macro, F3 inserts a counter value
1769 which automatically increments every time the macro is executed.
1770
1771 There is now a keyboard macro ring which stores the most recently
1772 defined macros.
1773
1774 The C-x C-k sequence is now a prefix for the kmacro keymap which
1775 defines bindings for moving through the keyboard macro ring,
1776 C-x C-k C-p and C-x C-k C-n, editing the last macro C-x C-k C-e,
1777 manipulating the macro counter and format via C-x C-k C-c,
1778 C-x C-k C-a, and C-x C-k C-f. See the commentary in kmacro.el
1779 for more commands.
1780
1781 The original macro bindings C-x (, C-x ), and C-x e are still
1782 available, but they now interface to the keyboard macro ring too.
1783
1784 The C-x e command now automatically terminates the current macro
1785 before calling it, if used while defining a macro.
1786
1787 In addition, when ending or calling a macro with C-x e, the macro can
1788 be repeated immediately by typing just the `e'. You can customize
1789 this behavior via the variables kmacro-call-repeat-key and
1790 kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg.
1791
1792 Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
1793 C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence
1794 at a time, prompting for the actions to take.
1795
1796 ** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
1797 the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards. The numeric
1798 keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
1799 +, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key. The keypad
1800 package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys.
1801
1802 By customizing the variables `keypad-setup', `keypad-shifted-setup',
1803 `keypad-numlock-setup', and `keypad-numlock-shifted-setup', or by
1804 using the function `keypad-setup', you can rebind all digit keys and
1805 the decimal key of the keypad in one step for each of the four
1806 possible combinations of the Shift key state (not pressed/pressed) and
1807 the NumLock toggle state (off/on).
1808
1809 The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are:
1810 `Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits,
1811 `Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
1812 decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
1813 `Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
1814 for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
1815 where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
1816 `Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
1817 are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
1818 or local keymaps.
1819
1820 ** The printing package is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1821
1822 If you enable the printing package by including (require 'printing) in
1823 the .emacs file, the normal Print item on the File menu is replaced
1824 with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through
1825 ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript
1826 printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by
1827 `ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information.
1828
1829 ** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
1830 files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
1831 mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
1832 which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or
1833 copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc. By default, Longlines
1834 mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior
1835 referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors. This is
1836 similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap
1837 feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil.
1838
1839 ** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing
1840 spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command
1841 letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers
1842 viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values.
1843
1844 ** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
1845 `text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting
1846 these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG
1847 table editing available in modern word processors. The package also
1848 can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such
1849 as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.
1850
1851 ** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in
1852 various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
1853 program files that include other program files.
1854
1855 Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on
1856 all the files in it, such as visiting them or searching and replacing
1857 in them.
1858
1859 ** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you
1860 move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer.
1861 It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts
1862 of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ...
1863
1864 There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers.
1865
1866 ** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
1867 When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible. When disabled, it
1868 restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
1869
1870 ** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
1871 source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.
1872
1873 ** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions.
1874 To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file.
1875
1876 ** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an
1877 "active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually
1878 change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list'
1879 settings.
1880
1881 ** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
1882 events from the console. It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
1883 for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.
1884
1885 ** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
1886 for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or
1887 paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
1888 instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
1889 boundaries during scrolling.
1890
1891 ** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
1892 shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.
1893
1894 ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
1895 varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
1896 var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
1897 section { }). Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
1898 .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
1899 recognized.
1900
1901 ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
1902
1903 ** The new package dns-mode.el adds syntax highlighting of DNS master files.
1904 It is a modern replacement for zone-mode.el, which is now obsolete.
1905
1906 ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
1907 configuration files.
1908
1909 ** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
1910 This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
1911 \f
1912 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:
1913
1914 ** Changes in Dired
1915
1916 *** Bindings for Image-Dired added.
1917 Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been
1918 added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Image-Dired. As a
1919 starting point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d
1920 to display thumbnails of them in a separate buffer.
1921
1922 ** Info mode changes
1923
1924 *** Images in Info pages are supported.
1925
1926 Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
1927 Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
1928 version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.
1929
1930 *** `Info-index' offers completion.
1931
1932 *** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
1933 references and following them calls `browse-url'.
1934
1935 *** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.
1936
1937 Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error
1938 message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through
1939 other nodes. When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps
1940 around the whole manual to the top/final node. The user option
1941 `Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch,
1942 or the default isearch search function that wraps around the current
1943 Info node.
1944
1945 *** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
1946 `Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
1947 search without prompting for a new search string.
1948
1949 *** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
1950 Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
1951 possible matches.
1952
1953 *** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon)
1954 moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using
1955 `Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last').
1956
1957 *** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.
1958
1959 *** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
1960 from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.
1961
1962 *** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
1963 the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix
1964 arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
1965
1966 *** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
1967 and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
1968
1969 *** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
1970 with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").
1971
1972 *** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
1973
1974 If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
1975 `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
1976
1977 *** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil.
1978
1979 ** Emacs server changes
1980
1981 *** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.
1982
1983 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
1984 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start &
1985 % emacsclient -s foo file1
1986 % emacsclient -s bar file2
1987
1988 *** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
1989 `--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given Lisp
1990 expression and to use the given display when visiting files.
1991
1992 *** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.
1993
1994 ** Locate changes
1995
1996 *** By default, reverting the *Locate* buffer now just runs the last
1997 `locate' command back over again without offering to update the locate
1998 database (which normally only works if you have root privileges). If
1999 you prefer the old behavior, set the new customizable option
2000 `locate-update-when-revert' to t.
2001
2002 ** Desktop package
2003
2004 *** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, `desktop-save-mode'.
2005
2006 *** The variable `desktop-enable' is obsolete.
2007
2008 Customize `desktop-save-mode' to enable desktop saving.
2009
2010 *** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
2011 buffer list.
2012
2013 *** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers
2014 immediately, remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is
2015 idle).
2016
2017 *** New command line option --no-desktop
2018
2019 *** New commands:
2020 - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
2021 - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
2022 - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
2023 it was loaded.
2024 - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
2025 - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.
2026
2027 *** New customizable variables:
2028 - desktop-save. Determines whether the desktop should be saved when it is
2029 killed.
2030 - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
2031 - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
2032 - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save.
2033 - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear.
2034 - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear'
2035 should not delete.
2036 - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are
2037 restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
2038 - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers.
2039 - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.
2040
2041 *** New hooks:
2042 - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
2043 - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
2044
2045 ** Recentf changes
2046
2047 The recent file list is now automatically cleaned up when recentf mode is
2048 enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do
2049 automatic cleanup.
2050
2051 The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut
2052 keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via
2053 the `recentf-open-files', or `recentf-open-more-files' commands.
2054
2055 The `recentf-keep' option replaces `recentf-keep-non-readable-files-p'
2056 and provides a more general mechanism to customize which file names to
2057 keep in the recent list.
2058
2059 With the more advanced option `recentf-filename-handlers', you can
2060 specify functions that successively transform recent file names. For
2061 example, if set to `file-truename' plus `abbreviate-file-name', the
2062 same file will not be in the recent list with different symbolic
2063 links, and the file name will be abbreviated.
2064
2065 To follow naming convention, `recentf-menu-append-commands-flag'
2066 replaces the misnamed option `recentf-menu-append-commands-p'. The
2067 old name remains available as alias, but has been marked obsolete.
2068
2069 ** Auto-Revert changes
2070
2071 *** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
2072
2073 If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert
2074 mode keeps it at the end after reverting. Similarly if point is
2075 displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at the end
2076 of the buffer in that window. This allows you to "tail" a file: just
2077 put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there. This rule
2078 applies to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the behavior can be mode
2079 dependent.
2080
2081 If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end,
2082 then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor
2083 mode Auto Revert Tail mode. The function `auto-revert-tail-mode'
2084 toggles this mode.
2085
2086 *** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
2087 other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
2088 revert. This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
2089 and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil. Auto Revert
2090 mode only reverts a non-file buffer if the buffer has a non-nil
2091 `revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which
2092 decides whether the buffer should be reverted. Currently, this means
2093 that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
2094 work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.
2095
2096 *** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
2097 Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
2098 control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
2099 which it is active. If the option is nil, the default, then this info
2100 only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.
2101
2102 ** Changes in Shell Mode
2103
2104 *** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
2105 bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text. (This
2106 is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)
2107
2108 ** Changes in Hi Lock
2109
2110 *** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function
2111 `global-hi-lock-mode' enables Hi Lock in all buffers. By default, if
2112 hi-lock-mode is used in what appears to be the initialization file, a
2113 warning message suggests to use global-hi-lock-mode instead. However,
2114 if the new variable `hi-lock-archaic-interface-deduce' is non-nil,
2115 using hi-lock-mode in an initialization file will turn on Hi Lock in all
2116 buffers and no warning will be issued (for compatibility with the
2117 behavior in older versions of Emacs).
2118
2119 ** Changes in Allout
2120
2121 *** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and
2122 decryption. Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and
2123 clear-text within a single file to your heart's content, using symmetric
2124 and/or public key modes. Time-limited key caching, user-provided
2125 symmetric key hinting and consistency verification, auto-encryption of
2126 pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in
2127 powerful ways. Encryption behavior customization is collected in the
2128 allout-encryption customization group.
2129
2130 *** Default command prefix was changed to "\C-c " (control-c space), to
2131 avoid intruding on user's keybinding space. Customize the
2132 `allout-command-prefix' variable to your preference.
2133
2134 *** Some previously rough topic-header format edge cases are reconciled.
2135 Level 1 topics use the mode's comment format, and lines starting with the
2136 asterisk - for instance, the comment close of some languages (eg, c's "*/"
2137 or mathematica's "*)") - at the beginning of line are no longer are
2138 interpreted as level 1 topics in those modes.
2139
2140 *** Many or most commonly occurring "accidental" topics are disqualified.
2141 Text in item bodies that looks like a low-depth topic is no longer mistaken
2142 for one unless its first offspring (or that of its next sibling with
2143 offspring) is only one level deeper.
2144
2145 For example, pasting some text with a bunch of leading asterisks into a
2146 topic that's followed by a level 3 or deeper topic will not cause the
2147 pasted text to be mistaken for outline structure.
2148
2149 The same constraint is applied to any level 2 or 3 topics.
2150
2151 This settles an old issue where typed or pasted text needed to be carefully
2152 reviewed, and sometimes doctored, to avoid accidentally disrupting the
2153 outline structure. Now that should be generally unnecessary, as the most
2154 prone-to-occur accidents are disqualified.
2155
2156 *** Allout now refuses to create "containment discontinuities", where a
2157 topic is shifted deeper than the offspring-depth of its container. On the
2158 other hand, allout now operates gracefully with existing containment
2159 discontinuities, revealing excessively contained topics rather than either
2160 leaving them hidden or raising an error.
2161
2162 *** Navigation within an item is easier. Repeated beginning-of-line and
2163 end-of-line key commands (usually, ^A and ^E) cycle through the
2164 beginning/end-of-line and then beginning/end of topic, etc. See new
2165 customization vars `allout-beginning-of-line-cycles' and
2166 `allout-end-of-line-cycles'.
2167
2168 *** New or revised allout-mode activity hooks enable creation of
2169 cooperative enhancements to allout mode without changes to the mode,
2170 itself.
2171
2172 See `allout-exposure-change-hook', `allout-structure-added-hook',
2173 `allout-structure-deleted-hook', and `allout-structure-shifted-hook'.
2174
2175 `allout-exposure-change-hook' replaces the existing
2176 `allout-view-change-hook', which is being deprecated. Both are still
2177 invoked, but `allout-view-change-hook' will eventually be ignored.
2178 `allout-exposure-change-hook' is called with explicit arguments detailing
2179 the specifics of each change (as are the other new hooks), making it easier
2180 to use than the old version.
2181
2182 There is a new mode deactivation hook, `allout-mode-deactivate-hook', for
2183 coordinating with deactivation of allout-mode. Both that and the mode
2184 activation hook, `allout-mode-hook' are now run after the `allout-mode'
2185 variable is changed, rather than before.
2186
2187 *** Allout now uses text overlay's `invisible' property for concealed text,
2188 instead of selective-display. This simplifies the code, in particular
2189 avoiding the need for kludges for isearch dynamic-display, discretionary
2190 handling of edits of concealed text, undo concerns, etc.
2191
2192 *** There are many other fixes and refinements, including:
2193
2194 - repaired inhibition of inadvertent edits to concealed text, without
2195 inhibiting undo; we now reveal undo changes within concealed text.
2196 - auto-fill-mode is now left inactive when allout-mode starts, if it
2197 already was inactive. also, `allout-inhibit-auto-fill' custom
2198 configuration variable makes it easy to disable auto fill in allout
2199 outlines in general or on a per-buffer basis.
2200 - allout now tolerates fielded text in outlines without disruption.
2201 - hot-spot navigation now is modularized with a new function,
2202 `allout-hotspot-key-handler', enabling easier use and enhancement of
2203 the functionality in allout addons.
2204 - repaired retention of topic body hanging indent upon topic depth shifts
2205 - bulleting variation is simpler and more accommodating, both in the
2206 default behavior and in ability to vary when creating new topics
2207 - mode deactivation now does cleans up effectively, more properly
2208 restoring affected variables and hooks to former state, removing
2209 overlays, etc. see `allout-add-resumptions' and
2210 `allout-do-resumptions', which replace the old `allout-resumptions'.
2211 - included a few unit-tests for interior functionality. developers can
2212 have them automatically run at the end of module load by customizing
2213 the option `allout-run-unit-tests-on-load'.
2214 - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
2215 - version number incremented to 2.2
2216
2217 ** Hideshow mode changes
2218
2219 *** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
2220 used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch
2221 handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
2222 temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
2223
2224 *** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does
2225 not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent
2226 block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil.
2227
2228 ** FFAP changes
2229
2230 *** New ffap commands and keybindings:
2231
2232 C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'),
2233 C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'),
2234 C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'),
2235 C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame').
2236
2237 *** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default.
2238
2239 C-x C-f passes the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS
2240 argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.
2241
2242 ** Changes in Skeleton
2243
2244 *** In skeleton.el, `-' marks the `skeleton-point' without interregion interaction.
2245
2246 `@' has reverted to only setting `skeleton-positions' and no longer
2247 sets `skeleton-point'. Skeletons which used @ to mark
2248 `skeleton-point' independent of `_' should now use `-' instead. The
2249 updated `skeleton-insert' docstring explains these new features along
2250 with other details of skeleton construction.
2251
2252 *** The variables `skeleton-transformation', `skeleton-filter', and
2253 `skeleton-pair-filter' have been renamed to
2254 `skeleton-transformation-function', `skeleton-filter-function', and
2255 `skeleton-pair-filter-function'. The old names are still available
2256 as aliases.
2257
2258 ** HTML/SGML changes
2259
2260 *** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files
2261 automatically.
2262
2263 *** SGML mode has indentation and supports XML syntax.
2264 The new variable `sgml-xml-mode' tells SGML mode to use XML syntax.
2265 When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
2266 i.e., there is always a closing tag.
2267 By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
2268 from the file name or buffer contents.
2269
2270 *** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
2271 `sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as
2272 alias.
2273
2274 *** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support.
2275
2276 ** TeX modes
2277
2278 *** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.
2279
2280 *** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default.
2281
2282 *** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
2283 by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
2284 command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
2285 TeX commands to use at startup.
2286
2287 *** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
2288 and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.
2289
2290 ** RefTeX mode changes
2291
2292 *** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents
2293
2294 The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the
2295 section at point or all sections in the current region, with full
2296 support for multifile documents.
2297
2298 The new command `reftex-toc-recenter' (`C-c -') shows the current
2299 section in the TOC buffer without selecting the TOC window.
2300 Recentering can happen automatically in idle time when the option
2301 `reftex-auto-recenter-toc' is turned on. The highlight in the TOC
2302 buffer stays when the focus moves to a different window. A dedicated
2303 frame can show the TOC with the current section always automatically
2304 highlighted. The frame is created and deleted from the toc buffer
2305 with the `d' key.
2306
2307 The toc window can be split off horizontally instead of vertically.
2308 See new option `reftex-toc-split-windows-horizontally'.
2309
2310 Labels can be renamed globally from the table of contents using the
2311 key `M-%'.
2312
2313 The new command `reftex-goto-label' jumps directly to a label
2314 location.
2315
2316 *** Changes related to citations and BibTeX database files
2317
2318 Commands that insert a citation now prompt for optional arguments when
2319 called with a prefix argument. Related new options are
2320 `reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' and `reftex-cite-cleanup-optional-args'.
2321
2322 The new command `reftex-create-bibtex-file' creates a BibTeX database
2323 with all entries referenced in the current document. The keys "e" and
2324 "E" allow to produce a BibTeX database file from entries marked in a
2325 citation selection buffer.
2326
2327 The command `reftex-citation' uses the word in the buffer before the
2328 cursor as a default search string.
2329
2330 The support for chapterbib has been improved. Different chapters can
2331 now use BibTeX or an explicit `thebibliography' environment.
2332
2333 The macros which specify the bibliography file (like \bibliography)
2334 can be configured with the new option `reftex-bibliography-commands'.
2335
2336 Support for jurabib has been added.
2337
2338 *** Global index matched may be verified with a user function.
2339
2340 During global indexing, a user function can verify an index match.
2341 See new option `reftex-index-verify-function'.
2342
2343 *** Parsing documents with many labels can be sped up.
2344
2345 Operating in a document with thousands of labels can be sped up
2346 considerably by allowing RefTeX to derive the type of a label directly
2347 from the label prefix like `eq:' or `fig:'. The option
2348 `reftex-trust-label-prefix' needs to be configured in order to enable
2349 this feature. While the speed-up is significant, this may reduce the
2350 quality of the context offered by RefTeX to describe a label.
2351
2352 *** Miscellaneous changes
2353
2354 The macros which input a file in LaTeX (like \input, \include) can be
2355 configured in the new option `reftex-include-file-commands'.
2356
2357 RefTeX supports global incremental search.
2358
2359 ** BibTeX mode
2360
2361 *** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
2362 point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).
2363
2364 *** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
2365 an existing BibTeX entry by inserting fields that may occur but are not
2366 present.
2367
2368 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.
2369
2370 *** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
2371 `crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used
2372 for BibTeX entries. `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting
2373 scheme `entry-class'. TAB completion for reference keys and
2374 automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that
2375 `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' is non-nil.
2376
2377 *** The new command `bibtex-complete' completes word fragment before
2378 point according to context (bound to M-tab).
2379
2380 *** In BibTeX mode the command `fill-paragraph' (M-q) fills
2381 individual fields of a BibTeX entry.
2382
2383 *** The new variable `bibtex-autofill-types' contains a list of entry
2384 types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible).
2385
2386 *** The new commands `bibtex-find-entry' and `bibtex-find-crossref'
2387 locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x).
2388 Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET).
2389
2390 *** The new variables `bibtex-files' and `bibtex-file-path' define a set
2391 of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys.
2392
2393 *** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
2394 in multiple BibTeX files.
2395
2396 *** If the new variable `bibtex-autoadd-commas' is non-nil,
2397 automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields.
2398
2399 *** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
2400 of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).
2401
2402 *** If the new variable `bibtex-parse-keys-fast' is non-nil,
2403 use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys.
2404
2405 *** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and
2406 bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when
2407 extracting the content of a BibTeX field.
2408
2409 *** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and
2410 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
2411 `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
2412 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are
2413 still available as aliases.
2414
2415 ** GUD changes
2416
2417 *** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
2418 GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
2419 there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
2420 state of your program. It can separate the input/output of your program from
2421 that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of
2422 Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
2423 breakpoints.
2424
2425 To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the
2426 old behaviour.
2427
2428 *** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
2429 and other common debugger commands.
2430
2431 *** In GUD mode, when talking to GDB, C-x C-a C-j "jumps" the program
2432 counter to the specified source line (the one where point is).
2433
2434 *** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be
2435 toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
2436 `gud-tooltip-mode'.
2437
2438 *** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to
2439 display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is
2440 not executing.
2441
2442 *** GUD mode improvements for jdb:
2443
2444 **** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class information.
2445 Fast startup since there is no need to scan all source files up front.
2446 There is also no need to create and maintain lists of source
2447 directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' and
2448 `gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation.
2449
2450 **** The previous method of searching for source files has been
2451 preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
2452 Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.
2453
2454 **** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear)
2455 set/clear operations from Java source files under the classpath, stack
2456 traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish
2457 (gud-finish).
2458
2459 **** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
2460 (Java 1.1 jdb).
2461
2462 *** Added jdb Customization Variables
2463
2464 **** `gud-jdb-command-name'. What command line to use to invoke jdb.
2465
2466 **** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'. Allows selection of java source file searching
2467 method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
2468 java sources (previous method).
2469
2470 **** `gud-jdb-directories'. List of directories to scan and search for Java
2471 classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
2472 is nil).
2473
2474 *** Minor Improvements
2475
2476 **** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
2477 instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool. For backwards
2478 compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
2479 `starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
2480 `starttls' tool).
2481
2482 **** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
2483
2484 ** Lisp mode changes
2485
2486 *** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings.
2487
2488 *** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list after point.
2489
2490 *** New features in evaluation commands
2491
2492 **** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
2493 the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
2494
2495 **** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
2496 in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified
2497 by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'. The same
2498 function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
2499 `eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.
2500
2501 ** Changes to cmuscheme
2502
2503 *** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to
2504 evaluate a Scheme expression but no Scheme subprocess is running.
2505
2506 *** If the file ~/.emacs_NAME or ~/.emacs.d/init_NAME.scm (where NAME
2507 is the name of the Scheme interpreter) exists, its contents are sent
2508 to the Scheme subprocess upon startup.
2509
2510 *** There are new commands to instruct the Scheme interpreter to trace
2511 procedure calls (`scheme-trace-procedure') and to expand syntactic forms
2512 (`scheme-expand-current-form'). The commands actually sent to the Scheme
2513 subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command',
2514 `scheme-untrace-command' and `scheme-expand-current-form'.
2515
2516 ** Ewoc changes
2517
2518 *** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.
2519
2520 *** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of
2521 a newline after each pretty-printed entry and after the header and footer.
2522 This allows you to create multiple-entry ewocs on a single line and to
2523 effect "invisible" nodes by arranging for the pretty-printer to not print
2524 anything for those nodes.
2525
2526 For example, these two sequences of expressions behave identically:
2527
2528 ;; NOSEP nil
2529 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S" data)))
2530 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n")
2531
2532 ;; NOSEP t
2533 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S\n" data)))
2534 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n\n" "\n" t)
2535
2536 ** CC mode changes
2537
2538 *** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised.
2539 The information about using CC Mode has been separated from the larger
2540 and more difficult chapters about configuration.
2541
2542 *** New Minor Modes
2543 **** Electric Minor Mode toggles the electric action of non-alphabetic keys.
2544 The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. Turning the
2545 mode off can be helpful for editing chaotically indented code and for
2546 users new to CC Mode, who sometimes find electric indentation
2547 disconcerting. Its current state is displayed in the mode line with an
2548 'l', e.g. "C/al".
2549
2550 **** Subword Minor Mode makes Emacs recognize word boundaries at upper case
2551 letters in StudlyCapsIdentifiers. You enable this feature by C-c C-w. It can
2552 also be used in non-CC Mode buffers. :-) Contributed by Masatake YAMATO.
2553
2554 *** Support for the AWK language.
2555 Support for the AWK language has been introduced. The implementation is
2556 based around GNU AWK version 3.1, but it should work pretty well with
2557 any AWK. As yet, not all features of CC Mode have been adapted for AWK.
2558 Here is a summary:
2559
2560 **** Indentation Engine
2561 The CC Mode indentation engine fully supports AWK mode.
2562
2563 AWK mode handles code formatted in the conventional AWK fashion: `{'s
2564 which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are
2565 placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s
2566 are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function
2567 definition, or structured statement.
2568
2569 The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK
2570 mode, though some of them may work serendipitously. There shouldn't
2571 be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode.
2572
2573 **** Font Locking
2574 There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the
2575 three distinct levels the other modes have. There are several
2576 idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of
2577 the AWK language itself.
2578
2579 **** Comment and Movement Commands
2580 These commands all work for AWK buffers. The notion of "defun" has
2581 been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard
2582 "defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this
2583 extended definition.
2584
2585 **** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups
2586 A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default
2587 style for AWK code. With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up
2588 c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful.
2589
2590 *** Font lock support.
2591 CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages. This
2592 supersedes the font lock patterns that have been in the core font lock
2593 package for C, C++, Java and Objective-C. Like indentation, font
2594 locking is done in a uniform way across all languages (except the new
2595 AWK mode - see below). That means that the new font locking will be
2596 different from the old patterns in various details for most languages.
2597
2598 The main goal of the font locking in CC Mode is accuracy, to provide a
2599 dependable aid in recognizing the various constructs. Some, like
2600 strings and comments, are easy to recognize while others like
2601 declarations and types can be very tricky. CC Mode can go to great
2602 lengths to recognize declarations and casts correctly, especially when
2603 the types aren't recognized by standard patterns. This is a fairly
2604 demanding analysis which can be slow on older hardware, and it can
2605 therefore be disabled by choosing a lower decoration level with the
2606 variable font-lock-maximum-decoration.
2607
2608 Note that the most demanding font lock level has been tuned with lazy
2609 fontification in mind; Just-In-Time-Lock mode should be enabled for
2610 the highest font lock level (by default, it is). Fontifying a file
2611 with several thousand lines in one go can take the better part of a
2612 minute.
2613
2614 **** The (c|c++|objc|java|idl|pike)-font-lock-extra-types variables
2615 are now used by CC Mode to recognize identifiers that are certain to
2616 be types. (They are also used in cases that aren't related to font
2617 locking.) At the maximum decoration level, types are often recognized
2618 properly anyway, so these variables should be fairly restrictive and
2619 not contain patterns for uncertain types.
2620
2621 **** Support for documentation comments.
2622 There is a "plugin" system to fontify documentation comments like
2623 Javadoc and the markup within them. It's independent of the host
2624 language, so it's possible to e.g. turn on Javadoc font locking in C
2625 buffers. See the variable c-doc-comment-style for details.
2626
2627 Currently three kinds of doc comment styles are recognized: Sun's
2628 Javadoc, Autodoc (which is used in Pike) and GtkDoc (used in C). (The
2629 last was contributed by Masatake YAMATO). This is by no means a
2630 complete list of the most common tools; if your doc comment extractor
2631 of choice is missing then please drop a note to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2632
2633 **** Better handling of C++ templates.
2634 As a side effect of the more accurate font locking, C++ templates are
2635 now handled much better. The angle brackets that delimit them are
2636 given parenthesis syntax so that they can be navigated like other
2637 parens.
2638
2639 This also improves indentation of templates, although there still is
2640 work to be done in that area. E.g. it's required that multiline
2641 template clauses are written in full and then refontified to be
2642 recognized, and the indentation of nested templates is a bit odd and
2643 not as configurable as it ought to be.
2644
2645 **** Improved handling of Objective-C and CORBA IDL.
2646 Especially the support for Objective-C and IDL has gotten an overhaul.
2647 The special "@" declarations in Objective-C are handled correctly.
2648 All the keywords used in CORBA IDL, PSDL, and CIDL are recognized and
2649 handled correctly, also wrt indentation.
2650
2651 *** Changes in Key Sequences
2652 **** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t.
2653
2654 **** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d.
2655 This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards.
2656
2657 **** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline.
2658 c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias.
2659
2660 **** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards
2661 have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and
2662 C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively. These
2663 commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single
2664 key-sequence. [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.]
2665
2666 **** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l.
2667
2668 **** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w.
2669
2670 *** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor
2671 position(s).
2672
2673 *** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode.
2674 The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are
2675 now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
2676 module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
2677 composition-close, and incomposition.
2678
2679 *** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
2680 The new functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward'
2681 provide hungry deletion without having to toggle a mode. They are
2682 bound to C-c C-DEL and C-c C-d (and several variants, for the benefit
2683 of different keyboard setups. See "Changes in key sequences" above).
2684
2685 *** Better control over `require-final-newline'.
2686
2687 The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
2688 implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines. Its value is a
2689 list of modes, and only those modes should do it. By default the list
2690 includes C, C++ and Objective-C modes.
2691
2692 Whichever modes are in this list will set `require-final-newline'
2693 based on `mode-require-final-newline'.
2694
2695 *** Format change for syntactic context elements.
2696
2697 The elements in the syntactic context returned by `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2698 and stored in `c-syntactic-context' has been changed somewhat to allow
2699 attaching more information. They are now lists instead of single cons
2700 cells. E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis
2701
2702 ((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13))
2703
2704 is now analyzed as
2705
2706 ((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))
2707
2708 In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
2709 symbol.
2710
2711 This change might affect code that calls `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2712 directly, and custom lineup functions if they use
2713 `c-syntactic-context'. However, the argument given to lineup
2714 functions is still a single cons cell with nil or an integer in the
2715 cdr.
2716
2717 *** API changes for derived modes.
2718
2719 There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
2720 derived mode writers. Some of these changes are likely to cause
2721 incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
2722 care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
2723 Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.
2724
2725 **** New language variable system.
2726 These are variables whose values vary between CC Mode's different
2727 languages. See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.
2728
2729 **** New initialization functions.
2730 The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
2731 give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
2732 `c-init-language-vars'.
2733
2734 *** Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.
2735 The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where
2736 several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line. They are
2737 now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.
2738
2739 This means that CC Mode now indents some cases differently, and
2740 although it's more consistent there might be cases where the old way
2741 gave results that's more to one's liking. So if you find a situation
2742 where you think that the indentation has become worse, please report
2743 it to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2744
2745 **** New syntactic symbol substatement-label.
2746 This symbol is used when a label is inserted between a statement and
2747 its substatement. E.g:
2748
2749 if (x)
2750 x_is_true:
2751 do_stuff();
2752
2753 *** Better handling of multiline macros.
2754
2755 **** Syntactic indentation inside macros.
2756 The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented
2757 syntactically just like other code. This can be disabled by the new
2758 variable `c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros'. A new syntactic symbol
2759 `cpp-define-intro' has been added to control the initial indentation
2760 inside `#define's.
2761
2762 **** New lineup function `c-lineup-cpp-define'.
2763
2764 Now used by default to line up macro continuation lines. The behavior
2765 of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro
2766 is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily
2767 removed. If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works
2768 much line `c-lineup-dont-change', which was used earlier, but handles
2769 empty lines within the macro better.
2770
2771 **** Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one.
2772 This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
2773 `c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.
2774
2775 **** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2776 `c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes. New
2777 variable `c-backslash-max-column' puts a limit on how far out
2778 backslashes can be moved.
2779
2780 **** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2781 This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'. It
2782 affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
2783 inserted in Auto-Newline mode.
2784
2785 **** Line indentation works better inside macros.
2786 Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
2787 inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
2788 line continuation backslashes. This is most noticeable when syntactic
2789 indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
2790 backslash) in the macro.
2791
2792 *** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
2793 The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
2794 the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'. The indentation behavior is
2795 based on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after
2796 #else and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other
2797 cases (something which was hardcoded earlier).
2798
2799 *** New function `c-context-open-line'.
2800 It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.
2801
2802 *** New clean-ups
2803
2804 **** `comment-close-slash'.
2805 With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by
2806 typing a slash at the start of a line.
2807
2808 **** `c-one-liner-defun'
2809 This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK
2810 pattern/action pair) onto a single line. "Short enough" is configurable.
2811
2812 *** New lineup functions
2813
2814 **** `c-lineup-string-cont'
2815 This lineup function lines up a continued string under the one it
2816 continues. E.g:
2817
2818 result = prefix + "A message "
2819 "string."; <- c-lineup-string-cont
2820
2821 **** `c-lineup-cascaded-calls'
2822 Lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".
2823
2824 **** `c-lineup-knr-region-comment'
2825 Gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in
2826 the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.
2827
2828 **** `c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg'
2829 Provides better indentation inside asm blocks.
2830
2831 **** `c-lineup-argcont'
2832 Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma.
2833
2834 *** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
2835 The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
2836 syntactic indentation.
2837
2838 *** Better caching of the syntactic context.
2839 CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind)
2840 of the lists surrounding the point. Those positions are used in many
2841 places as anchor points for various searches. The cache is now
2842 improved so that it can be reused to a large extent when the point is
2843 moved. The less it moves, the less needs to be recalculated.
2844
2845 The effect is that CC Mode should be fast most of the time even when
2846 opening parens are hung (i.e. aren't in column zero). It's typically
2847 only the first time after the point is moved far down in a complex
2848 file that it'll take noticeable time to find out the syntactic
2849 context.
2850
2851 *** Statements are recognized in a more robust way.
2852 Statements are recognized most of the time even when they occur in an
2853 "invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument. In practice that can
2854 happen when macros are involved.
2855
2856 *** Improved the way `c-indent-exp' chooses the block to indent.
2857 It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point
2858 whose closing paren ends on a different line. This means that the
2859 point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent.
2860 Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current
2861 line is left untouched.
2862
2863 ** Changes in Makefile mode
2864
2865 *** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp, BSD make and imake.
2866
2867 The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter three
2868 are new. Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable
2869 faces.
2870
2871 *** The variable `makefile-query-one-target-method' has been renamed
2872 to `makefile-query-one-target-method-function'. The old name is still
2873 available as alias.
2874
2875 ** Sql changes
2876
2877 *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlighting of different
2878 SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a
2879 buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current
2880 session using the new SQL->Product submenu. (This menu replaces the
2881 SQL->Highlighting submenu.)
2882
2883 The following values are supported:
2884
2885 ansi ANSI Standard (default)
2886 db2 DB2
2887 informix Informix
2888 ingres Ingres
2889 interbase Interbase
2890 linter Linter
2891 ms Microsoft
2892 mysql MySQL
2893 oracle Oracle
2894 postgres Postgres
2895 solid Solid
2896 sqlite SQLite
2897 sybase Sybase
2898
2899 The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the
2900 SQL mode indicator.
2901
2902 The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in
2903 your `.emacs' will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use
2904 `sql-product' to accomplish this.
2905
2906 ANSI keywords are always highlighted.
2907
2908 *** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add
2909 font-lock rules to the product specific rules. For example, to have
2910 all identifiers ending in `_t' under MS SQLServer treated as a type,
2911 you would use the following line in your .emacs file:
2912
2913 (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
2914 '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face)))
2915
2916 *** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i.
2917
2918 Most SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented. SQL*Plus commands are
2919 highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'.
2920
2921 *** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved.
2922
2923 Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented.
2924 sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because
2925 osql flushes its error stream more frequently. Thus error messages
2926 are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is
2927 terminated.
2928
2929 If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is
2930 called with the `-E' command line argument to use the operating system
2931 credentials to authenticate the user.
2932
2933 *** Postgres support is enhanced.
2934 Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented. Prompting for
2935 the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added.
2936
2937 *** MySQL support is enhanced.
2938 Keyword highlighting of MySql 4.0 is implemented.
2939
2940 *** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes,
2941 packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and
2942 defaults.
2943
2944 *** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
2945 appropriate `sql-interactive-mode' wrapper for the current setting of
2946 `sql-product'.
2947
2948 *** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'.
2949
2950 ** Fortran mode changes
2951
2952 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
2953 It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
2954 majority.
2955
2956 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
2957 `f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
2958 `f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
2959 `fortran-beginning-of-block'.
2960
2961 *** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
2962 highlighting for the old default.
2963
2964 *** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
2965 Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
2966 Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.
2967
2968 *** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change
2969 the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers.
2970
2971 ** Miscellaneous programming mode changes
2972
2973 *** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
2974 preceded by a SPC or a TAB.
2975
2976 *** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
2977
2978 *** The old Octave mode bindings C-c f and C-c i have been changed
2979 to C-c C-f and C-c C-i. The C-c C-i subcommands now have duplicate
2980 bindings on control characters--thus, C-c C-i C-b is the same as
2981 C-c C-i b, and so on.
2982
2983 *** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords'
2984 to support use of font-lock.
2985
2986 ** VC Changes
2987
2988 *** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.
2989
2990 *** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies switches that
2991 are passed to any CVS command invoked by VC.
2992
2993 These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which means they
2994 are inserted before the command name. For example, this allows you to
2995 specify a compression level using the `-z#' option for CVS.
2996
2997 *** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
2998 (toggle-read-only). It no longer checks files in or out.
2999
3000 We made this change because we held a poll and found that many users
3001 were unhappy with the previous behavior. If you do prefer this
3002 behavior, you can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your
3003 `.emacs' file:
3004
3005 (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only)
3006
3007 The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist.
3008
3009 *** VC-Annotate mode enhancements
3010
3011 In VC-Annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for
3012 enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or
3013 to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode:
3014
3015 P: annotates the previous revision
3016 N: annotates the next revision
3017 J: annotates the revision at line
3018 A: annotates the revision previous to line
3019 D: shows the diff of the revision at line with its previous revision
3020 L: shows the log of the revision at line
3021 W: annotates the workfile (most up to date) version
3022
3023 ** pcl-cvs changes
3024
3025 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d y' command to view the diffs
3026 between the local version of the file and yesterday's head revision
3027 in the repository.
3028
3029 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
3030 anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
3031 `checkout', `update' or `commit'. That means using cvs diff options
3032 -rBASE -rHEAD.
3033
3034 ** Diff changes
3035
3036 *** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode.
3037
3038 *** Diff mode key bindings changed.
3039
3040 These are the new bindings:
3041
3042 C-c C-e diff-ediff-patch (old M-A)
3043 C-c C-n diff-restrict-view (old M-r)
3044 C-c C-r diff-reverse-direction (old M-R)
3045 C-c C-u diff-context->unified (old M-U)
3046 C-c C-w diff-refine-hunk (old C-c C-r)
3047
3048 To convert unified to context format, use C-u C-c C-u.
3049 In addition, C-c C-u now operates on the region
3050 in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active.
3051
3052 ** EDiff changes.
3053
3054 *** When comparing directories.
3055 Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of
3056 directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files
3057 from one directory to another.
3058
3059 *** When comparing files or buffers.
3060 Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the
3061 currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n'
3062 then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
3063 comparison.
3064
3065 *** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
3066 backup using `ediff'. If you specify the name of a backup file,
3067 `ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.
3068
3069 ** Etags changes.
3070
3071 *** New regular expressions features
3072
3073 **** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.
3074
3075 The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained
3076 only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is
3077 --regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS,
3078 where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or
3079 more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'
3080 (single-line). The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular
3081 expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
3082 (which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines. The ability to
3083 span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
3084 and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.
3085
3086 **** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.
3087
3088 The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
3089 respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
3090 CR, TAB, VT.
3091
3092 **** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.
3093
3094 The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
3095 only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is
3096 particularly useful when storing regexps in a file.
3097
3098 **** Regular expressions can be read from a file.
3099
3100 The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one
3101 per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.
3102
3103 *** New language parsing features
3104
3105 **** New language HTML.
3106
3107 Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'. Also,
3108 when `name=' is used inside an anchor and whenever `id=' is used.
3109
3110 **** New language PHP.
3111
3112 Functions, classes and defines are tags. If the --members option is
3113 specified to etags, variables are tags also.
3114
3115 **** New language Lua.
3116
3117 All functions are tagged.
3118
3119 **** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.
3120
3121 Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.
3122
3123 **** The GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognized and ignored.
3124
3125 **** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for #undef
3126
3127 **** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
3128
3129 If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
3130 size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.
3131
3132 **** In Perl, packages are tags.
3133
3134 Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags
3135 as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
3136 package::sub.
3137
3138 **** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.
3139
3140 **** New default keywords for TeX.
3141
3142 The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
3143 renewenvironment.
3144
3145 *** Honor #line directives.
3146
3147 When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
3148 directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
3149 specified in those directives. This is useful when dealing with code
3150 created from Cweb source files. When Etags tags the generated file, it
3151 writes tags pointing to the source file.
3152
3153 *** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.
3154
3155 This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs. It can
3156 be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line. Etags
3157 reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
3158 the file FILE.
3159
3160 ** Ctags changes.
3161
3162 *** Ctags now allows duplicate tags
3163
3164 ** Rmail changes
3165
3166 *** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
3167
3168 This version of `movemail' allows you to read mail from a wide range of
3169 mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
3170 without TLS encryption. If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
3171 and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
3172 used instead of the native one.
3173
3174 *** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
3175 by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
3176 Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.
3177
3178 *** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.
3179
3180 ** Gnus package
3181
3182 *** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
3183
3184 Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts. PGG is a library to handle
3185 PGP/MIME.
3186
3187 *** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
3188
3189 See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
3190
3191 ** MH-E changes.
3192
3193 Upgraded to MH-E version 8.0.3. There have been major changes since
3194 version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.
3195
3196 ** Miscellaneous mail changes
3197
3198 *** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies
3199 `default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for
3200 auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to "~/".
3201
3202 *** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file.
3203
3204 See the documentation of the user option `display-time-mail-directory'.
3205
3206 ** Calendar changes
3207
3208 *** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to
3209 convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format.
3210
3211 *** The new package cal-html.el writes HTML files with calendar and
3212 diary entries.
3213
3214 *** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
3215 and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
3216 from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages. The variable
3217 `diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional
3218 formats.
3219
3220 *** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed:
3221 use the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable
3222 `appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing
3223 `appt-issue-message', `appt-visible', and `appt-msg-window'.
3224
3225 *** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
3226 This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
3227 and `diary-header-line-format'.
3228
3229 *** Diary sexp entries can have custom marking in the calendar.
3230 Diary sexp functions which only apply to certain days (such as
3231 `diary-block' or `diary-cyclic') now take an optional parameter MARK,
3232 which is the name of a face or a single-character string indicating
3233 how to highlight the day in the calendar display. Specifying a
3234 single-character string as @var{mark} places the character next to the
3235 day in the calendar. Specifying a face highlights the day with that
3236 face. This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations,
3237 appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp.
3238
3239 *** The meanings of C-x < and C-x > have been interchanged.
3240 < means to scroll backward in time, and > means to scroll forward.
3241
3242 *** You can now use < and >, instead of C-x < and C-x >, to scroll
3243 the calendar left or right.
3244
3245 *** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a
3246 year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers
3247 count backward from the end of the year.
3248
3249 *** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
3250 prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
3251 day of that ISO week.
3252
3253 *** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
3254 optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
3255 rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
3256 `christian-holidays' simpler.
3257
3258 *** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
3259 window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
3260
3261 ** Speedbar changes
3262
3263 *** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on
3264 the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism.
3265
3266 *** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC,
3267 contracts or expands the line under the cursor.
3268
3269 *** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'.
3270
3271 *** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
3272 `speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
3273 respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
3274 its descendents.
3275
3276 *** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
3277 means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.
3278
3279 *** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls
3280 how querying is performed for file operations. A value of 'always
3281 means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means
3282 to not query before any file operations, except before a file
3283 deletion.
3284
3285 *** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how
3286 to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar. A
3287 value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that
3288 speedbar was started from.) A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass
3289 that number to `other-frame'.
3290
3291 *** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar
3292 keymap.
3293
3294 *** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new
3295 `dframe' library. Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar
3296 should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of
3297 `speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer',
3298 `dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and
3299 `dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of
3300 `speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'. The variables
3301 `speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also
3302 obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead.
3303
3304 ** battery.el changes
3305
3306 *** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery.
3307
3308 *** battery.el now works on recent versions of OS X.
3309
3310 ** Games
3311
3312 *** The game `mpuz' is enhanced.
3313
3314 `mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits. By
3315 default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
3316 automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
3317
3318 ** Obsolete and deleted packages
3319
3320 *** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead.
3321
3322 *** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead.
3323
3324 *** zone-mode.el is now obsolete. Use dns-mode.el instead.
3325
3326 *** cplus-md.el has been deleted.
3327
3328 ** Miscellaneous
3329
3330 *** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' is renamed
3331 to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
3332 variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
3333 automatically, without asking for a confirmation. Otherwise, the word
3334 at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt.
3335
3336 *** You can now customize `fill-nobreak-predicate' to control where
3337 filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of
3338 functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.
3339
3340 Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and
3341 `fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of
3342 `fill-nobreak-predicate'.
3343
3344 *** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
3345 with special modes such as Tar mode.
3346
3347 *** `global-whitespace-mode' is a new alias for `whitespace-global-mode'.
3348
3349 *** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
3350
3351 When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
3352 include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist.
3353 Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
3354 to get the old behavior. The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
3355 and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
3356 feature.
3357
3358 *** Commands `winner-redo' and `winner-undo', from winner.el, are now
3359 bound to C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively. This is an
3360 incompatible change.
3361
3362 *** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
3363 and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if
3364 you don't want the `.type-break' file in your home directory or are
3365 annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.
3366
3367 *** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.
3368
3369 Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with
3370 `ps-print', provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF
3371 fonts. See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts.
3372
3373 *** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
3374 This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
3375 the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for
3376 using strokes as an input method.
3377
3378 *** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top
3379 of the file that precede the first header line.
3380
3381 *** `hide-ifdef-mode' now uses overlays rather than selective-display
3382 to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly
3383 changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p.
3384
3385 *** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
3386 renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still
3387 available as alias.
3388
3389 *** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
3390 by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'
3391 and `C-c C-r'.
3392
3393 *** `partial-completion-mode' now handles partial completion on directory names.
3394
3395 *** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it.
3396
3397 M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no
3398 argument it toggles the mode. Turning off PC-Selection mode restores
3399 the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode.
3400
3401 *** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
3402 `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.
3403
3404 *** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
3405
3406 When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
3407 starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.
3408
3409 *** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
3410 resync points in both windows.
3411
3412 *** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers
3413 when Emacs visits them.
3414
3415 *** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.
3416
3417 *** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode.
3418
3419 To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil. In this mode a
3420 separator character is used every few digits, making it easier to see
3421 byte boundaries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the
3422 variable `calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.
3423
3424 *** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2.
3425
3426 *** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can
3427 run most curses applications now.
3428
3429 *** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
3430
3431 Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to
3432 use standout mode, but they can no longer display mode-lines in
3433 inverse-video.
3434
3435 \f
3436 * Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems
3437
3438 ** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile.
3439
3440 If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME
3441 environment variable and a `.emacs' was saved, then Emacs will continue
3442 using C:/ as the default HOME. But if you are installing Emacs afresh,
3443 the default location will be the "Application Data" (or similar
3444 localized name) subdirectory of your user profile. A typical location
3445 of this directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data",
3446 where USERNAME is your user name.
3447
3448 This change means that users can now have their own `.emacs' files on
3449 shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be
3450 read-only on computers that are administered by someone else.
3451
3452 ** Images are now supported on MS Windows.
3453
3454 PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
3455 depend on external libraries. All of these libraries have been ported
3456 to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
3457 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. Note that libpng also depends on
3458 zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
3459 against. For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.
3460
3461 ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
3462
3463 WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
3464 as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of
3465 Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
3466 sound support for those formats.
3467
3468 ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
3469
3470 See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.
3471
3472 ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
3473
3474 The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
3475 whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
3476 pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.
3477
3478 ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
3479
3480 You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
3481 existing values. For example:
3482
3483 emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"
3484
3485 will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
3486 irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
3487
3488 ** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.
3489
3490 The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much
3491 the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X. Emacs now adds these
3492 colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu for the
3493 default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground), and uses
3494 some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
3495 `list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
3496 you wish to use them in other faces.
3497
3498 ** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size.
3499
3500 Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs
3501 through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in
3502 a local console window with a scrollback buffer. The default value of
3503 w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favors local console
3504 windows. Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this
3505 setting. If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects
3506 that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and
3507 defaults to 80x25. If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size
3508 other than 80x25, you can still manually set
3509 w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.
3510
3511 ** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows.
3512
3513 The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer.
3514
3515 ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
3516
3517 This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the
3518 cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
3519 When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible
3520 instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by
3521 some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows
3522 the caret visibility to be manually toggled.
3523
3524 ** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.
3525
3526 Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
3527 multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
3528 MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
3529 the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
3530 any customizations.
3531
3532 ** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.
3533
3534 ** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
3535 `kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
3536 `kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.
3537
3538 ** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete. Use
3539 `mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.
3540 \f
3541 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3542
3543 ** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
3544 :propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
3545 `risky-local-variable' property is nil.
3546
3547 The function `comint-send-input' now accepts 3 optional arguments:
3548
3549 (comint-send-input &optional no-newline artificial)
3550
3551 Callers sending input not from the user should use bind the 3rd
3552 argument `artificial' to a non-nil value, to prevent Emacs from
3553 deleting the part of subprocess output that matches the input.
3554
3555 ** The `read-file-name' function now returns a null string if the
3556 user just types RET.
3557
3558 ** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have
3559 been removed. Use run-with-idle-timer instead.
3560
3561 ** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to
3562 be multibyte or unibyte, respectively.
3563
3564 ** The explicit method of creating a display table element by
3565 combining a face number and a character code into a numeric
3566 glyph code is deprecated.
3567
3568 Instead, the new functions `make-glyph-code', `glyph-char', and
3569 `glyph-face' must be used to create and decode glyph codes in
3570 display tables.
3571
3572 ** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
3573 the command `undefined'. (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
3574 `substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to
3575 `undefined'.)
3576
3577 ** The third argument of `accept-process-output' is now milliseconds.
3578 It used to be microseconds.
3579
3580 ** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons
3581 (FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument
3582 OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in
3583 `file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument.
3584
3585 ** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates
3586 input events: sigusr1 or sigusr2. Use special-event-map to
3587 handle these events.
3588
3589 ** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
3590 there is no longer a shortage of memory.
3591
3592 ** Support for Mocklisp has been removed.
3593
3594 \f
3595 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3596
3597 ** General Lisp changes:
3598
3599 *** New syntax: \s now stands for the SPACE character.
3600
3601 `?\s' is a new way to write the space character. You must make sure
3602 it is not followed by a dash, since `?\s-...' indicates the "super"
3603 modifier. However, it would be strange to write a character constant
3604 and a following symbol (beginning with `-') with no space between
3605 them.
3606
3607 `\s' stands for space in strings, too, but it is not really meant for
3608 strings; it is easier and nicer just to write a space.
3609
3610 *** New syntax: \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX specify Unicode code points in hex.
3611
3612 For instance, you can use "\u0428" to specify a string consisting of
3613 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA, or `"U0001D6E2" to specify one consisting
3614 of MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL ALPHA (the latter is greater than
3615 #xFFFF and thus needs the longer syntax).
3616
3617 This syntax works for both character constants and strings.
3618
3619 *** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.
3620
3621 It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
3622 dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
3623 (calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.).
3624
3625 *** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.
3626
3627 *** The new function `memql' is like `memq', but uses `eql' for comparison,
3628 that is, floats are compared by value and other elements with `eq'.
3629
3630 *** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.
3631
3632 `string-or-null-p' returns non-nil if OBJECT is a string or nil.
3633 `booleanp' returns non-nil if OBJECT is t or nil.
3634
3635 *** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead.
3636
3637 *** Minor change in the function `format'.
3638
3639 Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no
3640 longer accepted.
3641
3642 *** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND.
3643
3644 If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the
3645 list instead of at the beginning. This change actually occurred in
3646 Emacs 21.1, but was not documented then.
3647
3648 *** New function `add-to-ordered-list' is like `add-to-list' but
3649 associates a numeric ordering of each element added to the list.
3650
3651 *** New function `add-to-history' adds an element to a history list.
3652
3653 Lisp packages should use this function to add elements to their
3654 history lists.
3655
3656 If `history-delete-duplicates' is non-nil, it removes duplicates of
3657 the new element from the history list it updates.
3658
3659 *** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree.
3660
3661 It recursively copies through both CARs and CDRs.
3662
3663 *** New function `delete-dups' deletes `equal' duplicate elements from a list.
3664
3665 It modifies the list destructively, like `delete'. Of several `equal'
3666 occurrences of an element in the list, the one that's kept is the
3667 first one.
3668
3669 *** New function `rassq-delete-all'.
3670
3671 (rassq-delete-all VALUE ALIST) deletes, from ALIST, each element whose
3672 CDR is `eq' to the specified value.
3673
3674 *** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists.
3675
3676 They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is
3677 cyclic.
3678
3679 *** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.
3680
3681 They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare
3682 the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.
3683
3684 *** The function `number-sequence' makes a list of equally-separated numbers.
3685
3686 For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). By
3687 default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different
3688 separation as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns
3689 (1.5 3.5 5.5).
3690
3691 *** New variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'.
3692
3693 They hold the largest and smallest possible integer values.
3694
3695 *** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
3696 The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
3697 negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
3698
3699 *** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument.
3700
3701 When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
3702 angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis. (This is
3703 equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)
3704
3705 *** New macro `with-case-table'
3706
3707 This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given
3708 case table.
3709
3710 *** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting.
3711
3712 A quit inside the body of `with-local-quit' is caught by the
3713 `with-local-quit' form itself, but another quit will happen later once
3714 the code that has inhibited quitting exits.
3715
3716 This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code
3717 inside timer functions and `post-command-hook' functions.
3718
3719 *** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.
3720
3721 This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.
3722
3723 *** New macro `eval-at-startup' specifies expressions to
3724 evaluate when Emacs starts up. If this is done after startup,
3725 it evaluates those expressions immediately.
3726
3727 This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.
3728
3729 *** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
3730
3731 It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
3732 One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
3733 if no expansion is done, which can be tested using `eq'.
3734
3735 *** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern.
3736
3737 You put this info in the doc string's last line. It should be
3738 formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'". If you don't
3739 specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument
3740 names. Usually that default is right, but not always.
3741
3742 *** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'.
3743
3744 When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single
3745 numbering scheme for circular structure references. This is only
3746 relevant when `print-circle' is non-nil.
3747
3748 When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
3749 also bind `print-number-table' to nil.
3750
3751 *** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.
3752
3753 If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.
3754
3755 *** New hook `command-error-function'.
3756
3757 By setting this variable to a function, you can control
3758 how the editor command loop shows the user an error message.
3759
3760 *** `debug-on-entry' accepts primitive functions that are not special forms.
3761
3762 ** Lisp code indentation features:
3763
3764 *** The `defmacro' form can contain indentation and edebug declarations.
3765
3766 These declarations specify how to indent the macro calls in Lisp mode
3767 and how to debug them with Edebug. You write them like this:
3768
3769 (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...)
3770
3771 DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'. The
3772 possible declaration specifiers are:
3773
3774 (indent INDENT)
3775 Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT.
3776
3777 (edebug DEBUG)
3778 Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG. (This is
3779 equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro,
3780 but this is cleaner.)
3781
3782 *** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms.
3783
3784 See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.
3785
3786 *** cl-indent now handles indentation of simple and extended `loop' forms.
3787
3788 The new user options `lisp-loop-keyword-indentation',
3789 `lisp-loop-forms-indentation', and `lisp-simple-loop-indentation' can
3790 be used to customize the indentation of keywords and forms in loop
3791 forms.
3792
3793 ** Variable aliases:
3794
3795 *** New function: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING]
3796
3797 This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for
3798 symbol BASE-VAR. This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR
3799 returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR
3800 changes the value of BASE-VAR.
3801
3802 DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has
3803 the same documentation as BASE-VAR.
3804
3805 *** The macro `define-obsolete-variable-alias' combines `defvaralias' and
3806 `make-obsolete-variable'.
3807
3808 *** New function: indirect-variable VARIABLE
3809
3810 This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases
3811 of VARIABLE. If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not
3812 defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE.
3813
3814 It might be noteworthy that variables aliases work for all kinds of
3815 variables, including buffer-local and frame-local variables.
3816
3817 ** defcustom changes:
3818
3819 *** The package-version keyword has been added to provide
3820 `customize-changed-options' functionality to packages in the future.
3821 Developers who make use of this keyword must also update the new
3822 variable `customize-package-emacs-version-alist'.
3823
3824 *** The new customization type `float' requires a floating point number.
3825
3826 ** String changes:
3827
3828 *** A hex escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte.
3829
3830 *** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte.
3831
3832 *** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
3833 multibyte string with the same individual character codes.
3834
3835 *** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if
3836 the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for
3837 SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is
3838 nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all
3839 empty matches are omitted from the returned list.
3840
3841 *** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and
3842 `assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have
3843 been declared obsolete.
3844
3845 *** New function `substring-no-properties' returns a substring without
3846 text properties.
3847
3848 ** Displaying warnings to the user.
3849
3850 See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual.
3851 If you want to be sure the warning will not be overlooked, this
3852 facility is much better than using `message', since it displays
3853 warnings in a separate window.
3854
3855 ** Progress reporters.
3856
3857 These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present
3858 progress messages for the user.
3859
3860 See the new functions `make-progress-reporter',
3861 `progress-reporter-update', `progress-reporter-force-update',
3862 `progress-reporter-done', and `dotimes-with-progress-reporter'.
3863
3864 ** Buffer positions:
3865
3866 *** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
3867 width if the WIDTH argument is nil. If the TOPOS argument is nil,
3868 the usable window height and width is used.
3869
3870 *** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now
3871 modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
3872 taller that the height of the window, for example in the presence of
3873 large images. To disable this feature, bind the new variable
3874 `auto-window-vscroll' to nil.
3875
3876 *** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word' is optional.
3877
3878 It defaults to 1.
3879
3880 *** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.
3881
3882 It defaults to 1.
3883
3884 *** `field-beginning' and `field-end' take new optional argument, LIMIT.
3885
3886 This argument tells them not to search beyond LIMIT. Instead they
3887 give up and return LIMIT.
3888
3889 *** New function `window-line-height' is an efficient way to get
3890 information about a specific text line in a window provided that the
3891 window's display is up-to-date.
3892
3893 *** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position.
3894
3895 It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point.
3896
3897 *** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates
3898 and partial visibility state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
3899 arg is non-nil.
3900
3901 *** New functions `posn-at-point' and `posn-at-x-y' return
3902 click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
3903 position or for a given window pixel coordinate.
3904
3905 *** New function `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link.
3906
3907 This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
3908 functionality.
3909
3910 ** Text modification:
3911
3912 *** The new function `buffer-chars-modified-tick' returns a buffer's
3913 tick counter for changes to characters. Each time text in that buffer
3914 is inserted or deleted, the character-change counter is updated to the
3915 tick counter (`buffer-modified-tick'). Text property changes leave it
3916 unchanged.
3917
3918 *** The new function `insert-for-yank' normally works like `insert', but
3919 removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list
3920 and handles the `yank-handler' text property.
3921
3922 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' is like
3923 `insert-for-yank' except that it gets the text from another buffer as
3924 in `insert-buffer-substring'.
3925
3926 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like
3927 `insert-buffer-substring', but removes all text properties from the
3928 inserted substring.
3929
3930 *** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
3931 substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
3932 the filtered substring. Use it instead of `buffer-substring' or
3933 `delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
3934 data structure, such as the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.
3935
3936 The list of filter function is specified by the new variable
3937 `buffer-substring-filters'. For example, Longlines mode adds to
3938 `buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
3939 text.
3940
3941 *** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
3942 argument.
3943
3944 *** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
3945 is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to
3946 be inserted is translated through it.
3947
3948 *** Text clones.
3949
3950 The new function `text-clone-create'. Text clones are chunks of text
3951 that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one
3952 clone to the other.
3953
3954 *** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete.
3955
3956 ** Filling changes.
3957
3958 *** In determining an adaptive fill prefix, Emacs now tries the function in
3959 `adaptive-fill-function' _before_ matching the buffer line against
3960 `adaptive-fill-regexp' rather than _after_ it.
3961
3962 ** Atomic change groups.
3963
3964 To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
3965 they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
3966 around the code that makes changes. For instance:
3967
3968 (atomic-change-group
3969 (insert foo)
3970 (delete-region x y))
3971
3972 If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of
3973 `atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that
3974 were during the execution of the body. The change group has no effect
3975 on any other buffers--any such changes remain.
3976
3977 If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the
3978 lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses. Here is how.
3979
3980 To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'.
3981 Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer.
3982 This function returns a "handle" for the change group. You must save
3983 the handle to activate the change group and then finish it.
3984
3985 Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change
3986 group. Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to
3987 do this.
3988
3989 After you make the changes, you must finish the change group. You can
3990 either accept the changes or cancel them all. Call
3991 `accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final;
3992 call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all.
3993
3994 You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always
3995 finished. The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the
3996 `unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs.
3997 (This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and
3998 `activate-change-group' are separate functions.) Once you finish the
3999 group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group
4000 twice.
4001
4002 To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once
4003 for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the
4004 returned values, like this:
4005
4006 (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1)
4007 (prepare-change-group buffer-2))
4008
4009 You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call
4010 to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to
4011 `accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'.
4012
4013 Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you
4014 would expect. Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer
4015 will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first
4016 change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one
4017 finished.
4018
4019 ** Buffer-related changes:
4020
4021 *** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
4022 binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER. If VARIABLE does not
4023 have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
4024 value of VARIABLE instead.
4025
4026 *** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST.
4027
4028 If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list.
4029
4030 *** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local.
4031
4032 *** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
4033 various status records in parallel.
4034
4035 It takes a variable (a symbol) as argument. If the variable is non-nil,
4036 then its value should be a vector installed previously by
4037 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p'. If the frame names, buffer names, buffer
4038 order, or their read-only or modified flags have changed, since the
4039 time the vector's contents were recorded by a previous call to
4040 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', then the function returns t. Otherwise
4041 it returns nil.
4042
4043 On the first call to `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', the variable's
4044 value should be nil. `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' stores a suitable
4045 vector into the variable and returns t.
4046
4047 If the variable is itself nil, then `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' uses,
4048 for compatibility, an internal variable which exists only for this
4049 purpose.
4050
4051 *** The function `read-buffer' follows the convention for reading from
4052 the minibuffer with a default value: if DEF is non-nil, the minibuffer
4053 prompt provided in PROMPT is edited to show the default value provided
4054 in DEF before the terminal colon and space.
4055
4056 ** Searching and matching changes:
4057
4058 *** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
4059 the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
4060 back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.
4061
4062 *** The new variable `search-spaces-regexp' controls how to search
4063 for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a
4064 regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular
4065 expression. If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves.
4066
4067 Spaces inside of constructs such as `[..]' and inside loops such as
4068 `*', `+', and `?' are never replaced with `search-spaces-regexp'.
4069
4070 *** New regular expression operators, `\_<' and `\_>'.
4071
4072 These match the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a
4073 non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
4074 specified by the syntax table.
4075
4076 *** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
4077 character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
4078 characters and ranges.
4079
4080 *** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits
4081 properties from surrounding text.
4082
4083 *** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final
4084 element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data'
4085 accepts such a list for restoring the match state.
4086
4087 *** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional
4088 argument `reseat'. When non-nil, all markers in the match data list
4089 passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere.
4090
4091 *** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements.
4092
4093 *** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
4094 variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
4095 that end a sentence without following spaces.
4096
4097 The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the
4098 variable `sentence-end'. If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then
4099 this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables
4100 `sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and
4101 `sentence-end-without-space'.
4102
4103 ** Undo changes:
4104
4105 *** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements.
4106
4107 These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
4108 a symbol other than t or nil. That stands for a high-level change
4109 that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).
4110
4111 These entries can also have the form (apply DELTA BEG END FUNNAME . ARGS)
4112 which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the
4113 range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA.
4114
4115 *** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than
4116 `undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent
4117 it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.
4118
4119 ** Killing and yanking changes:
4120
4121 *** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how
4122 previously killed text on the kill ring is reinserted.
4123
4124 The value of the `yank-handler' property must be a list with one to four
4125 elements with the following format:
4126 (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).
4127
4128 The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
4129 the first character on its string argument (typically the first
4130 element on the kill-ring). If a `yank-handler' property is found,
4131 the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:
4132
4133 When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
4134 to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
4135 If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object
4136 passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is
4137 `yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a
4138 rectangle.
4139 If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the
4140 `yank-excluded-properties' is not performed; instead FUNCTION is
4141 responsible for removing those properties. This may be necessary
4142 if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object.
4143 If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
4144 by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object. It is
4145 called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
4146 FUNCTION can set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.
4147
4148 *** The functions `kill-new', `kill-append', and `kill-region' now have an
4149 optional argument to specify the `yank-handler' text property to put on
4150 the killed text.
4151
4152 *** The function `yank-pop' will now use a non-nil value of the variable
4153 `yank-undo-function' (instead of `delete-region') to undo the previous
4154 `yank' or `yank-pop' command (or a call to `insert-for-yank'). The function
4155 `insert-for-yank' automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
4156 element of the string argument's `yank-handler' text property if present.
4157
4158 *** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
4159 `yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
4160 string. The old behavior is available if you call
4161 `insert-for-yank-1' instead.
4162
4163 ** Syntax table changes:
4164
4165 *** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the
4166 current syntactic context at point.
4167
4168 *** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code
4169 of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account
4170 of text properties as well as the character code.
4171
4172 *** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned
4173 by `syntax-after').
4174
4175 *** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table.
4176
4177 ** File operation changes:
4178
4179 *** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
4180 searching for an executable or an Emacs Lisp file.
4181
4182 *** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories.
4183 `locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two
4184 lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to
4185 try; typical usage might use `exec-path' and `load-path' for the list
4186 of directories, and `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' for the list
4187 of suffixes. The function also accepts a predicate argument to
4188 further filter candidate files.
4189
4190 One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
4191 `exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
4192 executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.
4193
4194 *** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns
4195 non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using
4196 its own special methods and not directly through the file system).
4197 The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system.
4198
4199 *** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
4200 before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final
4201 tasks. For example, it can be used by the copyright package to make
4202 sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.
4203
4204 *** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which
4205 specifies the maximum number of links to chase through. If after that
4206 many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link,
4207 `file-chase-links' returns it anyway.
4208
4209 *** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now
4210 ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as
4211 `.emacs' are treated as extensionless.
4212
4213 *** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
4214 `save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if
4215 it's modified).
4216
4217 *** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was
4218 formerly called `auto-save-file-format'. It is now a permanent local.
4219
4220 *** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
4221 a list of two integers, instead of a cons.
4222
4223 *** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.
4224
4225 Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,
4226 `find-file-name-handler' now gives precedence to a file name handler
4227 that matches nearest the end of the file name. More precisely, the
4228 handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. In case
4229 of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies.
4230
4231 *** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles.
4232
4233 You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name
4234 symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that
4235 the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other
4236 operations.
4237
4238 This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being
4239 autoloaded when not really necessary.
4240
4241 *** The function `make-auto-save-file-name' is now handled by file
4242 name handlers. This will be exploited for remote files mainly.
4243
4244 *** The function `file-name-completion' accepts an optional argument
4245 PREDICATE, and rejects completion candidates that don't satisfy PREDICATE.
4246
4247 *** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and
4248 modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this
4249 operation.
4250
4251 ** Input changes:
4252
4253 *** Functions `y-or-n-p', `read-char', `read-key-sequence' and the like, that
4254 display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
4255 using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
4256
4257 *** The functions `read-event', `read-char', and `read-char-exclusive'
4258 have a new optional argument SECONDS. If non-nil, this specifies a
4259 maximum time to wait for input, in seconds. If no input arrives after
4260 this time elapses, the functions stop waiting and return nil.
4261
4262 *** An interactive specification can now use the code letter `U' to get
4263 the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
4264 previous `k' or `K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.
4265
4266 *** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
4267 much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
4268 it returns just the directory name.
4269
4270 *** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input
4271 arrives. If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a
4272 quit had occurred. `while-no-input' returns the value of BODY, if BODY
4273 finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted by a quit, and t if
4274 BODY was aborted by arrival of input.
4275
4276 *** `recent-keys' now returns the last 300 keys.
4277
4278 ** Minibuffer changes:
4279
4280 *** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional
4281 buffer argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted, it
4282 defaults to the current buffer.
4283
4284 *** New function `minibuffer-selected-window' returns the window which
4285 was selected when entering the minibuffer.
4286
4287 *** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
4288 specifies a predicate which the file name read must satisfy. The
4289 new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
4290 while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
4291 variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.
4292
4293 *** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by Lisp code
4294 to override the built-in `read-file-name' function.
4295
4296 *** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
4297 whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
4298 `read-file-name' function.
4299
4300 *** The new function `read-directory-name' is for reading a directory name.
4301
4302 It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
4303 for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.
4304
4305 *** The new variable `history-add-new-input' specifies whether to add new
4306 elements in history. If set to nil, minibuffer reading functions don't
4307 add new elements to the history list, so it is possible to do this
4308 afterwards by calling `add-to-history' explicitly.
4309
4310 ** Completion changes:
4311
4312 *** The new function `minibuffer-completion-contents' returns the contents
4313 of the minibuffer just before point. That is what completion commands
4314 operate on.
4315
4316 *** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
4317 of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
4318 and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
4319 exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables can be either
4320 strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.
4321
4322 *** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions
4323 as a dynamic completion table.
4324
4325 (dynamic-completion-table FUN)
4326
4327 FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required,
4328 and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible
4329 completions. This alist can be a full list of possible completions so that FUN
4330 can ignore the value of its argument. If completion is performed in the
4331 minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was
4332 entered. `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion.
4333
4334 *** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
4335 as a lazy completion table.
4336
4337 (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN)
4338
4339 If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
4340 as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with no
4341 arguments. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR.
4342 If completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
4343 from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
4344 `lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.
4345
4346 ** Abbrev changes:
4347
4348 *** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG.
4349
4350 If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means
4351 that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the
4352 abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always
4353 specify this flag.
4354
4355 *** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table.
4356
4357 It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table.
4358
4359 ** Enhancements to keymaps.
4360
4361 *** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.
4362
4363 You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
4364 same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'. For
4365 example,
4366
4367 (kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"
4368
4369 Actually, this format has existed since Emacs 20.1.
4370
4371 *** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.
4372
4373 This is an alternative to using `defadvice' or `substitute-key-definition'
4374 to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
4375 binding and lookup functionality.
4376
4377 When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is
4378 remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the
4379 original command.
4380
4381 Example:
4382 Suppose that minor mode `my-mode' has defined the commands
4383 `my-kill-line' and `my-kill-word', and it wants C-k (and any other key
4384 bound to `kill-line') to run the command `my-kill-line' instead of
4385 `kill-line', and likewise it wants to run `my-kill-word' instead of
4386 `kill-word'.
4387
4388 Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map,
4389 command remapping allows you to directly map `kill-line' into
4390 `my-kill-line' and `kill-word' into `my-kill-word' using `define-key':
4391
4392 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line)
4393 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word)
4394
4395 When `my-mode' is enabled, its minor mode keymap is enabled too. So
4396 when the user types C-k, that runs the command `my-kill-line'.
4397
4398 Only one level of remapping is supported. In the above example, this
4399 means that if `my-kill-line' is remapped to `other-kill', then C-k still
4400 runs `my-kill-line'.
4401
4402 The following changes have been made to provide command remapping:
4403
4404 - Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
4405 `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD
4406 to definition DEF in keymap MAP. The definition is not limited to
4407 another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding.
4408
4409 - The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a
4410 remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped.
4411
4412 - `key-binding' now remaps interactive commands unless the optional
4413 third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil.
4414
4415 - `where-is-internal' now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g.
4416 `kill-line', when `my-mode' is enabled), and the actual key binding for
4417 the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line).
4418 It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits
4419 remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns "C-k" for `kill-line', and
4420 "<kill-line>" for `my-kill-line').
4421
4422 - The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
4423 command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the
4424 command was not remapped.
4425
4426 *** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style
4427 key-sequences, such as [(control a)].
4428
4429 *** New keymaps for typing file names
4430
4431 Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' and
4432 `minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
4433 Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer. These key maps override
4434 the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
4435 names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
4436 the spaces).
4437
4438 *** New function `current-active-maps' returns a list of currently
4439 active keymaps.
4440
4441 *** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all
4442 defined keys and their definitions.
4443
4444 *** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt string of a keymap.
4445
4446 *** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
4447 over minor mode keymaps.
4448
4449 *** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and
4450 text properties, according to their stickiness. This also means that it
4451 works with empty overlays. The same hold for the `local-map' property.
4452
4453 *** `key-binding' will now look up mouse-specific bindings. The
4454 keymaps consulted by `key-binding' will get adapted if the key
4455 sequence is started with a mouse event. Instead of letting the click
4456 position be determined from the key sequence itself, it is also
4457 possible to specify it with an optional argument explicitly.
4458
4459 *** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1.
4460
4461 *** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
4462 in the keymap.
4463
4464 *** New variable `emulation-mode-map-alists'.
4465
4466 Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
4467 keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their
4468 keymap alist to this list.
4469
4470 *** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly.
4471
4472 Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key
4473 bindings of the parent keymap.
4474
4475 ** Enhancements to process support
4476
4477 *** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.
4478
4479 On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
4480 output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
4481 very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent
4482 by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
4483 non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
4484 from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before
4485 Emacs tries to read it.
4486
4487 *** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can
4488 maintain process state and other per-process related information.
4489
4490 Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add,
4491 and modify elements on this property list. Use the new functions
4492 `process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the
4493 entire property list of a process.
4494
4495 *** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
4496 it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set.
4497
4498 *** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'.
4499
4500 These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'. That
4501 function is still supported, but new code should use the new
4502 functions.
4503
4504 *** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.
4505
4506 This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.
4507
4508 *** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but
4509 obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
4510 `default-directory'.
4511
4512 *** Function `signal-process' now accepts a process object or process
4513 name in addition to a process id to identify the signaled process.
4514
4515 *** Function `accept-process-output' has a new optional fourth arg
4516 JUST-THIS-ONE. If non-nil, only output from the specified process
4517 is handled, suspending output from other processes. If value is an
4518 integer, also inhibit running timers. This feature is generally not
4519 recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
4520 speech synthesis.
4521
4522 *** A process filter function gets the output as multibyte string
4523 if the process specifies t for its filter's multibyteness.
4524
4525 That multibyteness is decided by the value of
4526 `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is created, and
4527 you can change it later with `set-process-filter-multibyte'.
4528
4529 *** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the
4530 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4531
4532 *** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns the
4533 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4534
4535 *** If a process's coding system is `raw-text' or `no-conversion' and its
4536 buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted
4537 to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer.
4538 Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte',
4539 which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.
4540
4541 ** Enhanced networking support.
4542
4543 *** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
4544 It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
4545 create a stream or datagram server inside Emacs.
4546
4547 - A server is started using :server t arg.
4548 - Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
4549 - A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
4550 - Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.
4551 - IPv6 is supported (when available). You may explicitly select IPv6
4552 using :family 'ipv6 arg.
4553 - Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg.
4554 - The process' property list can be initialized using :plist PLIST arg;
4555 a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited
4556 by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.
4557
4558 To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
4559 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))
4560 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:family ipv6))
4561
4562 *** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.
4563
4564 *** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument.
4565
4566 Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network
4567 process properties or a specific property. Using :local or :remote as
4568 the KEY, you get the address of the local or remote end-point.
4569
4570 An Inet address is represented as a 5 element vector, where the first
4571 4 elements contain the IP address and the fifth is the port number.
4572
4573 *** New functions `stop-process' and `continue-process'.
4574
4575 These functions stop and restart communication through a network
4576 connection. For a server process, no connections are accepted in the
4577 stopped state. For a client process, no input is received in the
4578 stopped state.
4579
4580 *** New function `format-network-address'.
4581
4582 This function reformats the Lisp representation of a network address
4583 to a printable string. For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port
4584 number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the
4585 printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc
4586 string for other formatting options.
4587
4588 *** New function `network-interface-list'.
4589
4590 This function returns a list of network interface names and their
4591 current network addresses.
4592
4593 *** New function `network-interface-info'.
4594
4595 This function returns the network address, hardware address, current
4596 status, and other information about a specific network interface.
4597
4598 *** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.
4599
4600 These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get
4601 and set the current address of the remote partner.
4602
4603 *** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel.
4604
4605 The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network
4606 process is "deleted". The message passed to the sentinel when the
4607 connection is closed by the remote peer has been changed to
4608 "connection broken by remote peer".
4609
4610 ** Using window objects:
4611
4612 *** You can now make a window as short as one line.
4613
4614 A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode
4615 line or a header line, even if the variables `mode-line-format' and
4616 `header-line-format' call for them. A window that is two lines tall
4617 cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the
4618 variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears.
4619
4620 *** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
4621 actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
4622 divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
4623 the mode line.
4624
4625 *** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges'
4626 return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines.
4627
4628 *** New function `window-body-height'.
4629
4630 This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the
4631 header line.
4632
4633 *** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right
4634 or bottom edge of a window. It does not move other window edges.
4635
4636 *** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the
4637 selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'.
4638 It saves and restores the current buffer, too.
4639
4640 *** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD.
4641
4642 This is like `switch-to-buffer'.
4643
4644 *** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
4645 of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed
4646 by calling `select-window'. It also saves and restores the current
4647 buffer.
4648
4649 *** `set-window-buffer' has an optional argument KEEP-MARGINS.
4650
4651 If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
4652 and scroll-bar settings.
4653
4654 *** The new function `window-tree' returns a frame's window tree.
4655
4656 *** The functions `get-lru-window' and `get-largest-window' take an optional
4657 argument `dedicated'. If non-nil, those functions do not ignore
4658 dedicated windows.
4659
4660 ** Customizable fringe bitmaps
4661
4662 *** There are new display properties, `left-fringe' and `right-fringe',
4663 that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe
4664 bitmap of the display line.
4665
4666 Format is `display (left-fringe BITMAP [FACE])', where BITMAP is a
4667 symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with
4668 `define-fringe-bitmap', and FACE is an optional face name to be used
4669 for displaying the bitmap instead of the default `fringe' face.
4670 When specified, FACE is automatically merged with the `fringe' face.
4671
4672 *** New buffer-local variables `fringe-indicator-alist' and
4673 `fringe-cursor-alist' maps between logical (internal) fringe indicator
4674 and cursor symbols and the actual fringe bitmaps to be displayed.
4675 This decouples the logical meaning of the fringe indicators from the
4676 physical appearance, as well as allowing different fringe bitmaps to
4677 be used in different windows showing different buffers.
4678
4679 *** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new
4680 fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps.
4681
4682 *** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
4683 or restores a built-in one to its default value.
4684
4685 *** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be
4686 used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is automatically merged
4687 with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face should only specify the
4688 foreground color of the bitmap.
4689
4690 *** New function `fringe-bitmaps-at-pos' returns the current fringe
4691 bitmaps in the display line at a given buffer position.
4692
4693 ** Other window fringe features:
4694
4695 *** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths.
4696
4697 The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame
4698 can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe'
4699 frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels.
4700 Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe.
4701
4702 The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the
4703 specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an
4704 integral number of columns. The extra width is distributed evenly
4705 between the left and right fringe. To force a specific fringe width,
4706 specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative,
4707 only the left fringe gets the specified width).
4708
4709 Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe
4710 width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any
4711 of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in
4712 fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels.
4713
4714 *** Per-window fringe and scrollbar settings
4715
4716 **** Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and
4717 position settings.
4718
4719 To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local
4720 variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call
4721 `set-window-fringes'.
4722
4723 To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes
4724 are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area,
4725 or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable
4726 `fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'.
4727
4728 The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current
4729 settings. To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
4730 `fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
4731 displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
4732 an update of the display margins.
4733
4734 **** Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
4735 controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.
4736
4737 To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local
4738 variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call
4739 `set-window-scroll-bars'. The function `window-scroll-bars' can be
4740 used to obtain the current settings. To make `scroll-bar-mode' and
4741 `scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
4742 the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
4743 of the display margins.
4744
4745 ** Redisplay features:
4746
4747 *** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP).
4748
4749 *** Iconifying or deiconifying a frame no longer makes sit-for return.
4750
4751 *** New function `redisplay' causes an immediate redisplay if no input is
4752 available, equivalent to (sit-for 0). The call (redisplay t) forces
4753 an immediate redisplay even if input is pending.
4754
4755 *** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of
4756 one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window
4757 contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit
4758 changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
4759 forcing an explicit window update.
4760
4761 *** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able
4762 to display CHAR. More precisely, if the selected frame's fontset has
4763 a font to display the character set that CHAR belongs to.
4764
4765 Fontsets can specify a font on a per-character basis; when the fontset
4766 does that, this value cannot be accurate.
4767
4768 *** You can define multiple overlay arrows via the new
4769 variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'.
4770
4771 It contains a list of variables which contain overlay arrow position
4772 markers, including the original `overlay-arrow-position' variable.
4773
4774 Each variable on this list can have individual `overlay-arrow-string'
4775 and `overlay-arrow-bitmap' properties that specify an overlay arrow
4776 string (for non-window terminals) or fringe bitmap (for window
4777 systems) to display at the corresponding overlay arrow position.
4778 If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or
4779 'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used.
4780
4781 *** New `line-height' and `line-spacing' properties for newline characters
4782
4783 A newline can now have `line-height' and `line-spacing' text or overlay
4784 properties that control the height of the corresponding display row.
4785
4786 If the `line-height' property value is t, the newline does not
4787 contribute to the height of the display row; instead the height of the
4788 newline glyph is reduced. Also, a `line-spacing' property on this
4789 newline is ignored. This can be used to tile small images or image
4790 slices without adding blank areas between the images.
4791
4792 If the `line-height' property value is a positive integer, the value
4793 specifies the minimum line height in pixels. If necessary, the line
4794 height it increased by increasing the line's ascent.
4795
4796 If the `line-height' property value is a float, the minimum line
4797 height is calculated by multiplying the default frame line height by
4798 the given value.
4799
4800 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (FACE . RATIO), the
4801 minimum line height is calculated as RATIO * height of named FACE.
4802 RATIO is int or float. If FACE is t, it specifies the current face.
4803
4804 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (nil . RATIO), the line
4805 height is calculated as RATIO * actual height of the line's contents.
4806
4807 If the `line-height' value is a cons (HEIGHT . TOTAL), HEIGHT specifies
4808 the line height as described above, while TOTAL is any of the forms
4809 described above and specifies the total height of the line, causing a
4810 varying number of pixels to be inserted after the line to make it line
4811 exactly that many pixels high.
4812
4813 If the `line-spacing' property value is an positive integer, the value
4814 is used as additional pixels to insert after the display line; this
4815 overrides the default frame `line-spacing' and any buffer local value of
4816 the `line-spacing' variable.
4817
4818 If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing
4819 is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property.
4820
4821 *** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value,
4822 which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.
4823
4824 *** Enhancements to stretch display properties
4825
4826 The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where
4827 PROPS is a property list, now allows pixel based width and height
4828 specifications, as well as enhanced horizontal text alignment.
4829
4830 The value of these properties can now be a (primitive) expression
4831 which is evaluated during redisplay. The following expressions
4832 are supported:
4833
4834 EXPR ::= NUM | (NUM) | UNIT | ELEM | POS | IMAGE | FORM
4835 NUM ::= INTEGER | FLOAT | SYMBOL
4836 UNIT ::= in | mm | cm | width | height
4837 ELEM ::= left-fringe | right-fringe | left-margin | right-margin
4838 | scroll-bar | text
4839 POS ::= left | center | right
4840 FORM ::= (NUM . EXPR) | (OP EXPR ...)
4841 OP ::= + | -
4842
4843 The form `NUM' specifies a fractional width or height of the default
4844 frame font size. The form `(NUM)' specifies an absolute number of
4845 pixels. If a symbol is specified, its buffer-local variable binding
4846 is used. The `in', `mm', and `cm' units specifies the number of
4847 pixels per inch, milli-meter, and centi-meter, resp. The `width' and
4848 `height' units correspond to the width and height of the current face
4849 font. An image specification corresponds to the width or height of
4850 the image.
4851
4852 The `left-fringe', `right-fringe', `left-margin', `right-margin',
4853 `scroll-bar', and `text' elements specify to the width of the
4854 corresponding area of the window.
4855
4856 The `left', `center', and `right' positions can be used with :align-to
4857 to specify a position relative to the left edge, center, or right edge
4858 of the text area. One of the above window elements (except `text')
4859 can also be used with :align-to to specify that the position is
4860 relative to the left edge of the given area. Once the base offset for
4861 a relative position has been set (by the first occurrence of one of
4862 these symbols), further occurrences of these symbols are interpreted as
4863 the width of the area.
4864
4865 For example, to align to the center of the left-margin, use
4866 :align-to (+ left-margin (0.5 . left-margin))
4867
4868 If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative
4869 to the left edge of the text area. For example, :align-to 0 in a
4870 header line aligns with the first text column in the text area.
4871
4872 The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by
4873 the value of the expression EXPR. For example, (2 . in) specifies a
4874 width of 2 inches, while (0.5 . IMAGE) specifies half the width (or
4875 height) of the specified image.
4876
4877 The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions.
4878 The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions.
4879
4880 *** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and
4881 text property string that may be present at the current window
4882 position. The cursor can now be placed on any character of such
4883 strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property.
4884
4885 *** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now
4886 supported on text terminals.
4887
4888 *** Support for displaying image slices
4889
4890 **** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with
4891 an image property to display only a specific slice of the image.
4892
4893 **** Function `insert-image' has new optional fourth arg to
4894 specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT).
4895
4896 **** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a
4897 specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns).
4898
4899 *** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property.
4900
4901 An image map is an alist where each element has the format (AREA ID PLIST).
4902 An AREA is specified as either a rectangle, a circle, or a polygon:
4903 A rectangle is a cons (rect . ((X0 . Y0) . (X1 . Y1))) specifying the
4904 pixel coordinates of the upper left and bottom right corners.
4905 A circle is a cons (circle . ((X0 . Y0) . R)) specifying the center
4906 and the radius of the circle; R can be a float or integer.
4907 A polygon is a cons (poly . [X0 Y0 X1 Y1 ...]) where each pair in the
4908 vector describes one corner in the polygon.
4909
4910 When the mouse pointer is above a hot-spot area of an image, the
4911 PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo'
4912 property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains
4913 a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when
4914 it is over the hot-spot. See the variable `void-area-text-pointer'
4915 for possible pointer shapes.
4916
4917 When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
4918 an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
4919 mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.
4920
4921 *** The function `find-image' now searches in etc/images/ and etc/.
4922 The new variable `image-load-path' is a list of locations in which to
4923 search for image files. The default is to search in etc/images, then
4924 in etc/, and finally in the directories specified by `load-path'.
4925 Subdirectories of etc/ and etc/images are not recursively searched; if
4926 you put an image file in a subdirectory, you have to specify it
4927 explicitly; for example, if an image is put in etc/images/foo/bar.xpm:
4928
4929 (defimage foo-image '((:type xpm :file "foo/bar.xpm")))
4930
4931 Note that all images formerly located in the lisp directory have been
4932 moved to etc/images.
4933
4934 *** New function `image-load-path-for-library' returns a suitable
4935 search path for images relative to library. This function is useful in
4936 external packages to save users from having to update
4937 `image-load-path'.
4938
4939 *** The new variable `max-image-size' defines the maximum size of
4940 images that Emacs will load and display.
4941
4942 *** The new variable `display-mm-dimensions-alist' can be used to
4943 override incorrect graphical display dimensions returned by functions
4944 `display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'.
4945
4946 ** Mouse pointer features:
4947
4948 *** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a
4949 line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now
4950 controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default
4951 is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text'
4952 (or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'.
4953
4954 *** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the
4955 :pointer image property.
4956
4957 *** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images can now be
4958 controlled/overridden via the `pointer' text property.
4959
4960 ** Mouse event enhancements:
4961
4962 *** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where
4963 you clicked. For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is
4964 a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text.
4965
4966 *** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe'
4967 or `right-fringe' as the area.
4968
4969 *** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types
4970 and all areas.
4971
4972 *** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on.
4973
4974 *** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to
4975 the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on.
4976
4977 *** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object
4978 (image or character) clicked on.
4979
4980 *** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area.
4981
4982 *** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events.
4983
4984 *** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means
4985 text area).
4986
4987 *** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates
4988 of the mouse event position.
4989
4990 *** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'.
4991
4992 These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y
4993 pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of that object, and
4994 the total width and height of that object.
4995
4996 ** Text property and overlay changes:
4997
4998 *** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can
4999 remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays).
5000
5001 *** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
5002
5003 This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
5004 properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
5005 although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced
5006 to implement the `font-lock-face' property.
5007
5008 *** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
5009 arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
5010 return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
5011 whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
5012 it was found as a text property or not found at all.
5013
5014 *** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'.
5015
5016 It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of
5017 property names as argument rather than a property list.
5018
5019 ** Face changes
5020
5021 *** The variable `facemenu-unlisted-faces' has been removed.
5022 Emacs has a lot more faces than in the past, and nearly all of them
5023 needed to be excluded. The new variable `facemenu-listed-faces' lists
5024 the faces to include in the face menu.
5025
5026 *** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor
5027 the face color to the number of colors supported by a display, and
5028 define the foreground and background colors accordingly so that they
5029 look best on a terminal that supports at least this many colors. This
5030 is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that
5031 makes a good use of the capabilities of the display.
5032
5033 *** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test
5034 whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.
5035
5036 A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
5037 specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
5038 defined with `defface'.
5039
5040 *** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR'
5041 or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the
5042 `defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use
5043 the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background
5044 directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face.
5045
5046 *** The first face specification element in a defface can specify
5047 `default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as
5048 defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and can be overridden
5049 by them).
5050
5051 *** The function `face-differs-from-default-p' now truly checks
5052 whether the given face displays differently from the default face or
5053 not (previously it did only a very cursory check).
5054
5055 *** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'.
5056
5057 These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how
5058 face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face
5059 attribute.
5060
5061 *** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute'
5062 help with handling relative face attributes.
5063
5064 *** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face list is reversed.
5065
5066 If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
5067 faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous
5068 releases of Emacs, the order was the opposite. This change was made
5069 so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text
5070 `face' properties.
5071
5072 *** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger
5073 (or smaller) font we should use. For instance, if the value is
5074 '((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10
5075 point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches
5076 SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN.
5077
5078 *** On terminals, faces with the :inverse-video attribute are displayed
5079 with swapped foreground and background colors even when one of them is
5080 not specified. In previous releases of Emacs, if either foreground
5081 or background color was unspecified, colors were not swapped. This
5082 was inconsistent with the face behavior under X.
5083
5084 *** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
5085 the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..
5086
5087 ** Font-Lock changes:
5088
5089 *** New special text property `font-lock-face'.
5090
5091 This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by
5092 M-x font-lock-mode. It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text
5093 property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the
5094 new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
5095
5096 *** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.
5097
5098 **** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the
5099 form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other
5100 properties than `face'.
5101
5102 **** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those
5103 extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.
5104
5105 *** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'.
5106
5107 If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified
5108 (see `jit-lock-defer-contextually'), then all of that text will
5109 be refontified. This is useful when the syntax of a textual element
5110 depends on text several lines further down (and when `font-lock-multiline'
5111 is not appropriate to solve that problem). For example in Perl:
5112
5113 s{
5114 foo
5115 }{
5116 bar
5117 }e
5118
5119 Adding/removing the last `e' changes the `bar' from being a piece of
5120 text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a `jit-lock-defer-multiline'
5121 property over the second half of the command to force (deferred)
5122 refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed.
5123
5124 *** `font-lock-extend-region-functions' makes it possible to alter the way
5125 the fontification region is chosen. This can be used to prevent rounding
5126 up to whole lines, or to extend the region to include all related lines
5127 of multiline constructs so that such constructs get properly recognized.
5128
5129 ** Major mode mechanism changes:
5130
5131 *** New variable `magic-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5132 looking at the file contents. It takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist'.
5133
5134 *** New variable `magic-fallback-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5135 looking at the file contents. It is handled after `auto-mode-alist',
5136 only if `auto-mode-alist' (and `magic-mode-alist') says nothing about the file.
5137
5138 *** XML or SGML major mode is selected when file starts with an `<?xml'
5139 or `<!DOCTYPE' declaration.
5140
5141 *** An interpreter magic line (if present) takes precedence over the
5142 file name when setting the major mode.
5143
5144 *** If new variable `auto-mode-case-fold' is set to a non-nil value,
5145 Emacs will perform a second case-insensitive search through
5146 `auto-mode-alist' if the first case-sensitive search fails. This
5147 means that a file FILE.TXT is opened in text-mode, and a file
5148 PROG.HTML is opened in html-mode. Note however, that independent of
5149 this setting, *.C files are usually recognized as C++ files. It also
5150 has no effect on systems with case-insensitive file names.
5151
5152 *** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook
5153 `after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode
5154 hooks. `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically.
5155
5156 *** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function'
5157 locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to
5158 the language.
5159
5160 *** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.
5161
5162 *** The new function `run-mode-hooks' and the new macro `delay-mode-hooks'
5163 are used by `define-derived-mode' to make sure the mode hook for the
5164 parent mode is run at the end of the child mode.
5165
5166 *** `define-derived-mode' by default creates a new empty abbrev table.
5167 It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table.
5168
5169 *** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect'
5170 property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use
5171 it in that buffer.
5172
5173 ** Minor mode changes:
5174
5175 *** `define-minor-mode' now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments
5176 and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable.
5177
5178 *** `define-globalized-minor-mode'.
5179
5180 This is a new name for what was formerly called
5181 `easy-mmode-define-global-mode'. The old name remains as an alias.
5182
5183 *** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.
5184
5185 ** Command loop changes:
5186
5187 *** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people
5188 have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the
5189 calling function was called through `call-interactively'.
5190
5191 Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new
5192 INTERACTIVE argument to the command.
5193
5194 *** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument.
5195
5196 If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks for a function that could be
5197 called with `call-interactively', and does not return t for keyboard
5198 macros.
5199
5200 *** When a command returns, the command loop moves point out from
5201 within invisible text, in the same way it moves out from within text
5202 covered by an image or composition property.
5203
5204 This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible.
5205 This is particularly good because the intangible property often has
5206 unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything
5207 (including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after
5208 `post-command-hook' and thus does not care about intermediate states.
5209
5210 *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to `only', that
5211 enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
5212 During that following command, the value of `transient-mark-mode'
5213 is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command,
5214 the next return to the command loop changes to nil.
5215
5216 *** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
5217 been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable
5218 `disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.
5219
5220 *** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook'
5221 when it receives a request from emacsclient.
5222
5223 *** `current-idle-time' reports how long Emacs has been idle.
5224
5225 ** Lisp file loading changes:
5226
5227 *** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
5228 which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the
5229 current file redefined it).
5230
5231 *** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is
5232 defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name.
5233
5234 *** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function,
5235 variable or face definitions.
5236
5237 *** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
5238 to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
5239 and runs any code associated with the provided feature.
5240
5241 *** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted.
5242 Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more
5243 than 3 levels of nesting.
5244
5245 ** Byte compiler changes:
5246
5247 *** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character
5248 position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form of its
5249 warning and error messages have been brought into line with GNU standards
5250 for these. As a result, you can use next-error and friends on the
5251 compilation output buffer.
5252
5253 *** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
5254 inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.
5255
5256 *** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a
5257 simple convention that the compiler understands. (This is mostly
5258 useful in code meant to be portable to different Emacs versions.)
5259 Write forms like the following, or code that macroexpands into such
5260 forms:
5261
5262 (if (fboundp 'foo) <then> <else>)
5263 (if (boundp 'foo) <then> <else)
5264
5265 In the first case, using `foo' as a function inside the <then> form
5266 won't produce a warning if it's not defined as a function, and in the
5267 second case, using `foo' as a variable won't produce a warning if it's
5268 unbound. The test must be in exactly one of the above forms (after
5269 macro expansion), but such tests can be nested. Note that `when' and
5270 `unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't.
5271
5272 *** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil. This
5273 helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both
5274 Emacs and XEmacs and can sometimes make the result significantly more
5275 efficient. Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't
5276 generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
5277 you anything.
5278
5279 *** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in Lisp files is now obeyed.
5280
5281 *** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file
5282 now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs
5283 (require 'cl) when loaded.
5284
5285 ** Frame operations:
5286
5287 *** New functions `frame-current-scroll-bars' and `window-current-scroll-bars'.
5288
5289 These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
5290 horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window.
5291
5292 *** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
5293 for all (existing and future) frames.
5294
5295 *** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use
5296 for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a
5297 number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp
5298 Reference manual for more detailed documentation.
5299
5300 *** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width,
5301 the `scroll-bar-width' frame parameter value is nil.
5302
5303 ** Mode line changes:
5304
5305 *** New function `format-mode-line'.
5306
5307 This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a
5308 specified) window as a string with or without text properties.
5309
5310 *** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
5311 used to add text properties to mode-line elements.
5312
5313 *** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used
5314 to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode
5315 line.
5316
5317 *** Mouse-face on mode-line (and header-line) is now supported.
5318
5319 ** Menu manipulation changes:
5320
5321 *** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the
5322 proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify
5323 "files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File"
5324 several versions ago.
5325
5326 *** The dummy function keys made by easy-menu are now always lower case.
5327 If you specify the menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'
5328 as the "key" bound by that key binding.
5329
5330 This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for the bindings that were
5331 made with easy-menu.
5332
5333 *** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name
5334 if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu
5335 into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't
5336 need to have a name.
5337
5338 ** Mule changes:
5339
5340 *** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
5341
5342 Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
5343 from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte
5344 buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them
5345 now:
5346
5347 1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time.
5348
5349 2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid
5350 the time it takes to convert the format.
5351
5352 3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
5353 wasteful.
5354
5355 *** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
5356 to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
5357 for it. (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
5358 file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)
5359
5360 *** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the
5361 ascii character set. Language environments (such as Turkish) may
5362 alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters. This variable
5363 saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes.
5364
5365 *** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
5366 of one coding system from another coding system.
5367
5368 *** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that
5369 the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text
5370 parts, e.g. utf-16.
5371
5372 *** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if
5373 it is read from a file without decoding.
5374
5375 *** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
5376 hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.
5377
5378 *** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the
5379 current input method to input a character.
5380
5381 *** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument,
5382 NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified.
5383
5384 ** Operating system access:
5385
5386 *** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor
5387 run time used by Emacs since start-up.
5388
5389 *** Functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid' now return floats if the
5390 user UID doesn't fit in a Lisp integer. Function `user-full-name'
5391 accepts a float as UID parameter.
5392
5393 *** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information.
5394
5395 *** On MS Windows, locale-coding-system is used to interact with the OS.
5396 The Windows specific variable w32-system-coding-system, which was
5397 formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system.
5398
5399 *** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
5400 debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.
5401
5402 ** GC changes:
5403
5404 *** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold
5405 as the heap size increases.
5406
5407 *** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
5408 on garbage collection.
5409
5410 *** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection.
5411
5412 The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care.
5413
5414 ** Miscellaneous:
5415
5416 *** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions:
5417
5418 `find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook',
5419 `find-file-not-found-hooks' to `find-file-not-found-functions',
5420 `write-file-hooks' to `write-file-functions',
5421 `write-contents-hooks' to `write-contents-functions',
5422 `x-lost-selection-hooks' to `x-lost-selection-functions',
5423 `x-sent-selection-hooks' to `x-sent-selection-functions',
5424 `delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.
5425
5426 In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.
5427
5428 *** Variable `local-write-file-hooks' is marked obsolete.
5429
5430 Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.
5431
5432 *** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
5433 running under X.
5434 \f
5435 * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1
5436
5437 ** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
5438 buttons' in Emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
5439 `widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
5440 doesn't require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for
5441 such things as help and apropos buffers.
5442
5443 ** The new library tree-widget.el provides a widget to display a set
5444 of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is
5445 well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.
5446
5447 ** The new library bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
5448 binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
5449 data structures.
5450
5451 ** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
5452 buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.
5453
5454 It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
5455 and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi
5456 buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the
5457 commands.
5458
5459 This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable
5460 sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the
5461 SQL buffer.
5462
5463 (add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
5464 (function (lambda ()
5465 (master-mode t)
5466 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5467 (add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
5468 (function (lambda ()
5469 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
5470
5471 ** The new library benchmark.el does timing measurements on Lisp code.
5472
5473 This includes measuring garbage collection time.
5474
5475 ** The new library testcover.el does test coverage checking.
5476
5477 This is so you can tell whether you've tested all paths in your Lisp
5478 code. It works with edebug.
5479
5480 The function `testcover-start' instruments all functions in a given
5481 file. Then test your code. The function `testcover-mark-all' adds
5482 overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to show where coverage
5483 is lacking. The command `testcover-next-mark' (bind it to a key!)
5484 will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch.
5485
5486 Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely
5487 evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same
5488 value. The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly
5489 complete their evaluation, such as `error'. The brown splotches are
5490 skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same
5491 value, such as (setq x 14).
5492
5493 For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to
5494 help out the test coverage tool. The macro `noreturn' suppresses a
5495 red splotch. It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does
5496 return. The macro `1value' suppresses a brown splotch for its argument.
5497 This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals
5498 an error if the argument actually returns differing values.
5499
5500
5501 \f
5502 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
5503 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
5504
5505 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5506 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
5507 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
5508 any later version.
5509
5510 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
5511 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
5512 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
5513 GNU General Public License for more details.
5514
5515 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
5516 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
5517 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
5518 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
5519
5520 \f
5521 Local variables:
5522 mode: outline
5523 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
5524 end:
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