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9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
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12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
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25 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
28 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
30 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
32 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
33 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
34 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
35 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
36 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
37 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
40 ** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
41 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
43 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
44 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
45 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
46 build with 'make V=1'.
49 ** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
50 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
51 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
54 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
57 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
59 ** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
60 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
61 -pkg file is optional.
63 ** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
64 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found).
67 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
68 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
69 the `network-security-level' variable.
71 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
74 ** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
77 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
78 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard.
79 x-select-enable-primary and renamed select-enable-primary.
80 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
81 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
82 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
83 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
86 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
89 ** New macro `define-advice'.
91 ** `insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
92 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
94 ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
97 ** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
98 The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
99 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
102 ** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the
103 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
104 for use in Emacs bug reports.
107 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
108 hiding character but the default `.' can be used by let-binding the
109 variable `read-hide-char'.
111 ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp'
112 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
113 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
114 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
115 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
117 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
118 If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
119 option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
121 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
122 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
123 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
124 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
125 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
126 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
129 ** The new function `bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows to
130 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
131 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
132 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
133 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
136 ** The new function `buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows to
137 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
138 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
139 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
140 text and directional control characters.
142 ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
143 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
144 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
147 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
148 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
150 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
151 files (recursively) under a directory.
153 ** The new `directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
154 name (as returned from, for instance, `file-name-all-completions' is
155 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
156 the name is a forward slash.
159 ** New variable `fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
160 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
161 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
162 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
164 ** The function `font-info' now returns more details about a font.
165 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
166 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
169 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
171 ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
173 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
175 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
176 that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
177 chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
178 character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
179 paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
180 performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
182 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
183 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
184 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
185 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3 and 7.0, and a few changes suggested
186 for Unicode 8.0. This includes full support for directional isolates
187 and the Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these
190 ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
193 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
196 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
197 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
198 the `display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
199 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
200 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
201 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
205 *** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
206 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
207 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
208 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
210 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
211 Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
212 kills the buffer at head.
216 *** You can use <up> and <down> keys to move point in the multi-line
217 minibuffer just as in an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
218 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
219 element. The new commands bound to <up> and <down> in the minibuffer:
220 `next-line-or-history-element' and `previous-line-or-history-element'.
222 ** Search and Replace
224 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
225 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
226 `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
227 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
228 string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'.
229 To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired
230 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
235 *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
236 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
239 *** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode
240 *** eldoc-documentation-function now defaults to nil
245 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
246 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
247 the like off the page.
250 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
251 buffers you want to keep separate.
254 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
255 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
258 *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
259 the data in the buffer.
262 *** The `eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
263 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
266 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
267 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
268 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
272 *** `mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
275 *** The new `S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
279 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
280 invalid certificates are marked in red.
284 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
285 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
288 *** New UPatterns `quote' and `app'.
289 *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'.
291 *** New vector QPattern.
294 *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
297 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
298 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
299 *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
301 ** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which
302 should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp.
304 ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' takes (:append FUN) to mean
305 appending FUN to `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
308 *** New functions cl-fresh-line, cl-digit-char-p and cl-parse-integer.
312 The seq library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros that
313 complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions are
314 prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
316 ** Calendar and diary
319 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
320 `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
321 `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
324 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
325 See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
328 *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
329 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
332 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
333 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
336 **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
337 `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'.
339 **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'.
341 **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'.
343 **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
345 **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'.
347 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
350 ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
353 ** `info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
354 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
355 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
358 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
361 ** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u now handle repeat counts to delete or
362 undelete multiple messages.
364 ** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
365 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
366 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
367 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
368 `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that.
370 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
372 ** In sh-mode, you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
373 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
377 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
381 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
382 When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
383 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
385 *** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string.
386 The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
389 *** The new interface variable `url-request-noninteractive' can be used
390 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
391 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
393 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
394 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
395 `gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
399 *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
403 *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote
404 connections using Tramp.
406 *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next' sends the current line to the
407 interactive buffer and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace
410 *** Add support for Vertica SQL.
412 ** VC and related modes
414 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
416 *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
417 the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
418 background or to the foreground.
420 *** `compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently used window
421 instead of the next window. The new option `compare-windows-get-window-function'
422 allows to customize this.
424 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
425 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
427 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
428 fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
431 ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro expansions
432 , interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of #defined symbols.
434 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file
435 name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp and .hxx.
436 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
437 reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden.
438 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
439 name patterns (e.x. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded.
443 *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
444 use PDF instead of DVI.
446 ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation.
447 By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but
448 `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that.
450 ** tildify: `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
451 `tildify-foreach-region-function' variables added making
452 `tildify-string-alist', `tildify-pattern-alist', and
453 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
454 helper functions) obsolete.
457 The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
458 and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
461 `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
462 to pick one destination among several. Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
463 unbound. `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
464 easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
465 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
466 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
467 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
470 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
471 `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
472 alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and
473 `xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead.
476 As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
477 `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
478 `tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
486 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
488 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
490 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
492 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
493 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
496 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
498 ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer.
499 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
500 from which the minibuffer was entered, call it with the new argument
503 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers's marks.
505 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
506 active region handling.
508 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
510 ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
513 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
514 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
515 position list returned for such events is now nil.
517 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
518 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
522 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
524 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
526 ** New function macroexpand-1 to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
528 ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
529 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
530 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
531 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
532 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
533 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
534 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
536 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
538 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
539 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
540 called interactively.
542 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
545 ** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
546 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
547 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
548 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
552 ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
553 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
555 ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
557 ** Functions `rmail-delete-forward' and `rmail-delete-backward' take an
558 optional repeat-count argument.
560 ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
562 ** Function `system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
563 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
564 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
565 name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
568 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
571 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
572 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to
573 execute code depending whether all values are true.
574 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
575 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
578 ** Time-related changes:
580 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
581 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
582 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
583 Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone',
584 `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time',
585 `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year',
586 `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'.
588 *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have
591 *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and
592 `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
593 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
597 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
598 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
601 * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1
604 ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
605 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
606 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
607 *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
608 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
609 *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
610 bars on all existing and future frames.
611 *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
612 scroll bars on the selected frame.
613 *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
614 `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
615 for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
616 *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
617 `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
618 bars on a specific frame or window.
619 *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
620 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
621 *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
623 *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
627 ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
628 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
629 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
630 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
631 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
635 ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
636 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
637 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
638 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
639 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
640 *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
641 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
642 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
643 number of columns or lines it displays.
646 ** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of
647 windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer',
648 `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'.
650 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed.
651 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
654 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
657 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
658 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
659 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
661 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
663 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
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