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3 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
5
6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
10
11 See file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates.
12 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
13 and NEWS.1-17 for changes 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
18 Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates are complete.
20 (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
21 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
22 When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
23 otherwise leave it unmarked.
24
25 \f
26 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
27
28 +++
29 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
30
31 +++
32 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
33
34 +++
35 ** New configure option --with-cairo.
36 This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing. As a side effect, it provides
37 support for built-in printing, when Emacs was built with GTK+.
38
39 ** New configure option --with-modules.
40 This enables support for loading dynamic modules; see below.
41
42 ---
43 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
44 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
45 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
46 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
47 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
48 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
49
50 ---
51 ** The Emacs garbage collector assumes GC_MARK_STACK == GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS.
52 The GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS stack-marking variant has been the default
53 since Emacs 24.4, and the other variants were undocumented and were
54 obstacles to maintenance and development. GC_MARK_STACK and its
55 related symbols have been removed from the C internals.
56
57 ---
58 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
59 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
60
61 ---
62 ** 'configure' now prefers inotify to gfile for file notification,
63 unless gfile is explicitly requested via --with-file-notification='gfile'.
64
65 ---
66 ** The configure option '--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
67 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
68
69 ---
70 ** The configure option '--with-mmdf' has been removed.
71 It was no longer useful, as it relied on libraries that are no longer
72 supported, and its presence led to confusion during configuration.
73 This affects only the 'movemail' utility; Emacs itself can still
74 process MMDF-format files as before.
75
76 +++
77 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
78 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
79 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
80 build with 'make V=1'.
81
82 ---
83 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows to specify a
84 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
85 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
86 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
87 be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
88
89 ---
90 ** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
91 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
92 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
93
94 ---
95 ** Emacs 25 comes with a new set of icons.
96 Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
97 The old Emacs logo icons are available as `emacs23.png' in the same location.
98
99 \f
100 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
101
102 +++
103 ** When Emacs is given a file as a command line argument and
104 `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, display both the file and
105 `initial-buffer-choice'. When Emacs is given more than one file and
106 `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, show `initial-buffer-choice'
107 and *Buffer List*. This makes Emacs convenient to use from the
108 command line when `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil.
109
110 +++
111 ** The value of ‘initial-scratch-message’ is now treated as a doc string
112 and can contain escape sequences for command keys, quotes, and the like.
113
114 \f
115 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
116
117 +++
118 ** Any file of the form .dir-locals*.el is now considered a dir-local
119 file, and multiple such files can be used in the same directory. See
120 the variable `dir-locals-file' for more information.
121
122 ---
123 ** `xref-find-definitions' and `describe-function' now display
124 information about mode local overrides (defined by cedet/mode-local.el
125 `define-overloadable-function' `define-mode-local-overrides').
126
127 +++
128 ** New `display-buffer' action function `display-buffer-use-some-frame'.
129 This displays the buffer in an existing frame other than the current
130 frame, and allows the caller to specify a frame predicate to exclude
131 frames.
132
133 +++
134 ** New documentation command `describe-symbol'.
135 Works for functions, variables, faces, etc. It is bound to `C-h o' by
136 default.
137
138 +++
139 ** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
140 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found). It
141 is intended for adding to 'kill-emacs-query-functions'.
142
143 +++
144 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
145 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
146 the `network-security-level' variable.
147
148 +++
149 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
150
151 +++
152 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard
153 and x-select-enable-primary is renamed select-enable-primary.
154 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
155 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
156 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
157 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
158
159 +++
160 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
161
162 +++
163 ** New macro `define-advice'.
164
165 +++
166 ** `insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
167 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
168
169 +++
170 ** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
171 The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
172 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
173
174 ---
175 ** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the
176 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
177 for use in Emacs bug reports.
178
179 +++
180 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
181 hiding character but the default `.' can be used by let-binding the
182 variable `read-hide-char'.
183
184 ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules).
185 A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional
186 functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package
187 written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions `load', `require',
188 `load-file', etc. were extended to load such modules, as they do with
189 Emacs Lisp packages. The new variable `module-file-suffix' holds the
190 system-dependent value of the file-name extension (`.so' on Posix
191 hosts) of the module files.
192
193 A module should export a C-callable function named
194 `emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to
195 `load' or `require' which loads the module. It should also export a
196 symbol named `plugin_is_GPL_compatible' to indicate that its code is
197 released under the GPL or compatible license; Emacs will refuse to
198 load modules that don't export such a symbol.
199
200 If a module needs to call Emacs functions, it should do so through the
201 API defined and documented in the header file `emacs-module.h'. Note
202 that any module that provides Lisp-callable functions will have to use
203 Emacs functions such as `fset' and `funcall', in order to register its
204 functions with the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
205
206 Modules can create `user-ptr' Lisp objects that embed pointers to C
207 struct's defined by the module. This is useful for keeping around
208 complex data structures created by a module, to be passed back to the
209 module's functions. User-ptr objects can also have associated
210 "finalizers" -- functions to be run when the object is GC'ed; this is
211 useful for freeing any resources allocated for the underlying data
212 structure, such as memory, open file descriptors, etc. A new
213 predicate `user-ptrp' returns non-nil if its argument is a `user-ptr'
214 object.
215
216 Loadable modules in Emacs are an experimental feature, and subject to
217 change in future releases. For that reason, their support is disabled
218 by default, and must be enabled by using the `--with-modules' option
219 at configure time.
220
221 ** New input method: `tamil-dvorak'.
222
223 \f
224 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
225
226 +++
227 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
228
229 ** Changes in undo
230
231 +++
232 *** Successive single-char deletions are collapsed in the undo-log just like
233 successive char insertions. Which commands invoke this behavior is
234 controlled by the new `undo-auto-amalgamate' function. See the node
235 "Undo" in the ELisp manual for more details.
236
237 +++
238 *** The heuristic used to insert `undo-boundary' after each command
239 has changed, so that if a command causes changes in more than just the
240 current buffer, Emacs now calls `undo-boundary' in every buffer
241 affected by the command.
242
243 +++
244 ** New command `comment-line' bound to `C-x C-;'.
245
246 ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
247
248 ** C-x 8 now has shorthands for these chars: ‐ ‑ ‒ – — ― ‘ ’ “ ” † ‡ • ′ ″
249 € № ← → ↔ − ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥. As before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
250
251 ** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for quoting ‘like this’ and “like this”
252 as you type. See also the new variable ‘text-quoting-style’.
253
254 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
255
256 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
257 that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
258 chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
259 character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
260 paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
261 performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
262
263 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
264 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
265 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
266 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3, 7.0, and the latest Unicode 8.0.
267 This includes full support for directional isolates and the
268 Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these Unicode
269 standards.
270
271 ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
272
273 +++
274 ** New buffer-local `electric-pair-local-mode'.
275
276 +++
277 ** New variable `fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
278 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
279 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
280 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
281
282 \f
283 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
284
285 ** Checkdoc
286
287 +++
288 *** New command `checkdoc-package-keywords' checks if the
289 current package keywords are recognized. Set the new option
290 `checkdoc-package-keywords-flag' to non-nil to make
291 `checkdoc-current-buffer' call this function automatically.
292
293 +++
294 *** New function `checkdoc-file' checks for style errors.
295 It's meant for use together with `compile':
296 emacs -batch --eval "(checkdoc-file \"subr.el\")"
297
298 ** New function `bookmark-set-no-overwrite' bound to C-x r M.
299 It raises an error if a bookmark of that name already exists,
300 unlike `bookmark-set' which silently updates an existing bookmark.
301
302 ** JSON
303 ---
304 *** `json-pretty-print' and `json-pretty-print-buffer' now maintain
305 the ordering of object keys by default.
306 ---
307 *** New commands `json-pretty-print-ordered' and
308 `json-pretty-print-buffer-ordered' pretty prints JSON objects with
309 object keys sorted alphabetically.
310
311 ** You can recompute the VC state of a file buffer with `M-x vc-refresh-state'
312 ** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
313 See `prog-indentation-context' and `prog-widen'.
314
315 ** Prettify Symbols mode
316 *** Prettify Symbols mode supports custom composition predicates. By
317 overriding the default `prettify-symbols-compose-predicate', modes can
318 specify in which contexts a symbol map be composed to some unicode
319 character. `prettify-symbols-default-compose-p' is the default which
320 is suitable for most programming languages such as C or Lisp (but not
321 (La)TeX).
322
323 *** Symbols can be unprettified while point is inside them.
324 New variable `prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point' configures this.
325
326 ** New `xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' config.
327
328 ** The `save-place' variable is replaced by a `save-place-mode'.
329
330 ** ERC
331
332 *** Hide message types by network or channel. `erc-hide-list' will
333 hide all messages of the specified type, where `erc-network-hide-list'
334 and `erc-channel-hide-list' will only hide the specified message types
335 for the respective specified targets.
336
337 ** Midnight-mode
338 *** `midnight-mode' is a proper minor mode.
339 *** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions.
340
341 ** In xterms, killing text now also sets the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection
342 in the surrounding GUI (using the OSC-52 escape sequence). This only works
343 if your xterm supports it and enables the `allowWindowOps' options (disabled
344 by default at least in Debian, for security reasons).
345
346 Similarly, you can yank the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection (using the OSC-52
347 escape sequence) if your xterm has the feature enabled but for that you
348 additionally need to add `getSelection' to `xterm-extra-capabilities'.
349
350 ** xterm-mouse-mode now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it).
351
352 ** package.el
353
354 *** New "external" package status.
355 An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and
356 not from `package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in
357 `package-directory-list'. They are treated much like built-in
358 packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and
359 are not considered for upgrades.
360
361 The effect, is that a user can manually place a specific version of a
362 package inside `package-directory-list' and the package menu will
363 always respect that.
364
365 *** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher
366 priority (as per `package-archive-priorities') only that one is
367 listed. This can be configured with `package-menu-hide-low-priority'.
368
369 *** `package-menu-toggle-hiding' now toggles the hiding of packages.
370 This includes the above-mentioned low-priority packages, as well as
371 available packages whose version is lower than the currently installed
372 version (which were previously impossible to display).
373 This allows users to downgrade a package if a lower version is
374 available.
375
376 *** When filtering the package menu, keywords starting with "arc:" or
377 "status:" represent package archive or status, respectively, instead
378 of actual keywords.
379
380 *** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an
381 ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s)
382 asynchronously.
383
384 *** New variable `package-menu-async' controls whether the
385 package-menu uses asynchronous downloads.
386
387 *** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
388 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
389 -pkg file is optional.
390
391 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
392 The FORCE argument to `package-delete' overrides this.
393
394 *** New custom variable `package-selected-packages' tracks packages
395 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
396 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
397
398 *** New command `package-install-user-selected-packages' installs all
399 packages from `package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
400
401 *** New command `package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
402 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
403
404 ** Shell
405
406 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
407 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
408 the `display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
409 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
410 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
411 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
412
413 ** EIEIO
414 +++
415 *** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
416 +++
417 *** The `newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
418 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
419 +++
420 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
421 +++
422 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
423 +++
424 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
425 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
426 +++
427 *** `constructor' is now an obsolete alias for `make-instance'.
428
429 ** ido
430 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
431 Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
432 kills the buffer at head.
433 *** A prefix argument to `ido-restrict-to-matches' will reverse its
434 meaning, and the list is restricted to those elements that do not
435 match the current input.
436
437 ** Minibuffer
438
439 *** You can use <up> and <down> keys to move point in the multi-line
440 minibuffer just as in an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
441 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
442 element. The new commands bound to <up> and <down> in the minibuffer:
443 `next-line-or-history-element' and `previous-line-or-history-element'.
444
445 ** Search and Replace
446
447 +++
448 *** New user option `search-default-regexp-mode'
449 specifies the default mode for I-search.
450
451 +++
452 *** `isearch' and `query-replace' can now perform character folding in matches.
453 Isearch does that by default, while `query-replace' will do that if
454 the new variable `replace-character-fold' is customized to a non-nil
455 value. This is analogous to case folding, but instead of disregarding
456 case variants, it disregards wider classes of distinctions between
457 similar characters. (Case folding is a special case of character
458 folding.) This means many characters in the search string will match
459 entire groups of characters instead of just themselves.
460
461 For instance, the " will match all variants of double quotes (like “
462 and ”), and the letter a will match all of its accented cousins, even
463 those composed of multiple characters, as well as many other symbols
464 like ℀, ℁, ⒜, and ⓐ.
465
466 +++
467 *** New function `character-fold-to-regexp' can be used
468 by searching commands to produce a regexp matching anything that
469 character-folds into STRING.
470
471 +++
472 *** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
473 text in the region. The search engine to use for this is specified by
474 the customizable variable `eww-search-prefix'.
475
476 +++
477 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
478 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
479 `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
480 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
481 string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'.
482 To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired
483 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
484 typing RET.
485
486 ** Calc
487 +++
488 *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
489 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
490
491 +++
492 ** In Edebug, you can now set the initial mode with C-x C-a C-m. With
493 this you can tell Edebug not to stop at the start of the first
494 instrumented function.
495
496 ** ElDoc
497 *** New minor mode `global-eldoc-mode'
498 *** `eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to `ignore'
499 *** `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
500 and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
501 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
502 ] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.
503
504 ** eww
505
506 ---
507 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
508
509 +++
510 *** A new command `F' (`eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
511 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
512 customize the `shr-use-fonts' variable.
513
514 +++
515 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
516 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
517 the like off the page.
518
519 ---
520 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
521 buffers you want to keep separate.
522
523 +++
524 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
525 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
526
527 +++
528 *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
529 the data in the buffer.
530
531 ---
532 *** The `eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
533 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
534
535 +++
536 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
537 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
538 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
539 details.
540
541 +++
542 *** `mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
543
544 +++
545 *** The new `S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
546 them.
547
548 ---
549 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
550 invalid certificates are marked in red.
551
552 ** Message mode
553
554 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
555 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
556
557 ** pcase
558 *** New UPatterns `quote', `app', `cl-struct', and `eieio'.
559 *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'.
560 +++
561 *** New vector QPattern.
562
563 ** Lisp mode
564 *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
565
566 ** Rectangle editing
567 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
568 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
569 *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
570
571 ** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which
572 should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp.
573
574 ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' takes (:append FUN) to mean
575 appending FUN to `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
576
577 ** cl-lib
578 *** New functions cl-fresh-line, cl-digit-char-p and cl-parse-integer.
579
580 ** Calendar and diary
581
582 +++
583 *** The default `diary-file' is now located in .emacs.d.
584
585 +++
586 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
587 `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
588 `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
589
590 +++
591 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
592 See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
593
594 ---
595 *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
596 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
597
598 +++
599 *** New option `calendar-weekend-days'.
600 The option customizes which day headers receive the
601 `calendar-weekend-header' face.
602
603 ---
604 *** New optional args N and STRING for ‘holiday-greek-orthodox-easter’.
605
606 ---
607 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
608 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
609 The remainder were:
610
611 **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
612 `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'.
613
614 **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'.
615
616 **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'.
617
618 **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
619
620 **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'.
621
622 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
623
624 ** New js.el option `js-indent-first-init'.
625
626 ---
627 ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
628
629 +++
630 ** `info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
631 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
632 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
633
634 ---
635 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
636
637 ** Rmail
638
639 *** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u take optional repeat counts to delete or
640 undelete multiple messages.
641
642 *** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
643 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
644 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
645 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
646 `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that.
647
648 +++
649 *** In the commands that make summaries by subject, recipients, or senders,
650 you can no longer use commas to separate regular expressions.
651
652 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
653
654 ** sh-script
655 *** In sh-mode you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
656 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
657
658 *** New value `always' for sh-indent-after-continuation.
659 This provides old-style ("dumb") indentation of continued lines.
660
661 ** TLS
662 ---
663 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
664
665 ** URL
666
667 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
668 When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
669 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
670
671 *** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string.
672 The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
673 a function.
674
675 *** The new interface variable `url-request-noninteractive' can be used
676 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
677 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
678
679 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
680 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
681 `gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
682
683 ** Tramp
684
685 +++
686 *** New connection method "afp", which allows to access Mac OS X
687 volumes via the Apple Filing Protocol.
688
689 +++
690 *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
691
692 +++
693 *** Method-specific parameters can be overwritten now with variable
694 `tramp-connection-properties'.
695
696 ---
697 *** Handler for `file-notify-valid-p' for remote machines that support
698 filesystem notifications.
699
700 ** SQL mode
701
702 *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote
703 connections using Tramp.
704
705 *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next' sends the current line to the
706 interactive buffer and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace
707 and comments.
708
709 *** Add support for Vertica SQL.
710
711 ** VC and related modes
712
713 *** Basic push support, via `vc-push', bound to `C-x v P'.
714 Implemented for Bzr, Git, Hg. As part of this change, the pre-existing
715 (undocumented) command vc-hg-push now behaves slightly differently.
716
717 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
718
719 *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
720 the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
721 background or to the foreground.
722
723 *** `compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently used window
724 instead of the next window. The new option `compare-windows-get-window-function'
725 allows to customize this.
726
727 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
728 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
729
730 ---
731 *** `log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to
732 "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". Set `log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change'
733 nil to disable this.
734
735 ** VHDL mode supports VHDL'08.
736
737 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
738 fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
739 non-integer inputs.
740
741 ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro expansions,
742 interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of #defined symbols.
743
744 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file
745 name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp, .hxx, and .h++.
746 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
747 reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden.
748 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
749 name patterns (e.g. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded.
750
751 ** TeX mode
752
753 *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
754 use PDF instead of DVI.
755
756 *** TeX mode now supports Prettify Symbols mode. When enabling
757 `prettify-symbols-mode' in a tex-mode buffer, \alpha ... \omega, and
758 many other math macros are displayed using unicode characters.
759
760 ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation.
761 By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but
762 `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that.
763
764 ** tildify: `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
765 `tildify-foreach-region-function' variables added making
766 `tildify-string-alist', `tildify-pattern-alist', and
767 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
768 helper functions) obsolete.
769
770 ** xref
771 The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
772 and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
773
774 *** New key bindings
775 `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
776 to pick one destination among several. Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
777 unbound. `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
778 easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
779 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
780 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
781 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
782
783 *** New variables
784 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
785 `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
786 alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and
787 `xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead.
788
789 ** etags
790 As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
791 `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
792 `tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
793
794 ** EUDC
795 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
796
797 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
798
799 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
800 subprocess instead of on the command line.
801
802 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
803 need to configure this manually anymore.
804
805 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
806 rewritten.
807
808 There have also been customization changes.
809
810 *** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
811 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
812
813 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
814 on email and firstname instead of surname.
815
816 *** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
817 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
818
819 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
820 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
821
822 *** Custom variable `eudc-options-file' defaults to
823 "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options".
824
825 *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
826 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
827 command line's password prompt.
828
829 EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3.
830
831 ** Eshell
832
833 +++
834 *** The new built-in command `clear' can scroll window contents out of sight.
835 If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents will be cleared.
836
837 *** New buffer syntax '#<buffer-name>', which is equivalent to
838 '#<buffer buffer-name>'. This shorthand makes interacting with
839 buffers from eshell more convenient. Custom variable
840 `eshell-buffer-shorthand', which has been broken for a while, has been
841 removed.
842
843 *** By default, eshell "visual" program buffers (created by
844 `eshell-visual-commands' and similar custom vars) are no longer killed
845 when their processes die. This fixes issues with short-lived commands
846 and makes visual programs more useful in general. For example, if
847 "git log" is a visual command, it will always show the visual command
848 buffer, even if the "git log" process dies. For the old behavior,
849 make the new option `eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil.
850
851 ** Browse-url
852
853 *** Support for the Conkeror web browser.
854
855 ---
856 *** Support for several ancient browsers is now officially obsolete.
857
858 +++
859 ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
860 be added to the archive.
861
862 ---
863 ** Autorevert: dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file
864 notifications, if Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
865
866 ** File Notifications
867
868 +++
869 *** The new event `stopped' signals, that a file notification watch is
870 not active any longer.
871
872 +++
873 *** The new function `file-notify-valid-p' checks, whether a file
874 notification descriptor still corresponds to an activate watch.
875
876 ** Dired
877
878 +++
879 *** The command `dired-do-compress' bound to `Z' now can compress
880 directories and decompress zip files.
881
882 +++
883 *** New command `dired-do-compress-to' bound to `c' can be used to
884 compress many marked files into a single named archive. The
885 compression command is determined from the new
886 `dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
887
888 ** Tabulated List Mode
889
890 +++
891 *** It is now safe for a mode that derives `tabulated-list-mode' to not
892 call `tabulated-list-init-header', in which case it will have no
893 header.
894
895 +++
896 *** `tabulated-list-print' takes a second optional argument, update,
897 which specifies an alternative printing method which is faster when
898 few or no entries have changed.
899
900 ** Obsolete packages
901
902 ---
903 *** gulp.el
904
905 *** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
906
907 \f
908 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
909
910 ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
911 minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg
912 command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable
913 is set). This feature requires newer versions of GnuPG (2.1.5 or
914 later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later).
915
916 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
917
918 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
919
920 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
921 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
922
923 ** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
924 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
925 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
926 other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
927 a typographically-correct documents.
928
929 ** The `seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros
930 that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions
931 are prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
932
933 ** The `map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on
934 alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with
935 `map-'.
936
937 ** The `thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the
938 evaluation of forms.
939
940 ** js-jsx-mode (a minor variant of js-mode) provides indentation
941 support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
942
943 \f
944 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
945
946 ---
947 ** `setq' and `setf' must now be called with an even number of
948 arguments. The earlier behavior of silently supplying a nil to the
949 last variable when there was an odd number of arguments has been
950 eliminated.
951
952 ** `syntax-begin-function' is declared obsolete.
953 Removed font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function and the SYNTAX-BEGIN
954 slot in font-lock-defaults.
955
956 +++
957 ** `package-initialize' now sets `package-enable-at-startup' to nil if
958 called during startup. Users who call this function in their init
959 file and still expect it to be run after startup should set
960 `package-enable-at-startup' to t after the call to
961 `package-initialize'.
962
963 ** `:global' minor mode use `setq-default' rather than `setq'.
964 This means that you can't use `make-local-variable' and expect them to
965 "magically" become buffer-local.
966
967 ** `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to t and is obsolete.
968
969 +++
970 ** `track-mouse' no longer freezes the shape of the mouse pointer.
971 The `track-mouse' form no longer refrains from changing the shape of
972 the mouse pointer for the entire time the body of that form is
973 executed. Lisp programs that use `track-mouse' for dragging across
974 large portions of the Emacs display, and want to avoid changes in the
975 pointer shape during dragging, should bind the variable `track-mouse'
976 to the special value `dragging' in the body of the form.
977
978 ---
979 ** The optional `predicate' argument of `lisp-complete-symbol' no longer
980 has any effect. (This change was made in Emacs 24.4 but was not
981 advertised at the time.)
982
983 ** `indirect-function' does not signal `void-function' any more.
984 This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when
985 symbol-function was changed not to signal `void-function' any more.
986
987 *** As a consequence, the second arg of `indirect-function' is now obsolete.
988
989 ** Comint, term, and compile do not set the EMACS env var any more.
990 Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
991
992 ** `save-excursion' does not save&restore the mark any more.
993
994 ** read-buffer-function can now be called with a 4th argument (`predicate').
995
996 ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer.
997 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
998 from which the minibuffer was entered, call it with the new argument
999 `switch-buffer'.
1000
1001 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers' marks.
1002
1003 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
1004 active region handling.
1005
1006 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
1007
1008 ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
1009
1010 ** `process-running-child-p` may now return a numeric process
1011 group ID instead of `t'.
1012
1013 +++
1014 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
1015 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
1016 position list returned for such events is now nil.
1017
1018 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
1019 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
1020 Emacs-21.
1021
1022 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
1023 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
1024 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
1025 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
1026
1027 +++
1028 ** New variable ‘text-quoting-style’ to control how Emacs translates quotes.
1029 Set it to ‘curve’ for curved single quotes ‘like this’, to ‘straight’
1030 for straight apostrophes 'like this', and to ‘grave’ for grave accent
1031 and apostrophe `like this'. The default value nil acts like ‘curve’
1032 if curved single quotes are displayable, and like ‘grave’ otherwise.
1033 The new variable affects display of diagnostics and help, but not of info.
1034
1035 +++
1036 ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
1037 That is, it converts documentation strings’ quoting style as per the
1038 value of ‘text-quoting-style’. Doc strings in source code can use
1039 either curved single quotes or grave accents and apostrophes. As
1040 before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
1041
1042 +++
1043 ** Message-issuing functions ‘error’, ‘message’, etc. now convert quotes.
1044 They use the new ‘format-message’ function instead of plain ‘format’,
1045 so that they now follow user preference as per ‘text-quoting-style’
1046 when processing curved single quotes, grave accents, and apostrophes
1047 in their format argument.
1048
1049 +++
1050 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
1051 now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
1052 If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
1053 word syntax, use `\sw' instead.
1054
1055 +++
1056 ** The character classes [:graph:] and [:print:] in regular expressions
1057 no longer match every multibyte character. Instead, Emacs now
1058 consults the Unicode character properties to determine which
1059 characters are graphic or printable. In particular, surrogates and
1060 unassigned codepoints are now rejected. If you want the old behavior,
1061 use [:multibyte:] instead.
1062
1063 +++
1064 ** The `diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old
1065 behavior, set `diff-switches' to `-c'.
1066
1067 ** `grep-template' and `grep-find-template' values don't include the
1068 --color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position
1069 dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should
1070 be updated accordingly.
1071
1072 +++
1073 ** ‘(/ N)’ is now equivalent to ‘(/ 1 N)’ rather than to ‘(/ N 1)’.
1074 The new behavior is compatible with Common Lisp and with XEmacs.
1075 This change does not affect Lisp code intended to be portable to
1076 Emacs 24.2 and earlier, which did not support unary ‘/’.
1077
1078 +++
1079 ** The `default-directory' value doesn't have to end slash. To make
1080 that happen, `unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
1081 `file-name-as-directory'.
1082
1083 \f
1084 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1085
1086 ** syntax-propertize is now automatically called on-demand during forward
1087 parsing functions like `forward-sexp'.
1088
1089 ** New hooks prefix-command-echo-keystrokes-functions and
1090 prefix-command-preserve-state-hook, to allow the definition of prefix
1091 commands other than the predefined C-u.
1092
1093 ** New functions `filepos-to-bufferpos' and `bufferpos-to-filepos'.
1094
1095 ** The default value of `load-read-function' is now `read'.
1096
1097 ** New hook `pre-redisplay-functions', a bit easier to use than pre-redisplay-function.
1098
1099 ** The second arg of `looking-back' should always be provided explicitly.
1100
1101 ** Obsolete text properties `intangible', `point-entered', and `point-left'.
1102 Replaced by properties `cursor-intangible' and `cursor-sensor-functions',
1103 implemented by the new `cursor-intangible-mode' and
1104 `cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes.
1105
1106 ** New process type `pipe', which can be used in combination with the
1107 `:stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output
1108 of subprocess.
1109
1110 ** New function `make-process' provides an alternative interface to
1111 `start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as
1112 process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to
1113 `make-network-process').
1114
1115 +++
1116 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
1117 files (recursively) under a directory.
1118
1119 +++
1120 ** New variable `inhibit-message', when bound to non-nil, inhibits
1121 `message' and related functions from displaying messages the Echo
1122 Area. The output is still logged to the *Messages* buffer.
1123
1124 +++
1125 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
1126 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
1127
1128 ** `read-buffer' takes a new `predicate' argument.
1129
1130 ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
1131
1132 ** New finalizer facility for running code when objects
1133 become unreachable.
1134
1135 ** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring.
1136 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then
1137 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
1138
1139 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
1140
1141 ** New function `macroexpand-1' to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
1142
1143 ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
1144 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
1145 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
1146 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
1147 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
1148 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
1149 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
1150
1151 ** New function `string-greaterp', which return the opposite result of
1152 `string-lessp'.
1153
1154 +++
1155 ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp'
1156 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
1157 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
1158 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
1159 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
1160
1161 ---
1162 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
1163 If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
1164 option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
1165
1166 +++
1167 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
1168 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
1169 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
1170 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
1171 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
1172 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
1173
1174 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
1175
1176 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
1177 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
1178 called interactively.
1179
1180 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
1181
1182 +++
1183 ** The new function `bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows to
1184 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
1185 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
1186 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
1187 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
1188
1189 +++
1190 ** The new function `buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows to
1191 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
1192 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
1193 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
1194 text and directional control characters.
1195
1196 +++
1197 ** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
1198 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
1199 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
1200 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
1201 have side effects.
1202
1203 +++
1204 ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
1205 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
1206
1207 ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
1208
1209 ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
1210
1211 ** Function `system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
1212 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
1213 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
1214 name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
1215
1216 +++
1217 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
1218
1219 ** If `pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
1220 directory at point.
1221
1222 +++
1223 ** New functions return extended information about fonts and faces.
1224
1225 +++
1226 *** The function `font-info' now returns more details about a font.
1227 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
1228 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
1229
1230 +++
1231 *** A new function `default-font-width' returns the average width of a
1232 character in the current buffer's default font. If the default face
1233 is remapped (see `face-remapping-alist'), the value for the remapped
1234 face is returned. This function complements the existing function
1235 `default-font-height'.
1236
1237 +++
1238 *** New functions `window-font-height' and `window-font-width' return
1239 the height and average width of characters in a specified face and
1240 window. If FACE is remapped (see `face-remapping-alist'), the
1241 function returns the information for the remapped face.
1242
1243 +++
1244 *** A new function `window-max-chars-per-line' returns the maximal
1245 number of characters that can be displayed on one line. If a face
1246 and/or window are provided, these values are used for the
1247 calculation. This function is different from `window-body-width' in
1248 that it accounts for (i) continuation glyphs, (ii) the size of the
1249 font, and (iii) the specified window.
1250
1251 ---
1252 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
1253 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to
1254 execute code depending whether all values are true.
1255 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
1256 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
1257
1258 +++
1259 ** Documentation strings now support quoting with curved single quotes
1260 ‘like-this’ in addition to the old style with grave accent and
1261 apostrophe `like-this'. The new style looks better on today's displays.
1262 In the new Electric Quote mode, you can enter curved single quotes
1263 into documentation by typing ` and '. Outside Electric Quote mode,
1264 you can enter them by typing ‘C-x 8 [’ and ‘C-x 8 ]’, or (if your Alt
1265 key works) by typing ‘A-[’ and ‘A-]’. As described above under
1266 ‘text-quoting-style’, the user can specify how to display doc string
1267 quotes.
1268
1269 +++
1270 ** New function ‘format-message’ is like ‘format’ and also converts
1271 curved single quotes, grave accents and apostrophes as per
1272 ‘text-quoting-style’.
1273
1274 +++
1275 ** show-help-function's arg is converted via substitute-command-keys
1276 before being passed to the function. Help strings, help-echo
1277 properties, etc. can therefore contain command key escapes and
1278 quotation marks.
1279
1280 +++
1281 ** Time-related changes:
1282
1283 *** Time conversion functions now accept an optional ZONE argument
1284 that specifies the time zone rules for conversion. ZONE is omitted or
1285 nil for Emacs local time, t for Universal Time, ‘wall’ for system wall
1286 clock time, or a string as in ‘set-time-zone-rule’ for a time zone
1287 rule. The affected functions are ‘current-time-string’,
1288 ‘current-time-zone’, ‘decode-time’, and ‘format-time-string’. The
1289 function ‘encode-time’, which already accepted a simple time zone rule
1290 argument, has been extended to accept all the new forms.
1291
1292 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
1293 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
1294 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
1295 Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone',
1296 `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time',
1297 `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year',
1298 `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'.
1299
1300 *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have
1301 been obsoleted.
1302
1303 *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and
1304 `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
1305 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
1306 integers.
1307
1308 +++
1309 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
1310 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
1311
1312 +++
1313 ** The new function `directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
1314 name (as returned from, for instance, `file-name-all-completions') is
1315 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
1316 the name is a directory separator character (forward slash on GNU and
1317 Unix systems, forward- or backslash on MS-Windows and MS-DOS).
1318
1319 ** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in standard-display-table
1320 if the terminal cannot display curved quotes.
1321
1322 ** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
1323 standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system.
1324
1325 +++
1326 ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
1327
1328 +++
1329 ** New possible value for `system-type': `nacl'.
1330 This is used by Google's Native Client (NaCl).
1331
1332 ** Miscellaneous name change
1333
1334 For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable
1335 `hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to `hfy-optimizations'.
1336 The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
1337
1338 \f
1339 * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1
1340
1341 +++
1342 ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
1343 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
1344 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
1345 *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
1346 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
1347 *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
1348 bars on all existing and future frames.
1349 *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
1350 scroll bars on the selected frame.
1351 *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
1352 `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
1353 for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
1354 *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
1355 `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
1356 bars on a specific frame or window.
1357 *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
1358 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
1359 *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
1360 bars too.
1361 *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
1362 `scroll-bar-height'.
1363
1364 +++
1365 ** New functions `frame-geometry' and `frame-edges' give access to a
1366 frame's geometry.
1367
1368 +++
1369 ** New functions `mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and
1370 `set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' get/set screen coordinates of the
1371 mouse cursor.
1372
1373 +++
1374 ** The function `window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to
1375 retrieve body, absolute and pixel edges of the window.
1376
1377 +++
1378 ** The functions `window-inside-edges', `window-inside-pixel-edges' and
1379 `window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges' have been renamed to respectively
1380 `window-body-edges', `window-body-pixel-edges' and
1381 `window-absolute-body-pixel-edges'. The old names are kept as aliases.
1382
1383 +++
1384 ** New function `window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen
1385 coordinates of a visible buffer position.
1386
1387 +++
1388 ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
1389 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
1390 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
1391 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
1392 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
1393 builds.
1394
1395 +++
1396 ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
1397 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
1398 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
1399 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
1400 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
1401 *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
1402 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
1403 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
1404 number of columns or lines it displays.
1405
1406 +++
1407 ** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of
1408 windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer',
1409 `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'.
1410
1411 +++
1412 ** New minor mode `window-divider-mode' and options
1413 `window-divider-default-places', `window-divider-default-bottom-width'
1414 and `window-divider-default-right-width'.
1415
1416 +++
1417 ** New option `switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' allows to customize
1418 how `switch-to-buffer' proceeds interactively when the selected window
1419 is strongly dedicated to its buffer.
1420
1421 +++
1422 ** The option `even-window-heights' has been renamed to
1423 `even-window-sizes' and now handles window widths as well.
1424
1425 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed.
1426 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
1427
1428 ** Miscellaneous
1429
1430 *** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
1431 By default, `etags' will not qualify class members for C-like
1432 object-oriented languages with their class names and namespaces, and
1433 will remove qualifications used explicitly in the code from the tag
1434 names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
1435 `xref-find-definitions' is more accurate and produces less false
1436 positives.
1437
1438 Use --class-qualify (-Q) if you want the old default behavior of
1439 qualifying class members in C++, Java, and Objective C. Note that
1440 using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to `M-.'
1441 (`xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use `C-u M-.' to specify the
1442 qualified names by hand.
1443
1444 \f
1445 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1446
1447 ---
1448 ** MS-Windows specific Emacs build scripts are no longer in the distribution
1449 This includes the makefile.w32-in files in various subdirectories, and
1450 the support files. The file nt/configure.bat now just tells the user
1451 to use the procedure described in nt/INSTALL, by running the Posix
1452 `configure' script in the top-level directory.
1453
1454 ---
1455 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
1456 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
1457 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
1458
1459 +++
1460 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
1461
1462 ** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
1463 MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
1464
1465 ---
1466 ** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default.
1467 Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default.
1468
1469 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
1470
1471 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
1472
1473 ---
1474 ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
1475 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
1476 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
1477 this has no effect.
1478
1479 ---
1480 ** The new function 'w32-application-type' returns the type of an
1481 MS-Windows application given the name of its executable program file.
1482
1483 \f
1484 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1485 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
1486
1487 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
1488 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
1489 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1490 (at your option) any later version.
1491
1492 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1493 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1494 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1495 GNU General Public License for more details.
1496
1497 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
1498 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
1499
1500 \f
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1502 coding: utf-8
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