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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2
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 files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
13
14 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
16
17 Temporary note:
18 +++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates are complete.
19 (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
20 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
21 When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
22 otherwise leave it unmarked.
23
24 \f
25 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
26
27 +++
28 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
29
30 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
31
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.
38
39 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
40 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
41
42 ---
43 ** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
44 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
45
46 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
47 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
48 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
49 build with 'make V=1'.
50
51 ---
52 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows to specify a
53 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
54 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
55 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
56 be installed setgid.
57
58 ---
59 ** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
60 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
61 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
62
63 \f
64 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
65
66 \f
67 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
68
69 ** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
70 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
71 -pkg file is optional.
72
73 ** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
74 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found).
75
76 +++
77 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
78 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
79 the `network-security-level' variable.
80
81 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
82
83 ---
84 ** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
85 text in the region.
86
87 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
88 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard.
89 x-select-enable-primary and renamed select-enable-primary.
90 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
91 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
92 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
93 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
94
95 +++
96 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
97
98 +++
99 ** New macro `define-advice'.
100
101 ** `insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
102 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
103
104 ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
105
106 +++
107 ** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
108 The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
109 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
110
111 ---
112 ** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the
113 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
114 for use in Emacs bug reports.
115
116 +++
117 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
118 hiding character but the default `.' can be used by let-binding the
119 variable `read-hide-char'.
120
121 ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp'
122 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
123 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
124 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
125 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
126
127 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
128 If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
129 option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
130
131 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
132 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
133 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
134 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
135 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
136 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
137
138 +++
139 ** The new function `bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows to
140 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
141 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
142 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
143 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
144
145 +++
146 ** The new function `buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows to
147 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
148 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
149 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
150 text and directional control characters.
151
152 ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
153 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
154 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
155 this has no effect.
156
157 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
158 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
159
160 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
161 files (recursively) under a directory.
162
163 ** The new `directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
164 name (as returned from, for instance, `file-name-all-completions' is
165 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
166 the name is a forward slash.
167
168 +++
169 ** New variable `fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
170 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
171 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
172 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
173
174 ** The function `font-info' now returns more details about a font.
175 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
176 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
177
178 \f
179 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
180
181 ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
182
183 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
184
185 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
186 that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
187 chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
188 character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
189 paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
190 performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
191
192 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
193 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
194 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
195 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3 and 7.0, and a few changes suggested
196 for Unicode 8.0. This includes full support for directional isolates
197 and the Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these
198 Unicode standards.
199
200 ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
201
202 \f
203 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
204 ** Shell
205
206 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
207 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
208 the `display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
209 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
210 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
211 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
212
213
214 ** EIEIO
215 *** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
216 *** The `newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
217 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
218 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
219 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
220 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
221 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
222
223 ** ido
224 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
225 Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
226 kills the buffer at head.
227
228 ** Minibuffer
229
230 *** You can use <up> and <down> keys to move point in the multi-line
231 minibuffer just as in an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
232 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
233 element. The new commands bound to <up> and <down> in the minibuffer:
234 `next-line-or-history-element' and `previous-line-or-history-element'.
235
236 ** Search and Replace
237
238 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
239 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
240 `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
241 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
242 string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'.
243 To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired
244 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
245 typing RET.
246
247 ** Calc
248 +++
249 *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
250 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
251
252 ** ElDoc
253 *** New minor mode `global-eldoc-mode'
254 *** `eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to `ignore'
255 *** `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
256 and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
257 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
258 ] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.
259
260 ** eww
261
262 +++
263 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
264 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
265 the like off the page.
266
267 ---
268 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
269 buffers you want to keep separate.
270
271 +++
272 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
273 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
274
275 +++
276 *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
277 the data in the buffer.
278
279 ---
280 *** The `eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
281 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
282
283 +++
284 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
285 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
286 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
287 details.
288
289 +++
290 *** `mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
291
292 +++
293 *** The new `S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
294 them.
295
296 ---
297 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
298 invalid certificates are marked in red.
299
300 ** Message mode
301
302 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
303 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
304
305 ** pcase
306 *** New UPatterns `quote' and `app'.
307 *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'.
308 +++
309 *** New vector QPattern.
310
311 ** Lisp mode
312 *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
313
314 ** Rectangle editing
315 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
316 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
317 *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
318
319 ** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which
320 should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp.
321
322 ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' takes (:append FUN) to mean
323 appending FUN to `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
324
325 ** cl-lib
326 *** New functions cl-fresh-line, cl-digit-char-p and cl-parse-integer.
327
328 ** seq
329 *** New seq library:
330 The seq library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros that
331 complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions are
332 prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
333
334 ** Calendar and diary
335
336 +++
337 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
338 `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
339 `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
340
341 +++
342 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
343 See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
344
345 ---
346 *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
347 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
348
349 ---
350 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
351 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
352 The remainder were:
353
354 **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
355 `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'.
356
357 **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'.
358
359 **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'.
360
361 **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
362
363 **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'.
364
365 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
366
367 ---
368 ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
369
370 +++
371 ** `info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
372 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
373 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
374
375 ---
376 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
377
378 ---
379 ** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u now handle repeat counts to delete or
380 undelete multiple messages.
381
382 ** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
383 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
384 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
385 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
386 `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that.
387
388 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
389
390 ** In sh-mode, you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
391 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
392
393 ** TLS
394 ---
395 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
396
397 ** URL
398
399 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
400 When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
401 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
402
403 *** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string.
404 The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
405 a function.
406
407 *** The new interface variable `url-request-noninteractive' can be used
408 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
409 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
410
411 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
412 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
413 `gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
414
415 ** Tramp
416
417 *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
418
419 ** SQL mode
420
421 *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote
422 connections using Tramp.
423
424 *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next' sends the current line to the
425 interactive buffer and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace
426 and comments.
427
428 *** Add support for Vertica SQL.
429
430 ** VC and related modes
431
432 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
433
434 *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
435 the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
436 background or to the foreground.
437
438 *** `compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently used window
439 instead of the next window. The new option `compare-windows-get-window-function'
440 allows to customize this.
441
442 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
443 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
444
445 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
446 fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
447 non-integer inputs.
448
449 ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro expansions
450 , interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of #defined symbols.
451
452 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file
453 name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp and .hxx.
454 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
455 reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden.
456 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
457 name patterns (e.x. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded.
458
459 ** TeX mode
460
461 *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
462 use PDF instead of DVI.
463
464 ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation.
465 By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but
466 `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that.
467
468 ** tildify: `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
469 `tildify-foreach-region-function' variables added making
470 `tildify-string-alist', `tildify-pattern-alist', and
471 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
472 helper functions) obsolete.
473
474 ** xref
475 The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
476 and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
477
478 *** New key bindings
479 `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
480 to pick one destination among several. Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
481 unbound. `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
482 easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
483 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
484 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
485 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
486
487 *** New variables
488 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
489 `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
490 alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and
491 `xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead.
492
493 ** etags
494 As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
495 `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
496 `tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
497
498 ** EUDC
499 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
500
501 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
502
503 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
504 subprocess instead of on the command line.
505
506 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
507 need to configure this manually anymore.
508
509 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
510 rewritten.
511
512 There have also been customization changes.
513
514 *** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
515 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
516
517 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
518 on email and firstname instead of surname.
519
520 *** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
521 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
522
523 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
524 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
525
526 *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
527 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
528 command line's password prompt.
529
530 +++
531 ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
532 be added to the archive.
533
534 ** Obsolete packages
535
536 ---
537 *** gulp.el
538
539 \f
540 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
541
542 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
543
544 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
545
546 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
547 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
548
549 ** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
550 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
551 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
552 other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
553 a typographically-correct documents.
554 \f
555 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
556
557 ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer.
558 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
559 from which the minibuffer was entered, call it with the new argument
560 `switch-buffer'.
561
562 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers's marks.
563
564 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
565 active region handling.
566
567 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
568
569 ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
570
571 +++
572 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
573 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
574 position list returned for such events is now nil.
575
576 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
577 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
578 Emacs-21.
579
580 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
581 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
582 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
583 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
584
585 \f
586 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
587
588 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
589
590 ** New function macroexpand-1 to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
591
592 ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
593 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
594 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
595 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
596 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
597 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
598 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
599
600 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
601
602 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
603 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
604 called interactively.
605
606 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
607
608 +++
609 ** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
610 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
611 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
612 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
613 have side effects.
614
615 +++
616 ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
617 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
618
619 ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
620
621 ** Functions `rmail-delete-forward' and `rmail-delete-backward' take an
622 optional repeat-count argument.
623
624 ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
625
626 ** Function `system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
627 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
628 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
629 name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
630
631 +++
632 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
633
634 ---
635 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
636 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to
637 execute code depending whether all values are true.
638 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
639 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
640
641 +++
642 ** Time-related changes:
643
644 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
645 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
646 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
647 Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone',
648 `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time',
649 `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year',
650 `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'.
651
652 *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have
653 been obsoleted.
654
655 *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and
656 `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
657 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
658 integers.
659
660 +++
661 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
662 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
663
664 \f
665 * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1
666
667 +++
668 ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
669 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
670 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
671 *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
672 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
673 *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
674 bars on all existing and future frames.
675 *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
676 scroll bars on the selected frame.
677 *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
678 `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
679 for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
680 *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
681 `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
682 bars on a specific frame or window.
683 *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
684 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
685 *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
686 bars too.
687 *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
688 `scroll-bar-height'.
689
690 +++
691 ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
692 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
693 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
694 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
695 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
696 builds.
697
698 +++
699 ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
700 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
701 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
702 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
703 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
704 *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
705 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
706 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
707 number of columns or lines it displays.
708
709 +++
710 ** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of
711 windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer',
712 `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'.
713
714 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed.
715 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
716
717 \f
718 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
719
720 ---
721 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
722 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
723 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
724
725 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
726
727 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
728
729 \f
730 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
731 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
732
733 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
734 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
735 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
736 (at your option) any later version.
737
738 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
739 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
740 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
741 GNU General Public License for more details.
742
743 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
744 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
745
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