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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-06-04
2
3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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6
7 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
8 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
9
10 This file is about changes in Emacs version 22.
11
12 See files NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes
13 in older Emacs versions.
14
15 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
16 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
17
18 Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated.
20 --- means no change in the manuals is called for.
21 When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
22 so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
23
24 Fixme: The notes about Emacs 23 are quite incomplete.
25
26 \f
27 * Changes in Emacs 23.1
28
29 ** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.
30 (It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).
31
32 The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now
33 Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'. utf-8-emacs is backwards
34 compatible with the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. The `emacs-mule'
35 coding system can still read and write data in the old internal
36 encoding.
37
38 There are still charsets which contain disjoint sets of characters
39 where this is necessary or useful, especially for various Far Eastern
40 sets which are problematic with Unicode.
41
42 Since the internal encoding is also used by default for byte-compiled
43 files -- i.e. the normal coding system for byte-compiled Lisp files is
44 now utf-8-Emacs -- Lisp containing non-ASCII characters which is
45 compiled by Emacs 23 can't be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files
46 compiled by Emacs 20, 21, or 22 are loaded correctly as emacs-mule
47 (whether or not they contain multibyte characters), which makes loading
48 them somewhat slower than Emacs 23-compiled files. Thus it may be worth
49 recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be shared with older
50 Emacsen.
51
52 ** There are assorted new coding systems/aliases -- see
53 M-x list-coding-systems.
54
55 ** New charset implementation with many new charsets.
56 See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently
57 as tables of unicodes.
58
59 The dimension of a charset is now 0, 1, 2, or 3, and the size of each
60 dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96.
61
62 Generic characters no longer exist.
63
64 A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of
65 unicodes for display &c.
66
67 ** The following facilities are obsolete:
68
69 Minor modes: unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, unify-8859-on-decoding-mode
70
71 \f
72 * Lisp changes in Emacs 23.1
73
74 map-char-table's behaviour has changed.
75
76 New functions: characterp, max-char, map-charset-chars,
77 define-charset-alias, primary-charset, set-primary-charset,
78 unify-charset, clear-charset-maps, charset-priority-list,
79 set-charset-priority, define-coding-system,
80 define-coding-system-alias, coding-system-aliases, langinfo,
81 string-to-multibyte.
82
83 Changed functions: copy-sequence, decode-char, encode-char,
84 set-fontset-font, new-fontset, modify-syntax-entry, define-charset,
85 modify-category-entry
86
87 Obsoleted: char-bytes, chars-in-region, set-coding-priority,
88 char-valid-p
89
90 \f
91 * Incompatible Lisp changes
92
93 Deleted functions: make-coding-system, register-char-codings,
94 coding-system-spec
95
96 ** The character codes for characters from the
97 eight-bit-control/eight-bit-graphic charsets aren't now in the range
98 128-255.
99 \f
100 * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1
101
102 ---
103 ** Emacs comes with a new set of icons.
104 These icons are displayed on the taskbar and/or titlebar when Emacs
105 runs in a graphical environment. Source files for these icons can be
106 found in etc/images/icons. (You can't change the icons displayed by
107 Emacs by changing these files directly. On X, the icon is compiled
108 into the Emacs executable; see gnu.h in the source tree. On MS
109 Windows, see nt/icons/emacs.ico.)
110
111 ---
112 ** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix',
113 `--program-suffix' and `--program-transform-name' that affect the names of
114 installed programs.
115
116 ---
117 ** Emacs can now be built without sound support.
118
119 ---
120 ** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
121 when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.4 or newer. This port
122 provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).
123
124 ---
125 ** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with Lisp code.
126
127 ---
128 ** The `yow' program has been removed.
129 Use the corresponding Emacs feature instead.
130
131 ---
132 ** By default, Emacs now uses a setgid helper program to update game
133 scores. The directory ${localstatedir}/games/emacs is the normal
134 place for game scores to be stored. You can control this with the
135 configure option `--with-game-dir'. The specific user that Emacs uses
136 to own the game scores is controlled by `--with-game-user'. If access
137 to a game user is not available, then scores will be stored separately
138 in each user's home directory.
139
140 ---
141 ** Leim is now part of the Emacs distribution.
142 You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build
143 Emacs with Leim.
144
145 +++
146 ** The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is now part of the distribution.
147
148 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in Info format is built as part of the
149 Emacs build procedure and installed together with the Emacs User
150 Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar that makes it easy
151 accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference).
152
153 ---
154 ** The Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp manual is now part of
155 the distribution.
156
157 This manual is now part of the standard distribution and is installed,
158 together with the Emacs User Manual, into the Info directory. A menu
159 item was added to the menu bar that makes it easy accessible
160 (Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp).
161
162 ---
163 ** New translations of the Emacs Tutorial are available in the
164 following languages: Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (both
165 with simplified and traditional characters), French, and Italian.
166 Type `C-u C-h t' to choose one of them in case your language setup
167 doesn't automatically select the right one.
168
169 ---
170 ** A Portuguese translation of Emacs' reference card has been added.
171 Its name is `pt-br-refcard.tex'. The corresponding PostScript file is
172 also included.
173
174 ---
175 ** A French translation of the `Emacs Survival Guide' is available.
176
177 ---
178 ** Emacs now includes support for loading image libraries on demand.
179 (Currently this feature is only used on MS Windows.) You can configure
180 the supported image types and their associated dynamic libraries by
181 setting the variable `image-library-alist'.
182
183 ---
184 ** Support for a Cygwin build of Emacs was added.
185
186 ---
187 ** Support for FreeBSD/Alpha has been added.
188
189 ---
190 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 machines was added.
191
192 ---
193 ** Support for MacOS X was added.
194 See the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
195
196 ---
197 ** Support for GNU/Linux systems on X86-64 machines was added.
198
199 ---
200 ** Support for HP 9000 series 800 and Hitachi SR2001/SR2201 machines
201 was removed.
202
203 ---
204 ** Mac OS 9 port now uses the Carbon API by default. You can also
205 create non-Carbon build by specifying `NonCarbon' as a target. See
206 the files mac/README and mac/INSTALL for build instructions.
207
208 ---
209 ** Building with -DENABLE_CHECKING does not automatically build with union
210 types any more. Add -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE if you want union types.
211
212 ---
213 ** When pure storage overflows while dumping, Emacs now prints how
214 much pure storage it will approximately need.
215
216 ** The script etc/emacs-buffer.gdb can be used with gdb to retrieve the
217 contents of buffers from a core dump and save them to files easily, should
218 Emacs crash.
219
220 ---
221 ** The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el uses a different terminfo name.
222 The Emacs terminal emulation in term.el now uses "eterm-color" as its
223 terminfo name, since term.el now supports color.
224
225 ---
226 ** Emacs Lisp source files are compressed by default if `gzip' is available.
227
228 ---
229 ** All images used in Emacs have been consolidated in etc/images and subdirs.
230 See also the changes to `find-image', documented below.
231
232 \f
233 * Startup Changes in Emacs 22.1
234
235 +++
236 ** New command line option -Q or --quick.
237 This is like using -q --no-site-file, but in addition it also disables
238 the fancy startup screen.
239
240 +++
241 ** New command line option -D or --basic-display.
242 Disables the menu-bar, the tool-bar, the scroll-bars, tool tips, and
243 the blinking cursor.
244
245 +++
246 ** New command line option -nbc or --no-blinking-cursor disables
247 the blinking cursor on graphical terminals.
248
249 +++
250 ** The option --script FILE runs Emacs in batch mode and loads FILE.
251 It is useful for writing Emacs Lisp shell script files, because they
252 can start with this line:
253
254 #!/usr/bin/emacs --script
255
256 +++
257 ** The option --directory DIR now modifies `load-path' immediately.
258 Directories are added to the front of `load-path' in the order they
259 appear on the command line. For example, with this command line:
260
261 emacs -batch -L .. -L /tmp --eval "(require 'foo)"
262
263 Emacs looks for library `foo' in the parent directory, then in /tmp, then
264 in the other directories in `load-path'. (-L is short for --directory.)
265
266 +++
267 ** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
268 --no-window-system. The old one still works, but is deprecated.
269
270 ---
271 ** If the environment variable DISPLAY specifies an unreachable X display,
272 Emacs will now startup as if invoked with the --no-window-system option.
273
274 +++
275 ** The -f option, used from the command line to call a function,
276 now reads arguments for the function interactively if it is
277 an interactively callable function.
278
279 +++
280 ** When you specify a frame size with --geometry, the size applies to
281 all frames you create. A position specified with --geometry only
282 affects the initial frame.
283
284 ---
285 ** Emacs built for MS-Windows now behaves like Emacs on X does,
286 wrt its frame position: if you don't specify a position (in your
287 .emacs init file, in the Registry, or with the --geometry command-line
288 option), Emacs leaves the frame position to the Windows' window
289 manager.
290
291 +++
292 ** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display.
293 When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options
294 `--fullwidth', `--fullheight', and `--fullscreen' produce a frame
295 whose width, height, or both width and height take up the entire
296 screen size. (For now, this does not work with some window managers.)
297
298 +++
299 ** Emacs now displays a splash screen by default even if command-line
300 arguments were given. The new command-line option --no-splash
301 disables the splash screen; see also the variable
302 `inhibit-startup-message' (which is also aliased as
303 `inhibit-splash-screen').
304
305 +++
306 ** The default is now to use a bitmap as the icon, so the command-line options
307 --icon-type, -i has been replaced with options --no-bitmap-icon, -nbi to turn
308 the bitmap icon off.
309
310 +++
311 ** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
312 When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
313 displays a buffer menu. This option turns the buffer menu off.
314
315 +++
316 ** Init file changes
317 If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try
318 ~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. Likewise, if the shell init file
319 ~/.emacs_SHELL is not found, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init_SHELL.sh.
320
321 +++
322 ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
323 automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save
324 modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It
325 can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,
326 according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
327
328 +++
329 ** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value
330 to compute the default value of `user-mail-address', in preference to
331 concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine.
332
333 \f
334 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
335
336 +++
337 ** M-g is now a prefix key.
338 M-g g and M-g M-g run goto-line.
339 M-g n and M-g M-n run next-error (like C-x `).
340 M-g p and M-g M-p run previous-error.
341
342 +++
343 ** C-u M-g M-g switches to the most recent previous buffer,
344 and goes to the specified line in that buffer.
345
346 When goto-line starts to execute, if there's a number in the buffer at
347 point then it acts as the default argument for the minibuffer.
348
349 +++
350 ** The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted,
351 since there are situations where one or the other will shut down
352 the operating system or your X server.
353
354 +++
355 ** line-move-ignore-invisible now defaults to t.
356
357 +++
358 ** When the undo information of the current command gets really large
359 (beyond the value of `undo-outer-limit'), Emacs discards it and warns
360 you about it.
361
362 +++
363 ** `apply-macro-to-region-lines' now operates on all lines that begin
364 in the region, rather than on all complete lines in the region.
365
366 +++
367 ** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
368 previous mark if you set `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' to t. I.e. C-u
369 C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC
370 to set the mark immediately after a jump.
371
372 +++
373 ** The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
374 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
375
376 +++
377 ** In incremental search, C-w is changed. M-%, C-M-w and C-M-y are special.
378
379 See below under "incremental search changes".
380
381 ---
382 ** C-x C-f RET (find-file), typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer
383 a special case.
384
385 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
386 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
387 directory with Dired.
388
389 You can get the old behavior by typing C-x C-f M-n RET, which fetches
390 the actual file name into the minibuffer.
391
392 +++
393 ** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
394 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
395 it remains unchanged.
396
397 +++
398 ** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file name.
399 This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the
400 need to quote the space with a C-q. The underlying changes in the
401 keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under
402 "New keymaps for typing file names".
403
404 +++
405 ** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
406 M-o M-o requests refontification.
407
408 +++
409 ** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
410
411 See below for more details.
412
413 +++
414 ** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
415 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
416 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
417 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
418 doublequotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
419 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
420
421 ** Adaptive filling misfeature removed.
422 It no longer treats `NNN.' or `(NNN)' as a prefix.
423
424 ---
425 ** The register compatibility key bindings (deprecated since Emacs 19)
426 have been removed:
427 C-x / point-to-register (Use: C-x r SPC)
428 C-x j jump-to-register (Use: C-x r j)
429 C-x x copy-to-register (Use: C-x r s)
430 C-x g insert-register (Use: C-x r i)
431
432 \f
433 * Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1
434
435 +++
436 ** !MEM FULL! at the start of the mode line indicates that Emacs
437 cannot get any more memory for Lisp data. This often means it could
438 crash soon if you do things that use more memory. On most systems,
439 killing buffers will get out of this state. If killing buffers does
440 not make !MEM FULL! disappear, you should save your work and start
441 a new Emacs.
442
443 +++
444 ** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled.
445 On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455).
446
447 +++
448 ** You can now switch buffers in a cyclic order with C-x C-left
449 (previous-buffer) and C-x C-right (next-buffer). C-x left and
450 C-x right can be used as well. The functions keep a different buffer
451 cycle for each frame, using the frame-local buffer list.
452
453 +++
454 ** `undo-only' does an undo which does not redo any previous undo.
455
456 +++
457 ** M-SPC (just-one-space) when given a numeric argument N
458 converts whitespace around point to N spaces.
459
460 ---
461 ** C-x 5 C-o displays a specified buffer in another frame
462 but does not switch to that frame. It's the multi-frame
463 analogue of C-x 4 C-o.
464
465 ---
466 ** New commands to operate on pairs of open and close characters:
467 `insert-pair', `delete-pair', `raise-sexp'.
468
469 +++
470 ** New command `kill-whole-line' kills an entire line at once.
471 By default, it is bound to C-S-<backspace>.
472
473 +++
474 ** Yanking text now discards certain text properties that can
475 be inconvenient when you did not expect them. The variable
476 `yank-excluded-properties' specifies which ones. Insertion
477 of register contents and rectangles also discards these properties.
478
479 +++
480 ** The default values of paragraph-start and indent-line-function have
481 been changed to reflect those used in Text mode rather than those used
482 in Indented-Text mode.
483
484 +++
485 ** M-x setenv now expands environment variable references.
486
487 Substrings of the form `$foo' and `${foo}' in the specified new value
488 now refer to the value of environment variable foo. To include a `$'
489 in the value, use `$$'.
490
491 +++
492 ** `special-display-buffer-names' and `special-display-regexps' now
493 understand two new boolean pseudo-frame-parameters `same-frame' and
494 `same-window'.
495
496 +++
497 ** The default for the paper size (variable ps-paper-type) is taken
498 from the locale.
499
500 ** Mark command changes:
501
502 +++
503 *** A prefix argument is no longer required to repeat a jump to a
504 previous mark, i.e. C-u C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC ... cycles through the
505 mark ring. Use C-u C-u C-SPC to set the mark immediately after a jump.
506
507 +++
508 *** Marking commands extend the region when invoked multiple times.
509
510 If you type C-M-SPC (mark-sexp), M-@ (mark-word), M-h
511 (mark-paragraph), or C-M-h (mark-defun) repeatedly, the marked region
512 extends each time, so you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC
513 M-C-SPC, for example. This feature also works for
514 mark-end-of-sentence, if you bind that to a key. It also extends the
515 region when the mark is active in Transient Mark mode, regardless of
516 the last command. To start a new region with one of marking commands
517 in Transient Mark mode, you can deactivate the active region with C-g,
518 or set the new mark with C-SPC.
519
520 +++
521 *** M-h (mark-paragraph) now accepts a prefix arg.
522
523 With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following paragraphs;
524 if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding
525 paragraphs.
526
527 +++
528 *** Some commands do something special in Transient Mark mode when the
529 mark is active--for instance, they limit their operation to the
530 region. Even if you don't normally use Transient Mark mode, you might
531 want to get this behavior from a particular command. There are two
532 ways you can enable Transient Mark mode and activate the mark, for one
533 command only.
534
535 One method is to type C-SPC C-SPC; this enables Transient Mark mode
536 and sets the mark at point. The other method is to type C-u C-x C-x.
537 This enables Transient Mark mode temporarily but does not alter the
538 mark or the region.
539
540 After these commands, Transient Mark mode remains enabled until you
541 deactivate the mark. That typically happens when you type a command
542 that alters the buffer, but you can also deactivate the mark by typing
543 C-g.
544
545 +++
546 *** Movement commands `beginning-of-buffer', `end-of-buffer',
547 `beginning-of-defun', `end-of-defun' do not set the mark if the mark
548 is already active in Transient Mark mode.
549
550 ** Help command changes:
551
552 +++
553 *** Changes in C-h bindings:
554
555 C-h e displays the *Messages* buffer.
556
557 C-h d runs apropos-documentation.
558
559 C-h r visits the Emacs Manual in Info.
560
561 C-h followed by a control character is used for displaying files
562 that do not change:
563
564 C-h C-f displays the FAQ.
565 C-h C-e displays the PROBLEMS file.
566
567 The info-search bindings on C-h C-f, C-h C-k and C-h C-i
568 have been moved to C-h F, C-h K and C-h S.
569
570 C-h c, C-h k, C-h w, and C-h f now handle remapped interactive commands.
571 - C-h c and C-h k report the actual command (after possible remapping)
572 run by the key sequence.
573 - C-h w and C-h f on a command which has been remapped now report the
574 command it is remapped to, and the keys which can be used to run
575 that command.
576
577 For example, if C-k is bound to kill-line, and kill-line is remapped
578 to new-kill-line, these commands now report:
579 - C-h c and C-h k C-k reports:
580 C-k runs the command new-kill-line
581 - C-h w and C-h f kill-line reports:
582 kill-line is remapped to new-kill-line which is on C-k, <deleteline>
583 - C-h w and C-h f new-kill-line reports:
584 new-kill-line is on C-k
585
586 ---
587 *** Help commands `describe-function' and `describe-key' now show function
588 arguments in lowercase italics on displays that support it. To change the
589 default, customize face `help-argument-name' or redefine the function
590 `help-default-arg-highlight'.
591
592 +++
593 *** C-h v and C-h f commands now include a hyperlink to the C source for
594 variables and functions defined in C (if the C source is available).
595
596 +++
597 *** Help mode now only makes hyperlinks for faces when the face name is
598 preceded or followed by the word `face'. It no longer makes
599 hyperlinks for variables without variable documentation, unless
600 preceded by one of the words `variable' or `option'. It now makes
601 hyperlinks to Info anchors (or nodes) if the anchor (or node) name is
602 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `info anchor' or `Info
603 anchor' (in addition to earlier `info node' and `Info node'). In
604 addition, it now makes hyperlinks to URLs as well if the URL is
605 enclosed in single quotes and preceded by `URL'.
606
607 +++
608 *** The new command `describe-char' (C-u C-x =) pops up a buffer with
609 description various information about a character, including its
610 encodings and syntax, its text properties, how to input, overlays, and
611 widgets at point. You can get more information about some of them, by
612 clicking on mouse-sensitive areas or moving there and pressing RET.
613
614 +++
615 *** The command `list-text-properties-at' has been deleted because
616 C-u C-x = gives the same information and more.
617
618 +++
619 *** New command `display-local-help' displays any local help at point
620 in the echo area. It is bound to `C-h .'. It normally displays the
621 same string that would be displayed on mouse-over using the
622 `help-echo' property, but, in certain cases, it can display a more
623 keyboard oriented alternative.
624
625 +++
626 *** New user option `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' allows to
627 automatically show the help provided by `display-local-help' on
628 point-over, after suitable idle time. The amount of idle time is
629 determined by the user option `help-at-pt-timer-delay' and defaults
630 to one second. This feature is turned off by default.
631
632 +++
633 *** The apropos commands now accept a list of words to match.
634 When more than one word is specified, at least two of those words must
635 be present for an item to match. Regular expression matching is still
636 available.
637
638 +++
639 *** The new option `apropos-sort-by-scores' causes the matching items
640 to be sorted according to their score. The score for an item is a
641 number calculated to indicate how well the item matches the words or
642 regular expression that you entered to the apropos command. The best
643 match is listed first, and the calculated score is shown for each
644 matching item.
645
646 ** Incremental Search changes:
647
648 +++
649 *** Vertical scrolling is now possible within incremental search.
650 To enable this feature, customize the new user option
651 `isearch-allow-scroll'. User written commands which satisfy stringent
652 constraints can be marked as "scrolling commands". See the Emacs manual
653 for details.
654
655 +++
656 *** C-w in incremental search now grabs either a character or a word,
657 making the decision in a heuristic way. This new job is done by the
658 command `isearch-yank-word-or-char'. To restore the old behavior,
659 bind C-w to `isearch-yank-word' in `isearch-mode-map'.
660
661 +++
662 *** C-y in incremental search now grabs the next line if point is already
663 at the end of a line.
664
665 +++
666 *** C-M-w deletes and C-M-y grabs a character in isearch mode.
667 Another method to grab a character is to enter the minibuffer by `M-e'
668 and to type `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer.
669
670 +++
671 *** M-% typed in isearch mode invokes `query-replace' or
672 `query-replace-regexp' (depending on search mode) with the current
673 search string used as the string to replace.
674
675 +++
676 *** Isearch no longer adds `isearch-resume' commands to the command
677 history by default. To enable this feature, customize the new
678 user option `isearch-resume-in-command-history'.
679
680 ** Replace command changes:
681
682 ---
683 *** New user option `query-replace-skip-read-only': when non-nil,
684 `query-replace' and related functions simply ignore
685 a match if part of it has a read-only property.
686
687 +++
688 *** When used interactively, the commands `query-replace-regexp' and
689 `replace-regexp' allow \,expr to be used in a replacement string,
690 where expr is an arbitrary Lisp expression evaluated at replacement
691 time. In many cases, this will be more convenient than using
692 `query-replace-regexp-eval'. `\#' in a replacement string now refers
693 to the count of replacements already made by the replacement command.
694 All regular expression replacement commands now allow `\?' in the
695 replacement string to specify a position where the replacement string
696 can be edited for each replacement.
697
698 +++
699 *** query-replace uses isearch lazy highlighting when the new user option
700 `query-replace-lazy-highlight' is non-nil.
701
702 ---
703 *** The current match in query-replace is highlighted in new face
704 `query-replace' which by default inherits from isearch face.
705
706 ** Local variables lists:
707
708 +++
709 *** In processing a local variables list, Emacs strips the prefix and
710 suffix from every line before processing all the lines.
711
712 +++
713 *** Text properties in local variables.
714
715 A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text
716 properties--any specified text properties are discarded.
717
718 +++
719 *** If the local variables list contains any variable-value pairs that
720 are not known to be safe, Emacs shows a prompt asking whether to apply
721 the local variables list as a whole. In earlier versions, a prompt
722 was only issued for variables explicitly marked as risky (for the
723 definition of risky variables, see `risky-local-variable-p').
724
725 At the prompt, you can choose to save the contents of this local
726 variables list to `safe-local-variable-values'. This new customizable
727 option is a list of variable-value pairs that are known to be safe.
728 Variables can also be marked as safe with the existing
729 `safe-local-variable' property (see `safe-local-variable-p').
730 However, risky variables will not be added to
731 `safe-local-variable-values' in this way.
732
733 +++
734 *** The variable `enable-local-variables' controls how local variable
735 lists are handled. t, the default, specifies the standard querying
736 behavior. :safe means use only safe values, and ignore the rest.
737 :all means set all variables, whether or not they are safe.
738 nil means ignore them all. Anything else means always query.
739
740 +++
741 *** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that
742 are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables
743 specification. Normally Emacs asks for confirmation before evaluating
744 such a form, but if the form appears in this list, no confirmation is
745 needed.
746
747 +++
748 *** If a function has a non-nil `safe-local-eval-function' property,
749 that means it is ok to evaluate some calls to that function when it
750 appears in an `eval' local variables specification. If the property
751 is t, then any form calling that function with constant arguments is
752 ok. If the property is a function or list of functions, they are called
753 with the form as argument, and if any returns t, the form is ok to call.
754
755 If the form is not "ok to call", that means Emacs asks for
756 confirmation as before.
757
758 ** File operation changes:
759
760 +++
761 *** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
762 the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
763 Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting
764 is only rarely needed.
765
766 +++
767 *** find-file-read-only visits multiple files in read-only mode,
768 when the file name contains wildcard characters.
769
770 +++
771 *** find-alternate-file replaces the current file with multiple files,
772 when the file name contains wildcard characters. It now asks if you
773 wish save your changes and not just offer to kill the buffer.
774
775 +++
776 *** Auto Compression mode is now enabled by default.
777
778 ---
779 *** C-x C-f RET, typing nothing in the minibuffer, is no longer a special case.
780
781 Since the default input is the current directory, this has the effect
782 of specifying the current directory. Normally that means to visit the
783 directory with Dired.
784
785 +++
786 *** When you are root, and you visit a file whose modes specify
787 read-only, the Emacs buffer is now read-only too. Type C-x C-q if you
788 want to make the buffer writable. (As root, you can in fact alter the
789 file.)
790
791 +++
792 *** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer
793 against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving.
794
795 +++
796 *** The commands copy-file, rename-file, make-symbolic-link and
797 add-name-to-file, when given a directory as the "new name" argument,
798 convert it to a file name by merging in the within-directory part of
799 the existing file's name. (This is the same convention that shell
800 commands cp, mv, and ln follow.) Thus, M-x copy-file RET ~/foo RET
801 /tmp RET copies ~/foo to /tmp/foo.
802
803 ---
804 *** When used interactively, `format-write-file' now asks for confirmation
805 before overwriting an existing file, unless a prefix argument is
806 supplied. This behavior is analogous to `write-file'.
807
808 ---
809 *** The variable `auto-save-file-name-transforms' now has a third element that
810 controls whether or not the function `make-auto-save-file-name' will
811 attempt to construct a unique auto-save name (e.g. for remote files).
812
813 +++
814 *** The new option `write-region-inhibit-fsync' disables calls to fsync
815 in `write-region'. This can be useful on laptops to avoid spinning up
816 the hard drive upon each file save. Enabling this variable may result
817 in data loss, use with care.
818
819 +++
820 *** If the user visits a file larger than `large-file-warning-threshold',
821 Emacs asks for confirmation.
822
823 +++
824 *** require-final-newline now has two new possible values:
825
826 `visit' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's needed
827 when visiting the file.
828
829 `visit-save' means add a newline (as an undoable change) if it's
830 needed when visiting the file, and also add a newline if it's needed
831 when saving the file.
832
833 +++
834 *** The new option mode-require-final-newline controls how certain
835 major modes enable require-final-newline. Any major mode that's
836 designed for a kind of file that should normally end in a newline
837 sets require-final-newline based on mode-require-final-newline.
838 So you can customize mode-require-final-newline to control what these
839 modes do.
840
841 ** Minibuffer changes:
842
843 +++
844 *** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when
845 entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed.
846
847 +++
848 *** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
849 Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the
850 variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', which is used to display the
851 prompt string.
852
853 ---
854 *** Enhanced visual feedback in `*Completions*' buffer.
855
856 Completions lists use faces to highlight what all completions
857 have in common and where they begin to differ.
858
859 The common prefix shared by all possible completions uses the face
860 `completions-common-part', while the first character that isn't the
861 same uses the face `completions-first-difference'. By default,
862 `completions-common-part' inherits from `default', and
863 `completions-first-difference' inherits from `bold'. The idea of
864 `completions-common-part' is that you can use it to make the common
865 parts less visible than normal, so that the rest of the differing
866 parts is, by contrast, slightly highlighted.
867
868 Above fontification is always done when listing completions is
869 triggered at minibuffer. If you want to fontify completions whose
870 listing is triggered at the other normal buffer, you have to pass
871 the common prefix of completions to `display-completion-list' as
872 its second argument.
873
874 +++
875 *** File-name completion can now ignore specified directories.
876 If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a
877 slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when
878 completing file names. Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions'
879 which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion
880 candidate is a directory.
881
882 +++
883 *** The completion commands TAB, SPC and ? in the minibuffer apply only
884 to the text before point. If there is text in the buffer after point,
885 it remains unchanged.
886
887 +++
888 *** New user option `history-delete-duplicates'.
889 If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
890 elements are deleted from the history list.
891
892 ** Redisplay changes:
893
894 +++
895 *** Preemptive redisplay now adapts to current load and bandwidth.
896
897 To avoid preempting redisplay on fast computers, networks, and displays,
898 the arrival of new input is now performed at regular intervals during
899 redisplay. The new variable `redisplay-preemption-period' specifies
900 the period; the default is to check for input every 0.1 seconds.
901
902 +++
903 *** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode.
904 When the file is maintained under version control, that information
905 appears between the position information and the major mode.
906
907 +++
908 *** New face `escape-glyph' highlights control characters and escape glyphs.
909
910 +++
911 *** Non-breaking space and hyphens are now displayed with a special
912 face, either nobreak-space or escape-glyph. You can turn this off or
913 specify a different mode by setting the variable `nobreak-char-display'.
914
915 +++
916 *** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized.
917 The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from
918 the window edge point is allowed to get before automatic hscrolling
919 will horizontally scroll the window. The default value is 5.
920
921 The variable `hscroll-step' determines how many columns automatic
922 hscrolling scrolls the window when point gets too close to the
923 window edge. If its value is zero, the default, Emacs scrolls the
924 window so as to center point. If its value is an integer, it says how
925 many columns to scroll. If the value is a floating-point number, it
926 gives the fraction of the window's width to scroll the window.
927
928 The variable `automatic-hscrolling' was renamed to
929 `auto-hscroll-mode'. The old name is still available as an alias.
930
931 ---
932 *** Moving or scrolling through images (and other lines) taller than
933 the window now works sensibly, by automatically adjusting the window's
934 vscroll property.
935
936 *** New customize option `overline-margin' controls the space between
937 overline and text.
938
939 *** New variable `x-underline-at-descent-line' controls the relative
940 position of the underline. When set, it overrides the
941 `x-use-underline-position-properties' variables.
942
943 +++
944 *** The new face `mode-line-inactive' is used to display the mode line
945 of non-selected windows. The `mode-line' face is now used to display
946 the mode line of the currently selected window.
947
948 The new variable `mode-line-in-non-selected-windows' controls whether
949 the `mode-line-inactive' face is used.
950
951 +++
952 *** You can now customize the use of window fringes. To control this
953 for all frames, use M-x fringe-mode or the Show/Hide submenu of the
954 top-level Options menu, or customize the `fringe-mode' variable. To
955 control this for a specific frame, use the command M-x
956 set-fringe-style.
957
958 +++
959 *** Angle icons in the fringes can indicate the buffer boundaries. In
960 addition, up and down arrow bitmaps in the fringe indicate which ways
961 the window can be scrolled.
962
963 This behavior is activated by setting the buffer-local variable
964 `indicate-buffer-boundaries' to a non-nil value. The default value of
965 this variable is found in `default-indicate-buffer-boundaries'.
966
967 If value is `left' or `right', both angle and arrow bitmaps are
968 displayed in the left or right fringe, resp.
969
970 The value can also be an alist which specifies the presence and
971 position of each bitmap individually.
972
973 For example, ((top . left) (t . right)) places the top angle bitmap
974 in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and both
975 arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in the
976 left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use ((top . left) (bottom . left)).
977
978 +++
979 *** On window systems, lines which are exactly as wide as the window
980 (not counting the final newline character) are no longer broken into
981 two lines on the display (with just the newline on the second line).
982 Instead, the newline now "overflows" into the right fringe, and the
983 cursor will be displayed in the fringe when positioned on that newline.
984
985 The new user option 'overflow-newline-into-fringe' can be set to nil to
986 revert to the old behavior of continuing such lines.
987
988 +++
989 *** When a window has display margin areas, the fringes are now
990 displayed between the margins and the buffer's text area, rather than
991 outside those margins.
992
993 +++
994 *** A window can now have individual fringe and scroll-bar settings,
995 in addition to the individual display margin settings.
996
997 Such individual settings are now preserved when windows are split
998 horizontally or vertically, a saved window configuration is restored,
999 or when the frame is resized.
1000
1001 +++
1002 *** The %c and %l constructs are now ignored in frame-title-format.
1003 Due to technical limitations in how Emacs interacts with windowing
1004 systems, these constructs often failed to render properly, and could
1005 even cause Emacs to crash.
1006
1007 +++
1008 *** If value of `auto-resize-tool-bars' is `grow-only', the tool bar
1009 will expand as needed, but not contract automatically. To contract
1010 the tool bar, you must type C-l.
1011
1012 ** Cursor display changes:
1013
1014 +++
1015 *** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is
1016 now controlled by the variable `blink-cursor-alist'.
1017
1018 +++
1019 *** The X resource cursorBlink can be used to turn off cursor blinking.
1020
1021 +++
1022 *** Emacs can produce an underscore-like (horizontal bar) cursor.
1023 The underscore cursor is set by putting `(cursor-type . hbar)' in
1024 default-frame-alist. It supports variable heights, like the `bar'
1025 cursor does.
1026
1027 +++
1028 *** Display of hollow cursors now obeys the buffer-local value (if any)
1029 of `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' in the buffer that the cursor
1030 appears in.
1031
1032 +++
1033 *** The variable `cursor-in-non-selected-windows' can now be set to any
1034 of the recognized cursor types.
1035
1036 +++
1037 *** On text terminals, the variable `visible-cursor' controls whether Emacs
1038 uses the "very visible" cursor (the default) or the normal cursor.
1039
1040 ** New faces:
1041
1042 +++
1043 *** `mode-line-highlight' is the standard face indicating mouse sensitive
1044 elements on mode-line (and header-line) like `highlight' face on text
1045 areas.
1046
1047 *** `mode-line-buffer-id' is the standard face for buffer identification
1048 parts of the mode line.
1049
1050 +++
1051 *** `shadow' face defines the appearance of the "shadowed" text, i.e.
1052 the text which should be less noticeable than the surrounding text.
1053 This can be achieved by using shades of grey in contrast with either
1054 black or white default foreground color. This generic shadow face
1055 allows customization of the appearance of shadowed text in one place,
1056 so package-specific faces can inherit from it.
1057
1058 +++
1059 *** `vertical-border' face is used for the vertical divider between windows.
1060
1061 ** ebnf2ps changes:
1062
1063 +++
1064 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-extra-width' which specify extra width for arrow
1065 shape drawing.
1066 The extra width is used to avoid that the arrowhead and the terminal border
1067 overlap. It depens on `ebnf-arrow-shape' and `ebnf-line-width'.
1068
1069 +++
1070 *** New option `ebnf-arrow-scale' which specify the arrow scale.
1071 Values lower than 1.0, shrink the arrow.
1072 Values greater than 1.0, expand the arrow.
1073
1074 ** Font-Lock changes:
1075
1076 +++
1077 *** M-o now is the prefix key for setting text properties;
1078 M-o M-o requests refontification.
1079
1080 +++
1081 *** All modes now support using M-x font-lock-mode to toggle
1082 fontification, even those such as Occur, Info, and comint-derived
1083 modes that do their own fontification in a special way.
1084
1085 The variable `Info-fontify' is no longer applicable; to disable
1086 fontification in Info, remove `turn-on-font-lock' from
1087 `Info-mode-hook'.
1088
1089 +++
1090 *** Font-Lock mode: in major modes such as Lisp mode, where some Emacs
1091 features assume that an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of
1092 any string or comment, Font-Lock now highlights any such open-paren in
1093 bold-red if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it
1094 can cause trouble. You should rewrite the string or comment so that
1095 the open-paren is not in column 0.
1096
1097 +++
1098 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-preprocessor-face'.
1099
1100 +++
1101 *** New standard font-lock face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
1102
1103 +++
1104 *** Easy to overlook single character negation can now be font-locked.
1105 You can use the new variable `font-lock-negation-char-face' and the face of
1106 the same name to customize this. Currently the cc-modes, sh-script-mode,
1107 cperl-mode and make-mode support this.
1108
1109 ---
1110 *** The default settings for JIT stealth lock parameters are changed.
1111 The default value for the user option jit-lock-stealth-time is now 16
1112 instead of 3, and the default value of jit-lock-stealth-nice is now
1113 0.5 instead of 0.125. The new defaults should lower the CPU usage
1114 when Emacs is fontifying in the background.
1115
1116 ---
1117 *** jit-lock can now be delayed with `jit-lock-defer-time'.
1118
1119 If this variable is non-nil, its value should be the amount of Emacs
1120 idle time in seconds to wait before starting fontification. For
1121 example, if you set `jit-lock-defer-time' to 0.25, fontification will
1122 only happen after 0.25s of idle time.
1123
1124 ---
1125 *** contextual refontification is now separate from stealth fontification.
1126
1127 jit-lock-defer-contextually is renamed jit-lock-contextually and
1128 jit-lock-context-time determines the delay after which contextual
1129 refontification takes place.
1130
1131 ---
1132 *** lazy-lock is considered obsolete.
1133
1134 The `lazy-lock' package is superseded by `jit-lock' and is considered
1135 obsolete. `jit-lock' is activated by default; if you wish to continue
1136 using `lazy-lock', activate it in your ~/.emacs like this:
1137
1138 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
1139
1140 If you invoke `lazy-lock-mode' directly rather than through
1141 `font-lock-support-mode', it now issues a warning:
1142
1143 "Use font-lock-support-mode rather than calling lazy-lock-mode"
1144
1145
1146 ** Menu support:
1147
1148 ---
1149 *** A menu item "Show/Hide" was added to the top-level menu "Options".
1150 This menu allows you to turn various display features on and off (such
1151 as the fringes, the tool bar, the speedbar, and the menu bar itself).
1152 You can also move the vertical scroll bar to either side here or turn
1153 it off completely. There is also a menu-item to toggle displaying of
1154 current date and time, current line and column number in the mode-line.
1155
1156 ---
1157 *** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".
1158
1159 ---
1160 *** You can exit dialog windows and menus by typing C-g.
1161
1162 ---
1163 *** The menu item "Open File..." has been split into two items, "New File..."
1164 and "Open File...". "Open File..." now opens only existing files. This is
1165 to support existing GUI file selection dialogs better.
1166
1167 +++
1168 *** The file selection dialog for Gtk+, Mac, W32 and Motif/Lesstif can be
1169 disabled by customizing the variable `use-file-dialog'.
1170
1171 ---
1172 *** The pop up menus for Lucid now stay up if you do a fast click and can
1173 be navigated with the arrow keys (like Gtk+, Mac and W32).
1174
1175 +++
1176 *** The menu bar for Motif/Lesstif/Lucid/Gtk+ can be navigated with keys.
1177 Pressing F10 shows the first menu in the menu bar. Navigation is done with
1178 the arrow keys, select with the return key and cancel with the escape keys.
1179
1180 +++
1181 *** The Lucid menus can display multilingual text in your locale. You have
1182 to explicitly specify a fontSet resource for this to work, for example
1183 `-xrm "Emacs*fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"'.
1184
1185 ---
1186 *** Dialogs for Lucid/Athena and Lesstif/Motif now pops down when pressing
1187 ESC, like they do for Gtk+, Mac and W32.
1188
1189 +++
1190 *** For the Gtk+ version, you can make Emacs use the old file dialog
1191 by setting the variable `x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog' to t. Default is to use
1192 the new dialog.
1193
1194 ** Mouse changes:
1195
1196 +++
1197 *** If you set the new variable `mouse-autoselect-window' to a non-nil
1198 value, windows are automatically selected as you move the mouse from
1199 one Emacs window to another, even within a frame. A minibuffer window
1200 can be selected only when it is active.
1201
1202 +++
1203 *** On X, when the window manager requires that you click on a frame to
1204 select it (give it focus), the selected window and cursor position
1205 normally changes according to the mouse click position. If you set
1206 the variable x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position to t, the selected
1207 window and cursor position do not change when you click on a frame
1208 to give it focus.
1209
1210 +++
1211 *** You can now follow links by clicking Mouse-1 on the link.
1212
1213 Traditionally, Emacs uses a Mouse-1 click to set point and a Mouse-2
1214 click to follow a link, whereas most other applications use a Mouse-1
1215 click for both purposes, depending on whether you click outside or
1216 inside a link. Now the behavior of a Mouse-1 click has been changed
1217 to match this context-sentitive dual behavior. (If you prefer the old
1218 behavior, set the user option `mouse-1-click-follows-link' to nil.)
1219
1220 Depending on the current mode, a Mouse-2 click in Emacs can do much
1221 more than just follow a link, so the new Mouse-1 behavior is only
1222 activated for modes which explicitly mark a clickable text as a "link"
1223 (see the new function `mouse-on-link-p' for details). The Lisp
1224 packages that are included in release 22.1 have been adapted to do
1225 this, but external packages may not yet support this. However, there
1226 is no risk in using such packages, as the worst thing that could
1227 happen is that you get the original Mouse-1 behavior when you click
1228 on a link, which typically means that you set point where you click.
1229
1230 If you want to get the original Mouse-1 action also inside a link, you
1231 just need to press the Mouse-1 button a little longer than a normal
1232 click (i.e. press and hold the Mouse-1 button for half a second before
1233 you release it).
1234
1235 Dragging the Mouse-1 inside a link still performs the original
1236 drag-mouse-1 action, typically copy the text.
1237
1238 You can customize the new Mouse-1 behavior via the new user options
1239 `mouse-1-click-follows-link' and `mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows'.
1240
1241 +++
1242 *** Emacs normally highlights mouse sensitive text whenever the mouse
1243 is over the text. By setting the new variable `mouse-highlight', you
1244 can optionally enable mouse highlighting only after you move the
1245 mouse, so that highlighting disappears when you press a key. You can
1246 also disable mouse highlighting.
1247
1248 +++
1249 *** You can now customize if selecting a region by dragging the mouse
1250 shall not copy the selected text to the kill-ring by setting the new
1251 variable mouse-drag-copy-region to nil.
1252
1253 ---
1254 *** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
1255 (rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.
1256
1257 ---
1258 *** Emacs ignores mouse-2 clicks while the mouse wheel is being moved.
1259
1260 People tend to push the mouse wheel (which counts as a mouse-2 click)
1261 unintentionally while turning the wheel, so these clicks are now
1262 ignored. You can customize this with the mouse-wheel-click-event and
1263 mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.
1264
1265 +++
1266 *** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.
1267
1268 ** Multilingual Environment (Mule) changes:
1269
1270 *** You can disable character translation for a file using the -*-
1271 construct. Include `enable-character-translation: nil' inside the
1272 -*-...-*- to disable any character translation that may happen by
1273 various global and per-coding-system translation tables. You can also
1274 specify it in a local variable list at the end of the file. For
1275 shortcut, instead of using this long variable name, you can append the
1276 character "!" at the end of coding-system name specified in -*-
1277 construct or in a local variable list. For example, if a file has the
1278 following header, it is decoded by the coding system `iso-latin-1'
1279 without any character translation:
1280 ;; -*- coding: iso-latin-1!; -*-
1281
1282 ---
1283 *** Language environment and various default coding systems are setup
1284 more correctly according to the current locale name. If the locale
1285 name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
1286 This change can result in using the different coding systems as
1287 default in some locale (e.g. vi_VN).
1288
1289 +++
1290 *** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your
1291 current locale settings if you are not using a window system. This
1292 can mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
1293 characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
1294 emulator) works. Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
1295 keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
1296 or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
1297 by the keyboard. See Info node `Unibyte Mode'.
1298
1299 +++
1300 *** The new command `revert-buffer-with-coding-system' (C-x RET r)
1301 revisits the current file using a coding system that you specify.
1302
1303 +++
1304 *** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
1305 coding system.
1306
1307 +++
1308 *** The new command `recode-file-name' changes the encoding of the name
1309 of a file.
1310
1311 ---
1312 *** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
1313 unicode.
1314
1315 +++
1316 *** The new command `set-file-name-coding-system' (C-x RET F) sets
1317 coding system for encoding and decoding file names. A new menu item
1318 (Options->Mule->Set Coding Systems->For File Name) invokes this
1319 command.
1320
1321 +++
1322 *** New command quail-show-key shows what key (or key sequence) to type
1323 in the current input method to input a character at point.
1324
1325 +++
1326 *** Limited support for character `unification' has been added.
1327 Emacs now knows how to translate between different representations of
1328 the same characters in various Emacs charsets according to standard
1329 Unicode mappings. This applies mainly to characters in the ISO 8859
1330 sets plus some other 8-bit sets, but can be extended. For instance,
1331 translation works amongst the Emacs ...-iso8859-... charsets and the
1332 mule-unicode-... ones.
1333
1334 By default this translation happens automatically on encoding.
1335 Self-inserting characters are translated to make the input conformant
1336 with the encoding of the buffer in which it's being used, where
1337 possible.
1338
1339 You can force a more complete unification with the user option
1340 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode. That maps all the Latin-N character sets
1341 into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and
1342 mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding. Note that this mode
1343 will often effectively clobber data with an iso-2022 encoding.
1344
1345 ---
1346 *** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
1347 either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
1348 when possible. The latter are more space-efficient. This is
1349 controlled by user option utf-fragment-on-decoding.
1350
1351 ---
1352 *** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Tajik,
1353 Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6,
1354 Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian,
1355 Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW,
1356 Esperanto. (Set up automatically according to the locale.)
1357
1358 ---
1359 *** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
1360 ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer,
1361 vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard,
1362 latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml,
1363 bulgarian-phonetic, dutch, slovenian, croatian, malayalam-inscript,
1364 tamil-inscript.
1365
1366 ---
1367 *** New input method chinese-sisheng for inputting Chinese Pinyin
1368 characters.
1369
1370 ---
1371 *** Improved Thai support. A new minor mode `thai-word-mode' (which is
1372 automatically activated if you select Thai as a language
1373 environment) changes key bindings of most word-oriented commands to
1374 versions which recognize Thai words. Affected commands are
1375 M-f (forward-word)
1376 M-b (backward-word)
1377 M-d (kill-word)
1378 M-DEL (backward-kill-word)
1379 M-t (transpose-words)
1380 M-q (fill-paragraph)
1381
1382 ---
1383 *** Indian support has been updated.
1384 The in-is13194 coding system is now Unicode-based. CDAC fonts are
1385 assumed. There is a framework for supporting various
1386 Indian scripts, but currently only Devanagari, Malayalam and Tamil are
1387 supported.
1388
1389 ---
1390 *** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.
1391
1392 ---
1393 *** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
1394 By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into
1395 single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is
1396 turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character
1397 sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS
1398 system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not
1399 interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil.
1400 You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
1401 `ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8
1402 coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's
1403 one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones.
1404 The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly.
1405
1406 ---
1407 *** A new coding system `euc-tw' has been added for traditional Chinese
1408 in CNS encoding; it accepts both Big 5 and CNS as input; on saving,
1409 Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
1410
1411 ---
1412 *** Many new coding systems are available in the `code-pages' library.
1413 These include complete versions of most of those in codepage.el, based
1414 on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is now obsolete and is used
1415 only in the MS-DOS port of Emacs. All coding systems defined in
1416 `code-pages' are auto-loaded.
1417
1418 ---
1419 *** New variable `utf-translate-cjk-unicode-range' controls which
1420 Unicode characters to translate in `utf-translate-cjk-mode'.
1421
1422 ---
1423 *** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of
1424 characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system. Just specify the
1425 fontset appropriately.
1426
1427 ** Customize changes:
1428
1429 +++
1430 *** Custom themes are collections of customize options. Create a
1431 custom theme with M-x customize-create-theme. Use M-x load-theme to
1432 load and enable a theme, and M-x disable-theme to disable it. Use M-x
1433 enable-theme to enable a disabled theme.
1434
1435 +++
1436 *** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
1437 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are
1438 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
1439 faces.
1440
1441 ---
1442 *** The face-customization widget has been reworked to be less confusing.
1443 In particular, when you enable a face attribute using the corresponding
1444 check-box, there's no longer a redundant `*' option in value selection
1445 for that attribute; the values you can choose are only those which make
1446 sense for the attribute. When an attribute is de-selected by unchecking
1447 its check-box, then the (now ignored, but still present temporarily in
1448 case you re-select the attribute) value is hidden.
1449
1450 +++
1451 *** When you set or reset a variable's value in a Customize buffer,
1452 the previous value becomes the "backup value" of the variable.
1453 You can go back to that backup value by selecting "Use Backup Value"
1454 under the "[State]" button.
1455
1456 ** Buffer Menu changes:
1457
1458 +++
1459 *** New command `Buffer-menu-toggle-files-only' toggles display of file
1460 buffers only in the Buffer Menu. It is bound to T in Buffer Menu
1461 mode.
1462
1463 +++
1464 *** `buffer-menu' and `list-buffers' now list buffers whose names begin
1465 with a space, when those buffers are visiting files. Normally buffers
1466 whose names begin with space are omitted.
1467
1468 ---
1469 *** The new options `buffers-menu-show-directories' and
1470 `buffers-menu-show-status' let you control how buffers are displayed
1471 in the menu dropped down when you click "Buffers" from the menu bar.
1472
1473 `buffers-menu-show-directories' controls whether the menu displays
1474 leading directories as part of the file name visited by the buffer.
1475 If its value is `unless-uniquify', the default, directories are
1476 shown unless uniquify-buffer-name-style' is non-nil. The value of nil
1477 and t turn the display of directories off and on, respectively.
1478
1479 `buffers-menu-show-status' controls whether the Buffers menu includes
1480 the modified and read-only status of the buffers. By default it is
1481 t, and the status is shown.
1482
1483 Setting these variables directly does not take effect until next time
1484 the Buffers menu is regenerated.
1485
1486 ** Dired mode:
1487
1488 ---
1489 *** New faces dired-header, dired-mark, dired-marked, dired-flagged,
1490 dired-ignored, dired-directory, dired-symlink, dired-warning
1491 introduced for Dired mode instead of font-lock faces.
1492
1493 +++
1494 *** New Dired command `dired-compare-directories' marks files
1495 with different file attributes in two dired buffers.
1496
1497 +++
1498 *** New Dired command `dired-do-touch' (bound to T) changes timestamps
1499 of marked files with the value entered in the minibuffer.
1500
1501 +++
1502 *** The Dired command `dired-goto-file' is now bound to j, not M-g.
1503 This is to avoid hiding the global key binding of M-g.
1504
1505 +++
1506 *** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
1507 control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
1508 by whitespace. This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
1509 too. If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
1510 double quotes make no difference in the shell, but they prevent
1511 special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
1512
1513 +++
1514 *** In Dired, the w command now stores the current line's file name
1515 into the kill ring. With a zero prefix arg, it stores the absolute file name.
1516
1517 +++
1518 *** In Dired-x, Omitting files is now a minor mode, dired-omit-mode.
1519
1520 The mode toggling command is bound to M-o. A new command
1521 dired-mark-omitted, bound to * O, marks omitted files. The variable
1522 dired-omit-files-p is obsoleted, use the mode toggling function
1523 instead.
1524
1525 +++
1526 *** The variables dired-free-space-program and dired-free-space-args
1527 have been renamed to directory-free-space-program and
1528 directory-free-space-args, and they now apply whenever Emacs puts a
1529 directory listing into a buffer.
1530
1531 ** Comint changes:
1532
1533 ---
1534 *** The comint prompt can now be made read-only, using the new user
1535 option `comint-prompt-read-only'. This is not enabled by default,
1536 except in IELM buffers. The read-only status of IELM prompts can be
1537 controlled with the new user option `ielm-prompt-read-only', which
1538 overrides `comint-prompt-read-only'.
1539
1540 The new commands `comint-kill-whole-line' and `comint-kill-region'
1541 support editing comint buffers with read-only prompts.
1542
1543 `comint-kill-whole-line' is like `kill-whole-line', but ignores both
1544 read-only and field properties. Hence, it always kill entire
1545 lines, including any prompts.
1546
1547 `comint-kill-region' is like `kill-region', except that it ignores
1548 read-only properties, if it is safe to do so. This means that if any
1549 part of a prompt is deleted, then the entire prompt must be deleted
1550 and that all prompts must stay at the beginning of a line. If this is
1551 not the case, then `comint-kill-region' behaves just like
1552 `kill-region' if read-only properties are involved: it copies the text
1553 to the kill-ring, but does not delete it.
1554
1555 +++
1556 *** The new command `comint-insert-previous-argument' in comint-derived
1557 modes (shell-mode, etc.) inserts arguments from previous command lines,
1558 like bash's `ESC .' binding. It is bound by default to `C-c .', but
1559 otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.
1560
1561 +++
1562 *** `comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' has been renamed
1563 `comint-use-prompt-regexp'. The old name has been kept as an alias,
1564 but declared obsolete.
1565
1566 +++
1567 *** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in
1568 subshells running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment
1569 variable, which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs
1570 that need to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check
1571 INSIDE_EMACS instead of EMACS.
1572
1573 ** M-x Compile changes:
1574
1575 ---
1576 *** M-x compile has become more robust and reliable
1577
1578 Quite a few more kinds of messages are recognized. Messages that are
1579 recognized as warnings or informational come in orange or green, instead of
1580 red. Informational messages are by default skipped with `next-error'
1581 (controlled by `compilation-skip-threshold').
1582
1583 Location data is collected on the fly as the *compilation* buffer changes.
1584 This means you could modify messages to make them point to different files.
1585 This also means you can not go to locations of messages you may have deleted.
1586
1587 The variable `compilation-error-regexp-alist' has now become customizable. If
1588 you had added your own regexps to this, you'll probably need to include a
1589 leading `^', otherwise they'll match anywhere on a line. There is now also a
1590 `compilation-mode-font-lock-keywords' and it nicely handles all the checks
1591 that configure outputs and -o options so you see at a glance where you are.
1592
1593 The new file etc/compilation.txt gives examples of each type of message.
1594
1595 +++
1596 *** New user option `compilation-environment'.
1597 This option allows you to specify environment variables for inferior
1598 compilation processes without affecting the environment that all
1599 subprocesses inherit.
1600
1601 +++
1602 *** New user option `compilation-disable-input'.
1603 If this is non-nil, send end-of-file as compilation process input.
1604
1605 +++
1606 *** New options `next-error-highlight' and `next-error-highlight-no-select'
1607 specify the method of highlighting of the corresponding source line
1608 in new face `next-error'.
1609
1610 +++
1611 *** A new minor mode `next-error-follow-minor-mode' can be used in
1612 compilation-mode, grep-mode, occur-mode, and diff-mode (i.e. all the
1613 modes that can use `next-error'). In this mode, cursor motion in the
1614 buffer causes automatic display in another window of the corresponding
1615 matches, compilation errors, etc. This minor mode can be toggled with
1616 C-c C-f.
1617
1618 +++
1619 *** When the left fringe is displayed, an arrow points to current message in
1620 the compilation buffer.
1621
1622 +++
1623 *** The new variable `compilation-context-lines' controls lines of leading
1624 context before the current message. If nil and the left fringe is displayed,
1625 it doesn't scroll the compilation output window. If there is no left fringe,
1626 no arrow is displayed and a value of nil means display the message at the top
1627 of the window.
1628
1629 +++
1630 *** The EMACS environment variable now defaults to Emacs's absolute
1631 file name, instead of to "t".
1632
1633 ** Occur mode changes:
1634
1635 +++
1636 *** In the *Occur* buffer, `o' switches to it in another window, and
1637 C-o displays the current line's occurrence in another window without
1638 switching to it.
1639
1640 +++
1641 *** You can now use next-error (C-x `) and previous-error to advance to
1642 the next/previous matching line found by M-x occur.
1643
1644 +++
1645 *** The new command `multi-occur' is just like `occur', except it can
1646 search multiple buffers. There is also a new command
1647 `multi-occur-in-matching-buffers' which allows you to specify the
1648 buffers to search by their filenames or buffer names. Internally,
1649 Occur mode has been rewritten, and now uses font-lock, among other
1650 changes.
1651
1652 ** Grep changes:
1653
1654 +++
1655 *** Grep has been decoupled from compilation mode setup.
1656
1657 There's a new separate package grep.el, with its own submenu and
1658 customization group.
1659
1660 +++
1661 *** `grep-find' is now also available under the name `find-grep' where
1662 people knowing `find-grep-dired' would probably expect it.
1663
1664 +++
1665 *** New commands `lgrep' (local grep) and `rgrep' (recursive grep) are
1666 more user-friendly versions of `grep' and `grep-find', which prompt
1667 separately for the regular expression to match, the files to search,
1668 and the base directory for the search. Case sensitivitivy of the
1669 search is controlled by the current value of `case-fold-search'.
1670
1671 These commands build the shell commands based on the new variables
1672 `grep-template' (lgrep) and `grep-find-template' (rgrep).
1673
1674 The files to search can use aliases defined in `grep-files-aliases'.
1675
1676 Subdirectories listed in `grep-find-ignored-directories' such as those
1677 typically used by various version control systems, like CVS and arch,
1678 are automatically skipped by `rgrep'.
1679
1680 ---
1681 *** The grep commands provide highlighting support.
1682
1683 Hits are fontified in green, and hits in binary files in orange. Grep buffers
1684 can be saved and automatically revisited.
1685
1686 ---
1687 *** The new variables `grep-window-height' and `grep-scroll-output' override
1688 the corresponding compilation mode settings, for grep commands only.
1689
1690 +++
1691 *** New option `grep-highlight-matches' highlights matches in *grep*
1692 buffer. It uses a special feature of some grep programs which accept
1693 --color option to output markers around matches. When going to the next
1694 match with `next-error' the exact match is highlighted in the source
1695 buffer. Otherwise, if `grep-highlight-matches' is nil, the whole
1696 source line is highlighted.
1697
1698 +++
1699 *** New key bindings in grep output window:
1700 SPC and DEL scrolls window up and down. C-n and C-p moves to next and
1701 previous match in the grep window. RET jumps to the source line of
1702 the current match. `n' and `p' shows next and previous match in
1703 other window, but does not switch buffer. `{' and `}' jumps to the
1704 previous or next file in the grep output. TAB also jumps to the next
1705 file.
1706
1707 +++
1708 *** M-x grep now tries to avoid appending `/dev/null' to the command line
1709 by using GNU grep `-H' option instead. M-x grep automatically
1710 detects whether this is possible or not the first time it is invoked.
1711 When `-H' is used, the grep command line supplied by the user is passed
1712 unchanged to the system to execute, which allows more complicated
1713 command lines to be used than was possible before.
1714
1715 ** X Windows Support:
1716
1717 +++
1718 *** Emacs now supports drag and drop for X. Dropping a file on a window
1719 opens it, dropping text inserts the text. Dropping a file on a dired
1720 buffer copies or moves the file to that directory.
1721
1722 +++
1723 *** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper).
1724 The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym',
1725 and `x-super-keysym' can be used to choose which keysyms Emacs should
1726 use for the modifiers. For example, the following two lines swap
1727 Meta and Alt:
1728 (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)
1729 (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt)
1730
1731 +++
1732 *** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which can
1733 speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.
1734
1735 If the configure option `--without-xim' was used to turn off use of
1736 XIM by default, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn it on.
1737
1738 ---
1739 *** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
1740 requests X selection. The default value is nil, which means that
1741 Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
1742 and use the more appropriately result.
1743
1744 ---
1745 *** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
1746 On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
1747 amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).
1748
1749 ** Xterm support:
1750
1751 ---
1752 *** If you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs will respond to mouse clicks
1753 on the mode line, header line and display margin, when run in an xterm.
1754
1755 ---
1756 *** Improved key bindings support when running in an xterm.
1757 When Emacs is running in an xterm more key bindings are available.
1758 The following should work:
1759 {C,S,C-S,A}-{right,left,up,down,prior,next,delete,insert,F1-12}.
1760 These key bindings work on xterm from X.org 6.8, they might not work on
1761 some older versions of xterm, or on some proprietary versions.
1762
1763 ** Character terminal color support changes:
1764
1765 +++
1766 *** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard
1767 mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character
1768 terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal
1769 database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't
1770 set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable
1771 terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls'
1772 when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors
1773 in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the
1774 user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter.
1775
1776 ---
1777 *** Emacs now supports several character terminals which provide more
1778 than 8 colors. For example, for `xterm', 16-color, 88-color, and
1779 256-color modes are supported. Emacs automatically notes at startup
1780 the extended number of colors, and defines the appropriate entries for
1781 all of these colors.
1782
1783 +++
1784 *** Emacs now uses the full range of available colors for the default
1785 faces when running on a color terminal, including 16-, 88-, and
1786 256-color xterms. This means that when you run "emacs -nw" on an
1787 88-color or 256-color xterm, you will see essentially the same face
1788 colors as on X.
1789
1790 ---
1791 *** There's a new support for colors on `rxvt' terminal emulator.
1792 \f
1793 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1
1794
1795 ** ERC is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1796
1797 ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
1798
1799 To see what modules are available, type
1800 M-x customize-option erc-modules RET.
1801
1802 To start an IRC session, type M-x erc, and follow the prompts for
1803 server, port, and nick.
1804
1805 ---
1806 ** Rcirc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1807
1808 Rcirc is an Internet relay chat (IRC) client. It supports
1809 simultaneous connections to multiple IRC servers. Each discussion
1810 takes place in its own buffer. For each connection you can join
1811 several channels (many-to-many) and participate in private
1812 (one-to-one) chats. Both channel and private chats are contained in
1813 separate buffers.
1814
1815 To start an IRC session, type M-x irc, and follow the prompts for
1816 server, port, nick and initial channels.
1817
1818 ---
1819 ** Newsticker is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1820
1821 Newsticker asynchronously retrieves headlines (RSS) from a list of news
1822 sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the
1823 corresponding articles in a web browser. Its documentation is in a
1824 separate manual.
1825
1826 +++
1827 ** savehist saves minibuffer histories between sessions.
1828 To use this feature, turn on savehist-mode in your `.emacs' file.
1829
1830 +++
1831 ** Filesets are collections of files. You can define a fileset in
1832 various ways, such as based on a directory tree or based on
1833 program files that include other program files.
1834
1835 Once you have defined a fileset, you can perform various operations on
1836 all the files in it, such as visiting them or searching and replacing
1837 in them.
1838
1839 +++
1840 ** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1841
1842 Calc is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool written in
1843 Emacs Lisp. The prefix for Calc has been changed to `C-x *' and Calc
1844 can be started with `C-x * *'. The Calc manual is separate from the
1845 Emacs manual; within Emacs, type "C-h i m calc RET" to read the
1846 manual. A reference card is available in `etc/calccard.tex' and
1847 `etc/calccard.ps'.
1848
1849 ---
1850 ** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
1851 customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
1852
1853 ---
1854 ** Ido mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1855
1856 The ido (interactively do) package is an extension of the iswitchb
1857 package to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition
1858 to interactive buffer switching. Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with
1859 a few exceptions), so don't enable both packages.
1860
1861 +++
1862 ** Image files are normally visited in Image mode, which lets you toggle
1863 between viewing the image and viewing the text using C-c C-c.
1864
1865 ---
1866 ** CUA mode is now part of the Emacs distribution.
1867
1868 The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
1869 cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
1870 With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
1871 keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces the active
1872 region (like delete-selection-mode). Do not enable these modes with
1873 cua-mode. Customize the variable `cua-mode' to enable cua.
1874
1875 In addition, cua provides unified rectangle support with visible
1876 rectangle highlighting: Use C-return to start a rectangle, extend it
1877 using the movement commands (or mouse-3), and cut or copy it using C-x
1878 or C-c (using C-w and M-w also works).
1879
1880 Use M-o and M-c to `open' or `close' the rectangle, use M-b or M-f, to
1881 fill it with blanks or another character, use M-u or M-l to upcase or
1882 downcase the rectangle, use M-i to increment the numbers in the
1883 rectangle, use M-n to fill the rectangle with a numeric sequence (such
1884 as 10 20 30...), use M-r to replace a regexp in the rectangle, and use
1885 M-' or M-/ to restrict command on the rectangle to a subset of the
1886 rows. See the commentary in cua-base.el for more rectangle commands.
1887
1888 Cua also provides unified support for registers: Use a numeric
1889 prefix argument between 0 and 9, i.e. M-0 .. M-9, for C-x, C-c, and
1890 C-v to cut or copy into register 0-9, or paste from register 0-9.
1891
1892 The last text deleted (not killed) is automatically stored in
1893 register 0. This includes text deleted by typing text.
1894
1895 Finally, cua provides a global mark which is set using S-C-space.
1896 When the global mark is active, any text which is cut or copied is
1897 automatically inserted at the global mark position. See the
1898 commentary in cua-base.el for more global mark related commands.
1899
1900 The features of cua also works with the standard Emacs bindings for
1901 kill, copy, yank, and undo. If you want to use cua mode, but don't
1902 want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you can customize the
1903 `cua-enable-cua-keys' variable.
1904
1905 Note: This version of cua mode is not backwards compatible with older
1906 versions of cua.el and cua-mode.el. To ensure proper operation, you
1907 must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
1908 loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.
1909
1910 +++
1911 ** Org mode is now part of the Emacs distribution
1912
1913 Org mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and
1914 doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.
1915 It also contains a plain-text table editor with spreadsheet-like
1916 capabilities.
1917
1918 The Org mode table editor can be integrated into any major mode by
1919 activating the minor Orgtbl-mode.
1920
1921 The documentation for org-mode is in a separate manual; within Emacs,
1922 type "C-h i m org RET" to read that manual. A reference card is
1923 available in `etc/orgcard.tex' and `etc/orgcard.ps'.
1924
1925 +++
1926 ** The new package dns-mode.el adds syntax highlighting of DNS master files.
1927 It is a modern replacement for zone-mode.el, which is now obsolete.
1928
1929 ---
1930 ** The new global minor mode `file-name-shadow-mode' modifies the way
1931 filenames being entered by the user in the minibuffer are displayed, so
1932 that it's clear when part of the entered filename will be ignored due to
1933 Emacs' filename parsing rules. The ignored portion can be made dim,
1934 invisible, or otherwise less visually noticeable. The display method can
1935 be displayed by customizing the variable `file-name-shadow-properties'.
1936
1937 +++
1938 ** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
1939 source files. See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.
1940
1941 +++
1942 ** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
1943 the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards. The numeric
1944 keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
1945 +, -, /, and *, an Enter key, and a NumLock toggle key. The keypad
1946 package only controls the use of the digit and decimal keys.
1947
1948 By customizing the variables `keypad-setup', `keypad-shifted-setup',
1949 `keypad-numlock-setup', and `keypad-numlock-shifted-setup', or by
1950 using the function `keypad-setup', you can rebind all digit keys and
1951 the decimal key of the keypad in one step for each of the four
1952 possible combinations of the Shift key state (not pressed/pressed) and
1953 the NumLock toggle state (off/on).
1954
1955 The choices for the keypad keys in each of the above states are:
1956 `Plain numeric keypad' where the keys generates plain digits,
1957 `Numeric keypad with decimal key' where the character produced by the
1958 decimal key can be customized individually (for internationalization),
1959 `Numeric Prefix Arg' where the keypad keys produce numeric prefix args
1960 for Emacs editing commands, `Cursor keys' and `Shifted Cursor keys'
1961 where the keys work like (shifted) arrow keys, home/end, etc., and
1962 `Unspecified/User-defined' where the keypad keys (kp-0, kp-1, etc.)
1963 are left unspecified and can be bound individually through the global
1964 or local keymaps.
1965
1966 +++
1967 ** Emacs' keyboard macro facilities have been enhanced by the new
1968 kmacro package.
1969
1970 Keyboard macros are now defined and executed via the F3 and F4 keys:
1971 F3 starts a macro, F4 ends the macro, and pressing F4 again executes
1972 the last macro. While defining the macro, F3 inserts a counter value
1973 which automatically increments every time the macro is executed.
1974
1975 There is now a keyboard macro ring which stores the most recently
1976 defined macros.
1977
1978 The C-x C-k sequence is now a prefix for the kmacro keymap which
1979 defines bindings for moving through the keyboard macro ring,
1980 C-x C-k C-p and C-x C-k C-n, editing the last macro C-x C-k C-e,
1981 manipulating the macro counter and format via C-x C-k C-c,
1982 C-x C-k C-a, and C-x C-k C-f. See the commentary in kmacro.el
1983 for more commands.
1984
1985 The original macro bindings C-x (, C-x ), and C-x e are still
1986 available, but they now interface to the keyboard macro ring too.
1987
1988 The C-x e command now automatically terminates the current macro
1989 before calling it, if used while defining a macro.
1990
1991 In addition, when ending or calling a macro with C-x e, the macro can
1992 be repeated immediately by typing just the `e'. You can customize
1993 this behavior via the variables kmacro-call-repeat-key and
1994 kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg.
1995
1996 Keyboard macros can now be debugged and edited interactively.
1997 C-x C-k SPC steps through the last keyboard macro one key sequence
1998 at a time, prompting for the actions to take.
1999
2000 ---
2001 ** New minor mode, Visible mode, toggles invisibility in the current buffer.
2002 When enabled, it makes all invisible text visible. When disabled, it
2003 restores the previous value of `buffer-invisibility-spec'.
2004
2005 +++
2006 ** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
2007 buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...
2008
2009 +++
2010 ** The new package longlines.el provides a minor mode for editing text
2011 files composed of long lines, based on the `use-hard-newlines'
2012 mechanism. The long lines are broken up by inserting soft newlines,
2013 which are automatically removed when saving the file to disk or
2014 copying into the kill ring, clipboard, etc. By default, Longlines
2015 mode inserts soft newlines automatically during editing, a behavior
2016 referred to as "soft word wrap" in other text editors. This is
2017 similar to Refill mode, but more reliable. To turn the word wrap
2018 feature off, set `longlines-auto-wrap' to nil.
2019
2020 +++
2021 ** The printing package is now part of the Emacs distribution.
2022
2023 If you enable the printing package by including (require 'printing) in
2024 the .emacs file, the normal Print item on the File menu is replaced
2025 with a Print sub-menu which allows you to preview output through
2026 ghostview, use ghostscript to print (if you don't have a PostScript
2027 printer) or send directly to printer a PostScript code generated by
2028 `ps-print' package. Use M-x pr-help for more information.
2029
2030 ---
2031 ** The minor mode Reveal mode makes text visible on the fly as you
2032 move your cursor into hidden regions of the buffer.
2033 It should work with any package that uses overlays to hide parts
2034 of a buffer, such as outline-minor-mode, hs-minor-mode, hide-ifdef-mode, ...
2035
2036 There is also Global Reveal mode which affects all buffers.
2037
2038 ---
2039 ** The ruler-mode.el library provides a minor mode for displaying an
2040 "active" ruler in the header line. You can use the mouse to visually
2041 change the `fill-column', `window-margins' and `tab-stop-list'
2042 settings.
2043
2044 +++
2045 ** SES mode (ses-mode) is a new major mode for creating and editing
2046 spreadsheet files. Besides the usual Emacs features (intuitive command
2047 letters, undo, cell formulas in Lisp, plaintext files, etc.) it also offers
2048 viral immunity and import/export of tab-separated values.
2049
2050 +++
2051 ** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
2052 shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.
2053
2054 +++
2055 ** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
2056 `text tables' in Emacs buffers. It simulates the effect of putting
2057 these tables in a special major mode. The package emulates WYSIWYG
2058 table editing available in modern word processors. The package also
2059 can generate a table source in typesetting and markup languages such
2060 as latex and html from the visually laid out text table.
2061
2062 ** The tumme.el package allows you to easily view, tag and in other ways
2063 manipulate image files and their thumbnails, using dired as the main interface.
2064 Tumme provides functionality to generate simple image galleries.
2065
2066 +++
2067 ** Tramp is now part of the distribution.
2068
2069 This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote
2070 files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host,
2071 Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used
2072 for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for
2073 the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called
2074 `inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell
2075 connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods
2076 (which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or
2077 `rsync' to do the copying).
2078
2079 Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also
2080 `su' and `sudo'. Ange-FTP is still supported via the `ftp' method.
2081
2082 If you want to disable Tramp you should set
2083
2084 (setq tramp-default-method "ftp")
2085
2086 Removing Tramp, and re-enabling Ange-FTP, can be achieved by M-x
2087 tramp-unload-tramp.
2088
2089 ---
2090 ** The URL package (which had been part of W3) is now part of Emacs.
2091
2092 ---
2093 ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
2094 configuration files.
2095
2096 +++
2097 ** The new package conf-mode.el handles thousands of configuration files, with
2098 varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !), assignment (var = value,
2099 var : value, var value or keyword var value) and sections ([section] or
2100 section { }). Many files under /etc/, or with suffixes like .cf through
2101 .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
2102 recognized.
2103
2104 ---
2105 ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
2106
2107 +++
2108 ** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
2109
2110 ---
2111 ** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
2112 This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.
2113
2114 ** The new package scroll-lock.el provides the Scroll Lock minor mode
2115 for pager-like scrolling. Keys which normally move point by line or
2116 paragraph will scroll the buffer by the respective amount of lines
2117 instead and point will be kept vertically fixed relative to window
2118 boundaries during scrolling.
2119
2120 +++
2121 ** The file t-mouse.el is now part of Emacs and provides access to mouse
2122 events from the console. It still requires gpm to work but has been updated
2123 for Emacs 22. In particular, the mode-line is now position sensitive.
2124 \f
2125 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.1:
2126
2127 ** Changes in Shell Mode
2128
2129 *** Shell output normally scrolls so that the input line is at the
2130 bottom of the window -- thus showing the maximum possible text. (This
2131 is similar to the way sequential output to a terminal works.)
2132
2133 ** Changes in Dired
2134
2135 +++
2136 *** Bindings for Tumme added
2137 Several new keybindings, all starting with the C-t prefix, have been
2138 added to Dired. They are all bound to commands in Tumme. As a starting
2139 point, mark some image files in a dired buffer and do C-t d to display
2140 thumbnails of them in a separate buffer.
2141
2142 ** Changes in Hi Lock
2143
2144 +++
2145 *** hi-lock-mode now only affects a single buffer, and a new function
2146 `global-hi-lock-mode' enables Hi Lock in all buffers. By default, if
2147 hi-lock-mode is used in what appears to be the initialization file, a
2148 warning message suggests to use global-hi-lock-mode instead. However,
2149 if the new variable `hi-lock-archaic-interface-deduce' is non-nil,
2150 using hi-lock-mode in an initialization file will turn on Hi Lock in all
2151 buffers and no warning will be issued (for compatibility with the
2152 behavior in older versions of Emacs).
2153
2154 ---
2155 ** Changes in Allout
2156
2157 *** Some previously rough topic-header format edge cases are reconciled.
2158 Level 1 topics use the mode's comment format, and lines starting with the
2159 asterisk - for instance, the comment close of some languages (eg, c's "*/"
2160 or mathematica's "*)") - at the beginning of line are no longer are
2161 interpreted as level 1 topics in those modes.
2162
2163 *** Many or most commonly occuring "accidental" topics are disqualified.
2164 Text in item bodies that looks like a low-depth topic is no longer mistaken
2165 for one unless its first offspring (or that of its next sibling with
2166 offspring) is only one level deeper.
2167
2168 For example, pasting some text with a bunch of leading asterisks into a
2169 topic that's followed by a level 3 or deeper topic will not cause the
2170 pasted text to be mistaken for outline structure.
2171
2172 The same constraint is applied to any level 2 or 3 topics.
2173
2174 This settles an old issue where typed or pasted text needed to be carefully
2175 reviewed, and sometimes doctored, to avoid accidentally disrupting the
2176 outline structure. Now that should be generally unnecessary, as the most
2177 prone-to-occur accidents are disqualified.
2178
2179 *** Allout now refuses to create "containment discontinuities", where a
2180 topic is shifted deeper than the offspring-depth of its container. On the
2181 other hand, allout now operates gracefully with existing containment
2182 discontinuities, revealing excessively contained topics rather than either
2183 leaving them hidden or raising an error.
2184
2185 *** Topic cryptography added, enabling easy gpg topic encryption and
2186 decryption. Per-topic basis enables interspersing encrypted-text and
2187 clear-text within a single file to your heart's content, using symmetric
2188 and/or public key modes. Time-limited key caching, user-provided
2189 symmetric key hinting and consistency verification, auto-encryption of
2190 pending topics on save, and more, make it easy to use encryption in
2191 powerful ways. Encryption behavior customization is collected in the
2192 allout-encryption customization group.
2193
2194 *** Navigation within an item is easier. Repeated beginning-of-line and
2195 end-of-line key commands (usually, ^A and ^E) cycle through the
2196 beginning/end-of-line and then beginning/end of topic, etc. See new
2197 customization vars `allout-beginning-of-line-cycles' and
2198 `allout-end-of-line-cycles'.
2199
2200 *** New or revised allout-mode activity hooks enable creation of
2201 cooperative enhancements to allout mode without changes to the mode,
2202 itself.
2203
2204 See `allout-exposure-change-hook', `allout-structure-added-hook',
2205 `allout-structure-deleted-hook', and `allout-structure-shifted-hook'.
2206
2207 `allout-exposure-change-hook' replaces the existing
2208 `allout-view-change-hook', which is being deprecated. Both are still
2209 invoked, but `allout-view-change-hook' will eventually be ignored.
2210 `allout-exposure-change-hook' is called with explicit arguments detailing
2211 the specifics of each change (as are the other new hooks), making it easier
2212 to use than the old version.
2213
2214 There is a new mode deactivation hook, `allout-mode-deactivate-hook', for
2215 coordinating with deactivation of allout-mode. Both that and the mode
2216 activation hook, `allout-mode-hook' are now run after the `allout-mode'
2217 variable is changed, rather than before.
2218
2219 *** Default command prefix was changed to "\C-c " (control-c space), to
2220 avoid intruding on user's keybinding space. Customize the
2221 `allout-command-prefix' variable to your preference.
2222
2223 *** Allout now uses text overlay's `invisible' property for concealed text,
2224 instead of selective-display. This simplifies the code, in particular
2225 avoiding the need for kludges for isearch dynamic-display, discretionary
2226 handling of edits of concealed text, undo concerns, etc.
2227
2228 *** There are many other fixes and refinements, including:
2229
2230 - repaired inhibition of inadvertent edits to concealed text, without
2231 inhibiting undo; we now reveal undo changes within concealed text.
2232 - auto-fill-mode is now left inactive when allout-mode starts, if it
2233 already was inactive. also, `allout-inhibit-auto-fill' custom
2234 configuration variable makes it easy to disable auto fill in allout
2235 outlines in general or on a per-buffer basis.
2236 - allout now tolerates fielded text in outlines without disruption.
2237 - hot-spot navigation now is modularized with a new function,
2238 `allout-hotspot-key-handler', enabling easier use and enhancement of
2239 the functionality in allout addons.
2240 - repaired retention of topic body hanging indent upon topic depth shifts
2241 - bulleting variation is simpler and more accommodating, both in the
2242 default behavior and in ability to vary when creating new topics
2243 - mode deactivation now does cleans up effectively, more properly
2244 restoring affected variables and hooks to former state, removing
2245 overlays, etc. see `allout-add-resumptions' and
2246 `allout-do-resumptions', which replace the old `allout-resumptions'.
2247 - included a few unit-tests for interior functionality. developers can
2248 have them automatically run at the end of module load by customizing
2249 the option `allout-run-unit-tests-on-load'.
2250 - many, many other, more minor tweaks, fixes, and refinements.
2251 - version number incremented to 2.2
2252
2253 ** The variable `woman-topic-at-point' was renamed
2254 to `woman-use-topic-at-point' and behaves differently: if this
2255 variable is non-nil, the `woman' command uses the word at point
2256 automatically, without asking for a confirmation. Otherwise, the word
2257 at point is suggested as default, but not inserted at the prompt.
2258
2259 ---
2260 ** Changes to cmuscheme
2261
2262 *** Emacs now offers to start Scheme if the user tries to
2263 evaluate a Scheme expression but no Scheme subprocess is running.
2264
2265 *** If the file ~/.emacs_NAME or ~/.emacs.d/init_NAME.scm (where NAME
2266 is the name of the Scheme interpreter) exists, its contents are sent
2267 to the Scheme subprocess upon startup.
2268
2269 *** There are new commands to instruct the Scheme interpreter to trace
2270 procedure calls (`scheme-trace-procedure') and to expand syntactic forms
2271 (`scheme-expand-current-form'). The commands actually sent to the Scheme
2272 subprocess are controlled by the user options `scheme-trace-command',
2273 `scheme-untrace-command' and `scheme-expand-current-form'.
2274
2275 ---
2276 ** Changes in Makefile mode
2277
2278 *** Makefile mode has submodes for automake, gmake, makepp, BSD make and imake.
2279
2280 The former two couldn't be differentiated before, and the latter three
2281 are new. Font-locking is robust now and offers new customizable
2282 faces.
2283
2284 *** The variable `makefile-query-one-target-method' has been renamed
2285 to `makefile-query-one-target-method-function'. The old name is still
2286 available as alias.
2287
2288 +++
2289 ** In Outline mode, `hide-body' no longer hides lines at the top
2290 of the file that precede the first header line.
2291
2292 +++
2293 ** Telnet now prompts you for a port number with C-u M-x telnet.
2294
2295 ---
2296 ** The terminal emulation code in term.el has been improved; it can
2297 run most curses applications now.
2298
2299 +++
2300 ** M-x diff uses Diff mode instead of Compilation mode.
2301
2302 +++
2303 ** Diff mode key bindings changed.
2304
2305 These are the new bindings:
2306
2307 C-c C-e diff-ediff-patch (old M-A)
2308 C-c C-n diff-restrict-view (old M-r)
2309 C-c C-r diff-reverse-direction (old M-R)
2310 C-c C-u diff-context->unified (old M-U)
2311 C-c C-w diff-refine-hunk (old C-c C-r)
2312
2313 To convert unified to context format, use C-u C-c C-u.
2314 In addition, C-c C-u now operates on the region
2315 in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active.
2316
2317 +++
2318 ** You can now customize `fill-nobreak-predicate' to control where
2319 filling can break lines. The value is now normally a list of
2320 functions, but it can also be a single function, for compatibility.
2321
2322 Emacs provide two predicates, `fill-single-word-nobreak-p' and
2323 `fill-french-nobreak-p', for use as the value of
2324 `fill-nobreak-predicate'.
2325
2326 ---
2327 ** M-x view-file and commands that use it now avoid interfering
2328 with special modes such as Tar mode.
2329
2330 ---
2331 ** Commands `winner-redo' and `winner-undo', from winner.el, are now
2332 bound to C-c <left> and C-c <right>, respectively. This is an
2333 incompatible change.
2334
2335 ---
2336 ** `global-whitespace-mode' is a new alias for `whitespace-global-mode'.
2337
2338 +++
2339 ** M-x compare-windows now can automatically skip non-matching text to
2340 resync points in both windows.
2341
2342 +++
2343 ** New user option `add-log-always-start-new-record'.
2344
2345 When this option is enabled, M-x add-change-log-entry always
2346 starts a new record regardless of when the last record is.
2347
2348 ---
2349 ** PO translation files are decoded according to their MIME headers
2350 when Emacs visits them.
2351
2352 ** Info mode changes:
2353
2354 +++
2355 *** A numeric prefix argument of `info' selects an Info buffer
2356 with the number appended to the `*info*' buffer name (e.g. "*info*<2>").
2357
2358 +++
2359 *** isearch in Info uses Info-search and searches through multiple nodes.
2360
2361 Before leaving the initial Info node isearch fails once with the error
2362 message [initial node], and with subsequent C-s/C-r continues through
2363 other nodes. When isearch fails for the rest of the manual, it wraps
2364 around the whole manual to the top/final node. The user option
2365 `Info-isearch-search' controls whether to use Info-search for isearch,
2366 or the default isearch search function that wraps around the current
2367 Info node.
2368
2369 ---
2370 *** New search commands: `Info-search-case-sensitively' (bound to S),
2371 `Info-search-backward', and `Info-search-next' which repeats the last
2372 search without prompting for a new search string.
2373
2374 +++
2375 *** New command `Info-history-forward' (bound to r and new toolbar icon)
2376 moves forward in history to the node you returned from after using
2377 `Info-history-back' (renamed from `Info-last').
2378
2379 ---
2380 *** New command `Info-history' (bound to L) displays a menu of visited nodes.
2381
2382 ---
2383 *** New command `Info-toc' (bound to T) creates a node with table of contents
2384 from the tree structure of menus of the current Info file.
2385
2386 +++
2387 *** New command `info-apropos' searches the indices of the known
2388 Info files on your system for a string, and builds a menu of the
2389 possible matches.
2390
2391 ---
2392 *** New command `Info-copy-current-node-name' (bound to w) copies
2393 the current Info node name into the kill ring. With a zero prefix
2394 arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
2395
2396 +++
2397 *** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
2398 and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
2399
2400 ---
2401 *** http and ftp links in Info are now operational: they look like cross
2402 references and following them calls `browse-url'.
2403
2404 +++
2405 *** Info now hides node names in menus and cross references by default.
2406
2407 If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
2408 `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
2409
2410 ---
2411 *** Images in Info pages are supported.
2412
2413 Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
2414 Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
2415 version 4.7 or newer, compiles to Info pages with embedded images.
2416
2417 +++
2418 *** The default value for `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is now nil.
2419
2420 ---
2421 *** `Info-index' offers completion.
2422
2423 ** Lisp mode changes:
2424
2425 ---
2426 *** Lisp mode now uses `font-lock-doc-face' for doc strings.
2427
2428 +++
2429 *** C-u C-M-q in Emacs Lisp mode pretty-prints the list after point.
2430
2431 *** New features in evaluation commands
2432
2433 +++
2434 **** The function `eval-defun' (C-M-x) called on defface reinitializes
2435 the face to the value specified in the defface expression.
2436
2437 +++
2438 **** Typing C-x C-e twice prints the value of the integer result
2439 in additional formats (octal, hexadecimal, character) specified
2440 by the new function `eval-expression-print-format'. The same
2441 function also defines the result format for `eval-expression' (M-:),
2442 `eval-print-last-sexp' (C-j) and some edebug evaluation functions.
2443
2444 +++
2445 ** CC mode changes.
2446
2447 *** The CC Mode manual has been extensively revised.
2448 The information about using CC Mode has been separated from the larger
2449 and more difficult chapters about configuration.
2450
2451 *** Changes in Key Sequences
2452 **** c-toggle-auto-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-t.
2453
2454 **** c-toggle-hungry-state is no longer bound to C-c C-d.
2455 This binding has been taken over by c-hungry-delete-forwards.
2456
2457 **** c-toggle-auto-state (C-c C-t) has been renamed to c-toggle-auto-newline.
2458 c-toggle-auto-state remains as an alias.
2459
2460 **** The new commands c-hungry-backspace and c-hungry-delete-forwards
2461 have key bindings C-c C-DEL (or C-c DEL, for the benefit of TTYs) and
2462 C-c C-d (or C-c C-<delete> or C-c <delete>) respectively. These
2463 commands delete entire blocks of whitespace with a single
2464 key-sequence. [N.B. "DEL" is the <backspace> key.]
2465
2466 **** The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l.
2467
2468 **** The new command c-subword-mode is bound to C-c C-w.
2469
2470 *** C-c C-s (`c-show-syntactic-information') now highlights the anchor
2471 position(s).
2472
2473 *** New Minor Modes
2474 **** Electric Minor Mode toggles the electric action of non-alphabetic keys.
2475 The new command c-toggle-electric-mode is bound to C-c C-l. Turning the
2476 mode off can be helpful for editing chaotically indented code and for
2477 users new to CC Mode, who sometimes find electric indentation
2478 disconcerting. Its current state is displayed in the mode line with an
2479 'l', e.g. "C/al".
2480
2481 **** Subword Minor Mode makes Emacs recognize word boundaries at upper case
2482 letters in StudlyCapsIdentifiers. You enable this feature by C-c C-w. It can
2483 also be used in non-CC Mode buffers. :-) Contributed by Masatake YAMATO.
2484
2485 *** New clean-ups
2486
2487 **** `comment-close-slash'.
2488 With this clean-up, a block (i.e. c-style) comment can be terminated by
2489 typing a slash at the start of a line.
2490
2491 **** `c-one-liner-defun'
2492 This clean-up compresses a short enough defun (for example, an AWK
2493 pattern/action pair) onto a single line. "Short enough" is configurable.
2494
2495 *** Font lock support.
2496 CC Mode now provides font lock support for all its languages. This
2497 supersedes the font lock patterns that have been in the core font lock
2498 package for C, C++, Java and Objective-C. Like indentation, font
2499 locking is done in a uniform way across all languages (except the new
2500 AWK mode - see below). That means that the new font locking will be
2501 different from the old patterns in various details for most languages.
2502
2503 The main goal of the font locking in CC Mode is accuracy, to provide a
2504 dependable aid in recognizing the various constructs. Some, like
2505 strings and comments, are easy to recognize while others like
2506 declarations and types can be very tricky. CC Mode can go to great
2507 lengths to recognize declarations and casts correctly, especially when
2508 the types aren't recognized by standard patterns. This is a fairly
2509 demanding analysis which can be slow on older hardware, and it can
2510 therefore be disabled by choosing a lower decoration level with the
2511 variable font-lock-maximum-decoration.
2512
2513 Note that the most demanding font lock level has been tuned with lazy
2514 fontification in mind; Just-In-Time-Lock mode should be enabled for
2515 the highest font lock level (by default, it is). Fontifying a file
2516 with several thousand lines in one go can take the better part of a
2517 minute.
2518
2519 **** The (c|c++|objc|java|idl|pike)-font-lock-extra-types variables
2520 are now used by CC Mode to recognize identifiers that are certain to
2521 be types. (They are also used in cases that aren't related to font
2522 locking.) At the maximum decoration level, types are often recognized
2523 properly anyway, so these variables should be fairly restrictive and
2524 not contain patterns for uncertain types.
2525
2526 **** Support for documentation comments.
2527 There is a "plugin" system to fontify documentation comments like
2528 Javadoc and the markup within them. It's independent of the host
2529 language, so it's possible to e.g. turn on Javadoc font locking in C
2530 buffers. See the variable c-doc-comment-style for details.
2531
2532 Currently three kinds of doc comment styles are recognized: Sun's
2533 Javadoc, Autodoc (which is used in Pike) and GtkDoc (used in C). (The
2534 last was contributed by Masatake YAMATO). This is by no means a
2535 complete list of the most common tools; if your doc comment extractor
2536 of choice is missing then please drop a note to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2537
2538 **** Better handling of C++ templates.
2539 As a side effect of the more accurate font locking, C++ templates are
2540 now handled much better. The angle brackets that delimit them are
2541 given parenthesis syntax so that they can be navigated like other
2542 parens.
2543
2544 This also improves indentation of templates, although there still is
2545 work to be done in that area. E.g. it's required that multiline
2546 template clauses are written in full and then refontified to be
2547 recognized, and the indentation of nested templates is a bit odd and
2548 not as configurable as it ought to be.
2549
2550 **** Improved handling of Objective-C and CORBA IDL.
2551 Especially the support for Objective-C and IDL has gotten an overhaul.
2552 The special "@" declarations in Objective-C are handled correctly.
2553 All the keywords used in CORBA IDL, PSDL, and CIDL are recognized and
2554 handled correctly, also wrt indentation.
2555
2556 *** Support for the AWK language.
2557 Support for the AWK language has been introduced. The implementation is
2558 based around GNU AWK version 3.1, but it should work pretty well with
2559 any AWK. As yet, not all features of CC Mode have been adapted for AWK.
2560 Here is a summary:
2561
2562 **** Indentation Engine
2563 The CC Mode indentation engine fully supports AWK mode.
2564
2565 AWK mode handles code formatted in the conventional AWK fashion: `{'s
2566 which start actions, user-defined functions, or compound statements are
2567 placed on the same line as the associated construct; the matching `}'s
2568 are normally placed under the start of the respective pattern, function
2569 definition, or structured statement.
2570
2571 The predefined line-up functions haven't yet been adapted for AWK
2572 mode, though some of them may work serendipitously. There shouldn't
2573 be any problems writing custom indentation functions for AWK mode.
2574
2575 **** Font Locking
2576 There is a single level of font locking in AWK mode, rather than the
2577 three distinct levels the other modes have. There are several
2578 idiosyncrasies in AWK mode's font-locking due to the peculiarities of
2579 the AWK language itself.
2580
2581 **** Comment and Movement Commands
2582 These commands all work for AWK buffers. The notion of "defun" has
2583 been augmented to include AWK pattern-action pairs - the standard
2584 "defun" commands on key sequences C-M-a, C-M-e, and C-M-h use this
2585 extended definition.
2586
2587 **** "awk" style, Auto-newline Insertion and Clean-ups
2588 A new style, "awk" has been introduced, and this is now the default
2589 style for AWK code. With auto-newline enabled, the clean-up
2590 c-one-liner-defun (see above) is useful.
2591
2592 *** New syntactic symbols in IDL mode.
2593 The top level constructs "module" and "composition" (from CIDL) are
2594 now handled like "namespace" in C++: They are given syntactic symbols
2595 module-open, module-close, inmodule, composition-open,
2596 composition-close, and incomposition.
2597
2598 *** New functions to do hungry delete without enabling hungry delete mode.
2599 The new functions `c-hungry-backspace' and `c-hungry-delete-forward'
2600 provide hungry deletion without having to toggle a mode. They are
2601 bound to C-c C-DEL and C-c C-d (and several variants, for the benefit
2602 of different keyboard setups. See "Changes in key sequences" above).
2603
2604 *** Better control over `require-final-newline'.
2605
2606 The variable `c-require-final-newline' specifies which of the modes
2607 implemented by CC mode should insert final newlines. Its value is a
2608 list of modes, and only those modes should do it. By default the list
2609 includes C, C++ and Objective-C modes.
2610
2611 Whichever modes are in this list will set `require-final-newline'
2612 based on `mode-require-final-newline'.
2613
2614 *** Format change for syntactic context elements.
2615
2616 The elements in the syntactic context returned by `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2617 and stored in `c-syntactic-context' has been changed somewhat to allow
2618 attaching more information. They are now lists instead of single cons
2619 cells. E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis
2620
2621 ((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13))
2622
2623 is now analyzed as
2624
2625 ((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13))
2626
2627 In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic
2628 symbol.
2629
2630 This change might affect code that calls `c-guess-basic-syntax'
2631 directly, and custom lineup functions if they use
2632 `c-syntactic-context'. However, the argument given to lineup
2633 functions is still a single cons cell with nil or an integer in the
2634 cdr.
2635
2636 *** API changes for derived modes.
2637
2638 There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect
2639 derived mode writers. Some of these changes are likely to cause
2640 incompatibilities with existing derived modes, but on the other hand
2641 care has now been taken to make it possible to extend and modify CC
2642 Mode with less risk of such problems in the future.
2643
2644 **** New language variable system.
2645 These are variables whose values vary between CC Mode's different
2646 languages. See the comment blurb near the top of cc-langs.el.
2647
2648 **** New initialization functions.
2649 The initialization procedure has been split up into more functions to
2650 give better control: `c-basic-common-init', `c-font-lock-init', and
2651 `c-init-language-vars'.
2652
2653 *** Changes in analysis of nested syntactic constructs.
2654 The syntactic analysis engine has better handling of cases where
2655 several syntactic constructs appear nested on the same line. They are
2656 now handled as if each construct started on a line of its own.
2657
2658 This means that CC Mode now indents some cases differently, and
2659 although it's more consistent there might be cases where the old way
2660 gave results that's more to one's liking. So if you find a situation
2661 where you think that the indentation has become worse, please report
2662 it to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.
2663
2664 **** New syntactic symbol substatement-label.
2665 This symbol is used when a label is inserted between a statement and
2666 its substatement. E.g:
2667
2668 if (x)
2669 x_is_true:
2670 do_stuff();
2671
2672 *** Better handling of multiline macros.
2673
2674 **** Syntactic indentation inside macros.
2675 The contents of multiline #define's are now analyzed and indented
2676 syntactically just like other code. This can be disabled by the new
2677 variable `c-syntactic-indentation-in-macros'. A new syntactic symbol
2678 `cpp-define-intro' has been added to control the initial indentation
2679 inside `#define's.
2680
2681 **** New lineup function `c-lineup-cpp-define'.
2682
2683 Now used by default to line up macro continuation lines. The behavior
2684 of this function closely mimics the indentation one gets if the macro
2685 is indented while the line continuation backslashes are temporarily
2686 removed. If syntactic indentation in macros is turned off, it works
2687 much line `c-lineup-dont-change', which was used earlier, but handles
2688 empty lines within the macro better.
2689
2690 **** Automatically inserted newlines continues the macro if used within one.
2691 This applies to the newlines inserted by the auto-newline mode, and to
2692 `c-context-line-break' and `c-context-open-line'.
2693
2694 **** Better alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2695 `c-backslash-region' tries to adapt to surrounding backslashes. New
2696 variable `c-backslash-max-column' puts a limit on how far out
2697 backslashes can be moved.
2698
2699 **** Automatic alignment of line continuation backslashes.
2700 This is controlled by the new variable `c-auto-align-backslashes'. It
2701 affects `c-context-line-break', `c-context-open-line' and newlines
2702 inserted in Auto-Newline mode.
2703
2704 **** Line indentation works better inside macros.
2705 Regardless whether syntactic indentation and syntactic indentation
2706 inside macros are enabled or not, line indentation now ignores the
2707 line continuation backslashes. This is most noticeable when syntactic
2708 indentation is turned off and there are empty lines (save for the
2709 backslash) in the macro.
2710
2711 *** indent-for-comment is more customizable.
2712 The behavior of M-; (indent-for-comment) is now configurable through
2713 the variable `c-indent-comment-alist'. The indentation behavior is
2714 based on the preceding code on the line, e.g. to get two spaces after
2715 #else and #endif but indentation to `comment-column' in most other
2716 cases (something which was hardcoded earlier).
2717
2718 *** New function `c-context-open-line'.
2719 It's the open-line equivalent of `c-context-line-break'.
2720
2721 *** New lineup functions
2722
2723 **** `c-lineup-string-cont'
2724 This lineup function lines up a continued string under the one it
2725 continues. E.g:
2726
2727 result = prefix + "A message "
2728 "string."; <- c-lineup-string-cont
2729
2730 **** `c-lineup-cascaded-calls'
2731 Lines up series of calls separated by "->" or ".".
2732
2733 **** `c-lineup-knr-region-comment'
2734 Gives (what most people think is) better indentation of comments in
2735 the "K&R region" between the function header and its body.
2736
2737 **** `c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg'
2738 Provides better indentation inside asm blocks.
2739
2740 **** `c-lineup-argcont'
2741 Lines up continued function arguments after the preceding comma.
2742
2743 *** Better caching of the syntactic context.
2744 CC Mode caches the positions of the opening parentheses (of any kind)
2745 of the lists surrounding the point. Those positions are used in many
2746 places as anchor points for various searches. The cache is now
2747 improved so that it can be reused to a large extent when the point is
2748 moved. The less it moves, the less needs to be recalculated.
2749
2750 The effect is that CC Mode should be fast most of the time even when
2751 opening parens are hung (i.e. aren't in column zero). It's typically
2752 only the first time after the point is moved far down in a complex
2753 file that it'll take noticeable time to find out the syntactic
2754 context.
2755
2756 *** Statements are recognized in a more robust way.
2757 Statements are recognized most of the time even when they occur in an
2758 "invalid" context, e.g. in a function argument. In practice that can
2759 happen when macros are involved.
2760
2761 *** Improved the way `c-indent-exp' chooses the block to indent.
2762 It now indents the block for the closest sexp following the point
2763 whose closing paren ends on a different line. This means that the
2764 point doesn't have to be immediately before the block to indent.
2765 Also, only the block and the closing line is indented; the current
2766 line is left untouched.
2767
2768 *** Added toggle for syntactic indentation.
2769 The function `c-toggle-syntactic-indentation' can be used to toggle
2770 syntactic indentation.
2771
2772 ** In sh-script, a continuation line is only indented if the backslash was
2773 preceded by a SPC or a TAB.
2774
2775 ---
2776 ** Perl mode has a new variable `perl-indent-continued-arguments'.
2777
2778 ---
2779 ** The old Octave mode bindings C-c f and C-c i have been changed
2780 to C-c C-f and C-c C-i. The C-c C-i subcommands now have duplicate
2781 bindings on control characters--thus, C-c C-i C-b is the same as
2782 C-c C-i b, and so on.
2783
2784 ** Fortran mode changes:
2785
2786 ---
2787 *** Fortran mode does more font-locking by default. Use level 3
2788 highlighting for the old default.
2789
2790 +++
2791 *** Fortran mode has a new variable `fortran-directive-re'.
2792 Adapt this to match the format of any compiler directives you use.
2793 Lines that match are never indented, and are given distinctive font-locking.
2794
2795 +++
2796 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have new navigation commands
2797 `f90-end-of-block', `f90-beginning-of-block', `f90-next-block',
2798 `f90-previous-block', `fortran-end-of-block',
2799 `fortran-beginning-of-block'.
2800
2801 ---
2802 *** F90 mode and Fortran mode have support for `hs-minor-mode' (hideshow).
2803 It cannot deal with every code format, but ought to handle a sizeable
2804 majority.
2805
2806 ---
2807 *** The new function `f90-backslash-not-special' can be used to change
2808 the syntax of backslashes in F90 buffers.
2809
2810 ---
2811 ** Reftex mode changes
2812
2813 +++
2814 *** Changes to RefTeX's table of contents
2815
2816 The new command keys "<" and ">" in the TOC buffer promote/demote the
2817 section at point or all sections in the current region, with full
2818 support for multifile documents.
2819
2820 The new command `reftex-toc-recenter' (`C-c -') shows the current
2821 section in the TOC buffer without selecting the TOC window.
2822 Recentering can happen automatically in idle time when the option
2823 `reftex-auto-recenter-toc' is turned on. The highlight in the TOC
2824 buffer stays when the focus moves to a different window. A dedicated
2825 frame can show the TOC with the current section always automatically
2826 highlighted. The frame is created and deleted from the toc buffer
2827 with the `d' key.
2828
2829 The toc window can be split off horizontally instead of vertically.
2830 See new option `reftex-toc-split-windows-horizontally'.
2831
2832 Labels can be renamed globally from the table of contents using the
2833 key `M-%'.
2834
2835 The new command `reftex-goto-label' jumps directly to a label
2836 location.
2837
2838 +++
2839 *** Changes related to citations and BibTeX database files
2840
2841 Commands that insert a citation now prompt for optional arguments when
2842 called with a prefix argument. Related new options are
2843 `reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args' and `reftex-cite-cleanup-optional-args'.
2844
2845 The new command `reftex-create-bibtex-file' creates a BibTeX database
2846 with all entries referenced in the current document. The keys "e" and
2847 "E" allow to produce a BibTeX database file from entries marked in a
2848 citation selection buffer.
2849
2850 The command `reftex-citation' uses the word in the buffer before the
2851 cursor as a default search string.
2852
2853 The support for chapterbib has been improved. Different chapters can
2854 now use BibTeX or an explicit `thebibliography' environment.
2855
2856 The macros which specify the bibliography file (like \bibliography)
2857 can be configured with the new option `reftex-bibliography-commands'.
2858
2859 Support for jurabib has been added.
2860
2861 +++
2862 *** Global index matched may be verified with a user function
2863
2864 During global indexing, a user function can verify an index match.
2865 See new option `reftex-index-verify-function'.
2866
2867 +++
2868 *** Parsing documents with many labels can be sped up.
2869
2870 Operating in a document with thousands of labels can be sped up
2871 considerably by allowing RefTeX to derive the type of a label directly
2872 from the label prefix like `eq:' or `fig:'. The option
2873 `reftex-trust-label-prefix' needs to be configured in order to enable
2874 this feature. While the speed-up is significant, this may reduce the
2875 quality of the context offered by RefTeX to describe a label.
2876
2877 +++
2878 *** Miscellaneous changes
2879
2880 The macros which input a file in LaTeX (like \input, \include) can be
2881 configured in the new option `reftex-include-file-commands'.
2882
2883 RefTeX supports global incremental search.
2884
2885 +++
2886 ** Prolog mode has a new variable `prolog-font-lock-keywords'
2887 to support use of font-lock.
2888
2889 ** HTML/SGML changes:
2890
2891 ---
2892 *** Emacs now tries to set up buffer coding systems for HTML/XML files
2893 automatically.
2894
2895 +++
2896 *** SGML mode has indentation and supports XML syntax.
2897 The new variable `sgml-xml-mode' tells SGML mode to use XML syntax.
2898 When this option is enabled, SGML tags are inserted in XML style,
2899 i.e., there is always a closing tag.
2900 By default, its setting is inferred on a buffer-by-buffer basis
2901 from the file name or buffer contents.
2902
2903 *** The variable `sgml-transformation' has been renamed to
2904 `sgml-transformation-function'. The old name is still available as
2905 alias.
2906
2907 +++
2908 *** `xml-mode' is now an alias for `sgml-mode', which has XML support.
2909
2910 ** TeX modes:
2911
2912 +++
2913 *** C-c C-c prompts for a command to run, and tries to offer a good default.
2914
2915 +++
2916 *** The user option `tex-start-options-string' has been replaced
2917 by two new user options: `tex-start-options', which should hold
2918 command-line options to feed to TeX, and `tex-start-commands' which should hold
2919 TeX commands to use at startup.
2920
2921 ---
2922 *** verbatim environments are now highlighted in courier by font-lock
2923 and super/sub-scripts are made into super/sub-scripts.
2924
2925 +++
2926 *** New major mode Doctex mode, for *.dtx files.
2927
2928 ** BibTeX mode:
2929
2930 *** The new command `bibtex-url' browses a URL for the BibTeX entry at
2931 point (bound to C-c C-l and mouse-2, RET on clickable fields).
2932
2933 *** The new command `bibtex-entry-update' (bound to C-c C-u) updates
2934 an existing BibTeX entry by inserting fields that may occur but are not
2935 present.
2936
2937 *** New `bibtex-entry-format' option `required-fields', enabled by default.
2938
2939 *** `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' can take values `plain',
2940 `crossref', and `entry-class' which control the sorting scheme used
2941 for BibTeX entries. `bibtex-sort-entry-class' controls the sorting
2942 scheme `entry-class'. TAB completion for reference keys and
2943 automatic detection of duplicates does not require anymore that
2944 `bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' is non-nil.
2945
2946 *** If the new variable `bibtex-parse-keys-fast' is non-nil,
2947 use fast but simplified algorithm for parsing BibTeX keys.
2948
2949 *** If the new variable `bibtex-autoadd-commas' is non-nil,
2950 automatically add missing commas at end of BibTeX fields.
2951
2952 *** The new variable `bibtex-autofill-types' contains a list of entry
2953 types for which fields are filled automatically (if possible).
2954
2955 *** The new command `bibtex-complete' completes word fragment before
2956 point according to context (bound to M-tab).
2957
2958 *** The new commands `bibtex-find-entry' and `bibtex-find-crossref'
2959 locate entries and crossref'd entries (bound to C-c C-s and C-c C-x).
2960 Crossref fields are clickable (bound to mouse-2, RET).
2961
2962 *** In BibTeX mode the command `fill-paragraph' (M-q) fills
2963 individual fields of a BibTeX entry.
2964
2965 *** The new variables `bibtex-files' and `bibtex-file-path' define a set
2966 of BibTeX files that are searched for entry keys.
2967
2968 *** The new command `bibtex-validate-globally' checks for duplicate keys
2969 in multiple BibTeX files.
2970
2971 *** The new command `bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill' pushes summary
2972 of BibTeX entry to kill ring (bound to C-c C-t).
2973
2974 *** The new variables bibtex-expand-strings and
2975 bibtex-autokey-expand-strings control the expansion of strings when
2976 extracting the content of a BibTeX field.
2977
2978 *** The variables `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert' and
2979 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert' have been renamed to
2980 `bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert-function' and
2981 `bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert-function'. The old names are
2982 still available as aliases.
2983
2984 ** In Artist mode the variable `artist-text-renderer' has been
2985 renamed to `artist-text-renderer-function'. The old name is still
2986 available as alias.
2987
2988 +++
2989 ** In Enriched mode, `set-left-margin' and `set-right-margin' are now
2990 by default bound to `C-c [' and `C-c ]' instead of the former `C-c C-l'
2991 and `C-c C-r'.
2992
2993 ** GUD changes:
2994
2995 +++
2996 *** In GUD mode, when talking to GDB, C-x C-a C-j "jumps" the program
2997 counter to the specified source line (the one where point is).
2998
2999 ---
3000 *** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
3001 and other common debugger commands.
3002
3003 +++
3004 *** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
3005 GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
3006 there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
3007 state of your program. It can separate the input/output of your program from
3008 that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of
3009 Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
3010 breakpoints.
3011
3012 To use this package just type M-x gdb. See the Emacs manual if you want the
3013 old behaviour.
3014
3015 *** The variable tooltip-gud-tips-p has been removed. GUD tooltips can now be
3016 toggled independently of normal tooltips with the minor mode
3017 `gud-tooltip-mode'.
3018
3019 +++
3020 *** In graphical mode, with a C program, GUD Tooltips have been extended to
3021 display the #define directive associated with an identifier when program is
3022 not executing.
3023
3024 ---
3025 ** GUD mode improvements for jdb:
3026
3027 *** Search for source files using jdb classpath and class information.
3028 Fast startup since there is no need to scan all source files up front.
3029 There is also no need to create and maintain lists of source
3030 directories to scan. Look at `gud-jdb-use-classpath' and
3031 `gud-jdb-classpath' customization variables documentation.
3032
3033 *** Supports the standard breakpoint (gud-break, gud-clear)
3034 set/clear operations from Java source files under the classpath, stack
3035 traversal (gud-up, gud-down), and run until current stack finish
3036 (gud-finish).
3037
3038 *** Supports new jdb (Java 1.2 and later) in addition to oldjdb
3039 (Java 1.1 jdb).
3040
3041 *** The previous method of searching for source files has been
3042 preserved in case someone still wants/needs to use it.
3043 Set `gud-jdb-use-classpath' to nil.
3044
3045 *** Added Customization Variables
3046
3047 **** `gud-jdb-command-name'. What command line to use to invoke jdb.
3048
3049 **** `gud-jdb-use-classpath'. Allows selection of java source file searching
3050 method: set to t for new method, nil to scan `gud-jdb-directories' for
3051 java sources (previous method).
3052
3053 **** `gud-jdb-directories'. List of directories to scan and search for Java
3054 classes using the original gud-jdb method (if `gud-jdb-use-classpath'
3055 is nil).
3056
3057 *** Minor Improvements
3058
3059 **** The STARTTLS wrapper (starttls.el) can now use GNUTLS
3060 instead of the OpenSSL based `starttls' tool. For backwards
3061 compatibility, it prefers `starttls', but you can toggle
3062 `starttls-use-gnutls' to switch to GNUTLS (or simply remove the
3063 `starttls' tool).
3064
3065 **** Do not allow debugger output history variable to grow without bounds.
3066
3067 ** Auto-Revert changes:
3068
3069 +++
3070 *** You can now use Auto Revert mode to `tail' a file.
3071
3072 If point is at the end of a file buffer before reverting, Auto Revert
3073 mode keeps it at the end after reverting. Similarly if point is
3074 displayed at the end of a file buffer in any window, it stays at
3075 the end of the buffer in that window. This allows to tail a file:
3076 just put point at the end of the buffer and it stays there. This
3077 rule applies to file buffers. For non-file buffers, the behavior can
3078 be mode dependent.
3079
3080 If you are sure that the file will only change by growing at the end,
3081 then you can tail the file more efficiently by using the new minor
3082 mode Auto Revert Tail mode. The function `auto-revert-tail-mode'
3083 toggles this mode.
3084
3085 +++
3086 *** Auto Revert mode is now more careful to avoid excessive reverts and
3087 other potential problems when deciding which non-file buffers to
3088 revert. This matters especially if Global Auto Revert mode is enabled
3089 and `global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers' is non-nil. Auto Revert
3090 mode only reverts a non-file buffer if the buffer has a non-nil
3091 `revert-buffer-function' and a non-nil `buffer-stale-function', which
3092 decides whether the buffer should be reverted. Currently, this means
3093 that auto reverting works for Dired buffers (although this may not
3094 work properly on all operating systems) and for the Buffer Menu.
3095
3096 +++
3097 *** If the new user option `auto-revert-check-vc-info' is non-nil, Auto
3098 Revert mode reliably updates version control info (such as the version
3099 control number in the mode line), in all version controlled buffers in
3100 which it is active. If the option is nil, the default, then this info
3101 only gets updated whenever the buffer gets reverted.
3102
3103 ---
3104 ** recentf changes.
3105
3106 The recent file list is now automatically cleaned up when recentf mode is
3107 enabled. The new option `recentf-auto-cleanup' controls when to do
3108 automatic cleanup.
3109
3110 The ten most recent files can be quickly opened by using the shortcut
3111 keys 1 to 9, and 0, when the recent list is displayed in a buffer via
3112 the `recentf-open-files', or `recentf-open-more-files' commands.
3113
3114 The `recentf-keep' option replaces `recentf-keep-non-readable-files-p'
3115 and provides a more general mechanism to customize which file names to
3116 keep in the recent list.
3117
3118 With the more advanced option `recentf-filename-handlers', you can
3119 specify functions that successively transform recent file names. For
3120 example, if set to `file-truename' plus `abbreviate-file-name', the
3121 same file will not be in the recent list with different symbolic
3122 links, and the file name will be abbreviated.
3123
3124 To follow naming convention, `recentf-menu-append-commands-flag'
3125 replaces the misnamed option `recentf-menu-append-commands-p'. The
3126 old name remains available as alias, but has been marked obsolete.
3127
3128 +++
3129 ** Desktop package
3130
3131 +++
3132 *** Desktop saving is now a minor mode, `desktop-save-mode'.
3133
3134 +++
3135 *** The variable `desktop-enable' is obsolete.
3136
3137 Customize `desktop-save-mode' to enable desktop saving.
3138
3139 ---
3140 *** Buffers are saved in the desktop file in the same order as that in the
3141 buffer list.
3142
3143 +++
3144 *** The desktop package can be customized to restore only some buffers
3145 immediately, remaining buffers are restored lazily (when Emacs is
3146 idle).
3147
3148 +++
3149 *** New commands:
3150 - desktop-revert reverts to the last loaded desktop.
3151 - desktop-change-dir kills current desktop and loads a new.
3152 - desktop-save-in-desktop-dir saves desktop in the directory from which
3153 it was loaded.
3154 - desktop-lazy-complete runs the desktop load to completion.
3155 - desktop-lazy-abort aborts lazy loading of the desktop.
3156
3157 ---
3158 *** New customizable variables:
3159 - desktop-save. Determines whether the desktop should be saved when it is
3160 killed.
3161 - desktop-file-name-format. Format in which desktop file names should be saved.
3162 - desktop-path. List of directories in which to lookup the desktop file.
3163 - desktop-locals-to-save. List of local variables to save.
3164 - desktop-globals-to-clear. List of global variables that `desktop-clear' will clear.
3165 - desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp. Regexp identifying buffers that `desktop-clear'
3166 should not delete.
3167 - desktop-restore-eager. Number of buffers to restore immediately. Remaining buffers are
3168 restored lazily (when Emacs is idle).
3169 - desktop-lazy-verbose. Verbose reporting of lazily created buffers.
3170 - desktop-lazy-idle-delay. Idle delay before starting to create buffers.
3171
3172 +++
3173 *** New command line option --no-desktop
3174
3175 ---
3176 *** New hooks:
3177 - desktop-after-read-hook run after a desktop is loaded.
3178 - desktop-no-desktop-file-hook run when no desktop file is found.
3179
3180 ---
3181 ** The saveplace.el package now filters out unreadable files.
3182
3183 When you exit Emacs, the saved positions in visited files no longer
3184 include files that aren't readable, e.g. files that don't exist.
3185 Customize the new option `save-place-forget-unreadable-files' to nil
3186 to get the old behavior. The new options `save-place-save-skipped'
3187 and `save-place-skip-check-regexp' allow further fine-tuning of this
3188 feature.
3189
3190 ** EDiff changes.
3191
3192 +++
3193 *** When comparing directories.
3194 Typing D brings up a buffer that lists the differences between the contents of
3195 directories. Now it is possible to use this buffer to copy the missing files
3196 from one directory to another.
3197
3198 +++
3199 *** When comparing files or buffers.
3200 Typing the = key now offers to perform the word-by-word comparison of the
3201 currently highlighted regions in an inferior Ediff session. If you answer 'n'
3202 then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
3203 comparison.
3204
3205 +++
3206 *** The new command `ediff-backup' compares a file with its most recent
3207 backup using `ediff'. If you specify the name of a backup file,
3208 `ediff-backup' compares it with the file of which it is a backup.
3209
3210 +++
3211 ** Etags changes.
3212
3213 *** New regular expressions features
3214
3215 **** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.
3216
3217 The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained
3218 only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is
3219 --regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS,
3220 where `/TAGNAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or
3221 more characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'
3222 (single-line). The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular
3223 expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
3224 (which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines. The ability to
3225 span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
3226 and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.
3227
3228 **** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in GCC.
3229
3230 The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
3231 respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
3232 CR, TAB, VT.
3233
3234 **** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language.
3235
3236 The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags
3237 only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is
3238 particularly useful when storing regexps in a file.
3239
3240 **** Regular expressions can be read from a file.
3241
3242 The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one
3243 per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.
3244
3245 *** New language parsing features
3246
3247 **** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.
3248
3249 Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.
3250
3251 **** The GCC __attribute__ keyword is now recognized and ignored.
3252
3253 **** New language HTML.
3254
3255 Tags are generated for `title' as well as `h1', `h2', and `h3'. Also,
3256 when `name=' is used inside an anchor and whenever `id=' is used.
3257
3258 **** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
3259
3260 If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
3261 size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.
3262
3263 **** New language Lua.
3264
3265 All functions are tagged.
3266
3267 **** In Perl, packages are tags.
3268
3269 Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags
3270 as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
3271 package::sub.
3272
3273 **** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.
3274
3275 **** New language PHP.
3276
3277 Functions, classes and defines are tags. If the --members option is
3278 specified to etags, variables are tags also.
3279
3280 **** New default keywords for TeX.
3281
3282 The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
3283 renewenvironment.
3284
3285 **** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for #undef
3286
3287 *** Honor #line directives.
3288
3289 When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
3290 directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
3291 specified in those directives. This is useful when dealing with code
3292 created from Cweb source files. When Etags tags the generated file, it
3293 writes tags pointing to the source file.
3294
3295 *** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.
3296
3297 This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs. It can
3298 be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line. Etags
3299 reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
3300 the file FILE.
3301
3302 *** The --members option is now the default.
3303
3304 Use --no-members if you want the old default behaviour of not tagging
3305 struct members in C, members variables in C++ and variables in PHP.
3306
3307 ** Ctags changes.
3308
3309 *** Ctags now allows duplicate tags
3310
3311 ** VC Changes
3312
3313 +++
3314 *** The key C-x C-q only changes the read-only state of the buffer
3315 (toggle-read-only). It no longer checks files in or out.
3316
3317 We made this change because we held a poll and found that many users
3318 were unhappy with the previous behavior. If you do prefer this
3319 behavior, you can bind `vc-toggle-read-only' to C-x C-q in your
3320 `.emacs' file:
3321
3322 (global-set-key "\C-x\C-q" 'vc-toggle-read-only)
3323
3324 The function `vc-toggle-read-only' will continue to exist.
3325
3326 +++
3327 *** The new variable `vc-cvs-global-switches' specifies switches that
3328 are passed to any CVS command invoked by VC.
3329
3330 These switches are used as "global options" for CVS, which means they
3331 are inserted before the command name. For example, this allows you to
3332 specify a compression level using the `-z#' option for CVS.
3333
3334 +++
3335 *** New backends for Subversion and Meta-CVS.
3336
3337 +++
3338 *** VC-Annotate mode enhancements
3339
3340 In VC-Annotate mode, you can now use the following key bindings for
3341 enhanced functionality to browse the annotations of past revisions, or
3342 to view diffs or log entries directly from vc-annotate-mode:
3343
3344 P: annotates the previous revision
3345 N: annotates the next revision
3346 J: annotates the revision at line
3347 A: annotates the revision previous to line
3348 D: shows the diff of the revision at line with its previous revision
3349 L: shows the log of the revision at line
3350 W: annotates the workfile (most up to date) version
3351
3352 ** pcl-cvs changes:
3353
3354 +++
3355 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d y' command to view the diffs
3356 between the local version of the file and yesterday's head revision
3357 in the repository.
3358
3359 +++
3360 *** In pcl-cvs mode, there is a new `d r' command to view the changes
3361 anyone has committed to the repository since you last executed
3362 `checkout', `update' or `commit'. That means using cvs diff options
3363 -rBASE -rHEAD.
3364
3365 +++
3366 ** The new variable `mail-default-directory' specifies
3367 `default-directory' for mail buffers. This directory is used for
3368 auto-save files of mail buffers. It defaults to "~/".
3369
3370 +++
3371 ** The mode line can indicate new mail in a directory or file.
3372
3373 See the documentation of the user option
3374 `display-time-mail-directory'.
3375
3376 ** Rmail changes:
3377
3378 ---
3379 *** Rmail now displays 5-digit message ids in its summary buffer.
3380
3381 *** The new commands rmail-end-of-message and rmail-summary end-of-message,
3382 by default bound to `/', go to the end of the current mail message in
3383 Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.
3384
3385 +++
3386 *** Support for `movemail' from GNU mailutils was added to Rmail.
3387
3388 This version of `movemail' allows to read mail from a wide range of
3389 mailbox formats, including remote POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes with or
3390 without TLS encryption. If GNU mailutils is installed on the system
3391 and its version of `movemail' can be found in exec-path, it will be
3392 used instead of the native one.
3393
3394 ** Gnus package
3395
3396 ---
3397 *** Gnus now includes Sieve and PGG
3398
3399 Sieve is a library for managing Sieve scripts. PGG is a library to handle
3400 PGP/MIME.
3401
3402 ---
3403 *** There are many news features, bug fixes and improvements.
3404
3405 See the file GNUS-NEWS or the node "Oort Gnus" in the Gnus manual for details.
3406
3407 ---
3408 ** MH-E changes.
3409
3410 Upgraded to MH-E version 8.0.3. There have been major changes since
3411 version 5.0.2; see MH-E-NEWS for details.
3412
3413 ** Calendar changes:
3414
3415 +++
3416 *** The meanings of C-x < and C-x > have been interchanged.
3417 < means to scroll backward in time, and > means to scroll forward.
3418
3419 +++
3420 *** You can now use < and >, instead of C-x < and C-x >, to scroll
3421 the calendar left or right.
3422
3423 +++
3424 *** There is a new calendar package, icalendar.el, that can be used to
3425 convert Emacs diary entries to/from the iCalendar format.
3426
3427 +++
3428 *** The new package cal-html.el writes HTML files with calendar and
3429 diary entries.
3430
3431 +++
3432 *** Diary sexp entries can have custom marking in the calendar.
3433 Diary sexp functions which only apply to certain days (such as
3434 `diary-block' or `diary-cyclic') now take an optional parameter MARK,
3435 which is the name of a face or a single-character string indicating
3436 how to highlight the day in the calendar display. Specifying a
3437 single-character string as @var{mark} places the character next to the
3438 day in the calendar. Specifying a face highlights the day with that
3439 face. This lets you have different colors or markings for vacations,
3440 appointments, paydays or anything else using a sexp.
3441
3442 +++
3443 *** The new function `calendar-goto-day-of-year' (g D) prompts for a
3444 year and day number, and moves to that date. Negative day numbers
3445 count backward from the end of the year.
3446
3447 +++
3448 *** The new Calendar function `calendar-goto-iso-week' (g w)
3449 prompts for a year and a week number, and moves to the first
3450 day of that ISO week.
3451
3452 ---
3453 *** The new variable `calendar-minimum-window-height' affects the
3454 window generated by the function `generate-calendar-window'.
3455
3456 ---
3457 *** The functions `holiday-easter-etc' and `holiday-advent' now take
3458 optional arguments, in order to only report on the specified holiday
3459 rather than all. This makes customization of variables such as
3460 `christian-holidays' simpler.
3461
3462 ---
3463 *** The function `simple-diary-display' now by default sets a header line.
3464 This can be controlled through the variables `diary-header-line-flag'
3465 and `diary-header-line-format'.
3466
3467 +++
3468 *** The procedure for activating appointment reminders has changed:
3469 use the new function `appt-activate'. The new variable
3470 `appt-display-format' controls how reminders are displayed, replacing
3471 `appt-issue-message', `appt-visible', and `appt-msg-window'.
3472
3473 +++
3474 *** The new functions `diary-from-outlook', `diary-from-outlook-gnus',
3475 and `diary-from-outlook-rmail' can be used to import diary entries
3476 from Outlook-format appointments in mail messages. The variable
3477 `diary-outlook-formats' can be customized to recognize additional
3478 formats.
3479
3480 +++
3481 ** Speedbar changes:
3482
3483 *** Speedbar items can now be selected by clicking mouse-1, based on
3484 the `mouse-1-click-follows-link' mechanism.
3485
3486 *** SPC and DEL are no longer bound to scroll up/down in the speedbar
3487 keymap.
3488
3489 *** The new command `speedbar-toggle-line-expansion', bound to SPC,
3490 contracts or expands the line under the cursor.
3491
3492 *** New command `speedbar-create-directory', bound to `M'.
3493
3494 *** The new commands `speedbar-expand-line-descendants' and
3495 `speedbar-contract-line-descendants', bound to `[' and `]'
3496 respectively, expand and contract the line under cursor with all of
3497 its descendents.
3498
3499 *** The new user option `speedbar-query-confirmation-method' controls
3500 how querying is performed for file operations. A value of 'always
3501 means to always query before file operations; 'none-but-delete means
3502 to not query before any file operations, except before a file
3503 deletion.
3504
3505 *** The new user option `speedbar-select-frame-method' specifies how
3506 to select a frame for displaying a file opened with the speedbar. A
3507 value of 'attached means to use the attached frame (the frame that
3508 speedbar was started from.) A number such as 1 or -1 means to pass
3509 that number to `other-frame'.
3510
3511 *** The new user option `speedbar-use-tool-tips-flag', if non-nil,
3512 means to display tool-tips for speedbar items.
3513
3514 *** The frame management code in speedbar.el has been split into a new
3515 `dframe' library. Emacs Lisp code that makes use of the speedbar
3516 should use `dframe-attached-frame' instead of
3517 `speedbar-attached-frame', `dframe-timer' instead of `speedbar-timer',
3518 `dframe-close-frame' instead of `speedbar-close-frame', and
3519 `dframe-activity-change-focus-flag' instead of
3520 `speedbar-activity-change-focus-flag'. The variables
3521 `speedbar-update-speed' and `speedbar-navigating-speed' are also
3522 obsolete; use `dframe-update-speed' instead.
3523
3524 ---
3525 ** sql changes.
3526
3527 *** The variable `sql-product' controls the highlighting of different
3528 SQL dialects. This variable can be set globally via Customize, on a
3529 buffer-specific basis via local variable settings, or for the current
3530 session using the new SQL->Product submenu. (This menu replaces the
3531 SQL->Highlighting submenu.)
3532
3533 The following values are supported:
3534
3535 ansi ANSI Standard (default)
3536 db2 DB2
3537 informix Informix
3538 ingres Ingres
3539 interbase Interbase
3540 linter Linter
3541 ms Microsoft
3542 mysql MySQL
3543 oracle Oracle
3544 postgres Postgres
3545 solid Solid
3546 sqlite SQLite
3547 sybase Sybase
3548
3549 The current product name will be shown on the mode line following the
3550 SQL mode indicator.
3551
3552 The technique of setting `sql-mode-font-lock-defaults' directly in
3553 your `.emacs' will no longer establish the default highlighting -- Use
3554 `sql-product' to accomplish this.
3555
3556 ANSI keywords are always highlighted.
3557
3558 *** The function `sql-add-product-keywords' can be used to add
3559 font-lock rules to the product specific rules. For example, to have
3560 all identifiers ending in `_t' under MS SQLServer treated as a type,
3561 you would use the following line in your .emacs file:
3562
3563 (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
3564 '(("\\<\\w+_t\\>" . font-lock-type-face)))
3565
3566 *** Oracle support includes keyword highlighting for Oracle 9i.
3567
3568 Most SQL and PL/SQL keywords are implemented. SQL*Plus commands are
3569 highlighted in `font-lock-doc-face'.
3570
3571 *** Microsoft SQLServer support has been significantly improved.
3572
3573 Keyword highlighting for SqlServer 2000 is implemented.
3574 sql-interactive-mode defaults to use osql, rather than isql, because
3575 osql flushes its error stream more frequently. Thus error messages
3576 are displayed when they occur rather than when the session is
3577 terminated.
3578
3579 If the username and password are not provided to `sql-ms', osql is
3580 called with the `-E' command line argument to use the operating system
3581 credentials to authenticate the user.
3582
3583 *** Postgres support is enhanced.
3584 Keyword highlighting of Postgres 7.3 is implemented. Prompting for
3585 the username and the pgsql `-U' option is added.
3586
3587 *** MySQL support is enhanced.
3588 Keyword highlighting of MySql 4.0 is implemented.
3589
3590 *** Imenu support has been enhanced to locate tables, views, indexes,
3591 packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, rules, and
3592 defaults.
3593
3594 *** Added SQL->Start SQLi Session menu entry which calls the
3595 appropriate `sql-interactive-mode' wrapper for the current setting of
3596 `sql-product'.
3597
3598 ---
3599 *** sql.el supports the SQLite interpreter--call 'sql-sqlite'.
3600
3601 ** FFAP changes:
3602
3603 +++
3604 *** New ffap commands and keybindings:
3605
3606 C-x C-r (`ffap-read-only'),
3607 C-x C-v (`ffap-alternate-file'), C-x C-d (`ffap-list-directory'),
3608 C-x 4 r (`ffap-read-only-other-window'), C-x 4 d (`ffap-dired-other-window'),
3609 C-x 5 r (`ffap-read-only-other-frame'), C-x 5 d (`ffap-dired-other-frame').
3610
3611 ---
3612 *** FFAP accepts wildcards in a file name by default.
3613
3614 C-x C-f passes the file name to `find-file' with non-nil WILDCARDS
3615 argument, which visits multiple files, and C-x d passes it to `dired'.
3616
3617 ---
3618 ** Changes in Skeleton
3619
3620 *** In skeleton.el, `-' marks the `skeleton-point' without interregion interaction.
3621
3622 `@' has reverted to only setting `skeleton-positions' and no longer
3623 sets `skeleton-point'. Skeletons which used @ to mark
3624 `skeleton-point' independent of `_' should now use `-' instead. The
3625 updated `skeleton-insert' docstring explains these new features along
3626 with other details of skeleton construction.
3627
3628 *** The variables `skeleton-transformation', `skeleton-filter', and
3629 `skeleton-pair-filter' have been renamed to
3630 `skeleton-transformation-function', `skeleton-filter-function', and
3631 `skeleton-pair-filter-function'. The old names are still available
3632 as aliases.
3633
3634 ---
3635 ** Hideshow mode changes
3636
3637 *** New variable `hs-set-up-overlay' allows customization of the overlay
3638 used to effect hiding for hideshow minor mode. Integration with isearch
3639 handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
3640 temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
3641
3642 *** New variable `hs-allow-nesting' non-nil means that hiding a block does
3643 not discard the hidden state of any "internal" blocks; when the parent
3644 block is later shown, the internal blocks remain hidden. Default is nil.
3645
3646 +++
3647 ** `hide-ifdef-mode' now uses overlays rather than selective-display
3648 to hide its text. This should be mostly transparent but slightly
3649 changes the behavior of motion commands like C-e and C-p.
3650
3651 ---
3652 ** `partial-completion-mode' now handles partial completion on directory names.
3653
3654 ---
3655 ** The type-break package now allows `type-break-file-name' to be nil
3656 and if so, doesn't store any data across sessions. This is handy if
3657 you don't want the `.type-break' file in your home directory or are
3658 annoyed by the need for interaction when you kill Emacs.
3659
3660 ---
3661 ** `ps-print' can now print characters from the mule-unicode charsets.
3662
3663 Printing text with characters from the mule-unicode-* sets works with
3664 `ps-print', provided that you have installed the appropriate BDF
3665 fonts. See the file INSTALL for URLs where you can find these fonts.
3666
3667 ---
3668 ** New command `strokes-global-set-stroke-string'.
3669 This is like `strokes-global-set-stroke', but it allows you to bind
3670 the stroke directly to a string to insert. This is convenient for
3671 using strokes as an input method.
3672
3673 ** Emacs server changes:
3674
3675 +++
3676 *** You can have several Emacs servers on the same machine.
3677
3678 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' -f server-start &
3679 % emacs --eval '(setq server-name "bar")' -f server-start &
3680 % emacsclient -s foo file1
3681 % emacsclient -s bar file2
3682
3683 +++
3684 *** The `emacsclient' command understands the options `--eval' and
3685 `--display' which tell Emacs respectively to evaluate the given Lisp
3686 expression and to use the given display when visiting files.
3687
3688 +++
3689 *** User option `server-mode' can be used to start a server process.
3690
3691 ---
3692 ** LDAP support now defaults to ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 2.
3693
3694 +++
3695 ** You can now disable pc-selection-mode after enabling it.
3696
3697 M-x pc-selection-mode behaves like a proper minor mode, and with no
3698 argument it toggles the mode. Turning off PC-Selection mode restores
3699 the global key bindings that were replaced by turning on the mode.
3700
3701 ---
3702 ** `uniquify-strip-common-suffix' tells uniquify to prefer
3703 `file|dir1' and `file|dir2' to `file|dir1/subdir' and `file|dir2/subdir'.
3704
3705 ---
3706 ** Support for `magic cookie' standout modes has been removed.
3707
3708 Emacs still works on terminals that require magic cookies in order to
3709 use standout mode, but they can no longer display mode-lines in
3710 inverse-video.
3711
3712 ---
3713 ** The game `mpuz' is enhanced.
3714
3715 `mpuz' now allows the 2nd factor not to have two identical digits. By
3716 default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
3717 automatically. The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
3718
3719 ** battery.el changes:
3720
3721 ---
3722 *** display-battery-mode replaces display-battery.
3723
3724 ---
3725 *** battery.el now works on recent versions of OS X.
3726
3727 ---
3728 ** calculator.el now has radix grouping mode.
3729
3730 To enable this, set `calculator-output-radix' non-nil. In this mode a
3731 separator character is used every few digits, making it easier to see
3732 byte boundaries etc. For more info, see the documentation of the
3733 variable `calculator-radix-grouping-mode'.
3734
3735 ---
3736 ** fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el are obsolete. Use jit-lock.el instead.
3737
3738 ---
3739 ** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods instead.
3740
3741 ---
3742 ** zone-mode.el is now obsolete. Use dns-mode.el instead.
3743
3744 ---
3745 ** cplus-md.el has been deleted.
3746
3747 ** Ewoc changes
3748
3749 *** The new function `ewoc-delete' deletes specified nodes.
3750
3751 *** `ewoc-create' now takes optional arg NOSEP, which inhibits insertion of
3752 a newline after each pretty-printed entry and after the header and footer.
3753 This allows you to create multiple-entry ewocs on a single line and to
3754 effect "invisible" nodes by arranging for the pretty-printer to not print
3755 anything for those nodes.
3756
3757 For example, these two sequences of expressions behave identically:
3758
3759 ;; NOSEP nil
3760 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S" data)))
3761 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n")
3762
3763 ;; NOSEP t
3764 (defun PP (data) (insert (format "%S\n" data)))
3765 (ewoc-create 'PP "start\n\n" "\n" t)
3766
3767 ** Locate changes
3768
3769 ---
3770 *** By default, reverting the *Locate* buffer now just runs the last
3771 `locate' command back over again without offering to update the locate
3772 database (which normally only works if you have root privileges). If
3773 you prefer the old behavior, set the new customizable option
3774 `locate-update-when-revert' to t.
3775
3776 \f
3777 * Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems
3778
3779 +++
3780 ** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile.
3781
3782 If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME
3783 environment variable and a `.emacs' was saved, then Emacs will continue
3784 using C:/ as the default HOME. But if you are installing Emacs afresh,
3785 the default location will be the "Application Data" (or similar
3786 localized name) subdirectory of your user profile. A typical location
3787 of this directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data",
3788 where USERNAME is your user name.
3789
3790 This change means that users can now have their own `.emacs' files on
3791 shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be
3792 read-only on computers that are administered by someone else.
3793
3794 +++
3795 ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
3796
3797 You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
3798 existing values. For example:
3799
3800 emacs --xrm "Emacs.Background:red" --xrm "Emacs.Geometry:100x20"
3801
3802 will start up Emacs on an initial frame of 100x20 with red background,
3803 irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
3804
3805 ---
3806 ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
3807
3808 This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the
3809 cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
3810 When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible
3811 instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by
3812 some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows
3813 the caret visibility to be manually toggled.
3814
3815 ---
3816 ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
3817
3818 See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.
3819
3820 ---
3821 ** Images are now supported on MS Windows.
3822
3823 PBM and XBM images are supported out of the box. Other image formats
3824 depend on external libraries. All of these libraries have been ported
3825 to Windows, and can be found in both source and binary form at
3826 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. Note that libpng also depends on
3827 zlib, and tiff depends on the version of jpeg that it was compiled
3828 against. For additional information, see nt/INSTALL.
3829
3830 ---
3831 ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
3832
3833 WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
3834 as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of
3835 Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
3836 sound support for those formats.
3837
3838 ---
3839 ** Different shaped mouse pointers are supported on MS Windows.
3840
3841 The mouse pointer changes shape depending on what is under the pointer.
3842
3843 ---
3844 ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
3845
3846 The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
3847 whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
3848 pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.
3849
3850 ---
3851 ** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.
3852
3853 The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in much
3854 the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X. Emacs now adds these
3855 colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu for the
3856 default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground), and uses
3857 some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
3858 `list-colors-display' shows the list of System color names, in case
3859 you wish to use them in other faces.
3860
3861 ---
3862 ** On MS Windows NT/W2K/XP, Emacs uses Unicode for clipboard operations.
3863
3864 Those systems use Unicode internally, so this allows Emacs to share
3865 multilingual text with other applications. On other versions of
3866 MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so
3867 the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without
3868 any customizations.
3869
3870 ---
3871 ** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size.
3872
3873 Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs
3874 through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in
3875 a local console window with a scrollback buffer. The default value of
3876 w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favors local console
3877 windows. Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this
3878 setting. If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects
3879 that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and
3880 defaults to 80x25. If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size
3881 other than 80x25, you can still manually set
3882 w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t.
3883
3884 ---
3885 ** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script.
3886
3887 ---
3888 ** The variable `mac-keyboard-text-encoding' and the constants
3889 `kTextEncodingMacRoman', `kTextEncodingISOLatin1', and
3890 `kTextEncodingISOLatin2' are obsolete.
3891
3892 ** The variable `mac-command-key-is-meta' is obsolete. Use
3893 `mac-command-modifier' and `mac-option-modifier' instead.
3894 \f
3895 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3896
3897 +++
3898 ** The `read-file-name' function now returns a null string if the
3899 user just types RET.
3900
3901 +++
3902 ** The function find-operation-coding-system may be called with a cons
3903 (FILENAME . BUFFER) in the second argument if the first argument
3904 OPERATION is `insert-file-contents', and thus a function registered in
3905 `file-coding-system-alist' is also called with such an argument.
3906
3907 ---
3908 ** The variables post-command-idle-hook and post-command-idle-delay have
3909 been removed. Use run-with-idle-timer instead.
3910
3911 +++
3912 ** `suppress-keymap' now works by remapping `self-insert-command' to
3913 the command `undefined'. (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
3914 `substitute-key-definition' to rebind self inserting characters to
3915 `undefined'.)
3916
3917 +++
3918 ** Mode line display ignores text properties as well as the
3919 :propertize and :eval forms in the value of a variable whose
3920 `risky-local-variable' property is nil.
3921
3922 ---
3923 The function `comint-send-input' now accepts 3 optional arguments:
3924
3925 (comint-send-input &optional no-newline artificial)
3926
3927 Callers sending input not from the user should use bind the 3rd
3928 argument `artificial' to a non-nil value, to prevent Emacs from
3929 deleting the part of subprocess output that matches the input.
3930
3931 ---
3932 ** Support for Mocklisp has been removed.
3933
3934 +++
3935 ** The variable `memory-full' now remains t until
3936 there is no longer a shortage of memory.
3937
3938 +++
3939 ** When Emacs receives a USR1 or USR2 signal, this generates
3940 input events: sigusr1 or sigusr2. Use special-event-map to
3941 handle these events.
3942
3943 +++
3944 ** A hex or octal escape in a string constant forces the string to
3945 be multibyte or unibyte, respectively.
3946
3947 +++
3948 ** The explicit method of creating a display table element by
3949 combining a face number and a character code into a numeric
3950 glyph code is deprecated.
3951
3952 Instead, the new functions `make-glyph-code', `glyph-char', and
3953 `glyph-face' must be used to create and decode glyph codes in
3954 display tables.
3955
3956 \f
3957 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
3958
3959 ** General Lisp changes:
3960
3961 *** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
3962 The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
3963 negative, is now a float. For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
3964
3965 +++
3966 *** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.
3967
3968 +++
3969 *** The new function `memql' is like `memq', but uses `eql' for comparison,
3970 that is, floats are compared by value and other elements with `eq'.
3971
3972 +++
3973 *** `makehash' is now obsolete. Use `make-hash-table' instead.
3974
3975 +++
3976 *** `add-to-list' takes an optional third argument, APPEND.
3977
3978 If APPEND is non-nil, the new element gets added at the end of the
3979 list instead of at the beginning. This change actually occurred in
3980 Emacs 21.1, but was not documented then.
3981
3982 +++
3983 *** New function `add-to-ordered-list' is like `add-to-list' but
3984 associates a numeric ordering of each element added to the list.
3985
3986 +++
3987 *** New function `copy-tree' makes a copy of a tree.
3988
3989 It recursively copies through both CARs and CDRs.
3990
3991 +++
3992 *** New function `delete-dups' deletes `equal' duplicate elements from a list.
3993
3994 It modifies the list destructively, like `delete'. Of several `equal'
3995 occurrences of an element in the list, the one that's kept is the
3996 first one.
3997
3998 +++
3999 *** New function `add-to-history' adds an element to a history list.
4000
4001 Lisp packages should use this function to add elements to their
4002 history lists.
4003
4004 If `history-delete-duplicates' is non-nil, it removes duplicates of
4005 the new element from the history list it updates.
4006
4007 +++
4008 *** New function `rassq-delete-all'.
4009
4010 (rassq-delete-all VALUE ALIST) deletes, from ALIST, each element whose
4011 CDR is `eq' to the specified value.
4012
4013 +++
4014 *** The function `number-sequence' makes a list of equally-separated numbers.
4015
4016 For instance, (number-sequence 4 9) returns (4 5 6 7 8 9). By
4017 default, the separation is 1, but you can specify a different
4018 separation as the third argument. (number-sequence 1.5 6 2) returns
4019 (1.5 3.5 5.5).
4020
4021 +++
4022 *** New variables `most-positive-fixnum' and `most-negative-fixnum'.
4023
4024 They hold the largest and smallest possible integer values.
4025
4026 +++
4027 *** Minor change in the function `format'.
4028
4029 Some flags that were accepted but not implemented (such as "*") are no
4030 longer accepted.
4031
4032 +++
4033 *** Functions `get' and `plist-get' no longer give errors for bad plists.
4034
4035 They return nil for a malformed property list or if the list is
4036 cyclic.
4037
4038 +++
4039 *** New functions `lax-plist-get' and `lax-plist-put'.
4040
4041 They are like `plist-get' and `plist-put', except that they compare
4042 the property name using `equal' rather than `eq'.
4043
4044 +++
4045 *** New variable `print-continuous-numbering'.
4046
4047 When this is non-nil, successive calls to print functions use a single
4048 numbering scheme for circular structure references. This is only
4049 relevant when `print-circle' is non-nil.
4050
4051 When you bind `print-continuous-numbering' to t, you should
4052 also bind `print-number-table' to nil.
4053
4054 +++
4055 *** New function `macroexpand-all' expands all macros in a form.
4056
4057 It is similar to the Common-Lisp function of the same name.
4058 One difference is that it guarantees to return the original argument
4059 if no expansion is done, which can be tested using `eq'.
4060
4061 +++
4062 *** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument.
4063
4064 When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
4065 angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis. (This is
4066 equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)
4067
4068 +++
4069 *** A function or macro's doc string can now specify the calling pattern.
4070
4071 You put this info in the doc string's last line. It should be
4072 formatted so as to match the regexp "\n\n(fn .*)\\'". If you don't
4073 specify this explicitly, Emacs determines it from the actual argument
4074 names. Usually that default is right, but not always.
4075
4076 +++
4077 *** New macro `with-local-quit' temporarily allows quitting.
4078
4079 A quit inside the body of `with-local-quit' is caught by the
4080 `with-local-quit' form itself, but another quit will happen later once
4081 the code that has inhibited quitting exits.
4082
4083 This is for use around potentially blocking or long-running code
4084 inside timer functions and `post-command-hook' functions.
4085
4086 +++
4087 *** New macro `define-obsolete-function-alias'.
4088
4089 This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.
4090
4091 +++
4092 *** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.
4093
4094 It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
4095 dangerous; otherwise it returns a reason why the form might be unsafe
4096 (calls unknown function, alters global variable, etc.).
4097
4098 +++
4099 *** New macro `eval-at-startup' specifies expressions to
4100 evaluate when Emacs starts up. If this is done after startup,
4101 it evaluates those expressions immediately.
4102
4103 This is useful in packages that can be preloaded.
4104
4105 *** `list-faces-display' takes an optional argument, REGEXP.
4106
4107 If it is non-nil, the function lists only faces matching this regexp.
4108
4109 +++
4110 *** New functions `string-or-null-p' and `booleanp'.
4111
4112 `string-or-null-p' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is a string or nil.
4113 `booleanp' returns non-nil iff OBJECT is t or nil.
4114
4115 +++
4116 *** New hook `command-error-function'.
4117
4118 By setting this variable to a function, you can control
4119 how the editor command loop shows the user an error message.
4120
4121 ** Lisp code indentation features:
4122
4123 +++
4124 *** The `defmacro' form can contain indentation and edebug declarations.
4125
4126 These declarations specify how to indent the macro calls in Lisp mode
4127 and how to debug them with Edebug. You write them like this:
4128
4129 (defmacro NAME LAMBDA-LIST [DOC-STRING] [DECLARATION ...] ...)
4130
4131 DECLARATION is a list `(declare DECLARATION-SPECIFIER ...)'. The
4132 possible declaration specifiers are:
4133
4134 (indent INDENT)
4135 Set NAME's `lisp-indent-function' property to INDENT.
4136
4137 (edebug DEBUG)
4138 Set NAME's `edebug-form-spec' property to DEBUG. (This is
4139 equivalent to writing a `def-edebug-spec' for the macro,
4140 but this is cleaner.)
4141
4142 ---
4143 *** cl-indent now allows customization of Indentation of backquoted forms.
4144
4145 See the new user option `lisp-backquote-indentation'.
4146
4147 ---
4148 *** cl-indent now handles indentation of simple and extended `loop' forms.
4149
4150 The new user options `lisp-loop-keyword-indentation',
4151 `lisp-loop-forms-indentation', and `lisp-simple-loop-indentation' can
4152 be used to customize the indentation of keywords and forms in loop
4153 forms.
4154
4155 +++
4156 ** Variable aliases:
4157
4158 *** New function: defvaralias ALIAS-VAR BASE-VAR [DOCSTRING]
4159
4160 This function defines the symbol ALIAS-VAR as a variable alias for
4161 symbol BASE-VAR. This means that retrieving the value of ALIAS-VAR
4162 returns the value of BASE-VAR, and changing the value of ALIAS-VAR
4163 changes the value of BASE-VAR.
4164
4165 DOCSTRING, if present, is the documentation for ALIAS-VAR; else it has
4166 the same documentation as BASE-VAR.
4167
4168 *** New function: indirect-variable VARIABLE
4169
4170 This function returns the variable at the end of the chain of aliases
4171 of VARIABLE. If VARIABLE is not a symbol, or if VARIABLE is not
4172 defined as an alias, the function returns VARIABLE.
4173
4174 It might be noteworthy that variables aliases work for all kinds of
4175 variables, including buffer-local and frame-local variables.
4176
4177 +++
4178 *** The macro `define-obsolete-variable-alias' combines `defvaralias' and
4179 `make-obsolete-variable'.
4180
4181 ** defcustom changes:
4182
4183 +++
4184 *** The package-version keyword has been added to provide
4185 `customize-changed-options' functionality to packages in the future.
4186 Developers who make use of this keyword must also update the new
4187 variable `customize-package-emacs-version-alist'.
4188
4189 +++
4190 *** The new customization type `float' requires a floating point number.
4191
4192 ** String changes:
4193
4194 +++
4195 *** The escape sequence \s is now interpreted as a SPACE character.
4196
4197 Exception: In a character constant, if it is followed by a `-' in a
4198 character constant (e.g. ?\s-A), it is still interpreted as the super
4199 modifier. In strings, \s is always interpreted as a space.
4200
4201 +++
4202 *** A hex escape in a string constant forces the string to be multibyte.
4203
4204 +++
4205 *** An octal escape in a string constant forces the string to be unibyte.
4206
4207 +++
4208 *** `split-string' now includes null substrings in the returned list if
4209 the optional argument SEPARATORS is non-nil and there are matches for
4210 SEPARATORS at the beginning or end of the string. If SEPARATORS is
4211 nil, or if the new optional third argument OMIT-NULLS is non-nil, all
4212 empty matches are omitted from the returned list.
4213
4214 +++
4215 *** New function `string-to-multibyte' converts a unibyte string to a
4216 multibyte string with the same individual character codes.
4217
4218 +++
4219 *** New function `substring-no-properties' returns a substring without
4220 text properties.
4221
4222 +++
4223 *** The new function `assoc-string' replaces `assoc-ignore-case' and
4224 `assoc-ignore-representation', which are still available, but have
4225 been declared obsolete.
4226
4227 +++
4228 *** New syntax: \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX specify Unicode code points in hex.
4229 Use "\u0428" to specify a string consisting of CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA,
4230 or "\U0001D6E2" to specify one consisting of MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL
4231 ALPHA (the latter is greater than #xFFFF and thus needs the longer
4232 syntax). Also available for characters.
4233
4234 +++
4235 ** Displaying warnings to the user.
4236
4237 See the functions `warn' and `display-warning', or the Lisp Manual.
4238 If you want to be sure the warning will not be overlooked, this
4239 facility is much better than using `message', since it displays
4240 warnings in a separate window.
4241
4242 +++
4243 ** Progress reporters.
4244
4245 These provide a simple and uniform way for commands to present
4246 progress messages for the user.
4247
4248 See the new functions `make-progress-reporter',
4249 `progress-reporter-update', `progress-reporter-force-update',
4250 `progress-reporter-done', and `dotimes-with-progress-reporter'.
4251
4252 ** Buffer positions:
4253
4254 +++
4255 *** Function `compute-motion' now calculates the usable window
4256 width if the WIDTH argument is nil. If the TOPOS argument is nil,
4257 the usable window height and width is used.
4258
4259 +++
4260 *** The `line-move', `scroll-up', and `scroll-down' functions will now
4261 modify the window vscroll to scroll through display rows that are
4262 taller that the height of the window, for example in the presence of
4263 large images. To disable this feature, bind the new variable
4264 `auto-window-vscroll' to nil.
4265
4266 +++
4267 *** The argument to `forward-word', `backward-word' is optional.
4268
4269 It defaults to 1.
4270
4271 +++
4272 *** Argument to `forward-to-indentation' and `backward-to-indentation' is optional.
4273
4274 It defaults to 1.
4275
4276 +++
4277 *** New function `mouse-on-link-p' tests if a position is in a clickable link.
4278
4279 This is the function used by the new `mouse-1-click-follows-link'
4280 functionality.
4281
4282 +++
4283 *** New function `line-number-at-pos' returns the line number of a position.
4284
4285 It an optional buffer position argument that defaults to point.
4286
4287 +++
4288 *** `field-beginning' and `field-end' take new optional argument, LIMIT.
4289
4290 This argument tells them not to search beyond LIMIT. Instead they
4291 give up and return LIMIT.
4292
4293 +++
4294 *** Function `pos-visible-in-window-p' now returns the pixel coordinates
4295 and partial visibility state of the corresponding row, if the PARTIALLY
4296 arg is non-nil.
4297
4298 +++
4299 *** New function `window-line-height' is an efficient way to get
4300 information about a specific text line in a window provided that the
4301 window's display is up-to-date.
4302
4303 +++
4304 *** New functions `posn-at-point' and `posn-at-x-y' return
4305 click-event-style position information for a given visible buffer
4306 position or for a given window pixel coordinate.
4307
4308 ** Text modification:
4309
4310 +++
4311 *** The new function `buffer-chars-modified-tick' returns a buffer's
4312 tick counter for changes to characters. Each time text in that buffer
4313 is inserted or deleted, the character-change counter is updated to the
4314 tick counter (`buffer-modified-tick'). Text property changes leave it
4315 unchanged.
4316
4317 +++
4318 *** The new function `insert-for-yank' normally works like `insert', but
4319 removes the text properties in the `yank-excluded-properties' list
4320 and handles the `yank-handler' text property.
4321
4322 +++
4323 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-as-yank' is like
4324 `insert-for-yank' except that it gets the text from another buffer as
4325 in `insert-buffer-substring'.
4326
4327 +++
4328 *** The new function `insert-buffer-substring-no-properties' is like
4329 `insert-buffer-substring', but removes all text properties from the
4330 inserted substring.
4331
4332 +++
4333 *** The new function `filter-buffer-substring' extracts a buffer
4334 substring, passes it through a set of filter functions, and returns
4335 the filtered substring. Use it instead of `buffer-substring' or
4336 `delete-and-extract-region' when copying text into a user-accessible
4337 data structure, such as the kill-ring, X clipboard, or a register.
4338
4339 The list of filter function is specified by the new variable
4340 `buffer-substring-filters'. For example, Longlines mode adds to
4341 `buffer-substring-filters' to remove soft newlines from the copied
4342 text.
4343
4344 +++
4345 *** Function `translate-region' accepts also a char-table as TABLE
4346 argument.
4347
4348 +++
4349 *** The new translation table `translation-table-for-input'
4350 is used for customizing self-insertion. The character to
4351 be inserted is translated through it.
4352
4353 ---
4354 *** Text clones.
4355
4356 The new function `text-clone-create'. Text clones are chunks of text
4357 that are kept identical by transparently propagating changes from one
4358 clone to the other.
4359
4360 ---
4361 *** The function `insert-string' is now obsolete.
4362
4363 ** Filling changes.
4364
4365 +++
4366 *** In determining an adaptive fill prefix, Emacs now tries the function in
4367 `adaptive-fill-function' _before_ matching the buffer line against
4368 `adaptive-fill-regexp' rather than _after_ it.
4369
4370 +++
4371 ** Atomic change groups.
4372
4373 To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
4374 they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
4375 around the code that makes changes. For instance:
4376
4377 (atomic-change-group
4378 (insert foo)
4379 (delete-region x y))
4380
4381 If an error (or other nonlocal exit) occurs inside the body of
4382 `atomic-change-group', it unmakes all the changes in that buffer that
4383 were during the execution of the body. The change group has no effect
4384 on any other buffers--any such changes remain.
4385
4386 If you need something more sophisticated, you can directly call the
4387 lower-level functions that `atomic-change-group' uses. Here is how.
4388
4389 To set up a change group for one buffer, call `prepare-change-group'.
4390 Specify the buffer as argument; it defaults to the current buffer.
4391 This function returns a "handle" for the change group. You must save
4392 the handle to activate the change group and then finish it.
4393
4394 Before you change the buffer again, you must activate the change
4395 group. Pass the handle to `activate-change-group' afterward to
4396 do this.
4397
4398 After you make the changes, you must finish the change group. You can
4399 either accept the changes or cancel them all. Call
4400 `accept-change-group' to accept the changes in the group as final;
4401 call `cancel-change-group' to undo them all.
4402
4403 You should use `unwind-protect' to make sure the group is always
4404 finished. The call to `activate-change-group' should be inside the
4405 `unwind-protect', in case the user types C-g just after it runs.
4406 (This is one reason why `prepare-change-group' and
4407 `activate-change-group' are separate functions.) Once you finish the
4408 group, don't use the handle again--don't try to finish the same group
4409 twice.
4410
4411 To make a multibuffer change group, call `prepare-change-group' once
4412 for each buffer you want to cover, then use `nconc' to combine the
4413 returned values, like this:
4414
4415 (nconc (prepare-change-group buffer-1)
4416 (prepare-change-group buffer-2))
4417
4418 You can then activate the multibuffer change group with a single call
4419 to `activate-change-group', and finish it with a single call to
4420 `accept-change-group' or `cancel-change-group'.
4421
4422 Nested use of several change groups for the same buffer works as you
4423 would expect. Non-nested use of change groups for the same buffer
4424 will lead to undesirable results, so don't let it happen; the first
4425 change group you start for any given buffer should be the last one
4426 finished.
4427
4428 ** Buffer-related changes:
4429
4430 ---
4431 *** `list-buffers-noselect' now takes an additional argument, BUFFER-LIST.
4432
4433 If it is non-nil, it specifies which buffers to list.
4434
4435 +++
4436 *** `kill-buffer-hook' is now a permanent local.
4437
4438 +++
4439 *** The new function `buffer-local-value' returns the buffer-local
4440 binding of VARIABLE (a symbol) in buffer BUFFER. If VARIABLE does not
4441 have a buffer-local binding in buffer BUFFER, it returns the default
4442 value of VARIABLE instead.
4443
4444 *** The function `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' now lets you maintain
4445 various status records in parallel.
4446
4447 It takes a variable (a symbol) as argument. If the variable is non-nil,
4448 then its value should be a vector installed previously by
4449 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p'. If the frame names, buffer names, buffer
4450 order, or their read-only or modified flags have changed, since the
4451 time the vector's contents were recorded by a previous call to
4452 `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', then the function returns t. Otherwise
4453 it returns nil.
4454
4455 On the first call to `frame-or-buffer-changed-p', the variable's
4456 value should be nil. `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' stores a suitable
4457 vector into the variable and returns t.
4458
4459 If the variable is itself nil, then `frame-or-buffer-changed-p' uses,
4460 for compatibility, an internal variable which exists only for this
4461 purpose.
4462
4463 +++
4464 *** The function `read-buffer' follows the convention for reading from
4465 the minibuffer with a default value: if DEF is non-nil, the minibuffer
4466 prompt provided in PROMPT is edited to show the default value provided
4467 in DEF before the terminal colon and space.
4468
4469 ** Searching and matching changes:
4470
4471 +++
4472 *** New function `looking-back' checks whether a regular expression matches
4473 the text before point. Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
4474 back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.
4475
4476 +++
4477 *** The new variable `search-spaces-regexp' controls how to search
4478 for spaces in a regular expression. If it is non-nil, it should be a
4479 regular expression, and any series of spaces stands for that regular
4480 expression. If it is nil, spaces stand for themselves.
4481
4482 Spaces inside of constructs such as `[..]' and inside loops such as
4483 `*', `+', and `?' are never replaced with `search-spaces-regexp'.
4484
4485 +++
4486 *** New regular expression operators, `\_<' and `\_>'.
4487
4488 These match the beginning and end of a symbol. A symbol is a
4489 non-empty sequence of either word or symbol constituent characters, as
4490 specified by the syntax table.
4491
4492 ---
4493 *** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-start' and `symbol-end' elements.
4494
4495 +++
4496 *** `skip-chars-forward' and `skip-chars-backward' now handle
4497 character classes such as `[:alpha:]', along with individual
4498 characters and ranges.
4499
4500 ---
4501 *** In `replace-match', the replacement text no longer inherits
4502 properties from surrounding text.
4503
4504 +++
4505 *** The list returned by `(match-data t)' now has the buffer as a final
4506 element, if the last match was on a buffer. `set-match-data'
4507 accepts such a list for restoring the match state.
4508
4509 +++
4510 *** Functions `match-data' and `set-match-data' now have an optional
4511 argument `reseat'. When non-nil, all markers in the match data list
4512 passed to these functions will be reseated to point to nowhere.
4513
4514 +++
4515 *** The default value of `sentence-end' is now defined using the new
4516 variable `sentence-end-without-space', which contains such characters
4517 that end a sentence without following spaces.
4518
4519 The function `sentence-end' should be used to obtain the value of the
4520 variable `sentence-end'. If the variable `sentence-end' is nil, then
4521 this function returns the regexp constructed from the variables
4522 `sentence-end-without-period', `sentence-end-double-space' and
4523 `sentence-end-without-space'.
4524
4525 ** Undo changes:
4526
4527 +++
4528 *** `buffer-undo-list' allows programmable elements.
4529
4530 These elements have the form (apply FUNNAME . ARGS), where FUNNAME is
4531 a symbol other than t or nil. That stands for a high-level change
4532 that should be undone by evaluating (apply FUNNAME ARGS).
4533
4534 These entries can also have the form (apply DELTA BEG END FUNNAME . ARGS)
4535 which indicates that the change which took place was limited to the
4536 range BEG...END and increased the buffer size by DELTA.
4537
4538 +++
4539 *** If the buffer's undo list for the current command gets longer than
4540 `undo-outer-limit', garbage collection empties it. This is to prevent
4541 it from using up the available memory and choking Emacs.
4542
4543 +++
4544 ** New `yank-handler' text property can be used to control how
4545 previously killed text on the kill ring is reinserted.
4546
4547 The value of the `yank-handler' property must be a list with one to four
4548 elements with the following format:
4549 (FUNCTION PARAM NOEXCLUDE UNDO).
4550
4551 The `insert-for-yank' function looks for a yank-handler property on
4552 the first character on its string argument (typically the first
4553 element on the kill-ring). If a `yank-handler' property is found,
4554 the normal behavior of `insert-for-yank' is modified in various ways:
4555
4556 When FUNCTION is present and non-nil, it is called instead of `insert'
4557 to insert the string. FUNCTION takes one argument--the object to insert.
4558 If PARAM is present and non-nil, it replaces STRING as the object
4559 passed to FUNCTION (or `insert'); for example, if FUNCTION is
4560 `yank-rectangle', PARAM should be a list of strings to insert as a
4561 rectangle.
4562 If NOEXCLUDE is present and non-nil, the normal removal of the
4563 `yank-excluded-properties' is not performed; instead FUNCTION is
4564 responsible for removing those properties. This may be necessary
4565 if FUNCTION adjusts point before or after inserting the object.
4566 If UNDO is present and non-nil, it is a function that will be called
4567 by `yank-pop' to undo the insertion of the current object. It is
4568 called with two arguments, the start and end of the current region.
4569 FUNCTION can set `yank-undo-function' to override the UNDO value.
4570
4571 *** The functions `kill-new', `kill-append', and `kill-region' now have an
4572 optional argument to specify the `yank-handler' text property to put on
4573 the killed text.
4574
4575 *** The function `yank-pop' will now use a non-nil value of the variable
4576 `yank-undo-function' (instead of `delete-region') to undo the previous
4577 `yank' or `yank-pop' command (or a call to `insert-for-yank'). The function
4578 `insert-for-yank' automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
4579 element of the string argument's `yank-handler' text property if present.
4580
4581 *** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
4582 `yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
4583 string. The old behavior is available if you call
4584 `insert-for-yank-1' instead.
4585
4586 ** Syntax table changes:
4587
4588 +++
4589 *** The macro `with-syntax-table' no longer copies the syntax table.
4590
4591 +++
4592 *** The new function `syntax-after' returns the syntax code
4593 of the character after a specified buffer position, taking account
4594 of text properties as well as the character code.
4595
4596 +++
4597 *** `syntax-class' extracts the class of a syntax code (as returned
4598 by `syntax-after').
4599
4600 +++
4601 *** The new function `syntax-ppss' provides an efficient way to find the
4602 current syntactic context at point.
4603
4604 ** File operation changes:
4605
4606 +++
4607 *** New vars `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' used when
4608 searching for an executable or an Emacs Lisp file.
4609
4610 +++
4611 *** The new primitive `set-file-times' sets a file's access and
4612 modification times. Magic file name handlers can handle this
4613 operation.
4614
4615 +++
4616 *** The new function `file-remote-p' tests a file name and returns
4617 non-nil if it specifies a remote file (one that Emacs accesses using
4618 its own special methods and not directly through the file system).
4619 The value in that case is an identifier for the remote file system.
4620
4621 +++
4622 *** `buffer-auto-save-file-format' is the new name for what was
4623 formerly called `auto-save-file-format'. It is now a permanent local.
4624
4625 +++
4626 *** Functions `file-name-sans-extension' and `file-name-extension' now
4627 ignore the leading dots in file names, so that file names such as
4628 `.emacs' are treated as extensionless.
4629
4630 +++
4631 *** `visited-file-modtime' and `calendar-time-from-absolute' now return
4632 a list of two integers, instead of a cons.
4633
4634 +++
4635 *** `file-chase-links' now takes an optional second argument LIMIT which
4636 specifies the maximum number of links to chase through. If after that
4637 many iterations the file name obtained is still a symbolic link,
4638 `file-chase-links' returns it anyway.
4639
4640 +++
4641 *** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
4642 before saving buffers. This allows packages to perform various final
4643 tasks. For example, it can be used by the copyright package to make
4644 sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.
4645
4646 +++
4647 *** If `buffer-save-without-query' is non-nil in some buffer,
4648 `save-some-buffers' will always save that buffer without asking (if
4649 it's modified).
4650
4651 +++
4652 *** New function `locate-file' searches for a file in a list of directories.
4653 `locate-file' accepts a name of a file to search (a string), and two
4654 lists: a list of directories to search in and a list of suffixes to
4655 try; typical usage might use `exec-path' and `load-path' for the list
4656 of directories, and `exec-suffixes' and `load-suffixes' for the list
4657 of suffixes. The function also accepts a predicate argument to
4658 further filter candidate files.
4659
4660 One advantage of using this function is that the list of suffixes in
4661 `exec-suffixes' is OS-dependant, so this function will find
4662 executables without polluting Lisp code with OS dependencies.
4663
4664 ---
4665 *** The precedence of file name handlers has been changed.
4666
4667 Instead of choosing the first handler that matches,
4668 `find-file-name-handler' now gives precedence to a file name handler
4669 that matches nearest the end of the file name. More precisely, the
4670 handler whose (match-beginning 0) is the largest is chosen. In case
4671 of ties, the old "first matched" rule applies.
4672
4673 +++
4674 *** A file name handler can declare which operations it handles.
4675
4676 You do this by putting an `operation' property on the handler name
4677 symbol. The property value should be a list of the operations that
4678 the handler really handles. It won't be called for any other
4679 operations.
4680
4681 This is useful for autoloaded handlers, to prevent them from being
4682 autoloaded when not really necessary.
4683
4684 +++
4685 *** The function `make-auto-save-file-name' is now handled by file
4686 name handlers. This will be exploited for remote files mainly.
4687
4688 +++
4689 *** The function `file-name-completion' accepts an optional argument
4690 PREDICATE, and rejects completion candidates that don't satisfy PREDICATE.
4691
4692 ** Input changes:
4693
4694 +++
4695 *** The functions `read-event', `read-char', and `read-char-exclusive'
4696 have a new optional argument SECONDS. If non-nil, this specifies a
4697 maximum time to wait for input, in seconds. If no input arrives after
4698 this time elapses, the functions stop waiting and return nil.
4699
4700 +++
4701 *** An interactive specification can now use the code letter `U' to get
4702 the up-event that was discarded in case the last key sequence read for a
4703 previous `k' or `K' argument was a down-event; otherwise nil is used.
4704
4705 +++
4706 *** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
4707 much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
4708 it returns just the directory name.
4709
4710 ---
4711 *** Functions `y-or-n-p', `read-char', `read-key-sequence' and the like, that
4712 display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
4713 using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
4714
4715 +++
4716 *** (while-no-input BODY...) runs BODY, but only so long as no input
4717 arrives. If the user types or clicks anything, BODY stops as if a
4718 quit had occurred. `while-no-input' returns the value of BODY, if BODY
4719 finishes. It returns nil if BODY was aborted by a quit, and t if
4720 BODY was aborted by arrival of input.
4721
4722 ** Minibuffer changes:
4723
4724 +++
4725 *** The new function `minibufferp' returns non-nil if its optional
4726 buffer argument is a minibuffer. If the argument is omitted, it
4727 defaults to the current buffer.
4728
4729 +++
4730 *** New function `minibuffer-selected-window' returns the window which
4731 was selected when entering the minibuffer.
4732
4733 +++
4734 *** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
4735 specifies a predicate which the file name read must satisfy. The
4736 new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
4737 while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
4738 variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.
4739
4740 ---
4741 *** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by Lisp code
4742 to override the built-in `read-file-name' function.
4743
4744 +++
4745 *** The new variable `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' specifies
4746 whether completion ignores case when reading a file name with the
4747 `read-file-name' function.
4748
4749 +++
4750 *** The new function `read-directory-name' is for reading a directory name.
4751
4752 It is like `read-file-name' except that the defaulting works better
4753 for directories, and completion inside it shows only directories.
4754
4755 +++
4756 *** The new variable `history-add-new-input' specifies whether to add new
4757 elements in history. If set to nil, minibuffer reading functions don't
4758 add new elements to the history list, so it is possible to do this
4759 afterwards by calling `add-to-history' explicitly.
4760
4761 ** Completion changes:
4762
4763 +++
4764 *** The new function `minibuffer-completion-contents' returns the contents
4765 of the minibuffer just before point. That is what completion commands
4766 operate on.
4767
4768 +++
4769 *** The functions `all-completions' and `try-completion' now accept lists
4770 of strings as well as hash-tables additionally to alists, obarrays
4771 and functions. Furthermore, the function `test-completion' is now
4772 exported to Lisp. The keys in alists and hash tables can be either
4773 strings or symbols, which are automatically converted with to strings.
4774
4775 +++
4776 *** The new macro `dynamic-completion-table' supports using functions
4777 as a dynamic completion table.
4778
4779 (dynamic-completion-table FUN)
4780
4781 FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required,
4782 and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible
4783 completions. This alist can be a full list of possible completions so that FUN
4784 can ignore the value of its argument. If completion is performed in the
4785 minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was
4786 entered. `dynamic-completion-table' then computes the completion.
4787
4788 +++
4789 *** The new macro `lazy-completion-table' initializes a variable
4790 as a lazy completion table.
4791
4792 (lazy-completion-table VAR FUN)
4793
4794 If the completion table VAR is used for the first time (e.g., by passing VAR
4795 as an argument to `try-completion'), the function FUN is called with no
4796 arguments. FUN must return the completion table that will be stored in VAR.
4797 If completion is requested in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer
4798 from which the minibuffer was entered. The return value of
4799 `lazy-completion-table' must be used to initialize the value of VAR.
4800
4801 +++
4802 ** Enhancements to keymaps.
4803
4804 *** New keymaps for typing file names
4805
4806 Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map' and
4807 `minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
4808 Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer. These key maps override
4809 the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
4810 names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
4811 the spaces).
4812
4813 *** Cleaner way to enter key sequences.
4814
4815 You can enter a constant key sequence in a more natural format, the
4816 same one used for saving keyboard macros, using the macro `kbd'. For
4817 example,
4818
4819 (kbd "C-x C-f") => "\^x\^f"
4820
4821 Actually, this format has existed since Emacs 20.1.
4822
4823 *** Interactive commands can be remapped through keymaps.
4824
4825 This is an alternative to using `defadvice' or `substitute-key-definition'
4826 to modify the behavior of a key binding using the normal keymap
4827 binding and lookup functionality.
4828
4829 When a key sequence is bound to a command, and that command is
4830 remapped to another command, that command is run instead of the
4831 original command.
4832
4833 Example:
4834 Suppose that minor mode `my-mode' has defined the commands
4835 `my-kill-line' and `my-kill-word', and it wants C-k (and any other key
4836 bound to `kill-line') to run the command `my-kill-line' instead of
4837 `kill-line', and likewise it wants to run `my-kill-word' instead of
4838 `kill-word'.
4839
4840 Instead of rebinding C-k and the other keys in the minor mode map,
4841 command remapping allows you to directly map `kill-line' into
4842 `my-kill-line' and `kill-word' into `my-kill-word' using `define-key':
4843
4844 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line)
4845 (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-word] 'my-kill-word)
4846
4847 When `my-mode' is enabled, its minor mode keymap is enabled too. So
4848 when the user types C-k, that runs the command `my-kill-line'.
4849
4850 Only one level of remapping is supported. In the above example, this
4851 means that if `my-kill-line' is remapped to `other-kill', then C-k still
4852 runs `my-kill-line'.
4853
4854 The following changes have been made to provide command remapping:
4855
4856 - Command remappings are defined using `define-key' with a prefix-key
4857 `remap', i.e. `(define-key MAP [remap CMD] DEF)' remaps command CMD
4858 to definition DEF in keymap MAP. The definition is not limited to
4859 another command; it can be anything accepted for a normal binding.
4860
4861 - The new function `command-remapping' returns the binding for a
4862 remapped command in the current keymaps, or nil if not remapped.
4863
4864 - `key-binding' now remaps interactive commands unless the optional
4865 third argument NO-REMAP is non-nil.
4866
4867 - `where-is-internal' now returns nil for a remapped command (e.g.
4868 `kill-line', when `my-mode' is enabled), and the actual key binding for
4869 the command it is remapped to (e.g. C-k for my-kill-line).
4870 It also has a new optional fifth argument, NO-REMAP, which inhibits
4871 remapping if non-nil (e.g. it returns "C-k" for `kill-line', and
4872 "<kill-line>" for `my-kill-line').
4873
4874 - The new variable `this-original-command' contains the original
4875 command before remapping. It is equal to `this-command' when the
4876 command was not remapped.
4877
4878 *** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
4879 over minor mode keymaps.
4880
4881 *** The `keymap' property now also works at the ends of overlays and
4882 text properties, according to their stickiness. This also means that it
4883 works with empty overlays. The same hold for the `local-map' property.
4884
4885 *** `key-binding' will now look up mouse-specific bindings. The
4886 keymaps consulted by `key-binding' will get adapted if the key
4887 sequence is started with a mouse event. Instead of letting the click
4888 position be determined from the key sequence itself, it is also
4889 possible to specify it with an optional argument explicitly.
4890
4891 *** Dense keymaps now handle inheritance correctly.
4892
4893 Previously a dense keymap would hide all of the simple-char key
4894 bindings of the parent keymap.
4895
4896 *** `define-key-after' now accepts keys longer than 1.
4897
4898 *** New function `current-active-maps' returns a list of currently
4899 active keymaps.
4900
4901 *** New function `describe-buffer-bindings' inserts the list of all
4902 defined keys and their definitions.
4903
4904 *** New function `keymap-prompt' returns the prompt string of a keymap.
4905
4906 *** (map-keymap FUNCTION KEYMAP) applies the function to each binding
4907 in the keymap.
4908
4909 *** New variable `emulation-mode-map-alists'.
4910
4911 Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
4912 keymap alist separate from `minor-mode-map-alist' by adding their
4913 keymap alist to this list.
4914
4915 *** The definition of a key-binding passed to define-key can use XEmacs-style
4916 key-sequences, such as [(control a)].
4917
4918 ** Abbrev changes:
4919
4920 +++
4921 *** The new function `copy-abbrev-table' copies an abbrev table.
4922
4923 It returns a new abbrev table that is a copy of a given abbrev table.
4924
4925 +++
4926 *** `define-abbrev' now accepts an optional argument SYSTEM-FLAG.
4927
4928 If non-nil, this marks the abbrev as a "system" abbrev, which means
4929 that it won't be stored in the user's abbrevs file if he saves the
4930 abbrevs. Major modes that predefine some abbrevs should always
4931 specify this flag.
4932
4933 +++
4934 ** Enhancements to process support
4935
4936 *** Function `list-processes' now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
4937 it lists only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set.
4938
4939 *** New fns `set-process-query-on-exit-flag' and `process-query-on-exit-flag'.
4940
4941 These replace the old function `process-kill-without-query'. That
4942 function is still supported, but new code should use the new
4943 functions.
4944
4945 *** Function `signal-process' now accepts a process object or process
4946 name in addition to a process id to identify the signaled process.
4947
4948 *** Processes now have an associated property list where programs can
4949 maintain process state and other per-process related information.
4950
4951 Use the new functions `process-get' and `process-put' to access, add,
4952 and modify elements on this property list. Use the new functions
4953 `process-plist' and `set-process-plist' to access and replace the
4954 entire property list of a process.
4955
4956 *** Function `accept-process-output' has a new optional fourth arg
4957 JUST-THIS-ONE. If non-nil, only output from the specified process
4958 is handled, suspending output from other processes. If value is an
4959 integer, also inhibit running timers. This feature is generally not
4960 recommended, but may be necessary for specific applications, such as
4961 speech synthesis.
4962
4963 *** Adaptive read buffering of subprocess output.
4964
4965 On some systems, when Emacs reads the output from a subprocess, the
4966 output data is read in very small blocks, potentially resulting in
4967 very poor performance. This behavior can be remedied to some extent
4968 by setting the new variable `process-adaptive-read-buffering' to a
4969 non-nil value (the default), as it will automatically delay reading
4970 from such processes, allowing them to produce more output before
4971 Emacs tries to read it.
4972
4973 *** The new function `call-process-shell-command'.
4974
4975 This executes a shell command synchronously in a separate process.
4976
4977 *** The new function `process-file' is similar to `call-process', but
4978 obeys file handlers. The file handler is chosen based on
4979 `default-directory'.
4980
4981 *** A process filter function gets the output as multibyte string
4982 if the process specifies t for its filter's multibyteness.
4983
4984 That multibyteness is decided by the value of
4985 `default-enable-multibyte-characters' when the process is created, and
4986 you can change it later with `set-process-filter-multibyte'.
4987
4988 *** The new function `set-process-filter-multibyte' sets the
4989 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4990
4991 *** The new function `process-filter-multibyte-p' returns the
4992 multibyteness of the strings passed to the process's filter.
4993
4994 *** If a process's coding system is `raw-text' or `no-conversion' and its
4995 buffer is multibyte, the output of the process is at first converted
4996 to multibyte by `string-to-multibyte' then inserted in the buffer.
4997 Previously, it was converted to multibyte by `string-as-multibyte',
4998 which was not compatible with the behavior of file reading.
4999
5000 +++
5001 ** Enhanced networking support.
5002
5003 *** The new `make-network-process' function makes network connections.
5004 It allows opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
5005 create a stream or datagram server inside Emacs.
5006
5007 - A server is started using :server t arg.
5008 - Datagram connection is selected using :type 'datagram arg.
5009 - A server can open on a random port using :service t arg.
5010 - Local sockets are supported using :family 'local arg.
5011 - IPv6 is supported (when available). You may explicitly select IPv6
5012 using :family 'ipv6 arg.
5013 - Non-blocking connect is supported using :nowait t arg.
5014 - The process' property list can be initialized using :plist PLIST arg;
5015 a copy of the server process' property list is automatically inherited
5016 by new client processes created to handle incoming connections.
5017
5018 To test for the availability of a given feature, use featurep like this:
5019 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:type datagram))
5020 (featurep 'make-network-process '(:family ipv6))
5021
5022 *** The old `open-network-stream' now uses `make-network-process'.
5023
5024 *** New functions `process-datagram-address', `set-process-datagram-address'.
5025
5026 These functions are used with datagram-based network processes to get
5027 and set the current address of the remote partner.
5028
5029 *** New function `format-network-address'.
5030
5031 This function reformats the Lisp representation of a network address
5032 to a printable string. For example, an IP address A.B.C.D and port
5033 number P is represented as a five element vector [A B C D P], and the
5034 printable string returned for this vector is "A.B.C.D:P". See the doc
5035 string for other formatting options.
5036
5037 *** `process-contact' has an optional KEY argument.
5038
5039 Depending on this argument, you can get the complete list of network
5040 process properties or a specific property. Using :local or :remote as
5041 the KEY, you get the address of the local or remote end-point.
5042
5043 An Inet address is represented as a 5 element vector, where the first
5044 4 elements contain the IP address and the fifth is the port number.
5045
5046 *** New functions `stop-process' and `continue-process'.
5047
5048 These functions stop and restart communication through a network
5049 connection. For a server process, no connections are accepted in the
5050 stopped state. For a client process, no input is received in the
5051 stopped state.
5052
5053 *** New function `network-interface-list'.
5054
5055 This function returns a list of network interface names and their
5056 current network addresses.
5057
5058 *** New function `network-interface-info'.
5059
5060 This function returns the network address, hardware address, current
5061 status, and other information about a specific network interface.
5062
5063 *** Deleting a network process with `delete-process' calls the sentinel.
5064
5065 The status message passed to the sentinel for a deleted network
5066 process is "deleted". The message passed to the sentinel when the
5067 connection is closed by the remote peer has been changed to
5068 "connection broken by remote peer".
5069
5070 ** Using window objects:
5071
5072 +++
5073 *** New function `window-body-height'.
5074
5075 This is like `window-height' but does not count the mode line or the
5076 header line.
5077
5078 +++
5079 *** You can now make a window as short as one line.
5080
5081 A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode
5082 line or a header line, even if the variables `mode-line-format' and
5083 `header-line-format' call for them. A window that is two lines tall
5084 cannot display both a mode line and a header line at once; if the
5085 variables call for both, only the mode line actually appears.
5086
5087 +++
5088 *** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
5089 actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
5090 divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and
5091 the mode line.
5092
5093 +++
5094 *** The new functions `window-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-pixel-edges'
5095 return window edges in units of pixels, rather than columns and lines.
5096
5097 +++
5098 *** The new macro `with-selected-window' temporarily switches the
5099 selected window without impacting the order of `buffer-list'.
5100 It saves and restores the current buffer, too.
5101
5102 +++
5103 *** `select-window' takes an optional second argument NORECORD.
5104
5105 This is like `switch-to-buffer'.
5106
5107 +++
5108 *** `save-selected-window' now saves and restores the selected window
5109 of every frame. This way, it restores everything that can be changed
5110 by calling `select-window'. It also saves and restores the current
5111 buffer.
5112
5113 +++
5114 *** `set-window-buffer' has an optional argument KEEP-MARGINS.
5115
5116 If non-nil, that says to preserve the window's current margin, fringe,
5117 and scroll-bar settings.
5118
5119 +++
5120 *** The new function `window-tree' returns a frame's window tree.
5121
5122 +++
5123 *** The functions `get-lru-window' and `get-largest-window' take an optional
5124 argument `dedicated'. If non-nil, those functions do not ignore
5125 dedicated windows.
5126
5127 +++
5128 *** The new function `adjust-window-trailing-edge' moves the right
5129 or bottom edge of a window. It does not move other window edges.
5130
5131 +++
5132 ** Customizable fringe bitmaps
5133
5134 *** New buffer-local variables `fringe-indicator-alist' and
5135 `fringe-cursor-alist' maps between logical (internal) fringe indicator
5136 and cursor symbols and the actual fringe bitmaps to be displayed.
5137 This decouples the logical meaning of the fringe indicators from the
5138 physical appearance, as well as allowing different fringe bitmaps to
5139 be used in different windows showing different buffers.
5140
5141 *** New function `define-fringe-bitmap' can now be used to create new
5142 fringe bitmaps, as well as change the built-in fringe bitmaps.
5143
5144 *** New function `destroy-fringe-bitmap' deletes a fringe bitmap
5145 or restores a built-in one to its default value.
5146
5147 *** New function `set-fringe-bitmap-face' specifies the face to be
5148 used for a specific fringe bitmap. The face is automatically merged
5149 with the `fringe' face, so normally, the face should only specify the
5150 foreground color of the bitmap.
5151
5152 *** There are new display properties, `left-fringe' and `right-fringe',
5153 that can be used to show a specific bitmap in the left or right fringe
5154 bitmap of the display line.
5155
5156 Format is `display (left-fringe BITMAP [FACE])', where BITMAP is a
5157 symbol identifying a fringe bitmap, either built-in or defined with
5158 `define-fringe-bitmap', and FACE is an optional face name to be used
5159 for displaying the bitmap instead of the default `fringe' face.
5160 When specified, FACE is automatically merged with the `fringe' face.
5161
5162 *** New function `fringe-bitmaps-at-pos' returns the current fringe
5163 bitmaps in the display line at a given buffer position.
5164
5165 ** Other window fringe features:
5166
5167 +++
5168 *** Controlling the default left and right fringe widths.
5169
5170 The default left and right fringe widths for all windows of a frame
5171 can now be controlled by setting the `left-fringe' and `right-fringe'
5172 frame parameters to an integer value specifying the width in pixels.
5173 Setting the width to 0 effectively removes the corresponding fringe.
5174
5175 The actual default fringe widths for the frame may deviate from the
5176 specified widths, since the combined fringe widths must match an
5177 integral number of columns. The extra width is distributed evenly
5178 between the left and right fringe. To force a specific fringe width,
5179 specify the width as a negative integer (if both widths are negative,
5180 only the left fringe gets the specified width).
5181
5182 Setting the width to nil (the default), restores the default fringe
5183 width which is the minimum number of pixels necessary to display any
5184 of the currently defined fringe bitmaps. The width of the built-in
5185 fringe bitmaps is 8 pixels.
5186
5187 +++
5188 *** Per-window fringe and scrollbar settings
5189
5190 **** Windows can now have their own individual fringe widths and
5191 position settings.
5192
5193 To control the fringe widths of a window, either set the buffer-local
5194 variables `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', or call
5195 `set-window-fringes'.
5196
5197 To control the fringe position in a window, that is, whether fringes
5198 are positioned between the display margins and the window's text area,
5199 or at the edges of the window, either set the buffer-local variable
5200 `fringes-outside-margins' or call `set-window-fringes'.
5201
5202 The function `window-fringes' can be used to obtain the current
5203 settings. To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
5204 `fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
5205 displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
5206 an update of the display margins.
5207
5208 **** Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
5209 controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.
5210
5211 To control the scroll-bar of a window, either set the buffer-local
5212 variables `scroll-bar-mode' and `scroll-bar-width', or call
5213 `set-window-scroll-bars'. The function `window-scroll-bars' can be
5214 used to obtain the current settings. To make `scroll-bar-mode' and
5215 `scroll-bar-width' take effect, you must set them before displaying
5216 the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force an update
5217 of the display margins.
5218
5219 ** Redisplay features:
5220
5221 +++
5222 *** `sit-for' can now be called with args (SECONDS &optional NODISP).
5223
5224 +++
5225 *** Iconifying or deiconifying a frame no longer makes sit-for return.
5226
5227 +++
5228 *** New function `redisplay' causes an immediate redisplay if no input is
5229 available, equivalent to (sit-for 0). The call (redisplay t) forces
5230 an immediate redisplay even if input is pending.
5231
5232 +++
5233 *** New function `force-window-update' can initiate a full redisplay of
5234 one or all windows. Normally, this is not needed as changes in window
5235 contents are detected automatically. However, certain implicit
5236 changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
5237 forcing an explicit window update.
5238
5239 +++
5240 *** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able
5241 to display CHAR. More precisely, if the selected frame's fontset has
5242 a font to display the character set that CHAR belongs to.
5243
5244 Fontsets can specify a font on a per-character basis; when the fontset
5245 does that, this value cannot be accurate.
5246
5247 +++
5248 *** You can define multiple overlay arrows via the new
5249 variable `overlay-arrow-variable-list'.
5250
5251 It contains a list of variables which contain overlay arrow position
5252 markers, including the original `overlay-arrow-position' variable.
5253
5254 Each variable on this list can have individual `overlay-arrow-string'
5255 and `overlay-arrow-bitmap' properties that specify an overlay arrow
5256 string (for non-window terminals) or fringe bitmap (for window
5257 systems) to display at the corresponding overlay arrow position.
5258 If either property is not set, the default `overlay-arrow-string' or
5259 'overlay-arrow-fringe-bitmap' will be used.
5260
5261 +++
5262 *** New `line-height' and `line-spacing' properties for newline characters
5263
5264 A newline can now have `line-height' and `line-spacing' text or overlay
5265 properties that control the height of the corresponding display row.
5266
5267 If the `line-height' property value is t, the newline does not
5268 contribute to the height of the display row; instead the height of the
5269 newline glyph is reduced. Also, a `line-spacing' property on this
5270 newline is ignored. This can be used to tile small images or image
5271 slices without adding blank areas between the images.
5272
5273 If the `line-height' property value is a positive integer, the value
5274 specifies the minimum line height in pixels. If necessary, the line
5275 height it increased by increasing the line's ascent.
5276
5277 If the `line-height' property value is a float, the minimum line
5278 height is calculated by multiplying the default frame line height by
5279 the given value.
5280
5281 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (FACE . RATIO), the
5282 minimum line height is calculated as RATIO * height of named FACE.
5283 RATIO is int or float. If FACE is t, it specifies the current face.
5284
5285 If the `line-height' property value is a cons (nil . RATIO), the line
5286 height is calculated as RATIO * actual height of the line's contents.
5287
5288 If the `line-height' value is a cons (HEIGHT . TOTAL), HEIGHT specifies
5289 the line height as described above, while TOTAL is any of the forms
5290 described above and specifies the total height of the line, causing a
5291 varying number of pixels to be inserted after the line to make it line
5292 exactly that many pixels high.
5293
5294 If the `line-spacing' property value is an positive integer, the value
5295 is used as additional pixels to insert after the display line; this
5296 overrides the default frame `line-spacing' and any buffer local value of
5297 the `line-spacing' variable.
5298
5299 If the `line-spacing' property is a float or cons, the line spacing
5300 is calculated as specified above for the `line-height' property.
5301
5302 +++
5303 *** The buffer local `line-spacing' variable can now have a float value,
5304 which is used as a height relative to the default frame line height.
5305
5306 +++
5307 *** Enhancements to stretch display properties
5308
5309 The display property stretch specification form `(space PROPS)', where
5310 PROPS is a property list, now allows pixel based width and height
5311 specifications, as well as enhanced horizontal text alignment.
5312
5313 The value of these properties can now be a (primitive) expression
5314 which is evaluated during redisplay. The following expressions
5315 are supported:
5316
5317 EXPR ::= NUM | (NUM) | UNIT | ELEM | POS | IMAGE | FORM
5318 NUM ::= INTEGER | FLOAT | SYMBOL
5319 UNIT ::= in | mm | cm | width | height
5320 ELEM ::= left-fringe | right-fringe | left-margin | right-margin
5321 | scroll-bar | text
5322 POS ::= left | center | right
5323 FORM ::= (NUM . EXPR) | (OP EXPR ...)
5324 OP ::= + | -
5325
5326 The form `NUM' specifies a fractional width or height of the default
5327 frame font size. The form `(NUM)' specifies an absolute number of
5328 pixels. If a symbol is specified, its buffer-local variable binding
5329 is used. The `in', `mm', and `cm' units specifies the number of
5330 pixels per inch, milli-meter, and centi-meter, resp. The `width' and
5331 `height' units correspond to the width and height of the current face
5332 font. An image specification corresponds to the width or height of
5333 the image.
5334
5335 The `left-fringe', `right-fringe', `left-margin', `right-margin',
5336 `scroll-bar', and `text' elements specify to the width of the
5337 corresponding area of the window.
5338
5339 The `left', `center', and `right' positions can be used with :align-to
5340 to specify a position relative to the left edge, center, or right edge
5341 of the text area. One of the above window elements (except `text')
5342 can also be used with :align-to to specify that the position is
5343 relative to the left edge of the given area. Once the base offset for
5344 a relative position has been set (by the first occurrence of one of
5345 these symbols), further occurrences of these symbols are interpreted as
5346 the width of the area.
5347
5348 For example, to align to the center of the left-margin, use
5349 :align-to (+ left-margin (0.5 . left-margin))
5350
5351 If no specific base offset is set for alignment, it is always relative
5352 to the left edge of the text area. For example, :align-to 0 in a
5353 header line aligns with the first text column in the text area.
5354
5355 The value of the form `(NUM . EXPR)' is the value of NUM multiplied by
5356 the value of the expression EXPR. For example, (2 . in) specifies a
5357 width of 2 inches, while (0.5 . IMAGE) specifies half the width (or
5358 height) of the specified image.
5359
5360 The form `(+ EXPR ...)' adds up the value of the expressions.
5361 The form `(- EXPR ...)' negates or subtracts the value of the expressions.
5362
5363 +++
5364 *** Normally, the cursor is displayed at the end of any overlay and
5365 text property string that may be present at the current window
5366 position. The cursor can now be placed on any character of such
5367 strings by giving that character a non-nil `cursor' text property.
5368
5369 +++
5370 *** The display space :width and :align-to text properties are now
5371 supported on text terminals.
5372
5373 +++
5374 *** Support for displaying image slices
5375
5376 **** New display property (slice X Y WIDTH HEIGHT) can be used with
5377 an image property to display only a specific slice of the image.
5378
5379 **** Function `insert-image' has new optional fourth arg to
5380 specify image slice (X Y WIDTH HEIGHT).
5381
5382 **** New function `insert-sliced-image' inserts a given image as a
5383 specified number of evenly sized slices (rows x columns).
5384
5385 +++
5386 *** Images can now have an associated image map via the :map property.
5387
5388 An image map is an alist where each element has the format (AREA ID PLIST).
5389 An AREA is specified as either a rectangle, a circle, or a polygon:
5390 A rectangle is a cons (rect . ((X0 . Y0) . (X1 . Y1))) specifying the
5391 pixel coordinates of the upper left and bottom right corners.
5392 A circle is a cons (circle . ((X0 . Y0) . R)) specifying the center
5393 and the radius of the circle; R can be a float or integer.
5394 A polygon is a cons (poly . [X0 Y0 X1 Y1 ...]) where each pair in the
5395 vector describes one corner in the polygon.
5396
5397 When the mouse pointer is above a hot-spot area of an image, the
5398 PLIST of that hot-spot is consulted; if it contains a `help-echo'
5399 property it defines a tool-tip for the hot-spot, and if it contains
5400 a `pointer' property, it defines the shape of the mouse cursor when
5401 it is over the hot-spot. See the variable `void-area-text-pointer'
5402 for possible pointer shapes.
5403
5404 When you click the mouse when the mouse pointer is over a hot-spot,
5405 an event is composed by combining the ID of the hot-spot with the
5406 mouse event, e.g. [area4 mouse-1] if the hot-spot's ID is `area4'.
5407
5408 +++
5409 *** The function `find-image' now searches in etc/images/ and etc/.
5410 The new variable `image-load-path' is a list of locations in which to
5411 search for image files. The default is to search in etc/images, then
5412 in etc/, and finally in the directories specified by `load-path'.
5413 Subdirectories of etc/ and etc/images are not recursively searched; if
5414 you put an image file in a subdirectory, you have to specify it
5415 explicitly; for example, if an image is put in etc/images/foo/bar.xpm:
5416
5417 (defimage foo-image '((:type xpm :file "foo/bar.xpm")))
5418
5419 Note that all images formerly located in the lisp directory have been
5420 moved to etc/images.
5421
5422 +++
5423 *** New function `image-load-path-for-library' returns a suitable
5424 search path for images relative to library. This function is useful in
5425 external packages to save users from having to update
5426 `image-load-path'.
5427
5428 +++
5429 *** The new variable `max-image-size' defines the maximum size of
5430 images that Emacs will load and display.
5431
5432 +++
5433 *** The new variable `display-mm-dimensions-alist' can be used to
5434 override incorrect graphical display dimensions returned by functions
5435 `display-mm-height' and `display-mm-width'.
5436
5437 ** Mouse pointer features:
5438
5439 +++ (lispref)
5440 ??? (man)
5441 *** The mouse pointer shape in void text areas (i.e. after the end of a
5442 line or below the last line in the buffer) of the text window is now
5443 controlled by the new variable `void-text-area-pointer'. The default
5444 is to use the `arrow' (non-text) pointer. Other choices are `text'
5445 (or nil), `hand', `vdrag', `hdrag', `modeline', and `hourglass'.
5446
5447 +++
5448 *** The mouse pointer shape over an image can now be controlled by the
5449 :pointer image property.
5450
5451 +++
5452 *** The mouse pointer shape over ordinary text or images can now be
5453 controlled/overridden via the `pointer' text property.
5454
5455 ** Mouse event enhancements:
5456
5457 +++
5458 *** Mouse events for clicks on window fringes now specify `left-fringe'
5459 or `right-fringe' as the area.
5460
5461 +++
5462 *** All mouse events now include a buffer position regardless of where
5463 you clicked. For mouse clicks in window margins and fringes, this is
5464 a sensible buffer position corresponding to the surrounding text.
5465
5466 +++
5467 *** `posn-point' now returns buffer position for non-text area events.
5468
5469 +++
5470 *** Function `mouse-set-point' now works for events outside text area.
5471
5472 +++
5473 *** New function `posn-area' returns window area clicked on (nil means
5474 text area).
5475
5476 +++
5477 *** Mouse events include actual glyph column and row for all event types
5478 and all areas.
5479
5480 +++
5481 *** New function `posn-actual-col-row' returns the actual glyph coordinates
5482 of the mouse event position.
5483
5484 +++
5485 *** Mouse events can now indicate an image object clicked on.
5486
5487 +++
5488 *** Mouse events include relative X and Y pixel coordinates relative to
5489 the top left corner of the object (image or character) clicked on.
5490
5491 +++
5492 *** Mouse events include the pixel width and height of the object
5493 (image or character) clicked on.
5494
5495 +++
5496 *** New functions 'posn-object', 'posn-object-x-y', 'posn-object-width-height'.
5497
5498 These return the image or string object of a mouse click, the X and Y
5499 pixel coordinates relative to the top left corner of that object, and
5500 the total width and height of that object.
5501
5502 ** Text property and overlay changes:
5503
5504 +++
5505 *** Arguments for `remove-overlays' are now optional, so that you can
5506 remove all overlays in the buffer with just (remove-overlays).
5507
5508 +++
5509 *** New variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
5510
5511 This variable allows you to create alternative names for text
5512 properties. It works at the same level as `default-text-properties',
5513 although it applies to overlays as well. This variable was introduced
5514 to implement the `font-lock-face' property.
5515
5516 +++
5517 *** New function `get-char-property-and-overlay' accepts the same
5518 arguments as `get-char-property' and returns a cons whose car is the
5519 return value of `get-char-property' called with those arguments and
5520 whose cdr is the overlay in which the property was found, or nil if
5521 it was found as a text property or not found at all.
5522
5523 +++
5524 *** The new function `remove-list-of-text-properties'.
5525
5526 It is like `remove-text-properties' except that it takes a list of
5527 property names as argument rather than a property list.
5528
5529 ** Face changes
5530
5531 +++
5532 *** The variable `facemenu-unlisted-faces' has been removed.
5533 Emacs has a lot more faces than in the past, and nearly all of them
5534 needed to be excluded. The new variable `facemenu-listed-faces' lists
5535 the faces to include in the face menu.
5536
5537 +++
5538 *** The new face attribute condition `min-colors' can be used to tailor
5539 the face color to the number of colors supported by a display, and
5540 define the foreground and background colors accordingly so that they
5541 look best on a terminal that supports at least this many colors. This
5542 is now the preferred method for defining default faces in a way that
5543 makes a good use of the capabilities of the display.
5544
5545 +++
5546 *** New function `display-supports-face-attributes-p' can be used to test
5547 whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.
5548
5549 A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
5550 specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
5551 defined with `defface'.
5552
5553 ---
5554 *** The special treatment of faces whose names are of the form `fg:COLOR'
5555 or `bg:COLOR' has been removed. Lisp programs should use the
5556 `defface' facility for defining faces with specific colors, or use
5557 the feature of specifying the face attributes :foreground and :background
5558 directly in the `face' property instead of using a named face.
5559
5560 +++
5561 *** The first face specification element in a defface can specify
5562 `default' instead of frame classification. Then its attributes act as
5563 defaults that apply to all the subsequent cases (and can be overridden
5564 by them).
5565
5566 +++
5567 *** The variable `face-font-rescale-alist' specifies how much larger
5568 (or smaller) font we should use. For instance, if the value is
5569 '((SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN . 1.3)) and a face requests a font of 10
5570 point, we actually use a font of 13 point if the font matches
5571 SOME-FONTNAME-PATTERN.
5572
5573 ---
5574 *** The function `face-differs-from-default-p' now truly checks
5575 whether the given face displays differently from the default face or
5576 not (previously it did only a very cursory check).
5577
5578 +++
5579 *** `face-attribute', `face-foreground', `face-background', `face-stipple'.
5580
5581 These now accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how
5582 face inheritance is used when determining the value of a face
5583 attribute.
5584
5585 +++
5586 *** New functions `face-attribute-relative-p' and `merge-face-attribute'
5587 help with handling relative face attributes.
5588
5589 +++
5590 *** The priority of faces in an :inherit attribute face list is reversed.
5591
5592 If a face contains an :inherit attribute with a list of faces, earlier
5593 faces in the list override later faces in the list; in previous
5594 releases of Emacs, the order was the opposite. This change was made
5595 so that :inherit face lists operate identically to face lists in text
5596 `face' properties.
5597
5598 ---
5599 *** On terminals, faces with the :inverse-video attribute are displayed
5600 with swapped foreground and background colors even when one of them is
5601 not specified. In previous releases of Emacs, if either foreground
5602 or background color was unspecified, colors were not swapped. This
5603 was inconsistent with the face behavior under X.
5604
5605 ---
5606 *** `set-fontset-font', `fontset-info', `fontset-font' now operate on
5607 the default fontset if the argument NAME is nil..
5608
5609 ** Font-Lock changes:
5610
5611 +++
5612 *** New special text property `font-lock-face'.
5613
5614 This property acts like the `face' property, but it is controlled by
5615 M-x font-lock-mode. It is not, strictly speaking, a builtin text
5616 property. Instead, it is implemented inside font-core.el, using the
5617 new variable `char-property-alias-alist'.
5618
5619 +++
5620 *** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.
5621
5622 **** the FACENAME returned in `font-lock-keywords' can be a list of the
5623 form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set other
5624 properties than `face'.
5625
5626 **** `font-lock-extra-managed-props' can be set to make sure those
5627 extra properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.
5628
5629 ---
5630 *** jit-lock obeys a new text-property `jit-lock-defer-multiline'.
5631
5632 If a piece of text with that property gets contextually refontified
5633 (see `jit-lock-defer-contextually'), then all of that text will
5634 be refontified. This is useful when the syntax of a textual element
5635 depends on text several lines further down (and when `font-lock-multiline'
5636 is not appropriate to solve that problem). For example in Perl:
5637
5638 s{
5639 foo
5640 }{
5641 bar
5642 }e
5643
5644 Adding/removing the last `e' changes the `bar' from being a piece of
5645 text to being a piece of code, so you'd put a `jit-lock-defer-multiline'
5646 property over the second half of the command to force (deferred)
5647 refontification of `bar' whenever the `e' is added/removed.
5648
5649 *** `font-lock-extend-region-functions' makes it possible to alter the way
5650 the fontification region is chosen. This can be used to prevent rounding
5651 up to whole lines, or to extend the region to include all related lines
5652 of multiline constructs so that such constructs get properly recognized.
5653
5654 ** Major mode mechanism changes:
5655
5656 +++
5657 *** If new variable `auto-mode-case-fold' is set to a non-nil value,
5658 Emacs will perform a second case-insensitive search through
5659 `auto-mode-alist' if the first case-sensitive search fails.
5660 This means that a file FILE.TXT is opened in text-mode, and a file PROG.PY
5661 is opened in python-mode. Note however, that independent of this
5662 setting, *.C files are usually recognized as C++ files.
5663 It also has no effect on systems with case-insensitive file names.
5664
5665 +++
5666 *** New variable `magic-mode-alist' determines major mode for a file by
5667 looking at the file contents. It takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist'.
5668
5669 +++
5670 *** An interpreter magic line (if present) takes precedence over the
5671 file name when setting the major mode.
5672
5673 +++
5674 *** XML or SGML major mode is selected when file starts with an `<?xml'
5675 or `<!DOCTYPE' declaration.
5676
5677 +++
5678 *** Use the new function `run-mode-hooks' to run the major mode's mode hook.
5679
5680 +++
5681 *** All major mode functions should now run the new normal hook
5682 `after-change-major-mode-hook', at their very end, after the mode
5683 hooks. `run-mode-hooks' does this automatically.
5684
5685 ---
5686 *** If a major mode function has a non-nil `no-clone-indirect'
5687 property, `clone-indirect-buffer' signals an error if you use
5688 it in that buffer.
5689
5690 +++
5691 *** Major modes can define `eldoc-documentation-function'
5692 locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to
5693 the language.
5694
5695 +++
5696 *** `define-derived-mode' by default creates a new empty abbrev table.
5697 It does not copy abbrevs from the parent mode's abbrev table.
5698
5699 +++
5700 *** The new function `run-mode-hooks' and the new macro `delay-mode-hooks'
5701 are used by `define-derived-mode' to make sure the mode hook for the
5702 parent mode is run at the end of the child mode.
5703
5704 ** Minor mode changes:
5705
5706 +++
5707 *** `define-minor-mode' now accepts arbitrary additional keyword arguments
5708 and simply passes them to `defcustom', if applicable.
5709
5710 +++
5711 *** `minor-mode-list' now holds a list of minor mode commands.
5712
5713 +++
5714 *** `define-global-minor-mode'.
5715
5716 This is a new name for what was formerly called
5717 `easy-mmode-define-global-mode'. The old name remains as an alias.
5718
5719 ** Command loop changes:
5720
5721 +++
5722 *** The new function `called-interactively-p' does what many people
5723 have mistakenly believed `interactive-p' to do: it returns t if the
5724 calling function was called through `call-interactively'.
5725
5726 Only use this when you cannot solve the problem by adding a new
5727 INTERACTIVE argument to the command.
5728
5729 +++
5730 *** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional argument.
5731
5732 If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks for a function that could be
5733 called with `call-interactively', and does not return t for keyboard
5734 macros.
5735
5736 +++
5737 *** When a command returns, the command loop moves point out from
5738 within invisible text, in the same way it moves out from within text
5739 covered by an image or composition property.
5740
5741 This makes it generally unnecessary to mark invisible text as intangible.
5742 This is particularly good because the intangible property often has
5743 unexpected side-effects since the property applies to everything
5744 (including `goto-char', ...) whereas this new code is only run after
5745 `post-command-hook' and thus does not care about intermediate states.
5746
5747 +++
5748 *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to `only', that
5749 enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only.
5750 During that following command, the value of `transient-mark-mode'
5751 is `identity'. If it is still `identity' at the end of the command,
5752 the next return to the command loop changes to nil.
5753
5754 +++
5755 *** Both the variable and the function `disabled-command-hook' have
5756 been renamed to `disabled-command-function'. The variable
5757 `disabled-command-hook' has been kept as an obsolete alias.
5758
5759 +++
5760 *** `emacsserver' now runs `pre-command-hook' and `post-command-hook'
5761 when it receives a request from emacsclient.
5762
5763 +++
5764 *** `current-idle-time' reports how long Emacs has been idle.
5765
5766 ** Lisp file loading changes:
5767
5768 +++
5769 *** `load-history' can now have elements of the form (t . FUNNAME),
5770 which means FUNNAME was previously defined as an autoload (before the
5771 current file redefined it).
5772
5773 +++
5774 *** `load-history' now records (defun . FUNNAME) when a function is
5775 defined. For a variable, it records just the variable name.
5776
5777 +++
5778 *** The function `symbol-file' can now search specifically for function,
5779 variable or face definitions.
5780
5781 +++
5782 *** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
5783 to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
5784 and runs any code associated with the provided feature.
5785
5786 ---
5787 *** The variable `recursive-load-depth-limit' has been deleted.
5788 Emacs now signals an error if the same file is loaded with more
5789 than 3 levels of nesting.
5790
5791 +++
5792 ** Byte compiler changes:
5793
5794 *** The byte compiler now displays the actual line and character
5795 position of errors, where possible. Additionally, the form of its
5796 warning and error messages have been brought into line with GNU standards
5797 for these. As a result, you can use next-error and friends on the
5798 compilation output buffer.
5799
5800 *** The new macro `with-no-warnings' suppresses all compiler warnings
5801 inside its body. In terms of execution, it is equivalent to `progn'.
5802
5803 *** You can avoid warnings for possibly-undefined symbols with a
5804 simple convention that the compiler understands. (This is mostly
5805 useful in code meant to be portable to different Emacs versions.)
5806 Write forms like the following, or code that macroexpands into such
5807 forms:
5808
5809 (if (fboundp 'foo) <then> <else>)
5810 (if (boundp 'foo) <then> <else)
5811
5812 In the first case, using `foo' as a function inside the <then> form
5813 won't produce a warning if it's not defined as a function, and in the
5814 second case, using `foo' as a variable won't produce a warning if it's
5815 unbound. The test must be in exactly one of the above forms (after
5816 macro expansion), but such tests can be nested. Note that `when' and
5817 `unless' expand to `if', but `cond' doesn't.
5818
5819 *** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil. This
5820 helps to avoid noisy compiler warnings in code meant to run under both
5821 Emacs and XEmacs and can sometimes make the result significantly more
5822 efficient. Since byte code from recent versions of XEmacs won't
5823 generally run in Emacs and vice versa, this optimization doesn't lose
5824 you anything.
5825
5826 *** The local variable `no-byte-compile' in Lisp files is now obeyed.
5827
5828 ---
5829 *** When a Lisp file uses CL functions at run-time, compiling the file
5830 now issues warnings about these calls, unless the file performs
5831 (require 'cl) when loaded.
5832
5833 ** Frame operations:
5834
5835 +++
5836 *** New functions `frame-current-scroll-bars' and `window-current-scroll-bars'.
5837
5838 These functions return the current locations of the vertical and
5839 horizontal scroll bars in a frame or window.
5840
5841 +++
5842 *** The new function `modify-all-frames-parameters' modifies parameters
5843 for all (existing and future) frames.
5844
5845 +++
5846 *** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use
5847 for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a
5848 number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp
5849 Reference manual for more detailed documentation.
5850
5851 +++
5852 *** When using non-toolkit scroll bars with the default width,
5853 the `scroll-bar-width' frame parameter value is nil.
5854
5855 ** Mule changes:
5856
5857 +++
5858 *** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
5859
5860 Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
5861 from 0 to 255. As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte
5862 buffers no longer exist. We only know of three reasons to use them
5863 now:
5864
5865 1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time.
5866
5867 2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid
5868 the time it takes to convert the format.
5869
5870 3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
5871 wasteful.
5872
5873 ---
5874 *** `set-buffer-file-coding-system' now takes an additional argument,
5875 NOMODIFY. If it is non-nil, it means don't mark the buffer modified.
5876
5877 +++
5878 *** The new variable `auto-coding-functions' lets you specify functions
5879 to examine a file being visited and deduce the proper coding system
5880 for it. (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
5881 file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)
5882
5883 ---
5884 *** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
5885 of one coding system from another coding system.
5886
5887 ---
5888 *** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that
5889 the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text
5890 parts, e.g. utf-16.
5891
5892 +++
5893 *** New function `decode-coding-inserted-region' decodes a region as if
5894 it is read from a file without decoding.
5895
5896 ---
5897 *** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
5898 hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.
5899
5900 ---
5901 *** New function `quail-find-key' returns a list of keys to type in the
5902 current input method to input a character.
5903
5904 ** Mode line changes:
5905
5906 +++
5907 *** New function `format-mode-line'.
5908
5909 This returns the mode line or header line of the selected (or a
5910 specified) window as a string with or without text properties.
5911
5912 +++
5913 *** The new mode-line construct `(:propertize ELT PROPS...)' can be
5914 used to add text properties to mode-line elements.
5915
5916 +++
5917 *** The new `%i' and `%I' constructs for `mode-line-format' can be used
5918 to display the size of the accessible part of the buffer on the mode
5919 line.
5920
5921 +++
5922 *** Mouse-face on mode-line (and header-line) is now supported.
5923
5924 ** Menu manipulation changes:
5925
5926 ---
5927 *** To manipulate the File menu using easy-menu, you must specify the
5928 proper name "file". In previous Emacs versions, you had to specify
5929 "files", even though the menu item itself was changed to say "File"
5930 several versions ago.
5931
5932 ---
5933 *** The dummy function keys made by easy-menu are now always lower case.
5934 If you specify the menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'
5935 as the "key" bound by that key binding.
5936
5937 This is relevant only if Lisp code looks for the bindings that were
5938 made with easy-menu.
5939
5940 ---
5941 *** `easy-menu-define' now allows you to use nil for the symbol name
5942 if you don't need to give the menu a name. If you install the menu
5943 into other keymaps right away (MAPS is non-nil), it usually doesn't
5944 need to have a name.
5945
5946 ** Operating system access:
5947
5948 +++
5949 *** The new primitive `get-internal-run-time' returns the processor
5950 run time used by Emacs since start-up.
5951
5952 +++
5953 *** Functions `user-uid' and `user-real-uid' now return floats if the
5954 user UID doesn't fit in a Lisp integer. Function `user-full-name'
5955 accepts a float as UID parameter.
5956
5957 +++
5958 *** New function `locale-info' accesses locale information.
5959
5960 ---
5961 *** On MS Windows, locale-coding-system is used to interact with the OS.
5962 The Windows specific variable w32-system-coding-system, which was
5963 formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system.
5964
5965 ---
5966 *** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
5967 debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.
5968
5969 ** Miscellaneous:
5970
5971 +++
5972 *** A number of hooks have been renamed to better follow the conventions:
5973
5974 `find-file-hooks' to `find-file-hook',
5975 `find-file-not-found-hooks' to `find-file-not-found-functions',
5976 `write-file-hooks' to `write-file-functions',
5977 `write-contents-hooks' to `write-contents-functions',
5978 `x-lost-selection-hooks' to `x-lost-selection-functions',
5979 `x-sent-selection-hooks' to `x-sent-selection-functions',
5980 `delete-frame-hook' to `delete-frame-functions'.
5981
5982 In each case the old name remains as an alias for the moment.
5983
5984 +++
5985 *** Variable `local-write-file-hooks' is marked obsolete.
5986
5987 Use the LOCAL arg of `add-hook'.
5988
5989 ---
5990 *** New function `x-send-client-message' sends a client message when
5991 running under X.
5992
5993 ** GC changes:
5994
5995 +++
5996 *** New variable `gc-cons-percentage' automatically grows the GC cons threshold
5997 as the heap size increases.
5998
5999 +++
6000 *** New variables `gc-elapsed' and `gcs-done' provide extra information
6001 on garbage collection.
6002
6003 +++
6004 *** The normal hook `post-gc-hook' is run at the end of garbage collection.
6005
6006 The hook is run with GC inhibited, so use it with care.
6007 \f
6008 * New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 22.1
6009
6010 +++
6011 ** The new library button.el implements simple and fast `clickable
6012 buttons' in Emacs buffers. Buttons are much lighter-weight than the
6013 `widgets' implemented by widget.el, and can be used by lisp code that
6014 doesn't require the full power of widgets. Emacs uses buttons for
6015 such things as help and apropos buffers.
6016
6017 ---
6018 ** The new library tree-widget.el provides a widget to display a set
6019 of hierarchical data as an outline. For example, the tree-widget is
6020 well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.
6021
6022 +++
6023 ** The new library bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
6024 binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
6025 data structures.
6026
6027 ---
6028 ** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
6029 buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.
6030
6031 It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
6032 and its SQLi buffer is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi
6033 buffer containing the output from the SQL buffer containing the
6034 commands.
6035
6036 This is how to use sql.el and master.el together: the variable
6037 sql-buffer contains the slave buffer. It is a local variable in the
6038 SQL buffer.
6039
6040 (add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
6041 (function (lambda ()
6042 (master-mode t)
6043 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
6044 (add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
6045 (function (lambda ()
6046 (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
6047
6048 +++
6049 ** The new library benchmark.el does timing measurements on Lisp code.
6050
6051 This includes measuring garbage collection time.
6052
6053 +++
6054 ** The new library testcover.el does test coverage checking.
6055
6056 This is so you can tell whether you've tested all paths in your Lisp
6057 code. It works with edebug.
6058
6059 The function `testcover-start' instruments all functions in a given
6060 file. Then test your code. The function `testcover-mark-all' adds
6061 overlay "splotches" to the Lisp file's buffer to show where coverage
6062 is lacking. The command `testcover-next-mark' (bind it to a key!)
6063 will move point forward to the next spot that has a splotch.
6064
6065 Normally, a red splotch indicates the form was never completely
6066 evaluated; a brown splotch means it always evaluated to the same
6067 value. The red splotches are skipped for forms that can't possibly
6068 complete their evaluation, such as `error'. The brown splotches are
6069 skipped for forms that are expected to always evaluate to the same
6070 value, such as (setq x 14).
6071
6072 For difficult cases, you can add do-nothing macros to your code to
6073 help out the test coverage tool. The macro `noreturn' suppresses a
6074 red splotch. It is an error if the argument to `noreturn' does
6075 return. The macro `1value' suppresses a brown splotch for its argument.
6076 This macro is a no-op except during test-coverage -- then it signals
6077 an error if the argument actually returns differing values.
6078
6079
6080 \f
6081 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
6082 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
6083
6084 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6085 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6086 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
6087 any later version.
6088
6089 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
6090 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
6091 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
6092 GNU General Public License for more details.
6093
6094 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
6095 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
6096 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
6097 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
6098
6099 \f
6100 Local variables:
6101 mode: outline
6102 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
6103 end:
6104
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