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3 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
10
11 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
13
14 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
16
17 Temporary note:
18 +++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates are complete.
19 (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
20 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
21 When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
22 otherwise leave it unmarked.
23
24 \f
25 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
26
27 +++
28 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
29
30 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
31
32 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
33 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
34 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
35 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
36 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
37 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
38
39 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
40 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
41
42 ---
43 ** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
44 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
45
46 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
47 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
48 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
49 build with 'make V=1'.
50
51 ---
52 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows to specify a
53 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
54 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
55 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
56 be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
57
58 ---
59 ** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
60 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
61 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
62
63 \f
64 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
65
66 \f
67 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
68
69 ** New command `comment-line' bound to `C-x C-;'.
70
71 ** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
72 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found).
73
74 +++
75 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
76 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
77 the `network-security-level' variable.
78
79 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
80
81 ---
82 ** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
83 text in the region.
84
85 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
86 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard.
87 x-select-enable-primary and renamed select-enable-primary.
88 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
89 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
90 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
91 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
92
93 +++
94 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
95
96 +++
97 ** New macro `define-advice'.
98
99 ** `insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
100 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
101
102 ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
103
104 +++
105 ** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
106 The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
107 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
108
109 ---
110 ** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the
111 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
112 for use in Emacs bug reports.
113
114 +++
115 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
116 hiding character but the default `.' can be used by let-binding the
117 variable `read-hide-char'.
118
119 ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp'
120 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
121 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
122 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
123 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
124
125 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
126 If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
127 option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
128
129 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
130 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
131 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
132 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
133 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
134 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
135
136 +++
137 ** The new function `bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows to
138 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
139 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
140 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
141 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
142
143 +++
144 ** The new function `buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows to
145 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
146 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
147 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
148 text and directional control characters.
149
150 ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
151 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
152 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
153 this has no effect.
154
155 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
156 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
157
158 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
159 files (recursively) under a directory.
160
161 ** The new `directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
162 name (as returned from, for instance, `file-name-all-completions' is
163 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
164 the name is a forward slash.
165
166 +++
167 ** New variable `fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
168 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
169 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
170 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
171
172 ** The function `font-info' now returns more details about a font.
173 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
174 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
175
176 \f
177 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
178
179 ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
180
181 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
182
183 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
184 that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
185 chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
186 character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
187 paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
188 performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
189
190 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
191 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
192 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
193 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3 and 7.0, and a few changes suggested
194 for Unicode 8.0. This includes full support for directional isolates
195 and the Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these
196 Unicode standards.
197
198 ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
199
200 \f
201 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
202 ** package.el
203 *** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
204 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
205 -pkg file is optional.
206
207 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
208 The FORCE argument to `package-delete' overrides this.
209
210 *** New custom variable `package-selected-packages' tracks packages
211 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
212 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
213
214 *** New command `package-install-user-selected-packages' installs all
215 packages from `package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
216
217 *** New command `package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
218 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
219
220 ** Shell
221
222 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
223 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
224 the `display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
225 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
226 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
227 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
228
229
230 ** EIEIO
231 *** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
232 *** The `newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
233 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
234 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
235 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
236 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
237 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
238 *** `constructor' is now an obsolete alias for `make-instance'.
239
240 ** ido
241 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
242 Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
243 kills the buffer at head.
244
245 ** Minibuffer
246
247 *** You can use <up> and <down> keys to move point in the multi-line
248 minibuffer just as in an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
249 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
250 element. The new commands bound to <up> and <down> in the minibuffer:
251 `next-line-or-history-element' and `previous-line-or-history-element'.
252
253 ** Search and Replace
254
255 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
256 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
257 `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
258 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
259 string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'.
260 To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired
261 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
262 typing RET.
263
264 ** Calc
265 +++
266 *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
267 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
268
269 ** ElDoc
270 *** New minor mode `global-eldoc-mode'
271 *** `eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to `ignore'
272 *** `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
273 and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
274 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
275 ] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.
276
277 ** eww
278
279 ---
280 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
281
282 +++
283 *** A new command `F' (`eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
284 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
285 customize the `shr-use-fonts' variable.
286
287 +++
288 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
289 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
290 the like off the page.
291
292 ---
293 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
294 buffers you want to keep separate.
295
296 +++
297 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
298 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
299
300 +++
301 *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
302 the data in the buffer.
303
304 ---
305 *** The `eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
306 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
307
308 +++
309 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
310 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
311 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
312 details.
313
314 +++
315 *** `mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
316
317 +++
318 *** The new `S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
319 them.
320
321 ---
322 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
323 invalid certificates are marked in red.
324
325 ** Message mode
326
327 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
328 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
329
330 ** pcase
331 *** New UPatterns `quote' and `app'.
332 *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'.
333 +++
334 *** New vector QPattern.
335
336 ** Lisp mode
337 *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
338
339 ** Rectangle editing
340 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
341 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
342 *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
343
344 ** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which
345 should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp.
346
347 ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' takes (:append FUN) to mean
348 appending FUN to `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
349
350 ** cl-lib
351 *** New functions cl-fresh-line, cl-digit-char-p and cl-parse-integer.
352
353 ** seq
354 *** New seq library:
355 The seq library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros that
356 complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions are
357 prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
358
359 ** Calendar and diary
360
361 +++
362 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
363 `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
364 `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
365
366 +++
367 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
368 See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
369
370 ---
371 *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
372 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
373
374 ---
375 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
376 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
377 The remainder were:
378
379 **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
380 `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'.
381
382 **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'.
383
384 **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'.
385
386 **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
387
388 **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'.
389
390 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
391
392 ---
393 ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
394
395 +++
396 ** `info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
397 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
398 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
399
400 ---
401 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
402
403 ---
404 ** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u now handle repeat counts to delete or
405 undelete multiple messages.
406
407 ** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
408 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
409 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
410 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
411 `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that.
412
413 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
414
415 ** In sh-mode, you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
416 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
417
418 ** TLS
419 ---
420 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
421
422 ** URL
423
424 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
425 When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
426 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
427
428 *** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string.
429 The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
430 a function.
431
432 *** The new interface variable `url-request-noninteractive' can be used
433 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
434 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
435
436 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
437 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
438 `gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
439
440 ** Tramp
441
442 *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
443
444 ** SQL mode
445
446 *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote
447 connections using Tramp.
448
449 *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next' sends the current line to the
450 interactive buffer and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace
451 and comments.
452
453 *** Add support for Vertica SQL.
454
455 ** VC and related modes
456
457 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
458
459 *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
460 the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
461 background or to the foreground.
462
463 *** `compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently used window
464 instead of the next window. The new option `compare-windows-get-window-function'
465 allows to customize this.
466
467 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
468 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
469
470 ** VHDL mode supports VHDL'08.
471
472 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
473 fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
474 non-integer inputs.
475
476 ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro expansions
477 , interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of #defined symbols.
478
479 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file
480 name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp and .hxx.
481 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
482 reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden.
483 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
484 name patterns (e.x. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded.
485
486 ** TeX mode
487
488 *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
489 use PDF instead of DVI.
490
491 ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation.
492 By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but
493 `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that.
494
495 ** tildify: `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
496 `tildify-foreach-region-function' variables added making
497 `tildify-string-alist', `tildify-pattern-alist', and
498 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
499 helper functions) obsolete.
500
501 ** xref
502 The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
503 and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
504
505 *** New key bindings
506 `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
507 to pick one destination among several. Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
508 unbound. `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
509 easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
510 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
511 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
512 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
513
514 *** New variables
515 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
516 `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
517 alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and
518 `xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead.
519
520 ** etags
521 As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
522 `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
523 `tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
524
525 ** EUDC
526 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
527
528 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
529
530 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
531 subprocess instead of on the command line.
532
533 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
534 need to configure this manually anymore.
535
536 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
537 rewritten.
538
539 There have also been customization changes.
540
541 *** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
542 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
543
544 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
545 on email and firstname instead of surname.
546
547 *** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
548 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
549
550 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
551 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
552
553 *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
554 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
555 command line's password prompt.
556
557 +++
558 ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
559 be added to the archive.
560
561 ** Autorevert: dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file
562 notifications, if Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
563
564 ** Obsolete packages
565
566 ---
567 *** gulp.el
568
569 \f
570 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
571
572 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
573
574 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
575
576 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
577 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
578
579 ** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
580 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
581 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
582 other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
583 a typographically-correct documents.
584 \f
585 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
586
587 ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer.
588 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
589 from which the minibuffer was entered, call it with the new argument
590 `switch-buffer'.
591
592 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers's marks.
593
594 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
595 active region handling.
596
597 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
598
599 ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
600
601 +++
602 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
603 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
604 position list returned for such events is now nil.
605
606 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
607 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
608 Emacs-21.
609
610 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
611 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
612 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
613 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
614
615 \f
616 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
617
618 ** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring.
619 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then
620 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
621
622 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
623
624 ** New function macroexpand-1 to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
625
626 ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
627 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
628 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
629 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
630 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
631 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
632 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
633
634 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
635
636 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
637 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
638 called interactively.
639
640 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
641
642 +++
643 ** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
644 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
645 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
646 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
647 have side effects.
648
649 +++
650 ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
651 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
652
653 ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
654
655 ** Functions `rmail-delete-forward' and `rmail-delete-backward' take an
656 optional repeat-count argument.
657
658 ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
659
660 ** Function `system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
661 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
662 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
663 name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
664
665 +++
666 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
667
668 ---
669 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
670 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to
671 execute code depending whether all values are true.
672 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
673 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
674
675 +++
676 ** Time-related changes:
677
678 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
679 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
680 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
681 Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone',
682 `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time',
683 `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year',
684 `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'.
685
686 *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have
687 been obsoleted.
688
689 *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and
690 `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
691 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
692 integers.
693
694 +++
695 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
696 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
697
698 \f
699 * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1
700
701 +++
702 ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
703 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
704 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
705 *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
706 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
707 *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
708 bars on all existing and future frames.
709 *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
710 scroll bars on the selected frame.
711 *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
712 `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
713 for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
714 *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
715 `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
716 bars on a specific frame or window.
717 *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
718 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
719 *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
720 bars too.
721 *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
722 `scroll-bar-height'.
723
724 +++
725 ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
726 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
727 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
728 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
729 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
730 builds.
731
732 +++
733 ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
734 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
735 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
736 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
737 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
738 *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
739 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
740 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
741 number of columns or lines it displays.
742
743 +++
744 ** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of
745 windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer',
746 `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'.
747
748 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed.
749 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
750
751 \f
752 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
753
754 ---
755 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
756 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
757 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
758
759 +++
760 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
761
762 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
763
764 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
765
766 \f
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769
770 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
771 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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774
775 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
776 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
777 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
778 GNU General Public License for more details.
779
780 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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782
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