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3 Copyright (C) 2014-2016 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 file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates.
12 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
13 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
14
15 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling 'view-emacs-news'
16 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
17
18 Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates are complete.
20 (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
21 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
22 When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
23 otherwise leave it unmarked.
24
25 \f
26 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.2
27
28 ** The new option 'configure --enable-gcc-warnings=warn-only' causes
29 GCC to issue warnings without stopping the build. This behavior is
30 now the default in developer builds. As before, use
31 '--disable-gcc-warnings' to suppress GCC's warnings, and
32 '--enable-gcc-warnings' to stop the build if GCC issues warnings.
33
34 +++
35 ** The Emacs server now has socket-launching support. This allows
36 socket based activation, where an external process like systemd can
37 invoke the Emacs server process upon a socket connection event and
38 hand the socket over to Emacs. Emacs uses this socket to service
39 emacsclient commands. This new functionality can be disabled with the
40 configure option '--disable-libsystemd'.
41
42 ** New configure option '--disable-build-details' attempts to build an
43 Emacs that is more likely to be reproducible; that is, if you build
44 and install Emacs twice, the second Emacs is a copy of the first.
45 Deterministic builds omit the build date from the output of the
46 emacs-version and erc-cmd-SV functions, and the leave the following
47 variables nil: emacs-build-system, emacs-build-time,
48 erc-emacs-build-time.
49
50 ** Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs users are not
51 affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in December 2013.
52
53 \f
54 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.2
55
56 \f
57 * Changes in Emacs 25.2
58
59 --
60 ** `process-attributes' on Darwin systems now return more information.
61
62 +++
63 ** A number of accessors for the value returned by 'file-attributes'
64 has been added. They are: 'file-attribute-type',
65 'file-attribute-link-number', 'file-attribute-user-id',
66 'file-attribute-group-id', 'file-attribute-access-time',
67 'file-attribute-modification-time',
68 'file-attribute-status-change-time', 'file-attribute-size',
69 'file-attribute-modes', 'file-attribute-inode-number', and
70 'file-attribute-device-number'
71
72 +++
73 ** The new function 'buffer-hash' has been added, and can be used to
74 compute a fash, non-consing hash of the contents of a buffer.
75
76 ---
77 ** 'fill-paragraph' no longer marks the buffer as changed unless it
78 actually changed something.
79
80 ---
81 ** The locale language name 'ca' is now mapped to the language
82 environment 'Catalan', which has been added.
83
84 ---
85 ** 'align-regexp' has a separate history for its interactive argument
86 'align-regexp' no longer shares its history with all other
87 history-less functions that use 'read-string'
88
89 +++
90 ** The networking code has been reworked so that it's more
91 asynchronous than it was (when specifying :nowait t in
92 'make-network-process'). How asynchronous it is varies based on the
93 capabilities of the system, but on a typical GNU/Linux system the DNS
94 resolution, the connection, and (for TLS streams) the TLS negotiation
95 are all done without blocking the main Emacs thread. To get
96 asynchronous TLS, the TLS boot parameters have to be passed in (see
97 the manual for details).
98
99 Certain process oriented functions (like 'process-datagram-address')
100 will block until socket setup has been performed. The recommended way
101 to deal with asynchronous sockets is to avoid interacting with them
102 until they have changed status to "run". This is most easily done
103 from a process sentinel.
104
105 ** 'make-network-process' and 'open-network-stream' sometimes allowed
106 :service to be an integer string (e.g., :service "993") and sometimes
107 required an integer (e.g., :service 993). This difference has been
108 eliminated, and integer strings work everywhere.
109
110 ** It is possible to disable attempted recovery on fatal signals
111
112 Two new variables allow to disable attempts to recover from stack
113 overflow and to avoid automatic auto-save when Emacs is delivered a
114 fatal signal. 'attempt-stack-overflow-recovery', if set to 'nil',
115 will disable attempts to recover from C stack overflows; Emacs will
116 then crash as with any other fatal signal.
117 'attempt-orderly-shutdown-on-fatal-signal', if set to 'nil', will
118 disable attempts to auto-save the session and shut down in an orderly
119 fashion when Emacs receives a fatal signal; instead, Emacs will
120 terminate immediately. Both variables are non-'nil' by default.
121 These variables are for users who would like to avoid the small
122 probability of data corruption due to techniques Emacs uses to recover
123 in these situations.
124
125 +++
126 ** A second dir-local file (.dir-locals-2.el) is now accepted.
127 See the variable 'dir-locals-file-2' for more information.
128
129 ---
130 ** International domain names (IDNA) are now encoded via the new
131 puny.el library, so that one can visit web sites with non-ASCII URLs.
132
133 +++
134 ** The new 'timer-list' command lists all active timers in a buffer
135 where you can cancel them with the 'c' command.
136
137 +++
138 ** New function 'read-multiple-choice' use to prompt for
139 multiple-choice questions, with a handy way to display help texts.
140
141 \f
142 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.2
143
144 +++
145 ** New bindings for 'query-replace-map'.
146 'undo', undo the last replacement; bound to 'u'.
147 'undo-all', undo all replacements; bound to 'U'.
148
149 \f
150 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.2
151
152 ** Compilation mode
153
154 ---
155 *** Messages from CMake are now recognized.
156
157 ** Dired
158
159 +++
160 *** In wdired, when editing files to contain slash characters,
161 the resulting directories are automatically created. Whether
162 to do this or not is controlled by the
163 'wdired-create-parent-directories' variable.
164
165 +++
166 *** 'W' is now bound to 'browse-url-of-dired-file', and is useful for
167 viewing HTML files and the like.
168
169 ** eww
170
171 +++
172 *** A new 's' command for switching to another eww buffer via the minibuffer.
173
174 ---
175 *** The 'o' command ('shr-save-contents') has moved to 'O' to avoid collision
176 with the 'o' command from 'image-map'.
177
178 +++
179 *** A new command 'C' ('eww-toggle-colors') can be used to toggle
180 whether to use the HTML-specified colors or not. The user can also
181 customize the 'shr-use-colors' variable.
182
183 ---
184 *** Images that are being loaded are now marked with grey
185 "placeholder" images of the size specified by the HTML. They are then
186 replaced by the real images asynchronously, which will also now
187 respect width/height HTML specs (unless they specify widths/heights
188 bigger than the current window).
189
190 ** Images
191
192 +++
193 *** Images are automatically scaled before displaying based on the
194 'image-scaling-factor' variable (if Emacs supports scaling the images
195 in question).
196
197 +++
198 *** Images inserted with 'insert-image' and related functions get a
199 keymap put into the text properties (or overlays) that span the
200 image. This keymap binds keystrokes for manipulating size and
201 rotation, as well as saving the image to a file. These commands are
202 also available in 'image-mode'.
203
204 +++
205 *** A new library for creating and manipulating SVG images has been
206 added. See the "SVG Images" section in the lispref manual for
207 details.
208
209 +++
210 *** New setf-able function to access and set image parameters is
211 provided: 'image-property'.
212
213 +++
214 ** The commands that add ChangeLog entries now prefer a VCS root directory
215 for the ChangeLog file, if none already exists. Customize
216 'change-log-directory-files' to nil for the old behavior.
217
218 ---
219 ** Support for non-string values of 'time-stamp-format' has been removed.
220
221 ** Message
222
223 ---
224 *** `message-use-idna' now defaults to t (because Emacs comes with
225 built-in IDNA support now).
226
227 ---
228 *** The 'message-valid-fqdn-regexp' variable has been removed, since
229 there are now top-level domains added all the time. Message will no
230 longer warn about sending emails to top-level domains it hasn't heard
231 about.
232
233 *** 'message-beginning-of-line' (bound to C-a) understands folded headers.
234 In 'visual-line-mode' it will look for the true beginning of a header
235 while in non-'visual-line-mode' it will move the point to the indented
236 header's value.
237
238 ** Tramp
239
240 +++
241 *** New connection method "sg", which allows to edit files under
242 different group ID.
243
244 +++
245 *** New connection method "doas" for OpenBSD hosts.
246
247 ---
248 ** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set back to t in 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
249
250 ** CSS mode
251
252 ---
253 *** Support for completing attribute values and bang-rules using the
254 'completion-at-point' command.
255
256 +++
257 ** Emacs now supports character name escape sequences in character and
258 string literals. The syntax variants \N{character name} and
259 \N{U+code} are supported.
260
261 +++
262 ** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
263 This allows better indentation support in modes that support multiple
264 programming languages in the same buffer, like literate programming
265 environments or ANTLR programs with embedded Python code.
266
267 A major mode can provide indentation context for a sub-mode through
268 the 'prog-indentation-context' variable. To support this, modes that
269 provide indentation should use 'prog-widen' instead of 'widen' and
270 'prog-first-column' instead of a literal zero. See the node
271 "Mode-Specific Indent" in the ELisp manual for more details.
272
273 ** ERC
274
275 *** New variable 'erc-default-port-tls' used to connect to TLS IRC
276 servers.
277
278 ** URL
279
280 +++
281 *** The new function 'url-cookie-delete-cookie' can be used to
282 programmatically delete all cookies, or cookies from a specific
283 domain.
284
285 *** The URL package now support https over proxies supporting CONNECT.
286
287 +++
288 *** `url-user-agent' now defaults to `default', and the User-Agent
289 string is computed dynamically based on `url-privacy-level'.
290
291 ** VC and related modes
292
293 ---
294 *** The VC state indicator in the mode line now defaults to more
295 colorful faces to make it more obvious to the user what the state is.
296 See the 'vc-faces' customization group.
297
298 \f
299 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.2
300
301 \f
302 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.2
303
304 +++
305 ** Resizing a frame no longer runs 'window-configuration-change-hook'.
306 Put your function on 'window-size-change-functions' instead.
307
308 ** 'C-up', 'C-down', 'C-left' and 'C-right' are now defined in term
309 mode to send the same escape sequences that xterm does. This makes
310 things like forward-word in readline work.
311
312 ---
313 ** hideshow mode got four key bindings that are analogous to outline
314 mode bindings: 'C-c @ C-a', 'C-c @ C-t', 'C-c @ C-d', and 'C-c @ C-e.'
315
316 ** The grep/rgrep/lgrep functions will now ask about saving files
317 before running. This is controlled by the 'grep-save-buffers'
318 variable.
319
320 \f
321 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.2
322
323 ** New var syntax-ppss-table to control the syntax-table used in syntax-ppss
324
325 ** Autoload files can be generated without timestamps,
326 by setting 'autoload-timestamps' to nil.
327 FIXME As an experiment, nil is the current default.
328 If no insurmountable problems before next release, it can stay that way.
329
330 ** 'ert-with-function-mocked' of 'ert-x package allows mocking of functions
331 in unit tests.
332
333 ---
334 ** 'gnutls-boot' now takes a parameter :complete-negotiation that says
335 that negotiation should complete even on non-blocking sockets.
336
337 +++
338 ** New functions 'window-pixel-width-before-size-change' and
339 'window-pixel-height-before-size-change' allow to detect which window
340 changed size when 'window-size-change-functions' are run.
341
342 +++
343 ** New function 'display-buffer-reuse-mode-window' is an action function
344 suitable for use in 'display-buffer-alist'. For example, to avoid creating
345 a new window when opening man pages when there's already one, use
346 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
347 '("\\`\\*Man .*\\*\\'" .
348 (display-buffer-reuse-mode-window
349 (inhibit-same-window . nil)
350 (mode . Man-mode))))
351
352 ---
353 ** There is now a new variable 'flyspell-sort-corrections-function'
354 that allows changing the way corrections are sorted.
355
356 ---
357 ** The new command 'fortune-message' has been added, which displays
358 fortunes in the echo area.
359
360 +++
361 ** New function 'func-arity' returns information about the argument list
362 of an arbitrary function.
363 This is a generalization of 'subr-arity' for functions that are not
364 built-in primitives. We recommend using this new function instead of
365 'subr-arity'.
366
367 +++
368 ** 'parse-partial-sexp' state has a new element. Element 10 is
369 non-nil when the last character scanned might be the first character
370 of a two character construct, i.e. a comment delimiter or escaped
371 character. Its value is the syntax of that last character.
372
373 +++
374 ** 'parse-partial-sexp''s state, element 9, has now been confirmed as
375 permanent and documented, and may be used by Lisp programs. Its value
376 is a list of currently open parenthesis positions, starting with the
377 outermost parenthesis.
378
379 ---
380 ** 'read-color' will now display the color names using the color itself
381 as the background color.
382
383 ** The function 'redirect-debugging-output' now works on platforms
384 other than GNU/Linux.
385
386 +++
387 ** The new function 'string-version-lessp' compares strings by
388 interpreting consecutive runs of numerical characters as numbers, and
389 compares their numerical values. According to this predicate,
390 "foo2.png" is smaller than "foo12.png".
391
392 +++
393 ** New functions 'sxhash-eq' and 'sxhash-eql' return hash codes of a
394 Lisp object suitable for use with 'eq' and 'eql' correspondingly. If
395 two objects are 'eq' ('eql'), then the result of 'sxhash-eq'
396 ('sxhash-eql') on them will be the same.
397
398 +++
399 ** Function 'sxhash' has been renamed to 'sxhash-equal' for
400 consistency with the new functions. For compatibility, 'sxhash'
401 remains as an alias to 'sxhash-equal'.
402
403 +++
404 ** Time conversion functions that accept a time zone rule argument now
405 allow it to be OFFSET or a list (OFFSET ABBR), where the integer
406 OFFSET is a count of seconds east of Universal Time, and the string
407 ABBR is a time zone abbreviation. The affected functions are
408 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone', 'decode-time',
409 'format-time-string', and 'set-time-zone-rule'.
410
411 \f
412 * Changes in Emacs 25.2 on Non-Free Operating Systems
413
414 ** Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.
415 The new keyboard hooking code properly grabs system hotkeys such as
416 Win-* and Alt-TAB, in a way that Emacs can get at them before the
417 system. This makes the 'w32-register-hot-key' functionality work
418 again on all versions of MS-Windows starting with Windows 7. On
419 Windows NT and later you can now register any hotkey combination. (On
420 Windows 9X, the previous limitations, spelled out in the Emacs manual,
421 still apply.)
422
423 \f
424 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
425
426 +++
427 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
428
429 +++
430 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
431
432 +++
433 ** New configure option --with-cairo.
434 This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing. As a side effect, it provides
435 support for built-in printing, when Emacs was built with GTK+.
436 Cairo drawing is an experimental feature in Emacs, and subject to
437 change in future releases.
438
439 +++
440 ** New configure option --with-modules.
441 This enables support for loading dynamic modules; see below.
442
443 ---
444 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
445 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
446 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
447 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
448 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
449 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
450
451 ---
452 ** The Emacs garbage collector assumes GC_MARK_STACK == GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS.
453 The GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS stack-marking variant has been the default
454 since Emacs 24.4, and the other variants were undocumented and were
455 obstacles to maintenance and development. GC_MARK_STACK and its
456 related symbols have been removed from the C internals.
457
458 ---
459 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
460 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
461
462 ---
463 ** 'configure' now prefers inotify to gfile for file notification,
464 unless gfile is explicitly requested via --with-file-notification='gfile'.
465
466 ---
467 ** 'configure' detects the kqueue file notification library on *BSD
468 and Mac OS X machines.
469
470 ---
471 ** The configure option '--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
472 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
473
474 ---
475 ** The configure option '--with-mmdf' has been removed.
476 It was no longer useful, as it relied on libraries that are no longer
477 supported, and its presence led to confusion during configuration.
478 This affects only the 'movemail' utility; Emacs itself can still
479 process MMDF-format files as before.
480
481 +++
482 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
483 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
484 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
485 build with 'make V=1'.
486
487 ---
488 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows you to specify a
489 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
490 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
491 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
492 be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
493
494 ---
495 ** The 'grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
496 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
497 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
498
499 ---
500 ** Emacs 25 comes with a new set of icons.
501 Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
502 The old Emacs logo icons are available as 'emacs23.png' in the same location.
503
504 ---
505 ** New make target 'check-expensive' to run additional tests.
506 This includes all tests which run via "make check", plus additional
507 tests which take more time to perform.
508
509 \f
510 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
511
512 +++
513 ** When Emacs is given a file as a command line argument and
514 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, display both the file and
515 'initial-buffer-choice'. When Emacs is given more than one file and
516 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, show 'initial-buffer-choice'
517 and *Buffer List*. This makes Emacs convenient to use from the
518 command line when 'initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil.
519
520 +++
521 ** The value of 'initial-scratch-message' is now treated as a doc string
522 and can contain escape sequences for command keys, quotes, and the like.
523
524 ---
525 ** The default height of GUI frames was enlarged.
526 This is so there's enough space in the initial window to display the
527 optional text about recovering crashes sessions, without losing the
528 splash image display.
529
530 \f
531 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
532
533 +++
534 ** Xwidgets: a new feature for embedding native widgets inside Emacs buffers.
535 If you have gtk3 and webkitgtk3 installed, and Emacs was built with
536 xwidget support, you can access the embedded webkit browser with 'M-x
537 xwidget-webkit-browse-url'. This opens a new buffer with the embedded
538 browser. The buffer will have a new mode, 'xwidget-webkit-mode'
539 (similar to 'image-mode'), which supports the webkit widget.
540
541 +++
542 *** New functions for xwidget-webkit mode 'xwidget-webkit-insert-string',
543 'xwidget-webkit-adjust-size-dispatch', 'xwidget-webkit-back',
544 'xwidget-webkit-browse-url', 'xwidget-webkit-reload',
545 'xwidget-webkit-current-url', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-backward',
546 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-forward', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-down',
547 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-up'.
548
549 +++
550 ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules).
551 A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional
552 functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package
553 written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions 'load', 'require',
554 'load-file', etc. were extended to load such modules, as they do with
555 Emacs Lisp packages. The new variable 'module-file-suffix' holds the
556 system-dependent value of the file-name extension ('.so' on Posix
557 hosts) of the module files.
558
559 A module should export a C-callable function named
560 'emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to
561 'load' or 'require' which loads the module. It should also export a
562 symbol named 'plugin_is_GPL_compatible' to indicate that its code is
563 released under the GPL or compatible license; Emacs will refuse to
564 load modules that don't export such a symbol.
565
566 If a module needs to call Emacs functions, it should do so through the
567 API defined and documented in the header file 'emacs-module.h'. Note
568 that any module that provides Lisp-callable functions will have to use
569 Emacs functions such as 'fset' and 'funcall', in order to register its
570 functions with the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
571
572 Modules can create 'user-ptr' Lisp objects that embed pointers to C
573 structs defined by the module. This is useful for keeping around
574 complex data structures created by a module, to be passed back to the
575 module's functions. User-ptr objects can also have associated
576 "finalizers" -- functions to be run when the object is GC'ed; this is
577 useful for freeing any resources allocated for the underlying data
578 structure, such as memory, open file descriptors, etc. A new
579 predicate 'user-ptrp' returns non-nil if its argument is a 'user-ptr'
580 object.
581
582 Loadable modules in Emacs are an experimental feature, and subject to
583 change in future releases. For that reason, their support is disabled
584 by default, and must be enabled by using the '--with-modules' option
585 at configure time.
586
587 +++
588 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
589 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
590 the 'network-security-level' variable.
591
592 +++
593 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
594
595 +++
596 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard
597 and x-select-enable-primary is renamed select-enable-primary.
598 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
599 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
600 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
601 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
602
603 +++
604 ** New option 'switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' allows you to
605 customize how 'switch-to-buffer' proceeds interactively when the
606 selected window is strongly dedicated to its buffer.
607
608 +++
609 ** The option 'even-window-heights' has been renamed to
610 'even-window-sizes' and now handles window widths as well.
611
612 +++
613 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
614
615 +++
616 ** 'insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
617 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
618
619 +++
620 ** The new variable 'term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
621 The function 'tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
622 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
623
624 ---
625 ** New variable 'system-configuration-features', listing some of the
626 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
627 for use in Emacs bug reports.
628
629 +++
630 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
631 hiding character but the default '.' can be used by let-binding the
632 variable 'read-hide-char'.
633
634 +++
635 ** The Emacs pseudo-random number generator can be securely seeded.
636 On system where Emacs can access the system entropy or some other
637 cryptographically secure random stream, it now uses that when 'random'
638 is called with its argument 't'. This allows cryptographically strong
639 random values; in particular, the Emacs server now uses this facility
640 to produce its authentication key.
641
642 ---
643 ** New input methods: 'tamil-dvorak' and 'programmer-dvorak'.
644
645 \f
646 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
647
648 +++
649 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
650
651 ** Changes in undo
652
653 +++
654 *** Successive single-char deletions are collapsed in the undo-log just like
655 successive char insertions. Which commands invoke this behavior is
656 controlled by the new 'undo-auto-amalgamate' function. See the node
657 "Undo" in the ELisp manual for more details.
658
659 +++
660 *** The heuristic used to insert 'undo-boundary' after each command
661 has changed, so that if a command causes changes in more than just the
662 current buffer, Emacs now calls 'undo-boundary' in every buffer
663 affected by the command.
664
665 +++
666 ** New command 'comment-line' bound to 'C-x C-;'.
667
668 ** New and improved facilities for inserting Unicode characters
669
670 ---
671 *** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
672
673 +++
674 *** C-x 8 now has shorthands for several chars, such as U+2010
675 (HYPHEN), U+2011 (NON-BREAKING HYPHEN), and U+2012 (FIGURE DASH). As
676 before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
677
678 +++
679 *** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for using curved quotes as you
680 type. See also the new variable 'text-quoting-style'.
681
682 ---
683 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
684
685 ---
686 ** Emacs now uses "bracketed paste mode" on text terminals that support it.
687 Bracketed paste mode causes text terminals to wrap pasted text in special
688 escape sequences that allow Emacs to tell the difference between text
689 you type and text you paste from other applications. Emacs then
690 avoids interpreting each character in the pasted text as it does with
691 keyboard input, which results in a paste experience similar to that
692 under a window system, and significant performance improvements when
693 pasting large amounts of text.
694
695 Bracketed paste mode is disabled by default, so Emacs automatically
696 enables it at startup if the terminal supports it.
697
698 +++
699 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
700 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
701 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
702 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3, 7.0, and the latest Unicode 8.0.
703 This includes full support for directional isolates and the
704 Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these Unicode
705 standards.
706
707 +++
708 ** You can access 'mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
709
710 +++
711 ** New buffer-local 'electric-pair-local-mode'.
712
713 +++
714 ** New variable 'fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
715 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
716 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
717 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
718
719 +++
720 ** New documentation command 'describe-symbol'.
721 Works for functions, variables, faces, etc. It is bound to 'C-h o' by
722 default.
723
724 +++
725 ** New function 'custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
726 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found). It
727 is intended for adding to 'kill-emacs-query-functions'.
728
729 +++
730 ** The old 'C-x w' bindings in hi-lock-mode are officially deprecated
731 in favor of the global 'M-s h' bindings introduced in Emacs-23.1.
732 They'll disappear soon.
733
734 \f
735 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
736
737 ** Checkdoc
738
739 +++
740 *** New command 'checkdoc-package-keywords' checks if the
741 current package keywords are recognized. Set the new option
742 'checkdoc-package-keywords-flag' to non-nil to make
743 'checkdoc-current-buffer' call this function automatically.
744
745 +++
746 *** New function 'checkdoc-file' checks for style errors.
747 It's meant for use together with 'compile':
748 emacs -batch --eval "(checkdoc-file \"subr.el\")"
749
750 ** Desktop
751
752 ---
753 *** The desktop format version has been upgraded from 206 to 208.
754 Although Emacs 25.1 can read a version 206 desktop, earlier Emacsen
755 cannot read a version 208 desktop. To upgrade your desktop file, you
756 must explicitly request the upgrade, by C-u M-x desktop-save. You are
757 recommended to do this as soon as you have firmly upgraded to Emacs
758 25.1 (or later). Should you ever need to downgrade your desktop file
759 to version 206, you can do this with C-u C-u M-x desktop-save.
760
761 +++
762 ** New function 'bookmark-set-no-overwrite' bound to C-x r M.
763 It raises an error if a bookmark of that name already exists,
764 unlike 'bookmark-set' which silently updates an existing bookmark.
765
766 ** Gnus
767
768 +++
769 *** New user options 'mm-html-inhibit-images' and 'mm-html-blocked-images'
770 now control how mm-* functions fetch and display images in an HTML
771 message. Gnus still uses 'gnus-inhibit-images' and 'gnus-blocked-images'
772 for that purpose, i.e., binds mm-html- variables with those gnus-
773 variables, but other packages do not have to bind gnus- variables now.
774
775 ---
776 *** 'mm-inline-text-html-with-images' has been removed.
777 Use 'mm-html-inhibit-images' instead. Note that the value is opposite
778 in meaning.
779
780 ** IMAP
781
782 ---
783 *** 'imap-ssl-program' has been removed, and imap.el uses the internal
784 GnuTLS encryption functions if possible.
785
786 ** JSON
787
788 ---
789 *** 'json-pretty-print' and 'json-pretty-print-buffer' now maintain
790 the ordering of object keys by default.
791
792 ---
793 *** New commands 'json-pretty-print-ordered' and
794 'json-pretty-print-buffer-ordered' pretty prints JSON objects with
795 object keys sorted alphabetically.
796
797 ** Prettify Symbols mode
798
799 +++
800 *** Prettify Symbols mode supports custom composition predicates. By
801 overriding the default 'prettify-symbols-compose-predicate', modes can
802 specify in which contexts a symbol may be displayed as some Unicode
803 character. 'prettify-symbols-default-compose-p' is the default which
804 is suitable for most programming languages such as C or Lisp (but not
805 (La)TeX).
806
807 +++
808 *** Symbols can be unprettified while point is inside them.
809 New variable 'prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point' configures this.
810
811 ** Enhanced xterm support
812
813 ---
814 *** The new variable 'xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' for configuring xterm.
815 This variable tells Emacs which advanced capabilities are available in
816 the xterm terminal emulator used to display Emacs text-mode frames.
817 The default is to check each capability, and use it if available.
818 (This variable was introduced in Emacs 24.1, but was not announced in
819 its NEWS.)
820
821 ---
822 *** Killing text now also sets the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection
823 in the surrounding GUI (using the OSC-52 escape sequence). This only works
824 if your xterm supports it and enables the 'allowWindowOps' options (disabled
825 by default at least in Debian, for security reasons).
826
827 Similarly, you can yank the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection (using the OSC-52
828 escape sequence) if your xterm has the feature enabled but for that you
829 additionally need to add 'getSelection' to 'xterm-extra-capabilities'.
830
831 +++
832 *** 'xterm-mouse-mode' now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it).
833
834 ---
835 ** The way to turn on and off 'save-place' mode has changed.
836 It is no longer sufficient to load the saveplace library and set
837 'save-place' non-nil. Instead, use the two new minor modes:
838 'save-place-mode' turns on saving last place in every file, and
839 'save-place-local-mode' does that only for the file in whose buffer it
840 is invoked. The 'save-place' variable is now an obsolete alias for
841 'save-place-mode', which replaces it, and 'toggle-save-place' is an
842 obsolete alias for the new 'save-place-local-mode' command.
843
844 ** ERC
845
846 +++
847 *** ERC can now hide message types by network or channel.
848 'erc-hide-list' will hide all messages of the specified type, while
849 'erc-network-hide-list' and 'erc-channel-hide-list' will only hide the
850 specified message types for the respective specified targets.
851
852 ---
853 *** Reconnection is now asynchronous.
854
855 ---
856 *** Nick completion is now case-insensitive again after inadvertently
857 being made case-sensitive in Emacs 24.2.
858
859 ** MPC
860
861 ---
862 *** New commands, key binds, and menu items.
863
864 **** '<' and '>' for navigating previous and next tracks in playlist
865
866 **** New play/pause command 'mpc-toggle-play' bound to 's'
867
868 **** 'g' bound to new command 'mpc-seek-current' will navigate current
869 track.
870
871 **** New commands 'mpc-toggle-{consume,repeat,single,shuffle}' for
872 toggling playback modes.
873
874 ---
875 *** Now supports connecting to a UNIX domain socket.
876
877 ---
878 *** Looks at more image file names to use as album art.
879 Case-insensitively tries for .folder.png (freedesktop) and folder.jpg
880 (XP) in addition to cover.jpg.
881
882 ---
883 *** Searches in more locations for MPD configuration files.
884 MPD supports the XDG base directory specification since version 0.17.6.
885
886 ** Midnight-mode
887
888 ---
889 *** 'midnight-mode' is now a proper minor mode.
890
891 ---
892 *** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions.
893
894 ** package.el
895
896 +++
897 *** New "external" package status.
898 An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and
899 not from 'package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in
900 'package-directory-list'. They are treated much like built-in
901 packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and
902 are not considered for upgrades.
903
904 The effect is that a user can manually place a specific version of a
905 package inside 'package-directory-list' and the package menu will
906 always respect that.
907
908 +++
909 *** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher
910 priority (as per 'package-archive-priorities') only that one is
911 listed. This can be configured with 'package-menu-hide-low-priority'.
912
913 +++
914 *** 'package-menu-toggle-hiding' now toggles the hiding of packages.
915 This includes the above-mentioned low-priority packages, as well as
916 available packages whose version is lower than the currently installed
917 version (which were previously impossible to display).
918 This allows users to downgrade a package if a lower version is
919 available.
920
921 ---
922 *** When filtering the package menu, keywords starting with "arc:" or
923 "status:" represent package archive or status, respectively, instead
924 of actual keywords.
925
926 ---
927 *** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an
928 ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s)
929 asynchronously.
930
931 ---
932 *** New variable 'package-menu-async' controls whether the
933 package-menu uses asynchronous downloads.
934
935 ---
936 *** 'package-install-from-buffer' and 'package-install-file' work on directories.
937 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
938 -pkg file is optional.
939
940 ---
941 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
942 The FORCE argument to 'package-delete' overrides this.
943
944 ---
945 *** New custom variable 'package-selected-packages' tracks packages
946 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
947 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
948
949 ---
950 *** New command 'package-install-selected-packages' installs all
951 packages from 'package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
952
953 ---
954 *** 'package-install' function now takes a DONT-SELECT argument. If
955 this function is called interactively or if DONT-SELECT is nil, add the
956 package being installed to 'package-selected-packages'.
957
958 ---
959 *** New command 'package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
960 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
961
962 +++
963 ** Shell
964
965 When you invoke 'shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
966 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
967 the 'display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
968 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
969 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
970 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
971
972 ** EIEIO
973 +++
974 *** The ':protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
975 +++
976 *** The 'newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
977 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from 'eieio-named'.
978 +++
979 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
980 +++
981 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
982 +++
983 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
984 +++
985 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
986 Use the equivalent facilities from cl-generic.el instead.
987 +++
988 *** 'constructor' is now an obsolete alias for 'make-instance'.
989 --- 'pcase' accepts a new UPattern 'eieio'.
990
991 ** ido
992
993 +++
994 *** New command 'ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
995 Bury the buffer at the head of 'ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
996 kills the buffer at head.
997
998 ---
999 *** A prefix argument to 'ido-restrict-to-matches' will reverse its
1000 meaning, and the list is restricted to those elements that do not
1001 match the current input.
1002
1003 ** Minibuffer
1004
1005 +++
1006 *** You can use <UP> and <DOWN> arrow keys to move through history by lines.
1007 The new commands 'next-line-or-history-element' and
1008 'previous-line-or-history-element', bound to <UP> and <DOWN> in the
1009 minibuffer, allow by-line movement through minibuffer history,
1010 similarly to an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
1011 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
1012 element. 'M-p' and 'M-n' still move directly to previous/next history
1013 item as before.
1014
1015 ** Search and Replace
1016
1017 +++
1018 *** 'isearch' and 'query-replace' can now perform character folding in matches.
1019 This is analogous to case folding, but instead of disregarding case
1020 variants, it disregards wider classes of distinctions between similar
1021 characters. (Case folding is a special case of character folding.)
1022 This means many characters in the search string will match entire
1023 groups of characters instead of just themselves.
1024
1025 For instance, the ASCII double quote character " will match all
1026 variants of double quotes, and the letter 'a' will match all of its
1027 accented cousins, even those composed of multiple characters, as well
1028 as many other symbols like U+249C (PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER
1029 A).
1030
1031 Character folding is enabled by customizing 'search-default-mode' to
1032 the value 'character-fold-to-regexp'. You can also toggle character
1033 folding in the middle of a search by typing 'M-s ''.
1034
1035 'query-replace' honors character folding if the new variable
1036 'replace-character-fold' is customized to a non-nil value.
1037
1038 +++
1039 *** New user option 'search-default-mode'.
1040 This option specifies the default mode for Isearch. The default
1041 value, nil specifies that Isearch does literal searches (however,
1042 'case-fold-search' and 'isearch-lax-whitespace' may still be applied,
1043 as in previous Emacs versions).
1044
1045 +++
1046 *** New function 'character-fold-to-regexp' can be used
1047 by searching commands to produce a regexp matching anything that
1048 character-folds into STRING.
1049
1050 +++
1051 *** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
1052 text in the region. The search engine to use for this is specified by
1053 the customizable variable 'eww-search-prefix'.
1054
1055 +++
1056 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
1057 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
1058 'M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
1059 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
1060 string defined by the new variable 'query-replace-from-to-separator'.
1061 To select a prior replacement, type 'M-p' until the desired
1062 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
1063 typing RET.
1064
1065 ** Calc
1066 +++
1067 *** If 'quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
1068 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
1069
1070 +++
1071 ** In Edebug, you can now set the initial mode with C-x C-a C-m. With
1072 this you can tell Edebug not to stop at the start of the first
1073 instrumented function.
1074
1075 ** ElDoc
1076
1077 +++
1078 *** New minor mode 'global-eldoc-mode'
1079 It is turned on by default, and affects '*scratch*' and other buffers
1080 whose major mode supports Emacs Lisp.
1081
1082 ---
1083 *** 'eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to 'ignore'
1084
1085 ---
1086 *** 'describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
1087 and can be used as a default value of 'eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
1088 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces - e.g.,
1089 U+00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACE), U+2002 (EN SPACE), and U+2009 (THIN SPACE) - while
1090 using mono-spaced font.
1091
1092 ** eww
1093
1094 ---
1095 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
1096
1097 +++
1098 *** A new command 'F' ('eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
1099 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
1100 customize the 'shr-use-fonts' variable.
1101
1102 +++
1103 *** A new command 'R' ('eww-readable') will try do identify the main
1104 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
1105 the like off the page.
1106
1107 +++
1108 *** A new command 'D' ('eww-toggle-paragraph-direction') allows you to
1109 toggle the paragraph direction between left-to-right and right-to-left.
1110
1111 ---
1112 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
1113 buffers you want to keep separate.
1114
1115 +++
1116 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
1117 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
1118
1119 +++
1120 *** 'eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
1121 the data in the buffer.
1122
1123 ---
1124 *** The 'eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
1125 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
1126
1127 +++
1128 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
1129 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
1130 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
1131 details.
1132
1133 +++
1134 *** 'mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
1135
1136 +++
1137 *** The new 'S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
1138 them.
1139
1140 ---
1141 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
1142 invalid certificates are marked in red.
1143
1144 ** Message mode
1145
1146 ---
1147 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
1148 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
1149
1150 +++
1151 ** In Show Paren Mode, a parenthesis can be highlighted when point
1152 stands inside it, and certain parens can be highlighted when point is
1153 at BOL or EOL, or in whitespace there. To enable these, customize,
1154 respectively, 'show-paren-when-point-inside-paren' or
1155 'show-paren-when-point-in-periphery'.
1156
1157 ---
1158 ** If gpg2 exists on the system, it is now used as the default value
1159 of 'epg-gpg-program' (instead of gpg).
1160
1161 ** Lisp mode
1162
1163 ---
1164 *** Strings after ':documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
1165 This enhances Lisp mode fontification to handle documentation of the
1166 form '(:documentation "the doc string")' used in Common Lisp code for
1167 CLOS class and slot documentation.
1168
1169 ** Rectangle editing
1170
1171 +++
1172 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
1173
1174 +++
1175 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
1176 *** 'string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
1177
1178 +++
1179 ** New font-lock functions 'font-lock-ensure' and 'font-lock-flush'.
1180 These should be used in preference to 'font-lock-fontify-buffer' when
1181 called from Lisp.
1182
1183 ---
1184 ** Macro 'minibuffer-with-setup-hook' can optionally append a function
1185 to 'minibuffer-setup-hook'.
1186
1187 If the first argument of the macro is of the form '(:append FUN)',
1188 then FUN will be appended to 'minibuffer-setup-hook', instead of
1189 prepending it.
1190
1191 ** cl-lib
1192 +++
1193 *** New functions 'cl-fresh-line', 'cl-digit-char-p', and 'cl-parse-integer'.
1194
1195 ---
1196 *** 'pcase' accepts the new UPattern 'cl-struct'.
1197
1198 ** Calendar and diary
1199
1200 +++
1201 *** The default 'diary-file' is now located in .emacs.d.
1202
1203 +++
1204 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
1205 'diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' 'diary-chinese-insert-entry'
1206 'diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', 'diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
1207
1208 +++
1209 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
1210 See 'diary-chinese-list-entries' and 'diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
1211
1212 ---
1213 *** The option 'calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
1214 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
1215
1216 +++
1217 *** New option 'calendar-weekend-days'.
1218 The option customizes which day headers receive the
1219 'calendar-weekend-header' face.
1220
1221 ---
1222 *** New optional args N and STRING for 'holiday-greek-orthodox-easter'.
1223
1224 ---
1225 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
1226 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
1227 The remainder were:
1228
1229 **** Functions 'calendar-one-frame-setup', 'calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
1230 'calendar-two-frame-setup', 'european-calendar', 'american-calendar'.
1231
1232 **** Hooks 'cal-menu-load-hook', 'cal-x-load-hook'.
1233
1234 **** Macro 'calendar-for-loop'.
1235
1236 **** Variables 'european-calendar-style', 'diary-face', 'hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
1237
1238 **** The nil and list forms of 'diary-display-function'.
1239
1240 +++
1241 ** New ERT function 'ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
1242 If the output of ERT tests in batch mode execution can be saved to a
1243 log file, then it can be passed as an argument to the above function
1244 to produce a neat summary.
1245
1246 ---
1247 ** New js.el option 'js-indent-first-init'.
1248
1249 ** Info
1250
1251 ---
1252 ** Info mode now displays symbol names in fixed-pitch font.
1253 If you want to get the old behavior back, customize the 'Info-quoted'
1254 face to use the same definitions as the default face.
1255
1256 ---
1257 *** 'Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
1258
1259 +++
1260 *** 'info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
1261 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
1262 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
1263
1264 ---
1265 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
1266
1267 ** Rmail
1268
1269 +++
1270 *** The Rmail commands 'd', 'C-d' and 'u' take optional repeat counts
1271 to delete or undelete multiple messages.
1272
1273 +++
1274 *** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
1275 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
1276 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
1277 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
1278 'rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to 'nil' if you don't want that.
1279
1280 +++
1281 *** In the commands that make summaries by subject, recipients, or senders,
1282 you can no longer use commas to separate regular expressions.
1283
1284 +++
1285 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see 'ses-define-local-printer'.
1286
1287 ** Shell-script Mode
1288 ---
1289 *** In sh-mode you can now use 'sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
1290 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
1291
1292 ---
1293 *** New value 'always' for 'sh-indent-after-continuation'.
1294 This provides old-style ("dumb") indentation of continued lines.
1295 See the doc string of 'sh-indent-after-continuation' for details.
1296
1297 ** TLS
1298 ---
1299 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
1300
1301 ---
1302 *** If Emacs isn't built with TLS support, an external TLS-capable
1303 program is used instead. This program used to be run in --insecure
1304 mode by default, but has now changed to be secure instead, and will
1305 fail if you try to connect to non-verifiable hosts. This is
1306 controlled by the 'tls-program' variable.
1307
1308 ** URL
1309
1310 +++
1311 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
1312 When 'url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
1313 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
1314
1315 +++
1316 *** The URL package allows customizing the 'url-user-agent' string.
1317 The new 'url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
1318 a function.
1319
1320 ---
1321 *** The new interface variable 'url-request-noninteractive' can be used
1322 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
1323 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
1324
1325 ---
1326 *** 'url-mime-accept-string' can now be used as in "interface"
1327 variable, meaning you can bind it around an 'url-retrieve' call.
1328
1329 ---
1330 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
1331 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
1332 'gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
1333
1334 ** Tramp
1335
1336 +++
1337 *** New connection method "afp", which allows you to access Mac OS X
1338 volumes via the Apple Filing Protocol.
1339
1340 +++
1341 *** New connection method "nc", which allows you to access dumb
1342 busyboxes.
1343
1344 +++
1345 *** Method-specific parameters can be overwritten now with variable
1346 'tramp-connection-properties'.
1347
1348 ---
1349 *** Handler for 'file-notify-valid-p' for remote machines that support
1350 filesystem notifications.
1351
1352 ** SQL mode
1353
1354 ---
1355 *** New user variable 'sql-default-directory' enables remote
1356 connections using Tramp.
1357
1358 ---
1359 *** New command 'sql-send-line-and-next'.
1360 This command, bound to 'C-c C-n' by default, sends the current line to
1361 the SQL process and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace and
1362 comments.
1363
1364 ---
1365 *** Added support for Vertica SQL.
1366
1367 ** VC and related modes
1368
1369 +++
1370 *** Basic push support, via 'vc-push', bound to 'C-x v P'.
1371 Implemented for Bzr, Git, Hg. As part of this change, the pre-existing
1372 (undocumented) command vc-hg-push now behaves slightly differently.
1373
1374 +++
1375 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
1376
1377 +++
1378 *** You can refresh the VC state of a file buffer with 'M-x vc-refresh-state'.
1379 This command is useful when you perform version control commands
1380 outside Emacs (e.g., from the shell prompt), or if you switch the VC
1381 back-end for the buffer's file, or remove it from version control.
1382
1383 +++
1384 *** New option 'vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
1385 the color range from 'vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
1386 background or to the foreground.
1387
1388 ---
1389 *** New options for customizing encoding of Git commit log messages.
1390 The new options `vc-git-commits-coding-system' and
1391 `vc-git-log-output-coding-system' allow to customize the encoding of
1392 the log messages sent to Git when committing, and the decoding of the
1393 log messages read from Git history commands. Both default to UTF-8;
1394 if you customize them, make sure they are consistent with the Git
1395 config variables i18n.commitEncoding and i18n.logOutputEncoding.
1396 (`vc-git-commits-coding-system' existed previously, but was a
1397 variable, not a user option.)
1398
1399 +++
1400 *** 'compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently selected window
1401 instead of the next window. If you want the previous behavior of
1402 comparing with the next window, customize the new option
1403 'compare-windows-get-window-function' to the value
1404 'compare-windows-get-next-window'.
1405
1406 ---
1407 *** Two new faces 'compare-windows-removed' and 'compare-windows-added'
1408 replace the face 'compare-windows', which is now an obsolete alias for
1409 'compare-windows-added'.
1410
1411 ---
1412 *** The VC state indicator in the mode line now has different faces
1413 corresponding to each of the possible states. See the 'vc-faces'
1414 customization group.
1415
1416 ---
1417 *** 'log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to
1418 "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". Set 'log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change'
1419 nil to disable this.
1420
1421 ---
1422 ** VHDL mode now supports VHDL'08.
1423
1424 ** Calculator
1425
1426 ---
1427 *** Decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
1428 fitting for use in money calculations
1429
1430 ---
1431 *** Factorial works with non-integer inputs.
1432
1433 ** Hide-IfDef mode
1434
1435 ---
1436 *** Hide-IfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions in macros,
1437 macro argument expansion, interactive macro evaluation and automatic
1438 scanning of #define'd symbols.
1439
1440 ---
1441 *** New command 'hif-evaluate-macro', bound to 'C-c @ e', displays the
1442 result of evaluating a macro.
1443
1444 ---
1445 *** New command 'hif-clear-all-ifdef-define', bound to 'C-c @ C', clears
1446 all defined symbols in 'hide-ifdef-env'.
1447
1448 ---
1449 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header
1450 file name patterns. Defaults to files whose extension is one of '.h',
1451 '.hh', '.hpp', '.hxx', or '.h++', matched case-insensitively.
1452
1453 ---
1454 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
1455 reinclusion protected (a.k.a. "idempotent") header files from being hidden.
1456 (This could happen when an idempotent header file is visited again,
1457 when its guard symbol is already defined.) Defaults to 't'.
1458
1459 ---
1460 *** New custom variable 'hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
1461 name patterns (e.g. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be ignored when
1462 looking for macro definitions. By default, no symbols are ignored.
1463
1464 ** TeX mode
1465
1466 +++
1467 *** New custom variable 'tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
1468 use PDF instead of DVI.
1469
1470 +++
1471 *** TeX mode now supports Prettify Symbols mode. When enabling
1472 'prettify-symbols-mode' in a tex-mode buffer, \alpha ... \omega, and
1473 many other math macros are displayed using unicode characters.
1474
1475 +++
1476 ** New 'big-indent' style in 'whitespace-mode' highlights deep indentation.
1477 By default, 32 consecutive spaces or four consecutive TABs are
1478 considered to be too deep, but the new variable
1479 'whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be customized to change that.
1480
1481 ---
1482 ** New options in 'tildify-mode'.
1483 New options 'tildify-space-string', 'tildify-pattern', and
1484 'tildify-foreach-region-function' variables make
1485 'tildify-string-alist', 'tildify-pattern-alist', and
1486 'tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
1487 helper functions) obsolete.
1488
1489 +++
1490 ** New package Xref replaces Etags's front-end and UI
1491
1492 The new package Xref provides a generic framework and new commands to
1493 find and move to definitions of functions, macros, data structures
1494 etc., as well as go back to the location where you were before moving
1495 to a definition. It supersedes and obsoletes many Etags commands,
1496 while still using the etags.el code that reads the TAGS tables as one
1497 of its back-ends.
1498
1499 The command 'xref-find-definitions' replaces 'find-tag' and provides
1500 an interface to pick one definition among several.
1501 'tags-loop-continue' is now unbound. 'xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces
1502 'pop-tag-mark', but has a keybinding ('M-,') different from the one
1503 'pop-tag-mark' used.
1504
1505 'xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces 'find-tag-other-window'.
1506 'xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces 'find-tag-other-frame'.
1507 'xref-find-apropos' replaces 'find-tag-regexp'.
1508
1509 As a result of this, the following commands are now obsolete:
1510 'find-tag-other-window', 'find-tag-other-frame', 'find-tag-regexp',
1511 'tags-apropos'.
1512
1513 'tags-loop-continue' is not obsolete because it's still useful in
1514 'tags-search' and 'tags-query-replace', for which there are no direct
1515 replacements yet.
1516
1517 +++
1518 *** Variants of 'tags-search' and 'tags-query-replace' in Dired were also
1519 replaced by xref-style commands, see the "Dired" section below.
1520
1521 +++
1522 *** New variables
1523
1524 'find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
1525 'xref-marker-ring-length'. 'find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
1526 alias for a private variable. 'xref-push-marker-stack' and
1527 'xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used instead to manipulate the stack
1528 of searches for definitions.
1529
1530 ---
1531 *** 'xref-find-definitions' and 'describe-function' now display
1532 information about mode local overrides (defined by cedet/mode-local.el
1533 'define-overloadable-function' 'define-mode-local-overrides').
1534
1535 The framework's Lisp API is still experimental and can change in major,
1536 backward-incompatible ways.
1537
1538 ---
1539 ** New package Project
1540
1541 The new package Project provides generic infrastructure for dealing
1542 with projects. The main commands included in it are
1543 'project-find-file' and 'project-find-regexp'.
1544
1545 The Lisp API of this package is still experimental.
1546
1547 ** EUDC
1548 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
1549
1550 +++
1551 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
1552
1553 ---
1554 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
1555 subprocess instead of on the command line.
1556
1557 ---
1558 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
1559 need to configure this manually anymore.
1560
1561 +++
1562 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
1563 rewritten.
1564
1565 There have also been customization changes.
1566
1567 +++
1568 *** New custom variable 'eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
1569 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
1570
1571 +++
1572 *** Custom variable 'eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
1573 on email and firstname instead of surname.
1574
1575 ---
1576 *** Custom variable 'eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
1577 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
1578
1579 +++
1580 *** Custom variable 'eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
1581 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
1582
1583 +++
1584 *** Custom variable 'eudc-options-file' defaults to
1585 "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options".
1586
1587 ---
1588 *** New custom variable 'ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
1589 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
1590 command line's password prompt.
1591
1592 ---
1593 EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3.
1594
1595 ---
1596 EUDC's PH backend (eudcb-ph.el) is obsolete.
1597
1598 ** Eshell
1599
1600 +++
1601 *** The new built-in command 'clear' can scroll window contents out of sight.
1602 If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents will be cleared.
1603
1604 +++
1605 *** New buffer syntax '#<buffer-name>', which is equivalent to
1606 '#<buffer buffer-name>'. This shorthand makes interacting with
1607 buffers from eshell more convenient. Custom variable
1608 'eshell-buffer-shorthand', which has been broken for a while, has been
1609 removed.
1610
1611 +++
1612 *** By default, eshell "visual" program buffers (created by
1613 'eshell-visual-commands' and similar custom vars) are no longer killed
1614 when their processes die. This fixes issues with short-lived commands
1615 and makes visual programs more useful in general. For example, if
1616 "git log" is a visual command, it will always show the visual command
1617 buffer, even if the "git log" process dies. For the old behavior,
1618 make the new option 'eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil.
1619
1620 ** Browse-url
1621
1622 ---
1623 *** Support for the Google Chrome web browser.
1624
1625 ---
1626 *** Support for the Conkeror web browser.
1627
1628 ---
1629 *** Support for several ancient browsers is now officially obsolete.
1630
1631 +++
1632 ** tar-mode: new 'tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
1633 be added to the archive.
1634
1635 ** Autorevert
1636
1637 ---
1638 *** Dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file notifications, if
1639 Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
1640
1641 ---
1642 *** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set to nil in 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
1643 See <http://debbugs.gnu.org/22814>.
1644
1645 ** File Notifications
1646
1647 +++
1648 *** The kqueue library is integrated for *BSD and Mac OS X machines.
1649
1650 +++
1651 *** The new event 'stopped' signals, that a file notification watch is
1652 not active any longer.
1653
1654 +++
1655 *** The new function 'file-notify-valid-p' checks, whether a file
1656 notification descriptor still corresponds to an activate watch.
1657
1658 ** Dired
1659
1660 +++
1661 *** The command 'dired-do-compress' bound to 'Z' now can compress
1662 directories and decompress zip files.
1663
1664 +++
1665 *** New command 'dired-do-compress-to' bound to 'c' can be used to
1666 compress many marked files into a single named archive. The
1667 compression command is determined from the new
1668 'dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
1669
1670 +++
1671 *** New user interface for the 'A' and 'Q' commands.
1672 These keys, now bound to 'dired-do-find-regexp' and
1673 'dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace', work similarly to 'xref-find-apropos'
1674 and 'xref-query-replace-in-results': they present the matches
1675 in the '*xref*' buffer and let you move through the matches. No need
1676 to use 'tags-loop-continue' to resume the search or replace loop. The
1677 previous commands, 'dired-do-search' and
1678 'dired-do-query-replace-regexp', are still available, but not bound to
1679 keys; rebind 'A' and 'Q' to invoke them if you want the old behavior
1680 back. We intend to obsolete the old commands in a future release.
1681
1682 ** Tabulated List Mode
1683
1684 +++
1685 *** It is now safe for a mode that derives 'tabulated-list-mode' to not
1686 call 'tabulated-list-init-header', in which case it will have no
1687 header.
1688
1689 +++
1690 *** 'tabulated-list-print' takes a second optional argument, update,
1691 which specifies an alternative printing method which is faster when
1692 few or no entries have changed.
1693
1694 ** Obsolete packages
1695
1696 ---
1697 *** gulp.el
1698
1699 ---
1700 *** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
1701
1702 \f
1703 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
1704
1705 ---
1706 ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
1707 minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg
1708 command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable
1709 is set). This feature requires newer versions of GnuPG (2.1.5 or
1710 later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later). To use this feature, add
1711 "allow-emacs-pinentry" to "~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf" and reload the
1712 configuration with "gpgconf --reload gpg-agent".
1713
1714 +++
1715 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
1716 The main entry points are 'cl-defgeneric' and 'cl-defmethod'. See the
1717 node "Generic Functions" in the Emacs Lisp manual for more details.
1718
1719 ---
1720 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode) is a major mode for editing
1721 SCSS (Sassy CSS) files.
1722
1723 ---
1724 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
1725 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
1726
1727 ---
1728 ** 'tildify-mode' allows automatic insertion of hard spaces as one
1729 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
1730 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
1731 other languages), so 'auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
1732 a typographically-correct documents.
1733
1734 ---
1735 ** The 'seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros
1736 that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions
1737 are prefixed with 'seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
1738 'pcase' accepts a new Upattern 'seq'.
1739
1740 ---
1741 ** The 'map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on
1742 alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with
1743 'map-'. 'pcase' accepts a new UPattern 'map'.
1744
1745 ---
1746 ** The 'thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the
1747 evaluation of forms.
1748
1749 ---
1750 ** js-jsx-mode (a minor variant of js-mode) provides indentation
1751 support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
1752
1753 \f
1754 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1755
1756 ---
1757 ** 'setq' and 'setf' must now be called with an even number of
1758 arguments. The earlier behavior of silently supplying a nil to the
1759 last variable when there was an odd number of arguments has been
1760 eliminated.
1761
1762 +++
1763 ** 'syntax-begin-function' is declared obsolete.
1764 Removed font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function and the SYNTAX-BEGIN
1765 slot in font-lock-defaults.
1766
1767 +++
1768 ** The new implementation of Subword mode affects word movement everywhere.
1769 When Subword mode is turned on, 'forward-word', 'backward-word', and
1770 everything that uses them will move by sub-words, effectively
1771 overriding the buffer's syntax table. Lisp programs that shouldn't be
1772 affected by Subword mode should call the new functions
1773 'forward-word-strictly' and 'backward-word-strictly' instead.
1774
1775 +++
1776 ** 'package-initialize' now sets 'package-enable-at-startup' to nil if
1777 called during startup. Users who call this function in their init
1778 file and still expect it to be run after startup should set
1779 'package-enable-at-startup' to t after the call to
1780 'package-initialize'.
1781
1782 ---
1783 ** ':global' minor mode use 'setq-default' rather than 'setq'.
1784 This means that you can't use 'make-local-variable' and expect them to
1785 "magically" become buffer-local.
1786
1787 +++
1788 ** 'track-mouse' no longer freezes the shape of the mouse pointer.
1789 The 'track-mouse' form no longer refrains from changing the shape of
1790 the mouse pointer for the entire time the body of that form is
1791 executed. Lisp programs that use 'track-mouse' for dragging across
1792 large portions of the Emacs display, and want to avoid changes in the
1793 pointer shape during dragging, should bind the variable 'track-mouse'
1794 to the special value 'dragging' in the body of the form.
1795
1796 ---
1797 ** The optional 'predicate' argument of 'lisp-complete-symbol' no longer
1798 has any effect. (This change was made in Emacs 24.4 but was not
1799 advertised at the time.)
1800
1801 +++
1802 ** 'indirect-function' does not signal 'void-function' any more.
1803 This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when
1804 symbol-function was changed not to signal 'void-function' any more.
1805
1806 +++
1807 *** As a consequence, the second arg of 'indirect-function' is now obsolete.
1808
1809 +++
1810 ** M-x shell and M-x compile no longer set the EMACS environment variable.
1811 This avoids clashing when other programs use the variable for other purposes.
1812 Although M-x term still sets EMACS for compatibility with Bash 4.3 and earlier,
1813 this is deprecated and will be phased out when Bash 4.4 or later takes over.
1814 Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
1815
1816 +++
1817 ** 'save-excursion' does not save&restore the mark any more.
1818 Use 'save-mark-and-excursion' if you want the old behavior.
1819
1820 +++
1821 ** 'read-buffer' and 'read-buffer-function' can now be called with a 4th
1822 argument ('predicate').
1823
1824 +++
1825 ** 'completion-table-dynamic' by default stays in the minibuffer.
1826 The minibuffer will be the current buffer when the function is called.
1827 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
1828 from which the minibuffer was entered, use the new argument
1829 'switch-buffer' to 'completion-table-dynamic'.
1830
1831 ---
1832 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers' marks.
1833
1834 ---
1835 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
1836 active region handling.
1837
1838 +++
1839 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
1840
1841 +++
1842 ** 'cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
1843
1844 +++
1845 ** 'process-running-child-p' may now return a numeric process
1846 group ID instead of 't'.
1847
1848 +++
1849 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
1850 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
1851 position list returned for such events is now nil.
1852
1853 ---
1854 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
1855 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
1856 Emacs-21.
1857
1858 ---
1859 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
1860 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
1861 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
1862 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
1863
1864 +++
1865 ** New variable 'text-quoting-style' to control how Emacs translates quotes.
1866 Set it to 'curve' for curved single quotes, to 'straight' for straight
1867 apostrophes, and to 'grave' for grave accent and apostrophe. The
1868 default value nil acts like 'curve' if curved single quotes are
1869 displayable, and like 'grave' otherwise. The new variable affects
1870 display of diagnostics and help, but not of info.
1871
1872 +++
1873 ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
1874 That is, it converts documentation strings' quoting style as per the
1875 value of 'text-quoting-style'. Doc strings in source code can use
1876 either curved single quotes or grave accents and apostrophes. As
1877 before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
1878
1879 +++
1880 ** Message-issuing functions 'error', 'message', etc. now convert quotes.
1881 They use the new 'format-message' function instead of plain 'format',
1882 so that they now follow user preference as per 'text-quoting-style'
1883 when processing curved single quotes, grave accents, and apostrophes
1884 in their format argument.
1885
1886 +++
1887 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
1888 now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
1889 If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
1890 word syntax, use '\sw' instead.
1891
1892 +++
1893 ** The character classes [:graph:] and [:print:] in regular expressions
1894 no longer match every multibyte character. Instead, Emacs now
1895 consults the Unicode character properties to determine which
1896 characters are graphic or printable. In particular, surrogates and
1897 unassigned codepoints are now rejected. If you want the old behavior,
1898 use [:multibyte:] instead.
1899
1900 +++
1901 ** The 'diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old
1902 behavior, set 'diff-switches' to '-c'.
1903
1904 ---
1905 ** 'grep-template' and 'grep-find-template' values don't include the
1906 --color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position
1907 dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should
1908 be updated accordingly.
1909
1910 +++
1911 ** '(/ N)' is now equivalent to '(/ 1 N)' rather than to '(/ N 1)'.
1912 The new behavior is compatible with Common Lisp and with XEmacs.
1913 This change does not affect Lisp code intended to be portable to
1914 Emacs 24.2 and earlier, which did not support unary '/'.
1915
1916 +++
1917 ** The 'default-directory' value doesn't have to end slash. To make
1918 that happen, 'unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
1919 'file-name-as-directory'.
1920
1921 \f
1922 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1923
1924 ** pcase
1925 +++
1926 *** New UPatterns 'quote', 'app'.
1927 +++
1928 *** New UPatterns can be defined with 'pcase-defmacro'.
1929 +++
1930 *** New vector QPattern.
1931
1932 ---
1933 ** syntax-propertize is now automatically called on-demand during forward
1934 parsing functions like 'forward-sexp'.
1935
1936 +++
1937 ** New hooks 'prefix-command-echo-keystrokes-functions' and
1938 'prefix-command-preserve-state-hook' allow the definition of prefix
1939 commands other than the predefined 'C-u'.
1940
1941 +++
1942 ** New functions 'filepos-to-bufferpos' and 'bufferpos-to-filepos'.
1943 These allow conversion between buffer positions and the corresponding
1944 file byte offsets, given the file's encoding.
1945
1946 +++
1947 ** The default value of 'load-read-function' is now 'read'.
1948 Previously, the default value of 'nil' implied using 'read'.
1949
1950 +++
1951 ** New hook 'pre-redisplay-functions'.
1952 It is a bit easier to use than 'pre-redisplay-function'.
1953
1954 +++
1955 ** The second arg of 'looking-back' should always be provided explicitly.
1956 Previously, it was an optional argument, now it's mandatory.
1957
1958 +++
1959 ** Text properties 'intangible', 'point-entered', and 'point-left' are obsolete.
1960 Replaced by properties 'cursor-intangible' and 'cursor-sensor-functions',
1961 implemented by the new 'cursor-intangible-mode' and
1962 'cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes.
1963
1964 +++
1965 ** 'inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to 't' and is obsolete.
1966 Use the new minor modes 'cursor-intangible-mode' and
1967 'cursor-sensor-mode' instead.
1968
1969 +++
1970 ** New process type 'pipe', which can be used in combination with the
1971 ':stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output
1972 of subprocess.
1973
1974 +++
1975 ** New function 'make-process' provides an alternative interface to
1976 'start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as
1977 process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to
1978 'make-network-process').
1979
1980 +++
1981 ** A new function 'directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
1982 files (recursively) under a directory.
1983
1984 +++
1985 ** New variable 'inhibit-message', when bound to non-nil, inhibits
1986 'message' and related functions from displaying messages in the echo
1987 area. The output is still logged to the *Messages* buffer.
1988
1989 +++
1990 ** A new text property 'inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
1991 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
1992
1993 +++
1994 ** A new variable 'comment-end-can-be-escaped' is useful in languages
1995 such as C and C++ where line comments with escaped newlines are
1996 continued to the next line.
1997
1998 +++
1999 ** New macro 'define-advice'.
2000
2001 +++
2002 ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
2003 See the "Generators" section of the ELisp manual for the details.
2004
2005 +++
2006 ** New finalizer facility for running code when objects become unreachable.
2007 See the "Finalizer Type" subsection in the ELisp manual for the
2008 details.
2009
2010 ---
2011 ** lexical closures can use (:documentation FORM) to build their docstring.
2012 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and FORM is then
2013 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
2014
2015 +++
2016 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
2017
2018 +++
2019 ** New function 'macroexpand-1' to perform a single step of macro expansion.
2020
2021 +++
2022 ** Some "x-*" functions were obsoleted and/or renamed:
2023 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
2024 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
2025 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
2026 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
2027 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
2028 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
2029
2030 +++
2031 ** New function 'string-greaterp', which return the opposite result of
2032 'string-lessp'.
2033
2034 +++
2035 ** The new functions 'string-collate-lessp' and 'string-collate-equalp'
2036 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
2037 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
2038 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
2039 counterparts 'string-lessp' and 'string-equal'.
2040
2041 ---
2042 *** The ls-lisp package uses 'string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
2043 The effect is that, on systems that use ls-lisp for Dired, the default
2044 sort order of the files in Dired is now different from what it was in
2045 previous versions of Emacs. In particular, the file names are sorted
2046 disregarding punctuation, accents, and diacritics, and letter case is
2047 ignored. For example, files whose name begin with a period will no
2048 longer appear near the beginning of the directory listing. If you
2049 want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new option
2050 'ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to the nil value.
2051
2052 +++
2053 *** The MS-Windows specific variable 'w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
2054 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
2055 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
2056 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
2057 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
2058 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
2059
2060 +++
2061 ** New function 'alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
2062
2063 +++
2064 ** New function 'funcall-interactively', which works like 'funcall'
2065 but makes 'called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
2066 called interactively.
2067
2068 +++
2069 ** New function 'function-put' to use instead of 'put' for function properties.
2070
2071 +++
2072 ** The new function 'bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows you to
2073 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
2074 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
2075 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
2076 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
2077
2078 +++
2079 ** The new function 'buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows you to
2080 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
2081 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
2082 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
2083 text and directional control characters.
2084
2085 +++
2086 ** New properties that can be specified with 'declare':
2087 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
2088 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
2089 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
2090 have side effects.
2091
2092 +++
2093 ** New macro 'with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
2094 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
2095
2096 +++
2097 ** You can access the slots of structures using 'cl-struct-slot-value'.
2098
2099 +++
2100 ** Function 'sort' can deal with vectors.
2101
2102 ---
2103 ** Function 'system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
2104 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
2105 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
2106 name. The variable 'system-name' is now obsolete.
2107
2108 +++
2109 ** Function 'write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
2110
2111 ---
2112 ** If 'pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
2113 directory at point.
2114
2115 +++
2116 ** New functions return extended information about fonts and faces.
2117
2118 +++
2119 *** The function 'font-info' now returns more details about a font.
2120 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
2121 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
2122
2123 +++
2124 *** A new function 'default-font-width' returns the average width of a
2125 character in the current buffer's default font. If the default face
2126 is remapped (see 'face-remapping-alist'), the value for the remapped
2127 face is returned. This function complements the existing function
2128 'default-font-height'.
2129
2130 +++
2131 *** New functions 'window-font-height' and 'window-font-width' return
2132 the height and average width of characters in a specified face and
2133 window. If FACE is remapped (see 'face-remapping-alist'), the
2134 function returns the information for the remapped face.
2135
2136 +++
2137 *** A new function 'window-max-chars-per-line' returns the maximal
2138 number of characters that can be displayed on one line. If a face
2139 and/or window are provided, these values are used for the
2140 calculation. This function is different from 'window-body-width' in
2141 that it accounts for (i) continuation glyphs, (ii) the size of the
2142 font, and (iii) the specified window.
2143
2144 ---
2145 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
2146 *** New macros 'if-let' and 'when-let' allow defining bindings and to
2147 execute code depending whether all values are true.
2148 *** New macros 'thread-first' and 'thread-last' allow threading a form
2149 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
2150
2151 +++
2152 ** Documentation strings now support quoting with curved single quotes
2153 in addition to the old style with grave accent and apostrophe. The
2154 new style looks better on today's displays. In the new Electric Quote
2155 mode, you can enter curved single quotes into documentation by typing
2156 grave accent and apostrophe. Outside Electric Quote mode, you can
2157 enter them by typing 'C-x 8 [' and 'C-x 8 ]', or (if your Alt key
2158 works) by typing 'A-[' and 'A-]'. As described above under
2159 'text-quoting-style', the user can specify how to display doc string
2160 quotes.
2161
2162 +++
2163 ** New function 'format-message' is like 'format' and also converts
2164 curved single quotes, grave accents and apostrophes as per
2165 'text-quoting-style'.
2166
2167 +++
2168 ** show-help-function's arg is converted via substitute-command-keys
2169 before being passed to the function. Help strings, help-echo
2170 properties, etc. can therefore contain command key escapes and
2171 quotation marks.
2172
2173 +++
2174 ** Time-related changes:
2175
2176 *** Time conversion functions now accept an optional ZONE argument
2177 that specifies the time zone rules for conversion. ZONE is omitted or
2178 nil for Emacs local time, t for Universal Time, 'wall' for system wall
2179 clock time, or a string as in the TZ environment variable. The
2180 affected functions are 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone',
2181 'decode-time', and 'format-time-string'. The function 'encode-time',
2182 which already accepted a simple time zone rule argument, has been
2183 extended to accept all the new forms.
2184
2185 *** Incompatible change in the third argument of 'format-time-string'.
2186 Previously, any non-nil argument was interpreted as specifying Universal Time.
2187 This is no longer true; packages that want Universal Time should pass t
2188 as the third argument.
2189
2190 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
2191 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
2192 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
2193 Affected functions include 'current-time-string', 'current-time-zone',
2194 'decode-time', 'float-time', 'format-time-string', 'seconds-to-time',
2195 'time-add', 'time-less-p', 'time-subtract', 'time-to-day-in-year',
2196 'time-to-days', and 'time-to-seconds'.
2197
2198 *** The 'encode-time-value' and 'with-decoded-time-value' macros have
2199 been obsoleted.
2200
2201 *** 'calendar-next-time-zone-transition', 'time-add', and
2202 'time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
2203 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
2204 integers.
2205
2206 +++
2207 ** New function 'set-binary-mode' allows switching a standard stream
2208 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
2209
2210 +++
2211 ** The new function 'directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
2212 name (as returned from, for instance, 'file-name-all-completions') is
2213 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
2214 the name is a directory separator character (forward slash on GNU and
2215 Unix systems, forward- or backslash on MS-Windows and MS-DOS).
2216
2217 ---
2218 ** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in standard-display-table
2219 if the terminal cannot display curved quotes.
2220
2221 +++
2222 ** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
2223 standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system.
2224 To force a specific encoding, bind 'coding-system-for-write' to the
2225 coding-system of your choice when invoking functions like 'prin1' and
2226 'message'.
2227
2228 +++
2229 ** New var 'truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
2230
2231 +++
2232 ** New possible value for 'system-type': 'nacl'.
2233 This is used by Google's Native Client (NaCl).
2234
2235 ** Miscellaneous name change
2236
2237 ---
2238 For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable
2239 'hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to 'hfy-optimizations'.
2240 The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
2241
2242 ** Changes in Frame- and Window- Handling
2243
2244 +++
2245 *** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
2246 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
2247 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
2248
2249 **** New function 'horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
2250 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
2251
2252 **** New mode 'horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
2253 bars on all existing and future frames.
2254
2255 **** New function 'toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
2256 scroll bars on the selected frame.
2257
2258 **** New frame parameters 'horizontal-scroll-bars' and
2259 'scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
2260 for individual frames and in 'default-frame-alist'.
2261
2262 **** New functions 'frame-scroll-bar-height' and
2263 'window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
2264 bars on a specific frame or window.
2265
2266 **** 'set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
2267 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
2268
2269 **** 'window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
2270 bars too.
2271
2272 **** New buffer-local variables 'horizontal-scroll-bar' and
2273 'scroll-bar-height'.
2274
2275 +++
2276 *** New functions 'frame-geometry' and 'frame-edges' give access to a
2277 frame's geometry.
2278
2279 +++
2280 *** New functions 'mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and
2281 'set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' get/set screen coordinates of the
2282 mouse cursor.
2283
2284 +++
2285 *** The function 'window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to
2286 retrieve body, absolute and pixel edges of the window.
2287
2288 +++
2289 *** The functions 'window-inside-edges', 'window-inside-pixel-edges' and
2290 'window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges' have been renamed to respectively
2291 'window-body-edges', 'window-body-pixel-edges' and
2292 'window-absolute-body-pixel-edges'. The old names are kept as aliases.
2293
2294 +++
2295 *** New function 'window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen
2296 coordinates of a visible buffer position.
2297
2298 +++
2299 *** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
2300 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
2301 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
2302 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
2303 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
2304 builds.
2305
2306 +++
2307 *** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
2308 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
2309 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
2310 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
2311 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
2312 **** New option 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
2313 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
2314 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
2315 number of columns or lines it displays.
2316
2317 +++
2318 *** New function 'window-preserve-size' allows you to preserve the size of
2319 a window without "fixing" it. It's supported by 'fit-window-to-buffer',
2320 'temp-buffer-resize-mode' and 'display-buffer'.
2321
2322 +++
2323 *** New 'display-buffer' action function 'display-buffer-use-some-frame'.
2324 This displays the buffer in an existing frame other than the current
2325 frame, and allows the caller to specify a frame predicate to exclude
2326 frames.
2327
2328 +++
2329 *** New minor mode 'window-divider-mode' and options
2330 'window-divider-default-places', 'window-divider-default-bottom-width'
2331 and 'window-divider-default-right-width'.
2332
2333 +++
2334 *** The window displaying the '*Completions*' buffer with minibuffer
2335 completion candidates is now shown at the bottom of the selected
2336 frame. The size of that window is always as large as required to
2337 display all the candidates, except when limited by the minimum size
2338 of the other windows on that frame; those other windows are resized
2339 to provide space for the '*Completions*' display. The Emacs manual
2340 describes how to customize 'display-buffer-alist' to get back the old
2341 behavior, see the node "Temporary Displays" there.
2342
2343 ---
2344 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ have been removed.
2345 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
2346
2347 ** Etags
2348
2349 +++
2350 *** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
2351
2352 By default, 'etags' will not qualify class members for Perl and C-like
2353 object-oriented languages with their class names and namespaces, and
2354 will remove qualifications used explicitly in the code from the tag
2355 names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
2356 'xref-find-definitions' is more accurate and produces less false
2357 positives.
2358
2359 Use --class-qualify (-Q) if you want the old default behavior of
2360 qualifying class members in C++, Java, Objective C, and Perl. Note
2361 that using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to 'M-.'
2362 ('xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use 'C-u M-.' to specify the
2363 qualified names by hand.
2364
2365 +++
2366 *** New language Ruby
2367
2368 Names of modules, classes, methods, functions, and constants are
2369 tagged. Overloaded operators are also tagged.
2370
2371 +++
2372 *** New language Go
2373 Names of packages, functions, and types are tagged.
2374
2375 +++
2376 *** Improved support for Lua
2377
2378 Etags now tags functions even if the "function" keyword follows some
2379 whitespace at line beginning.
2380
2381 \f
2382 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
2383
2384 ---
2385 ** MS-Windows specific Emacs build scripts are no longer in the distribution
2386 This includes the makefile.w32-in files in various subdirectories, and
2387 the support files. The file nt/configure.bat now just tells the user
2388 to use the procedure described in nt/INSTALL, by running the Posix
2389 'configure' script in the top-level directory.
2390
2391 ---
2392 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
2393 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
2394 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
2395
2396 +++
2397 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
2398
2399 ---
2400 ** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
2401 MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
2402
2403 ---
2404 ** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default.
2405 Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default.
2406
2407 ---
2408 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
2409
2410 ---
2411 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
2412
2413 ---
2414 ** New variable 'ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
2415 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
2416 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
2417 this has no effect.
2418
2419 ---
2420 ** The new function 'w32-application-type' returns the type of an
2421 MS-Windows application given the name of its executable program file.
2422
2423 ** New variable 'w32-pipe-buffer-size'.
2424 It can be used to tune the size of the buffer of pipes created for
2425 communicating with subprocesses, when the program run by a subprocess
2426 exhibits unusual buffering behavior. Default is zero, which lets the
2427 OS use its default size.
2428
2429 \f
2430 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2431 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
2432
2433 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2434 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
2435 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
2436 (at your option) any later version.
2437
2438 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2439 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2440 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
2441 GNU General Public License for more details.
2442
2443 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
2444 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
2445
2446 \f
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