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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2
3 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
5
6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
10
11 See file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates.
12 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
13 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
14
15 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
16 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
17
18 Temporary note:
19 +++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates are complete.
20 (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
21 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
22 When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
23 otherwise leave it unmarked.
24
25 \f
26 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
27
28 +++
29 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
30
31 +++
32 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
33
34 +++
35 ** New configure option --with-cairo.
36 This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing. As a side effect, it provides
37 support for built-in printing, when Emacs was built with GTK+.
38
39 ** New configure option --with-modules.
40 This enables support for loading dynamic modules; see below.
41
42 ---
43 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
44 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
45 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
46 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
47 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
48 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
49
50 ---
51 ** The Emacs garbage collector assumes GC_MARK_STACK == GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS.
52 The GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS stack-marking variant has been the default
53 since Emacs 24.4, and the other variants were undocumented and were
54 obstacles to maintenance and development. GC_MARK_STACK and its
55 related symbols have been removed from the C internals.
56
57 ---
58 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
59 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
60
61 ---
62 ** 'configure' now prefers inotify to gfile for file notification,
63 unless gfile is explicitly requested via --with-file-notification='gfile'.
64
65 ---
66 ** The configure option '--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
67 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
68
69 ---
70 ** The configure option '--with-mmdf' has been removed.
71 It was no longer useful, as it relied on libraries that are no longer
72 supported, and its presence led to confusion during configuration.
73 This affects only the 'movemail' utility; Emacs itself can still
74 process MMDF-format files as before.
75
76 +++
77 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
78 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
79 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
80 build with 'make V=1'.
81
82 ---
83 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows to specify a
84 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
85 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
86 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
87 be installed setgid. The option now defaults to the 'games' group.
88
89 ---
90 ** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
91 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
92 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
93
94 ---
95 ** Emacs 25 comes with a new set of icons.
96 Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
97 The old Emacs logo icons are available as `emacs23.png' in the same location.
98
99 \f
100 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
101
102 +++
103 ** When Emacs is given a file as a command line argument and
104 `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, display both the file and
105 `initial-buffer-choice'. When Emacs is given more than one file and
106 `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil, show `initial-buffer-choice'
107 and *Buffer List*. This makes Emacs convenient to use from the
108 command line when `initial-buffer-choice' is non-nil.
109
110 +++
111 ** The value of ‘initial-scratch-message’ is now treated as a doc string
112 and can contain escape sequences for command keys, quotes, and the like.
113
114 \f
115 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
116
117 +++
118 ** Any file of the form .dir-locals*.el is now considered a dir-local
119 file, and multiple such files can be used in the same directory. See
120 the variable `dir-locals-file' for more information.
121
122 ---
123 ** `xref-find-definitions' and `describe-function' now display
124 information about mode local overrides (defined by cedet/mode-local.el
125 `define-overloadable-function' `define-mode-local-overrides').
126
127 +++
128 ** New `display-buffer' action function `display-buffer-use-some-frame'.
129 This displays the buffer in an existing frame other than the current
130 frame, and allows the caller to specify a frame predicate to exclude
131 frames.
132
133 +++
134 ** New documentation command `describe-symbol'.
135 Works for functions, variables, faces, etc. It is bound to `C-h o' by
136 default.
137
138 +++
139 ** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
140 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found). It
141 is intended for adding to 'kill-emacs-query-functions'.
142
143 +++
144 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
145 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
146 the `network-security-level' variable.
147
148 +++
149 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
150
151 +++
152 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard
153 and x-select-enable-primary is renamed select-enable-primary.
154 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
155 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
156 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
157 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
158
159 +++
160 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
161
162 +++
163 ** New macro `define-advice'.
164
165 +++
166 ** `insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
167 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
168
169 +++
170 ** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
171 The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
172 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
173
174 ---
175 ** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the
176 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
177 for use in Emacs bug reports.
178
179 +++
180 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
181 hiding character but the default `.' can be used by let-binding the
182 variable `read-hide-char'.
183
184 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
185 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
186
187 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
188 files (recursively) under a directory.
189
190 ** The new function `directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
191 name (as returned from, for instance, `file-name-all-completions' is
192 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
193 the name is a forward slash.
194
195 ** The function `font-info' now returns more details about a font.
196 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
197 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
198
199 ** A new function `default-font-width' returns the average width of a
200 character in the current buffer's default font. If the default face
201 is remapped (see `face-remapping-alist'), the value for the remapped
202 face is returned. This function complements the existing function
203 `default-font-height'.
204
205 ** New functions `window-font-height' and `window-font-width' return
206 the height and average width of characters in a specified face and
207 window. If FACE is remapped (see `face-remapping-alist'), the
208 function returns the information for the remapped face.
209
210 ** A new function `window-max-chars-per-line' returns the maximal
211 number of characters that can be displayed on one line. If a face
212 and/or window are provided, these values are used for the
213 calculation. This function is different from `window-body-width' in
214 that it accounts for (i) continuation glyphs, (ii) the size of the
215 font, and (iii) the specified window.
216
217 ** New possible value for `system-type': nacl.
218
219 ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules).
220 A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional
221 functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package
222 written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions `load', `require',
223 `load-file', etc. were extended to load such modules, as they do with
224 Emacs Lisp packages. The new variable `module-file-suffix' holds the
225 system-dependent value of the file-name extension (`.so' on Posix
226 hosts) of the module files.
227
228 A module should export a C-callable function named
229 `emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to
230 `load' or `require' which loads the module. It should also export a
231 symbol named `plugin_is_GPL_compatible' to indicate that its code is
232 released under the GPL or compatible license; Emacs will refuse to
233 load modules that don't export such a symbol.
234
235 If a module needs to call Emacs functions, it should do so through the
236 API defined and documented in the header file `emacs-module.h'. Note
237 that any module that provides Lisp-callable functions will have to use
238 Emacs functions such as `fset' and `funcall', in order to register its
239 functions with the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
240
241 Modules can create `user-ptr' Lisp objects that embed pointers to C
242 struct's defined by the module. This is useful for keeping around
243 complex data structures created by a module, to be passed back to the
244 module's functions. User-ptr objects can also have associated
245 "finalizers" -- functions to be run when the object is GC'ed; this is
246 useful for freeing any resources allocated for the underlying data
247 structure, such as memory, open file descriptors, etc. A new
248 predicate `user-ptr-p' returns non-nil if its argument is a `usr-ptr'
249 object.
250
251 Loadable modules in Emacs are an experimental feature, and subject to
252 change in future releases. For that reason, their support is disabled
253 by default, and must be enabled by using the `--with-modules' option
254 at configure time.
255
256 ** New input method: `tamil-dvorak'.
257
258 \f
259 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
260
261 +++
262 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
263
264 ** Successive single-char deletions are collapsed in the undo-log just like
265 successive char insertions. This behaviour can be extended to other
266 commands, using the `undo-auto--amalgamate' function.
267
268 ** The heuristic used to insert `undo-boundary' after each command has changed,
269 so that it supports commands which potentially affect multiple buffers.
270
271 +++
272 ** New command `comment-line' bound to `C-x C-;'.
273
274 ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
275
276 ** C-x 8 now has shorthands for these chars: ‐ ‑ ‒ – — ― ‘ ’ “ ” † ‡ • ′ ″
277 € № ← → ↔ − ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥. As before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
278
279 ** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for quoting ‘like this’ and “like this”
280 as you type. See also the new variable ‘text-quoting-style’.
281
282 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
283
284 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
285 that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
286 chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
287 character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
288 paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
289 performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
290
291 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
292 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
293 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
294 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3, 7.0, and the latest Unicode 8.0.
295 This includes full support for directional isolates and the
296 Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these Unicode
297 standards.
298
299 ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
300
301 +++
302 ** New buffer-local `electric-pair-local-mode'.
303
304 +++
305 ** New variable `fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
306 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
307 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
308 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
309
310 \f
311 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
312
313 ** Checkdoc
314
315 +++
316 *** New command `checkdoc-package-keywords' checks if the
317 current package keywords are recognized. Set the new option
318 `checkdoc-package-keywords-flag' to non-nil to make
319 `checkdoc-current-buffer' call this function automatically.
320
321 +++
322 *** New function `checkdoc-file' checks for style errors.
323 It's meant for use together with `compile':
324 emacs -batch --eval "(checkdoc-file \"subr.el\")"
325
326 ** New function `bookmark-set-no-overwrite' bound to C-x r M.
327 It raises an error if a bookmark of that name already exists,
328 unlike `bookmark-set' which silently updates an existing bookmark.
329
330 ** JSON
331 ---
332 *** `json-pretty-print' and `json-pretty-print-buffer' now maintain
333 the ordering of object keys by default.
334 ---
335 *** New commands `json-pretty-print-ordered' and
336 `json-pretty-print-buffer-ordered' pretty prints JSON objects with
337 object keys sorted alphabetically.
338
339 ** You can recompute the VC state of a file buffer with `M-x vc-refresh-state'
340 ** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
341 See `prog-indentation-context' and `prog-widen'.
342
343 ** Prettify Symbols mode
344 *** Prettify Symbols mode supports custom composition predicates. By
345 overriding the default `prettify-symbols-compose-predicate', modes can
346 specify in which contexts a symbol map be composed to some unicode
347 character. `prettify-symbols-default-compose-p' is the default which
348 is suitable for most programming languages such as C or Lisp (but not
349 (La)TeX).
350
351 *** Symbols can be unprettified while point is inside them.
352 New variable `prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point' configures this.
353
354 ** New `xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' config.
355
356 ** The `save-place' variable is replaced by a `save-place-mode'.
357
358 ** ERC
359
360 *** Hide message types by network or channel. `erc-hide-list' will
361 hide all messages of the specified type, where `erc-network-hide-list'
362 and `erc-channel-hide-list' will only hide the specified message types
363 for the respective specified targets.
364
365 ** Midnight-mode
366 *** `midnight-mode' is a proper minor mode.
367 *** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions.
368
369 ** In xterms, killing text now also sets the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection
370 in the surrounding GUI (using the OSC-52 escape sequence). This only works
371 if your xterm supports it and enables the `allowWindowOps' options (disabled
372 by default at least in Debian, for security reasons).
373
374 Similarly, you can yank the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection (using the OSC-52
375 escape sequence) if your xterm has the feature enabled but for that you
376 additionally need to add `getSelection' to `xterm-extra-capabilities'.
377
378 ** xterm-mouse-mode now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it).
379
380 ** package.el
381
382 *** New "external" package status.
383 An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and
384 not from `package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in
385 `package-directory-list'. They are treated much like built-in
386 packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and
387 are not considered for upgrades.
388
389 The effect, is that a user can manually place a specific version of a
390 package inside `package-directory-list' and the package menu will
391 always respect that.
392
393 *** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher
394 priority (as per `package-archive-priorities') only that one is
395 listed. This can be configured with `package-menu-hide-low-priority'.
396
397 *** `package-menu-toggle-hiding' now toggles the hiding of packages.
398 This includes the above-mentioned low-priority packages, as well as
399 available packages whose version is lower than the currently installed
400 version (which were previously impossible to display).
401 This allows users to downgrade a package if a lower version is
402 available.
403
404 *** When filtering the package menu, keywords starting with "arc:" or
405 "status:" represent package archive or status, respectively, instead
406 of actual keywords.
407
408 *** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an
409 ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s)
410 asynchronously.
411
412 *** New variable `package-menu-async' controls whether the
413 package-menu uses asynchronous downloads.
414
415 *** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
416 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
417 -pkg file is optional.
418
419 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
420 The FORCE argument to `package-delete' overrides this.
421
422 *** New custom variable `package-selected-packages' tracks packages
423 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
424 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
425
426 *** New command `package-install-user-selected-packages' installs all
427 packages from `package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
428
429 *** New command `package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
430 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
431
432 ** Shell
433
434 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
435 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
436 the `display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
437 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
438 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
439 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
440
441 ** EIEIO
442 +++
443 *** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
444 +++
445 *** The `newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
446 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
447 +++
448 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
449 +++
450 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
451 +++
452 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
453 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
454 +++
455 *** `constructor' is now an obsolete alias for `make-instance'.
456
457 ** ido
458 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
459 Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
460 kills the buffer at head.
461 *** A prefix argument to `ido-restrict-to-matches' will reverse its
462 meaning, and the list is restricted to those elements that do not
463 match the current input.
464
465 ** Minibuffer
466
467 *** You can use <up> and <down> keys to move point in the multi-line
468 minibuffer just as in an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
469 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
470 element. The new commands bound to <up> and <down> in the minibuffer:
471 `next-line-or-history-element' and `previous-line-or-history-element'.
472
473 ** Search and Replace
474
475 +++
476 *** New user option `search-default-regexp-mode'
477 specifies the default mode for I-search.
478
479 +++
480 *** `isearch' and `query-replace' can now perform character folding in matches.
481 Isearch does that by default, while `query-replace' will do that if
482 the new variable `replace-character-fold' is customized to a non-nil
483 value. This is analogous to case folding, but instead of disregarding
484 case variants, it disregards wider classes of distinctions between
485 similar characters. (Case folding is a special case of character
486 folding.) This means many characters in the search string will match
487 entire groups of characters instead of just themselves.
488
489 For instance, the " will match all variants of double quotes (like “
490 and ”), and the letter a will match all of its accented cousins, even
491 those composed of multiple characters, as well as many other symbols
492 like ℀, ℁, ⒜, and ⓐ.
493
494 +++
495 *** New function `character-fold-to-regexp' can be used
496 by searching commands to produce a regexp matching anything that
497 character-folds into STRING.
498
499 +++
500 *** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
501 text in the region. The search engine to use for this is specified by
502 the customizable variable `eww-search-prefix'.
503
504 +++
505 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
506 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
507 `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
508 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
509 string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'.
510 To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired
511 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
512 typing RET.
513
514 ** Calc
515 +++
516 *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
517 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
518
519 +++
520 ** In Edebug, you can now set the initial mode with C-x C-a C-m. With
521 this you can tell Edebug not to stop at the start of the first
522 instrumented function.
523
524 ** ElDoc
525 *** New minor mode `global-eldoc-mode'
526 *** `eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to `ignore'
527 *** `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
528 and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
529 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
530 ] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.
531
532 ** eww
533
534 ---
535 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
536
537 +++
538 *** A new command `F' (`eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
539 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
540 customize the `shr-use-fonts' variable.
541
542 +++
543 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
544 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
545 the like off the page.
546
547 ---
548 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
549 buffers you want to keep separate.
550
551 +++
552 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
553 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
554
555 +++
556 *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
557 the data in the buffer.
558
559 ---
560 *** The `eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
561 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
562
563 +++
564 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
565 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
566 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
567 details.
568
569 +++
570 *** `mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
571
572 +++
573 *** The new `S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
574 them.
575
576 ---
577 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
578 invalid certificates are marked in red.
579
580 ** Message mode
581
582 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
583 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
584
585 ** pcase
586 *** New UPatterns `quote', `app', `cl-struct', and `eieio'.
587 *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'.
588 +++
589 *** New vector QPattern.
590
591 ** Lisp mode
592 *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
593
594 ** Rectangle editing
595 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
596 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
597 *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
598
599 ** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which
600 should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp.
601
602 ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' takes (:append FUN) to mean
603 appending FUN to `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
604
605 ** cl-lib
606 *** New functions cl-fresh-line, cl-digit-char-p and cl-parse-integer.
607
608 ** Calendar and diary
609
610 +++
611 *** The default `diary-file' is now located in .emacs.d.
612
613 +++
614 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
615 `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
616 `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
617
618 +++
619 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
620 See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
621
622 ---
623 *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
624 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
625
626 +++
627 *** New option `calendar-weekend-days'.
628 The option customizes which day headers receive the
629 `calendar-weekend-header' face.
630
631 ---
632 *** New optional args N and STRING for ‘holiday-greek-orthodox-easter’.
633
634 ---
635 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
636 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
637 The remainder were:
638
639 **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
640 `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'.
641
642 **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'.
643
644 **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'.
645
646 **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
647
648 **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'.
649
650 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
651
652 ** New js.el option `js-indent-first-init'.
653
654 ---
655 ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
656
657 +++
658 ** `info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
659 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
660 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
661
662 ---
663 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
664
665 ** Rmail
666
667 *** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u take optional repeat counts to delete or
668 undelete multiple messages.
669
670 *** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
671 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
672 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
673 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
674 `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that.
675
676 +++
677 *** In the commands that make summaries by subject, recipients, or senders,
678 you can no longer use commas to separate regular expressions.
679
680 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
681
682 ** sh-script
683 *** In sh-mode you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
684 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
685
686 *** New value `always' for sh-indent-after-continuation.
687 This provides old-style ("dumb") indentation of continued lines.
688
689 ** TLS
690 ---
691 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
692
693 ** URL
694
695 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
696 When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
697 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
698
699 *** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string.
700 The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
701 a function.
702
703 *** The new interface variable `url-request-noninteractive' can be used
704 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
705 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
706
707 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
708 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
709 `gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
710
711 ** Tramp
712
713 +++
714 *** New connection method "afp", which allows to access Mac OS X
715 volumes via the Apple Filing Protocol.
716
717 +++
718 *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
719
720 +++
721 *** Method-specific parameters can be overwritten now with variable
722 `tramp-connection-properties'.
723
724 ---
725 *** Handler for `file-notify-valid-p' for remote machines that support
726 filesystem notifications.
727
728 ** SQL mode
729
730 *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote
731 connections using Tramp.
732
733 *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next' sends the current line to the
734 interactive buffer and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace
735 and comments.
736
737 *** Add support for Vertica SQL.
738
739 ** VC and related modes
740
741 *** Basic push support, via `vc-push', bound to `C-x v P'.
742 Implemented for Bzr, Git, Hg. As part of this change, the pre-existing
743 (undocumented) command vc-hg-push now behaves slightly differently.
744
745 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
746
747 *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
748 the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
749 background or to the foreground.
750
751 *** `compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently used window
752 instead of the next window. The new option `compare-windows-get-window-function'
753 allows to customize this.
754
755 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
756 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
757
758 ---
759 *** `log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to
760 "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". Set `log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change'
761 nil to disable this.
762
763 ** VHDL mode supports VHDL'08.
764
765 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
766 fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
767 non-integer inputs.
768
769 ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro expansions,
770 interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of #defined symbols.
771
772 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file
773 name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp, .hxx, and .h++.
774 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
775 reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden.
776 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
777 name patterns (e.g. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded.
778
779 ** TeX mode
780
781 *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
782 use PDF instead of DVI.
783
784 *** TeX mode now supports Prettify Symbols mode. When enabling
785 `prettify-symbols-mode' in a tex-mode buffer, \alpha ... \omega, and
786 many other math macros are displayed using unicode characters.
787
788 ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation.
789 By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but
790 `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that.
791
792 ** tildify: `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
793 `tildify-foreach-region-function' variables added making
794 `tildify-string-alist', `tildify-pattern-alist', and
795 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
796 helper functions) obsolete.
797
798 ** xref
799 The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
800 and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
801
802 *** New key bindings
803 `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
804 to pick one destination among several. Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
805 unbound. `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
806 easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
807 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
808 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
809 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
810
811 *** New variables
812 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
813 `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
814 alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and
815 `xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead.
816
817 ** etags
818 As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
819 `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
820 `tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
821
822 ** EUDC
823 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
824
825 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
826
827 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
828 subprocess instead of on the command line.
829
830 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
831 need to configure this manually anymore.
832
833 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
834 rewritten.
835
836 There have also been customization changes.
837
838 *** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
839 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
840
841 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
842 on email and firstname instead of surname.
843
844 *** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
845 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
846
847 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
848 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
849
850 *** Custom variable `eudc-options-file' defaults to
851 "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options".
852
853 *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
854 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
855 command line's password prompt.
856
857 EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3.
858
859 ** Eshell
860
861 +++
862 *** The new built-in command `clear' can scroll window contents out of sight.
863 If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents will be cleared.
864
865 *** New buffer syntax '#<buffer-name>', which is equivalent to
866 '#<buffer buffer-name>'. This shorthand makes interacting with
867 buffers from eshell more convenient. Custom variable
868 `eshell-buffer-shorthand', which has been broken for a while, has been
869 removed.
870
871 *** By default, eshell "visual" program buffers (created by
872 `eshell-visual-commands' and similar custom vars) are no longer killed
873 when their processes die. This fixes issues with short-lived commands
874 and makes visual programs more useful in general. For example, if
875 "git log" is a visual command, it will always show the visual command
876 buffer, even if the "git log" process dies. For the old behavior,
877 make the new option `eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil.
878
879 ** Browse-url
880
881 *** Support for the Conkeror web browser.
882
883 ---
884 *** Support for several ancient browsers is now officially obsolete.
885
886 +++
887 ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
888 be added to the archive.
889
890 ---
891 ** Autorevert: dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file
892 notifications, if Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
893
894 ** File Notifications
895
896 +++
897 *** The new event `stopped' signals, that a file notification watch is
898 not active any longer.
899
900 +++
901 *** The new function `file-notify-valid-p' checks, whether a file
902 notification descriptor still corresponds to an activate watch.
903
904 ** Dired
905
906 +++
907 *** The command `dired-do-compress' bound to `Z' now can compress
908 directories and decompress zip files.
909
910 +++
911 *** New command `dired-do-compress-to' bound to `c' can be used to
912 compress many marked files into a single named archive. The
913 compression command is determined from the new
914 `dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
915
916 ** Tabulated List Mode
917
918 +++
919 *** It is now safe for a mode that derives `tabulated-list-mode' to not
920 call `tabulated-list-init-header', in which case it will have no
921 header.
922
923 +++
924 *** `tabulated-list-print' takes a second optional argument, update,
925 which specifies an alternative printing method which is faster when
926 few or no entries have changed.
927
928 ** Obsolete packages
929
930 ---
931 *** gulp.el
932
933 *** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
934
935 \f
936 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
937
938 ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
939 minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg
940 command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable
941 is set). This feature requires newer versions of GnuPG (2.1.5 or
942 later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later).
943
944 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
945
946 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
947
948 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
949 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
950
951 ** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
952 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
953 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
954 other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
955 a typographically-correct documents.
956
957 ** The `seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros
958 that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions
959 are prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
960
961 ** The `map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on
962 alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with
963 `map-'.
964
965 ** The `thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the
966 evaluation of forms.
967
968 ** js-jsx-mode (a minor variant of js-mode) provides indentation
969 support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
970
971 \f
972 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
973
974 ---
975 ** `setq' and `setf' must now be called with an even number of
976 arguments. The earlier behavior of silently supplying a nil to the
977 last variable when there was an odd number of arguments has been
978 eliminated.
979
980 ** `syntax-begin-function' is declared obsolete.
981 Removed font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function and the SYNTAX-BEGIN
982 slot in font-lock-defaults.
983
984 +++
985 ** `package-initialize' now sets `package-enable-at-startup' to nil if
986 called during startup. Users who call this function in their init
987 file and still expect it to be run after startup should set
988 `package-enable-at-startup' to t after the call to
989 `package-initialize'.
990
991 ** `:global' minor mode use `setq-default' rather than `setq'.
992 This means that you can't use `make-local-variable' and expect them to
993 "magically" become buffer-local.
994
995 ** `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to t and is obsolete.
996
997 +++
998 ** `track-mouse' no longer freezes the shape of the mouse pointer.
999 The `track-mouse' form no longer refrains from changing the shape of
1000 the mouse pointer for the entire time the body of that form is
1001 executed. Lisp programs that use `track-mouse' for dragging across
1002 large portions of the Emacs display, and want to avoid changes in the
1003 pointer shape during dragging, should bind the variable `track-mouse'
1004 to the special value `dragging' in the body of the form.
1005
1006 ---
1007 ** The optional `predicate' argument of `lisp-complete-symbol' no longer
1008 has any effect. (This change was made in Emacs 24.4 but was not
1009 advertised at the time.)
1010
1011 ** `indirect-function' does not signal `void-function' any more.
1012 This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when
1013 symbol-function was changed not to signal `void-function' any more.
1014
1015 *** As a consequence, the second arg of `indirect-function' is now obsolete.
1016
1017 ** Comint, term, and compile do not set the EMACS env var any more.
1018 Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
1019
1020 ** `save-excursion' does not save&restore the mark any more.
1021
1022 ** read-buffer-function can now be called with a 4th argument (`predicate').
1023
1024 ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer.
1025 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
1026 from which the minibuffer was entered, call it with the new argument
1027 `switch-buffer'.
1028
1029 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers' marks.
1030
1031 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
1032 active region handling.
1033
1034 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
1035
1036 ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
1037
1038 ** `process-running-child-p` may now return a numeric process
1039 group ID instead of `t'.
1040
1041 +++
1042 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
1043 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
1044 position list returned for such events is now nil.
1045
1046 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
1047 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
1048 Emacs-21.
1049
1050 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
1051 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
1052 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
1053 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
1054
1055 +++
1056 ** New variable ‘text-quoting-style’ to control how Emacs translates quotes.
1057 Set it to ‘curve’ for curved single quotes ‘like this’, to ‘straight’
1058 for straight apostrophes 'like this', and to ‘grave’ for grave accent
1059 and apostrophe `like this'. The default value nil acts like ‘curve’
1060 if curved single quotes are displayable, and like ‘grave’ otherwise.
1061 The new variable affects display of diagnostics and help, but not of info.
1062
1063 +++
1064 ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
1065 That is, it converts documentation strings’ quoting style as per the
1066 value of ‘text-quoting-style’. Doc strings in source code can use
1067 either curved single quotes or grave accents and apostrophes. As
1068 before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
1069
1070 +++
1071 ** Message-issuing functions ‘error’, ‘message’, etc. now convert quotes.
1072 They use the new ‘format-message’ function instead of plain ‘format’,
1073 so that they now follow user preference as per ‘text-quoting-style’
1074 when processing curved single quotes, grave accents, and apostrophes
1075 in their format argument.
1076
1077 +++
1078 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
1079 now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
1080 If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
1081 word syntax, use `\sw' instead.
1082
1083 +++
1084 ** The character classes [:graph:] and [:print:] in regular expressions
1085 no longer match every multibyte character. Instead, Emacs now
1086 consults the Unicode character properties to determine which
1087 characters are graphic or printable. In particular, surrogates and
1088 unassigned codepoints are now rejected. If you want the old behavior,
1089 use [:multibyte:] instead.
1090
1091 +++
1092 ** The `diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old
1093 behavior, set `diff-switches' to `-c'.
1094
1095 ** `grep-template' and `grep-find-template' values don't include the
1096 --color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position
1097 dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should
1098 be updated accordingly.
1099
1100 +++
1101 ** ‘(/ N)’ is now equivalent to ‘(/ 1 N)’ rather than to ‘(/ N 1)’.
1102 The new behavior is compatible with Common Lisp and with XEmacs.
1103 This change does not affect Lisp code intended to be portable to
1104 Emacs 24.2 and earlier, which did not support unary ‘/’.
1105
1106 +++
1107 ** The `default-directory' value doesn't have to end slash. To make
1108 that happen, `unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
1109 `file-name-as-directory'.
1110
1111 \f
1112 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1113
1114 ** syntax-propertize is now automatically called on-demand during forward
1115 parsing functions like `forward-sexp'.
1116
1117 ** New hooks prefix-command-echo-keystrokes-functions and
1118 prefix-command-preserve-state-hook, to allow the definition of prefix
1119 commands other than the predefined C-u.
1120
1121 ** New functions `filepos-to-bufferpos' and `bufferpos-to-filepos'.
1122
1123 ** The default value of `load-read-function' is now `read'.
1124
1125 ** New hook `pre-redisplay-functions', a bit easier to use than pre-redisplay-function.
1126
1127 ** The second arg of `looking-back' should always be provided explicitly.
1128
1129 ** Obsolete text properties `intangible', `point-entered', and `point-left'.
1130 Replaced by properties `cursor-intangible' and `cursor-sensor-functions',
1131 implemented by the new `cursor-intangible-mode' and
1132 `cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes.
1133
1134 ** New process type `pipe', which can be used in combination with the
1135 `:stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output
1136 of subprocess.
1137
1138 ** New function `make-process' provides an alternative interface to
1139 `start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as
1140 process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to
1141 `make-network-process').
1142
1143 +++
1144 ** New variable `inhibit-message', when bound to non-nil, inhibits
1145 `message' and related functions from displaying messages the Echo
1146 Area. The output is still logged to the *Messages* buffer.
1147
1148 ** `read-buffer' takes a new `predicate' argument.
1149
1150 ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
1151
1152 ** New finalizer facility for running code when objects
1153 become unreachable.
1154
1155 ** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring.
1156 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then
1157 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
1158
1159 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
1160
1161 ** New function `macroexpand-1' to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
1162
1163 ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
1164 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
1165 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
1166 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
1167 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
1168 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
1169 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
1170
1171 ** New function `string-greaterp', which return the opposite result of
1172 `string-lessp'.
1173
1174 +++
1175 ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp'
1176 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
1177 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
1178 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
1179 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
1180
1181 ---
1182 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
1183 If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
1184 option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
1185
1186 +++
1187 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
1188 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
1189 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
1190 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
1191 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
1192 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
1193
1194 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
1195
1196 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
1197 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
1198 called interactively.
1199
1200 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
1201
1202 +++
1203 ** The new function `bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows to
1204 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
1205 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
1206 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
1207 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
1208
1209 +++
1210 ** The new function `buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows to
1211 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
1212 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
1213 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
1214 text and directional control characters.
1215
1216 +++
1217 ** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
1218 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
1219 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
1220 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
1221 have side effects.
1222
1223 +++
1224 ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
1225 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
1226
1227 ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
1228
1229 ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
1230
1231 ** Function `system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
1232 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
1233 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
1234 name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
1235
1236 +++
1237 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
1238
1239 ** If `pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
1240 directory at point.
1241
1242 ---
1243 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
1244 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to
1245 execute code depending whether all values are true.
1246 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
1247 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
1248
1249 +++
1250 ** Documentation strings now support quoting with curved single quotes
1251 ‘like-this’ in addition to the old style with grave accent and
1252 apostrophe `like-this'. The new style looks better on today's displays.
1253 In the new Electric Quote mode, you can enter curved single quotes
1254 into documentation by typing ` and '. Outside Electric Quote mode,
1255 you can enter them by typing ‘C-x 8 [’ and ‘C-x 8 ]’, or (if your Alt
1256 key works) by typing ‘A-[’ and ‘A-]’. As described above under
1257 ‘text-quoting-style’, the user can specify how to display doc string
1258 quotes.
1259
1260 +++
1261 ** New function ‘format-message’ is like ‘format’ and also converts
1262 curved single quotes, grave accents and apostrophes as per
1263 ‘text-quoting-style’.
1264
1265 +++
1266 ** show-help-function's arg is converted via substitute-command-keys
1267 before being passed to the function. Help strings, help-echo
1268 properties, etc. can therefore contain command key escapes and
1269 quotation marks.
1270
1271 +++
1272 ** Time-related changes:
1273
1274 *** Time conversion functions now accept an optional ZONE argument
1275 that specifies the time zone rules for conversion. ZONE is omitted or
1276 nil for Emacs local time, t for Universal Time, ‘wall’ for system wall
1277 clock time, or a string as in ‘set-time-zone-rule’ for a time zone
1278 rule. The affected functions are ‘current-time-string’,
1279 ‘current-time-zone’, ‘decode-time’, and ‘format-time-string’. The
1280 function ‘encode-time’, which already accepted a simple time zone rule
1281 argument, has been extended to accept all the new forms.
1282
1283 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
1284 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
1285 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
1286 Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone',
1287 `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time',
1288 `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year',
1289 `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'.
1290
1291 *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have
1292 been obsoleted.
1293
1294 *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and
1295 `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
1296 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
1297 integers.
1298
1299 +++
1300 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
1301 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
1302
1303 ** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in standard-display-table
1304 if the terminal cannot display curved quotes.
1305
1306 ** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
1307 standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system.
1308
1309 +++
1310 ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
1311
1312 ** Miscellaneous name change
1313
1314 For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable
1315 `hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to `hfy-optimizations'.
1316 The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
1317
1318 \f
1319 * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1
1320
1321 +++
1322 ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
1323 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
1324 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
1325 *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
1326 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
1327 *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
1328 bars on all existing and future frames.
1329 *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
1330 scroll bars on the selected frame.
1331 *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
1332 `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
1333 for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
1334 *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
1335 `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
1336 bars on a specific frame or window.
1337 *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
1338 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
1339 *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
1340 bars too.
1341 *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
1342 `scroll-bar-height'.
1343
1344 +++
1345 ** New functions `frame-geometry' and `frame-edges' give access to a
1346 frame's geometry.
1347
1348 +++
1349 ** New functions `mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and
1350 `set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' get/set screen coordinates of the
1351 mouse cursor.
1352
1353 +++
1354 ** The function `window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to
1355 retrieve body, absolute and pixel edges of the window.
1356
1357 +++
1358 ** The functions `window-inside-edges', `window-inside-pixel-edges' and
1359 `window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges' have been renamed to respectively
1360 `window-body-edges', `window-body-pixel-edges' and
1361 `window-absolute-body-pixel-edges'. The old names are kept as aliases.
1362
1363 +++
1364 ** New function `window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen
1365 coordinates of a visible buffer position.
1366
1367 +++
1368 ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
1369 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
1370 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
1371 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
1372 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
1373 builds.
1374
1375 +++
1376 ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
1377 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
1378 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
1379 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
1380 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
1381 *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
1382 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
1383 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
1384 number of columns or lines it displays.
1385
1386 +++
1387 ** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of
1388 windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer',
1389 `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'.
1390
1391 +++
1392 ** New minor mode `window-divider-mode' and options
1393 `window-divider-default-places', `window-divider-default-bottom-width'
1394 and `window-divider-default-right-width'.
1395
1396 +++
1397 ** New option `switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' allows to customize
1398 how `switch-to-buffer' proceeds interactively when the selected window
1399 is strongly dedicated to its buffer.
1400
1401 +++
1402 ** The option `even-window-heights' has been renamed to
1403 `even-window-sizes' and now handles window widths as well.
1404
1405 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed.
1406 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
1407
1408 ** Miscellaneous
1409
1410 *** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
1411 By default, `etags' will not qualify class members for C-like
1412 object-oriented languages with their class names and namespaces, and
1413 will remove qualifications used explicitly in the code from the tag
1414 names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
1415 `xref-find-definitions' is more accurate and produces less false
1416 positives.
1417
1418 Use --class-qualify (-Q) if you want the old default behavior of
1419 qualifying class members in C++, Java, and Objective C. Note that
1420 using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to `M-.'
1421 (`xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use `C-u M-.' to specify the
1422 qualified names by hand.
1423
1424 \f
1425 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1426
1427 ---
1428 ** MS-Windows specific Emacs build scripts are no longer in the distribution
1429 This includes the makefile.w32-in files in various subdirectories, and
1430 the support files. The file nt/configure.bat now just tells the user
1431 to use the procedure described in nt/INSTALL, by running the Posix
1432 `configure' script in the top-level directory.
1433
1434 ---
1435 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
1436 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
1437 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
1438
1439 +++
1440 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
1441
1442 ** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
1443 MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
1444
1445 ---
1446 ** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default.
1447 Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default.
1448
1449 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
1450
1451 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
1452
1453 ---
1454 ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
1455 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
1456 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
1457 this has no effect.
1458
1459 ---
1460 ** The new function 'w32-application-type' returns the type of an
1461 MS-Windows application given the name of its executable program file.
1462
1463 \f
1464 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1465 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
1466
1467 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
1468 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
1469 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1470 (at your option) any later version.
1471
1472 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1473 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1474 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1475 GNU General Public License for more details.
1476
1477 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
1478 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
1479
1480 \f
1481 Local variables:
1482 coding: utf-8
1483 mode: outline
1484 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
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