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1 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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3 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
5
6 Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
7 If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
8
9 This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
10
11 See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
12 and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
13
14 You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
15 with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
16
17 Temporary note:
18 +++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates are complete.
19 (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
20 --- means no change in the manuals is needed.
21 When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
22 otherwise leave it unmarked.
23
24 \f
25 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1
26
27 +++
28 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
29
30 ** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
31
32 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs
33 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in
34 December 2013. If you are affected, please send a bug report. You
35 should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
36 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
37 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
38
39 ** 'configure' now prefers gnustep-config when configuring GNUstep.
40 If gnustep-config is not available, the old heuristics are used.
41
42 ---
43 ** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
44 Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
45
46 ** The configure option '--enable-silent-rules' is now the default,
47 and silent rules are now quieter. To get the old behavior where
48 'make' chatters a lot, configure with '--disable-silent-rules' or
49 build with 'make V=1'.
50
51 ---
52 ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now allows to specify a
53 group instead of a user if its argument is prefixed by ':' (a colon).
54 This will cause the game score files in ${localstatedir}/games/emacs
55 to be owned by that group, and the helper program for updating them to
56 be installed setgid.
57
58 ---
59 ** The `grep-changelog' script (and its manual page) are no longer included.
60 It has no particular connection to Emacs and has not changed in years,
61 so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs.
62
63 \f
64 * Startup Changes in Emacs 25.1
65
66 \f
67 * Changes in Emacs 25.1
68 ** Xwidgets : A new feature for embedding native widgets
69 inside Emacs buffers. If you have gtk3 and webkit-devel installed,
70 you can try the embedded webkit browser with m-x xwidget-webkit-browse-url.
71 ** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
72 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
73 -pkg file is optional.
74
75 ** New function `custom-prompt-customize-unsaved-options' checks for
76 unsaved customizations and prompts user to customize (if found).
77
78 +++
79 ** Network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) is
80 added via the new Network Security Manager (NSM) and controlled via
81 the `network-security-level' variable.
82
83 ** C-h l now also lists the commands that were run.
84
85 ---
86 ** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
87 text in the region.
88
89 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
90 ** x-select-enable-clipboard is renamed select-enable-clipboard.
91 x-select-enable-primary and renamed select-enable-primary.
92 Additionally they both now apply to all systems (OSX, GNUstep, Windows, you
93 name it), with the proviso that on some systems (e.g. Windows)
94 select-enable-primary is ineffective since the system doesn't
95 have the equivalent of a primary selection.
96
97 +++
98 ** terpri gets an optional arg ENSURE to conditionally output a newline.
99
100 +++
101 ** New macro `define-advice'.
102
103 ** `insert-register' now leaves point after the inserted text
104 when called interactively. A prefix argument toggles this behavior.
105
106 ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
107
108 +++
109 ** The new variable `term-file-aliases' replaces some files from lisp/term.
110 The function `tty-run-terminal-initialization' consults this variable
111 when deciding what terminal-specific initialization code to run.
112
113 ---
114 ** New variable `system-configuration-features', listing some of the
115 main features that Emacs was compiled with. This is mainly intended
116 for use in Emacs bug reports.
117
118 +++
119 ** A password is now hidden also when typed in batch mode. Another
120 hiding character but the default `.' can be used by let-binding the
121 variable `read-hide-char'.
122
123 ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp'
124 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
125 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
126 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
127 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
128
129 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
130 If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
131 option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
132
133 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
134 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
135 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
136 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
137 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
138 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
139
140 +++
141 ** The new function `bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows to
142 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
143 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
144 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
145 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
146
147 +++
148 ** The new function `buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows to
149 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
150 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
151 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
152 text and directional control characters.
153
154 ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
155 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
156 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
157 this has no effect.
158
159 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
160 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
161
162 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
163 files (recursively) under a directory.
164
165 ** The new `directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
166 name (as returned from, for instance, `file-name-all-completions' is
167 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
168 the name is a forward slash.
169
170 +++
171 ** New variable `fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
172 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
173 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
174 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
175
176 ** The function `font-info' now returns more details about a font.
177 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
178 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
179
180 \f
181 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
182
183 ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
184
185 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
186
187 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
188 that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
189 chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
190 character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
191 paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
192 performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
193
194 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
195 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
196 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
197 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3 and 7.0, and a few changes suggested
198 for Unicode 8.0. This includes full support for directional isolates
199 and the Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these
200 Unicode standards.
201
202 ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
203
204 \f
205 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
206 ** Shell
207
208 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
209 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
210 the `display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
211 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
212 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
213 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
214
215
216 ** EIEIO
217 *** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
218 *** The `newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
219 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
220 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
221 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
222 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
223 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
224
225 ** ido
226 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
227 Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
228 kills the buffer at head.
229
230 ** Minibuffer
231
232 *** You can use <up> and <down> keys to move point in the multi-line
233 minibuffer just as in an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
234 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
235 element. The new commands bound to <up> and <down> in the minibuffer:
236 `next-line-or-history-element' and `previous-line-or-history-element'.
237
238 ** Search and Replace
239
240 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
241 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
242 `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
243 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
244 string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'.
245 To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired
246 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
247 typing RET.
248
249 ** Calc
250 +++
251 *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
252 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
253
254 ** ElDoc
255 *** New minor mode `global-eldoc-mode'
256 *** `eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to `ignore'
257 *** `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
258 and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
259 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
260 ] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.
261
262 ** eww
263
264 +++
265 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
266 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
267 the like off the page.
268
269 ---
270 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
271 buffers you want to keep separate.
272
273 +++
274 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
275 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
276
277 +++
278 *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
279 the data in the buffer.
280
281 ---
282 *** The `eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
283 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
284
285 +++
286 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
287 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
288 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
289 details.
290
291 +++
292 *** `mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
293
294 +++
295 *** The new `S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
296 them.
297
298 ---
299 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
300 invalid certificates are marked in red.
301
302 ** Message mode
303
304 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
305 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
306
307 ** pcase
308 *** New UPatterns `quote' and `app'.
309 *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'.
310 +++
311 *** New vector QPattern.
312
313 ** Lisp mode
314 *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
315
316 ** Rectangle editing
317 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
318 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
319 *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
320
321 ** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which
322 should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp.
323
324 ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' takes (:append FUN) to mean
325 appending FUN to `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
326
327 ** cl-lib
328 *** New functions cl-fresh-line, cl-digit-char-p and cl-parse-integer.
329
330 ** seq
331 *** New seq library:
332 The seq library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros that
333 complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions are
334 prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
335
336 ** Calendar and diary
337
338 +++
339 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
340 `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
341 `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
342
343 +++
344 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
345 See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
346
347 ---
348 *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
349 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
350
351 ---
352 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
353 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
354 The remainder were:
355
356 **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
357 `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'.
358
359 **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'.
360
361 **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'.
362
363 **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
364
365 **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'.
366
367 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
368
369 ---
370 ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
371
372 +++
373 ** `info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
374 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
375 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
376
377 ---
378 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
379
380 ---
381 ** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u now handle repeat counts to delete or
382 undelete multiple messages.
383
384 ** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
385 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
386 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
387 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
388 `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that.
389
390 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
391
392 ** In sh-mode, you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
393 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
394
395 ** TLS
396 ---
397 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
398
399 ** URL
400
401 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
402 When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
403 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
404
405 *** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string.
406 The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
407 a function.
408
409 *** The new interface variable `url-request-noninteractive' can be used
410 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
411 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
412
413 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
414 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
415 `gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
416
417 ** Tramp
418
419 *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
420
421 ** SQL mode
422
423 *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote
424 connections using Tramp.
425
426 *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next' sends the current line to the
427 interactive buffer and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace
428 and comments.
429
430 *** Add support for Vertica SQL.
431
432 ** VC and related modes
433
434 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
435
436 *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
437 the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
438 background or to the foreground.
439
440 *** `compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently used window
441 instead of the next window. The new option `compare-windows-get-window-function'
442 allows to customize this.
443
444 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
445 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
446
447 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
448 fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
449 non-integer inputs.
450
451 ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro expansions
452 , interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of #defined symbols.
453
454 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file
455 name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp and .hxx.
456 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
457 reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden.
458 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
459 name patterns (e.x. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded.
460
461 ** TeX mode
462
463 *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
464 use PDF instead of DVI.
465
466 ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation.
467 By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but
468 `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that.
469
470 ** tildify: `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
471 `tildify-foreach-region-function' variables added making
472 `tildify-string-alist', `tildify-pattern-alist', and
473 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
474 helper functions) obsolete.
475
476 ** xref
477 The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
478 and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
479
480 *** New key bindings
481 `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
482 to pick one destination among several. Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
483 unbound. `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
484 easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
485 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
486 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
487 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
488
489 *** New variables
490 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
491 `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
492 alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and
493 `xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead.
494
495 ** etags
496 As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
497 `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
498 `tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
499
500 ** EUDC
501 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
502
503 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
504
505 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
506 subprocess instead of on the command line.
507
508 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
509 need to configure this manually anymore.
510
511 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
512 rewritten.
513
514 There have also been customization changes.
515
516 *** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
517 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
518
519 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
520 on email and firstname instead of surname.
521
522 *** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
523 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
524
525 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
526 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
527
528 *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
529 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
530 command line's password prompt.
531
532 +++
533 ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
534 be added to the archive.
535
536 ** Obsolete packages
537
538 ---
539 *** gulp.el
540
541 \f
542 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
543
544 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
545
546 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
547
548 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
549 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
550
551 ** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
552 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
553 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
554 other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
555 a typographically-correct documents.
556 \f
557 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
558
559 ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer.
560 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
561 from which the minibuffer was entered, call it with the new argument
562 `switch-buffer'.
563
564 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers's marks.
565
566 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
567 active region handling.
568
569 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
570
571 ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
572
573 +++
574 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
575 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
576 position list returned for such events is now nil.
577
578 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
579 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
580 Emacs-21.
581
582 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
583 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
584 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
585 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
586
587 \f
588 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
589
590 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
591
592 ** New function macroexpand-1 to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
593
594 ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
595 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
596 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
597 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
598 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
599 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
600 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
601
602 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
603
604 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
605 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
606 called interactively.
607
608 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
609
610 +++
611 ** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
612 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
613 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
614 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
615 have side effects.
616
617 +++
618 ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
619 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
620
621 ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
622
623 ** Functions `rmail-delete-forward' and `rmail-delete-backward' take an
624 optional repeat-count argument.
625
626 ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
627
628 ** Function `system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
629 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
630 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
631 name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
632
633 +++
634 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
635
636 ---
637 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
638 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to
639 execute code depending whether all values are true.
640 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
641 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
642
643 +++
644 ** Time-related changes:
645
646 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
647 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
648 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
649 Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone',
650 `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time',
651 `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year',
652 `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'.
653
654 *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have
655 been obsoleted.
656
657 *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and
658 `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
659 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
660 integers.
661
662 +++
663 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
664 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
665
666 \f
667 * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1
668
669 +++
670 ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
671 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
672 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
673 *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
674 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
675 *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
676 bars on all existing and future frames.
677 *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
678 scroll bars on the selected frame.
679 *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
680 `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
681 for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
682 *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
683 `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
684 bars on a specific frame or window.
685 *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
686 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
687 *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
688 bars too.
689 *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
690 `scroll-bar-height'.
691
692 +++
693 ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
694 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
695 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
696 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
697 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
698 builds.
699
700 +++
701 ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
702 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
703 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
704 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
705 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
706 *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
707 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
708 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
709 number of columns or lines it displays.
710
711 +++
712 ** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of
713 windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer',
714 `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'.
715
716 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed.
717 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
718
719 \f
720 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
721
722 ---
723 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
724 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
725 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
726
727 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
728
729 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
730
731 \f
732 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
733 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
734
735 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
736 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
737 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
738 (at your option) any later version.
739
740 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
741 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
742 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
743 GNU General Public License for more details.
744
745 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
746 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
747
748 \f
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750 coding: utf-8
751 mode: outline
752 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
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