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