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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 ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules).
185 A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional
186 functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package
187 written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions `load', `require',
188 `load-file', etc. were extended to load such modules, as they do with
189 Emacs Lisp packages. The new variable `module-file-suffix' holds the
190 system-dependent value of the file-name extension (`.so' on Posix
191 hosts) of the module files.
192
193 A module should export a C-callable function named
194 `emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to
195 `load' or `require' which loads the module. It should also export a
196 symbol named `plugin_is_GPL_compatible' to indicate that its code is
197 released under the GPL or compatible license; Emacs will refuse to
198 load modules that don't export such a symbol.
199
200 If a module needs to call Emacs functions, it should do so through the
201 API defined and documented in the header file `emacs-module.h'. Note
202 that any module that provides Lisp-callable functions will have to use
203 Emacs functions such as `fset' and `funcall', in order to register its
204 functions with the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
205
206 Modules can create `user-ptr' Lisp objects that embed pointers to C
207 struct's defined by the module. This is useful for keeping around
208 complex data structures created by a module, to be passed back to the
209 module's functions. User-ptr objects can also have associated
210 "finalizers" -- functions to be run when the object is GC'ed; this is
211 useful for freeing any resources allocated for the underlying data
212 structure, such as memory, open file descriptors, etc. A new
213 predicate `user-ptrp' returns non-nil if its argument is a `user-ptr'
214 object.
215
216 Loadable modules in Emacs are an experimental feature, and subject to
217 change in future releases. For that reason, their support is disabled
218 by default, and must be enabled by using the `--with-modules' option
219 at configure time.
220
221 ---
222 ** New input method: `tamil-dvorak'.
223
224 \f
225 * Editing Changes in Emacs 25.1
226
227 +++
228 ** M-x suggests shorthands and ignores obsolete commands for completion.
229
230 ** Changes in undo
231
232 +++
233 *** Successive single-char deletions are collapsed in the undo-log just like
234 successive char insertions. Which commands invoke this behavior is
235 controlled by the new `undo-auto-amalgamate' function. See the node
236 "Undo" in the ELisp manual for more details.
237
238 +++
239 *** The heuristic used to insert `undo-boundary' after each command
240 has changed, so that if a command causes changes in more than just the
241 current buffer, Emacs now calls `undo-boundary' in every buffer
242 affected by the command.
243
244 +++
245 ** New command `comment-line' bound to `C-x C-;'.
246
247 ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
248
249 ** C-x 8 now has shorthands for these chars: ‐ ‑ ‒ – — ― ‘ ’ “ ” † ‡ • ′ ″
250 € № ← → ↔ − ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥. As before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
251
252 ** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for quoting ‘like this’ and “like this”
253 as you type. See also the new variable ‘text-quoting-style’.
254
255 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
256
257 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal
258 that supports it. This facility allows Emacs to understand pasted
259 chunks of text as strings to be inserted, instead of interpreting each
260 character in the pasted text as actual user input. This results in a
261 paste experience similar to that under a window system, and significant
262 performance improvements when pasting large amounts of text.
263
264 ** Emacs now supports the latest version of the UBA.
265 The Emacs implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA)
266 was updated to support all the latest additions and changes introduced
267 in Unicode Standard versions 6.3, 7.0, and the latest Unicode 8.0.
268 This includes full support for directional isolates and the
269 Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) specified by these Unicode
270 standards.
271
272 ** You can access `mouse-buffer-menu' (C-down-mouse-1) using C-f10.
273
274 +++
275 ** New buffer-local `electric-pair-local-mode'.
276
277 +++
278 ** New variable `fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' inhibits
279 fontification during full screen scrolling operations, giving less
280 hesitant operation during auto-repeat of C-v, M-v at the cost of
281 possible inaccuracies in the end position.
282
283 \f
284 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
285
286 ** Checkdoc
287
288 +++
289 *** New command `checkdoc-package-keywords' checks if the
290 current package keywords are recognized. Set the new option
291 `checkdoc-package-keywords-flag' to non-nil to make
292 `checkdoc-current-buffer' call this function automatically.
293
294 +++
295 *** New function `checkdoc-file' checks for style errors.
296 It's meant for use together with `compile':
297 emacs -batch --eval "(checkdoc-file \"subr.el\")"
298
299 ** New function `bookmark-set-no-overwrite' bound to C-x r M.
300 It raises an error if a bookmark of that name already exists,
301 unlike `bookmark-set' which silently updates an existing bookmark.
302
303 ** JSON
304 ---
305 *** `json-pretty-print' and `json-pretty-print-buffer' now maintain
306 the ordering of object keys by default.
307 ---
308 *** New commands `json-pretty-print-ordered' and
309 `json-pretty-print-buffer-ordered' pretty prints JSON objects with
310 object keys sorted alphabetically.
311
312 ** You can recompute the VC state of a file buffer with `M-x vc-refresh-state'
313 ** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
314 See `prog-indentation-context' and `prog-widen'.
315
316 ** Prettify Symbols mode
317 *** Prettify Symbols mode supports custom composition predicates. By
318 overriding the default `prettify-symbols-compose-predicate', modes can
319 specify in which contexts a symbol map be composed to some unicode
320 character. `prettify-symbols-default-compose-p' is the default which
321 is suitable for most programming languages such as C or Lisp (but not
322 (La)TeX).
323
324 *** Symbols can be unprettified while point is inside them.
325 New variable `prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point' configures this.
326
327 ** New `xterm-screen-extra-capabilities' config.
328
329 ** The `save-place' variable is replaced by a `save-place-mode'.
330
331 ** ERC
332
333 *** Hide message types by network or channel. `erc-hide-list' will
334 hide all messages of the specified type, where `erc-network-hide-list'
335 and `erc-channel-hide-list' will only hide the specified message types
336 for the respective specified targets.
337
338 ** Midnight-mode
339 *** `midnight-mode' is a proper minor mode.
340 *** clean-buffer-*-regexps can now specify buffers via predicate functions.
341
342 ** In xterms, killing text now also sets the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection
343 in the surrounding GUI (using the OSC-52 escape sequence). This only works
344 if your xterm supports it and enables the `allowWindowOps' options (disabled
345 by default at least in Debian, for security reasons).
346
347 Similarly, you can yank the CLIPBOARD/PRIMARY selection (using the OSC-52
348 escape sequence) if your xterm has the feature enabled but for that you
349 additionally need to add `getSelection' to `xterm-extra-capabilities'.
350
351 ** xterm-mouse-mode now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it).
352
353 ** package.el
354
355 *** New "external" package status.
356 An external package is any installed package that's not built-in and
357 not from `package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an entry in
358 `package-directory-list'. They are treated much like built-in
359 packages, in that they cannot be deleted through the package menu and
360 are not considered for upgrades.
361
362 The effect, is that a user can manually place a specific version of a
363 package inside `package-directory-list' and the package menu will
364 always respect that.
365
366 *** If a package is available on multiple archives and one has higher
367 priority (as per `package-archive-priorities') only that one is
368 listed. This can be configured with `package-menu-hide-low-priority'.
369
370 *** `package-menu-toggle-hiding' now toggles the hiding of packages.
371 This includes the above-mentioned low-priority packages, as well as
372 available packages whose version is lower than the currently installed
373 version (which were previously impossible to display).
374 This allows users to downgrade a package if a lower version is
375 available.
376
377 *** When filtering the package menu, keywords starting with "arc:" or
378 "status:" represent package archive or status, respectively, instead
379 of actual keywords.
380
381 *** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an
382 ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s)
383 asynchronously.
384
385 *** New variable `package-menu-async' controls whether the
386 package-menu uses asynchronous downloads.
387
388 *** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories.
389 This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the
390 -pkg file is optional.
391
392 *** Packages which are dependencies of other packages cannot be deleted.
393 The FORCE argument to `package-delete' overrides this.
394
395 *** New custom variable `package-selected-packages' tracks packages
396 which were installed by the user (as opposed to installed as
397 dependencies). This variable can also be manually customized.
398
399 *** New command `package-install-user-selected-packages' installs all
400 packages from `package-selected-packages' which are currently missing.
401
402 *** New command `package-autoremove' removes all packages which were
403 installed strictly as dependencies but are no longer needed.
404
405 ** Shell
406
407 When you invoke `shell' interactively, the *shell* buffer will now
408 display in a new window. However, you can customize this behavior via
409 the `display-buffer-alist' variable. For example, to get
410 the old behavior -- *shell* buffer displays in current window -- use
411 (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
412 '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
413
414 ** EIEIO
415 +++
416 *** The `:protection' slot option is not obeyed any more.
417 +++
418 *** The `newname' argument to constructors is optional&deprecated.
419 If you need your objects to be named, do it by inheriting from `eieio-named'.
420 +++
421 *** The <class>-list-p and <class>-child-p functions are declared obsolete.
422 +++
423 *** The <class> variables are declared obsolete.
424 +++
425 *** The <initarg> variables are declared obsolete.
426 *** defgeneric and defmethod are declared obsolete.
427 +++
428 *** `constructor' is now an obsolete alias for `make-instance'.
429
430 ** ido
431 *** New command `ido-bury-buffer-at-head' bound to C-S-b
432 Bury the buffer at the head of `ido-matches', analogous to how C-k
433 kills the buffer at head.
434 *** A prefix argument to `ido-restrict-to-matches' will reverse its
435 meaning, and the list is restricted to those elements that do not
436 match the current input.
437
438 ** Minibuffer
439
440 *** You can use <up> and <down> keys to move point in the multi-line
441 minibuffer just as in an ordinary buffer. Only when point moves over
442 the bottom/top of the minibuffer it goes to the next/previous history
443 element. The new commands bound to <up> and <down> in the minibuffer:
444 `next-line-or-history-element' and `previous-line-or-history-element'.
445
446 ** Search and Replace
447
448 +++
449 *** New user option `search-default-regexp-mode'
450 specifies the default mode for I-search.
451
452 +++
453 *** `isearch' and `query-replace' can now perform character folding in matches.
454 Isearch does that by default, while `query-replace' will do that if
455 the new variable `replace-character-fold' is customized to a non-nil
456 value. This is analogous to case folding, but instead of disregarding
457 case variants, it disregards wider classes of distinctions between
458 similar characters. (Case folding is a special case of character
459 folding.) This means many characters in the search string will match
460 entire groups of characters instead of just themselves.
461
462 For instance, the " will match all variants of double quotes (like “
463 and ”), and the letter a will match all of its accented cousins, even
464 those composed of multiple characters, as well as many other symbols
465 like ℀, ℁, ⒜, and ⓐ.
466
467 +++
468 *** New function `character-fold-to-regexp' can be used
469 by searching commands to produce a regexp matching anything that
470 character-folds into STRING.
471
472 +++
473 *** The new M-s M-w key binding uses eww to search the web for the
474 text in the region. The search engine to use for this is specified by
475 the customizable variable `eww-search-prefix'.
476
477 +++
478 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
479 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing
480 `M-p' will now show previous replacements as "FROM SEP TO", where FROM
481 and TO are the original text and its replacement, and SEP is an arrow
482 string defined by the new variable `query-replace-from-to-separator'.
483 To select a prior replacement, type `M-p' until the desired
484 replacement appears in the minibuffer, and then exit the minibuffer by
485 typing RET.
486
487 ** Calc
488 +++
489 *** If `quick-calc' is called with a prefix argument, insert the
490 result of the calculation into the current buffer.
491
492 +++
493 ** In Edebug, you can now set the initial mode with C-x C-a C-m. With
494 this you can tell Edebug not to stop at the start of the first
495 instrumented function.
496
497 ** ElDoc
498 *** New minor mode `global-eldoc-mode'
499 *** `eldoc-documentation-function' now defaults to `ignore'
500 *** `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
501 and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'. It is
502 useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various spaces (e.g. ] [,
503 ] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.
504
505 ** eww
506
507 ---
508 *** HTML can now be rendered using variable-width fonts.
509
510 +++
511 *** A new command `F' (`eww-toggle-fonts') can be used to toggle
512 whether to use variable-pitch fonts or not. The user can also
513 customize the `shr-use-fonts' variable.
514
515 +++
516 *** A new command `R' (`eww-readable') will try do identify the main
517 textual parts of a web page and display only that, leaving menus and
518 the like off the page.
519
520 ---
521 *** You can now use several eww buffers in parallel by renaming eww
522 buffers you want to keep separate.
523
524 +++
525 *** Partial state of the eww buffers (the URIs and the titles of the
526 pages visited) is now preserved in the desktop file.
527
528 +++
529 *** `eww-after-render-hook' is now called after eww has rendered
530 the data in the buffer.
531
532 ---
533 *** The `eww-reload' command now takes a prefix to not reload via
534 the net, but just use the local copy of the HTML.
535
536 +++
537 *** The DOM shr and eww uses has been changed to the general Emacs
538 xml.el/libxml2 DOM, and a new package dom.el has been added to
539 interact with this DOM. See the Emacs Lisp manual for interface
540 details.
541
542 +++
543 *** `mailcap-mime-data' is now consulted when displaying PDF files.
544
545 +++
546 *** The new `S' command will list all eww buffers, and allow managing
547 them.
548
549 ---
550 *** https pages with valid certificates have headers marked in green, while
551 invalid certificates are marked in red.
552
553 ** Message mode
554
555 *** text/html messages that contain inline image parts will be
556 transformed into multipart/related messages before sending.
557
558 ** pcase
559 *** New UPatterns `quote', `app', `cl-struct', and `eieio'.
560 *** New UPatterns can be defined with `pcase-defmacro'.
561 +++
562 *** New vector QPattern.
563
564 ** Lisp mode
565 *** Strings after `:documentation' are highlighted as docstrings.
566
567 ** Rectangle editing
568 *** Rectangle Mark mode can have corners past EOL or in the middle of a TAB.
569 *** C-x C-x in rectangle-mark-mode now cycles through the four corners.
570 *** `string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
571
572 ** New font-lock functions font-lock-ensure and font-lock-flush, which
573 should be used instead of font-lock-fontify-buffer when called from Elisp.
574
575 ** Macro `minibuffer-with-setup-hook' takes (:append FUN) to mean
576 appending FUN to `minibuffer-setup-hook'.
577
578 ** cl-lib
579 *** New functions cl-fresh-line, cl-digit-char-p and cl-parse-integer.
580
581 ** Calendar and diary
582
583 +++
584 *** The default `diary-file' is now located in .emacs.d.
585
586 +++
587 *** New commands to insert diary entries with Chinese dates:
588 `diary-chinese-insert-anniversary-entry' `diary-chinese-insert-entry'
589 `diary-chinese-insert-monthly-entry', `diary-chinese-insert-yearly-entry'.
590
591 +++
592 *** The calendar can now list and mark diary entries with Chinese dates.
593 See `diary-chinese-list-entries' and `diary-chinese-mark-entries'.
594
595 ---
596 *** The option `calendar-mode-line-format' can now be nil,
597 which means to do nothing special with the mode line in calendars.
598
599 +++
600 *** New option `calendar-weekend-days'.
601 The option customizes which day headers receive the
602 `calendar-weekend-header' face.
603
604 ---
605 *** New optional args N and STRING for ‘holiday-greek-orthodox-easter’.
606
607 ---
608 *** Many items obsolete since at least version 23.1 have been removed.
609 The majority were function/variable/face aliases, too numerous to list here.
610 The remainder were:
611
612 **** Functions `calendar-one-frame-setup', `calendar-only-one-frame-setup',
613 `calendar-two-frame-setup', `european-calendar', `american-calendar'.
614
615 **** Hooks `cal-menu-load-hook', `cal-x-load-hook'.
616
617 **** Macro `calendar-for-loop'.
618
619 **** Variables `european-calendar-style', `diary-face', `hebrew-holidays-{1,4}'.
620
621 **** The nil and list forms of `diary-display-function'.
622
623 ** New ERT function `ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit'.
624
625 ** New js.el option `js-indent-first-init'.
626
627 ---
628 ** `Info-fontify-maximum-menu-size' can be t for no limit.
629
630 +++
631 ** `info-display-manual' can now be given a prefix argument which (any
632 non-nil value) directs the command to limit the completion
633 alternatives to currently visited manuals.
634
635 ---
636 ** ntlm.el has support for NTLM2.
637
638 ** Rmail
639
640 *** The Rmail commands d, C-d and u take optional repeat counts to delete or
641 undelete multiple messages.
642
643 *** Rmail can now render HTML mail messages if your Emacs was built with
644 libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. By default, Rmail
645 will display the HTML version of a mail message that has both HTML and
646 plain text parts, if display of HTML email is possible; customize the
647 `rmail-mime-prefer-html' option to `nil' if you don't want that.
648
649 +++
650 *** In the commands that make summaries by subject, recipients, or senders,
651 you can no longer use commas to separate regular expressions.
652
653 ** SES now supports local printer functions; see `ses-define-local-printer'.
654
655 ** sh-script
656 *** In sh-mode you can now use `sh-shell' as a file-local variable to
657 specify the type of shell in use (bash, csh, etc).
658
659 *** New value `always' for sh-indent-after-continuation.
660 This provides old-style ("dumb") indentation of continued lines.
661
662 ** TLS
663 ---
664 *** Fatal TLS errors are now silent by default.
665
666 ** URL
667
668 *** The URL package accepts now the protocols "ssh", "scp" and "rsync".
669 When `url-handler-mode' is enabled, file operations for these
670 protocols as well as for "telnet" and "ftp" are passed to Tramp.
671
672 *** The URL package allows customizing the `url-user-agent' string.
673 The new `url-user-agent' variable can be customized to be a string or
674 a function.
675
676 *** The new interface variable `url-request-noninteractive' can be used
677 to specify that we're running in a noninteractive context, and that
678 we should not be queried about things like TLS certificate validity.
679
680 *** If URL is used with a https connection, the first callback argument
681 plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
682 `gnutls-peer-status' (if Emacs is built with GnuTLS support).
683
684 ** Tramp
685
686 +++
687 *** New connection method "afp", which allows to access Mac OS X
688 volumes via the Apple Filing Protocol.
689
690 +++
691 *** New connection method "nc", which allows to access dumb busyboxes.
692
693 +++
694 *** Method-specific parameters can be overwritten now with variable
695 `tramp-connection-properties'.
696
697 ---
698 *** Handler for `file-notify-valid-p' for remote machines that support
699 filesystem notifications.
700
701 ** SQL mode
702
703 *** New user variable `sql-default-directory' enables remote
704 connections using Tramp.
705
706 *** New command `sql-send-line-and-next' sends the current line to the
707 interactive buffer and advances to the next line, skipping whitespace
708 and comments.
709
710 *** Add support for Vertica SQL.
711
712 ** VC and related modes
713
714 *** Basic push support, via `vc-push', bound to `C-x v P'.
715 Implemented for Bzr, Git, Hg. As part of this change, the pre-existing
716 (undocumented) command vc-hg-push now behaves slightly differently.
717
718 *** The new command vc-region-history shows the log+diff of the active region.
719
720 *** New option `vc-annotate-background-mode' controls whether
721 the color range from `vc-annotate-color-map' is applied to the
722 background or to the foreground.
723
724 *** `compare-windows' now compares text with the most recently used window
725 instead of the next window. The new option `compare-windows-get-window-function'
726 allows to customize this.
727
728 *** Two new faces `compare-windows-removed' and `compare-windows-added'
729 replace the obsolete face `compare-windows'.
730
731 ---
732 *** `log-edit-insert-changelog' converts "(tiny change)" to
733 "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". Set `log-edit-rewrite-tiny-change'
734 nil to disable this.
735
736 ** VHDL mode supports VHDL'08.
737
738 ** Calculator: decimal display mode uses "," groups, so it's more
739 fitting for use in money calculations; factorial works with
740 non-integer inputs.
741
742 ** HideIfDef mode now support full C/C++ expressions, argumented macro expansions,
743 interactive macro evaluation and automatic scanning of #defined symbols.
744
745 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-header-regexp' to define C/C++ header file
746 name patterns. Default case-insensitive .h, .hh, .hpp, .hxx, and .h++.
747 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-expand-reinclusion-protection' to prevent
748 reinclusion protected header files from being fully hidden.
749 *** New custom variable `hide-ifdef-exclude-define-regexp' to define symbol
750 name patterns (e.g. all "FOR_DOXYGEN_ONLY_*") to be excluded.
751
752 ** TeX mode
753
754 *** New custom variable `tex-print-file-extension' to help users who
755 use PDF instead of DVI.
756
757 *** TeX mode now supports Prettify Symbols mode. When enabling
758 `prettify-symbols-mode' in a tex-mode buffer, \alpha ... \omega, and
759 many other math macros are displayed using unicode characters.
760
761 ** whitespace-mode: new 'big-indent style highlighting too much indentation.
762 By default, 32 spaces and four TABs are considered to be too much but
763 `whitespace-big-indent-regexp' can be configured to change that.
764
765 ** tildify: `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
766 `tildify-foreach-region-function' variables added making
767 `tildify-string-alist', `tildify-pattern-alist', and
768 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
769 helper functions) obsolete.
770
771 ** xref
772 The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
773 and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
774
775 *** New key bindings
776 `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
777 to pick one destination among several. Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
778 unbound. `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
779 easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
780 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
781 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
782 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
783
784 *** New variables
785 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
786 `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
787 alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and
788 `xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead.
789
790 ** etags
791 As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
792 `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
793 `tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
794
795 ** EUDC
796 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.
797
798 *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://).
799
800 *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch
801 subprocess instead of on the command line.
802
803 *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't
804 need to configure this manually anymore.
805
806 *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been
807 rewritten.
808
809 There have also been customization changes.
810
811 *** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying
812 multiple EUDC servers in init file.
813
814 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing
815 on email and firstname instead of surname.
816
817 *** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil
818 to avoid interfering with the kill ring.
819
820 *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to
821 "Firstname Surname <mail-address>".
822
823 *** Custom variable `eudc-options-file' defaults to
824 "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options".
825
826 *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to
827 allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch
828 command line's password prompt.
829
830 EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3.
831
832 ** Eshell
833
834 +++
835 *** The new built-in command `clear' can scroll window contents out of sight.
836 If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents will be cleared.
837
838 *** New buffer syntax '#<buffer-name>', which is equivalent to
839 '#<buffer buffer-name>'. This shorthand makes interacting with
840 buffers from eshell more convenient. Custom variable
841 `eshell-buffer-shorthand', which has been broken for a while, has been
842 removed.
843
844 *** By default, eshell "visual" program buffers (created by
845 `eshell-visual-commands' and similar custom vars) are no longer killed
846 when their processes die. This fixes issues with short-lived commands
847 and makes visual programs more useful in general. For example, if
848 "git log" is a visual command, it will always show the visual command
849 buffer, even if the "git log" process dies. For the old behavior,
850 make the new option `eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil.
851
852 ** Browse-url
853
854 *** Support for the Conkeror web browser.
855
856 ---
857 *** Support for several ancient browsers is now officially obsolete.
858
859 +++
860 ** tar-mode: new `tar-new-entry' command, allowing for new members to
861 be added to the archive.
862
863 ---
864 ** Autorevert: dired buffers are also auto-reverted via file
865 notifications, if Emacs is compiled with file notification support.
866
867 ** File Notifications
868
869 +++
870 *** The new event `stopped' signals, that a file notification watch is
871 not active any longer.
872
873 +++
874 *** The new function `file-notify-valid-p' checks, whether a file
875 notification descriptor still corresponds to an activate watch.
876
877 ** Dired
878
879 +++
880 *** The command `dired-do-compress' bound to `Z' now can compress
881 directories and decompress zip files.
882
883 +++
884 *** New command `dired-do-compress-to' bound to `c' can be used to
885 compress many marked files into a single named archive. The
886 compression command is determined from the new
887 `dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
888
889 ** Tabulated List Mode
890
891 +++
892 *** It is now safe for a mode that derives `tabulated-list-mode' to not
893 call `tabulated-list-init-header', in which case it will have no
894 header.
895
896 +++
897 *** `tabulated-list-print' takes a second optional argument, update,
898 which specifies an alternative printing method which is faster when
899 few or no entries have changed.
900
901 ** Obsolete packages
902
903 ---
904 *** gulp.el
905
906 *** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org)
907
908 \f
909 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
910
911 ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
912 minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg
913 command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable
914 is set). This feature requires newer versions of GnuPG (2.1.5 or
915 later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later).
916
917 ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
918
919 ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode)
920
921 ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily
922 let-bind the values stored in an alist.
923
924 ** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one
925 types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is
926 forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in
927 other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create
928 a typographically-correct documents.
929
930 ** The `seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros
931 that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions
932 are prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors.
933
934 ** The `map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on
935 alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with
936 `map-'.
937
938 ** The `thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the
939 evaluation of forms.
940
941 ** js-jsx-mode (a minor variant of js-mode) provides indentation
942 support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
943
944 \f
945 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
946
947 ---
948 ** `setq' and `setf' must now be called with an even number of
949 arguments. The earlier behavior of silently supplying a nil to the
950 last variable when there was an odd number of arguments has been
951 eliminated.
952
953 ** `syntax-begin-function' is declared obsolete.
954 Removed font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function and the SYNTAX-BEGIN
955 slot in font-lock-defaults.
956
957 +++
958 ** `package-initialize' now sets `package-enable-at-startup' to nil if
959 called during startup. Users who call this function in their init
960 file and still expect it to be run after startup should set
961 `package-enable-at-startup' to t after the call to
962 `package-initialize'.
963
964 ** `:global' minor mode use `setq-default' rather than `setq'.
965 This means that you can't use `make-local-variable' and expect them to
966 "magically" become buffer-local.
967
968 ** `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to t and is obsolete.
969
970 +++
971 ** `track-mouse' no longer freezes the shape of the mouse pointer.
972 The `track-mouse' form no longer refrains from changing the shape of
973 the mouse pointer for the entire time the body of that form is
974 executed. Lisp programs that use `track-mouse' for dragging across
975 large portions of the Emacs display, and want to avoid changes in the
976 pointer shape during dragging, should bind the variable `track-mouse'
977 to the special value `dragging' in the body of the form.
978
979 ---
980 ** The optional `predicate' argument of `lisp-complete-symbol' no longer
981 has any effect. (This change was made in Emacs 24.4 but was not
982 advertised at the time.)
983
984 ** `indirect-function' does not signal `void-function' any more.
985 This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when
986 symbol-function was changed not to signal `void-function' any more.
987
988 *** As a consequence, the second arg of `indirect-function' is now obsolete.
989
990 ** Comint, term, and compile do not set the EMACS env var any more.
991 Use the INSIDE_EMACS environment variable instead.
992
993 ** `save-excursion' does not save&restore the mark any more.
994
995 ** read-buffer-function can now be called with a 4th argument (`predicate').
996
997 ** completion-table-dynamic stays in the minibuffer.
998 If you want the old behavior of calling the function in the buffer
999 from which the minibuffer was entered, call it with the new argument
1000 `switch-buffer'.
1001
1002 ** window-configurations no longer record the buffers' marks.
1003
1004 ** inhibit-modification-hooks now also inhibits lock-file checks, as well as
1005 active region handling.
1006
1007 ** deactivate-mark is now buffer-local.
1008
1009 ** `cl-the' now asserts that its argument is of the given type.
1010
1011 ** `process-running-child-p` may now return a numeric process
1012 group ID instead of `t'.
1013
1014 +++
1015 ** Mouse click events on mode line or header line no longer include
1016 any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse
1017 position list returned for such events is now nil.
1018
1019 ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more.
1020 These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since
1021 Emacs-21.
1022
1023 ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic
1024 when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission
1025 denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
1026 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
1027
1028 +++
1029 ** New variable ‘text-quoting-style’ to control how Emacs translates quotes.
1030 Set it to ‘curve’ for curved single quotes ‘like this’, to ‘straight’
1031 for straight apostrophes 'like this', and to ‘grave’ for grave accent
1032 and apostrophe `like this'. The default value nil acts like ‘curve’
1033 if curved single quotes are displayable, and like ‘grave’ otherwise.
1034 The new variable affects display of diagnostics and help, but not of info.
1035
1036 +++
1037 ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
1038 That is, it converts documentation strings’ quoting style as per the
1039 value of ‘text-quoting-style’. Doc strings in source code can use
1040 either curved single quotes or grave accents and apostrophes. As
1041 before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
1042
1043 +++
1044 ** Message-issuing functions ‘error’, ‘message’, etc. now convert quotes.
1045 They use the new ‘format-message’ function instead of plain ‘format’,
1046 so that they now follow user preference as per ‘text-quoting-style’
1047 when processing curved single quotes, grave accents, and apostrophes
1048 in their format argument.
1049
1050 +++
1051 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions
1052 now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties.
1053 If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with
1054 word syntax, use `\sw' instead.
1055
1056 +++
1057 ** The character classes [:graph:] and [:print:] in regular expressions
1058 no longer match every multibyte character. Instead, Emacs now
1059 consults the Unicode character properties to determine which
1060 characters are graphic or printable. In particular, surrogates and
1061 unassigned codepoints are now rejected. If you want the old behavior,
1062 use [:multibyte:] instead.
1063
1064 +++
1065 ** The `diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old
1066 behavior, set `diff-switches' to `-c'.
1067
1068 ** `grep-template' and `grep-find-template' values don't include the
1069 --color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position
1070 dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should
1071 be updated accordingly.
1072
1073 +++
1074 ** ‘(/ N)’ is now equivalent to ‘(/ 1 N)’ rather than to ‘(/ N 1)’.
1075 The new behavior is compatible with Common Lisp and with XEmacs.
1076 This change does not affect Lisp code intended to be portable to
1077 Emacs 24.2 and earlier, which did not support unary ‘/’.
1078
1079 +++
1080 ** The `default-directory' value doesn't have to end slash. To make
1081 that happen, `unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
1082 `file-name-as-directory'.
1083
1084 \f
1085 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1
1086
1087 ** syntax-propertize is now automatically called on-demand during forward
1088 parsing functions like `forward-sexp'.
1089
1090 ** New hooks prefix-command-echo-keystrokes-functions and
1091 prefix-command-preserve-state-hook, to allow the definition of prefix
1092 commands other than the predefined C-u.
1093
1094 ** New functions `filepos-to-bufferpos' and `bufferpos-to-filepos'.
1095
1096 ** The default value of `load-read-function' is now `read'.
1097
1098 ** New hook `pre-redisplay-functions', a bit easier to use than pre-redisplay-function.
1099
1100 ** The second arg of `looking-back' should always be provided explicitly.
1101
1102 ** Obsolete text properties `intangible', `point-entered', and `point-left'.
1103 Replaced by properties `cursor-intangible' and `cursor-sensor-functions',
1104 implemented by the new `cursor-intangible-mode' and
1105 `cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes.
1106
1107 ** New process type `pipe', which can be used in combination with the
1108 `:stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output
1109 of subprocess.
1110
1111 ** New function `make-process' provides an alternative interface to
1112 `start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as
1113 process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to
1114 `make-network-process').
1115
1116 +++
1117 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
1118 files (recursively) under a directory.
1119
1120 +++
1121 ** New variable `inhibit-message', when bound to non-nil, inhibits
1122 `message' and related functions from displaying messages the Echo
1123 Area. The output is still logged to the *Messages* buffer.
1124
1125 +++
1126 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
1127 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
1128
1129 ** `read-buffer' takes a new `predicate' argument.
1130
1131 ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators.
1132
1133 ** New finalizer facility for running code when objects
1134 become unreachable.
1135
1136 ** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring.
1137 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then
1138 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
1139
1140 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
1141
1142 ** New function `macroexpand-1' to perform a single step of macroexpansion.
1143
1144 ** Some "x-*" were obsoleted:
1145 *** x-select-text is renamed gui-select-text.
1146 *** x-selection-value is renamed gui-selection-value.
1147 *** x-get-selection is renamed gui-get-selection.
1148 *** x-get-clipboard and x-clipboard-yank are marked obsolete.
1149 *** x-get-selection-value is renamed to gui-get-primary-selection.
1150 *** x-set-selection is renamed to gui-set-selection
1151
1152 ** New function `string-greaterp', which return the opposite result of
1153 `string-lessp'.
1154
1155 +++
1156 ** The new functions `string-collate-lessp' and `string-collate-equalp'
1157 preserve the collation order as defined by the system's locale(1)
1158 environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
1159 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
1160 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
1161
1162 ---
1163 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
1164 If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
1165 option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
1166
1167 +++
1168 *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation',
1169 if set to a non-nil value, causes the above 2 functions to ignore
1170 symbol and punctuation characters when collating strings. This
1171 emulates the behavior of modern Posix platforms when the locale's
1172 codeset is "UTF-8" (as in "en_US.UTF-8"). This is needed because
1173 MS-Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as codeset in its locales.
1174
1175 ** New function `alist-get', which is also a valid place (aka lvalue).
1176
1177 ** New function `funcall-interactively', which works like `funcall'
1178 but makes `called-interactively-p' treat the function as (you guessed it)
1179 called interactively.
1180
1181 ** New function `function-put' to use instead of `put' for function properties.
1182
1183 +++
1184 ** The new function `bidi-find-overridden-directionality' allows to
1185 find characters whose directionality was, perhaps maliciously,
1186 overridden by directional override control characters. Lisp programs
1187 can use this to detect potential phishing of URLs and other links that
1188 exploits bidirectional display reordering.
1189
1190 +++
1191 ** The new function `buffer-substring-with-bidi-context' allows to
1192 copy a portion of a buffer into a different location while preserving
1193 the visual appearance both of the copied text and the text at
1194 destination, even when the copied text includes mixed bidirectional
1195 text and directional control characters.
1196
1197 +++
1198 ** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
1199 *** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
1200 *** (pure VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function is pure.
1201 *** (side-effect-free VAL), if VAL is non-nil, indicates the function does not
1202 have side effects.
1203
1204 +++
1205 ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file
1206 permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files).
1207
1208 ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'.
1209
1210 ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors.
1211
1212 ** Function `system-name' now returns an updated value if the current
1213 system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems,
1214 and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the
1215 name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete.
1216
1217 +++
1218 ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode.
1219
1220 ** If `pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default
1221 directory at point.
1222
1223 +++
1224 ** New functions return extended information about fonts and faces.
1225
1226 +++
1227 *** The function `font-info' now returns more details about a font.
1228 In particular, it now returns the average width of the font's
1229 characters, which can be used for geometry-related calculations.
1230
1231 +++
1232 *** A new function `default-font-width' returns the average width of a
1233 character in the current buffer's default font. If the default face
1234 is remapped (see `face-remapping-alist'), the value for the remapped
1235 face is returned. This function complements the existing function
1236 `default-font-height'.
1237
1238 +++
1239 *** New functions `window-font-height' and `window-font-width' return
1240 the height and average width of characters in a specified face and
1241 window. If FACE is remapped (see `face-remapping-alist'), the
1242 function returns the information for the remapped face.
1243
1244 +++
1245 *** A new function `window-max-chars-per-line' returns the maximal
1246 number of characters that can be displayed on one line. If a face
1247 and/or window are provided, these values are used for the
1248 calculation. This function is different from `window-body-width' in
1249 that it accounts for (i) continuation glyphs, (ii) the size of the
1250 font, and (iii) the specified window.
1251
1252 ---
1253 ** New utilities in subr-x.el:
1254 *** New macros `if-let' and `when-let' allow defining bindings and to
1255 execute code depending whether all values are true.
1256 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
1257 as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
1258
1259 +++
1260 ** Documentation strings now support quoting with curved single quotes
1261 ‘like-this’ in addition to the old style with grave accent and
1262 apostrophe `like-this'. The new style looks better on today's displays.
1263 In the new Electric Quote mode, you can enter curved single quotes
1264 into documentation by typing ` and '. Outside Electric Quote mode,
1265 you can enter them by typing ‘C-x 8 [’ and ‘C-x 8 ]’, or (if your Alt
1266 key works) by typing ‘A-[’ and ‘A-]’. As described above under
1267 ‘text-quoting-style’, the user can specify how to display doc string
1268 quotes.
1269
1270 +++
1271 ** New function ‘format-message’ is like ‘format’ and also converts
1272 curved single quotes, grave accents and apostrophes as per
1273 ‘text-quoting-style’.
1274
1275 +++
1276 ** show-help-function's arg is converted via substitute-command-keys
1277 before being passed to the function. Help strings, help-echo
1278 properties, etc. can therefore contain command key escapes and
1279 quotation marks.
1280
1281 +++
1282 ** Time-related changes:
1283
1284 *** Time conversion functions now accept an optional ZONE argument
1285 that specifies the time zone rules for conversion. ZONE is omitted or
1286 nil for Emacs local time, t for Universal Time, ‘wall’ for system wall
1287 clock time, or a string as in ‘set-time-zone-rule’ for a time zone
1288 rule. The affected functions are ‘current-time-string’,
1289 ‘current-time-zone’, ‘decode-time’, and ‘format-time-string’. The
1290 function ‘encode-time’, which already accepted a simple time zone rule
1291 argument, has been extended to accept all the new forms.
1292
1293 *** Time-related functions now consistently accept numbers
1294 (representing seconds since the epoch) and nil (representing the
1295 current time) as well as the usual list-of-integer representation.
1296 Affected functions include `current-time-string', `current-time-zone',
1297 `decode-time', `float-time', `format-time-string', `seconds-to-time',
1298 `time-add', `time-less-p', `time-subtract', `time-to-day-in-year',
1299 `time-to-days', and `time-to-seconds'.
1300
1301 *** The `encode-time-value' and `with-decoded-time-value' macros have
1302 been obsoleted.
1303
1304 *** `calendar-next-time-zone-transition', `time-add', and
1305 `time-subtract' no longer return time values in the obsolete and
1306 undocumented integer-pair format. Instead, they return a list of two
1307 integers.
1308
1309 +++
1310 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
1311 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
1312
1313 +++
1314 ** The new function `directory-name-p' can be used to check whether a file
1315 name (as returned from, for instance, `file-name-all-completions') is
1316 a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in
1317 the name is a directory separator character (forward slash on GNU and
1318 Unix systems, forward- or backslash on MS-Windows and MS-DOS).
1319
1320 ** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in standard-display-table
1321 if the terminal cannot display curved quotes.
1322
1323 ** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
1324 standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system.
1325
1326 +++
1327 ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation.
1328
1329 +++
1330 ** New possible value for `system-type': `nacl'.
1331 This is used by Google's Native Client (NaCl).
1332
1333 ** Miscellaneous name change
1334
1335 For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable
1336 `hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to `hfy-optimizations'.
1337 The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias.
1338
1339 \f
1340 * Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1
1341
1342 +++
1343 ** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that
1344 provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows.
1345 Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default.
1346 *** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether
1347 horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system.
1348 *** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll
1349 bars on all existing and future frames.
1350 *** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal
1351 scroll bars on the selected frame.
1352 *** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and
1353 `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height
1354 for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'.
1355 *** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and
1356 `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll
1357 bars on a specific frame or window.
1358 *** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last
1359 two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar.
1360 *** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll
1361 bars too.
1362 *** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and
1363 `scroll-bar-height'.
1364
1365 +++
1366 ** New functions `frame-geometry' and `frame-edges' give access to a
1367 frame's geometry.
1368
1369 +++
1370 ** New functions `mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and
1371 `set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' get/set screen coordinates of the
1372 mouse cursor.
1373
1374 +++
1375 ** The function `window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to
1376 retrieve body, absolute and pixel edges of the window.
1377
1378 +++
1379 ** The functions `window-inside-edges', `window-inside-pixel-edges' and
1380 `window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges' have been renamed to respectively
1381 `window-body-edges', `window-body-pixel-edges' and
1382 `window-absolute-body-pixel-edges'. The old names are kept as aliases.
1383
1384 +++
1385 ** New function `window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen
1386 coordinates of a visible buffer position.
1387
1388 +++
1389 ** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the
1390 frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for
1391 the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if
1392 present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool
1393 and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all
1394 builds.
1395
1396 +++
1397 ** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines
1398 they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or
1399 scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are
1400 conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and
1401 fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used.
1402 *** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that
1403 setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a
1404 specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the
1405 number of columns or lines it displays.
1406
1407 +++
1408 ** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of
1409 windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer',
1410 `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'.
1411
1412 +++
1413 ** New minor mode `window-divider-mode' and options
1414 `window-divider-default-places', `window-divider-default-bottom-width'
1415 and `window-divider-default-right-width'.
1416
1417 +++
1418 ** New option `switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' allows to customize
1419 how `switch-to-buffer' proceeds interactively when the selected window
1420 is strongly dedicated to its buffer.
1421
1422 +++
1423 ** The option `even-window-heights' has been renamed to
1424 `even-window-sizes' and now handles window widths as well.
1425
1426 ** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed.
1427 Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
1428
1429 ** Miscellaneous
1430
1431 *** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
1432 By default, `etags' will not qualify class members for C-like
1433 object-oriented languages with their class names and namespaces, and
1434 will remove qualifications used explicitly in the code from the tag
1435 names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
1436 `xref-find-definitions' is more accurate and produces less false
1437 positives.
1438
1439 Use --class-qualify (-Q) if you want the old default behavior of
1440 qualifying class members in C++, Java, and Objective C. Note that
1441 using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to `M-.'
1442 (`xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use `C-u M-.' to specify the
1443 qualified names by hand.
1444
1445 \f
1446 * Changes in Emacs 25.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
1447
1448 ---
1449 ** MS-Windows specific Emacs build scripts are no longer in the distribution
1450 This includes the makefile.w32-in files in various subdirectories, and
1451 the support files. The file nt/configure.bat now just tells the user
1452 to use the procedure described in nt/INSTALL, by running the Posix
1453 `configure' script in the top-level directory.
1454
1455 ---
1456 ** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
1457 or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
1458 of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
1459
1460 +++
1461 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
1462
1463 ** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
1464 MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
1465
1466 ---
1467 ** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default.
1468 Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default.
1469
1470 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
1471
1472 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
1473
1474 ---
1475 ** New variable `ns-use-fullscreen-animation' controls animation for
1476 non-native NS fullscreen. The default is nil. Set to t to enable
1477 animation when entering and leaving fullscreen. For native OSX fullscreen
1478 this has no effect.
1479
1480 ---
1481 ** The new function 'w32-application-type' returns the type of an
1482 MS-Windows application given the name of its executable program file.
1483
1484 \f
1485 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1486 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
1487
1488 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
1489 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
1490 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1491 (at your option) any later version.
1492
1493 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1494 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1495 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1496 GNU General Public License for more details.
1497
1498 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
1499 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
1500
1501 \f
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1503 coding: utf-8
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