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diff --git a/doc/misc/efaq.texi b/doc/misc/efaq.texi index 8eee9e1d86..b72b2d7c2c 100644 --- a/doc/misc/efaq.texi +++ b/doc/misc/efaq.texi @@ -931,6 +931,7 @@ status of its latest version. @menu * Origin of the term Emacs:: * Latest version of Emacs:: +* New in Emacs 25:: * New in Emacs 24:: * New in Emacs 23:: * New in Emacs 22:: @@ -977,9 +978,9 @@ conventions}). @cindex Bazaar repository, Emacs Emacs @value{EMACSVER} is the current version as of this writing. A version -number with two components (e.g., @samp{22.1}) indicates a released +number with two components (e.g., @samp{24.5}) indicates a released version; three components indicate a development -version (e.g., @samp{23.0.50} is what will eventually become @samp{23.1}). +version (e.g., @samp{26.0.50} is what will eventually become @samp{26.1}). Emacs is under active development, hosted at @uref{http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/, Savannah}. @@ -998,6 +999,106 @@ Emacs, type @kbd{C-h C-n} (@kbd{M-x view-emacs-news}). As of Emacs 22, you can give this command a prefix argument to read about which features were new in older versions. +@node New in Emacs 25 +@section What is different about Emacs 25? +@cindex Differences between Emacs 24 and Emacs 25 +@cindex Emacs 25, new features in + +@itemize +@cindex xwidgets +@item +Emacs can now embed native widgets inside Emacs buffers, if you have +gtk3 and webkitgtk3 installed. E.g., to access the embedded webkit +browser widget, type @kbd{M-x xwidget-webkit-browse-url}. + +@cindex loadable modules +@item +Emacs can now dynamically load external modules compiled as shared +libraries. + +@cindex Unicode characters, typing easily +@item +@kbd{C-x 8} has new shorthands for several popular characters, type +@kbd{C-x 8 C-h} to list shorthands. + +@cindex automatic display of Lisp APIs +@item +A new minor mode @code{global-eldoc-mode} is enabled by default, and +shows in the echo area or in the mode line the argument list of the +Emacs Lisp form at point. + +@cindex pasting text on text terminals +@cindex bracketed paste mode +@item +On text terminals that support the ``bracketed paste mode'' EMacs now +uses that mode by default. This mode allows Emacs to distinguish +between pasted text and text typed by the user. + +@cindex Unicode 9.0.0 +@item +Emacs 25 comes with data files imported from the latest Unicode +Standard version 9.0.0. + +@cindex bidirectional editing +@item +The support for bidirectional editing was updated to include all the +features mandated by the latest Unicode Standard version 9.0.0. + +@cindex character folding in searches +@item +Search command can now perform character folding in matches. This is +analogous to case folding, but instead of disregarding case variants, +it disregards wider classes of distinctions between similar +characters, such as matching different variants of double quote +characters, ignoring diacriticals, etc. + +@cindex eww +@item +The Emacs Web Browser EWW was extended to render text using +variable-pitch fonts, and got other new features. + +@cindex rmail, and HTML mails +@item +Rmail can now render HTML mail messages, if Emacs is built with +libxml2 or if you have the Lynx browser installed. + +@cindex support for push commands in VC +@item +VC now has basic support for @code{push} commands, implemented for +Bzr, Git, and Hg. + +@cindex hide-ifdef, C/C@t{++} expressions in macros +@item +Hide-IfDef mode now support full C/C@t{++} expressions in macros, +macro argument expansion, interactive macro evaluation and automatic +scanning of @code{#define}d symbols. + +@cindex xref +@item +New package Xref replaces Etags's front-end and UI. Xref provides a +generic framework and new commands to find and move to definitions of +functions, macros, data structures etc., as well as go back to the +location where you were before moving to a definition. It supersedes +and obsoletes many Etags commands, while still using the etags.el code +that reads the TAGS tables as one of its back-ends. As result, the +popular key bindings @kbd{M-.} and @kbd{M-,} have been changed to +invoke Xref commands. + +@cindex project +@item +The new package Project provides generic infrastructure for dealing +with projects. + +@cindex horizontal scroll bars +@item +Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that +provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows. + +@end itemize + +Consult the Emacs @file{NEWS} file (@kbd{C-h n}) for the full list of +changes in Emacs 25. + @node New in Emacs 24 @section What is different about Emacs 24? @cindex Differences between Emacs 23 and Emacs 24 |