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@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ so if you want to use it, you can always take a copy from an older Emacs. Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png. The old Emacs logo icons are available as `emacs23.png' in the same location. +--- ** New make target `check-expensive' to run additional tests. This includes all tests which run via "make check", plus additional tests which take more time to perform. @@ -791,7 +792,10 @@ If the output of ERT tests in batch mode execution can be saved to a log file, then it can be passed as an argument to the above function to produce a neat summary. +--- ** New js.el option `js-indent-first-init'. +It was renamed from `js-indent-first-initialiser', to avoid issues +with American vs British spelling. ** Info @@ -1005,6 +1009,7 @@ New options `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few helper functions) obsolete. ++++ ** New package Xref replaces Etags's front-end and UI The new package Xref provides a generic framework and new commands to @@ -1027,58 +1032,81 @@ As a result of this, the following commands are now obsolete: `find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp', `tags-apropos', and `tags-loop-continue'. -The framework's API is still experimental and can change in major, -backward-incompatible ways. - ++++ *** New variables `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for `xref-marker-ring-length'. `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete alias for a private variable. `xref-push-marker-stack' and -`xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used to mutate it instead. +`xref-pop-marker-stack' should be used instead to manipulate the stack +of searches for definitions. --- *** `xref-find-definitions' and `describe-function' now display information about mode local overrides (defined by cedet/mode-local.el `define-overloadable-function' `define-mode-local-overrides'). +The framework's Lisp API is still experimental and can change in major, +backward-incompatible ways. + +--- +** New package Project + +The new package Project provides generic infrastructure for dealing +with projects. The main commands included in it are +`project-find-file' and `project-find-regexp'. + +The Lisp API of this package is still experimental. + ** EUDC EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved. ++++ *** EUDC supports LDAP-over-SSL URLs (ldaps://). +--- *** EUDC passes LDAP passwords through a pipe to the ldapsearch subprocess instead of on the command line. +--- *** EUDC handles LDAP wildcards automatically so the user shouldn't need to configure this manually anymore. ++++ *** The LDAP configuration section of EUDC's manual has been rewritten. There have also been customization changes. ++++ *** New custom variable `eudc-server-hotlist' to allow specifying multiple EUDC servers in init file. ++++ *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-query-format' defaults to completing on email and firstname instead of surname. +--- *** Custom variable `eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' defaults to nil to avoid interfering with the kill ring. ++++ *** Custom variable `eudc-inline-expansion-format' defaults to "Firstname Surname <mail-address>". ++++ *** Custom variable `eudc-options-file' defaults to "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options". +--- *** New custom variable `ldap-ldapsearch-password-prompt-regexp' to allow overriding the regular expression that recognizes the ldapsearch command line's password prompt. +--- EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3. +--- EUDC's PH backend (eudcb-ph.el) is obsolete. ** Eshell @@ -1087,12 +1115,14 @@ EUDC's PH backend (eudcb-ph.el) is obsolete. *** The new built-in command `clear' can scroll window contents out of sight. If provided with an optional non-nil argument, the scrollback contents will be cleared. ++++ *** New buffer syntax '#<buffer-name>', which is equivalent to '#<buffer buffer-name>'. This shorthand makes interacting with buffers from eshell more convenient. Custom variable `eshell-buffer-shorthand', which has been broken for a while, has been removed. ++++ *** By default, eshell "visual" program buffers (created by `eshell-visual-commands' and similar custom vars) are no longer killed when their processes die. This fixes issues with short-lived commands @@ -1103,6 +1133,7 @@ make the new option `eshell-destroy-buffer-when-process-dies' non-nil. ** Browse-url +--- *** Support for the Conkeror web browser. --- @@ -1159,11 +1190,13 @@ few or no entries have changed. --- *** gulp.el +--- *** landmark.el (moved to elpa.gnu.org) * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1 +--- ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the gpg command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment variable @@ -1172,28 +1205,35 @@ later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later). ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions. +--- ** scss-mode (a minor variant of css-mode) +--- ** let-alist is a new macro (and a package) that allows one to easily let-bind the values stored in an alist. +--- ** `tildify-mode' allows to automatically insert hard spaces as one types the text. Breaking line after a single-character words is forbidden by Czech and Polish typography (and may be discouraged in other languages), so `auto-tildify-mode' makes it easier to create a typographically-correct documents. +--- ** The `seq' library adds sequence manipulation functions and macros that complement basic functions provided by subr.el. All functions are prefixed with `seq-' and work on lists, strings and vectors. +--- ** The `map' library provides map-manipulation functions that work on alists, hash-table and arrays. All functions are prefixed with `map-'. +--- ** The `thunk' library provides functions and macros to control the evaluation of forms. +--- ** js-jsx-mode (a minor variant of js-mode) provides indentation support for JSX, an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript. @@ -1206,6 +1246,7 @@ arguments. The earlier behavior of silently supplying a nil to the last variable when there was an odd number of arguments has been eliminated. ++++ ** `syntax-begin-function' is declared obsolete. Removed font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function and the SYNTAX-BEGIN slot in font-lock-defaults. @@ -1217,12 +1258,11 @@ file and still expect it to be run after startup should set `package-enable-at-startup' to t after the call to `package-initialize'. +--- ** `:global' minor mode use `setq-default' rather than `setq'. This means that you can't use `make-local-variable' and expect them to "magically" become buffer-local. -** `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to t and is obsolete. - +++ ** `track-mouse' no longer freezes the shape of the mouse pointer. The `track-mouse' form no longer refrains from changing the shape of @@ -1237,10 +1277,12 @@ to the special value `dragging' in the body of the form. has any effect. (This change was made in Emacs 24.4 but was not advertised at the time.) ++++ ** `indirect-function' does not signal `void-function' any more. This is mostly a bug-fix, since this change was missed back in 24.4 when symbol-function was changed not to signal `void-function' any more. ++++ *** As a consequence, the second arg of `indirect-function' is now obsolete. ** Comint, term, and compile do not set the EMACS env var any more. @@ -1272,10 +1314,12 @@ group ID instead of `t'. any reference to a buffer position. The 6th member of the mouse position list returned for such events is now nil. +--- ** Menu items in keymaps do not support the "key shortcut cache" any more. These slots used to hold key-shortcut data, but have been obsolete since Emacs-21. +--- ** Emacs no longer downcases the first letter of a system diagnostic when signaling a file error. For example, it now reports "Permission denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic @@ -1321,6 +1365,7 @@ use [:multibyte:] instead. ** The `diff' command uses the unified format now. To restore the old behavior, set `diff-switches' to `-c'. +--- ** `grep-template' and `grep-find-template' values don't include the --color argument anymore. It's added at the <C> place holder position dynamically. Any third-party code that changes these templates should @@ -1346,6 +1391,7 @@ that happen, `unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling +++ *** New vector QPattern. +--- ** syntax-propertize is now automatically called on-demand during forward parsing functions like `forward-sexp'. @@ -1366,10 +1412,14 @@ Replaced by properties `cursor-intangible' and `cursor-sensor-functions', implemented by the new `cursor-intangible-mode' and `cursor-sensor-mode' minor modes. +** `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' now defaults to t and is obsolete. + ++++ ** New process type `pipe', which can be used in combination with the `:stderr' keyword of make-process to handle standard error output of subprocess. ++++ ** New function `make-process' provides an alternative interface to `start-process'. It allows programs to set process parameters such as process filter, sentinel, etc., through keyword arguments (similar to @@ -1398,13 +1448,17 @@ buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable. ** `read-buffer' takes a new `predicate' argument. ++++ ** Emacs Lisp now supports generators. +See the "Generators" section of the ELisp manual for the details. -** New finalizer facility for running code when objects - become unreachable. ++++ +** New finalizer facility for running code when objects become unreachable. +See the "Finalizer Type" subsection in the ELisp manual for the +details. -** lexical closures can use (:documentation <form>) to build their docstring. -It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and <form> is then +** lexical closures can use (:documentation FORM) to build their docstring. +It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and FORM is then evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built. ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions. @@ -1475,6 +1529,7 @@ have side effects. ** New macro `with-file-modes', for evaluating expressions with default file permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files). ++++ ** You can access the slots of structures using `cl-struct-slot-value'. ** Function `sort' can deal with vectors. @@ -1487,6 +1542,7 @@ name. The variable `system-name' is now obsolete. +++ ** Function `write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode. +--- ** If `pwd' is called with a prefix argument, insert the current default directory at point. @@ -1587,11 +1643,16 @@ a directory file name. It returns non-nil if the last character in the name is a directory separator character (forward slash on GNU and Unix systems, forward- or backslash on MS-Windows and MS-DOS). +--- ** ASCII approximations to curved quotes are put in standard-display-table if the terminal cannot display curved quotes. ++++ ** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system. +To force a specific encoding, bind `coding-system-for-write' to the +coding-system of your choice when invoking functions like `prin1' and +`message'. +++ ** New var `truncate-string-ellipsis' to choose how to indicate truncation. @@ -1602,6 +1663,7 @@ This is used by Google's Native Client (NaCl). ** Miscellaneous name change +--- For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable `hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to `hfy-optimizations'. The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias. @@ -1612,22 +1674,30 @@ The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias. *** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows. Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default. + **** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system. + **** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll bars on all existing and future frames. + **** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal scroll bars on the selected frame. + **** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'. + **** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll bars on a specific frame or window. + **** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar. + **** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll bars too. + **** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and `scroll-bar-height'. @@ -1694,6 +1764,7 @@ Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time. ** Etags ++++ *** etags no longer qualifies class members by default. By default, `etags' will not qualify class members for C-like @@ -1709,11 +1780,13 @@ using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to `M-.' (`xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use `C-u M-.' to specify the qualified names by hand. ++++ *** New language Ruby Names of modules, classes, methods, and functions are tagged. Overloaded operators are also tagged. ++++ *** Improved support for Lua Etags now tags functions even if the "function" keyword follows some @@ -1737,6 +1810,7 @@ of Windows starting with Windows 9X. +++ ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode. +--- ** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on MS-Windows as they are on other platforms. @@ -1744,8 +1818,10 @@ MS-Windows as they are on other platforms. ** On OS X, configure creates a Cocoa ("Nextstep") build by default. Pass '--without-ns' to configure to create an X11 build, the old default. +--- ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported. +--- ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported. --- |