make -C leim generate-ja-dic JA_DIC_NO_REDUCTION_OPTION=''
-after deleting lisp/leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el.
+after deleting "lisp/leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el".
+++
** Emacs now supports being built with pure GTK.
* Startup Changes in Emacs 29.1
+++
-** -batch and -script now adjusts the garbage collection levels.
+** '--batch' and '--script' now adjust the garbage collection levels.
These switches now set 'gc-cons-percentage' to 1.0 (up from the
default of 0.1). This means that batch processes will typically use
more memory than before, but use less time doing garbage collection.
---
*** New command 'native-compile-prune-cache'.
-This command deletes older .eln cache entries (but not the ones for
+This command deletes older ".eln" cache entries (but not the ones for
the current Emacs version).
---
\f
* Incompatible changes in Emacs 29.1
+** Dired
+
---
-** 'w' ('dired-copy-filename-as-kill') has changed behaviour.
+*** 'w' ('dired-copy-filename-as-kill') has changed behavior.
If there are several files marked, file names containing space and
quote characters will be quoted "like this".
+---
+*** The 'd' command now more consistently skips dot files.
+In previous Emacs versions, commands like 'C-u 10 d' would put the "D"
+mark on the next ten files, no matter whether they were dot files
+(i.e., "." and "..") or not, while marking the next ten lines with the
+mouse (in 'transient-mark-mode') and then hitting 'd' would skip dot
+files. These now work equivalently.
+
+++
** Warning about "eager macro-expansion failure" is changed into an error.
---
-** Previously, the X reverseVideo value at startup was heeded for all frames.
-This meant that if you had a reverseVideo resource on the initial
+** Previously, the X "reverseVideo" value at startup was heeded for all frames.
+This meant that if you had a "reverseVideo" resource on the initial
display, and then opened up a new frame on a display without any
-explicit reverseVideo setting, it would get heeded there, too. (This
-included terminal frames.) In Emacs 29, the reverseVideo X resource
+explicit "reverseVideo" setting, it would get heeded there, too. (This
+included terminal frames.) In Emacs 29, the "reverseVideo" X resource
is handled like all the other X resources, and set on a per-frame basis.
+++
Previously, this command did the same as 'e'.
---
-** '/ a' in *Packages* now limits by package name(s) instead of regexp.
+** '/ a' in "*Packages*" buffer now limits by package name(s) instead of regexp.
+++
** Setting the goal columns now also affects '<prior>' and '<next>'.
Previously, 'C-x C-n' only affected 'next-line' and 'previous-line',
but it now also affects 'scroll-up-command' and 'scroll-down-command'.
----
-** The 'd' command in Dired now more consistently skip dot files.
-In previous Emacs versions, commands like `C-u 10 d' would put the "D"
-mark on the next ten files, no matter whether they were dot files
-(i.e., "." and "..") or not, while marking the next ten lines with the
-mouse (in 'transient-mark-mode') and then hitting 'd' would skip dot
-files. These now work equivalently.
-
---
** Isearch in "*Help*" and "*info*" now char-folds quote characters by default.
This means that you can say 'C-s `foo' (GRAVE ACCENT) if the buffer
The display of long lines has been optimized, and Emacs no longer
chokes when a buffer on display contains long lines. If you still
experience slowdowns while editing files with long lines, this is
-either due to font locking, which you can turn off with M-x
-font-lock-mode or C-u C-x x f, or to the current major mode or one of
-the enabled minor modes, in which case you should open the the file
-with M-x find-file-literally instead of C-x C-f. The variable
+either due to font locking, which you can turn off with 'M-x
+font-lock-mode' or 'C-u C-x x f', or to the current major mode or one
+of the enabled minor modes, in which case you should open the the file
+with 'M-x find-file-literally' instead of 'C-x C-f'. The variable
'long-line-threshold' controls whether and when these display
optimizations are used.
C-M-0'. The final key in these commands may be repeated without the
leading 'C-x' and without the modifiers, e.g. 'C-x C-M-+ C-M-+ C-M-+'
and 'C-x C-M-+ + +' increase the font size by three steps. When
-mouse-wheel-mode is enabled, 'C-M-wheel-up' and 'C-M-wheel-down' also
+'mouse-wheel-mode' is enabled, 'C-M-wheel-up' and 'C-M-wheel-down' also
increase and decrease the font size globally. Additionally, the
-variable 'global-text-scale-adjust-resizes-frames' controls whether
+user option 'global-text-scale-adjust-resizes-frames' controls whether
the frames are resized when the font size is changed.
+++
This command duplicates the current line the specified number of times.
---
-** Files with the '.eld' extension are now visited in 'lisp-data-mode'.
+** Files with the ".eld" extension are now visited in 'lisp-data-mode'.
+++
** New command 'find-sibling-file'.
methods.
+++
-** New X resources: "highlightForeground" and "highlightBackground"
+** New X resources: "highlightForeground" and "highlightBackground".
Only in the Lucid build, this controls colors used for highlighted
menu item widgets.
** Help
---
-*** Variable values displayed by 'C-h v' in *Help* are now font-locked.
+*** Variable values displayed by 'C-h v' in "*Help*" are now font-locked.
+++
*** New user option 'help-clean-buttons'.
-If non-nil, link buttons in *Help* will have any surrounding quotes
+If non-nil, link buttons in "*Help*" will have any surrounding quotes
removed.
---
*** 'M-x apropos-variable' output now includes values of variables.
+++
-*** New doc string syntax to indicate that symbols shouldn't be links.
-When displaying doc strings in "*Help*" buffers, strings that are
+*** New docstring syntax to indicate that symbols shouldn't be links.
+When displaying docstrings in "*Help*" buffers, strings that are
"`like-this'" are made into links (if they point to a bound
function/variable). This can lead to false positives when talking
about values that are symbols that happen to have the same names as
** 'zap-to-char' and 'zap-up-to-char' are case-sensitive for upper-case chars.
These commands now behave as case-sensitive for interactive calls when
they are invoked with an uppercase character, regardless of the
-`case-fold-search' value.
+'case-fold-search' value.
---
** 'scroll-other-window' and 'scroll-other-window-down' now respect remapping.
+++
*** 'dired-do-relsymlink' moved from dired-x to dired.
-The corresponding key "Y" is now bound by default in Dired.
+The corresponding key 'Y' is now bound by default in Dired.
+++
*** 'dired-do-relsymlink-regexp' moved from dired-x to dired.
-The corresponding key "% Y" is now bound by default in Dired.
+The corresponding key '% Y' is now bound by default in Dired.
---
*** 'M-G' is now bound to 'dired-goto-subdir'.
-Before, that binding was only available if the 'dired-x' package was
+Before, that binding was only available if the dired-x package was
loaded.
+++
*** 'dired-info' and 'dired-man' moved from dired-x to dired.
The 'dired-info' and 'dired-man' commands have been moved from the
-'dired-x' package to 'dired'. They have also been renamed to
+dired-x package to dired. They have also been renamed to
'dired-do-info' and 'dired-do-man'; the old command names are obsolete
aliases.
+++
*** New command 'enriched-toggle-markup'.
This allows you to see the markup in 'enriched-mode' buffers (e.g.,
-the HELLO file).
+the "HELLO" file).
** Shell Script Mode
+++
*** New commands 'package-recompile' and 'package-recompile-all'.
-These commands can be useful if the .elc files are out of date
+These commands can be useful if the ".elc" files are out of date
(invalid byte code and macros).
+++
** Debugging
---
-*** 'q' in a *Backtrace* buffer no longer clears the buffer.
+*** 'q' in a "*Backtrace*" buffer no longer clears the buffer.
Instead it just buries the buffer and switches the mode from
'debugger-mode' to 'backtrace-mode', since commands like 'e' are no
longer available after exiting the recursive edit.
+++
** New minor mode 'word-wrap-whitespace-mode' for extending 'word-wrap'.
This mode switches 'word-wrap' on, and breaks on all the whitespace
-characters instead of just SPC and TAB.
+characters instead of just 'SPC' and 'TAB'.
---
** New mode, 'emacs-news-mode', for editing the NEWS file.
always hides the completion buffer after some completion is made.
*** New commands to complete the minibuffer history.
-'minibuffer-complete-history' ('C-x up') is like 'minibuffer-complete'
+'minibuffer-complete-history' ('C-x <up>') is like 'minibuffer-complete'
but completes on the history items instead of the default completion
-table. 'minibuffer-complete-defaults' ('C-x down') completes
+table. 'minibuffer-complete-defaults' ('C-x <down>') completes
on the list of default items.
+++
---
*** Gnus now uses a variable-pitch font in the headers by default.
To get the monospace font back, you can put something like the
-following in your .gnus file:
+following in your ".gnus" file:
(set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified)
the Galeon web browser was released in September, 2008.
---
-*** Support for the "Mozilla" web browser is now obsolete.
+*** Support for the Mozilla web browser is now obsolete.
Note that this historical web browser is different from Mozilla
Firefox; it is its predecessor.
---
*** New user option 'shell-kill-buffer-on-exit'.
-Enabling this will automatically kill a *shell* buffer as soon as the
-shell session terminates.
+Enabling this will automatically kill a "*shell*" buffer as soon as
+the shell session terminates.
** Calc
the project by a VC project based on that VCS.
---
-*** 'recentf-mode' now uses shortened filenames by default.
+*** 'recentf-mode' now uses abbreviated file names by default.
This means that e.g. "/home/foo/bar" is now displayed as "~/bar".
Customize the user option 'recentf-filename-handlers' to nil to get
back the old behavior.
---
** 'find-image' now uses 'create-image'.
-This means that images found through 'find-image' also has
+This means that images found through 'find-image' also have
auto-scaling applied. (This only makes a difference on HiDPI
displays.)
+++
** Changes to "raw" in-memory xbm images are specified.
Some years back Emacs gained the ability to scale images, and you
-could then specify :width and :height when using 'create-image' on all
+could then specify ':width' and ':height' when using 'create-image' on all
image types -- except xbm images, because this format already used the
-:width and :height arguments to specify the width/height of the "raw"
+':width' and ':height' arguments to specify the width/height of the "raw"
in-memory format. This meant that if you used these specifications
on, for instance, xbm files, Emacs would refuse to display them. This
-has been changed, and :width/:height now works as with all other image
+has been changed, and ':width'/':height' now works as with all other image
formats, and the way to specify the width/height of the "raw"
-in-memory format is now by using :data-width and :data-height.
+in-memory format is now by using ':data-width' and ':data-height'.
+++
-** loaddefs.el generation has been reimplemented.
-The various loaddefs.el files in the Emacs tree (which contain
+** "loaddefs.el" generation has been reimplemented.
+The various "loaddefs.el" files in the Emacs tree (which contain
information about autoloads, built-in packages and package prefixes)
-used to be generated by functions in autoloads.el. These are now
-generated by loaddefs-gen.el instead. This leads to functionally
+used to be generated by functions in "autoloads.el". These are now
+generated by "loaddefs-gen.el" instead. This leads to functionally
equivalent loaddef files, but they do not use exactly the same syntax,
so using 'M-x update-file-autoloads' no longer works. (This didn't
work well in most files in the past, either, but it will now signal an
error in any file.)
In addition, files are scanned in a slightly different way.
-Previously ;;;### specs inside a top-level form (i.e., something like
-(when ... ;;;### ...) would be ignored. They are now parsed as
+Previously ';;;###' specs inside a top-level form (i.e., something
+like '(when ... ;;;### ...)' would be ignored. They are now parsed as
normal.
+++
'chart-map', 'comint-dynamic-complete',
'comint-dynamic-complete-as-filename',
'comint-dynamic-simple-complete', 'command-history-map',
-'compilation-parse-errors-function',
-'completion-annotate-function', 'condition-case-no-debug',
-'count-lines-region', 'data-debug-map', 'deferred-action-list',
-'deferred-action-function', 'dired-x-submit-report',
-'eieio-defgeneric', 'eieio-defmethod', 'emacs-lock-from-exiting',
-'erc-complete-word', 'eshell-cmpl-suffix-list', 'eshell-for',
-'font-lock-maximum-size', 'gnus-carpal',
-'gnus-debug-exclude-variables', 'gnus-debug-files',
+'compilation-parse-errors-function', 'completion-annotate-function',
+'condition-case-no-debug', 'count-lines-region', 'data-debug-map',
+'deferred-action-list', 'deferred-action-function',
+'dired-x-submit-report', 'eieio-defgeneric', 'eieio-defmethod',
+'emacs-lock-from-exiting', 'erc-complete-word',
+'eshell-cmpl-suffix-list', 'eshell-for', 'font-lock-maximum-size',
+'gnus-carpal', 'gnus-debug-exclude-variables', 'gnus-debug-files',
'gnus-local-domain', 'gnus-outgoing-message-group',
'gnus-secondary-servers', 'gnus-registry-user-format-function-M',
'image-extension-data', 'image-library-alist',
for each specific data type while the selection is being converted.
---
-** New eldoc function: 'elisp-eldoc-var-docstring-with-value'.
+** New eldoc function 'elisp-eldoc-var-docstring-with-value'.
This function includes the current value of the variable in eldoc display
and can be used as a more detailed alternative to 'elisp-eldoc-var-docstring'.
** 'save-some-buffers' can now be extended to save other things.
Traditionally, 'save-some-buffers' saved buffers, and also saved
abbrevs. This has been generalized via the
-'save-some-buffers-functions', and packages can now register things to
-be saved.
+'save-some-buffers-functions' variable, and packages can now register
+things to be saved.
** Themes
delete the current frame, you will still be able to insert the
contents of that selection into other programs as long as another
frame is open on the same display. This behavior can be disabled by
-setting the variable 'x-auto-preserve-selections' to nil.
+setting the user option 'x-auto-preserve-selections' to nil.
+++
** New predicate 'char-uppercase-p'.
** Byte compilation
---
-*** Byte compilation will now warn about some quoting mistakes in doc strings.
-When writing code snippets that contains the ' character (APOSTROPHE),
+*** Byte compilation will now warn about some quoting mistakes in docstrings.
+When writing code snippets that contains the "'" character (APOSTROPHE),
that quote character has to be escaped to avoid Emacs displaying it as
-’ (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK), which would make code examples like
+"’" (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK), which would make code examples like
(setq foo '(1 2 3))
invalid. Emacs will now warn during byte compilation if it seems
something like that, and also warn about when using RIGHT/LEFT SINGLE
QUOTATION MARK directly. In both these cases, if these characters
-should really be present in the doc string, they should be quoted with
-\=.
+should really be present in the docstring, they should be quoted with
+"\=".
---
*** Byte compilation will now warn about some malformed 'defcustom' types.
+++
*** 'where-is-internal' can now filter events marked as non key events.
-If a command maps to a key binding like [some-event], and 'some-event'
+If a command maps to a key binding like '[some-event]', and 'some-event'
has a symbol plist containing a non-nil 'non-key-event' property, then
that binding is ignored by 'where-is-internal'.
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