You can narrow news to a specific version by calling 'view-emacs-news'
with a prefix argument or by typing 'C-u C-h C-n'.
-Temporary note:
-+++ indicates that all relevant manuals in doc/ have been updated.
---- means no change in the manuals is needed.
-When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it
-applies, and please also update docstrings as needed.
-
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* Installation Changes in Emacs 28.1
default. We strongly recommend building with HarfBuzz support. 'x' is
still a valid backend.
----
** 'configure' now warns about building with libXft support.
libXft is unmaintained, and causes a number of problems with modern
fonts including but not limited to crashes; support for it may be
removed in a future version of Emacs. Please consider using
Cairo + HarfBuzz instead.
----
** 'configure' now warns about not using HarfBuzz if using Cairo.
We want to encourage people to use the most modern font features
available, and this is the Cairo graphics library + HarfBuzz for font
shaping, so 'configure' now recommends that combination.
----
** Building without double buffering support.
'configure --with-xdbe=no' can now be used to disable double buffering
at build time.
----
** The configure option '--without-makeinfo' has been removed.
This was only ever relevant when building from a repository checkout.
This now requires makeinfo, which is part of the texinfo package.
----
** New configure option '--disable-year2038'.
This causes Emacs to use only 32-bit time_t on platforms that have
both 32- and 64-bit time_t. This may help when linking Emacs with a
2.34 and later. Emacs now defaults to 64-bit time_t on these
platforms.
----
** Support for building with '-fcheck-pointer-bounds' has been removed.
GCC has withdrawn the '-fcheck-pointer-bounds' option and support for
its implementation has been removed from the Linux kernel.
----
** The ftx font backend driver has been removed.
It was declared obsolete in Emacs 27.1.
----
** Emacs no longer supports old OpenBSD systems.
OpenBSD 5.3 and older releases are no longer supported, as they lack
proper pty support that Emacs needs.
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* Startup Changes in Emacs 28.1
----
** In GTK builds, Emacs now supports startup notification.
This means that Emacs won't steal keyboard focus upon startup
(when started via the Desktop) if the user is typing into another
application.
----
** Errors in 'kill-emacs-hook' no longer prevent Emacs from shutting down.
If a function in that hook signals an error in an interactive Emacs,
the user will be prompted on whether to continue. If the user doesn't
true color by setting 'COLORTERM=truecolor' in the environment. This is
useful on systems such as FreeBSD which ships only with "etc/termcap".
----
** File names given on the command line are now be pushed onto history.
The file names will be pushed onto 'file-name-history', like the names
of files visited via 'C-x C-f' and other commands.
\f
* Changes in Emacs 28.1
----
** Emacs now supports Unicode Standard version 14.0.
-+++
** Improved support for Emoji.
On capable systems, Emacs now correctly displays Emoji and Emoji
sequences by default, provided that a suitable font is available to
the 'symbol' script, together with other symbol and punctuation
characters.)
-+++
** 'glyphless-char-display-control' now applies to Variation Selectors.
VS-1 through VS-16 are now displayed as 'thin-space' by default when
not composed with previous characters (typically, as part of Emoji
sequences).
-+++
** New command 'execute-extended-command-for-buffer'.
This new command, bound to 'M-S-x', works like
'execute-extended-command', but limits the set of commands to the
commands that have been determined to be particularly useful with the
current mode.
-+++
** New user option 'read-extended-command-predicate'.
This user option controls how 'M-x' performs completion of commands when
you type 'TAB'. By default, any command that matches what you have
buffer's major and minor modes, and respect the command's completion
predicate (if any).
-+++
** Completion on 'M-x' shows key bindings for commands.
When 'suggest-key-bindings' is non-nil (as it is by default), the
completion list popped up by 'M-x' shows the key bindings for all the
commands shown in the list of candidate completions that have a key
binding.
-+++
** New user option 'completions-detailed'.
When non-nil, some commands like 'describe-symbol' show more detailed
completions with more information in completion prefix and suffix.
The default is nil.
----
** 'C-s' in 'M-x' now once again searches over completions.
In Emacs 23, typing 'M-x' ('read-extended-command') and then 'C-s' (to
do an interactive search) would search over possible completions.
This was lost in Emacs 24, but is now back again.
-+++
** User option 'completions-format' supports a new value 'one-column'.
-+++
** New system for displaying documentation for groups of functions.
This can either be used by saying 'M-x shortdoc-display-group' and
choosing a group, or clicking a button in the "*Help*" buffers when
looking at the doc string of a function that belongs to one of these
groups.
-+++
** New minor mode 'context-menu-mode' for context menus popped by 'mouse-3'.
When this mode is enabled, clicking 'down-mouse-3' (usually, the
right mouse button) anywhere in the buffer pops up a menu whose
invoke the context menu by pressing 'S-<F10>' or, on macOS, by
clicking 'C-down-mouse-1'.
-+++
** A new keymap for buffer actions has been added.
The 'C-x x' keymap now holds keystrokes for various buffer-oriented
commands. The new keystrokes are 'C-x x g' ('revert-buffer-quick'),
('clone-buffer'), 'C-x x i' ('insert-buffer'), 'C-x x t'
('toggle-truncate-lines') and 'C-x x f' ('font-lock-update').
-+++
** Modifiers now go outside angle brackets in pretty-printed key bindings.
For example, 'RET' with Control and Meta modifiers is now shown as
'C-M-<return>' instead of '<C-M-return>'. Either variant can be used
as input; functions such as 'kbd' and 'read-kbd-macro' accept both
styles as equivalent (they have done so for a long time).
----
** 'eval-expression' no longer signals an error on incomplete expressions.
Previously, typing 'M-: ( RET' would result in Emacs saying "End of
file during parsing" and dropping out of the minibuffer. The user
would have to type 'M-: M-p' to edit and redo the expression. Now
Emacs will echo the message and allow the user to continue editing.
-+++
** 'eval-last-sexp' now handles 'defvar'/'defcustom'/'defface' specially.
This command would previously not redefine values defined by these
forms, but this command has now been changed to work more like
'eval-defun', and reset the values as specified.
----
** New user option 'use-short-answers'.
When non-nil, the function 'y-or-n-p' is used instead of
'yes-or-no-p'. This eliminates the need to define an alias that maps
one to another in the init file. The same user option also controls
whether the function 'read-answer' accepts short answers.
-+++
** New user option 'kill-buffer-delete-auto-save-files'.
If non-nil, killing a buffer that has an auto-save file will prompt
the user for whether that auto-save file should be deleted. (Note
decades, so the documented semantics of this variable has been changed
to match the behavior.)
-+++
** New user option 'next-error-message-highlight'.
In addition to a fringe arrow, 'next-error' error may now optionally
highlight the current error message in the 'next-error' buffer.
This user option can be also customized to keep highlighting on all
visited errors, so you can have an overview what errors were already visited.
----
** New choice 'next-error-quit-window' for 'next-error-found-function'.
When 'next-error-found-function' is customized to 'next-error-quit-window',
then typing the numeric prefix argument 0 before the command 'next-error'
will quit the source window after visiting the next occurrence.
-+++
** New user option 'file-preserve-symlinks-on-save'.
This controls what Emacs does when saving buffers that visit files via
symbolic links, and 'file-precious-flag' is non-nil.
-+++
** New user option 'copy-directory-create-symlink'.
If non-nil, will make 'copy-directory' (when used on a symbolic
link) copy the link instead of following the link. The default is
nil, so the default behavior is unchanged.
-+++
** New user option 'ignored-local-variable-values'.
This is the opposite of 'safe-local-variable-values' -- it's an alist
of variable-value pairs that are to be ignored when reading a
local-variables section of a file.
----
** Specific warnings can now be disabled from the warning buffer.
When a warning is displayed to the user, the resulting buffer now has
buttons which allow making permanent changes to the treatment of that
it is still logged to the "*Messages*" buffer), or the warning can be
disabled entirely.
-+++
** ".dir-locals.el" now supports setting 'auto-mode-alist'.
The new 'auto-mode-alist' specification in ".dir-locals.el" files can
now be used to override the global 'auto-mode-alist' in the current
directory tree.
----
** User option 'uniquify-buffer-name-style' can now be a function.
This user option can be one of the predefined styles or a function to
personalize the uniquified buffer name.
----
** 'remove-hook' is now an interactive command.
----
** 'expand-file-name' now checks for null bytes in filenames.
The function will now check for null bytes in both NAME and
DEFAULT-DIRECTORY arguments, as well as in the 'default-directory'
file names for null bytes, thus avoiding subtle bugs with silently
using only the part of file name up to the first null byte.
----
** Frames
-+++
*** The key prefix 'C-x 5 5' displays next command buffer in a new frame.
It's bound to the command 'other-frame-prefix' that requests the buffer
of the next command to be displayed in a new frame.
-+++
*** New command 'clone-frame' (bound to 'C-x 5 c').
This is like 'C-x 5 2', but uses the window configuration and frame
parameters of the current frame instead of 'default-frame-alist'.
When called interactively with a prefix arg, the window configuration
is not cloned.
----
*** Default values of 'frame-title-format' and 'icon-title-format' have changed.
These variables are used to display the title bar of visible frames
and the title bar of an iconified frame. They now show the name of
(setq frame-title-format '(multiple-frames "%b"
("" invocation-name "@" system-name)))
-+++
*** New frame parameter 'drag-with-tab-line'.
This parameter, similar to 'drag-with-header-line', allows moving frames
by dragging the tab lines of their topmost windows with the mouse.
-+++
*** New optional behavior of 'delete-other-frames'.
When invoked with a prefix argument, 'delete-other-frames' now
iconifies frames, rather than deleting them.
----
*** Commands 'set-frame-width' and 'set-frame-height' now prompt for values.
These commands now prompt for the value via the minibuffer, instead of
requiring the user to specify the value via the prefix argument.
** Windows
-+++
*** The key prefix 'C-x 4 1' displays next command buffer in the same window.
It's bound to the command 'same-window-prefix' that requests the buffer
of the next command to be displayed in the same window.
-+++
*** The key prefix 'C-x 4 4' displays next command buffer in a new window.
It's bound to the command 'other-window-prefix' that requests the buffer
of the next command to be displayed in a new window.
-+++
*** New command 'recenter-other-window', bound to 'S-M-C-l'.
Like 'recenter-top-bottom', but acting on the other window.
-+++
*** New user option 'delete-window-choose-selected'.
This allows specifying how Emacs chooses which window will be the
frame's selected window after the currently selected window is
deleted.
-+++
*** New argument NO-OTHER for some window functions.
'get-lru-window', 'get-mru-window' and 'get-largest-window' now accept a
new optional argument NO-OTHER which, if non-nil, avoids returning a
window whose 'no-other-window' parameter is non-nil.
-+++
*** New 'display-buffer' function 'display-buffer-use-least-recent-window'.
This is like 'display-buffer-use-some-window', but won't reuse the
current window, and when called repeatedly will try not to reuse a
previously selected window.
-+++
*** New function 'window-bump-use-time'.
This updates the use time of a window.
** Minibuffer
-+++
*** Minibuffer scrolling is now conservative by default.
This is controlled by the new variable 'scroll-minibuffer-conservatively'.
It is t by default; setting it to nil will cause scrolling in the
minibuffer obey the value of 'scroll-conservatively'.
-+++
*** Improved handling of minibuffers on switching frames.
By default, when you switch to another frame, an active minibuffer now
moves to the newly selected frame. Nevertheless, the effect of what
'minibuffer-follows-selected-frame' to a value which is neither nil
nor t.
-+++
*** New user option 'read-minibuffer-restore-windows'.
When customized to nil, it uses 'minibuffer-restore-windows' in
'minibuffer-exit-hook' to remove only the window showing the
"*Completions*" buffer, but keeps all other windows created
while the minibuffer was active.
----
*** New variable 'redisplay-adhoc-scroll-in-resize-mini-windows'.
Customizing it to nil will disable the ad-hoc auto-scrolling of
minibuffer text shown in mini-windows when resizing those windows.
** Mode Line
-+++
*** New user option 'mode-line-compact'.
If non-nil, repeating spaces are compressed into a single space. If
'long', this is only done when the mode line is longer than the
current window width (in columns).
-+++
*** New user options to control format of line/column numbers in the mode line.
'mode-line-position-line-format' is the line number format (when
'line-number-mode' is on), 'mode-line-position-column-format' is
** Tab Bars and Tab Lines
-+++
*** The prefix key 'C-x t t' can be used to display a buffer in a new tab.
Typing 'C-x t t' before a command will cause the buffer shown by that
command to be displayed in a new tab. 'C-x t t' is bound to the
command 'other-tab-prefix'.
-+++
*** New command 'C-x t C-r' to open file read-only in the other tab.
-+++
*** The tab bar now supports more mouse commands.
Clicking 'mouse-2' closes the tab, 'mouse-3' displays the context menu
with items that operate on the clicked tab. Dragging the tab with
scrolling switches to the previous/next tab, and holding the Shift key
during scrolling moves the tab to the left/right.
-+++
*** Frame-specific appearance of the tab bar when 'tab-bar-show' is a number.
When 'tab-bar-show' is a number, the tab bar on different frames can
be shown or hidden independently, as determined by the number of tabs
on each frame compared to the numerical value of 'tab-bar-show'.
-+++
*** New command 'toggle-frame-tab-bar'.
It can be used to enable/disable the tab bar on the currently selected
frame regardless of the values of 'tab-bar-mode' and 'tab-bar-show'.
This allows enabling/disabling the tab bar independently on different
frames.
-+++
*** New user option 'tab-bar-format' defines a list of tab bar items.
When it contains 'tab-bar-format-global' (possibly appended after
'tab-bar-format-align-right'), then after enabling 'display-time-mode'
When 'tab-bar-format-tabs' is replaced with 'tab-bar-format-tabs-groups',
the tab bar displays tab groups.
-+++
*** New optional key binding for 'tab-last'.
If you customize the user option 'tab-bar-select-tab-modifiers' to
allow selecting tabs using their index numbers, the '<MODIFIER>-9' key
which count from the last tab: 1 is the last tab, 2 the one before
that, etc.
----
*** New command 'tab-duplicate' bound to 'C-x t n'.
----
*** 'C-x t N' creates a new tab at the specified absolute position.
The position is provided as prefix arg, and specifies an index that
starts at 1. Negative values count from the end of the tab bar.
----
*** 'C-x t M' moves the current tab to the specified absolute position.
The position is provided as prefix arg, whose interpretation is as in
'C-x t N'.
----
*** 'C-x t G' assigns a tab to a named group of tabs.
'tab-close-group' closes all tabs that belong to the selected group.
The user option 'tab-bar-new-tab-group' defines the default group of
to 'tab-bar-move-tab-to-group', changing the group of a tab will also
move it closer to other tabs in the same group.
----
*** New user option 'tab-bar-tab-name-format-function'.
----
*** New user option 'tab-line-tab-name-format-function'.
----
*** The tabs in the tab line can now be scrolled using horizontal scroll.
If your mouse or trackpad supports it, you can now scroll tabs when
the mouse pointer is in the tab line by scrolling left or right.
----
*** New tab-line faces and user options.
The face 'tab-line-tab-special' is used for tabs whose buffers are
special, i.e. buffers that don't visit a file. The face
** Mouse wheel
----
*** Mouse wheel scrolling now defaults to one line at a time.
----
*** Mouse wheel scrolling now works on more parts of frame's display.
When using 'mouse-wheel-mode', the mouse wheel will now scroll also when
the mouse cursor is on the scroll bars, fringes, margins, header line,
and mode line. ('mouse-wheel-mode' is enabled by default on most graphical
displays.)
-+++
*** Mouse wheel scrolling with Shift modifier now scrolls horizontally.
This works in text buffers and over images. Typing a numeric prefix arg
(e.g. 'M-5') before starting horizontal scrolling changes its step value.
** Customize
----
*** Customize buffers can now be reverted with 'C-x x g'.
----
*** Most customize commands now hide obsolete user options.
Obsolete user options are no longer shown in the listings produced by
the commands 'customize', 'customize-group', 'customize-apropos' and
To customize obsolete user options, use 'customize-option' or
'customize-saved'.
----
*** New SVG icons for checkboxes and arrows.
They will be used automatically instead of the old icons. If Emacs is
built without SVG support, the old icons will be used instead.
** Help
----
*** The order of things displayed in the "*Help*" buffer has been changed.
The indented "administrative" block (containing the "probably
introduced" and "other relevant functions" (and similar things) has
been moved to after the doc string.
-+++
*** New command 'describe-command' shows help for a command.
This can be used instead of 'describe-function' for interactive
commands and is globally bound to 'C-h x'.
-+++
*** New command 'describe-keymap' describes keybindings in a keymap.
----
*** New command 'apropos-function'.
This works like 'C-u M-x apropos-command' but is more discoverable.
----
*** New keybinding 'C-h R' prompts for an Info manual and displays it.
----
*** Keybindings in 'help-mode' use the new 'help-key-binding' face.
This face is added by 'substitute-command-keys' to any "\[command]"
substitution. The return value of that function should consequently
Note that the new face will also be used in tooltips. When using the
GTK toolkit, this is only true if 'x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' is t.
-+++
*** New user option 'help-enable-symbol-autoload'.
If non-nil, displaying help for an autoloaded function whose
'autoload' form provides no documentation string will try to load the
file it's from. This will give more extensive help for such
functions.
----
*** The 'help-for-help' ('C-h C-h') screen has been redesigned.
-+++
*** New convenience commands with short keys in the "*Help*" buffer.
New command 'help-view-source' ('s') will view the source file (if
any) of the current help topic. New command 'help-goto-info' ('i')
'help-customize' ('c') will customize the user option or the face
(if any) whose doc string is being shown in the "*Help*" buffer.
----
*** New user option 'describe-bindings-outline'.
It enables outlines in the output buffer of 'describe-bindings' that
can provide a better overview in a long list of available bindings.
-+++
*** New commands to describe buttons and widgets.
'widget-describe' (on a widget) will pop up the "*Help*" buffer and
give a description of the properties. Likewise 'button-describe' does
the same for a button.
----
*** Improved "find definition" feature of "*Help*" buffers.
Now clicking on the link to find the definition of functions generated
by 'cl-defstruct', or variables generated by 'define-derived-mode',
for example, will go to the exact place where they are defined.
----
*** New commands 'apropos-next-symbol' and 'apropos-previous-symbol'.
These new navigation commands are bound to 'n' and 'p' in
'apropos-mode'.
----
*** The command 'view-lossage' can now be invoked from the menu bar.
The menu bar "Help" menu now has a "Show Recent Inputs" item under the
"Describe" sub-menu.
-+++
*** New command 'lossage-size'.
It allows users to change the maximum number of keystrokes and
commands recorded for the purpose of 'view-lossage'.
----
*** Closing the "*Help*" buffer from the toolbar now buries the buffer.
In previous Emacs versions, the "*Help*" buffer was killed instead when
clicking the "X" icon in the tool bar.
----
*** 'g' ('revert-buffer') in 'help-mode' no longer requires confirmation.
** File Locks
-+++
*** New user option 'lock-file-name-transforms'.
This option allows controlling where lock files are written. It uses
the same syntax as 'auto-save-file-name-transforms'.
-+++
*** New user option 'remote-file-name-inhibit-locks'.
When non-nil, this option suppresses lock files for remote files.
Default is nil.
-+++
*** New minor mode 'lock-file-mode'.
This command, called interactively, toggles the local value of
'create-lockfiles' in the current buffer.
** Emacs Server
-+++
*** New user option 'server-client-instructions'.
When emacsclient connects, Emacs will (by default) output a message
about how to exit the client frame. If 'server-client-instructions'
is set to nil, this message is inhibited.
-+++
*** New command 'server-edit-abort'.
This command (not bound to any key by default) can be used to abort
an edit instead of marking it as "Done" (which the 'C-x #' command
does). The 'emacsclient' program exits with an abnormal status as
result of this command.
-+++
*** New desktop integration for connecting to the server.
If your operating system's desktop environment is
freedesktop.org-compatible (which is true of most GNU/Linux and other
** Miscellaneous
-+++
*** New command 'font-lock-update', bound to 'C-x x f'.
This command updates the syntax highlighting in this buffer.
-+++
*** New command 'memory-report'.
This command opens a new buffer called "*Memory Report*" and gives a
summary of where Emacs is using memory currently.
-+++
*** New command 'submit-emacs-patch'.
This works like 'report-emacs-bug', but is more geared towards sending
patches to the Emacs issue tracker.
----
*** New face 'apropos-button'.
Applies to buttons that indicate a face.
-+++
*** New face 'font-lock-doc-markup-face'.
Intended for documentation mark-up syntax and tags inside text that
uses 'font-lock-doc-face', which it should appropriately stand out
modes, for mark-up conventions like Haddock, Javadoc or Doxygen. By
default this face inherits from 'font-lock-constant-face'.
-+++
*** New face box style 'flat-button'.
This is a plain 2D button, but uses the background color instead of
the foreground color.
----
*** New faces 'shortdoc-heading' and 'shortdoc-section'.
Applied to shortdoc headings and sections.
----
*** New face 'separator-line'.
This is used by 'make-separator-line' (see below).
-+++
*** 'redisplay-skip-fontification-on-input' helps Emacs keep up with fast input.
This is another attempt to solve the problem of handling high key repeat rate
and other "slow scrolling" situations. It is hoped it behaves better
than 'fast-but-imprecise-scrolling' and 'jit-lock-defer-time'.
It is not enabled by default.
----
*** Obsolete aliases are no longer hidden from command completion.
Completion of command names now considers obsolete aliases as
candidates, if they were marked obsolete in the current major version
of Emacs. Invoking a command via an obsolete alias now mentions the
obsolescence fact and shows the new name of the command.
-+++
*** Support for '(box . SIZE)' 'cursor-type'.
By default, 'box' cursor always has a filled box shape. But if you
specify 'cursor-type' to be '(box . SIZE)', the cursor becomes a hollow
box if the point is on an image larger than SIZE pixels in any
dimension.
-+++
*** The user can now customize how "default" values are prompted for.
The new utility function 'format-prompt' has been added which uses the
new 'minibuffer-default-prompt-format' user option to format "default"
number". (This only affects callers that were altered to use
'format-prompt'.)
----
*** New help window when Emacs prompts before opening a large file.
Commands like 'find-file' or 'visit-tags-table' ask to visit a file
normally or literally when the file is larger than a certain size (by
about the different options to visit a file, how you can disable the
prompt, and how you can tweak the file size threshold.
-+++
*** Emacs now defaults to UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1.
This is only for the default, where the user has set no 'LANG' (or
similar) variable or environment. This change should lead to no
user-visible changes for normal usage.
----
*** 'global-display-fill-column-indicator-mode' skips some buffers.
By default, turning on 'global-display-fill-column-indicator-mode'
doesn't turn on 'display-fill-column-indicator-mode' in special-mode
buffers. This can be controlled by customizing the user option
'global-display-fill-column-indicator-modes'.
-+++
*** 'nobreak-char-display' now also affects all non-ASCII space characters.
Previously, this was limited only to 'NO-BREAK SPACE' and hyphen
characters. Now it also covers the rest of the non-ASCII Unicode
'nobreak-char-display' is t, i.e. they are not replaced on display
with the ASCII space and hyphen characters.
----
*** New backward compatibility variable 'nobreak-char-ascii-display'.
This variable is nil by default, and non-ASCII space and hyphen
characters are displayed as themselves, even if 'nobreak-char-display'
display when non-ASCII spaces and hyphens are written to the display.
(This variable is only effective when 'nobreak-char-display' is t.)
-+++
*** Improved support for terminal emulators that encode the Meta flag.
Some terminal emulators set the 8th bit of Meta characters, and then
encode the resulting character code as if it were non-ASCII character
emulators by using the new input-meta-mode with the special value
'encoded' with these terminal emulators.
----
*** 'auto-composition-mode' can now be selectively disabled on some TTYs.
Some text-mode terminals produce display glitches trying to compose
characters. The 'auto-composition-mode' can now have a string value
be disabled in windows shown on that terminal. The Linux terminal
sets this up by default.
----
*** Support for the 'strike-through' face attribute on TTY frames.
If your terminal's termcap or terminfo database entry has the 'smxx'
capability defined, Emacs will now emit the prescribed escape
sequences necessary to render faces with the 'strike-through'
attribute on TTY frames.
----
*** TTY menu navigation is now supported in 'xterm-mouse-mode'.
TTY menus support mouse navigation and selection when 'xterm-mouse-mode'
is active. When run on a terminal, clicking on the menu bar with the
'tmm-menubar'. To restore the old behavior, set the user option
'tty-menu-open-use-tmm' to non-nil.
----
*** 'M-x report-emacs-bug' will no longer include "Recent messages" section.
These were taken from the "*Messages*" buffer, and may inadvertently
leak information from the reporting user.
----
*** 'C-u M-x dig' will now prompt for a query type to use.
----
*** Rudimentary support for the 'st' terminal emulator.
Emacs now supports 256 color display on the 'st' terminal emulator.
-+++
*** Update IRC-related references to point to Libera.Chat.
The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project have moved their
official IRC channels from the Freenode network to Libera.Chat. For the
\f
* Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 28.1
----
** 'toggle-truncate-lines' now disables 'visual-line-mode'.
This is for symmetry with 'visual-line-mode', which disables
'truncate-lines'.
----
** 'electric-indent-mode' now also indents inside strings and comments.
(This only happens when indentation function also supports this.)
(add-hook 'electric-indent-functions
(lambda (_) (if (nth 8 (syntax-ppss)) 'no-indent)))
----
** The 'M-o' ('facemenu-keymap') global binding has been removed.
To restore the old binding, say something like:
The last two lines are not strictly necessary if you don't care about
having those two commands on the 'M-o' keymap; see the next section.
----
** The 'M-o M-s' and 'M-o M-S' global bindings have been removed.
Use 'M-x center-line' and 'M-x center-paragraph' instead. See the
previous section for how to get back the old bindings. Alternatively,
(define-key global-map "\M-o\M-s" 'center-line)
(define-key global-map "\M-o\M-S" 'center-paragraph)
----
** The 'M-o M-o' global binding has been removed.
Use 'M-x font-lock-fontify-block' instead, or the new 'C-x x f'
command, which updates the syntax highlighting in the current buffer.
----
** The escape sequence '\e[29~' in Xterm is now mapped to 'menu'.
Xterm sends this sequence for both 'F16' and 'Menu' keys
It used to be mapped to 'print' but we couldn't find a terminal
This makes the Menu key (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key)
work for 'context-menu-mode' in Xterm.
----
** New user option 'xterm-store-paste-on-kill-ring'.
If non-nil (the default), Emacs pushes pasted text onto the kill ring
(if using an xterm-like terminal that supports bracketed paste).
Setting this to nil inhibits that.
----
** 'vc-print-branch-log' shows the change log from its root directory.
It previously used to use the default directory.
----
** 'project-shell' and 'shell' now use 'pop-to-buffer-same-window'.
This is to keep the same behavior as Eshell.
----
** In 'nroff-mode', 'center-line' is no longer bound to a key.
The original key binding was 'M-s', which interfered with Isearch,
since the latter uses 'M-s' as a prefix key of the search prefix map.
----
** In 'f90-mode', the backslash character ('\') no longer escapes.
For about a decade, the backslash character has no longer had a
special escape syntax in Fortran F90. To get the old behavior back,
(modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "\\" f90-mode-syntax-table)
-+++
** Setting 'fill-column' to nil is obsolete.
This undocumented use of 'fill-column' is now obsolete. To disable
auto filling, turn off 'auto-fill-mode' instead.
** Input methods
-+++
*** Emacs now supports "transient" input methods.
A transient input method is enabled for inserting a single character,
and is then automatically disabled. 'C-x \' temporarily enables the
You can use 'C-x \' in incremental search to insert a single character
to the search string.
----
*** New input method 'compose' based on X Multi_key sequences.
----
*** New input method 'iso-transl' with the same keys as 'C-x 8'.
After selecting it as a transient input method with 'C-u C-x \
iso-transl RET', it supports the same key sequences as 'C-x 8',
so e.g. like 'C-x 8 [' inserts a left single quotation mark,
'C-x \ [' does the same.
----
*** New user option 'read-char-by-name-sort'.
It defines the sorting order of characters for completion of 'C-x 8 RET TAB'
and can be customized to sort them by codepoints instead of character names.
Additionally, you can group characters by Unicode blocks after customizing
'completions-group' and 'completions-group-sort'.
----
*** Improved language transliteration in Malayalam input methods.
Added a new Mozhi scheme. The inapplicable ITRANS scheme is now
deprecated. Errors in the Inscript method were corrected.
----
*** New input method 'cham'.
There's also a Cham greeting in "etc/HELLO".
----
*** New input methods for Lakota language orthographies.
Two orthographies are represented here, the Suggested Lakota
Orthography and what is known as the White Hat Orthography. Input
'lakota-white-hat-postfix' have been added. There is also a Lakota
greeting in "etc/HELLO".
-+++
** Standalone 'M-y' allows interactive selection from previous kills.
'M-y' can now be typed after a command that is not a yank command.
When invoked like that, it prompts in the minibuffer for one of the
'isearch-yank-pop'. When the user option 'yank-from-kill-ring-rotate'
is nil the kill ring is not rotated after 'yank-from-kill-ring'.
-+++
** New user option 'word-wrap-by-category'.
When word-wrap is enabled, and this option is non-nil, that allows
Emacs to break lines after more characters than just whitespace
characters. In particular, this significantly improves word-wrapping
for CJK text mixed with Latin text.
-+++
** New command 'undo-redo'.
It undoes previous undo commands, but doesn't record itself as an
undoable command. It is bound to 'C-?' and 'C-M-_', the first binding
For full conventional undo/redo behavior, you can also customize the
user option 'undo-no-redo' to t.
-+++
** New commands 'copy-matching-lines' and 'kill-matching-lines'.
These commands are similar to the command 'flush-lines',
but add the matching lines to the kill ring as a single string,
including the newlines that separate the lines.
-+++
** New user option 'kill-transform-function'.
This can be used to transform (and suppress) strings from entering the
kill ring.
-+++
** 'save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' can now be a number.
In that case, it's interpreted as a limit on the size of the clipboard
data that will be saved to the 'kill-ring' prior to killing text: if
the size of the clipboard data is greater than or equal to the limit,
it will not be saved.
-+++
** New user option 'tab-first-completion'.
If 'tab-always-indent' is 'complete', this new user option can be used to
further tweak whether to complete or indent.
----
** 'indent-tabs-mode' is now a global minor mode instead of just a variable.
-+++
** New choice 'permanent' for 'shift-select-mode'.
When the mark was activated by shifted motion keys, non-shifted motion
keys don't deactivate the mark after customizing 'shift-select-mode'
to 'permanent'. Similarly, the active mark will not be deactivated by
typing shifted motion keys.
-+++
** The "Edit => Clear" menu item now obeys a rectangular region.
-+++
** New command 'revert-buffer-with-fine-grain'.
Revert a buffer trying to be as non-destructive as possible,
preserving markers, properties and overlays. The new variable
number of seconds that 'revert-buffer-with-fine-grain' should spend
trying to be non-destructive, with a default value of 2 seconds.
-+++
** New command 'revert-buffer-quick'.
This is bound to 'C-x x g' and is like 'revert-buffer', but prompts
less.
-+++
** New user option 'revert-buffer-quick-short-answers'.
This controls how the new 'revert-buffer-quick' ('C-x x g') command
prompts. A non-nil value will make it use 'y-or-n-p' rather than
'yes-or-no-p'. Defaults to nil.
-+++
** New user option 'query-about-changed-file'.
If non-nil (the default), Emacs prompts as before when re-visiting a
file that has changed externally after it was visited the first time.
contents before the change, and provides instructions how to revert
the buffer.
----
** New value 'save-some-buffers-root' of 'save-some-buffers-default-predicate'.
When using this predicate, only buffers under the current project root
will be considered when saving buffers with 'save-some-buffers'.
----
** New user option 'save-place-abbreviate-file-names'.
This can simplify sharing the 'save-place-file' file across
different hosts.
----
** New user options 'copy-region-blink-delay' and 'delete-pair-blink-delay'.
'copy-region-blink-delay' specifies a delay to indicate the region
copied by 'kill-ring-save'. 'delete-pair-blink-delay' specifies
a delay to show the paired character to delete.
----
** 'zap-up-to-char' now uses 'read-char-from-minibuffer'.
This allows navigating through the history of characters that have
been input. This is mostly useful for characters that have complex
input methods where inputting the character again may involve many
keystrokes.
-+++
** Input history for 'goto-line' can now be made local to every buffer.
In any event, line numbers used with 'goto-line' are kept in their own
history list. This should help make faster the process of finding
share a single history list. To make every buffer have its own
history list, customize the user option 'goto-line-history-local'.
-+++
** New command 'goto-line-relative' for use in a narrowed buffer.
It moves point to the line relative to the accessible portion of the
narrowed buffer. 'M-g M-g' in Info is rebound to this command.
buffer to be able to move point to the inaccessible portion.
'goto-line-relative' is bound to 'C-x n g'.
-+++
** 'goto-char' prompts for the character position.
When called interactively, 'goto-char' now offers the position at
point as the default.
Set the user option 'auto-save-visited-mode' buffer-locally to nil to
achieve that.
-+++
** New command 'kdb-macro-redisplay' to force redisplay in keyboard macros.
This command is bound to 'C-x C-k d'.
----
** 'blink-cursor-mode' is now enabled by default regardless of the UI.
It used to be enabled when Emacs is started in GUI mode but not when started
in text mode. The cursor still only actually blinks in GUI frames.
To go back to the previous behavior, customize the user option of the
same name to nil.
-+++
** New minor mode 'show-paren-local-mode'.
It serves as a local counterpart for 'show-paren-mode', allowing you
to toggle it separately in different buffers. To use it only in
** Isearch and Replace
-+++
*** Interactive regular expression search now uses faces for sub-groups.
E.g., 'C-M-s foo-\([0-9]+\)' will now use the 'isearch-group-1' face
on the part of the regexp that matches the sub-expression "[0-9]+".
This feature is available only on terminals that have enough colors to
distinguish between sub-expression highlighting.
-+++
*** Interactive regular expression replace now uses faces for sub-groups.
Like 'search-highlight-submatches', this is controlled by the new user option
'query-replace-highlight-submatches'.
-+++
*** New key 'M-s M-.' starts isearch looking for the thing at point.
This key is bound to the new command 'isearch-forward-thing-at-point'.
The new user option 'isearch-forward-thing-at-point' defines
the first element of the list is 'region' that tries to yank
the currently active region to the search string.
-+++
*** New user option 'isearch-wrap-pause' defines how to wrap the search.
There are choices to disable wrapping completely and to wrap immediately.
When wrapping immediately, it consistently handles the numeric arguments
of 'C-s' ('isearch-repeat-forward') and 'C-r' ('isearch-repeat-backward'),
continuing with the remaining count after wrapping.
-+++
*** New user option 'isearch-repeat-on-direction-change'.
When this option is set, direction changes in Isearch move to another
search match, if there is one, instead of moving point to the other
end of the current match.
-+++
*** New user option 'isearch-allow-motion'.
When 'isearch-allow-motion' is set, the commands 'beginning-of-buffer',
'end-of-buffer', 'scroll-up-command' and 'scroll-down-command', when
option 'isearch-motion-changes-direction' controls whether the
direction of the search changes after a motion command.
-+++
*** New user option 'lazy-highlight-no-delay-length'.
Lazy highlighting of matches in Isearch now starts immediately if the
search string is at least this long. 'lazy-highlight-initial-delay'
still applies for shorter search strings, which avoids flicker in the
search buffer due to too many matches being highlighted.
-+++
*** The default 'search-whitespace-regexp' value has changed.
This used to be "\\s-+", which meant that it was mode-dependent whether
newlines were included in the whitespace set. This has now been
** Dired
-+++
*** New user option 'dired-kill-when-opening-new-dired-buffer'.
If non-nil, Dired will kill the current buffer when selecting a new
directory to display.
-+++
*** Behavior change on 'dired-do-chmod'.
As a security precaution, Dired's 'M' command no longer follows
symbolic links. Instead, it changes the symbolic link's own mode;
this always fails on platforms where such modes are immutable.
----
*** Behavior change on 'dired-clean-confirm-killing-deleted-buffers'.
Previously, if 'dired-clean-up-buffers-too' was non-nil, and
'dired-clean-confirm-killing-deleted-buffers' was nil, the buffers
wouldn't be killed. This combination will now kill the buffers.
-+++
*** New user option 'dired-switches-in-mode-line'.
This user option controls how 'ls' switches are displayed in the mode
line, and allows truncating them (to preserve space on the mode line)
or showing them literally, either instead of, or in addition to,
displaying "by name" or "by date" sort order.
-+++
*** New user option 'dired-compress-directory-default-suffix'.
This user option controls the default suffix for compressing a
directory. If it's nil, ".tar.gz" will be used. Refer to
'dired-compress-files-alist' for a list of supported suffixes.
-+++
*** New user option 'dired-compress-file-default-suffix'.
This user option controls the default suffix for compressing files.
If it's nil, ".gz" will be used. Refer to 'dired-compress-file-alist'
for a list of supported suffixes.
----
*** Broken and circular links are shown with the 'dired-broken-symlink' face.
----
*** '=' ('dired-diff') will now put all backup files into the 'M-n' history.
When using '=' on a file with backup files, the default file to use
for diffing is the newest backup file. You can now use 'M-n' to quickly
select a different backup file instead.
-+++
*** New user option 'dired-maybe-use-globstar'.
If set, enables globstar (recursive globbing) in shells that support
this feature, but have it turned off by default. This allows producing
'dired-enable-globstar-in-shell' lists which shells can have globstar
enabled, and how to enable it.
-+++
*** New user option 'dired-copy-dereference'.
If set to non-nil, Dired will dereference symbolic links when copying.
This can be switched off on a per-usage basis by providing
'dired-do-copy' with a 'C-u' prefix.
----
*** New user option 'dired-do-revert-buffer'.
Non-nil reverts the destination Dired buffer after performing one
of these operations: 'dired-do-copy', 'dired-do-rename',
'dired-do-symlink', 'dired-do-hardlink'.
----
*** New user option 'dired-mark-region'.
This option affects all Dired commands that mark files. When non-nil
and the region is active in Transient Mark mode, then Dired commands
'line' of this user option define the details of marking the file at
the end of the region.
-+++
*** State changing VC operations are supported in Dired.
These operations are supported on files and directories via the new
command 'dired-vc-next-action'.
-+++
*** 'dired-jump' and 'dired-jump-other-window' moved from 'dired-x' to 'dired'.
The 'dired-jump' and 'dired-jump-other-window' commands have been
moved from the 'dired-x' package to 'dired'. The user option
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-j" nil)
(global-set-key "\C-x4\C-j" nil)
----
*** 'dired-query' now uses 'read-char-from-minibuffer'.
Using it instead of 'read-char-choice' allows using 'C-x o'
to switch to the help window displayed after typing 'C-h'.
-+++
** Emacs 28.1 comes with Org v9.5.
See the file ORG-NEWS for user-visible changes in Org.
** Outline
-+++
*** New commands to cycle heading visibility.
Typing 'TAB' on a heading line cycles the current section between
"hide all", "subheadings", and "show all" states. Typing 'S-TAB'
anywhere in the buffer cycles the whole buffer between "only top-level
headings", "all headings and subheadings", and "show all" states.
-+++
*** New user option 'outline-minor-mode-cycle'.
This user option customizes 'outline-minor-mode', with the difference
that 'TAB' and 'S-TAB' on heading lines cycle heading visibility.
heading line cycles the whole buffer between "only top-level
headings", "all headings and subheadings", and "show all" states.
----
*** New user option 'outline-minor-mode-highlight'.
This user option customizes 'outline-minor-mode'. It puts
highlighting on heading lines using standard outline faces. This
** Ispell
-+++
*** 'ispell-comments-and-strings' now accepts START and END arguments.
These arguments default to the active region when used interactively.
-+++
*** New command 'ispell-comment-or-string-at-point'.
----
*** New user option 'ispell-help-timeout'.
This controls how long the ispell help (on the '?' key) is displayed.
** Flyspell mode
-+++
*** Corrections and actions menu can be optionally bound to 'mouse-3'.
When Flyspell mode highlights a word as misspelled, you can click on
it to display a menu of possible corrections and actions. You can now
easily bind this menu to 'down-mouse-3' (usually the right mouse button)
instead of 'mouse-2' (the default) by enabling 'context-menu-mode'.
----
*** The current dictionary is now displayed in the minor mode lighter.
Clicking the dictionary name changes the current dictionary.
Thus, packages on NonGNU ELPA will appear by default in the list shown
by 'list-packages'.
----
*** '/ s' ('package-menu-filter-by-status') changed parameter handling.
The command was documented to take a comma-separated list of statuses
to filter by, but instead it used the parameter as a regexp. The
checks statuses not as a regexp, but instead an exact match from the
comma-separated list.
-+++
*** New command 'package-browse-url' and keystroke 'w'.
-+++
*** New commands to filter the package list.
The filter commands are bound to the following keys:
Emacs running until these asynchronous subprocesses exit, or else the
native-compilation will be aborted when you exit Emacs.)
----
*** Column widths in 'list-packages' display can now be customized.
See the new user options 'package-name-column-width',
'package-version-column-width', 'package-status-column-width', and
** Info
----
*** New user option 'Info-warn-on-index-alternatives-wrap'.
This option affects what happens when using the ',' command after
looking up an entry with 'i' in info buffers. If non-nil (the
** Abbrev mode
-+++
*** Emacs can now suggest to use an abbrev based on text you type.
A new user option, 'abbrev-suggest', enables the new abbrev suggestion
feature. When enabled, if a user manually types a piece of text that
** Bookmarks
----
*** Bookmarks can now be targets for new tabs.
When the bookmark.el library is loaded, a customize choice is added
to 'tab-bar-new-tab-choice' for new tabs to show the bookmark list.
----
*** New user option 'bookmark-set-fringe-mark'.
If non-nil, setting a bookmark will set a fringe mark on the current
line, and jumping to a bookmark will also set this mark.
----
*** New user option 'bookmark-menu-confirm-deletion'.
In Bookmark Menu mode, Emacs by default does not prompt for
confirmation when you type 'x' to execute the deletion of bookmarks
non-nil then Emacs will require confirmation with 'yes-or-no-p' before
deleting.
----
*** The 'list-bookmarks' menu is now based on 'tabulated-list-mode'.
The interactive bookmark list will now benefit from features in
'tabulated-list-mode' like sorting columns or changing column width.
** Recentf
----
*** The recentf files are no longer backed up.
----
*** 'recentf-auto-cleanup' now repeats daily when set to a time string.
When 'recentf-auto-cleanup' is set to a time string, it now repeats
every day, rather than only running once after the mode is turned on.
** Calc
----
*** The behavior when doing forward-delete has been changed.
Previously, using the 'C-d' command would delete the final number in
the input field, no matter where point was. This has been changed to
Likewise, point isn't moved to the end of the string before inserting
digits.
-+++
*** Setting the word size to zero disables word clipping.
The word size normally clips the results of certain bit-oriented
operations such as shifts and bitwise XOR. A word size of zero, set
by 'b w', makes the operation have effect on the whole argument values
and the result is not truncated in any way.
----
*** The '/' operator now has higher precedence in (La)TeX input mode.
It no longer has lower precedence than '+' and '-'.
----
*** New user option 'calc-make-windows-dedicated'.
When this user option is non-nil, Calc will mark its windows as
dedicated.
** Calendar
-+++
*** New user option 'calendar-time-zone-style'.
If 'numeric', calendar functions (eg 'calendar-sunrise-sunset') that display
time zones will use a form like "+0100" instead of "CET".
** Imenu
-+++
*** New user option 'imenu-max-index-time'.
If creating the imenu index takes longer than specified by this
option (default 5 seconds), imenu indexing is stopped.
** Ido
----
*** Switching on 'ido-mode' now also overrides 'ffap-file-finder'.
----
*** Killing virtual ido buffers interactively will make them go away.
Previously, killing a virtual ido buffer with 'ido-kill-buffer' didn't
do anything. This has now been changed, and killing virtual buffers
** So Long
----
*** New 'so-long-predicate' function 'so-long-statistics-excessive-p'.
It efficiently detects the presence of a long line anywhere in the
buffer using 'buffer-line-statistics' (see above). This is now the
default predicate (replacing 'so-long-detected-long-line-p').
----
*** Default values 'so-long-threshold' and 'so-long-max-lines' increased.
The values of these user options have been raised to 10000 bytes and 500
lines respectively, to reduce the likelihood of false-positives when
by the old predicate, as the new predicate knows the longest line in
the entire buffer.
----
*** 'so-long-target-modes' now includes 'fundamental-mode' by default.
This means that 'global-so-long-mode' will also process files which were
not recognised. (This only has an effect if 'set-auto-mode' chooses
'fundamental-mode'; buffers which are simply in 'fundamental-mode' by
default are unaffected.)
----
*** New user options to preserve modes and variables.
The new options 'so-long-mode-preserved-minor-modes' and
'so-long-mode-preserved-variables' allow specified mode and variable
** Grep
-+++
*** New user option 'grep-match-regexp' matches grep markers to highlight.
Grep emits SGR ANSI escape sequences to color its output. The new
user option 'grep-match-regexp' holds the regular expression to match
buffer. The user option can be customized to accommodate other
grep-like tools.
----
*** The 'lgrep' command now ignores directories.
On systems where the grep command supports it, directories will be
skipped.
This change is for better compatibility with old versions of non-GNU
'find', such as the one used on macOS.
----
*** New utility function 'grep-file-at-point'.
This returns the name of the file at point (if any) in 'grep-mode'
buffers.
** Shell
----
*** New command in 'shell-mode': 'shell-narrow-to-prompt'.
This is bound to 'C-x n d' in 'shell-mode' buffers, and narrows to the
command line under point (and any following output).
----
*** New user option 'shell-has-auto-cd'.
If non-nil, 'shell-mode' handles implicit "cd" commands, changing the
directory if the command is a directory. Useful for shells like "zsh"
** Term mode
----
*** New user option 'term-scroll-snap-to-bottom'.
By default, 'term' and 'ansi-term' will now recenter the buffer so
that the prompt is on the final line in the window. Setting this new
user option to nil inhibits this behavior.
----
*** New user option 'term-set-terminal-size'.
If non-nil, the 'LINES' and 'COLUMNS' environment variables will be set
based on the current window size. In previous versions of Emacs, this
was always done (and that could lead to odd displays when resizing the
window after starting). This variable defaults to nil.
----
*** 'term-mode' now supports "bright" color codes.
"Bright" ANSI color codes are now displayed using the color values
defined in 'term-color-bright-*'. In addition, bold text with regular
** Eshell
----
*** 'eshell-hist-ignoredups' can now also be used to mimic "erasedups" in bash.
----
*** Environment variable 'INSIDE_EMACS' is now copied to subprocesses.
Its value contains the result of evaluating '(format "%s,eshell"
emacs-version)'. Other package names, like "tramp", could also be included.
----
*** Eshell no longer re-initializes its keymap every call.
This allows users to use '(define-key eshell-mode-map ...)' as usual.
Some modules have their own minor mode now to account for these
** Archive mode
----
*** Archive mode can now parse ".squashfs" files.
*** Can now modify members of 'ar' archives.
'archive-hideshow-column' let you control which columns are displayed
and which are kept hidden.
----
*** New command bound to 'C': 'archive-copy-file'.
This command extracts the file at point and writes its data to a
file.
'browse-url-with-browser-kind', an URL can explicitly be browsed with
either an internal or external browser.
----
*** Support for browsing of remote files.
If a remote file is specified, a local temporary copy of that file is
passed to the browser.
----
*** Support for the conkeror browser is now obsolete.
----
*** Support for the Mosaic browser has been removed.
This support has been obsolete since 25.1.
'p' now navigate completions, and 'M-g M-c' switches to the
minibuffer and back to the completion list buffer.
-+++
** Profiler
The results displayed by 'profiler-report' now have the usage figures
at the left hand side followed by the function name. This is intended
** Icomplete
----
*** New user option 'icomplete-matches-format'.
This allows controlling the current/total number of matches for the
prompt prefix.
-+++
*** New minor modes 'icomplete-vertical-mode' and 'fido-vertical-mode'.
These modes modify Icomplete ('icomplete-mode') and Fido
('fido-mode'), to display completion candidates vertically instead of
widget. Both these new minor modes will turn on their non-vertical
counterparts first, if they are not on already.
----
*** Default value of 'icomplete-compute-delay' has been changed to 0.15 s.
----
*** Default value of 'icomplete-max-delay-chars' has been changed to 2.
----
*** Reduced blinking while completing the next completions set.
Icomplete doesn't hide the hint with the previously computed
completions anymore when compute delay is in effect, or the previous
computation has been aborted by input. Instead it shows the previous
completions until the new ones are ready.
----
*** Change in meaning of 'icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input'.
Previously, choosing a different completion with commands like 'C-.'
and then hitting 'RET' would choose the default completion. Doing this
** Windmove
-+++
*** New user options to customize windmove keybindings.
These options include 'windmove-default-keybindings',
'windmove-display-default-keybindings',
** Occur mode
----
*** New bindings in 'occur-mode'.
The command 'next-error-no-select' is now bound to 'n' and
'previous-error-no-select' is bound to 'p'.
----
*** New command 'recenter-current-error'.
It is bound to 'l' in Occur or compilation buffers, and recenters the
current displayed occurrence/error.
----
*** Matches in target buffers are now highlighted as in 'compilation-mode'.
The method of highlighting is specified by the user options
'next-error-highlight' and 'next-error-highlight-no-select'.
----
*** A fringe arrow in the "*Occur*" buffer indicates the selected match.
----
*** Occur mode may use a different type for 'occur-target' property values.
The value was previously always a marker set to the start of the first
match on the line but can now also be a list of '(BEGIN . END)' pairs
** Emacs Lisp mode
----
*** The mode-line now indicates whether we're using lexical or dynamic scoping.
-+++
*** A space between an open paren and a symbol changes the indentation rule.
The presence of a space between an open paren and a symbol now is
taken as a statement by the programmer that this should be indented
The mode provides refined highlighting of built-in functions, types,
and variables.
----
*** Lisp mode now uses 'common-lisp-indent-function'.
To revert to the previous behavior,
'(setq lisp-indent-function 'lisp-indent-function)' from 'lisp-mode-hook'.
** Change Logs and VC
-+++
*** 'vc-revert-show-diff' now has a third possible value: 'kill'.
If this user option is 'kill', then the diff buffer will be killed
after the 'vc-revert' action instead of buried.
----
*** More VC commands can be used from non-file buffers.
The relevant commands are those that don't change the VC state.
The non-file buffers which can use VC commands are those that have
their 'default-directory' under VC.
----
*** New face 'log-view-commit-body'.
This is used when expanding commit messages from 'vc-print-root-log'
and similar commands.
----
*** New faces for 'vc-dir' buffers.
Those are: 'vc-dir-header', 'vc-dir-header-value', 'vc-dir-directory',
'vc-dir-file', 'vc-dir-mark-indicator', 'vc-dir-status-warning',
'vc-dir-status-edited', 'vc-dir-status-up-to-date',
'vc-dir-status-ignored'.
----
*** The responsible VC backend is now the most specific one.
'vc-responsible-backend' loops over the backends in
'vc-handled-backends' to determine which backend is responsible for a
was chosen, but now the one with the most specific path is chosen (in
case there's a directory handled by one backend inside another).
----
*** New command 'vc-dir-root' uses the root directory without asking.
----
*** New commands 'vc-dir-mark-registered-files' (bound to '* r') and
'vc-dir-mark-unregistered-files'.
----
*** Support for bookmark.el.
Bookmark locations can refer to VC directory buffers.
----
*** New user option 'vc-hg-create-bookmark'.
It controls whether a bookmark or branch will be created when you
invoke 'C-u C-x v s' ('vc-create-tag').
----
*** 'vc-hg' now uses 'hg summary' to populate extra 'vc-dir' headers.
----
*** New user option 'vc-git-revision-complete-only-branches'.
If non-nil, only branches and remotes are considered when doing
completion over Git branch names. The default is nil, which causes
tags to be considered as well.
----
*** New user option 'vc-git-log-switches'.
String or list of strings specifying switches for Git log under VC.
----
*** Command 'vc-switch-backend' is now obsolete.
If you are still using it with any regularity, please file a bug
report with some details.
----
*** New variable 'vc-git-use-literal-pathspecs'.
The Git backend's function now treat all file names "literally", where
some of them previously could interpret file names (pathspecs) as
** Gnus
-+++
*** New user option 'gnus-topic-display-predicate'.
This can be used to inhibit the display of some topics completely.
-+++
*** nnimap now supports the oauth2.el library.
-+++
*** New Summary buffer sort options for extra headers.
The extra header sort option ('C-c C-s C-x') prompts for a header
and fails if no sort function has been defined. Sorting by
Newsgroups ('C-c C-s C-u') has been pre-defined.
-+++
*** The '#' command in the Group and Summary buffer now toggles,
instead of sets, the process mark.
-+++
*** New user option 'gnus-process-mark-toggle'.
If non-nil (the default), the '#' command in the Group and Summary
buffers will toggle, instead of set, the process mark.
-+++
*** New user option 'gnus-registry-register-all'.
If non-nil (the default), create registry entries for all messages.
If nil, don't automatically create entries, they must be created
manually.
-+++
*** New user options to customise the summary line specs "%[" and "%]".
Four new options introduced in customisation group
'gnus-summary-format'. These are 'gnus-sum-opening-bracket',
normally display the value of 'gnus-sum-closing-bracket', but can also
be 'gnus-sum-closing-bracket-adopted' for the adopted articles.
-+++
*** New user option 'gnus-paging-select-next'.
This controls what happens when using commands like 'SPC' and 'DEL' to
page the current article. If non-nil (the default), go to the
next/prev article, but if nil, do nothing at the end/start of the article.
-+++
*** New gnus-search library.
A new unified search syntax which can be used across multiple
supported search engines. Set 'gnus-search-use-parsed-queries' to
non-nil to enable.
-+++
*** New value for user option 'smiley-style'.
Smileys can now be rendered with emojis instead of small images when
using the new 'emoji' value in 'smiley-style'.
-+++
*** New user option 'gnus-agent-eagerly-store-articles'.
If non-nil (which is the default), the Gnus Agent will store all read
articles in the Agent cache.
-+++
*** New user option 'gnus-global-groups'.
Gnus handles private groups differently from public (i.e., NNTP-like)
groups. Most importantly, Gnus doesn't download external images from
'gnus-global-groups': Any group present in that list will be treated
like a public group.
-+++
*** New scoring types for the Date header.
You can now score based on the relative age of an article with the new
'<' and '>' date scoring types.
-+++
*** User-defined scoring is now possible.
The new type is 'score-fn'. More information in the Gnus manual node
"(gnus) Score File Format".
-+++
*** New backend 'nnselect'.
The newly added 'nnselect' backend allows creating groups from an
arbitrary list of articles that may come from multiple groups and
'gnus-refer-thread-use-nnir' has been renamed to
'gnus-refer-thread-use-search'.
-+++
*** New user option 'gnus-dbus-close-on-sleep'.
On systems with D-Bus support, it is now possible to register a signal
to close all Gnus servers before the system sleeps.
-+++
*** The key binding of 'gnus-summary-search-article-forward' has changed.
This command was previously on 'M-s' and shadowed the global 'M-s'
search prefix. The command has now been moved to 'M-s M-s'. (For
consistency, the 'M-s M-r' key binding has been added for the
'gnus-summary-search-article-backward' command.)
----
*** The value for "all" in the 'large-newsgroup-initial' group parameter has changed.
It was previously nil, which didn't work, because nil is
indistinguishable from not being present. The new value for "all" is
the symbol 'all'.
-+++
*** The name of dependent Gnus sessions has changed from "slave" to "child".
The names of the commands 'gnus-slave', 'gnus-slave-no-server' and
'gnus-slave-unplugged' have changed to 'gnus-child',
'gnus-child-no-server' and 'gnus-child-unplugged' respectively.
-+++
*** The 'W Q' summary mode command now takes a numerical prefix to
allow adjusting the fill width.
-+++
*** New variable 'mm-inline-font-lock'.
This variable is supposed to be bound by callers to determine whether
inline MIME parts (that support it) are supposed to be font-locked or
** Message
----
*** Respect 'message-forward-ignored-headers' more.
Previously, this user option would not be consulted if
'message-forward-show-mml' was nil and forwarding as MIME.
-+++
*** New user option 'message-forward-included-mime-headers'.
This is used when forwarding messages as MIME, but not using MML.
-+++
*** Message now supports the OpenPGP header.
To generate these headers, add the new function
'message-add-openpgp-header' to 'message-send-hook'. The header will
be generated according to the new 'message-openpgp-header' user
option.
----
*** A change to how "Mail-Copies-To: never" is handled.
If a user has specified "Mail-Copies-To: never", and Message was asked
to do a "wide reply", some other arbitrary recipient would end up in
changed so that all the recipients are put in the "To" header in these
instances.
-+++
*** New command to start Emacs in Message mode to send an email.
Emacs can be defined as a handler for the "x-scheme-handler/mailto"
MIME type with the following command: "emacs -f message-mailto %u".
emacsclient, use "emacsclient -e '(message-mailto "%u")'"
or "emacsclient-mail.desktop".
----
*** Change to default value of 'message-draft-headers' user option.
The 'Date' symbol has been removed from the default value, meaning that
draft or delayed messages will get a date reflecting when the message
from when it is first saved or delayed, add the symbol 'Date' back to
this user option.
-+++
*** New command to take screenshots.
In Message mode buffers, the 'C-c C-p' ('message-insert-screenshot')
command has been added. It depends on using an external program to
** Smtpmail
-+++
*** smtpmail now supports using the oauth2.el library.
-+++
*** New user option 'smtpmail-store-queue-variables'.
If non-nil, SMTP variables will be stored together with the queued
messages, and will then be used when sending with command
'smtpmail-send-queued-mail'.
-+++
*** Allow direct selection of smtp authentication mechanism.
A server entry retrieved by auth-source can request a desired smtp
authentication mechanism by setting a value for the key 'smtp-auth'.
** ElDoc
-+++
*** New user option 'eldoc-echo-area-display-truncation-message'.
If non-nil (the default), eldoc will display a message saying
something like "(Documentation truncated. Use `M-x eldoc-doc-buffer'
to see rest)" when a message has been truncated. If nil, truncated
messages will be marked with just "..." at the end.
-+++
*** New hook 'eldoc-documentation-functions'.
This hook is intended to be used for registering doc string functions.
These functions don't need to produce the doc string right away, they
the user. Examples of such functions would use the echo area, a
separate buffer, or a tooltip.
-+++
*** New user option 'eldoc-documentation-strategy'.
The built-in choices available for this user option let users compose
the results of 'eldoc-documentation-functions' in various ways, even
** Tramp
-+++
*** New connection method "mtp".
It allows accessing media devices like cell phones, tablets or
cameras.
-+++
*** New connection method "sshfs".
It allows accessing remote files via a file system mounted with
'sshfs'.
-+++
*** Tramp supports SSH authentication via a hardware security key now.
This requires at least OpenSSH 8.2, and a FIDO U2F compatible
security key, like yubikey, solokey, or nitrokey.
-+++
*** Trashed remote files are moved to the local trash directory.
All remote files that are trashed are moved to the local trash
directory, except remote encrypted files, which are always deleted.
-+++
*** New command 'tramp-crypt-add-directory'.
This command marks a remote directory to contain only encrypted files.
See the "(tramp) Keeping files encrypted" node of the Tramp manual for
details. This feature is experimental.
-+++
*** Support of direct asynchronous process invocation.
When Tramp connection property "direct-async-process" is set to
non-nil for a given connection, 'make-process' and 'start-file-process'
for details, and also for a discussion or restrictions. This feature
is experimental.
-+++
*** New user option 'tramp-debug-to-file'.
When non-nil, this user option instructs Tramp to mirror the debug
buffer to a file under the "/tmp/" directory. This is useful, if (in
rare cases) Tramp blocks Emacs, and we need further debug information.
-+++
*** Tramp supports lock files now.
In order to deactivate this, set user option
'remote-file-name-inhibit-locks' to t.
-+++
*** Writing sensitive data locally requires confirmation.
Writing auto-save, backup or lock files to the local temporary
directory must be confirmed. In order to suppress this confirmation,
set user option 'tramp-allow-unsafe-temporary-files' to t.
-+++
*** 'make-directory' of a remote directory honors the default file modes.
** GDB/MI
If non-nil, apply a register filter based on
'gdb-registers-filter-pattern-list'.
-+++
*** gdb-mi can now save and restore window configurations.
Use 'gdb-save-window-configuration' to save window configuration to a
file and 'gdb-load-window-configuration' to load from a file. These
GDB-Windows". 'gdb-default-window-configuration-file', when non-nil,
is loaded when GDB starts up.
-+++
*** gdb-mi can now restore window configuration after quitting.
Set 'gdb-restore-window-configuration-after-quit' to non-nil and Emacs
will remember the window configuration before GDB started and restore
it after GDB quits. A toggle button is also provided under "Gud =>
GDB-Windows" menu item.
-+++
*** gdb-mi now has a better logic for displaying source buffers.
Now GDB only uses one source window to display source file by default.
Customize 'gdb-max-source-window-count' to use more than one window.
Control source file display by 'gdb-display-source-buffer-action'.
-+++
*** The default value of 'gdb-mi-decode-strings' is now t.
This means that the default coding-system is now used to decode strings
and source file names from GDB.
** Compilation mode
----
*** New function 'ansi-color-compilation-filter'.
This function is meant to be used in 'compilation-filter-hook'.
----
*** New user option 'ansi-color-for-compilation-mode'.
This controls what 'ansi-color-compilation-filter' does.
required, but the recommended solution is to use a correctly matching
regexp instead.
----
*** New user option 'compilation-search-all-directories'.
When doing parallel builds, directories and compilation errors may
arrive in the "*compilation*" buffer out-of-order. If this option is
for any directory the file with errors may be in. If nil, this won't
be done (and this restores how this previously worked).
----
*** Messages from ShellCheck are now recognized.
----
*** Messages from Visual Studio that mention column numbers are now recognized.
** Hi Lock mode
----
*** Matching in 'hi-lock-mode' can be case-sensitive.
The matching is case-sensitive when a regexp contains upper case
characters and 'search-upper-case' is non-nil. 'highlight-phrase'
also uses 'search-whitespace-regexp' to substitute spaces in regexp
search.
----
*** The default value of 'hi-lock-highlight-range' was enlarged.
The new default value is 2000000 (2 megabytes).
** Whitespace mode
-+++
*** New style 'missing-newline-at-eof'.
If present in 'whitespace-style' (as it is by default), the final
character in the buffer will be highlighted if the buffer doesn't end
with a newline.
----
*** The default 'whitespace-enable-predicate' predicate has changed.
It used to check elements in the list version of
'whitespace-global-modes' with 'eq', but now uses 'derived-mode-p'.
** Texinfo
----
*** New user option 'texinfo-texi2dvi-options'.
This is used when invoking 'texi2dvi' from 'texinfo-tex-buffer'.
----
*** New commands for moving in and between environments.
An "environment" is something that ends with '@end'. The commands are
'C-c C-c C-f' (next end), 'C-c C-c C-b' (previous end),
** Rmail
----
*** New user option 'rmail-re-abbrevs'.
Its default value matches localized abbreviations of the "reply"
prefix on the Subject line in various languages.
----
*** New user option 'rmail-show-message-set-modified'.
If set non-nil, showing an unseen message will set the Rmail buffer's
modified flag. The default is nil, to preserve the old behavior.
** CC mode
-+++
*** Added support for Doxygen documentation style.
'doxygen' is now a valid 'c-doc-comment-style' which recognises all
comment styles supported by Doxygen (namely '///', '//!', '/** … */'
or use it in a custom 'c-style'.
-+++
*** Added support to line up '?' and ':' of a ternary operator.
The new 'c-lineup-ternary-bodies' function can be used as a lineup
function to align question mark and colon which are part of a ternary
** Images
----
*** You can explicitly specify base_uri for svg images.
':base-uri' image property can be used to explicitly specify base_uri
for embedded images into svg. ':base-uri' is supported for both file
and data svg images.
-+++
*** 'svg-embed-base-uri-image' added to embed images.
'svg-embed-base-uri-image' can be used to embed images located
relatively to 'file-name-directory' of the ':base-uri' svg image property.
This works much faster than 'svg-embed'.
-+++
*** New function 'image-cache-size'.
This function returns the size of the current image cache, in bytes.
----
*** Animated images stop automatically under high CPU pressure sooner.
Previously, an animated image would stop animating if any single image
took more than two seconds to display. The new algorithm maintains a
decaying average of delays, and if this number gets too high, the
animation is stopped.
-+++
*** The 'n' and 'p' commands (next/previous image) now respect Dired order.
These commands would previously display the next/previous image in
lexicographic order, but will now find the "parent" Dired buffer and
"parent" buffer is an archive mode (i.e., zip file or the like) or tar
mode buffer.
----
*** 'image-converter' is now restricted to formats in 'auto-mode-alist'.
When using external image converters, the external program is queried
for what formats it supports. This list may contain formats that are
based on 'auto-mode-alist'. Only file names that map to 'image-mode'
are now supported.
----
*** The background and foreground of images now default to face colors.
When an image doesn't specify a foreground or background color, Emacs
now uses colors from the face used to draw the surrounding text
This change only affects image types that support foreground and
background colors or transparency, such as xbm, pbm, svg, png and gif.
-+++
*** Image smoothing can now be explicitly enabled or disabled.
Smoothing applies a bilinear filter while scaling or rotating an image
to prevent aliasing and other unwanted effects. The new image
The default behavior of smoothing on down-scaling and not smoothing
on up-scaling remains unchanged.
-+++
*** New user option 'image-transform-smoothing'.
This controls whether to use smoothing or not for an image. Values
include nil (no smoothing), t (do smoothing) or a predicate function
that's called with the image object and should return nil/t.
-+++
*** SVG images now support user stylesheets.
The ':css' image attribute can be used to override the default CSS
stylesheet for an image. The default sets 'font-family' and
This feature relies on librsvg 2.48 or above being available.
-+++
*** Image properties support 'em' sizes.
Size image properties, for example ':height', ':max-height', etc., can
be given a cons of the form '(SIZE . em)', where SIZE is an integer or
** EWW
-+++
*** New user option 'eww-use-browse-url'.
This is a regexp that can be set to alter how links are followed in eww.
-+++
*** New user option 'eww-retrieve-command'.
This can be used to download data via an external command. If nil
(the default), then 'url-retrieve' is used. When 'sync', then
'url-retrieve-synchronously' is used. A list of strings specifies
an external program with parameters.
-+++
*** New Emacs command line convenience command.
The 'eww-browse' command has been added, which allows you to register
Emacs as a MIME handler for "text/x-uri", and will call 'eww' on the
supplied URL. Usage example: "emacs -f eww-browse https://gnu.org".
-+++
*** 'eww-download-directory' will now use the XDG location, if defined.
However, if "~/Downloads/" already exists, that will continue to be
used.
----
*** The command 'eww-follow-link' now supports custom 'mailto:' handlers.
The function that is invoked when clicking on or otherwise following a
'mailto:' link in an EWW buffer can now be customized. For more
information, see the related entry about 'shr-browse-url' below.
----
*** Support for bookmark.el.
The command 'bookmark-set' (bound to 'C-x r m') is now supported, and
will create a bookmark that opens the current URL in EWW.
** SHR
----
*** The command 'shr-browse-url' now supports custom 'mailto:' handlers.
Clicking on or otherwise following a 'mailto:' link in an HTML buffer
rendered by SHR previously invoked the command 'browse-url-mail'.
'browse-url-mailto-function' or 'browse-url-handlers' to call some
other function, it will now be called instead of the default.
----
*** New user option 'shr-offer-extend-specpdl'.
If this is nil, rendering of HTML that requires enlarging
'max-specpdl-size', the number of Lisp variable bindings, will be
'max-specpdl-size' to complete the rendering. The default is t, which
preserves the original behavior.
-+++
*** New user option 'shr-max-width'.
If this user option is non-nil, and 'shr-width' is nil, then SHR will
use the value of 'shr-max-width' to limit the width of the rendered
behavior of rendering as wide as the 'window-width' allows. If
'shr-width' is non-nil, it overrides this option.
----
*** New faces for heading elements.
Those are 'shr-h1', 'shr-h2', 'shr-h3', 'shr-h4', 'shr-h5', 'shr-h6'.
** Project
----
*** New user option 'project-vc-merge-submodules'.
----
*** Project commands now have their own history.
Previously used project directories are now suggested by all commands
that prompt for a project directory.
-+++
*** New prefix keymap 'project-prefix-map'.
Key sequences that invoke project-related commands start with the
prefix 'C-x p'. Type 'C-x p C-h' to show the full list.
-+++
*** New commands 'project-dired', 'project-vc-dir', 'project-shell',
'project-eshell'. These commands run Dired/VC-Dir and Shell/Eshell in
a project's root directory, respectively.
-+++
*** New command 'project-compile'.
This command runs compilation in the current project's root directory.
-+++
*** New command 'project-switch-project'.
This command lets you "switch" to another project and run a project
command chosen from a dispatch menu.
-+++
*** New commands 'project-shell-command' and 'project-async-shell-command'.
These commands run 'shell-command' and 'async-shell-command' in a
project's root directory, respectively.
-+++
*** New user option 'project-list-file'.
This specifies the file in which to save the list of known projects.
-+++
*** New command 'project-remember-projects-under'.
This command can automatically locate and index projects in a
directory and optionally also its subdirectories, storing them in
'project-list-file'.
-+++
*** New commands 'project-forget-project' and 'project-forget-projects-under'.
These commands let you interactively remove entries from the list of projects
in 'project-list-file'.
-+++
*** New command 'project-forget-zombie-projects'.
This command detects indexed projects that have since been deleted,
and removes them from the list of known projects in 'project-list-file'.
----
*** 'project-find-file' now accepts non-existent file names.
This is to allow easy creation of files inside some nested
sub-directory.
-+++
*** 'project-find-file' doesn't use the string at point as default input.
Now it's only suggested as part of the "future history", accessible
via 'M-n'.
-+++
*** New command 'project-find-dir' runs Dired in a directory inside project.
** Xref
-+++
*** New user options to automatically show the first Xref match.
The new user option 'xref-auto-jump-to-first-definition' controls the
behavior of 'xref-find-definitions' and its variants, like
the same way as 'xref-auto-jump-to-first-definition' affects the
'xref-find-definitions*' commands.
----
*** New user options 'xref-search-program' and 'xref-search-program-alist'.
So far 'grep' and 'ripgrep' are supported. 'ripgrep' seems to offer better
performance in certain cases, in particular for case-insensitive
searches.
-+++
*** New commands 'xref-prev-group' and 'xref-next-group'.
These commands are bound respectively to 'P' and 'N', and navigate to
the first item of the previous or next group in the "*xref*" buffer.
----
*** New alternative value for 'xref-show-definitions-function':
'xref-show-definitions-completing-read'.
----
*** The two existing alternatives for 'xref-show-definitions-function'
have been renamed to have "proper" public names and documented
('xref-show-definitions-buffer' and
'xref-show-definitions-buffer-at-bottom').
-+++
*** New command 'xref-quit-and-pop-marker-stack'.
This command is bound to 'M-,' in "*xref*" buffers. This combination
is easy to press semi-accidentally if the user wants to go back in the
middle of choosing the exact definition to go to, and this should do
TRT.
----
*** New value 'project-relative' for 'xref-file-name-display'.
If chosen, file names in "*xref*" buffers will be displayed relative
to the 'project-root' of the current project, when available.
----
*** Prefix arg of 'xref-goto-xref' quits the "*xref*" buffer.
So typing 'C-u RET' in the "*xref*" buffer quits its window
before navigating to the selected location.
-+++
*** The 'TAB' key binding in "*xref*" buffers is obsolete.
Use 'C-u RET' instead. The 'TAB' binding in "*xref*" buffers is still
supported, but we plan on removing it in a future version; at that
time, the command 'xref-quit-and-goto-xref' will no longer have a key
binding in 'xref--xref-buffer-mode-map'.
----
*** New user option 'etags-xref-prefer-current-file'.
When non-nil, matches for identifiers in the file visited by the
current buffer will be shown first in the "*xref*" buffer.
-+++
*** The etags Xref backend now honors 'tags-apropos-additional-actions'.
You can customize it to augment the output of 'xref-find-apropos',
like it affected the output of 'tags-apropos', which is obsolete since
** Battery
----
*** UPower is now the default battery status backend when available.
UPower support via the function 'battery-upower' was added in Emacs
26.1, but was disabled by default. It is now the default value of
whether to respond to status change notifications in addition to
polling, respectively.
----
*** A richer syntax can be used to format battery status information.
The user options 'battery-mode-line-format' and
'battery-echo-area-format' now support the full formatting syntax of
** Bug Reference
----
*** Bug reference mode uses auto-setup.
If 'bug-reference-mode' or 'bug-reference-prog-mode' have been
activated, their respective hook has been run, and both
** HTML mode
----
*** A new skeleton for adding relative URLs has been added.
It's bound to the 'C-c C-c f' keystroke, and prompts for a local file
name.
** Widget
-+++
*** 'widget-choose' now supports menus in extended format.
----
*** The 'editable-list' widget now supports moving items up and down.
You can now move items up and down by deleting and then reinserting
them, using the 'DEL' and 'INS' buttons respectively. This is useful
** Diff
----
*** New face 'diff-changed-unspecified'.
This is used to highlight "changed" lines (those marked with '!') in
context diffs, when 'diff-use-changed-face' is non-nil.
----
*** New 'diff-mode' font locking face 'diff-error'.
This face is used for error messages from 'diff'.
-+++
*** New command 'diff-refresh-hunk'.
This new command (bound to 'C-c C-l') regenerates the current hunk.
** Thing at point
-+++
*** New 'thing-at-point' target: 'existing-filename'.
This is like 'filename', but is a full path, and is nil if the file
doesn't exist.
-+++
*** New 'thing-at-point' target: 'string'.
If point is inside a string, it returns that string.
-+++
*** New variable 'thing-at-point-provider-alist'.
This allows mode-specific alterations to how 'thing-at-point' works.
----
*** 'thing-at-point' now respects fields.
'thing-at-point' (and all functions that use it, like
'symbol-at-point') will narrow to the current field (if any) before
trying to identify the thing at point.
----
*** New function 'thing-at-mouse'.
This is like 'thing-at-point', but uses the mouse event position instead.
** Image Dired
-+++
*** New user option 'image-dired-thumb-visible-marks'.
If non-nil (the default), use the new face 'image-dired-thumb-mark'
for marked images.
----
*** New command 'image-dired-delete-marked'.
----
*** 'image-dired-mouse-toggle-mark' is now sensitive to the active region.
If the region is active, this command now toggles Dired marks of all
the thumbnails in the region.
** Flymake mode
-+++
*** New command 'flymake-show-project-diagnostics'.
This lists all diagnostics for buffers in the currently active
project. The listing is similar to the one obtained by
'flymake-show-project-diagnostics' also lists diagnostics for files
that have not yet been visited.
-+++
*** New user options to customize Flymake's mode-line.
The new user option 'flymake-mode-line-format' is a mix of strings and
symbols like 'flymake-mode-line-title', 'flymake-mode-line-exception'
** Time
----
*** 'display-time-world' has been renamed to 'world-clock'.
'world-clock' creates a buffer with an updating time display using
several time zones. It is hoped that the new names are more
The old names are now obsolete.
----
*** 'world-clock-mode' can no longer be turned on interactively.
Use 'world-clock' to turn on that mode.
** Python mode
----
*** New user option 'python-forward-sexp-function'.
This allows the user easier customization of whether to use block-based
navigation or not.
----
*** 'python-shell-interpreter' now defaults to python3 on systems with python3.
----
*** 'C-c C-r' can now be used on arbitrary regions.
The command previously extended the start of the region to the start
of the line, but will now actually send the marked region, as
** Ruby mode
----
*** 'ruby-use-smie' is declared obsolete.
SMIE is now always enabled and 'ruby-use-smie' only controls whether
indentation is done using SMIE or with the old ad-hoc code.
----
*** Indentation has changed when 'ruby-align-chained-calls' is non-nil.
This previously used to align subsequent lines with the last sibling,
but it now aligns with the first sibling (which is the preferred style
** CPerl mode
----
*** New face 'perl-heredoc', used for heredoc elements.
----
*** The command 'cperl-set-style' offers the new value "PBP".
This value customizes Emacs to use the style recommended in Damian
Conway's book "Perl Best Practices" for indentation and formatting
** Perl mode
----
*** New face 'perl-non-scalar-variable'.
This is used to fontify non-scalar variables.
** Octave mode
-+++
*** Line continuations in double-quoted strings now use a backslash.
Typing 'C-M-j' (bound to 'octave-indent-new-comment-line') now follows
the behavior introduced in Octave 3.8 of using a backslash as a line
continuation marker within double-quoted strings, and an ellipsis
everywhere else.
-+++
** EasyPG
GPG key servers can now be queried for keys with the
'epa-search-keys' command. Keys can then be added to your
** Etags
-+++
*** Etags now supports the Mercury programming language.
See https://mercurylang.org.
-+++
*** Etags command line option '--declarations' now has Mercury-specific behavior.
All Mercury declarations are tagged by default. However, for
compatibility with 'etags' support for Prolog, predicates and
** Comint
-+++
*** Support for OSC escape sequences.
Adding the new function 'comint-osc-process-output' to
'comint-output-filter-functions' enables the interpretation of OSC
'comint-osc-handlers' allows a customized treatment of further escape
sequences.
-+++
*** 'comint-delete-output' can now save deleted text in the kill-ring.
Interactively, 'C-u C-c C-o' triggers this new optional behavior.
** ANSI color
----
*** Colors are now defined by faces.
ANSI SGR codes now have corresponding faces to describe their
appearance, e.g. 'ansi-color-bold'.
----
*** Support for "bright" color codes.
"Bright" ANSI color codes are now displayed when applying ANSI color
filters using the color values defined by the faces
** Xwidget Webkit mode
----
*** New xwidget commands.
'xwidget-webkit-uri' (return the current URL), 'xwidget-webkit-title'
(return the current title), and 'xwidget-webkit-goto-history' (goto a
point in history).
----
*** Downloading files from xwidget-webkit is now supported.
The new user option 'xwidget-webkit-download-dir' says where to download to.
----
*** New command 'xwidget-webkit-clone-and-split-below'.
Open a new window below displaying the current URL.
----
*** New command 'xwidget-webkit-clone-and-split-right'.
Open a new window to the right displaying the current URL.
----
*** Pixel-based scrolling.
The 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-up', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-down' commands
now supports scrolling arbitrary pixel values. It now treats the
optional 2nd argument as the pixel values to scroll.
----
*** New commands for scrolling.
The new commands 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-up-line',
'xwidget-webkit-scroll-down-line', 'xwidget-webkit-scroll-forward',
'xwidget-webkit-scroll-backward' can be used to scroll webkit by the
height of lines or width of chars.
----
*** New user option 'xwidget-webkit-bookmark-jump-new-session'.
When non-nil, use a new xwidget webkit session after bookmark jump.
Otherwise, it will use 'xwidget-webkit-last-session'.
** Checkdoc
----
*** No longer warns about command substitutions by default.
Checkdoc used to warn about "too many command substitutions" (as in
"\\[foo-command]"), even if you only used ten of them in a docstring.
is now disabled by default. To re-enable this warning, customize the
user option 'checkdoc-max-keyref-before-warn'.
----
*** New user option 'checkdoc-column-zero-backslash-before-paren'.
Checkdoc warns if there is a left parenthesis in column zero of a
documentation string. That warning can now be disabled by customizing
this new user option to nil. This is useful if you don't expect
your code to be edited with an Emacs older than version 27.1.
----
*** Now checks the prompt format for 'yes-or-no-p'.
In addition to verifying the format of the prompt for 'y-or-n-p',
checkdoc will now check the format of 'yes-or-no-p'.
----
*** New command 'checkdoc-dired'.
This can be used to run checkdoc on files from a Dired buffer.
** Enriched mode
----
*** 'C-a' is by default no longer bound to 'beginning-of-line-text'.
This is so 'C-a' works as in other modes, and in particular holding
Shift while typing 'C-a', i.e. 'C-S-a', will now highlight the text.
** Gravatar
----
*** New user option 'gravatar-service' for host to query for gravatars.
Defaults to 'gravatar', with 'unicornify' and 'libravatar' as options.
Functions and variables related to handling junk mail have been
renamed to not associate color with sender quality.
-+++
*** New names for mh-junk interactive functions.
Function 'mh-junk-whitelist' is renamed 'mh-junk-allowlist'.
Function 'mh-junk-blacklist' is renamed 'mh-junk-blocklist'.
-+++
*** New binding for 'mh-junk-allowlist'.
The key binding for 'mh-junk-allowlist' is changed from 'J w' to 'J a'.
The old binding is supported but warns that it is obsolete.
-+++
*** New names for some hooks.
'mh-whitelist-msg-hook' is renamed 'mh-allowlist-msg-hook'.
'mh-blacklist-msg-hook' is renamed 'mh-blocklist-msg-hook'.
-+++
*** New names for some user options.
User option 'mh-whitelist-preserves-sequences-flag' is renamed
'mh-allowlist-preserves-sequences-flag'.
-+++
*** New names for some faces.
Face 'mh-folder-blacklisted' is renamed 'mh-folder-blocklisted'.
Face 'mh-folder-whitelisted' is renamed 'mh-folder-allowlisted'.
** Rcirc
-+++
*** rcirc now supports SASL authentication.
----
*** #emacs on Libera.chat has been added to 'rcirc-server-alist'.
----
*** rcirc connects asynchronously.
----
*** Integrate formatting into 'rcirc-send-string'.
The function now accepts a variable number of arguments.
-+++
*** Deprecate 'rcirc-command' in favor of 'rcirc-define-command'.
The new macro handles multiple and optional arguments.
----
*** Add basic IRCv3 support.
This includes support for the capabilities: 'server-time', 'batch',
'message-ids', 'invite-notify', 'multi-prefix' and 'standard-replies'.
----
*** Add mouse property support to 'rcirc-track-minor-mode'.
----
*** Improve support for IRC markup codes.
----
*** Check 'auth-sources' for server passwords.
-+++
*** Implement repeated reconnection strategy.
See 'rcirc-reconnect-attempts'.
** MPC
----
*** New command 'mpc-goto-playing-song'.
This command, bound to 'o' in any 'mpc-mode' buffer, moves point to
the currently playing song in the "*MPC-Songs*" buffer.
----
*** New user option 'mpc-cover-image-re'.
If non-nil, it is a regexp that should match a valid cover image.
** Miscellaneous
----
*** 'shell-script-mode' now supports 'outline-minor-mode'.
The outline headings have lines that start with "###".
----
*** fileloop will now skip missing files instead of signalling an error.
----
*** 'tabulated-list-mode' can now restore original display order.
Many commands (like 'C-x C-b') are derived from 'tabulated-list-mode',
and that mode allows the user to sort on any column. There was
after sorting, but giving a -1 numerical prefix to the sorting command
will now restore the original order.
----
*** 'M-left' and 'M-right' now move between columns in 'tabulated-list-mode'.
----
*** New variable 'hl-line-overlay-priority'.
This can be used to change the priority of the hl-line overlays.
-+++
*** New command 'mailcap-view-file'.
This command will open a viewer based on the file type, as determined
by "~/.mailcap" and related files and variables.
----
*** New user option 'remember-diary-regexp'.
----
*** New user option 'remember-text-format-function'.
----
*** New user option 'authinfo-hide-elements'.
This can be set to nil to inhibit hiding passwords in ".authinfo" files.
----
*** 'hexl-mode' scrolling commands now heed 'next-screen-context-lines'.
Previously, 'hexl-scroll-down' and 'hexl-scroll-up' would scroll
up/down an entire window, but they now work more like the standard
scrolling commands.
----
*** New user option 'bibtex-unify-case-function'.
This new option allows the user to customize how case is converted
when unifying entries.
----
*** The user option 'bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries' now permits
user-defined sorting schemes.
----
*** New user option 'reveal-auto-hide'.
If non-nil (the default), revealed text is automatically hidden when
point leaves the text. If nil, the text is not hidden again. Instead the
command 'reveal-hide-revealed' can be used to hide all the revealed text.
----
*** New user option 'ffap-file-name-with-spaces'.
If non-nil, 'find-file-at-point' and friends will try to guess more
expansively to identify a file name with spaces. Default value is
nil.
----
*** Two new commands for centering in 'doc-view-mode'.
The new commands 'doc-view-center-page-horizontally' (bound to 'c h')
and 'doc-view-center-page-vertically' (bound to 'c v') center the page
horizontally and vertically, respectively.
----
*** 'tempo-define-template' can now re-assign templates to tags.
Previously, assigning a new template to an already defined tag had no
effect.
----
*** The width of the buffer-name column in 'list-buffers' is now dynamic.
The width now depends on the width of the window, but will never be
wider than the length of the longest buffer name, except that it will
never be narrower than 19 characters.
-+++
*** New diary sexp 'diary-offset'.
It offsets another diary sexp by a number of days. This is useful
when for example your organization has a committee meeting two days
or if you would like to attend a virtual meeting scheduled in a
different timezone causing a difference in the date.
----
*** The old non-SMIE indentation of 'sh-mode' has been removed.
----
*** 'mspools-show' is now autoloaded.
----
*** Loading dunnet.el in batch mode doesn't start the game any more.
Instead you need to do "emacs --batch -f dunnet" to start the game in
batch mode.
\f
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 28.1
-+++
** New mode 'repeat-mode' to allow shorter key sequences.
Type 'M-x repeat-mode' to enable this mode. You can then type
'C-x u u' instead of 'C-x u C-x u' to undo many changes, 'C-x o o'
Command 'describe-repeat-maps' will display a buffer showing
which commands are repeatable in 'repeat-mode'.
----
** New themes 'modus-vivendi' and 'modus-operandi'.
These themes are designed to conform with the highest standard for
color-contrast accessibility (WCAG AAA). You can load either of them
the mouse in 'dictionary-tooltip-dictionary' (which must be customized
first).
----
** Lisp Data mode
The new command 'lisp-data-mode' enables a major mode for buffers
composed of Lisp symbolic expressions that do not form a computer
program. The ".dir-locals.el" file is automatically set to use this
mode, as are other data files produced by Emacs.
-+++
** New global mode 'global-goto-address-mode'.
This will enable 'goto-address-mode' in all buffers.
This library can create, query, navigate and display hierarchical
structures.
----
** New major mode for displaying the "etc/AUTHORS" file.
This new 'etc-authors-mode' provides font-locking for displaying the
"etc/AUTHORS" file from the Emacs distribution, and not much else.
\f
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 28.1
-+++
** Emacs now prints a backtrace when signaling an error in batch mode.
This makes debugging Emacs Lisp scripts run in batch mode easier. To
get back the old behavior, set the new variable
'backtrace-on-error-noninteractive' to a nil value.
----
** Some floating-point numbers are now handled differently by the Lisp reader.
In previous versions of Emacs, numbers with a trailing dot and an exponent
were read as integers and the exponent ignored: 2.e6 was interpreted as the
2.e6 is now read as the floating-point value 2000000.0.
That is, '(read-from-string "1.e3")' => '(1000.0 . 4)' now.
----
** 'equal' no longer examines some contents of window configurations.
Instead, it considers window configurations to be equal only if they
are 'eq'. To compare contents, use 'compare-window-configurations'
instead. This change helps fix a bug in 'sxhash-equal', which returned
incorrect hashes for window configurations and some other objects.
-+++
** The 'lexical-binding' local variable is always enabled.
Previously, if 'enable-local-variables' was nil, a 'lexical-binding'
local variable would not be heeded. This has now changed, and a file
with a 'lexical-binding' cookie is always heeded. To revert to the
old behavior, set 'permanently-enabled-local-variables' to nil.
-+++
** '&rest' in argument lists must always be followed by a variable name.
Omitting the variable name after '&rest' was previously tolerated in
some cases but not consistently so; it could lead to crashes or
outright wrong results. Since the utility was marginal at best, it is
now an error to omit the variable.
----
** 'kill-all-local-variables' has changed how it handles non-symbol hooks.
The function is documented to eliminate all buffer-local bindings
except variables with a 'permanent-local' property, or hooks that
would also keep lambda expressions in hooks sometimes. The latter has
now been changed: The function will now also remove these.
-+++
** Temporary buffers no longer run certain buffer hooks.
The macros 'with-temp-buffer' and 'with-temp-file' no longer run the
hooks 'kill-buffer-hook', 'kill-buffer-query-functions', and
'buffer-list-update-hook' for the temporary buffers they create. This
avoids slowing them down when a lot of these hooks are defined.
-+++
** New face 'child-frame-border' and frame parameter 'child-frame-border-width'.
The face and width of child frames borders can now be determined
separately from those of normal frames. To minimize backward
the new 'child-frame-border' face does constitute a breaking change
since child frames' borders no longer use the 'internal-border' face.
----
** 'run-at-time' now tries harder to implement the t TIME parameter.
If TIME is t, the timer runs at an integral multiple of REPEAT.
(I.e., if given a REPEAT of 60, it'll run at 08:11:00, 08:12:00,
multiple every time it runs, which means that if the laptop wakes at
08:16:43, it'll fire at that time, but then at 08:17:00, 08:18:00...
----
** 'parse-partial-sexp' now signals an error if TO is smaller than FROM.
Previously, this would lead to the function interpreting FROM as TO and
vice versa, which would be confusing when passing in OLDSTATE, which
refers to the old state at FROM.
-+++
** 'global-mode-string' constructs should end with a space.
This was previously not formalized, which led to combinations of modes
displaying data "smushed together" on the mode line.
-+++
** 'overlays-in' now handles zero-length overlays slightly differently.
Previously, zero-length overlays at the end of the buffer were included
in the result (if the region queried for stopped at that position).
the real end of the buffer. This has now been changed, and
zero-length overlays at 'point-max' are always included in the results.
----
** 'replace-match' now runs modification hooks slightly later.
The function is documented to leave point after the replacement text,
but this was not always the case if a modification hook inserted text
hook ran. 'replace-match' now always leaves point after the
replacement text.
-+++
** 'completing-read-default' sets completion variables buffer-locally.
'minibuffer-completion-table' and related variables are now set buffer-locally
in the minibuffer instead of being set via a global let-binding.
----
** XML serialization functions now reject invalid characters.
Previously, 'xml-print' would produce invalid XML when given a string
with characters that are not valid in XML (see
https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charsets). Now it rejects such strings.
----
** JSON
----
*** JSON number parsing is now stricter.
Numbers with a leading plus sign, leading zeros, or a missing integer
component are now rejected by 'json-read' and friends. This makes
them more compliant with the JSON specification and consistent with
the native JSON parsing functions.
----
*** JSON functions support the semantics of RFC 8259.
The JSON functions 'json-serialize', 'json-insert',
'json-parse-string', and 'json-parse-buffer' now implement some of the
these functions now accept top-level JSON values that are neither
arrays nor objects.
----
*** Some JSON encoding functions are now obsolete.
The functions 'json-encode-number', 'json-encode-hash-table',
'json-encode-key', and 'json-encode-list' are now obsolete.
one of 'json-encode', 'json-encode-alist', 'json-encode-plist', or
'json-encode-array' instead.
-+++
*** Native JSON functions now signal an error if libjansson is unavailable.
This affects 'json-serialize', 'json-insert', 'json-parse-string',
and 'json-parse-buffer'. This can happen if Emacs was compiled with
time. Previously, Emacs would display a message and return nil in
these cases.
-+++
** The use of positional arguments in 'define-minor-mode' is obsolete.
These were actually rendered obsolete in Emacs 21 but were never
marked as such.
----
** 'pcomplete-ignore-case' is now an obsolete alias of 'completion-ignore-case'.
-+++
** 'completions-annotations' face is not used when the caller puts own face.
This affects the suffix specified by completion 'annotation-function'.
-+++
** An active minibuffer now has major mode 'minibuffer-mode'.
This is instead of the erroneous 'minibuffer-inactive-mode' it
formerly had.
----
** 'make-text-button' no longer modifies text properties of its first argument.
When its first argument is a string, 'make-text-button' no longer
modifies the string's text properties; instead, it uses and returns
a copy of the string. This helps avoid trouble when strings are
shared or constants.
-+++
** Some properties from completion tables are now preserved.
If 'minibuffer-allow-text-properties' is non-nil, doing completion
over a table of strings with properties will no longer remove all the
properties before returning. This affects things like 'completing-read'.
----
** 'dns-query' now consistently uses Lisp integers to represent integers.
Formerly it made an exception for integer components of SOA records,
because SOA serial numbers can exceed fixnum ranges on 32-bit platforms.
Emacs now supports bignums so this old glitch is no longer needed.
-+++
** The '&define' keyword in an Edebug specification now disables backtracking.
The implementation was buggy, and multiple '&define' forms in an '&or'
form should be exceedingly rare. See the Info node "(elisp) Backtracking" in
the Emacs Lisp reference manual for background.
-+++
** The error 'ftp-error' belongs also to category 'remote-file-error'.
-+++
** The WHEN argument of 'make-obsolete' and related functions is mandatory.
The use of those functions without a WHEN argument was marked obsolete
back in Emacs 23.1. The affected functions are: 'make-obsolete',
'define-obsolete-function-alias', 'make-obsolete-variable',
'define-obsolete-variable-alias'.
-+++
** 'inhibit-nul-byte-detection' is renamed to 'inhibit-null-byte-detection'.
----
** Some functions are no longer considered safe by 'unsafep':
'replace-regexp-in-string', 'catch', 'throw', 'error', 'signal'
and 'play-sound-file'.
----
** 'sql-*-statement-starters' are no longer user options.
These variables describe facts about the SQL standard and
product-specific additions. There should be no need for users to
customize them.
----
** Some locale-related variables have been removed.
The Lisp variables 'previous-system-messages-locale' and
'previous-system-time-locale' have been removed, as they were created
by mistake and were not useful to Lisp code.
----
** Function 'lm-maintainer' is replaced with 'lm-maintainers'.
The former is now declared obsolete.
-+++
** facemenu.el is no longer preloaded.
To use functions/variables from the package, you now have to say
'(require 'facemenu)' or similar.
----
** 'facemenu-color-alist' is now obsolete, and is not used.
----
** The variable 'keyboard-type' is obsolete and not dynamically scoped any more.
-+++
** The 'values' variable is now obsolete.
Using it just contributes to the growth of the Emacs memory
footprint.
----
** The 'load-dangerous-libraries' variable is now obsolete.
It was used to allow loading Lisp libraries compiled by XEmacs, a
modified version of Emacs which is no longer actively maintained.
This is no longer supported, and setting this variable has no effect.
-+++
** The macro 'with-displayed-buffer-window' is now obsolete.
Use macro 'with-current-buffer-window' with action alist entry 'body-function'.
----
** The rfc2368.el library is now obsolete.
Use rfc6068.el instead. The main difference is that
'rfc2368-parse-mailto-url' and 'rfc2368-unhexify-string' assumed that
the strings were all-ASCII, while 'rfc6068-parse-mailto-url' and
'rfc6068-unhexify-string' parse UTF-8 strings.
----
** The inversion.el library is now obsolete.
----
** The metamail.el library is now obsolete.
** Edebug changes
----
*** 'get-edebug-spec' is obsolete, replaced by 'edebug-get-spec'.
-+++
*** The spec operator ':name NAME' is obsolete, use '&name' instead.
-+++
*** The spec element 'function-form' is obsolete, use 'form' instead.
-+++
*** New function 'def-edebug-elem-spec' to define Edebug spec elements.
These used to be defined with 'def-edebug-spec' thus conflating the
two name spaces, which lead to name collisions.
The use of 'def-edebug-spec' to define Edebug spec elements is
declared obsolete.
----
** The sb-image.el library is now obsolete.
This was a compatibility kludge which is no longer needed.
----
** Some libraries obsolete since Emacs 23 have been removed:
ledit.el, lmenu.el, lucid.el and old-whitespace.el.
----
** Some functions and variables obsolete since Emacs 23 have been removed:
'GOLD-map', 'advertised-xscheme-send-previous-expression',
'allout-init', 'bookmark-jump-noselect',
'vcursor-toggle-vcursor-map', 'w32-focus-frame', 'w32-select-font',
'wisent-lex-make-token-table'.
----
** Some functions and variables obsolete since Emacs 22 have been removed:
'erc-current-network', 'gnus-article-hide-pgp-hook',
'gnus-inews-mark-gcc-as-read', 'gnus-treat-display-xface',
'gnus-treat-strip-pgp', 'nnmail-spool-file'.
----
** The obsolete function 'thread-alive-p' has been removed.
----
** The variable 'force-new-style-backquotes' has been removed.
This removes the final remaining trace of old-style backquotes.
----
** Some obsolete variable and function aliases in dbus.el have been removed.
In Emacs 24.3, the variable 'dbus-event-error-hooks' was renamed to
'dbus-event-error-functions' and the function
The old names, which were kept as obsolete aliases of the new names,
have now been removed.
----
** 'find-function-source-path' renamed and re-documented.
The 'find-function' command (and various related commands) were
documented to respect 'find-function-source-path', and to search for
user option has been renamed to 'find-library-source-path', and
'find-function-source-path' is now an obsolete variable alias.
----
** The macro 'vc-call' no longer evaluates its second argument twice.
** Xref migrated from EIEIO to 'cl-defstruct' for its core objects.
\f
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 28.1
-+++
** The 'interactive' syntax has been extended to allow listing applicable modes.
Forms like '(interactive "p" dired-mode)' can be used to annotate the
commands as being applicable for modes derived from 'dired-mode',
new user option 'read-extended-command-predicate' option is customized
to call 'command-completion-default-include-p' or a similar function.
-+++
** New 'declare' forms to control completion of commands in 'M-x'.
'(declare (completion PREDICATE))' can be used as a general predicate
to say whether the command should be considered a completion candidate
no commands that match what you have typed are excluded from being
completion candidates.
-+++
** 'define-minor-mode' now takes an ':interactive' argument.
This can be used for specifying which modes this minor mode is meant
for, or to make the new minor mode non-interactive. The default value
is t.
-+++
** 'define-derived-mode' now takes an ':interactive' argument.
This can be used to control whether the defined mode is a command
or not, and is useful when defining commands that aren't meant to be
used by users directly.
-+++
** 'define-globalized-minor-mode' now takes a ':predicate' parameter.
This can be used to control which major modes the minor mode should be
used in.
-+++
** 'condition-case' now allows for a success handler.
It is written as '(:success BODY...)' where BODY is executed
whenever the protected form terminates without error, with the
specified variable bound to the value of the protected form.
-+++
** New function 'benchmark-call' to measure the execution time of a function.
Additionally, the number of repetitions can be expressed as a minimal duration
in seconds.
-+++
** The value thrown to the 'exit' label can now be a function.
This is in addition to values t or nil. If the value is a function,
the command loop will call it with zero arguments before returning.
-+++
** The behavior of 'format-spec' is now closer to that of 'format'.
In order for the two functions to behave more consistently,
'format-spec' now pads and truncates based on string width rather than
length, and also supports format specifications that include a
truncating precision field, such as "%.2a".
----
** 'defvar' detects the error of defining a variable currently lexically bound.
Such mixes are always signs that the outer lexical binding was an
error and should have used dynamic binding instead.
----
** New variable 'inhibit-mouse-event-check'.
If bound to non-nil, a command with '(interactive "e")' doesn't signal
an error when invoked by input event that is not a mouse click (e.g.,
a key sequence).
----
** New variable 'redisplay-skip-initial-frame' to enable batch redisplay tests.
Setting it to nil forces the redisplay to do its job even in the
initial frame used in batch mode.
-+++
** Doc strings can now link to customization groups.
Text like "customization group `whitespace'" will be made into a
button. When clicked, it will open a Custom buffer displaying that
customization group.
-+++
** Doc strings can now link to man pages.
Text like "man page `chmod(1)'" will be made into a button. When
clicked, it will open a Man mode buffer displaying that man page.
-+++
** Buffers can now be created with certain hooks disabled.
The functions 'get-buffer-create' and 'generate-new-buffer' accept a
new optional argument INHIBIT-BUFFER-HOOKS. If non-nil, the new
avoids slowing down internal or temporary buffers that are never
presented to users or passed on to other applications.
-+++
** New command 'make-directory-autoloads'.
This does the same as the old command 'update-directory-autoloads',
but has different semantics: Instead of passing in the output file via
the dynamically bound 'generated-autoload-file' variable, the output
file is now an explicit parameter.
----
** Dragging a file into Emacs pushes the file name onto 'file-name-history'.
----
** The 'easymenu' library is now preloaded.
----
** The 'iso-transl' library is now preloaded.
This means that keystrokes like 'Alt-[' are defined by default,
instead of only becoming available after doing (for instance)
'C-x 8 <letter>'.
----
** ':safe' settings in 'defcustom' are now propagated to the loaddefs files.
-+++
** New ':type' for 'defcustom' for nonnegative integers.
The new 'natnum' type can be used for options that should be
nonnegative integers.
-+++
** ERT can now output more verbose test failure reports.
If the 'EMACS_TEST_VERBOSE' environment variable is set, failure
summaries will include the failing condition.
** Byte compiler changes
-+++
*** New byte-compiler check for missing dynamic variable declarations.
It is meant as an (experimental) aid for converting Emacs Lisp code
to lexical binding, where dynamic (special) variables bound in one
file can affect code in another. For details, see the Info node
"(elisp) Converting to Lexical Binding".
-+++
*** 'byte-recompile-directory' can now compile symlinked "*.el" files.
This is achieved by giving a non-nil FOLLOW-SYMLINKS parameter.
----
*** The byte-compiler now warns about too wide documentation strings.
By default, it will warn if a documentation string is wider than the
largest of 'byte-compile-docstring-max-column' or 'fill-column'
characters.
-+++
*** 'byte-compile-file' optional argument LOAD is now obsolete.
To load the file after byte-compiling, add a call to 'load' from Lisp
or use 'M-x emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load' interactively.
** Macroexp
----
*** New function 'macroexp-file-name' to know the name of the current file.
----
*** New function 'macroexp-compiling-p' to know if we're compiling.
----
*** New function 'macroexp-warn-and-return' to help emit warnings.
This used to be named 'macroexp--warn-and-return' and has proved useful
and well-behaved enough to lose the "internal" marker.
** map.el
----
*** Alist keys are now consistently compared with 'equal' by default.
Until now, 'map-elt' and 'map-delete' compared alist keys with 'eq' by
default. They now use 'equal' instead, for consistency with
A pattern like '(map :sym)' binds the map's value for ':sym' to 'sym',
equivalent to '(map (:sym sym))'.
----
*** The function 'map-copy' now uses 'copy-alist' on alists.
This is a slightly deeper copy than the previous 'copy-sequence'.
----
*** The function 'map-contains-key' now supports plists.
----
*** More consistent duplicate key handling in 'map-merge-with'.
Until now, 'map-merge-with' promised to call its function argument
whenever multiple maps contained 'eql' keys. However, this did not
** Pcase
-+++
*** The 'or' pattern now binds the union of the vars of its sub-patterns.
If a variable is not bound by the subpattern that matched, it gets bound
to nil. This was already sometimes the case, but it is now guaranteed.
-+++
*** The 'pred' pattern can now take the form '(pred (not FUN))'.
This is like '(pred (lambda (x) (not (FUN x))))' but results
in better code.
----
*** New function 'pcase-compile-patterns' to write other macros.
-+++
*** Added 'cl-type' pattern.
The new 'cl-type' pattern compares types using 'cl-typep', which allows
comparing simple types like '(cl-type integer)', as well as forms like
'(cl-type (integer 0 10))'.
-+++
*** New macro 'pcase-setq'.
This macro is the 'setq' equivalent of 'pcase-let', which allows for
destructuring patterns in a 'setq' form.
*** Edebug specification lists can use some new keywords:
-+++
**** '&interpose SPEC FUN ARGS...' lets FUN control parsing after SPEC.
More specifically, FUN is called with 'HEAD PF ARGS...' where
PF is a parsing function that expects a single argument (the specs to
use) and HEAD is the code that matched SPEC.
-+++
**** '&error MSG' unconditionally aborts the current edebug instrumentation.
-+++
**** '&name SPEC FUN' extracts the current name from the code matching SPEC.
** Dynamic modules changes
-+++
*** Type aliases for module functions and finalizers.
The module header "emacs-module.h" now contains type aliases
'emacs_function' and 'emacs_finalizer' for module functions and
finalizers, respectively.
-+++
*** Module functions can now be made interactive.
Use 'make_interactive' to give a module function an interactive
specification.
-+++
*** Module functions can now install an optional finalizer.
The finalizer is called when the function object is garbage-collected.
Use 'set_function_finalizer' to set the finalizer and
'get_function_finalizer' to retrieve it.
-+++
*** Modules can now open a channel to an existing pipe process.
Modules can use the new module function 'open_channel' to do that.
On capable systems, modules can use this functionality to
asynchronously send data back to Emacs.
-+++
*** A new module API 'make_unibyte_string'.
It can be used to create Lisp strings with arbitrary byte sequences
(a.k.a. "raw bytes").
-+++
** Shorthands for Lisp symbols.
Shorthands are a general purpose namespacing system to make Emacs
Lisp's symbol-naming etiquette easier to use. A shorthand is any
touching the Lisp source. For details, see the Info node "(elisp)
Shorthands".
-+++
** New function 'string-search'.
This function takes two string parameters and returns the position of
the first instance of the former string in the latter.
-+++
** New function 'string-replace'.
This function works along the line of 'replace-regexp-in-string', but
it matches on fixed strings instead of regexps, and does not change
the global match state.
-+++
** New function 'ensure-list'.
This function makes a list of its object if it's not a list already.
If it's already a list, the list is returned as is.
-+++
** New function 'split-string-shell-command'.
This splits a shell command string into separate components,
respecting quoting with single ('like this') and double ("like this")
quotes, as well as backslash quoting (like\ this).
-+++
** New function 'string-clean-whitespace'.
This removes whitespace from a string.
-+++
** New function 'string-fill'.
Word-wrap a string so that no lines are longer that a specific length.
-+++
** New function 'string-limit'.
Return (up to) a specific substring length.
-+++
** New function 'string-lines'.
Return a list of strings representing the individual lines in a
string.
-+++
** New function 'string-pad'.
Pad a string to a specific length.
-+++
** New function 'string-chop-newline'.
Remove a trailing newline from a string.
-+++
** New function 'replace-regexp-in-region'.
-+++
** New function 'replace-string-in-region'.
-+++
** New function 'file-name-with-extension'.
This function allows a canonical way to set/replace the extension of a
file name.
-+++
** New function 'file-modes-number-to-symbolic' to convert a numeric
file mode specification into symbolic form.
-+++
** New function 'file-name-concat'.
This appends file name components to a directory name and returns the
result.
-+++
** New function 'file-backup-file-names'.
This function returns the list of file names of all the backup files
for the specified file.
-+++
** New function 'directory-empty-p'.
This predicate tests whether a given file name is an accessible
directory and whether it contains no other directories or files.
-+++
** New function 'buffer-local-boundp'.
This predicate says whether a symbol is bound in a specific buffer.
-+++
** New function 'always'.
This is identical to 'ignore', but returns t instead.
-+++
** New function 'sxhash-equal-including-properties'.
This is identical to 'sxhash-equal' but also accounts for string
properties.
----
** New function 'buffer-line-statistics'.
This function returns some statistics about the line lengths in a buffer.
----
** New function 'color-values-from-color-spec'.
This can be used to parse RGB color specs in several formats and
convert them to a list '(R G B)' of primary color values.
----
** New function 'custom-add-choice'.
This function can be used by modes to add elements to the
'choice' customization type of a variable.
----
** New function 'decoded-time-period'.
It interprets a decoded time structure as a period and returns the
equivalent period in seconds.
-+++
** New function 'dom-print'.
-+++
** New function 'dom-remove-attribute'.
----
** New function 'dns-query-asynchronous'.
It takes the same parameters as 'dns-query', but adds a callback
parameter.
** New function 'garbage-collect-maybe' to trigger GC early.
----
** New function 'get-locale-names'.
This utility function returns a list of names of locales available on
the current system.
-+++
** New function 'insert-into-buffer'.
This inserts the contents of the current buffer into another buffer.
-+++
** New function 'json-available-p'.
This predicate returns non-nil if Emacs is built with libjansson
support, and it is available on the current system.
----
** New function 'mail-header-parse-addresses-lax'.
This takes a comma-separated string and returns a list of mail/name
pairs.
----
** New function 'mail-header-parse-address-lax'.
Parse a string as a mail address-like string.
----
** New function 'make-separator-line'.
Make a string appropriate for usage as a visual separator line.
-+++
** New function 'num-processors'.
Return the number of processors on the system.
-+++
** New function 'object-intervals'.
This function returns a copy of the list of intervals (i.e., text
properties) in the object in question (which must either be a string
or a buffer).
-+++
** New function 'process-lines-ignore-status'.
This is like 'process-lines', but does not signal an error if the
return status is non-zero. 'process-lines-handling-status' has also
been added, and takes a callback to handle the return status.
-+++
** New function 'require-theme'.
This function is like 'require', but searches 'custom-theme-load-path'
instead of 'load-path'. It can be used by Custom themes to load
supporting Lisp files when 'require' is unsuitable.
-+++
** New function 'seq-union'.
This function takes two sequences and returns a list of all elements
that appear in either of them, with no two elements that compare equal
appearing in the result.
-+++
** New function 'syntax-class-to-char'.
This does almost the opposite of 'string-to-syntax' -- it returns the
syntax descriptor (a character) given a raw syntax descriptor (an
integer).
-+++
** New functions 'null-device' and 'path-separator'.
These functions return the connection local value of the respective
variables. This can be used for remote hosts.
-+++
** New predicate functions 'length<', 'length>' and 'length='.
Using these functions may be more efficient than using 'length' (if
the length of a (long) list is being computed just to compare this
length to a number).
-+++
** New macro 'dlet' to dynamically bind variables.
-+++
** New macro 'with-existing-directory'.
This macro binds 'default-directory' to some other existing directory
if 'default-directory' doesn't exist, and then executes the body forms.
-+++
** New variable 'current-minibuffer-command'.
This is like 'this-command', but it is bound recursively when entering
the minibuffer.
-+++
** New variable 'inhibit-interaction' to make user prompts signal an error.
If this is bound to something non-nil, functions like
'read-from-minibuffer', 'read-char' (and related) will signal an
'inhibited-interaction' error.
----
** New variable 'indent-line-ignored-functions'.
This allows modes to cycle through a set of indentation functions
appropriate for those modes.
-+++
** New variable 'print-integers-as-characters' modifies integer printing.
If this variable is non-nil, character syntax is used for printing
numbers when this makes sense, such as '?A' for 65.
-+++
** New variable 'tty-menu-calls-mouse-position-function'.
This controls whether 'mouse-position-function' is called by functions
that retrieve the mouse position when that happens during TTY menu
also set this variable non-nil if they are compatible with the tty
menu handling.
-+++
** New variables that hold default buffer names for shell output.
The new constants 'shell-command-buffer-name' and
'shell-command-buffer-name-async' store the default buffer names
for the output of, respectively, synchronous and async shell
commands.
----
** New variables 'read-char-choice-use-read-key' and 'y-or-n-p-use-read-key'.
When non-nil, then functions 'read-char-choice' and 'y-or-n-p'
(respectively) use the function 'read-key' to read a character instead
of using the minibuffer.
-+++
** New variable 'global-minor-modes'.
This variable holds a list of currently enabled global minor modes (as
a list of symbols).
-+++
** New buffer-local variable 'local-minor-modes'.
This permanently buffer-local variable holds a list of currently
enabled non-global minor modes in the current buffer (as a list of
symbols).
-+++
** New completion function 'affixation-function' to add prefix/suffix.
It accepts a list of completions and should return a list where
each element is a list with three elements: a completion,
a prefix string, and a suffix string.
-+++
** New completion function 'group-function' for grouping candidates.
It takes two arguments: a completion candidate and a 'transform' flag.
-+++
** New error symbol 'minibuffer-quit'.
Signaling it has almost the same effect as 'quit' except that it
doesn't cause keyboard macro termination.
-+++
** New error symbol 'remote-file-error', a subcategory of 'file-error'.
It is signaled if a remote file operation fails due to internal
reasons, and could block Emacs. It does not replace 'file-error'
(setq debug-ignored-errors
(cons 'remote-file-error debug-ignored-errors))
-+++
** New macro 'named-let'.
It provides Scheme's "named let" looping construct.
----
** Emacs now attempts to test for high-rate subprocess output more fairly.
When several subprocesses produce output simultaneously at high rate,
Emacs will now by default attempt to service them all in a round-robin
from a subprocess, Emacs would check for output of other subprocesses
in a way that is likely to read from the same process again.
-+++
** 'set-process-buffer' now updates the process mark.
The mark will be set to point to the end of the new buffer.
-+++
** 'unlock-buffer' displays warnings instead of signaling.
Instead of signaling 'file-error' conditions for file system level
errors, the function now calls 'display-warning' and continues as if
the error did not occur.
-+++
** 'read-char-from-minibuffer' and 'y-or-n-p' support 'help-form'.
If you bind 'help-form' to a non-nil value while calling these functions,
then pressing 'C-h' ('help-char') causes the function to evaluate 'help-form'
and display the result.
-+++
** 'read-number' now has its own history variable.
Additionally, the function now accepts an optional HIST argument which
can be used to specify a custom history variable.
-+++
** 'set-window-configuration' now takes two optional parameters,
DONT-SET-FRAME and DONT-SET-MINIWINDOW. The first of these, when
non-nil, instructs the function not to select the frame recorded in
the configuration. The second prevents the current minibuffer being
replaced by the one stored in the configuration.
----
** 'count-windows' now takes an optional parameter ALL-FRAMES.
The semantics are as with 'walk-windows'.
-+++
** 'truncate-string-ellipsis' now uses '…' by default.
Modes that use 'truncate-string-to-width' with non-nil, non-string
argument ELLIPSIS, will now indicate truncation using '…' when
the selected frame can display it, and using "..." otherwise.
-+++
** 'string-width' now accepts two optional arguments FROM and TO.
This allows calculating the width of a substring without consing a
new string.
-+++
** 'directory-files' now takes an additional COUNT parameter.
The parameter makes 'directory-files' return COUNT first file names
from a directory. If MATCH is also given, the function will return
first COUNT file names that match the expression. The same COUNT
parameter has been added to 'directory-files-and-attributes'.
-+++
** 'count-lines' can now ignore invisible lines.
This is controlled by the optional parameter IGNORE-INVISIBLE-LINES.
----
** 'count-words' now crosses field boundaries.
Originally, 'count-words' would stop counting at the first field
boundary it encountered; now it keeps counting all the way to the
region's (or buffer's) end.
-+++
** File-related APIs can optionally follow symlinks.
The functions 'file-modes', 'set-file-modes', and 'set-file-times' now
have an optional argument specifying whether to follow symbolic links.
-+++
** 'format-seconds' can now be used for sub-second times.
The new optional "," parameter has been added, and
'(format-seconds "%mm %,1ss" 66.4)' will now result in "1m 6.4s".
-+++
** 'parse-time-string' can now parse ISO 8601 format strings.
These have a format like "2020-01-15T16:12:21-08:00".
----
** 'lookup-key' is more allowing when searching for extended menu items.
When looking for a menu item '[menu-bar Foo-Bar]', first try to find
an exact match, then look for the lowercased '[menu-bar foo-bar]'.
This improves backwards-compatibility when converting menus to use
'easy-menu-define'.
----
** 'make-network-process', 'make-serial-process' ':coding' behavior change.
Previously, passing ':coding nil' to either of these functions would
override any non-nil binding for 'coding-system-for-read' and
process' coding-system to be nil, use 'set-process-coding-system'
after the process has been created, or pass in ':coding '(nil nil)'.
-+++
** 'open-network-stream' now accepts a ':coding' argument.
This allows specifying the coding systems used by a network process
for encoding and decoding without having to bind
'coding-system-for-{read,write}' or call 'set-process-coding-system'.
-+++
** 'open-network-stream' can now take a ':capability-command' that's a function.
The function is called with the greeting from the server as its only
parameter, and allows sending different TLS capability commands to the
server based on that greeting.
-+++
** 'open-gnutls-stream' now also accepts a ':coding' argument.
----
** 'process-attributes' now works under OpenBSD, too.
-+++
** 'format-spec' now takes an optional SPLIT parameter.
If non-nil, 'format-spec' will split the resulting string into a list
of strings, based on where the format specs (and expansions) were.
----
** 'unload-feature' now also tries to undo additions to buffer-local hooks.
----
** 'while-no-input-ignore-events' accepts more special events.
The special events 'dbus-event' and 'file-notify' are now ignored in
'while-no-input' when added to this variable.
----
** 'start-process-shell-command' and 'start-file-process-shell-command'
do not support the old calling conventions any longer.
-+++
** 'yes-or-no-p' and 'y-or-n-p' PROMPT parameter no longer needs trailing space.
In other words, the prompt can now end with "?" instead of "? ". This
has been the case since Emacs 24.4 but was not announced or documented
until now. (Checkdoc has also been updated to accept this convention.)
-+++
** The UNIQUIFY argument in 'auto-save-file-name-transforms' can be a symbol.
If this symbol is one of the members of 'secure-hash-algorithms',
Emacs constructs the nondirectory part of the auto-save file name by
applying that 'secure-hash' to the buffer file name. This avoids any
risk of excessively long file names.
-+++
** New user option 'process-file-return-signal-string'.
It controls, whether 'process-file' returns a string when a remote
process is interrupted by a signal.
** EIEIO Changes
-+++
*** The macro 'oref-default' can now be used with 'setf'.
It is now defined as a generalized variable that can be used with
'setf' to modify the value stored in a given class slot.
----
*** 'form' in '(eql form)' specializers in 'cl-defmethod' is now evaluated.
This corresponds to the behavior of defmethod in Common Lisp Object System.
For compatibility, '(eql SYMBOL)' does not evaluate SYMBOL, for now.
** D-Bus
-+++
*** Property values can be typed explicitly.
'dbus-register-property' and 'dbus-set-property' accept now optional
type symbols. Both functions propagate D-Bus errors.
-+++
*** Registered properties can have the new access type ':write'.
-+++
*** In case of problems, handlers can emit proper D-Bus error messages now.
-+++
*** D-Bus errors, which have been converted from incoming D-Bus error
messages, contain the error name of that message now.
-+++
*** D-Bus messages can be monitored with the new command 'dbus-monitor'.
-+++
*** D-Bus events have changed their internal structure.
They carry now the destination and the error-name of an event. They
also keep the type information of their arguments. Use the
** Buttons
-+++
*** New minor mode 'button-mode'.
This minor mode does nothing except install 'button-buffer-map' as
a minor mode map (which binds the 'TAB' / 'S-TAB' key bindings to navigate
to buttons), and can be used in any view-mode-like buffer that has
buttons in it.
-+++
*** New utility function 'button-buttonize'.
This function takes a string and returns a string propertized in a way
that makes it a valid button.
----
** 'text-scale-mode' can now adjust font size of the header line.
When the new buffer local variable 'text-scale-remap-header-line'
is non-nil, 'text-scale-adjust' will also scale the text in the header
'tabulated-list-mode' and its derived modes, and disabled by default
elsewhere.
----
** 'ascii' is now a coding system alias for 'us-ascii'.
----
** New coding-systems for EBCDIC variants.
New coding-systems 'ibm256', 'ibm273', 'ibm274', 'ibm277', 'ibm278',
'ibm280', 'ibm281', 'ibm284', 'ibm285', 'ibm290', 'ibm297'. These are
'cp278' for 'ibm278'). There are also new charsets 'ibm2xx' to
support these coding-systems.
-+++
** New "Bindat type expression" description language.
This new system is provided by the new macro 'bindat-type' and
obsoletes the old data layout specifications. It supports
arbitrary-size integers, recursive types, and more. See the Info node
"(elisp) Byte Packing" in the ELisp manual for more details.
-+++
** New macro 'with-environment-variables'.
This macro allows setting environment variables temporarily when
executing a form.
\f
* Changes in Emacs 28.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
-+++
** On MS-Windows, Emacs can now use the native image API to display images.
Emacs can now use the MS-Windows GDI+ library to load and display
images in JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF formats. This support is available
non-nil value. Please report any bugs you find while using the native
image API via 'M-x report-emacs-bug'.
-+++
** On MS-Windows, Emacs can now toggle the IME.
A new function 'w32-set-ime-open-status' can now be used to disable
and enable the MS-Windows native Input Method Editor (IME) at run
'move-beginning-of-line' and 'move-end-of-line' respectively. The commands
to select previous/next frame are still bound to 's-~' and 's-`'.
-+++
** On macOS, Emacs can now load dynamic modules with a ".dylib" suffix.
'module-file-suffix' now has the value ".dylib" on macOS, but the
".so" suffix is supported as well.
----
** On macOS, the user option 'make-pointer-invisible' is now honored.
----
** On macOS, Xwidget is now supported.
If Emacs was built with xwidget support, you can access the embedded
webkit browser with command 'xwidget-webkit-browse-url'. Viewing two
instances of xwidget webkit is not supported.
----
*** New user option 'xwidget-webkit-enable-plugins'.
If non-nil, enable plugins in xwidget. (This is only available on
macOS.)
-+++
** New macOS Contacts back-end for EUDC.
This backend works on newer versions of macOS and is generally
preferred over the eudcb-mab.el backend.
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