GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Emacs bug reports to 'bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'. If possible, use 'M-x report-emacs-bug'. This file is about changes in Emacs version 29. See file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates. See files NEWS.28, NEWS.27, ..., NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions. 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. * Installation Changes in Emacs 29.1 --- ** Ahead-of-time native compilation can now be specified via configure. Use '--with-native-compilation=aot' to specify that all the Lisp files in the Emacs tree should be natively compiled ahead of time. (This is slow on most machines.) +++ ** Emacs can be built with the 'tree-sitter' parsing library. This library, together with grammar libraries, provides incremental parsing capabilities for several popular programming languages and other formatted files. Emacs built with this library offers major modes, described elsewhere in this file, that are based on the 'tree-sitter's parsers. If you have the 'tree-sitter' library installed, the configure script will automatically include it in the build; use '--without-tree-sitter' at configure time to disable that. Emacs modes based on the tree-sitter library require an additional grammar library for each mode. These grammar libraries provide the tree-sitter library with language-specific lexical analysis and parsing capabilities, and are developed separately from the tree-sitter library itself. If you don't have a grammar library required by some Emacs major mode, and your distro doesn't provide it as an installable package, you can compile and install such a library yourself. Many libraries can be downloaded from the tree-sitter site: https://github.com/tree-sitter To compile such a library, compile the files scanner.c and parser.c (sometimes named scanner.cc and parser.cc) in the 'src' subdirectory of the library's source tree using the C or C++ compiler, then link these two files into a shared library named 'libtree-sitter-LANG.so', where LANG is the name of the language supported by the grammar as it is expected by the Emacs major mode (for example, "c" for c-ts-mode, "cpp" for c++-ts-mode, "python" for python-ts-mode, etc.). Then place the shared library you've built in the same directory where you keep the other shared libraries used by Emacs, or in the 'tree-sitter' subdirectory of your 'user-emacs-directory', or in a directory mentioned in the variable 'treesit-extra-load-path'. You only need to install language grammar libraries required by the Emacs modes you will use, as Emacs loads these libraries only when the corresponding mode is turned on in some buffer for the first time in an Emacs session. +++ ** Emacs can be built with built-in support for accessing SQLite databases. This uses the popular sqlite3 library, and can be disabled by using the '--without-sqlite3' option to the 'configure' script. +++ ** Support for the WebP image format. This support is built by default when the libwebp library is available, and includes support for animated WebP images. To disable WebP support, use the '--without-webp' configure flag. Image specifiers can now use ':type webp'. +++ ** Emacs has been ported to the Haiku operating system. The configuration process should automatically detect and build for Haiku. There is also an optional window-system port to Haiku, which can be enabled by configuring Emacs with the option '--with-be-app', which will require the Haiku Application Kit development headers and a C++ compiler to be present on your system. If Emacs is not built with the option '--with-be-app', the resulting Emacs will only run in text-mode terminals. To enable Cairo support, ensure that the Cairo and FreeType development files are present on your system, and configure Emacs with '--with-be-cairo'. Unlike X, there is no compile-time option to enable or disable double-buffering; it is always enabled. To disable it, change the frame parameter 'inhibit-double-buffering' instead. --- ** Emacs now installs the ".pdmp" file using a unique fingerprint in the name. The file is typically installed using a file name akin to "...dir/libexec/emacs/29.1/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/emacs-.pdmp". If a constant file name is required, the file can be renamed to "emacs.pdmp", and Emacs will find it during startup anyway. --- ** Emacs now uses XInput 2 for input events. If your X server has support and you have the XInput 2 development headers installed, Emacs will use the X Input Extension for handling input. If this causes problems, you can configure Emacs with the option '--without-xinput2' to disable this support. '(featurep 'xinput2)' can be used to test for the presence of XInput 2 support from Lisp programs. --- ** Emacs no longer reduces the size of the Japanese dictionary. Building Emacs includes generation of a Japanese dictionary, which is used by Japanese input methods. Previously, the build included a step of reducing the size of this dictionary's vocabulary. This vocabulary reduction is now optional, by default off. If you need the Emacs build to include the vocabulary reduction, configure Emacs with the option '--with-small-ja-dic'. In an Emacs source tree already configured without that option, you can force the vocabulary reduction by saying make -C leim generate-ja-dic JA_DIC_NO_REDUCTION_OPTION='' after deleting "lisp/leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el". +++ ** Emacs now supports being built with pure GTK. To use this option, make sure the GTK 3 (version 3.22.23 or later) and Cairo development files are installed, and configure Emacs with the option '--with-pgtk'. Unlike the default X and GTK build, the resulting Emacs binary will work on any underlying window system supported by GDK, such as Wayland and Broadway. We do not recommend that you use this configuration, unless you are running a window system that's supported by GDK other than X. Running this configuration on X is known to have problems, such as undesirable frame positioning and various issues with keyboard input of sequences such as 'C-;' and 'C-S-u'. --- ** The docstrings of preloaded files are not in "etc/DOC" any more. Instead, they're fetched as needed from the corresponding ".elc" file, as was already the case for all the non-preloaded files. * Startup Changes in Emacs 29.1 +++ ** '--batch' and '--script' now adjust the garbage collection levels. These switches now set 'gc-cons-percentage' to 1.0 (up from the default of 0.1). This means that batch processes will typically use more memory than before, but use less time doing garbage collection. Batch jobs that are supposed to run for a long time should adjust the limit back down again. +++ ** Emacs can now be used more easily in an executable script. If you start an executable script with #!/usr/bin/emacs -x Emacs will start without reading any init files (like with '--quick'), and then execute the rest of the script file as Emacs Lisp. When it reaches the end of the script, Emacs will exit with an exit code from the value of the final form. +++ ** Emacs now supports setting 'user-emacs-directory' via '--init-directory'. +++ ** Emacs now has a '--fingerprint' option. This will output a string identifying the current Emacs build. +++ ** New hook 'after-pdump-load-hook'. This is run at the end of the Emacs startup process, and is meant to be used to reinitialize structures that would normally be done at load time. ** Native Compilation +++ *** New variable 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation'. If set, Emacs will inhibit native compilation (and won't write anything to the eln cache automatically). The variable is initialized from the 'EMACS_INHIBIT_AUTOMATIC_NATIVE_COMPILATION' environment variable on Emacs startup. --- *** New command 'native-compile-prune-cache'. This command deletes older eln cache entries (but not the ones for the current Emacs version). --- *** New function 'startup-redirect-eln-cache'. This function can be called in your init files to change the user-specific directory where Emacs stores the "*.eln" files produced by native compilation of Lisp packages Emacs loads. The default eln cache directory is unchanged: it is the "eln-cache" subdirectory of 'user-emacs-directory'. * Incompatible changes in Emacs 29.1 +++ ** The image commands have changed key bindings. In previous Emacs versions, images have had the '+', '-' and 'r' keys bound when point is over an image. In Emacs 29.1, additional commands were added, and this made it more likely that users would trigger the image commands by mistake. To avoid this, all image commands have moved to the 'i' keymap, so '+' is now 'i +', '-' is now 'i -', and 'r' is now 'i r'. In addition, these commands are now repeating, so you can rotate an image twice by saying 'i r r', for instance. +++ ** Emacs now picks the correct coding system for X input methods. Previously, Emacs would use the locale coding system for input methods, which could in some circumstances be incorrect, especially when the input method chose to fall back to some other coding system. Now, Emacs automatically detects the coding system used by input methods, and uses that to decode input in preference to the value of 'locale-coding-system'. This unfortunately means that users who have changed the coding system used to decode X keyboard input must adjust their customizations to 'locale-coding-system' to the variable 'x-input-coding-system' instead. +++ ** Bookmarks no longer include context for encrypted files. If you're visiting an encrypted file, setting a bookmark no longer includes excerpts from that buffer in the bookmarks file. This is implemented by the new hook 'bookmark-inhibit-context-functions', where packages can register a function which returns non-nil for file names to be excluded from adding such excerpts. --- ** 'show-paren-mode' is now disabled in 'special-mode' buffers. In Emacs versions previous to Emacs 28.1, 'show-paren-mode' defaulted off. In Emacs 28.1, the mode was switched on in all buffers. In Emacs 29.1, this was changed to be switched on in all editing-related buffers, but not in buffers that inherit from 'special-mode'. To get back to how things worked in Emacs 28.1, put the following in your init file: (setopt show-paren-predicate t) +++ ** Explicitly-set read-only state is preserved when reverting a buffer. If you use the 'C-x C-q' command to change the read-only state of the buffer and then revert it, Emacs would previously use the file permission bits to determine whether the buffer should be read-only after reverting the buffer. Emacs now remembers the decision made in 'C-x C-q'. --- ** The Gtk selection face is no longer used for the region. The combination of a Gtk-controlled background and a foreground color controlled by the internal Emacs machinery led to low-contrast faces in common default setups. Emacs now uses the same 'region' face on Gtk and non-Gtk setups. ** Dired --- *** 'w' ('dired-copy-filename-as-kill') has changed behavior. If there are several files marked, file names containing space and quote characters will be quoted "like this". --- *** The 'd' command now more consistently skips dot files. In previous Emacs versions, commands like 'C-u 10 d' would put the "D" mark on the next ten files, no matter whether they were dot files (i.e., "." and "..") or not, while marking the next ten lines with the mouse (in 'transient-mark-mode') and then hitting 'd' would skip dot files. These now work equivalently. +++ ** Warning about "eager macro-expansion failure" is changed into an error. --- ** Previously, the X "reverseVideo" value at startup was heeded for all frames. This meant that if you had a "reverseVideo" resource on the initial display, and then opened up a new frame on a display without any explicit "reverseVideo" setting, it would get heeded there, too. (This included terminal frames.) In Emacs 29, the "reverseVideo" X resource is handled like all the other X resources, and set on a per-frame basis. +++ ** 'E' in 'query-replace' now edits the replacement with exact case. Previously, this command did the same as 'e'. --- ** '/ a' in "*Packages*" buffer now limits by archive name(s) instead of regexp. +++ ** Setting the goal columns now also affects '' and ''. Previously, 'C-x C-n' only affected 'next-line' and 'previous-line', but it now also affects 'scroll-up-command' and 'scroll-down-command'. --- ** Isearch in "*Help*" and "*info*" now char-folds quote characters by default. This means that you can say 'C-s `foo' (GRAVE ACCENT) if the buffer contains "‘foo" (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) and the like. These quotation characters look somewhat similar in some fonts. To switch this off, disable the new 'isearch-fold-quotes-mode' minor mode. --- ** Sorting commands no longer necessarily change modification status. In earlier Emacs versions, commands like 'M-x sort-lines' would always change buffer modification status to "modified", whether they changed something in the buffer or not. This has been changed: The buffer is marked as modified only if the sorting ended up changing the contents of the buffer. --- ** 'string-lines' handles trailing newlines differently. It no longer returns an empty final string if the string ends with a newline. --- ** 'TAB' and '' are now bound in 'button-map'. This means that if point is on a button, 'TAB' will take you to the next button, even if the mode has bound it to something else. This also means that 'TAB' on a button in an 'outline-minor-mode' heading will move point instead of collapsing the outline. --- ** 'Info-default-directory-list' is no longer populated at Emacs startup. If you have code in your init file that removes directories from 'Info-default-directory-list', this will no longer work. --- ** 'C-k' no longer deletes files in 'ido-mode'. To get the previous action back, put something like the following in your Init file: (require 'ido) (keymap-set ido-file-completion-map "C-k" #'ido-delete-file-at-head) --- ** New user option 'term-clear-full-screen-programs'. By default, term will now work like most terminals when displaying full-screen programs: When they exit, the output is cleared, leaving what was displayed in the window before the programs started. Set this user option to nil to revert back to the old behavior. --- ** Support for old EIEIO functions is not autoloaded any more. You need an explicit '(require 'eieio-compat)' to use 'defmethod' and 'defgeneric' (which have been made obsolete in Emacs 25.1 with 'cl-defmethod' and 'cl-defgeneric'). Similarly you might need to '(require 'eieio-compat)' before loading files that were compiled with an old EIEIO (Emacs<25). --- ** 'C-x 8 .' has been moved to 'C-x 8 . .'. This is to open up the 'C-x 8 .' map to bind further characters there. --- ** 'C-x 8 =' moved to 'C-x 8 = ='. You can now use 'C-x 8 =' to insert several characters with macron; for example, 'C-x 8 = a' will insert U+0101 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON. To insert a lone macron, type 'C-x 8 = =' instead of the previous 'C-x ='. ** Eshell *** Eshell's PATH is now derived from 'exec-path'. For consistency with remote connections, Eshell now uses 'exec-path' to determine the execution path on the local system, instead of using the PATH environment variable directly. --- *** 'source' and '.' no longer accept the '--help' option. This is for compatibility with the shell versions of these commands, which don't handle options like '--help' in any special way. +++ *** String delimiters in argument predicates/modifiers are more restricted. Previously, some argument predicates/modifiers allowed arbitrary characters as string delimiters. To provide more unified behavior across all predicates/modifiers, the list of allowed delimiters has been restricted to "...", '...', /.../, |...|, (...), [...], <...>, and {...}. See the "(eshell) Argument Predication and Modification" node in the Eshell manual for more details. +++ *** Eshell pipelines now only pipe stdout by default. To pipe both stdout and stderr, use the '|&' operator instead of '|'. --- ** The 'delete-forward-char' command now deletes by grapheme clusters. This command is by default bound to the function key (a.k.a. ). When invoked without a prefix argument or with a positive prefix numeric argument, the command will now delete complete grapheme clusters produced by character composition. For example, if point is before an Emoji sequence, pressing will delete the entire sequence, not just a single character at its beginning. +++ ** 'load-history' does not treat autoloads specially any more. An autoload definition appears just as a '(defun . NAME)' and the '(t . NAME)' entries are not generated any more. --- ** The Tamil input methods no longer insert Tamil digits. The input methods 'tamil-itrans' and 'tamil-inscript' no longer insert the Tamil digits, as those digit characters are not used nowadays by speakers of the Tamil language. To get back the previous behavior, use the new 'tamil-itrans-digits' and 'tamil-inscript-digits' input methods instead. +++ ** New variable 'current-time-list' governing default timestamp form. Functions like 'current-time' now yield '(TICKS . HZ)' timestamps if this new variable is nil. The variable defaults to t, which means these functions default to timestamps of the forms '(HI LO US PS)', '(HI LO US)' or '(HI LO)', which are less regular and less efficient. This is part of a long-planned change first documented in Emacs 27. Developers are encouraged to test timestamp-related code with this variable set to nil, as it will default to nil in a future Emacs version and will be removed some time after that. +++ ** Functions that recreate the "*scratch*" buffer now also initialize it. When functions like 'other-buffer' and 'server-execute' recreate "*scratch*", they now also insert 'initial-scratch-message' and set the major mode according to 'initial-major-mode', like at Emacs startup. Previously, these functions ignored 'initial-scratch-message' and left "*scratch*" in 'fundamental-mode'. --- ** Naming of Image-Dired thumbnail files has changed. Names of thumbnail files generated when 'image-dired-thumbnail-storage' is 'image-dired' now always end in ".jpg". This fixes various issues on different platforms, but means that thumbnails generated in Emacs 28 will not be used in Emacs 29, and vice-versa. If disk space is an issue, consider deleting the 'image-dired-dir' directory after upgrading (usually "~/.emacs.d/image-dired/"). --- ** The 'rlogin' method in the URL library is now obsolete. Emacs will now display a warning if you request a URL like "rlogin://foo@example.org". --- ** Setting 'url-gateway-method' to 'rlogin' is now obsolete. Emacs will now display a warning when setting it to that value. The user options 'url-gateway-rlogin-host', 'url-gateway-rlogin-parameters', and 'url-gateway-rlogin-user-name' are also obsolete. --- ** The user function 'url-irc-function' now takes a SCHEME argument. The user option 'url-irc-function' is now called with a sixth argument corresponding to the scheme portion of the target URL. For example, this would be "ircs" for a URL like "ircs://irc.libera.chat". --- ** The linum.el library is now obsolete. We recommend using either the built-in 'display-line-numbers-mode', or the 'nlinum' package from GNU ELPA instead. The former has better performance, but the latter is closer to a drop-in replacement. 1. To use 'display-line-numbers-mode', add something like this to your Init file: (global-display-line-numbers-mode 1) ;; Alternatively, to use it only in programming modes: (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'display-line-numbers-mode) 2. To use 'nlinum', add this to your Init file: (package-install 'nlinum) (global-nlinum-mode 1) ;; Alternatively, to use it only in programming modes: (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'nlinum-mode) 3. To continue using the obsolete package 'linum', add this line to your Init file, in addition to any existing customizations: (require 'linum) --- ** The thumbs.el library is now obsolete. We recommend using 'M-x image-dired' instead. --- ** The autoarg.el library is now marked obsolete. This library provides the 'autoarg-mode' and 'autoarg-kp-mode' minor modes to emulate the behavior of the historical editor Twenex Emacs. It is believed to no longer be useful. --- ** The quickurl.el library is now obsolete. Use 'abbrev', 'skeleton' or 'tempo' instead. --- ** The rlogin.el library, and the 'rsh' command are now obsolete. Use something like 'M-x shell RET ssh RET' instead. --- ** The url-about.el library is now obsolete. --- ** The autoload.el library is now obsolete. It is superseded by the loaddefs-gen.el library. --- ** The netrc.el library is now obsolete. Use the 'auth-source-netrc-parse-all' function in auth-source.el instead. --- ** The url-dired.el library is now obsolete. --- ** The fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el libraries have been removed. They have been obsolete since Emacs 22.1. The variable 'font-lock-support-mode' is occasionally useful for debugging purposes. It is now a regular variable (instead of a user option) and can be set to nil to disable Just-in-time Lock mode. * Changes in Emacs 29.1 +++ ** New user option 'major-mode-remap-alist' to specify favorite major modes. This user option lets you remap the default modes (e.g. 'perl-mode' or 'latex-mode') to your favorite ones (e.g. 'cperl-mode' or 'LaTeX-mode') without having to use 'defalias', which can have undesirable side effects. This applies to all modes specified via 'auto-mode-alist', file-local variables, etc. --- ** Emacs now supports Unicode Standard version 15.0. --- ** New user option 'electric-quote-replace-consecutive'. --- ** Emacs is now capable of editing files with very long lines. The display of long lines has been optimized, and Emacs should no longer choke when a buffer on display contains long lines. The variable 'long-line-threshold' controls whether and when these display optimizations are in effect. A companion variable 'large-hscroll-threshold' controls when another set of display optimizations are in effect, which are aimed specifically at speeding up display of long lines that are truncated. If you still experience slowdowns while editing files with long lines, this may be due to line truncation, or to one of the enabled minor modes, or to the current major mode. Try turning off line truncation with 'C-x x t', or try disabling all known slow minor modes with 'M-x so-long-minor-mode', or try disabling both known slow minor modes and the major mode with 'M-x so-long-mode', or visit the file with 'M-x find-file-literally' instead of the usual 'C-x C-f'. Note that the display optimizations in these cases may cause the buffer to be occasionally mis-fontified. The new function 'long-line-optimizations-p' returns non-nil when these optimizations are in effect in the current buffer. +++ ** New command to change the font size globally. To increase the font size, type 'C-x C-M-+' or 'C-x C-M-='; to decrease it, type 'C-x C-M--'; to restore the font size, type 'C-x C-M-0'. The final key in these commands may be repeated without the leading 'C-x' and without the modifiers, e.g. 'C-x C-M-+ C-M-+ C-M-+' and 'C-x C-M-+ + +' increase the font size by three steps. When 'mouse-wheel-mode' is enabled, 'C-M-wheel-up' and 'C-M-wheel-down' also increase and decrease the font size globally. Additionally, the user option 'global-text-scale-adjust-resizes-frames' controls whether the frames are resized when the font size is changed. ** New config variable 'syntax-wholeline-max' to reduce the cost of long lines. This variable is used by some operations (mostly syntax-propertization and font-locking) to treat lines longer than this variable as if they were made up of various smaller lines. This can help reduce the slowdowns seen in buffers made of a single long line, but can also cause misbehavior in the presence of such long lines (tho most of that misbehavior should usually be limited to mis-highlighting). You can recover the previous behavior with: (setq syntax-wholeline-max most-positive-fixnum) --- ** New bindings in 'find-function-setup-keys' for 'find-library'. When 'find-function-setup-keys' is enabled, 'C-x L' is now bound to 'find-library', 'C-x 4 L' is now bound to 'find-library-other-window' and 'C-x 5 L' is now bound to 'find-library-other-frame'. +++ ** New key binding after 'M-x' or 'M-X': 'M-X'. Emacs allows different completion predicates to be used with 'M-x' (i.e., 'execute-extended-command') via the 'read-extended-command-predicate' user option. Emacs also has the 'M-X' (note upper case) command, which only displays commands especially relevant to the current buffer. Emacs now allows toggling between these modes while the user is inputting a command by hitting 'M-X' while in the minibuffer. --- ** Interactively, 'kill-buffer' will now offer to save the buffer if unsaved. --- ** New commands 'duplicate-line' and 'duplicate-dwim'. 'duplicate-line' duplicates the current line the specified number of times. 'duplicate-dwim' duplicates the region if it is active. If not, it works like 'duplicate-line'. An active rectangular region is duplicated on its right-hand side. --- ** Files with the ".eld" extension are now visited in 'lisp-data-mode'. +++ ** 'network-lookup-address-info' can now check numeric IP address validity. Specifying 'numeric' as the new optional 'hints' argument makes it check if the passed address is a valid IPv4/IPv6 address (without DNS traffic). (network-lookup-address-info "127.1" 'ipv4 'numeric) => ([127 0 0 1 0]) +++ ** New command 'find-sibling-file'. This command jumps to a file considered a "sibling file", which is determined according to the new user option 'find-sibling-rules'. +++ ** New user option 'delete-selection-temporary-region'. When non-nil, 'delete-selection-mode' will only delete the temporary regions (usually set by mouse-dragging or shift-selection). +++ ** New user option 'switch-to-prev-buffer-skip-regexp'. This should be a regexp or a list of regexps; buffers whose names match those regexps will be ignored by 'switch-to-prev-buffer' and 'switch-to-next-buffer'. +++ ** New command 'rename-visited-file'. This command renames the file visited by the current buffer by moving it to a new location, and also makes the buffer visit this new file. ** Menus --- *** The entries following the buffers in the "Buffers" menu can now be altered. Change the 'menu-bar-buffers-menu-command-entries' variable to alter the entries that follow the buffer list. --- ** 'delete-process' is now a command. When called interactively, it will kill the process running in the current buffer (if any). This can be useful if you have runaway output in the current buffer (from a process or a network connection), and want to stop it. +++ ** New command 'restart-emacs'. This is like 'save-buffers-kill-emacs', but instead of just killing the current Emacs process at the end, it starts a new Emacs process (using the same command line arguments as the running Emacs process). 'kill-emacs' and 'save-buffers-kill-emacs' have also gained new optional parameters to restart instead of just killing the current process. +++ ** New user option 'mouse-drag-mode-line-buffer'. If non-nil, dragging on the buffer name part of the mode-line will drag the buffer's associated file to other programs. This option is currently only available on X, Haiku and Nextstep (GNUstep or macOS). +++ ** New user option 'mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program'. If non-nil, this option allows dragging text in the region from Emacs to another program. --- ** New user option 'mouse-drag-and-drop-region-scroll-margin'. If non-nil, this option allows scrolling a window while dragging text around without a scroll wheel. +++ *** The value of 'mouse-drag-copy-region' can now be the symbol 'non-empty'. This prevents mouse drag gestures from putting empty strings onto the kill ring. +++ ** New user options 'dnd-indicate-insertion-point' and 'dnd-scroll-margin'. These options allow adjusting point and scrolling a window when dragging items from another program. +++ ** The X Direct Save (XDS) protocol is now supported. This means dropping an image or file link from programs such as Firefox will no longer create a temporary file in a random directory, instead asking you where to save the file first. +++ ** New user option 'record-all-keys'. If non-nil, this option will force recording of all input keys, including those typed in response to passwords prompt (this was the previous behavior). The default is nil, which inhibits recording of passwords. +++ ** New function 'command-query'. This function makes its argument command prompt the user for confirmation before executing. +++ ** The 'disabled' property of a command's symbol can now be a list. The first element of the list should be the symbol 'query', which will cause the command disabled this way prompt the user with a y/n or a yes/no question before executing. The new function 'command-query' is a convenient method of making commands disabled in this way. --- ** 'count-words' will now report buffer totals if given a prefix. Without a prefix, it will only report the word count for the narrowed part of the buffer. +++ ** 'count-words' will now report sentence count when used interactively. ** New user option 'set-message-functions'. It allows selecting more functions for 'set-message-function' in addition to the default function that handles messages in the active minibuffer. The most useful are 'inhibit-message' that allows specifying a list of messages to inhibit via 'inhibit-message-regexps', and 'set-multi-message' that accumulates recent messages and displays them stacked in the echo area. --- ** New user option 'find-library-include-other-files'. If set to nil, commands like 'find-library' will only include library files in the completion candidates. The default is t, which preserves previous behavior, whereby non-library files could also be included. +++ ** New command 'sqlite-mode-open-file' for examining an sqlite3 file. This uses the new 'sqlite-mode' which allows listing the tables in a DB file, and examining and modifying the columns and the contents of those tables. --- ** 'write-file' will now copy some file mode bits. If the current buffer is visiting a file that is executable, the 'C-x C-w' command will now make the new file executable, too. +++ ** New user option 'process-error-pause-time'. This determines how long to pause Emacs after a process filter/sentinel error has been handled. +++ ** New faces for font-lock. These faces are primarily meant for use with tree-sitter. They are: 'font-lock-bracket-face', 'font-lock-delimiter-face', 'font-lock-escape-face', 'font-lock-number-face', 'font-lock-misc-punctuation-face', 'font-lock-operator-face', 'font-lock-property-face', and 'font-lock-punctuation-face'. +++ ** New face 'variable-pitch-text'. This face is like 'variable-pitch' (from which it inherits), but is slightly larger, which should help with the visual size differences between the default, non-proportional font and proportional fonts when mixed. +++ ** New face 'mode-line-active'. This inherits from the 'mode-line' face, but is the face actually used on the mode lines (along with 'mode-line-inactive'). +++ ** New face attribute pseudo-value 'reset'. This value stands for the value of the corresponding attribute of the 'default' face. It can be used to reset attribute values produced by inheriting from other faces. +++ ** New X resource: "borderThickness". This controls the thickness of the external borders of the menu bars and pop-up menus. +++ ** New X resource: "inputStyle". This controls the style of the pre-edit and status areas of X input methods. +++ ** New X resources: "highlightForeground" and "highlightBackground". Only in the Lucid build, this controls colors used for highlighted menu item widgets. +++ ** On X, Emacs now tries to synchronize window resize with the window manager. This leads to less flicker and empty areas of a frame being displayed when a frame is being resized. Unfortunately, it does not work on some ancient buggy window managers, so if Emacs appears to freeze, but is still responsive to input, you can turn it off by setting the X resource "synchronizeResize" to "off". +++ ** On X, Emacs can optionally synchronize display with the graphics hardware. When this is enabled by setting the X resource "synchronizeResize" to "extended", frame content "tearing" is drastically reduced. This is only supported on the Motif, Lucid, and no-toolkit builds, and requires an X compositing manager supporting the extended frame synchronization protocol (see https://fishsoup.net/misc/wm-spec-synchronization.html). This behavior can be toggled on and off via the frame parameter 'use-frame-synchronization'. +++ ** New frame parameter 'alpha-background' and X resource "alphaBackground". This controls the opacity of the text background when running on a composited display. +++ ** New frame parameter 'shaded'. With window managers which support this, it controls whether or not a frame's contents will be hidden, leaving only the title bar on display. --- ** New user option 'x-gtk-use-native-input'. This controls whether or not GTK input methods are used by Emacs, instead of XIM input methods. +++ ** New user option 'use-system-tooltips'. This controls whether to use the toolkit tooltips, or Emacs's own native implementation of tooltips as small frames. This option is only meaningful if Emacs was built with GTK+, Nextstep, or Haiku support, and defaults to t, which makes Emacs use the toolkit tooltips. The existing GTK-specific option 'x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' is now an alias of this new option. +++ ** Non-native tooltips are now supported on Nextstep. This means Emacs built with GNUstep or built on macOS is now able to display different faces and images inside tooltips when the 'use-system-tooltips' user option is nil. --- ** New minor mode 'pixel-scroll-precision-mode'. When enabled, and if your mouse supports it, you can scroll the display up or down at pixel resolution, according to what your mouse wheel reports. Unlike 'pixel-scroll-mode', this mode scrolls the display pixel-by-pixel, as opposed to only animating line-by-line scrolls. ** Terminal Emacs --- *** Emacs will now use 24-bit colors on terminals that support "Tc" capability. This is in addition to previously-supported ways of discovering 24-bit color support: either via the "RGB" or "setf24" capabilities, or if the 'COLORTERM' environment variable is set to the value "truecolor". *** Select active regions with xterm selection support. On terminals with xterm setSelection support, the active region may be saved to the X primary selection, following the 'select-active-regions' variable. This support is enabled when 'tty-select-active-regions' is non-nil. --- *** New command to set up display of unsupported characters. The new command 'standard-display-by-replacement-char' produces Lisp code that sets up the 'standard-display-table' to use a replacement character for display of characters that the text-mode terminal doesn't support. It is most useful with the Linux console and similar terminals, where Emacs has a reliable way of determining which characters have glyphs in the font loaded into the terminal's memory. --- *** New functions to set terminal output buffer size. The new functions 'tty--set-output-buffer-size' and 'tty--output-buffer-size' allow setting and retrieving the output buffer size of a terminal device. The default buffer size is and has always been BUFSIZ, which is defined in your system's stdio.h. When you set a buffer size with 'tty--set-output-buffer-size', this also prevents Emacs from explicitly flushing the tty output stream, except at the end of display update. ** ERT +++ *** New ERT variables 'ert-batch-print-length' and 'ert-batch-print-level'. These variables will override 'print-length' and 'print-level' when printing Lisp values in ERT batch test results. --- *** Redefining an ERT test in batch mode now signals an error. Executing 'ert-deftest' with the same name as an existing test causes the previous definition to be discarded, which was probably not intended when this occurs in batch mode. To remedy the error, rename tests so that they all have unique names. +++ *** ERT can generate JUnit test reports. When environment variable 'EMACS_TEST_JUNIT_REPORT' is set, ERT generates a JUnit test report under this file name. This is useful for Emacs integration into CI/CD test environments. --- *** Unbound test symbols now signal an 'ert-test-unbound' error. This affects the 'ert-select-tests' function and its callers. ** Emoji +++ *** Emacs now has several new methods for inserting Emojis. The Emoji commands are under the new 'C-x 8 e' prefix. +++ *** New command 'emoji-insert' (bound to 'C-x 8 e e' and 'C-x 8 e i'). This command guides you through various Emoji categories and combinations in a graphical menu system. +++ *** New command 'emoji-search' (bound to 'C-x 8 e s'). This command lets you search for Emojis based on names. +++ *** New command 'emoji-list' (bound to 'C-x 8 e l'). This command lists all Emojis (categorized by themes) in a special buffer and lets you choose one of them. --- *** New command 'emoji-recent' (bound to 'C-x 8 e r'). This command lets you choose among the Emojis you have recently inserted. +++ *** New command 'emoji-describe' (bound to 'C-x 8 e d'). This command will tell you the name of the Emoji at point. (This command also works for non-Emoji characters.) --- *** New commands 'emoji-zoom-increase' and 'emoji-zoom-decrease'. These are bound to 'C-x 8 e +' and 'C-x 8 e -', respectively. They can be used on any character, but are mainly useful for emoji. --- *** New input method 'emoji'. This allows you to enter emoji using short strings, eg ':face_palm:' or ':scream:'. ** Help --- *** Variable values displayed by 'C-h v' in "*Help*" are now font-locked. +++ *** New user option 'help-clean-buttons'. If non-nil, link buttons in "*Help*" will have any surrounding quotes removed. --- *** 'M-x apropos-variable' output now includes values of variables. +++ *** New docstring syntax to indicate that symbols shouldn't be links. When displaying docstrings in "*Help*" buffers, strings that are "`like-this'" are made into links (if they point to a bound function/variable). This can lead to false positives when talking about values that are symbols that happen to have the same names as functions/variables. To inhibit this buttonification, the new "\\+`like-this'" syntax can be used. +++ *** New user option 'help-window-keep-selected'. If non-nil, commands to show the info manual and the source will reuse the same window the "*Help*" buffer is shown in. --- *** Commands like 'C-h f' have changed how they describe menu bindings. For instance, previously a command might be described as having the following bindings: It is bound to , C-x C-f, . This has been changed to: It is bound to and C-x C-f. It can also be invoked from the menu: File → Visit New File... +++ *** The 'C-h .' command now accepts a prefix argument. 'C-u C-h .' would previously inhibit displaying a warning message if there's no local help at point. This has been changed to call 'button-describe'/'widget-describe' and display button/widget help instead. --- *** New user option 'help-enable-variable-value-editing'. If enabled, 'e' on a value in "*Help*" will pop you to a new buffer where you can edit the value. This is not enabled by default, because it's easy to make an edit that yields an invalid result. --- *** 'C-h b' uses outlining by default. Set 'describe-bindings-outline' to nil to get the old behavior. --- *** Jumping to function/variable source now saves mark before moving point. Jumping to source from "*Help*" buffer moves the point when the source buffer is already open. Now, the old point is pushed to mark ring. +++ *** New key bindings in "*Help*" buffers: 'n' and 'p'. These will take you (respectively) to the next and previous "page". --- *** 'describe-char' now also outputs the name of emoji combinations. +++ *** New key binding in "*Help*" buffer: 'I'. This will take you to the Emacs Lisp manual entry for the item displayed, if any. --- *** The 'C-h m' ('describe-mode') "*Help*" buffer has been reformatted. It now only includes local minor modes at the start, and the global minor modes are listed after the major mode. +++ *** The user option 'help-window-select' now affects apropos commands. The apropos commands will now select the apropos window if 'help-window-select' is non-nil. --- *** 'describe-keymap' now considers the symbol at point. If the symbol at point is a keymap, 'describe-keymap' suggests it as the default candidate. --- *** New command 'help-quick' displays an overview of common commands. The command pops up a buffer at the bottom of the screen with a few helpful commands for various tasks. You can toggle the display using 'C-h q'. ** Emacs 29.1 comes with Org v9.6. See the file ORG-NEWS for user-visible changes in Org. ** Outline Mode +++ *** Support for customizing the default visibility state of headings. Customize the user option 'outline-default-state' to define what headings will be visible after Outline mode is turned on. When equal to a number, the user option 'outline-default-rules' determines the visibility of the subtree starting at the corresponding level. Values are provided to control showing a heading subtree depending on whether the heading matches a regexp, or on whether its subtree has long lines or is itself too long. ** Outline Minor Mode +++ *** New user option 'outline-minor-mode-use-buttons'. If non-nil, Outline Minor Mode will use buttons to hide/show outlines in addition to the ellipsis. The default is nil, but in 'help-mode' it has the value 'insert' that inserts the buttons directly to the buffer where you can use 'RET' to cycle outline visibility. When the value is 'in-margins', Outline Minor Mode uses the window margins to hide/show outlines. ** Windows +++ *** New commands 'split-root-window-below' and 'split-root-window-right'. These commands split the root window in two, and are bound to 'C-x w 2' and 'C-x w 3', respectively. A number of other useful window-related commands are now available on the 'C-x w' prefix. +++ *** New user option 'display-buffer-avoid-small-windows'. If non-nil, this should be a window height, a number. Windows smaller than this will be avoided by 'display-buffer', if possible. +++ *** New display action 'display-buffer-full-frame'. This action removes other windows on the frame when displaying a buffer. +++ *** 'display-buffer' now can set up the body size of the chosen window. For example, a 'display-buffer-alist' entry of '(window-width . (body-columns . 40))' will make the body of the chosen window 40 columns wide. For the height use 'window-height' in combination with 'body-lines'. --- *** You can customize which window 'scroll-other-window' operates on. This is controlled by the new 'other-window-scroll-default' user option. ** Frames +++ *** Deleted frames can now be undeleted. The 16 most recently deleted frames can be undeleted with 'C-x 5 u' when 'undelete-frame-mode' is enabled. Without a prefix argument, undelete the most recently deleted frame. With a numerical prefix argument between 1 and 16, where 1 is the most recently deleted frame, undelete the corresponding deleted frame. ** Tab Bars and Tab Lines --- *** New user option 'tab-bar-auto-width' to automatically determine tab width. This option is non-nil by default, which resizes tab-bar tabs so that their width is evenly distributed across the tab bar. A companion option 'tab-bar-auto-width-max' controls the maximum width of a tab before its name on display is truncated. --- *** 'C-x t RET' creates a new tab when the provided tab name doesn't exist. --- *** New keymap 'tab-bar-history-mode-map'. By default, it contains 'C-c ' and 'C-c ' to browse the history of tab window configurations back and forward. --- ** Better detection of text suspiciously reordered on display. The function 'bidi-find-overridden-directionality' has been extended to detect reordering effects produced by embeddings and isolates (started by directional formatting control characters such as RLO and LRI). The new command 'highlight-confusing-reorderings' finds and highlights segments of buffer text whose reordering for display is suspicious and could be malicious. ** Emacs server and client changes +++ *** New command-line option '-r'/'--reuse-frame' for emacsclient. With this command-line option, Emacs reuses an existing graphical client frame if one exists; otherwise it creates a new frame. +++ *** New command-line option '-w N'/'--timeout=N' for emacsclient. With this command-line option, emacsclient will exit if Emacs does not respond within N seconds. The default is to wait forever. +++ *** 'server-stop-automatically' can be used to automatically stop the server. The Emacs server will be automatically stopped when certain conditions are met. The conditions are given by the argument, which can be 'empty', 'delete-frame' or 'kill-terminal'. ** Rcirc +++ *** New command 'rcirc-when'. +++ *** New user option 'rcirc-cycle-completion-flag'. Rcirc will use the default 'completion-at-point' mechanism. The conventional IRC behavior of completing by cycling through the available options can be restored by enabling this option. +++ *** New user option 'rcirc-bridge-bot-alist'. If you are in a channel where a bot is responsible for bridging between networks, you can use this variable to make these messages appear more native. For example you might set the option to: (setq rcirc-bridge-bot-alist '(("bridge" . "{\\(.+?\\)}[[:space:]]+"))) for messages like 09:47 {john} I am not on IRC to be reformatted into 09:47 I am not on IRC --- *** New formatting commands. Most IRC clients (including rcirc) support basic formatting using control codes. Under the 'C-c C-f' prefix a few commands have been added to insert these automatically. For example, if a region is active and 'C-c C-f C-b' is invoked, markup is inserted for the region to be highlighted bold. ** Imenu +++ *** 'imenu' is now bound to 'M-g i' globally. --- *** New function 'imenu-flush-cache'. Use it if you want Imenu to forget the buffer's index alist and recreate it anew next time 'imenu' is invoked. +++ ** Emacs is now capable of abandoning a window's redisplay that takes too long. This is controlled by the new variable 'max-redisplay-ticks'. If that variable is set to a non-zero value, display of a window will be aborted after that many low-level redisplay operations, thus preventing Emacs from becoming wedged when visiting files with very long lines. * Editing Changes in Emacs 29.1 +++ ** 'M-SPC' is now bound to 'cycle-spacing'. Formerly it invoked 'just-one-space'. The actions performed by 'cycle-spacing' and their order can now be customized via the user option 'cycle-spacing-actions'. --- ** 'zap-to-char' and 'zap-up-to-char' are case-sensitive for upper-case chars. These commands now behave as case-sensitive for interactive calls when they are invoked with an uppercase character, regardless of the 'case-fold-search' value. --- ** 'scroll-other-window' and 'scroll-other-window-down' now respect remapping. These commands (bound to 'C-M-v' and 'C-M-V') used to scroll the other windows without looking a customizations in that other window. These functions now check whether they have been rebound in the buffer in that other window, and then call the remapped function instead. In addition, these commands now also respect the 'scroll-error-top-bottom' user option. --- ** Indentation of 'cl-flet' and 'cl-labels' has changed. These forms now indent like this: (cl-flet ((bla (x) (* x x))) (bla 42)) This change also affects 'cl-macrolet', 'cl-flet*' and 'cl-symbol-macrolet'. +++ ** New user option 'translate-upper-case-key-bindings'. Set this option to nil to inhibit translating upper case keys to lower case keys. +++ ** New command 'ensure-empty-lines'. This command increases (or decreases) the number of empty lines before point. --- ** Improved mouse behavior with auto-scrolling modes. When clicking inside the 'scroll-margin' or 'hscroll-margin' region, point is now moved only when releasing the mouse button. This no longer results in a bogus selection, unless the mouse has been effectively dragged. +++ ** 'kill-ring-max' now defaults to 120. --- ** New user option 'yank-menu-max-items'. Customize this option to limit the number of entries in the menu "Edit->Paste from Kill Menu". The default is 60. +++ ** Performing a pinch gesture on a touchpad now increases the text scale. ** show-paren-mode +++ *** New user option 'show-paren-context-when-offscreen'. When non-nil, if the point is in a closing delimiter and the opening delimiter is offscreen, shows some context around the opening delimiter in the echo area. The default is nil. May also be set to the symbols 'overlay' or 'child-frame', in which case the context is shown in an overlay or child-frame at the top-left of the current window. The latter option requires a graphical frame. On non-graphical frames, the context is shown in the echo area. ** Comint +++ *** 'comint-term-environment' is now aware of connection-local variables. The user option 'comint-terminfo-terminal' and the variable 'system-uses-terminfo' can now be set as connection-local variables to change the terminal used on a remote host. --- *** New user option 'comint-delete-old-input'. When nil, this prevents comint from deleting the current input when inserting previous input using ''. The default is t, to preserve past behavior. --- *** New minor mode 'comint-fontify-input-mode'. This minor mode is enabled by default in "*shell*" and "*ielm*" buffers. It fontifies input text according to 'shell-mode' or 'emacs-lisp-mode' font-lock rules. Customize the user options 'shell-fontify-input-enable' and 'ielm-fontify-input-enable' to nil if you don't want to enable input fontification by default. ** Mwheel --- *** New user options for alternate wheel events. The options 'mouse-wheel-down-alternate-event', 'mouse-wheel-up-alternate-event', 'mouse-wheel-left-alternate-event', and 'mouse-wheel-right-alternate-event' have been added to better support systems where two kinds of wheel events can be received. ** Internationalization changes *** The function key now allows deleting the entire composed sequence. For the details, see the item about the 'delete-forward-char' command above. *** New user option 'composition-break-at-point'. Setting it to a non-nil value temporarily disables automatic composition of character sequences at point, and thus makes it easier to edit such sequences by allowing point to "enter" the sequence. --- *** Support for many old scripts and writing systems. Emacs now supports and has language-environments and input methods for several dozens of old scripts that were used in the past for various languages. For each such script Emacs now has font-selection and character composition rules, a language environment, and an input method. The newly-added scripts and the corresponding language environments are: Tai Tham script and the Northern Thai language environment Brahmi script and language environment Kaithi script and language environment Tirhuta script and language environment Sharada script and language environment Siddham script and language environment Syloti Nagri script and language environment Modi script and language environment Baybayin script and Tagalog language environment Hanunoo script and language environment Buhid script and language environment Tagbanwa script and language environment Limbu script and language environment Balinese script and language environment Javanese script and language environment Sundanese script and language environment Batak script and language environment Rejang script and language environment Makasar script and language environment Lontara script and language environment Hanifi Rohingya script and language environment Grantha script and language environment Kharoshthi script and language environment Lepcha script and language environment Meetei Mayek script and language environment Adlam script and language environment Mende Kikakui script and language environment Wancho script and language environment Toto script and language environment Gothic script and language environment Coptic script and language environment --- *** The "Oriya" language environment was renamed to "Odia". This is to follow the change in the official name of the script. The 'oriya' input method was also renamed to 'odia'. However, the old name of the language environment and the input method are still supported. --- *** New Greek translation of the Emacs tutorial. Type 'C-u C-h t' to select it in case your language setup does not do so automatically. --- *** New Ukrainian translation of the Emacs Tutorial. --- *** New default phonetic input method for the Tamil language environment. The default input method for the Tamil language environment is now "tamil-phonetic" which is a customizable phonetic input method. To change the input method's translation rules, customize the user option 'tamil-translation-rules'. --- *** New tamil99 input method for the Tamil language. This supports the keyboard layout specifically designed for the Tamil language. --- *** New input method 'slovak-qwerty'. This is a variant of the 'slovak' input method, which corresponds to the QWERTY Slovak keyboards. --- *** New input method 'cyrillic-chuvash'. This input method is based on the russian-computer, and is intended for the Chuvash language written in the Cyrillic script. * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.1 ** Ecomplete --- *** New commands 'ecomplete-edit' and 'ecomplete-remove'. These allow you to (respectively) edit and bulk-remove entries from the ecomplete database. --- *** New user option 'ecomplete-auto-select'. If non-nil and there's only one matching option, auto-select that. --- *** New user option 'ecomplete-filter-regexp'. If non-nil, this user option describes what entries not to add to the database stored on disk. ** Auth-Source +++ *** New user option 'auth-source-pass-extra-query-keywords'. Whether to recognize additional keyword params, like ':max' and ':require', as well as accept lists of query terms paired with applicable keywords. This disables most known behavioral quirks unique to auth-source-pass, such as wildcard subdomain matching. ** Dired +++ *** 'dired-guess-shell-command' moved from dired-x to dired. This means that 'dired-do-shell-command' will now provide smarter defaults without first having to require 'dired-x'. See the node "(emacs) Shell Command Guessing" in the Emacs manual for more details. --- *** 'dired-clean-up-buffers-too' moved from dired-x to dired. This means that Dired now offers to kill buffers visiting files and dirs when they are deleted in Dired. Before, you had to require 'dired-x' to enable this behavior. To disable this behavior, customize the user option 'dired-clean-up-buffers-too' to nil. The related user option 'dired-clean-confirm-killing-deleted-buffers' (which see) has also been moved to 'dired'. +++ *** 'dired-do-relsymlink' moved from dired-x to dired. The corresponding key 'Y' is now bound by default in Dired. +++ *** 'dired-do-relsymlink-regexp' moved from dired-x to dired. The corresponding key '% Y' is now bound by default in Dired. --- *** 'M-G' is now bound to 'dired-goto-subdir'. Before, that binding was only available if the dired-x package was loaded. +++ *** 'dired-info' and 'dired-man' moved from dired-x to dired. The 'dired-info' and 'dired-man' commands have been moved from the dired-x package to dired. They have also been renamed to 'dired-do-info' and 'dired-do-man'; the old command names are obsolete aliases. The keys 'I' ('dired-do-info') and 'N' ('dired-do-man') are now bound in Dired mode by default. The user options 'dired-bind-man' and 'dired-bind-info' no longer have any effect and are obsolete. To get the old behavior back and unbind these keys in Dired mode, add the following to your Init file: (with-eval-after-load 'dired (keymap-set dired-mode-map "N" nil) (keymap-set dired-mode-map "I" nil)) --- *** New command 'dired-do-eww'. This command visits the file on the current line with EWW. ** Elisp --- *** New command 'elisp-eval-region-or-buffer' (bound to 'C-c C-e'). This command evals the forms in the active region or in the whole buffer. --- *** New commands 'elisp-byte-compile-file' and 'elisp-byte-compile-buffer'. These commands (bound to 'C-c C-f' and 'C-c C-b', respectively) byte-compile the visited file and the current buffer, respectively. ** Games --- *** New user option 'tetris-allow-repetitions'. This controls how randomness is implemented (whether to use pure randomness as before or whether to use a bag). ** Battery +++ *** New user option 'battery-update-functions'. This can be used to trigger actions based on the battery status. ** Enriched Mode +++ *** New command 'enriched-toggle-markup'. This allows you to see the markup in 'enriched-mode' buffers (e.g., the "HELLO" file). ** Shell Script Mode --- *** New user option 'sh-indent-statement-after-and'. This controls how statements like the following are indented: foo && bar *** New Flymake backend using the ShellCheck program. It is enabled by default, but requires that the external "shellcheck" command is installed. ** CC Mode --- *** C++ Mode now supports most of the new features in the C++20 standard. ** Cperl Mode --- *** New user option 'cperl-file-style'. This option determines the indentation style to be used. It can also be used as a file-local variable. ** Gud --- *** 'gud-go' is now bound to 'C-c C-v'. If given a prefix, it will query the user for an argument to use for the run/continue command. --- *** 'perldb' now recognizes '-E'. As of Perl 5.10, 'perl -E 0' behaves like 'perl -e 0' but also activates all optional features of the Perl version in use. 'perldb' now uses this invocation as its default. ** Customize --- *** New command 'custom-toggle-hide-all-widgets'. This is bound to 'H' and toggles whether to hide or show the widget contents. ** Diff mode --- *** New user option 'diff-whitespace-style'. Sets the value of the buffer-local variable 'whitespace-style' in 'diff-mode' buffers. By default, this variable is '(face trailing)', which preserves behavior from previous Emacs versions. +++ *** New user option 'diff-add-log-use-relative-names'. If non-nil insert file names in ChangeLog skeletons relative to the VC root directory. ** Ispell --- *** 'ispell-region' and 'ispell-buffer' now push the mark. These commands push onto the mark ring the location of the last misspelled word where corrections were offered, so that you can then skip back to that location with 'C-x C-x'. ** Dabbrev --- *** New function 'dabbrev-capf' for use on 'completion-at-point-functions'. +++ *** New user option 'dabbrev-ignored-buffer-modes'. Buffers with major modes in this list will be ignored. By default, this includes "binary" buffers like 'archive-mode' and 'image-mode'. ** Package +++ *** New command 'package-update'. This command allows you to upgrade packages without using 'M-x list-packages'. +++ *** New command 'package-update-all'. This command allows updating all packages without any queries. +++ *** New commands 'package-recompile' and 'package-recompile-all'. These commands can be useful if the ".elc" files are out of date (invalid byte code and macros). +++ *** New DWIM action on 'x' in "*Packages*" buffer. If no packages are marked, 'x' will install the package under point if it isn't already, and remove it if it is installed. +++ *** New command 'package-vc-install'. Packages can now be installed directly from source by cloning from a repository. +++ *** New command 'package-vc-install-from-checkout'. An existing checkout can now be loaded via package.el, by creating a symbolic link from the usual package directory to the checkout. +++ *** New command 'package-vc-checkout'. Used to fetch the source of a package by cloning a repository without activating the package. +++ *** New command 'package-vc-prepare-patch'. This command allows you to send patches to package maintainers, for packages checked out using 'package-vc-install'. +++ *** New command 'package-report-bug'. This command helps you compose an email for sending bug reports to package maintainers. +++ *** New user option 'package-vc-selected-packages'. By customizing this user option you can specify specific packages to install. ** Emacs Sessions (Desktop) +++ *** New user option to load a locked desktop if locking Emacs is not running. The option 'desktop-load-locked-desktop' can now be set to the value 'check-pid', which means to allow loading a locked ".emacs.desktop" file if the Emacs process which locked it is no longer running on the local machine. This allows avoiding questions about locked desktop files when the Emacs session which locked it crashes, or was otherwise interrupted, and didn't exit gracefully. See the "(emacs) Saving Emacs Sessions" node in the Emacs manual for more details. ** Miscellaneous +++ *** New command 'scratch-buffer'. This command switches to the "*scratch*" buffer. If "*scratch*" doesn't exist, the command creates it first. You can use this command if you inadvertently delete the "*scratch*" buffer. ** Debugging --- *** 'q' in a "*Backtrace*" buffer no longer clears the buffer. Instead it just buries the buffer and switches the mode from 'debugger-mode' to 'backtrace-mode', since commands like 'e' are no longer available after exiting the recursive edit. +++ *** New user option 'debug-allow-recursive-debug'. This user option controls whether the 'e' (in a "*Backtrace*" buffer or while edebugging) and 'C-x C-e' (while edebugging) commands lead to a (further) backtrace. By default, this variable is nil, which is a change in behavior from previous Emacs versions. +++ *** 'e' in edebug can now take a prefix arg to pretty-print the results. When invoked with a prefix argument, as in 'C-u e', this command will pop up a new buffer and show the full pretty-printed value there. +++ *** 'C-x C-e' now interprets a non-zero prefix arg to pretty-print the results. When invoked with a non-zero prefix argument, as in 'C-u C-x C-e', this command will pop up a new buffer and show the full pretty-printed value there. +++ *** You can now generate a backtrace from Lisp errors in redisplay. To do this, set the new variable 'backtrace-on-redisplay-error' to a non-nil value. The backtrace will be written to a special buffer named "*Redisplay-trace*". This buffer will not be automatically displayed in a window. ** Compile +++ *** New user option 'compilation-hidden-output'. This can be used to make specific parts of compilation output invisible. +++ *** The 'compilation-auto-jump-to-first-error' user option has been extended. It can now have the additional values 'if-location-known' (which will only jump if the location of the first error is known), and 'first-known' (which will jump to the first known error location). +++ *** New user option 'compilation-max-output-line-length'. Lines longer than this will have the ends hidden, with a button to reveal the hidden text. This speeds up operations like grepping on files that have few newlines. ** Flymake +++ *** New user option 'flymake-mode-line-lighter'. +++ ** New minor mode 'word-wrap-whitespace-mode' for extending 'word-wrap'. This mode switches 'word-wrap' on, and breaks on all the whitespace characters instead of just 'SPC' and 'TAB'. --- ** New mode, 'emacs-news-mode', for editing the NEWS file. This mode adds some highlighting, fixes the 'M-q' command, and has commands for doing maintenance of the Emacs NEWS files. In addition, this mode turns on 'outline-minor-mode', and thus displays customizable icons (see 'icon-preference') in the margins. To disable these icons, set 'outline-minor-mode-use-buttons' to a nil value. --- ** Kmacro Kmacros are now OClosures and have a new constructor 'kmacro' which uses the 'key-parse' syntax. It replaces the old 'kmacro-lambda-form' (which is now declared obsolete). --- ** savehist.el can now truncate variables that are too long. An element of 'savehist-additional-variables' can now be of the form '(VARIABLE . MAX-ELTS)', which means to truncate the VARIABLE's value to at most MAX-ELTS elements (if the value is a list) before saving the value. ** Minibuffer and Completions +++ *** New commands for navigating completions from the minibuffer. When the minibuffer is the current buffer, typing 'M-' or 'M-' selects a previous/next completion candidate from the "*Completions*" buffer and inserts it to the minibuffer. When the user option 'minibuffer-completion-auto-choose' is nil, 'M-' and 'M-' do the same, but without inserting a completion candidate to the minibuffer, then 'M-RET' can be used to choose the currently active candidate from the "*Completions*" buffer and exit the minibuffer. With a prefix argument, 'C-u M-RET' inserts the currently active candidate to the minibuffer, but doesn't exit the minibuffer. These keys are also available for in-buffer completion, but they don't insert candidates automatically, you need to type 'M-RET' to insert the selected candidate to the buffer. +++ *** The "*Completions*" buffer can now be automatically selected. To enable this behavior, customize the user option 'completion-auto-select' to t, then pressing 'TAB' will switch to the "*Completions*" buffer when it pops up that buffer. If the value is 'second-tab', then the first 'TAB' will display "*Completions*", and the second one will switch to the "*Completions*" buffer. --- *** New user option 'completion-auto-wrap'. When non-nil, the commands 'next-completion' and 'previous-completion' automatically wrap around on reaching the beginning or the end of the "*Completions*" buffer. +++ *** New values for the 'completion-auto-help' user option. There are two new values to control the way the "*Completions*" buffer behaves after pressing a 'TAB' if completion is not unique. The value 'always' updates or shows the "*Completions*" buffer after any attempt to complete. The value 'visual' is like 'always', but only updates the completions if they are already visible. The default value t always hides the completion buffer after some completion is made. *** New commands to complete the minibuffer history. 'minibuffer-complete-history' ('C-x ') is like 'minibuffer-complete' but completes on the history items instead of the default completion table. 'minibuffer-complete-defaults' ('C-x ') completes on the list of default items. +++ *** User option 'minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default' is now obsolete. Customize the user option 'minibuffer-default-prompt-format' instead. +++ *** New user option 'completions-sort'. This option controls the sorting of the completion candidates in the "*Completions*" buffer. Available styles are no sorting, alphabetical (the default), or a custom sort function. +++ *** New user option 'completions-max-height'. This option limits the height of the "*Completions*" buffer. +++ *** New user option 'completions-header-format'. This is a string to control the heading line to show in the "*Completions*" buffer before the list of completions. If it contains "%s", that is replaced with the number of completions. If nil, the heading line is not shown. +++ *** New user option 'completions-highlight-face'. When this user option names a face, the current candidate in the "*Completions*" buffer is highlighted with that face. The nil value disables this highlighting. +++ *** Choosing a completion with a prefix argument doesn't exit the minibuffer. This means that typing 'C-u RET' on a completion candidate in the "*Completions*" buffer inserts the completion to the minibuffer, but doesn't exit the minibuffer. +++ *** You can now define abbrevs for the fundamental minibuffer modes. 'minibuffer-mode-abbrev-table' and 'minibuffer-inactive-mode-abbrev-table' are now defined. ** Isearch and Replace +++ *** Changes in how Isearch responds to 'mouse-yank-at-point'. If a user does 'C-s' and then uses '' ('mouse-yank-primary') outside the echo area, Emacs will, by default, end the Isearch and yank the text at mouse cursor. But if 'mouse-yank-at-point' is non-nil, the text will now be added to the Isearch instead. +++ *** Changes for values 'no' and 'no-ding' of 'isearch-wrap-pause'. Now with these values the search will wrap around not only on repeating with 'C-s C-s', but also after typing a character. +++ *** New user option 'char-fold-override'. Non-nil means that the default definitions of equivalent characters are overridden. *** New command 'describe-char-fold-equivalences'. It displays character equivalences used by 'char-fold-to-regexp'. +++ *** New command 'isearch-emoji-by-name'. It is bound to 'C-x 8 e RET' during an incremental search. The command accepts the Unicode name of an Emoji (for example, "smiling face" or "heart with arrow"), like 'C-x 8 e e', with minibuffer completion, and adds the Emoji into the search string. ** Glyphless characters +++ *** New minor mode 'glyphless-display-mode'. This allows an easy way to toggle seeing all glyphless characters in the current buffer. --- *** The extra slot of 'glyphless-char-display' can now have cons values. The extra slot of the 'glyphless-char-display' char-table can now have values that are cons cells, specifying separate values for text-mode and GUI terminals. +++ *** "Replacement character" feature for undisplayable characters on TTYs. The 'acronym' method of displaying glyphless characters on text-mode frames treats single-character acronyms specially: they are displayed without the surrounding [..] "box", thus in effect treating such "acronyms" as replacement characters. ** Registers +++ *** Buffer names can now be stored in registers. For instance, to enable jumping to the "*Messages*" buffer with 'C-x r j m': (set-register ?m '(buffer . "*Messages*")) ** Pixel-fill +++ *** This is a new package that deals with filling variable-pitch text. +++ *** New function 'pixel-fill-region'. This fills the region to be no wider than a specified pixel width. ** Info +++ *** 'M-x info-apropos' now takes a prefix argument to search for regexps. --- *** New command 'Info-goto-node-web' and key binding 'G'. This will take you to the gnu.org web server's version of the current info node. This command only works for the Emacs and Emacs Lisp manuals. ** Shortdoc --- *** New command 'shortdoc-copy-function-as-kill' bound to 'w'. It copies the name of the function near point into the kill ring. --- *** 'N' and 'P' are now bound to 'shortdoc-{next,previous}-section'. This is in addition to the old keybindings 'C-c C-n' and 'C-c C-p'. ** VC --- *** New command 'vc-pull-and-push'. This commands first does a "pull" command, and if that is successful, do a "push" command afterwards. +++ *** 'C-x v b' prefix key is used now for branch commands. 'vc-print-branch-log' is bound to 'C-x v b l', and new commands are 'vc-create-branch' ('C-x v b c') and 'vc-switch-branch' ('C-x v b s'). The VC Directory buffer now uses the prefix 'b' for these branch-related commands. +++ *** New command '%' ('vc-dir-mark-by-regexp'). This command marks files based on a regexp. If given a prefix argument, unmark instead. +++ *** New command 'C-x v !' ('vc-edit-next-command'). This prefix command requests editing of the next VC shell command before execution. For example, in a Git repository, you can produce a log of more than one branch by typing 'C-x v ! C-x v b l' and then appending additional branch names to the 'git log' command. --- *** 'C-x v v' in a diffs buffer allows to commit only some of the changes. This command is intended to allow you to commit only some of the changes you have in your working tree. Begin by creating a buffer with the changes against the last commit, e.g. with 'C-x v D' ('vc-root-diff'). Then edit the diffs to remove the hunks you don't want to commit. Finally, type 'C-x v v' in that diff buffer to commit only part of your changes, those whose hunks were left in the buffer. --- *** 'C-x v v' on an unregistered file will now use the most specific backend. Previously, if you had an SVN-covered "~/" directory, and a Git-covered directory in "~/foo/bar", using 'C-x v v' on a new, unregistered file "~/foo/bar/zot" would register it in the SVN repository in "~/" instead of in the Git repository in "~/foo/bar". This makes this command consistent with 'vc-responsible-backend'. --- *** Log Edit now font locks long Git commit summary lines. Writing shorter summary lines avoids truncation in contexts in which Git commands display summary lines. See the two new user options 'vc-git-log-edit-summary-target-len' and 'vc-git-log-edit-summary-max-len'. --- *** New 'log-edit-headers-separator' face. It is used to style the line that separates the 'log-edit' headers from the 'log-edit' summary. --- *** The function 'vc-read-revision' accepts a new MULTIPLE argument. If non-nil, multiple revisions can be queried. This is done using 'completing-read-multiple'. --- *** New function 'vc-read-multiple-revisions'. This function invokes 'vc-read-revision' with a non-nil value for MULTIPLE. +++ *** New command 'vc-prepare-patch'. Patches for any version control system can be prepared using VC. The command will query what commits to send and will compose messages for your mail user agent. The behavior of 'vc-prepare-patch' can be modified by the user options 'vc-prepare-patches-separately' and 'vc-default-patch-addressee'. ** Message --- *** New user option 'mml-attach-file-at-the-end'. If non-nil, 'C-c C-a' will put attached files at the end of the message. --- *** Message Mode now supports image yanking. +++ *** New user option 'message-server-alist'. This controls automatic insertion of the "X-Message-SMTP-Method" header before sending a message. ** HTML Mode --- *** HTML Mode now supports "text/html" and "image/*" yanking. ** Texinfo Mode --- *** 'texinfo-mode' now has a specialized 'narrow-to-defun' definition. It narrows to the current node. ** EUDC +++ *** Deprecations planned for next release. After Emacs 29.1, some aspects of EUDC will be deprecated. The goal of these deprecations is to simplify EUDC server configuration by making 'eudc-server-hotlist' the only place to add servers. There will not be a need to set the server using the 'eudc-set-server' command. Instead, the 'eudc-server-hotlist' user option should be customized to have an entry for the server. The plan is to obsolete the 'eudc-hotlist' package since Customize is sufficient for changing 'eudc-server-hotlist'. How the 'eudc-server' user option works in this context is to-be-determined; it can't be removed, because that would break compatibility, but it may become synchronized with 'eudc-server-hotlist' so that 'eudc-server' is always equal to '(car eudc-server-hotlist)'. The first entry in 'eudc-server-hotlist' is the first server tried by 'eudc-expand-try-all'. The hotlist simplification will allow 'eudc-query-form' to show a drop down of possible servers, instead of requiring a call to 'eudc-set-server' like it does in this release. The default value of 'eudc-ignore-options-file' will be changed from nil to t. +++ *** New user option 'eudc-ignore-options-file' that defaults to nil. The 'eudc-ignore-options-file' user option can be configured to ignore the 'eudc-options-file' (typically "~/.emacs.d/eudc-options"). Most users should configure this to t and put EUDC configuration in the main Emacs initialization file ("~/.emacs" or "~/.emacs.d/init.el"). +++ *** 'eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' to 'eudc-expansion-save-query-as-kill'. 'eudc-expansion-overwrites-query' is renamed to 'eudc-expansion-save-query-as-kill' to reflect the actual behavior of the user option. +++ *** New command 'eudc-expand-try-all'. This command can be used in place of 'eudc-expand-inline'. It takes a prefix argument that causes 'eudc-expand-try-all' to return matches from all servers instead of just the matches from the first server to return any. This is useful for example, if one wants to search LDAP for a name that happens to match a contact in one's BBDB. +++ *** New behavior and default for user option 'eudc-inline-expansion-format'. EUDC inline expansion result formatting defaulted to '("%s %s <%s>" firstname name email) Since email address specifications need to comply with RFC 5322 in order to be useful in messages, there was a risk to produce syntax which was standard with RFC 822, but is marked as obsolete syntax by its successor RFC 5322. Also, the first and last name part was never enclosed in double quotes, potentially producing invalid address specifications, which may be rejected by a receiving MTA. Thus, this variable can now additionally be set to nil (the new default), or a function. In both cases, the formatted result will be in compliance with RFC 5322. When set to nil, a default format very similar to the old default will be produced. When set to a function, that function is called, and the returned values are used to populate the phrase and comment parts (see RFC 5322 for definitions). In both cases, the phrase part will be automatically quoted if necessary. +++ *** New function 'eudc-capf-complete' with 'message-mode' integration. EUDC can now contribute email addresses to 'completion-at-point' by adding the new function 'eudc-capf-complete' to 'completion-at-point-functions' in 'message-mode'. +++ *** Additional attributes of query and results in eudcb-macos-contacts.el. The EUDC back-end for the macOS Contacts app now provides a wider set of attributes to use for queries, and delivers more attributes in query results. +++ *** New back-end for ecomplete. A new back-end for ecomplete allows information from that database to be queried by EUDC, too. The attributes present in the EUDC query are used to select the entry type in the ecomplete database. +++ *** New back-end for mailabbrev. A new back-end for mailabbrev allows information from that database to be queried by EUDC, too. The attributes 'email', 'name', and 'firstname' are supported only. ** EWW/SHR +++ *** New user option to automatically rename EWW buffers. The 'eww-auto-rename-buffer' user option can be configured to rename rendered web pages by using their title, URL, or a user-defined function which returns a string. For the first two cases, the length of the resulting name is controlled by 'eww-buffer-name-length'. By default, no automatic renaming is performed. +++ *** New user option 'shr-allowed-images'. This complements 'shr-blocked-images', but allows specifying just the allowed images. +++ *** New user option 'shr-use-xwidgets-for-media'. If non-nil (and Emacs has been built with support for xwidgets), display