X-Git-Url: http://git.chise.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=etc%2FNEWS;h=6bf41ea4b5bef1dd49003d8a864a0cb68725f4d3;hb=952514240dce6e49339247545b2e3bbffff2246f;hp=ee6e8271c41a8bc7988f4b889b45cc3706420d38;hpb=c8aa261a7bf3eb1389d2e018be1d715f73cacd66;p=chise%2Fxemacs-chise.git diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index ee6e827..6bf41ea 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ file. * Changes in XEmacs 21.2 ======================== +** The modeline's text is now scrollable. Please refer to the variable +`modeline-scrolling-method' for more information. + ** The delete key now deletes forward by default. This is regulated by the variable `delete-key-deletes-forward', which @@ -47,6 +50,28 @@ to set `delete-key-deletes-forward' to nil is if you want to use the Delete key to delete backwards, despite the presence (according to Xlib) of a BackSpace key on the keyboard. +** Shifted motion keys now select text by default. You can turn this +off by setting `shifted-motion-keys-select-region' to nil. + +** You can now set the variable `kill-whole-line' to `always', which +makes `kill-line' (C-k) delete the entire line always, not just when +the cursor is at the beginning of the line. This behavior, as well as +the existing kill-whole-line behavior, now only take effect when +kill-line is called interactively, although this is a departure from a +previous behavior in the case of setting this variable kill-whole-line +to t. It is almost certainly what has always been intended, and most +likely the old way of doing things introduced bugs. + +The new function `historical-kill-line' ignores the `kill-whole-line' +setting and always gives the historical behavior of only killing to +the end of the line. This function is bound to Sh-C-k, so that the +kill to end of line behavior is available, even when `kill-whole-line' +has been customized. + +** XEmacs menus now have accelerators by default. If a menu item does +not have an accelerator specified, one is created dynamically, using +numbers 1-9 and letters. + ** Interactive searching and matching case improvements. Case sensitiveness in searching operations is normally controlled by @@ -68,13 +93,20 @@ point. If you want to disable the feature, set ** You can now use the buffer tabs to switch between buffers. The tabs are located between the toolbar and the uppermost window, in a location called "gutter". If you dislike the buffer tabs, you can -disable them by specifying: +disable them by customizing `gutter-buffers-tab-visible-p', or by +placing this in your .emacs: - (set-specifier default-gutter-visible-p nil) + (set-gutter-element-visible-p default-gutter-visible-p 'buffers-tab nil) -in your `.emacs'. You can change the location of the gutter with +You can change the location of the gutter with `set-default-gutter-position', however currently only MS-Windows -supports tab widgets with orientations other than vertical.. +supports tab widgets with orientations other than vertical. + +** Kill and yank now interact with the clipboard by default under +Windows. This was done by changing the default value of +`interprogram-cut-function' and `interprogram-paste-function'. You +can get the old behavior by setting these to nil, and there is an +option on the options menu to do this. ** When you press RET at a minibuffer prompt that provides a default value, the value is stored in history instead of an empty line. Also, @@ -91,6 +123,13 @@ the left side. All functions have been rewritten to avoid inserting unwanted spaces, and an optional prefix now allows them to behave the old way. +Also, the behavior of `string-rectangle' is now compliant with +`pending-delete-mode': if this mode is active, then the string +replaces the region rectangle. Otherwise, the command does not delete +or overwrite any existing text. For those who want that feature but do +not use pending-delete-mode, a new function, `replace-rectangle', is +available. + As a side effect, the FORCE argument to `move-to-column' now understands the special value `coerce', which means that the line should not be filled if it is too short to reach the desired column. @@ -151,8 +190,8 @@ clipboard can be made; the kill-ring and friends will be updated as per X. The only thing selection doesn't do is set the clipboard automatically -as this would break the MS-Windows model. If you want this behaviour -then set `selection-sets-clipboard' to t +as this would break the MS-Windows model. If you want this behavior +then set `selection-sets-clipboard' to t. ** Mail spool locking now works correctly. XEmacs has always come with a little auxiliary program, movemail, @@ -169,22 +208,65 @@ environment's mail spool locking conventions. When you're using a binary kit, set the `mail-lock-method' variable at startup, or the EMACSLOCKMETHOD environment variable. +** Init file will move to ~/.xemacs/init.el. + +If `~/.xemacs/init.el' exists, XEmacs will prefer it over `~/.emacs' +as an init file. The file may be byte-compiled as +`~/.xemacs/init.elc'. + +Future versions of XEmacs will stop supporting `~/.emacs' as an init +file. XEmacs offers automatic migration upon startup. + +** Custom file will move to ~/.xemacs/custom.el. + +Whereas customize settings were formerly stored in the regular init +file, XEmacs now prefers them to be in a separate file +`~/.xemacs/custom.el', completely under automatic control. This +change goes with the migration of the init file, and XEmacs offers +automatic migration upon startup. + +** Init file may be called .emacs.el. + +For the time being, like in GNU Emacs 20.4 and on, you can now name +the XEmacs init file `.emacs.el'. Formerly the name had to be +`.emacs'. If you use the name `.emacs.el', you can byte-compile the +file in the usual way. + +If both `.emacs' and `.emacs.el' exist, the latter file is the one +that is used. + ** New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory. These can be used to specify alternate locations for what is normally ~/.emacs and ~/.xemacs. Moreover, -user (which used to only work in unpredictable ways) -is now equivalent to --user-init-file ~/.emacs -user-init-directory ~/.xemacs. +is now equivalent to -user-init-file ~/.xemacs/init.el +-user-init-directory ~/.xemacs. or -user-init-file +~/.emacs -user-init-directory ~/.xemacs, whichever init +file comes first. ** New variable `mswindows-meta-activates-menu'. -If you set this variable to nil then pressing the Alt key under -MS-Windows will no longer activate the menubar. The default is t. +If you set this variable to nil then pressing and releasing the Alt +key under MS-Windows will no longer activate the menubar. The default +is t. This is not to be confused with `menu-accelerator-enabled', +which enables the use of Alt+ accelerators to invoke the +menus. -** Pixel-based scrolling has been implemented. +** Pixel-based scrolling has been implemented. By default this will attempt to scroll in increments equal to the -height of the default face. Set `window-pixel-scroll-increment' to -modify this behaviour. +height of the default face. Set `window-pixel-scroll-increment' to +modify this behavior. + +** Operation progress can be displayed using graphical widgets. +See `progress-feedback' for details. This support has been switched +on by default for font-lock and some web browsing functions. If you +do not like this behavior set `progress-feedback-use-echo-area'. + +** The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported. +It is now possible to build XEmacs so that the programming interface +to the PostgreSQL RDBMS (libpq) is available in XEmacs Lisp. +Supported versions of PostgreSQL are 6.5.3 (earlier versions may work, +but have not been tested) and 7.0-beta1. ** Etags changes. @@ -241,15 +323,7 @@ get to the initialized data. In that scheme, there is no difference between `temacs' and `xemacs'. This is all very experimental, though. Configure with `--pdump' to -try testing it. NOTE: it is expected that `make' will fail after -dumping `xemacs.dmp'. This is because Makefiles have not yet been -modified to not expect `temacs' producing an `xemacs' executable. You -can try it out by simply running `src/temacs'. If it starts without -failure, the portable dumping worked. - -#### NOTE: the portable dumper is not really usable yet, because the -state of built-in variables is not yet saved. Olivier promised to fix -it. Nag, nag. +try testing it. ** Much effort has been invested to make XEmacs Lisp faster: @@ -295,8 +369,8 @@ buttons, scrollbars, combo boxes, edit fields and progress gauges in a buffer. As a side effect subwindow support now works once again. All of this is still fairly experimental and there is no -documentation. The current APIs might change in a future version of -XEmacs. Some widgets are only available under MS-Windows. See the +documentation. The current APIs might change in a future version of +XEmacs. Some widgets are only available under MS-Windows. See the file glyphs-test.el in the XEmacs src distribution for examples of usage. @@ -309,7 +383,7 @@ to (concat "~" init-file-user). This turned out to be too complicated for most packages (and some core Lisp files) to use correctly. Also, the `init-file-user' variable has been obsoleted in the process. -The user-visible options like `-u' have not changed their behaviour. +The user-visible options like `-u' have not changed their behavior. ** XEmacs finally has an automated test suite! Although this is not yet very sophisticated, it is already responsible @@ -438,11 +512,26 @@ interned in the global obarray. For example: (keywordp (intern ":foo")) ; The same as (keywordp :foo) => t -This behaviour is compatible with other code which treats symbols +This behavior is compatible with other code which treats symbols beginning with colon as keywords only if they are interned in the global obarray. `keywordp' used to wrongly return t in both cases above. +** New variables `this-command-properties' and +`last-command-properties' are now available for communication between +consecutive commands. Commands should use these to communicate with +the pre/post-command hooks, subsequent commands, wrapping commands, +etc. in preference to looking at and/or setting `this-command'. + +** New functions `add-one-shot-hook' and `add-local-one-shot-hook' make +it possible to add a "one-shot" hook, which is to say a hook that runs +only once, and automatically removes itself after the first time it +has run. + +** The descriptor that specifies the text of a menu item can now be an +evaluated expression. This makes this descriptor parallel with +others, which can also be expressions. + * Changes in XEmacs 21.0 ========================