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@ -62,10 +62,6 @@ For GNUStep and OSX 10.4 the old backend is used.
To use the old backend by default, do on the command line:
% defaults write org.gnu.Emacs FontBackend ns
** If your Emacs was built from a repository checkout, the new variable
`emacs-repository-version' contains information about the bzr revision used.
In 24.3 this variable was `emacs-bzr-version`.
* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4
@ -256,6 +252,10 @@ versions of a file exist, and the caller did not explicitly specify
which one to load, then the newer file is loaded. The default, nil,
means to always load the .elc file.
---
** `emacs-bzr-version' has been renamed to `emacs-repository-version',
and works for git too.
* Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ This is useful to avoid a query when you have no key for that name.
** ERC
*** New option `erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds'.
If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally paste large
If set to a number, this can be used to avoid accidentally pasting large
amounts of data into the ERC input.
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@ -770,14 +770,13 @@ whether it is safe to use Bash's --noediting option. These days
** Shell Script mode
*** `sh-mode' now has the mode own `add-log-current-defun-function'.
You can pick the name of the function and the variables with `C-x 4 a'.
*** `sh-mode' now has its own setting for `add-log-current-defun-function'.
*** The SMIE indentation engine is now used by default.
** SMIE indentation can be customized via `smie-config'.
The customization can be guessed by Emacs by providing a sample indented
file and letting SMIE learn from it.
Emacs can learn the appropriate indentation settings if you provide it
with an indented sample file.
** Term mode
@ -814,7 +813,7 @@ New features include:
** Tramp
*** The experimental url syntax for remote file names is withdrawn.
*** The experimental url syntax for remote file names has been removed.
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*** New connection method "adb", which allows to access Android
@ -862,8 +861,10 @@ because it is moved to vc-cvs.el.
** VHDL mode
---
*** New options: `vhdl-actual-generic-name', `vhdl-beautify-options'.
---
*** New commands: `vhdl-fix-statement-region', `vhdl-fix-statement-buffer'.
** Woman
@ -900,10 +901,9 @@ has not been relevant for some time.
** New package `eww' is a built-in web browser.
It is only available if Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support.
** New minor mode `superword-mode', defined in subword.el
`superword-mode' overrides the default word motion commands to treat
symbol_words as a single word, similar to what `subword-mode' does and
using the same internal functions.
** New minor mode `superword-mode'.
This overrides the default word motion commands to treat "symbol_words"
as a single word, similar to what `subword-mode' does.
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** New package nadvice.el offers lighter-weight advice facilities.
@ -928,18 +928,19 @@ low-level libraries gfilenotify.c, inotify.c or w32notify.c.
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
---
** `kill-region' lost its `yank-handler' optional argument.
** `kill-region' has lost its `yank-handler' optional argument.
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** `(input-pending-p)' no longer runs other timers which are ready to
run. The new optional CHECK-TIMERS param allows for the prior behavior.
** `(input-pending-p)' no longer runs other timers that are ready to run.
The new optional CHECK-TIMERS parameter allows for the prior behavior.
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** `defvar' and `defcustom' in a let-binding affect the "external" default.
---
** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
Some languages match those as »...« and others as «...» so better stay neutral.
** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
Some languages match those as »...«, and others as «...», so it is
better for Emacs to stay neutral by default.
---
** In compiled Lisp files, the header no longer includes a timestamp.
@ -958,7 +959,7 @@ It used to disable the minor mode, major mode, and text-property keymaps,
whereas now it simply has higher precedence.
** Default process filters and sentinels are not nil any more.
Instead they default to a function which does what the nil value used to do.
Instead they default to a function that does what the nil value used to do.
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** `read-event' does not return decoded chars in ttys any more.
@ -968,11 +969,11 @@ input, according to `keyboard-coding-system', is not performed in
done before input-decode-map, function-key-map, etc.
---
** Removed `inhibit-local-menu-bar-menus'.
** The option `inhibit-local-menu-bar-menus' has been removed.
---
** Frame-local variables that affect redisplay do not work any more.
More specifically, the redisplay does not bother to check for a frame-local
More specifically, redisplay does not bother to check for a frame-local
value when looking up variables.
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@ -1088,7 +1089,7 @@ displaying the buffer in a window.
*** `bool-vector-count-population'
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** Comparison functions =, <, >, <=, >= now take many arguments.
** Comparison functions =, <, >, <=, >= can now take many arguments.
** Error-handling changes
@ -1098,7 +1099,8 @@ displaying the buffer in a window.
*** `with-demoted-errors' takes an additional argument `format'.
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** New macro with-eval-after-load. Like eval-after-load, but better behaved.
** New macro `with-eval-after-load'.
This is like the old `eval-after-load', but better behaved.
** New library subr-x.el for misc helper functions
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@ -1178,7 +1180,7 @@ used in place of the 9th element of `file-attributes'.
argument, with the same interpretation as the returned value of
`visited-file-modtime'.
** Changes in autorevert.el
** Autorevert changes
---
*** If Emacs is compiled with file notification support, notifications