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| author | Glenn Morris | 2014-01-20 15:07:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris | 2014-01-20 15:07:57 -0500 |
| commit | 2d3c36db70ea118d3168a43e92b750c8999d60a6 (patch) | |
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| @@ -57,11 +57,6 @@ decompress gzip- and zlib-format compressed data. | |||
| 57 | ** Emacs for NS (Mac OS X, GNUstep) can be built with ImageMagick support. | 57 | ** Emacs for NS (Mac OS X, GNUstep) can be built with ImageMagick support. |
| 58 | This requires pkg-config to be available at configure time. | 58 | This requires pkg-config to be available at configure time. |
| 59 | 59 | ||
| 60 | ** New Core Text based font backend for Mac OS X 10.5 and newer. | ||
| 61 | GNUstep and Mac OS X 10.4 use the old font backend. | ||
| 62 | To use the old backend by default, do on the command line: | ||
| 63 | % defaults write org.gnu.Emacs FontBackend ns | ||
| 64 | |||
| 65 | 60 | ||
| 66 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4 | 61 | * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4 |
| 67 | 62 | ||
| @@ -765,32 +760,34 @@ with an indented sample file. | |||
| 765 | 760 | ||
| 766 | ** Todo mode has been rewritten and enhanced. | 761 | ** Todo mode has been rewritten and enhanced. |
| 767 | New features include: | 762 | New features include: |
| 768 | - support for multiple todo files and archive files of done items; | 763 | *** Support for multiple todo files and archive files of done items |
| 769 | - renaming, reordering, moving, merging, and deleting categories; | 764 | *** Renaming, reordering, moving, merging, and deleting categories |
| 770 | - sortable tabular summaries of categories and the types of items they contain; | 765 | *** Sortable tabular summaries of categories and the types of items they contain |
| 771 | - cross-category lists of items filtered by specific criteria; | 766 | *** Cross-category lists of items filtered by specific criteria |
| 772 | - more fine-grained interaction with the Emacs diary, by being able to decide | 767 | *** More fine-grained interaction with the Emacs diary, by being able to decide |
| 773 | for each todo item whether it appears in the Fancy Diary display; | 768 | for each todo item whether it appears in the Fancy Diary display |
| 774 | - highly flexible new item insertion and item editing; | 769 | *** Highly flexible new item insertion and item editing |
| 775 | - moving items between categories, storing done items in their category or in | 770 | *** Moving items between categories, storing done items in their category or in |
| 776 | archive files, undoing or unarchiving done items; | 771 | archive files, undoing or unarchiving done items |
| 777 | - reprioritizing items by inputting a numerical priority; | 772 | *** Reprioritizing items by inputting a numerical priority |
| 778 | - extensive customizability of operation and display, including numerous faces. | 773 | *** Extensive customizability of operation and display, including numerous faces |
| 779 | The Todo mode user manual describes all commands and most user options. | 774 | |
| 780 | To support some of these features, a new file format is used, which is | 775 | The Todo mode user manual describes all commands and most user |
| 781 | incompatible with the old format; however, you can convert old todo and done | 776 | options. To support some of these features, a new file format is |
| 782 | item files to the new format on initializing the first new todo file, or at any | 777 | used, which is incompatible with the old format; however, you can |
| 783 | later time with the provided conversion command. The old version of | 778 | convert old todo and done item files to the new format on initializing |
| 784 | todo-mode.el has been made obsolete and renamed otodo-mode.el. | 779 | the first new todo file, or at any later time with the provided |
| 785 | 780 | conversion command. The previous version of todo-mode.el has been | |
| 786 | ** trace-function was largely rewritten. | 781 | renamed to otodo-mode.el and is now obsolete. |
| 787 | New features include: | 782 | |
| 788 | - no prompting for the destination buffer, unless a prefix-arg was used. | 783 | ** trace-function |
| 789 | - additionally to prompting for a destination buffer, when a prefix-arg is | 784 | |
| 790 | used, the user can enter a "context", i.e. Lisp expression whose value at the | 785 | *** No prompting for the destination buffer, unless a prefix argument is used. |
| 791 | time the function is entered/exited will be printed along with the function | 786 | |
| 792 | name and arguments. Useful to trace the value of (current-buffer) or | 787 | *** With a prefix argument, you can enter a "context"; i.e., a Lisp |
| 793 | (point) when the function is invoked. | 788 | expression whose value at the time the function is entered/exited will |
| 789 | be printed along with the function name and arguments. For example, | ||
| 790 | you can use this to trace the value of current-buffer or point. | ||
| 794 | 791 | ||
| 795 | ** Tramp | 792 | ** Tramp |
| 796 | 793 | ||
| @@ -887,10 +884,12 @@ as a single word, similar to what `subword-mode' does. | |||
| 887 | +++ | 884 | +++ |
| 888 | ** New package nadvice.el offers lighter-weight advice facilities. | 885 | ** New package nadvice.el offers lighter-weight advice facilities. |
| 889 | It is layered as: | 886 | It is layered as: |
| 890 | - add-function/remove-function which can be used to add/remove code on any | 887 | |
| 891 | function-carrying place, such as process-filters or `<foo>-function' hooks. | 888 | *** add-function/remove-function, which can be used to add/remove code on any |
| 892 | - advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named function, | 889 | function-carrying place, such as process-filters or `<foo>-function' hooks. |
| 893 | much like `defadvice' does. | 890 | |
| 891 | *** advice-add/advice-remove to add/remove a piece of advice on a named | ||
| 892 | function,much like `defadvice' does. | ||
| 894 | 893 | ||
| 895 | ** New package frameset.el. | 894 | ** New package frameset.el. |
| 896 | It provides a set of operations to save a frameset (the state of all | 895 | It provides a set of operations to save a frameset (the state of all |
| @@ -1331,14 +1330,19 @@ edited in another Emacs session or by another user. See the node | |||
| 1331 | "Interlocking" in the Emacs User Manual for the details. To disable | 1330 | "Interlocking" in the Emacs User Manual for the details. To disable |
| 1332 | file locking, customize `create-lockfiles' to nil. | 1331 | file locking, customize `create-lockfiles' to nil. |
| 1333 | 1332 | ||
| 1333 | ** New Core Text based font backend for Mac OS X 10.5 and newer. | ||
| 1334 | GNUstep and Mac OS X 10.4 use the old font backend. | ||
| 1335 | To use the old backend by default, do on the command line: | ||
| 1336 | % defaults write org.gnu.Emacs FontBackend ns | ||
| 1337 | |||
| 1334 | ** Improved fullscreen support on Mac OS X. | 1338 | ** Improved fullscreen support on Mac OS X. |
| 1335 | Both native (>= Mac OS X 10.7) and "old style" fullscreen are supported. | 1339 | Emacs supports both native (Mac OS X 10.7 and newer) and "old style" fullscreen. |
| 1336 | Customize `ns-use-native-fullscreen' to change style. For >= 10.7 | 1340 | Customize `ns-use-native-fullscreen' to change the style. |
| 1337 | native is the default. | 1341 | For Mac OS X 10.7 and newer, native is the default. |
| 1338 | 1342 | ||
| 1339 | ** Mac OS X >= 10.7 can use sRGB colorspace. | 1343 | ** On Mac OS X 10.7 and newer, Emacs uses sRGB colorspace by default. |
| 1340 | Customize `ns-use-srgb-colorspace' to change style. t is the default. | 1344 | Customize `ns-use-srgb-colorspace' to disable this. Note that this |
| 1341 | Note: This does not apply to images. | 1345 | does not apply to images. |
| 1342 | 1346 | ||
| 1343 | 1347 | ||
| 1344 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3 | 1348 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.3 |