This overhaul introduces four key changes to the elisp ports framework: 1. Remove support for packaged byte-compiled elisp. The primary motivation is to remove a large number of flavor-specific packages and to simplify the ports tree. As an example, supporting byte-compiled elisp for devel/tablist required six packages, one for each flavor of editors/emacs and editors/emacs-devel. With over 100 elisp ports and requests for new Emacs flavors, this was unmanageable. 2. Install configuration to integrate with Emacs's native compilation machinery, allowing elisp from ports to be compiled into the standard cache under the user's home directory. This matches the behavior of GNU ELPA packages and generally results in a faster experience. Speedups vary depending on the characteristics of the elisp code, but are often reported to be 2.5 to 5 times faster than byte-compiled code. 3. Perform byte compilation on the target host, but only when native compilation is unavailable. Compilation is initiated when Emacs starts, and the resulting .elc files are cached under the user's home directory. 4. Load all autoload files installed by FreeBSD elisp ports. This mirrors what package.el does for ELPA packages, ensuring that autoloaded functions are available without requiring users to explicitly load each package. Users with elisp packages (*-emacs_*) installed should consult the 2026-04-11 UPDATING entry for instructions on handling the transition. Reviewed by: ashish, Benjamin Jacobs <freebsd@dev.thsi.be>, dinoex, mandree, mce, nobutaka, Pat Maddox <pat@patmaddox.com>, rhurlin Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56001
This update contains changes from 2020-08-13 to 2025-05-27. Here is a compiled
overview about them:
* Add `clojuredart-mode`, `joker-mode` and `jank-mode`, derived from `clojure-mode`.
* Improve regexp for `clojure-find-def` to recognize more complex metadata on vars.
* Restore `outline-regexp` pattern to permit outline handling of top-level forms.
* Improve regexp for `clojure-find-def` to recognize `defn-` and other declarations on the form `def...-`.
* Fix `clojure-align` when called from `clojure-ts-mode` major mode buffers.
* Syntax highlighting for digits after the first in `%` args. (e.g. `%10`)
* Change syntax class of ASCII control characters to punctuation, fixing situations where carriage returns were being interpreted as symbols.
* Add `.lpy` to the list of known Clojure file extensions.
* Don't highlight vars with colons as keywords.
* Avoid `No comment syntax is defined` prompts.
* Declare indentation for the `async` ClojureScript macro.
* Improve support for multiple forms in the same line by replacing `beginning-of-defun` fn.
* Fix `clojure-find-ns` when ns form is preceded by other forms.
* Fix `clojure-find-ns` when ns form is preceded by whitespace or inside comment form.
* `clojure-find-ns`: add an option to never raise errors, returning `nil` instead on unparseable ns forms.
* Font-lock Lein's `defproject` as a keyword.
* Fix infinite loop when sorting a ns with comments in the end.
* Fix infinite loop when opening file containing `comment` with `clojure-toplevel-inside-comment-form` set to `t`.
* Recognize nbb projects (identified by the presence of `nbb.edn`).
* Set `add-log-current-defun-function` to new function `clojure-current-defun-name` (this is used by `which-function-mode` and `easy-kill`).
* Fix font locking not working for keywords starting with a number.
* Fix everything starting with the prefix `def` being highlighted as a definition form. Now definition forms are enumerated explicitly in the font-locking code, like all other forms.
* Fix `imenu` with Clojure code in string or comment.
* Fix metadata being displayed in `imenu` instead of var name.
* Add font locking for missing `clojure.core` macros.
* Support clojure-dart files.
* Fix buffer freezing when typing metadata for a definition.
* Allow additional directories, beyond the default `clj[sc]`, to be correctly formulated by `clojure-expected-ns` via new `defcustom` entitled `clojure-directory-prefixes`
* Recognize babashka projects (identified by the presence of `bb.edn`).
* Add new command `clojure-promote-fn-literal` for converting `#()` function literals to `fn` form.
* Add `bb` (babashka) to `interpreter-mode-alist`.
* Fix alignment issue involving margin comments at the end of nested forms.
* Extend `clojure-rename-ns-alias` to work on selected regions.
* Add new commands `clojure-toggle-ignore`, `clojure-toggle-ignore-surrounding-form`, and `clojure-toggle-defun` for inserting/deleting `#_` ignore forms.
* Add `clojure-special-arg-indent-factor` to control special argument indentation.
* Fix font-lock for character literals.
* Stop `clojure-sort-ns` from calling `redisplay`.
* Improve font-locking performance on strings with escaped characters.
* Remove `project.el` integration.
* Remove `clojure-view-grimoire` command.
* Align to recent `pcase` changes on Emacs master.
* `clojure-rename-ns-alias` picks up existing aliases for minibuffer completion.
* Fix extra spaces being inserted after quote in paredit-mode.
* Fix docstring detection when string contains backslash.
* Fix font-lock regex for character literals for uppercase chars and other symbols.
* Fix renaming of ns aliases containing regex characters.
* Fix ns detection for ns forms with complex metadata.
* Fix `outline-regexp` so `outline-insert-heading` behaves correctly.
* Indent `clojure-align` region before aligning.
* Fix allow `clojure-align-cond-forms` to recognize qualified forms.
* Fix syntax highlighting for multiple consecutive comment reader macros (`#_#_`).
* Inline definition of `clojure-mode-syntax-table` and support `'` quotes in symbols.
* Enhance add arity refactoring to support a `defn` inside a reader conditional.
* Enhance add arity refactoring to support new forms: `letfn`, `fn`, `defmacro`, `defmethod`, `defprotocol`, `reify` and `proxy`.
You can see a diff of the Changelog here:
* https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clojure-mode/compare/5.11.0...v5.20.0#diff-06572a96a58dc510037d5efa622f9bec8519bc1beab13c9f251e97e657a9d4ed
Sponsored by: OTTRIA GmbH
* Replace '30.1' in Mk/Uses/emacs.mk with '30.2'. * Bump PORTREVISION of dependent ports. ChangLog: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-30.2 Reviewed by: jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51906
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Bump PORTREVISION of most USES=emacs ports after editors/emacs-devel major version increased from 30 to 31. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
- Bump Emacs version in Mk/Uses/emacs.mk to update version-specific paths - Bump PORTREVISION of ports with USES=emacs. This is required for two reasons. Emacs lisp files need to be byte compiled for the new Emacs version, and files installed under, e.g., EMACS_VERSION_SITE_LISPDIR need to be relocated. Reviewed by: ashish, yasu Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45705
- Bump Emacs version in Mk/Uses/emacs.mk to update version-specific paths - Bump PORTREVISION of ports with USES=emacs. This is required for two reasons. Emacs lisp files need to be byte compiled for the new Emacs version, and files installed under, e.g., EMACS_VERSION_SITE_LISPDIR need to be relocated. Reviewed by: ashish Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44492
- Bump Emacs version in Mk/Uses/emacs.mk to update version-specific paths - Bump PORTREVISION of ports with USES=emacs. This is required for two reasons. Emacs lisp files need to be byte compiled for the new Emacs version, and files installed under, e.g., EMACS_VERSION_SITE_LISPDIR need to be relocated. Reviewed by: ashish Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43615
* Update Canna patch to the one for Emacs 29.
* Add new options PGTK, SQLITE3, TREESITTER and WEBP. SQLITE3 and
TREESITTER are ON by default. PGTK and WEBP options are excluded
from nox flavor.
* CARGO option doesn't imply XFT but prevents it. It is caused as a
result of adding pure GTK support (PGTK option).
* OTK options doesn't imply XTF any more. It is also caused as a
result of adding pure GTK support.
* Update NATIVECOMP option so it specifies ahead-of-time compilation
via the configure argument.
* Remove "experimental" from NATIVECOMP_DESC.
* Add print/freetype2 and x11-fonts/fontconfig to CAIRO_LIB_DEPENDS
and GTK3_LIB_DEPENDS. Necessary to link emacs binary with shared
libraries.
* When PGTK option is ON and SCROLLBARS is OFF, configure fails as
following
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checking for gnutls >= 2.12.2... yes
checking for jansson >= 2.7... yes
checking for tree-sitter >= 0.20.2... yes
checking for libkqueue... no
checking for library containing kqueue... none required
configure: error: Non-toolkit scroll bars are not implemented for your system
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So add SCROLLBARS to PGTK_IMPLIES to avoid such options setting.
* When MODULES option is OFF and TREESITTER is ON, link error happens
as following.
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cc -o temacs.tmp \
-Demacs -I. -I. -I../lib -I../lib -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/librsvg-2.0 -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -pthread -I/usr/local/include/cairo -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/libpng16 -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include/libpng16 -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/local/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/webp -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -pthread -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/libpng16 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/libpng16 -I/usr/local/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/libpng16 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -MMD -MF deps/.d -MP -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/p11-kit-1 -I/usr/local/include/cairo -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/libpng16 -D_THREAD_SAFE -Wno-switch -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-string-plus-int -Wno-unknown-attributes -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-initializer-overrides -Wno-tautological-compare -Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -isystem /usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -isystem /usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing -isystem /usr/local/include -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib \
dispnew.o frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o menu.o xmenu.o window.o charset.o coding.o category.o ccl.o character.o chartab.o bidi.o cm.o term.o terminal.o xfaces.o xterm.o xfns.o xselect.o xrdb.o xsmfns.o xsettings.o dbusbind.o emacs.o keyboard.o macros.o keymap.o sysdep.o bignum.o buffer.o filelock.o insdel.o marker.o minibuf.o fileio.o dired.o cmds.o casetab.o casefiddle.o indent.o search.o regex-emacs.o undo.o alloc.o pdumper.o data.o doc.o editfns.o callint.o eval.o floatfns.o fns.o sort.o font.o print.o lread.o syntax.o bytecode.o comp.o process.o gnutls.o callproc.o region-cache.o sound.o timefns.o atimer.o doprnt.o intervals.o textprop.o composite.o xml.o lcms.o kqueue.o profiler.o decompress.o thread.o systhread.o sqlite.o treesit.o itree.o xfont.o ftfont.o ftcrfont.o hbfont.o fontset.o fringe.o image.o xgselect.o json.o terminfo.o lastfile.o ../lib/libgnu.a ../oldXMenu/libXMenu11.a -ltiff -ljpeg -L/usr/local/lib -lpng16 -lgif -L/usr/local/lib -lwebpdemux -lwebpdecoder -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXrender -L/usr/local/lib -lrsvg-2 -lm -lgio-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -lcairo -lrt -L/usr/local/lib -ldbus-1 -lexecinfo -L/usr/local/lib -lXrandr -L/usr/local/lib -lXinerama -L/usr/local/lib -lXfixes -lXext -lXext -L/usr/local/lib -lxml2 -lutil -L/usr/local/lib -lcairo -lncurses -L/usr/local/lib -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -L/usr/local/lib -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -L/usr/local/lib -lfontconfig -lfreetype -L/usr/local/lib -lharfbuzz -L/usr/local/lib -lgnutls -lpthread -L/usr/local/lib -llcms2 -llcms2_fast_float -llcms2_threaded -lm -lz -L/usr/local/lib -ljansson -lgmp -L/usr/local/lib -lXi -L/usr/local/lib -ltree-sitter -lsqlite3 -lXcomposite -lXext
ld: error: undefined symbol: dynlib_error
>>> referenced by treesit.c
>>> treesit.o:(treesit_load_language)
>>> referenced by treesit.c
>>> treesit.o:(treesit_load_language)
>>> referenced by treesit.c
>>> treesit.o:(treesit_load_language)
>>> referenced 1 more times
ld: error: undefined symbol: dynlib_sym
>>> referenced by treesit.c
>>> treesit.o:(treesit_load_language)
ld: error: undefined symbol: dynlib_open
>>> referenced by treesit.c
>>> treesit.o:(treesit_load_language)
cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
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So add MODULES to TREESITTER_IMPLIES to avoid such options setting.
* Bump PORTREVISION of ports that use "USES=emacs".
ChangeLog: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29.1
Reviewed by: ashish, jrm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41444