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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-10-28 13:29:29 +0300 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-10-28 13:29:29 +0300 |
commit | 68182a471007e4cb72efe53c38af9cb3aae332d2 (patch) | |
tree | f91f2627e035605012a9e5d0f53d5f8d48144fd1 /etc | |
parent | 451823b0e5e71de8949bb0eadc9ea52ec795754f (diff) | |
download | emacs-68182a471007e4cb72efe53c38af9cb3aae332d2.tar.gz |
Make manuals and NEWS consistent
* etc/NEWS: Fix markings on several entries, and rearrange others
as needed.
* doc/emacs/programs.texi (Hideshow): Document the new
outline-like bindings.
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Query Replace): Document 'u' and 'U'.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
-rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 46 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -24,12 +24,15 @@ When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies, * Installation Changes in Emacs 26.1 +--- ** By default libgnutls is now required when building Emacs. Use 'configure --with-gnutls=no' to build even when GnuTLS is missing. +--- ** GnuTLS version 2.12.2 or later is now required, instead of merely version 2.6.6 or later. ++++ ** The new option 'configure --with-mailutils' causes Emacs to rely on GNU Mailutils to retrieve email. It is recommended, and is the default if GNU Mailutils is installed. When --with-mailutils is not @@ -39,12 +42,14 @@ via insecure channels. To avoid this problem, use either --with-mailutils or --without-pop when configuring; --without-pop is the default on platforms other than native MS-Windows. +--- ** The new option 'configure --enable-gcc-warnings=warn-only' causes GCC to issue warnings without stopping the build. This behavior is now the default in developer builds. As before, use '--disable-gcc-warnings' to suppress GCC's warnings, and '--enable-gcc-warnings' to stop the build if GCC issues warnings. +--- ** When GCC warnings are enabled, '--enable-check-lisp-object-type' is now enabled by default when configuring. @@ -62,6 +67,7 @@ configure option '--disable-libsystemd'. (If your Emacs is installed in a non-standard location, you may need to copy the emacs.service file to eg ~/.config/systemd/user/) +--- ** New configure option '--disable-build-details' attempts to build an Emacs that is more likely to be reproducible; that is, if you build and install Emacs twice, the second Emacs is a copy of the first. @@ -80,11 +86,13 @@ linked to Little CMS exposes color management functions in Lisp: the color metrics 'lcms-cie-de2000' and 'lcms-cam02-ucs', as well as functions for conversion to and from CIE CAM02 and CAM02-UCS. +--- ** The configure option '--with-gameuser' now defaults to 'no', as this appears to be the most common configuration in practice. When it is 'no', the shared game directory and the auxiliary program update-game-score are no longer needed and are not installed. +--- ** Emacs no longer works on IRIX. We expect that Emacs users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in December 2013. @@ -423,19 +431,28 @@ You can enable this by customizing 'mwheel-tilt-scroll-p'. If you want to reverse the direction of the scroll, customize 'mwheel-flip-direction'. +** Emacsclient changes + +++ -** Emacsclient has a new option '-u' / '--suppress-output'. +*** Emacsclient has a new option '-u' / '--suppress-output'. This option suppresses display of return values from the server process. +++ -** Emacsclient has a new option '-T' / '--tramp'. +*** Emacsclient has a new option '-T' / '--tramp'. This helps with using a local Emacs session as the server for a remote emacsclient. With appropriate setup, one can now set the EDITOR environment variable on a remote machine to emacsclient, and use the local Emacs to edit remote files via Tramp. See the node "(emacs) emacsclient Options" in the user manual for the details. ++++ +*** Emacsclient now accepts command-line options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR +and '--alternate-editor'. For example, ALTERNATE_EDITOR="emacs -Q -nw". +Arguments may be quoted "like this", so that for example an absolute +path containing a space may be specified; quote escaping is not +supported. + --- ** New user option 'dig-program-options' and extended functionality for DNS-querying functions 'nslookup-host', 'dns-lookup-host', @@ -488,13 +505,7 @@ line-number display in a window can use the new function Users and developers are encouraged to switch to this new feature instead. -+++ -** emacsclient now accepts command-line options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR -and '--alternate-editor'. For example, ALTERNATE_EDITOR="emacs -Q -nw". -Arguments may be quoted "like this", so that for example an absolute -path containing a space may be specified; quote escaping is not -supported. - +--- ** The new user option 'arabic-shaper-ZWNJ-handling' controls how to handle ZWNJ in Arabic text rendering. @@ -587,6 +598,7 @@ Negative prefix arg flips the direction of selection. Also, defun are selected unless they are separated from the defun by a blank line. +--- ** New command 'replace-buffer-contents'. This command replaces the contents of the accessible portion of the current buffer with the contents of the accessible portion of a @@ -691,6 +703,10 @@ A new option 'ediff-show-ancestor' and a new toggle *** Key 'U' is bound to 'Buffer-menu-unmark-all' and key 'M-DEL' is bound to 'Buffer-menu-unmark-all-buffers'. ++++ +** hideshow mode got four key bindings that are analogous to outline +mode bindings: 'C-c @ C-a', 'C-c @ C-t', 'C-c @ C-d', and 'C-c @ C-e'. + ** bs --- @@ -719,7 +735,6 @@ method is an NNTP select method. added: 'C-c C-s C-m C-m'. +++ - *** In 'message-citation-line-format' the '%Z' format is now the time zone name instead of the numeric form. The '%z' format continues to be the numeric form. The new behavior is compatible with @@ -982,6 +997,7 @@ there are now top-level domains added all the time. Message will no longer warn about sending emails to top-level domains it hasn't heard about. +--- *** 'message-beginning-of-line' (bound to 'C-a') understands folded headers. In 'visual-line-mode' it will look for the true beginning of a header while in non-'visual-line-mode' it will move the point to the indented @@ -1188,8 +1204,10 @@ the previous behavior. * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 26.1 +--- ** New Elisp data-structure library 'radix-tree'. +--- ** New library 'xdg' with utilities for some XDG standards and specs. ** HTML @@ -1199,14 +1217,18 @@ the previous behavior. mode for *.html files. This mode handles indentation, fontification, and commenting for embedded JavaScript and CSS. +--- ** New mode 'conf-toml-mode' is a sub-mode of 'conf-mode', specialized for editing TOML files. +--- ** New mode 'conf-desktop-mode' is a sub-mode of 'conf-unix-mode', specialized for editing freedesktop.org desktop entries. +--- ** New minor mode 'pixel-scroll-mode' provides smooth pixel-level scrolling. +--- ** New major mode 'less-css-mode' (a minor variant of 'css-mode') for editing Less files. @@ -1245,10 +1267,6 @@ mode to send the same escape sequences that xterm does. This makes things like 'forward-word' in readline work. --- -** hideshow mode got four key bindings that are analogous to outline -mode bindings: 'C-c @ C-a', 'C-c @ C-t', 'C-c @ C-d', and 'C-c @ C-e'. - ---- ** Customizable variable 'query-replace-from-to-separator' now doesn't propertize the string value of the separator. Instead, text properties are added by 'query-replace-read-from'. |