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@@ -116,7 +116,16 @@ dired buffer. ** Emacs now uses double buffering to reduce flicker when editing and resizing graphical Emacs frames on the X Window System. This support requires the DOUBLE-BUFFER extension, which major X servers have -supported for many years. +supported for many years. If your system has this extension, but an +Emacs built with double buffering misbehaves on some displays you use, +you can disable the feature by adding + + '(inhibit-double-buffering . t) + +to default-frame-parameters. Or inject this parameter into the +selected frame by evaluating this form: + + (modify-frame-parameters nil '((inhibit-double-buffering . t))) --- The group 'wp', whose label was "text", is now deprecated. @@ -298,10 +307,23 @@ local part of a remote file name. Thus, if you have a directory named "/~" on the remote host "foo", you can prevent it from being substituted by a home directory by writing it as "/foo:/:/~/file". ++++ +** The new variable 'maximum-scroll-margin' allows having effective +settings of 'scroll-margin' up to half the window size, instead of +always restricting the margin to a quarter of the window. + * Editing Changes in Emacs 26.1 +++ +** Two new user options 'list-matching-lines-jump-to-current-line' and +'list-matching-lines-current-line-face' to show highlighted the current +line in *Occur* buffer. + ++++ +** The 'occur' command can now operate on the region. + ++++ ** New bindings for 'query-replace-map'. 'undo', undo the last replacement; bound to 'u'. 'undo-all', undo all replacements; bound to 'U'. @@ -339,6 +361,16 @@ bound to 'Buffer-menu-unmark-all-buffers'. *** Two new commands 'Buffer-menu-unmark-all', bound to 'U' and 'Buffer-menu-unmark-all-buffers', bound to 'M-DEL'. +** Gnus + +--- +*** The .newsrc file will now only be saved if the native select +method is an NNTP select method. + ++++ +*** A new command for sorting articles by readedness marks has been +added: `C-c C-s C-m C-m'. + ** Ibuffer --- @@ -432,6 +464,11 @@ viewing HTML files and the like. breakpoint (e.g. with "f" and "o") by customizing the new option 'edebug-sit-on-break'. ++++ +*** New customizable option 'edebug-max-depth' +This allows to enlarge the maximum recursion depth when instrumenting +code. + ** Eshell *** 'eshell-input-filter's value is now a named function @@ -594,6 +631,13 @@ HTML tags, classes and IDs using the 'completion-at-point' command. Completion candidates for HTML classes and IDs are retrieved from open HTML mode buffers. +--- +*** CSS mode now binds 'C-h S' to a function that will show +information about a CSS construct (an at-rule, property, pseudo-class, +pseudo-element, with the default being guessed from context). By +default the information is looked up on the Mozilla Developer Network, +but this can be customized using 'css-lookup-url-format'. + +++ ** Emacs now supports character name escape sequences in character and string literals. The syntax variants \N{character name} and @@ -719,6 +763,13 @@ instead. * Lisp Changes in Emacs 26.1 ++++ +** 'save-some-buffers' now uses 'save-some-buffers-default-predicate' +to decide which buffers to ask about, if the PRED argument is nil. +The default value of 'save-some-buffers-default-predicate' is nil, +which means ask about all file-visiting buffers. + +** string-(to|as|make)-(uni|multi)byte are now declared obsolete. ** New variable 'while-no-input-ignore-events' which allow setting which special events 'while-no-input' should ignore. It is a list of symbols. @@ -778,6 +829,11 @@ of an arbitrary function. This generalizes 'subr-arity' for functions that are not built-in primitives. We recommend using this new function instead of 'subr-arity'. +** New function 'region-bounds' can be used in the interactive spec +to provide region boundaries (for rectangular regions more than one) +to an interactively callable function as a single argument instead of +two separate arguments region-beginning and region-end. + +++ ** 'parse-partial-sexp' state has a new element. Element 10 is non-nil when the last character scanned might be the first character @@ -838,6 +894,13 @@ ABBR is a time zone abbreviation. The affected functions are collection). +++ +** 'car' and 'cdr' compositions 'cXXXr' and 'cXXXXr' are now part of Elisp. + +--- +** 'if-let*', 'when-let*', and 'and-let*' are new in subr-x.el. +The incumbent 'if-let' and 'when-let' are now aliases. + ++++ ** The new functions 'make-nearby-temp-file' and 'temporary-file-directory' can be used for creation of temporary files of remote or mounted directories. |