GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 2014-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
This file is about changes in Emacs version 26.
See file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates.
-See files NEWS.25, NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20,
-NEWS.19, NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
+See files NEWS.25, NEWS.24, ..., NEWS.18, and NEWS.1-17 for changes
+in older Emacs versions.
You can narrow news to a specific version by calling 'view-emacs-news'
with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
Temporary note:
-+++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates are complete.
- (This means all relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
---- means no change in the manuals is needed.
++++ indicates that all necessary documentation updates have been done.
+ (This means all the relevant manuals in doc/ AND lisp doc-strings.)
+--- means doc strings are updated, and no change in the manuals is needed.
When you add a new item, use the appropriate mark if you are sure it applies,
\f
+++
** A systemd user unit file is provided. Use it in the standard way:
-systemctl --user enable emacs
+'systemctl --user enable emacs'.
(If your Emacs is installed in a non-standard location, you may
need to copy the emacs.service file to eg ~/.config/systemd/user/)
assertion triggers.
+++
-** Emacs now supports 24-bit colors on capable text terminals
+** Emacs now supports 24-bit colors on capable text terminals.
Terminal is automatically initialized to use 24-bit colors if the
required capabilities are found in terminfo. See the FAQ node
-"Colors on a TTY" for more information.
+"(efaq) Colors on a TTY" for more information.
+++
** Emacs now obeys the X resource "scrollBar" at startup.
+++
** Option 'buffer-offer-save' can be set to new value, 'always'. When
- set to 'always', the command `save-some-buffers' will always offer
- this buffer for saving.
+set to 'always', the command 'save-some-buffers' will always offer
+this buffer for saving.
** Security vulnerability related to Enriched Text mode is removed.
a 'let' binding is thread-local. Each thread also has its own current
buffer and its own match data.
-See the chapter "Threads" in the ELisp manual for full documentation
-of these facilities.
+See the chapter "(elisp) Threads" in the ELisp manual for full
+documentation of these facilities.
+++
** The new user variable 'electric-quote-chars' provides a list
(modify-frame-parameters nil '((inhibit-double-buffering . t)))
---
-The group 'wp', whose label was "text", is now deprecated.
-Use the new group 'text', which inherits from 'wp', instead.
+** The customization group 'wp', whose label was "text", is now
+deprecated. Use the new group 'text', which inherits from 'wp',
+instead.
+++
** The new function 'call-shell-region' executes a command in an
** It is possible to disable attempted recovery on fatal signals.
Two new variables support disabling attempts to recover from stack
overflow and to avoid automatic auto-save when Emacs is delivered a
-fatal signal. 'attempt-stack-overflow-recovery', if set to 'nil',
+fatal signal. 'attempt-stack-overflow-recovery', if set to nil,
will disable attempts to recover from C stack overflows; Emacs will
then crash as with any other fatal signal.
-'attempt-orderly-shutdown-on-fatal-signal', if set to 'nil', will
+'attempt-orderly-shutdown-on-fatal-signal', if set to nil, will
disable attempts to auto-save the session and shut down in an orderly
fashion when Emacs receives a fatal signal; instead, Emacs will
-terminate immediately. Both variables are non-'nil' by default.
+terminate immediately. Both variables are non-nil by default.
These variables are for users who would like to avoid the small
probability of data corruption due to techniques Emacs uses to recover
in these situations.
+++
** Connection-local variables can be used to specify local variables
with a value depending on the connected remote server. For details,
-see the node "Connection Local Variables" in the ELisp manual.
+see the node "(elisp) Connection Local Variables" in the ELisp manual.
---
** International domain names (IDNA) are now encoded via the new
+++
** 'switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' now defaults to t.
+Applications that call 'switch-to-buffer' and want to show the buffer at
+the position of its point should use 'pop-to-buffer-same-window' in lieu
+of 'switch-to-buffer'.
+++
** The new variable 'debugger-stack-frame-as-list' allows displaying
---
** Values in call stack frames are now displayed using 'cl-prin1'.
-The old behaviour of using 'prin1' can be restored by customizing the
+The old behavior of using 'prin1' can be restored by customizing the
new option 'debugger-print-function'.
+++
'mwheel-flip-direction'.
+++
-** 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
-"emacsclient Options" in the user manual for the details.
+"(emacs) emacsclient Options" in the user manual for the details.
---
** New user option 'dig-program-options' and extended functionality
+++
** You can now provide explicit field numbers in format specifiers.
-For example, '(format "%2$s %1$s" "X" "Y")' produces "Y X".
+For example, '(format "%2$s %1$s %2$s" "X" "Y")' produces "Y X Y".
+++
** Emacs now supports optional display of line numbers in the buffer.
-This is similar to what linum-mode provides, but much faster and
+This is similar to what 'linum-mode' provides, but much faster and
doesn't usurp the display margin for the line numbers. Customize the
buffer-local variable 'display-line-numbers' to activate this optional
-display. Alternatively, you can use the `display-line-numbers-mode'
-minor mode or the global `global-display-line-numbers-mode'. When
-using these modes, customize `display-line-numbers-type' with the same
-value as you would use with `display-line-numbers'.
+display. Alternatively, you can use the 'display-line-numbers-mode'
+minor mode or the global 'global-display-line-numbers-mode'. When
+using these modes, customize 'display-line-numbers-type' with the same
+value as you would use with 'display-line-numbers'.
Line numbers are not displayed at all in minibuffer windows and in
tooltips, as they are not useful there.
line-number display in a window can use the new function
'line-number-display-width'.
-Linum mode and all similar packages are henceforth becoming obsolete.
+'linum-mode' and all similar packages are henceforth becoming obsolete.
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".
+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.
+
\f
* 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.
+'list-matching-lines-current-line-face' to show the current line
+highlighted in *Occur* buffer.
+++
** The 'occur' command can now operate on the region.
properties as intact as possible.
+++
-** New commands 'apropos-local-variable' and 'apropos-local-value.
+** New commands 'apropos-local-variable' and 'apropos-local-value'.
These are buffer-local versions of 'apropos-variable' and
'apropos-value', respectively. They show buffer-local variables whose
names and values, respectively, match a given pattern.
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 26.1
---
-** New function `cl-generic-p'.
+** Emacs 26.1 comes with Org v9.1.2.
+See the file ORG-NEWS for user-visible changes in Org.
+
+---
+** New function 'cl-generic-p'.
** Dired
It gets replaced by the current file name, like ' ? '.
+++
-*** A new option 'dired-always-read-filesystem' default to nil.
-If non-nil, buffers visiting files are reverted before search them;
-for instance, in 'dired-mark-files-containing-regexp' a non-nil value
-of this option means the file is revisited in a temporary buffer;
-this temporary buffer is the actual buffer searched: the original buffer
-visiting the file is not modified.
+*** A new option 'dired-always-read-filesystem' defaulting to nil.
+If non-nil, buffers visiting files are reverted before they are
+searched; for instance, in 'dired-mark-files-containing-regexp' a
+non-nil value of this option means the file is revisited in a
+temporary buffer; this temporary buffer is the actual buffer searched:
+the original buffer visiting the file is not modified.
---
*** Users can now customize mouse clicks in Dired in a more flexible way.
** html2text is now marked obsolete.
---
-** smerge-refine-regions can refine regions in separate buffers
+** smerge-refine-regions can refine regions in separate buffers.
---
** Info menu and index completion uses substring completion by default.
-This can be customized via the info-menu category in
-completion-category-override.
+This can be customized via the 'info-menu' category in
+'completion-category-overrides'.
+++
** The ancestor buffer is shown by default in 3-way merges.
-A new option ediff-show-ancestor and a new toggle
-ediff-toggle-show-ancestor.
+A new option 'ediff-show-ancestor' and a new toggle
+'ediff-toggle-show-ancestor'.
---
** TeX: Add luatex and xetex as alternatives to pdftex
** Gnus
---
-*** The .newsrc file will now only be saved if the native select
+*** The ~/.newsrc file will now only be saved if the native select
method is an NNTP select method.
+++
+++
-*** 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 format-time-string.
+*** 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
+'format-time-string'.
** Ibuffer
---
*** New user option 'comint-move-point-for-matching-input' to control
-where to place point after C-c M-r and C-c M-s.
+where to place point after 'C-c M-r' and 'C-c M-s'.
** Compilation mode
'edebug-sit-on-break'.
+++
-*** New customizable option 'edebug-max-depth'
+*** New customizable option 'edebug-max-depth'.
This allows to enlarge the maximum recursion depth when instrumenting
code.
avoid accidentally accessing remote links may rebind 'w' and 'u' in
'eww-link-keymap' to it.
-
** Ido
---
+++
*** A new library for creating and manipulating SVG images has been
-added. See the "SVG Images" section in the Lisp reference manual for
-details.
+added. See the "(elisp) SVG Images" section in the ELisp reference
+manual for details.
+++
*** New setf-able function to access and set image parameters is
'image-dired-cmd-write-exif-data-options',
'image-dired-cmd-read-exif-data-options', and introduces
'image-dired-cmd-pngnq-options', 'image-dired-cmd-pngcrush-options',
-'image-dired-cmd-create-standard-thumbnail-options'
+'image-dired-cmd-create-standard-thumbnail-options'.
---
-*** Recognizes more tools by default, including pngnq-s9 and OptiPNG
+*** Recognizes more tools by default, including pngnq-s9 and OptiPNG.
---
*** 'find-file' and related commands now work on thumbnails and
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.
+*** '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
header's value.
+++
*** The new variable 'package-gnupghome-dir' has been added to control
where the GnuPG home directory (used for signature verification) is
-located and whether GnuPG's option "--homedir" is used or not.
+located and whether GnuPG's option '--homedir' is used or not.
---
*** Deleting a package no longer respects 'delete-by-moving-to-trash'.
+++
** Emacs now supports character name escape sequences in character and
-string literals. The syntax variants \N{character name} and
-\N{U+code} are supported.
+string literals. The syntax variants '\N{character name}' and
+'\N{U+code}' are supported.
+++
** Prog mode has some support for multi-mode indentation.
the 'prog-indentation-context' variable. To support this, modes that
provide indentation should use 'prog-widen' instead of 'widen' and
'prog-first-column' instead of a literal zero. See the node
-"Mode-Specific Indent" in the ELisp manual for more details.
+"(elisp) Mode-Specific Indent" in the ELisp manual for more details.
** ERC
*** 'url-retrieve-synchronously' now takes an optional timeout parameter.
---
-*** The URL package now support HTTPS over proxies supporting CONNECT.
+*** The URL package now supports HTTPS over proxies supporting CONNECT.
+++
*** 'url-user-agent' now defaults to 'default', and the User-Agent
+++
*** Enchant is now supported as a spell-checker.
-Enchant is a meta-spell-checker that uses providers
-such as Hunspell to do the actual checking. With it, users can use
-spell-checkers not directly supported by Emacs, such as Voikko, Hspell
-and AppleSpell, more easily share personal word-lists with other
-programs, and configure different spelling-checkers for different
-languages. (Version 2.1.0 or later of Enchant is required.)
+Enchant is a meta-spell-checker that uses providers such as Hunspell
+to do the actual checking. With it, users can use spell-checkers not
+directly supported by Emacs, such as Voikko, Hspell and AppleSpell,
+more easily share personal word-lists with other programs, and
+configure different spelling-checkers for different languages.
+(Version 2.1.0 or later of Enchant is required.)
** Flymake
+++
-*** Emacs no longer prompts the user before killing Flymake processes on exit.
+*** Flymake has been completely redesigned
+
+Flymake now annotates arbitrary buffer regions, not just lines. It
+supports arbitrary diagnostic types, not just errors and warnings (see
+variable 'flymake-diagnostic-types-alist').
+
+It also supports multiple simultaneous backends, meaning that you can
+check your buffer from different perspectives (see variable
+'flymake-diagnostic-functions'). Backends for Emacs Lisp mode are
+provided.
+
+The old Flymake behavior is preserved in the so-called "legacy
+backend", which has been updated to benefit from the new UI features.
\f
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 26.1
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-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,
+** 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.
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 26.1
---
-*** password-data is now a hash-table
-so that `password-read' can use any object for the `key' argument.
+** 'password-data' is now a hash-table so that 'password-read' can use
+any object for the 'key' argument.
+++
-*** Command 'dired-mark-extension' now automatically prepends a '.' to the
+** Command 'dired-mark-extension' now automatically prepends a '.' to the
extension when not present. The new command 'dired-mark-suffix' behaves
similarly but it doesn't prepend a '.'.
---
** 'C-up', 'C-down', 'C-left' and 'C-right' are now defined in term
mode to send the same escape sequences that xterm does. This makes
-things like forward-word in readline work.
+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.'
+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.
+Instead, text properties are added by 'query-replace-read-from'.
Additionally, the new nil value restores pre-24.5 behavior
of not providing replacement pairs via the history.
---
** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed:
-*** make-variable-frame-local. Variables cannot be frame-local any more.
-*** From subr.el: window-dot, set-window-dot, read-input, show-buffer,
-eval-current-buffer, string-to-int
-*** icomplete-prospects-length.
+
+*** 'make-variable-frame-local'. Variables cannot be frame-local any more.
+
+*** From subr.el: 'window-dot', 'set-window-dot', 'read-input',
+'show-buffer', 'eval-current-buffer', 'string-to-int'.
+
+*** 'icomplete-prospects-length'.
+
*** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the
FOO variable. Use 'default-value' and 'setq-default' to access and
change FOO, respectively. The exhaustive list of removed variables is:
'default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows',
'default-buffer-file-coding-system', 'default-major-mode', and
'default-enable-multibyte-characters'.
-*** Many variables obsoleted in 22.1 referring to face symbols
+
+*** Many variables obsoleted in 22.1 referring to face symbols.
+++
** The variable 'text-quoting-style' is now a customizable option. It
function 'check-declare-errmsg' has been removed.
+++
-** The regular expression character class [:blank:] now matches
+** The regular expression character class '[:blank:]' now matches
Unicode horizontal whitespace as defined in the Unicode Technical
-Standard #18. If you only want to match space and tab, use [ \t]
+Standard #18. If you only want to match space and tab, use '[ \t]'
instead.
+++
+++
** 'default-file-name-coding-system' now defaults to a coding system
-that does not process CRLF. For example, it defaults to utf-8-unix
-instead of to utf-8. Before this change, Emacs would sometimes
+that does not process CRLF. For example, it defaults to 'utf-8-unix'
+instead of to 'utf-8'. Before this change, Emacs would sometimes
mishandle file names containing these control characters.
+++
call like (rename-file C D) that used the old, undocumented behavior
can be written as (rename-file C (file-name-as-directory D)), a
formulation portable to both older and newer versions of Emacs.
-Affected functions include add-name-to-file, copy-directory,
-copy-file, format-write-file, gnus-copy-file, make-symbolic-link,
-rename-file, thumbs-rename-images, and write-file.
+Affected functions include 'add-name-to-file', 'copy-directory',
+'copy-file', 'format-write-file', 'gnus-copy-file',
+'make-symbolic-link', 'rename-file', 'thumbs-rename-images', and
+'write-file'.
---
** The list returned by 'overlays-at' is now in decreasing priority order.
priority instead. Now the code does what the documentation says it
should do.
++++
+** 'format' now avoids allocating a new string in more cases.
+'format' was previously documented to return a newly-allocated string,
+but this documentation was not correct, as (eq x (format x)) returned
+t when x was the empty string. 'format' is no longer documented to
+return a newly-allocated string, and the implementation now takes
+advantage of the doc change to avoid making copies of strings in
+common cases like (format "foo") and (format "%s" "foo").
+
---
** The function 'eldoc-message' now accepts a single argument.
Programs that called it with multiple arguments before should pass
them through 'format' first. Even that is discouraged: for ElDoc
support, you should set 'eldoc-documentation-function' instead of
calling 'eldoc-message' directly.
+
\f
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 26.1
** New optional argument TEXT in 'make-temp-file'.
---
-** New function `define-symbol-prop'.
-
-** Checksum/Hash
+** New function 'define-symbol-prop'.
+++
** New function 'secure-hash-algorithms' to list the algorithms that
** 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.
+two separate arguments 'region-beginning' and 'region-end'.
+++
** 'parse-partial-sexp' state has a new element. Element 10 is
---
** Numeric comparisons and 'logb' no longer return incorrect answers
-due to internal rounding errors. For example, (< most-positive-fixnum
-(+ 1.0 most-positive-fixnum)) now correctly returns t on 64-bit hosts.
+due to internal rounding errors. For example, '(< most-positive-fixnum
+(+ 1.0 most-positive-fixnum))' now correctly returns t on 64-bit hosts.
---
** The functions 'ffloor', 'fceiling', 'ftruncate' and 'fround' now
accept only floating-point arguments, as per their documentation.
Formerly, they quietly accepted integer arguments and sometimes
-returned nonsensical answers, e.g., (< N (ffloor N)) could return t.
+returned nonsensical answers, e.g., '(< N (ffloor N))' could return t.
---
** On hosts like GNU/Linux x86-64 where a 'long double' fraction
contains at least EMACS_INT_WIDTH - 3 bits, 'format' no longer returns
incorrect answers due to internal rounding errors when formatting
-Emacs integers with %e, %f, or %g conversions. For example, on these
-hosts (eql N (string-to-number (format "%.0f" N))) now returns t for
-all Emacs integers N.
-
-+++
-** 'format' is no longer documented to return a newly-allocated string.
-This documentation was not correct, as (eq x (format x)) returned t
-when x was the empty string. 'format' now takes advantage of the doc
-change to avoid making copies of strings in common cases like (format
-"foo") and (format "%s" "foo").
+Emacs integers with '%e', '%f', or '%g' conversions. For example, on
+these hosts '(eql N (string-to-number (format "%.0f" N)))' now returns
+t for all Emacs integers N.
---
** Calls that accept floating-point integers (for use on hosts with
limited integer range) now signal an error if arguments are not
-integral. For example (decode-char 'ascii 0.5) now signals an error.
+integral. For example '(decode-char 'ascii 0.5)' now signals an error.
+++
** The new function 'char-from-name' converts a Unicode name string
'format-time-string', and 'set-time-zone-rule'.
+++
-** 'format-time-string' now formats "%q" to the calendar quarter.
+** 'format-time-string' now formats '%q' to the calendar quarter.
+++
** New built-in function 'mapcan'.
frame's outer border.
+++
-*** New frame parameters and changed semantics for older ones
+*** New frame parameters and changed semantics for older ones:
+++
**** 'z-group' positions a frame above or below all others.
+++
**** 'parent-frame' makes a frame the child frame of another Emacs
-frame. The section "Child Frames" in the Elisp manual describes the
-intrinsics of that relationship.
+frame. The section "(elisp) Child Frames" in the ELisp manual
+describes the intrinsics of that relationship.
+++
**** 'delete-before' triggers deletion of one frame before that of
+++
**** 'skip-taskbar' removes a frame's icon from the taskbar and has
-Alt-<TAB> skip this frame.
+'Alt-<TAB>' skip this frame.
+++
**** 'no-focus-on-map' avoids that a frame gets input focus when mapped.
WINDOW for redisplay.
+++
-*** Support for side windows is now official.
-The display action function 'display-buffer-in-side-window' will
-display its buffer in a side window. Functions for toggling all side
-windows on a frame, changing and reversing the layout of side windows
-and returning the main (major non-side) window of a frame are
-provided. For details consult the section "Side Windows" in the Elisp
-manual.
+*** Support for side windows is now official. The display action
+function 'display-buffer-in-side-window' will display its buffer in a
+side window. Functions for toggling all side windows on a frame,
+changing and reversing the layout of side windows and returning the
+main (major non-side) window of a frame are provided. For details
+consult the section "(elisp) Side Windows" in the ELisp manual.
+++
*** Support for atomic windows - rectangular compositions of windows
treated by 'split-window', 'delete-window' and 'delete-other-windows'
like a single live window - is now official. For details consult the
-section "Atomic Windows" in the Elisp manual.
+section "(elisp) Atomic Windows" in the ELisp manual.
+++
*** New 'display-buffer' alist entry 'window-parameters' allows to
+++
*** The semantics of 'mouse-autoselect-window' has changed slightly.
-For details see the section "Mouse Window Auto-selection" in the Elisp
-manual.
+For details see the section "(elisp) Mouse Window Auto-selection" in
+the ELisp manual.
+
+---
+*** 'select-frame-by-name' now may return a frame on another display
+if it does not find a suitable one on the current display.
---
** 'tcl-auto-fill-mode' is now declared obsolete. Its functionality
can be replicated simply by setting 'comment-auto-fill-only-comments'.
-** New pcase pattern 'rx' to match against a rx-style regular expression.
+** New pcase pattern 'rx' to match against an rx-style regular expression.
For details, see the doc string of 'rx--pcase-macroexpander'.
---
** New functions to set region from secondary selection and vice versa.
The new functions 'secondary-selection-to-region' and
'secondary-selection-from-region' let you set the beginning and the
-end of the region from those of the secondary selection and vise
+end of the region from those of the secondary selection and vice
versa.
+** New function 'lgstring-remove-glyph' can be used to modify a
+gstring returned by the underlying layout engine (e.g. m17n-flt,
+uniscribe).
+
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* Changes in Emacs 26.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems
+++
** Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.
The new keyboard hooking code properly grabs system hotkeys such as
-Win-* and Alt-TAB, in a way that Emacs can get at them before the
+'Win-*' and 'Alt-TAB', in a way that Emacs can get at them before the
system. This makes the 'w32-register-hot-key' functionality work
again on all versions of MS-Windows starting with Windows 7. On
Windows NT and later you can now register any hotkey combination. (On
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