From: Artur Malabarba Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 10:25:01 +0000 (+0100) Subject: * NEWS: Document async package-menu. X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.90~2547^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f01f8bf9be6a0305a23ce9264db33a765613123;p=emacs.git * NEWS: Document async package-menu. --- diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index f0da3a57d3d..ed37524471d 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2015-04-06 Artur Malabarba + + * NEWS: Document async package-menu. + 2015-03-25 Stefan Monnier * TODO: Remove obsolete entries. diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index cc3c6d1c235..0332fc50960 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -223,6 +223,13 @@ Unicode standards. ** xterm-mouse-mode now supports mouse-tracking (if your xterm supports it). ** package.el +*** Most functions which involve downloading information now take an +ASYNC argument. If it is non-nil, package.el performs the download(s) +asynchronously. + +*** New variable `package-menu-async' controls whether the +package-menu uses asynchronous downloads. + *** `package-install-from-buffer' and `package-install-file' work on directories. This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the -pkg file is optional.