From: Stefan Kangas Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 23:04:03 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ; * etc/NEWS: Copy-edits. X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f9af846fda3d2c9cfd1299de52f850575294602e;p=emacs.git ; * etc/NEWS: Copy-edits. (cherry picked from commit 437b1ced268a168a7f1262524716ac07f8b08622) --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS.30 b/etc/NEWS.30 index d21bb9a65b3..77a4b15a8a0 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS.30 +++ b/etc/NEWS.30 @@ -503,6 +503,10 @@ frames with the previously mentioned capabilities. ** Miscellaneous +*** New user option 'safe-local-variable-directories'. +This user option names directories in which Emacs will treat all +directory-local variables as safe. + --- *** New face 'appt-notification' for 'appt-display-mode-line'. It can be used to customize the look of the appointment notification @@ -515,12 +519,13 @@ its shebang line, Emacs will now skip over 'env -S' and deduce the major mode based on the interpreter after 'env -S'. +++ -** New function 'sqlite-execute-batch'. +*** New function 'sqlite-execute-batch'. This function lets the user execute multiple SQL statements in one go. It is useful, for example, when a Lisp program needs to evaluate an entire SQL file. -** The default value of 'read-process-output-max' was increased to 65536. +*** The default value of 'read-process-output-max' was increased to 65536. + * Editing Changes in Emacs 30.1 @@ -1058,7 +1063,7 @@ After manually editing 'eshell-aliases-file', you can use this command to load the edited aliases. +++ -*** 'rgrep' is now a builtin command. +*** 'rgrep' is now a builtin Eshell command. Running 'rgrep' in Eshell now uses the Emacs grep facility instead of calling external rgrep. @@ -2483,14 +2488,14 @@ the backtrace and other dynamic state at the point of the error. See the Info node "(elisp) Handling Errors". +++ -** Tooltips on fringes. +** New text properties add tooltips on fringes. It is now possible to provide tooltips on fringes by adding special text properties 'left-fringe-help' and 'right-fringe-help'. See the "(elisp) Special Properties" Info node in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual for more details. +++ -** New 'pop-up-frames' action alist entry for 'display-buffer'. +** New 'display-buffer' action alist entry 'pop-up-frames'. This has the same effect as the variable of the same name and takes precedence over the variable when present. @@ -2538,11 +2543,13 @@ its input in-place as before. ** New API for 'derived-mode-p' and control of the graph of major modes. ++++ *** 'derived-mode-p' now takes the list of modes as a single argument. The same holds for 'provided-mode-derived-p'. The old calling convention where multiple modes are passed as separate arguments is deprecated. ++++ *** New functions to access the graph of major modes. While 'define-derived-mode' still only supports single inheritance, modes can declare additional parents (for tests like 'derived-mode-p') @@ -2558,18 +2565,17 @@ drops incorporating more than one URL. Functions capable of this must set their 'dnd-multiple-handler' symbol properties to a non-nil value. See the Info node "(elisp) Drag and Drop". -Incident to this change, the function 'dnd-handle-one-url' has been -made obsolete, for it cannot take these new handlers into account. +The function 'dnd-handle-one-url' has been made obsolete, since it +cannot take these new handlers into account. ** New function 're-disassemble' to see the innards of a regexp. -If you compiled with '--enable-checking', you can use this to help debug -either your regexp performance problems or the regexp engine. +If you built Emacs with '--enable-checking', you can use this to help +debug either your regexp performance problems or the regexp engine. +++ ** XLFDs are no longer restricted to 255 characters. 'font-xlfd-name' now returns an XLFD even if it is greater than 255 characters in length, provided that the LONG_XLFDs argument is true. - Other features in Emacs which employ XLFDs have been modified to produce and understand XLFDs larger than 255 characters. @@ -2584,8 +2590,7 @@ You may need to recompile our code if it was compiled with Emacs < 24.3. ** New macro 'static-if' for conditional evaluation of code. This macro hides a form from the evaluator or byte-compiler based on a compile-time condition. This is handy for avoiding byte-compilation -warnings about code that will never actually run under some -conditions. +warnings about code that will never actually run under some conditions. +++ ** Desktop notifications are now supported on the Haiku operating system. @@ -2593,10 +2598,10 @@ The new function 'haiku-notifications-notify' provides a subset of the capabilities of the 'notifications-notify' function in a manner analogous to 'w32-notification-notify'. -** New variable 'haiku-pass-control-tab-to-system'. +** New Haiku specific variable 'haiku-pass-control-tab-to-system'. This sets whether Emacs should pass 'C-TAB' on to the system instead of handling it, fixing a problem where window switching would not activate -if an Emacs frame had focus on the Haiku operation system. +if an Emacs frame had focus on the Haiku operating system. +++ ** New value 'if-regular' for the REPLACE argument to 'insert-file-contents'. @@ -2620,8 +2625,7 @@ The new variables 'ctags-program-name', 'ebrowse-program-name', 'etags-program-name', 'hexl-program-name', 'emacsclient-program-name' 'movemail-program-name', and 'rcs2log-program-name' should be used instead of "ctags", "ebrowse", "etags", "hexl", "emacsclient", and -"rcs2log", when starting one of these built in programs in a -subprocess. +"rcs2log", when starting one of these built in programs in a subprocess. +++ ** New variable 'case-symbols-as-words' affects case operations for symbols. @@ -2631,23 +2635,21 @@ as a single word. This is useful for programming languages and styles where only the first letter of a symbol's name is ever capitalized. The default value of this variable is nil. +** Touch Screen support + +++ -** 'x-popup-menu' now understands touch screen events. +*** 'x-popup-menu' now understands touch screen events. When a 'touchscreen-begin' or 'touchscreen-end' event is passed as the POSITION argument, it will behave as if that event was a mouse event. +++ -** New functions for handling touch screen events. +*** New functions for handling touch screen events. The new functions 'touch-screen-track-tap' and 'touch-screen-track-drag' handle tracking common touch screen gestures from within a command. -** New user option 'safe-local-variable-directories'. -This user option names directories in which Emacs will treat all -directory-local variables as safe. - +++ -** New parameter to 'touchscreen-end' events. +*** New parameter to 'touchscreen-end' events. CANCEL non-nil establishes that the touch sequence has been intercepted by programs such as window managers and should be ignored with Emacs.