; * etc/NEWS.28: Merge recent changes from emacs-28 branch.

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Eli Zaretskii 2021-11-06 11:23:39 +02:00
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@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ In Emacs 23, typing 'M-x' ('read-extended-command') and then 'C-s' (to
do an interactive search) would search over possible completions.
This was lost in Emacs 24, but is now back again.
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** User option 'completions-format' supports a new value 'one-column'.
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@ -380,10 +380,12 @@ requiring the user to specify the value via the prefix argument.
** Windows
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*** The key prefix 'C-x 4 1' displays next command buffer in the same window.
It's bound to the command 'same-window-prefix' that requests the buffer
of the next command to be displayed in the same window.
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*** The key prefix 'C-x 4 4' displays next command buffer in a new window.
It's bound to the command 'other-window-prefix' that requests the buffer
of the next command to be displayed in a new window.
@ -485,13 +487,13 @@ with items that operate on the clicked tab. Dragging the tab with
scrolling switches to the previous/next tab, and holding the Shift key
during scrolling moves the tab to the left/right.
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*** Frame-specific appearance of the tab bar when 'tab-bar-show' is a number.
When 'tab-bar-show' is a number, the tab bar on different frames can
be shown or hidden independently, as determined by the number of tabs
on each frame compared to the numerical value of 'tab-bar-show'.
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*** New command 'toggle-frame-tab-bar'.
It can be used to enable/disable the tab bar on the currently selected
frame regardless of the values of 'tab-bar-mode' and 'tab-bar-show'.
@ -569,9 +571,9 @@ in other ways.
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*** Mouse wheel scrolling now works on more parts of frame's display.
When using 'mwheel-mode', the mouse wheel will now scroll also when
When using 'mouse-wheel-mode', the mouse wheel will now scroll also when
the mouse cursor is on the scroll bars, fringes, margins, header line,
and mode line. ('mwheel-mode' is enabled by default on most graphical
and mode line. ('mouse-wheel-mode' is enabled by default on most graphical
displays.)
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@ -602,7 +604,7 @@ built without SVG support, the old icons will be used instead.
** Help
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*** The order things are displayed in the "*Help*" buffer has been changed.
*** The order of things displayed in the "*Help*" buffer has been changed.
The indented "administrative" block (containing the "probably
introduced" and "other relevant functions" (and similar things) has
been moved to after the doc string.
@ -654,11 +656,6 @@ will look up the current symbol (if any) in Info. New command
It enables outlines in the output buffer of 'describe-bindings' that
can provide a better overview in a long list of available bindings.
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*** New command 'lossage-size'.
It allows users to change the maximum number of keystrokes and
commands recorded for the purpose of 'view-lossage'.
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*** New commands to describe buttons and widgets.
'widget-describe' (on a widget) will pop up a help buffer and give a
@ -681,6 +678,11 @@ These new navigation commands are bound to 'n' and 'p' in
The menu bar "Help" menu now has a "Show Recent Inputs" item under the
"Describe" sub-menu.
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*** New command 'lossage-size'.
It allows users to change the maximum number of keystrokes and
commands recorded for the purpose of 'view-lossage'.
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*** Closing the "*Help*" buffer from the toolbar now buries the buffer.
In previous Emacs versions, the "*Help*" buffer was killed instead when
@ -753,20 +755,20 @@ Applies to buttons that indicate a face.
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*** New face 'font-lock-doc-markup-face'.
Intended for documentation mark-up syntax and tags inside text that
uses 'font-lock-doc-face', with which it should harmonize. It would
typically be used in structured documentation comments in program
source code by language-specific modes, for mark-up conventions like
Haddock, Javadoc or Doxygen. By default this face inherits from
'font-lock-constant-face'.
uses 'font-lock-doc-face', which it should appropriately stand out
against and harmonize with. It would typically be used in structured
documentation comments in program source code by language-specific
modes, for mark-up conventions like Haddock, Javadoc or Doxygen. By
default this face inherits from 'font-lock-constant-face'.
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*** New face 'flat-button'.
*** New face box style 'flat-button'.
This is a plain 2D button, but uses the background color instead of
the foreground color.
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*** New face 'shortdoc-heading'.
Applies to headings of shortdoc sections.
*** New faces 'shortdoc-heading' and 'shortdoc-section'.
Applied to shortdoc headings and sections.
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*** New face 'separator-line'.
@ -2792,19 +2794,21 @@ trying to identify the thing at point.
*** New function 'thing-at-mouse'.
This is like 'thing-at-point', but uses the mouse event position instead.
** image-dired
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*** 'image-dired-mouse-toggle-mark' now toggles files in the active region.
** Image-Dired
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*** New user option 'image-dired-thumb-visible-marks'.
If non-nil (the default), use 'image-dired-thumb-mark' to say what
images are marked.
If non-nil (the default), use the new face 'image-dired-thumb-mark'
for marked images.
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*** New command 'image-dired-delete-marked'.
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*** 'image-dired-mouse-toggle-mark' is now sensitive to the active region.
If the region is active, this command now toggles Dired marks of all
the thumbnails in the region.
** Flymake mode
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@ -4343,6 +4347,14 @@ The new optional "," parameter has been added, and
** 'parse-time-string' can now parse ISO 8601 format strings.
These have a format like "2020-01-15T16:12:21-08:00".
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** 'lookup-key' is more allowing when searching for extended menu items.
When looking for a menu item '[menu-bar Foo-Bar]', first try to find
an exact match, then look for the lowercased '[menu-bar foo-bar]'.
It will only try to downcase ASCII characters in the range "A-Z".
This improves backwards-compatibility when converting menus to use
'easy-menu-define'.
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** 'make-network-process', 'make-serial-process' ':coding' behavior change.
Previously, passing ':coding nil' to either of these functions would