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@ -515,6 +515,10 @@ 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.
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*** New face 'appt-notification' for 'appt-display-mode-line'.
It can be used to customize the look of the appointment notification
@ -527,12 +531,13 @@ its shebang line, Emacs will now skip over 'env -S' and deduce the
major mode based on the interpreter after 'env -S'.
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** 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
@ -1080,7 +1085,7 @@ After manually editing 'eshell-aliases-file', you can use this command
to load the edited aliases.
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*** '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.
@ -2378,14 +2383,14 @@ the backtrace and other dynamic state at the point of the error. See
the Info node "(elisp) Handling Errors".
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** 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.
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** 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.
@ -2433,11 +2438,13 @@ its input in-place as before.
** New API for 'derived-mode-p' and control of the graph of major modes.
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*** '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.
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*** 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')
@ -2453,18 +2460,17 @@ 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.
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** 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.
@ -2479,8 +2485,7 @@ 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.
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** Desktop notifications are now supported on the Haiku operating system.
@ -2488,10 +2493,10 @@ 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.
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** New value 'if-regular' for the REPLACE argument to 'insert-file-contents'.
@ -2515,8 +2520,7 @@ 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.
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** New variable 'case-symbols-as-words' affects case operations for symbols.
@ -2526,23 +2530,21 @@ 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
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** '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.
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** 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.
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** 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.