comparison etc/NEWS @ 52478:2a049fb2c8d8

Document char-displayable-p more clearly. Add many +++ markers.

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** Major modes can define `eldoc-print-current-symbol-info-function'
locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to
the language.

** `latin1-char-displayable-p' is obsoleted by `char-displayable-p'.

** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that
the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text
parts, e.g. utf-16.

** The argument to forward-word, backward-word, forward-to-indentation
and backward-to-indentation is now optional, and defaults to 1.

+++
** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and

settings.  To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
`fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
an update of the display margins.

** Per-window vertical scroll-bar settings

Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.

Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
keymap alist separate from minor-mode-map-alist by adding their keymap
alist to this list.

** Atomic change groups.

To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
around the code that makes changes.  For instance:

`yank-undo-function' (instead of delete-region) to undo the previous
yank or yank-pop command (or a call to insert-for-yank).  The function
insert-for-yank automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
element of the string argument's yank-handler text property if present.

** New function display-supports-face-attributes-p may be used to test
whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.

A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
defined with defface.

** face-attribute, face-foreground, face-background, and face-stipple now
accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how face
inheritance is used when determining the value of a face attribute.

** New functions face-attribute-relative-p and merge-face-attribute
help with handling relative face attributes.

** Enhancements to process support

*** Function list-processes now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set are listed.

and modify elements on this property list.

The new low-level functions process-plist and set-process-plist are
used to access and replace the entire property list of a process.


** Enhanced networking support.

*** There is a new `make-network-process' function which supports
opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
create a stream or datagram server inside emacs.

*** Network processes can now be stopped and restarted with
`stop-process' and `continue-process'.  For a server process, no
connections are accepted in the stopped state.  For a client process,
no input is received in the stopped state.

** New function copy-tree.

** New function substring-no-properties.

** New function minibuffer-selected-window.

** New function `call-process-shell-command'.

** The dummy function keys made by easymenu
are now always lower case.  If you specify the
menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'
as the "key" bound by that key binding.

** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional
argument.  If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks
for a function that could be called with `call-interactively',
and does not return t for keyboard macros.

** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.

It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
and its SQLi buffer is the slave.  This allows you to scroll the SQLi

	       (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
(add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
   (function (lambda ()
	       (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))

** File local variables.

A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text
properties--any specified text properties are discarded.

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** Major modes can define `eldoc-print-current-symbol-info-function'
locally to provide Eldoc functionality by some method appropriate to
the language.

** New coding system property `mime-text-unsuitable' indicates that
the coding system's `mime-charset' is not suitable for MIME text
parts, e.g. utf-16.

+++
** The argument to forward-word, backward-word, forward-to-indentation
and backward-to-indentation is now optional, and defaults to 1.

+++
** (char-displayable-p CHAR) returns non-nil if Emacs ought to be able
to display CHAR.  More precisely, if the selected frame's fontset has
a font to display the character set that CHAR belongs to.

Fontsets can specify a font on a per-character basis; when the fontset
does that, this value may not be accurate.

+++
** The new function `window-inside-edges' returns the edges of the
actual text portion of the window, not including the scroll bar or
divider line, the fringes, the display margins, the header line and

settings.  To make `left-fringe-width', `right-fringe-width', and
`fringes-outside-margins' take effect, you must set them before
displaying the buffer in a window, or use `set-window-buffer' to force
an update of the display margins.

+++
** Per-window vertical scroll-bar settings

Windows can now have their own individual scroll-bar settings
controlling the width and position of scroll-bars.

Lisp packages using many minor mode keymaps can now maintain their own
keymap alist separate from minor-mode-map-alist by adding their keymap
alist to this list.

+++
** Atomic change groups.

To perform some changes in the current buffer "atomically" so that
they either all succeed or are all undone, use `atomic-change-group'
around the code that makes changes.  For instance:

`yank-undo-function' (instead of delete-region) to undo the previous
yank or yank-pop command (or a call to insert-for-yank).  The function
insert-for-yank automatically sets that variable according to the UNDO
element of the string argument's yank-handler text property if present.

+++
** New function display-supports-face-attributes-p may be used to test
whether a given set of face attributes is actually displayable.

A new predicate `supports' has also been added to the `defface' face
specification language, which can be used to do this test for faces
defined with defface.

+++
** face-attribute, face-foreground, face-background, and face-stipple now
accept a new optional argument, INHERIT, which controls how face
inheritance is used when determining the value of a face attribute.

+++
** New functions face-attribute-relative-p and merge-face-attribute
help with handling relative face attributes.

+++
** Enhancements to process support

*** Function list-processes now has an optional argument; if non-nil,
only the processes whose query-on-exit flag is set are listed.

and modify elements on this property list.

The new low-level functions process-plist and set-process-plist are
used to access and replace the entire property list of a process.

+++
** Enhanced networking support.

*** There is a new `make-network-process' function which supports
opening of stream and datagram connections to a server, as well as
create a stream or datagram server inside emacs.

*** Network processes can now be stopped and restarted with
`stop-process' and `continue-process'.  For a server process, no
connections are accepted in the stopped state.  For a client process,
no input is received in the stopped state.

+++
** New function copy-tree.

+++
** New function substring-no-properties.

+++
** New function minibuffer-selected-window.

+++
** New function `call-process-shell-command'.

---
** The dummy function keys made by easymenu
are now always lower case.  If you specify the
menu item name "Ada", for instance, it uses `ada'
as the "key" bound by that key binding.

** The function `commandp' takes an additional optional
argument.  If it is non-nil, then `commandp' checks
for a function that could be called with `call-interactively',
and does not return t for keyboard macros.

---
** master-mode.el implements a minor mode for scrolling a slave
buffer without leaving your current buffer, the master buffer.

It can be used by sql.el, for example: the SQL buffer is the master
and its SQLi buffer is the slave.  This allows you to scroll the SQLi

	       (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))
(add-hook 'sql-set-sqli-hook
   (function (lambda ()
	       (master-set-slave sql-buffer))))

+++
** File local variables.

A file local variables list cannot specify a string with text
properties--any specified text properties are discarded.