comparison etc/NEWS @ 102489:dd5ccf910f71

Reorder new functions. Remove entry about deleted buffer-swapped-with variable.

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** The Lisp interpreter now treats non-breaking space as whitespace.

** Miscellaneous new functions

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*** `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a readable
string of days, hours, etc.

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*** `apply-partially' performs a "curried" application of a function.

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*** `read-shell-command' does what its name says, with completion.  It
uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that.

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*** `buffer-swap-text' swaps text between two buffers.  This can be
useful for modes such as tar-mode, archive-mode, RMAIL.

*** New variable `buffer-swapped-with' lets the modes that use
`buffer-swap-text' arrange to save the file from the proper buffer.

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*** `read-color' reads a color name using the minibuffer.

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*** `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing all the basic
attributes of a given face.

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*** `split-string-and-unquote' splits a string into a list of substrings
on the boundaries of a given delimiter, and unquotes the substrings that
are quoted.  Useful for taking apart shell commands.

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*** `combine-and-quote-strings' produces a single string from a list of strings
sticking a separator string in between each pair, and quoting those
strings that include the separator as their substring.  Useful for
consing shell command lines from the individual arguments.

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*** `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image
specification.

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*** The two new functions `looking-at-p' and `string-match-p' can do
the same matching as `looking-at' and `string-match' without changing
the match data.

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*** The two new functions `make-serial-process' and
`serial-process-configure' provide a Lisp interface to the new serial
port support (see Emacs changes, above).

*** `locate-user-emacs-file' helps packages to select the appropriate
place to save user-specific files.  It defaults to `user-emacs-directory'
unless the file already exists at $HOME.

** Miscellaneous new variables

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*** `this-command-keys-shift-translated' is non-nil if the key
sequence invoking the current command was found by shift-translation.

modes like Info can teach bookmark.el how to save and restore the
relevant data.

*** `fill-forward-paragraph-function' specifies which function the
filling code should use to find paragraph boundaries.

*** `custom-note-var-changed' tells Custom to treat the change in a
certain variable as having been made within Custom.


* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1

** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure.

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** The Lisp interpreter now treats non-breaking space as whitespace.

** Miscellaneous new functions

+++
*** `apply-partially' performs a "curried" application of a function.

+++
*** `buffer-swap-text' swaps text between two buffers.  This can be
useful for modes such as tar-mode, archive-mode, RMAIL.

+++
*** `combine-and-quote-strings' produces a single string from a list of strings
sticking a separator string in between each pair, and quoting those
strings that include the separator as their substring.  Useful for
consing shell command lines from the individual arguments.

*** `custom-note-var-changed' tells Custom to treat the change in a
certain variable as having been made within Custom.

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*** `face-all-attributes' returns an alist describing all the basic
attributes of a given face.

+++
*** `format-seconds' converts a number of seconds into a readable
string of days, hours, etc.

+++
*** `image-refresh' refreshes all images associated with a given image
specification.

*** `locate-user-emacs-file' helps packages to select the appropriate
place to save user-specific files.  It defaults to `user-emacs-directory'
unless the file already exists at $HOME.

+++
*** `read-color' reads a color name using the minibuffer.

+++
*** `read-shell-command' does what its name says, with completion.  It
uses the minibuffer-local-shell-command-map for that.

+++
*** `split-string-and-unquote' splits a string into a list of substrings
on the boundaries of a given delimiter, and unquotes the substrings that
are quoted.  Useful for taking apart shell commands.

+++
*** The two new functions `looking-at-p' and `string-match-p' can do
the same matching as `looking-at' and `string-match' without changing
the match data.

+++
*** The two new functions `make-serial-process' and
`serial-process-configure' provide a Lisp interface to the new serial
port support (see Emacs changes, above).

** Miscellaneous new variables

+++
*** `this-command-keys-shift-translated' is non-nil if the key
sequence invoking the current command was found by shift-translation.

modes like Info can teach bookmark.el how to save and restore the
relevant data.

*** `fill-forward-paragraph-function' specifies which function the
filling code should use to find paragraph boundaries.


* New Packages for Lisp Programming in Emacs 23.1

** The new package avl-tree.el deals with the AVL tree data structure.