comparison etc/NEWS @ 30068:fd80ab818a0c

Fix various typos. Add a note about easy-menu's filters now working. Trim down the add-minor-mode announcement.

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* Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual,
(Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.)

** The new function `window-list' has been defined

- Function: window-list &optional WINDOW MINIBUF ALL-FRAMES

Return a list of windows in canonical order.  The parameters WINDOW,

ALL-FRAMES = t means include windows on all frames including invisible frames.
If ALL-FRAMES is a frame, it means include windows on that frame.
Anything else means restrict to the selected frame.

** The function `single-key-description' now encloses function key
and event names in ange brackets.

** If the variable `message-truncate-lines' is bound to t around a
call to `message', the echo area will not be resized to display that
message; it will be truncated instead.

X 0213 Plane 1 and Plane 2.

+++
** The new character sets `eight-bit-control' and `eight-bit-graphic'
are introduced for 8-bit characters in the ranges 0x80..0x9F and
0xA0..0xFF repectively.

+++
** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to
that offset in the file before writing.

** `concat' no longer accepts individual integer arguments, as
promised long ago.

** The function `add-minor-mode' simplifies the definition of minor
modes.

- Function: add-minor-mode TOGGLE NAME &optional KEYMAP AFTER TOGGLE-FUN

Register a new minor mode.

TOGGLE is a symbol which is the name of a buffer-local variable that
is toggled on or off to say whether the minor mode is active or not.

NAME specifies what will appear in the mode line when the minor mode
is active.  NAME should be either a string starting with a space, or a
symbol whose value is such a string.

Optional KEYMAP is the keymap for the minor mode that will be added
to `minor-mode-map-alist'.

Optional AFTER specifies that TOGGLE should be added after AFTER
in `minor-mode-alist'.

Optional TOGGLE-FUN is there for compatiblity with other Emacssen.
It is currently not used.

** The function `shell-command' now sets the default directory of the
`*Shell Command Output*' buffer to the default directory of the buffer
from which the command was issued.

    => -7
  #25rah 
    => 267

** The function `documentation-property' now evaluates the value of
the given property to obtain a a string if it doesn't refer to etc/DOC
and isn't a string.

** If called for a symbol, the function `documentation' now looks for
a `function-documentation' property of that symbol.  If it has a non-nil
value, the documentation is taken from that value.  If the value is

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* Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual,
(Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.)

** Easy-menu's :filter now works as in XEmacs.
It takes the unconverted (i.e. XEmacs) form of the menu and the result
is automatically converted to Emacs' form.

** The new function `window-list' has been defined

- Function: window-list &optional WINDOW MINIBUF ALL-FRAMES

Return a list of windows in canonical order.  The parameters WINDOW,

ALL-FRAMES = t means include windows on all frames including invisible frames.
If ALL-FRAMES is a frame, it means include windows on that frame.
Anything else means restrict to the selected frame.

** The function `single-key-description' now encloses function key
and event names in angle brackets.

** If the variable `message-truncate-lines' is bound to t around a
call to `message', the echo area will not be resized to display that
message; it will be truncated instead.

X 0213 Plane 1 and Plane 2.

+++
** The new character sets `eight-bit-control' and `eight-bit-graphic'
are introduced for 8-bit characters in the ranges 0x80..0x9F and
0xA0..0xFF respectively.

+++
** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to
that offset in the file before writing.

** `concat' no longer accepts individual integer arguments, as
promised long ago.

** The function `add-minor-mode' has been added for convenience and
compatibility with XEmacs (and is used internally by define-minor-mode).

** The function `shell-command' now sets the default directory of the
`*Shell Command Output*' buffer to the default directory of the buffer
from which the command was issued.

    => -7
  #25rah 
    => 267

** The function `documentation-property' now evaluates the value of
the given property to obtain a string if it doesn't refer to etc/DOC
and isn't a string.

** If called for a symbol, the function `documentation' now looks for
a `function-documentation' property of that symbol.  If it has a non-nil
value, the documentation is taken from that value.  If the value is