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diff --git a/etc/NEWS.29 b/etc/NEWS.29 index 0b651f7a519..84dbb94a71a 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS.29 +++ b/etc/NEWS.29 @@ -222,9 +222,9 @@ In previous Emacs versions, images have had the '+', '-' and 'r' keys bound when point is over an image. In Emacs 29.1, additional commands were added, and this made it more likely that users would trigger the image commands by mistake. To avoid this, all image commands have -moved to the 'i' keymap, so '+' is now 'i +', '-' is now 'i -', and -'r' is now 'i r'. In addition, these commands are now repeating, so -you can rotate an image twice by saying 'i r r', for instance. +moved to the 'i' prefix keymap, so '+' is now 'i +', '-' is now 'i -', +and 'r' is now 'i r'. In addition, these commands are now repeating, +so, for example, you can rotate an image twice by typing 'i r r'. +++ ** Emacs now picks the correct coding-system for X input methods. @@ -795,13 +795,14 @@ part of the buffer. +++ ** New user option 'set-message-functions'. -It allows selecting more functions for 'set-message-function' -in addition to the default function that handles messages -in the active minibuffer. The most useful are 'inhibit-message' -that allows specifying a list of messages to inhibit via -'inhibit-message-regexps', and 'set-multi-message' that -accumulates recent messages and displays them stacked -in the echo area. +It allows more flexible control of how echo-area messages are displayed +by adding functions to this list. The default value is a list of one +element: 'set-minibuffer-message', which displays echo-area messages +at the end of the minibuffer text when the minibuffer is active. +Other useful functions include 'inhibit-message', which allows +specifying, via 'inhibit-message-regexps', the list of messages whose +display shall be inhibited; and 'set-multi-message' that accumulates +recent messages and displays them stacked together. --- ** New user option 'find-library-include-other-files'. @@ -1021,6 +1022,11 @@ These are bound to 'C-x 8 e +' and 'C-x 8 e -', respectively. They can be used on any character, but are mainly useful for Emoji. --- +*** New command 'emoji-zoom-reset'. +This is bound to 'C-x 8 e 0', and undoes any size changes performed by +'emoji-zoom-increase' and 'emoji-zoom-decrease'. + +--- *** New input method 'emoji'. This allows you to enter Emoji using short strings, eg ':face_palm:' or ':scream:'. @@ -1571,6 +1577,11 @@ This input method is based on the russian-computer input method, and is intended for typing in the Chuvash language written in the Cyrillic script. +--- +*** New input method 'cyrillic-mongolian'. +This input method is for typing in the Mongolian language using the +Cyrillic script. + * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.1 @@ -2618,11 +2629,6 @@ image formats saying how to edit it as text. The default is to show this message for SVG and XPM. +++ -*** New commands: 'image-flip-horizontally' and 'image-flip-vertically'. -These commands horizontally and vertically flip the image under point, -and are bound to 'i h' and 'i v', respectively. - -+++ *** New command 'image-transform-set-percent'. It allows setting the image size to a percentage of its original size, and is bound to 's p' in Image mode. @@ -2638,6 +2644,19 @@ The old name was confusing, and is now an obsolete function alias. ** Images +++ +** New commands 'image-crop' and 'image-cut'. +These commands allow interactively cropping/cutting the image at +point. The commands are bound to keys 'i c' and 'i x' (respectively) +in the local keymap over images. They rely on external programs, by +default "convert" from ImageMagick, to do the actual cropping/eliding +of the image file. + ++++ +*** New commands: 'image-flip-horizontally' and 'image-flip-vertically'. +These commands horizontally and vertically flip the image under point, +and are bound to 'i h' and 'i v', respectively. + ++++ *** Users can now add special image conversion functions. This is done via 'image-converter-add-handler'. @@ -3232,14 +3251,6 @@ macro, which allows you to isolate package configuration in your init file in a way that is declarative, tidy, and performance-oriented. See the new Info manual "(use-package) Top" for more. -+++ -** New commands 'image-crop' and 'image-cut'. -These commands allow interactively cropping/cutting the image at -point. The commands are bound to keys 'i c' and 'i x' (respectively) -in the local keymap over images. They rely on external programs, by -default "convert" from ImageMagick, to do the actual cropping/eliding -of the image file. - --- ** New package 'wallpaper'. This package provides the command 'wallpaper-set', which sets the @@ -3565,11 +3576,13 @@ font spec. In these cases, replacing ":weight 'normal" with ":weight 'medium" should fix the issue. --- -** Keymap descriptions have changed. +** Keymap descriptions by Help commands have changed. 'help--describe-command', 'C-h b' and associated functions that output keymap descriptions have changed. In particular, prefix commands are -not output at all, and instead of "??" for closures/functions, -"[closure]"/"[lambda]" is output. +not output at all, and instead of "??" for closures/functions, these +functions output "[closure]"/"[lambda]". You can get back the old +behavior of including prefix commands by customizing the new option +'describe-bindings-show-prefix-commands' to a non-nil value. --- ** 'downcase' details have changed slightly. @@ -4320,9 +4333,11 @@ that binding is ignored by 'where-is-internal'. +++ *** New functions for defining and manipulating keystrokes. -These all take the syntax defined by 'key-valid-p'. None of the older -functions have been deprecated or altered, but they are now -de-emphasized in the documentation. +These all take the syntax defined by 'key-valid-p', which is basically +the same syntax as the one accepted by the 'kbd' macro. None of the +older functions have been deprecated or altered, but they are now +de-emphasized in the documentation, and we encourage Lisp programs to +switch to these new functions. +++ *** Use 'keymap-set' instead of 'define-key'. |