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| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2017-10-06 09:50:54 -0400 |
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| committer | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2017-10-06 09:50:54 -0400 |
| commit | 11f9cb522fed9aa6552f6315340ca7352661a1e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 39facc48471c67b321c045e47d70ef030adbea44 /etc/NEWS.26 | |
| parent | 92045f4546b9708dc9f69954799d211c1f56ff1e (diff) | |
| parent | 9655937da4a339300c624addd97674c038a01bc9 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-11f9cb522fed9aa6552f6315340ca7352661a1e8.tar.gz | |
Merge emacs-26
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/etc/NEWS.26 b/etc/NEWS.26 index b734e8dd19c..7f89ef92ec4 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS.26 +++ b/etc/NEWS.26 @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ GNU Mailutils to retrieve email. It is recommended, and is the default if GNU Mailutils is installed. When --with-mailutils is not in effect, the Emacs build procedure by default continues to build and install a limited 'movemail' substitute that retrieves POP3 email only -via insecure channels; to avoid this problem, use either ---with-mailutils or --without-pop when configuring. +via insecure channels. To avoid this problem, use either +--with-mailutils or --without-pop when configuring; --without-pop +is the default on platforms other than native MS-Windows. ** The new option 'configure --enable-gcc-warnings=warn-only' causes GCC to issue warnings without stopping the build. This behavior is @@ -1111,7 +1112,7 @@ See the 'vc-faces' customization group. *** 'vc-dir-mode' now binds 'vc-log-outgoing' to 'O'; and has various branch-related commands on a keymap bound to 'B'. ---- ++++ *** 'vc-region-history' is now bound to 'C-x v h', replacing the older 'vc-insert-headers' binding. @@ -1555,6 +1556,13 @@ Emacs integers with %e, %f, or %g conversions. For example, on these hosts (eql N (string-to-number (format "%.0f" N))) now returns t for all Emacs integers N. ++++ +** 'format' is no longer documented to return a newly-allocated string. +This documentation was not correct, as (eq x (format x)) returned t +when x was the empty string. 'format' now takes advantage of the doc +change to avoid making copies of strings in common cases like (format +"foo") and (format "%s" "foo"). + --- ** Calls that accept floating-point integers (for use on hosts with limited integer range) now signal an error if arguments are not |