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@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ Terminal is automatically initialized to use 24-bit colors if the required capabilities are found in terminfo. See the FAQ node "Colors on a TTY" for more information. ++++ +** Emacs now obeys the X resource "scrollBar" at startup. +The effect is similar to that of "toolBar" resource on the tool bar. + * Changes in Emacs 26.1 @@ -434,13 +438,18 @@ range of indentation. This is similar to what linum-mode provides, but much faster and doesn't usurp the display margin for the line numbers. Customize the buffer-local variable 'display-line-numbers' to activate this optional -display. If set to t, Emacs will display the number of each line -before the line. If set to 'relative', Emacs will display the line -number relative to the line showing point, with that line's number -displayed as absolute. If set to 'visual', Emacs will display a -relative number for every screen line, i.e. it will count screen lines -rather than buffer lines. The default is nil, which doesn't display -the line numbers. +display. Alternatively, you can use the `display-line-numbers-mode' +minor mode or the global `global-display-line-numbers-mode'. When +using these modes, customize `display-line-numbers-type' with the same +value as you would use with `display-line-numbers'. + +If `display-line-numbers' is set to t, Emacs will display the number +of each line before the line. If set to 'relative', Emacs will +display the line number relative to the line showing point, with that +line's number displayed as absolute. If set to 'visual', Emacs will +display a relative number for every screen line, i.e. it will count +screen lines rather than buffer lines. The default is nil, which +doesn't display the line numbers. In 'relative' and 'visual' modes, the variable 'display-line-numbers-current-absolute' controls what number is @@ -458,14 +467,23 @@ new face 'line-number-current-line' can be customized to display the current line's number differently from all the other line numbers; by default these two faces are identical. -You can also customize the new variable 'display-line-numbers-width' to -specify a fixed minimal with of the area allocated to line-number -display. The default is nil, meaning that Emacs will dynamically -calculate the area width, enlarging or shrinking it as needed. -Setting it to a non-negative integer specifies that as the minimal -width; selecting a value that is large enough to display all line -numbers in a buffer will then keep the line-number display area of -constant width at all times, if that is desired. +You can also customize the new buffer-local variable +'display-line-numbers-width' to specify a fixed minimal with of the +area allocated to line-number display. The default is nil, meaning +that Emacs will dynamically calculate the area width, enlarging or +shrinking it as needed. Setting it to a non-negative integer +specifies that as the minimal width; selecting a value that is large +enough to display all line numbers in a buffer will then keep the +line-number display area of constant width at all times, if that is +desired. + +When using `display-line-numbers-mode', you can customize the variable +`display-line-numbers-grow-only' to a non-nil value; this means that +Emacs may grow the above area width dynamically, but never shrink it. +Under this mode, customizing the variable +`display-line-numbers-width-start' to a non-nil value will cause Emacs +to set `display-line-numbers-width' to the minimum width necessary to +display all line numbers in the current buffer when first visiting it. Lisp programs can disable line-number display for a particular screen line by putting the 'display-line-numbers-disable' text property or @@ -572,6 +590,12 @@ different buffer while keeping point, mark, markers, and text properties as intact as possible. +++ +** New commands 'apropos-local-variable' and 'apropos-local-value. +These are buffer-local versions of 'apropos-variable' and +'apropos-value', respectively. They show buffer-local variables whose +names and values, respectively, match a given pattern. + ++++ ** More user control of reordering bidirectional text for display. The two new variables, 'bidi-paragraph-start-re' and 'bidi-paragraph-separate-re', allow customization of what exactly are @@ -580,9 +604,14 @@ paragraphs, for the purposes of bidirectional display. * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 26.1 +** New function `cl-generic-p'. + ** Dired +++ +*** Dired supports wildcards in the directory part of the file names. + ++++ *** You can now use '`?`' in 'dired-do-shell-command'; as ' ? ', it gets replaced by the current file name. @@ -1058,6 +1087,9 @@ fontification, and commenting for embedded JavaScript and CSS. * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 26.1 +*** password-data is now a hash-table +so that `password-read' can use any object for the `key' argument. + +++ *** Command 'dired-mark-extension' now automatically prepends a '.' to the extension when not present. The new command 'dired-mark-suffix' behaves @@ -1136,6 +1168,10 @@ instead of its first. renamed to 'lread--old-style-backquotes'. No user code should use this variable. +** To avoid confusion caused by "smart quotes", the reader no longer +accepts Lisp symbols which begin with the following quotation +characters: ‘’‛“”‟〞＂＇, unless they are escaped with backslash. + +++ ** Module functions are now implemented slightly differently; in particular, the function 'internal--module-call' has been removed. @@ -1145,6 +1181,8 @@ break. * Lisp Changes in Emacs 26.1 +** New function `define-symbol-prop'. + +++ ** New optional argument TESTFN in 'alist-get', 'map-elt' and 'map-put'. @@ -1533,6 +1571,9 @@ manual. ** 'tcl-auto-fill-mode' is now declared obsolete. Its functionality can be replicated simply by setting 'comment-auto-fill-only-comments'. +** New pcase pattern 'rx' to match against a rx-style regular +expression. + * Changes in Emacs 26.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems @@ -1578,6 +1619,9 @@ debugger has been attached to it. ** 'set-mouse-position' and 'set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' work on macOS. +** Emacs can now be run as a GUI application from the command line on +macOS. + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file is part of GNU Emacs. |