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Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 2 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -1917,6 +1917,14 @@ display of diagnostics and help, but not of info. As the variable is not intended for casual use, it is not a user option. +++ +** Message-issuing functions like 'message' and 'error' now translate +various sorts of single quotes in their format strings according to +the value of 'text-quoting-style' (see above). This translation +cannot be disabled. To get the old behavior, use 'format', which is +not affected by 'text-quoting-style', e.g., (message "%s" (format +"...." foo bar)). + ++++ ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes. That is, it converts documentation strings' quoting style as per the value of 'text-quoting-style'. Doc strings in source code can use @@ -1924,13 +1932,6 @@ either curved single quotes or grave accents and apostrophes. As before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is. +++ -** Message-issuing functions 'error', 'message', etc. now convert quotes. -They use the new 'format-message' function instead of plain 'format', -so that they now follow user preference as per 'text-quoting-style' -when processing curved single quotes, grave accents, and apostrophes -in their format argument. - -+++ ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions now match multibyte characters using Unicode character properties. If you want the old behavior where they matched any character with @@ -2148,9 +2149,11 @@ permissions set to temporary values (e.g., for creating private files). --- ** Function 'system-name' now returns an updated value if the current -system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems, -and to avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the -name. The variable 'system-name' is now obsolete. +system's name has changed or if the Emacs process has changed systems. +To avoid long waits it no longer consults DNS to canonicalize the name +(in some cases this may affect generated message-id headers - customize +'message-user-fqdn' if this bothers you). The variable 'system-name' +is now obsolete. +++ ** Function 'write-region' no longer outputs "Wrote FILE" in batch mode. diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 4288808f407..49dada970bb 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ which combination produces "M-x" in the echo area. You can also use the 'xmodmap' utility to show all the keys which produce a Meta modifier: - xmodmap -pk | egrep -i "meta|alt" + xmodmap -pk | grep -Ei "meta|alt" A more convenient way of finding out which keys produce a Meta modifier is to use the 'xkbprint' utility, if it's available on your system: |