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@@ -85,12 +85,6 @@ work right without some adjustment:
* Changes in Emacs 27.1
---
-*** Info browser can follow ``file:'' protocol URL's URL created with
-The URL's created by the @url Texinfo command, and followed with the
-Info-follow-nearest-node function, can now have 'file:' prototype and
-are passed to 'browse-url' function, like were the other Web protocols
-(namely ftp, http, and https).
----
** New variable 'xft-ignore-color-fonts'.
Default t means don't try to load color fonts when using Xft, as they
often cause crashes. Set it to nil if you really need those fonts.
@@ -251,6 +245,7 @@ This enables more efficient backends. See the docstring of
'flymake-diagnostic-functions' or the Flymake manual for details.
** Package
+
*** New 'package-quickstart' feature
When 'package-quickstart' is non-nil, package.el precomputes a big autoloads
file so that activation of packages can be done much faster, which can speed up
@@ -261,7 +256,17 @@ you don't need to set them in your early init file.
*** New function 'package-activate-all'.
+** Info
+
+---
+*** Info can now follow 'file://' protocol URLs.
+The 'file://' URLs in Info documents can now be followed by passing
+them to the 'browse-url' function, like the other protocols: ftp,
+http, and https. This allows to have references to local HTML files,
+for example.
+
** Ecomplete
+
*** The ecomplete sorting has changed to a decay-based algorithm.
This can be controlled by the new 'ecomplete-sort-predicate' variable.
@@ -308,6 +313,7 @@ and its value has been changed to Duck Duck Go.
has been executed.
** Htmlfontify
+
*** The functions 'hfy-color', 'hfy-color-vals' and
'hfy-fallback-color-values' and the variables 'hfy-fallback-color-map'
and 'hfy-rgb-txt-color-map' have been renamed from names that used
@@ -326,6 +332,7 @@ Authentication mechanisms can be added via external packages, by
defining new cl-defmethod of smtpmail-try-auth-method.
** Footnote-mode
+
*** Support Hebrew-style footnotes
*** Footnote text lines are now aligned.
Can be controlled via the new variable 'footnote-align-to-fn-text'.