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* Update copyright year to 2021Paul Eggert2021-01-011-1/+1
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* Merge from origin/emacs-27Glenn Morris2020-12-251-1/+59
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5d46593568 Support build of Emacs on ARM Macos machines 7f8793e5f1 Update to Org 9.4.4 7b3367a0b5 * lisp/so-long.el: Decrease use of passive voice. a90836c638 * doc/misc/efaq.texi (New in Emacs 27): Add section. 711fe70dd8 * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Latest version of Emacs): Bump version. 52b30834fb * lisp/face-remap.el (face-remap-set-base): Doc fix. (Bug... b3fe0ac62e Correct argument order in comment
| * * doc/misc/efaq.texi (New in Emacs 27): Add section.Stefan Kangas2020-12-211-0/+58
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| * * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Latest version of Emacs): Bump version.Stefan Kangas2020-12-211-1/+1
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* | Make XEmacs entry in the FAQ more contemporaryStefan Kangas2020-12-141-25/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Difference between Emacs and XEmacs): Make XEmacs entry in the FAQ more contemporary. Remove part about re-using XEmacs code; this is not likely to be relevant these days and in any case is not a frequently asked question. (Bug#45235)
* | Update value of frame-title-format in FAQStefan Kangas2020-12-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Displaying the current file name in the titlebar): Fix default value of frame-title-format.
* | Don't recommend setnu and wb-line-numberStefan Kangas2020-12-141-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Displaying the current line or column): Remove reference to third-party alternatives to display-line-numbers-mode.
* | Remove more references to old versions from FAQStefan Kangas2020-12-141-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Learning how to do something) (Installing Emacs, Emacs for GNUstep, Emacs for macOS): Remove more references to Emacs 22 and older from FAQ.
* | Remove references to Emacs before version 22 from FAQStefan Kangas2020-12-121-36/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Escape sequences in shell output): Remove reference to versions before Emacs 21. (Basic editing, Latest version of Emacs) (Turning on abbrevs by default, Going to a line by number) (Security risks with Emacs): Remove references to versions before Emacs 22.
* | ; Prefer https to http in more URLsStefan Kangas2020-10-241-3/+3
| | | | | | | | These were all tested and confirmed working.
* | Remove reference HP-UX 8.0 and 9.x bug from FAQStefan Kangas2020-10-221-24/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Meta key does not work in xterm): Remove section about a bug on HP-UX 8.0 and 9.x. Support for these platforms were removed in 23.1.
* | Remove two references to Emacs 21 from the FAQStefan Kangas2020-10-221-9/+1
| | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Turning on syntax highlighting): Remove some references to Emacs 21 and older.
* | * doc/misc/efaq.texi: Remove reference to FTP.Stefan Kangas2020-10-151-1/+1
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* | Remove some references to "in Emacs 21 or later"Stefan Kangas2020-10-151-23/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Colors on a TTY, Disabling backups) (Errors with init files, Backspace invokes help) (Backspace invokes help): Remove some references to "in Emacs 21 or later". Now everyone can be assumed to use at least that version.
* | Remove reference to Emacs Lisp List from FAQStefan Kangas2020-08-181-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Packages that do not come with Emacs): Remove reference to Emacs Lisp List. (Bug#41681)
* | Remove many items obsolete since Emacs 23.1Stefan Kangas2020-08-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Emacs 23.1 was five major releases and over a decade ago. This list can be reviewed before to the next release, but for now hopefully this motivates any needed external updates. Ref: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg02198.html * lisp/abbrev.el (pre-abbrev-expand-hook): * lisp/bookmark.el (bookmark-read-annotation-text-func) (bookmark-jump-noselect): * lisp/buff-menu.el (buffer-menu-mode-hook): * lisp/cus-edit.el (custom-mode-hook, custom-mode): * lisp/dirtrack.el (dirtrack-debug-toggle, dirtrack-debug): * lisp/emacs-lisp/crm.el (crm-minibuffer-complete) (crm-minibuffer-completion-help) (crm-minibuffer-complete-and-exit): * lisp/emacs-lisp/easymenu.el (easy-menu-precalculate-equivalent-keybindings): * lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el (lisp-mode-auto-fill): * lisp/epa.el (epa-display-verify-result): * lisp/epg.el (epg-passphrase-callback-function): * lisp/eshell/eshell.el (eshell-report-bug): * lisp/ffap.el (ffap-bug, ffap-submit-bug): * lisp/files.el (locate-file-completion): * lisp/hi-lock.el (hi-lock-face-history, hi-lock-regexp-history): * lisp/hilit-chg.el (highlight-changes-initial-state) (highlight-changes-active-string) (highlight-changes-passive-string, global-highlight-changes): * lisp/international/mule-cmds.el (nonascii-insert-offset) (nonascii-translation-table): * lisp/international/mule-diag.el (non-iso-charset-alist): * lisp/international/mule-util.el (detect-coding-with-priority): * lisp/international/mule.el (charset-id, charset-bytes) (charset-list, char-valid-p, generic-char-p) (char-coding-system-table, make-coding-system) (set-coding-priority) * lisp/mail/rmail.el (rmail-message-filter): * lisp/minibuffer.el (complete-in-turn, dynamic-completion-table) (completion-common-substring) (minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map): * lisp/mouse.el (mouse-major-mode-menu, mouse-popup-menubar) (mouse-popup-menubar-stuff): * lisp/net/newst-treeview.el (newsticker-groups-filename): * lisp/obsolete/tpu-edt.el (tpu-have-ispell, GOLD-map): * lisp/password-cache.el (password-read-and-add): * lisp/shell.el (shell-dirtrack-toggle): * lisp/subr.el (forward-point, redisplay-end-trigger-functions) (process-filter-multibyte-p, set-process-filter-multibyte): * lisp/t-mouse.el (t-mouse-mode): * lisp/term/w32-win.el (w32-focus-frame, w32-select-font): * lisp/textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-aspell-supports-utf8): * lisp/textmodes/remember.el (remember-buffer): * lisp/tooltip.el (tooltip-hook): * lisp/url/url-util.el (url-generate-unique-filename): * lisp/url/url-vars.el (url-temporary-directory): * lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el (vc-workfile-version) (vc-default-working-revision): * lisp/vc/vc-mtn.el (vc-mtn-command): * lisp/vc/vc.el (vc-revert-buffer): * lisp/vcursor.el (vcursor-toggle-vcursor-map): Remove items, obsolete since Emacs 23.1. * lisp/abbrev.el (expand-abbrev): * lisp/epg.el (epg-context): Change 'epg-passphrase-callback-function' call to 'epa-' alternative. * lisp/eshell/em-rebind.el (eshell-cannot-leave-input-list): Don't refer to removed function 'forward-point'. * test/manual/etags/c-src/abbrev.c (Fexpand_abbrev): (syms_of_abbrev): Don't run removed hook 'pre-abbrev-expand-hook'. * lisp/international/mule.el (transform-make-coding-system-args): Declare obsolete. * lisp/progmodes/idlwave.el: Update reference to removed function 'char-valid-p'. * lisp/gnus/mml2015.el (epg-encrypt-string): * lisp/gnus/mml1991.el (epg-make-context): * lisp/gnus/mml-smime.el (autoload): Remove autoload of removed 'epg-passphrase-callback-function'. * lisp/minibuffer.el (completion-extra-properties): Remove support for `completion-common-substring'. * lisp/obsolete/tpu-edt.el (tpu-toggle-overwrite-mode) Remove support for removed `spell' package. * src/coding.c (syms_of_coding): * doc/misc/efaq.texi: * doc/emacs/frames.texi (Menu Mouse Clicks): * doc/misc/url.texi (Customization): Doc fixes. ; * etc/NEWS: List removed items.
* | Merge from origin/emacs-27Glenn Morris2020-06-261-9/+12
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5280e118c0 (origin/emacs-27) ; * src/xdisp.c (pos_visible_p): Fix las... bb1a9481c9 Fix posn-at-point at beginning of a display string 0c4b033670 Improve documentation of Info node movement commands 632b0119e1 Add Jansson dependency to Windows Build dbfcdab837 Unbreak 'reverse-region' c37de84845 Fix typos and markup in fill column indicator docs f61bff3ee9 ; * CONTRIBUTE: Clarify the preferences for patch formatting. 368e140660 Avoid crashes in 'defconst' 11e3413cff Fix text about Lisp archives in the Emacs FQ 4c81724675 Don't use 'cl' functions in ELisp manual's examples
| * Fix text about Lisp archives in the Emacs FQRichard Stallman2020-06-201-9/+12
| | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Packages that do not come with Emacs): Warn about using Lisp archives other than GNU ELPA.
* | Add fallback for 24-bit terminal color via COLORTERM=truecolorJan Beich2020-06-201-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * src/term.c (init_tty): When COLORTERM=truecolor is defined, override setaf/setab/colors terminfo capabilities with 24-bit color support. * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Colors on a TTY): Mention the possibility to enable 24-bit color via the COLORTERM environment variable. (Bug#41846) Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
* | Revert "Don't mention non-GNU package archives."Eli Zaretskii2020-06-201-10/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 5daa7a5fd4aced33a2ae016bde5bb37d1d95edf6. A proper fix will be committed to the emacs-27 branch, and will be later merged to master.
* | Merge from origin/emacs-27Glenn Morris2020-06-171-1/+1
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 229995ba2c (origin/emacs-27) Fix some Texinfo markup 01e86b9fdf Fix recentf typo in Emacs manual cd4f75bb86 Rename default function to next-error-buffer-unnavigated-c... 1dff0a8949 * lisp/image-mode.el (image-toggle-display-image): Fix fit... a71d1787f1 * doc/misc/tramp.texi (Predefined connection information):... 079b0dc430 Delete, don't kill, dir dir fragments in icomplete-fido-ba... 6cdecc2659 Revert markup change in with-coding-priority docs 22f4fba8a9 * lisp/emulation/cua-rect.el (cua--rectangle-region-insert... 6b9eac6759 * lisp/simple.el (shell-command-on-region): Fix docstring. 43ad7dc1af Clean up D-Bus documentation (bug#41744) c43e5ed60d * lisp/image-mode.el (image-transform-original): New comma... 6eb18a950d Move tab-bar and tab-line faces to faces.el (part of bug#4... # Conflicts: # etc/NEWS # lisp/simple.el
| * Fix some Texinfo markupBasil L. Contovounesios2020-06-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi (FAQ 3-11): * doc/emacs/frames.texi (Tab Bars): Consistently use @var with lower-case metasyntactic variables and @minus instead of a dash. (Text-Only Mouse): * doc/emacs/files.texi (Auto Revert): * doc/emacs/misc.texi (emacsclient Options) (Embedded WebKit Widgets): * doc/lispref/control.texi (pcase Macro): * doc/lispref/debugging.texi (Backtraces): * doc/lispref/files.texi (Truenames): * doc/lispref/frames.texi (Management Parameters): * doc/lispref/os.texi (Time Calculations): * doc/lispref/text.texi (Parsing JSON): * doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi (Other versions of Emacs, Debugging) (Swap Caps NT, Printing, Bash, Developing with Emacs): * doc/misc/efaq.texi (New in Emacs 25): * doc/misc/emacs-gnutls.texi (Help For Users): * doc/misc/message.texi (Using S/MIME, Passphrase caching): * test/manual/etags/tex-src/gzip.texi (Overview): Use @. when a sentence in the middle of a paragraph ends with an upper-case letter as per "(texinfo) Ending a Sentence".
* | Don't mention non-GNU package archives.Richard Stallman2020-05-171-19/+10
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* | Merge from origin/emacs-27Glenn Morris2020-05-161-1/+4
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | b4937f64cd (origin/emacs-27) Improve documentation of manually instal... efd4e973a4 Reflect the emacs-devel ELPA/MELPA dispute in FAQ 28541674cd Consider face inheritance when checking region face backgr... e75f6be6cc Fix dired default file operation (bug#41261) 406fb0746c Fix documentation related to 'command-switch-alist'. 747e0a2523 Improve ediff readability in misterioso theme (Bug#41221) 48830c73e7 Fix a crash in handle_display_spec a37290a6f9 In x_hide_tip reset tip_last_frame for GTK+ tooltips only ... 3d81995692 Fix docstring of flymake-make-diagnostic (bug#40351) 632aa9d57a Go back to “Bahá’í” e2406ff60f * lisp/dired.el (dired-toggle-marks): Doc fix. (Bug#41097) # Conflicts: # doc/emacs/building.texi
| * Reflect the emacs-devel ELPA/MELPA dispute in FAQEli Zaretskii2020-05-161-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Packages that do not come with Emacs): Warn that some MELPA packages may require non-free software.
* | Merge from origin/emacs-27Glenn Morris2020-01-201-2/+2
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 154cd116be (origin/emacs-27) * admin/release-process: Adapt bug numbe... fd19282134 Fix shell-tests failures 891f7de8ed * test/lisp/simple-tests.el: Full path to Emacs binary (bu... 92f30d62c0 * lisp/tab-line.el (tab-line-auto-hscroll): Fix for long t... dde313151d * lisp/menu-bar.el (menu-bar-options-menu): Add desktop-sa... 3543b9fad9 ; Fix a test (Bug#39067) 83f9fe44fa ; * etc/NEWS: Fix typo. 2eb0b7835d Fix shell-command-dont-erase-buffer feature c134978a76 Remove reference to Emacs 19 from FAQ fabf0065c5 Doc fixes in package.el # Conflicts: # etc/NEWS
| * Remove reference to Emacs 19 from FAQStefan Kangas2020-01-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Emacs ignores X resources): Remove reference to Emacs 19.
* | Merge from origin/emacs-27Glenn Morris2020-01-201-24/+6
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | f3d30b5303 Remove some doc references to old Emacs versions 4217bc229b Fix infloop in shell.el 74b151195d Fix erc-notifications-notify for non-PRIVMSGs, broken in l... db4436eaf9 Fix the notification action for PRIVMSG in erc-notificatio... 36a4068105 ERC: New maintainer. 2391d3f45d ; spelling fixes e898442be3 Honor tags-case-fold-search during xref identifer completion # Conflicts: # etc/NEWS
| * Remove some doc references to old Emacs versionsStefan Kangas2020-01-181-24/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Horizontal scrolling): Remove section only relevant to Emacs 21 or older. (Repeating commands, Editing MS-DOS files): * lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el: * lisp/woman.el: Doc fix - remove some references to Emacs 20 and older.
* | Replace doc references to load-hooksGlenn Morris2020-01-161-3/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | with-eval-after-load is a cleaner, standard feature that works for every file * doc/misc/calc.texi (Hooks): * doc/misc/dired-x.texi (Installation) (Optional Installation File At Point, Omitting Files in Dired) (Omitting Examples, Find File At Point): * doc/misc/ediff.texi (Hooks, Selective Browsing) (Highlighting Difference Regions): * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Disabling backups): * doc/misc/gnus.texi (Startup Variables): * doc/misc/idlwave.texi (Structure Tag Completion, Misc Options): * doc/misc/org.texi (Handling Links): * doc/misc/reftex.texi (Key Bindings, Keymaps and Hooks): * doc/misc/sem-user.texi (Speedbar): * doc/misc/speedbar.texi (Hooks, Minor Display Modes): * doc/misc/viper.texi (Rudimentary Changes): Replace load-hooks with with-eval-after-load
* Update copyright year to 2020Paul Eggert2020-01-011-1/+1
| | | | Run "TZ=UTC0 admin/update-copyright $(git ls-files)".
* Spelling fixesPaul Eggert2019-12-091-1/+1
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* Update FAQ section on large files (Bug#37818)Stefan Kangas2019-10-241-7/+16
| | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Problems with very large files): Extend section and remove information about ancient versions of Emacs.
* Update FAQ section on Emacs security (Bug#37818)Stefan Kangas2019-10-241-17/+6
| | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Security risks with Emacs): Remove section on movemail. Add section on third-party packages.
* Update FAQ entry on XEmacs (Bug#37815)Stefan Kangas2019-10-201-9/+12
| | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Difference between Emacs and XEmacs): Update section to reflect the current state of affairs. XEmacs is not actively developed and is lacking many important features of Emacs.
* Fix a recent change in Emacs FAQEli Zaretskii2019-10-191-2/+1
| | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (New in Emacs 23, Common requests): Remove references to the removed section "Highlighting a region".
* Don't explain FTP acronym in FAQStefan Kangas2019-10-191-5/+1
| | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Common acronyms): Remove explanation of the FTP acronym. Emacs is no longer distributed over FTP, and the FAQ doesn't refer to any other FTP URLs.
* Remove FAQ section "Highlighting a region" (Bug#37818)Stefan Kangas2019-10-191-17/+0
| | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Highlighting a region): Remove section.
* Remove reference to obsolete package gnuserv from FAQStefan Kangas2019-10-111-11/+0
| | | | | | | | | | On visiting http://meltin.net/hacks/emacs/, we now find: "I used to have some Emacs and Haskell hacks on my previous sites. However, these hacks are now old and un-maintained. I don’t think there is enough interest to keep them around." * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Using an already running Emacs process): Remove reference to obsolete package 'gnuserv'. (Bug#37574)
* Don't mention server-socket-dir in FAQStefan Kangas2019-10-021-13/+2
| | | | | | | | server-socket-dir is a defvar, and users should use the defcustom server-name instead. * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Using an already running Emacs process): Remove details on server-socket-dir, refer to Emacs Manual. (Bug#20675)
* Update some URLsPaul Eggert2019-09-231-26/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This mostly changes http: to https: in URLs. It also updates some URLs that have moved, removes some URLs that no longer work, recommends against using procmail (procmail.org no longer works), and removes some mentions of the no-longer-existing Gmane, LPF and VTW. It doesn't update all URLs, just the ones I had time for. * GNUmakefile (help): * admin/admin.el (manual-doctype-string): * admin/charsets/Makefile.in (${charsetdir}/ALTERNATIVNYJ.map): * admin/charsets/mapconv: * lisp/net/soap-client.el (soap-create-envelope): * lisp/org/org.el (org-doi-server-url): * lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el (bibtex-generate-url-list): Prefer https: to http: un URLs.
* * doc/misc/efaq.texi: Update ancient formats. (Bug#37143)Stefan Kangas2019-09-131-1/+1
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* Prefer display-line-numbers over linum in docs and one defcustomStefan Kangas2019-08-271-5/+15
| | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi: Replace linum with display-line-numbers. * lisp/progmodes/prog-mode.el (prog-mode-hook): Replace linum-mode with display-line-numbers-mode in :options. (Bug#37120)
* * doc/misc/efaq.texi: Note the inclusion year. (Bug#37142)Stefan Kangas2019-08-221-1/+1
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* Clarify in the manual when to use function-key-mapLars Ingebrigtsen2019-07-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/efaq.texi (No Escape key): * doc/emacs/msdos-xtra.texi (MS-DOS Keyboard): Change back to function-key-map from local-function-key-map, because these bindings apply to all terminals. * doc/lispref/keymaps.texi (Translation Keymaps): Clarify in what circumstances you may still want to use function-key-map.
* Refer to local-function-key-map in various manualsLars Ingebrigtsen2019-07-231-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | * doc/misc/viper.texi (Key Bindings): * doc/misc/efaq.texi (X key translations for Emacs) (No Escape key): * doc/misc/edt.texi (Changes): * doc/emacs/msdos-xtra.texi (MS-DOS Keyboard): * doc/emacs/custom.texi (Terminal Init): Refer to local-function-key-map instead of function-key-map, since the latter isn't supposed to be changed (bug#27490).
* Merge from origin/emacs-26Paul Eggert2018-12-311-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | 2fcf2df Fix copyright years by hand 26bed8b Update copyright year to 2019 2814292 Fix value of default frame height. (Bug#33921)
| * Fix copyright years by handPaul Eggert2019-01-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | These are dates that admin/update-copyright did not update, or updated incorrectly.
* | Mention EMACS_SOCKET_NAME, not XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.Paul Eggert2018-12-061-2/+6
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* | Mention unsetting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in doc.Paul Eggert2018-12-061-1/+4
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