From: Glenn Morris Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 01:49:26 +0000 (-0500) Subject: ; * etc/NEWS (Changes in Frame- and Window- Handling): Demote section. X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/commitdiff_plain/8d329be865e5875960fe400e6679bf5738d7ac35 ; * etc/NEWS (Changes in Frame- and Window- Handling): Demote section. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 18239f651a..232f4970cc 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -1560,57 +1560,56 @@ For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable `hfy-optimisations' has been renamed to `hfy-optimizations'. The old name should still work, as an obsolescent alias. - -* Changes in Frames and Windows Code in Emacs 25.1 +** Changes in Frame- and Window- Handling +++ -** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that +*** Emacs can now draw horizontal scroll bars on some platforms that provide toolkit scroll bars, namely Gtk+, Lucid, Motif and Windows. Horizontal scroll bars are turned off by default. -*** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether +**** New function `horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' telling whether horizontal scroll bars are available on the underlying system. -*** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll +**** New mode `horizontal-scroll-bar-mode' to toggle horizontal scroll bars on all existing and future frames. -*** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal +**** New function `toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar' to toggle horizontal scroll bars on the selected frame. -*** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and +**** New frame parameters `horizontal-scroll-bars' and `scroll-bar-height' to set horizontal scroll bars and their height for individual frames and in `default-frame-alist'. -*** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and +**** New functions `frame-scroll-bar-height' and `window-scroll-bar-height' return the height of horizontal scroll bars on a specific frame or window. -*** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last +**** `set-window-scroll-bars' now accepts five parameters where the last two specify height and type of the window's horizontal scroll bar. -*** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll +**** `window-scroll-bars' now returns type and sizes of horizontal scroll bars too. -*** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and +**** New buffer-local variables `horizontal-scroll-bar' and `scroll-bar-height'. +++ -** New functions `frame-geometry' and `frame-edges' give access to a +*** New functions `frame-geometry' and `frame-edges' give access to a frame's geometry. +++ -** New functions `mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and +*** New functions `mouse-absolute-pixel-position' and `set-mouse-absolute-pixel-position' get/set screen coordinates of the mouse cursor. +++ -** The function `window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to +*** The function `window-edges' now accepts three additional arguments to retrieve body, absolute and pixel edges of the window. +++ -** The functions `window-inside-edges', `window-inside-pixel-edges' and +*** The functions `window-inside-edges', `window-inside-pixel-edges' and `window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges' have been renamed to respectively `window-body-edges', `window-body-pixel-edges' and `window-absolute-body-pixel-edges'. The old names are kept as aliases. +++ -** New function `window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen +*** New function `window-absolute-pixel-position' to get the screen coordinates of a visible buffer position. +++ -** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the +*** The height of a frame's menu and tool bar are no longer counted in the frame's text height. This means that the text height stands only for the height of the frame's root window plus that of the echo area (if present). This was already the behavior for frames with external tool @@ -1618,33 +1617,33 @@ and menu bars (like in the Gtk builds) but has now been extended to all builds. +++ -** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines +*** Frames now do not necessarily preserve the number of columns or lines they display when setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars. In particular, maximized and fullscreen frames are conceptually never resized if such settings change. For fullheight and fullwidth frames, the behavior may depend on the toolkit used. -*** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that +**** New option `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' if non-nil, means that setting default font, menu bar, fringe width, or scroll bars of a specific frame does not resize that frame in order to preserve the number of columns or lines it displays. +++ -** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of +*** New function `window-preserve-size' allows to preserve the size of windows without "fixing" it. It's supported by `fit-window-to-buffer', `temp-buffer-resize-mode' and `display-buffer'. +++ -** New `display-buffer' action function `display-buffer-use-some-frame'. +*** New `display-buffer' action function `display-buffer-use-some-frame'. This displays the buffer in an existing frame other than the current frame, and allows the caller to specify a frame predicate to exclude frames. +++ -** New minor mode `window-divider-mode' and options +*** New minor mode `window-divider-mode' and options `window-divider-default-places', `window-divider-default-bottom-width' and `window-divider-default-right-width'. -** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ has been removed. +** Tearoff menus and detachable toolbars for Gtk+ have been removed. Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time. ** Etags