* lisp/vc/ediff.el (ediff-windows-wordwise)
(ediff-windows-linewise, ediff-regions-wordwise): Update and
clarify the doc strings.
* doc/misc/ediff.texi (Major Entry Points): Update and clarify
the documentation of 'ediff-windows-wordwise' and
'ediff-regions-wordwise'. See the discussion starting at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2018-11/msg00197.html
for the details.
* doc/lispref/control.texi (Control Structures, Sequencing)
(Conditionals, Iteration, Catch and Throw, Handling Errors)
(Cleanups):
* doc/lispref/eval.texi (Self-Evaluating Forms)
(Symbol Forms, Function Forms, Macro Forms, Special Forms)
(Quoting, Backquote): Add index entries that begin with
"forms". (Bug#33440)
* doc/lispref/windows.texi (Windows and Frames): More accurate
wording regarding the relation of a mini-window to its frame's
window tree.
* src/window.h (struct window): Improve commentary to some
fields.
* doc/lispref/windows.texi (Window Hooks): Remove text that
warns against using 'save-window-excursion' while running
'window-size-change-functions', it's no more relevant.
Clarify description of 'window-configuration-change-hook'.
* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Operating on Files): Document behavior
of 'Z' on directories.
* etc/NEWS: Belatedly announce the new behavior of Dired's 'Z'
on directory names and on .tar.gz archives.
* doc/lispref/windows.texi (Textual Scrolling): In the description of
scroll-up-aggressively, refer to scroll-down-aggressively instead of
a recursive reference to scroll-up-aggressively. (Bug#33369)
* doc/lispref/functions.texi (Anonymous Functions):
* lisp/subr.el (lambda): Note that under lexical binding a lambda form
yields a closure object (Bug#33199).
* lisp/window.el (display-buffer-overriding-action)
(display-buffer-alist, display-buffer-base-action)
(display-buffer-fallback-action, display-buffer-assq-regexp)
(display-buffer): Rewrite doc-strings using suggestions by
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>.
(display-buffer-use-some-frame): Adjust doc-string and
reformat code.
* doc/lispref/windows.texi (Buffer Display Action Alists):
Make docs on 'window-height', 'window-width' and
'preserve-size' entries more accurate.
* doc/emacs/windows.texi (Window Choice): Rewrite, replacing
references to older buffer display options with references to
and examples of buffer display actions.
(Temporary Displays): Rewrite display of *Completions*
example.
* doc/lispref/elisp.texi (Top): New Windows section
'Displaying Buffers'.
* doc/lispref/frames.texi (Child Frames): Adjust cross
reference.
* doc/lispref/windows.texi (Windows): New section 'Displaying
Buffers'. Move sections 'Choosing Window', 'Display Action
Functions' and 'Choosing Window Options' there and adjust
namings. Preferably write 'Buffer Display Action' instead of
'Display Action'. More consistently use @w{} to make key
binding specifications unsplittable.
(Displaying Buffers): New section.
(Choosing Window): Make it a subsection of 'Displaying
Buffers'. More explicitly describe how 'display-buffer'
compiles its list of action functions and the action alist.
(Buffer Display Action Functions): Rename from 'Display Action
Functions', make it a subsection of 'Displaying Buffers' and
rewrite it. Elide more detailed descriptions of action alist
entries; these are now in the new section 'Buffer Display
Action Functions'. Remove example.
(Buffer Display Action Alists): New subsection of 'Displaying
Buffers' giving a comprehensive description of recognized
action alist entries with appropriate indexing. Contents were
partially moved here from the old 'Display Action Functions'
section.
(Choosing Window Options): Make it a subsection of 'Displaying
Buffers'. Add examples of how to rewrite old buffer display
options with the help of buffer display actions.
(Precedence of Action Functions): New subsection of
'Displaying Buffers' explaining the execution order of action
functions with the help of a detailed example.
(The Zen of Buffer Display): New subsection of 'Displaying
Buffers' supplying guidelines on how to write and use buffer
display actions with examples.
(Side Windows, Displaying Buffers in Side Windows)
(Frame Layouts with Side Windows, Atomic Windows): Update
references to the 'Displaying Buffers' subsections.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/pcase.el (pcase-dolist, pcase-let)
(pcase-let*): Improve the doc strings.
* doc/lispref/sequences.texi (Sequence Functions): Improve
wording and rename arguments of seq-let to be more
descriptive. Add a cross-reference to "Destructuring with
pcase Patterns".
* doc/lispref/control.texi (Pattern-Matching Conditional):
Improve wording and the menu.
(pcase Macro): Incorporate patch suggested by Paul Eggert
<eggert@cs.ucla.edu>. Reformat text.
(Destructuring with pcase Patterns): Rename from
"Destructuring patterns", and improve wording and indexing.
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Basic Isearch): Index isearch-exit,
isearch-abort, isearch-cancel, isearch-repeat-forward,
isearch-repeat-backward and their bindings.
(Repeat Isearch): Index isearch-ring-advance,
isearch-ring-retreat and isearch-edit-string.
(Special Isearch): Index isearch-quote-char,
isearch-char-by-name and their bindings. Index
isearch-query-replace and isearch-query-replace-regexp, and
the latter's binding. Explain what
isearch-query-replace-regexp does. Index isearch-complete.
(Word Search): Index isearch-toggle-word.
* doc/lispref/processes.texi (Asynchronous Processes): Clarify
better when it is advisable to use pipes for communicating
with subprocesses. (Bug#33050)
* doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi (Initial Options):
* doc/emacs/frames.texi (Frame Parameters):
* doc/emacs/xresources.texi (Resources): Document the
'--no-x-resources' command-line option and the fact that X
resources override .emacs settings of frame parameters.
(Bug#32975)
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Basic Isearch): Index
'isearch-delete-char', its keybinding and the isearch "input
item" concept, and define the latter.
(Error in Isearch): Clarify the different uses of DEL and
C-M-w during isearch.
* lisp/isearch.el (isearch-delete-char): Correct its
documentation and link to the Info node '(emacs)Basic Isearch'
which explains less technically how this function works in
everyday usage.
* doc/misc/efaq.texi (Packages that do not come with Emacs):
Correct typo in GNU ELPA url (Bug#33072). Change other url
references to use https scheme.
* doc/lispref/windows.texi (vertical scrolling): Clarify the meaning of
vertical scrolling by referring to tall screen lines, images, and the display
action. Clarify an ambiguous English tense.
* src/window.c (window-vscroll, set-window-vscroll): Amend doc strings to
refer to display.
* doc/lispref/os.texi (Startup Summary): Remove stale
reference to window-system-initialization-alist. Reported by
Zhang Haijun <ccsmile2008@outlook.com>.
