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* NEWS
** Version 4.0.6
*** Mostly bugfixes
*** Change default value of helm-ff-candidate-number-limit
*** Show new packages in a separate source in helm-packages
*** New browse url command (brave)
** Version 4.0.5
*** Enable persistent actions in symbol-help categories
Thats mean that C-h f/v/x/o etc... have now persistent action to display help.
*** helm-action at nth only available when helm-display-line-numbers-mode is enabled.
Before the keys were available even when line relative numbers were
not enabled.
*** Change behavior of helm-buffer-toggle-diff
When buffer has changes not saved to file do "diff file buffer".
When file has changes done externally and buffer is not up to date do
"diff buffer file".
*** New action in helm-packages to clone packages
*** Diacritics can now be ignored in helm-find-files
and read-file-name with the variable `helm-find-files-ignore-diacritics`.
*** Allow using a function as diacritics slot value
*** Now project history use adaptive match
That's mean that the recentest projects popup on top.
*** helm-mm-matching-method is no more a user var
*** Fix bugs and inconsistencies in helm-multi-match.el
*** Add a specialized match fn for files
Once the first pattern is matched on the whole candidate, the
subsequent patterns match only in basename whereas they were
matching again the whole candidate previously.
e.g. =/home/you/github/repo/ foo git= previously was matching most of
the files in directory instead of matching only e.g. =foogit.el=, now
only the files matching =foo git= are displayed.
*** Change color of toggle-debug-on-error/quit in helm-M-x
when the commands are activated.
*** Differenciate minor and major mode in helm-M-x
*** Change behavior of helm-delete-minibuffer-contents-from-pos
Now the prefix arg specify only whether we preselect the candidate or
not. That's means you can now narrow down your candidates to "foo",
and then do C-u C-k on "foo" to retrieve the whole list of candidate
with the preselection on the last occurence of "foo".

** Version 4.0.4
*** Rewrite the helm async process filter
*** We can now mark the <n> next candidates with a numeric prefix arg
Same for previous.
*** Change default prefix binding to reach nth candidates
Now you can reach next nth candidate with C-<n> and previous nth
candidate with M-<n>, it is easier to remember.  Note that this defeat
the ability to specify prefix arg with C-<n> or M-<n>.
*** helm-completions-detailed is now enabled by default
** Version 4.0.3
*** New drag-and-drop support for helm-find-files (only Emacs-29+)
Use now dnd.el for the new drag-and-drop function.
This allows drag-and-drop in external applications in addition to emacs
dired frames and windows. See helm-find-files documentation.
*** Remove old drag-and-drop support for helm-find-files
*** Add a new completion metadata category command-help
Handle helm-M-x prefix arg integration in this category.  That's mean
you can have helm-M-x prefix arg feature in M-X.
*** Allow filtering sources in current session
It is bound to C-M-e in helm-map.
*** Change `helm-current-directory-alist` default value
Now C-x C-f from a Gnus buffer brings to News directory.
*** Exclude commands related to specific modes in helm-M-x
This is available only in Emacs with an interactive version supporting
MODES argument.  It is configurable with
`helm-M-x-exclude-unusable-commands-in-mode`, default to t.
*** Fix preselection after persistent killing buffers
*** Improve colors in ttys
*** Add new actions to helm-find-files
*** Fix require-match in completion-in-region
** Version 4.0.2
*** Fix Emacs bug with CRM when using org-set-tags
*** Improve helm-source-files-in-current-dir
*** Fix some compatibility problems with EIEIO in various Emacs
*** Improve helm-projects-history
*** Fix bug in recentf
Properties may corrupt recentf data, prevent this.
*** Fix bug with *-window-side-state no more working
*** Remove the ability of switching to recursive search with C-j in HFF
It was broken and not needed as we can just add the final "/" to expand.
*** Change default value of `helm-locate-recursive-dirs-command'
It is no more using `locate` but `find`, this because locate is not
working anymore out of the box without some tweaks (plocate backend).
It is still anyway the faster alternative once tweaked, see HFF
documentation.
*** Improve position of helm frame
*** Provide icons in find and fdfind
** Version 4.0.1
*** Provide icons in some more places (helm-for-files.el)
*** Package-vc-* commands have now affixations (package category)
*** Show only basename of dot files in helm-find-files
It is now the default, but it can be configured with `helm-ff-show-dot-file-path`.
*** Allow using both all-the-icons and nerd-icons as icon providers
Use the variable `helm-x-icons-provider`.
*** Add affixations to helm-info
Add a description of info file when using `helm-info` or `info-display-manual`.
*** Provide minimal support for eww bookmarks
*** Stop preventing dups when trashing files
*** Add a helm-add-to-list function for user init file settings
*** Drop support for deprecated defadvice management
*** Allow destructuring in helm-acase
*** Popup-info can be provided in metadata and added to any completion
via the vars `helm-completing-read-command-categories` and
`helm-completing-read-extra-metadata`, for example it is now enabled
in M-x man.
*** Maybe provide a popup-info in completion-at-point
If CAPFns provide such information via `completion-extra-properties`,
display it in a popup-info when helm-popup-tip-mode is enabled.
`helm-lisp-completion-at-point` provides this as well.
*** Add completion for Char Classes for regexps
This is available in `helm-lisp-completion-at-point`.
*** Enhance usage of tab-bar-mode from Helm
Previously we were displaying each marked candidate in a tab, now all
marked candidates go in same tab.
Helm-find-files is now using the same functions as helm-buffers to
display its candidates in tab.
helm-imenu-all when jumping to a candidate jump to it in its tab if
possible.
*** Access to helm-find-files bookmarks from helm-read-file-name
That's mean that when copying/renaming etc... you can use bookmarks as
target.
*** Fix a bug in query replace in file names
It is now possible to match counter ("\#") inside the replacement
string and not only before or after as before.
*** Fix a bug with dummy sources in file related sources
It is now possible to mark wildcard candidates from unrelated
directories.
** Version 4.0
*** Enhance helm-finder
Now helm-finder fetchs keywords from all packages, not only built-in
and allows installing from there.
*** helm-popup-tip-mode is now usable in any source having the popup-info attribute
In addition of the various helm-grep-* now =helm-man-woman= and
=helm-find-files= can benefit of this mode.
*** New command helm-outline to navigate buffers according to outline-regexp
*** New helm grep ag action to search results from the helm ag/rg session
This allows filtering the current results to another pattern or to
specific file.
*** New helm grep ag action to launch ag/rg on parent directory of current search
*** Packages can now be (re)installed/upgraded asynchronously from helm-packages
It is now the default, you can customize this with =helm-packages-async=.
*** Helm-find-files persistent delete uses now a read-answer prompt
It is now possible to answer "!" (yes for all) when using marked
candidates, this for the file deletion itself and also for the kill
buffer question.
*** Allow saving selection when deleting minibuffer contents
This is now possible with a prefix arg given when position is at eol
in minibuffer.  This allow for example showing all candidates keeping
current selection in helm-ls-git log after a search.
*** Save files opened from etags and fd in file-name-history
*** Provide help in helm-read-answer
*** Disable helm for read-multiple-choice--long-answers
** Version 3.9.9
*** Change prefix arg behavior of helm-show-all-candidates-in-source
With a prefix arg show all candidates, with a numeric prefix arg show
ARG number of candidates, and with no prefix arg show only
helm-candidate-number-limit of candidates.
*** Get rid of popup.el dependency
*** helm-completion-styles-alist accepts commands for completion-in-region
*** Minibuffer-contents change color in HFF when updating
This is controlled by =helm-ff-dim-prompt-on-update= user variable.

*** Now new file and dir have a dummy source in HFF, same for completing-read's
and read-file-name.

*** helm-info-at-point shows index of current page in addition of default

So it can safely be used as a replacement of "i" in Info.

*** Add affixation function for eww (emacs-30 only)
*** Allow toggling auto update in helm-top with a prefix arg
*** Do not use `dired-create-destination-dirs` mechanism for directory creation
as it is not working in some cases (e.g. symlinks).
*** Fix persistent action in helm mark-ring when follow mode is on
*** Fix Imenu preselection when point is on a name with special chars
*** Provide a new progress bar for rsync with a svg widget
Needs svg-lib package but it is not mandatory.

** Version 3.9.8

*** New helm-finder command
*** Make `completions-detailed` working with 'emacs' helm-completion-style
It was already working but was really slow and was not supporting
`helm-completing-read-command-categories` mechanism which provide
`completions-detailed` in much more places than Emacs vanilla.
*** Helm-goto-line save position even when using persistent actions
*** helm-info is now colorized
*** Displaying thumnails is now slighly faster
*** Add a new mode to edit bookmark annotations
When viewing an annotation you had to kill the buffer, restart
helm-bookmarks, and run the edit annotation action, now you can edit
directly from the view buffer.
*** It is now possible to rename marked bookmarks
*** New compress/uncompress/compress-to action in helm-find-files
All actions are asynchronous except the persistent ones.
*** Allow toggling while-no-input for easier edebugging
Use the new `helm-update-edebug` variable to enable this.
*** And various bug fixes as always

** Version 3.9.7

*** Fix package-requires in helm.el

** Version 3.9.6

*** Fix bug with helm-mm-exact-search (bug#2616)
*** Improve locate library fns
*** Fix a old bug with candidate transformer
candidate-transformer functions should behave the same in in-buffer
and sync source: transforming all candidates.
*** Fix kmacro for Emacs-29+
*** Various minor bug fixes

** Version 3.9.5

*** Add compatibility with Emacs-28< for helm-packages

Tested with emacs-27.

*** Add new action package-isolate for helm-packages

Allow launching a new Emacs with only package(s).

*** Packages list can be refreshed with C-c C-u

BTW there is no more option to update from actions with prefix arg.

*** Add more affixations fns for completing-read

Themes, colors etc...

*** Add new var helm-compleions-detailed for emacs-27

This allow using completions-detailed in Emacs-27 with various
describe-* functions.

*** Helm-occur now doesn't hang when trying to match empty lines

With "^$".

*** Highlight matches in M-x highlight only commands

I.e. Items in short documentation are not highlighted.

** Version 3.9.4

*** Add two new alists to allow extending completions-detailed

This allows providing detailed completions in more places, see
`helm-completing-read-extra-metadata` and
`helm-completing-read-command-categories`.
They are not provided as user variables as it may be tricky to provide
the corresponding affixations functions.
As of now we have detailed completions in
describe-function/variable/symbol/command/package,
find-function/variable, switch-to-buffer,
customize-variable/group, package-(vc)install, package-vc-checkout.

*** New helm packages manager

The old helm-elisp-package has been replaced by helm-packages.
The old one was too slow, taking lot of memory and even crashing Emacs
especially with last Emacs-29.

** Version 3.9.3

*** Ensure to use affixation functions provided by caller in helm-mode

** Version 3.9.2

*** New progress bar for Rsync action from helm-find-files
*** Describe-* commands with completions-detailed are now fast
*** Use Wfnames package as dependency to replace Wdired

** Version 3.9.1

*** helm-config file has been removed

Therefore (require 'helm-config) will return an error, don't use this
anymore. If installing from source use instead (require 'helm-autoloads), otherwise from a package install, the autoloads file
will be automatically loaded.


*** Allow using helm-completion-styles-alist by command

*** New mode for editing large vars

Will be used automatically when using the set variable action from
helm-apropos.

*** Improve all-the-icons in many places