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Release 1.8

Breaking Changes

#144: purpose-x-magit extension: replace magit purpose with Magit

When using the purpose-x-magit extension via purpose-x-magit-single-on, the extension no longer defines a magit purpose. Instead it defines an identical purpose named Magit. This way, the purpose can be used as a condition in purpose-special-action-sequences.

Those who use purpoxe-x-magit via purpose-x-magit-multi-on are not affected by this change.

Enhancements

#172: Rework Travis CI tests configuration and add Emacsen up to 27.1

#149, #152: Lower memeory usage when calculating a buffer’s purpose

Bug Fixes

#182: Prevent debug command from bypassing purpose

#166, #180: Toggle integration fixes when purpose-mode is toggled

Previously, the integration fixes would remain active even when purpose-mode was disabled, disrupting the normal display behavior of integrated packages and features.

#153, #177: purpose-x-popwin extension: quit-window closes popup window when no previous buffers can be shown in it

#171: Reimplement whitespace-display-window using purposes

Original whitespace-display-window doesn’t go through display-buffer, thus disregarding window-purpose entirely.

#170: Reimplement edebug-pop-to-buffer using purposes

Original edebug-pop-to-buffer doesn’t go through display-buffer, thus disregarding window-purpose entirely.

#169: Prevent Isearch help commands from bypassing purpose

#168: purpose-x-magit extension: prevent magit-display-buffer-function from bypassing purpose

#167: Prevent next-error from bypassing purpose

#166: Properly format defcustom package-version

#133: Neotree fix honors neo-window-position

#137: purpose-change-buffer to ignore dedicated argument in new Emacsen

As of Emacs 27.0.50, the function window--display-buffer no longer accepts a dedicated argument, and instead relies on alist and display-buffer-mark-dedicated to decide dedication state of the window. As result, purpose-change-buffer ignores the dedicated argument when using Emacs version 27 or newer. Older Emacs versions are not affected.

#134: add support for Zone

#78 (comment) purpose-x-persp extension: persp-curr is now a function

Release 1.7

Breaking Changes

removed support for Emacs 24.3

Supported versions are Emacs 24.4 and newer (up to 26.1 at the time of writing). The branch release-1.6 will continue to support Emacs 24.3 and is available for those who need it.

Bug Fixes

#116: honor display-buffer-mark-dedicated

Release 1.6.1

Breaking Changes

#84, #125: remove option purpose-preferred-prompt and prompts shims.

Removed completing-read and read-file-name shims, thus the custom variable purpose-preferred-prompt has been removed. From the README:

In the past, the variable `purpose-preferred-prompt`, allowed you to choose whether you want Purpose to use IDO or Helm when it needs information from the user. This variable has been removed. Instead, the prompt relies on the normal mechanism. For Helm prompts enable `helm-mode`, for Ivy mode enable `ivy-mode`, for IDO prompts enable `ido-mode`, etc. If using `ido-mode`, note that because how IDO works it doesn’t cover all commands, and some commands won’t have an IDO prompt. To work around that, please see the package [ido-completion-read+](https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-completing-read-plus) (formerly ido-ubiquitous).

Enhancements

#113, #114: default to edit purpose for buffers visiting files

If a buffer is visiting a file, its default purpose (if no other purpose matches) will be edit.

Emacsen 25.1, 25.3 and 26.1 added to Travis CI tests

Emacs 25.2 not added, because it is almost exactly the same as 25.3, and the difference doesn’t affect Purpose’s behavior.

Bug Fixes

added some missing default purposes for some modes

• css-mode: edit
• eshell-mode, term-mode: terminal

#110: wrong window layout after using magit-popup’s help system

Added a fix in window-purpose-fixes.el.

#111: wrong layout when using org-goto

Added a fix in window-purpose-fixes.el.

#123 purpose-x-popwin: fix custom type mismatches

#127, #128: purpose-x-code1: correctly create and display dired buffer

#118: fix typos in README

#121: prefer the selected window even with multiple frames

#120: pop-up-frames takes precedence over pop-up-windows

Release 1.6

New Features

New functions for easier purpose configuration

User purposes: purpose-add-user-purposes, purpose-remove-user-purposes Extension purposes: purpose-add-extension-purposes, purpose-remove-extension-purposes

Added Purpose menu to the menu-bar

Enhancements

Purpose ships with preinstalled layouts

Subdirectory layouts contains preinstalled layouts. Customizable variable purpose-use-built-in-layouts controls if those layouts are available to the user (available by default).

purpose-window-with-purpose now takes optional frame argument

Bug Fixes

#79: nil buffer means other-buffer for some buffer switching commands

These commands are: purpose-switch-buffer, purpose-switch-buffer-other-window, purpose-pop-buffer and purpose-pop-buffer-same-window.

dislpay function returning fail means don’t display buffer at all

#80: added autoloads to some commands outside of window-purpose.el

fixed argument order for purpose--remove-suffix in Emacs 24.3 and 24.4

#95: loading layouts to show different buffers

purpose-set-window-layout places different buffers of the same purpose, if the layout has multiple windows with same purpose. Previously, all windows with the purpose would show the same buffer after loading a layout. This affects all layout-loading commands.