Version 29.1.3.2 of package Compat has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Compat describes itself as: ================================ Emacs Lisp Compatibility Library ================================ More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/compat.html ## Summary: Compat is the Elisp forwards compatibility library, which provides definitions introduced in newer Emacs versions. The definitions are only installed if necessary for your current Emacs version. If Compat is compiled on a recent version of Emacs, all of the definitions are disabled at compile time, such that no negative performance impact is incurred. The provided compatibility implementations of functions and macros are at least subsets of the actual implementations. Be sure to read the documentation string and the Compat manual. ## Recent NEWS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COMPAT.EL - CHANGELOG ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1 Release of "Compat" Version 29.1.3.2 ══════════════════════════════════════ • compat-26: Add `make-temp-file' with optional argument TEXT. • compat-27: Mark `compat-call dired-get-marked-files' as obsolete. See the section limitations in the Compat manual. • compat-29: Add `funcall-with-delayed-message' and `with-delayed-message'. • compat-29: Add `ert-with-temp-file' and `ert-with-temp-directory'. • compat-29: Add `set-transient-map' with optional arguments MESSAGE and TIMEOUT. (Release <2023-02-01 Wed>) 2 Release of "Compat" Version 29.1.3.1 ══════════════════════════════════════ • Fix regression, which prevented loading Compat in interpreted mode. We ensure that Compat works interpreted and byte compiled by running the entire test suite twice in the CI. • compat-27: Add `file-name-unquote'. • compat-28: Add `mark-thing-at-mouse'. • compat-29: Replace `string-lines' with version from Emacs 29, support optional KEEP-NEWLINES argument. (Release <2023-01-25 Wed>) 3 Release of "Compat" Version 29.1.3.0 ══════════════════════════════════════ • compat-25: Add `hash-table-empty-p'. • compat-25: Add `macroexp-parse-body' and `macroexp-quote'. • compat-25: Add `region-noncontiguous-p'. • compat-25: Add `save-mark-and-excursion'. • compat-26: Add `read-answer'. • compat-26: Add `region-bounds'. • compat-27: Add `date-ordinal-to-time'. • compat-27: Add `file-size-human-readable-iec'. • compat-27: Add `major-mode-suspend' and `major-mode-restore'. • compat-27: Add `make-decoded-time'. • compat-27: Add `minibuffer-history-value'. • compat-27: Add `read-char-from-minibuffer'. • compat-27: Add `ring-resize'. • compat-28: Add `color-dark-p'. • compat-28: Add `directory-files-and-attributes' with COUNT argument. • compat-28: Add `text-quoting-style'. • compat-28: Add `with-window-non-dedicated'. • compat-29: Add `buffer-local-set-state' and `buffer-local-restore-state'. • compat-29: Add `compiled-function-p'. • compat-29: Add `count-sentences'. • compat-29: Add `delete-line'. • compat-29: Add `get-scratch-buffer-create'. • compat-29: Add `list-of-strings-p'. • compat-29: Add `plist-get' generalized variable. • compat-29: Add `plistp'. • compat-29: Add `read-multiple-choice' with LONG-FORM argument. • compat-29: Add `readablep'. • compat-29: Add `substitute-quotes'. • compat-29: Add `use-region-beginning', `use-region-end' and `use-region-noncontiguous-p'. • compat-29: Add `with-narrowing'. (Release <2023-01-22 Sun>) 4 Release of "Compat" Version 29.1.2.0 ══════════════════════════════════════ • All compatibility functions are covered by tests! • Add links from compatibility definitions to tests. • BREAKING: Drop JSON parsing support (libjansson API, unused downstream). • BREAKING: Drop `null-device' (unused downstream). • BREAKING: Drop `unlock-buffer' (unused downstream). • compat-26: Add `buffer-hash'. • compat-27: Add `fixnump' and `bignump'. • compat-27: Add `with-minibuffer-selected-window'. • compat-27: Add generalized variables for `decoded-time-*'. • compat-28: Add `macroexp-warn-and-return'. • compat-28: Add `subr-native-elisp-p'. • compat-28: Add `bounds-of-thing-at-mouse'. • compat-29: Add `with-buffer-unmodified-if-unchanged'. • compat-29: Fix and test `define-key' with REMOVE argument. (Release <2023-01-16 Mon>) 5 Release of "Compat" Version 29.1.1.1 ══════════════════════════════════════ • Add tests, 167 out of 203 definitions tested (82%). • compat-25: Improve algorithmic complexity of `sort'. • compat-28: Add `make-separator-line'. • compat-29: Minor fixes to `keymap-*' functions. • compat-29: Add `with-memoization'. • compat-29: Add `buttonize' and `buttonize-region'. (Release <2023-01-14 Sat>) 6 Release of "Compat" Version 29.1.1.0 ══════════════════════════════════════ • The macros in `compat-macs.el' have been rewritten and simplified. The refactoring allows to further refine the criteria under which compatibility aliases, functions, macros and variables are installed. • Remove deprecated, prefixed compatibility functions. • Remove deprecated features `compat-help', `compat-font-lock' and `compat-24'. • Compat uses runtime checks (`boundp', `fboundp') to ensure that existing definitions are never overridden, when Compat is loaded on a newer Emacs than … …
