Version 0.9.1 of package Transient has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Transient describes itself as: ================== Transient commands ================== More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/transient.html ## Summary: 1 Transient command menus ═════════════════════════ Transient is the library used to implement the keyboard-driven “menus” in [Magit]. It is distributed as a separate package, so that it can be used to implement similar menus in [other packages]. [Magit] <https://github.com/magit/magit/> [other packages] <https://melpa.org/#/transient> 1.1 Some things that Transient can do ───────────────────────────────────── • Display current state of arguments • Display and manage lifecycle of modal bindings • Contextual user interface • Flow control for wizard-like composition of interactive forms • History & persistence • Rendering arguments for controlling CLI programs 1.2 Complexity in CLI programs ────────────────────────────── ## Recent NEWS: # -*- mode: org -*- * v0.9.1 2025-06-03 - As an additional safety measure, unconditionally reset ~inhibit-quit~ when the emergency exit is taken. b326421f - Including groups that are still defined as a variable, instead of using ~transient-define-group~ (added in v0.9.0), failed in some cases and prevented the menu from being displayed at all. #389 * v0.9.0 2025-06-01 - Key descriptions (as returned by ~key-description~ and understood by ~kbd~) are now the only key binding format understood by Transient. Vectors are no longer supported. c4e0cba6 - Vectors are now preferred to identify a suffix or group in a menu by coordinates. It is still possible, but discouraged, to use a list. 1933dda9 - The internal format used to store menu layouts has been improved. The old format is still supported and translated on the fly when encountered. Instead of rely on that translation, users are advised to recompile dependent packages after updating Transient to this release. bcc0bf83 - Added new macro ~transient-define-group~, which defines one or more groups of suffixes to be included in multiple menus. Such included groups are no longer immediately inlined when referenced in a menu definition, which makes it possible for users to make changes to included group and have those change affect all menus that include them. bcc0bf83 - Added new macro ~transient-inline-group~, which inlines an included group into a specific menu. bcc0bf83 - Added new, experimental suffix class ~transient-cons-option~, which is intended for situations where ~transient-args~ should return an alist, instead of a list of strings (arguments). 81727bac, e8eb3ebd - While a transient menu is active, ~inhibit-quit~ is now set to t. #388 * v0.8.8 2025-05-01 - Added option ~transient-common-command-prefix~ to allow using a key other than ~C-x~ as the prefix key used for many commands common to all transient menus. Because the use of the ~C-x~ prefix for these commands causes many global bindings to be shadowed even for menus that allow invoking non-suffix commands, I highly recommend that users customize this. 7d08039c - Added option ~transient-error-on-insert-failure~, defaulting to ~nil~. I.e., go back to the pre-v0.8.7 behavior by default but let users opt-in to errors for certain minor issues. #374 - Address a conflict with the keyboard used by the Android port. #376. * v0.8.7 2025-04-01 - Added new hook ~transient-post-exit-hook~. 55050b60 - ~transient-insert-suffix~ and ~transient-append-suffix~ now signal error if the specified location is invalid. #374 Bug fixes: - Autoloaded commands were loaded too late in ~transient-init-suffix~, resulting in the suffix prototype object not being used. 00112c11 * v0.8.6 2025-03-15 Bug fixes: - ~transient-show-summary~ errored for commands that have neither a summary nor a docstring. 0886651d - ~transient-format-description~ errored for ~transient-information~ and ~transient-information*~ suffixes. #366 - ~transient--wrap-command~ failed to load autoloaded commands. 40308623 - ~transient-suffix-object~ errored if a command is bound more than once and is invoked using the mouse or ~RET~. f69e1286 - For some releases ~transient-suffix-object~ errored if it could not identify a unique suffix, which helped establish that it is in fact legitimate to use this function as a predicate. No longer error if there are zero matches, but continue to error if their are multiple matches that cannot be disambiguated. 4a06aeb0 * v0.8.5 2025-03-01 - Added new faces ~transient-key-recurse~ and ~transient-key-stack~. 58e22554 Bug fixes: - ~transient--setup-recursion~ did not consider the ~recurse~ shorthand. 32a7e256 - The parent group was not always stored in suffix objects. #354 - Invoking a suffix of a sub-prefix (which is configured to return to the outer prefix), did exit instead of returning, if the suffix's ... ...
