Ah, ok I see what you mean. I didn't feel it was necessary to enter into details since it is backwards compatible. But I can add some things to mention that async is now supported in a "first class" sense. João On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 10:31 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: João Távora > > Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 10:21:43 +0100 > > Cc: 41531@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , > andreyk.mad@gmail.com, > > dgutov@yandex.ru > > > > I'm surprised the NEWS entry I had written got lost. In the git rebasing, > > maybe. > > There is a NEWS entry in the branch, but it only says this: > > -*** 'eldoc-documentation-function' is now a user option. > -Modes should use the new hook instead of this user option to register > -their backends. > +*** New user option 'eldoc-documentation-strategy' > +The built-in choices available for this user option let users compose > +the results of 'eldoc-documentation-functions' in various ways. The > +user option replaces 'eldoc-documentation-function', which is now > +obsolete. > > I don't see how by reading this anyone could understand that the > change allows significant new functionality. maybe you wrote more > than that, and it did get lost somehow? > > (FTR, I did "git diff ...origin/scratch/eldoc-async" to see the > changes on the branch.) >