[NonGNU ELPA] Annotate version 2.5.0
ELPA update <[email protected]> Thu, 14 May 2026 17:06:24 -0400
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Version 2.5.0 of package Annotate has just been released in NonGNU ELPA.
You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Annotate describes itself as:
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annotate files without changing them
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More at https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/annotate.html
## Summary:
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ANNOTATE.EL
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[https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/annotate.svg]
[http://melpa.org/packages/annotate-badge.svg]
[http://stable.melpa.org/packages/annotate-badge.svg]
[https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/annotate.svg]
<https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/annotate.svg>
[http://melpa.org/packages/annotate-badge.svg]
<http://melpa.org/#/annotate>
[http://stable.melpa.org/packages/annotate-badge.svg]
<http://stable.melpa.org/#/annotate>
1 introduction
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## Recent NEWS:
2026-05-14 v2.5.0 cage
This version allows to attach comments to annotations and other
comments.
2025-11-11 v2.4.5 cage
This version fixes a bug that prevented correct loading of the
annotations database.
2025-11-02 v2.4.4 cage
This version informs the user when an error occurred while
checking the existence of an annotated file.
2025-11-01 v2.4.3 cage
This version fixed a bug that prevented remote file to be
annotated.
2025-05-09 v2.4.2 cage
This versions adds a CI system and boilerplate for adding unit
testing to annotate.el (thanks JenChieh!); also docstrings has
been modified to be more compliant to Emacs documentation
standards.
2025-05-09 v2.4.1 cage
This version removes the compilation warnings and makes easier to
customize the package.
2025-04-23 v2.4.0 cage
This version adds annotation's text expansion feature:
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│ "%d foo" → "2025-04-23 foo"
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2025-03-05 v2.3.1 cage
This version optimizes a function that searches for annotations in
a buffer; this changes should speed up commands like
`annotate-toggle-all-annotations-text'.
2025-03-05 v2.3.0 krvkir
This version adds a new customizable variable to instructs
annotate.el to save annotation's database each time a new
annotation is created, deleted or amended.
2024-10-10 v2.2.3 cage
This version contains code that asks the user to append a newline
character to the end of a buffer if such buffer does not
terminates with a newline character (if the newline is not present
the annotated text is highlighted but the annotation text is not
shown).
2024-05-08 v2.2.2 cage
This version fixed wrong coloration for adjacent annotations.
2024-03-23 v2.2.1 cage
This version added missing information from documentation about
annotations database file format.
2023-10-10 v2.2.0 cage
This version adds two new commands:
• annotate-change-annotation-text-position;
• annotate-change-annotation-colors.
To force positioning or color, respectively, for a single
annotation.
2023-10-10 v2.1.0 cage
This version ensures that the color theme for each annotation
(both underline color of the annotated text and colors of the
annotation), is saved when a an annotated file (or Emacs) is
closed. The same color theme will be restored together with the
annotations when, for example, the annotated file will be visited
again.
2023-09-27 v2.0.3 cage
This version fixed a bug that could render with the same color two
adjacent annotations.
2023-08-09 v2.0.2 cage
This version replaced a procedure with a call to an equivalent
library function.
2023-07-06 v2.0.1 cage
This version ensures that querying the database will search in all
the annotated buffers on the current Emacs session.
A phrase regarding the annotation of the newline character has
been corrected in README.org
2023-03-22 v2.0.0 cage
This version modify the command `annotate-annotate' to allow
setting specific colors for each annotation.
2023-02-22 v1.9.0 cage
This version added two new commands to hide/show the annotation's
text:
annotate-toggle-annotation-text
shows or hides annotation's text under cursor;
annotate-toggle-all-annotations-text
shows or hides the annotation's text in the whole buffer.
2022-12-15 v1.8.5 cage
This version fixed a regression that prevented to delete
annotations when disabling annotation-mode.
2022-12-15 v1.8.4 cage
This versions prevented printing of a warning
`annotate-save-annotations' printed a warning if the buffer was
not based on a file's contents. But the warning was printed even
if the buffer contained no annotations at all.
This version prints the warning about missing file only if the
buffer is annotated (i.e. contains at least an annotation).
2022-11-30 v1.8.3 cage
This versions fixed a bug that prevented annotations of info
files.
Also opening of annotated remote files should be faster.
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