Emacs 22 Antinews
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For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about downgrading to Emacs version 22.3.  We hope you will enjoy the greater simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs EMACSVER features.

  * The Fontconfig font library is no longer supported.  To specify a font, you must use an XLFD (X Logical Font Descriptor).  The other ways of specifying fonts---so-called ``Fontconfig'' and ``GTK'' font names---are clearly redundant, and have been removed.

  * Emacs no longer performs font anti-aliasing.  If your fonts look ugly, try choosing a larger font and increasing the screen resolution. Admittedly, this becomes difficult as you go further back in time, since available screen resolutions will decrease.

  * Emacs has added support for some soon-to-be-non-obsolete platforms. These include GNU/Linux systems based on libc version 5, BSD systems based on the COFF executable format, Solaris versions less than 2.6, and many more.

  * Emacs can no longer display frames on X windows and text terminals (ttys) simultaneously.  If you start Emacs as an X application, the Emacs job can only create X frames; if you start Emacs on a tty, the Emacs job can only use that tty.

  * Emacs can no longer be started as a daemon.

  * Transient Mark mode is now disabled by default.  Furthermore, some commands that operate specifically on the region when it is active and Transient Mark mode is enabled (such as fill-paragraph ispell-word, and indent-for-tab-command), no longer do so.

  * The line motion commands, C-n and C-p, now move by logical text lines, not screen lines.  Even if a long text line is continued over multiple screen lines, C-n and C-p treat it as a single line, because that's ultimately what it is.

  * Visual Line mode, which provides ``word wrap'' functionality, has been removed.  You can still use Long Lines mode to gain an approximation of word wrapping, though this has some drawbacks---for instance, syntax highlighting often doesn't work well on wrapped lines.

  * The variable shift-select-mode has been deleted; holding shift while typing a motion command no longer creates a temporarily active region.  You can still create temporarily active regions by dragging the mouse.

  * C-l now runs recenter instead of recenter-top-bottom.  This always sets the current line at the center of the window, instead of cycling through the center, top, and bottom of the window on successive invocations of C-l.  This lets you type C-l C-l C-l C-l to be absolutely sure that you have recentered the line.

  * Typing M-n at the start of the minibuffer history list no longer attempts to generate guesses of possible minibuffer input.  It instead does the straightforward thing, by issuing the message End of history; no default available.

  * Individual buffers can no longer display faces specially.  The text scaling commands C-x C-+, C-x C--, and C-x C-0 have been removed, and so has the buffer face menu bound to S-down-mouse-1.

  * Emacs now uses an internal encoding, known as emacs-mule, which is not a superset of Unicode.

  * VC no longer supports fileset-based operations on distributed version control systems (DVCSs) such as Arch, Bazaar, Subversion, Mercurial, and Git.  For instance, multi-file commits will be performed by committing one file at a time.  As you go further back in time, we will remove DVCS support entirely, so start migrating your projects to CVS.

  * To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 22.3.