X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/4a3cb252274f60f14ca7df6122cc967a0fd5bcd4..f8a7bf170c03a3a97f558fa8569e7d15c7af9a20:/man/anti.texi diff --git a/man/anti.texi b/man/anti.texi index a4c12f6563..6bb0f5e62c 100644 --- a/man/anti.texi +++ b/man/anti.texi @@ -1,79 +1,85 @@ @c This is part of the Emacs manual. -@c Copyright (C) 2002, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top -@appendix Emacs 21.4 Antinews +@appendix Emacs 21 Antinews For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about downgrading to Emacs version 21.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater -simplicity that results from the absence of many newer features. +simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs @value{EMACSVER} +features. @itemize @bullet + @item -The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution -called ``Leim''. To use them, you must extract the Leim tar file on -top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you -build Emacs. +The buffer position and line number are now displayed at the end of +the mode line, where they can be more easily seen. @item -The file position and line number information is now at the end -of the mode line. +The mode line of the selected window is no longer displayed with a +special face. All mode lines are created equal. Meanwhile, you can +use the variable @code{mode-line-inverse-video} to control whether +mode lines are highlighted at all---@code{nil} means don't highlight +them. @item -When a file is managed with version control, the command @kbd{C-x C-q} -(whose general meaning is to make a buffer read-only or writable) now -does so by checking the file in or out. Checking the file out makes -the buffer writable; checking it in makes the buffer read-only (at -least with RCS). +Clicking on a link with the left mouse button (@kbd{mouse-1}) will +always set point at the position clicked, instead of following the +link. If you want to follow the link, use the middle mouse button +(@kbd{mouse-2}). -You can still use @kbd{C-x v v} to do these operations if you wish; -its meaning is unchanged. If you want to control the buffer's -read-only flag without performing any version control operation, -use @kbd{M-x toggle-read-only}. +@item +Emacs is tired of X droppings. If you drop a file or a piece of text +onto an Emacs window, nothing will happen. @item -Filesets are not supported. +On an xterm, even if you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs provides a +more convincing simulation of a text terminal by not responding to +mouse clicks on the mode line, header line, or display margin. @item -For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want -to in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling -always works the same automatic way. +For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want to +in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling always +works in the same automatic way. @item -When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable -buffers in Emacs reflecting the fact that you can write any files. +The horizontal-bar cursor shape has been removed. @item -Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character -sets have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not -support ``extended segments'' so there are certain coding systems -it cannot handle. +If command line arguments are given, Emacs will not display a splash +screen, so that you can immediately get on with your editing. The +command-line option @samp{--no-splash} is therefore obsolete, and has +been removed. @item -@kbd{C-w} in an incremental search always grabs an entire word -into the search string. More precisely, it grabs text through -the next end of a word. +The command line options @samp{--color}, @samp{--fullwidth}, +@samp{--fullheight}, @samp{--fullscreen}, @samp{--no-blinking-cursor}, +@samp{--no-desktop}, and @samp{-Q} have also been removed. @item -Yanking now preserves all text properties that were in the killed -text. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} has no meaning. +The @samp{--geometry} option applies only to the initial frame, and +the @samp{-f} option will not read arguments for interactive +functions. @item -Occur mode, Info mode, and Comint-derived modes now control -fontification in their own way, and @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} -has nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info -mode, use the variable @code{Info-fontify}. +We have standardized on one location for the user init file: the file +named @file{.emacs} in your home directory. Emacs will not look for +the init file in @file{~/.emacs.d/init.el}. Similarly, don't try +putting @file{.emacs_SHELL} in @file{~/.emacs.d}; Emacs won't find it. @item -In Dired's @kbd{!} command, @samp{*} and @samp{?} now -cause substitution of the file names wherever they appear---not -only when they are surrounded by whitespace. +Emacs will not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically. If you want +to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so +explicitly. @item -Minibuffer completion commands now always complete the entire -minibuffer contents, just as if you had typed them at the end -of the minibuffer, no matter where point is actually located. +When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable +buffers, reflecting the fact that you can write any files. + +@item +The maximum size of buffers and integer variables has been halved. On +32-bit machines, the maximum buffer size is now 128 megabytes. @item An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following @@ -81,66 +87,207 @@ name is not recognized as an environment variable. Thus, the file name @file{foo$bar} would probably be an error. Meanwhile, the @code{setenv} command does not expand @samp{$} at all. +@item +If a single command accumulates too much undo information, Emacs never +discards it. If Emacs runs out of memory as a result, it will handle +this by crashing. + +@item +Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. + +@item +The @kbd{C-h} (help) subcommands have been rearranged---especially +those that display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list +of these commands; that will show you what is different. + +@item +The @kbd{C-h v} and @kbd{C-h f} commands no longer show a hyperlink to +the C source code, even if it is available. If you want to find the +source code, grep for it. + +@item +The apropos commands will not accept a list of words to match, in +order to encourage you to be more specific. Also, the user option +@code{apropos-sort-by-scores} has been removed. + +@item +The minibuffer prompt is now displayed using the default face. +The colon is enough to show you what part is the prompt. + +@item +Minibuffer completion commands always complete the entire minibuffer +contents, just as if you had typed them at the end of the minibuffer, +no matter where point is actually located. + +@item +The command @code{backward-kill-sexp} is now bound to @kbd{C-M-delete} +and @kbd{C-M-backspace}. Be careful when using these key sequences! +It may shut down your X server, or reboot your operating system. + @item Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including @kbd{M-@@}, @kbd{M-h}, etc., don't do anything special when you repeat them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is -equivalent to using them once. @kbd{M-h} does not use its numeric -argument. +equivalent to typing them once. @kbd{M-h} ignores numeric arguments. @item -@kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning and neither does -@kbd{C-u C-x C-x}. +The user option @code{set-mark-command-repeat-pop} has been removed. @item -There is no horizontal-bar cursor. +@kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning--it just sets the +mark twice. Neither does @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}, which simply exchanges +point and mark like @kbd{C-x C-x}. @item -The faces @code{minibuffer-prompt} and @code{mode-line-inactive} -do not exist, and the features they control don't exist either. +The function @code{sentence-end} has been eliminated in favor of a +more straightforward approach: directly setting the variable +@code{sentence-end}. For example, to end each sentence with a single +space, use + +@lisp +(setq sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')@}]*\\($\\|[ \t]\\)[ \t\n]*") +@end lisp @item -The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always @code{nil}. -Emacs does not set it based on your locale settings. -If you want some other value, you must set it yourself. +The variable @code{fill-nobreak-predicate} is no longer customizable, +and it can only hold a single function. @item -SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation support. +Nobreak spaces and hyphens are displayed just like normal characters, +and the user option @code{nobreak-char-display} has been removed. @item -The @kbd{C-h} subcommands have been rearranged---especially those that -display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list of these -commands; that will show you what is different. +@kbd{C-w} in an incremental search always grabs an entire word +into the search string. More precisely, it grabs text through +the next end of a word. @item -Emacs does not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically; if you want -to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so -explicitly. +Yanking now preserves all text properties that were in the killed +text. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} has been removed. @item -The @samp{--fullwidth}, @samp{--fullheight} and @samp{--fullscreen} -command line options are not supported. +Occur mode, Info mode, and Comint-derived modes now control +fontification in their own way, and @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} has +nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info mode, use the +variable @code{Info-fontify}. @item -The @samp{--geometry} option now entirely applies only to the initial -frame. +The Grep package has been merged with Compilation mode. Many +grep-specific commands and user options have thus been eliminated. +Also, @kbd{M-x grep} never tries the GNU grep @samp{-H} option, +and instead silently appends @file{/dev/null} to the command line. @item -Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. +In Dired's @kbd{!} command, @samp{*} and @samp{?} now +cause substitution of the file names wherever they appear---not +only when they are surrounded by whitespace. + +@item +When a file is managed with version control, the command @kbd{C-x C-q} +(whose general meaning is to make a buffer read-only or writable) now +does so by checking the file in or out. Checking the file out makes +the buffer writable; checking it in makes the buffer read-only. + +You can still use @kbd{C-x v v} to do these operations if you wish; +its meaning is unchanged. If you want to control the buffer's +read-only flag without performing any version control operation, +use @kbd{M-x toggle-read-only}. + +@item +SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation +support. + +@item +Many Info mode commands have been removed. Incremental search in Info +searches only the current node. @item Many @code{etags} features for customizing parsing using regexps have been removed. @item -The CUA, ido, table, tramp, reveal, ruler-mode, and ibuffer packages -have been removed. So has the spreadsheet, SES, and the algebraic -calculator, Calc. (We distribute Calc separately.) +The Emacs server now runs a small C program called @file{emacsserver}, +rather than trying to handle everything in Emacs Lisp. Now there can +only be one Emacs server running at a time. The @code{server-mode} +command and @code{server-name} user option have been eliminated. + +@item +The @file{emacsclient} program no longer accepts the @samp{--eval} and +@samp{--display} command line options. + +@item +The command @code{quail-show-key}, for showing how to input a +character, has been removed. + +@item +The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always +@code{nil}, regardless of your locale settings. If you want some +other value, set it yourself. + +@item +Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character sets +have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not support +``extended segments'', so there are certain coding systems it cannot +handle. + +@item +The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution +called ``Leim.'' To use this, you must extract the Leim tar file on +top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you +build Emacs. + +@item +The following input methods have been eliminated: belarusian, +bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng, croatian, dutch, +georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, +latvian-keyboard, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, +malayalam-inscript, rfc1345, russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, +tamil-inscript ucs, ukrainian-computer, vietnamese-telex, and welsh. + +@item +The following language environments have been eliminated: Belarusian, +Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, French, Georgian, Italian, +Latin-6, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian, +Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Welsh, +and Windows-1255. + +@item +The @code{code-pages} library, which contained various 8-bit coding +systems, has been removed. + +@item +The Kmacro package has been replaced with a simple and elegant +keyboard macro system. Use @kbd{C-x (} to start a new keyboard macro, +@kbd{C-x )} to end the macro, and @kbd{C-x e} to execute the last +macro. Use @kbd{M-x name-last-kbd-macro} to name the most recently +defined macro. + +@item +Emacs no longer displays your breakpoints in the source buffer, so you +have to remember where you left them. It can be difficult to inspect +the state of your debugged program from the command line, so Emacs +tries to demonstrate this in the GUD buffer. + +@item +The Calc, CUA, Ibuffer, Ido, Password, Printing, Reveal, +Ruler-mode, SES, Table, Tramp, and URL packages have been removed. +The Benchmark, Cfengine, Conf, Dns, Flymake, Python, Thumbs, and +Wdired modes have also been removed. + +@item +The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and the Introduction to Programming in +Emacs Lisp are now distributed separately, not in the Emacs +distribution. + +@item +On MS Windows, there is no longer any support for tooltips, images, +sound, different mouse pointer shapes, or pointing devices with more +than 3 buttons. If you want these features, consider switching to +another operating system. But even if you don't want these features, +you should still switch---for freedom's sake. @item -The kmacro package has been removed. To start a keyboard macro you -must use @kbd{C-x (}; to end one, @kbd{C-x )}; to execute the last -one, @kbd{C-x e}. +Emacs will not use Unicode for clipboard operations on MS Windows. @item To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many