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1 @c -*-texinfo-*-
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2 @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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3 @c Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions.
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6 @c This node must have no pointers.
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8 @node Antinews, GNU Free Documentation License, System Interface, Top
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9 @appendix Emacs 20 Antinews
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11 For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about
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12 downgrading to Emacs version 20.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater
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13 simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 21 features. In
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15 20.3, for which the previous printed edition of this manual was made.
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17 @section Old Lisp Features in Emacs 20
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19 @itemize @bullet
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20 @item
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21 The @code{push} and @code{pop} macros are not defined.
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24 @item
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25 You can't display images in buffers. (Emacs is meant for editing text.)
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30 freely in Lisp programs, with no effects except what you implement for
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31 yourself. With no images, who needs the @code{display} text property?
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34 The @code{field} text property has no special meaning; buffers are no
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40 @code{:height}, @code{:width}, @code{:weight}, and @code{:slant},
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46 the text---using any other color would be bad taste.
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48 With fewer font attributes, there are no functions
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49 @code{set-face-attribute} and @code{face-attribute}. Instead, you
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55 The standard faces @code{scroll-bar}, @code{menu}, @code{border},
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60 text cursor, and the mouse cursor. To specify menu colors, use X
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61 resources.
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69 Emacs will respect your peace and quiet, aside from occasional beeps,
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70 because there are no facilities for playing sounds.
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73 Emacs 20 provides a complex and badly designed method for handling
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74 character composition for languages such as Thai that display several
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75 letters as a single combined image. We are too ashamed of it to tell
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76 you any more than that.
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79 @code{delete-and-extract-region} has been deleted; instead, use
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80 @code{buffer-substring} to extract the text, then use
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81 @code{delete-region} to delete it.
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84 Regular expressions do not support the POSIX character classes
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85 such as @samp{[:alpha:]}. All characters are created equal.
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88 Hash tables have been eliminated; use alists instead.
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91 The Lisp printer does not detect and report circular structure. That is
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97 Emacs provides its own implementation of scroll bars, instead
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98 of using those of the X toolkit. They always use the frame foreground
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99 and background colors, so you cannot specify different colors for
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100 the scroll bars.
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102 @item
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103 For simplicity, all @sc{ascii} characters now have the same height and width.
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109 propagate to all others. Windows can no longer use
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110 @code{window-size-fixed} to get special privileges.
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113 The function @code{intern-soft} no longer accepts a symbol as argument.
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124 Areas of the mode line are not mouse-sensitive; however, some mouse
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125 commands are available for the mode line as a whole.
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128 Windows cannot have header lines. Conversely, there is no way to turn
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129 off the mode line of a window unless it is a minibuffer.
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132 Plain dashes are the only separators you can use in a menu.
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135 Vertical fractional scrolling does not exist.
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138 The functions @code{format} and @code{message} ignore and discard text
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139 properties.
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142 The function @code{propertize} does not exist;
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143 you can get the job done using @code{set-text-properties}.
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146 Colors are supported only on window systems, not on text-only terminals.
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147 So the support functions for colors on text-only terminals are
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151 The functions @code{color-values}, @code{color-defined-p} and
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152 @code{defined-colors} have been renamed to @code{x-color-values},
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153 @code{x-color-defined-p} and @code{x-defined-colors}.
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