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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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5 @node Antinews, Index, Standard Hooks, Top | |
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6 @appendix Emacs 20 Antinews |
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8 For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about | |
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9 downgrading to Emacs version 20.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater |
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10 simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 21 features. In |
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11 the following section, we carry this information back to Emacs |
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12 20.3, for which the previous printed edition of this manual was made. |
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14 @section Old Lisp Features in Emacs 20 |
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16 @itemize @bullet | |
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18 The function @code{bitmap-spec-p} has been renamed to |
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19 @code{pixmap-spec-p} to encourage users to practice Emacs' help system |
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23 The @code{push} and @code{pop} macros are not defined. |
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26 You can't display images in buffers. (Emacs is meant for editing text.) |
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27 With no images, there are no display margins, and no tool bars. |
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30 The @code{display} text property has no special meaning; you can use it |
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31 freely in Lisp programs, with no effects except what you implement for |
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32 yourself. With no images, who needs the @code{display} text property? |
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35 Faces have fewer attributes. The attributes @code{:family}, |
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36 @code{:height}, @code{:width}, @code{:weight}, and @code{:slant}, |
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37 have been replaced with a font name, a ``bold'' flag, and an |
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40 The attributes @code{:overline}, @code{:strike-through} |
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44 @code{set-face-attribute} and @code{face-attribute}. Instead, you |
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45 access these attributes using functions such as @code{face-font}, and |
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46 set them with functions such as @code{set-face-font}. (These functions |
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47 were available in Emacs 21, but are not as useful there.) |
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50 There are no facilities for playing sound. This means Emacs will |
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54 Regular expressions do not support the POSIX character classes |
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55 such as @samp{[:alpha:]}. All characters are created equal. |
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58 Hash tables have been eliminated; use alists instead. |
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61 The Lisp printer does not detect and report circular structure. That is |
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62 ok, because the Lisp reader cannot recreate circular structure anyway. |
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63 However, there is a library @samp{cust-print.el} which can report |
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67 Emacs provides its own implementation of scroll bars, instead |
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68 of using those of the X toolkit. They always use the frame foreground |
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69 and background colors, so you cannot specify different colors for |
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70 the scroll bars. |
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73 For simplicity, all ASCII characters now have the same height and width. |
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74 (Certain characters, such as Chinese characters, always have have twice |
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75 the standard width.) All characters are created equal. |
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78 Tooltips operate using ordinary Emacs frames. |
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81 Areas of the mode line are not mouse-sensitive; however, some mouse |
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82 commands are available for the mode line as a whole. |
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85 Windows cannot have header lines. Conversely, there is no way to turn |
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86 off the mode line of a window unless it is a minibuffer. |
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89 Plain dashes are the only separators you can use in a menu. |
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91 @item | |
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92 Vertical fractional scrolling does not exist. |
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95 The functions @code{format} and @code{message} ignore and discard text |
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99 Colors are supported only on window systems, not on text-only terminals. |
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105 @code{defined-colors} have been renamed to @code{x-color-values}, |
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106 @code{x-color-defined-p} and @code{x-defined-colors}. |
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129 current buffer. |
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132 The function @code{assoc-delete-all} has itself been deleted. |
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133 So there! |
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136 The variable @code{small-temporary-file-directory} has no special |
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138 use for temporary files, @code{temporary-file-directory}, but not all |
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139 Emacs features use it anyway. Some use the @code{TMP} environment |
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140 variable, and some use the @code{TMPDIR} environment variable. |
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147 The hook @code{fontification-functions} has been eliminated, |
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156 The hook @code{calendar-move-hook} has been deleted. |
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