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25829 | 1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
46935 | 2 @c Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
25829 | 3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
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40518 | 5 @node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top |
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6 @appendix Emacs 21.3 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 21.3. We hope you will enjoy the greater |
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10 simplicity that results from the absence of many newer features. |
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12 @itemize @bullet | |
13 @item | |
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14 The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution |
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15 called ``Leim''. To use them, you must extract the Leim tar file on |
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16 top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you |
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17 build Emacs. |
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19 @item | |
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20 The file position and line number information is now at the end |
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24 When a file is managed with version control, the command @kbd{C-x C-q} |
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25 (whose general meaning is to make a buffer read-only or writable) now |
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26 does so by checking the file in or out. Checking the file out makes |
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27 the buffer writable; checking it in makes the buffer read-only (at |
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28 least with RCS). |
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30 You can still use @kbd{C-x v v} to do these operations if you wish; |
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31 its meaning is unchanged. If you want to control the buffer's |
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32 read-only flag without performing any version control operation, |
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33 use @kbd{M-x toggle-read-only}. |
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35 @item | |
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36 Filesets are not supported. |
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39 For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want |
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40 to in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling |
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41 always works the same automatic way. |
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44 When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable |
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45 buffers in Emacs reflecting the fact that you can write any files. |
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48 Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character |
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49 sets have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not |
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50 support ``extended segments'' so there are certain coding systems |
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51 it cannot handle. |
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54 @kbd{C-w} in an incremental search always grabs an entire word |
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55 into the search string. More precisely, it grabs text through |
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56 the next end of a word. |
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58 @item | |
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59 Yanking now preserves all text properties that were in the killed |
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60 text. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} has no meaning. |
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63 Occur mode, Info mode, and Comint-derived modes now control |
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64 fontification in their own way, and @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} |
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65 has nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info |
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66 mode, use the variable @code{Info-fontify}. |
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69 In Dired's @kbd{!} command, @samp{*} and @samp{?} now |
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70 cause substitution of the file names wherever they appear---not |
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71 only when they are surrounded by whitespace. |
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74 Minibuffer completion commands now always complete the entire |
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75 minibuffer contents, just as if you had typed them at the end |
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76 of the minibuffer, no matter where point is actually located. |
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79 An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following |
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80 name is not recognized as an environment variable. Thus, |
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81 the file name @file{foo$bar} would probably be an error. Meanwhile, |
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82 the @code{setenv} command does not expand @samp{$} at all. |
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85 Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including |
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87 them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is |
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88 equivalent to using them once. @kbd{M-h} does not use its numeric |
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89 argument. |
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92 @kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning and neither does |
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93 @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}. |
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96 There is no horizontal-bar cursor. |
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99 The faces @code{minibuffer-prompt} and @code{mode-line-inactive} |
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100 do not exist, and the features they control don't exist either. |
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102 @item | |
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103 The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always @code{nil}. |
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104 Emacs does not set it based on your locale settings. |
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105 If you want some other value, you must set it yourself. |
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108 SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation support. |
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111 The @kbd{C-h} subcommands have been rearranged--especially those that |
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112 display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list of these |
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113 commands; that will show you what is different. |
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116 Emacs does not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically; if you want |
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117 to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so |
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118 explicitly. |
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121 The @samp{--fullwidth}, @samp{--fullheight} and @samp{--fullscreen} |
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122 command line options are not supported. |
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125 The @samp{--geometry} option now entirely applies only to the initial |
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126 frame. |
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129 Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. |
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132 Many @code{etags} features for customizing parsing using regexps |
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136 The CUA, ido, table, tramp, reveal, ruler-mode, and ibuffer packages |
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137 have been removed. So has the spreadsheet, SES, and the algebraic |
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138 calculator, Calc. (We distribute Calc separately.) |
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141 The kmacro package has been removed. To start a keyboard macro you |
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142 must use @kbd{C-x (}; to end one, @kbd{C-x )}; to execute the last |
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143 one, @kbd{C-x e}. |
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146 To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many | |
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147 other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 21.3. |
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150 @ignore | |
151 arch-tag: 32932bd9-46f5-41b2-8a0e-fb0cc4caeb29 | |
152 @end ignore |