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1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
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2 @c Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
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5 @node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top
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6 @appendix Emacs 21 Antinews
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9 downgrading to Emacs version 21.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater
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10 simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs @value{EMACSVER}
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11 features.
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20 The mode line of the selected window is no longer displayed with a
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22 use the variable @code{mode-line-inverse-video} to control whether
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23 mode lines are highlighted at all---@code{nil} means don't highlight
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24 them.
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27 Clicking on a link with the left mouse button (@kbd{mouse-1}) will
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30 (@kbd{mouse-2}).
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32 @item
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36 @item
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37 On an xterm, even if you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs provides a
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39 mouse clicks on the mode line, header line, or display margin.
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42 For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want to
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50 If command line arguments are given, Emacs will not display a splash
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52 command-line option @samp{--no-splash} is therefore obsolete, and has
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63 functions.
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66 We have standardized on one location for the user init file: the file
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67 named @file{.emacs} in your home directory. Emacs will not look for
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69 putting @file{.emacs_SHELL} in @file{~/.emacs.d}; Emacs won't find it.
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74 explicitly.
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81 The maximum size of buffers and integer variables has been halved. On
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85 An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following
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91 If a single command accumulates too much undo information, Emacs never
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92 discards it. If Emacs runs out of memory as a result, it will handle
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95 @item
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96 Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged.
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98 @item
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99 The @kbd{C-h} (help) subcommands have been rearranged---especially
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100 those that display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list
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104 The @kbd{C-h v} and @kbd{C-h f} commands no longer show a hyperlink to
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111 @code{apropos-sort-by-scores} has been removed.
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114 The minibuffer prompt is now displayed using the default face.
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118 Minibuffer completion commands always complete the entire minibuffer
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119 contents, just as if you had typed them at the end of the minibuffer,
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124 and @kbd{C-M-backspace}. Be careful when using these key sequences!
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125 It may shut down your X server, or reboot your operating system.
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127 @item
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128 Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including
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129 @kbd{M-@@}, @kbd{M-h}, etc., don't do anything special when you repeat
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130 them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is
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131 equivalent to typing them once. @kbd{M-h} ignores numeric arguments.
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133 @item
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137 @kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning--it just sets the
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138 mark twice. Neither does @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}, which simply exchanges
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139 point and mark like @kbd{C-x C-x}.
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141 @item
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142 The function @code{sentence-end} has been eliminated in favor of a
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143 more straightforward approach: directly setting the variable
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144 @code{sentence-end}. For example, to end each sentence with a single
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145 space, use
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147 @lisp
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148 (setq sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')@}]*\\($\\|[ \t]\\)[ \t\n]*")
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151 @item
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171 nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info mode, use the
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198 support.
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210 rather than trying to handle everything in Emacs Lisp. Now there can
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216 @samp{--display} command line options.
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219 The command @code{quail-show-key}, for showing how to input a
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224 @code{nil}, regardless of your locale settings. If you want some
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228 Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character sets
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229 have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not support
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230 ``extended segments'', so there are certain coding systems it cannot
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231 handle.
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234 The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution
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235 called ``Leim''. To use this, you must extract the Leim tar file on
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237 build Emacs.
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239 @item
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240 The following input methods have been eliminated: belarusian,
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241 bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng, croatian, dutch,
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242 georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
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248 The following language environments have been eliminated: Belarusian,
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249 Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, French, Georgian, Italian,
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250 Latin-6, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian,
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251 Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Welsh,
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252 and Windows-1255.
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255 The @code{code-pages} library, which contained various 8-bit coding
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256 systems, has been removed.
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259 The Kmacro package has been replaced with a simple and elegant
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260 keyboard macro system. Use @kbd{C-x (} to start a new keyboard macro,
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261 @kbd{C-x )} to end the macro, and @kbd{C-x e} to execute the last
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273 Ruler-mode, SES, Table, Tramp, and URL packages have been removed.
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274 The Benchmark, Cfengine, Conf, Dns, Flymake, Python, Thumbs, and
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275 Wdired modes have also been removed.
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278 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and the Introduction to Programming in
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279 Emacs Lisp are now distributed separately, not in the Emacs
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280 distribution.
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283 On MS Windows, there is no longer any support for tooltips, images,
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284 sound, different mouse pointer shapes, or pointing devices with more
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285 than 3 buttons. If you want these features, consider switching to
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286 another operating system. But even if you don't want these features,
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287 you should still switch---for freedom's sake.
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289 @item
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290 Emacs will not use Unicode for clipboard operations on MS Windows.
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293 To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many
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295 @end itemize
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297 @ignore
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298 arch-tag: 32932bd9-46f5-41b2-8a0e-fb0cc4caeb29
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299 @end ignore