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25829 | 1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
60787 | 2 @c Copyright (C) 2005 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 |
60787 | 6 @appendix Emacs 22.1 Antinews |
25829 | 7 |
8 For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about | |
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9 downgrading to Emacs version 21.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater |
60787 | 10 simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 22 features. |
25829 | 11 |
12 @itemize @bullet | |
60787 | 13 |
25829 | 14 @item |
60787 | 15 The buffer position and line number are now displayed at the end of |
16 the mode line, where they can be more easily seen. | |
17 | |
18 @item | |
19 The mode line of the selected window is no longer displayed with a | |
20 special face. All mode lines are created equal. | |
25829 | 21 |
22 @item | |
60787 | 23 Clicking on a link with the left mouse button (@kbd{mouse-1}) will |
24 always set point at the position clicked, instead of following the | |
25 link. If you want to follow the link, use the middle mouse button | |
26 (@kbd{mouse-2}). | |
27 | |
28 @item | |
29 Emacs is tired of X droppings. If you drop a file or a piece of text | |
30 onto an Emacs window, nothing will happen. | |
31 | |
32 @item | |
33 On an xterm, Emacs provides a more convincing simulation of a text | |
34 terminal by not responding to mouse-clicks on the mode-line, | |
35 header-line, or display margin. | |
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60787 | 38 For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want to |
39 in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling always | |
40 works in the same automatic way. | |
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60787 | 42 @item |
43 The horizontal-bar cursor shape has been removed. | |
44 | |
45 @item | |
46 If command line arguments are given, Emacs will not display a splash | |
47 screen, so that you can immediately get on with your editing. The | |
48 command-line option @samp{--no-splash} is therefore obsolete, and has | |
49 been removed. | |
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51 @item | |
60787 | 52 The command line options @samp{--color}, @samp{--fullwidth}, |
53 @samp{--fullheight}, @samp{--fullscreen}, @samp{--no-blinking-cursor}, | |
54 @samp{--no-desktop}, and @samp{-Q} have also been removed. | |
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56 @item |
60787 | 57 The @samp{--geometry} option applies only to the initial frame, and |
58 the @samp{-f} option will not read arguments for interactive | |
59 functions. | |
60 | |
61 @item | |
62 Emacs now looks for @file{.emacs} and @file{.emacs_SHELL} in one | |
63 standard location---your home directory. Don't put these files in | |
64 @file{~/.emacs.d}; they won't be found. | |
65 | |
66 @item | |
67 Emacs will not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically. If you want | |
68 to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so | |
69 explicitly. | |
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71 @item | |
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72 When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable |
60787 | 73 buffers, reflecting the fact that you can write any files. |
74 | |
75 @item | |
76 The maximum size of buffers and integer variables has been halved. On | |
77 32-bit machines, the maximum buffer size is now 128 megabytes. | |
78 | |
79 @item | |
80 An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following | |
81 name is not recognized as an environment variable. Thus, | |
82 the file name @file{foo$bar} would probably be an error. Meanwhile, | |
83 the @code{setenv} command does not expand @samp{$} at all. | |
84 | |
85 @item | |
86 Emacs will not query you if a command accumulates too much undo | |
87 information. If Emacs runs out of memory as a result, it will handle | |
88 this by crashing. | |
89 | |
90 @item | |
91 Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. | |
92 | |
93 @item | |
94 The @kbd{C-h} (help) subcommands have been rearranged---especially | |
95 those that display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list | |
96 of these commands; that will show you what is different. | |
97 | |
98 @item | |
99 The @kbd{C-h v} and @kbd{C-h f} commands no longer show a hyperlink to | |
100 the C source code, even if it is available. If you want to find the | |
101 source code, grep for it. | |
102 | |
103 @item | |
104 The apropos commands will not accept a list of words to match, in | |
105 order to encourage users to be more specific. Also, the user option | |
106 @code{apropos-sort-by-scores} has been removed. | |
107 | |
108 @item | |
109 The minibuffer prompt is now displayed using the default face. | |
110 The colon is enough to show you what part is the prompt. | |
25829 | 111 |
112 @item | |
60787 | 113 Minibuffer completion commands always complete the entire minibuffer |
114 contents, just as if you had typed them at the end of the minibuffer, | |
115 no matter where point is actually located. | |
116 | |
117 @item | |
118 The command @code{backward-kill-sexp} is now bound to @kbd{C-M-delete} | |
119 and @kbd{C-M-backspace}. Be careful when using these key sequences! | |
120 It may shut down your X server, or reboot your operating system. | |
121 | |
122 @item | |
123 Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including | |
124 @kbd{M-@@}, @kbd{M-h}, etc., don't do anything special when you repeat | |
125 them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is | |
126 equivalent to typing them once. @kbd{M-h} ignores numeric arguments. | |
127 | |
128 @item | |
129 If you want to repeat a jump to a previous mark, you should supply the | |
130 prefix argument explicitly. So, instead of typing @kbd{C-u C-SPC | |
131 C-SPC C-SPC}, type @kbd{C-u C-SPC C-u C-SPC C-u C-SPC}. | |
132 | |
133 @item | |
134 @kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning--it just sets the | |
135 mark twice. Neither does @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}, which simply exchanges | |
136 point and mark like @kbd{C-x C-x}. | |
137 | |
138 @item | |
139 The function @code{sentence-end} has been eliminated in favor of a | |
140 more straightforward approach: directly setting the variable | |
141 @code{sentence-end}. For example, to end each sentence with a single | |
142 space, use | |
143 | |
144 @lisp | |
145 (setq sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')@}]*\\($\\|[ \t]\\)[ \t\n]*") | |
146 @end lisp | |
147 | |
148 @item | |
149 The variable @code{fill-nobreak-predicate} is no longer customizable, | |
150 and it can only hold a single function. | |
151 | |
152 @item | |
153 Non-breaking spaces and hyphens are displayed just like normal | |
154 characters. The user option @code{show-nonbreak-escape} is therefore | |
155 obsolete, and has been removed. | |
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159 into the search string. More precisely, it grabs text through |
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160 the next end of a word. |
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162 @item | |
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163 Yanking now preserves all text properties that were in the killed |
60787 | 164 text. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} has been removed. |
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166 @item | |
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167 Occur mode, Info mode, and Comint-derived modes now control |
60787 | 168 fontification in their own way, and @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} has |
169 nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info mode, use the | |
170 variable @code{Info-fontify}. | |
171 | |
172 @item | |
173 The Grep package has been merged with Compilation mode. Many | |
174 grep-specific commands and user options have thus been eliminated. | |
175 Also, @kbd{M-x grep} never tries the GNU grep @samp{-H} option, | |
176 and instead silently appends @file{/dev/null} to the command line. | |
25829 | 177 |
178 @item | |
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179 In Dired's @kbd{!} command, @samp{*} and @samp{?} now |
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180 cause substitution of the file names wherever they appear---not |
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181 only when they are surrounded by whitespace. |
25829 | 182 |
183 @item | |
60787 | 184 When a file is managed with version control, the command @kbd{C-x C-q} |
185 (whose general meaning is to make a buffer read-only or writable) now | |
186 does so by checking the file in or out. Checking the file out makes | |
187 the buffer writable; checking it in makes the buffer read-only. | |
25829 | 188 |
60787 | 189 You can still use @kbd{C-x v v} to do these operations if you wish; |
190 its meaning is unchanged. If you want to control the buffer's | |
191 read-only flag without performing any version control operation, | |
192 use @kbd{M-x toggle-read-only}. | |
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194 @item | |
60787 | 195 SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation |
196 support. | |
25829 | 197 |
198 @item | |
60787 | 199 Many Info mode commands have been removed. Incremental search in Info |
200 searches only the current node. | |
25829 | 201 |
202 @item | |
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204 have been removed. |
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206 @item |
60787 | 207 The Emacs server now runs a small C program called @file{emacsserver}, |
208 rather than trying to handle everything in Emacs Lisp. Now there can | |
209 only be one Emacs server running at a time. The @code{server-mode} | |
210 command and @code{server-name} user option have been eliminated. | |
211 | |
212 @item | |
213 The @file{emacsclient} program no longer accepts the @samp{--eval} and | |
214 @samp{--display} command line options. | |
215 | |
216 @item | |
217 The command @code{quail-show-key}, for showing how to input a | |
218 character, has been removed. | |
219 | |
220 @item | |
221 The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always | |
222 @code{nil}, regardless of your locale settings. If you want some | |
223 other value, set it yourself. | |
224 | |
225 @item | |
226 Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character sets | |
227 have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not support | |
228 ``extended segments'', so there are certain coding systems it cannot | |
229 handle. | |
230 | |
231 @item | |
232 The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution | |
233 called ``Leim''. To use this, you must extract the Leim tar file on | |
234 top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you | |
235 build Emacs. | |
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237 @item |
60787 | 238 The following input methods have been eliminated: belarusian, |
239 bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng, croatian, dutch, | |
240 georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, | |
241 latvian-keyboard, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, | |
242 malayalam-inscript, rfc1345, russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, | |
243 tamil-inscript ucs, ukrainian-computer, vietnamese-telex, and welsh. | |
244 | |
245 @item | |
246 The following language environments have been eliminated: Belarusian, | |
247 Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, French, Georgian, Italian, | |
248 Latin-6, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian, | |
249 Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Welsh, | |
250 and Windows-1255. | |
251 | |
252 @item | |
253 The @code{code-pages} library, which contained various 8-bit coding | |
254 systems, has been removed. | |
255 | |
256 @item | |
257 The Kmacro package has been replaced with a simple and elegant | |
258 keyboard macro system. Use @kbd{C-x (} to start a new keyboard macro, | |
259 @kbd{C-x )} to end the macro, and @kbd{C-x e} to execute the last | |
260 macro. | |
261 | |
262 @item | |
263 The Calc, CUA, GDB-UI, Ibuffer, Ido, Password, Printing, Reveal, | |
264 Ruler-mode, SES, Table, Tramp, and URL packages have been removed. | |
265 The Benchmark, Cfengine, Conf, Dns, Flymake, Python, Thumbs, and | |
266 Wdired modes have also been removed. | |
267 | |
268 @item | |
269 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and the Introduction to Programming in | |
270 Emacs Lisp are now distributed separately, not in the Emacs | |
271 distribution. | |
272 | |
273 @item | |
274 On MS Windows, there is no longer any support for tooltips, images, | |
275 sound, different mouse pointer shapes, or pointing devices with more | |
276 than 3 buttons. If you want these features, consider switching to | |
277 another operating system. But even if you don't want these features, | |
278 you should still switch---for freedom's sake. | |
279 | |
280 @item | |
281 Emacs will not use Unicode for clipboard operations on MS Windows. | |
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283 @item | |
284 To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many | |
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285 other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 21.4. |
25829 | 286 @end itemize |
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288 @ignore | |
289 arch-tag: 32932bd9-46f5-41b2-8a0e-fb0cc4caeb29 | |
290 @end ignore |