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6380 | 1 @c -*-texinfo-*- |
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. |
6380 | 4 @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions. |
26697 | 5 @node Antinews, Tips, System Interface, 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 | |
17 @item | |
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18 The @code{push} and @code{pop} macros are not defined. |
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19 Neither are @code{dolist} and @code{dotimes}. |
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21 @item |
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22 You can't display images in buffers. (Emacs is meant for editing text.) |
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23 With no images, there are no display margins, and no tool bars. |
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25 @item |
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26 The @code{display} text property has no special meaning; you can use it |
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27 freely in Lisp programs, with no effects except what you implement for |
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28 yourself. With no images, who needs the @code{display} text property? |
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30 @item |
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31 The @code{field} text property has no special meaning; buffers are no |
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32 longer subdivided into fields. (The division of information into |
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33 fields is always rather arbitrary.) |
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35 @item | |
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36 Faces have fewer attributes. The attributes @code{:family}, |
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37 @code{:height}, @code{:width}, @code{:weight}, and @code{:slant}, |
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38 have been replaced with a font name, a ``bold'' flag, and an |
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42 have been eliminated too. Underlining now always has the same color as | |
43 the text---using any other color would be bad taste. | |
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45 With fewer font attributes, there are no functions |
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46 @code{set-face-attribute} and @code{face-attribute}. Instead, you |
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47 access these attributes using functions such as @code{face-font}, and |
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48 set them with functions such as @code{set-face-font}. (These functions |
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49 were available in Emacs 21, but are not as useful there.) |
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53 @code{cursor}, and @code{mouse} have been eliminated. They are rather | |
54 strange, as faces, and therefore shouldn't really exist. You can use | |
55 @code{set-border-color}, @code{set-cursor-color} and | |
56 @code{set-mouse-color} to specify the colors for the frame border, the | |
57 text cursor, and the mouse cursor. To specify menu colors, use X | |
58 resources. | |
59 | |
60 @item | |
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61 Colors and other face attributes are no longer supported on character |
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62 terminals, so you no longer have to worry about terminals making faces |
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65 @item |
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67 because there are no facilities for playing sounds. | |
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70 Emacs 20 provides a complex and badly designed method for handling |
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71 character composition for languages such as Thai that display several |
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72 letters as a single combined image. We are too ashamed of it to tell |
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73 you any more than that. |
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75 @item |
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76 @code{delete-and-extract-region} has been deleted; instead, use |
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77 @code{buffer-substring} to extract the text, then use |
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78 @code{delete-region} to delete it. |
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80 @item |
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81 Regular expressions do not support the POSIX character classes |
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82 such as @samp{[:alpha:]}. All characters are created equal. |
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84 @item |
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85 Hash tables have been eliminated; use alists instead. |
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88 The Lisp printer does not detect and report circular structure. That is |
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89 ok, because the Lisp reader cannot recreate circular structure anyway. |
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93 @item |
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94 Emacs provides its own implementation of scroll bars, instead |
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95 of using those of the X toolkit. They always use the frame foreground |
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97 the scroll bars. |
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100 For simplicity, all @sc{ascii} characters now have the same height and width. |
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101 (Certain characters, such as Chinese characters, always have twice |
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105 You can now resize any Emacs window, and size changes in one window can |
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106 propagate to all others. Windows can no longer use |
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107 @code{window-size-fixed} to get special privileges. |
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110 The function @code{intern-soft} no longer accepts a symbol as argument. |
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114 @code{pixmap-spec-p} to encourage users to practice Emacs' help system | |
115 while trying to find it. | |
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117 @item | |
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125 Windows cannot have header lines. Conversely, there is no way to turn |
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126 off the mode line of a window unless it is a minibuffer. |
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129 Plain dashes are the only separators you can use in a menu. |
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132 Vertical fractional scrolling does not exist. |
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135 The functions @code{format} and @code{message} ignore and discard text |
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139 The function @code{propertize} does not exist; |
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140 you can get the job done using @code{set-text-properties}. |
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143 Colors are supported only on window systems, not on text-only terminals. |
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144 So the support functions for colors on text-only terminals are |
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149 @code{defined-colors} have been renamed to @code{x-color-values}, |
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150 @code{x-color-defined-p} and @code{x-defined-colors}. |
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153 Windows cannot be made fixed-width or fixed-height; |
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154 Emacs will adjust the size of all windows when it needs to. |
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