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25829 | 1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
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2 @c Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
25829 | 3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
4 | |
40518 | 5 @node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top |
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6 @appendix Emacs 21 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 21.4. 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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13 @itemize @bullet | |
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25829 | 15 @item |
60787 | 16 The buffer position and line number are now displayed at the end of |
17 the mode line, where they can be more easily seen. | |
18 | |
19 @item | |
20 The mode line of the selected window is no longer displayed with a | |
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21 special face. All mode lines are created equal. Meanwhile, you can |
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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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26 @item | |
60787 | 27 Clicking on a link with the left mouse button (@kbd{mouse-1}) will |
28 always set point at the position clicked, instead of following the | |
29 link. If you want to follow the link, use the middle mouse button | |
30 (@kbd{mouse-2}). | |
31 | |
32 @item | |
33 Emacs is tired of X droppings. If you drop a file or a piece of text | |
34 onto an Emacs window, nothing will happen. | |
35 | |
36 @item | |
37 On an xterm, Emacs provides a more convincing simulation of a text | |
38 terminal by not responding to mouse-clicks on the mode-line, | |
39 header-line, or display margin. | |
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41 @item |
60787 | 42 For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want to |
43 in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling always | |
44 works in the same automatic way. | |
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45 |
60787 | 46 @item |
47 The horizontal-bar cursor shape has been removed. | |
48 | |
49 @item | |
50 If command line arguments are given, Emacs will not display a splash | |
51 screen, so that you can immediately get on with your editing. The | |
52 command-line option @samp{--no-splash} is therefore obsolete, and has | |
53 been removed. | |
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55 @item | |
60787 | 56 The command line options @samp{--color}, @samp{--fullwidth}, |
57 @samp{--fullheight}, @samp{--fullscreen}, @samp{--no-blinking-cursor}, | |
58 @samp{--no-desktop}, and @samp{-Q} have also been removed. | |
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60 @item |
60787 | 61 The @samp{--geometry} option applies only to the initial frame, and |
62 the @samp{-f} option will not read arguments for interactive | |
63 functions. | |
64 | |
65 @item | |
66 Emacs now looks for @file{.emacs} and @file{.emacs_SHELL} in one | |
67 standard location---your home directory. Don't put these files in | |
68 @file{~/.emacs.d}; they won't be found. | |
69 | |
70 @item | |
71 Emacs will not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically. If you want | |
72 to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so | |
73 explicitly. | |
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75 @item | |
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76 When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable |
60787 | 77 buffers, reflecting the fact that you can write any files. |
78 | |
79 @item | |
80 The maximum size of buffers and integer variables has been halved. On | |
81 32-bit machines, the maximum buffer size is now 128 megabytes. | |
82 | |
83 @item | |
84 An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following | |
85 name is not recognized as an environment variable. Thus, | |
86 the file name @file{foo$bar} would probably be an error. Meanwhile, | |
87 the @code{setenv} command does not expand @samp{$} at all. | |
88 | |
89 @item | |
90 Emacs will not query you if a command accumulates too much undo | |
91 information. If Emacs runs out of memory as a result, it will handle | |
92 this by crashing. | |
93 | |
94 @item | |
95 Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. | |
96 | |
97 @item | |
98 The @kbd{C-h} (help) subcommands have been rearranged---especially | |
99 those that display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list | |
100 of these commands; that will show you what is different. | |
101 | |
102 @item | |
103 The @kbd{C-h v} and @kbd{C-h f} commands no longer show a hyperlink to | |
104 the C source code, even if it is available. If you want to find the | |
105 source code, grep for it. | |
106 | |
107 @item | |
108 The apropos commands will not accept a list of words to match, in | |
109 order to encourage users to be more specific. Also, the user option | |
110 @code{apropos-sort-by-scores} has been removed. | |
111 | |
112 @item | |
113 The minibuffer prompt is now displayed using the default face. | |
114 The colon is enough to show you what part is the prompt. | |
25829 | 115 |
116 @item | |
60787 | 117 Minibuffer completion commands always complete the entire minibuffer |
118 contents, just as if you had typed them at the end of the minibuffer, | |
119 no matter where point is actually located. | |
120 | |
121 @item | |
122 The command @code{backward-kill-sexp} is now bound to @kbd{C-M-delete} | |
123 and @kbd{C-M-backspace}. Be careful when using these key sequences! | |
124 It may shut down your X server, or reboot your operating system. | |
125 | |
126 @item | |
127 Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including | |
128 @kbd{M-@@}, @kbd{M-h}, etc., don't do anything special when you repeat | |
129 them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is | |
130 equivalent to typing them once. @kbd{M-h} ignores numeric arguments. | |
131 | |
132 @item | |
133 If you want to repeat a jump to a previous mark, you should supply the | |
134 prefix argument explicitly. So, instead of typing @kbd{C-u C-SPC | |
135 C-SPC C-SPC}, type @kbd{C-u C-SPC C-u C-SPC C-u C-SPC}. | |
136 | |
137 @item | |
138 @kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning--it just sets the | |
139 mark twice. Neither does @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}, which simply exchanges | |
140 point and mark like @kbd{C-x C-x}. | |
141 | |
142 @item | |
143 The function @code{sentence-end} has been eliminated in favor of a | |
144 more straightforward approach: directly setting the variable | |
145 @code{sentence-end}. For example, to end each sentence with a single | |
146 space, use | |
147 | |
148 @lisp | |
149 (setq sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')@}]*\\($\\|[ \t]\\)[ \t\n]*") | |
150 @end lisp | |
151 | |
152 @item | |
153 The variable @code{fill-nobreak-predicate} is no longer customizable, | |
154 and it can only hold a single function. | |
155 | |
156 @item | |
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157 Nobreak spaces and hyphens are displayed just like normal characters, |
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158 and the user option @code{nobreak-char-display} has been removed. |
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161 @kbd{C-w} in an incremental search always grabs an entire word |
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162 into the search string. More precisely, it grabs text through |
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163 the next end of a word. |
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165 @item | |
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166 Yanking now preserves all text properties that were in the killed |
60787 | 167 text. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} has been removed. |
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169 @item | |
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170 Occur mode, Info mode, and Comint-derived modes now control |
60787 | 171 fontification in their own way, and @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} has |
172 nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info mode, use the | |
173 variable @code{Info-fontify}. | |
174 | |
175 @item | |
176 The Grep package has been merged with Compilation mode. Many | |
177 grep-specific commands and user options have thus been eliminated. | |
178 Also, @kbd{M-x grep} never tries the GNU grep @samp{-H} option, | |
179 and instead silently appends @file{/dev/null} to the command line. | |
25829 | 180 |
181 @item | |
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182 In Dired's @kbd{!} command, @samp{*} and @samp{?} now |
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183 cause substitution of the file names wherever they appear---not |
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184 only when they are surrounded by whitespace. |
25829 | 185 |
186 @item | |
60787 | 187 When a file is managed with version control, the command @kbd{C-x C-q} |
188 (whose general meaning is to make a buffer read-only or writable) now | |
189 does so by checking the file in or out. Checking the file out makes | |
190 the buffer writable; checking it in makes the buffer read-only. | |
25829 | 191 |
60787 | 192 You can still use @kbd{C-x v v} to do these operations if you wish; |
193 its meaning is unchanged. If you want to control the buffer's | |
194 read-only flag without performing any version control operation, | |
195 use @kbd{M-x toggle-read-only}. | |
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197 @item | |
60787 | 198 SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation |
199 support. | |
25829 | 200 |
201 @item | |
60787 | 202 Many Info mode commands have been removed. Incremental search in Info |
203 searches only the current node. | |
25829 | 204 |
205 @item | |
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206 Many @code{etags} features for customizing parsing using regexps |
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207 have been removed. |
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209 @item |
60787 | 210 The Emacs server now runs a small C program called @file{emacsserver}, |
211 rather than trying to handle everything in Emacs Lisp. Now there can | |
212 only be one Emacs server running at a time. The @code{server-mode} | |
213 command and @code{server-name} user option have been eliminated. | |
214 | |
215 @item | |
216 The @file{emacsclient} program no longer accepts the @samp{--eval} and | |
217 @samp{--display} command line options. | |
218 | |
219 @item | |
220 The command @code{quail-show-key}, for showing how to input a | |
221 character, has been removed. | |
222 | |
223 @item | |
224 The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always | |
225 @code{nil}, regardless of your locale settings. If you want some | |
226 other value, set it yourself. | |
227 | |
228 @item | |
229 Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character sets | |
230 have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not support | |
231 ``extended segments'', so there are certain coding systems it cannot | |
232 handle. | |
233 | |
234 @item | |
235 The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution | |
236 called ``Leim''. To use this, you must extract the Leim tar file on | |
237 top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you | |
238 build Emacs. | |
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240 @item |
60787 | 241 The following input methods have been eliminated: belarusian, |
242 bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng, croatian, dutch, | |
243 georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, | |
244 latvian-keyboard, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, | |
245 malayalam-inscript, rfc1345, russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, | |
246 tamil-inscript ucs, ukrainian-computer, vietnamese-telex, and welsh. | |
247 | |
248 @item | |
249 The following language environments have been eliminated: Belarusian, | |
250 Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, French, Georgian, Italian, | |
251 Latin-6, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian, | |
252 Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Welsh, | |
253 and Windows-1255. | |
254 | |
255 @item | |
256 The @code{code-pages} library, which contained various 8-bit coding | |
257 systems, has been removed. | |
258 | |
259 @item | |
260 The Kmacro package has been replaced with a simple and elegant | |
261 keyboard macro system. Use @kbd{C-x (} to start a new keyboard macro, | |
262 @kbd{C-x )} to end the macro, and @kbd{C-x e} to execute the last | |
263 macro. | |
264 | |
265 @item | |
266 The Calc, CUA, GDB-UI, Ibuffer, Ido, Password, Printing, Reveal, | |
267 Ruler-mode, SES, Table, Tramp, and URL packages have been removed. | |
268 The Benchmark, Cfengine, Conf, Dns, Flymake, Python, Thumbs, and | |
269 Wdired modes have also been removed. | |
270 | |
271 @item | |
272 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and the Introduction to Programming in | |
273 Emacs Lisp are now distributed separately, not in the Emacs | |
274 distribution. | |
275 | |
276 @item | |
277 On MS Windows, there is no longer any support for tooltips, images, | |
278 sound, different mouse pointer shapes, or pointing devices with more | |
279 than 3 buttons. If you want these features, consider switching to | |
280 another operating system. But even if you don't want these features, | |
281 you should still switch---for freedom's sake. | |
282 | |
283 @item | |
284 Emacs will not use Unicode for clipboard operations on MS Windows. | |
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286 @item | |
287 To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many | |
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288 other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 21.4. |
25829 | 289 @end itemize |
52401 | 290 |
291 @ignore | |
292 arch-tag: 32932bd9-46f5-41b2-8a0e-fb0cc4caeb29 | |
293 @end ignore |