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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. |
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6 @c This node must have no pointers. | |
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30904 | 8 @node Antinews, GNU Free Documentation License, System Interface, Top |
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9 @appendix Emacs 20 Antinews |
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11 For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about | |
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12 downgrading to Emacs version 20.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater |
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13 simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 21 features. In |
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14 the following section, we carry this information back to Emacs |
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15 20.3, for which the previous printed edition of this manual was made. |
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17 @section Old Lisp Features in Emacs 20 |
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19 @itemize @bullet | |
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21 The @code{push} and @code{pop} macros are not defined. |
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22 Neither are @code{dolist} and @code{dotimes}. |
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24 @item |
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25 You can't display images in buffers. (Emacs is meant for editing text.) |
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26 With no images, there are no display margins, and no tool bars. |
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28 @item |
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29 The @code{display} text property has no special meaning; you can use it |
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30 freely in Lisp programs, with no effects except what you implement for |
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31 yourself. With no images, who needs the @code{display} text property? |
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34 The @code{field} text property has no special meaning; buffers are no |
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35 longer subdivided into fields. (The division of information into |
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36 fields is always rather arbitrary.) |
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38 @item | |
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39 Faces have fewer attributes. The attributes @code{:family}, |
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40 @code{:height}, @code{:width}, @code{:weight}, and @code{:slant}, |
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41 have been replaced with a font name, a ``bold'' flag, and an |
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42 ``italic'' flag. |
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45 have been eliminated too. Underlining now always has the same color as | |
46 the text---using any other color would be bad taste. | |
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48 With fewer font attributes, there are no functions |
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49 @code{set-face-attribute} and @code{face-attribute}. Instead, you |
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50 access these attributes using functions such as @code{face-font}, and |
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51 set them with functions such as @code{set-face-font}. (These functions |
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52 were available in Emacs 21, but are not as useful there.) |
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54 @item |
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56 @code{cursor}, and @code{mouse} have been eliminated. They are rather | |
57 strange, as faces, and therefore shouldn't really exist. You can use | |
58 @code{set-border-color}, @code{set-cursor-color} and | |
59 @code{set-mouse-color} to specify the colors for the frame border, the | |
60 text cursor, and the mouse cursor. To specify menu colors, use X | |
61 resources. | |
62 | |
63 @item | |
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64 Colors and other face attributes are no longer supported on character |
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65 terminals, so you no longer have to worry about terminals making faces |
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66 at you. |
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70 because there are no facilities for playing sounds. | |
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72 @item |
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73 Emacs 20 provides a complex and badly designed method for handling |
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74 character composition for languages such as Thai that display several |
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75 letters as a single combined image. We are too ashamed of it to tell |
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76 you any more than that. |
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79 @code{delete-and-extract-region} has been deleted; instead, use |
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80 @code{buffer-substring} to extract the text, then use |
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81 @code{delete-region} to delete it. |
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84 Regular expressions do not support the POSIX character classes |
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85 such as @samp{[:alpha:]}. All characters are created equal. |
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88 Hash tables have been eliminated; use alists instead. |
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91 The Lisp printer does not detect and report circular structure. That is |
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92 ok, because the Lisp reader cannot recreate circular structure anyway. |
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93 However, there is a library @samp{cust-print.el} which can report |
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96 @item |
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97 Emacs provides its own implementation of scroll bars, instead |
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98 of using those of the X toolkit. They always use the frame foreground |
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99 and background colors, so you cannot specify different colors for |
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100 the scroll bars. |
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103 For simplicity, all @sc{ascii} characters now have the same height and width. |
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104 (Certain characters, such as Chinese characters, always have twice |
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105 the standard width.) All characters are created equal. |
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108 You can now resize any Emacs window, and size changes in one window can |
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110 @code{window-size-fixed} to get special privileges. |
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113 The function @code{intern-soft} no longer accepts a symbol as argument. |
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117 @code{pixmap-spec-p} to encourage users to practice Emacs' help system | |
118 while trying to find it. | |
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124 Areas of the mode line are not mouse-sensitive; however, some mouse |
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129 off the mode line of a window unless it is a minibuffer. |
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132 Plain dashes are the only separators you can use in a menu. |
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135 Vertical fractional scrolling does not exist. |
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138 The functions @code{format} and @code{message} ignore and discard text |
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142 The function @code{propertize} does not exist; |
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143 you can get the job done using @code{set-text-properties}. |
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146 Colors are supported only on window systems, not on text-only terminals. |
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151 The functions @code{color-values}, @code{color-defined-p} and |
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152 @code{defined-colors} have been renamed to @code{x-color-values}, |
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153 @code{x-color-defined-p} and @code{x-defined-colors}. |
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156 Windows cannot be made fixed-width or fixed-height; |
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157 Emacs will adjust the size of all windows when it needs to. |
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