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2 @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. | |
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3 @c Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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5 @node Antinews, Index, Standard Hooks, Top | |
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6 @appendix Emacs 19 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 19.34. We hope you will enjoy the greater |
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10 simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 20 features. In |
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11 the following section, we carry this information back as far as Emacs |
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12 19.29, for which the previous printed edition of this manual was made. |
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14 @section Old Lisp Features in Emacs 19 |
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16 Here are the most important of the features that you will learn |
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17 to do without in Emacs 19: |
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19 @itemize @bullet | |
20 @item | |
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21 In a great simplification, Emacs 19 supports ASCII characters only. |
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22 There are no multibyte characters, character sets, language |
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23 environments, coding systems, or input methods; all the functions that |
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24 specifically relate to them are gone as well. |
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26 Valid character codes for text must be in the range 0 through 255. |
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27 Within this range, there are no invalid character codes. |
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29 @item | |
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30 The Custom facility has been replaced with a much simpler and more |
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31 general method of defining user option variables. Instead of |
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32 @code{defcustom}, which requires you to specify each user option's data |
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33 type and classify options into groups, all you have to do is write a |
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34 @code{defvar}. You should still start the documentation string with |
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35 @samp{*}, though. |
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37 | |
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38 Here are changes in the Lisp language itself: |
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40 @itemize @bullet | |
41 @item | |
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42 Symbols whose names start with @samp{:} are no longer special |
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43 in any way. They start out void, like most other symbols. |
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45 @item | |
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46 The macros @code{when} and @code{unless} have been deleted. |
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48 @item | |
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49 The functions @code{caar}, @code{cadr}, @code{cdar} and @code{cddr} |
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50 no longer exist. |
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52 @item | |
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53 The function @code{functionp} is now gone. If you don't know |
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54 by now whether something is a function, Emacs can't tell you. |
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56 | |
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57 Here are changes in handling strings and text. |
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60 @item |
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61 The function @code{substring} works only on strings, not on vectors. |
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64 There are no more character categories. |
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67 When you compare strings with @code{equal}, it now compares |
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68 their string properties as well as their text. All must match, |
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69 or the strings are not equal. |
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71 @item | |
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72 @code{format-time-string} no longer supports specified field width |
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73 or specified padding. |
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75 @item |
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76 The functions @code{split-string} and @code{string} no longer exist. |
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77 Neither does @code{store-substring} or @code{sref}. |
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80 All printing characters have the same width. Therefore, we have deleted |
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81 @code{char-width}, @code{string-width} and |
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82 @code{truncate-string-to-width}. |
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84 @item |
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85 We have eliminated the functions @code{next-char-property-change} and |
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86 @code{previous-char-property-change} also. |
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89 Syntax parsing now determines the syntax of each character from the |
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90 syntax table alone---not from text properties. This makes the syntax |
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91 codes @samp{|} and @samp{!}, which were meant for use with text |
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92 properties, useless; so we have deleted them. |
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94 @item | |
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95 In the function @code{parse-partial-sexp}, passing @code{syntax-table} |
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96 as the sixth argument @var{commentstop} no longer has any special meaning. |
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97 And the return value has only eight elements. |
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99 | |
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100 Here are changes in other areas of Emacs Lisp: |
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102 @itemize @bullet | |
103 @item | |
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104 The macros @code{save-current-buffer}, @code{with-current-buffer}, |
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105 @code{with-temp-buffer}, @code{with-temp-file}, @code{save-selected-window}, |
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106 and @code{with-output-to-string} are gone. |
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108 @item | |
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109 The easy-mmode facility for defining minor modes is gone too. |
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111 @item | |
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112 Process filters and sentinels must explicitly save the match data, with |
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113 @code{save-match-data}, or they will clobber the match data and |
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114 something horrible will happen. |
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117 As part of our effort to loosen up, @code{batch-byte-compile-file} no |
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118 longer returns a nonzero status code if there is a compilation error. |
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121 The ``mail user agent'' feature is gone. |
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124 We have removed the functions @code{add-to-invisibility-spec} and |
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125 @code{remove-from-invisibility-spec}, so you should manipulate |
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126 the value of @code{buffer-invisibility-spec} by hand. |
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129 The functions @code{face-documentation}, @code{face-bold-p}, |
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130 @code{face-italic-p}, @code{set-face-bold-p}, @code{set-face-italic-p} |
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131 are gone. Instead, use @code{make-face-bold} and friends. |
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134 All the functions that operate on a file now discard an extra redundant |
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135 directory name from the beginning of the file name---just like |
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136 @code{substitute-in-file-name}. |
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139 We have got rid of the function @code{access-file}. |
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143 an argument. Also, they do not discard text properties from the result. |
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144 This means that if you insert text with text properties into the minibuffer, |
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145 the minibuffer value really will contain text properties. |
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148 Only the simple menu item format is supported (@pxref{Simple Menu Items}). |
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151 You can still bind @code{x-resource-class} around a call to |
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152 @code{x-get-resource}, but it won't do anything special. |
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155 Wave goodbye to the hooks @code{before-make-frame-hook}, |
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156 @code{after-make-frame-functions}, and |
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157 @code{window-configuration-change-hook}, |
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160 The functions and variables that deal with MS Windows NT/95 |
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161 have been renamed to start with @samp{win32-} instead of @samp{w32-}. |
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162 This is because we admire Microsoft more each day as we go back |
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166 @section Onward into the Past! |
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169 previous printed edition of the Emacs Lisp manual was made. |
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171 @itemize @bullet | |
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173 There are no char-tables or bool-vectors. Syntax tables, display |
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174 tables, and case tables are all vectors now, and the value of |
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175 @code{keyboard-translate-table} should be a vector or a string. |
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178 There is only one kind of marker. When you insert text at the place |
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187 The variable @code{print-length} applies only to lists, not to |
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191 The function @code{convert-standard-filename} no longer exists, so each |
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192 Lisp package must independently figure out which file names to use for |
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196 The macro @code{with-timeout} has been eliminated, along with the |
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197 function @code{y-or-n-p-with-timeout}. Idle timers don't exist at all; |
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202 The functions @code{keymap-parent} and @code{set-keymap-parent} are |
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206 When you delete text and then undo a deletion, markers that were |
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207 originally inside the deleted text end up either at the beginning |
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208 or the end of it---not back in their original places. |
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214 There is no more @code{safe-length}. Don't try to be so safe! Did you |
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218 We got rid of @code{insert-file-contents-literally}, because |
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222 As part of our continuing effort to help Lisp programmers to relax, we |
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224 about errors! We all make mistakes. |
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227 The keymap @code{special-event-map} is gone, because Emacs has no more |
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228 special events. If you want to hold a party in Emacs, please let us |
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235 The functions @code{command-execute} and @code{call-interactively} no |
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242 With the function @code{replace-match}, you can only replace the whole |
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243 match, not a subexpression of it. |
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246 We eliminated the hooks @code{buffer-access-fontify-functions}, |
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247 @code{window-scroll-functions}, and @code{redisplay-end-trigger-functions}. |
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