annotate man/anti.texi @ 61490:e51a703b6762

(rc-generic-mode, rul-generic-mode): Fix auto-mode-alist entries. (etc-fstab-generic-mode): Tweak fontification.
author Lute Kamstra <lute@gnu.org>
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1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
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2 @c Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
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5 @node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top
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6 @appendix Emacs 22.1 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 22 features.
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12 @itemize @bullet
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19 The mode line of the selected window is no longer displayed with a
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20 special face. All mode lines are created equal.
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22 @item
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23 Clicking on a link with the left mouse button (@kbd{mouse-1}) will
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24 always set point at the position clicked, instead of following the
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25 link. If you want to follow the link, use the middle mouse button
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26 (@kbd{mouse-2}).
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28 @item
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29 Emacs is tired of X droppings. If you drop a file or a piece of text
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33 On an xterm, Emacs provides a more convincing simulation of a text
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34 terminal by not responding to mouse-clicks on the mode-line,
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35 header-line, or display margin.
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38 For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want to
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39 in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling always
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40 works in the same automatic way.
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46 If command line arguments are given, Emacs will not display a splash
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48 command-line option @samp{--no-splash} is therefore obsolete, and has
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49 been removed.
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54 @samp{--no-desktop}, and @samp{-Q} have also been removed.
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56 @item
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58 the @samp{-f} option will not read arguments for interactive
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59 functions.
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62 Emacs now looks for @file{.emacs} and @file{.emacs_SHELL} in one
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64 @file{~/.emacs.d}; they won't be found.
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69 explicitly.
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73 buffers, reflecting the fact that you can write any files.
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76 The maximum size of buffers and integer variables has been halved. On
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77 32-bit machines, the maximum buffer size is now 128 megabytes.
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80 An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following
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86 Emacs will not query you if a command accumulates too much undo
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87 information. If Emacs runs out of memory as a result, it will handle
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91 Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged.
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93 @item
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94 The @kbd{C-h} (help) subcommands have been rearranged---especially
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99 The @kbd{C-h v} and @kbd{C-h f} commands no longer show a hyperlink to
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104 The apropos commands will not accept a list of words to match, in
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105 order to encourage users to be more specific. Also, the user option
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106 @code{apropos-sort-by-scores} has been removed.
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109 The minibuffer prompt is now displayed using the default face.
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110 The colon is enough to show you what part is the prompt.
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113 Minibuffer completion commands always complete the entire minibuffer
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114 contents, just as if you had typed them at the end of the minibuffer,
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115 no matter where point is actually located.
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118 The command @code{backward-kill-sexp} is now bound to @kbd{C-M-delete}
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119 and @kbd{C-M-backspace}. Be careful when using these key sequences!
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120 It may shut down your X server, or reboot your operating system.
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123 Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including
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124 @kbd{M-@@}, @kbd{M-h}, etc., don't do anything special when you repeat
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125 them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is
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126 equivalent to typing them once. @kbd{M-h} ignores numeric arguments.
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129 If you want to repeat a jump to a previous mark, you should supply the
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130 prefix argument explicitly. So, instead of typing @kbd{C-u C-SPC
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131 C-SPC C-SPC}, type @kbd{C-u C-SPC C-u C-SPC C-u C-SPC}.
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134 @kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning--it just sets the
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135 mark twice. Neither does @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}, which simply exchanges
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136 point and mark like @kbd{C-x C-x}.
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139 The function @code{sentence-end} has been eliminated in favor of a
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140 more straightforward approach: directly setting the variable
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141 @code{sentence-end}. For example, to end each sentence with a single
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142 space, use
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144 @lisp
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145 (setq sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')@}]*\\($\\|[ \t]\\)[ \t\n]*")
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149 The variable @code{fill-nobreak-predicate} is no longer customizable,
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150 and it can only hold a single function.
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153 Non-breaking spaces and hyphens are displayed just like normal
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154 characters. The user option @code{show-nonbreak-escape} is therefore
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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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196 support.
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208 rather than trying to handle everything in Emacs Lisp. Now there can
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235 build Emacs.
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240 georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
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246 The following language environments have been eliminated: Belarusian,
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248 Latin-6, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian,
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249 Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Welsh,
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250 and Windows-1255.
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264 Ruler-mode, SES, Table, Tramp, and URL packages have been removed.
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265 The Benchmark, Cfengine, Conf, Dns, Flymake, Python, Thumbs, and
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269 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and the Introduction to Programming in
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270 Emacs Lisp are now distributed separately, not in the Emacs
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271 distribution.
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274 On MS Windows, there is no longer any support for tooltips, images,
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281 Emacs will not use Unicode for clipboard operations on MS Windows.
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288 @ignore
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290 @end ignore