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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. |
26216 | 5 @node Antinews, Tips, Calendar, 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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20 @item |
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21 You can't display images in buffers. (Emacs is meant for editing text.) |
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22 With no images, there are no display margins, and no tool bars. |
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24 @item |
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25 The @code{display} text property has no special meaning; you can use it |
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26 freely in Lisp programs, with no effects except what you implement for |
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27 yourself. With no images, who needs the @code{display} text property? |
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29 @item |
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31 | |
32 @item | |
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33 Faces have fewer attributes. The attributes @code{:family}, |
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34 @code{:height}, @code{:width}, @code{:weight}, and @code{:slant}, |
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35 have been replaced with a font name, a ``bold'' flag, and an |
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36 ``italic'' flag. |
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39 have been eliminated too. Underlining now always has the same color as | |
40 the text---using any other color would be bad taste. | |
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42 With fewer font attributes, there are no functions |
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43 @code{set-face-attribute} and @code{face-attribute}. Instead, you |
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44 access these attributes using functions such as @code{face-font}, and |
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45 set them with functions such as @code{set-face-font}. (These functions |
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46 were available in Emacs 21, but are not as useful there.) |
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48 @item |
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50 @code{cursor}, and @code{mouse} have been eliminated. They are rather | |
51 strange, as faces, and therefore shouldn't really exist. You can use | |
52 @code{set-border-color}, @code{set-cursor-color} and | |
53 @code{set-mouse-color} to specify the colors for the frame border, the | |
54 text cursor, and the mouse cursor. To specify menu colors, use X | |
55 resources. | |
56 | |
57 @item | |
58 Emacs will respect your peace and quiet, aside from occasional beeps, | |
59 because there are no facilities for playing sounds. | |
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61 @item |
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62 Regular expressions do not support the POSIX character classes |
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63 such as @samp{[:alpha:]}. All characters are created equal. |
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65 @item |
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66 Hash tables have been eliminated; use alists instead. |
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68 @item |
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69 The Lisp printer does not detect and report circular structure. That is |
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70 ok, because the Lisp reader cannot recreate circular structure anyway. |
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71 However, there is a library @samp{cust-print.el} which can report |
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72 circular structure. |
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74 @item |
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75 Emacs provides its own implementation of scroll bars, instead |
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76 of using those of the X toolkit. They always use the frame foreground |
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77 and background colors, so you cannot specify different colors for |
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78 the scroll bars. |
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80 @item |
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81 For simplicity, all ASCII characters now have the same height and width. |
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82 (Certain characters, such as Chinese characters, always have have twice |
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83 the standard width.) All characters are created equal. |
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85 @item |
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87 @code{pixmap-spec-p} to encourage users to practice Emacs' help system | |
88 while trying to find it. | |
89 | |
90 @item | |
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91 Tooltips operate using ordinary Emacs frames. |
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93 @item |
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94 Areas of the mode line are not mouse-sensitive; however, some mouse |
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95 commands are available for the mode line as a whole. |
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97 @item |
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98 Windows cannot have header lines. Conversely, there is no way to turn |
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99 off the mode line of a window unless it is a minibuffer. |
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101 @item |
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102 Plain dashes are the only separators you can use in a menu. |
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104 @item | |
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105 Vertical fractional scrolling does not exist. |
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107 @item |
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108 The functions @code{format} and @code{message} ignore and discard text |
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109 properties. |
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111 @item |
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112 Colors are supported only on window systems, not on text-only terminals. |
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113 So the support functions for colors on text-only terminals are |
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117 The functions @code{color-values}, @code{color-defined-p} and |
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118 @code{defined-colors} have been renamed to @code{x-color-values}, |
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119 @code{x-color-defined-p} and @code{x-defined-colors}. |
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122 Windows cannot be made fixed-width or fixed-height; |
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123 Emacs will adjust the size of all windows when it needs to. |
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127 @code{after-string} property must contain only characters that display | |
128 as a single column---control characters, including tabs and newlines, | |
129 will give strange results. | |
130 | |
131 @item | |
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132 The minibuffer prompt does not actually appear in content of the |
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133 minibuffer; it is displayed specially in the minibuffer window. |
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136 The ``exclusive open'' feature of @code{write-region} |
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141 The function @code{buffer-size} always reports on the |
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142 current buffer. |
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145 The function @code{assoc-delete-all} has itself been deleted. |
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146 So there! |
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149 The variable @code{small-temporary-file-directory} has no special |
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150 meaning. There's only one variable for specifying which directory to |
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151 use for temporary files, @code{temporary-file-directory}, but not all |
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152 Emacs features use it anyway. Some use the @code{TMP} environment |
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153 variable, and some use the @code{TMPDIR} environment variable. |
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169 The hook @code{calendar-move-hook} has been deleted. |
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172 The function @code{move-to-column} treats any non-@code{nil} |
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176 @section Old Lisp Features in Emacs 20.3 |
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178 Here are the most important of the features that you will learn |
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179 to do without in Emacs 20.3: |
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185 The functions @code{line-beginning-position} and @code{line-end-position} |
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189 The functions @code{directory-files-and-attributes}, |
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190 @code{file-attributes-lessp}, and @code{file-expand-wildcards}, have |
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194 The functions @code{decode-coding-region} and @code{encode-coding-region} |
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195 leave text properties untouched, in case that is useful. (It rarely makes |
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199 The functions @code{position-bytes} and @code{byte-to-position} have |
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203 Temporary buffers made with @code{with-output-to-temp-buffer} are now |
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204 modifiable by default, and use Fundamental mode rather than Help mode. |
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207 The functions @code{sref} interprets its @var{index} argument as a |
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208 number of bytes, not a number of characters. And the function |
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209 @code{char-bytes} actually tries to report on the number of bytes that a |
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213 The function @code{process-running-child-p} has been eliminated. |
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216 The function @code{interrupt-process} and similar functions no longer do |
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217 anything special when the second argument is @code{lambda}. |
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220 The function @code{define-prefix-command} accepts only two arguments. |
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223 The meaning of the second argument to @code{read-char}, |
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224 @code{read-event}, and @code{read-char-exclusive} has been reversed: |
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237 In @code{modify-face}, an argument of @code{(nil)} has no special |
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241 The base64 conversion functions have been eliminated. |
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244 Wildcard support has been eliminated from @code{find-file} |
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245 and allied functions. |
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248 @code{file-attributes} returns the file size and the file inode number |
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