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author | Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:41:26 +0000 |
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1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. | 1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
2 @c Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | 2 @c Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. | 3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
4 | 4 |
5 @node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top | 5 @node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top |
6 @appendix Emacs 21.3 Antinews | 6 @appendix Emacs 22.1 Antinews |
7 | 7 |
8 For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about | 8 For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about |
9 downgrading to Emacs version 21.3. We hope you will enjoy the greater | 9 downgrading to Emacs version 21.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater |
10 simplicity that results from the absence of many newer features. | 10 simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 22 features. |
11 | 11 |
12 @itemize @bullet | 12 @itemize @bullet |
13 @item | 13 |
14 The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution | 14 @item |
15 called ``Leim''. To use them, you must extract the Leim tar file on | 15 The buffer position and line number are now displayed at the end of |
16 top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you | 16 the mode line, where they can be more easily seen. |
17 build Emacs. | 17 |
18 | 18 @item |
19 @item | 19 The mode line of the selected window is no longer displayed with a |
20 The file position and line number information is now at the end | 20 special face. All mode lines are created equal. |
21 of the mode line. | 21 |
22 @item | |
23 Clicking on a link with the left mouse button (@kbd{mouse-1}) will | |
24 always set point at the position clicked, instead of following the | |
25 link. If you want to follow the link, use the middle mouse button | |
26 (@kbd{mouse-2}). | |
27 | |
28 @item | |
29 Emacs is tired of X droppings. If you drop a file or a piece of text | |
30 onto an Emacs window, nothing will happen. | |
31 | |
32 @item | |
33 On an xterm, Emacs provides a more convincing simulation of a text | |
34 terminal by not responding to mouse-clicks on the mode-line, | |
35 header-line, or display margin. | |
36 | |
37 @item | |
38 For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want to | |
39 in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling always | |
40 works in the same automatic way. | |
41 | |
42 @item | |
43 The horizontal-bar cursor shape has been removed. | |
44 | |
45 @item | |
46 If command line arguments are given, Emacs will not display a splash | |
47 screen, so that you can immediately get on with your editing. The | |
48 command-line option @samp{--no-splash} is therefore obsolete, and has | |
49 been removed. | |
50 | |
51 @item | |
52 The command line options @samp{--color}, @samp{--fullwidth}, | |
53 @samp{--fullheight}, @samp{--fullscreen}, @samp{--no-blinking-cursor}, | |
54 @samp{--no-desktop}, and @samp{-Q} have also been removed. | |
55 | |
56 @item | |
57 The @samp{--geometry} option applies only to the initial frame, and | |
58 the @samp{-f} option will not read arguments for interactive | |
59 functions. | |
60 | |
61 @item | |
62 Emacs now looks for @file{.emacs} and @file{.emacs_SHELL} in one | |
63 standard location---your home directory. Don't put these files in | |
64 @file{~/.emacs.d}; they won't be found. | |
65 | |
66 @item | |
67 Emacs will not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically. If you want | |
68 to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so | |
69 explicitly. | |
70 | |
71 @item | |
72 When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable | |
73 buffers, reflecting the fact that you can write any files. | |
74 | |
75 @item | |
76 The maximum size of buffers and integer variables has been halved. On | |
77 32-bit machines, the maximum buffer size is now 128 megabytes. | |
78 | |
79 @item | |
80 An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following | |
81 name is not recognized as an environment variable. Thus, | |
82 the file name @file{foo$bar} would probably be an error. Meanwhile, | |
83 the @code{setenv} command does not expand @samp{$} at all. | |
84 | |
85 @item | |
86 Emacs will not query you if a command accumulates too much undo | |
87 information. If Emacs runs out of memory as a result, it will handle | |
88 this by crashing. | |
89 | |
90 @item | |
91 Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. | |
92 | |
93 @item | |
94 The @kbd{C-h} (help) subcommands have been rearranged---especially | |
95 those that display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list | |
96 of these commands; that will show you what is different. | |
97 | |
98 @item | |
99 The @kbd{C-h v} and @kbd{C-h f} commands no longer show a hyperlink to | |
100 the C source code, even if it is available. If you want to find the | |
101 source code, grep for it. | |
102 | |
103 @item | |
104 The apropos commands will not accept a list of words to match, in | |
105 order to encourage users to be more specific. Also, the user option | |
106 @code{apropos-sort-by-scores} has been removed. | |
107 | |
108 @item | |
109 The minibuffer prompt is now displayed using the default face. | |
110 The colon is enough to show you what part is the prompt. | |
111 | |
112 @item | |
113 Minibuffer completion commands always complete the entire minibuffer | |
114 contents, just as if you had typed them at the end of the minibuffer, | |
115 no matter where point is actually located. | |
116 | |
117 @item | |
118 The command @code{backward-kill-sexp} is now bound to @kbd{C-M-delete} | |
119 and @kbd{C-M-backspace}. Be careful when using these key sequences! | |
120 It may shut down your X server, or reboot your operating system. | |
121 | |
122 @item | |
123 Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including | |
124 @kbd{M-@@}, @kbd{M-h}, etc., don't do anything special when you repeat | |
125 them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is | |
126 equivalent to typing them once. @kbd{M-h} ignores numeric arguments. | |
127 | |
128 @item | |
129 If you want to repeat a jump to a previous mark, you should supply the | |
130 prefix argument explicitly. So, instead of typing @kbd{C-u C-SPC | |
131 C-SPC C-SPC}, type @kbd{C-u C-SPC C-u C-SPC C-u C-SPC}. | |
132 | |
133 @item | |
134 @kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning--it just sets the | |
135 mark twice. Neither does @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}, which simply exchanges | |
136 point and mark like @kbd{C-x C-x}. | |
137 | |
138 @item | |
139 The function @code{sentence-end} has been eliminated in favor of a | |
140 more straightforward approach: directly setting the variable | |
141 @code{sentence-end}. For example, to end each sentence with a single | |
142 space, use | |
143 | |
144 @lisp | |
145 (setq sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')@}]*\\($\\|[ \t]\\)[ \t\n]*") | |
146 @end lisp | |
147 | |
148 @item | |
149 The variable @code{fill-nobreak-predicate} is no longer customizable, | |
150 and it can only hold a single function. | |
151 | |
152 @item | |
153 Non-breaking spaces and hyphens are displayed just like normal | |
154 characters. The user option @code{show-nonbreak-escape} is therefore | |
155 obsolete, and has been removed. | |
156 | |
157 @item | |
158 @kbd{C-w} in an incremental search always grabs an entire word | |
159 into the search string. More precisely, it grabs text through | |
160 the next end of a word. | |
161 | |
162 @item | |
163 Yanking now preserves all text properties that were in the killed | |
164 text. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} has been removed. | |
165 | |
166 @item | |
167 Occur mode, Info mode, and Comint-derived modes now control | |
168 fontification in their own way, and @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} has | |
169 nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info mode, use the | |
170 variable @code{Info-fontify}. | |
171 | |
172 @item | |
173 The Grep package has been merged with Compilation mode. Many | |
174 grep-specific commands and user options have thus been eliminated. | |
175 Also, @kbd{M-x grep} never tries the GNU grep @samp{-H} option, | |
176 and instead silently appends @file{/dev/null} to the command line. | |
177 | |
178 @item | |
179 In Dired's @kbd{!} command, @samp{*} and @samp{?} now | |
180 cause substitution of the file names wherever they appear---not | |
181 only when they are surrounded by whitespace. | |
22 | 182 |
23 @item | 183 @item |
24 When a file is managed with version control, the command @kbd{C-x C-q} | 184 When a file is managed with version control, the command @kbd{C-x C-q} |
25 (whose general meaning is to make a buffer read-only or writable) now | 185 (whose general meaning is to make a buffer read-only or writable) now |
26 does so by checking the file in or out. Checking the file out makes | 186 does so by checking the file in or out. Checking the file out makes |
27 the buffer writable; checking it in makes the buffer read-only (at | 187 the buffer writable; checking it in makes the buffer read-only. |
28 least with RCS). | |
29 | 188 |
30 You can still use @kbd{C-x v v} to do these operations if you wish; | 189 You can still use @kbd{C-x v v} to do these operations if you wish; |
31 its meaning is unchanged. If you want to control the buffer's | 190 its meaning is unchanged. If you want to control the buffer's |
32 read-only flag without performing any version control operation, | 191 read-only flag without performing any version control operation, |
33 use @kbd{M-x toggle-read-only}. | 192 use @kbd{M-x toggle-read-only}. |
34 | 193 |
35 @item | 194 @item |
36 Filesets are not supported. | 195 SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation |
37 | 196 support. |
38 @item | 197 |
39 For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want | 198 @item |
40 to in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling | 199 Many Info mode commands have been removed. Incremental search in Info |
41 always works the same automatic way. | 200 searches only the current node. |
42 | |
43 @item | |
44 When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable | |
45 buffers in Emacs reflecting the fact that you can write any files. | |
46 | |
47 @item | |
48 Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character | |
49 sets have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not | |
50 support ``extended segments'' so there are certain coding systems | |
51 it cannot handle. | |
52 | |
53 @item | |
54 @kbd{C-w} in an incremental search always grabs an entire word | |
55 into the search string. More precisely, it grabs text through | |
56 the next end of a word. | |
57 | |
58 @item | |
59 Yanking now preserves all text properties that were in the killed | |
60 text. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} has no meaning. | |
61 | |
62 @item | |
63 Occur mode, Info mode, and Comint-derived modes now control | |
64 fontification in their own way, and @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} | |
65 has nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info | |
66 mode, use the variable @code{Info-fontify}. | |
67 | |
68 @item | |
69 In Dired's @kbd{!} command, @samp{*} and @samp{?} now | |
70 cause substitution of the file names wherever they appear---not | |
71 only when they are surrounded by whitespace. | |
72 | |
73 @item | |
74 Minibuffer completion commands now always complete the entire | |
75 minibuffer contents, just as if you had typed them at the end | |
76 of the minibuffer, no matter where point is actually located. | |
77 | |
78 @item | |
79 An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following | |
80 name is not recognized as an environment variable. Thus, | |
81 the file name @file{foo$bar} would probably be an error. Meanwhile, | |
82 the @code{setenv} command does not expand @samp{$} at all. | |
83 | |
84 @item | |
85 Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including | |
86 @kbd{M-@@}, @kbd{M-h}, etc., don't do anything special when you repeat | |
87 them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is | |
88 equivalent to using them once. @kbd{M-h} does not use its numeric | |
89 argument. | |
90 | |
91 @item | |
92 @kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning and neither does | |
93 @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}. | |
94 | |
95 @item | |
96 There is no horizontal-bar cursor. | |
97 | |
98 @item | |
99 The faces @code{minibuffer-prompt} and @code{mode-line-inactive} | |
100 do not exist, and the features they control don't exist either. | |
101 | |
102 @item | |
103 The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always @code{nil}. | |
104 Emacs does not set it based on your locale settings. | |
105 If you want some other value, you must set it yourself. | |
106 | |
107 @item | |
108 SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation support. | |
109 | |
110 @item | |
111 The @kbd{C-h} subcommands have been rearranged---especially those that | |
112 display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list of these | |
113 commands; that will show you what is different. | |
114 | |
115 @item | |
116 Emacs does not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically; if you want | |
117 to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so | |
118 explicitly. | |
119 | |
120 @item | |
121 The @samp{--fullwidth}, @samp{--fullheight} and @samp{--fullscreen} | |
122 command line options are not supported. | |
123 | |
124 @item | |
125 The @samp{--geometry} option now entirely applies only to the initial | |
126 frame. | |
127 | |
128 @item | |
129 Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. | |
130 | 201 |
131 @item | 202 @item |
132 Many @code{etags} features for customizing parsing using regexps | 203 Many @code{etags} features for customizing parsing using regexps |
133 have been removed. | 204 have been removed. |
134 | 205 |
135 @item | 206 @item |
136 The CUA, ido, table, tramp, reveal, ruler-mode, and ibuffer packages | 207 The Emacs server now runs a small C program called @file{emacsserver}, |
137 have been removed. So has the spreadsheet, SES, and the algebraic | 208 rather than trying to handle everything in Emacs Lisp. Now there can |
138 calculator, Calc. (We distribute Calc separately.) | 209 only be one Emacs server running at a time. The @code{server-mode} |
139 | 210 command and @code{server-name} user option have been eliminated. |
140 @item | 211 |
141 The kmacro package has been removed. To start a keyboard macro you | 212 @item |
142 must use @kbd{C-x (}; to end one, @kbd{C-x )}; to execute the last | 213 The @file{emacsclient} program no longer accepts the @samp{--eval} and |
143 one, @kbd{C-x e}. | 214 @samp{--display} command line options. |
215 | |
216 @item | |
217 The command @code{quail-show-key}, for showing how to input a | |
218 character, has been removed. | |
219 | |
220 @item | |
221 The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always | |
222 @code{nil}, regardless of your locale settings. If you want some | |
223 other value, set it yourself. | |
224 | |
225 @item | |
226 Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character sets | |
227 have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not support | |
228 ``extended segments'', so there are certain coding systems it cannot | |
229 handle. | |
230 | |
231 @item | |
232 The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution | |
233 called ``Leim''. To use this, you must extract the Leim tar file on | |
234 top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you | |
235 build Emacs. | |
236 | |
237 @item | |
238 The following input methods have been eliminated: belarusian, | |
239 bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng, croatian, dutch, | |
240 georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, | |
241 latvian-keyboard, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, | |
242 malayalam-inscript, rfc1345, russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, | |
243 tamil-inscript ucs, ukrainian-computer, vietnamese-telex, and welsh. | |
244 | |
245 @item | |
246 The following language environments have been eliminated: Belarusian, | |
247 Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, French, Georgian, Italian, | |
248 Latin-6, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian, | |
249 Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Welsh, | |
250 and Windows-1255. | |
251 | |
252 @item | |
253 The @code{code-pages} library, which contained various 8-bit coding | |
254 systems, has been removed. | |
255 | |
256 @item | |
257 The Kmacro package has been replaced with a simple and elegant | |
258 keyboard macro system. Use @kbd{C-x (} to start a new keyboard macro, | |
259 @kbd{C-x )} to end the macro, and @kbd{C-x e} to execute the last | |
260 macro. | |
261 | |
262 @item | |
263 The Calc, CUA, GDB-UI, Ibuffer, Ido, Password, Printing, Reveal, | |
264 Ruler-mode, SES, Table, Tramp, and URL packages have been removed. | |
265 The Benchmark, Cfengine, Conf, Dns, Flymake, Python, Thumbs, and | |
266 Wdired modes have also been removed. | |
267 | |
268 @item | |
269 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and the Introduction to Programming in | |
270 Emacs Lisp are now distributed separately, not in the Emacs | |
271 distribution. | |
272 | |
273 @item | |
274 On MS Windows, there is no longer any support for tooltips, images, | |
275 sound, different mouse pointer shapes, or pointing devices with more | |
276 than 3 buttons. If you want these features, consider switching to | |
277 another operating system. But even if you don't want these features, | |
278 you should still switch---for freedom's sake. | |
279 | |
280 @item | |
281 Emacs will not use Unicode for clipboard operations on MS Windows. | |
144 | 282 |
145 @item | 283 @item |
146 To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many | 284 To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many |
147 other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 21.3. | 285 other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 21.4. |
148 @end itemize | 286 @end itemize |
149 | 287 |
150 @ignore | 288 @ignore |
151 arch-tag: 32932bd9-46f5-41b2-8a0e-fb0cc4caeb29 | 289 arch-tag: 32932bd9-46f5-41b2-8a0e-fb0cc4caeb29 |
152 @end ignore | 290 @end ignore |