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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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date | Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:38:28 +0000 |
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@c This is part of the Emacs manual. @c Copyright (C) 1997, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @node Antinews, MS-DOS, Command Arguments, Top @appendix Emacs 19 Antinews For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about downgrading to Emacs version 19. We hope you will enjoy the greater simplicity that results from the absence of certain Emacs 20 features. @itemize @bullet @item The multibyte character and end-of-line conversion support have been eliminated entirely. (Some users consider this a tremendous improvement.) Character codes are limited to the range 0 through 255 and files imported onto Unix-like systems may have a ^M at the end of each line to remind you to control MS-DOG type files. @item Fontsets, coding systems and input methods have been eliminated as well. @item The mode line normally displays the string @samp{Emacs}, in case you forget what editor you are using. @item Scroll bars always appear on the right-hand side of the window. This clearly separates them from the text in the window. @item The @kbd{M-x customize} feature has been replaced with a very simple feature, @kbd{M-x edit-options}. This shows you @emph{all} the user options right from the start, so you don't have to hunt for the ones you want. It also provides a few commands, such as @kbd{s} and @kbd{x}, to set a user option. @item The @key{DELETE} key does nothing special in Emacs 19 when you use it after selecting a region with the mouse. It does exactly the same thing in that situation as it does at all other times: delete one character backwards. @item @kbd{C-x C-w} no longer changes the major mode according to the new file name. If you want to change the mode, use @kbd{M-x normal-mode}. @item In Transient Mark mode, each window displays highlighting for the region as it exists in that window. @item Outline mode doesn't use overlay properties; instead, it hides a line by converting the preceding newline into code 015. Magically, however, if you save the file, the 015 character appears in the file as a newline. @item There is now a clever way you can activate the minibuffer recursively even if @code{enable-recursive-minibuffers} is @code{nil}. All you have to do is @emph{switch windows} to a non-minibuffer window, and then use a minibuffer command. You can pile up any number of minibuffer levels this way, but @kbd{M-x top-level} will get you out of all of them. @item We have removed the limit on the length of minibuffer history lists; they now contain all the minibuffer arguments you have used since the beginning of the session. @item Dynamic abbrev expansion now handles case conversion in a very simple and straightforward way. If you have requested preserving case, it always converts the entire expansion to the case pattern of the abbrev that you have typed in. @item The @code{compose-mail} command does not exist; @kbd{C-x m} now runs @code{mail} directly. @item There is no way to quote a file name with special characters in it. What you see is what you get: if the name looks remote, it is remote. @item @kbd{M-x grep-find} has been eliminated, because @code{grep} has never been lost. @ignore @item Truth in advertising: @kbd{M-x grep} by default uses @code{grep}, the whole @code{grep}, and nothing but the @code{grep}. If you want it to use @code{zgrep}, you'll have to edit the search command by hand. @end ignore @item Some Dired commands have been rearranged: two-character sequences have been replaced with quick single-character commands: @itemize @bullet @item For @code{dired-mark-executables}, type @kbd{*}. @item For @code{dired-mark-directories}, type @kbd{/}. @item For @code{dired-mark-symlinks}, type @kbd{@@}. @item For @code{dired-change-marks}, type @kbd{c}. @item For @code{dired-unmark-all-files}, type @kbd{C-M-?}. @item For @code{dired-unmark-all-marks}, type @kbd{C-M-? @key{RET}}. @end itemize But if you want to use @code{dired-flag-garbage-files}, @kbd{&}, you'll just have to stop living in the past. @item In C mode, you can now specify your preferred style for block comments. If you want to use the style @example /* blah blah */ @end example @noindent then you should set the variable @code{c-block-comments-indent-p} to @code{t}. @item To customize faces used by Font Lock mode, use the variable @code{font-lock-face-attributes}. See its documentation string for details. @item For efficiency, Font Lock mode now uses by default the minimum supported level of decoration for the selected major mode. @item If you kill a buffer, any registers holding saved positions in that buffer are changed to point into limbo. @item The function @code{set-frame-font} has been renamed to @code{set-default-font}. @item The variable @code{tex-main-file} doesn't exist. Of course, you can create the variable by setting it, but that won't do anything special. @item The @code{scroll-preserve-screen-position} variable has been eliminated; and so has the feature that it controls. @item We have eliminated the functions @code{add-untranslated-filesystem} and @code{remove-untranslated-filesystem}, and replaced them with a simpler function, @code{using-unix-filesystems}. @item To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity, many other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 19. There's no need to mention them all here. If you try to use one of them, you'll get an error message to tell you that it is undefined or unbound. @end itemize