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author | Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> |
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date | Sun, 23 Nov 2003 07:33:48 +0000 |
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@c This is part of the Emacs manual. @c Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top @appendix Emacs 21.3 Antinews For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about downgrading to Emacs version 21.3. We hope you will enjoy the greater simplicity that results from the absence of many newer features. @itemize @bullet @item The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution called ``Leim''. To use them, you must extract the Leim tar file on top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you build Emacs. @item The file position and line number information is now at the end of the mode line. @item When a file is managed with version control, the command @kbd{C-x C-q} (whose general meaning is to make a buffer read-only or writable) now does so by checking the file in or out. Checking the file out makes the buffer writable; checking it in makes the buffer read-only (at least with RCS). You can still use @kbd{C-x v v} to do these operations if you wish; its meaning is unchanged. If you want to control the buffer's read-only flag without performing any version control operation, use @kbd{M-x toggle-read-only}. @item Filesets are not supported. @item For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want to in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling always works the same automatic way. @item When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable buffers in Emacs reflecting the fact that you can write any files. @item Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character sets have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not support ``extended segments'' so there are certain coding systems it cannot handle. @item @kbd{C-w} in an incremental search always grabs an entire word into the search string. More precisely, it grabs text through the next end of a word. @item Yanking now preserves all text properties that were in the killed text. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} has no meaning. @item Occur mode, Info mode, and Comint-derived modes now control fontification in their own way, and @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} has nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info mode, use the variable @code{Info-fontify}. @item In Dired's @kbd{!} command, @samp{*} and @samp{?} now cause substitution of the file names wherever they appear---not only when they are surrounded by whitespace. @item Minibuffer completion commands now always complete the entire minibuffer contents, just as if you had typed them at the end of the minibuffer, no matter where point is actually located. @item An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following name is not recognized as an environment variable. Thus, the file name @file{foo$bar} would probably be an error. Meanwhile, the @code{setenv} command does not expand @samp{$} at all. @item Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including @kbd{M-@@}, @kbd{M-h}, etc., don't do anything special when you repeat them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is equivalent to using them once. @kbd{M-h} does not use its numeric argument. @item @kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning and neither does @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}. @item There is no horizontal-bar cursor. @item The faces @code{minibuffer-prompt} and @code{mode-line-inactive} do not exist, and the features they control don't exist either. @item The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always @code{nil}. Emacs does not set it based on your locale settings. If you want some other value, you must set it yourself. @item SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation support. @item The @kbd{C-h} subcommands have been rearranged--especially those that display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list of these commands; that will show you what is different. @item Emacs does not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically; if you want to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so explicitly. @item The @samp{--fullwidth}, @samp{--fullheight} and @samp{--fullscreen} command line options are not supported. @item The @samp{--geometry} option now entirely applies only to the initial frame. @item Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. @item Many @code{etags} features for customizing parsing using regexps have been removed. @item The CUA, ido, table, tramp, reveal, ruler-mode, and ibuffer packages have been removed. So has the spreadsheet, SES, and the algebraic calculator, Calc. (We distribute Calc separately.) @item The kmacro package has been removed. To start a keyboard macro you must use @kbd{C-x (}; to end one, @kbd{C-x )}; to execute the last one, @kbd{C-x e}. @item To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 21.3. @end itemize