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@c -*-texinfo-*- @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. @c Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, @c 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions. @c This node must have no pointers. @node Antinews, GNU Free Documentation License, System Interface, Top @appendix Emacs 22 Antinews @c Update the elisp.texi, vol1.texi, vol2.texi Antinews menu entries @c with the above version number. For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about downgrading to Emacs version 22.3. We hope you will enjoy the greater simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs @value{EMACSVER} features. @section Old Lisp Features in Emacs 22 @itemize @bullet @item The internal character representation used by Emacs is not longer based on Unicode. In this representation, called @code{emacs-mule}, each character belongs to one and only one script. Emacs makes no attempt to distinguish between ``similar'' characters occurring in different scripts. @item The @code{^} interactive spec code, the function @code{handle-shift-selection}, and the variable @code{this-command-keys-shift-translated} have all been removed. Shift-translated keys are no longer treated specially, making Emacs' handling of keybindings much more consistent. @item Temporarily-active regions are not created by giving the variable @code{transient-mark-mode} values of the form @code{(only . @var{oldvar})}. We instead use a more complicated scheme: setting @code{transient-mark-mode} to @code{only} enables Transient Mark mode for the following command only, during which the value of @code{transient-mark-mode} is set to @code{identity}; if it is still @code{identity} at the end of the command, Transient Mark mode is disabled. @item Many minibuffer functions, such as @code{read-file-name} and @code{minibuffer-complete}, have been rewritten in C for greater speed. The completion code has been considerably simplified; the completion style can no longer be changed via @code{completion-styles-alist}, and @code{completing-read} no longer recognizes the special values @code{confirm-only} and @code{confirm-after-completion} for its @var{require-match} argument. @item Emacs no longer supports explicitly-numbered groups in regular expressions. @item The @code{permanent-local-hook} function property has no special meaning. @item The @code{functionp} function now returns @code{t} for special forms. @item The @code{interactive-form} symbol property has no special meaning. Once you supply a function with an interactive form, the only way to change it is to redefine the function. @item The @code{ignore-errors} macro has been moved into the @code{cl} package. @item Variables can now be both buffer-local and frame-local; buffer-local bindings take precedence over frame-local bindings. @item Faces can no longer be remapped. @item Lisp programs now specify fonts by their names, which are strings following the XLFD (X logical font descriptor) format. Fonts are no longer represented using a special set of ``font'' data types. The various functions that act on these data types, such as @code{fontp}, @code{font-spec}, and @code{list-fonts}, have all been deleted. @item Emacs does not recognize the @code{FontBackend} X resource and the @code{font-backend} frame parameter. On the X Window System, fonts are always drawn using the X core font driver. @item Display terminals are no longer represented using a ``terminal'' data type; this is not necessary, because we have removed the ability to display on graphical and text-only terminals simultaneously. For the same reason, the @code{window-system} variable is no longer frame-local, and the @code{window-system} function has been removed. @item The functions @code{list-system-processes} and @code{process-attributes} have been removed. To get information about system processes, call an external program, such as @command{ps}. @item The function @code{locate-user-emacs-file} and the variable @code{user-emacs-directory} have been removed. Instead, use hard-coded values pointing to @file{~/.emacs.d}. @item @code{vertical-motion} can no longer be told to move to a specific column; it always puts point on the first column of a line. @item Windows no longer have parameters. @item The @code{display-buffer} function has been rewritten in C. Its window-splitting heuristics are a little less sophisticated, and a little less documented. Window-splitting is handled internally, instead of using @code{split-window-preferred-function} (which has been removed). Windows are never split horizontally; the variable @code{split-width-threshold} has been removed. @item The @code{mode-name} variable now accepts only string values, and cannot take the form of a mode-line construct. @item The behavior of @code{map-char-table} has changed. It calls the mapping function for every single character in the table, instead of using cons cells to represent contiguous character code ranges. @item Several keymaps have been eliminated: @code{input-decode-map}, @code{local-function-key-map}, @code{search-map}, @code{multi-query-replace-map}, and @code{minibuffer-local-shell-command-map}. @item Many functions have been removed, including: @code{buffer-swap-text}, @code{emacs-init-time}, @code{emacs-uptime}, @code{use-region-p}, @code{region-active-p}, @code{start-file-process}, @code{process-lines}, @code{image-refresh}, @code{match-substitute-replacement}, @code{word-search-forward-lax}, and @code{word-search-backward-lax}. @item Many variables have been removed, including @code{read-circle}, @code{after-init-time} and @code{before-init-time}, @code{generate-autoload-cookie}, @code{file-local-variables-alist}, @code{replace-search-function} and @code{replace-re-search-function}, @code{inhibit-changing-match-data}, @code{wrap-prefix}, and @code{line-prefix}, @end itemize @ignore arch-tag: 1d0ef137-2bad-430e-ae8e-d820d569b5a6 @end ignore