# HG changeset patch # User Chong Yidong # Date 1227422696 0 # Node ID c660cbdad2479f357129725bc41c254f1a0a82bd # Parent 1364e424d1911428d1e453280a51f7c6c25f0ec9 (Antinews): Rewrite. diff -r 1364e424d191 -r c660cbdad247 doc/emacs/anti.texi --- a/doc/emacs/anti.texi Sun Nov 23 06:44:50 2008 +0000 +++ b/doc/emacs/anti.texi Sun Nov 23 06:44:56 2008 +0000 @@ -5,300 +5,100 @@ @node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top @appendix Emacs 21 Antinews - For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about -downgrading to Emacs version 21.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater -simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs @value{EMACSVER} -features. + 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. @itemize @bullet @item -The buffer position and line number are now displayed at the end of -the mode line, where they can be more easily seen. - -@item -The mode line of the selected window is no longer displayed with a -special face. All mode lines are created equal. Meanwhile, you can -use the variable @code{mode-line-inverse-video} to control whether -mode lines are highlighted at all---@code{nil} means don't highlight -them. - -@item -Clicking on a link with the left mouse button (@kbd{mouse-1}) will -always set point at the position clicked, instead of following the -link. If you want to follow the link, use the middle mouse button -(@kbd{mouse-2}). - -@item -Emacs is tired of X droppings. If you drop a file or a piece of text -onto an Emacs window, nothing will happen. - -@item -On an xterm, even if you enable Xterm Mouse mode, Emacs provides a -more convincing simulation of a text terminal by not responding to -mouse clicks on the mode line, header line, or display margin. - -@item -For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want to -in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling always -works in the same automatic way. - -@item -The horizontal-bar cursor shape has been removed. +The Fontconfig font library is no longer supported. To specify a +font, you must use an XLFD (X Logical Font Descriptor). The other +ways of specifying fonts---so-called ``Fontconfig'' and ``GTK'' font +names---are clearly redundant, and have been removed. @item -If command line arguments are given, Emacs will not display a splash -screen, so that you can immediately get on with your editing. The -command-line option @samp{--no-splash} is therefore obsolete, and has -been removed. - -@item -These command line options have also been removed: @samp{--color}, -@samp{--fullwidth}, @samp{--fullheight}, @samp{--fullscreen}, -@samp{--no-blinking-cursor}, @samp{--no-desktop}, and @samp{-Q}. - -@item -The @samp{--geometry} option applies only to the initial frame, and -the @samp{-f} option will not read arguments for interactive -functions. +Emacs no longer performs font anti-aliasing. If your fonts look ugly, +try choosing a larger font and increasing the screen resolution. This +may admittedly become difficult as you go further back in time, since +available screen resolutions will decrease. @item -We have standardized on one location for the user init file: the file -named @file{.emacs} in your home directory. Emacs will not look for -the init file in @file{~/.emacs.d/init.el}. Similarly, don't try -putting @file{.emacs_SHELL} as @file{init_SHELL.sh} in -@file{~/.emacs.d}; Emacs won't find it. - -@item -Emacs will not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically. If you want -to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so -explicitly. - -@item -When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable -buffers, reflecting the fact that you can write any files. - -@item -The maximum size of buffers and integer variables has been halved. On -32-bit machines, the maximum buffer size is now 128 megabytes. +Emacs has added support for some soon-to-be-non-obsolete platforms. +These include GNU/Linux systems based on libc version 5, BSD systems +based on the COFF executable format, Solaris versions less than 2.6, +and many more. @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 -If a single command accumulates too much undo information, Emacs never -discards it. If Emacs runs out of memory as a result, it will handle -this by crashing. - -@item -Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. +Emacs can no longer display frames on X windows and text terminals +(ttys) simultaneously. If you start Emacs as an X application, the +Emacs job can only create X frames; if you start Emacs on a tty, the +Emacs job can only use that tty. @item -The @kbd{C-h} (help) 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 -The @kbd{C-h v} and @kbd{C-h f} commands no longer show a hyperlink to -the C source code, even if it is available. If you want to find the -source code, grep for it. - -@item -The apropos commands will not accept a list of words to match, in -order to encourage you to be more specific. Also, the user option -@code{apropos-sort-by-scores} has been removed. - -@item -The minibuffer prompt is now displayed using the default face. -The colon is enough to show you what part is the prompt. +Emacs can no longer be started as a daemon. @item -Minibuffer completion commands 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 -The command @code{backward-kill-sexp} is now bound to @kbd{C-M-delete} -and @kbd{C-M-backspace}. Be careful when using these key sequences! -It may shut down your X server, or reboot your operating system. - -@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 typing them once. @kbd{M-h} ignores numeric arguments. +Transient Mark mode is now disabled by default. Furthermore, some +commands that operate specifically on the region when it is active and +Transient Mark mode is enabled (such as @code{fill-paragraph} +@code{ispell-word}, and @code{indent-for-tab-command}), no longer do +so. @item -The user option @code{set-mark-command-repeat-pop} has been removed. - -@item -@kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning--it just sets the -mark twice. Neither does @kbd{C-u C-x C-x}, which simply exchanges -point and mark like @kbd{C-x C-x}. - -@item -The function @code{sentence-end} has been eliminated in favor of a -more straightforward approach: directly setting the variable -@code{sentence-end}. For example, to end each sentence with a single -space, use - -@lisp -(setq sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')@}]*\\($\\|[ \t]\\)[ \t\n]*") -@end lisp - -@item -The variable @code{fill-nobreak-predicate} is no longer customizable, -and it can only hold a single function. +The line motion commands, @kbd{C-n} and @kbd{C-p}, now move by logical +text lines, not screen lines. Even if a long text line is continued +over multiple screen lines, @kbd{C-n} and @kbd{C-p} treat it as a +single line, because that's ultimately what it is. @item -Nobreak spaces and hyphens are displayed just like normal characters, -and the user option @code{nobreak-char-display} has been removed. - -@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 been removed. - -@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 -@samp{M-x shell} is now completely standard in regard to scrolling -behavior. It no longer has the option of scrolling the input line to -the bottom of the window the way a text terminal running a shell does. - -@item -The Grep package has been merged with Compilation mode. Many -grep-specific commands and user options have thus been eliminated. -Also, @kbd{M-x grep} never tries the GNU grep @samp{-H} option, -and instead silently appends @file{/dev/null} to the command line. +Visual Line mode, which provides ``word wrap'' functionality, has been +removed. You can still use Long Lines mode to gain an approximation +of word wrapping, though this has some drawbacks---for instance, +syntax highlighting often doesn't work well on wrapped lines. @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 -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. - -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}. +The variable @code{shift-select-mode} has been deleted; holding +@key{shift} while typing a motion command no longer creates a +temporarily active region. You can still create temporarily active +regions by dragging the mouse. @item -SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation -support. - -@item -Many Info mode commands have been removed. Incremental search in Info -searches only the current node. - -@item -Many @code{etags} features for customizing parsing using regexps -have been removed. - -@item -The Emacs server now runs a small C program called @file{emacsserver}, -rather than trying to handle everything in Emacs Lisp. Now there can -only be one Emacs server running at a time. The @code{server-mode} -command and @code{server-name} user option have been eliminated. - -@item -The @file{emacsclient} program no longer accepts the @samp{--eval}, -@samp{--display} and @samp{--server-file} command line options, and -can only establish local connections using Unix domain sockets. +@kbd{C-l} now runs @code{recenter} instead of +@code{recenter-top-bottom}. This always sets the current line at the +center of the window, instead of cycling through the center, top, and +bottom of the window on successive invocations of @kbd{C-l}. This +lets you type @kbd{C-l C-l C-l C-l} to be @emph{absolutely sure} that +you have recentered the line. @item -The command @code{quail-show-key}, for showing how to input a -character, has been removed. - -@item -The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always -@code{nil}, regardless of your locale settings. If you want some -other value, set it yourself. - -@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 -The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution -called ``Leim.'' To use this, you must extract the Leim tar file on -top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you -build Emacs. - -@item -The following input methods have been eliminated: belarusian, -bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng, croatian, dutch, -georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix, -latvian-keyboard, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard, -malayalam-inscript, rfc1345, russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, -tamil-inscript ucs, ukrainian-computer, vietnamese-telex, and welsh. - -@item -The following language environments have been eliminated: Belarusian, -Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, French, Georgian, Italian, -Latin-6, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian, -Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Welsh, -and Windows-1255. +Typing @kbd{M-n} at the start of the minibuffer history list no longer +attempts to generate guesses of possible minibuffer input. It instead +does the straightforward thing, by issuing the message @samp{End of +history; no default available}. @item -The @code{code-pages} library, which contained various 8-bit coding -systems, has been removed. - -@item -The Kmacro package has been replaced with a simple and elegant -keyboard macro system. Use @kbd{C-x (} to start a new keyboard macro, -@kbd{C-x )} to end the macro, and @kbd{C-x e} to execute the last -macro. Use @kbd{M-x name-last-kbd-macro} to name the most recently -defined macro. - -@item -Emacs no longer displays your breakpoints in the source buffer, so you -have to remember where you left them. It can be difficult to inspect -the state of your debugged program from the command line, so Emacs -tries to demonstrate this in the GUD buffer. +Individual buffers can no longer display faces specially. The text +scaling commands @kbd{C-x C-+}, @kbd{C-x C--}, and @kbd{C-x C-0} have +been removed, and so has the buffer face menu bound to +@kbd{S-down-mouse-1}. @item -The Calc, CUA, Ibuffer, Ido, Password, Printing, Reveal, -Ruler-mode, SES, Table, Tramp, and URL packages have been removed. -The Benchmark, Cfengine, Conf, Dns, Flymake, Python, Thumbs, and -Wdired modes have also been removed. +Emacs now uses an internal encoding, known as @samp{emacs-mule}, which +is not a superset of Unicode. @item -The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and the Introduction to Programming in -Emacs Lisp are now distributed separately, not in the Emacs -distribution. - -@item -On MS Windows, there is no longer any support for tooltips, images, -sound, different mouse pointer shapes, or pointing devices with more -than 3 buttons. If you want these features, consider switching to -another operating system. But even if you don't want these features, -you should still switch---for freedom's sake. - -@item -Emacs will not use Unicode for clipboard operations on MS Windows. +VC no longer supports fileset-based operations on distributed version +control systems (DVCSs) such as Arch, Bazaar, Subversion, Mercurial, +and Git. For instance, multi-file commits will be performed by +committing one file at a time. As you go further back in time, we +will remove DVCS support entirely, so start migrating your projects to +CVS. @item To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many -other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 21.4. +other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 22.3. @end itemize @ignore