# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 950140498 0 # Node ID cabb1b4c44245df5cd2398b61ce4798540f0ffa1 # Parent 1e05c673aa1837b5981ac2f681519139f1509f9c *** empty log message *** diff -r 1e05c673aa18 -r cabb1b4c4424 lispref/anti.texi --- a/lispref/anti.texi Wed Feb 09 20:37:57 2000 +0000 +++ b/lispref/anti.texi Wed Feb 09 23:54:58 2000 +0000 @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ @itemize @bullet @item The @code{push} and @code{pop} macros are not defined. +Neither are @code{dolist} and @code{dotimes}. @item You can't display images in buffers. (Emacs is meant for editing text.) @@ -57,10 +58,26 @@ resources. @item +Colors and other face attributes are no longer supported on character +terminals, so you no longer have to worry about terminals making faces +at you. + +@item Emacs will respect your peace and quiet, aside from occasional beeps, because there are no facilities for playing sounds. @item +Emacs 20 provides a complex and badly designed method for handling +character composition for languages such as Thai that display several +letters as a single combined image. We are too ashamed of it to tell +you any more than that. + +@item +@code{delete-and-extract-region} has been deleted; instead, use +@code{buffer-substring} to extract the text, then use +@code{delete-region} to delete it. + +@item Regular expressions do not support the POSIX character classes such as @samp{[:alpha:]}. All characters are created equal. @@ -85,6 +102,14 @@ the standard width.) All characters are created equal. @item +You can now resize any Emacs window, and size changes in one window can +propagate to all others. Windows can no longer use +@code{window-size-fixed} to get special privileges. + +@item +The function @code{intern-soft} no longer accepts a symbol as argument. + +@item The function @code{bitmap-spec-p} has been renamed to @code{pixmap-spec-p} to encourage users to practice Emacs' help system while trying to find it. @@ -111,6 +136,10 @@ properties. @item +The function @code{propertize} does not exist; +you can get the job done using @code{set-text-properties}. + +@item Colors are supported only on window systems, not on text-only terminals. So the support functions for colors on text-only terminals are not needed, and have been eliminated. diff -r 1e05c673aa18 -r cabb1b4c4424 lispref/display.texi --- a/lispref/display.texi Wed Feb 09 20:37:57 2000 +0000 +++ b/lispref/display.texi Wed Feb 09 23:54:58 2000 +0000 @@ -1785,8 +1785,10 @@ and character's registry and encoding. If there is a font that matches exactly, it is used, of course. The hard case is when no available font exactly fits the specification. Then Emacs looks for one that is -``close''---one attribute at a time. You can specify the order -to consider the attributes. +``close''---one attribute at a time. You can specify the order to +consider the attributes. In the case where a specified font family is +not available, you can specify a set of mappings for alternatives to +try. @defvar face-font-selection-order @tindex face-font-selection-order diff -r 1e05c673aa18 -r cabb1b4c4424 lispref/frames.texi --- a/lispref/frames.texi Wed Feb 09 20:37:57 2000 +0000 +++ b/lispref/frames.texi Wed Feb 09 23:54:58 2000 +0000 @@ -1614,6 +1614,13 @@ false for text-only terminals. @end defun +@defun display-mouse-p &optional display +@tindex display-mouse-p +@cindex mouse, availability +This function returns @code{t} if @var{display} has a mouse available, +@code{nil} if not. +@end defun + @defun display-color-p &optional display @tindex display-color-p @findex x-display-color-p @@ -1625,6 +1632,7 @@ @defun display-grayscale-p &optional display @tindex display-grayscale-p This function returns @code{t} if the screen can display shades of gray. +(All color displays can do this.) @end defun @defun display-selections-p &optional display @@ -1663,7 +1671,11 @@ @defun display-backing-store &optional display @tindex display-backing-store -This function returns the backing store capability of the screen. +This function returns the backing store capability of the display. +Backing store means recording the pixels of windows (and parts of +windows) that are not exposed, so that when exposed they can be +displayed very quickly. + Values can be the symbols @code{always}, @code{when-mapped}, or @code{not-useful}. The function can also return @code{nil} when the question is inapplicable to a certain kind of display. @@ -1672,12 +1684,15 @@ @defun display-save-under &optional display @tindex display-save-under This function returns non-@code{nil} if the display supports the -SaveUnder feature. +SaveUnder feature. That feature is used by pop-up windows +to save the pixels they obscure, so that they can pop down +quickly. @end defun @defun display-planes &optional display @tindex display-planes This function returns the number of planes the display supports. +This is typically the number of bits per pixel. @end defun @defun display-visual-class &optional display diff -r 1e05c673aa18 -r cabb1b4c4424 lispref/text.texi --- a/lispref/text.texi Wed Feb 09 20:37:57 2000 +0000 +++ b/lispref/text.texi Wed Feb 09 23:54:58 2000 +0000 @@ -496,12 +496,23 @@ @end deffn @deffn Command delete-region start end -This command deletes the text in the current buffer in the region -defined by @var{start} and @var{end}. The value is @code{nil}. If -point was inside the deleted region, its value afterward is @var{start}. +This command deletes the text between positions @var{start} and +@var{end} in the current buffer, and returns @code{nil}. If point was +inside the deleted region, its value afterward is @var{start}. Otherwise, point relocates with the surrounding text, as markers do. @end deffn +@defun delete-and-extract-region start end +@tindex delete-and-extract-region +This function deletes the text between positions @var{start} and +@var{end} in the current buffer, and returns a string containing the +text just deleted. + +If point was inside the deleted region, its value afterward is +@var{start}. Otherwise, point relocates with the surrounding text, as +markers do. +@end defun + @deffn Command delete-char count &optional killp This command deletes @var{count} characters directly after point, or before point if @var{count} is negative. If @var{killp} is