# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 967917482 0 # Node ID e68fb610cc11e3f6952aa23e4177231924404615 # Parent b6530464ef0731c0fff465395da3bb2b3a5bd9f2 Rewritten for Emacs 21. diff -r b6530464ef07 -r e68fb610cc11 man/anti.texi --- a/man/anti.texi Sat Sep 02 11:34:56 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/anti.texi Sat Sep 02 17:58:02 2000 +0000 @@ -1,166 +1,219 @@ @c This is part of the Emacs manual. -@c Copyright (C) 1997, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Copyright (C) 1997, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @node Antinews, MS-DOS, Command Arguments, Top -@appendix Emacs 19 Antinews +@appendix Emacs 20 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. +downgrading to Emacs version 20. We hope you will enjoy the greater +simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 21 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. +The good, old, vintage Emacs 19 display engine is back, eliminating most +of the unnecessary complications introduced with Emacs 21. To wit: + +@itemize @minus +@item +Variable-size characters are not supported anymore: you cannot use fonts +which contain oversized characters, and using italics fonts can totally +screw up your display. Find one font that works and stick to it! @item -Fontsets, coding systems and input methods have been eliminated as well. +Likewise, Emacs cannot display images, play sounds, and do anything +except displaying text. Multimedia is for Netrape! @item -The mode line normally displays the string @samp{Emacs}, in case you -forget what editor you are using. +Toolkit scrollbars are not supported. Emacs bare-bones X scrollbars are +so much leaner and meaner. There are no toggle buttons and radio +buttons in menus. @code{LessTif} is not supported either. @item -Scroll bars always appear on the right-hand side of the window. -This clearly separates them from the text in the window. +There are no toolbars and no tooltips; in particular, the @acronym{GUD} +mode cannot display variable values in tooltips. Emacs is an editor, +not some fancy GUI program! + +@item +Colors are not available on character terminals. If you @emph{must} +have colors, but cannot afford running X, use the MS-DOG version of +Emacs inside a DOS emulator. @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. +The mode line is no longer mouse-sensitive. You will have to remember +all the necessary commands to switch between buffers, toggle read-only +and modified status, switch minor modes on and off, etc. @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. +The support for ``wheeled'' mice on XFree86 has been removed. Go away, +MS-Windows weenies! Busy-cursor display has gone down the drain, too, +for the same reasons. Meanwhile, the cursor blinking is no longer under +your control. + +@item +Some aspects of Emacs appearance, such as the colors of the scroll bar +and the menus, can only be controlled via X resources. Users who aren't +privy to X arcana, should learn to be happy with the default colors. @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}. +Highlighting of trailing whitespace is not available; you need to move +the cursor into the suspect area to find out whether there is slack +whitespace there. Empty lines at the end of the buffer cannot be marked +in any way, either, since each user should know where the buffer ends +without any help. @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. +You cannot control the spacing between text lines on the display; you +are now entirely at the mercy of the font designer and the window +manager. Complain to them if your display looks ugly. +@end itemize @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. +Emacs 20 has less elaborate support for multi-lingual editing. While +not as radical as Emacs 19 (which doesn't support anything but +single-byte European characters), it goes a long way toward eliminating +some of the annoying features: +@itemize @minus @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. +Translations of the Emacs reference cards to other languages are gone. +Every Emacs user should know English better than their national +languages. @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. +To avoid extra confusion, many language environments have been +eliminated. For example, @samp{Polish} and @samp{Celtic} (Latin-8) +environments are not supported, and you cannot have the Euro characters, +since the Latin-9 environment is gone, too. + +@item +Emacs no longer uses the most preferred coding system if it is suitable +for saving the buffer. Instead, it always prompts you for a coding +system, so that you get to know its name better. @item -The @code{compose-mail} command does not exist; @kbd{C-x m} now -runs @code{mail} directly. +Commands which provide detailed information about character sets and +coding systems, such as @code{list-charset-chars}, +@code{describe-character-set}, and the @kbd{C-u C-x =} key-sequence, no +longer exist. User feedback suggests that telling too much about +non-@sc{ascii} characters is confusing and unnecessary. @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. +The terminal coding system cannot be set to something CCL-based, so +keyboards which produce @code{KOI8} and DOS/Windows codepage codes +cannot be supported directly. Leim is so much simpler! +@end itemize @item -@kbd{M-x grep-find} has been eliminated, because @code{grep} has never -been lost. +Systems which are deemed unimportant or still in vaporware phase are no +longer supported: -@ignore +@itemize @minus @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 +Emacs cannot be built on GNU/Linux systems running on IA64 machines, +and you cannot build a 64-bit Emacs for SPARC/Solaris systems which +support 64-bit executables. Thus, Emacs contributes to stability of +these systems by preventing you from corrupting files larger than 128MB. @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}}. +LynxOS is also not supported. @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 +@item +The menu bar is no longer @acronym{CUA}-compliant. We think that +uniformity of look-and-feel is boring, and that @acronym{CUA} is not +suitable for Emacs anyway. -@example -/* -blah -blah -*/ -@end example +@item +You cannot save the options set via the @samp{Options} menu-bar menu; +instead, you need to set all the options again each time you start a new +session. This will gradually make your acquaintance with the options +better and better, until eventually you will be able to set all the +options without looking at the screen. Unless you start Emacs once and +never stop it, that is. -@noindent -then you should set the variable @code{c-block-comments-indent-p} to -@code{t}. +@item +Emacs no longer pops up a buffer with error messages when an error is +signaled during loading of the user's init file. Gurus who can debug +init files by the seat of their pants will regain their due honor which +they lost with Emacs 21. @item -To customize faces used by Font Lock mode, use the variable -@code{font-lock-face-attributes}. See its documentation string for -details. +Many commands duly ignore the active region when Transient Mark mode is +in effect. (Transient Mark mode is alien to Emacs mantra in the first +place, its introduction was a grave mistake, and we are planning to +remove it altogether in one of the previous versions; stay tuned.) + +@item +@kbd{C-down-mouse-3} does nothing special when menu bar is not +displayed. Users who don't like the menu bar should be amply punished +by forcing them to use the @code{tmm-menubar} replacement, even if they +do have the mouse. + +@item +The @key{delete} function key produces the same effect as the @key{DEL} +key, on both TTY and windowed displays. Never again will you be +confused by this terrible @emph{dichotomy}! + +@item +The ability to save backup files in special subdirectories has been +eliminated. This makes finding your backup files much easier. + +@item +Emacs no longer refuses to load Lisp files compiled by incompatible +versions of other Emacsen, which may contain invalid byte-code. +Instead, Emacs now dumps core when it encounters such byte-code. @item -For efficiency, Font Lock mode now uses by default the minimum supported -level of decoration for the selected major mode. +You cannot delete all frames but the current one with @kbd{C-x 5 1}. +Delete them one by one instead. If you have many frames, it's tough on +you. + +@item +CC Mode is now much harder to customize, due to subtle aspects of local +and global bindings. In particular, if you change the indentation style +as appropriate for Java, the indentation in C and C@t{++} buffers is +messed up, and vice versa. @item -If you kill a buffer, any registers holding saved positions in that -buffer are changed to point into limbo. +Isearch no longer highlights matches besides the current one, and +@kbd{mouse-2} in the echo area during incremental search now signals an +error, since nobody in their right mind will use a mouse while +searching. @item -The function @code{set-frame-font} has been renamed to -@code{set-default-font}. +You cannot specify a port number with @code{ange-ftp}. Instead, you +need to rely on undocumented features (@emph{use the source, Luke!}) to +sneak the port in. Time stamps for remote files are not supported, and +Windows-style ftp clients which output the @samp{^M} character at the +end of each line wreak havoc with @code{ange-ftp}, making your life more +interesting. @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. +Many advanced display features, such as highlighting of mouse-sensitive +text regions and popping up help strings for menu items, don't work in +the MS-DOS version. Ispell and Eshell don't work on MS-DOS, either. +MS-DOG users should be aware of their inferiority at all times! @item -The @code{scroll-preserve-screen-position} variable has been eliminated; -and so has the feature that it controls. +There's no woman.el package, so Emacs users on non-Posix systems should +learn to read Troff sources of manual pages. This is a Good Thing, +since Troff is such a nice, intuitive language. @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}. +recentf.el is not available, so you will have to memorize your +frequently edited files by heart, or use desktop.el. @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. +Many additional packages that were unnecessarily complicating your lives +are no longer with us. You cannot browse C@t{++} classes with Ebrowse, +edit Delphi sources, access @acronym{SQL} data bases, edit PostScript +files and context diffs, access LDAP and other directory servers, edit +TODO files conveniently. Emacs doesn't need all that crud. + +@item +To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many +other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 20. 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