Mercurial > emacs
changeset 100235:5ec8ed2b5b65
(Antinews): Minor fixes.
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
---|---|
date | Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:01:47 +0000 |
parents | a31a3e84b5b8 |
children | de4bf07955af |
files | doc/emacs/anti.texi |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) [+] |
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/doc/emacs/anti.texi Fri Dec 05 00:21:40 2008 +0000 +++ b/doc/emacs/anti.texi Fri Dec 05 03:01:47 2008 +0000 @@ -21,21 +21,19 @@ @item We have switched to a character representation specially designed for Emacs. Rather than forcing all the widely used scripts artificially -into alignment, like Unicode does, Emacs treats them all equally, -giving each one a place in the space of character codes. Thus, -scripts do not need to fight over characters used in each one of them, -as each has its own variant, and they all are different as far as -Emacs is concerned. For example, there's a Latin-1 c-cedilla -character, and there's a Latin-2 c-cedilla; searching a buffer for the -Latin-1 variant will only find that variant, but not the others. This -design allows us to get rid of a confusing situation in Emacs 23, -whereby a character can simultaneously belong to any number of -charsets. +into alignment, as Unicode does, Emacs treats them all equally, giving +each one a place in the space of character codes. Thus, scripts do +not need to fight over characters used in each one of them, as each +has its own variant, and they all are different as far as Emacs is +concerned. For example, there's a Latin-1 c-cedilla character, and +there's a Latin-2 c-cedilla; searching a buffer for the Latin-1 +variant will only find that variant, but not the others. This design +allows us to eliminate the confusing practice in Emacs 23 whereby one +character can simultaneously belong to any number of charsets. @item -Emacs now uses an internal encoding, known as @samp{emacs-mule}, which -is peculiar to Emacs and does not map easily into any of the existing -character encodings, including Unicode. This was imperative to +Emacs now uses its own special internal encoding for non-@acronym{ASCII} +characters, known as @samp{emacs-mule}. This was imperative to support several different variants of the same character, each one belonging to its own script: @samp{emacs-mule} marks each character with its script, to better discern them from one another. @@ -63,7 +61,7 @@ (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. No more confusion about which type -of frame will @command{emacsclient} use in any given Emacs session! +of frame @command{emacsclient} will use in any given Emacs session! @item Emacs can no longer be started as a daemon. We decided that having an