Mercurial > emacs
changeset 31403:736bba059dd4
Mention new face attributes, fields, and Eshell. Suggested
by Gerd Moellmann.
author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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date | Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:18:32 +0000 |
parents | 160321ab5c3d |
children | f2ab9420390f |
files | man/anti.texi |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/anti.texi Tue Sep 05 15:57:18 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/anti.texi Tue Sep 05 18:18:32 2000 +0000 @@ -21,18 +21,28 @@ screw up your display. Find one font that works and stick to it! @item -Likewise, Emacs cannot display images, play sounds, and do anything +Likewise, Emacs cannot display images, play sounds, or do anything except displaying text. Multimedia is for Netrape! @item +Faces on X were made to follow the XLFD font names, to avoid the need of +reinventing what X has already invented. This means that face merging +doesn't work. However, experience shows that supporting mergers is bad +economics. Face inheritance was also removed. + +@item +New face attributes, such as 3D appearence, strike-through, overline +etc., were eliminated, to minimize consing. + +@item 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 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! +mode cannot display in a tooltip a value of a variable when you click on +that variable's name. Emacs is an editor, not some fancy GUI program! @item Colors are not available on character terminals. If you @emph{must} @@ -205,11 +215,20 @@ frequently edited files by heart, or use desktop.el. @item +Field properties were eliminated, so various packages based on comint.el +which run subsidiary programs in Emacs buffers cannot easily distinguish +between text which came from the subprocess and text typed by the user. +The ingenious techniques this requires from Lisp programs will +undoubtfully assist to further advance and development of the Emacs Lisp +language. + +@item 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. +files and context diffs, access @acronym{LDAP} and other directory +servers, edit @file{TODO} files conveniently, or mix shell commands and +Lisp functions with Eshell. Emacs doesn't need all that crud. @item To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many