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@c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
@c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
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@c Copyright (C) 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
@c Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
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@node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top |
@node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top |
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@appendix Emacs 20 Antinews |
@appendix Emacs 21.3 Antinews |
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For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about |
For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about |
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downgrading to Emacs version 20. We hope you will enjoy the greater |
downgrading to Emacs version 21.3. We hope you will enjoy the greater |
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simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 21 features. |
simplicity that results from the absence of many newer features. |
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@itemize @bullet |
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The display engine has been greatly simplified by eliminating support |
The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution |
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for variable-size characters and other non-text display features. This |
called ``Leim''. To use them, you must extract the Leim tar file on |
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avoids the complexity of display layout in Emacs 21. To wit: |
top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you |
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build Emacs. |
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Variable-size characters are not supported in Emacs 20. You cannot use |
The file position and line number information is now at the end |
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fonts which contain oversized characters, and using italic fonts can |
of the mode line. |
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result in illegible display. However, text which uses variable-size |
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fonts is unreadable anyway. With all characters in a frame laid out on |
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a regular grid, each character having the same height and width, text is |
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much easier to read. |
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Emacs does not display images, or play sounds. It just displays text, |
When a file is managed with version control, the command @kbd{C-x C-q} |
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as you would expect from a @strong{text} editor. |
(whose general meaning is to make a buffer read-only or writable) now |
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does so by checking the file in or out. Checking the file out makes |
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the buffer writable; checking it in makes the buffer read-only (at |
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least with RCS). |
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You can still use @kbd{C-x v v} to do these operations if you wish; |
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Specification of the font for a face now uses an XLFD font name, for |
its meaning is unchanged. If you want to control the buffer's |
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compatibility with other X applications. This means that font |
read-only flag without performing any version control operation, |
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attributes cannot be merged when combining faces; however, experience |
use @kbd{M-x toggle-read-only}. |
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shows that mergers are bad economics. Face inheritance has also been |
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removed, so no one can accumulate ``too much face.'' |
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Several face appearance attributes, including 3D, strike-through, and |
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overline, have been eliminated. |
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Emacs now provides its own ``lean and mean'' scroll bars instead of using |
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those from the X toolkit. Toggle buttons and radio buttons in menus now |
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look just like any other menu item, which simplifies them, and prevents |
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them from standing out and distracting your attention from the other |
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menu items. |
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There are no toolbars and no tooltips; in particular, @acronym{GUD} |
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mode cannot display variable values in a tooltip when you click on |
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that variable's name. Instead, Emacs 20 provides a direct interface to |
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the debugger, so that you can type appropriate debugger commands, such |
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as @kbd{display foo} and @kbd{print bar}. As these commands use |
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explicit words, their meaning is more self-evident. |
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Colors are not available on text-only terminals. If you @emph{must} |
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have colors, but cannot afford to run X, you can now use the MS-DOG |
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version of Emacs inside a DOS emulator. |
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The mode line is not mouse-sensitive, since it is meant only to |
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display information. Use keyboard commands to switch between buffers, |
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toggle read-only and modified status, switch minor modes on and off, |
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etc. |
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The support for ``wheeled'' mice under X has been removed, because |
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of their slow scroll rate, and because you will find fewer and fewer of |
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these mice as you go back in time. Instead Emacs 20 provides the |
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@kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v} keys for scrolling. (You can also use the |
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scroll bar, but be advised that it, too, may be absent in yet earlier |
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Emacs versions.) |
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Busy-cursor display is gone, as it was found to be too hard to draw on |
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displays whose resolution is getting lower and lower. This means that |
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you get the standard kind of cursor blinking that your terminal |
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provides. |
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Some aspects of Emacs appearance, such as the colors of the scroll bar |
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and the menus, can only be controlled via X resources. Since colors |
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aren't supported except on X, it doesn't make any sense to do this in |
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any way but the X way. For those users who aren't privy to X arcana, |
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we've provided good default colors that should make everybody happy. |
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Emacs 20 adds new lines to the buffer when you move down from the last |
Filesets are not supported. |
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line with @kbd{C-n} or a down-arrow. |
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The variable @code{show-trailing-whitespace} has no special meaning, so |
For simplicity, windows always have fringes. We wouldn't want |
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trailing whitespace on a line is now always displayed correctly: as |
to in-fringe anyone's windows. Likewise, horizontal scrolling |
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empty space. To see if a line ends with spaces or tabs, type @kbd{C-e} |
always works the same automatic way. |
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on that line. Likewise, empty lines at the end of the buffer are not |
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marked in any way; use @kbd{M->} to see where the end of the buffer is. |
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The spacing between text lines on the display now always follows the |
When you are logged in as root, all files now give you writable |
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font design and the rules of your window manager. This provides for |
buffers in Emacs reflecting the fact that you can write any files. |
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predictable appearance of the displayed text. |
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Emacs 20 has simpler support for multi-lingual editing. While not as |
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radical a simplification as Emacs 19 will be, it goes a long way toward |
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eliminating some of the annoying features: |
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Translations of the Emacs reference cards to other languages are no |
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longer part of the distribution, because in the past we expect |
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computer users to speak English. |
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To avoid extra confusion, many language environments have been |
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eliminated. For example, @samp{Polish} and @samp{Celtic} (Latin-8) |
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environments are not supported. The Latin-9 environment is gone, |
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too, because you won't need the Euro sign in the past. |
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Emacs 20 always asks you which coding system to use when saving |
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a buffer, unless it can use the same one that it used to read the buffer. |
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It does not try to see if the preferred coding system is suitable. |
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Commands which provide detailed information about character sets and |
Unicode support and unification between Latin-@var{n} character |
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coding systems, such as @code{list-charset-chars}, |
sets have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not |
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@code{describe-character-set}, and the @kbd{C-u C-x =} key-sequence, |
support ``extended segments'' so there are certain coding systems |
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no longer exist. The less said about non-ASCII characters, the |
it cannot handle. |
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The terminal coding system cannot be set to something CCL-based, so |
@kbd{C-w} in an incremental search always grabs an entire word |
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keyboards which produce @code{KOI8} and DOS/Windows codepage codes |
into the search string. More precisely, it grabs text through |
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cannot be supported directly. Instead, you should use one of the input |
the next end of a word. |
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As you move back through time, some systems will become unimportant or |
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enter the vaporware phase, so Emacs 20 does not support them: |
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Emacs 20 cannot be built on GNU/Linux systems running on IA64 machines, |
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and you cannot build a 64-bit Emacs on Solaris or Irix even though there |
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are still 64-bit versions of those OSes. |
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LynxOS is also not supported, and neither is the Macintosh, though they |
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still exist. |
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The arrangement of menu bar items differs from most other @acronym{GUI} |
Yanking now preserves all text properties that were in the killed |
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programs. We think that uniformity of look-and-feel is boring, and that |
text. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} has no meaning. |
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Emacs' unique features require its unique menu-bar configuration. |
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You cannot save the options that you set from the @samp{Options} |
Occur mode, Info mode, and Comint-derived modes now control |
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menu-bar menu; instead, you need to set all the options again each time |
fontification in their own way, and @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} |
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you start a new session. However, if you follow the recommended |
has nothing to do with it. To control fontification in Info |
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practice and keep a single Emacs session running until you log out, |
mode, use the variable @code{Info-fontify}. |
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you won't have to set the options very often. |
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Emacs 20 does not pop up a buffer with error messages when an error is |
In Dired's @kbd{!} command, @samp{*} and @samp{?} now |
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signaled during loading of the user's init file. Instead, it simply |
cause substitution of the file names wherever they appear---not |
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announces the fact that an error happened. To know where in the init |
only when they are surrounded by whitespace. |
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file that was, insert @code{(message "foo")} lines judiciously into the |
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file and look for those messages in the @samp{*Messages*} buffer. |
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Some commands no longer treat Transient Mark mode specially. For |
Minibuffer completion commands now always complete the entire |
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example, @code{ispell} doesn't spell-check the region when Transient |
minibuffer contents, just as if you had typed them at the end |
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Mark mode is in effect and the mark is active; instead, it checks the |
of the minibuffer, no matter where point is actually located. |
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current buffer. (Transient Mark mode is alien to the spirit of Emacs, |
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so we are planning to remove it altogether in an earlier version.) |
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@kbd{C-Down-Mouse-3} does not show what would be in the menu bar |
An unquoted @samp{$} in a file name is now an error, if the following |
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when the menu bar is not displayed. |
name is not recognized as an environment variable. Thus, |
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the file name @file{foo$bar} would probably be an error. Meanwhile, |
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the @code{setenv} command does not expand @samp{$} at all. |
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For uniformity, the @key{delete} function key in Emacs 20 works exactly like |
Commands to set the mark at a place away from point, including |
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the @key{DEL} key, on both text-only terminals and window systems---it |
@kbd{M-@@}, @kbd{M-h}, etc., don't do anything special when you repeat |
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always deletes backward. This eliminates the inconsistency of Emacs 21, |
them. In most cases, typing these commands multiple times is |
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where the key labeled @key{delete} deletes forward when you are using a |
equivalent to using them once. @kbd{M-h} does not use its numeric |
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window system, and backward on a text-only terminals. |
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The ability to place backup files in special subdirectories (controlled |
@kbd{C-@key{SPC} C-@key{SPC}} has no special meaning and neither does |
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by @code{backup-directory-alist}) has been eliminated. This makes |
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finding your backup files much easier: they are always in the same |
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directory as the original files. |
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Emacs no longer refuses to load Lisp files compiled by incompatible |
There is no horizontal-bar cursor. |
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versions of Emacs, which may contain invalid byte-code. Instead, |
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Emacs now dumps core when it encounters such byte-code. However, this |
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is a rare occurrence, and it won't happen at all when all Emacs |
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versions merge together, in the distant past. |
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The @kbd{C-x 5 1} command has been eliminated. If you want to delete |
The faces @code{minibuffer-prompt} and @code{mode-line-inactive} |
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all the frames but the current one, delete them one by one instead. |
do not exist, and the features they control don't exist either. |
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CC Mode now enforces identical values for some customizable options, |
The default value of @code{keyboard-coding-system} is always @code{nil}. |
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such as indentation style, for better consistency. In particular, if |
Emacs does not set it based on your locale settings. |
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you select an indentation style for Java, the same style is used |
If you want some other value, you must set it yourself. |
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for C and C@t{++} buffers as well. |
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Isearch does not highlight other possible matches; it shows only the |
SGML mode does not handle XML syntax, and does not have indentation support. |
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current match, to avoid distracting your attention. @kbd{Mouse-2} in |
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the echo area during incremental search now signals an error, instead of |
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inserting the current selection into the search string. But you can |
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accomplish more or less the same job by typing @kbd{M-y}. |
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The ability to specify a port number when editing remote files with |
The @kbd{C-h} subcommands have been rearranged--especially those that |
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@code{ange-ftp} was removed. Instead, Emacs 20 provides undocumented |
display specific files. Type @kbd{C-h C-h} to see a list of these |
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features in the function @code{ange-ftp-normal-login} (@cite{Use the |
commands; that will show you what is different. |
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Emacs 20 does not check for changing time stamps of remote files, since |
Emacs does not read @file{~/.abbrev_defs} automatically; if you want |
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the old FTP programs you will encounter in the past could not provide |
to load abbrev definitions from a file, you must always do so |
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the time stamp anyway. Windows-style FTP clients which output the |
explicitly. |
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@samp{^M} character at the end of each line get special handling from |
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@code{ange-ftp} in Emacs 20, with unexpected results that should make |
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your life more interesting. |
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Many complicated display features, including highlighting of |
The @samp{--fullwidth}, @samp{--fullheight} and @samp{--fullscreen} |
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mouse-sensitive text regions and popping up help strings for menu items, |
command line options are not supported. |
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don't work in the MS-DOS version. Spelling doesn't work on MS-DOS, |
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and Eshell doesn't exist, so there's no workable shell-mode, either. |
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This fits the spirit of MS-DOS, which resembles a dumb character |
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terminal. |
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The @code{woman} package has been removed, so Emacs users on non-Posix |
The @samp{--geometry} option now entirely applies only to the initial |
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systems will need @emph{a real man} to read manual pages. (Users who |
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@code{recentf} has been removed, because we figure that you can remember |
Many commands have been removed from the menus or rearranged. |
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the names of the files you edit frequently. With decreasing disk size, |
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you should have fewer files anyway, so you won't notice the absence of |
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this feature. |
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The @code{field} property does not exist in Emacs 20, so various |
Many @code{etags} features for customizing parsing using regexps |
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packages that run subsidiary programs in Emacs buffers cannot in general |
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distinguish which text was user input and which was output from the |
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subprocess. If you need to try to do this nonetheless, Emacs 20 |
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provides a variable @code{comint-prompt-regexp}, which lets you try to |
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distinguish input by recognizing prompt strings. |
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We have eliminated the special major modes for Delphi sources, |
The CUA, ido, table, tramp, reveal, ruler-mode, and ibuffer packages |
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PostScript files, context diffs, and @file{TODO} files. Use Fundamental |
have been removed. So has the spreadsheet, SES, and the algebraic |
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Mode instead. |
calculator, Calc. (We distribute Calc separately.) |
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Many additional packages that unnecessarily complicate your life in |
The kmacro package has been removed. To start a keyboard macro you |
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Emacs 21 are absent in Emacs 20. You cannot browse C@t{++} classes with |
must use @kbd{C-x (}; to end one, @kbd{C-x )}; to execute the last |
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Ebrowse, access @acronym{SQL} data bases, access @acronym{LDAP} and |
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Eshell. |
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To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many |
To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many |
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other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 20. |
other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 21.3. |
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