@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
-@node Antinews, Mac OS / GNUstep, X Resources, Top
-@appendix Emacs 22 Antinews
+@node Antinews
+@appendix Emacs 23 Antinews
@c Update the emacs.texi Antinews menu entry with the above version number.
For those users who live backwards in time, here is information
-about downgrading to Emacs version 22.3. We hope you will enjoy the
+about downgrading to Emacs version 23.4. We hope you will enjoy the
greater simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs
@value{EMACSVER} features.
@itemize @bullet
-
-@item
-We have switched to a character representation specially designed for
-Emacs. Rather than forcing all the widely used scripts into artificial
-alignment, as Unicode does, Emacs treats them all equally, giving
-each one a place in the space of character codes. We have eliminated
-the confusing practice, in Emacs 23, whereby one character can belong
-to multiple character sets. Now each script 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 only finds that
-variant, but not the others.
-
@item
-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.
+Support for displaying and editing ``bidirectional'' text has been
+removed. Text is now always displayed on the screen in a single
+consistent direction---left to right---regardless of the underlying
+script. Similarly, @kbd{C-f} and @kbd{C-b} always move the text
+cursor to the right and left respectively. Also, @key{RIGHT} and
+@key{LEFT} are now equivalent to @kbd{C-f} and @kbd{C-b}, as you might
+expect, rather than moving forward or backward based on the underlying
+``paragraph direction''.
-@item
-For simplicity, the functions @code{encode-coding-region} and
-@code{decode-coding-region} no longer accept an argument saying where
-to store the result of their conversions. The result always replaces
-the original, so there's no need to look for it elsewhere.
-
-@item
-Emacs no longer performs font anti-aliasing. If your fonts look ugly,
-try choosing a larger font and increasing the screen resolution.
-Admittedly, this becomes difficult as you go further back in time,
-since available screen resolutions will decrease.
+Users of right-to-left languages, like Arabic and Hebrew, may
+adapt by reading and/or editing text in left-to-right order.
@item
-The Fontconfig font library is no longer supported. To specify a
-font, you must use an XLFD (X Logical Font Descriptor). The other
-ways of specifying fonts---so-called ``Fontconfig'' and ``GTK'' font
-names---are redundant, so they have been removed.
+The Emacs Lisp package manager has been removed. Instead of using a
+user interface (@kbd{M-x list-packages}), additional Lisp packages
+must now be installed by hand, which is the most flexible and
+``Lispy'' method anyway. Typically, this just involves editing your
+init file to add the package installation directory to the load path
+and defining some autoloads; see each package's commentary section
+and/or README file for details.
@item
-Transient Mark mode is now disabled by default. Furthermore, some
-commands that operate specifically on the region when it is active and
-Transient Mark mode is enabled (such as @code{fill-paragraph}
-@code{ispell-word}, and @code{indent-for-tab-command}), no longer do
-so.
+The option @code{delete-active-region} has been deleted. When the
+region is active, typing @key{DEL} or @key{Delete} no longer deletes
+the text in the region; it deletes a single character instead.
@item
-Holding @key{shift} while typing a motion command no longer creates a
-temporarily active region, since that's inconsistent with how Emacs
-normally handles keybindings. The variable @code{shift-select-mode}
-has been deleted. You can, however, still create temporarily active
-regions by dragging the mouse.
+We have reworked how Emacs handles the clipboard and the X primary
+selection. Commands for killing and yanking, like @kbd{C-w} and
+@kbd{C-y}, use the primary selection and not the clipboard, so you can
+use these commands without interfering with ``cutting'' or ``pasting''
+in other programs. The @samp{Cut}/@samp{Copy}/@samp{Paste} menu items
+are bound to separate clipboard commands, not to the same commands as
+@kbd{C-w}/@kbd{M-w}/@kbd{C-y}.
-@item
-The line motion commands, @kbd{C-n} and @kbd{C-p}, now move by logical
-text lines, not screen lines. Even if a long text line is continued
-over multiple screen lines, @kbd{C-n} and @kbd{C-p} treat it as a
-single line, because that's ultimately what it is.
-
-@item
-Visual Line mode, which provides ``word wrap'' functionality, has been
-removed. You can still use Long Lines mode to gain an approximation
-of word wrapping, though this has some drawbacks---for instance,
-syntax highlighting often doesn't work well on wrapped lines.
-
-@item
-@kbd{C-l} now runs @code{recenter} instead of
-@code{recenter-top-bottom}. This always sets the current line at the
-center of the window, instead of cycling through the center, top, and
-bottom of the window on successive invocations. This lets you type
-@kbd{C-l C-l C-l C-l} to be @emph{absolutely sure} that you have
-recentered the line.
+Selecting text by dragging with the mouse now puts the text in the
+kill ring, in addition to the primary selection. But note that
+selecting an active region with @kbd{C-@key{SPC}} does @emph{not}
+alter the kill ring nor the primary selection, even though the text
+highlighting is visually identical.
@item
-The way Emacs generates possible minibuffer completions is now much
-simpler to understand. It matches alternatives to the text before
-point, ignoring the text after point; it also does not attempt to
-perform partial completion if the first completion attempt fails.
+In Isearch, @kbd{C-y} and @kbd{M-y} are no longer bound to
+@code{isearch-yank-kill} and @code{isearch-yank-pop} respectively.
+Instead, @kbd{C-y} yanks the rest of the current line into the search
+string (@code{isearch-yank-line}), whereas @kbd{M-y} does
+@code{isearch-yank-kill}. The mismatch with the usual meanings of
+@kbd{C-y} and @kbd{M-y} is unintended.
@item
-Typing @kbd{M-n} at the start of the minibuffer history list no longer
-attempts to generate guesses of possible minibuffer input. It instead
-does the straightforward thing, by issuing the message @samp{End of
-history; no default available}.
+Various completion features have been simplified. The option
+@code{completion-category-overrides} has been removed, so Emacs uses a
+single consistent scheme to generate completions, instead of using a
+separate scheme for (say) buffer name completion. Several major
+modes, such as Shell mode, now implement their own inline completion
+commands instead of using @code{completion-at-point}.
@item
-Individual buffers can no longer display faces specially. The text
-scaling commands @kbd{C-x C-+}, @kbd{C-x C--}, and @kbd{C-x C-0} have
-been removed, and so has the buffer face menu bound to
-@kbd{S-down-mouse-1}.
+We have removed several options for controlling how windows are used,
+such as @code{display-buffer-base-action},
+@code{display-buffer-alist}, @code{window-combination-limit}, and
+@code{window-combination-resize}.
@item
-VC no longer supports fileset-based operations on distributed version
-control systems (DVCSs) such as Arch, Bazaar, Subversion, Mercurial,
-and Git. For instance, multi-file commits will be performed by
-committing one file at a time. As you go further back in time, we
-will remove DVCS support entirely, so you should migrate your projects
-to CVS.
+The command @kbd{M-x customize-themes} has been removed. Emacs no
+longer comes with pre-defined themes (you can write your own).
@item
-Rmail now uses a special file format, Babyl format, specifically designed
-for storing and editing mail. When you visit a file in Rmail, or get new
-mail, Rmail converts it automatically to Babyl format.
+Emacs no longer adapts various aspects of its display to GTK+
+settings, opting instead for a uniform toolkit-independent look. GTK+
+scroll bars are placed on the left, the same position as non-GTK+ X
+scroll bars. Emacs no longer refers to GTK+ to set the default
+@code{region} face, nor for drawing tooltips.
@item
-Emacs can no longer display frames on X windows and text terminals
-(ttys) simultaneously. If you start Emacs as an X application, it
-can only create X frames; if you start Emacs on a tty, it can only use
-that tty. No more confusion about which type of frame
-@command{emacsclient} will use in any given Emacs session!
+Setting the option @code{delete-by-moving-to-trash} to a
+non-@code{nil} value now causes all file deletions to use the system trash,
+even temporary files created by Lisp programs; furthermore, the
+@kbd{M-x delete-file} and @kbd{M-x delete-directory} commands no
+longer accept prefix arguments to force true deletion.
@item
-Emacs can no longer be started as a daemon. You can be sure that if
-you don't see Emacs, then it's not running.
+On GNU/Linux and Unix, the default method for sending mail (as
+specified by @code{send-mail-function}) is to use the
+@command{sendmail} program. Emacs no longer asks for a delivery
+method the first time you try to send mail, trusting instead that the
+system is configured for mail delivery, as it ought to be.
@item
-Emacs has added support for many soon-to-be-non-obsolete platforms,
-including VMS, DECstation, SCO Unix, and systems lacking alloca.
-Support for Sun windows has been added.
+Several VC features have been removed, including the @kbd{C-x v +} and
+@kbd{C-x v m} commands for pulling and merging on distributed version
+control systems, and the ability to view inline log entries in the log
+buffers made by @kbd{C-x v L}.
@item
To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many
-other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 22.3.
+other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 23.4.
@end itemize