@itemize @bullet
-@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 clearly redundant, and have been removed.
-
@item
We have switched to a character representation specially designed for
Emacs. Rather than forcing all the widely used scripts artificially
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.
+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}
to store the result of their conversions. The result always replaces
the original, so there's no need to look for it elsewhere.
-@item
-Rmail now uses a special file format, Babyl format, designed specially
-for storing and editing mail. When you visit a file in Rmail, or get new
-mail, Rmail converts it automatically to Babyl format.
-
@item
Emacs no longer performs font anti-aliasing. If your fonts look ugly,
try choosing a larger font and increasing the screen resolution.
since available screen resolutions will decrease.
@item
-Emacs has added support for some soon-to-be-non-obsolete platforms.
-These include GNU/Linux systems based on libc version 5, BSD systems
-based on the COFF executable format, Solaris versions less than 2.6,
-and many more.
-
-@item
-Emacs can no longer display frames on X windows and text terminals
-(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 @command{emacsclient} will use in any given Emacs session!
-
-@item
-Emacs can no longer be started as a daemon. We decided that having an
-Emacs sitting silently in the background with no visual manifestation
-anywhere in sight is too confusing.
+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.
@item
Transient Mark mode is now disabled by default. Furthermore, some
@code{ispell-word}, and @code{indent-for-tab-command}), no longer do
so.
+@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.
+
@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
of word wrapping, though this has some drawbacks---for instance,
syntax highlighting often doesn't work well on wrapped lines.
-@item
-The variable @code{shift-select-mode} has been deleted; holding
-@key{shift} while typing a motion command no longer creates a
-temporarily active region. You can still create temporarily active
-regions by dragging the mouse.
-
@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 of @kbd{C-l}. This
-lets you type @kbd{C-l C-l C-l C-l} to be @emph{absolutely sure} that
-you have recentered the line.
+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.
+
+@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.
@item
Typing @kbd{M-n} at the start of the minibuffer history list no longer
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 start migrating your projects to
-CVS.
+will remove DVCS support entirely, so you should migrate your projects
+to CVS.
+
+@item
+Rmail now uses a special file format, Babyl format, designed specially
+for storing and editing mail. When you visit a file in Rmail, or get new
+mail, Rmail converts it automatically to Babyl format.
+
+@item
+Emacs can no longer display frames on X windows and text terminals
+(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 @command{emacsclient} will use in any given Emacs session!
+
+@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.
+
+@item
+Emacs has added support for some soon-to-be-non-obsolete platforms.
+These include GNU/Linux systems based on libc version 5, BSD systems
+based on the COFF executable format, Solaris versions less than 2.6,
+and many more.
@item
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