Avoid obsolete special default variables like default-major-mode.

* display.texi (Line Height):
* emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Text and Auto-fill, Mode Line):
* display.texi (Useless Whitespace, Text Display):
* custom.texi (Init Examples): Avoid obsolete special default variables
like default-major-mode.

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 39ffa2c2acc05a33e0609476890d13c3a79c0e5a..a039e632d5a29c74c8c4e1370f3d8df0524169c9 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-02-01  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+       * display.texi (Useless Whitespace, Text Display):
+       * custom.texi (Init Examples): Avoid obsolete special default variables
+       like default-major-mode.
+
 2010-01-24  Mark A. Hershberger  <mah@everybody.org>
 
        * programs.texi (Other C Commands): Replace reference to obsolete

diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
index a7e74388a3968dd0d12e75f6466631a70fa5f652..a49145311922594e7e4f0caec964cf67aef16473 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
@@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ Various Emacs packages that need your own email address use the value of
 Make Text mode the default mode for new buffers.
 
 @example
-(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)
+(setq-default major-mode 'text-mode)
 @end example
 
 Note that @code{text-mode} is used because it is the command for

diff --git a/doc/emacs/display.texi b/doc/emacs/display.texi
index c7afe5445a6d2e9b0269c17d498abc16d5e61be3..a5d064e578a6891b8b9e2df282f2fb41632b2b62 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/display.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi
@@ -877,7 +877,6 @@ portion (@pxref{Narrowing}), type @kbd{M-x delete-trailing-whitespace
 @key{RET}}.  This command does not remove newline characters.
 
 @vindex indicate-empty-lines
-@vindex default-indicate-empty-lines
 @cindex unused lines
 @cindex fringes, and unused line indication
   Emacs can indicate unused lines at the end of the window with a
@@ -887,11 +886,11 @@ lines at the end of the buffer then stand out because they do not have
 this image in the fringe.
 
   To enable this feature, set the buffer-local variable
-@code{indicate-empty-lines} to a non-@code{nil} value.  The default
-value of this variable is controlled by the variable
-@code{default-indicate-empty-lines}; by setting that variable, you
-can enable or disable this feature for all new buffers.  (This feature
-currently doesn't work on text-only terminals.)
+@code{indicate-empty-lines} to a non-@code{nil} value.  You can enable
+or disable this feature for all new buffers by setting the default
+value of this variable, e.g.@: @code{(setq-default
+indicate-empty-lines t)};.  (This feature currently doesn't work on
+text-only terminals.)
 
 @node Selective Display
 @section Selective Display
@@ -1083,17 +1082,15 @@ buffers are displayed with their graphics, as are non-@acronym{ASCII} multibyte
 printing characters (octal codes above 0400).
 
 @vindex tab-width
-@vindex default-tab-width
   Some @acronym{ASCII} control characters are displayed in special
 ways.  The newline character (octal code 012) is displayed by starting
 a new line.  The tab character (octal code 011) is displayed by moving
 to the next tab stop column (normally every 8 columns).  The number of
 spaces per tab is controlled by the variable @code{tab-width}, which
 must have an integer value between 1 and 1000, inclusive, and is made
-local by changing it.  Note that how the tab character in the buffer
+buffer-local by changing it.  Note that how the tab character in the buffer
 is displayed has nothing to do with the definition of @key{TAB} as a
-command.  The variable @code{default-tab-width} controls the default
-value of this variable for buffers where you have not set it locally.
+command.
 
   Other @acronym{ASCII} control characters are normally displayed as a caret
 (@samp{^}) followed by the non-control version of the character; thus,

diff --git a/doc/lispintro/ChangeLog b/doc/lispintro/ChangeLog
index 38332c4a1d9829e8be603ec792d2c06b3dd486c0..c22d7523fa00c4bf4b7bf7eab31b5c89c4ab712a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispintro/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispintro/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-02-01  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+       * emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Text and Auto-fill, Mode Line):
+       Avoid obsolete special default variables like default-major-mode.
+
 2009-12-09  David Robinow  <drobinow@gmail.com>  (tiny change)
 
        * makefile.w32-in: Use parenthesis for macros for nmake

diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
index 4504a99f267951de6e4a29823ee2e6189ab015bf..5efbb81ee1bfc2a36836ff3ac7c17f1d39ed5b77 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
@@ -17346,10 +17346,10 @@ Auto Fill mode.
 @smallexample
 @group
 ;;; Text mode and Auto Fill mode
-; The next two lines put Emacs into Text mode
-; and Auto Fill mode, and are for writers who
-; want to start writing prose rather than code.
-(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)
+;; The next two lines put Emacs into Text mode
+;; and Auto Fill mode, and are for writers who
+;; want to start writing prose rather than code.
+(setq-default major-mode 'text-mode)
 (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
 @end group
 @end smallexample
@@ -18257,7 +18257,7 @@ xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
 @need 1700
 @node Mode Line,  , Miscellaneous, Emacs Initialization
 @section A Modified Mode Line
-@vindex default-mode-line-format
+@vindex mode-line-format
 @cindex Mode line format
 
 Finally, a feature I really like: a modified mode line.
@@ -18282,7 +18282,7 @@ My @file{.emacs} file has a section that looks like this:
 @group
 ;; Set a Mode Line that tells me which machine, which directory,
 ;; and which line I am on, plus the other customary information.
-(setq default-mode-line-format
+(setq-default mode-line-format
  (quote
   (#("-" 0 1
      (help-echo

diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index 58c801f5cae05d4d4a123f9e3471657e4c44fd08..f155c9575fad7cb707b60503556050689b791a3e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-02-01  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+       * display.texi (Line Height): Avoid obsolete special default variables
+       like default-major-mode.
+
 2010-01-28  Alan Mackenzie  <acm@muc.de>
 
        * display.texi (Auto Faces): Say fontification-functions is called

diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi
index 5f2e4f874a8cc94234f0e1477f1931d4765e8e17..91a71c54a6d19491f5d33943ccc1e6c66f5fcac6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi
@@ -1768,7 +1768,6 @@ height consists of the contents' height plus the line spacing.
 There are several ways to specify the line spacing for different
 parts of Emacs text.
 
-@vindex default-line-spacing
   On graphical terminals, you can specify the line spacing for all
 lines in a frame, using the @code{line-spacing} frame parameter
 (@pxref{Layout Parameters}).  However, if the default value of