From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:18:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention new face attributes, fields, and Eshell. Suggested X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~1782 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0772f3a31cd172365e87b25571201348b776648b;p=emacs.git Mention new face attributes, fields, and Eshell. Suggested by Gerd Moellmann. --- diff --git a/man/anti.texi b/man/anti.texi index 11251b1413b..3e64f08b1b1 100644 --- a/man/anti.texi +++ b/man/anti.texi @@ -21,9 +21,19 @@ which contain oversized characters, and using italics fonts can totally 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 @@ -31,8 +41,8 @@ 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} @@ -204,12 +214,21 @@ since Troff is such a nice, intuitive language. recentf.el is not available, so you will have to memorize your 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