From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:36:39 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Write Antinews for Emacs 30 user manual X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f6f4a5992599811f168f06b34b36f57fcae39bc;p=emacs.git Write Antinews for Emacs 30 user manual * doc/emacs/anti.texi (Antinews): * doc/emacs/emacs.texi (Top): Rewrite "Antinews" for Emacs 30. (cherry picked from commit c1e7569a925a5ff4666d2033a979511bc950bd2f) --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/anti.texi b/doc/emacs/anti.texi index 7abb504632b..42c656ac852 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/anti.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/anti.texi @@ -4,155 +4,133 @@ @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @node Antinews -@appendix Emacs 28 Antinews +@appendix Emacs 29 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 28.2. We hope you will enjoy the +about downgrading to Emacs version 29.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater simplicity that results from the absence of many @w{Emacs @value{EMACSVER}} features. @itemize @bullet @item -Like its newer releases, Emacs 28 can still be built with support of -native compilation of Lisp programs. However, in preparation for -removal of this feature in some previous version, we've deleted the -capability of ahead-of-time native compilation of all the Lisp files -that come with Emacs. This makes the Emacs build process much faster. +Emacs can no longer be built for Android mobile devices. We have +removed the Android support because it was deemed unnecessary, what with +the screens of the mobile devices becoming smaller and smaller as you +move back in time. We expect Android users to enjoy the much simpler +text editors available on their devices. As a nice bonus, removing +Android support allowed us to get rid of gobs of related files, thus +making the release tarballs much leaner. @item -Emacs can no longer be built with the tree-sitter library, so you no -longer will need to look for and install the grammar libraries for -the languages in which you want to program. Similarly, all the modes -that are based on the tree-sitter library were deleted, leaving you -with just one major mode for every supported programming language: no -more need to decide whether to turn the tree-sitter supported modes on -and try using their parser-based fontification, indentation, and other -features. For some languages and file types, this means no major mode -at all, leaving you with the venerable Fundamental mode as the -natural, high-performance choice. For example, Go, Rust, and CMake -files no longer have any major modes for editing their files --- -another milestone towards a simpler, leaner Emacs. +We have deleted much of the enhanced support for touchscreen devices, +for the same reason we dropped Android: there will be no need for that +as you move back in time. @item -Built-in support for accessing SQLite databases was removed. You can -now again edit SQLite files as simple binary files, which Emacs is -quite capable to support, as it always did. +We also dropped support for sophisticated input methods that include +text conversions, again because those are mostly needed on mobile and +hand-held devices, which we gradually remove from Emacs in each past +version. @item -As a gesture to users of the Haiku operating system, we've dropped the -code which allowed Emacs to be built on that OS@. We expect Haiku -users to enjoy the much simpler editors they have for editing their -files. +Like its newer releases, Emacs 29 can still be built with support of +native compilation of Lisp programs. However, in preparation for +removal of this feature in some previous version, we've made the native +compiler support off by default; you will now have to request it +explicitly at configure time. This makes the default Emacs build +process much faster. @item -Support for XInput2 input events on X is gone. We think the -traditional X input events are more than enough, certainly so as you -move back in time, where XInput2 will eventually be removed from X as -well, once the maintainers of the X Windows system realize the utter -futility of supporting fancy input mechanisms. +JSON interfaces are slowly move into oblivion as past years come closer, +so we have removed our internal implementation of JSON; you will now +need to build Emacs with the libjansson library, if you need JSON. +Eventually, we plan on removing JSON support from Emacs altogether; this +move will make the removal much simpler. @item -The ``pure GTK'' (a.k.a.@: @acronym{PGTK}) configuration of Emacs is -no longer supported. This is in anticipation of the complete removal -of the GTK toolkit support from Emacs, and in accordance with our -expectation that GTK will cease to exist as you move back in time. We -plan on removing support for all the other toolkits as well, leaving -only the pure X build with our own widgets as the single supported GUI -configuration on X. +Tree-sitter based modes are now completely independent of their +non-Tree-Sitter counterparts. We decided that keeping the settings +separate and independent goes a long way toward simplicity, which is one +of our main motivation for removing stuff from Emacs. @item -The @option{--init-directory} command-line option was removed, as -initializing Emacs with init files of another user is a preposterous -idea anyway. +Various Help commands no longer turn on Outline minor mode. With less +material to display in the *Help* buffers, due to removing of excess +documentation from Emacs, we think using outlining is an unnecessary +complication, as scrolling through plain text is so much simpler. -@item -In line with simplifying and eventually removing the -native-compilation option, we've deleted the -@option{--with-native-compilation=aot} configure-time option. This -greatly simplifies how native compilation works and makes your -configure-time decision regarding native compilation in Emacs -clear-cut: either Emacs compiles non-preloaded Lisp packages to native -code only before using it, or it never uses native compilation at all; -no more half measures and special exceptions. For similar reasons, -@code{native-compile-prune-cache} and -@code{startup-redirect-eln-cache} features are no longer part of -Emacs. +For the same reasons, Emacs no longer shows Unicode names of characters +in *Help* buffers shown by @code{describe-bindings}. @item -We've deleted the special code and features which allowed Emacs to -present decent performance and responsiveness when editing files with -very long lines. Such files become more and more rare as time goes -back, and so having all this tricky code in Emacs for their benefit -was deemed an unnecessary complication. +To make Emacs configuration simpler and easier to control, the tool bar +can now be displayed only in its natural and logical position: on the +top of the frame; no more of that @code{tool-bar-position} nonsense with +tool bars on the bottom. For the same reasons @code{modifier-bar-mode} +is now gone. @item -Emacs dropped support for Eglot and the LSP servers. We decided that -the built-in ways of analyzing source code are more than enough as you -move back in time. +The command @code{recover-file} no longer allows to display the diffs +between a file and its auto-save file. You either want to recover a +file or you don't; confusing users with a third alternative when they +are anxious already by the possibility of losing precious edits is +considered a bad idea, certainly so as we move further towards smaller, +simpler Emacs. @item -Commands to scale and rotate images are once again bound to single -keys like @kbd{+}, @kbd{-}, and @kbd{r}, which makes them much easier -to type. As for the risk of typing these by mistake, we don't believe -Emacs users make typing mistakes, especially as they move back in -time and become younger and younger. +Several languages and input methods, which will fall in disuse as you +move back in time, were removed. This includes Urdu, Pashto, and Sindhi +languages, and the input method for the Colemak keyboard layout. Many +@kbd{C-x 8} key sequences, including those which insert various +quotation characters and guillemets, were deleted for the same reason. @item -To simplify typing popular commands, we've rebound the @w{@kbd{C-x 8 . .}} -back to @w{@kbd{C-x 8 .}} and @w{@kbd{C-x 8 = =}} back to @w{@kbd{C-x 8 =}}. -There's no need for fancier, longer key sequences, as moving back in -time means we will have fewer and fewer commands to bind to them in -the first place. +The support for @code{lzip}-compressed Info manuals was removed from the +Info mode. We anticipate that @command{lzip} will disappear from the +face of the Earth in the near past, and are preparing Emacs for that in +advance. @item -If you inadvertently kill the @file{*scratch*} buffer, Emacs will -recreate it in Fundamental mode, not in Lisp Interaction mode. You -get to turn on the mode you like yourself. Our long-term plans for -past Emacs releases is to remove the recreation of @file{*scratch*} -altogether, and this is the first step in that direction. +Support for LLDB in Grand Unified Debugger mode was dropped. We decided +that given LLDB's diminishing popularity, its support is just code +bloat. @item -Support for @code{rlogin} and @code{rsh} protocols are back, since we -expect them to become more and more important and popular as you move -back in time. +Several fancy Project and VC commands were deleted, as part of our +consistent effort of making Emacs simpler to use. @item -In preparation for eventual removal of Unicode support from Emacs, -we've downgraded our Unicode support to version 14.0. +The user option @code{shell-command-guess-functions} and the context +menu @samp{Open With} in Dired are gone. We trust Emacs users to always +know themselves which shell command is the appropriate one for a given +file, so no guessing by Dired is needed, or welcome. The +@code{dired-do-open} command was deleted for the same reasons. @item -You can no longer change the size of the font globally. Since Emacs -will at some past date remove all support for variable-size fonts, -having such commands is a luxury we are better without. +We went back to the original lean-and-mean interface for specifying +registers for register-related commands. The fancy preview and the +options to go with it were deemed gratuitous and were removed. @item -On our permanent quest for simplifying Emacs, we've removed the -commands @code{duplicate-line} and @code{duplicate-dwim}; the old-time -friends @kbd{M-w} and @kbd{C-y} (typed one or more times) should -suffice. The command @code{rename-visited-file} is gone for the same -reason. +Eshell is now much smaller and easier to use, due to dropping quite a +few of the new commands and fancy new options. @item -We've deleted many commands related to Emoji, which were bound in the -@kbd{C-x 8 e} prefix keymap. We decided that the ability to type -Emoji sequences using @kbd{C-x 8 @key{RET}} is enough, and actually -serves our users better by requiring them to know the codepoints of -the sequences they want to type. +The command @code{customize-dirlocals} was removed. Editing the +@file{.dir-locals.el} files as plain text is so much simpler, and quite +enough. @item -We dropped support for many scripts and input methods, especially old -scripts that no one uses anyway. For similar reasons, Greek and -Ukrainian translations of the Emacs tutorial are not available -anymore. +We have removed several packages that we consider unnecessary for the +past of Emacs. This includes EditorConfig support, @samp{which-key}, +PEG, and Window-Tool-Bar. @item -@file{package.el} can no longer fetch source code of packages from -their VCS repositories. We think command-line tools like Git should -be enough to allow you to clone their repositories. So we deleted -the @code{package-vc-install} command and other similar commands. +The @code{etags-regen-mode} was deleted. Regeneration of @file{TAGS} +tables manually is all Emacs users will need in the past. @item To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many -other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 28.2. +other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 29.4. @end itemize diff --git a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi index d2258faa625..9b95b826f2c 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Appendices * GNU Free Documentation License:: The license for this documentation. * Emacs Invocation:: Hairy startup options. * X Resources:: X resources for customizing Emacs. -* Antinews:: Information about Emacs version 28. +* Antinews:: Information about Emacs version 29. * Mac OS / GNUstep:: Using Emacs under macOS and GNUstep. * Haiku:: Using Emacs on Haiku. * Android:: Using Emacs on Android.