From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 15:38:23 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Update Antinews in the user manual for Emacs 29 X-Git-Tag: emacs-29.0.90~878 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fd822e7f52;p=emacs.git Update Antinews in the user manual for Emacs 29 * doc/emacs/anti.texi (Antinews): Rewrite for Emacs 29. * doc/emacs/emacs.texi (Top): Adjust the top-level menu. --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/anti.texi b/doc/emacs/anti.texi index 58ab06b36d2..c46110a530d 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/anti.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/anti.texi @@ -4,134 +4,154 @@ @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @node Antinews -@appendix Emacs 27 Antinews +@appendix Emacs 28 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 27.2. We hope you will enjoy the +about downgrading to Emacs version 28.2. We hope you will enjoy the greater simplicity that results from the absence of many @w{Emacs @value{EMACSVER}} features. @itemize @bullet @item -Emacs can no longer be built with support of native compilation of -Lisp programs. This means Emacs builds much faster, and the problems -that came with native compilation: the need to have GCC and Binutils -installed, the complications of managing your @file{eln-cache} -directories---all of that is now future history. The simplicity and -elegance of the Emacs byte-compiled code is now restored in all of its -pristine beauty. +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. @item -Emacs no longer builds by default with Cairo, even if it's present. -The warnings about not using HarfBuzz are also gone, in preparation -for complete removal of HarfBuzz support in previous Emacs versions. -Fancy text shaping and display is becoming less important as you move -back in time. The @code{ftx} font backend is again part of Emacs, for -the same reasons. +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. @item -Emacs once again supports versions 5.3 and older OpenBSD systems, -which will be needed as you move back in time. +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. @item -We've dropped support for Secure Computing filter on GNU/Linux. The -past world is much more secure than the present, so the complexities -related with this stuff, which can only be explained by severe -paranoia, are no longer justified. +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. @item -Emacs reverted back to supporting Unicode 13.x, since the following -versions of the standards are not yet published where you are going. -The @samp{emoji} script and the support for displaying Emoji sequences -were removed for the same reasons: no one will produce them in the -past. +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. @item -Mode-specific commands and the @kbd{M-S-x} command that invokes them -were removed. As you move back in time, the command set in Emacs -becomes smaller, so any such filtering of applicable commands just -gets in the way. +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. @item -We have removed the system for displaying documentation of groups of -related functions, the @kbd{shortdoc-display-group} command to go with -it, and the corresponding ``See also'' button in the @file{*Help*} -buffer. That should make searching for certain functions simpler: -just use the venerable @samp{apropos} commands. +The @option{--init-directory} command-line option was removed, as +initializing Emacs with init files of another user is a preposterous +idea anyway. @item -The @code{context-menu-mode} was removed, and with it the context -menus popped by pressing the right mouse button. This is one small -step towards freeing Emacs (and eventually, the whole world of -computing) from the tyranny of the GUI pointing devices in general, -and moving back to the simplicity of text-mode user interfaces. -Down with mice and other rodents! +In line with simplifying and eventually removing the +native-compilation option, we've deleted the +@code{inhibit-automatic-native-compilation} variable and its support +code. This greatly simplifies how native compilation works and makes +your configure-time decision regarding native compilation in Emacs +clear-cut: either Emacs always compiles Lisp to native code before +using it, or it never does so; 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. @item -The commands @kbd{C-x 4 4} and @kbd{C-x 5 5} for displaying the -results in a new window/frame re gone. We are quite certain that -creating a new window/frame before running a command is much simpler, -and doesn't require a complication of a new prefix. +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. @item -The behavior of active minibuffers when switching frames is now the -perfect mess it should be: sometimes the minibuffer moves to the new -selected frame, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes you get an error. -This makes Emacs usage much more fun, as you get to guess the result, -instead of having it boringly consistent. +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. @item -Compact mode-line display mode has been removed. The items displayed -on the mode line are now always in the same place, and if there's not -enough space for them, they are not displayed at all, instead of being -confusingly displayed in a different position. You no longer need to -think twice where to find a particular mode-line element on display. +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. @item -Many commands and options related to tab bars were removed, including -(but not limited to) frame-specific appearance of tab bars, the -@code{tab-bar-format} option, the @kbd{C-x t n}, @kbd{C-x t N}, -@kbd{C-x t M}, and @kbd{C-x t G} commands, and many mouse gestures on -the tab bar. We are going to delete the tab bar support from Emacs in -one of the past versions, and this is a step in that direction. +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. @item -The ``transient'' input methods have been removed; use @kbd{C-\} to -turn input methods on and off instead. This is in preparation for -complete removal of input methods from Emacs in version 19, and -consistent with the fact that the number of input methods we support -becomes smaller as you move back in time. +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. @item -We disabled @code{show-paren-mode} by default, since we think the -venerable @code{blink-matching-paren} feature is more than enough, and -better fits the simplicity of past Emacs versions. It will definitely -be better when colors are removed from Emacs in the distant past. +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. -For the same reason, sub-groups in interactive regexp searches are no -longer highlighted in distinct colors. +@item +In preparation for eventual removal of Unicode support from Emacs, +we've downgraded our Unicode support to version 14.0. + +@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. + +@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. @item -On our permanent quest for simplifying Emacs, we've removed the Ispell -command @code{ispell-comment-or-string-at-point}; the old-time friend -@code{ispell-comments-and-strings} should suffice. +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. @item -Many Gnus commands and options were deemed to unnecessarily complicate -the use of Gnus (which is too complex to begin with), and thus were -removed. This includes @code{gnus-topic-display-predicate}, -@code{gnus-process-mark-toggle}, @code{gnus-registry-register-all}, -@code{gnus-paging-select-next}, and many others. The @code{nnselect} -backend was deleted for the same reason. +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. @item -The @file{project.el} package have been redesigned to remove many -unnecessary features, so that just the bare essentials remain. We -plan on removing this package from Emacs in a previous version, but -decided to begin with removing some extra features first. +@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. @item To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many -other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 27.2. +other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 28.2. @end itemize diff --git a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi index 83486a23793..b6d149eb3ef 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 27. +* Antinews:: Information about Emacs version 28. * Mac OS / GNUstep:: Using Emacs under macOS and GNUstep. * Haiku:: Using Emacs on Haiku. * Microsoft Windows:: Using Emacs on Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS.