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| author | Richard M. Stallman | 2008-12-05 03:02:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman | 2008-12-05 03:02:03 +0000 |
| commit | 248c026bbb979ac70bfd23e2551d129aed91582e (patch) | |
| tree | 5af1af1ca7a9a72a06f7087c9e41d280d5a0f5b4 | |
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(Antinews): Minor fixes.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/anti.texi | 30 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog index 0fa3cf85d95..3fbeda4e615 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog | |||
| @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ | |||
| 1 | 2008-12-05 Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | * anti.texi (Antinews): Minor fixes. | ||
| 4 | |||
| 1 | 2008-12-03 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 5 | 2008-12-03 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
| 2 | 6 | ||
| 3 | * maintaining.texi (Old Revisions): Fix diff-switches description. | 7 | * maintaining.texi (Old Revisions): Fix diff-switches description. |
diff --git a/doc/emacs/anti.texi b/doc/emacs/anti.texi index d29011df05f..e281d60b7e1 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/anti.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/anti.texi | |||
| @@ -21,21 +21,19 @@ names---are clearly redundant, and have been removed. | |||
| 21 | @item | 21 | @item |
| 22 | We have switched to a character representation specially designed for | 22 | We have switched to a character representation specially designed for |
| 23 | Emacs. Rather than forcing all the widely used scripts artificially | 23 | Emacs. Rather than forcing all the widely used scripts artificially |
| 24 | into alignment, like Unicode does, Emacs treats them all equally, | 24 | into alignment, as Unicode does, Emacs treats them all equally, giving |
| 25 | giving each one a place in the space of character codes. Thus, | 25 | each one a place in the space of character codes. Thus, scripts do |
| 26 | scripts do not need to fight over characters used in each one of them, | 26 | not need to fight over characters used in each one of them, as each |
| 27 | as each has its own variant, and they all are different as far as | 27 | has its own variant, and they all are different as far as Emacs is |
| 28 | Emacs is concerned. For example, there's a Latin-1 c-cedilla | 28 | concerned. For example, there's a Latin-1 c-cedilla character, and |
| 29 | character, and there's a Latin-2 c-cedilla; searching a buffer for the | 29 | there's a Latin-2 c-cedilla; searching a buffer for the Latin-1 |
| 30 | Latin-1 variant will only find that variant, but not the others. This | 30 | variant will only find that variant, but not the others. This design |
| 31 | design allows us to get rid of a confusing situation in Emacs 23, | 31 | allows us to eliminate the confusing practice in Emacs 23 whereby one |
| 32 | whereby a character can simultaneously belong to any number of | 32 | character can simultaneously belong to any number of charsets. |
| 33 | charsets. | 33 | |
| 34 | 34 | @item | |
| 35 | @item | 35 | Emacs now uses its own special internal encoding for non-@acronym{ASCII} |
| 36 | Emacs now uses an internal encoding, known as @samp{emacs-mule}, which | 36 | characters, known as @samp{emacs-mule}. This was imperative to |
| 37 | is peculiar to Emacs and does not map easily into any of the existing | ||
| 38 | character encodings, including Unicode. This was imperative to | ||
| 39 | support several different variants of the same character, each one | 37 | support several different variants of the same character, each one |
| 40 | belonging to its own script: @samp{emacs-mule} marks each character | 38 | belonging to its own script: @samp{emacs-mule} marks each character |
| 41 | with its script, to better discern them from one another. | 39 | with its script, to better discern them from one another. |
| @@ -63,7 +61,7 @@ Emacs can no longer display frames on X windows and text terminals | |||
| 63 | (ttys) simultaneously. If you start Emacs as an X application, the | 61 | (ttys) simultaneously. If you start Emacs as an X application, the |
| 64 | Emacs job can only create X frames; if you start Emacs on a tty, the | 62 | Emacs job can only create X frames; if you start Emacs on a tty, the |
| 65 | Emacs job can only use that tty. No more confusion about which type | 63 | Emacs job can only use that tty. No more confusion about which type |
| 66 | of frame will @command{emacsclient} use in any given Emacs session! | 64 | of frame @command{emacsclient} will use in any given Emacs session! |
| 67 | 65 | ||
| 68 | @item | 66 | @item |
| 69 | Emacs can no longer be started as a daemon. We decided that having an | 67 | Emacs can no longer be started as a daemon. We decided that having an |