@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1997, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
-@node Antinews, MS-DOS, Command Arguments, Top
+@node Antinews, Mac OS, X Resources, Top
@appendix Emacs 20 Antinews
For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about
@itemize @minus
@item
Variable-size characters are not supported in Emacs 20. You cannot use
-fonts which contain oversized characters, and using italics fonts can
-results in illegible display. However, text which uses variable-size
-fonts is unreadable anyway. With all characters in a frame layed out on
+fonts which contain oversized characters, and using italic fonts can
+result in illegible display. However, text which uses variable-size
+fonts is unreadable anyway. With all characters in a frame laid out on
a regular grid, each character having the same height and width, text is
much easier to read.
compatibility with other X applications. This means that font
attributes cannot be merged when combining faces; however, experience
shows that mergers are bad economics. Face inheritance has also been
-removed, so no one can accumulate ``too much face''.
+removed, so no one can accumulate ``too much face.''
@item
-Several face appearance attributes such as 3D appearence,
-strike-through, and overline, have been eliminated.
+Several face appearance attributes, including 3D, strike-through, and
+overline, have been eliminated.
@item
-Emacs now provides its own ``lean and mean'' scroll bars instead using
+Emacs now provides its own ``lean and mean'' scroll bars instead of using
those from the X toolkit. Toggle buttons and radio buttons in menus now
look just like any other menu item, which simplifies them, and prevents
them from standing out and distracting your attention from the other
explicit words, their meaning is more self-evident.
@item
-Colors are not available on character terminals. If you @emph{must}
-have colors, but cannot afford running X, you can now use the MS-DOG
+Colors are not available on text-only terminals. If you @emph{must}
+have colors, but cannot afford to run X, you can now use the MS-DOG
version of Emacs inside a DOS emulator.
@item
@item
The support for ``wheeled'' mice under X has been removed, because
-of their slow scroll rate, and because you will find less and less of
+of their slow scroll rate, and because you will find fewer and fewer of
these mice as you go back in time. Instead Emacs 20 provides the
@kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v} keys for scrolling. (You can also use the
scroll bar, but be advised that it, too, may be absent in yet earlier
@item
Some aspects of Emacs appearance, such as the colors of the scroll bar
and the menus, can only be controlled via X resources. Since colors
-aren't supported except on X, it doesn't make any sense doing this in
+aren't supported except on X, it doesn't make any sense to do this in
any way but the X way. For those users who aren't privy to X arcana,
we've provided good default colors that should make everybody happy.
+@item
+Emacs 20 adds new lines to the buffer when you move down from the last
+line with @kbd{C-n} or a down-arrow.
+
@item
The variable @code{show-trailing-whitespace} has no special meaning, so
trailing whitespace on a line is now always displayed correctly: as
-empty space. To see if a line ends with spaces or TABs, type @kbd{C-e}
+empty space. To see if a line ends with spaces or tabs, type @kbd{C-e}
on that line. Likewise, empty lines at the end of the buffer are not
marked in any way; use @kbd{M->} to see where the end of the buffer is.
@item
Emacs 20 has simpler support for multi-lingual editing. While not as
-radical a simplification as Emacs 19 was, it goes a long way toward
+radical a simplification as Emacs 19 will be, it goes a long way toward
eliminating some of the annoying features:
@itemize @minus
Commands which provide detailed information about character sets and
coding systems, such as @code{list-charset-chars},
@code{describe-character-set}, and the @kbd{C-u C-x =} key-sequence,
-no longer exist. The less said about non-@sc{ascii} characters, the
+no longer exist. The less said about non-ASCII characters, the
better.
@item
Emacs 20 does not pop up a buffer with error messages when an error is
signaled during loading of the user's init file. Instead, it simply
announces the fact that an error happened. To know where in the init
-file was that, insert @code{(message "foo")} lines judiciously into the
+file that was, insert @code{(message "foo")} lines judiciously into the
file and look for those messages in the @samp{*Messages*} buffer.
@item
so we are planning to remove it altogether in an earlier version.)
@item
-@kbd{C-down-mouse-3} does not show what would be in the menu bar
+@kbd{C-Down-Mouse-3} does not show what would be in the menu bar
when the menu bar is not displayed.
@item
-For uniformity, @key{delete} function key in Emacs 20 works exactly like
+For uniformity, the @key{delete} function key in Emacs 20 works exactly like
the @key{DEL} key, on both text-only terminals and window systems---it
always deletes backward. This eliminates the inconsistency of Emacs 21,
where the key labeled @key{delete} deletes forward when you are using a
CC Mode now enforces identical values for some customizable options,
such as indentation style, for better consistency. In particular, if
you select an indentation style for Java, the same style is used
-for C and C@t{++} buffer as well.
+for C and C@t{++} buffers as well.
@item
Isearch does not highlight other possible matches; it shows only the
-current match, to avoid distracting your attention. @kbd{mouse-2} in
+current match, to avoid distracting your attention. @kbd{Mouse-2} in
the echo area during incremental search now signals an error, instead of
inserting the current selection into the search string. But you can
accomplish more or less the same job by typing @kbd{M-y}.
this feature.
@item
-The @code{field} property does not exist in Emasc 20, so various
+The @code{field} property does not exist in Emacs 20, so various
packages that run subsidiary programs in Emacs buffers cannot in general
distinguish which text was user input and which was output from the
subprocess. If you need to try to do this nonetheless, Emacs 20
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