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Mention new face attributes, fields, and Eshell. Suggested

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by Gerd Moellmann.
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Eli Zaretskii 2000-09-05 18:18:32 +00:00
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@ -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.
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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