From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: A note about Antinews Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:17:25 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227950286 22175 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2008 09:18:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:18:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 29 10:19:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6Lym-0005I1-2s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:19:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33214 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6Lxb-0003tI-Uk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:17:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6LxW-0003t3-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:17:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6LxT-0003sc-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55788 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6LxT-0003sZ-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:56296) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L6LxT-00043Q-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1L6Lx7-0008CS-Jz; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:17:25 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106284 Archived-At: Since the purpose of Antinews is to help people use the previous Emacs version, there is usually no need to mention features that are simply absent in that version. That situation will be clear enough to users without help from the manual. For instance, this @item Emacs can no longer be started as a daemon. We decided that having an Emacs sitting silently in the background with no visual manifestation anywhere in sight is too confusing. may not need mentioning, because --daemon will give an error message saying it's not implemented, and other cases aren't affected. The kind of change for which the user really needs help from Antinews is where a feature works _differently_ in the previous version. In those cases, the user might have trouble figuring out how to use the old version without some sort of help.