From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:31:25 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85y7exktsy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190580088 15273 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2007 20:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:41:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 23 22:41:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZYGR-0001Tv-QQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:41:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZYGP-0006F5-AZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:41:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feeder.news-service.com!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LKUJy0BR6bZ3ORzsS9Znh7X5KKc= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Sep 2007 22:31:25 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: d2dd461b.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=6[=TWNm List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47784 Archived-At: Tom Horsley writes: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:22:15 -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: > >> OK. I've vented now. Would someone please be kind enough to tell me >> how to shut down the novice stuff completely? Thank you. > > I have similar problems every emacs release. I can see an argument > for making spiffy new features the default (else no one will notice > them), but when one user finds a new helpful feature to be annoying > rather than helpful, it would sure be nice if there were a standard > way to get back the old behavior. > > I've always wished each emacs release would come with a doc file > mentioning each new feature and giving the lisp code to add to > your .emacs file to put it back the way it was in the previous > release. f1 C-n -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum