Re: A note about Antinews

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

> * Richard M Stallman <ezf@tah.bet> [2008-11-29 04:17:25 -0500]:
>
> 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.

ISTR that when Mule was added to Emacs, it was mentioned in Antinews as
"Emacs no longer is hubbled by the i18n complexity, being limited to
8-bit characters".

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