Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@comcast.net> 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. (Of course even that might not help much if the new
> behavior is merely some annoying visual, you may not know the
> correct jargon to search for in the file to figure out how to
> turn it off, but you could always try each snippet of lisp
> till you find the one that does the trick :-).

I've found this is normally what is in the NEWS file that comes with each
new release. It tells you about user visible changes and elisp
changes. Generally, it also tells you how to get previous behavior back.

Tim

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