Greg Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As a longtime emacs user, I would like to register a complaint about > the direction of Emacs. This is probably a cry in the wilderness, > but here goes: > > Starting with Emacs21, the program has been creeping toward becoming > a WYSIWYG editor, instead of sticking to its roots as a _TEXT_ > editor.
Stallman would be glad to hear it. He explicitly stated: "I want Emacs to move in the direction of doing word processing." > Some of these features are cool and useful: Eg, I use the ability to > display PNG files in a buffer to look at previews of math I've > typeset with Latex in the same buffer as the Latex source. Cool, > and useful. Thanks. > While I'm not against implementing these wacky new feature, I > request that they remain _off by default_. Which is what preview-latex does. > Today when I was editing source code and tried to type pi/2 in a > buffer, Emacs replaced it with some special character that appeared > as "1/2" as a single character. Unlikely. Let me name a few things that might have happened: a) you use Leim (C-\) for input of international characters and the transliteration for ½ is /2. Leim is not on unless you enable it. It should be easy to find an input method that suits your bill better. b) you use font-lock-mode in LaTeX and write something like ^2, in which case a subscript 2 appears. font-lock-mode is not turned on by default. Even if you turn it on, you can remove the script highlighting. > Needless to say, this is not what I wanted and I find it quite > offensive that this is happening while editing source code. Then don't enable the features. > The other day I was editing Lisp code and found that instead of the > usual paren highlighting, Emacs was highlighting the entire enclosed > expression. I don't get that here. What did you switch on to get it? > I've had a long, sometimes rocky, but mostly loving relationship > with Emacs. I find these developments troubling. There is always the NEWS file to get things back. But they are rarely on by default. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
