>Out of curiosity, if it's not too geeky, what aspects of Emacs 20's
>text mode don't you like?

I can't speak for Gryphon, of course, but I do agree that they seriously broke text mode in EMACS 20.

Ever since I encountered EMACS 20, I've been fighting the text mode, and I think I've finally got it working right again.

The big thing was tabs. In earlier versions, Text mode knew that when you hit the tab key, you wanted either spaces to the next tab setting, or a hard tab character, inserted. EMACS 20 text mode would insert spaces... to the beginning of the next word on the line above.

That's OK for fundamental mode, or even in the programming language modes. But it is simply incorrect for text mode.

Text mode also (IIRC) changed what it thought a paragraph was, when asked to fill one. It only believes in "paragraphs" with a blank line in between them. To get proper <newline><tab> seperated paragrahs you have to use paragraph-indent-text-mode. And it still has broken tabs.

There may have been other changes that annoyed Gryphon, but I haven't done enough writing recently to get bitten by them.

Anyway, if anyone's interested I have some elisp for your .emacs that fixes the tab thing.

Willard
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Captain Willard
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