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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@comcast.net>
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:51:21 -0500
> 
> > f1 C-n
> 
> Yea, I been there. It can be helpful, but doesn't often go
> into detail on how to disable the new features, it mostly
> just mentions what they are. Going through the ones I have
> found, I see comint-scroll-show-maximum-output isn't mentioned
> in NEWS, yet I had to set it to make shell mode buffers behave
> sanely again. It does mention mouse-highlight, but doesn't
> mention that comint mode enables it it various annoying ways,
> so getting it turned off was a bit of a hassle requiring a
> new comint-mode-hook. It mentions grep highlighting, but
> turning it off was another challenge involving not only
> highlight settings, but diddling the arguments it passes
> to grep.

Obviously, entries added to NEWS need more attention and QA to make
sure each change in the defaults is accompanied by some info how to
revert to the old behavior.  Volunteers are welcome to step forward
and take upon themselves to do that job.