From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 48aacbf292 2/2: Make many seldom-used generalized variables obsolete
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 09:07:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735czogfr.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7vnyaon.fsf@localhost> (Ihor Radchenko's message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:02:00 +0800")
Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
> Well. What about `replace-buffer-contents'?
It's a very specialised function used for reverting. (Also see
`replace-region-contents'.)
> Sure, but not all the generalized variables were obsoleted. Do you claim
> that all the remaining generalized variables are simple enough to not
> require documentation?
I went through them all and obsoleted all the weird ones, so yes. But I
may have missed some, of course.
> I am pretty sure that third-party setters may still do non-obvious
> things.
I don't really control code that's not in Emacs, unfortunately. 😀
> Would it be possible to accept docstring in gv-define-setter and then
> display it in the help buffer for the relevant variable?
It would be possible, but then we'd just be encouraging people to write
illegible code.
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[not found] ` <20220821201303.AD1E6C0088A@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-08-25 10:39 ` master 48aacbf292 2/2: Make many seldom-used generalized variables obsolete Basil L. Contovounesios
2022-08-25 12:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-10 5:17 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-10 6:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-10 7:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-10 7:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-09-10 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-11 9:33 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-10 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-11 17:11 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-11 17:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-18 23:10 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2022-09-19 6:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 10:01 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2022-09-19 11:38 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-19 12:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 12:35 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-19 12:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 12:51 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-19 12:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-19 12:54 ` Po Lu
2022-09-19 13:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
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