From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7077: 24.0.50; mouse-drag-copy-region - name should say copy as kill Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 07:23:29 -0700 Message-ID: <4434940329224F40B50A57F7BD27E581@us.oracle.com> References: <7CDE0A71AE944FE0B0067BE2A24369EB@us.oracle.com><7E487051D23B4BCC9AC15FFF312E8788@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309703071 31701 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2011 14:24:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 14:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7077@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 16:24:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdNb0-0002gg-PI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Option names are important, including for finding the options in the first place. We have a mechanism for renaming: create an alias and declare the old name deprecated/obsolete. Nothing new here. The old name will anyway live on for a while (past experience shows that it will be quite a while). But even just the existence of the alias (a better name) will mean that users will more easily find and recognize this option for what it is. That's regardless of the deprecation; the alias is the improvement.