From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19438: 24.4; system-name bad cache Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:16:48 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <549DDE50.7020402@cs.ucla.edu> References: <549D87DB.7010909@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419632240 30473 80.91.229.3 (26 Dec 2014 22:17:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 22:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19438@debbugs.gnu.org To: Leo Liu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 26 23:17:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4dC4-0004v2-Kp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:17:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4dC3-0007g5-Ic for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4dBz-0007fx-Q3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:17:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4dBu-0000xQ-QB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:17:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4dBu-0000xL-N6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4dBu-0000jA-GW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:17:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 22:17:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19438 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19438-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19438.14196322212786 (code B ref 19438); Fri, 26 Dec 2014 22:17:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19438) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Dec 2014 22:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58459 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4dBt-0000is-0N for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:17:01 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:36448) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4dBq-0000ij-9A for 19438@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:16:59 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1162DA6003E; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:16:57 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HrpuuXm3eHTy; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:16:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4CC87A6003C; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:16:48 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:97745 Archived-At: Leo Liu wrote: > Why not get rid of the variable system-name? It seems what it provides > can be easily achieved without it. It's documented so we shouldn't just remove it; we'd need to mark it as obsolescent. Its documented behavior is "you can set the variable @code{system-name} in case Emacs is confused about the name of your system". I've never found this feature to be useful, though I understand it was useful for others long ago. Perhaps some people still find it useful? Anyway, if there's consensus to mark the variable as obsolescent I can prepare a patch along those lines.