From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
Gemini Lasswell <gazally@runbox.com>
Cc: 40728@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40728: 27.0.91; Removed public functions from debugger.el
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:24:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imhugoyq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wvr4imhutvo0.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:21:03 +0200)
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:21:03 +0200
>
>
> It looks like the following public functions were deleted from
> debugger.el between Emacs 26 and 27: debug-help-follow,
> debugger-insert-backtrace, debugger-toggle-locals. All three were
> public (didn't contain a double hyphen) and documented, therefore meant
> for general use. I don't think we should remove such functions (and
> break users' workflows that rely on them) without a strong reason.
> Please consider restoring these functions for Emacs 27.
Gemini, could you please write replacements for the functions you
removed, or defalias them to some equivalent replacements? I agree
that public functions should not be removed, not without deprecating
them first (if indeed they don't make sense).
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-20 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-20 8:21 bug#40728: 27.0.91; Removed public functions from debugger.el Philipp Stephani
2020-04-20 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-04-27 20:54 ` Gemini Lasswell
2020-04-28 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 8:26 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-08-24 8:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-01 18:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-04 18:51 ` Philipp Stephani
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