From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 40703@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40703: [PATCH] Make autoarg.el obsolete
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:08:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8rnin4o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=NrExBP77W+CYxjTvyVoYfjZ=j39byVc5hhwUXfe5Eew@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 19 Apr 2020 03:20:50 +0200)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 03:20:50 +0200
>
> autoarg.el "provides `autoarg-mode', a global minor mode meant to
> emulate a facility reported from Twenex Emacs whereby digit keys
> supplied prefix args rather than self inserting, with a digit sequence
> terminated by space acting to insert the digits".
>
> While searching the web, I could find no evidence of autoarg-mode
> being discussed or even mentioned. It is presumably not very useful
> in this day and age. (I also found a breaking bug in autoarg-kp-mode
> where enabling it also enables autoarg-mode. Nobody seems to have
> noticed.)
>
> Does anyone object to marking it obsolete?
AFAIR, when we deprecate a package, it's because there's some
replacement, or because the need is completely absent (e.g., because
the package caters to some software or part of Emacs that is no longer
there). This doesn't seem to be the case, is it?
Or does this package cause us some maintenance burden?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-19 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-19 1:20 bug#40703: [PATCH] Make autoarg.el obsolete Stefan Kangas
2020-04-19 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-04-19 23:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-19 23:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 0:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-20 1:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 10:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-30 17:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-03 23:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-05 6:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-05 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-15 9:56 ` bug#40703: Unable to turn off autoarg-kp-mode Lars Ingebrigtsen
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