From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40703: [PATCH] Make autoarg.el obsolete Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:08:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8rnin4o.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="26383"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 40703@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 16:09:08 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAdA-0006mI-Hm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:09:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42114 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAd9-0004Ea-Ka for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38568) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAd4-0004DT-QT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAd4-0008Ld-Hj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34106) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAd4-0008K3-4o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAd3-00019P-V4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:09:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:09:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40703 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 40703-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40703.15873053324407 (code B ref 40703); Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:09:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40703) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Apr 2020 14:08:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45652 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAcu-000191-07 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35500) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAcs-00018o-9t for 40703@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:08:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAcm-0007JT-RZ; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1336 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jQAcm-0005FW-6R; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:08:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 19 Apr 2020 03:20:50 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:178639 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > 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?