From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24383: 25.1.50; Deprecation/internalization of `read-from-whole-string' Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 04:38:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87eeyjvxz7.fsf@marxist.se> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="61306"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 24383@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 08 04:39:25 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iSv7M-000Foc-6x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 04:39:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49514 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSv7L-0002W4-2t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Original-Received: from h-70-69.a785.priv.bahnhof.se ([155.4.70.69]:59122 helo=localhost) by host.gofardesign.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iSv6b-0004Jx-NF; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:38:38 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 6 Sep 2016 09:52:12 -0700 (PDT)") X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.gofardesign.uk X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - debbugs.gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - marxist.se X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: host.gofardesign.uk: authenticated_id: stefan@marxist.se X-Authenticated-Sender: host.gofardesign.uk: stefan@marxist.se X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:171151 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > What's the rationale behind the demotion of `read-from-whole-string' > and its replacement by "internal" function > `thing-at-point--read-from-whole-string'? > > "This is an internal thingatpt function and should not be used." > > Should not be used? Really? Why? > > This function has been around forever, and is used by Emacs users. > And there has been no change in the function definition. > > Why should it suddenly be considered "internal" and something not > to be used? > > And what does it have to do, in particular, with thingatpt.el? > (It should instead be promoted to a file such as subr.el.) > > Based on this (seemingly gratuitous) change, existing user code now > has to fiddle, to be usable in more than one Emacs version (versions > 0 to 24.5 vs version 25.1). Glenn, you made the change mentioned above. Do you have an opinion here? Best regards, Stefan Kangas