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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 35940@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35940: [PATCH] bookmark.el: Remove support for renaming ancient "~/.emacs-bkmrks" file
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 13:08:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h89cuoum.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmGGiHUVZ-i3smke2_aYvAV+fLOBNNn5aHemRRbhL_08A@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 28 May 2019 03:23:26 +0200")

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Since at least 1995, there has been a variable `bookmark-old-default-file'
> referring to an old default file name "~/.emacs-bkmrks", and some
> accompanying code to rename from the old file name to the new one.
>
> Since it's extremely unlikely that someone has a need to recover this kind
> of file from before 1995 and use it in a modern Emacs, I think it's about
> time to retire this code.  Please see the attached patch for a suggestion.

Looks fine to me, but I suggest simultaneously making bookmark-file
(the old name of bookmark-default-file[1]) an obsolete varalias of
bookmark-default-file.

[1: e343798900]: Insure that all entry points call [...]
  1995-03-11 02:05:20 +0000
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=e34379890042bdb66263d962e845328ac0b63f67

Thanks,

-- 
Basil





  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-30 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-28  1:23 bug#35940: [PATCH] bookmark.el: Remove support for renaming ancient "~/.emacs-bkmrks" file Stefan Kangas
2019-05-30 12:08 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-05-30 12:23   ` Stefan Kangas
2019-05-30 12:50     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-06-05 11:02     ` Stefan Kangas
2019-06-09 23:49 ` bug#35940: " Paul Eggert

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