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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 52290@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:36:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8qlkyvw.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtlfu5u4.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 05 Dec 2021 03:46:11 +0100")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I think we should implement the obsoletion mechanism and then just go
> through that list and obsolete all the stuff that doesn't seem useful
> (and isn't used in-tree).  And then document the rest, as well as make
> the *Help* buffer mention that they're generalised variables.

The obsoletion mechanism is now in place in Emacs 29, and I've obsoleted
a whole bunch of nonsensical gv-setters.  (Feel free to obsolete more of
them, everybody.)

I've now made *Help* mention whether a function is a generalised
variable.

I'm not sure there's need to document all the generalised variables in
the manual, though.  The *Help* buffer should be sufficient, and if
they're not obvious (i.e., need documentation), then they should
probably be obsoleted.

But it might be nice to document, say, `if'.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-21 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-05  1:25 bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables Phil Sainty
2021-12-05  1:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-05  1:55   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-05  2:00     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-05  2:25       ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-05  2:52         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-05 16:17           ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-05 20:43             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-05  2:09   ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-05  2:46     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-21 22:36       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-08-23  0:07         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-08-23 10:41           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-31  2:10             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-08-31  9:58               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-04 11:58         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-06  4:33 ` Richard Stallman

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