From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13915: 24.3.50; `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' - really obsolete? 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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:26:59 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:26:58 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac4do6wpvzKCxtq6TCahV5FYLhyfEw== X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:72295 Archived-At: NEWS says that the variable is obsolete, and font-lock.el says that this is so since 24.1: (make-obsolete-variable 'font-lock-syntactic-keywords 'syntax-propertize-function "24.1") But font-lock.el uses it, with no apparent attempt to do without it. If the very file that declares it obsolete cannot be updated to reflect that, why tell users they should consider it obsolete? The description in NEWS does not make clear, to me at least, how use of the variable should be replaced. If I see how that gets done in font-lock.el then perhaps I will understand better. If not, it sounds like not practicing what you preach. Or perhaps making the change is not so simple? There are only a few lines in font-lock.el that involve `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'. If these were not changed when it was declared obsolete, and still have not been, 2 or 3 releases later, is that a sign that something is not quite right? Seems like those few lines would have been fixed immediately. Now, presumably some of them are there for backward compatibility. But I don't get the impression that they all are, or even that most of them are. Seems like the switchover to the new was simply not finished. It would be helpful too if the NEWS description provided more guidance wrt replacing use of the obsolete variable with use of the new. In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2013-03-04 on ODIEONE Bzr revision: 111935 yamaoka@jpl.org-20130304102733-4qy111z41qwoh2as Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -IC:/Devel/emacs/build/include --ldflags -LC:/Devel/emacs/build/lib'