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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: 15777@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15777: 24.3.50; cl symbols are no more fontlocked
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 08:19:58 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3a8f423-9090-43d1-92e3-b3096730f6b2@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk3gsnut6.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>

> > Hi, symbols from cl package are no more fontlocked, (e.g loop,
> > defun* etc...)
> 
> That's on purpose, because we want to discourage their use.
> Symbols from cl-lib are font-locked.

Misguided, IMHO.  Plenty of people will use Emacs 24.4 (and 25 and
26...) with packages that work also with older versions, and thus
sometimes employ `cl.el' functions (even in addition to `cl-lib.el'
functions).

*Encourage* use of `cl-lib.el' (be positive).  Do not downgrade
Emacs just to make the point that `cl-lib.el' now exists.

Please try to look beyond the snapshot that is the latest nifty
Emacs development to the wider world of Emacs _users_.  There is
no reason to gratuitously make their experience worse.  You gain
nothing by that, and they (and Emacs) lose.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-01 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-01  6:51 bug#15777: 24.3.50; cl symbols are no more fontlocked Thierry Volpiatto
2013-11-01 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 15:19   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-11-01 18:07   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-11-01 19:22     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 19:33       ` Drew Adams
2013-11-02  9:01       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-11-02 15:11         ` Drew Adams
2013-11-03  1:04           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-03  6:32             ` Drew Adams
2016-06-26 16:39 ` Noam Postavsky

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