From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 22299@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22299: Obsolete selective-display
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:14:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4kjaz06z.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877do66xft.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:56:22 +0100")
>> Perhaps this is done as of 2f50a99 and similar.
> The `selective-display' variable isn't marked as deprecated, though, and
> is used throughout Emacs...
I don't think it's *used* throughout. AFAIK it's *obeyed* at many
places, in case someone still uses it (it's obsolete, not removed).
If you spot an actual use, please report it as a bug.
> should it be marked as such? And the usages either removed (from the
> callers) or warnings suppressed (in simple.el etc).
The problem is that the var has 2 uses:
- one is the obsolete value `t` whereby \r.* is hidden
- the other is when it's set to an integer N whereby it hides lines with
a deeper indentation than N.
The second one is a UI functionality and it's sufficiently "not terribly
useful" that nobody bothered to write a replacement for it using
overlays (instead, all the possible replacements provide a more tailored
functionality).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 17:14 UTC|newest]
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2019-03-18 16:09 ` bug#22299: Obsolete selective-display Glenn Morris
2021-01-21 16:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-21 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-01-22 17:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-22 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-21 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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