From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 19483-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19483: 25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:19:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsifs7dt3.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9c10dbb-b856-4005-aa0a-be3d60265e45@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 1 Jan 2015 14:25:33 -0800 (PST)")
tags 19483 notabug
thanks
> `C-h v font-lock-syntactic-keywords' says that the variable is obsolete
> since 24.1.
That's right.
> But in font-lock.el, the code, multiple doc strings, and
> the Commentary all rely on it.
No, they just keep supporting it, because it's only "obsolete" and not
"removed".
Do you really want to advocate we remove features right away when we
decide they're obsolete?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-03 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-01 22:25 bug#19483: 25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' Drew Adams
2015-01-03 3:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-01-03 7:59 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-04 2:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-04 3:00 ` Drew Adams
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