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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Marking old window variables obsolete
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:53:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1418ED67AA6C4EEC9F294278215E9D15@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lihneugd.fsf@gnu.org>

> > > > My request is first that we do not deprecate these user 
> > > > options _now_.
> > > 
> > > How else can we encourage users to migrate to the new machinery?
> > 
> > Sheesh.  If that's the only way users can be encouraged to 
> > adopt the new machinery, that doesn't say much about how appealing
> > it is, does it?
> > 
> > Users generally have little problem adopting new features 
> > that they find (or even suspect might be) useful.
> 
> You must be kidding, if you rely in people discovering every new
> feature among hundreds, let alone study each one of them.

No, I am not kidding.

And you are jumping all over the map.  So now it's about users _discovering_ new
features?  No.

With that logic, we should deprecate all over the place, just to make sure users
discover new features.  "You must be kidding."




  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-09 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-09  9:43 Marking old window variables obsolete Chong Yidong
2012-08-09 14:12 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-09 16:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-09 16:10     ` Drew Adams
2012-08-09 16:53       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-09 18:16         ` Drew Adams
2012-08-09 18:37           ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-08-09 21:51             ` Drew Adams
2012-08-09 19:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-09 21:53             ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-08-10  6:18               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-09 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-09 15:57   ` Eli Zaretskii

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