Re: On removing some obsolete code from subr and core

[Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>]

On 07/11/16 at 05:35am, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 19:32:35 -0500
> > From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > On 05/11/16 at 10:34am, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > For removed symbols, bringing back the ones that are still needed is
> > > easy.  But what do we do with the default-FOO variables, once the
> > > machinery for their generation is removed?
> > 
> > I am guessing this is referring to my erroneous comment on
> > buffer_defaults, as opposed to removing the DEFVAR_BUFFER_DEFAULTS
> > macro.
> 
> No, it referred to the DEFVAR_BUFFER_DEFAULTS macro and its users.

Ok, so we do nothing, then.  The default-FOO variables go away.  They
are the only users of DEFVAR_BUFFER_DEFAULTS, so that macro can also go.

> > > In any case, this needs a NEWS entry listing all the removed
> > > variables.
> > 
> > Do you really want me to list them all in NEWS? I was inclined to
> > use--under the section for removed things--the old entry from
> > NEWS.23:
> > 
> > ** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO
> > variable.
> 
> I think at least a few of them should be mentioned by name ("such as
> ..." etc.).

Ok.