From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Marking old window variables obsolete
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:28:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lihneugd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2C6E1B3A8D6C411980AFBD9472E76E03@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <cyd@gnu.org>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:16:12 -0700
>
> > > 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-09 19:28 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 [this message]
2012-08-09 21:53 ` Drew Adams
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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