From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Incompatible change without "warning" Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:31:35 +0200 Message-ID: <85ll7aaqzs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <16997.28602.876638.54728@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <16998.58339.710430.454702@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87u0m0rz7f.fsf@xs4all.nl> <17000.10926.155798.568572@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87r7h35eku.fsf@xs4all.nl> <17001.27998.562991.843462@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87is2edksd.fsf@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114241443 8095 80.91.229.2 (23 Apr 2005 07:30:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 23 09:30:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPF5m-0007Vw-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPFAq-0003c7-OX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 03:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DPFA1-0003ba-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 03:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DPF9y-0003b6-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 03:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPF9y-0003VF-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 03:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [151.189.21.47] (helo=mail-in-07.arcor-online.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DPFA6-0005kb-LI; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 03:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (i538791A3.versanet.de [83.135.145.163]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A26151283BB; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:31:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3069C1C1E222; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lute Kamstra In-Reply-To: <87is2edksd.fsf@xs4all.nl> (Lute Kamstra's message of "Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:17:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36286 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36286 Lute Kamstra writes: > Nick Roberts writes: > >> > In etc/NEWS you've also added an entry for make-obsolete-variable: >> > >> > +++ *** New function make-obsolete-variable to warn that a variable may >> > be removed at some stage in the future. >> > >> > Even though is wasn't documented in the Lisp Manual, >> > make-obsolete-variable has been part of Emacs since version 19.7. >> >> I've removed this entry. > > Thanks. > >> I was fooled by defvaralias being new. > > defvaralias is part of Emacs since version 21.1. Uh what? > It does have an entry in NEWS under "Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1", tho. > I wonder why it was put there. Maybe because it wasn't mentioned in > NEWS for 21.1? We better mention explicitly that it isn't really new > for 22.1, in that case. What makes you think it isn't? My Emacs-21.3 does not have it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum