From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: default-fill-column is gone
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:14:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1wgof7b.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8rk4u4w.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:11:43 +0100")
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> Hi
>
> I just upgraded to GNU emacs 27.
>
> Now I admit that I package which is a bit hm old, feedmail.
>
> Now feedmail uses default-fill-column which in 27 does not exist any
> more. I found this entry in ChangeLog.3
> 2016-11-07 Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> Remove obsolete
> default-FOO variables * etc/NEWS: Indicate the removed variables. *
> lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el (edebug-outside-mark): Fix comment. *
> lisp/subr.el (default-mode-line-format, * default-header-line-format):
> (default-fill-column, default-cursor-type):
> (default-enable-multibyte-characters): Remove obsolete declarations.
>
> So there is no hint how to deal with this situation. Why couldn't
> variables be kept or at least some solution to be offered to guarantee
> backwards compatibility. For example which variables substitute
> default-fill-column, I presume it is fill-column. Since I use
> different emacs version but the same init file, for the moment I will
> add
Those variables were marked obsolete in 23.2, which is 8 years ago.
Also, I guess this means you're not using the feedmail that ships with
Emacs, which uses fill-column instead of default-fill-column.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-17 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-17 11:11 default-fill-column is gone Uwe Brauer
2018-01-17 12:14 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-01-17 13:40 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-01-17 14:33 ` Robert Pluim
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