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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 9c04760: Document file-backup-file-names
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:12:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfi37w0r.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200824181134.DCB9420A10@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:11:34 -0400 (EDT)")

larsi@gnus.org (Lars Ingebrigtsen) writes:

>  @defun file-newest-backup filename
> -This function returns the name of the most recent backup file for
> -@var{filename}, or @code{nil} if that file has no backup files.
> +This function returns the first element of the list returned by
> +@code{file-backup-file-names}.

Perhaps we should just deprecate this function?  It's `car' now, and
isn't used many places in the Emacs tree.

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