From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Deleting functions and variables obsolete since 24.1--24.3
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:13:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8qrpqgk.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54884F9AD145A5EA66DBF9D7F36B9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:31:20 +0000")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I *STRONGLY* object to removing any of the
> `special-display' user options and their support.
> They should never have been deprecated. I don't
> want to see them ever be abandoned.
>
> It's fine for any user to (try to) use
> `display-buffer-alist' to accomplish, in a
> complicated way, what `special-display' does simply.
>
> It's wrong to get rid of `special-display'. I use
> it all day, every day, and my code uses it.
>
> IF you create `display-buffer' user options that
> unequivocally reproduce what `special-display' does
> so simply, THEN we can talk about getting rid of
> `special-display'.
>
> That's never been done - in spite of the cavalier
> punt statement to just "use `display-buffer-alist'
> instead", added by the deprecation to each of the
> `special-display' doc strings.
>
> If you can't do it, how do you expect users to?
>
> `special-display' does everything I need that it
> says it does, and it does it simply.
>
> `special-display' makes no claim or pretense to do
> what `display-buffer-alist' does. And the latter
> doesn't provide what the former provides. (Can
> you make it provide that feature?)
>
> Leave it alone. Adding `display-buffer-alist' was
> a _good_ thing - thank you Martin. Deprecating,
> let alone removing, `special-display' would be an
> atrocity.
>
> Removing `special-display' does _not_ "need doing".
> Take a break - do something constructive instead.
Seconded. I completely agree here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-17 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-30 22:11 Deleting functions and variables obsolete since 24.1--24.3 Stefan Kangas
2022-06-30 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-08 11:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-08 12:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-08 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 17:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-10 3:07 ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-16 14:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-08-16 14:50 ` Robert Pluim
2022-08-16 16:31 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-08-17 2:13 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-08-21 16:16 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-23 3:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-09 9:48 ` Stefan Kangas
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