From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: On obsoleting defcustoms
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:54:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmdH9geMXj+u7Pgvo72JJ3_M5NZZjE3Qvfm=tuvdKJAgw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53945b2b-cb3f-4823-85e1-ff8676f10161@default>
[[ For context, I have just filed this bug:
bug#44598: [PATCH] Do not show obsolete options in customize ]]
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> If people are concerned about someone continuing to use
> something that's obsolete, why not just have Customize give
> a warning/message saying that the option is obsolete
That's what we do now. See `M-x customize-group RET browse-url RET' in
Emacs 27 for a bad case of what that might look like.
> That's assuming that Emacs takes the (unusual, IME) point of
> view that, once declared obsolete, something should no longer
> be usable.
It's still usable with the patch, just not advertised.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-12 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<CADwFkmm2G=OPOdgadhDk+1uCbHzuqpqaYDs1KgdDes7gXLYgxg@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <<83lfh743j8.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-11-12 21:37 ` On obsoleting defcustoms Drew Adams
2020-11-12 21:54 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-11-12 22:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-13 0:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-13 1:59 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-13 3:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-13 5:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-13 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-13 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-18 13:01 Stefan Kangas
2020-09-18 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-18 13:40 ` Stefan Kangas
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