Re: Suggestion to have highlight related bindings consistent between search-map and hi-lock-map

[Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>]

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@Juri So what did you think?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:32 PM Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Juri,
>
> I thought quite some bit on how we can add in a warning for key binding
> change. But as Stefan says, it is probably not worth it.
>
> First of, we would need to create a wrapper function or a wrapper macro to
> create wrapper functions for all the commands that we want to phase out
> from being bound with the "C-x w" prefix map. The wrapper function will
> call the wrapped function and then issue a warning/message in the echo area
> saying that that function is already bound to "M-s h" prefix and will no
> longer be bound to "C-x w" prefix in future. After that, in a future emacs
> version, the final step to unbind those "C-x w" bindings will remain.
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:48 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> > Do we have a 2-step deprecation process where the first step
>> > is to warn the users about the planned changes by issuing
>> > a message like “use the new key instead” like we do with
>> > ‘define-obsolete-function-alias’ and ‘make-obsolete-variable’?
>>
>> No, for key-bindings we just make the change, since we don't pay nearly
>> as much attention to breaking "user compatibility" (which can be fixed
>> with a define-key in ~/.emacs).
>> OTOH if the change ends up breaking third-party packages it might be
>> more problematic.
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>>
>

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