From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Incompatible change without "warning" Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:10:41 -0600 Message-ID: References: <16997.28602.876638.54728@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113948974 19568 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2005 22:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 20 00:16:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DO0zl-0004UI-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:15:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DO149-00085n-9C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:19:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DO13I-0007s8-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:18:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DO13G-0007rg-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:18:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DO13G-0007ct-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:18:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DO14S-0000kU-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DO0sR-0003pE-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:07:27 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:07:27 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:07:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36128 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36128 Stefan Monnier wrote: >>How about adding an optional argument to defvaralias so that: > >>(defvaralias 'tooltip-use-echo-area 'tooltip-gud-echo-area) >>(make-obsolete-variable 'tooltip-use-echo-area 'tooltip-gud-echo-area "22.1") > >>can be written as: > >>(defvaralias 'tooltip-use-echo-area 'tooltip-gud-echo-area nil "22.1") > > I'd prefer to define the same `define-obsolete-variable-alias' macro as used > in XEmacs. I like the way (defobvaralias ...) rolls off the tongue... it sounds like I can speak German! -- Kevin Rodgers