Re: translation-table-for-input

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  handa@m17n.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:54:51 -0500
> 
> > Look, if someone would suggest today adding such a feature, I'd
> > probably object on the grounds of lack of use.  But what on Earth
> > could be a good reason to remove something that is already there, have
> > been there for several Emacs releases, and is documented in the
> > manual??
> 
> It has various quirks, and doesn't provide any useful feature anymore.
> 
> > And after you already agreed to leave it, what is pushing you so hard
> > to insist on declaring it obsolete?
> 
> Keeping the code maintainable is something I consider important.
> 
> > Don't we have more important things to do and argue about?
> 
> Indeed.  So just leave the make-variable-obsolete thing where it was,
> and move on.

Done, under protest.