From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: translation-table-for-input Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:09:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234602596 18394 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2009 09:09:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:09:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 14 10:11:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LYGYB-0003vA-O4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:11:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LYGWr-0000id-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:09:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LYGWk-0000gm-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:09:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LYGWi-0000db-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:09:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49341 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LYGWi-0000d8-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:9928) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LYGWg-000340-S4; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout2.012.net.il by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KF100000T1VOC00@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:09:58 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.231.209]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KF100A4LTGJ97D0@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:09:56 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:109060 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > 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.