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> From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
> Date: 13 Jun 2006 07:51:24 -0700
> 
> >>>>> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <sds@podval.org> writes:
> 
> >> Please don't.  I use yow.el with a local file to print funny one-line
> >> error messages, i.e. what I do is
> >> 
> >> (fset 'undefined 'yow)
> >> (setq yow-file ".../talker.msg")
> 
> Sam> (fset 'undefined
> Sam>       (lambda ()
> Sam>         (interactive)
> Sam>         (message "%s" (cookie ".../talker.msg" nil nil))))
> 
> I'm confused.  I just saw yow.c disappear yesterday, but I thought
> RMS said "leave it in, and replace the yow.lines with safe stuff".

Richard said that about yow.el, not yow.c.  The latter is not used by
anything in Emacs.

yow.el was not deleted.

> Can someone with commit bits undo the yow damage, please?

What damage?  No Emacs feature was removed, AFAIK.