From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: patn-insert.el requires cl which is deprecated Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2023 21:58:32 +0200 Message-ID: <83cz5o9tlj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <847660578.4030868.1677865529875@mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2627"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 04 20:59:36 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pYY2Z-0000ZF-Lc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2023 20:59:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pYY25-00070Z-B0; Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pYY1x-0006y5-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:58:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pYY1x-00077D-CF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:58:57 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=R5ic8iSF2nCa4WxtaMg+qmOalmNI55puJ+2SKo+ibMo=; b=kLjLXqHk6Oy2XjUgxycq TEAmD5AShKwMbjXSFSY8l7J8IA74NRg8cG+LE8r4MDDEmmJcPxexobQGCM9YkMiaYf05yEsoRDU0F /wZdDRLSQGvak5j59glFBlJ6j7NbhoZ7sYJw77LkydBt/8cyTK1hR+UowUl/VmTG5wmWC0A7R69Gk 5ybYQdXDyB7Y8gxrpsnbiIhCftwQ/ZUiMBrbpYGpuCd2qVFxdZgCbSlBf06MbrxrjipnKF4SKYJBh Hg/oBV7v1yI1jD3ui26hWMrf4PQNUM74VSPWqPGtPBYH/knGlKy8/nhpZ7nvLLSFuhWI5Hn7IGU3r RFN5myZwsQTHeA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pYY1q-00088H-SF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:58:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <847660578.4030868.1677865529875@mail.yahoo.com> (message from Raymond Zeitler via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Fri, 3 Mar 2023 17:45:29 +0000 (UTC)) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:142925 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 17:45:29 +0000 (UTC) > From: Raymond Zeitler via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > > Does anyone else use patn-insert.el by Bard Bloom of Cornell Univ. CS Dept.? > I've been using it sporadically for a couple of decades under Emacs 25.2.1 and earlier.  It was published in the comp.emacs Usenet group in 1990 or so.  Google has deemed that group unsafe, so it's not accessible. > Now that I'm upgrading to Emacs 28, I find that it won't load because it requires cl, which is deprecated. > My options seem to be:1. Find out if anyone has updated it to work under Emacs 27+ (in progress)2. Attempt to update it to use cl-lib myself (unlikely)3. Contact the author (deferred)4. Keep my Emacs 25.2.1 installed just so that I can use the functions in patn-insert > Comments? Updating it to use cl-lib should be easy: basically, for each symbol FOO that came from cl, replace FOO with cl-FOO.