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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250636 Archived-At: > > But are they also intended to provide a historical record? If so, > > maybe they should be kept indefinitely. >=20 > I think it's good to have a facility that can tell us in which Emacs > version was some option introduced. +1. Something more than, say, a comment. Something you/code can check easily at runtime.