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* Re: master 7899fa4: Declare some ancient compat aliases obsolete (Bug#41328)
       [not found] ` <20200731040357.201EE20CB4@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
@ 2020-08-09 11:34   ` Michael Heerdegen
  2020-08-09 14:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Michael Heerdegen @ 2020-08-09 11:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel; +Cc: Stefan Kangas

stefankangas@gmail.com (Stefan Kangas) writes:

>  ;; For compatibility with older versions.
>  ;;;###autoload
> -(defalias 'manual-entry 'man)
> +(define-obsolete-function-alias 'manual-entry 'man "28.1")

FWIW - but: I lost 30 minutes to find out why completion is broken: M-x
manu TAB doesn't complete any more to manual-entry (you get "no match"),
although manual-entry RET works.  If you don't know that the above
change has been made, this behavior is very confusing.

Michael.



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* Re: master 7899fa4: Declare some ancient compat aliases obsolete (Bug#41328)
  2020-08-09 11:34   ` master 7899fa4: Declare some ancient compat aliases obsolete (Bug#41328) Michael Heerdegen
@ 2020-08-09 14:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
  2020-08-09 15:10       ` Michael Heerdegen
  2020-08-09 16:39       ` Stefan Kangas
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2020-08-09 14:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Heerdegen; +Cc: stefankangas, emacs-devel

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:34:28 +0200
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> 
> stefankangas@gmail.com (Stefan Kangas) writes:
> 
> >  ;; For compatibility with older versions.
> >  ;;;###autoload
> > -(defalias 'manual-entry 'man)
> > +(define-obsolete-function-alias 'manual-entry 'man "28.1")
> 
> FWIW - but: I lost 30 minutes to find out why completion is broken: M-x
> manu TAB doesn't complete any more to manual-entry (you get "no match"),
> although manual-entry RET works.  If you don't know that the above
> change has been made, this behavior is very confusing.

If this change causes inconvenience, we should revert it, IMO.



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* Re: master 7899fa4: Declare some ancient compat aliases obsolete (Bug#41328)
  2020-08-09 14:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2020-08-09 15:10       ` Michael Heerdegen
  2020-08-09 16:39       ` Stefan Kangas
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Michael Heerdegen @ 2020-08-09 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: stefankangas, emacs-devel

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > FWIW - but: I lost 30 minutes to find out why completion is broken: M-x
> > manu TAB doesn't complete any more to manual-entry (you get "no match"),
> > although manual-entry RET works.  If you don't know that the above
> > change has been made, this behavior is very confusing.
>
> If this change causes inconvenience, we should revert it, IMO.

I can switch to using M-x man.  But I dunno how many people are used to
the other name, and it's not trivial to see what's happening, since
completion just behaves inconsistent.  Instead of denying to complete a
name that RET then accepts, it would be better to complete and maybe
omit a warning, or to not accept the obsoleted name at all.

Michael.



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* Re: master 7899fa4: Declare some ancient compat aliases obsolete (Bug#41328)
  2020-08-09 14:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
  2020-08-09 15:10       ` Michael Heerdegen
@ 2020-08-09 16:39       ` Stefan Kangas
  2020-08-09 17:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2020-08-09 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eli Zaretskii, Michael Heerdegen; +Cc: emacs-devel

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > -(defalias 'manual-entry 'man)
>> > +(define-obsolete-function-alias 'manual-entry 'man "28.1")
>>
>> FWIW - but: I lost 30 minutes to find out why completion is broken: M-x
>> manu TAB doesn't complete any more to manual-entry (you get "no match"),
>> although manual-entry RET works.  If you don't know that the above
>> change has been made, this behavior is very confusing.
>
> If this change causes inconvenience, we should revert it, IMO.

I've now reverted this part of the patch on master.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas



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* Re: master 7899fa4: Declare some ancient compat aliases obsolete (Bug#41328)
  2020-08-09 16:39       ` Stefan Kangas
@ 2020-08-09 17:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2020-08-09 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Kangas; +Cc: michael_heerdegen, emacs-devel

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 09:39:19 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > If this change causes inconvenience, we should revert it, IMO.
> 
> I've now reverted this part of the patch on master.

Thank you.



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