From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On removing some obsolete code from subr and core Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 05:35:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83ins0hshk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878tsznpuq.fsf@udel.edu> <83fun6jpeq.fsf@gnu.org> <20161107003235.GA7843@holos.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478489748 11320 195.159.176.226 (7 Nov 2016 03:35:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 03:35:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 04:35:44 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3ail-0002Cv-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 04:35:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3ain-0004Tc-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:35:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3aiD-0004Qk-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:35:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3aiA-0008CY-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:35:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3aiA-0008CR-0E; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1719 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c3ai9-0002Ux-7p; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:35:05 -0500 In-reply-to: <20161107003235.GA7843@holos.localdomain> (message from Mark Oteiza on Sun, 6 Nov 2016 19:32:35 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209235 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 19:32:35 -0500 > From: Mark Oteiza > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 05/11/16 at 10:34am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > For removed symbols, bringing back the ones that are still needed is > > easy. But what do we do with the default-FOO variables, once the > > machinery for their generation is removed? > > I am guessing this is referring to my erroneous comment on > buffer_defaults, as opposed to removing the DEFVAR_BUFFER_DEFAULTS > macro. No, it referred to the DEFVAR_BUFFER_DEFAULTS macro and its users. > > In any case, this needs a NEWS entry listing all the removed > > variables. > > Do you really want me to list them all in NEWS? I was inclined to > use--under the section for removed things--the old entry from > NEWS.23: > > ** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO > variable. I think at least a few of them should be mentioned by name ("such as ..." etc.).