Re: Suggestion to have highlight related bindings consistent between search-map and hi-lock-map

[Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>]

> @Juri So what did you think?

Stefan says, it is not worth it, if it is not breaking third-party packages.

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:32 PM Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I thought quite some bit on how we can add in a warning for key binding
>> change. But as Stefan says, it is probably not worth it.
>>
>> First of, we would need to create a wrapper function or a wrapper macro to
>> create wrapper functions for all the commands that we want to phase out
>> from being bound with the "C-x w" prefix map. The wrapper function will
>> call the wrapped function and then issue a warning/message in the echo area
>> saying that that function is already bound to "M-s h" prefix and will no
>> longer be bound to "C-x w" prefix in future. After that, in a future emacs
>> version, the final step to unbind those "C-x w" bindings will remain.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:48 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > Do we have a 2-step deprecation process where the first step
>>> > is to warn the users about the planned changes by issuing
>>> > a message like “use the new key instead” like we do with
>>> > ‘define-obsolete-function-alias’ and ‘make-obsolete-variable’?
>>>
>>> No, for key-bindings we just make the change, since we don't pay nearly
>>> as much attention to breaking "user compatibility" (which can be fixed
>>> with a define-key in ~/.emacs).
>>> OTOH if the change ends up breaking third-party packages it might be
>>> more problematic.
>>>
>>>
>>>         Stefan