From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 37956@debbugs.gnu.org, ayanokoji.takesi@gmail.com
Subject: bug#37956: Elisp manual referes obsolete lisp file.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 00:40:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmm3gK6czU3sxM6FQxULTgxUZsjOQ=6ZdgZ7z-uyg6FyLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v9s8rcjy.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:43:13 +0200")
tags 37956 + confirmed
thanks
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:47:05 +0100
>> Cc: 37956@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > In Elisp manual -> Debugging -> Edebug -> Printing in Edebug, the manual says
>> >
>> > Other programs can also use custom printing; see cust-print.el fo rdetails.
>> >
>> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/doc/lispref/edebug.texi#n875
>> >
>> > , but cust-print.el is obsolete since emacs-24.3.
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>>
>> Perhaps we could simply to remove it like in the attached patch?
>
> We moved cuts-print.el to obsolete/ because its features are supported
> by the Lisp printer. So I'd prefer to modify that sentence to mention
> the latter, rather than just remove it.
>
> Btw, this sentence and one earlier mentions "custom printing" without
> explaining what that means, AFAICT. It would be good to fix this
> while at that.
(That was 10 months ago, but I never replied back at the time.)
I don't know what the "Lisp printer" is, nor do I know what "custom
printing" is, so I unfortunately can't help with the above.
Help welcome by someone who knows enough about this to make the proposed
additions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-05 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-28 9:18 bug#37956: Elisp manual referes obsolete lisp file Takesi Ayanokoji
2019-10-28 14:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-28 15:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-28 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-06 16:16 ` Takesi Ayanokoji
2019-12-07 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-05 0:40 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-09-05 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-07 4:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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