From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Philippe Vaucher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24555: [PATCH] Remove unused variable `command-debug-status' Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:50:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <837f9woyu6.fsf@gnu.org> <83twczokd3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475131891 24193 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2016 06:51:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 06:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 24555@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 29 08:51:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1bpVBd-0004au-O9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:51:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpVBb-0000U5-Tz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=BeuLGeF2ja17MHf/sAeRaNFJpn8odGiabrkqiWeZf04=; b=K8/p57OJlie70N6mTOzWXytPaTS9eLGAd2IZbUaDBhhqZsQo9EB8Kyrco1I3wa/yvX bk6b3J5jSYOJ3wrW9T38CM0cQJGI98wHkZiOUPuqFOiZbRLlJoaVDotl4BmlHzpIw12t D1QBEqMKLLmduChPpQWFgtczLW/C7eu6TYtT6uDPZop/UhrtH4g41zB7VOHUO7NHMWCQ MSzDPaka84EudP+cmu4meWp6QTPgw+VqOyR30CPTsh+WsiK9YuWUacJJA8Jt4ik42aCa cMKdu9eFoJx7zBgWkhthgu7WIVRXziSk3DAM0DCfgMHHkSUxiUc6+pnshjUeyPlaQeI3 nRGA== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RkLB48Ifd24llD7gsaz3Y1r2wJebOD1G+4zubeC9bZ7SK7wCJ8jpUBVZoJaXzXn5+JCO8G4rZCPaY3REw== X-Received: by 10.176.0.20 with SMTP id 20mr6953968uai.83.1475131839258; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.103.0.197 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:50:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:123754 Archived-At: >> In a nutshell, it's a variable provided for storing arbitrary data >> that persists for the duration of the current interactive command. > > Can't think of any situation where I'd want/need that. The name seems > to indicate it could be used that way in the context of debugging, but > even in that kind of scenario I'm unable to come up with a use-case. That's why I asked what was the use of such variable... even if we restore the code that sets it, it is not used anywhere else. The commit history suggest it might have been useful near the start of the development of Emacs, but I don't think it is anymore. I vote for dropping it. Philippe