From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#10385: e binding in info-mode Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:13:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <201112272237.pBRMbo8C022896@freefriends.org> <62fwftxnbz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83fwfsoluz.fsf@gnu.org> <871urckv7k.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326032051 12453 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2012 14:14:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 14:14:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 08 15:14:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtVc-0008Qq-9T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:14:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtVb-0007Wx-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:14:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46711) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtVY-0007WR-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:14:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtVY-0007mp-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:14:00 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:47190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtVW-0007mC-6m; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:13:58 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q08EDsNR030481; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 09:13:55 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D7B4558F7E; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 09:13:53 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <871urckv7k.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:27:34 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4095=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4095> : streams <717879> : uri <1042993> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147486 Archived-At: >> I thought that e would be a useful command >> back when I supposed info files would be written by hand. >> But we don't do that, so e is not useful and maybe only causes trouble. > There is more trouble when this obsolete feature is announced > in the customization group `info' via its customizable variable > `Info-enable-edit'. It would be better to hide it from the > Customization interface by changing `defcustom' to `defvar': We can mark Info-edit (and related vars) obsolete, indeed. Tho, there's really no hurry to do it, so it can wait 24.2. Stefan