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: translation-table-for-input Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:54:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234540531 20118 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2009 15:55:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:55:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 13 16:56:46 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LY0PD-0003yj-2V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:56:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LY0Nt-00033i-At for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LY0NY-0002x0-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LY0NT-0002wV-Ua for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49118 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LY0NT-0002wS-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:50516 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LY0NQ-0005Iz-W4; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:54:53 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah0FAKQmlUlLd+Q0/2dsb2JhbACBbdEXhBgGgyw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,202,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="33843110" Original-Received: from 75-119-228-52.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.228.52]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 13 Feb 2009 10:54:51 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 858CD84C5; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:54:51 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:25:17 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109044 Archived-At: > Look, if someone would suggest today adding such a feature, I'd > probably object on the grounds of lack of use. But what on Earth > could be a good reason to remove something that is already there, have > been there for several Emacs releases, and is documented in the > manual?? It has various quirks, and doesn't provide any useful feature anymore. > And after you already agreed to leave it, what is pushing you so hard > to insist on declaring it obsolete? Keeping the code maintainable is something I consider important. > Don't we have more important things to do and argue about? Indeed. So just leave the make-variable-obsolete thing where it was, and move on. Stefan