From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: Online help and help-for-help improvements
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:33:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v97igmg2da.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ve48ej7y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:48:01 -0500")
On Fri, Feb 29 2008, Chong Yidong wrote:
> According to Google, for example, there is a package called
> neophyte.el that creates advice for describe-project, which you've
> renamed to describe-gnu-project.
If we talk about <http://web.springies.com/~ats/emacs/neophyte.el>,
IMHO there's no need to introduce compatibility aliases for external
packages that have been not been updated since more than 10 years[1].
Are there other packages that use the old names?
Bye, Reiner.
[1] Last modified 1996 according to `neophyte-version'.
The download site written in the comment isn't even available anymore:
;; The latest version of this code is available from
;; ftp://hubert.wustl.edu/pub/elisp .
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,,,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-01 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 12:04 Online help and help-for-help improvements Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 21:04 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 22:49 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 23:01 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 23:12 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 21:08 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-28 23:01 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 23:48 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-29 12:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-01 10:33 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2008-03-02 2:59 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-03 13:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-03 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 23:40 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04 18:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 19:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-05 0:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 19:40 ` Reiner Steib
2008-03-05 0:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 21:37 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-04 21:48 ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-06 0:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-06 15:18 ` Chong Yidong
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