From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Online help and help-for-help improvements Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:33:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87myplmgn8.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <877igookke.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871w6wk7n1.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87ve48ej7y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204367738 12073 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2008 10:35:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 01 11:36:03 2008 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 1JVP4P-0006jW-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:35:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVP3s-00028C-AG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:35:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVP2y-0001VH-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVP2w-0001TW-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:34:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVP2v-0001TA-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVP2v-00061R-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m21AY5QU001283; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:34:05 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5EA012FCD; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:34:05 +0100 (CET) X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.; yo.b yq4$p; ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Followup-To: Chong Yidong , storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm), emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87ve48ej7y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:48:01 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.90 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-Misty-Metrics: poseidon 1170; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-detected-kernel: 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:90974 Archived-At: 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 , 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 . -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/