[PATCH 1/1] NEWS: removal of backported support for Emacs version 22

[PATCH 1/1] NEWS: removal of backported support for Emacs version 22

[Tomi Ollila]

---
 NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c348068..8d22e1b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,19 @@ Bash command-line completion
   `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
   bash-completion package.
 
+Emacs Interface
+---------------
+
+Removal of backported Emacs version 23 functionality for Emacs 22
+
+  Two years ago some Emacs 23 functionality that notmuch used were
+  backported to notmuch to be conditionally used with Emacs version 22.
+  That worked for a few months until new Emacs 23 features were taken
+  into use and due to lack of interest no one continued to backport
+  those. To clean up dead code and to avoid confusion in new
+  developers these backports are now removed.
+
+
 Vim Front-End
 -------------
 
-- 
1.8.0

Re: [PATCH 1/1] NEWS: removal of backported support for Emacs version 22

[David Bremner]

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> ---
>  NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
>  
> +Emacs Interface
> +---------------
> +
> +Removal of backported Emacs version 23 functionality for Emacs 22
> +
> +  Two years ago some Emacs 23 functionality that notmuch used were
> +  backported to notmuch to be conditionally used with Emacs version 22.
> +  That worked for a few months until new Emacs 23 features were taken
> +  into use and due to lack of interest no one continued to backport
> +  those. To clean up dead code and to avoid confusion in new
> +  developers these backports are now removed.

Hi Tomi;

What do you think about a more user-focussed item, something like 

,----
| No Emacs 22 support
| -------------------
| 
| We started some Emacs 22 support, but it never really worked, and the
| last remnants have been removed from this release
`----

but better, of course ;).

d