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RE: On obsoleting defcustoms
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
RE: On obsoleting defcustoms |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:54:44 -0500 |
[[ For context, I have just filed this bug:
bug#44598: [PATCH] Do not show obsolete options in customize ]]
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> If people are concerned about someone continuing to use
> something that's obsolete, why not just have Customize give
> a warning/message saying that the option is obsolete
That's what we do now. See `M-x customize-group RET browse-url RET' in
Emacs 27 for a bad case of what that might look like.
> That's assuming that Emacs takes the (unusual, IME) point of
> view that, once declared obsolete, something should no longer
> be usable.
It's still usable with the patch, just not advertised.
Re: On obsoleting defcustoms, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/13