Re: 'M-o' ('facemap-keymap') has now been removed until March 10th 2021

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 05:16:03 +0100
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > The test period is now over, so we should now discuss whether to make
> > the change permanent, and if so, whether we should bind any of the
> > affected commands to something else.
> 
> We've now had a one week discussion period, so I've made some decisions.
> 
> 1) Nobody wanted to keep the global `M-o' binding (facemenu), so I've
> removed that.
> 
> 2) There was no clamouring to keep a global binding for `center-line'
> and `center-paragraph', so those that find those commands extremely
> useful will have to bind it themselves.
> 
> 3) 99.7% of the discussion involved whether `font-lock-fontify-block'
> was useful or not.  Apparently most people had never heard of it, but
> when they did hear of it, several said (I'm paraphrasing) "that sounds
> quite useful indeed, but it's a bit odd" (i.e., the "block" it fontifies
> doesn't seem ideal).  Gregory suggested a variation on it, and that
> seems to work even better, so I've included it and bound it to
> `C-x x f'.  (But those that really want `font-lock-fontify-block' will
> have to bind it themselves.)
> 
> I've now pushed these changes.  (And we no longer need to preload
> facemenu, I guess, so I'll try to remove that, but it's not totally
> trivial.)

Fair enough, but please include in NEWS a recipe to get back the old
behavior.  Is the following enough?

  (require 'facemenu)
  (define-key global-map "\M-o" 'facemenu-keymap)

Also, if facemenu isn't preloaded anymore, why does it still use
purecopy?