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Re: Moving kbd to subr.el
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Moving kbd to subr.el |
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Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:34:43 -0400 |
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> Emacs 29 + 2*N: allow only the kbd syntax, display an error otherwise.
Indeed, you have demonstrated it would be _possible_ to eliminate the
old key binding syntax.
But we _should not do that_. The breakage of so many old programs
would be gratuitous harm and pain!
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> Whether we do manage to completely remove it or not
> doesn't matter very much for the benefit of Emacs users we should make
> it so the user and coder will never need to know about it, and for that
> we should actively discourage its use
That I'm in favor of.
, starting by not supporting it
> where it doesn't have to be supported.
That's so terse and abstract that I am not sure what it concretely
means. Maybe it's a good idea.
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- Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, (continued)
- Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/18
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- Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Gregory Heytings, 2021/10/19
- Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/10/19
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- RE: [External] : Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Drew Adams, 2021/10/19
- RE: [External] : Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/19
- RE: [External] : Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Drew Adams, 2021/10/19
- RE: [External] : Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Drew Adams, 2021/10/19
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- Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/19
- Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/19
- Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/19
- Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/19
- Re: Moving kbd to subr.el, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/19
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