Re: Please, Restore Previous Behavior for jump-to-register

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Cc: thievol@posteo.net, raman@google.com, eller.helmut@gmail.com,
>  tino.calancha@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 03:28:17 -0500
> 
>    The old behavior is to not ask for confirmation when overwriting a
>    register, and some people - including me - would like to have a simple
>    way to make `C-x r SPC' (`point-to-register') behave in the old way...
>    Is there a way to do that by just setting variables?
>    If not, can you implement a way to do that?
> 
> More importantly, the documentation for how registers behave is out of
> sync with this new behaviour.

This can legitimately happen as long as the release cycle of Emacs 30
didn't start.  We don't (or cannot, really) demand that each code
change will include all the necessary updates to the manuals.  So
people who track the master branch must get used to look in NEWS for
any such changes; we don't promise that the manuals on master will be
always up-to-date.

AFAIR, Thierry plans to update the manuals later, but for now let's
leave this particular aspect out of this discussion, to avoid too many
tangents.