Re: bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes

[Štěpán Němec]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:04:57 +0100
Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 11/28/11 03:17, Štěpán Němec wrote:
>> By renaming functions and variables without any kind of deprecation
>> procedure (cf. `make-obsolete' and friends),
>
> Sure, we can do deprecation.  Is the usual procedure to do this for
> all visible symbols, or only for the symbols that are documented
> in the manual?

You'd have to ask the maintainers for the definitive answer (emacs-devel
added to the Cc: list); I think it's usually closer to the latter.

IMO all commands, hooks and user variables definitely need deprecation,
the rest should at least be mentioned in NEWS.

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Štěpán