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24.1.50; Regression: command `ucs-insert' is no longer recognized |
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Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:50:08 -0700 |
It's one thing to want to alias `ucs-insert' to `insert-char' or vice
versa. It is another thing to simply remove `ucs-insert' as a command.
That is not kosher. That is not deprecation - it is immediate
desupport. Please restore `ucs-insert', at least as an alias, so that
users and code that calls `ucs-insert' do not find themselves orphaned.
Furthermore, I see this in NEWS:
** `insert-char' is now a command, and `ucs-insert' an obsolete alias
for it.
No, the latter part is apparently not true. Neither `M-x' nor `C-h f'
recognizes `ucs-insert' at all.
I also do not understand this, which is the only occurrence of `ucs-insert' in
the distributed Lisp files:
(define-obsolete-variable-alias 'ucs-insert 'insert-char "24.2")
What is that about? Variable? Seems like this is the cause of the bugged
behavior: the function no longer exists.
In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2012-07-22 on MARVIN
Bzr revision: 109189
address@hidden
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
`configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
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-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
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-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include
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Re: bug#12046: 24.1.50; Regression: command `ucs-insert' is no longer recognized |
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Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:14:46 -0400 |
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
> It's one thing to want to alias `ucs-insert' to `insert-char' or vice
> versa. It is another thing to simply remove `ucs-insert' as a command.
>
> That is not kosher. That is not deprecation - it is immediate
> desupport.
That was a apparently typo, now fixed.
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