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Re: [emacs-w3m:11603] Re: interactive-p obsolete


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: [emacs-w3m:11603] Re: interactive-p obsolete
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 01:44:40 +0200

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 01:32, Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 01:16, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> ;-) -- Yes, you are right. But it could be defined in a separate
>> compatibility elisp file that could be copied to Xemacs and copied
>> "privately" for those using it with older emacsen.
>
> At which point, you've created a bigger problem that the one you
> wanted to fix, because instead of a ten-line macro in some
> compatibility file in the package, you're suddenly dealing with making
> that macro available to people *outside* the package(s) where it is
> intended to be used...
>
> In other words: we can add that macro, but I bet it won't save a
> single line of code (nor any trouble) to any externally maintained
> multi-platform package.

I think you will lose a lot of money if people take the chance.



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