Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 934a72c: User can specify files never subject t

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:59:27 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I was going through Flymake in master to perform some refactorings when
> I came across this change:
> 
>    commit 934a72c7e4a506a36697fdb98f837cea989e70e1
>    Author: Sam Steingold <address@hidden>
>    Date:   Wed Nov 1 09:36:41 2017 -0400
>     
>        User can specify files never subject to flymake.
> 
> There was some discussion around it
> 
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-11/msg00054.html
> 
> but I believe we later agreed (though off-list for some reason) that
> using a file or dir-local value of nil for
> `flymake-diagnostic-functions' is a much better alternative in Emacs
> 26.1 onwards. In the case of your "mini-scratch" Python files, just add:
> 
> # Local Variables:
> # flymake-diagnostic-functions: nil
> # End:
> 
> So, do you mind if I revert the patch?  I'm asking because new
> user-visible complexity in a file I'm trying to refactor is
> counterproductive to that task.

So we introduced a defcustom in Emacs 26.1 just to remove it in Emacs
27.1?  Isn't there a nicer way out of this, one that doesn't remove an
existing feature?