bug#58848: 29.0.50; Make makefile browser mode obsolete?

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 58848 + patch
thanks

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Severity: wishlist
>
> While looking at make-mode.el, I found out that there's a "browser" mode
> in there, that's basically a poor mans imenu.  Richard added this
> comment to make-mode.el in 1994, and I'm inclined to agree:
>
>     ;; * Consider removing browser mode.  It seems useless.
>
> I have no idea what the situation was in 1994, but these days we have
> imenu (and various associated frontends), so I think it is fully
> redundant.
>
> I also tried
>
>     git log --grep=browse lisp/progmodes/make-mode.el
>
> and it seems like the only changes in it over the years have been
> cleanup type changes (fixing quoting in docstrings, and similar).
> I also note that "emacs makefile browser" and "emacs make browser" gives
> no hits on a web search, and I also can't find anything in the bug tracker.
>
> So how about making that stuff obsolete, as in the attached?  In the
> unlikely event that anyone is really attached to it, they will then have
> a decade or so to pipe up.

I've updated the patch for Emacs 30, added a NEWS and proper commit
message.

0001-Make-Makefile-browser-obsolete.patch
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