Re: removal of org-maybe-keyword-time-regexp

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Julien Cubizolles <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm using org-caldav (https://github.com/dengste/org-caldav/) to
> synchronize the calendar on my Android phone and Org. Recently this
> synchronization stopped working because org-caldav relies on
> org-maybe-keyword-time-regexp that has been dropped from Org. As a
> workaround, could this variable be reintroduced in org so as not to
> break this very useful package ?

Could you contact upstream instead?

AFAICT, they use this variable only twice. The first occurrence doesn't
seem useful (they check for a planning info keyword in a headline, which
cannot happen), it is probably enough to look for `org-ts-regexp-both'.

I'm not sure about the second one. I guess it would be better for them
to use something like:

    (and (re-search-forward "org-planning-line-re" nil t)
         (org-at-planning-p)
         (progn
           (org-skip-whitespace)
           (looking-at org-ts-regexp-both)))

The (small) issue here is that we cannot properly deprecate a variable
that is not replaced with something else (i.e., we're not using
`define-obsolete-variable-alias' here).

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou