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Re: font-lock-defaults-alist is obsolete but used


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: font-lock-defaults-alist is obsolete but used
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:54:54 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" wrote:

> The variable is marked obsolete in the same file where it is used. I
> would expect that the new name where used in that file instead of
> the old.
>
> I would even expect the new name to be used everywhere in Emacs,
> leaving the old obsolete name only to external packages to use.

I'm sorry, but your expectation is just wrong. Under your scheme,
things would go from "working" in one release to "not working" in the
next. Instead, it's "working", "working with an obsolete warning",
then at some point "not working".





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