Subject: Re: bug#19483: 25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'
From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
To: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:19:07 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

tags 19483 notabug
thanks

> `C-h v font-lock-syntactic-keywords' says that the variable is obsolete
> since 24.1.

That's right.

> But in font-lock.el, the code, multiple doc strings, and
> the Commentary all rely on it.

No, they just keep supporting it, because it's only "obsolete" and not
"removed".

Do you really want to advocate we remove features right away when we
decide they're obsolete?

        Stefan