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24.1.50; `list-buffers-refresh', `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width'

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11454 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11454: 24.1.50; `list-buffers-refresh', `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width'
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 07:49:30 -0700

> > Here's what I would suggest: Respect a user's customizations and, in
> > priority, customizations of the new options over 
> > customization of the old option.
> 
> Absolutely not; that way lies madness.

Apparently you do not distinguish deprecation from desupport.

> As far as possible, outside of Customize only the value of the
> variable should have any meaning.

What does that mean?  Who said anything to the contrary?

The suggestion was only to respect user customizations.  And for `B-m-b+s-w', to
respect it only during the deprecation period, i.e., until it is desupported.

> I amended the docstring of `B-m-b+s-w' to explicitly describe the
> current behavior. 

Why bother?  You've effectively desupported it.

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