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23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,

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From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>
Subject: bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:39:48 +0000

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Andrew Hyatt wrote:
>
> > Sorry this bug has been open for so long, in fact it has the rare
> > privelage of being open for so long the package you are having a problem
> > with (longlines-mode), no longer is part of emacs.
>
> It's in lisp/obsolete/.
> Eli thinks such things should still be fixed:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2016-01/msg00171.html


Is that a widespread opinion?  I disagree, FWIW.  One of the big purposes
of obsoleting things is to reduce the number of things that must be
maintained.

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