GNU bug report logs - #15777
24.3.50; cl symbols are no more fontlocked

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 06:54:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 15777 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15777: 24.3.50; cl symbols are no more fontlocked
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 08:19:58 -0700 (PDT)

> > Hi, symbols from cl package are no more fontlocked, (e.g loop,
> > defun* etc...)
> 
> That's on purpose, because we want to discourage their use.
> Symbols from cl-lib are font-locked.

Misguided, IMHO.  Plenty of people will use Emacs 24.4 (and 25 and
26...) with packages that work also with older versions, and thus
sometimes employ `cl.el' functions (even in addition to `cl-lib.el'
functions).

*Encourage* use of `cl-lib.el' (be positive).  Do not downgrade
Emacs just to make the point that `cl-lib.el' now exists.

Please try to look beyond the snapshot that is the latest nifty
Emacs development to the wider world of Emacs _users_.  There is
no reason to gratuitously make their experience worse.  You gain
nothing by that, and they (and Emacs) lose.
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