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>

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 15777 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15777: 24.3.50; cl symbols are no more fontlocked
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 10:01:11 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> I am sorry, but moving to cl-lib is not trivial
>
> Then we should try and reduce the effort needed.  My experience with
> converting most of Emacs's own code to use cl-lib was rather
> straightforward: remove the (require 'cl), byte-compile, look at the
> output for complaints about unknown functions, search&replace
> those names.

You know this is only the emerged part of iceberg.
Switching to cl-lib imply switching to lexical-binding which is not as
simple as replacing prefixes in symbols.

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