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25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#19483: closed (Re: bug#19483: 25.0.50; out-of-date doc and
 Commentary in `font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords')
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 03:20:04 +0000

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Your bug report

#19483: 25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 19483-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19483: 25.0.50;
 out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt
 `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:19:07 -0500

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 `C-h v font-lock-syntactic-keywords' says that the variable is obsolete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

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt
 `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 14:25:33 -0800 (PST)

`C-h v font-lock-syntactic-keywords' says that the variable is obsolete
since 24.1.  But in font-lock.el, the code, multiple doc strings, and
the Commentary all rely on it.

Something is not up to date, it seems.  Whatever that is, it should have
been taken care of at the same time that this variable was declared
obsolete.  That's 4 releases ago, now.  As of Emacs 25.1, it will be 5
releases overdue.

In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-10-20 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 118168 rgm <at> gnu.org-20141020195941-icp42t8ttcnud09g
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --enable-checking=yes,glyphs CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'

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