GNU bug report logs - #19483
25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'

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Message #7 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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 out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt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 `C-h v font-lock-syntactic-keywords' says that the variable is obsolete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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