Subject: bug#20461: 25.0.50; `use-hard-newlines'

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:00:40 +0200

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> Why is this minor mode not named `use-hard-newlines-mode', to respect
> the naming convention?
>
> Reading the doc for this function doesn't even offer a clue that this is
> a minor mode and that it is not global.
>
> See, for instance, this user's question, which shows that s?he expected
> the function to act globally.
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/29949975/729907

I agree.  An objections to renaming to -mode and marking the old name as
an obsolete alias?  (And fixing the doc string.)

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