Package: emacs;
Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:47:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 25.1
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #20 received at 24549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> Cc: 24549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: RE: bug#24549: 25.1; Customizing group `text' Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 09:58:29 -0700 (PDT)
> > > Any better ideas?
> >
> > See above. We can create another group, `text', which inherits
> > from `wp'. Emacs itself could move toward using group `text'
> > everywhere. The doc for group `text' could say that `wp' is
> > deprecated (even though there is no code-enforcement via
> > warning etc.).
> >
> > IOW, we can (1) make a group `text' that behaves essentially
> > like `wp' and (2) let users know that `wp' is considered
> > deprecated.
>
> If this works, it is probably better, yes.
IOW, something like the code below.
Question 1: Why is group `outlines' declared in both
cus-edit.el and outline.el? And in outline.el it has a
prefix declared, but not in cus-edit.el. Group `outlines'
is not _used_ in cus-edit.el, AFAICT. What would happen
if we removed group `outlines' from cus-edit.el?
(This question has nothing to do with this bug report.
Just happened to notice the duplication.)
Question 2: Should group `text' inherit directly from group
`emacs'? Should it also inherit from group `wp'?
I think the answer to both of these is yes. WDYT?
Question 3: Should group `wp' still be inherited from, by a
group that now inherits from `text'? E.g., should group
`tildify' inherit from both `wp' as well as from `text'?
I don't think so. If group `text' itself inherits from `wp'
then I don't think there is any reason that we need to have
other groups still inherit directly from `wp' (as well as
from `text'). WDYT?
I think that the more we can hide `wp' from users, the better.
If it needs to continue to be there for a while, because of
possibly existing 3rd-party code, then we should keep it
around. But we can try to minimize its obvious exposure.
;;; cus-edit.el
;; No :tag anymore
;;
(defgroup wp nil
"Support for editing text files.
Use group `text' for this instead. Group `wp' is deprecated."
:group 'emacs)
(defgroup text nil
"Support for editing text files."
:group 'emacs
;; Inherit from deprecated `wp' for compatibility, for now.
:group 'wp)
(defgroup outlines nil
"Support for hierarchical outlining."
:group 'text)
(defgroup tex nil
"Code related to the TeX formatter."
:link '(custom-group-link
:tag "Font Lock Faces group" font-lock-faces)
:group 'text)
;;; delim-col.el
(defgroup columns nil
"Prettify columns."
:link '(emacs-library-link
:tag "Source Lisp File" "delim-col.el")
:prefix "delimit-columns-"
:group 'text)
;;; lpr.el
(defgroup lpr nil
"Print Emacs buffer on line printer."
:group 'text)
;;; outline.el
(defgroup outlines nil
"Support for hierarchical outlining."
:prefix "outline-"
:group 'text)
;;; printing.el
(defgroup printing nil
"Printing Utilities group."
:tag "Printing Utilities"
:link '(emacs-library-link :tag "Source Lisp File" "printing.el")
:prefix "pr-"
:version "22.1"
:group 'text
:group 'postscript)
;;; ps-print.el
(defgroup ps-print nil
"PostScript generator for Emacs."
:link '(emacs-library-link :tag "Source Lisp File" "ps-print.el")
:prefix "ps-"
:version "20"
:group 'text
:group 'postscript)
;;; view.el
(defgroup view nil
"Peruse file or buffer without editing."
:link '(function-link view-mode)
:link '(custom-manual "(emacs)Misc File Ops")
:group 'text)
;;; nxml/rng-valid.el
(defgroup relax-ng nil
"Validation of XML using RELAX NG."
:group 'text
:group 'nxml
:group 'languages)
;;; obsolete/scribe.el
(defgroup scribe nil
"Scribe mode."
:prefix "scribe-"
:group 'text)
;;; progmodes/ebnf2ps.el
(defgroup ebnf2ps nil
"Translate an EBNF to a syntactic chart on PostScript."
:prefix "ebnf-"
:version "20"
:group 'text
:group 'postscript)
;;; textmodes/bib-mode.el
(defgroup bib nil
"Major mode for editing bib files."
:prefix "bib-"
:group 'external
:group 'text)
;;; textmodes/enriched.el
(defgroup enriched nil
"Read and save files in text/enriched format."
:group 'text)
;;; textmodes/nroff-mode.el
(defgroup nroff nil
"Nroff mode."
:link '(custom-group-link :tag "Font Lock Faces group" font-lock-faces)
:group 'text
:prefix "nroff-")
;;; textmodes/picture.el
(defgroup picture nil
"Editing text-based pictures (\"ASCII art\")."
:prefix "picture-"
:group 'text)
;;; textmodes/refbib.el
(defgroup refbib nil
"Convert refer-style references to ones usable by Latex bib."
:prefix "r2b-"
:group 'text)
;;; textmodes/refer.el
(defgroup refer nil
"Look up references in bibliography files."
:prefix "refer-"
:group 'text)
;;; textmodes/rst.el
(defgroup rst nil "Support for reStructuredText documents."
:group 'text
:version "23.1"
:link '(url-link "http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html"))
;;; textmodes/table.el
(defgroup table nil
"Text based table manipulation utilities."
:tag "Table"
:prefix "table-"
:group 'text
:version "22.1")
;;; textmodes/text-mode.el
(defcustom text-mode-hook '(text-mode-hook-identify)
"Normal hook run when entering Text mode and many related modes."
:type 'hook
:options '(turn-on-auto-fill turn-on-flyspell)
:group 'text)
;;; textmodes/tildify.el
(defgroup tildify nil
"Add hard spaces or other text fragments to text buffers."
:version "21.1"
:group 'text)
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