GNU bug report logs - #25375
25.1; how to configure (x-)select-enable-primary compatible with emacs24

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>

Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 12:00:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 25375 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
Cc: 25375 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25375: 25.1;
 how to configure (x-)select-enable-primary compatible with emacs24
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:13:06 +0200

> From: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
> Cc: 25375 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:49:47 -0400
> 
> I guess I could migrate the setting of x-select-enable-primary out of
> customize and into my init.el.

I think a better idea is to use different customization files for
different Emacs versions.  The Emacs user manual shows how to do that
in "Saving Customizations".

> I wonder if maybe there should have been a period of deprecation
> before marking the variables obsolete.

Declaring a variable obsolete _is_ the indication that it's
deprecated.
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