Subject: Re: bug#26233: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Improve documentation for display-buffer-alist

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 11:32:10 +0300

> From: Jens Lechtenboerger <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 08:53:13 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> On 2017-03-24, at 07:51, Drew Adams wrote:
> 
> >> in Bug#25946 we discussed how to replace the obsolete variables
> >> special-display-buffer-names and special-display-regexps.  The
> >> attached patch extends the doc string of display-buffer-alist
> >> based on that discussion.
> >
> > FWIW:
> >
> > 1. I *strongly* object to the deprecation of these user
> > options.
> > [...]
> 
> I agree wholeheartedly.

Those variables were obsoleted in Emacs 24.3, which was released 4
years ago.  Isn't it too late to strongly object now to their
deprecation?  That ship sailed long ago.