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[PATCH v2] ido.el: define a special ido-fallback variable

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Christophe Junke <junke.christophe <at> gmail.com>, 31783 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31783: [PATCH v2] ido.el: define a special ido-fallback variable
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:34:10 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Christophe Junke <junke.christophe <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:16:07 +0200
>> 
>> With respect to naming: my possibly wrong understanding of 
>> Emacs Lisp coding conventions is that special variables should be 
>> prefixed by the package's name, and that's why I (re)named 
>> the variable ido-fallback in both patches. 
>> 
>> Also, here is a summary of the original problem, as I see it.
>
> Ah, okay.  Thanks for explaining this, I agree that your original
> change was TRT.

So should this go to emacs-26?  It's introducing a new feature, but that
makes up for a semi-accidental feature that was lost.

And what's the copyright situation?

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