GNU bug report logs - #35940
[PATCH] bookmark.el: Remove support for renaming ancient "~/.emacs-bkmrks" file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 01:24:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] bookmark.el: Remove support for renaming ancient
 "~/.emacs-bkmrks" file
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 03:23:26 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Since at least 1995, there has been a variable `bookmark-old-default-file'
referring to an old default file name "~/.emacs-bkmrks", and some
accompanying code to rename from the old file name to the new one.

Since it's extremely unlikely that someone has a need to recover this kind
of file from before 1995 and use it in a modern Emacs, I think it's about
time to retire this code.  Please see the attached patch for a suggestion.

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas

[0001-Make-bookmark-old-default-file-variable-obsolete.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
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