Subject: Re: bug#36260: 27.0.50; isearchb should be reimplemented without iswitchb

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 13:52:41 +0200

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:

>   > iswitchb is an obsolete package, but isearchb is implemented on top of
>   > it.  It should be possible to reimplement it on top of any of the
>   > un-obsoleted completion packages (like ido), but it's a complete
>   > reimplementation:
>
> We could declare isearchb obsolete.
> We could declare iswitchb not obsolete.

Yup; those are also solutions, but apparently the maintainers think that
iswitchb isn't very useful anymore, but people still use isearchb,
apparently.

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