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26.2; Obsolete vt-control and vt100-led

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Nicolas Semrau <nicolas.semrau <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 37562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37562: 26.2; Obsolete vt-control and vt100-led
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:41:58 +0100

Nicolas Semrau <nicolas.semrau <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Five years ago, Stefan Monnier asked if vt100-led.el and vt-control.el
> could be obsoleted.[1] Since there was no objection at the time (and
> the hardware certainly not gaining in popularity since then), I propose
> to go through with declaring /lisp/vt-control.el and /lisp/vt100-led.el
> obsolete.
>
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-05/msg00169.html

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I've now moved them to lisp/obsolete in Emacs 29.  If it turns out that
they're useful (i.e., we get complaints from people using term/vtXXX),
then we'll reconsider, but it seems unlikely.

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