GNU bug report logs - #40703
Unable to turn off autoarg-kp-mode

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 01:22:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 40703 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 40703 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40703: [PATCH] Make autoarg.el obsolete
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:59:00 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> FWIW, I still think this mode is more of a historical musing than it
> is useful.  But I accept that I'm in a minority here.

I agree with you.  It's a feature that clearly doesn't work, which
should be a good indication that nobody uses it.  Doesn't work + Nobody
uses it spells "should be obsoleted" to me.  (I may be using the wrong
dictionary here, though.)

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