Subject: bug#52839: 29.0.50; The '(declare (modes MODE...))' NEWS entry is confusing

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:47:07 +0200

> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:27:38 -0500
> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> But the commit doesn't say why this change was made (other than saying
> "like it was before").  Was there a specific problem introduced by the
> filtering, or was it a change based on a judgment call about what the
> default should be to balance the tradeoffs between bringing new
> features and surprising the users?

The latter.  We then added the "M-X" binding for the new command that
always omits inapplicable commands from the completion, so now users
can have the cake and eat it, too.