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29.0.50; The '(declare (modes MODE...))' NEWS entry is confusing

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 52839 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#52839: 29.0.50; The '(declare (modes MODE...))' NEWS entry is confusing
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:47:07 +0200

> Cc: 52839 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 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.

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