Subject: Re: bug#63722: 29.0.91; (elisp) Skip to end #@00 does not work

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 13:36:01 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 11:56:12 +0200
> 
> Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >>> The undocumented #@00 behaviour has indeed been co-opted by parts of
> >>> the community as an 'pretend end-of-file occurs here' mechanism,
> >> 
> >> Should this be documented then?
> >
> > I don't think we should do that right now -- the behaviour (read as
> > nil) is not ideal and should not be made permanent; we still have the
> > option to change it (but not in emacs 29, of course).
> >
> > We could also come up with a less obscure replacement syntax, given
> > that there may be a genuine need.
> 
> Everything right. But it is used meanwhile in the wild ... perhaps we
> should document then, that this usage is deprecated?

I see no reason to deprecate it, let alone remove it, FWIW.