Subject: bug#75910: 31; Deprecate minibuffer-completing-file-name

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:45:42 +0000

> >> I think it should be removed like
> >> `minibuffer-completing-symbol' which has already been removed.
> >
> > That variable shouldn't have been removed either.
> 
> It is well-known that you are against ever
> removing anything, on principle.

(Here we go again with the knee-jerk ad hominem...)

Whether or not you think that's "well-known",
it's incorrect. 

> We use different criteria.

Can you even say what specific criteria were used
to justify removing that variable?  Non-rhetorical
question.

Whether and how much something might still be used
in the Emacs core base itself is an awful yardstick
with which to try to judge its use in the larger
Emacs world.

The Emacs "code base" can, and does, often not try
hard to remain compatible with older code-base code.
Emacs code in the large is a different story.