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Re: translation-table-for-input


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: translation-table-for-input
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:54:51 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

> Look, if someone would suggest today adding such a feature, I'd
> probably object on the grounds of lack of use.  But what on Earth
> could be a good reason to remove something that is already there, have
> been there for several Emacs releases, and is documented in the
> manual??

It has various quirks, and doesn't provide any useful feature anymore.

> And after you already agreed to leave it, what is pushing you so hard
> to insist on declaring it obsolete?

Keeping the code maintainable is something I consider important.

> Don't we have more important things to do and argue about?

Indeed.  So just leave the make-variable-obsolete thing where it was,
and move on.


        Stefan




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