Re: rst-mode deprecated keybindings: okay to remove? During freeze?

[Stefan Merten]

Hi Daniel!

2 days ago Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 01/06/2014 12:35 PM, Stefan Merten wrote:
>> Today Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> Would anyone mind terribly if I removed rst-mode's support for its
>>>> "deprecated" keybindings? If not, can I do it before the next release?
>> 
>> Please keep them once more. But you are right: They should be removed
>> at some point.
>> 
>>>> These
>>>> bindings (e.g., C-c 3) have emitted warnings for years, and right now, they
>>>> show up as ugly "??" entries in describe-mode output. I have a patch that
>>>> makes the presentation nicer, but it'd be better to just kill these
>>>> bindings entirely.
>> 
>> Thanks for the patch. But I think it's better to remove them in the
>> next release.
>> 
>> I'll do this.
> 
> Wait, I'm confused --- are you removing the deprecated bindings for
> 24.4 or not?

Sorry for being unclear: I meant in the next release (> 24.4) - not
now. I'm too busy with other things at the moment. At the same time
there are bigger changes in the whole code which are still brewing
though.

> If we're keeping them for this release, we should at
> least apply my patch so that C-h m is less confusing for users.

That may be a good move - though I doubt that anyone has a problem
with that. Please do the patch. I'll look at it later.


                                                Grüße

                                                Stefan

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