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Re: Comment in verilog-mode.el about supported versions
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Noam Postavsky |
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Re: Comment in verilog-mode.el about supported versions |
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Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:09:13 -0500 |
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Kaushal Modi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Copying Wilson Snyder.
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> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016, 5:19 PM Tino Calancha <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> in the comentary of
>> lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
>> you can find following comment:
>> ;; This code supports Emacs 21.1 and later
>> ;; And XEmacs 21.1 and later
>> ;; Please do not make changes that break Emacs 21. Thanks!
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>> I could understand this comment in a version of this file
>> elsewhere, e.g. ELPA, but not in the built-in version in Emacs.
>> Why is this comment needed?
>> Is it OK to drop from the master branch this kind of comments?
This reminds me, I posted a patch to fix a bug in verilog-mode, but
left it unapplied because I wasn't sure about backwards compatibility:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23842#62