Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/widen-less a4ba846: Replace prog-widen with consolidating widen calls

[Eli Zaretskii]

On December 5, 2017 12:45:34 AM GMT+02:00, Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/5/17 12:05 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>> But I'd be fine keeping the old prog-indentation-context if you
> want.
> >> How would that work? It's second element must be unused for the
> above
> >> protocol to work.
> > 
> > That's right.  Keep it and ignore it.
> 
> Then any real consumer of prog-indentation-context will also have to
> add 
> a narrow-to-region to their code.
> 
> So backward compatibility will be poor anyway.

I think any users of prog-indentation-context already do narrow.
So we don't harm anything in that area by keeping it.

Once again, we are talking about removing _existing_ code, even
if unused.  So "unnecessary" or "useless" just don't cut it; please
explain how it does some real damage.