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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12/5/17 8:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > 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.

Not antlr-mode, no.

It specifically applies narrowing via prog-indentation-context as 
designed, because python-mode supports that (unlike other major modes).

> 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.

It solidifies an unused and unproved design which nobody can really use 
until the next release of Emacs anyway.

And also, you call it "existing", I call it "never having been in a 
release".