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

[Eli Zaretskii]

On December 5, 2017 10:42:27 AM GMT+00:00, Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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".

"Solidifies unused design" doesn't sound convincing to me, sorry.  Especially 
since I still think we can accommodate MMM without breaking 
prog-indentation-context and its users, whether existing or future.