Re: Emacs 22.0.91 working, lazy-lock documentation inconsistency?

[Roland Roberts]

>>>>> "jb" == Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

    [...]

    jb> Obsolete *autoloaded* packages do not generate any warning on
    jb> using them, so there's less incentive to switch (for people
    jb> who's already using them; new users of course will see that the
    jb> package is in obsolete). I agree with Richard: the error message
    jb> is a good reminder to switch to better alternatives.

    jb> Put another way: if they're always autoloaded, and someday we
    jb> want to remove them from the distribution, it will be an abrupt
    jb> change, from "working as usual" to "non-present". Not
    jb> autoloading them makes this gradual: at least the user will know
    jb> at some point that he is using a package considered obsolete.

I agree here---if the package had been autoloaded, I would never have
known that it was obsolete and would not have removed setting
font-lock-support-mode from my .emacs.

The problem in my mind is not that it wasn't autoloaded, it was the
stumbling to find out why.  It *is* in the NEWS file, but I went first
to info looking for user-level documentation and found nothing.  I think
a one liner at then end of the info note "Font Lock" something like
this would help:

    JIT Lock replaces older support modes for font-lock such as
    lazy-lock and fast-lock which are still available but no longer
    auto-loaded.

roland
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