Re: simplifying windmove-frame-edges

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:44:51 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
>  > Why not remove (or, at the very least, comment out) all these functions,
>  > then? Even if they're part of the "published interface" of windmove.el,
>  > they are quite clearly internal implementation functions. I don't think any
>  > package out there is calling `windmove-reference-loc' because it just
>  > happened to be *the* function it needed.
> 
> With 'window-in-direction' practically the entire code in windmove.el
> had become obsolete, so we could have easily removed it back then.
> Later on Juri added directional selection and deletion.  So go ahead
> and remove whatever you see fit (unless Eli objects) ...

We cannot just delete them, we need to obsolete them first.  They were
with us for far too long.