Re: [PATCH] make define-obsolete-* functions compatible with FSF

Michael Sperber writes: > > > Excellent! Any chance of documentation for WHEN and DOCSTRING? (In > > > particular, shouldn't it *do* something with WHEN?) > > > > I don't see why. > > I was just asking a question: If WHEN doesn't do anything, that should > be documented Oh, I certainly agree with that. I thought the "it" in your question referred to the define-obsolete-* function itself, that maybe it should do something with WHEN. I'd rather not, as it could get rather messy, what with GNU syncs pulling in GNU version strings and package versions which don't correspond to any version of Emacs itself. I think Jeff's updated patch should be revised to say something like Optional WHEN currently does nothing in XEmacs. It is accepted for compatibility with GNU Emacs. If present, it should be a string naming the version in which the variable was first marked obsolete. and committed.