From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: search engine for virtual group?
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:23:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leyuijpt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ee4m34p9.fsf@igel.home>
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> On Feb 01 2022, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> gnus-search-engine’s value is ‘gnus-search-engine’
>>
>> Abstract base class for Gnus search engines.
>>
>> This variable is obsolete since 25.1;
>> use \='gnus-search-engine instead
>
> See eieio-defclass-internal in eieio-core.el:
>
> ;; turn this into a usable self-pointing symbol; FIXME: Why?
> (when eieio-backward-compatibility
> (set cname cname)
> (make-obsolete-variable cname (format "use '%s instead" cname)
> "25.1"))
>
> This is about deprecating the use of the variable gnus-search-engine in
> favor of the (quoted) symbol gnus-search-engine.
Yar, I know what the issue is, it just shouldn't be doing that in
`describe-variable'. Even if we are, in a very technical sense, treating
the class name as a variable here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-01 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-01 8:52 Eric S Fraga
2022-02-01 16:35 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-01 16:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-02-01 17:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2022-02-01 17:11 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-02-01 17:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-01 17:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-02-01 18:46 Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-01 22:21 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-03-03 16:56 ` dal-blazej
2022-03-07 0:39 ` Andrew Cohen
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