Re: gnus-single-article-buffer

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Sep 03 2010, Leo wrote:

> On 2010-09-03 13:58 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Hm.  I thought one could mark variables as deprecated...
>>
>> If not, just note it in the manual.
>
> There is `define-obsolete-variable-alias' in 23.2.

If there is no new variable to use instead (CURRENT-NAME = string),
`make-obsolete-variable' should be fine.

,----[ <f1> f define-obsolete-variable-alias RET ]
| define-obsolete-variable-alias is a Lisp macro in `byte-run.el'.
| (define-obsolete-variable-alias OBSOLETE-NAME CURRENT-NAME &optional WHEN
| DOCSTRING)
| 
| Make OBSOLETE-NAME a variable alias for CURRENT-NAME and mark it obsolete.
| 
| (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'old-var 'new-var "22.1" "old-var's doc.")
| 
| is equivalent to the following two lines of code:
| 
| (defvaralias 'old-var 'new-var "old-var's doc.")
| (make-obsolete-variable 'old-var 'new-var "22.1")
| 
| See the docstrings of `defvaralias' and `make-obsolete-variable' or
| Info node `(elisp)Variable Aliases' for more details.
`----

,----[ <f1> f make-obsolete-variable RET ]
| make-obsolete-variable is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
| `byte-run.el'.
| (make-obsolete-variable OBSOLETE-NAME CURRENT-NAME &optional WHEN)
| 
| Make the byte-compiler warn that OBSOLETE-NAME is obsolete.
| The warning will say that CURRENT-NAME should be used instead.
| If CURRENT-NAME is a string, that is the `use instead' message.
| If provided, WHEN should be a string indicating when the variable
| was first made obsolete, for example a date or a release number.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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