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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 08 Jan 1997 02:41:06 +0100
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:21:07 -0500 (EST)
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Kyle Jones (kyle_jones@wonderworks.com) wrote:
> There is no pain associated with continuing to support
> mode-line-format.

Which is exactly what XEmacs does.

> XEmacs.  I'm talking about basic compatibility.  Why go through
> he trouble of syncing against FSF releases and then mess with
> users minds like this?

The syncing with FSF is not done just to have the same code, but to
have the latest versions of various packages.

> Then the old mode-line form should have been used since it
> predated everything in XEmacs.  Deciding to use another naming
> scheme and then blaming pointing at an _old_ variable as a
> horrible incompatibility would make my superego itch, but I've
> been called a stick-in-the-mud before.

No, no.  AFAIK there were, variables named mode-line* and modeline*,
mode-line-format being only one of them, and all of them being as
ancient.  XEmacs maintainers simply decided to stick to one name, and
proclaim the other obsolete.  This is good, and RMS should have done
it too.

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