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bug#20076: 24.4; x-nontext-pointer-shape not existent as option from Lis
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20076: 24.4; x-nontext-pointer-shape not existent as option from Lisp code |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:06:14 +0300 |
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 20:05:32 -0400
> Cc: 20076@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Is there any particular reason for this peculiar decision? Or more
> > generally, why would a desirable feature be present, but commented out
> > from code? Are there any special known caveats that led to it?
>
> I think the reasons are lost to the mist of time, [1: af01ef2643] is the
> commit
> which ifdefs it out; the changelog is not very enlightening.
>
> [1: af01ef2643]: 1993-05-21 20:22:10 +0000
> (syms_of_xfns): Don't make Lisp vars x-mode-pointer-shape and
> x-nontext-pointer-shape.
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=af01ef26430d69c04421aac4d862df4f5898a838
We could perhaps expose these variables to Lisp again, on master, and
see if that breaks something in the long run.