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bug#43300: [PATCH] Make M-x show new commands for obsolete aliases
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#43300: [PATCH] Make M-x show new commands for obsolete aliases |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:10:02 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> Is the following sufficient?
>
> The old behavior was to never show obsolete commands in completion. You
> could therefore only run one if you remembered and manually typed in the
> old name. If you made a command obsolete, it would therefore just
> appear to disappear from one release to the next.
>
> The new behavior was intended to be less abrupt for cases where the old
> command is anyways just an alias for a new command. In this way, we can
> more gently nudge users to use the new command instead.
>
> I therefore think we should revert back to the old behavior for commands
> that are obsolete without an alternative, that is we should not add such
> commands to the list of completion candidates.
Or maybe still some indication is needed to be displayed, even if there is
no alias for a new command. Maybe display just " (obsolete)"?