Re: eldoc-docstring-format-sym-doc

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 21:49:12 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > when was the function "eldoc-docstring-format-sym-doc" removed? I cant
> > find nothing in the logs.
> 
> In this commit:
> 
>   commit 1203626f472b0d99d2746f5999711137c0c1fd0c
>   Author: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
>   Date:   Sat Jun 6 14:04:48 2020 +0100
> 
> > Elpy is using it.
> 
> It seems like it was removed including allmost all calls except for in
> semantic/grammar.el:
> 
>     * lisp/cedet/semantic/grammar.el (semantic--docstring-format-sym-doc):
>     New function.
>     (semantic-grammar-eldoc-get-macro-docstring): Adjust.
> 
> Basically semantic--docstring-format-sym-doc is the old
> eldoc-docstring-format-sym-doc.  But I guess the plan is to remove that
> eventually, too.  Eldoc got a overhaul recently...

João, based on this report, do we need some backward-compatibility
shim to help 3rd party packages which use this removed function?