Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Drew Adams wrote:

>> I'm attaching a patch to remove most things declared obsolete in 23.2
>> and 23.3.  (Nothing was declared obsolete in 23.4 AFAICT.)
>> 
>> There are still some items obsoleted in 23.x left to delete in Semantic.
>> I intend to do that in a separate patch.
>> 
>> Comments welcome.

> PLEASE do not remove `interactive-p'.

> I have over 2500 lines that use `interactive-p'.

> Is there some problem with keeping its simple
> definition as (called-interactively 'interactive)?

I second this.

Removal of interactive-p would unnecessarily break many third-party
elisp libraries, while keeping the backwards compatible definition in
Emacs requires only a single line.