Richard Stallman writes:
> Before you install this, please write the changes for etc/NEWS and the
> Lisp manual to install at the same time.
For completeness, I guess there should be one for functions too. Indeed, there
seem to be more uses of make-obsolete than make-obsolete-variable (possibly
bacause defvaralias is newer than defalias). I see XEmacs has
define-obsolete-function-alias so we could do:
(defmacro define-obsolete-function-alias (function aliased
&optional docstring when)
"blurb"
`(progn
(defalias ,function ,aliased ,docstring)
(make-obsolete ,function ,aliased ,when)))
Or we could combine the two e.g
(defmacro define-obsolete-alias (new aliased
&optional docstring when)
"blurb"
`(if (fboundp ,aliased)
(progn
(defalias ,new ,aliased ,docstring)
(make-obsolete ,new ,aliased ,when))
(progn
(defvaralias ,new ,aliased ,docstring)
(make-obsolete-variable ,new ,aliased ,when))))
It would have to be done a bit differently though, to deal with case of
a symbol having both a value and a function definition.
Nick
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