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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: removal of org-maybe-keyword-time-regexp
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:29:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pndi4m2h.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k13qoaxx.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> I'm using org-caldav (https://github.com/dengste/org-caldav/) to
>> synchronize the calendar on my Android phone and Org. Recently this
>> synchronization stopped working because org-caldav relies on
>> org-maybe-keyword-time-regexp that has been dropped from Org. As a
>> workaround, could this variable be reintroduced in org so as not to
>> break this very useful package ?
>
> Could you contact upstream instead?
>
> AFAICT, they use this variable only twice. The first occurrence doesn't
> seem useful (they check for a planning info keyword in a headline, which
> cannot happen), it is probably enough to look for `org-ts-regexp-both'.
>
> I'm not sure about the second one. I guess it would be better for them
> to use something like:
>
>     (and (re-search-forward "org-planning-line-re" nil t)
>          (org-at-planning-p)
>          (progn
>            (org-skip-whitespace)
>            (looking-at org-ts-regexp-both)))
>
> The (small) issue here is that we cannot properly deprecate a variable
> that is not replaced with something else (i.e., we're not using
> `define-obsolete-variable-alias' here).

But if we use `make-obsolete-variable', the CURRENT-NAME arg can be a
simply explanatory string.

I was also recently bit by the removal of a bunch of regexps (in my
case, link regexps), and it would have been useful to have some sort of
a pointer, either in the obsolescence message or in the docs, about what
we're supposed to do instead.

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-11 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-11 17:21 removal of org-maybe-keyword-time-regexp Julien Cubizolles
2020-03-11 21:09 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-03-11 21:29   ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-03-11 22:20     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-03-11 22:57       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-03-12  8:21         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-03-12 19:03           ` Eric Abrahamsen

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