[PATCH v2] emacs: add compatability functions for emacs 23

[David Bremner]

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:


>> 2) It's getting hard to debug emacs23 problems, and developer time is
>>    scarce, so at the same time, deprecate emacs23 support, so e.g. after
>>    the next major release we can just drop it.
>
> It is not hard at all. Just do not mess w/ mixed environments >;).

I guess a more accurate way of saying it is that I don't want to spend
time on it anymore. So I think I want to deprecate it anyway, with the
understanding that we'll keep supporting as long as we (we being someone
who is not me) can, but no guarantees.

d