Re: master 1870e2f48a7: Avoid `defconst` for vars which we modify

[Michael Albinus]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

Hi,

>> I'm not sure, but I vaguely remember that this kind of quoting wasn't
>> needed anymore since Emacs 27.1. Am I wrong?
>
> Only so long as we still want to support editing our files with Emacs 26
> and earlier, where fontification and other navigation commands rely on
> open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start, I think.

We're speaking about tramp.el, which has as Package-Requires ((emacs "27.1"))
(see file trampver.el). I don't think we shall support editing by an older
Emacs version, and we shouldn't keep such compatibility code forever.

Best regards, Michael.