Make the yank-handler argument obsolete.

* simple.el (kill-new, kill-append, kill-region):
* comint.el (comint-kill-region): Make the yank-handler argument obsolete.

etc/NEWS

@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ starting from the first line of text below the header line.
   The old names are obsolete.
 ** The use of unintern without an obarray arg is declared obsolete.
 ** The function `princ-list' is declared obsolete.
+** The yank-handler argument to kill-region and friends is declared obsolete.
 ** New function byte-to-string, like char-to-string but for bytes.
 
 

lisp/ChangeLog

+2010-11-18  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+	* simple.el (kill-new, kill-append, kill-region):
+	* comint.el (comint-kill-region): Make the yank-handler argument obsolete.
+
 2010-11-17  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 
 	* emacs-lisp/smie.el (smie-bnf-classify): Signal errors for tokens

lisp/comint.el

@@ -2641,6 +2641,7 @@ updated using `comint-update-fence', if necessary."
 	(let ((inhibit-read-only t))
 	  (kill-region beg end yank-handler)
 	  (comint-update-fence))))))
+(set-advertised-calling-convention 'comint-kill-new '(beg end) "23.3")
 
 
 ;; Support for source-file processing commands.

lisp/simple.el

@@ -2831,11 +2831,6 @@ If `interprogram-cut-function' is non-nil, apply it to STRING.
 Optional second argument REPLACE non-nil means that STRING will replace
 the front of the kill ring, rather than being added to the list.
 
-Optional third arguments YANK-HANDLER controls how the STRING is later
-inserted into a buffer; see `insert-for-yank' for details.
-When a yank handler is specified, STRING must be non-empty (the yank
-handler, if non-nil, is stored as a `yank-handler' text property on STRING).
-
 When `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' and `interprogram-paste-function'
 are non-nil, saves the interprogram paste string(s) into `kill-ring' before
 STRING.
@@ -2872,22 +2867,19 @@ argument should still be a \"useful\" string for such uses."
   (setq kill-ring-yank-pointer kill-ring)
   (if interprogram-cut-function
       (funcall interprogram-cut-function string (not replace))))
+(set-advertised-calling-convention
+ 'kill-new '(string &optional replace) "23.3")
 
 (defun kill-append (string before-p &optional yank-handler)
   "Append STRING to the end of the latest kill in the kill ring.
 If BEFORE-P is non-nil, prepend STRING to the kill.
-Optional third argument YANK-HANDLER, if non-nil, specifies the
-yank-handler text property to be set on the combined kill ring
-string.  If the specified yank-handler arg differs from the
-yank-handler property of the latest kill string, this function
-adds the combined string to the kill ring as a new element,
-instead of replacing the last kill with it.
 If `interprogram-cut-function' is set, pass the resulting kill to it."
   (let* ((cur (car kill-ring)))
     (kill-new (if before-p (concat string cur) (concat cur string))
 	      (or (= (length cur) 0)
 		  (equal yank-handler (get-text-property 0 'yank-handler cur)))
 	      yank-handler)))
+(set-advertised-calling-convention 'kill-append '(string before-p) "23.3")
 
 (defcustom yank-pop-change-selection nil
   "If non-nil, rotating the kill ring changes the window system selection."
@@ -2968,11 +2960,7 @@ Supply two arguments, character positions indicating the stretch of text
 Any command that calls this function is a \"kill command\".
 If the previous command was also a kill command,
 the text killed this time appends to the text killed last time
-to make one entry in the kill ring.
-
-In Lisp code, optional third arg YANK-HANDLER, if non-nil,
-specifies the yank-handler text property to be set on the killed
-text.  See `insert-for-yank'."
+to make one entry in the kill ring."
   ;; Pass point first, then mark, because the order matters
   ;; when calling kill-append.
   (interactive (list (point) (mark)))
@@ -3004,6 +2992,7 @@ text.  See `insert-for-yank'."
        (barf-if-buffer-read-only)
        ;; If the buffer isn't read-only, the text is.
        (signal 'text-read-only (list (current-buffer)))))))
+(set-advertised-calling-convention 'kill-region '(beg end) "23.3")
 
 ;; copy-region-as-kill no longer sets this-command, because it's confusing
 ;; to get two copies of the text when the user accidentally types M-w and