From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: 4760@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4760: 23.1.50; C-x v a gone wild.
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:24:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910210724.n9L7OUSx004669@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2r5sz5j87.fsf@swipnet.se
jan.h.d@swipnet.se.?= (Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv) writes:
> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>
> Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list.
>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> C-x v a computes change log entries for a very long time.
> Then it inserts an entry with lot of old stuff included.
> It doesn't respect user-full-name or user-mail-address.
> The change isn't mentioned in NEWS, is there a switch to get back the
> old C-x v a?
AFAICT nothing has changed in this area for a long time.
If you could send some step by step instructions on how to reproduce
this with an old version that works the way you expect, it might not be
too hard to find what changed...
(I've never used this command, so I don't know what to expect of it).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-21 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-19 18:31 bug#4760: 23.1.50; C-x v a gone wild Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv
2009-10-21 7:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2009-10-21 9:29 ` Jan Djärv
2009-10-21 9:35 ` bug#4760: marked as done (23.1.50; C-x v a gone wild.) Emacs bug Tracking System
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=200910210724.n9L7OUSx004669@godzilla.ics.uci.edu \
--to=dann@ics.uci.edu \
--cc=4760@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com \
--cc=jan.h.d@swipnet.se \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).