From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, hendrik.tews@kernkonzept.com, 45438@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:58:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834kk8n8a8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kt6no-0002VV-Ma@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:28:00 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:28:00 -0500
> Cc: hendrik.tews@kernkonzept.com, 45438@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Every new function is listed in the ChangeLog files.
> _We_ know when it was introduced.
>
> What this means
>
> > > assoc-delete-all was introduced in emacs 26.2, however,
> > > describe-function says "Probably introduced at or before Emacs
> > > version 21.1.".
>
> is that the data that describe-function consults does not have all the
> information that we have.
If the suggestion is to use ChangeLog data for this feature, then I
think it won't be easy, because it isn't easy to parse the ChangeLog
text for gleaning this more accurate information. For starters, we
sometimes say "New function", sometimes just "New", and sometimes have
lists of functions (all of which are new) with a single "New" entry.
It would be better to have a DB of this data, which we would update
with each major release, than to try to parse ChangeLog files, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-26 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-25 22:13 bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all Hendrik Tews
2020-12-25 22:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-26 10:28 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-12-26 21:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-27 5:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-27 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-28 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 21:04 ` Hendrik Tews
2020-12-26 21:17 ` Hendrik Tews
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2020-12-26 18:59 ` Drew Adams
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