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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
Cc: 32395-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32395: 26.1; generated autoloads includes string properties if buffer is open
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:10:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bma1gk35.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADbSrJwtQue2GV3WsAALLSg4mcTC9brixm=X_-=Zm1JCH6vhgg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Allen Li on Sat, 11 Aug 2018 02:49:30 -0700)

> From: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 02:49:30 -0700
> Cc: 32395@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Can you tell more about the use case where you see this?  Does this
> > happen when the autoload files in the Emacs tree are generated?
> 
> I use update-directory-autoloads to generate autoloads for personal
> Emacs Lisp files.  The text changes depending on whether I have a
> buffer open for any of said files, which is annoying as I have the
> autoload file under source version control.  If I edit one file and
> update autoloads, it will create a number of unrelated changes in
> version control, depending on whether I have any other files open in
> buffers or not.
> 
> I don't see why there is a need to preserve the text properties of the
> package prefix in the autoload file, only when the file for which
> autoloads are being generated is open in a buffer.  That seems like
> very silly behavior to me and I would fix it on principle even if it
> were not affecting my work flow.

Thanks, I've pushed your changes to the master branch.  If as result
you no longer think of Emacs as being silly, we all win.





      reply	other threads:[~2018-08-17 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-08  7:09 bug#32395: 26.1; generated autoloads includes string properties if buffer is open Allen Li
2018-08-08  7:13 ` bug#32395: [PATCH] Don't include text properties when making autoloads Allen Li
2018-08-11  9:18 ` bug#32395: 26.1; generated autoloads includes string properties if buffer is open Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-11  9:49   ` Allen Li
2018-08-17 14:10     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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