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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: 23485@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23485: 25.1.50; patch (docstring) for vc-hg.el
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:48:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r27h93n9.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twi8uyji.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Sun, 08 May 2016 19:42:25 +0000")

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> This little patch provides some additional information for vc-hg.el in
> order to get the old behavior of the modeline.

[...]

> +If you want the old behaviour of `vc-hg.el' (see the variable
> +'vc-hg-use-file-version-for-mode-line-version')  namely that
> +the modline displays [Hg-revnumber], then you must set the variable
> +to the list (\"{rev}\")."

I think (except in some peculiar circumstances), the place to talk about
"the old behaviour" is in the NEWS file, not in docstrings: The doc
string should talk about current behaviour, because (new) users won't
have seen the old behaviour.

So I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-25 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-08 19:42 bug#23485: 25.1.50; patch (docstring) for vc-hg.el Uwe Brauer
2019-06-25 13:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-06-25 14:03   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 14:26     ` Uwe Brauer
2019-06-25 14:30       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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