From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:07:09 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210012007.g91K79O18488@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033502953 28622 127.0.0.1 (1 Oct 2002 20:09:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17wTKR-0007RV-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:09:11 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17wU4l-00019F-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:57:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wTKl-0004GN-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wTIW-0003XQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:07:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wTIU-0003Wr-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from consort.superb.net ([209.61.216.22] helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wTIU-0003Wl-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g91K79O18488; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:07:09 -0400 Original-To: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8305 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8305 * Foo: (foo)bar. The GNU Foo program. vs * Foo: (foo)baz. The One and Only GNU FooBar program. No, these definitely should not be merged, IMHO. bar != baz. I agree, probably not to merge * Foo: (foo)bar. * Foobar: (foo)bar. either. However, I think these can be merged: * Foo: (foo)bar. GNU Foo. * Foo: (foo)bar. The one and only GNU Foo. where only the commentary differs. It's a judgement call, but personally I think having one menu entry is better in this case, because it's fewer entries in the dir file. Most likely one or the other them will be the older commentary, so why bother having it? Finally, the most important (and most common) thing to merge would be when everything is exactly the same: * Foo: (foo)bar. GNU Foo. * Foo: (foo)bar. GNU Foo. That is the case that instigated the whole discussion. Thanks, karl