From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog fontifications
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 16:52:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040516205235.GA24177@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2914-Sun16May2004185250+0300-eliz@gnu.org>
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 06:52:50PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > What are the advantages/benefits of the new Emacs style that should
> > convince me and others to use it?
>
> The advantages/benefits were already mentioned in this thread: the new
> style makes it easier for line-oriented programs to find the names of
> changed functions/macros.
And even more importantly it makes it easier for a _human_ to read changelog
entries -- it really does.
-Miles
--
Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory.
-- Walter Hines Page
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-16 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-13 18:50 ChangeLog fontifications Bruno Haible
2004-05-13 19:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 19:43 ` Bruno Haible
2004-05-13 20:38 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 21:12 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-13 21:15 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 20:13 ` Alan Shutko
2004-05-13 20:42 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 21:37 ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-13 21:56 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-14 3:00 ` Karl Eichwalder
2004-05-14 4:24 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-14 13:56 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-05-14 6:24 ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-14 6:36 ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-14 15:31 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-14 21:02 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-16 15:14 ` Bruno Haible
2004-05-16 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-16 20:52 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-05-17 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-18 5:02 ` Karl Eichwalder
2004-05-19 1:32 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-19 13:08 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-19 13:22 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-19 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-19 13:45 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-11 17:15 Sam Steingold
2004-05-11 18:03 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-11 22:54 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-11 23:02 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-12 8:33 ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-12 10:10 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-12 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-13 17:22 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-14 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 23:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-12 0:08 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-12 5:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-12 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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