From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog fontifications Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 16:52:35 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040516205235.GA24177@fencepost> References: <200405132050.00109.bruno@clisp.org> <200405161714.17062.bruno@clisp.org> <2914-Sun16May2004185250+0300-eliz@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084740859 16227 80.91.224.253 (16 May 2004 20:54:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 20:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bruno Haible , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 16 22:54:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPSeA-0003UY-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 22:54:10 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPSeA-0005KE-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 22:54:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPSdP-0001vT-G4 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 16 May 2004 16:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPSdH-0001qy-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 May 2004 16:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPSci-0001Kt-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 May 2004 16:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPSch-0001K7-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 May 2004 16:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BPScd-0006V9-Ro; Sun, 16 May 2004 16:52:35 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2914-Sun16May2004185250+0300-eliz@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23549 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23549 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