From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Advice needed on modeline customization hack...
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:55:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170417145538.4433e49c@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vaq2dhaw.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 21:23:35 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:07:40 -0400
> > From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> > Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> > emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:34:25 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > wrote:
> > > The entry should be preceded by "+++", to indicate that the
> > > manuals were updated.
> >
> > I vaguely remember that convention but I couldn't find it
> > documented
>
> It's documented at the beginning of NEWS. And you can see examples
> of that in other NEWS entries.
Maybe it isn't documented on master that way? This is what I see at
the start of the file, and a search for "+++" in the NEWS file on the
master branch turns up nothing:
-----
GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
Copyright (C) 2014-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
This file is about changes in Emacs version 25.
See file HISTORY for a list of GNU Emacs versions and release dates.
See files NEWS.24, NEWS.23, NEWS.22, NEWS.21, NEWS.20, NEWS.19, NEWS.18,
and NEWS.1-17 for changes in older Emacs versions.
You can narrow news to a specific version by calling 'view-emacs-news'
with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
^L
* Changes in Emacs 25.2
This is mainly a bug-fix release, but there are some other changes.
-----
> > +(defcustom column-number-indicator-zero-based t
> > + "When set to true, Column Number mode displays columns starting
> > +from zero at the left margin of the window. Otherwise, displayed
> > +column numbers start from one."
>
> The first line of a doc string should be a complete sentence.
> Something like
>
> When non-nil, mode line displays column numbers zero-based.
Gotcha. Will fix that for later.
> Let's wait for a few days to give others a chance to comment.
Sounds good.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-17 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-16 1:28 Advice needed on modeline customization hack Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-16 1:55 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-16 3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-16 13:49 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-16 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-16 14:46 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-16 15:02 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-16 16:09 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-16 20:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-16 22:06 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-16 22:16 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-16 22:57 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-16 23:48 ` Drew Adams
2017-04-17 0:13 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-17 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-17 12:53 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-17 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-17 15:24 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-17 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-17 18:07 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-17 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-17 18:55 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2017-04-17 19:07 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-17 19:18 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-05-10 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-17 15:21 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-17 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-17 15:55 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-04-17 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-17 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-17 12:32 ` Perry E. Metzger
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