From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master f96fe57: New option to make 'C-x 4 a' use file-less ChangeLog buffers Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:09:20 +0300 Message-ID: <831sbvxsz3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180721150303.25239.56989@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180721150304.A6BF2208D4@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87k1pnfucv.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532268446 1209 195.159.176.226 (22 Jul 2018 14:07:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 14:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 22 16:07:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fhF17-0000CL-Lr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:07:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56128 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhF3E-0004sq-Jr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhF34-0004rC-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:09:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhF33-0008OW-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:09:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47253) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhF2y-0008N6-6u; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4203 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fhF2x-0001mE-K4; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:09:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k1pnfucv.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:16:48 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227670 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:16:48 +0200 > Cc: João Távora > > joaotavora@gmail.com (João Távora) writes: > > > +your program and keep a change log. In these situations, you may not > > +want to keep a separate versioned change log file. If > > +@code{add-log-dont-create-changelog-file} is non-@code{nil}, commands > > +like @kbd{C-x 4 a} (@code{add-change-log-entry-other-window}) will > > +record changes in a suitably named temporary buffer instead of a file, > > +unless such a file already exists. > > So if add-log-dont-create-changelog-file is t, but ChangeLog exists as > a file on disk, the entry goes there and not in the non-file ChangeLog > buffer? Yes. > That would be surprising to me. Why surprising? First, this is the current behavior, so this way we are less incompatible; and second, that's why the option has "create" in its name. Maybe I'm missing something.