From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs doc changes Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:57:32 +0200 Message-ID: <85fyk9fnxv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <17469.29694.605871.59144@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17469.53282.265431.557135@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <4nd5flnwtg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nek002s4h.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nodz4ywgg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nejzv9b98.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4n7j5l5xt6.fsf_-_@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145469513 22867 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2006 17:58:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 19:58:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGwX-0007QM-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:58:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGwV-0004QG-Nd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGwK-0004Or-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGwH-0004O7-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGwH-0004O3-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWGxQ-00006M-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FWGw9-0001Fz-Hz; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:57:58 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 90ABB1C3DB49; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:57:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:51:46 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53090 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Ted Zlatanov >> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:34:29 -0400 >> >> Attached is patch #1, covering emacs.texi and screen.texi. > > Thanks, but please resend them as context diffs ("diff -c"). It's > very hard to read the format you sent, and it's even harder to apply > with Patch (chances that Patch will fail are very high). Is there a reason not to use unified diffs ("diff -u") when available? Of course, not all diff programs can provide them, but GNU diff does, and patch understands them just as well, and I find it quite more human-readable (if I consider myself representative for a human, that is). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum