From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881 Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:34:28 +0900 Message-ID: <87iqbflgpn.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wrzwp5gd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201001060700.o06706Sw006855@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87637fg0jq.fsf@telefonica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262769925 21996 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 09:25:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:25:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 10:25:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSS8i-0003TA-N7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:25:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSS8j-0000sV-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:25:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSS8Y-0000ml-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSS8T-0000hI-9W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41392 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSS8S-0000h4-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:54987) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSS8S-0008LJ-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8928214; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:24:55 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A19B11A2C00; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:34:28 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87637fg0jq.fsf@telefonica.net> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 1444e28f1a3d XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:119511 Archived-At: =D3scar Fuentes writes: > Maybe something like >=20 > ##--author=3D"John Doe " > <> That's one possibility. Another would be a vc-commit-mode (or vc-commit-minor-mode?) which would provide a keymap you could use to either specify individual commit options (--amend comes immediately to mind) or enter a dialog. The advantage to doing this would be that the commit mode could use history (applying several commits from the same author, for example). In both cases it would be nice to have hooks to scarf author (and maybe commit message) out of a ChangeLog, or mail headers for that matter.