> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

   > A moment ago, I followed up with a proposal to walk up the tree --
   > which turns out to be what the current behavior is supposed to be
   > anyway, and is what you expected -- because I didn't realize that that
   > behavior was already implemented.



   > Then I read the doc string for `find-change-log' and the behavior
   > described there seems to be exactly what you wanted and expected.

This is my understanding too, reading the documentation. However in my case
emacs *does* not walk up the tree, it offers me to open a (non existing)
ChangeLog file in the current directory, which I found annoying.

   > So I *think* the behavior you want is the behavior Emacs is already
   > supposed to have. Have you simply discovered a bug, or is there
   > something subtle about your situation that is not covered by the
   > current intended behavior of `find-change-log'?

I think I have to debug it, starting with emacs -q.

Thanks

Uwe