From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm+gmane@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Changes to emacs/lisp/ChangeLog,v
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:49:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsl51sfmf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m4bqbq3b5g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue\, 25 Sep 2007 13\:30\:51 -0400")
>> - * term/sun.el (scroll-down-in-place, scroll-up-in-place): Use
>> - forward-line instead of previous-line and next-line.
>> + * term/sun.el (scroll-down-in-place, scroll-up-in-place):
>> + Use forward-line instead of previous-line and next-line.
> Also, could you and the others who seem to have their own rules about
> ChangeLog formats please share them? Or modify the Emacs filling code
> so it does the right thing.
I think the above change corresponds to the rule that says that it's
generally preferred for sentences to be on their own lines rather than
spread over 2 lines.
It's an approximate rule, linked to aesthetics, so it's difficult to write
a filling rule that understands it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-26 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1Ia8QA-0002ex-71@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
2007-09-25 17:30 ` Changes to emacs/lisp/ChangeLog,v Glenn Morris
2007-09-25 19:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-09-26 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
[not found] <E1JKyLv-0003EF-Ax@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
2008-02-02 0:22 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-02 0:38 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-02 21:39 ` Glenn Morris
[not found] <E1HaGoy-0007GV-SJ@cvs>
2007-04-07 20:28 ` Glenn Morris
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