From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Query re `format-mode-line' Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157650913 16499 80.91.229.2 (7 Sep 2006 17:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 07 19:41:48 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 1GLNsY-0002EJ-VG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:41:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLNsY-00019z-Eu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:41:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GLNs9-0000kk-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GLNs7-0000hC-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLNs7-0000gy-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GLNsX-000518-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:41:29 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:59516 Archived-At: `format-mode-line' is a function in `emacs/src/xdisp.c'. It was first put into CVS on 11 June 2002. GNU Emacs version 21.1 was released on 20 October 2001 and `format-mode-line' came after that. However, although I do not know when 21.4 was released, the date for building a Debian-modified version 21.4 is 2005. Emacs 21.4 has it in the symbol-name slot of a symbol, but no where else. The current CVS has it in the symbol-function slot, too. It is listed in NEWS as a new function in Emacs 22.1 Does anyone know what happened to get `format-mode-line' listed in the symbol-name slot of a symbol, but no where else, in Emacs 21.4? Do only bug fixes go into minor version updates such as 21.4? Or put another way, have there been no new functions introduced into the Emacs that most people use since 2001? -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc