From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ?
Date: 16 Apr 2004 04:08:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5fzb4u11w.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoekqo909b.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:
> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> > I must say that having news for old releases in one file is very
> > inconvenient.
>
> I agree, I've often been annoyed by this. It's a bit hard to say what's
> better though -- it really depends on the version the user is upgrading
> from, and we can't know that!
Well, customize-variable could also record the two last Emacs minor
and major Emacs versions valid on each change, and then the NEWS file
gets narrowed accordingly by C-h n.
Never say "we can't". The question is rather whether it is worth the
trouble.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-16 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-15 17:40 Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ? Kim F. Storm
2004-04-15 18:55 ` Juri Linkov
2004-04-16 1:31 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-16 2:08 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-04-16 2:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-16 13:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-17 14:09 ` Juri Linkov
2004-04-18 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-17 7:15 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-17 8:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-04-17 14:09 ` Juri Linkov
2004-04-18 14:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-04-18 17:10 ` Adrian Aichner
2004-04-18 17:21 ` Adrian Aichner
2004-04-18 21:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-19 6:58 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-19 10:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-04-22 3:18 ` Juri Linkov
2004-04-22 23:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-25 4:55 ` Juri Linkov
2004-04-25 23:36 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-26 4:59 ` Juri Linkov
2004-04-26 6:18 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-26 14:10 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-22 2:54 ` isearch (was: Re: Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ?) Juri Linkov
2004-04-23 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-23 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-23 18:35 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-16 18:08 ` Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ? Richard Stallman
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