From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: cvs best practise [was: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process] Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:52:38 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <878xht2zpl.fsf_-_@hans.local.net> References: <87d5753f9o.fsf@hans.local.net> <456E3407.5000106@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164869638 7549 80.91.229.2 (30 Nov 2006 06:53:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 07:53:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gpfnv-0004eu-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:53:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gpfnt-0003ff-Um for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:53:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpfnM-0003dA-VU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:53:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpfnI-0003Yw-9K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:53:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpfnI-0003Yt-2N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:53:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.177] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GpfnF-0002OM-Cw; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:53:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.25.87] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML21M-1GpfnD2E8w-0005Qj; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:53:11 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E502B75676; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:52:38 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu\, 30 Nov 2006 06\:29\:04 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39116 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:43 +0100 >> From: Lennart Borgman >> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs Devel , >> Mathias Dahl >> >> That is because no one has had the time to rewrite that part. I see. >> >> Reading that part I also found that it is about running DOS processes on >> MS Windows. I suggest that we rename to to reflect this. > > What version of which manual are you reading? In the CVS version (and > the one distributed with the pretest), the MS-Windows part _was_ > rewritten, and the node's name is "Windows processes". That's right, but still nowhere mentioned w32-shell-execute. I'd like to send a patch for this help file with one sentence or so added. Admitted in this case it's more intended as practising stunt for learning more about texinfo and CVS usage. What I'd like to know is how you guys are handling a changed version of the Emacs source tree? If I changed this particular info file I'd get in trouble when updating the sources. Am I supposed to merge my personally changed files every time I'll do an update or is it better to have a totally independent second Emacs tree for ones pet changes? I'm eager to learn this. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany