From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: src/ChangeLog Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:50:42 -0700 Message-ID: <200710050550.l955okIb028614@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: <18164.26686.457566.622403@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200709240100.l8O103xN017990@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <87ps08g8n7.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191563531 3657 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2007 05:52:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:52:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 07:52:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Idg6W-00062b-HR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:52:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Idg6R-0005bF-T1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Idg6O-0005YZ-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:51:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Idg6M-0005VE-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:51:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Idg6M-0005V1-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:51:54 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Idg6M-0007nq-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:51:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l955okIb028614; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 22:50:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ps08g8n7.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Mon\, 24 Sep 2007 04\:22\:04 +0300") Original-Lines: 26 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-0.84, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44, J_CHICKENPOX_92 0.60) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 9 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:80265 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: > > > If someone wants to know exactly which changes after 2007-04-24 are > > > in 22.1 they have to look at src/ChangeLog on the EMACS_@@_BASE > > > branch, of course. > > > > This makes me think that it would be great if isearch in ChangeLog > > would know to start searching the next ChangeLog.XX file when getting > > to the end of the current one. We have the infrastructure to do this > > now, it just needs a bit of coding... > > This would be easy, but the question is in the evil details. Once details > are agreed, the implementation is straightforward. emacs uses: ChangeLog ChangeLog.12 ChangeLog.11 ... gcc uses: ChangeLog ChangeLog-2006 ChangeLog-2005 ... So it seems that ordering by the numeric suffix could work. > IIRC, there was an idea to specify the set of files to isearch > in the Local Variables section. That's also good, but it requires knowledge to write the correct incantation in the Local Variables section...