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: patch: add-log.el: changelog find file under poin Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:09:15 -0800 Message-ID: <200801222310.m0MN9cZq011601@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <1194211092.13041.13.camel@peder.flower> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201043559 17037 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2008 23:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , janneke-list@xs4all.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 00:12:58 2008 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 1JHSIb-0005g5-IW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:12:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHSIB-00045s-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:12:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHSI7-00043J-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:12:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHSI6-000437-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:12:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHSI6-000434-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:12:26 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHSHy-0000oA-TK; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:12:19 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1201648219.84092@RYMOXELJlBQjUS6gpJTMgw Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m0MN9cZq011601; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:10:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:29:20 -0500") Original-Lines: 34 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:87331 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > ffap is just a function, not a mode of any kind. > > Perhaps you are saying you don't want people to have to load ffap.el? > > Here's the file's documentation: > > ;; For the default installation, add this line to your .emacs file: > ;; > ;; (ffap-bindings) ; do default key bindings > ;; > ;; ffap-bindings makes the following global key bindings: > ;; > ;; C-x C-f find-file-at-point (abbreviated as ffap) > ;; C-x C-r ffap-read-only > ;; C-x C-v ffap-alternate-file > > This is not, strictly speaking, a minor mode (though perhaps we should > make it one), but it acts like a mode. Some people use it, some > don't. > > So the question is, should Change Log mode have this feature, > or should we say "globally use ffap if you want this"? > > Or, perhaps Change Log mode could bind find-file-at-point > to a C-c command. That would be FAR less useful than the current proposal. The point is that the file might not be at point. :-) If you looking at a log entry with 50 changes, the file name can be very far away from the point.