From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?UHJ6ZW15c8WCYXcgV29qbm93c2tp?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to find when a function/var has been added Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:01:36 +0200 Message-ID: <55C279B0.5040708@cumego.com> References: <55C25834.3020305@cumego.com> <83si7xsfjx.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438808523 29312 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2015 21:02:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 21:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 23:01:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN5or-0003uO-HN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:01:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42140 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN5oq-0002bR-Rz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:01:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48853) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN5on-0002bJ-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN5og-00082Q-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp20.iq.pl ([86.111.242.225]:59732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN5og-00081z-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 22414 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2015 21:01:36 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.106]) (esperanto@cumego.com@[77.255.102.39]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp22.iq.pl with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Aug 2015 21:01:36 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 In-Reply-To: <83si7xsfjx.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 86.111.242.225 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:188467 Archived-At: >> What is the fastest way to find out since when a function/var is available in >> Emacs? > I use "git annotate". It may be some solution for core Emacs developers, but you can't expect a programmer, that wants to write an Emacs package, to do this. Adding simple "Since: x" to a doc is not very time consuming, but may make life much easier to its users.