From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: old ChangeLog files Date: 13 Dec 2002 12:45:14 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5x65ty16t1.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <200212121430.gBCEUnY09091@rum.cs.yale.edu> <7704-Fri13Dec2002111852+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039776522 2133 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 10:48:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:48:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MnN0-0000Y3-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:48:38 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18MnYz-0003eJ-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:01:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MnLy-0004PC-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:47:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MnLS-0003tR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:47:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MnK8-0002Vj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MnK3-0002NS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 93FA47C018; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:45:33 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <7704-Fri13Dec2002111852+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10109 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10109 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > From: "Stefan Monnier" > > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:30:49 -0500 > > > > Ideally this should also be merged into `ChangeLog' itself, but > > CVS performs poorly with large locally-modified files, so > > it's more convenient to keep a "small" ChangeLog file and move > > older stuff into ChangeLog.old. > > > > What do people think ? > > It sounds like a good idea, but won't that cause ChangeLog.old to > grow indefinitely (assuming that Emacs is going to be maintained for > many years to come ;-)? > > If the file becomes too large, it might become difficult to browse it > with e.g. Less or even Emacs itself. IMO, it would be simpler to provide key bindings in Changelog mode that automatically takes you to the previous older / next newer changelog file in a series of ChangeLog files. Maybe we could even have PgUp/PgDn doing this automatically at the top/bottom of the current changelog file. A similar thing could be done for NEWS files... -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk