Re: master f96fe57: New option to make 'C-x 4 a' use file-less ChangeLog buffers

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:16:48 +0200
> Cc: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> 
> joaotavora@gmail.com (João Távora) writes:
> 
> > +your program and keep a change log.  In these situations, you may not
> > +want to keep a separate versioned change log file.  If
> > +@code{add-log-dont-create-changelog-file} is non-@code{nil}, commands
> > +like @kbd{C-x 4 a} (@code{add-change-log-entry-other-window}) will
> > +record changes in a suitably named temporary buffer instead of a file,
> > +unless such a file already exists.
> 
> So if add-log-dont-create-changelog-file is t, but ChangeLog exists as
> a file on disk, the entry goes there and not in the non-file ChangeLog
> buffer?

Yes.

> That would be surprising to me.

Why surprising?  First, this is the current behavior, so this way we
are less incompatible; and second, that's why the option has "create"
in its name.

Maybe I'm missing something.