From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 21:05:59 +0200 Message-ID: <83ftvtgcfc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <32297.1542771545@alto> <8z5zwqi91x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <7j8t1mnppt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83muq2gj06.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542913444 26027 195.159.176.226 (22 Nov 2018 19:04:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 19:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 33450@debbugs.gnu.org, mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 22 20:04:00 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gPuGd-0006dX-5H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54101) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPuIM-0006VE-G4; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:05:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2385 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gPuIM-0005Og-23; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:05:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:18:54 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:152680 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu, 33450@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:18:54 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> And indeed NEWS.25 says "The command 'dired-do-compress', bound to 'Z', > >> now can compress directories", so NEWS.26 is duplicating that. > > > > I see no harm in that, as the NEWS.26 text is more complete and > > accurate (it talks about decompression as well, for starters). > > I find this odd. > 95% of the 'Z' NEWS.26 entry is true in Emacs 25.1 (by experiment). > The only thing that's different in 26.1 is the .tgz treatment. > This hardly seems NEWS-worthy. > > If you for some reason want to keep the expanded entry in NEWS.26, it > should at least be corrected to say "This change was actually made in > Emacs 25.1, but the NEWS entry was too terse" (or however you want to > justfiy re-visiting it). It is incorrect to say "This change was > actually made in Emacs 26.1". > > But I think it would be better to move your description from NEWS to the > doc string. Done.