From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Could anyone tackle Emacs bug#23794 in sort-lines before Emacs 26 is released? Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:38:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83mv5ncemh.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506069567 24567 195.159.176.226 (22 Sep 2017 08:39:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:39:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rswgnu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rsw@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 22 10:39:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1dvJUV-0005vE-K5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:39:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvJUc-000557-Np for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvJTh-00053e-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvJTg-0003g1-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvJTa-0003dz-K2; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3742 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dvJTY-00013N-Ce; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:38:21 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:59:54 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218680 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:59:54 -0700 > Cc: rswgnu@gmail.com, emacs-devel > > >>>>> "RW" == Robert Weiner writes: > > RW> I think this is a bug that should be eliminated before Emacs 26 goes live > RW> so it does not impact people with large outlines who might sort them and > RW> get the wrong results but not notice until their data has been corrupted > RW> for a while and they can't get back to the original proper hierarchical > RW> associations.​ > > This does seem like something worth fixing in 26. Do you have a sense of how > large a change this might be? You can see it here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23794#20 It lacks documentation bits. And I'd be glad to see someone else commenting on the problem and the solution. Btw: the problem was not introduced in Emacs 25, as Robert says, it was introduced much earlier, in Emacs 22.