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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 8644@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8644: font-locking of multi-author changelog entries
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 23:17:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oc3agvjx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aqei46ibvs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 15:39:03 -0400
> 
> With multi-author ChangeLog entries, eg:
> 
> 2011-05-10  Me  <my@mine>
> 	    You <you@yours>
> 
> (I don't actually know if that's the correct format for such entries,
> but I guess it is something like that), the second (and third etc if
> present) author is not font-locked by change-log-mode.

I never really understood the need for these entries.  How can two or
more people write some piece of code?  Ideas cannot be copyrighted, so
only the one who wrote the final version should be named, the rest can
be attributed as "suggested by" or whatever.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-10 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-10 19:39 bug#8644: font-locking of multi-author changelog entries Glenn Morris
2011-05-10 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-05-10 20:31   ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-05-10 20:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-11 16:20       ` Richard Stallman
2011-05-10 22:55   ` Stefan Monnier

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