From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: NEWS for new version of todo-mode.el Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:09:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87ehbrcj17.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372108228 20257 80.91.229.3 (24 Jun 2013 21:10:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:10:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 24 23:10:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UrE1b-0008Pg-1P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:10:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42866 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrE1a-0004Sf-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60539) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrE1U-0004Cj-TH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrE1P-0000Ok-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:62251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrE1P-0000OQ-6b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:09:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.32]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LoKSF-1UKM3D1ULJ-00gFmc for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:09:58 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2013 21:09:58 -0000 Original-Received: from i59F54452.versanet.de (EHLO rosalinde.fritz.box) [89.245.68.82] by mail.gmx.net (mp032) with SMTP; 24 Jun 2013 23:09:58 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20778731 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19gAS5jPX5gkWnNzqH22d27emL5nqbjYvhirQ/94y lhU0mpcfVNHBj9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160988 Archived-At: Before installing the NEWS item for the new version of todo-mode.el, I have some questions regarding the obsoleting of the old version. It seems appropriate to make a reference to this in the entry for the new version; I've put it at the end: ** Todo mode has been rewritten and enhanced. New features include: - support for multiple todo files and archive files of done items; - renaming, reordering, moving, merging, and deleting categories; - sortable tabular summaries of categories and the types of items they contain; - building and saving cross-categorial lists of items filtered by specific criteria; - more fine-grained interaction with the Emacs diary, by being able to decide for each todo item whether it appears in the Fancy Diary display; - highly flexible new item insertion and item editing; - moving items between categories, storing done items in their category or in archive files, undoing or unarchiving done items; - reprioritizing items by inputting a numerical priority in addition to incrementally raising or lowering them; - extensive customizability of operation and display, including numerous faces. To support some of these features, a new file format is used, which is incompatible with the old format; however, you can convert old todo and done item files on initializing the first new todo file, or at any later time with the provided conversion command. The old version of todo-mode.el has been declared obsolete but not yet removed from Emacs. Is this sufficient, or should there also be an entry under the heading "Obsolete packages", also mentioning its renaming to otodo-mode.el? And under the heading "More packages look for ~/.emacs.d/ additionally to ~/." are these items: ~/.emacs.d/todo-do replaces ~/.todo-do ~/.emacs.d/todo-done replaces ~/.todo-done ~/.emacs.d/todo-top replaces ~/.todo-top Since these are only used by the now obsolete otodo-mode.el, should they be removed here? (I also need to add the header line "Obsolete-since: 24.4" to otodo-mode.el; I'll do that when I make the NEWS commit.) Steve Berman