From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to propose an emacs patch (Re: replacing a function with another one) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 05:35:15 +0100 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87iord1lz0.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> References: <87vbvofsi6.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87bnxgs4r9.fsf@web.de> <87lhwj1cfz.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87zjkz6vd5.fsf@web.de> <8738ir161u.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87eh2b6nfm.fsf@web.de> <87r46anab5.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87vbvleiey.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87vbvlbm8p.fsf@web.de> <87siqpsdgs.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87iorljkhx.fsf@web.de> <87pplsivy7.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87eh27mhyw.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <877g7yizsf.fsf@gmail.com> <87r463usgu.fsf_-_@yun.yagibdah.de> <878usaltfz.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395030956 11425 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2014 04:35:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:35:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 17 05:36:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1WPPHP-0008W9-Kt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 05:36:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55559 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPPHP-0007ws-9B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPPHA-0007mn-RV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:35:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPPH6-00015p-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:35:48 -0400 Original-Received: from client-194-42-186-216.muenet.net ([194.42.186.216]:37224 helo=yun.yagibdah.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPPH6-00015l-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:35:44 -0400 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WPPH1-0007GI-T4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 05:35:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <878usaltfz.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:51:20 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 194.42.186.216 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96547 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: > lee writes: > >>> Where there is a will there is a way. >> >> Asking here how best to go about it is a start ... It seems they need >> some sort of paperwork from contributers for copyright reasons, and I >> don`t know how to propose a patch or if such paperwork is needed for >> that. > > You need to come to emacs-devel. Hm, can`t hurt to subscribe :) > Second best option is to put it on emacs-bugs. I just did so --- I didn`t see your post earlier. > Just say that you are proposing a patch and would like to > have it as part of Emacs. Folks there will do the rest. We`ll see --- I might have some mistakes in it because I don`t know any better. It works fine for me, though and I hope they take it in. You can try it out if you like: https://github.com/lee-/emacs/tree/master/hi-lock > Remember you don't need to clone the repo for proposing a patch. You > download JUST the relevant file from the Web Interface. You make a copy > of it and make changes to it. And then submit the diff between the > files. Yes, I sent a diff. I`ve been updating and compiling from bzr every now and then, so I switched to git and cloned the whole repo. I get much better along with git. > emacs-devel: > emacs-bugs: > emacs-sources. I`m subscribed to emacs-bugs since a while; I`ll get the others, too. -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power.