From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ? Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:47:40 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <871xmp136a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8765c0njem.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <878yguae6g.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082325480 11840 80.91.224.253 (18 Apr 2004 21:58:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 18 23:57:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BFKIT-0006Ao-00 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:57:53 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BFKIT-0008UP-00 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:57:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BFKHT-0001kv-2q for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BFKDA-0008Bw-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:52:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BFK9m-0006Nz-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:49:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BFK9U-0006D3-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BFK8a-0004lr-LY; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:47:40 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <878yguae6g.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:09:59 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21859 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21859 I propose to replace the function `view-emacs-news' (whose current numeric argument has no sense) by the following function. It allows the user to select a release number, finds it among different news files, and narrows the buffer to the selected release. It sounds like a good feature. However, I think it is important to optimize it by terminating the loop that inserts files once it has found the specified version.