From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC commit missing ChangeLog message Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86ej1il3z7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <1226414985.525611.2969.nullmailer@null> <8663mukybp.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226425335 28163 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2008 17:42:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 18:43:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KzxGa-0000xw-RJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:43:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzxFS-0003BA-VI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzxEv-0002nZ-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzxEu-0002n6-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35903 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzxEt-0002n1-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:41234) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KzxEt-0007Jj-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor.home (vpn-132-204-232-25.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.25]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mABHfEnW006106; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:14 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F0A341C15A; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <8663mukybp.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:43:38 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3144=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105570 Archived-At: > I wonder if it could: > 1) always be called on opening the *VC-log* buffer, since it's harmless M-x customize-variable RET log-edit-hook RET > 2) give an informative message about why it didn't find a ChangeLog > entry, if it's invoked manually and it couldn't find an entry It's kind of difficult: currently, it builds a regexp and searches for it. If it's not found, all it knows is that it's not found, but not which part of the regexps could have matched if it weren't for some other part. Stefan