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: Selection-set editing without VC-dired Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20071230142812.C8027CF80B9@golux.thyrsus.com> <85wsqww8ie.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199372750 30973 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 15:05:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@golux.thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 16:06:08 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 1JARdn-0001yT-NG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:05:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JARdR-0007gh-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JARdN-0007gS-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JARdN-0007gG-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JARdN-0007gD-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JARdG-0006wM-0r; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:18 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAPiHfEfO+KWs/2dsb2JhbACqBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,239,1196658000"; d="scan'208";a="12230587" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 03 Jan 2008 10:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.165.172]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id JQI03117; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1FECA7F2B; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 10:05:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:01 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:85995 Archived-At: > On a related note, with current VCS making ChangeLog file less relevant, > it'd also make sense to make C-x 4 a jump to the *VC-log* buffer, > Recent trends in VCS make the ChangeLog file more important. The > reason I dropped my opposition to multi-file commits is that I > realized that the info I used to get by looking at a CVS log, I could get > from the ChangeLog file instead with a suitable selective visibility > mode. >From what I can see, recent trends in VCS make the ChangeLog file less important because it can be automatically regenerated from the commit logs. And by "automatically regenerated" I really mean that the output is just as good, or even identical. Stefan