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: Finding the source of Change Log entries Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:53:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <48787A1F.1080105@gmx.at> <200807141400.m6EE0xmj015645@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <487E2D58.1030304@gmx.at> <200807272147.m6RLlFV8026089@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <488E14E1.1060408@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217282034 23926 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2008 21:53:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 28 23:54:43 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 1KNafy-0001Cs-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:54:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40139 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNaf4-0004T4-Bi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNaf0-0004Sm-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNaey-0004Qf-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:53:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46019 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNaey-0004Qc-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:41704) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KNaey-0003FX-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor.home (vpn-132-204-232-25.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.25]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m6SLs1YV009332; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BEDBF1C18B; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:53:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <488E14E1.1060408@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:50:09 +0200") 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 RV3069=0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:101658 Archived-At: >> If the function is long, it would be better to go directly to >> the point of the change. Not sure that it would make enough of a >> difference to make it worth it, but it might... > Now I see what you mean. The problem is that when I do C-x 4 a I'm > sometimes not at the position where I changed something but at some > arbitrary position within the function. In that case the behavior you > suggest might be irritating. But probably mine is just a bad habit. > Maybe we could make it customizable (the behavior, not my habit). > In any case, an overlay seems useful for the case where one adds > entries for a `defvar' and a `defun' with the same name. I'm really not sure it's worth the trouble since it'll only work within the same Emacs session (and only if you don't kill&reopen the ChangeLog buffer, ...). Stefan