changelog and diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window (git, HG)

changelog and diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window (git, HG)

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi 

add-change-log-entry-other-window works great in lisp files, and with
some tweaks in LaTeX files, but in other files I am missing some context
information.

So I thought, for files that are under git or HG, to run vc-diff
and then 
diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window

But when I do that, nothing of the diff files is inserted, I cannot see
any difference to add-change-log-entry-other-window.

What do I miss here.

I searched emacs wiki for any enhancement of 
add-change-log-entry-other-window
in the sense that it would add more context based information but cannot
find anything.

Any comments?

Regards

Uwe Brauer 

Re: changelog and diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window (git, HG)

[Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Uwe Brauer [2021-06-19 10:03:35] wrote:
> add-change-log-entry-other-window works great in lisp files, and with
> some tweaks in LaTeX files, but in other files I am missing some context
> information.

Depends on the major mode of "other files".  Report those problems to
the authors of those major modes (`add-change-log-entry-other-window`
can be supported via `add-log-current-defun-function` but also defaults
to using the info provided by `which-function-mode`, which itself
defaults to using the info provided by `imenu`).


        Stefan

Re: changelog and diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window (git, HG)

[Uwe Brauer]

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>>> "SMvUlftGEte" == Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Uwe Brauer [2021-06-19 10:03:35] wrote:
>> add-change-log-entry-other-window works great in lisp files, and with
>> some tweaks in LaTeX files, but in other files I am missing some context
>> information.

> Depends on the major mode of "other files".  Report those problems to
> the authors of those major modes (`add-change-log-entry-other-window`
> can be supported via `add-log-current-defun-function` but also defaults
> to using the info provided by `which-function-mode`, which itself
> defaults to using the info provided by `imenu`).

Aha, ok thanks.

But is there any possibility that 

diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window would add some context
information into the ChangeLog based on the diffs, or is this a
misunderstanding of said function?

Maybe it better to rely on vc-annotate...

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