Re: src/ChangeLog

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

  > >   > If someone wants to know exactly which changes after 2007-04-24 are
  > >   > in 22.1 they have to look at src/ChangeLog on the EMACS_@@_BASE
  > >   > branch, of course.
  > >
  > > This makes me think that it would be great if isearch in ChangeLog
  > > would know to start searching the next ChangeLog.XX file when getting
  > > to the end of the current one.  We have the infrastructure to do this
  > > now, it just needs a bit of coding...
  > 
  > This would be easy, but the question is in the evil details.  Once details
  > are agreed, the implementation is straightforward.

emacs uses:
ChangeLog ChangeLog.12 ChangeLog.11 ...
gcc uses:
ChangeLog ChangeLog-2006  ChangeLog-2005 ...

So it seems that ordering by the numeric suffix could work.

  > IIRC, there was an idea to specify the set of files to isearch
  > in the Local Variables section.

That's also good, but it requires knowledge to write the correct
incantation in the Local Variables section...