Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 00:26:10 +0200 Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 03/08/2016 09:21 PM, Stephen Berman wrote:
>
>> This hasn't worked for me for some time, nor has `C-c C-a' in the
>> *VC-Log* buffer (though it used to work).  I just tried again: I edited
>> lisp/calendar/todo-mode.el, wrote a ChangeLog entry with `C-x 4 a',
>
> Where does the ChangeLog file reside, in which you make that entry? If it's
> not at the top level, try deleting that one.

Ah, thanks.  I'm pretty sure it used to be the case that `C-x 4 a' would
automatically find the right ChangeLog file, but I suppose that changed
when manually maintaining ChangeLogs was abandoned.  So I guess Emacs
developers should now set `change-log-default-name' to top level.

Steve Berman