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bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:01:34 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <7777@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 20:12:33 -0800
>
> > How about if we change the doc string to not sound like a stringent
> > requirement, but rather as a "note"?
>
> That would be an improvement, thanks (the manual, likewise).
I fixed it on the emacs-23 branch (revision 100362).
> It would also help to explain why. Explaining why helps avoid any
> misunderstanding wrt the older "rule", and it helps understand the new "note".
I added a short explanation.
> The other part of this bug is the location of the manual entry: Why the Elisp
> manual? This is a user option. If we feel it is important to tell users
> about
> this in a manual, why wouldn't the Emacs manual be the right one?
Its description in the ELisp manual is due to the fact that the same
node describes the abbreviate-file-name function, which uses this
variable. As for repeating the description in the user manual, I'm
not sure this variable is important enough. So I left this part out
of the bugfix.
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Drew Adams, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Andreas Schwab, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Sean Sieger, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Drew Adams, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Drew Adams, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Chong Yidong, 2011/01/08
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Drew Adams, 2011/01/08
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/08
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Chong Yidong, 2011/01/13
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Chong Yidong, 2011/01/28