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Re: ChangeLog fontifications
From: |
Sam Steingold |
Subject: |
Re: ChangeLog fontifications |
Date: |
Fri, 14 May 2004 11:31:47 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) |
> * Miles Bader <address@hidden> [2004-05-13 17:56:23 -0400]:
>
>> What on earth was the reason to invent such a convention?
>
> Because (1) it's more friendly to line-oriented parsers (like font-lock, but
> also external tools [*]), and (2) it looks quite nice.
>
> [*] Indeed, rather _more_ important for external tools, because many unix
> scripting languages &c are quite line-oriented, more so that emacs is.
what are those tools? why those who use them do not complain that they
do not work with some ChangeLog files?
I suspect that either there are no such tools or nobody uses them anymore
(otherwise the current situation would be impossible).
At any rate, the current state of affairs is broken: either the
ChangeLog standard described in
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_42.html#SEC42> is obsolete (since is
it widely ignored) and must be changed - together with the Emacs
ChangeLog mode, or it should be enforced, e.g., by adding a script to
savannah cvs which will reject ChangeLog commits that do not comply
with the standard.
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- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, (continued)
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Alan Shutko, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Miles Bader, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Miles Bader, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Karl Eichwalder, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Miles Bader, 2004/05/14
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/14
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/05/14
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/05/14
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications,
Sam Steingold <=
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/17
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Karl Eichwalder, 2004/05/18
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Miles Bader, 2004/05/18
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Sam Steingold, 2004/05/19
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Miles Bader, 2004/05/19
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/19