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Re: master f96fe57: New option to make 'C-x 4 a' use file-less ChangeLog


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: master f96fe57: New option to make 'C-x 4 a' use file-less ChangeLog buffers
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:18:17 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes
>> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:16:48 +0200
>> Cc: João Távora <address@hidden>
>> 
>> address@hidden (João Távora) writes:
>> 
>> > +your program and keep a change log.  In these situations, you may not
>> > +want to keep a separate versioned change log file.  If
>> > address@hidden is address@hidden, commands
>> > +like @kbd{C-x 4 a} (@code{add-change-log-entry-other-window}) will
>> > +record changes in a suitably named temporary buffer instead of a file,
>> > +unless such a file already exists.
>> 
>> So if add-log-dont-create-changelog-file is t, but ChangeLog exists as
>> a file on disk, the entry goes there and not in the non-file ChangeLog
>> buffer?
>
> Yes.
>
>> That would be surprising to me.
>
> Why surprising?  First, this is the current behavior, so this way we
> are less incompatible; and second, that's why the option has "create"
> in its name.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something.

It has create, but it also has 'dont'. I guess I can see how it makes
sense if you already have a ChangeLog file lying around.

Anyway, I donʼt think I feel strongly enough about this to suggest a
change.

Robert



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