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24.3.50; bad formatting in recent NEWS?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#13502: closed (Re: bug#13502: 24.3.50; bad formatting in
 recent NEWS?)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:44:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#13502: 24.3.50; bad formatting in recent NEWS?

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 13502-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13502: 24.3.50; bad formatting in recent NEWS?
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:42:22 +0800

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> The longest is this one (87 chars):
>  
>   machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert
> "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"

It should be incredibly obvious why this line is an OK exception.

As for any other lines, they will be cleaned up when it comes time to
edit the NEWS file in preparation for the 24.4 pretest.  No point filing
a bug about this kind of thing.  Closing.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.3.50; bad formatting in recent NEWS?
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:47:15 -0800

The longest is this one (87 chars):
 
  machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert
"~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"
 
There are also entries whose first line (a sentence) does not end in a
period.  And there are entries whose first line is not a sentence, and
is continued over subsequent lines.
 
All of these seem to contradict past NEWS formatting, but I don't know
where the rules for formatting NEWS are defined, so I cannot tell
whether they are strictly wrong or just unusual.  The last one certainly
works against the use of Outline mode to some extent.
 
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2013-01-18 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 111548 sdl.web <at> gmail.com-20130118182218-6ywd47qsbnow6nsg
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
 -IC:/Devel/emacs/build/include --ldflags -LC:/Devel/emacs/build/lib'
 

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