GNU bug report logs - #31988
scroll-other-window broken on master

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Message #39 received at 31988 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dancol <at> dancol.org, 31988 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31988: scroll-other-window broken on master
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 17:14:29 +0300

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
>> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>, <31988 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
>> <31988-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
>> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 16:40:17 +0300
>> 
>> I don't yet feel particularly good at or confident with writing
>> changelog entries, let alone Emacs C code, so any guidance is more than
>> welcome now and in the future.
>
> I think you are doing just fine, thank you.  There's always some
> learning curve, of course.  CONTRIBUTE should tell you enough, and you
> can study the log messages by veterans to pick up the spirit.
>
> The "inaccurate" part in my message related not to your wording (which
> was fine, AFAICT), but to the fact that the important part of your fix
> was to call save-excursion in the described case, not the part that
> set the buffer (which was actually a no-op).
>
>> I'm not sure whether Daniel's addition of the 'close' tag had the
>> intended effect
>
> It should have, but it looks like it didn't for some reason.
>
>> so I'm taking the liberty of CCing <31988-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org>; if
>> this was the wrong thing to do, please let me know what I should
>> have done instead.
>
> Doing that for a bug that should be closed can never do any harm, even
> if it was already closed.  (You also don't need to CC both NNN@ and
> NNN-done@, as the message gets recorded by the tracker even if you
> only use the latter.)

Thanks for explaining everything, it all makes sense.

-- 
Basil

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