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Message #15 received at 3462 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Lluis Vilanova <vilanova <at> ac.upc.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 3462 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3462: Auto-fill VC log contents
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:58:10 +0200

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El Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:14:47PM -0400, Stefan Monnier ens deleit� amb les seg�ents paraules:
> > (I think that modifying `add-change-log-entry' and related functions
> > to accept a destination buffer instead of a file would be valuable, so
> > changes can be directly pushed into the `VC-log' buffer)
> 
> Thank you.  Indeed, making add-log use the *VC-log* buffer (when it
> exists and when there's no ChangeLog file) would be a very welcome
> addition.  I believe it would provide the same functionality as your
> log-edit-fill, but more generic and better integrated.
> 
> If you can cook up a patch for it, we would definitely consider it for
> inclusion in Emacs-23.2

Yay! Attached is a patch to both add-log and log-edit. Note that a few TODO's
are marked along add-log code where I couldn't understand what the code was
doing (just started to learn elisp... well, in fact just switched into emacs :)).

The major show-stoppers right now are:

* Couldn't get change-log-minor-mode to highlight the text as in
  change-log-mode.
* Would be nice to allow adding entries to the bottom of current change log
  block instead of the top.
* diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window has a somewhat strange behaviour and
  ends up showing two windows with the same Changelog/VC-log buffer (I think the
  bug was already there).

See that some changes were made into log-edit to seamlessly integrate with this
new feature in add-log.

As always, comments are welcome.

apa!

-- 
 "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn
 something new, the whole world becomes that much richer."
 -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom
 Tollbooth

[change-log-use-buffer.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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