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27.1: log-edit-generate-changelog-from-diff FAILURE

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From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 48269 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48269: 27.1: log-edit-generate-changelog-from-diff FAILURE
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 01:58:25 +0300

On 09/05/2021 14:44 -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:

>> I was just trying to help you (and all the other Emacs users) to find
>> the information more efficiently next time.  No matter how hard we
>> work on it, there will always be deficiencies in Emacs documentation
>> (as in any other software documentation), so relying on the developers
>> to get everything 110% correct is impractical, assuming we all have
>> something else to do other than read the documentation.
>
> The most efficent way seems to me to add the sanity-check to the code.

Frankly, I don't get it: the function we talk about starts with its
mode's prefix (log-edit), is bound to key in that (and derived) modes,
so why would a user just randomly call it in an unprepared buffer?  I
mean, the sanity check will be an over-defense, IMO.

Filipp

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