Subject: bug#5602: closed (Fixed a while ago)

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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:05:02 +0000

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#5602: log-edit improvements

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

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Subject: Fixed a while ago
From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:11:57 -0500
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Subject: log-edit improvements
From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:14:43 -0500
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Severity: wishlist

[ resent from
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-02/msg00425.html ]

Could someone update log-edit-mode's font-lock patterns so that the
first line is highlighted specially (at least in the Bzr and Arch
cases)?

I think log-edit-mode should even go further in this direction.
The buffer should be created as

  ----------------
  Author: 
  Summary: 

  blablabla
  ----------------

where <blablabla> is the text taken from the ChangeLog.  Then for
backends which support the notion of summary-line, C-c C-c could just
signal an error if the Summary line is still blank.
After that, empty header entries will get removed and the text is passed
as-is to the backend who is then free to pass it as-is to the underlying
VCS or to extract the various fields and do whatever it feels like
with them.

        Stefan