Re: dates in gnulib ChangeLog entries

2006-07-28 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Emacs doesn't highlight this new format well. Care to bring this idea > up on, e.g., emacs-devel? I'm a bit stretched for time right now, but you're welcome to bring it up, as an Emacs issue or as a GNU coding standards issue or both. I suppose it'd be nice if Emacs

Re: dates in gnulib ChangeLog entries

2006-07-28 Thread Bruno Haible
/Simon wrote: > Emacs doesn't highlight this new format well. This is a poor argument: 1) Emacs ChangeLog highlighting is known for not even supporting enumerations of functions, broken across lines: 2005-05-11 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * flo_rest.d (SF_I_

Re: dates in gnulib ChangeLog entries

2006-07-28 Thread jas
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that recent changes (merging from gettext, for example) > added many ChangeLog entries whose dates disagree with when the change > was installed into gnulib. Hence gnulib's ChangeLog file appears not > to be in reverse chronological order. This

Re: dates in gnulib ChangeLog entries

2006-07-24 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > I noticed that recent changes (merging from gettext, for example) > added many ChangeLog entries whose dates disagree with when the change > was installed into gnulib. Hence gnulib's ChangeLog file appears not > to be in reverse chronological order. This confused me. > > Whe

dates in gnulib ChangeLog entries

2006-07-22 Thread Paul Eggert
I noticed that recent changes (merging from gettext, for example) added many ChangeLog entries whose dates disagree with when the change was installed into gnulib. Hence gnulib's ChangeLog file appears not to be in reverse chronological order. This confused me. When I merge changes from coreutil