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bug#20401: refill long lines in generated ChangeLog


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#20401: refill long lines in generated ChangeLog
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:24:23 -0700
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it's not just me that has written lines slightly too long.

That's right, lots of people are doing it, and it makes more busywork when cleaning up ChangeLogs, which sucks. I don't have much faith in fixing this automagically, as a lot could go wrong.

There's a much simpler fix (see attached) but Stefan nixed it (see <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg01640.html>) for reasons that I don't follow. Perhaps we could take another run at him and he'll relent this time.

Another possibility is that we set the tab-width in ChangeLog files to 2, so that 78-character log lines fit in ChangeLog files when displayed via Emacs. (I'm *sure* nobody would complain about *that*. :-)

But really, it'd be simpler to shrink that "78" back to "72".

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