bug#21072: Brave new mark-defun (and a testing tool)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 23:31:24 -0400
> Cc: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>, 21072@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > Actually, AFAIK the normal "many functions" format looks like:
> >
> >     * filename (functionname1, functionname2)
> >     (functionname3, functionname4)
> >     (functionname5, functionname6)
> >     (functionname7, functionname8): New functions.
> >
> > we even tried to make the auto-fill code DTRT in the change-log-mode.
> 
> Oh, huh, I took the example in CONTRIBUTE (under "Preferred form for
> several entries with the same content:") to mean that lines should end
> with colon, but I guess that only applies to multiple file entries, not
> functions?

Yes, correct.