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bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 21:05:59 +0200 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu, 33450@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:18:54 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> And indeed NEWS.25 says "The command 'dired-do-compress', bound to 'Z',
> >> now can compress directories", so NEWS.26 is duplicating that.
> >
> > I see no harm in that, as the NEWS.26 text is more complete and
> > accurate (it talks about decompression as well, for starters).
>
> I find this odd.
> 95% of the 'Z' NEWS.26 entry is true in Emacs 25.1 (by experiment).
> The only thing that's different in 26.1 is the .tgz treatment.
> This hardly seems NEWS-worthy.
>
> If you for some reason want to keep the expanded entry in NEWS.26, it
> should at least be corrected to say "This change was actually made in
> Emacs 25.1, but the NEWS entry was too terse" (or however you want to
> justfiy re-visiting it). It is incorrect to say "This change was
> actually made in Emacs 26.1".
>
> But I think it would be better to move your description from NEWS to the
> doc string.
Done.
bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate, Glenn Morris, 2018/11/21
bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate, Richard Stallman, 2018/11/22
bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/23
bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate, Richard Stallman, 2018/11/23