Re: ChangeLog fontifications

[Bruno Haible]

Miles Bader wrote:
> You should use a syntax like the following for such cases:
> 
>       * foo.lisp (aasfasdfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff)
>         (sadfggggggggggggg): ...
> 
> [Not just for font-locking, but to make the job of any ChangeLog-parsing
> program easier.]

Sorry, but the style that been in use by the entire GNU project for over 10
years is this:

>       * foo.lisp (aasfasdfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff,
>       sadfggggggggggggg): ...

Examples:

gcc-3.4.0/gcc/ChangeLog

2004-04-08  Joseph S. Myers  <address@hidden>

        * fixinc/inclhack.def (rpc_xdr_lvalue_cast_a,
        rpc_xdr_lvalue_cast_b): New fixes.

gcc-3.4.0/gcc/ChangeLog.0

Fri Jul  3 02:33:35 1998  David S. Miller  <address@hidden>

        * sparc.c (sparc_operand, move_operand, arith_operand,
        arith11_operand, arith10_operand, arith_double_operand,
        arith11_double_operand, arith10_double_operand, small_int,
        uns_small_int): Recognize CONSTANT_P_RTX.

glibc/ChangeLog.14

2004-04-02  Jakub Jelinek  <address@hidden>

        * nis/nss: Add SERVICES_AUTHORITATIVE.
        * nis/nss-nis.h (NSS_FLAG_SET, NSS_FLAG_NETID_AUTHORITATIVE,
        NSS_FLAG_SERVICES_AUTHORITATIVE): Define.

glibc/ChangeLog.1

Fri Aug 14 13:28:39 1992  Roland McGrath  (address@hidden)

        * sysdeps/unix/Makefile, sysdeps/unix/bsd/Makefile,
        sysdeps/generic/Makefile: Use it.
        Use $(common-objpfx) for generated things not specific to one subdir.

Mon Aug 10 17:09:40 1992  Roland McGrath  (address@hidden)

        * sysdeps/unix/ioctls-tmpl.c [SMIOSTATS, SMIOGETREBOOT0,
        ZIOCBCMD]: Include headers for these.

gcc-1.41/ChangeLog

Wed May  3 01:34:58 1989  Richard Stallman  (rms at sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu)

        * tm-mips.h (TARGET_VERSNUM): Inc. to 1 08.
        (TARGET_VERSION): Change strings.
        (AL_DEBUG): Don't define it.
        (HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK): Add some casts to int.
        (STACK_ARGS_ADJUST): Name was misspelled.
        (PRINT_OPERAND_ADDRESS): Just abort for MEM, POST_INC, etc.
        (EXTRA_SECTIONS, SELECT_VARIABLE_SECTION, SELECTORS_EXTRA_SECTIONS,
        SELECT_VARIABLE_CONST_SECTION): New macros.


If fontify cannot display this correctly, fix fontify. Telling people
that the syntax they've been using for 15 years is "wrong", because
fontify does not support it, is ridiculous.

             Bruno