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Re: ChangeLog fontifications


From: Sam Steingold
Subject: Re: ChangeLog fontifications
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:31:47 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt)

> * Miles Bader <address@hidden> [2004-05-13 17:56:23 -0400]:
>
>> What on earth was the reason to invent such a convention?
>
> Because (1) it's more friendly to line-oriented parsers (like font-lock, but
> also external tools [*]), and (2) it looks quite nice.
>
> [*] Indeed, rather _more_ important for external tools, because many unix
> scripting languages &c are quite line-oriented, more so that emacs is.

what are those tools?  why those who use them do not complain that they
do not work with some ChangeLog files?

I suspect that either there are no such tools or nobody uses them anymore
(otherwise the current situation would be impossible).

At any rate, the current state of affairs is broken: either the
ChangeLog standard described in
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_42.html#SEC42> is obsolete (since is
it widely ignored) and must be changed - together with the Emacs
ChangeLog mode, or it should be enforced, e.g., by adding a script to
savannah cvs which will reject ChangeLog commits that do not comply
with the standard.



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