Re: bug-reference and revisions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28.12.2012 2:45, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > > > > -       from 109911 (see the new test).
> > > > > +       from Bug#109911 (see the new test).
> > > >
> > > > This change is inaccurate. 109911 is a Bazaar revision, not a bug number.
> > >
> > > To avoid ambiguity and misunderstanding revisions should have a prefix
> > > similar to bug numbers, e.g. revno#109911 or revno:109911.
> >
> > Thanks, will do next time.
> > I guess I'm used to Git, where you don't usually prefix commit ids with
> > anything.
>
> Support for links to revision numbers could be added to bug-reference.el
> to fontify strings like "revno:109911" where clicking on them will open
> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/109911

That would be nice.

> This is possible with a small patch that adds these formats:
> ...
>
> Then evaluating this will open the link:
> (setq bug-reference-url-format
>        "http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/%s";)
>
> but unfortunately it will override "http://debbugs.gnu.org/%s";.
>
> To handle two URL types requires customizing `bug-reference-url-format'
> to a function that would decide which URL format to use.

Why not add a function that would do exactly that and then set 
bug-reference-url-format to it in .dir-locals.el?