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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 12:59:43 -0400

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  >   Remove just input mark

  >   * lisp/ibuffer.el (ibuffer-unmark-all): When MARK is not ?\r remove
  >   just MARK.

  > no hint about why it was necessary.

That explanation should be in comments in the code.

  > About 3 commits below:

  >   Disable App Nap (bug#22993)

  >   * nextstep/templates/Info.plist.in: Insert AppNap disable code.

  > No hint about why it was necessary, except for the bug#

Likewise.

The point is, you should not have to go to any sort of log
to see the explanations for why the code needs to work this way.

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