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Re: dabbrev-select-buffers-function's help unhelpful
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: dabbrev-select-buffers-function's help unhelpful |
Date: |
Thu, 3 May 2001 11:03:31 +0300 |
On 3 May 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >> By the way, looking at
> >> ;;; dabbrev.el --- dynamic abbreviation package
> >>
> >> ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 92, 94, 96, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >>
> >> ;; Author: Don Morrison
> >> ;; Maintainer: Lars Lindberg <Lars.Lindberg@sypro.cap.se>
> >> ;; Created: 16 Mars 1992
> >> ;; Lindberg's last update version: 5.7
> >>
> >> one feels unsure about the date of last change.
>
> Eli> The last year in the Copyright line tells that. If you want a more
> Eli> accurate idea, look in the lisp/ChangeLog file.
>
> Seems kind of bug prone from a software maintenance standpoint.
The Emacs maintenance is not based on any of these. We use CVS, so
whenever we want to know who changed a file and when, we do a simple
"cvs log".
> Ok, if the
> changelog says on Thu May 3 03:41:39 CST 2001 Bob "Improved the
> search function retracker sequence to not xxx on situation yyy", I
> would still need 1/2 hour to analyze which of two similar search.el
> files is the one with the improvement unless the appropriate comments
> have been added to clue me in.
This situation shouldn't happen with packages bundled with Emacs. All
you need is to compare Emacs versions: the later one holds the
``improved'' version of any particular .el file.
With packages that aren't bundled, it is up to the package maintainer
to include version information to help you with these decisions.
> So I vote for version control stings
> right in the file, which I hear is what you will do in emacs 21 I hope.
No, Emacs 21 doesn't change this in any way.
- Re: dabbrev-select-buffers-function's help unhelpful, Dan Jacobson, 2001/05/02
- Re: dabbrev-select-buffers-function's help unhelpful,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- please put version timestamp inside .el files, Dan Jacobson, 2001/05/07
- Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/05/08
- Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files, Dan Jacobson, 2001/05/09
- Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files, Richard Stallman, 2001/05/10
- Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files, Dan Jacobson, 2001/05/14
- Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/05/14
- Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files, Stefan Monnier, 2001/05/14
- Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files, Kai Großjohann, 2001/05/12
- Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/05/13
- Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files, Kai Großjohann, 2001/05/13