bug#30560: Better format for view-lossage

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
>> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:59:42 +0200
>> 
>> > This patch is for master:
>> 
>> Pushed to master and closed.
>
> Thanks, but please in the future leave more than just 2 days for
> people to comment on the patches you propose.
>
> IMO, this change needs to be mentioned in NEWS.

Might I suggest the following as well? Does this need mentioning in
the info docs?

>From 45c4f1a42e1e47f79055545a3fcf5a7d117e1caf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:01:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Describe `view-lossage' changes in its docstring

* lisp/help.el (view-lossage): Mention that this now uses the same
format as `edit-last-kbd-macro'.
---
 etc/NEWS     | 11 ++++++-----
 lisp/help.el |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index dacaf023bb..3fa2670d60 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -167,11 +167,12 @@ directories in the destination.
 
 ** Help
 
-*** 'C-h l' (view-lossage) now displays last keystrokes and commands
-in the same format as the edit buffer of edit-last-kbd-macro.
-This makes possible to copy the lines from the buffer generated
-by 'view-lossage', yank them to the buffer "*Edit Macro*" created by
-'edit-last-kbd-macro', and save the macro by 'C-c C-c'.
+*** 'C-h l' (view-lossage) buffer format has changed.
+For convenience the lossage buffer now displays the last keystrokes
+and commands in the same format as the edit buffer of
+'edit-last-kbd-macro'.  This makes it possible to copy the lines from
+the buffer generated by 'view-lossage' to the "*Edit Macro*" buffer
+created by 'edit-last-kbd-macro', and save the macro by 'C-c C-c'.
 
 ** Ibuffer
 
diff --git a/lisp/help.el b/lisp/help.el
index 9575f5b090..917c25e427 100644
--- a/lisp/help.el
+++ b/lisp/help.el
@@ -454,7 +454,8 @@ view-external-packages
   (info "(efaq)Packages that do not come with Emacs"))
 
 (defun view-lossage ()
-  "Display last few input keystrokes and the commands run.
+  "Display last few input keystrokes and the commands run.  For
+convenience this uses the same format as `edit-last-kbd-macro'.
 
 To record all your input, use `open-dribble-file'."
   (interactive)
-- 
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