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bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it) |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:43:50 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:56:50 +1300
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
> Cc: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 20403@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> The change I'd actually like to see is for NEWS to just be a symlink
> to the appropriate NEWS.xx file, which should exist under that name
> from the outset of development on version xx.
That'd cause trouble when merging from the release branch. Symlinks
complicate VCS operations in general.
If we want a better NEWS, I'd suggest to introduce a new mode, which
will inherit from Outline mode, but will support some sort of
"include" directive. Then we could have a NEWS file that just
"include"d the versioned files, and Emacs would display their
contents, perhaps given some user command to expand a given version's
news. As a bonus, this would let us have a single NEWS file, from
user's POV, like other (smaller) projects do.