Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The default regex for identifying funcname lines is good for a range of 
  > different types of entities and source languages.

Perhaps I misread the text from the man page when I read it before.
What is the default regexp, and how is it used?

  > If you use e.g. "git show" or "git diff" to look at the diffs for a given 
  > commit, the diff hunk headers show function names (with the same logic as 
  > git log -L for identifying the relevant function).

That may help things.  I presume a script can extract the entity
names from the hunk headers and eliminate duplicates.

So the remaining question is, is the detection of entities complete,
or can we make it complete?

Can you show me this built-in definition?

             > o   cpp suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages.

Is there one for Emacs Lisp?

Is there one for Bison input?

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