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Re: The next releases
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: The next releases |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:11:43 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
My general comment is: never hesitate to make a NEWS entry.
Not giving it any +++/--- markup means someone will check it.
Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> +---
> +** Emacs now detects and uses GnuTLS v3 features
Quibbling about language, but I'd say something like:
** Emacs now uses GnuTLS v3 features where available.
But as a user, this tells me nothing, so I'm not sure I see the point of
this entry as it stands.
> +++
> +** Emacs can now reject invalid SSL/TLS certificates, as determined by
> +GnuTLS The new variable `gnutls-verify-error' can be customized. It
> +is off for now, but will be turned to reject invalid certificates by
> +default in the future.
[If this is a new option, it should have a :version tag.]
** New option `gnutls-verify-error', if non-nil, means that Emacs
should reject SSL/TLS certificates that GnuTLS determines as invalid.
(This option defaults to nil at present, but this is expected to change
in a future release.)
> +
> ++++
> ** Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals.
Did you mean to add that markup? It seems an unrelated change.
> +** CFEngine mode
It seems redundant to say "CFEngine mode..." in all the following, given
that the whole section is about CFEngine mode.
> +
> +*** CFEngine mode has completion and ElDoc support
[...]
> +*** CFEngine mode has Flycheck support for on-the-fly syntax checking
*** Support for completion, ElDoc, and Flycheck has been added.
> +*** CFEngine mode can parse the current syntax from cf-promises
I have no idea what that means, but I'm not a CFEngine user, so that may
be expected.
> ++++
> +*** `describe-package' buffer uses the `:keywords extra property to
> +display keyword buttons. Clicking them shows the list of packages
> +that have that keyword.
*** In the buffer produced by `describe-package', there are now buttons
listing the keywords related to that package. You can click on them
to see other packages related to any given keyword.
> ++++
> +*** the list of packages now shows the archive
*** The output of `list-packages' now includes the archive providing
each package.
[Though this will be self-evident, so I'm not sure it is worth
mentioning.]
> ++++
> +*** the list of packages can now be filtered by a keyword
I don't understand what this really means. The wording makes me think
it's somehow related to the list-packages command, but it does not seem
to be.
Second general comment is that NEWS entries should be grammatical: start
with a capital, end with a full-stop.
Re: The next releases, Chong Yidong, 2013/12/20