GNU bug report logs - #19341
Change Log mode filling of multi-line file lists

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OK, well, pretend I explained what the likely characters in a file name
are (the ones which ChangeLog mode already knows about, since it
font-locks them).

In summary, I think it's possible and you don't. In the unlikely event
someone ever works on this, they can make up their own mind.

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> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@HIDDEN>
> Cc: 19341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:56:08 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > How do you expect Emacs to distinguish between a list of files and
> > arbitrary text, in your scenario?  You only want it to do that
> > for files, right?
> 
> Files are what come after "TAB * ". Font-lock manages to figure it out.

Your example was this:

   * file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6, file7, file8, file9:
   * file10, file11:

In this example, file1 and file10 follow "TAB * ", but all the rest do
not.

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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> How do you expect Emacs to distinguish between a list of files and
> arbitrary text, in your scenario?  You only want it to do that
> for files, right?

Files are what come after "TAB * ". Font-lock manages to figure it out.

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> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@HIDDEN>
> Cc: 19341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:41:43 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> But Change Log mode fills such lines as:
> >> 
> >>     * file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6, file7, file8, file9,
> >>     file10, file11:
> >> 
> >> Please could it use the former format.
> >
> > It does neither.  It does this instead:
> >
> > 	* file1:
> >
> > 	* file2:
> >
> > 	* file3:
> 
> Really?
> 
> You type:
> 
>      * file1, file2, file3, ...
> 
> and auto-fill gives you the format you quote?

Well, if you just type manually a bunch of file names, how is Emacs to
know they are file names?  You can format it any way you like, it's
just text as far as Emacs is concerned.

The format I show above is produced by "C-x 4 a" and friends, when you
type that command in several buffers one after the other.

> But that's not really relevant AFAICS, since it's not the format I
> asked for.

How do you expect Emacs to distinguish between a list of files and
arbitrary text, in your scenario?  You only want it to do that
for files, right?

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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> But Change Log mode fills such lines as:
>> 
>>     * file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6, file7, file8, file9,
>>     file10, file11:
>> 
>> Please could it use the former format.
>
> It does neither.  It does this instead:
>
> 	* file1:
>
> 	* file2:
>
> 	* file3:

Really?

You type:

     * file1, file2, file3, ...

and auto-fill gives you the format you quote? That seems very odd to me,
and not what I see. But that's not really relevant AFAICS, since it's
not the format I asked for.

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> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@HIDDEN>
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:07:58 -0500
> 
> I can't find the reference for why I think this, so maybe I'm just
> wrong, but I always thought that multi-line file lists should be written
> in ChangeLogs as:
> 
>    * file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6, file7, file8, file9:
>    * file10, file11:
> 
> But Change Log mode fills such lines as:
> 
>     * file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6, file7, file8, file9,
>     file10, file11:
> 
> Please could it use the former format.

It does neither.  It does this instead:

	* file1:

	* file2:

	* file3:

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Subject: Change Log mode filling of multi-line file lists
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:07:58 -0500
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Package: emacs
Version: 24.4
Severity: minor

I can't find the reference for why I think this, so maybe I'm just
wrong, but I always thought that multi-line file lists should be written
in ChangeLogs as:

   * file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6, file7, file8, file9:
   * file10, file11:

But Change Log mode fills such lines as:

    * file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6, file7, file8, file9,
    file10, file11:

Please could it use the former format.

TIA.