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Re: Organizing the NEWS file a bit better


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Organizing the NEWS file a bit better
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:35:16 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> I have now pushed my reorganization of the NEWS file to master.

Thanks, now it's much better.

> I tried hard to ensure nothing was lost,[1] but if you want to check
> this yourself you could use, e.g.:
>
>     comm -3 <(git show HEAD^:etc/NEWS|sort) <(sort etc/NEWS)

This shows that 'benchmark-call' is lost (I don't know if it needs a NEWS 
entry).

> Reviews are welcome, preferably in the form of just pushing any
> further changes to master.

I pushed only a small adjustment to "Isearch and Replace".

> Footnotes:
> [1] I have advocated in the past for marking documentation changes
>      using org-mode style tags.  This would mean that you add a tag
>      like ":DOC:" on the same line as a headline, instead of "+++" on
>      the line before.  That way, one could edit the file using
>      'outline-move-subtree-{up,down}'.  That would have made this
>      reorganization quite a bit easier.

Adding a tag at the end of the same line would be a big improvement.



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