Re: Another changelog rant

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:13:52AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > Steve Greenland wrote:
> > 
> > > What is the value of running debian-changelog-mode on files in
> > > /usr/share/doc? You're not editing them, just viewing them.
> > 
> > - font-lock highlights NMUs version number so they stand out.
> > - font-lock highlights uploads to frozen or stable.
> > - font-lock highlights urgency != low uploads.
> > - font-lock highlights bug numbers.
> > - bug numbers are clickable to fetch them in your web browser.
> > - menubar command to fetch the bug list in your web browser.
> > - menubar command to fetch the package page in your web browser.
> > - more stuff to come in future versions?
> 
> Ooh, neat.  I didn't know it did this.

I've done most of the development recently, since late February.

>                                         Is there any way to make use of its
> smarts outside of Emacs?  I'd be interested in adding similar (optional)
> functionality to apt-listchanges.
> 
> But from what I know of font-lock-mode, this is probably not possible.

I don't know of a font-lock mechanism for perl, but who knows?

I haven't tried apt-listchanges yet, but if it pulls out the new
part of the Debian changelog, then I suppose apt-listchanges
could have as an option to display through Emacs (using emacs,
emacsclient or gnuclient with some configurable options).

Peter