Re: [PATCH] MI: Add value field to output of -var-create

Nick Roberts
2007-02-08T20:44:03Z

> > It doesn't display properly in Emacs without a * on each line e.g look at
> > this change in Emacs:
>
> Yours doesn't look right in emacs either; spaces instead of tabs
> disables the highlighting, and the old date. I fixed it.

Thanks, I also had two entries for gdb792.exp.

> > I kept the *'s but removed the commas. This style is used by the Emacs
> > project, at least. The convention used there is that if different files
> > have different changes then a blank line is left between the ChangeLog entries,
> > but if the changes are the same then the entries are contiguous.
>
> I really don't care enough about changelog formatting to argue about
> it. But I will observe one thing: this is GDB, not Emacs, and it's
> always more polite to match the style of the file you are changing.
> Emacs seems split about 50-50.

The file is already inconsistent (some entries use "Ditto." or "Likewise.").
I don't see why the font-locking doesn't work in Emacs as it should match
up to the colon. I'll see if I can get this to work and then I'll match
my entry to yours.

--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob