From owner-ntemacs-users@june Mon Sep 30 18:09:38 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Tue" " 1" "October" "1996" "01:09:22" "BST" "jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk" "jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk" nil "12" "Add-change-log" "^From:" nil nil "10" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with SMTP id SAA04278 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:09:37 -0700 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id SAA16420 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:09:36 -0700 Received: from goggins.bath.ac.uk (goggins.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.13]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with ESMTP id RAA27893 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:09:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199610010009.RAA27893@june.cs.washington.edu> Received: from maths.Bath.AC.UK (actually host omphalos.maths.bath.ac.uk) by goggins.bath.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Tue, 1 Oct 1996 01:09:03 +0100 From: jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Add-change-log Date: Tue, 1 Oct 96 1:09:22 BST Message written at 30 Sep 1996 14:14:10 -0400 I noticed that on DOS and WinNT the changelog file defaults to changelo rather than ChangeLog. I can understand this for DOS, but I thought WinNT had long file names. I am also having some difficulties with this. BTW I also notice that if I use add-change-log-entry-other-window it does not prompt me for a file name, while if I use add-change-log-entry it does. Seems inconsistent to me. ==John ff From owner-ntemacs-users@june Tue Oct 1 07:38:13 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Tue" " 1" "October" "1996" "08:52:34" "-0500" "Milt Epstein" "epstein@cd.com" nil "51" "Re: Add-change-log" "^From:" nil nil "10" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with SMTP id HAA18087 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 07:38:13 -0700 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id HAA26400 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 07:38:13 -0700 Received: from beltway (beltway.cd.com [204.217.30.66]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with SMTP id GAA14635 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 06:41:00 -0700 Received: from bif.cd.com by beltway (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA15735; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 08:40:08 -0500 Received: from localhost by bif.cd.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11396; Tue, 1 Oct 96 08:52:34 CDT In-Reply-To: <199610010009.RAA27893@june.cs.washington.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Milt Epstein Sender: epstein@cd.com To: jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk Cc: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: Add-change-log Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 08:52:34 -0500 (CDT) Note: I don't use these functions, but I was curious so I poked around the corresponding emacs lisp file (so my only knowledge of their behavior and their use is from that). On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote: > Message written at 30 Sep 1996 14:14:10 -0400 > > I noticed that on DOS and WinNT the changelog file defaults to > changelo rather than ChangeLog. I can understand this for DOS, but I > thought WinNT had long file names. I am also having some difficulties > with this. The code for this is in add-log.el in the emacs lisp sub-directory (for those of you who like to look at emacs lisp code), in the function change-log-name. It returns "changelo" if the system-type is either ms-dos or windows-nt. Perhaps they do this because not all NT systems/directories use long file names, so it's a LCD type of thing. There is a relatively easy way around it: there is a variable change-log-default-name which is checked first. So if you did (setq change-log-default-name "ChangeLog") you should get the behavior you want. (But you might want to check the documentation on the function find-change-log if you're going to do this.) > BTW I also notice that if I use add-change-log-entry-other-window it > does not prompt me for a file name, while if I use > add-change-log-entry it does. Seems inconsistent to me. It does seem inconsistent. And it does seem to also be inconsistent with the documentation on the functions -- i.e. they are documented to behave the same, but the code is slightly different, and as you see, the behavior is also slightly different. But if it's any consolation, it behaves the same on UNIX :-). I'd think the way to resolve this is to put in a bug report to the GNU people about it. Here's a possible workaround: If you call add-change-log-entry-other-window with a prefix argument (e.g. just type C-u before you call it), it will prompt you for the file name. Milt Epstein Software Engineer Central Data Corporation epstein@cd.com WWW: http://www.cd.com/ FTP: ftp.cd.com