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| author | Glenn Morris <[email protected]> | 2014-05-29 15:49:45 -0400 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <[email protected]> | 2014-05-29 15:49:45 -0400 |
| commit | cbd52d16ff77dc51a9c04446d967cd551381a774 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b13d79021aeed1e4ae1d5abf928b489822801b0 /admin | |
| parent | 1bb596eece61147fcddbca871d5f9e5dcbbc4a3e (diff) | |
* admin/notes/changelogs: Mention `quoting'.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/admin/notes/changelogs b/admin/notes/changelogs index 1025cfc217..fb4e2ada31 100644 --- a/admin/notes/changelogs +++ b/admin/notes/changelogs @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +Emacs generally follows the GNU coding standards when it comes to ChangeLogs: +http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html + +One exception is that we still quote `like-this' (as the standards +used to recommend) rather than 'like-this' (as they do now), +because `...' is so widely used elsewhere in Emacs. +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-05/msg00514.html + + If installing changes written by someone else, make the ChangeLog entry in their name, not yours. |