Automatically generated ChangeLog files - script

[Martin Liška]

On 5/26/20 2:35 PM, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
>>> It looks like the hook does not accept multi-line ChangeLog entries
>>> affecting multiple files:
>>>>          * contracts.adb, einfo.adb, exp_ch9.adb, sem_ch12.adb,
>>>>          sem_ch4.adb, sem_ch7.adb, sem_ch8.adb, sem_elab.adb,
>>>>          sem_type.adb, sem_util.adb: Reuse Is_Package_Or_Generic_Package
>>>>          where possible (similarly, reuse Is_Concurrent_Type if it was
>>>>          possible in the same expressions).
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to enhance the hook to support that?
>>
>> It's not supported right now and it will make the filename parsing much
>> more complicated.
> 
> however, that's a format Emacs' ChangeLog mode uses and supports, and
> it's way less chatty than the one-file-per-line one, both for writers
> and readers.

I see, but as mentioned it makes the parsing of the list files much more
complicated. Feel free to provide a patch that will support multi-line
entries.

Martin

> 
> 	Rainer
>