Re: patch: M-x emacs-version

[Keisuke Nishida <kxn30 at po dot cwru dot edu>]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:

> I have patched `features' and `emacs-version' as suggested in
> TODO; however, I called the feature `guile-emacs' because `guile'
> is already used by guile.scm.  (Perhaps modules shouldn't provide
> features because Guile already keeps track of them.)

Sounds good.  I think `guile' is a better name as a feature.
We can remove the line "(provide 'guile)" from guile.scm and
provide a Lisp function `use-scheme-module' or something.

> I didn't format this as a patch to a emacs-20.6.patch because the
> header lines ("retrieving revision"...) wouldn't have matched
> anyway.  Could we keep both original and modified Emacs files in
> the package and generate the patch automatically somehow?

OK, I did it.  Individual files are now available via CVS by
typing "cvs update -d".

2000-03-21  Keisuke Nishida  <kxn30@po.cwru.edu>

	* Now the `src' subdirectory contains original emacs source files
	and our patched version.  If we want to make a patch to Emacs,
	we should do this first:

	  1. Copy the original file to an appropriate directory.
	  2. Commit it with the revision 1.1 and the tag `emacs_20_6'
	     (or whatever if the patch is for other than Emacs 20.6).
	  3. Modify the file as we like and commit it as always.

	Then we can create a patch by typing this:

	  % cd src/emacs-20.6; cvs diff -c -r emacs_20_6 > emacs-20.6.patch

	* src/emacs-20.6/lisp/startup.el, src/emacs-20.6/lisp/version.el,
	src/emacs-20.6/src/Makefile.in, src/emacs-20.6/src/guileapi.c
	src/emacs-20.6/src/alloc.c, src/emacs-20.6/src/lisp.h
	src/emacs-20.6/src/emacs.c, src/emacs-20.6/src/print.c: New files.

Could you commit your patch by yourself?  I'm not sure whether we
should include this subdirectory in a archive instead of a patch.