Updating NEWS for fixed bugs

Ryan S. Arnold ryan.arnold@gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 15:42:00 GMT 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
>  Hi!
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:47:49AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> Recent practice appears to have been that the lists of fixed bugs in NEWS
>> get updated by the person committing a fix for a bug, either in the same
>> commit or shortly afterwards.  (This has also applied for bugs in Bugzilla
>> that requested cleanups or features: anything entered in Bugzilla whether
>> or not strictly a "bug" in the code.)  NEWS changes have not had ChangeLog
>> entries lately.
>
>  Does anyone have a recipe for reformatting the bug list in NEWS?
> I use vim and the best I could come up with is (not terribly elegant)
>
>        noremap ^[n <ap:set tw=74<cr>gqapkvip:left 2<cr>:set tw&<cr>
>
>                                Petr "Pasky" Baudis

I do:

:set tw=75 ai

Then I add my bug number in the right place and then force reformat:

gqap

Ryan



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