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Re: git-blame.el: what is format-spec?

From
David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date
Dec 4, 2009, 17:36 UTC
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Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> writes:
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> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>> Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> writes:
>>
>>> What is format-spec function in current git-blame.el? Neither my GNU
>>> Emacs 22.2.1 nor Google knows anything about it.
>>
>> It's part of Emacs since more than 9 years, imported from Gnus.
>>
>
> Thanks, I now see it in Gnus on my own computer, in
> lisp/gnus/format-spec.el.gz.
>
> GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of 2008-11-10
> on raven, modified by Debian 
>
> However, isn't it a bad idea to require Gnus(!) for git-blame to run? Gnus
> is not installed on our server where I've encountered the problem. Was
> format-spec actually moved to core emacs recently?
That was not my intention when I posted the patch. I seem to recall that
I asked for testing, in particular from users with older Emacsen than
23. But I got no response, and only recently discovered that the patch
hade been accepted.

format-spec is included in Emacs 23, and is a useful function. But we can rewrite git-blame.el to do the formatting manuall instead.

-- 
David Kågedal
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  1. Sergei OrganovDec 4, 2009
  2. Andreas SchwabDec 4, 2009
  3. Sergei OrganovDec 4, 2009
  4. David KågedalDec 4, 2009
  5. Sergei OrganovDec 4, 2009
  6. David KågedalDec 6, 2009
  7. Sergei OrganovDec 7, 2009
  8. David KågedalDec 7, 2009
  9. Alex UnleashedMay 14, 2010
  10. git-blame.el: Add (require 'format-spec)David Kågedal, May 25, 2010
  11. git-blame.el: Add (require 'format-spec)Jonathan Nieder, Oct 29, 2010
  12. git-blame.el: does not show one-line summary in echo areaJonathan Nieder, Feb 4, 2011
  13. David KågedalFeb 4, 2011
  14. Jakub NarebskiFeb 4, 2011
  15. David KågedalFeb 4, 2011
  16. David KågedalFeb 4, 2011
  17. Jonathan NiederFeb 11, 2011
  18. git-blame.el: format of date stringsJonathan Nieder, Feb 11, 2011
  19. Martin NordholtsFeb 11, 2011
  20. git-blame.el: truncate author to avoid jagged left edge of codeJonathan Nieder, Jun 10, 2012
  21. David KågedalJan 29, 2013
  22. Kevin RydeFeb 4, 2011
  23. Andreas SchwabDec 4, 2009
  24. Matthieu MoyDec 4, 2009

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