debmode

[Jörg Sommer]

Hello Rafael,

Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Fri 31. Mar, 08:20 (+0200):
> * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2006-03-31 00:06]:
> 
> > Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Thu 30. Mar, 16:33 (+0200):
> > > * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2006-03-29 17:46]:
> > > 
> > > > I've started writing a Debian mode for jed. Nothing mind, but it is
> > > > helpful especially the autoupdate of the date in changelog files.
> > > 
> > > Great!  I would love to see all the Emacs functionalities in package
> > > dpkg-dev-el translated into SLang for JED.  Keep going.
> > 
> > I don't know this mode. Which features do you miss?
> 
> File /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev-el/README.Debian contains a description of
> these files.

As far as I could see the main purpose of the modes is coloring. Is this
all?

> I mostly use the debian-changelog-mode, which is extremely handy for
> inserting new items,

Why? How does it help you adding new lines with a star in front? ;-)

> bug-closing strings,

This might be a great work to port it to jed.

> and trailer lines automatically in debian/changelog files.

My debmode does this. This was the impulse I started writing it.

Regards, Jörg.
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