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Re: [PATCH] MI: Add value field to output of -var-create


 > > It doesn't display properly in Emacs without a * on each line e.g look at
 > > this change in Emacs:
 > 
 > Yours doesn't look right in emacs either; spaces instead of tabs
 > disables the highlighting, and the old date.  I fixed it.

Thanks, I also had two entries for gdb792.exp.

 > > I kept the *'s but removed the commas.  This style is used by the Emacs
 > > project, at least.  The convention used there is that if different files
 > > have different changes then a blank line is left between the ChangeLog entries,
 > > but if the changes are the same then the entries are contiguous.
 > 
 > I really don't care enough about changelog formatting to argue about
 > it.  But I will observe one thing: this is GDB, not Emacs, and it's
 > always more polite to match the style of the file you are changing.
 > Emacs seems split about 50-50.

The file is already inconsistent (some entries use "Ditto." or "Likewise.").
I don't see why the font-locking doesn't work in Emacs as it should match
up to the colon.  I'll see if I can get this to work and then I'll match
my entry to yours.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob


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