Currently, when editing the ChangeLog of an ebuild, gentoo-syntax is not invoked. It would be very useful to include this file too. A mode needs to be developed. It could for instance set the Tabstop, and include a shortcut for inserting the current date, name, email of the author. Invokation of the mode could depend on .ebuild files existing in the same directory as one might edit other ChangeLogs not related to gentoo too. Reproducible: Always
I had already looked at this a while ago, and my conclusion was that full support of echangelog features is not trivial. We have the ebuild-run-echangelog command that lets echangelog do the work.
Hmm, I was unaware of echangelog. This seems to do much of the work that I thought this emacs mode should do.
(In reply to comment #2) > Hmm, I was unaware of echangelog. > This seems to do much of the work that I thought this emacs mode should do. The problem is to autoload the mode. A file name ChangeLog is really generic and a full override of Emacs' ChangeLog mode is absolute overkill. So do you still see demand for your report?
No, editing ChangeLog by hand is just wrong(tm). Closing as wontfix.
