I'm trying to prepare a small cosmetic patch to fix up a couple of things I find myself manually fixing up:
1. "./NEWS". I considered replacing this with the basename of the NEWS file, but in fact it seems to me it's better to use the literal "NEWS" since that makes more sense in the email. What do you think? 2. In the email subject, better use $package_name $curr_version than $my_distdir. I would already have sent this patch, but there's another problem: I use whitespace-mode, and it stumbles because, although I've now set indent-tabs-mode to t in the file announce-gen (this will be part of my patch), it turns out that the file is neither one thing nor the other, since although it mostly uses tabs, it doesn't use tabs in the usage message, but spaces. Is there some even-more-magic setting I can use which will make whitespace-mode happy to replace spaces with tabs in parts of the file but not in other parts, or should I add another file-local setting to turn it off? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
