Sometimes folks will put the reasoning behind a change in the commit message or pull request. Unfortunately, in this case that context wasn't included. I did a search on the mailing list archives, here's a thread that discusses the reasoning: https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/B1YA2n7r8SE/m/Z0lAQxAKCQAJ TLDR: better completion support.
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 3:33 PM TRS-80 <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2020-07-18 18:00, Ben Blount wrote: > > > > You could fetch the older version of the beancount emacs plugin out of > > the git history and use it instead. For the non software engineer one > > way to do that is to browse to the file on github, and click "blame" > > (line by line history). You can see the comment about major mode was > > updated here [1], and we've found the point where that changed. Then > > we can take that commit hash 0c6a8863e5080a6b01d6ae31f92c67c3ed940f11, > > and get the parent commit by suffixing it with ^ or ~1. Leads us here: > > > > > https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/0c6a8863e5080a6b01d6ae31f92c67c3ed940f11%5E/editors/emacs/beancount.el > . > > You can download that and you'll have the emacs plugin as it used to > > be. > > I appreciate the fast reply and the help, Ben. Looking at the history > of beancount.el [0] confirms my suspicion that there have been quite a > lot of other improvements in the meantime, in addition to just > changing from minor to major mode. I suppose I was hoping for some > insight from one or more of the people involved. And if I am lucky, > perhaps even learn something about major vs minor modes that I did not > know before. > > TRS-80 > > [0] > > https://github.com/beancount/beancount/commits/master/editors/emacs/beancount.el > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/753bde2e9d7d903b4151c65c08b6d3f1%40isnotmyreal.name > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACGEkZutSEP1BUCJXtaaVn1TWTFH5zqBXuWousWBJ7BX-t_rJw%40mail.gmail.com.
