From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:15:42 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Describe 'view-lossage' changes in its docstring and NEWS
X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~5631
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Describe 'view-lossage' changes in its docstring and NEWS

* lisp/help.el (view-lossage): Mention that this now uses the same
format as `edit-last-kbd-macro'.  (Bug#30560)

* etc/NEWS: Improve the wording of the entry.
---

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index dacaf023bb1..596adf88ae5 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -167,11 +167,13 @@ directories in the destination.
 
 ** Help
 
-*** 'C-h l' (view-lossage) now displays last keystrokes and commands
-in the same format as the edit buffer of edit-last-kbd-macro.
-This makes possible to copy the lines from the buffer generated
-by 'view-lossage', yank them to the buffer "*Edit Macro*" created by
-'edit-last-kbd-macro', and save the macro by 'C-c C-c'.
+---
+*** Output format of 'C-h l' (view-lossage) has changed.
+For convenience, 'view-lossage' now displays the last keystrokes
+and commands in the same format as the edit buffer of
+'edit-last-kbd-macro'.  This makes it possible to copy the lines from
+the buffer generated by 'view-lossage' to the "*Edit Macro*" buffer
+created by 'edit-last-kbd-macro', and to save the macro by 'C-c C-c'.
 
 ** Ibuffer
 
diff --git a/lisp/help.el b/lisp/help.el
index 9575f5b090c..dcf1f32069b 100644
--- a/lisp/help.el
+++ b/lisp/help.el
@@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ is specified by the variable `message-log-max'."
 
 (defun view-lossage ()
   "Display last few input keystrokes and the commands run.
+For convenience this uses the same format as
+`edit-last-kbd-macro'.
 
 To record all your input, use `open-dribble-file'."
   (interactive)