From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 10:35:08 +0900 Message-ID: References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17020.9976.943092.382629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <877jibgjnc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115602306 24984 80.91.229.2 (9 May 2005 01:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 01:31:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 03:31:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUx6z-000291-Dp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 03:31:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUxFD-0006Z0-Uq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 21:39:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUxEz-0006Wr-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 21:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUxEx-0006Ve-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 21:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUxEw-0006Ur-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 21:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.197] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUxGh-00024Z-Jy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 21:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so747221wri for ; Sun, 08 May 2005 18:35:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Z65ptOc63s9kuSc/iEVZVQlXc72DIdk453+08Rp3hKNu7oieNAwi7lz0evT5gKlU5GtxmEb9Nm3PPwAMakZx5hKwmaolk2jPKpm2mbVFyRuxs9XPc894Y09FFS+0rK01JCBaRuMdSNil7xXbOa9p0haQU1oH2zhpCmm8pHPXR9c= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.21 with SMTP id h21mr1878166wra; Sun, 08 May 2005 18:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.31 with HTTP; Sun, 8 May 2005 18:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36891 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36891 On 5/8/05, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'copyright-update) >=20 > This is not a problem since you are asked whether you want to update the > copyright. Indeed; I use it, and I don't think it's dangerous in the way Richard suggested (it always leaves the final decision to the user). However, I can see why some people would not like to use it in its current form -- it's generally quite stupid, and often mistakenly thinks the copyright may need updating when the current copyright line is actually up-to-date. So it tends to ask you whether you want to update the copyright far more often than it should (for example, it doesn't understand wrapped copyright lines, and gets confused if there are multiple copyrights). -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.